skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
France's police uses Linux for 10 years now, a specific Ubuntu distro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu
Please don't take HN threads further into partisan flamewar. It leads nowhere good, as manifested below.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Quibi Asks Senior Executives to Take 10% Pay Cut
People who wanted an object-oriented graphical desktop

ATM machines.
Link to the article: https://www.americaninno.com/chicago/jesse-jackson-h-1b-visa...
Non native. Does ma'am have the same ring as "buddy"? It always sounded somehow deferential to me
Whether or not it’s their job, one can still feel bad about doing it. When I worked retail, if we didn’t have something in stock (after looking), I’d apologize. Not because it’s my fault, but because I felt bad.

It’s the reason people don’t ask workers at retail stores for help; they (most of the time) don’t want to bother someone even though it’s their job.
What a bunch of BS. Don't get me wrong, I'd be just as happy if he was deplatformed everywhere but these social media companies coming out now and acting like this just started or is new is just annoying (insert surprised Pikachu). No one was willing to take any real steps until after Twitter's fact-check/hidden tweet. What took so long?
That's not related to problems with USB-C, but to Apple messing up their hardware design. This was discussed recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22957573
I wrote StreamE because I was tired of constantly switching back and forth between Twitch, Mixer, and YouTube to watch the live streamers I wanted to watch. StreamE lets you search for, follow, and watch live streamers on all the major platforms. I searched around to see if there was anything similar, and found a couple browser extensions, that both seemed to want OAuth verification, which I didn't want to mess with.

StreamE has some unique features, like a universal search across all the major streaming platforms, and a custom following feature as well. Follow streamers you like, and your list of followers is updated and stored in your browser/URL for easy bookmarking and sharing. The site requires no logins or signups, shows live indicators next to followed streamers, is mobile friendly, and is dark mode by default.

I tried to keep StreamE as simple as possible, it is written in vanilla JS, HTML, and CSS. I use the lz-string library (should be found through a quick Google) to encode the JSON follower data inside the browser and URL. The website hits a couple AWS Lambda endpoints written in NodeJS, which use the various Twitter, Mixer, and YouTube APIs for some of the site functions.
The CFOs of Banco do Brasil, Bank of America, Bank of Guam, Bank of Moscow, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Clearstream Banking, Commerzbank, Compass, Crédit Agricole, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, ING, Intesa Sanpaolo, JP Morgan Chase, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, National Bank of Pakistan, PayPal, RBS (ABN Amro), Société Générale, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Trans-Pacific National Bank, Standard Chartered, and Wells Fargo enter the chat.

https://archive.is/kyKGf
I don't think the press should have special protections over ordinary citizens. the penalty for any unwarranted use of force should be increased to whatever you would want for journalists.
What’s dual (or multiple) monitor Support like with Linux these days? Thinking of getting the dell xps developer edition because it seems to be the one that offers the best compatibility but I would personally prefer a Lenovo.
Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong another commenter is or you feel they are. Maybe you don't owe your political opponents better, or don't feel you do; but you definitely owe this community better if you're posting to it. This kind of thing leads to its destruction, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
She's an elected officer of the company, and thus under US Law and most countries for the matter. She as an individual was a part of and oversaw the actions and complaints alleged. There's no ambiguity at all.
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Not quite. The techniques the military uses to attack enemies are not the same as the techniques of law enforcement, nor should they be. This is why militarization of the police is generally frowned upon, and the use of military forces to quell civil unrest is also not a good idea.
how can I access the article and bypass login prompt?
I watched closely when Obamacare was debated. If Obama had only had had the courage to pound the table and tell his democratic senators to get in line, maybe Obamacare could actually have worked. Instead it turned into a half assed attempt that was flawed from the start.

Same with the bank bailouts. He was in an excellent position to get some real change but chose to keep Geithner who gave the banks what they wanted. And a precondition for anybody who administered the bailouts was to have worked for an investment bank.
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What the 40 largest US Protestant churches are saying about George Floyd
What aspects of your older work do you not like? Is it your "eye" (subject framing), or technical details (like nonoptimal camera settings or wrong length glass), or something else?

Thanks for sharing your other comments, btw.
>Then go after Huawei, which is an entity operating in the US? But that is not what happened; Huawei is not being sued

They're not being sued, but they are being charged with:

> Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, Bank Fraud, and Theft of Trade Secrets Among Nearly Two Dozen Charges

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/chinese-telecom-firm-huawei...
Remember those iOS text handling bugs? Fun.
New Zealand is sitting on top of bubble of lava from an ancient volcano
You and I know that. But Hacker News disagrees.
I guess the sad thing is that it really is sustainable, since taxpayers won't stop paying taxes.
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Monopolies and centralization drive fear.

