skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Encrypted in transit... But stored plain-text accessible in Telegram’s cloud. They store all your metadata, full contact list, all conversations, all media and attachments, etc. If you value your privacy, Telegram is the absolute worst and one of the most dangerous messengers out there. Telegram should never be recommended as a secure alternative. It’s insecure right to their core. Heck, even their secret chat crypto is a joke. Telegram should be avoided at all costs for private and/or sensitive communication. Even WhatsApp is wayyy more secure.
> > a capable and creative person should be able to manage to build and install

> trying to build

What if there was a crowdfunding project to pay different people, to actually do this?

They could find unclear things in the docs, or missing docs. Usability Testing, sort of, of Collapse OS?

This is maybe pretty important after all :- ) More important than Fly-to-Mars rockets?
Until police finally start policing themselves, some 'bad apples' are bound to express their oppression through rage. How many of your friends and family would have to be killed for you to react in a similar fashion?

BLM doesn't advocate violence, and in many videos are helping stop looting. They simply want cops to stop killing black people, why is that so hard to understand
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> Edit: you downvote and yet I often get comments appreaciating how the gifs make my 2000 word emails feel like a quick short read.

I sampled your work. It's exactly what we're talking about.

I'm sure this works for you, financially and SEO-wise.. but.. maybe use 500 words and no gifs instead?
Any wheeled tools at least? I may not have a horse to drag a refrigerator to my new apartment, but I'd rather use a hand truck than bear it manually.
Unfortunately, I fear that the NCAA no longer really believes this is a viable option for programs that are large enough. Penn State football should've been given the death penalty over the Sandusky scandal IMO, but I don't think we'll ever see a large football or basketball program ever get that kind of punishment again, unfortunately.
I don't believe the suggestion here is to disband the concept of having police entirely, just to disband the current police department.
the analogy is good but i think it kinda breaks down when you consider the machine the kernel runs on.

so you would mostly represent the machine the software run on.
Yep, very much agree.

As a data point, I've investigated FreeCAD a few months ago. It seems "ok" for designing single part objects, and has reasonable 3-axis CAM.

FreeCAD's main drawback (from my PoV) is the lack of coherent assembly functionality. They have several incompatible, competing approaches all in development.

Hopefully one of those becomes the "blessed" approach, and people can safely use that for the next [decades]. :)
Mainly these two out of your list - surveillance and tricking passive radar sites to go active. The former is being done today, the latter is being solved by loitering munitions that hang around until a site does go active.
Absolutely. It's not possible for _anyone_ to have an infinite perspective, nor one even close to wide enough that I would trust them to make my decisions for me. If you're a professional it is your _duty_ to ignore your personal beliefs. Otherwise you'd end up with doctors refusing to treat people they disagree with, lawyers refusing to defend people they disagree with and so on. This opens the gate to emotional and psychological manipulation wide, and given the rise of social media and this modern lemming mentality I see so commonly that would be an absolute disaster.
Agreed, it doesn't at all.

I am saying that when I was contracting with Java some years ago it was a complete crapshoot: you could get an almost brand new project with a lot of thought put in that made it a pleasure to work on, or you could get an ancient EJB mastodon that made you want to slit your wrists.

And that gamble still exists if you want to contract with Java. A lot of preliminary negotiations have to be done in order not to find yourself in a situation where you should have charged $30k a month due to the insane amount of digging you have to do just to make the thing accept one new feature.
How is that any different than the lawless gangs that have the force of government behind them?
My sense is that most (but not all) of the people cheering this on are like you. They don't live there, they have no family there, and they have no ties to the city or the state. Spoke with a childhood friend last night, and he's leaving the city and moving to Minnetonka once his lease is up in August. Everyone else he knows is doing something similar. Obviously this is all anecdotal, and like you said we get to watch a massive experiment play out in real time. With the advent of more virtual work, people are going to bail on places where they see risk as too high. I don't live there anymore, was born in Iowa, but grew up in Minneapolis and moved there when I was 5. People, especially in tech it seems, have an element of optimism that's useful in most situations. I don't share that in this case. We've approached a sort of social contagion where if you don't support the most extreme positions you are shamed (literally, like the Mayor was).
Blender is great. I use it myself (3D resin printing). But I've also used similar software I had to pay for, which was much better than Blender overall. Same way Photoshop is better than Gimp, and Windows UI is still better than Gnome/KDE. Sometimes to get great software and experience, you have to pay for it. And that's ok, it doesn't make the free software, like Blender, any less eff'ing awesome.
I remember the 1980 Miami Riots and the 1992 LA riots. This is basically nothing like that. Fundamental difference the protestors aren't the ones engaging in violence, the cops are.
And anyway the only "compromise" that you'd likely to see is unwillingness to compromise encryption, or help police violate privacy. Doesn't sound bad to me
I disagree not only with your conclusion but your premise: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23450913
> Why? Would you prefer that because someone is "professional" they discard all their personal ethics?

it's never black-and-white like that.

if my professional doctor's personal ethics includes clauses that motivate him to seek non-standard and unproven treatments, yes, i'd prefer they discard those.

