skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. Sounds like there was never any treasure to find.
Actually, this is weasel speak: “it is obviously risky”. Anytime someone goes outside, it is a risk. Anytime you decide to drive, it is a risk. Covid is about as risky as driving a car. If covid were as deadly as claimed, as we’ve been told for months, you would think it was a death sentence for you and your grandma to partake in the protests we’ve been seeing.
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Don’t forget public health officials outright lied and said masks don’t help reduce the spread of the disease, putatively to help conserve masks for medical personnel: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-face-...

> When news of a mysterious viral pneumonia linked to a market in Wuhan, China, reached the outside world in early January, one of my first reactions was to order a modest supply of masks. Just a few weeks later, there wasn’t a mask to be bought in stores, or online for a reasonable price — just widespread price gouging. Many health experts, no doubt motivated by the sensible and urgent aim of preserving the remaining masks for health care workers, started telling people that they didn’t need masks or that they wouldn’t know how to wear them.
The current consensus on face masks is they might/probably help when used in addition to social distancing. There haven't been enough good studies, second-order effects (like a sense of invulnerability, induced demand) aren't studied, and materials and construction vary too much. I have no idea how to feel about not seeing them, and I've seen enough common sense turn out to be wrong that I won't fall back on it.
Facial recognition? I don't want a touchscreen on my toilet.
Ask HN: How does https://flash.android.com access my locally stored adb keys
Hi everyone,

I noticed that https://flash.android.com is able to access my local adb keys stored on my local filesystem in ~/.android/adbkey . It does this after pressing Get Started on the page above and clicking agree to the dialog asking you if it can access you adb keys.

How is this possible? Is there some hidden api in chrome that google is using to access the local file system, or is there a more mundane explanation involving some unknown api?

Thanks all.
Seeing a lot of dislike in the comments here. I think its a neat idea and am going to give it a shot. It might be just what I was looking for tech related background noise to throw on the TV while I'm working.
shouldn't this have happened about 20 years ago?
Keep in mind it's an election year, and the biggest failure in the US and the world, New York, is extremely Democrat.

It is critical to the Democrats to shift the conversation. Clearly blaming Trump for the city's failure isn't going to work, so the pivot was to waiting until there was one particularly bad case of police abuse against a black person and then light the powder keg. If you look back this year there have been some awful cases.

For example, one stands out from February where a man was murdered execution style with 4 shots to the head and back[1]. Never heard of it in the media? That's because the person murdered was white so it was not politically useful to the Democrat media machine.

The takeaway for me is that this is only going to get worst. Elections are still in November. Biden is a terrible candidate so they're going to go absolutely nuts trying to sow discontent, instability, and outright rebellion. Can the US survive it's own media and it's two-party system, especially as foreign actors amplify the media's destabilizing message and focus on polarizing people?

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[1] https://6abc.com/west-sedgley-avenue-shooting-north-philadel...
Country Sheriffs in the US appear to me to do a lot of policing work.

For example, Polk County Sheriff (Florida) seems to be busy arresting people for DUI – https://tampa.cbslocal.com/2020/06/06/sheriff-grady-judd-54-...

Sacramento County Sheriff's (Calfornia) has a homicide bureau – https://www.sacsheriff.com/Pages/Organization/CID/Homicide.a...

Erie County Sheriff (New York) has a drug squad which regularly carries out undercover buy operations – https://www2.erie.gov/sheriff/index.php?q=narcotics-unit

Washington County Sheriff (Oregon) has a traffic safety unit – https://www.co.washington.or.us/Sheriff/FightingCrime/Patrol...

Many US counties have unincorporated areas, in which county sheriffs have full police patrol responsibilities. Often, that authority also extends to incorporated areas (villages/towns/smaller cities) which are too small to have their own police departments and rely on the county for all policing functions.
Ask HN: Do you use any back end as a service platform?
Do you use any Backend as a service or Mobile backend as a service (MBaaS) platform? I remember a few years back there used to be a platform called Parse which Facebook acquired and killed it.

With the ever-growing frontend development frameworks and environment, I believe such services will be very common. Firebase is somewhat like Parse what else you people know?

If you use any such platform please do share your experience.

Stay Safe & Thank You
Original repository and introductory article:

http://git.annexia.org/?p=jonesforth.git;a=shortlog

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/jonesforth-git-reposit...
He's already been impeached. He wouldn't be indicted. There's so many better things to go over now like the actual cause of the protests.
i think you hit on a point that means if kids are independent enough, then it can work. so it probably works fine for juniors and seniors in hs and is horrendously bad for kindergarteners
The point of his edict was that he wanted to reduce silos, not to "adopt web prootcols."
assentication ? (fixed a typo)
That can't be the defining feature.

I suspect 'drone' is a catch all term for things that don't have more specific names.
He said in the Why? article linked above somewhere that he really does believe, even if he has no evidence, that we'll be experience a collapse sometime around 2030. That's not really comprehensible to me, even though your description of a possible rationale, which makes more sense.
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> 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.

Another excerpt from the article state:

> "We created the letter in response to emerging narratives that seemed to malign demonstrations as risky for the public health because of Covid-19," according to the letter writers, many of whom are part of the University of Washington's Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
"Instead, we wanted to present a narrative that prioritizes opposition to racism as vital to the public health, including the epidemic response. We believe that the way forward is not to suppress protests in the name of public health but to respond to protesters demands in the name of public health, thereby addressing multiple public health crises."

