skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm specifically interested in whether or not tools exist to help hold police accountable.

I'm interested in this too. And haven't been able to find much of anything.

> I am imagining an app that has a real-time, location-aware feed of media references to such instances to corroborate and publicize, potentially supported by facial recognition of offenders to gather evidence of repeat abuse.

I think the implementation and specific measures need careful consideration. Remember justice according to Rawls is a form of fairness among all members in society. What about the injustice going on that the police are tasked with stopping on a daily basis and their respective part in ensuring a just society? What about injustices against the police themselves? If we ignore such data points and issues, society will develop a false impression and injustice will supplant the justice we are striving for. IMHO any social justice software should be "context aware" in as broad a sense as possible (history of officers actions - good, bad, everything in between) and probably a history of the "offenders/recorders" public actions (again good, bad, everything in between) as well as specific encounters. Of course, this brings problems such as rights of privacy, among others.

A software which only captures specific encounters, and only makes them public when they are negative is something that on the whole might not be a net benefit for society. I'm unsure and I think it needs some consideration at the least.
But you're arguing for the ability for hotels to install peephole cameras in every room to make sure you're not up to no good.

The point of encryption is that no one knows what you're doing, because they can't see it. Just like no one can see what you're doing in a hotel, most of the time.
Even I hadn't let my cynicism about our national discourse sink so low as to think medical treatments would be politicized. Ultimately, it was a new low point. Once it started it was clear where this was going. Many may have died from it if the worse case scenario turns out to be true: this treatment does in fact work, and was stalled or prevented due to politics.

Similarly, the complete disregard by the medical community of playing their role in reminding others organizing protests to take steps to prevent participants from spreading the virus has been equally disturbing. I've heard literally nothing from the medical community about tips, methods, or instructions for ensuring protestors do not cause a new outbreak. There does not seem to be any innovation happening in helping people organize and protest while keeping social distancing in mind. I don't know what that would look like, but it's a moral failure that the problem hasn't been worked whatsoever. I haven't even heard stories of people just handing out masks. Things are quite dire.
You can look into a history of similar activities across the world. The process of firing and rebuilding from scratch is the only one I know that has consistently worked. The ones that come to mind other than Camden is Northern Ireland [1] and Georgia (country)[2]. I believe there were a few other cases of this in the US, but I can't remember them off the top of my head.

The Norther Ireland article specifically covers a few of the reasons why this works.

Edit: I realized that I didn't respond to your question of whether this demonstrates an improvement in Camden. Citylab seems to think so, but offers a nuanced explanation of why this may not be the case and what other factors are at play [3]

[1] https://www.sipri.org/commentary/topical-backgrounder/2019/p...
[2]https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/case-study/siezing-mom...
[3] https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/01/what-happened-to-crim...
That's exactly what's going on here. The press has a constitutional right to report. This lawsuit alleges that the police violated that right. And not just once, but systemically.

Now they're suing to take back that lost freedom. If they don't, then what's to stop this continuing to be the norm?

I can't think of a clearer example of what the ACLU exists to do.
> Business culture in the US is also quite authoritarian.

You ain't seen nothin' then.

Try challenging an elder boss in Japan (or China or South Korea, but Japan is especially bad) and watch what happens, for example.

I find that very few cultures allow challenging authority like the US does.
What is Definitely Not Money Laundering For Sex Trafficking?
Asides have nothing to do with document flow.
It's pretty cool. I pay about 2.5 EUR a month for a nice cloud server. Indeed you can replace most cloud services with selfhosted, OSS options those days (for example there's nextcloud and seafile for file storage).
cooperatives dont necessarily "do worse" but they do face unique challenges compared to non-coops, the biggest being raising capital

https://www.co-oplaw.org/finances-tax/financing/
That would contradict the fact that so many immigrants from very different cultures work so well in the US academia and tech

The one thing about culture that matters is the work ethic, which indeed is hard to reproduce in many countries, but other facets of culture aren't really significant.
There is a wikipedia article regarding EU sanctions on Iran [0].

There is also another list of resolutions imposed by UN on Iran, with some of them being sanctions as well [1]. UN Security Council resolution #1929 specifically seems to be very relevant:

>[...] prohibit the opening of Iranian banks on their territory and prevent Iranian banks from entering into relationship with their banks if it might contribute to the nuclear program, and prevent financial institutions operating in their territory from opening offices and accounts in Iran. The resolution passed by a vote of 12–2, with Turkey and Brazil voting against and Lebanon abstaining. A number of countries imposed measures to implement and extend these sanctions, including the United States, the European Union, Australia, Canada, Japan, Norway, South Korea, and Russia.