I would prefer it if employees at Planned Parenthood didn't have personal ethical clauses that caused them to purposely give incorrect data and wrong phone numbers to women seeking abortions because their personal ethics sway them to do so.

If I were a very famous politician that had polarizing views on something, i'd prefer if my taxi driver remained a professional rather than kicking my ass out of the car because their personal ethics required that they do that to someone that they view as a political enemy.

I'd prefer prisoners be fed , even if it's against the personal ethics of the food service workers to feed and take care of felony rapists.

There are a lot of professions that require professionals to have a certain level of detachment from 'pedestrians'. It's not at all uncommon.
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Where are you getting 80 from? The link says 1,043 in the past year. Did you mean 80 per month?
I think it was Jefferson who said something to the effect of “if you want to know what’s true, look at what all the great religions agree on”

Similarly, people have been writing about thinking for a looong time, so rather than jumping from framework to framework it’s good to read a few old books and see what the authors agree on.

I’m not an expert on what those agreements are, but off the top of my head:

-be more prepared than your competitor
-master principles and you can select your methods
-don’t have rigid tactics, things always change so adapt accordingly.
-chain is as strong as its weakest link
- etc
Forth is one of the last languages on my list. Whenever I read something like this article, I want to learn it. The advice at the end of the article seems interesting. Does anyone have any resources that might help with this?
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Fair enough. The devil is in the details of course. But I am skeptical that the crime rates would drop if there is less policing since the crime rates are not caused by police.
That is due to the military industrial complex, which incentivizes the use of the American war machine.
You don't need relativity to design something like GPS for a universe where it doesn't exist, so the idea of GPS still makes sense. Presumably we'd have noticed that this clock discrepancy happens at some point when trying to sync clocks in orbit, probably chased a bunch of odd paths trying to figure out why it happens, but in the end found some model to correct the error.
> Rust's lifetime and ownership system works neatly with pools and other special-purpose allocators

How does that work? One of the primary benefits of using pools is that you can deallocate objects in batches (so the destructor for each individual object is a no-op). Can you say that the pool object outlives (or owns) all of the objects allocated from it?
> There is a reason that the Police Police are armed.

Not all Police are armed (see UK). Also, other countries, while armed, seem to use their firearms much less (e.g., the entire country of Germany seems to use fewer bullets than a single US city).
Thanks. Interesting to hear of your transformation. Everyone has their own unique set of things that makes them tick.

The world needs people like you to complement people like me. :-)
I've been considering this line of reasoning for a while: if opening your business disqualifies you from medical treatment, what else does?

Being obese? Smoking? After all, both of those are the direct result of your choices and less dependent on other people than getting a virus.

Most people say "Oh, that would never happen!" but if we have a time where rationing healthcare becomes the norm or even just vital, it will just as it did in Italy a few months back.
The Camden thing is going around a lot but to me it seems like they did a reorg and actually ended up hiring more police.

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/camden/sections/law-and-justic...
Is there any evidence that that actually works? Or are you joking too?
But the high crime rate and low rate of actually solving and punishing crimes reinforces the argument. It’s worth comparing various police-related statistics between Minneapolis and St. Paul. Police across America do indeed have systemic problems, but Minneapolis does seem to belong to a handful of truly bad police departments.
You're right, I wasn't clear. What I'll do is post a 30 minute technical presentation on YouTube that I've given, but then slice it up into two minute clips for LinkedIn, change the aspect ratio to make it a square rather than a rectangle (it fills up more of the screen real estate on a person's phone that way), and add subtitles because I know mobile users often times watch videos without listening to the sound.

Reposting other pieces of content you don't own won't get you anywhere, the copyright strike mechanism is crazy extreme. My friends who post guitar covers detune the song by a few percentage points in order to bypass the copyright strike filter, even though they're 1000% within fair use.
It’s interesting to observe the different expectations here -bricks and mortar supermarkets give their own brand’s preferential treatment within a supermarket all the time, and no one seems to complain that much.

Inherently it seems like there is something different about doing the same thing as an online retailer - even though it doesn’t feel like there should be.
Which parts are outright lies? The now flagged and dead post said this:

“Stay inside”, “don’t gather in groups”, “cancel your wedding”, “wear a mask during sex”, but oh hey, it’s OK to go downtown and riot, burn down buildings, and throw bricks at the police.

