skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cops carry guns because the situation can always get out of hand. Violent criminals still exist in society.

EDIT: the ignorant people claiming average police officer does not deal with violent criminals have obviously never worked as a first responder. They deal with rape, suicide, murder, assault, domestic abuse, robbery, every week unless they're some small town cop in a gilded neighborhood.

The cops in St. Louis, Chicago, Baltimore, NYC, etc, see it every single day.

I hear a lot of suggestions by people have have never done the job. People making spurious claims about what police do and don't deal with on a daily basis.

I would never support female cops without firearms, for example. A grown man can easily overpower any woman, period. Especially when they are tweaked out on drugs.

Cops carry a gun because they have less than 6 seconds to respond to deadly situations that can save lives.
"This is the kind of thoughts I had when I was 15, I don't even know what to reply to that anymore."

And this is the kind of insult I used until I was 12. Either address the argument or don't. Bless us lesser beings with your wisdom.

"Don't you have the balls to attach your speech to your semi public internet presence"

Pretty easy if all of your opinions are borrowed from others.

If you actually consider every issue for yourself then you're going to need to have discussions/disagreements.

And in modern "leftist" culture it's absolutely not permitted to disagree on certain issues. There is a correct way of thinking and any deviation makes you an enemy. You're either onboard wholesale for everything (making you a second class "ally" if you're out of the relevant racial/gender group) or an enemy.

I want to live in a good world as much as anyone. I have no belief in the superiority of any race or sex. I absolutely would have supported MLK Jr. and I'm fairly certain of this because my parents did and I have a lot in common with them.

And yet I find myself dismayed by the whacky thinking that has infected part of American culture. There is a new world in which racism isn't racism if it's aimed at certain racial groups and violence isn't violence if it's against police or certain racial groups. Permanently destroying people's lives is okay now too, as long as they made some kind of mistake related to a hot issue.

This stuff is insane and totally counter productive. The majority of people are too smart and good to buy into this perverted worldview. Most people are never going to come around to the worldview where it's not-so-bad to kill a police officer that is responding to a break in.

What we should hope to see is a separation process, where the extremist crazy people and ideas are abandoned.

There seems to be a hostage/hijacking situation, where the majority are being cowed/controlled by the extremists, dooming the movements to failure.

An enemy of racial equality couldn't organize better sabotage than what the people involved are seemingly doing on their own.
Hold down the power button for newer Android builds and press "Lockdown".
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Google, Amazon, FB are not the monopolies that you should be worried about. They are fun to talk about and tech is sexy, but there are bigger problems - ISPs / telecoms, for example.

Remember the baby bells? In 1982, AT&T (ma bell) lost an anti-trust lawsuit and was broken up into 8 companies (the baby bells).

Guess what happened since? If you guessed they merged back together, you would be correct. The baby bells merged back together and became 3 companies - AT&T, Verizon, and CenturyLink.

For those who are customers of AT&T - how do you like your service? Is it as good as Google?

Oligopoly is the new monopoly. Financial services, airlines, oil majors, media, pharma, auto, etc. Those are the industries that need breaking up. You pay for their services / products and they price fix (airline baggage fees, overdraft fees, etc), you don't even pay for Google. You can easily use duckduckgo and delete your FB / Insta with no consequence.

Edit - to address the comments saying that the tech companies should be broken up: sure, but how exactly? Google and Facebook in particular. You don't even pay for their services, so you (the citizens) can't claim consumer protection from their business. Only the companies / individuals that pay for Google and Facebook ads can.

Again, I get the frustration of the times and misinformation sucks, but Google and Facebook are not the cause. They are the means of distributing info (including ads that are sometimes just fake new), not the root source of all evil.
Haha exactly
You're the one who needs to prove that literally the only change needed in turning America into a peaceful nation is reforming the police code. I thought you guys had - just as examples off the top of my head - nationwide gun, drug and mental health "epidemics", but I guess those are completely moot now.
You are missing the last 300 years of foundational racism or at the very least, the last 50 years of struggling for civil rights.

American citizens are not equal, especially so in the eyes of law enforcement. If you are trying to group minorities into the protectorate under the law by saying "us", then no, American citizens cannot claim that the police protect and serve. If you say "us", then neither can you.
> So you say, but you have no evidence reform is impossible. Whereas nations with police forces not built like authoritarian staatspolizei have lower uses of force, violence, and abuse.

> According to HN, everything is impossible. In reality? Going to space didn't have to cost a billion a launch, electric cars weren't impossible, and we can have fibre internet.

Not exactly. It's more like the status quo that serves them is impossible to change because they don't want it changed.

