skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the gist is to avoid aggressively picking apart minor details, and instead discuss the main points. This is in line with another section of the guidelines:

“Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.”
The problem is American gun culture and the probability that any call might turn into a violent one. Other countries don't have that problem so they can send unarmed social workers with higher confidence, over a life time of calls, they're going to see retirement. In America that isn't the case and responders need a gun because everyone has guns and you need to have sustainable system for keeping order that ensures, over the long tail, peace keepers stay alive. This is probably an unpopular opinion in a time of police abuses but it's orthogonal, it just means our police need to be extremely well trained and disciplined because we built a society that is inherently more dangerous (and this costs a lot of money which we're now defunding).
This is a rather crowded space imo.

Why would I want to use this instead of Medium?

Are you handling all the domain management (purchase, routing, etc.)?

What would it cost?

As someone who writes a lot of code how-tos, there is room for improvement. In my mind that improvement is largely around formatting and displaying/running code in the users reading environment.

Just my two cents.
Nobody is making the player play the game. There are plenty of other ways to spend your time than advertising on the internet.

"Hate the player for choosing to play the game."
"Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis retreated on Saturday through a sea of protesters yelling, “Go home, Jacob, go home!” and “Shame! Shame!” after he refused to commit to defunding the Police Department."

He says no to the abolition of the PD, not defunding.
Details and rationale: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ladies-and-gentlemen-cloudflare-...
I don't think anyone is against more police, but rather the tactics used and how that money is spent. Twenty years ago, police deploying tasers was an outlier. In 2020, it's become normalized and happens thousands of times a year. There's no reason we can't have better trained, restrained police at the same or greater budget. It's the tactics that are in question, and qualified immunity which allows bad actors to do as they please with little-to-no impact to themselves (thanks to local governments picking up the tab).

Let's not pretend we didn't just see 57 police officers resign from a volunteer position because two of their own were caught on camera pushing a 75-year old man to the ground and held accountable because "just following orders".
Microservices have some inherent advantages, mainly that you can manage, modify and deploy one service at a time, without taking down/redeploying the rest of your application(s). This is arguably the big thing that is missing from monoliths. It's hard to only change a single API endpoint in a monolith, but easier to do a change across the entire monolith, when you have to change something about how the whole system works. The best compromise that I've come up with would be to have something that can keep your entire app in one place, but allow individual portions of it to be hot-swapped in the running application, and is built to be run in a distributed, horizontally scalable fashion, In addition, there's a lot to be said for the old way of putting business logic in stored procedures, despite the poor abstraction capabilities of SQL, relative to something like lisp, but with modern distributed databases, we can conceivably run code in stored procedures written in something like Clojure, keeping code close to the database, or rather, data close to the code, allowing hot-swapping, modification, introspection, replay of events, and all other manner of things, all while managing the whole thing like a monolith, with a single application, configuration, etc. to deploy, and a more manageable and obvious attack surface to secure.

This is my solution, called Dataworks, if anyone's interested: https://github.com/acgollapalli/dataworks#business-case

(Some of those things like introspection and replay-of-events are in the road map, but the core aspects of hotswapping and modification of code-in-db work.)
Yes, that's why I said should.

I think bodycams themselves are fantastic tools—but like most technology, they cannot by themselves fix a human problem.
I highly recommend Jane Coaston of Vox for a follow. Her recommendations are:

1. End qualified immunity

2. Curtail the power of police unions

3. We need fewer laws

I don't think I could agree harder with this. It sounds like the "disband the police" movement is an elaborate implementation of #2. Now we just need #1 and #3.

https://twitter.com/cjane87/status/1267898762845880321
It’s interesting that we never consider the status quo to ever be an extreme. Perhaps part of why these root-to-branch efforts seem so extreme is because the Overton window has been shifted so far to the right wrt Criminal Justice we’ve lost perspective.

American policing is not exactly a shining beacon of civil achievement. It has a long history of being both problematic and largely ineffectual at establishing law & order within the confines of the US constitution.

When violent crime started dropping precipitously in the 90s researchers scrambled to figure out the recipe so it could be repeated and amplified. Ultimately they came up empty handed. Interestingly, the Environmental Lead Hypothesis emerged as a likely cause (especially because the pattern can be seen across different countries, cultures, and criminal justice systems) but does have its own share of detractors.

But regardless, we don’t actually have solid evidence our current approach to law & order is even effective. It’s largely a faith-based system. And it’s performance is abysmal... So we should be open to “radical” change as micro-optimizations aren’t going to help us here.
Said someone who has clearly never been part of a big bang software rewrite before.
I still live in Minneapolis and most people that I know want to stay.

