skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anything, there should be more police imo but they should be disarmed with a gun being something you need to call for. There is so much petty crime, harassment, and assault that happens on a daily basis that just goes unreported or isn't followed up with since police are spread so thin, in LA at least. I want to see the return of the beat cop who walks the neighborhood regularly. I want to feel safe walking around my city and not have to watch my back for someone out of their mind on meth who might think my backpack is easy pickings.

At USC, they have these security people who just walk around the off campus area and report belligerent activity. Their uniforms are bright, so you can spot them at night and run over if needed. At the very least this sort of security needs to be in place in all parks and transit stops, there are just too many insane people left to fester on the street unfortunately. I'd love to have more shelters and mental health services built, and fully support all efforts at the ballot, but that's a 5-10 year timeline with land permitting and construction versus just handing out high vis vests and walkie talkies, and the situation certainly isn't improving in the mean time.
Thanks for the kind words, hax0r! (I'm the author).

Notcurses 1.5.0 ought be out by this week's end, complete with "new" (as much as anything is "new") Quadrant Blitter Technique: https://nick-black.com/images/new-terminal-technique.png

and of course, if you've never seen it, be sure to check out `notcurses-demo`. it's come a long way since 1.1.0, but this video from January still captures the essence of the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H1WkopWJNM

hack on!

ps. mysterious n-gate.com author [0], if you're reading this, you're doing the LORD's work.

[0] my guess is james mickens
My gripe with npm was the lack of a lock file.

- Yarn helped solve that, but because of its backwards compatibility to node_modules, you could not have different versions sitting side-by-side.

- Node_modules could have a different version installed vs lock file and no one would know without looking.

It seems Deno is able to solve the side-by-side versions and distributing the 'lock' to the file itself. The Deno team is trying to create a 'map' file to consolidate the 'distributed version' issue.

Sadly, Ruby's Bundler has solved this for years and while I love TypeScript, I'm always saddened by the state of package management in the Node space.

I'm not saying Bundler perfect, but its basis with canonical lock and ability to have side-by-side versions allows me not to think about that issue.
Not all keyboard layouts use arrows.

Long time ago keyboards did not have arrows. Nowadays, some keyboards use function key to switch some keys to their alternative function, including arrows. This is true especially with 40% keyboards where there is just no real estate for arrows and to some extent with 60% keyboards.
I feel his pain.

I run a whole MacOS VM _exclusively_ for iMessage.
I thought that was the point of BogoMips https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BogoMips
But that's just the thing, you've written the same thing as they have.

> who's on a single network (i.e. who has the same public IP)

Those aren't even close to equivalent. Now that most ISPs offer IPv6, they aren't even equivalent most of the time.
It is the natural state of criminals. Seattle suburbs were victimized by organized groups driving in car caravans from mall to mall. This occurred while police were busy in greater Seattle.
> NYPD went on strike in 2014, if anyone wants to research that themselves

Vox did an analysis of the NYPD "slowdown"[1] as it was also a useful natural experiment. They didn't enforce the low-level "broken windows" crimes, but only did the minimum required by their contract. Needless to say, the city fared far better than right now.

That said, neither of these is a good example of what life would be life without government-supplied police forces. They are very rapid, unplanned changes in policy which don't allow private parties to hire private industry replacements and don't reflect how much less tax would be paid (about 40% of local government revenues).

[1] https://www.vox.com/2015/1/6/7501953/nypd-mayor-arrests-unio...
Hangul characters carry no meaning, it is in fact purely pronunciation information.

(Also, Korean isn’t a synthetic language, I should’ve been clearer that synthesis I have in mind is regarding language grammar not [just] the writing system.)
There's a reason China is so keen on it (let's not get on the state surveillence bandwagon yet). Their population and population density is consistently high in so many cities, that they face contention problems more than anyone else. If we're talking relatively sparse cities found in many places around the world, then no, the extra local capacity is probably not in high demand.

I would bet that 5G has cut down base stations which operate similarly to 4G, but the option to not use a new generation only works for maybe 1 generation before it gets too far behind. Data consumption is still going up after all, and some countries (such as Australia) have already mandated the shutdown of older generations, with 2G switched off to refarm spectrum, and 3G scheduled for switch off.
This isn’t a physical keyboard. The layout is just a mapping in software. The arrows are unchanged, so they’re not included in the diagram. Whether they actually appear on your keyboard is a separate question.
One possible benefit that I don't see discussed much in this context is bypassing ad blockers. I run a tech focused website and Google analytics registers about 10k visits/month. I figure that a good chunk of my visitors have ublock and so they don't show up. Presumably, alternative analytics or self hosted analytics are not blocked, so I'd get more accurate stats. Is this a correct assumption?
SendBlue will be launching soon. They support sending iMessages at scale, similar to Twilio's SMS service.