Stereotypical HN likes space and electric cars and hates anything that may disrupt their comfortable sociopolitical station.
Well, no, the section you quoted is what prevents you from selling "Strawberry jam" that has fruits other than strawberry. The section about number of fruits seems to just be about arbitrarily restricting the amount of any fruit present to at least one fifth of the total (except pineapple for some reason). I don't see why that's necessary, but you could at least write the law as

>(2) The following combinations of fruit ingredients may be used:

>(i) Any combination of such fruits in which the weight of each is not less than one-fifth of the weight of the combination, or in which the weight of each part is no less than half the weight of any other part; except that the weight of pineapple may be not less than one-tenth of the weight of the combination.

I'm not quite sure what the right legal wording is for or such that you can comply with whichever half works for you is, but that would both allow for everything the existing law allows and allow for arbitrary numbers of fruit without requiring that they be mixed in exactly equal ratios.
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The Reddit ToS has always had restrictions on communities that brigade and abuse other communities. They didn't need to add an exception for r/t_D. Instead, they made an exception to keep the subreddit around, because it was driving lots of traffic to the site.

I implore you to go to ceddit.com/r/the_donald and look at the mod log. See how many slurs and calls to violence you see being manually approved by their mods.
The point is that statements like "you are not okay" can be misconstrued depending on the mentality of the subject.

The simplistic version of this is telling a depressed person they should "lighten up." But such a person may not have the resources to just change their mood on a whim, and when they also realize this and internalize it, they may become defensive. If they are unable to follow this "simple advice" to just become "okay" again in the context of society at large, their reaction could only reinforce those self-destructive thoughts. Because I am unable to just do these simple things, then what is my value in life, and so on.

There can be a meta to this mentality. A lot of such people could be well aware they are not okay, and still not have any intention to get better, for a variety of reasons. The assumption is that every person wants to act for their own benefit. There are some people who only want to act for their own detriment. Someone defensive enough could just twist the words of "you could do better," which are completely well-intended, into meaning "but I'm failing to, and that is my fault, and that means I am not good enough for you." They can just believe the helper thinks less of them because they just can't do what they say, and ignore anything they say to the contrary, to make a point. And that is what is defined as "success" for them - proving that they are not good enough to the people that want them to improve, through their own actions. So with that mindset it is an endless negative feedback loop that will frustrate everyone trying to genuinely help the person, until they all give up or nothing ever improves and then said person is left alone with their own thoughts. And then anything could happen.

But that is not to say that it's the same with anyone who is genuinely willing to listen and take advice to heart. You can choose to say "yes, and here are the steps I'll take to get to 'okay'". It's just that not all people are open to advice, and sometimes the only way to make those people listen is to pay other people to force their own worldviews on them (therapists), "for their own good," like a parent would to a naive child who refuses to listen.

And in the end, some people still cannot be changed.
> You're going to have to pick one of these two statements.

Absolutly not. Repeating myself from a bit further down:

It's basically the same issue with all social platform, yes everyone should have the right to express their views, but mass amplification via the platform's algorithm shouldn't be a right.

Also,

> let the audience determine what makes it to the front page

/r/t_d was gaming the upvote system to have way more posts on /r/all that they would have had 'naturally', making this whole point moot. It wasn't determined by what the audience wanted to see, it was determined by a small brigade of motivated people.
The problem when you break up a domestic giant is that opens the door for foreign giants to enter the market.

What would you rather have, Amazon and Google, or Alibaba and Baidu?
Yes, the culture has an impact, but do people these days become cops to be on the "bad" side or for being the "good" cop? I hope it's still the later. But maybe I am wrong.

Important is: Culture and leadership matters. Whatever is encouraged by culture and leadership will flourish.
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A bug report does not imply a user is angry or not. Software is shipped with known bugs which often go unfixed. And a lack of features can be just as critical of an impediment for a user. So neither bug nor feature can fully describe the effect that an identified issue has on its overall priority.

An angry phone call doesn't universally change the order of work for all companies. Some projects might rate this event more importantly than other projects. Most angry phone calls are a result of usability problems not strictly feature defects. So there's no direct correlation here between user product sentiment and backlog priorities, unless your company culture adds that correlation.
Here's what I wonder, and this is somewhat tangential to the issue-- the effects of cannabis are thought to be disruptive to some of the various stages of the sleep cycle, but at the same time, it can sure help you to achieve a full night of uninterrupted sleep. So in the context of these inflammation problems, I wonder what exactly it is about fitful sleep that leads to these inflammation responses and whether taking a toke before bed could be beneficial to your arteries.
Are you sure Berenson is a libertarian? He seems to be a much bigger fan of drug prohibition than any self-proclaimed libertarian I've ever met.
"Why are you worried about surveillance if you have nothing to hide?"
Hey, OP here.