Everyone who watched the video knows George Floyd was murdered, but the MPD and its union still want to fight their termination and all charges.

MPD response to protesters has been incompetent, callous, and malicious. The majority of MPD are suburban Trump supporters and like all Trump supporters they can't stand progressive places like Minneapolis. The last straw for me was when the MPD police arrested a reporter in broad daylight on live TV.
Not an American, but seeing the current divide in the US makes me curious. What would happen if Trump wins again in 2020?
What would you study precisely? Install 5G in one city and look for anything that could possibly go wrong in that city and try to figure out the 100,000 possible confounding factors and assign blame to 5G for anything we couldn't figure out how to explicate?
Orange peels revived a Costa Rican forest
I've read that page and I'm still wondering why they're using FORTH.

C has excellent portability and performance. The article agrees with the general consensus that C is also generally a better language for the programmer. So why use FORTH? What does it matter that it can do cute things with self-hosting? What does 'compactness' matter?

If the goal is to build a portable means of writing programs for Z80 and AVR, why not develop a C-like language, or an IR, or put work into developing a serious optimising C compiler targeting the Z80? I get the impression that's a relatively unexplored area for (rather niche) compiler research.
That's kind of what I mean, features like splitting the screen with two windows has been around in the Linux world for ages, and eventually made it to Windows too. MacOS only added something similar many years after that, I find this astonishing.
Not sure if you’re being sarcastic, but good stats. From #1 ranked dangerous country in 2012, a disbandment in 2013, and #10 today seems at least somewhat successful to me
Looking at the police brutality over the past 2 weeks, including blatant attacks on journalists and peaceful protestors, makes it clear that they have not been "reformed."
Salmonella hasn't been a real problem in American eggs for decades. They're used raw all the time. (Yes, there are occasional outbreaks. There are also outbreaks in Europe.)
I see contradiction between your two paragraphs. First, there is no cut to thousand deaths per day. But then, the government is able to do it?
I hope this happens, and that Minneapolis citizens can build an institution of their own that they can actually have faith in.

My main concern around this is the array of outside systemic forces that would want to see this project fail: Make no mistake, if Minneapolis goes through with this, and if it succeeds, there are a massive numer of other police departments in other cities who will see this as an existential threat, and and will almost certainly act to see that it fails
Third most crime in 2019* whoops
You're not wrong, but there are vocal designers that wouldn't be happy with that comparison.
> The idea of an internment camp is not even considered.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/22/us/ice-detention-coronavirus-...

https://www.insider.com/report-detention-centers-use-disinfe...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/border-fac...

https://archive.is/bxmYQ [WaPo]
From tfa:

> Homicides in Camden reached 67 in 2012; the figure for 2019 was 25.

yes, I would call almost a 2/3rds reduction in homicides a success
Mob is as smart as the most stupid person in it. Read some ‘Psychology of mob’ by Le Bon. This has been in public domain knowledge for over 100 years. Hitler read that book, allowed him to have full control of the mobs. Seriously, good read. Also would be nice not to have so many ignorants angry at facts at HN.
New Games You Can Play with Proton Since May 2020
It's meant for beginners.
They are not doing that to solve any real problems. They are doing that to calm down the mob.
A Tomahawk is a drone, just not the kind discussed in this article. A Tomahawk is subsonic missile designed to attack land and sea targets. The drone they are talking about here would be able to attack land, sea, and air targets. It would be vastly more maneuverable, faster, reusable, have AI specific to air-to-air combat, and I assume it would have greater versatility in selection of its munitions during an engagement.
I have to assume that you're being sincere but it feels like trolling to me. We apparently live in different worlds, and this is pointless.

Kthxbai!
A Forth shibboleth is that you have to implement your own in order to understand it. Try reading the assembly, then forth source, for jonesforth: https://github.com/AlexandreAbreu/jonesforth

This is how I learned.
Let me put this in a more constructive way: why do you think "global media" are rooting for Bolsonaro's failure? And: given the less than ideal infrastructure to face the pandemic, what has been Bolsonaro's policy to counteract this? Can we honestly say that he's been "doing what he can"?
Yes, just unsubscribe to all default subs and sub to the communities that are relevant to your interests.
The vast majority of police forces are armed, even in low-crime countries.

> the entire country of Germany seems to use fewer bullets than a single US city

So perhaps guns are not actually the problem? There's commensurately little crime occurring in Germany, crime is not punished as harshly and criminals are not armed to the same degree.

When somebody is getting arrested in the US, they're looking at years in harsh prisons. They're likely to use any sort of irrational means to avoid or resist getting arrested.
Not sure how a steady decline in crime over a 10 year span is a failure!

