skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about using something that has no or slim chance of causing harm to a person? I’m stymied by weapons like tasers and rubber bullets being available in any situation because they’re “less than lethal,” and especially because in reality they’re only “less lethal.” Many don’t seem to understand that distinction.

How often do police situations merit weapons of any kind? Probably not often enough for them to be available unconditionally.
Just like IceWeasel on Debian. Can use the code, can't (necessarily) use the name.
Discussion of supporting this in the Go runtime is here:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/31908

TL;DR there's no ETA for it.
> For rapes, the police department’s solve rate is abysmally low. In 2018, their clearance rate for rape was just 22 percent.

Getting rid of the police will ensure it goes to zero.
Doesn't look like this victim was murdered by the police. We should hold the police to a higher standard since they have a government sanctioned monopoly on the use of lethal force.
The answer is in the article itself.

The goal of disbanding the police is so that you can rebuild it from the ground up. It does not mean 'no police ever', it means clearing out the weeds by the roots so that they don't choke the new trees you're trying to plant.
yeah, I also cannot scroll it with my finger. I had to connect a mouse to my touch screen computer just to scroll the page.
Sure. When an organisation is totally broken, ripping up and replacing isn’t alway the worst solution. See the Stasi, for instance, or for a less dramatic shakeup, the RUC.
IQ2 Debate – Is Policing Racially Biased?
Sorry this is really random but I've been reading your contributions/comments on your profile and I've enjoyed it so much. I really like the way you think.
> Only way for software to improve is to get usage data.

That's a bold claim. Why not make something that works for the dev and then take user feedback into consideration?
Sounds like severely limiting access to guns in the US would be great place to start then.
Do they analyze the cat poop?
Negative thinking linked to dementia in later life, but you can be more positive
Many police shootings happen at mundane traffic stops.

What happens to Not Police in these situations?

https://youtu.be/LsrC5QV_Yrc

https://youtu.be/mI4UxURjqEQ

https://youtu.be/DbaJTuoLpWM

https://youtu.be/-yUnT5aFygg

https://youtu.be/4i86SUNFFzs

You want unarmed people doing this? Your Not Police would be getting killed in any of those.
"Even many African countries are safer than the US if you are black."

Good joke. Reference?
> That's a shining example of weasel speak. They don't explicitly say it's not risky - because that would be plain lying, it is obviously risky - but they are saying they are not condemning it as risky.

Perhaps it’s not so much weasel words as a carefully coded “caveat emptor”
This reminds me of the Think Geek flavor of the day desk calendar back in 2016. https://youtu.be/zAV8m1mH4uI

The punch line for it is casu marzu.

While cheese mites are 0.45–0.70mm, the offspring of Piophila casei are about 8mm long.

The wikipedia page is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu which goes into some of the intricacies needed in the "consumption" section.
It is important to not the latter did not mitigating police brutality as a public health interest, but racism in general.

From the letter:

> White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19. Black people are twice as likely to be killed by police compared to white people, but the effects of racism are far more pervasive. Black people suffer from dramatic health disparities in life expectancy, maternal and infant mortality, chronic medical conditions, and outcomes from acute illnesses like myocardial infarction and sepsis. Biological determinants are insufficient to explain these disparities. They result from long-standing systems of oppression and bias which have subjected people of color to discrimination in the healthcare setting, decreased access to medical care and healthy food, unsafe working conditions, mass incarceration, exposure to pollution and noise, and the toxic effects of stress. Black people are also more likely to develop COVID-19. Black people with COVID-19 are diagnosed later in the disease course and have a higher rate of hospitalization, mechanical ventilation, and death. COVID-19 among Black patients is yet another lethal manifestation of white supremacy. In addressing demonstrations against white supremacy, our first statement must be one of unwavering support for those who would dismantle, uproot, or reform racist institutions.

The remainder of the letter goes into strategies for mitigating the spread of COVID-19 during protests.
Those silly East Germans, disbanding the Stasi...

There’s plenty of precedence for replacing a broken police force with one which actually works properly.
Sure but I’m going to carry that smart toilet to the local dump either way
It's being misconstrued by the MSM to stop the left and right from uniting in their common goal of reforming tyrannical governments.
Seems like still an issue in the UK. This article mentioned some Polish eggs were the source of outbreaks.

https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2019/11/uk-bears-brunt-of-mul...
I detect a trend.
Black people in America have a measurably lower life expectancy than white people [1]. For people born in 2015, it's down to about 5%, but as recently as 1970, it was over 10%. That's a lot of years of life being cut short.

(There are well-known social causes for this which are direct consequences of racism, like access to quality health care, housing, education, credit, etc.)