0.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93European_Union_re...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolut...
> Trump as if it's a foregone conclusion that he's a racist sociopath

You are totally correct. I do think this. I have ample evidence that backs up my case as well. I think the quote "when they start looting, we start shooting" which was hidden by Twitter for inciting violence, is enough for me.

> This is a strawman, because I haven't seen Trump "inciting random citizens to commit violent acts."

I don't think we can have a real conversation because we disagree about the basic facts on the ground.

Trump, from my position, is clearly, repeatedly and blatantly pushing people to violence using Twitter. In fact, even Twitter thinks so.
It says at least one, not only one.
Communication is the most important skill for a programmer.

If you do not speak the same language at the same level of fluency of the organization, you're not a good fit for the organization.

It's also far easier to communicate when you 1) occupy the same space or at least 2) occupy roughly similar time zones.

While we'd all love the ideal "everything is written down and ultra clear", the fact is that rarely happens, and taking the time to do so takes a lot of effort that could be better spent on development.

Small differences in communication disparities can lead to large differences in outcome. You've probably noticed this in your own work - somebody missed a tiny requirement but it has a huge impact on the scope of work.
> There are good things there of course, first and foremost the salaries and the nice suburban houses

Australia has lots of nice suburban houses too. But they are expensive, and you'll struggle to get paid enough to afford one. One advantage the US has over Australia – while it has really expensive areas like the Bay Area or Manhattan, it also has lots of medium-sized cities with affordable housing and plenty of jobs – Australia's population distribution is much more lopsided, and the parts of the country with affordable housing tend to have quite limited employment opportunities, especially in fields like IT. (Remote work can help there, but Australian corporate culture is behind the US in acceptance of remote work, although COVID is helping to change that.)

> On average North Europe is way happier than the U.S but not as many people wanna move there (can be partly explained by the language barriers but I think it's simply people thinking that more money = more happiness).

I wonder if the weather is also a factor? The US – even just counting the 48 states – offers a wide variety in climates – Michigan in winter is colder than Copenhagen, Florida's winter is quite pleasant. Not everyone likes snow.
> "If anyone is looking for a space to compete in… Referral Marketing!"

is this not already heavily competitive? have you tried getrewardful.com?
Would be awesome to use voice commands mapping physical controls.
Say, “Ok, Tesla, put AC control on slider 1”. This also keeps the kids in back from messing with the AC (dads appreciate).
The link you gave for "typical flu seasons" is difficult to read, because it's disaggregated by age. This CDC link gives the overall numbers by year: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html.

In the US, three times as many people have already died of CoVID-19 as die from influenza in a normal year.

The number of deaths from CoVID-19 continues to rise, and nobody knows what number it will eventually reach. With a 0.5% mortality rate and an R0 of 2.5, the expected death toll (before herd immunity is reached) would be ~1 million people in the US, or the equivalent of 30 years of influenza deaths.
Either I'm just lazy, or all file management/organization converges on this method. Probably I'm just lazy.
Yes, and the debate is whether or not the companies are acting in bad faith and abusing this 1996 law by selectively altering their users posts and presenting their information thus acting like a publisher.

Yes this is the current state, but the question is whether it's morally right and should we update it to reflect the current situation of the social media behemoths, this law was designed for small bulletin boards at the time.
Sigh. They were not giving zinc supplements.

It’s really frustrating that the theorized mechanism of HCQ effectiveness as a prophylactic is its ability to transport zinc across cell walls (zinc interrupts the viral RNA replication), yet these trials don’t include zinc supplements.
tried matching with 3 people, all took one look at my face and peaced lol

nice app though! love the small touches with the emojis and sounds!
This is great. If I had the patience I would write some script that alerts you when there are major sell offs. The last crash was preceded by heavy sales by a few senators that were exposed to data and knew how serious the COVID19 thing was before the public.
Knew lots of physics grads in finance when I worked in it mainly due to them having skills in research and some coding ability.
We were trying to solve a difficult engineering challenge that no one in the industry had been able to replicate.

If we could get it to work, it would reduce costs massively for businesses, so it seemed to me at the time that it wasn't a question of product market fit. Of course the market wants this. The only question was, can we build it? Will it work?