Tape your mouth at night! On your easy runs, breath solely through your nose.

For the record, I am an ultra runner. Nose breathing is hugely beneficial for endurance athletes. I have seen my pace come up while heart rate / perceived effort remains the same.

I did the last years entire Montane Spine Challenger just breathing through my nose (108 mile race).
One issue I have found is that people, even educated people who are otherwise paying attention (including the news media and such) seem to drop this skepticism entirely when it comes to statements made by feds.

It’s as if they believe that local PD is some unprofessional good old boys or something, but the FBI, those are the professional ones.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Make sure your skepticism of police statements (including those regurgitated verbatim on the news) extends to feds as well. They have a decades-long history of the exact same damage.

Beware anything put in a sworn statement or affidavit by feds, or provided by federal informants or federal undercovers. You’d be astounded how much of it simply isn’t true.
I've just read the 'Media' version of the 'study'

But yes, humans are intrinsically social.

But what's actually matters is how much.

Bending over once a year to pick up rubbish vs spending a day.

What we need it know is how to maximise it in more cases (for good or evil) these studies are more about clicks. You barely know what's going on when the cost is so low.
I remember watching Cops as documentation of police brutality before social media was rampant
Every tiny bit of information trickling out of Apple is circulating on Mac news site. Even if it's just a delivery date changing somewhere in the store. These news site are actively looking for that.

I doubt the PR department is pushing out a footnote on the developer portal to a bunch of Mac rumor blogs.
I live in Bali. I had some chest pains for a few months so saw a specialist. He tested with stethoscope and said sounded fine. He gave me the option of taking a CT thorax. Went downstairs to radiology. They could do the CT scan right away. They had a deal going for COVID of blood test + CT thorax for $120 USD (whereas the CT Thorax a lone would have been $170).

So I took the test and got the results 2 days later and saw the specialist. He showed me the full scan said it's all clear. He then asked if I had insurance. I said no... he walked me to the billing desk and said no charge. What a legend.

Turns out chest pains was from GERD.
6D Mk 1 works great with Canon Webcam Utility Beta on macOS! I'm using it now.
Exactly, it's basically statically typed, compiled Ruby with really good performance.

Also it has really powerful type inference, which allows you to write really Ruby-like code while maintaining your static typing. The downside of that is that it makes the compiler kind of slow.
Or something like Sidekiq in Crystal [1], which was 7 times faster. But now I wonder how much faster would Sidekiq run on TuffleRuby.

[1] https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq.cr
The End of Policing by Alex Vitale is available as a free eBook
I disagree with record; you should STREAM. Get it off the device so it can't be conveniently destroyed and deleted.
If one commenter wanted to get attention for their comment, they’d overuse large headings and bold. A lot of Markdown’s value comes from consistent use throughout a document (here, all comments).
>"The increasing trend of large tech conglomerates to use one money printing product like AWS or search or the Apple Store to tactically snipe competitors to destroy or acquire them is absolutely abysmal in the long run."

That's literally how every company ever in any industry since the dawn of commerce has operated. You use profits to grow and diversify. You can't perform capital expenditure without capital...
Completely anecdotal, but I've been both highly fit and obese and irrespective of my fitness leve, crap sleep always makes me feel like junk, and good sleep always makes me feel great. I get more crap sleep being obese, but if I could fix that, exercise is much easier to come by.
If you find actions of criminals, you should join them and change them from within, or join the police and fight them.

What's the difference exactly ?
Yeah, because false equivalence is not a thing. Police are funded by the public for the public.
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> This argument always comes up and its complete and utter bullshit. Please think about what you say for more than a half second before you say it.

"I'm not here in good faith" is an even shorter way of saying the same thing.
A helpful resource for apps for recording: https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-po...
Vuejs.org GitHub issue: Fix BlackLivesMatter banner
"...the question of whether Machines Can Think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim."

Edsger Dijkstra, EWD898, 1984
The best pulse ox I’ve found is the O2Ring. It’s more comfortable than any other pulse ox I’ve used, it samples at a high rate and produces absolutely gorgeous output. The downsides: I don’t believe it integrates with OSCAR, and it’s a whopping $180.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07T5L57M4/
I think I'll go buy gopro stock before their inevitable pivot to making inconspicuous body cams for people to wear every day.
I asked a doctor about it and he said that since I'm not obese nor overweight, and I don't regularly wake up gasping, then I'm not a candidate.

I've had fitful sleep as far as I can remember. I wake up (and remember it) probably 4-5 times a night and I've been told I toss and turn all the time. I find if I take a calmant or a substance I can sleep through the night.