COVID-19 deaths aren't taking nearly that many years. According to [2] (about 1.5 weeks old), 1 in 1850 (or around 0.05% of) black Americans have died from COVID-19. Even if this continues for the rest of the year, it still can't hold a candle to plain old racism.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2017/015.pdf
[2]: https://www.apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-by-race
I'm wrong about all sorts of things, but I have a funny feeling that we're going to look back someday and see this as the first of many companies of a significant size launching something that looks just like a TV station. I can't emphasize how incredibly brilliant this is: it appears to be a perfectly curated combination of pure marketing webinar, tutorials, educational lectures and who knows what else. This is an example of a new micro-format, in the same way that the NYT won a Pulitzer for their oft-copied Snowfall. http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/index.html

In an era where SEO has ruined the cozy internet, content marketing is transparent and many people just don't trust the media not to lie to them, the idea that a company like CloudFlare could task a team with essentially launching the nerd equivalent of CSPAN (if not CNN) seems to me like something a genius would come up with.
And yet in actual lotteries, (a certain sort of) people routinely waive anonymity for the benefit only (I assume) of the lottery organisation/'s marketing department.
Progress doesn't follow a linear pattern, it's more like a jagged line slowly trending upwards.

Recently (as in the past few years), it feels more like it's not trending upwards anymore, just jumping around an equilibrium point and maybe even slowly declining.

Junior engineers don't know these trade offs, they end up using sophisticated hammers for their screws.

They also end up making hammer factory factory factory factories.

(http://web.archive.org/web/20150106004241/http://discuss.joe...)
IIRC there's an entire online community of treasure hunter-hiders. There was at least one guy I remember wrapping $100 bills around old nails, dipping in wax, and then (re?)inserting the nails into wooden fenceposts. Followed by clues posted online. Things like that. Not 100M, but man that's really raising the stakes. People would do things for $10K that would make your head spin.
Can anyone actually build something good?

‘What’s another attack surface of a persons dignity and privacy?’ - all new products.

You’re all going the way of the dinosaurs with your ‘new’ bs
Its already main stream for cats to do the same with litter. https://prettylitter.com/

Its matter of time before this becomes common.

Disclaimer: Investor in prettylitter.
Real Programmers write machine code in any language, thank you very much. (Which TFA rather nearly is, actually, though it's a bit macro-assemblery for a proper example.)

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
Camden is in the top 0.2% of American cities in terms of per capita crime rate, according to the googling I just did. Not a great recommendation there.
I mean if I had an elevator that occassionaly plunged people to their deaths I'd be past trying to patch the bugs and calling in a completely different elevator company.

Also, large monolithic systems get replaced constantly. The projects that get in trouble has more to do with project management and change management, the code is just tangential.
I always figured it was somewhere near Agua Caliente Canyon, NM. Largely because it was in the right elevation, had the types of brush Fenn said he could smell there (which he later said he wish he had not commented on), was within a range that a sick or dying Forest Fenn could get to fairly quickly (he talked about wanting to go there before he passed away, if he was dying), and Agua Caliente translates as Hot Waters (noted in the poem). - I never got a chance to look, but it will be interesting to find out once the location is revealed.
Buuuut...people who play the lottery generally aren't even good at probability, you can't expect them to be making smart social decisions.
Their letter has a paragraph addressing some of their concerns:

> White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19. Black people are twice as likely to be killed by police compared to white people, but the effects of racism are far more pervasive. Black people suffer from dramatic health disparities in life expectancy, maternal and infant mortality, chronic medical conditions, and outcomes from acute illnesses like myocardial infarction and sepsis. Biological determinants are insufficient to explain these disparities. They result from long-standing systems of oppression and bias which have subjected people of color to discrimination in the healthcare setting, decreased access to medical care and healthy food, unsafe working conditions, mass incarceration, exposure to pollution and noise, and the toxic effects of stress. Black people are also more likely to develop COVID-19. Black people with COVID-19 are diagnosed later in the disease course and have a higher rate of hospitalization, mechanical ventilation, and death. COVID-19 among Black patients is yet another lethal manifestation of white supremacy. In addressing demonstrations against white supremacy, our first statement must be one of unwavering support for those who would dismantle, uproot, or reform racist institutions.

Edit: these aren't the calculations you asked for, but should give you an indication of what they are thinking about.
> In my case this was a relatively mature company on a version 2 reimplementation of an existing product, so it wasn't a complete death sentence.

OP specifically referred to startups, though, not mature companies. Most startups only have 12-24 months' runway to begin with, and lacking clean code/testing/best practices/etc won't (usually) kill them in that timeframe.

Lack of product-market fit, on the other hand, is the one thing guaranteed to kill a startup in that first year or two (lack of financing is the other, but this is usually fixable if you've addressed product-market fit).
It's why startups spend every single developer hour on rapid prototyping/iteration/features, rather than refactoring, testing and stability.