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/camden/sections/law-and-justic...
I was using the phrase ironically since that's usually used to describe the cops. I believe many blacks disagree with you though, but I can't state that as a white person, you'll just have to pay attention to the thousands people protesting, because that's what they're trying to tell you.

I'm sorry to hear about your family. We all want the killing to stop
> You're asking police officers to be less armed then the general public.

Can we at least agree that off-duty police officers working as security guards at a hospital or elsewhere should not under any circumstance carry a weapon (other than perhaps a stick or something) while on non-police duty?

> Soon, from inside the room, there was shouting, sounds of a scuffle and a loud pop. During an altercation, two off-duty Houston police officers, moonlighting as security guards, had shocked Mr. Pean with a Taser, fired a bullet into his chest, then handcuffed him.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/us/hospital-guns-mental-h...

> Mr. Pean said he was informed of the dismissal of the assault charges against him in a phone call to New York, where he is finishing college. He said he was relieved but remained deeply disturbed by his experience, noting that his family spent more than $100,000 in his defense. “If I was someone else, I could have ended up in jail,” he said.

> After the incident, federal health officials conducted an emergency investigation and faulted the hospital for the shooting, saying that St. Joseph had created “immediate jeopardy to the health and safety of its patients” and ordered that it restrict use of weapons and provide more training in dealing with mentally ill patients.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/us/alan-pean-hospital-gun...

In addition, perhaps if a police officer is not "on duty", felony assault charges should not be possible. This may sound harsh but imagine a bus driver goes on a walk and someone hits him on the head with a stick. Does that carry felony assault charges as well?

I think many people are saying a police officer's testimony should be void in a court of law if they do not have other evidence (in which case the evidence can stand on its own without the officer's testimony).
Like quite a lot of lockdown supporters you appear to believe that there's this optional bit of frippery called the economy which can be switched off like a light switch, without consequence.

Let me explain some of the consequences.

In the UK people have been pulling out their own teeth with pliars because the dentists weren't allowed to be open, not even for emergency surgery. It was "too dangerous" for dentists to be close to their patients.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-52321910

https://metro.co.uk/2020/05/20/mum-tried-pull-tooth-when-cou...

In India, all the factories and shops were closed. But because it's India the government wasn't able to replace people's incomes overnight. Those people started to starve so they tried to go back to their home villages, in the hopes of getting some food from the land. But because of the lockdown they couldn't get transport either, so they started to walk, in some cases they tried to walk hundreds of miles. And some of them died because of it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52086274

In the UK there's now a backlog of 2.4 million cancer tests or treatments. There's no obvious way to catch up and some people will die because of it.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8374697/2-4-million...

The economy is defined, literally, as every service or product people sell each other. But sure, it's also just a minor thing that doesn't matter.
Mind blown. I had no idea.
The NCAA's only major death penalty was given to SMU and it devastated the local economy so much, with many restaurants, for example, going bankrupt, that they will never do it again. And SMU has been flagged for violations since then, also. The collateral damage is tremendous and the result after the calamity, as in Animal Farm, is not much different.

Additionally, "lack of institutional control" often means someone loses their career because of something done by someone else that took great pains to hide their malfeasance.
That's actually great. All the power to them for willing to risk it, and a net benefit for everyone else watching how that experiment turns out.

I share the sentiment that police doesn't eradicate crime; it's a way to manage chronic crime, but not a solution in itself. However, take the chronic management away without solving the problem at the core and you're in for a much bigger problem.
As mentioned I would hope that politics would be kept seperate from the software, which would mean you might not know your co-contributors affiliations and so reduce the chance for any coordinated effort that might affect its integrity.

& yes an innocent looking bug, that is intentional.
I'd like to offer my comments as well. I do not blog, but did for a short period of time.

What's your position, what does this offer instead of a web-hosting solution, is it security, privacy? I like the thought of it being hosted outside of a pre-packaged vendor but that's only to satisfy my desire to help the underdogs above anything else.
A better police force.
Seems like a useful service, but there is something quite ironic about having a video titled "The Risks of a Consolidating Internet" [1] hosted by Cloudflare.

[1] https://cloudflare.tv/best-of/478d779664ac0f7ae7fe21064bdcb4...
The doc is really weird. It picks and evaluates dimensions that obviously will improve after disbanding the police, but doesn’t try to address the question if the actual safety will improve. Instead it looks at whether disbanding the police will “ challenge the notion that police increase safety?” wtf. Also hard to believe that more training and bodycams have negative effect on actual quality of policing and safety. Any data to support this?
Actually it was living abroad in a third world nation that soured me on America. Bringing my children back to the USA was painful to me and disappointing to them.
This has a very low chance of hurting the target: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-pacific-38534288/wrap...