Not sure how they're doing it.

https://sendblue.co/
It's trivial to use software to automate spam on more open web-based platforms, such as Facebook Messenger. This is a lot tricker with iMessage, where only authenticated Apple devices, with a unique identifier, can connect to the service. Buying truckloads of Apple equipment to spam iMessage is obviously uneconomical(and totally ineffective, given that Apple will swiftly ban any spamming devices), and software hacks to be exploited by spammers are either hard to come by or non-existant, and can quickly be patched by Apple

Again, not saying spam on iMessage is impossible, but it's clearly very difficult given the relative lack of spammers on the platform.
Huh, there were lots of posts/comments about how the Hasidic community has dealt with coronavirus, mostly condemning them.
What if you want to make a site-wide change (e.g. GDPR mandates a cookie banner)?

With Gatsby's approach, you only modify the js that renders the template. Then, if a site-wide change needs to be made, you make a single change in the js template.

With the static-HTML-served-from-directories approach, you would have to rebuild all the HTML for your entire site if you wanted a template change and a database to store all the articles/posts for you to rebuild the HTML.
Does package-lock.json not fill this void? It's been a thing for a few years IIRC.
Regarding single digits vs triple digits: absolute metrics are pretty useless unless the US population is the same size as AU.
> Why, though? Does your average iPhone user actually care if the bubbles they see in their chats are blue or green? If so, why?

They definitely do. Not sure what your age or demographic is, but young folks do care a lot about higher social status which is tied to blue bubble because of iPhone prices. It has nothing to do with privacy though.
According to documentaries, there was a whole army of spies.

From memory, one of the most important was a quadruple spy - the German gaseous diffusion expert was working for the UK, USA, Germany and Russia.

When FDR told Stalin about the bomb, Stalin just said, "Thank you."
There are quite literally millions of examples. Anyone who has a copyrighted work and has made money from it is an example.

There are absolutely valid questions around how much diminishing that compensation affects innovation, and around the marginal value of each year of copyright validity.

The way I envision it, there is a baseline of innovation. I.e. innovation that would occur with or without copyright. For each year added to copyright length, I assume that some amount of compensation to the copyrighter is added (although the marginal compensation likely follows a bell curve). There is also some degree of cost, as other people are unable to innovate on top of those copyrighted works.

I think we can both agree, there are people who innovate because of the potential compensation. There are also people who will not innovate because of the lack of compensation. The lack of investment and innovation in antibiotic medicines is a good example of this.

The question is the optimal balance between compensating people who innovate and allowing other innovaters to build on prior work.
Science, technology and politics have always been interlinked. If you look at history, it's how things have always been.
And that’s just the short term. Look at places like Somalia or Afghanistan to see what happens when law and order breaks down in a systematic way.

The issue isn’t even just “crime” in the sense of robbery, etc. When there is no police, organized crime can take over. When we lived in Bangladesh in the 1980s, a minibus full of criminals showed up at the gate of our house. (This being Dhaka in the 1980s, we had a brick wall around the whole house with broken glass on top and a big metal gate, and an armed guard out front.) I don’t know if it was because my dad hadn’t bribed the right people or what, but it took police an hour or more to respond, during which time the criminals tried to drive through our gate.

(I don’t actually disagree with the thrust of the article, which is more that we need to rethink the roles where we have police. I’m just sharing this because I’ve seen a lot of “defund the police” in my Facebook, and I strongly suspect it’s from people who have never lived somewhere without effective policing.)
For me this is a case of "too little, too late". I've been burned too much over the years by the Node ecosystem to risk investing any further interest in it now, even if it has marginally improved.

I have worked extensively with Typescript, which I consider to be the minimum viable solution within the Node ecosystem. Typescript shouldn't even be seen as a 'nice-to-have. It should be seen as a required remedy for some of the mistakes of a terribly engineered language. Javascript should never have been considered a serious language for back-end development. Node.js to me seems like someone's 'Frankenstein's monster'-esque experiment that escaped its captivity and wreaked wide-scale havoc on the surrounding world.
Exactly. There's reason stores are proactively boarding up their store fronts, etc. to mitigate the change of having to go through the horrendous loses of business loss, and fighting insurance companies for money.
> I originally left that out as it can vary based on the density of the coffee being used, and in addition grinders vary not only brand to brand, but quite a bit between various grinders even of the same model.

Indeed, even among grinders that are the same grinder; I just replaced burrs on my Vario and it’s a different machine. I wouldn’t be surprised if disassembling/reassembling the machine, without replacing any parts, might affect the performance depending on how much you squint.
Um okay... That's a demand for more police and police like units not less
There is a written-only language that tries to use only meanings and no sounds:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blissymbols

Its history is interesting—its creator grew up in an English-speaking family initially living in China, and he learned to read Chinese but not speak it, in distinction to a huge number of people who learn to speak Chinese but not read it. It seems that that experience of thinking of the Chinese hanzi characters as meanings (initially in his case English meanings) rather than sounds eventually led him to try to make a written conlang with a similar characteristic.