Fear controls populations, and protects power.

We need to start taking decentralization far more seriously than we have been.

https://twitter.com/asculthorpe/status/1268265854648700930
Did he also somehow automate the writing of that blog post? It reads like a selection of cut-ups from other posts.
Surprised it took this long. I've always thought those nouns seemed "off."

It's interesting to see "blackbox" as a related bug though. That doesn't seem charged to me (in so far as "black-out curtains" doesn't either), since the metaphor is "put this in a place where you can't see it, only the input and output." But I'm not opposed to the change, since we might as well remove the possible connotation if we can.

By the way, there's still a lot of work to do in this space. For example, this even more explicit terminology is commonly accepted in engineering today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Peripheral_Interface#In...
My overall point is that there are many examples of the dominant players in a market being inferior in certain ways compared to more obscure choices, and there are different reasons for it. Cooperatives and alternative corporate governance models are simply less well-known, not unlike the average consumer hasn't even heard of Linux. They don't know the benefits involved in these alternate models. You can extend to many other categories where there are superior, but obscurer, alternatives that come with trade-offs.

There's also situations where dominant players make it difficult for smaller competitors to survive. In a loose analogy, Microsoft's monopolistic strategies in the '90s can be compared to the past decades' weakening of laws protecting unions.

Strengthening unions, or rather reversing the weakening of unions in this country, doesn't really require oppressive government force. That's in line with the misconception that considers America's sickly unions- who are an absolute paper tiger at this point in history- to have any considerable strength.

https://psmag.com/economics/what-caused-the-decline-of-union...
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I don't understand how this is supposed to change anything?

Every experiment with communism so far has ended with famine an/or genocide.

I don't want to be part of another experiment and I don't want my friends to suffer it either.
I appreciate your passion, but Obama still didn't follow through with his promises, and whatever change he enacted wasn't enough.
I've experienced this when suggesting headline edits: get several upvotes by others who agree, dang agrees and changes the title (and folds the thread away, I think to prevent the following...) and then within a few minutes people plink away with the downvotes until it's negative. On one hand it seems like people are downvoting it for being irrelevant... but dang's response seems like it should provide the context to avoid that. Baffling.
Grey beard:
1. Opens emacs
2. Writes the post in org-mode
3. Exports to html
4. rsyncs with a remote server
Al Capone went down on tax evasion scheme, nothing else.
That’s half the fun. :)
ok but lockdowns don't make sick people get better so deaths aren't the best measure. The lockdowns are aimed at slowing the infection rate and reducing total number of infections.

I don't recall ever reading how Sweden's hospitals were overwhelmed so the injection rate never increased beyond what they could handle.

As for total infections, If you look at the graph of cases by country normalized by population, highlight Sweden, and then select show all, Sweden is about in the middle.

They're right there in the mix, it's not like the Swedish model was perfect but Sweden certainly didn't devolve into rivers choked with the dead either. They're having about the same problems as everyone else but didn't add to their misery by completely destroying their economy.
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Each few years I see such post. Ditching one or another user facing OS in relatively large and non-homogenous environment ends up as consultant feast without significant impact.
Problem is that that there are almost zero alternatives to MS in client computing as platform, what works relatively out of box. I dont speak about one piece, like Desktop os, but all togehther. Ofc you can try glue together, but its jaegernautic task. Most likely you will fail badly, because developing vertically integrated ecosystem of IT products is hard. Even MS does on each 2nd iteration well. All talks about cost savings are always non-sense, when you are serious customer even MS starts hearing you. Ofc if you are all in oficey stuff, then of course your bargaining power is almost zero. But if you try to use open standards and web based systems, then you have got some leverage. Same is true about multicloud, it should be used when bargaining with your cloud provider and you say: you know we can leave in next 2(actually 200) months
The Many Forms of FOSS Advocacy
That doesn't sound very realistic to me. A startup doesn't just capture 50% of any significant market over night. It will have plenty of time to hire some compliance staff as it grows.

Regulation and civil lawsuits don't serve the same purpose. Regulation is making the rules. Courts interpret the rules in light of a specific situation.

I agree that regulation can be counter productive. It can create a level playing field or cement dominant positions of encumbants. So let's have good regulation.
You wouldn't call a president that by all means takes from the poor, and gives it to the rich, to himself, and to children as corrupt? How about many, many senators who are doing the exact same thing? How about a prime minister that does the same?