However, hurting the target is very much the goal of police in north america.
Median competency in most professions will typically be quite low. In software this is exacerbated by the high pay, which attracts a lot of charlatans, and the fact that our industry has almost no professional standards (unlike say structural engineering). I’ve never thought it was much of a problem though, because it just makes it easier for the sufficiently competent to distinguish themselves.
think again https://www.statista.com/statistics/189582/age-of-us-video-g...
But it would seem far more feasible to build an organization like that to oversee one unified police force than to have n tiny organizations to oversee n small local police forces. If you'd try to mix levels (one central org cross-checking n small forces) everybody involved would inevitably confuse their role with a central coordination hierarchy and the original intent would get lost.
Of course, but some people listening to the mob think it will actually do something.
The guidelines are absolutely general, not merely the WSJ.

I'll let you work out the applicability of my suggested alternate, possibly comparing it with dang's editorial choice.

I'm not sure what your specific beef is. The article, regardless of merits, would be better discussed with ... (checks and sees a changed title on HN) ... something other than the originally-submitted, WSJ-provided, headline.

I'm distinctly not a fan of the WSJ. The argument that the recent, global, crash-course on distance learning has ... proved uneven ... should hardly be controversial. It deserves a fair hearing, whether the WSJ has done so or not, and the topic seems well within HN's remit.
There are looters and then there are protestors.
I have many friends that are black that do not support this now, why would they support the weaponisation of their race?

Do you not think it's fishy that the Open Society donated £33m to this movement?
Extrapolating from the numbers here, probably low 6 figures as of a couple years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/74nt43/jepsen_...
Those are for people who are specifically not here legally and therefore don't recieve the full protection of our constitution and laws. While I vehemently disagree with these camps, there's no reason to assume a re-born America's laws would apply to people who are not citizens/legally accepted into its borders. A fix for these camps would be to guarantee the same protections we Americans enjoy to people who come here illegally, which can be accomplished using the current framework we have today.
> One easy example right off the top of my head is the law and culture that enables people to peacefully demonstrate

If you compare that right to any other country in the West, it doesn't look so peaceful and free.
Google up how Georgia completely disbanded its police, and remade it from scratch: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=484947...
CollapseOS? Meh. What we need is ApocalypsOS. Something to play Tetris on after having hauled a bucket of wellwater (and some wood) to the 23-rd floor apartment where I try to survive.
Particularly when you have a syndicate. You find a bug? Share it with the group, they find one and share it back. Now you have two smaller pieces of the pie that cumulatively are bigger than your initial piece.

And some payouts are 10k, I’ve never even heard of $50 minimums, I thought it’s either $100 or swag.
> They've got a fraction of a second to decide whether someone is a threat or not.

A fraction of a second? They weren't piloting an F-14 in Top Gun or something, there was a visibly unarmed elderly guy shuffling towards them alone on the sidewalk. It was literally the opposite of a situation that demanded split-second decision making.

As with the grandparent comment, I question whether you even watched the video of the incident or if you are just repeating some stupid stuff you heard about the incident.
Cross-examination can be perceived as hostile, particularly if conducted as you might see in a court of law.
The hard thing isn't the wheel, it's the axle. For that, you need a precision that it's difficult to get without at least bronze tools.
Not a "decision" as such, but getting more involved in open source has given me so much, and helped me build skills in:

- Navigating unfamiliar codebases

- Improving technical writing skills

- Keeping abreast of new tool/tech/methodologies/processes

- Maintaining and managing projects
As others have said, I think "burn it to the ground and start over" is highly underrated.

My concern is that policing could be taken over by private entities, which I suspect would be decidedly worse.
This has sufficient public momentum to prove that a plurality believes the current system does the public more harm than good. Of course, removing cops will reduce harm done by cops to the public. But it will also reduce harm done by cops to law breakers. Intuitively, I would expect the law breakers to benefit disproportionately, since the cops stated mission was to prevent law breaking and all.

Statistics I've read suggest that US cities have been getting progressively safer over the past generation. It's interesting to wonder if our generation of safety has allowed us to forget that "order" and "justice" are not intrinsic qualities of humanity (nor any other animal group). Looking forward to seeing how Minneapolis will go about delivering consistent justice with no bad actors enforcing it. Will also be interesting to see which types of law breakers emerge as the winner from decimation of their traditional adversary.
The point is that many (not all, of course, so there will always be counterexamples) who are "doing" don't have the bandwidth to produce great content. If your employer pays you to do it inside of your regular work schedule, that changes the equation.
it depends on your focus doesn't it? Like if you're goal is to spend all day at a computer then yes kids are a distraction. Surprisingly a lot of people like spending time with their family, and regard sitting at a computer as a necessity.