These things are all true of the UK. As someone with a family member in the UK I can assure you they had to cancel their wedding, they were limited to an hour of outside time per day, they were told not to gather in groups and notoriously the government just told people if they live apart - even if they're in a relationship - they're not merely required to wear masks but cannot meet at all.

As for the riots:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/police-chief-fights-...

"A Virginia police chief fought back tears during a press conference as he described how rioters set fire to a home with a child inside and then prevented firefighters from responding as quickly as they could have"

It's a pathetic show from the HN userbase that the post is flagged and dead. Do the people here have any idea how many hundreds of millions of people are thinking exactly the same thing right now?

The public health community's credibility is now zero or lower. Only the most naive in society will ever believe them again. Every time we think they can't fail worse, they do. Their models are always wrong and the most influential was filled with basic C programming errors. They can't decide if masks work. They lauded China at the same time as complaining internally they weren't being given any data. They demanded a massive programme of ventilator production and then none were needed. They demanded censorship of "misinformation" even when that misinformation came from Nobel Prize winners and turned out to be correct. They've published an openly fraudulent paper on a possible treatment championed by Trump that led to trials being suspended, whilst simultaneously tweeting about how much they hate Trump. They demanded the economy be destroyed and the world placed under a totalitarian police state. Virtually all of them protect each other and refuse to criticise each other's work even when it's clearly wrong, and now the final salt in the wound: they decide that protesting against racism is healthy, but protesting against their decisions is not.

Never again.
I second this suggestion. If you want to take guns away from police at least allow me to legally defend myself. Imagine criminals being the only ones with guns.
I am judging a technology by its amount of foot guns. That's why I am more fan of languages with only one way of doing things (and even that gets increasingly rare).

Java is a pretty solid tech and the JVM is one of the best runtimes in the world. But it does offer you infinite possibilities to write awful code and that made me less interested in it with time.
What are the chances this is a bluff?
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Planes have another advantage - endurance. Missiles have greater acceleration and maneuverability, but they can't sustain that for as long as a plane can. Which makes "run away" a solution in certain parts of the engagement envelope.
What, exactly, does it mean to disband a police department? Fire everyone and hand over policing responsibilities to the state? Permanently or temporarily?
> EDIT -- I've actually just gone off to try out jitsi again (i do actually check to see if it's worth switching platforms) and it turns out it asks me to install an android app too. So Jit.si itself actually needs me to download software on my smartphone. So......

Posted in reply to a child comment earlier ^.

When I originally scoped out which platforms fitted our use case best, it was Jitsi vs. Zoom in the end. This was 3 months ago.

We ended up with Zoom for several reasons specific to our use case.

No software is a magic bullet that solves 100% of use cases. This is why competition exists.
> (They were initially nonunion but have since unionized.)

Fascinating parenthetical. Sounds like they dissolved the city PD organization and expanded the county PD. I don't know what Minneapolis plans here.
(Shrug) If another street gang takes over, at least my taxes won't be paying their salaries.
The NCAA should be given the death penalty https://deadspin.com/c/death-to-the-ncaa
Not an American, but seeing the current divide in the US makes me curious. What happens if Trump wins again in 2020?
I bought that keyboard back when it was $95 not $495. The principle is that holding down the spacebar accesses the mirror half that's not present. I didn't believe this, so I taught myself Dvorak on the half keyboard while continuing to use Qwerty on other keyboards. Then one day I got curious. Like that dream where you walk up to a piano and can just play, my other hand had learned its mirror image role, and I could immediately type Dvorak with both hands. Our brains really are wired this way. One could program this on any half of a two piece keyboard that supports QMK or similar.
> A thing I've noticed is that they stopped mentioning the daily numbers on the radio (NPR, more specifically Iowa Public Radio).

Well I've noticed that the firing of Inspectors General hasn't been in the news lately. With the Controversy of the Week with Trump, it's kind of hard to keep up.

Which has been his (and Bannon's) general strategy:

* https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/16/20991816/i...
On the server-side you probably want some kind of transaction log or event sourcing / CQRS architecture...

The idea being that you don't write directly to a persistence layer (database) but rather that you trigger events onto some kind of queue. These events then persist in the queue for a time and then can be asynchronously acted upon. This allows for a number of interesting patterns, including undo, replay, etc.
Not sure how what you said fixes the points you enumerated? XML as code simply wraps other people's libraries in a different DSL and if they have bugs and/or operational complexity, no DSL on top of it will change that.
If you had told me last year that we would have a pandemic, lockdown, massive economic recession and job loss and now riots and protests etc and all at the same time I probably wouldn't have believed it. I'm starting to think the world is a lot more fragile than we all thought.
Steak tartar is widely available in North America. It's not even French in origin. The implication that America has no culture of gastronomy and insane agricultural practices is distasteful.
Total US mortgage debt and corporate debt are around the same size - roughly $15 trillion each. Mortgage and corporate bondholders have both seen principal losses in recent history. Fed support is pushing down both types of rates, and it’s not obvious to me that one is somehow unfairly pushed down more than the other.
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I'm not sure if there was a time where this wasn't necessary, outside of a few lucky people. I could be wrong though.