It's not black-and-white, though. Some code is so bad that it costs time in the very short-term, because noone can figure out how it works. Some functionality is so central to the product that tests are needed to confirm it's actually functioning as intended.

There's a vast spectrum between "fully tested, clean, reusable code" and "held together with sticky tape and segfaults every other minute".

I'd say that the one key skill for a startup CTO is deciding where the team should be on that spectrum on any given day.
>Does what someone think make their assembly invalid?

Point out above where GP said those assemblies were invalid. Pro tip: they did not.

Their right to assembly is not fundamentally invalidated, but the protesters are certainly open to a variety of critiques.
did you try other display ad networks?
Inevitably another cloud connected device. I hope it keeps my crap secure...
It's a useful counterexample because the problem didn't exist for the 20 years before legions of nodejs bros descended upon it and bestowed upon us the mess of hot garbage it is today. At this point, there is an entire half of the ecosystem which is unusable unless you drink the 400 dependency kool aide.
Probably a police force not represented by a racist union president.
Just wanted to say: This is the best, most thoughtfully worded mod guidance I’ve read anywhere on the web. Thank you!
Fascinating how alternative policing ideas went from a fringe to mainstream overnight. Whomever said "slowly at first then at all once" wasn't lying.

Another interesting book for those who are curious about these topics is The Private Production of Defense by Hans Hoppe which is also available for free: https://mises.org/library/private-production-defense
The analysis is quite simple: basic cynicism.

Experts are incentivized to maximize results corresponding to their field /in isolation/ - with little or no trade-offs considered. This preserves their reputation, and allows them to recommend within the bounds of their knowledge.

If an expert recommends religious institutions continue to hold only remote meetings, they are not going to suffer any consequences, both directly and as a response. Anger over such a decision will usually be directed to the politicians, instead.

If an expert recommends these protests be halted due to risk, they themselves will likely be affected, and charged with racism and bigotry, likely - in our current environment - leading to total destruction of both professional and personal lives.

The calculus is quite simple, and absolutely dangerous.
It's also another way to make sure you don't get the job you're applying for.
Sounds like everything else out of the EU: bureaucratic bullshit.

Nice identity plans! Good luck with anonymous subscription to those services.
I'm guessing it's slow because capturing the display and encoding it takes a while?

I wonder if you could integrate this HTML5 VNC client: https://github.com/novnc/noVNC , since the complicated stuff above will be taken care of by the VNC server.

I feel like the boss in Office Space saying "if you could just go ahead and...".
I played with Nim this weekend.

It's a shame that it did so many things right yet went with unqualified imports by default.

After being spoiled by other languages, something even Node.js got very right, I just don't want to try to get work done anymore in a language where you go `import Lib` and then a bunch of unqualified identifiers like `foo()` are available in the code.

I liked that Ruby feature as a beginner. But it didn't take long for me to realize that knowing where things come from is worth the 500ms one-time-cost you spend qualifying each import.
I like the concept of live tv playing around the clock. Does it end Sunday 2am or is this ongoing?
The only option I see is "Hardback with free ebook $26.95".
Could Solar Storms Destroy Civilization? Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections
It sounds like you can do much more than volunteering, especially if you're good at making and hitting goals.

Check out the Bill Gates documentary on Netflix if you haven't. One notable thing he does is he picks up a lot of books on the problems faced by the world.

Personally, I'd love to help out the average person. People in my area are underpaid and have terrible working conditions - the average "senior" programmer makes a little over $1,000/month and most end up in dead end jobs with few opportunities. There's also people in more remote areas, who are paid too little to find a better job, and labor laws are barely sustainable anymore.

As someone who has implemented what you wanted, maybe you can help others do the same. Instead of giving soup to homeless people, you can give them a reasonable goal to strive for.
Even if you do not die, you might have a very unpleasant experience with lasting consequences.

Perhaps a better way to frame it would be - 2% (?) of patients have serious life-changing consequences. Those under 49 tend to survive them.
I tend to believe people have some sort of predisposed propensity to succeed, for whether definition of succeed we like to use, for whatever type of endeavour we’re pursuing.

Combine that with the genetic lotto—born in the right place at the right time in to the right family—and a fairly random dose of luck—right idea at the right time.

And there’s a statistical side to it too: only about one in one hundred people can be in to top 1%, and the Musks / Buffets / Grahams of the day world are more rare still.
I think it's easy to argue that your loudest users aren't a representative sample.
Show HN: Checkup – Monitor health checks your menu bar
Evidence? Statistics? Most cops are not ready for gun battle at any second.
Use satellite imagery to watch where people don't search, go search those places after some period of failures, profit.
Just irradiate it. Problem solved.
If you're on macOS and iPad this is exactly what the 'sidecar' feature does. Needs recent hardware though since it uses the video encoder built in recent Intel CPUs to make it less laggy.
According to Slavoj Žižek, Germans love Hermeneutic stool diagnostics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzXPyCY7jbs

>Žižek on toilets. Slavoj Žižek during an architecture congress in Pamplona, Spain.