I have chronic inflammation includes Achilles' pain just as you describe. I'm in my lower 40's. I'm also a weightlifter and I do calisthenics - both of these activities 4-5 times a week. Oh, but I sit in front of a PC 12+ hours a day!
How much of our police force deals with legitimate violent crime?

The vast majority of police do not need guns.

edit:

> hey deal with rape, suicide, murder, assault, domestic abuse, robbery, every week unless they're some small town cop in a gilded neighborhood.

Can you back this up? Statistics I've seen do not support your claim, and put violent crimes under 5% of police investigations.
There's an old saying in investigating plane crashes: "When the pilot dies, it's pilot error; when the pilot survives, it's equipment malfunction."
The website theme is nostalgic. Does anyone know of jekyll theme that generates such simple website?
I'm quite surprised to see Javascript / Node so high up the ranks, quite impressive the amount of optimizations that's been done to the engine throughout the years.
Fast as C, Slick as Ruby with their own implementation of Go's 'goroutines' called Fibers.

More here:

https://crystal-lang.org/
Plenty of departments in other countries do not carry guns and do their jobs just fine.
Well, and it's not like predicted violence would last for a year, then disappear. It's an ongoing and escalating situation.
Was that the Great Pentaretraction or something else? My favorite is still the Krishna Murthy structures that turned out to be completely made up.
> Yeah, TD alone was huge in 2016-2017 and was a huge contributor to the dynamic we have in the world today.

Surely you mean "the dynamic we have in the world of reddit today", right? Otherwise, that sounds Bill-Gates-Is-Transmitting-Corona-Over-5G-Towers level insane.

It's not the smoldering powder keg in the middle east, the long looming conflict between the US as the sole imperial super power and the up and coming China contesting their role in SE Asia etc, no. It's really TD, a subreddit where Trump fanatics post memes.
Both Android and Chrome could be wildly successful independent companies. Android could charge a license fee to OEMs in addition to the app store business and Chrome could sell search default rights like Firefox does.
-Don't Talk to the Police-

Regent Law Professor James Duane gives us startling reasons why we should always exercise our 5th Amendment rights when questioned by government officials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

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Unfortunately you can't do that, but you can do nearly everything else with Entangle! It's great.
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For a while, it was Ruby's ease of use with C's performance.

I believe that now they're trying to reduce marketing that relies on Ruby and present more as an independent language (which it is).
The value will go up.

Biggest issue with Alphabet is that it is run like a govt bureaucracy. You have one business that is very valuable, and to own that you have to pay the tax of owning all the other stuff that does nothing but burn cash for the benefit of employees.
I'm American. The last comparable event that I can think back to is the 1992 LA riots (28 years ago, and several generations of Law Enforcement officers). While the US has a rich history of large scale demonstrations, especially in the past few years, they have largely been premeditated and by activist organizations that collaborate with local governments well in advanced. The Floyd Protests, and the looters riding their coattails are much more emergent in nature. This fundamentally changes the relations between the protestors and law enforcement, because all parties are typically aware of the nature of the event and their roles in it well in advanced. Perhaps to a lesser extent the advent of the Occupy movement.

While I'm certain that there are any number of smaller contrapoints to this, especially in college towns with vivacious activist communities, I can't recall any situation where so many municipal LEOs have been so wrongfooted and outmanned in recent memory.
He (Ballmer rather than Gates) was in that position largely BECAUSE of the consent decree. I think Ballmer gets a bad rap- for all the complaints about relevance Microsoft grew its business from $23B in 2000 to $86B in 2014 and greatly increased its presence across a bunch of enterprise segments.
If told to stop recording, I'd be tempted to reply, "Sir, I am recording for your protection."

Note well: I have not actually tried this. IANAL, and this is not legal advice. Your mileage may vary.
They resigned in protest at being held accountable: https://twitter.com/DaveGreber4/status/1268977512320819203?s...
> Even if it were a felony, who would enforce it?

What if the law says explicitly that an officer in uniform without a badge and name tag has no legal authority and can be presumed to be committing a felony?
Elgato sells other capture cards (eg. HD60), which still seem available.

I recently bought a raspberry pi hi quality camera (and lens) to tinker with, and was able to connect it to my mac via pi->hdmi->capture-card to make a nice webcam view with the bokeh effect.

the total cost of this example does add up, but still cheaper than a DSLR setup.
Any suggestions for such a setup?
It's gonna get flagged again, I can feel it. What I love about this place is everybody is so open minded.
The US Surgeon General: https://twitter.com/surgeon_general/status/12337257852839321...

"Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus..."