When we saw it working, we knew we were close. Didn't know that close was still 3 years away though!
It's at the other end of the spectrum, but Remotion is really cool and does what you describe. We wanted to get away from always on video, but I know lots of people like that. I cannot say enough good things about what the Remotion team are doing.
I watched it earlier. I think it was 1/3 self-censorship, 1/3 a display of self-censorship, and 1/3 of carefully choosing the words before speaking. Overall, brilliant.
As it's going right now, we're committing future generations to both CO2 removal and solar radiation management.
Sounds lovely. Now I write code with vague requirements that interfaces with ill-specified functions, on tight deadlines. It surprises me that it doesn't contain a lot more bugs. Maybe we just haven't found them yet.
This idea has been tried a few times. There's a fairly liquid market for the resale of oil and gas wells already. There is also advanced software packages for analyzing the data. If the angle is exposing retail investors to these assets, it'll go as well as $USO.
Hmm, given the popularity of Ubuntu, isn't also possible there are more bug reports just because more people use it? I installed 20.04 onto a new Asus laptop a couple of months ago, everything worked out of the box.
NASA Announces Challenge Seeking Innovative Ideas to Advance Missions
Just for clarity, US salaries are usually discussed before tax. If you're taking home 35-45k, you're basically at US salary levels. Remember than even here, Silicon Valley salaries are way above salaries elsewhere in the US. Increased competition for the best / closest programmers increases wages.
Futurama did it better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qksm5cRtcU
That's a bummer! I think I'll implement a penalty for leaving in the middle of a chat. Will auto-ban folks who do that too much. Thoughts?
Maybe the difference is the protesters being armed?
>Tax cuts at any cost.

The revenue brought in from taxes increased after the tax cuts.

https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2019-11/55824-CBO-MBR-FY19....
>If they provide no value, then they are also worthless and expendable.

This doesn't have to be the case, only the most nihilistic and privileged view of the world can produce such statements. People are not valuable because of their ability to produce capital, reducing things to these terms is a deficiency in both mental models and morality.
Much appreciated. That's highest priority for me. Misstep on our part.
When I played milsim games like Arma, a useful feature was to have my "squad channel" in my left ear, "command channel" in my right ear, and separate keys to PTT for each channel.
I thought intergenerational households were one of thee reasons for the large death toll in Italy?
This article states:

"The venture, called Veld LLC, plans to profit by charging a fee for marketing stakes in operating oil and gas wells, one of the people said, and will offer analytical data to investors interested in the well stakes.

Investors can acquire holdings in between one and 10 wells, which the presentation described as “pods,” and will be sold to the investors as high-yield investments, the people familiar with the business pitch said on the condition of anonymity."

What's the competitive advantage with this venture?
It was directive by the city, not the police.
HN doesn't have direct message system. You need to add your email address to the 'about' field of your profile. The email field is hidden from other users.
Unfortunately yes, I mean, the software allows for thousands of participants but the stream would be terrible. For 5-50 people, use BigBlueButton instead.
Save files to my desktop. When it gets too messy, I throw everything in a folder called "Cleanup". Repeat. When it gets messy again, I rename the Cleanup folder to Cleanup_<date>, then throw that and everything else in a new folder called "Cleanup".

I'm about 7 deep at the moment.
Be thankful we can’t look up the worst thing you’ve done in your life on wikipedia as well.

The guy paid his debt to society, let him try to do something positive with his life now.

That attitude is part of the reason why the US has the worst rates of recidivism in the developed world (something like 75% I believe, whereas in northern Europe where they believe in second chances for criminals, it is closer to 25%).
Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient? (2018)
Mood, right now.
The policy is designed to protect the privacy of people not under investigation or otherwise not involved in crime.

And conveniently, you don't know if you'll be under investigation or accused of a crime until it's too late to turn the camera on.

Sorry, that excuse doesn't fly. This concern should be addressed by controlling the custody of the footage, not by preventing it from being captured in the first place. In reality, body cameras protect good cops.
I just wanted to start by saying thanks so much for your open source contributions. I've been using simple-peer in a few side projects and it's been a breeze.

Are you planning on eventually open sourcing Virus Cafe on top of releasing the questions?
When you think about it from a first principals perspective, having multiple touchscreens is better than only having physical switches. When a switch is damaged/fails, you are out of luck. When a touchscreen is damaged/fails, you use the one next to it. On a rocket you do not have the mass or room to have more than 1 of all but the most critical of switches.

There have been quite a few missions that nearly caused death or mission failure directly due to a switch getting broken (Apollo 11, lander return engine-arm switch) or going faulty (Apollo 14 abort switch).

What really matters is that they have no single point of failure (touch screens can do everything switches can, an individual touch screen is not important, and switches can cover abort/return scenarios to protect the crew). For the software, it only matters that its been fully tested, including random bit flips and hardware failure.

From a cost savings perspective, its vastly cheaper to verify that 3 touchscreens are working correctly than the 600 switches they replace.
What's the worst that can happen if all hydrocarbons are burned?

At worst we are back in time where plankton and trees began absorbing the CO2 and turning it into oil and gas. In other words, nature will survive because such a state is well within the planet's capabilities. What am I missing?
Valid point. Upvoted.
Just don’t lie. Still wonder why use hsbc (and charter). Rmb ?
Pretty much that. Here in the UK, we have a US diplomat's wife that killed a kid while driving in the UK. Having returned to the US, the US would not extradite her even though now there's an alert issued for this by the Interpol. Yeah, due process my arse!

https://nypost.com/2020/05/11/interpol-seeks-arrest-of-anne-...
SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Seattle Internet Exchange
The challenge of conducting clinical research during a pandemic
Try Out Deno on Repl.it
> Usually when you are contracted to develop something custom, you do not own the IP but rather the company that you are building it for.