There is just as much corruption in the developed world as there is in ex-Soviet countries.
One for me is: it makes group orders harder as you have to get everyone’s order either beforehand or take breaks while getting it during the call. With an app, I can take breaks during the ordering phase until I have everyone’s.
Compensating for competitive factors both for customers and for investors to care that you're worth putting money into. If you don't have something that makes you special from your competitors, what's the point of you existing? That's just a small business like a mom & pop grocery store or a boutique web design agency (both of which are endangered species). If you don't have any competitors, then you'd better have something of value, correct? Or is one's company Theranos et al? In enterprise, the competitive factors can be things like relationships to certain vendors and this can supersede technology secret sauce and is as equally valuable as a trade secret. You get overly-complicated business models that become a house of cards like Enron or WeWork which make unsophisticated investors think they know what they're doing, and as engineers we are attracted to our own biases toward shiny new things that might solve all our headaches.

But you're also right in that some technology companies basically hire developers to give them resume / vanity projects that don't necessarily help the business be competitive directly. However, that is another ball game that's into global brand territory which follows rules more of religions and politics than of capitalism.
> dedicated cameras have mainly been innovating in video production rather than stills in the last 5 years.

Well, not Sony. Their mirrorless cameras have gotten much better autofocus and battery life and slightly better ergonomics, usability, speed and weather-sealing, but there has basically been no change in their video capabilities.
Would compression techniques eliminate any possibilities of using steganography in real time video calls?
When I hear tech giant, I think FAANG, but I'm not sure this is representative of the options most programmers have. It certainly isnt representative of the compensation at most large companies.
> One of the issues with those automakers is that their interfaces are in general unresponsive and slow. The one in my BMW sucked. The Jaguar I-PACE is very slow as well.

> Tesla got this right with both the touch screen and the physical buttons on the steering wheel for things like volume control.

Perhaps there's an auto manufacturer or two that got it right. However, I've never driven a car with physical buttons that got it wrong. When I used to shop for cars in those days, I never had to consider if those buttons were compatible with me. Now when I buy for a newer car, it's an added headache to consider, and one that I've not seen add any real value. Going on a test drive really will not tell me enough about whether the interface is good. And worst of all, whether it is or isn't affects my safety.
It's an OS-wide scripting framework, that a lot of (most) applications running on macOS support. The beauty of it is that it works on top of Apple Events and is layered. An application may inherit a standard set of exposed scripting endpoints and may also implement its own specific set of behaviors.
Even the standard inherited set of endpoints can be extremely powerful due to accessibility functions that are baked into the entire operating system.

Chrome offers both. Firefox offers nothing. Of course applications can additionally offer their own scripting APIs (Chrome has DevTools, I'm sure Firefox has something equivalent) but a major advantage of OSA is its stability and uniformity. It's a hidden treasure for power users and obsessive feedback loop minimizers. Alas, when it comes to regular users, the most Apple managed to do with it was Automator.app, a very constrained experience that did not really take advantage of the underlying power.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/La...
>> surely not Dewey Decimal?

Close.

https://johnnydecimal.com/

Rather, I'd like to do implement this. I have my own homegrown system, with too many idiosyncrasies to share.
Ask HN: How can we prevent excessive force by police?
What steps can we take to build a safer society for everyone regardless of class, race, religion, gender, disability, or anything else?

I think that police departments open sourcing their policies would go a long way. Or wearing body cams in more situations.

What do you smart (non-cynical) internet people think?
Ignoring the obviously ludicrous claim that you've ``read history'', as if history is some night where all cows are black.

Little known fact: Young teenagers don't read theory. If you, as a teenager, had known what communism is perhaps this empty rhetoric of `attempts' would cease. Quoting Marx:

> Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.

Or perhaps let's put context on the `general horror', to quote Jacques Derrida:

> For it must be cried out, at a time when some have the audacity to neo-evangelize in the name of the ideal of a liberal democracy that has finally realized itself as the ideal of human history: never have violence, inequality, exclusion, famine, and thus economic oppression affected as many human beings in the history of the earth and of humanity. Instead of singing the advent of the ideal of liberal democracy and of the capitalist market in the euphoria of the end of history, instead of celebrating the ‘end of ideologies’ and the end of the great emancipatory discourses, let us never neglect this obvious, macroscopic fact, made up of innumerable, singular sites of suffering: no degree of progress allows one to ignore that never before, in absolute figures, have so many men, women and children been subjugated, starved or exterminated on the earth.
> This is an absurd reaction and I suspect you know it.

Why? They knew the data was fake when they published it, but they published it anyway to boost sales of Remdesivir.