Edit: this is also interesting to me because I myself know a few Chinese characters whose pronunciation I have no idea of (the ones that came to mind for me right away were 一，二，三，上，下，女, 日, 本, 天, and 月, although I'm sure there are several others). Maybe I have a little tiny mini-Charles Bliss experience when I see those characters, like "oh yeah, I know what that means, no idea how you would say it though!".

Edit: according to Wikipedia Bliss was actually a German-speaking refugee in China, so I misremembered the circumstances of his exposure to Chinese!
They care because the green bubbles indicate a severely impaired user experience. For example, multimedia may not work, and even if it does, its typically very poor quality.
Why not neither? Why not a person within the normal range of emotional intelligence, rather than either a humorless policer or an antagonistic smart person? Why are you defending his tone with such hostility?
You do not even have to close borders long-term to be a success story. Croatia (an EU country) shares both land and maritime borders with Italy, and a lot of Italians have property in Croatia that they go to on the weekend. So far, there have been 103 deaths and 2,246 cases, with a population of 1.4 million.

Croatia has not had a single case of COVID-19 for 3 days in a row [1], and has been allowing citizens of several European countries, including ones like Germany, come there [2], since mid-May.

This stuff is not rocket science, and while Croatia will not completely eradicate COVID-19, which is unfortunate, it still is impressive.

[1] https://koronavirus.hr/en
[2] https://koronavirus.hr/frequently-asked-questions-and-answer...
Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health (2018)
To do all that you need to start with offering cops more cash, as in LA at least there is a huge recruiting problem and a staffing shortage. No one wants to be a cop, its a notoriously shit job where they haze you worse than boot camp and that's why many cops come from cop families who don't know any better than to tow the family line.

Cops in LA are also very highly paid especially in benefits and overtime. Part of the reason why they are so short staffed is that it is cheaper to pay a cop well into the 6 figures in over time and pay for one retirement pension then it is to hire two regular time cops and pay two pensions. I don't know how you fix this issue beyond enforcing stricter criminal punishment against bad cops and start actually busting heads instead of slapping wrists.
I agree with the spirit of this post but I’ve found large page-count and portable notebooks that work fine for me. Hobonichi makes nice ones, so does Midori. I always do a few things:

1) number the pages and date the entries.
2) Place an index at the beginning of the notebook that I fill out as I go. This way I can flip to the index and find the pages where I wrote about a thing.
3) The Bullet Journal concept of moving incomplete tasks forward into collections has really helped me.
For small to mid-level production (singles to mid-thousands per build), most shops will use a distributor like Digi-Key, Mouser or Arrow to source parts. Above that, you can start talking to manufacturers directly in some cases if you can't get good enough prices through distribution.

What throws this off is that a lot of shops these days use Contract Manufacturers (CM's). Since CMs are building boards for many different shops, they can purchase parts in larger volumes and get better pricing. They make it easier to outsource some of your manufacturing since you can just give them a BOM (Bill of Materials) and your PCB files and get complete, tested boards back. So you don't even need to deal with parts shopping, etc.

As far as inventory management, if you're not big enough to be using an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system, it's likely a Quickbooks plug-in, a spreadsheet or something custom built.

IME, as long as they people can meet their BOM price target, they just buy from whoever they're used to dealing with.

I have a couple products in low-volume production manufactured in my basement. 90% of my components are purchased from Digi-Key because we're both in Minnesota (and Digi-Key is the best vendor I've ever dealt with) so most things I order arrive the next day without having to pay extra. They also have BOM tools on their site: I can create a bill of materials for a board to make it easier to order parts: just bring up the BOM and enter a number of units and it will create a shopping cart for me.

I'll occasionally look around for better prices on some high-cost parts, but it's hardly worth it at my low volumes: there really isn't enough price variation on most things.
Terribly engineered because it's not type checked, or for some other reason?
This is dope, I love how the author took a rigorous approach towards analyzing how much effort could be saved through this keyboard
PCIe cards don't count. So ignore the ones on the GPUs, I/O card, etc.

If not for that, it would in fact go way over, because USB3 ports count twice.
Yup. All discussions should also include excess deaths.
I, unfortunately, have sent spam messages via iMessage a long time ago. I did it by faking a Bluetooth keyboard that connects to an iPhone and starts typing out phone numbers and addresses fed from a computer. I did it to mass-send a message to about a couple hundred people.
But if it wasn't an instantaneous policy change, both taxi companies and limo companies would hire private security or gear up with weapons.
Nice link. I am not surprised that the concept is that well developed. I'm surprised they slow down to terminal velocity before impact.

