skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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.

For every one of these things, the HN gestalt is that "they're a complex interconnected system influenced by thousands of different external forces". Welp, guess what. Alexander's cut the Gordian Knot. It's clear now that everything is possible and y'all are just hyper risk averse.
That only came about because a lot of the old guard, like Sinofsky, Myerson, Turner, etc., left the company or were pushed out in the early '10s. I don't foresee a similar revitalization of leadership happening at Google anytime soon.
HIPAA protects us less than most people think. As they say, the "P" in HIPAA is not for Privacy.
I’ll say it. This is kind of a joke.

Not that it would be a joke if an individual developer released it, and built an active community who contributed, or if it was more than 100 websites long.

But the heavy publicity push seems a bit early. And, it feels like Apple’s announcement is little more than “hey guys, check out this POC repo!”.

It kinda feels like Apple doesn’t get OSS.
Mastering the abundance mindset (and changing your money blueprint)
I don't think that's true. Not everything in this world follows from another. In a system, there will be things that are true in that system, that can't be derived from previous axioms. If I remember correctly, Godel proved this.
Is TD responsible for the cities currently being burned down and looted?
You are totally right on both counts, just didn't want to bias the description.

I'm currently reading the version recommended by another HN user here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23155062

It's a fascinating read, also incredibly eye opening to learn things that have been known and taught for thousands of years in other parts of the world, while in the West it seems like we are just beginning to discover them (and maybe have actively rejected them for a long time as well).
> what I love about the VC industry is that people tend to have incredibly strong opinions based on limited or no data

Then proceeds express this opinion with no data. Groovy.
>I have urged them to fill my seat with a black candidate

I'm not american but does racial quotas have any support? Say every company should have X% of N races on the board? South Africa for example have something like this in their (still majority white) sports teams.
Let's hope nobody finds out about Presidential Alerts. Basically, it lets you send Tweets to any mobile user.
> punished appropriately

This is exactly what the protests are about, that police are using disproportionate amounts of force, and it seems to be heavily influenced by race.

If you break the law, you're entitled to a fair trial and a fair punishment. Handing someone a fake $20 bill doesn't warrant death. Hell, I've gotten caught speeding multiple times, I can't imagine that you'd argue that it's worth an execution or even a beating. I also jaywalk all the time.

And people aren't getting their opinion of the police from the media, a lot of this anti-police sentiment is spurred by firsthand videos from protestors on the ground.

Not to mention that protesting is protected by the constitution and is a cornerstone of our democracy.
Your rejoinder makes OP's point better than they did.
And Google Meet, which is supposedly replacing Hangouts, is missing some features. If you want to hold a quick video call with somebody, you can't have Google Meet ring their devices. Instead, you have to send them an email and hope they're looking. I just switched to Slack instead.

I'm trying hard to imagine the dysfunction going on in the product organization. Maybe the Google Meet PM looks at their user numbers and touts that they're rising (from zero), even while the sum total of people using Google's video call products falls. Google Meet PM gets a promotion and then finds another product to kill and replace with a less featureful product that shows large user growth from zero.
That's because work can't be done on an iPad. /s
>>> Every team must have a single ordered queue of tasks.

No. Every organisation. All the politics, all the empire building and compromises just to get along are brought into the fore and must be solved to decide if projectX is above or below projectY.

Do that, and we might just believe you are a company worth working for.
You've made the same point as the author. The idea that a "ticket" or "work-item" has any sort of label (defect, feature, todo) or priority (high, low, now) doesn't add value. The label you give a work-item is meaningless. The value comes strictly from the change being applied.
If they even decide to go through with it it would be years before anything actually happens. But, assuming they do and it does, I suspect it would go down like this:

Google is split into Google Ads and Google Data Collection. Search, Youtube, and all the other things they use to collect data on you will go to DC, and GA will just do ads.

DC will need to find a source of revenue, and will start bundling up selling the data they collect on you. One of their customers will be GA. But maybe some upstart company or Amazon or Microsoft will be their customers too.

GA will lose value because they will have to increase payouts/lower prices to compete with their new competitors. DC will go up in value because of all their new sources of revenue.

You'll be a shareholder in both and probably see your total value go up because Data Collection will probably make more money than Google Ads loses.
Unconstitutional laws are only struck down when someone with standing challenges it, if it is never challenged, it gets to remain even if obviously unconstitutional.
> it was found that all of her allegations of sexual harassment were completely unfounded

Do you have a source for this?

The courts ruled in Pao v. Kleiner Perkins that Kleiner Perkins did not discriminate against her. I don't think they ruled on whether or not Ajit Nazre sexually harassed her (or others), and evidence for it was presented in the case. I'm pretty sure they did not rule that the allegations were "completely unfounded."