They're literally trying to make money by killing people. If you wouldn't trust someone if you saw them run over someone else with their car, why would you trust Lancet?
My university is using BBB for its only lectures, and it has been great so far (~2 months). I think it also is a self hosted solution, which is great.
The credibility problem has been partially solved with a PageRank type algorithm. (Sergei and Larry were actually inspired by the weighting system of research papers)

Highly regarded scientific journals like the Lancet are used to accelerate this weighting process.

The problem is that nowadays they seem kind of outdated, opaque and corrupt on many levels.

Nobody wants to suppress peer-review, simply replace the journals mafia with something less corrupt.
Then don't vote for that candidate. Vote for who you think will do a good job regardless of their party affiliation. Even if you need to write them in. The only wasted vote is an unused vote.
And even countries like Russia have got problems ditching MS. Their encryption software works much better on win, then linux
> Workers are incentivized to choose themselves over the health of the company or the customer.

And maybe that is how it should be? Maybe life shouldn't be about the most efficient way to run a business.
How does this compare against Zello?
Every shot taken at the CCP is worth it.
With winner-take-all state elector selection plus elector counts that favor lower-population states there are huge distortionary effects on voter turnout, the actual choices a voter makes in the voting booth, and campaigning, including GOTV efforts. The nationwide popular vote therefore has little meaning, not just on the actual outcome (plainly irrelevant for that) but even as some kind of score-keeping or "what if" thought experiment.
> So cherry-picked cases that range from 15-78% of the data set.

That's a fair point, although what kind of case would be a "cherry" is not clear to me. Both a foreign company winning (implying that patent infringement happened) and losing (possibly feeding suspicion that the judicial system is biased against foreigners) could end up making China look bad.

> 1.6k patent cases over multiple years seems -extremely- low to me.

My mistake. When I checked the blog post by the author of the paper for a date range, I thought it was since 2014 (and until publication in 2018), but actually those cases were all in 2014. (See page 10 of the paper.)
> It is not an all-out, miracle cure but it definitely helps

Researchers have withdrawn[1] studies that claimed much weaker statements than this.

[1]: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.05.20088757v...
Yes!

Press is a thing people do, not a credential people have. All people should have freedom to observe and report on (to the extent they wish or do not wish to) actions of the state. Restricting that should have severe punishment.
Do away with reservations - if you aren't sitting in the driver's seat, someone else can use it.

The price point has to be low enough to look like a good deal compared to owning, insuring, and maintaining a cheap 2nd hand car for occasional use.

Maybe my £100 proposal needs a surcharge for driving outside the city boundaries to prevent roadtrip a.
This was the entire premise why Canada held Meng Wanzhou no? I don't see any new information surfaced in this article from what was already publicized in 2018.

Seems like it's just a chance to re-broadcast a headline for another news cycle.
Canada standing for their abroad citizens ? LMAO.
Many doctors discount their care when providing it to people who don't have insurance to help them afford medical care. It's probably legal to make a claim later, but you're effectively lying to the doctor so you can receive a charitable contribution. It's ok to do it if you don't mind feeling like a welfare fraudster.
Same thing pizza places have done before apps: call back the number to remind them, and if they still don’t come, just eat the cost (and possible the food too).
Did Tim Cook's daughter smuggle products from China to Saudi Arabia and use banks in China to route the money and lie to the banks about it? If yes, sure she deserved to stand trial.
Fascinating, thanks! I can see why you'd be reluctant to switch to Firefox if you depend on this.
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I don't buy it. Asians dominate technology jobs because they dominate college enrollment in science, engineering and CS. To compound this problem, socioeconomic factors also work in their favor as well, since Asians have the highest overall median household income (by a healthy margin).

More diversity in tech starts with more diversity in college programs, which probably starts in high school when students are deciding what to do with their life.

https://www.zippia.com/advice/college-major-distributions-by...
> Saying workers are like horses and are helpless to do anything to help themselves isn't accurate.

Not all workers, but for many workers, this is the case. Very few coal miners have been able to retrain as software developers, despite earnest efforts on the part of some organizations in coal country.

They could try to get manual labor work in another industry, but industries to which their skills are readily transferable - like manufacturing and construction - are also automating many of the most menial of jobs. A modern factory employs far fewer workers per unit of output than those of even the recent past.

Skilling-up to the point where you have value to the new economy isn't as straightforward for many workers as it seems like it should be to many of us already in the new economy.

I'm not suggesting that they are like horses in that they will be sent to the glue factory, but lots of people in that sort of position have seen their quality of life - and that of their communities - suffer a great deal over the decades of deindustrialization.
From a gameplay perspective, I would love to put some propellant depots at Lagrangian points.