Fun to think about but I also hope they don't build these things.
Maybe dang or some other public-spirited person could find some of the earlier toki pona threads from HN so people could see some of the earlier discussions?

I know I've participated in quite a few of them because I know toki pona well and had various random things to comment on each time it was brought up here. :-)

Edit: I guess the majority of these threads can be found with https://hn.algolia.com/?q=toki+pona (including the recent one on a custom homemade computer with a native toki pona input and display, a project which was then described by its inventor exclusively in toki pona).
Largely offtopic but:

You are not incorrect per sé. REITs exists in an awful large number of varieties in every possible flavor and indeed broadly reflect what you describe, i.e. an exposure to a Real Estate. You get paid a dividend (which would be similar to the cashflow you receive from a rental property you own). There are a number of upsides of investing in REITs over buying a property and renting it out:
- less work (no need to manage tenants)
- less risk (it's a diverse set of properties across multiple locations vs a single property in one location).
- highly liquid (you can buy any amount and sell virtually whenever you want you need to liquidity)

there is some downside:
- it is not tangible as a property (sometimes that means that if you don't understand exactly what you bought under what conditions it can mean you have some unknown exposure/risk you were not aware of).
- it has less upside generally (in terms of risk/reward, it is a much safer investment but with that there is also upside as if you were to own a single property in the right neighborhood).
- less leverage (generally you get more leverage on your mortgage than on your investment account)

Particularly the last points is what catches people often. I.e. if you are renting a property and everyone else is owning, and the properties go up, you will feel 'stupid'. People love bragging how they got rich by buying and 'flipping' and ofcourse this happens and has happened in the past. But for all those great stories you don't hear the people that bought and were stuck with the house, had to sell at 'firesale price' because they lost a job/got divorced/etc etc. In the end, buying and owning property with leverage is a choice that fits a certain lifestyle and SHOULD not be for everyone. There are a lot of other investment opportunities in the set for any individual that would be better suited but are often considered 'complex'. Owning a house is simple and has been pushed for decades to 'build' wealth.

The reality is that for most people their housing cost is by far the largest fraction of their cost of living. Owning alleviates this costs to a certain extend if only psychologically, but it does not come risk free (the number of times I heard people say 'house prices only go up'). The leverage factor aside (which is a real thing), looking from a person investing their savings, an appropriate allocation would be something dependent on their age but in any case not much over 10% in Real Estate. About as much on commodities (GOLD/precious metals/etc), Fixed Income depending on age but somewhere between 20% percent earlier in career with little commitments and up to 70% in retirement, with the rest in stocks ideally globally diversified. That all being loosely based on the highest risk-adjusted return models (or how any active manager would run your fund from a top level).

Obviously, this is boring and it is way more smarter to buy this sexy property and flip it a couple times and those tenants are not an issue cause 'you love dealing with them anyways and have nothing better to do'. Basically risk-free money and you didn't even work for it. /s
Yes, journalists would be considered to be one of the demonstrators by both parties. They are not geared out like the riot police, so do not look similar.
You know, for a tech site, people sure do love to forget that iMessage is preferred because it brings features instead of mere social status.
The Worst Times Get Better
Zuckerburg has a history of this type of behavior in the past where he sucked up to Xi Jinping asking him to name his child (wtf...). He obviously doesn’t care about politics nearly as much as he does courting influence and money from politicians in power. The embarrassing part is his attempts to justify it without outright saying “Look, we have to keep Republicans happy because they have the power to hurt Facebook or stop giving us money and I’m not OK with that.”

Dorsey and even Bezos are more principled than he is.
Well we were doing that. Before covid induced economic damage we were experiencing record low unemployment among black and minority youth. Record low poverty levels, etc. In the meantime you still need crime enforcement lest you let all that earned wealth be stolen and looted by gangs.

And it is not disingenuous to suggest that criminal enterprises will switch to new enterprises when old ones are no longer profitable. Hell some gangs have switched the smuggling oil of all things.
I thought Facebook Messenger was very strict about assigning page-specific user IDs to avoid this. Last I checked there was no way to send a message to a Facebook user using their profile ID.
Please do not post the same remarks verbatim and the same links multiple times in a discussion, it is not good netiquette.
iMessage is a much better user experience. Users associate the blue bubbles with that.
Android only.

I don't give a f#%k about the color of my messages but being able to see them from a website/windows desktop would be useful. This doesn't achieve that.
Actually the opposite. Damage due to non-collision.
> if this describes your situation you get a doc to sign off on it

For those with feeding tubes, this is possible - insurance will often cover the special enteral formulas. But it seems (based on various Facebook group discussions) that the individual must be 100% tube fed to qualify.