Even if you get lucky and your 3rd piece of content goes viral (which happened to my friend on TikTok recently, 350k views in 24 hours), the only way to capitalize on it is to keep consistently posting afterwards. One viral video won't necessarily pay that much cash and it won't necessarily build an audience over the long term.
1,000+ includes all people killed by police, most of them armed. You need to filter for unarmed killings. Hover over "weapon" and click unarmed. It's 350 from 2015 to the present.
Americans are far more heavily armed, and there’s a belief that the only defence against a gun is someone with a bigger gun.
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The masses have a voice in proportion to the degree to which they control where their taxes go. The power of the purse is remarkable, because you can destroy (almost) any instutition by simply defunding it (which is also why any attempt to circumvent that power, e.g. Executive re-purposing of funds, should set off huge blaring alarms.)

And when it comes to "what congress can do" I'd argue that it's 90% about allocation of funds -- because it doesn't matter what the law is if there is no money to enforce it.
I like how you’ve added “at random cops” as if to delegitimize any reaction against an oppressive state.

No, I did that to delegitimize (sic) reactions against random individuals.

Aside from the obvious moral issue, every cop killed will probably result in a dozen more being hired, and a hundred more votes for the people doing the hiring.
Or breaking the back button
Death is one metric, but what about feeling safe participating in normal daily activities? With COVID-19 that fear will be gone in a year for some people once a vaccine has developed. From what I hear from pretty much all of my black friends, colleagues, and acquaintances, the threat of murder, violence, harassment, or unjust arrest from police is something they have been dealing with for their whole lives, and will continue to deal with long after a vaccine is found (unless we take start taking meaningful actions). People rightly talk about the toll of lockdown and fear of the virus on mental health. Now is a good time to start conversations about how fear of abuse of the criminal justice system affects mental health.
> I am skeptical that the crime rates would drop if there is less policing since the crime rates are not caused by police.

About that...

>When New York police officers temporarily reduced their “proactive policing” efforts on low-level offenses, major-crime reports in the city actually fell, according to a study based on New York Police Department crime statistics.

https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proacti...
When it comes to code, I thought the consensus was strongly against that because it tends to introduce more problems than it solves.
- Bodycams

- Mandatory psych evals half-yearly

- Anonymous corruption reporting

- Reduce/eliminate drug penalties

- Eliminate civil forfeiture

- Ticketing revenues no longer fund the department

- Expanded auditing of violent calls

Unfortunately, the greater group of protesters is incapable of understanding nuanced policy or democratic change. I fully expect MN to swing red this election as a result of this.
This is why I hold the "discordant" opinions that we should reopen the economy (with reasonable caveats like 6 feet distances, masks, and outside dining when possible), but am still staying inside myself like the past 3 months.

I'm going to do my small part in not being a vector. But there's no way the US is ever reaching New Zealand's success at discovery, tracing, and isolating before a vaccine's available. The virus is still an awful pandemic and will have major consequences, but we have no good choices anymore.
- It's tiny and dead simple to implement

- It sits very close to assembly

- It allows high-level programming like in C

- The concept of pushing/popping things onto/off the stack is a relatively straightforward programming model when done consistently

One of the old competitors to the likes of UEFI and uBoot is OpenFirmware (also known as OpenBoot), for which the primary UI is a Forth shell; OpenFirmware was the BIOS equivalent for Sun's SPARC workstations/servers (and still is for Oracle's/Fujistu's SPARC servers, last I checked) and most POWER hardware (including "New World" PowerPC Macs), among others. About the most delightful pre-boot environment I've used; it's a shame it didn't catch on in the x86 or ARM space.
Sadly there are many such irregularities in today’s socially acceptable right think. A lot of logic is being replaced by emotion.
It didn't work so well in Iraq.
No, that's not the goal of police abolitionists: [1]

1. https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/06/police-abo...

Some more references:

1. https://www.8toabolition.com/

2. https://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1268547515038806018

3. https://twitter.com/TravelingNun/status/1268510966116954114
Does what someone is carrying - but not using - make their assembly invalid?

Does what someone think make their assembly invalid?
You really have to wonder where the police is in these moments.

IMO it won't stop with statues of slave-traders, every statue of a white man is fair game to these Red Guards 2.0