> she was likely just trying to get a settlement to help her dire financial situation

Given the publicity around how her case was the first like it, you'd have to be very, very foolhardy to go into it for financial reasons, especially if you didn't think you had a strong case. And if you were going for a settlement, you wouldn't want it to actually go to court if the other side didn't offer one, you'd just withdraw the lawsuit.
Seems like a reasonable split would be third party ads, while allowing google to run its own ads on its own sites.
It's mainly binary to JSON conversion, and firing that out over HTTP a few thousand times a second. That's the only IO. Goroutines look very interesting, and as I said, ASIO (C++ async networking) is a real pain to work with. But there are latency requirements here. Something that previously took 1ms cannot now take 10ms.
Ironically this "theory" sounds like an observation someone would make while stoned.
If you live in a place where people broadly do not support the police as an institution, you live in an odd place.

Or in a community that is majority minority where they seem to get the brunt of “a few bad cops”.
> The idea of controlling your life and the optimistic view that one is able to mould it towards an ideal stems in Modernistic tradition.

Okay, that's your view. I've taken control in the areas listed, I pay attention to what I'm doing, I'm journaling, noticing what improves my well-being and it's been a great journey that is helping me with my depression tendencies. I am proud to feel that I now have control to go to sleep over Youtube rabbit holes till the sun comes up, etc. etc. I am moulding myself and it's largely thanks to helpful material that doesn't just say you are good as you are, keep being a slob who never exercises, procrastinates eternally, etc. Keeping my wakeup time constant and going running first thing in the morning has helped me a ton. The exercise and the regular wake up makes me sleepy in the evening, I don't need coffee in the morning etc. Things do work.

> Human minds are doing poorly at self diagnosing, while it's very hard for others to spot the signs of mental health issues. Mental health is also deeply woven into the identity and the personality of individuals. Personal struggles are very much part of being an individual.

I don't want my struggles with my sleep schedule to be part of being an individual. Nor do I want my gaming addiction to define myself. Nor my anxieties.

You don't realize that this attitude of "anything goes", "you are okay", "no lifestyle can be ever better than any other" can give people the idea that there is nothing for them to do. That things will necessarily stay the same until some big social revolution comes sometime in a few... decades?

People can take action here and now however small. The feeling of a bit of control and agency can do wonders and can snowball into great things.
notwithstanding all the other caveats mentioned here, wouldn't hashing on the client side make it possible to salt the hash so that different sites generate a different hash, thus making it unlikely that the hash can be reused even if the actual password is the same? the salt could even include a time component making the hash expire after a time.

this obviously does not eliminate the need for other security measures, so it's possibly more a question of "is it worth it?"
agriculture lobbying is a $140 million industry[1].

public art and infrastructure might be nominal priorities for a presidential candidate, but these decisions are generally going to be made by representatives in Congress, so whether or not the EC exists doesn't really change how these issues are addressed.

1: https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/sectors/summary...
Ordering they have to hire a Latino or Asian would be just as bad.

Reddit thrived because it was a platform for all misfits - not just left wing misfits.

Aaron Swartz is rolling in his grave. He felt it was better that extremists be exposed in the light of day rather than be hidden on private chat boards. He also would have been against dark patterns to make people install a phone app so Reddit can spy on your telemetry for advertisers.
Hah. Not expecting any less :)
In that case there clearly is a good reason though? In the scenario described, you have one known bug, in the case of a rewrite you have an unknown number of bugs. Surely, both approaches may have more unnoticed bugs in them but in the former case people have already tested the solution so that's less likely. When you rewrite, you enter new untested territory with more room for new bugs.
The top comment on the link you posted is, "Are we back?" Reply is "Still only approved posters I think."

The link itself is to a pinned, mod-posted, announcement link to an article about an executive order to strip social media platforms from liability protections from charges of bias.

The most recent non-announcement post was two months ago.

Other choice top-level comments:

- "Huh and coincidentally I see a TD post on my feed for the first time in months."

- "TD COME BACK"

- "The Phoenix shall rise from the ashes"

- "OMG it’s been so long, I have missed you all my friends!!!"

Meanwhile, taking a jaunt to thedonald.win, shows what is basically a reddit clone with much more activity, easily verifiable with two minutes examination.