While it can get messy, generally the IP belongs to the original creators unless otherwise stipulated by contract. Most likely, Star Theory gained ownership of the IP created by their employees via employment contracts. The contract between Take Two and Star Theory would then stipulate the conditions underwhich Star Theory gives that IP to Take Two.

How and when that IP gets assigned should be a part of any such contract negotiations and not something you should gloss over or sign blindly.
Domain Registration with Amazon Route 53 Using AWS CLI
I think it's a good thing to hold public figures accountable. Politicians, in particular, need to be held accountable due to the large amount of influence they have on our society. When Twitter, for example, places a warning on a Tweet to warn readers that it contains provably false statements, it holds the Tweeter accountable and that is enough reason to do it regardless of the changing minds argument.

As far as changing minds goes, I think there's a swath of voters who sit in the political middle and they don't fact check. The swath is large enough that they can influence elections. It's critical to make sure they don't get influenced by politicians who make up facts on the spot.

A friend of mine and I commiserated last week about the difficulty of debating with people on political issues. We noticed that people can make up "facts" quicker than we can fact check. You would think that the onus would be on the person making an argument to provide proof. But that standard of argument is long gone. The proof seems to always be on the person who says, "No, I don't think that's right."
Both facebook and twitter give the president something more than traditional media: retweets, engagement, reaction, analysis etc.

The whole 'the only good democrat is a dead democrat' and glorifying violence would have been much harder to do with traditional potus press statements.

Twitter and Facebook allow him to use these new tools, despite his tendency to incite violence. They help to enable him. And it's their choice. And they thus make his words much more effective.
For more equitable startup funding, the “money behind the money” needs to be AC
> What's the competitive advantage with this venture?

I fear that it will be retail investors.
To moderate this a bit: the two people quoted in the article are politicians for the nationalist and more nationalist right wing parties. They both have things to gain by portraying the current policies in bad light.

Reports about withheld care have been hard to verify. Reports about lousy routines with regards to sanitation and disinfection have been more common. The debate about the quality of this kind of care has been going on for more than 2 decades, since even before Sweden's rather extreme laws about winnings in state-funded health care. The utter failure of these homes to not spread covid-19 is the real news. The numbers are atrocious, and stories about workers walking from sick elderly to healthy elderly without proper procedures have been rather common.

Sure, the angle BBC chose is juicier, but I have some serious doubts about the accounts published.
The CNN arrest was not violent, not were they held long. The reporter later said everyone was nice, and they had orders to arrest anyone in the path of the crowd who did not immediately disperse. If there is an example of the police acting badly, or treating press differently, this is not it.
What are people's opinions on Brave Browser[0]?

0. https://brave.com/
> leave early, do no work, blow off jobs, half-ass the actual

sounds like specifically a work ethic problem, which is indeed an issue outside the US , Western europe, japan etc, assuming those programmers were indeed capable enough and getting paid above-decently. I don't know how you go about building work ethic in countries that don't have it
That’s a straw man because it is not at all how it is theorized to work. HCQ + loads of zinc should cause the virus to replicate more slowly. It does nothing to the virus itself, so your body has to fight it just the same. However it should reduce the incidence of the most severe cases, by reducing viral load in patients. So the outcome would be fewer deaths (or alternatively, intubations), but not a magical cure.
I used to be more superstitious about that, but now the most cautious I think I'd recommend being would be to wait for the first point version (e.g. 20.04.1). Ubuntu has been a lot less surprising since 14.04 or so, for me.

How do Apple charge for their software? They do sell things like Logic Pro I suppose, but not the OS itself.
> Personally, I hate the idea of corporate income taxes - they're literally stupid. You can't tax corporations, you can only tax people.

but according to law, corporations are "people" arent they?
Facebook's defense is that they're just the pipes, like a telco, and can't be held liable for the content.

What is the free speech argument for automatic algorithmic recommenders?
The reverse (speeding up time) is done pretty frequently to check software for bugs that might only occur after its been running for a few years.

It finds things like "The daily check for updates leaves a few logfiles, and after 30 years there are enough logfiles that the disk is full".

Normally you need to fake or mock all time related API's.
Einstein’s Lost Hypothesis (2013)
Said a different way, a small studio tried to stand up for its developers, so they would be rewarded for their hard work, and they got strong armed by an industry goliath so they could keep all the profits.
Who can we use for all the wonton destruction? Hello? Anybody?