>The German toilets, the old kind -- now they are disappearing, but you still find them. It's the opposite. The hole is in front, so that when you produce excrement, they are displayed in the back, they don't disappear in water. This is the German ritual, you know? Use it every morning. Sniff, inspect your shits for traces of illness. It's high Hermeneutic. I think the original meaning of Hermeneutic may be this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutics

>Hermeneutics (/ˌhɜːrməˈnjuːtɪks/)[1] is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts. Hermeneutics is more than interpretive principles or methods we resort to when immediate comprehension fails. Rather, hermeneutics is the art of understanding and of making oneself understood.
Haha, no. You can still copy-pasta and also blog about it as real content. C'mon, how else can I feel good about my shitty self?
But this was true of Camden before its police reform as well. From the linked article:

> He led the city’s high-profile pivot to community policing from 2013 until last year and oversaw what turned out to be a steep decline in crime. Homicides in Camden reached 67 in 2012; the figure for 2019 was 25.
This is excellent. I've been searching for ways to use modern hardware with my Xournal/Xournal++ workflows, and this is a promising approach. I am, however, a little concerned about robustness of video streaming.

In an ideal world, Xournal++ would have a modern web-based front-end as opposed to GTK (which currently means it's de-facto Linux-only until GTK resolves issues with Windows pen/inking APIs).
I mean, the idea is also that the 3 month lockdowns themselves have hard numbers behind them. From what I understand economists have themselves already modeled out the effect of covid-19 without a lockdown and found a lockdown is still more economically beneficial.
Flattening the curve is just stage 1 of dealing with the virus. Yes you start to re-open in stage 2, but you do it carefully and while maintaining much of the social distancing and having effective contact tracing in place to control any outbreaks, this is how other countries have opened up. Does the US have the required infrastructure in place to support the actions taken in other countries that have been effective?

Ideally you get the virus to low enough levels where you coast along until we get effective treatment or a vaccine with a new normal that disrupts the economy and daily life as little as possible.
"Everyone is entitle to their opinions, but not their own facts"

You absolutely positively cannot equate protesting against the murder of George Floyd and destroying 5G towers because they are spreading coronavirus. There absolutely is "right think" as much as there is "wrong think" on many topics.

And a lot of these argument are pure straw men. Criticizing China is perfectly acceptable. Saying the engineered Coronavirus is stupid. Saying they are running a concentration camp for Uighurs is urgent and is openly discussed online and in the MSM. It is only being ignored by governments because they know they can't do anything about it.

Absolutely no one was giving a free pass to looters. They were only upset when the president declared the BLM protests as antifa terrorists because he needed an excuse to attack. Donald Trump may have a first amendment right to his opinion, but citizens are obligated to call his bullshit. Especially when his opinions are factually unfounded and result the gross misuse of public resources.
Hit the "Ebook" tab. You have to create an account, but then it's free to download. Doesn't require credit card info or anything like that.
tl;dr, I got tired of manually curl'ing all of my essential services, and didn't want a webpage dashboard, script, or window-ed app as the primary query-UX. Now, one quiet little icon lets me know if all of my digital concerns in the world are well with a binary PASS/FAIL-like icon.
Click on the 'ebook' tab
Let's go the whole way and cut out the aircraft completely. What can an aircraft do that a dedicated missile can't?
Isn't there already an OSS version of the Code - https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.visualstudio.code.oss

Or is this Linux only?
Why c++? The best part of emacs is the dynamic environment.
if anything 5G will put extreme pressure on more efficient computational paradigms to replace our half century old silicon approach ... biology evolved the human brain to run on 40 watts of power ... the massive additional carbon footprint of 5G will accelerate our escape from silicon
> the existence of a patent shouldn't necessarily stop someone from infringing that patent

I should clarify that I'm not suggesting that anyone knowingly and willfully infringe any patent, because there may be liability for doing so. I'm only suggesting that some entrepreneurs worry about possible infringement far more than they should.
I'm one of those people who feel the same. I'd rather read than watch.
https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort...

This is (the now pedagogically famous) JonesForth. It's ~2000 lines of HEAVILY commented assembly, and at then you have everything you need to start writing a fully functional Forth+standard library (which is done in jonesforth.f in a ~1800 lines of heavily commented forth). That's not even as tiny as forth can be, and it gives you a lowish level language that is as/more modifiable and extensible as any Lisp.

There is basically no faster way to get from bare metal to a comfortable humane and interactive (so you can write more stuff) computing environment than writing a forth.