I'm not a /r/the_donald reader/subscriber/whatever, and haven't followed whatever reddit drama has transpired, but it's pretty clear they've been shut down for a while.
The point is that everywhere you are using blockchain, other solutions are superior, which makes it useless. If I wanted to inconvenience myself, I could buy things by bartering paperclips too, but that doesn't mean that paperclips are useful as currency. The difference between paperclips and blockchain is that paperclips solve one problem better than others, while blockchain has zero real world uses where it is better than alternatives.
Why do you think you're informed enough to know what doctors need to know about your medical history to best treat you?
I'm going to add to the pile-on that the "Ticket Type" field is a little more useful than the author gives it credit.

> why do you want to have this information and what is it going to be used for?

You might say this is yet another proxy for priority, but it's slightly more nuanced than that. A lot of software companies do not have the experience of continuously deploying the main code branch. I work on a SaaS solution that's gained traction in highly regulated industries.

It's very useful to be able to identify (trends in!) bugs that could be described as a "regression" or breakage in behaviors that customers are known to rely on. This isn't the example of "Customers" from your post though, ultimately how the change gets prioritized and released is what they care about! This is about being able to identify and systemically manage change in high risk areas.
> people with power either don't care or have interests that actually work against getting things done quickly and reliably.

This is what I have seen, time and time again. Decision makers don't work for their employer, they work for their compensation package. It's amazing what one can rationalize when one thinks it might positively impact some number that's mechanically tied to one's bonus.

I've also seen it arise as a simple "too many cooks in the kitchen" situation. Ironically, the one thing from Scrum that I like without reservation is also the first one to get thrown out the window: the idea that exactly one person gets to decide the development team's priorities. Because if you allow n people to collaboratively allocate a scarce resource, they will allocate it to n * 100%, every single time.
the short answer that you’re not going to like is that everything you’re describing is a human construction. it therefore exists in the minds of people as a concept. we use it because it’s convenient.

a pure function that does not exist anywhere and nobody does not know about effectively does not exist.

philosophy is another things that is a human construction. a lot of our lives is lived inside our heads working with things we made up. it’s convention. you don’t get to ignore physics.
Yes.. Censorship is wonderful

and make no mistake "de-platforming" is censorship
Already did! Those are all basic examples of those various concepts. How about something that 'mixes metaphors', so to speak? Mathematicians are a creative bunch.

E.g., fuzzy sets. [1] One of the most-cited math papers ever. How could I use Penrose to represent a continuum of grades of membership between sets?

[1] https://sci-hub.st/10.1016/S0019-9958(65)90241-X
It is fairly amazing that this action would come against a player with a minority and shrinking share of a market where prices are rapidly falling. Antitrust actions under US doctrine are supposed to benefit consumers, but how can this action do anything other than increase profits for Facebook and Amazon?
That said, it's not always a magic bullet.

I got a cpap after a sleep study found I had 80+ breathing interruptions in the short overnight test window.

It easily brought them down to <10, but I feel no better in the morning, and it makes the occasional nap much more of a hassle.

The value is absolutely there in the greatly reduced likelihood of death in my sleep, and the white noise is better than snoring when sleeping around others. But I wouldn't want to get people's hopes up about it providing them the bad sleep panacea they desire.
It depends. From personal experience i only know a hand full.
Then it further depends on what you mean by big city. What about any city which has social hotspots in the "Plattenbauten" social housing projects built since the 70ies? Where often the temporary housings for the refugees have been located, and then later on integrated into the already less than ideal situation in schools there.

I feel like i have read hundreds of cases from all across the country confirming what i experience personally.

Groups of naughty little assholes from early childhood to puberty, terrorizing and vandalizing anyone and everything.

Not all of them, but many.

This may look like I'd favor the AFD, or something similar. But I don't.

Just watching and noticing the change in general, confirmed by the few people i personally interact with, in part heavily sobered up by what they experienced when engaging into voluntary support work for them, the feeling of entitlement some had, the rage when confronted with the not so rosy reality, and so on.
In my experience Canon's app is way better, both on Windows and Mac
> What's the alternative though? Pretending that if you needed protection due to crime coming your way/your family's way... you wouldn't call 911?

Have you ever called 911 to summon the police? Do you know anyone who has? It's quite uncommon.

The average police response time is almost 10 minutes. In an emergency situation it might as well be 10 hours. In general by the time they get there, whatever was happening has already happened. Which means you have to be prepared to deal with it on your own anyway.

Most of what the police actually do is not shootouts with bank robbers. It's writing stuff down.

For example, a major function of the police time-wise is vehicle accident reports. You don't need a police officer for that, only any trustworthy official. We could give vehicle accident reports to the fire department and then have more firefighters and fewer police.

We could hire clerks to man a desk who are not police, are not issued weapons and have no authority to cite, arrest or give orders to anyone, give them responsibility for all filing of "police reports" and then have more clerks and fewer police.

We could end the war on drugs and have many fewer police.

By the time you get to the point that the police only investigate murders and such and take everything else away from them, you can get rid of 80% of them and then have 80% less of all the bad stuff associated with whatever percentage of the police are bad cops. We might even do better than that, because when there are fewer of them you can spend more resources vetting each one and pay higher salaries that attract higher quality applicants. Make a police job harder to get, better to have and easier to lose and see what it does to their behavior.
The role of History in a society afflicted by short-termism
1. Complaining is a national sport in many countries... I'd probably be doing a lot of complaining myself - but I would have a community context in which to complain.

2. I didn't say there would be micro-farms and micro-ranches. I don't believe in "village-level" autarchy. But in my view there should be much less ferrying of food from halfway across the world because people work there for a couple of USD per day and ship fuel is (still) cheap.

3. My point was that it's a huge waste of social resources, not to mention fuel, to send out vehicles across town to deliver food. It's also part of a process of social atomization where more and more of our interactions are mediated and modulated by impersonal commercial processes.
What do you mean? That sounds just like a modern CPU to me! :)
I didn't accuse them of being responsible for the election of Trump, I accused them of being radicalized by far right entities.
> group of fascist white supremacists who fantasize about violently exterminating their perceived enemies

Ummm, what? so people that support the President are all fascist white supremacists? Is that really where we're at in this country? What about the sizable number of blacks/latinos/and asians that support him, are they white supremacists too?

"white supremacist" and "racist", two terms that have been watered down so much that they've effectively lost all meaning.
486 was not that bad for 1992. The only better thing you could have was a 486DX2 that was released that year.

The Pentium came only the next year, 1993.
Hopefully they are broken up next.
I'm glad that works for you. Long form posts (2k+) are most often deep product breakdown/review or how-to guides. My experience has been that such pieces perform very well across a variety of important metrics when the quality is high.
Isn't this turning into a word game? If we're just saying "reality can be discrete state machines or continuous analog systems which I will call an infinite state machine" then are you really saying anything at all?
You're all going to think I am a crazy, but I instead elected to tape my mouth closed with 3m tape right when I go to bed. This to me is superior and should be your first port. Not only did it fix my apnoea and huge lack of energy during the day, but also my chronic sinus issues that had plagued me for years. Its also a lot cheaper, much easier to use / travel with and gets me into a good habit of nose breathing during the day. A CPAP machine is still reinforcing the poor habit that may well have contributed to your sleep abnormalities in the first place. Mouth Breathing. It costs $2 for a roll of 3m tape, so it's not like it costs a lot if its really not working for you.

Mouth breathing is horrendous for your health and well being. There is a good reason why it was ostracized in the past ("mouth breather" was an insult). It was a clear sign of poor health in an individual.

It's one of the best unknown health hacks out there.

https://askthedentist.com/mouth-tape-better-sleep/
The submitted article was https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-google/u-s-states-lea.... There's nothing in there beyond "CNBC reported on Friday, citing sources". That broke the site guidelines, which ask: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

We've switched to the CNBC article now, but it clearly should have been the one submitted in the first place.
I bought a wearable blood oxygen meter as I was concerned I had apnea. A previous study was inconclusive (I don’t think I slept the whole night). If I sleep on my back, I’m certain I have apnea, but haven’t validated with the o2 meter. Sleeping on my stomach, my o2 levels were acceptable all night. Once I confirm apnea on my back, I’ll probably get another sleep study (I’ve gained at least 30lbs since the last), and a CPAP... just like my father.
Why is the garbage proganda site appropriate for HN? The only "sources" cited are random tweets.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/conservative-review/
I don't quite get everyone arguing about these uncertain death rates. It's beyond dispute that over 100,000 people have died in the US, does that somehow become more acceptable if there are twice as many people that have had it but been asymptomatic? Yes, it changes what the worst-case projections are, but isn't it the actual number of deaths that is what's relevant?
"zoom" is a verb (also sometimes a noun), "Zoom" (the company/product) is a noun.

I agree that "Zoom" as a noun is already confusing as capitalization isn't a very reliable way to differentiate words, but "Zoom" (the noun) being used as a verb that is completely different from "zoom" (the verb) is a whole other level of confusion on top of that.

For citations, see your sibling comments. And besides, confusion clearly wasn't my main point.
flutter: Qt binding for Flutter/Dart
True that. We lived a life of privilege.
Python Context Manager Specification (PEP 343) with Python Code
how does killing micah protect the dead cops? i dont understand what your argument is here. it seems we agree the cops should protect themselves at these events. what am i missing?
Operational Security for Activists
What does HN think about the Buffalo “elderly man” incident?