They are not thinking about it in terms of supporting/opposing the protests. Rather the protests are a fact and you need to deal with them somehow. You can do that by either suppressing them or addressing their concerns. They do not want their concerns of COVID-19 to justify suppressing the protests, especially if addressing the protestor's concerns is a viable option.

> They are saying that the protest is too important to take health considerations into account, but they are reluctant to speak plainly and tell people there's risk but they should be adult and choose to manage the risks themselves and maybe neglect small risk in order to achieve bigger thing.

This seems almost exactly the sentiment they are addressing in the letter. COVID-19 is a public health concern, so is racial disparities that result in racial disparities in medical outcomes. Their concerns over COVID-19 transmission should not be taken as justification for suppressing the protests.

From the article,

> "Staying at home, social distancing, and public masking are effective at minimizing the spread of COVID-19. To the extent possible, we support the application of these public health best practices during demonstrations that call attention to the pervasive lethal force of white supremacy," the letter says.

They are still giving the same advice they've been giving. The letter also states protest-specific COVID-19 harm mitigation strategies for protestors & police.

> Just in this case, our betters had decided the COVID risk is less important than protesting - so it's OK for us. But only in cases which are approved by our betters.

A more charitable interpretation is that some medical professionals do not believe that the risk of COVID-19 spread is a compelling reason for suppressing protests against racial inequality, especially when the risk of COVID-19 spread can be addressed by responding to the protestors concerns & therefore advancing public health by both mitigating the spread of COVID-19 and addressing the role racism plays in medical outcomes.
Hi all,

I got inspired a few weeks ago and had some spare time to hack on a side project.

Long story short, a few days after shelter in place started, my car brand new car was broken into. The back window was broken, and the car could've been sitting around for at least 3 days before we needed to use it again. My partner was devastated when she found the car in that condition.

I decided to make a windshield sticker that allows anyone to contact you to tell you if you need to move your car, or if your car has been broken into, without sharing your personal contact information.

Anyone can walk up to your car, scan the QR code on the sticker and push a button to contact you.

I hacked this together over the last week or so and would love to hear what y'all think.

Would you use something like this?
A Forth word is simple enough that defining any other level of handling just isn't necessary. Trying to put an IR in would just be another layer and an unnecessary complication.

Using Forth gets pretty close to being the most compact representation all by itself, there's literally no extra tooling needed. No compiler or other translations, it's all just there in the words.
I agree. I'm worried they don't have any real plans yet. If they do, I think they need to be very public about them. It sounds like a lack of transparency was a core issue with the old PD.

I'm particularly worried that if this was voted on prematurely - before they were ready to deploy their new solution - that there might be some retaliation from the existing PD until the decision takes effect.

I'm also worried that "comminity-lead" implies a more political law enforcement organization. After all, sometimes what is "right" is not what is "popular" and I would hope that an officer is more concerned with the former.
> I've seen comment citations in the past. I still can't figure out how to get those to work.

Like this? It's just italics and a > symbol.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DonHopkins
I believe that was Surface Detail. Having trouble coming up with the exact quote at the moment. I think it was Demeisen of the Falling Outside The Normal Moral Constraints explaining to Lededje.
When we've created mass hysteria around this pandemic, this is the results. What did people think would happen? That all of a sudden people would start being free thinking, reasonable people who can separate the hype from the science.

When you put the fear of God in people, they will do anything, no matter how crazy, to not go to hell. This is the exact same thing. People know bleach is bad, but what does it matter because bleach might kill me but covid19 will for sure!
Statistically speaking it's very rare, yet many cops unjustifiably spend all day of every shift on edge like they could get into a gun battle at any second. And it shows in how frequently cops unjustifiably escalate situations to deadly force that didn't remotely require it.
I think you're right that "science" and "data" are only believed when they align with one's views.

But people seem to care a lot more about coronavirus deaths than deaths from war, flu, air pollution, traffic accidents, cancer (since screenings are down since lockdown), etc, so I can't agree with you on the other point.

Let's not forget that the data is far from all collected, and the science is not settled, wrt either the true impact of the virus or the effectiveness of various responses to it. I don't think it's wise to assume that science will bear out any one particular point of view, once there is better data, more perspective, and a scientific consensus.
Time to choose a priority: more important to stop the roadside executions of Black people by cops, or to stop 'looting'?
Paramedics and police are at opposite ends of the union representation spectrum. Paramedics have no union and are thus treated like livestock. The police have the strongest unions in America and are thus largely untouchable.
From your link:

> the authors note that the findings on face masks and eye protection are based on limited evidence

You also have to consider second-order effects like a sense of invulnerability from the mask and added social interactions because people feel safer. Those haven't been studied.
Why do you assume that he's lying? Given the amount of land to cover, 10 years seems like a short amount of time to have found the treasure.
Thanks for the update, always curious how the youtube ecosystem works.
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Long time since I’ve read any of the Culture novels but I’m not surprised there are examples there. I also remember there being scenes in The Forever War. And maybe the expanse although I forget how much of that was AI as opposed to just preparing for high G.
That’s really more of a “flying cars” startup than a “140 characters” one. You should pitch the idea :P
The trick to depression is to get older.

If it doesn't work straight away then try some more.

(that's my hope at least, if it doesn't work then at least I die at the end)

Strength is such a wonderful idea. The dao makes a distinction between being strong (external) and having strength (internal).

Somehow containing all your demons and greeting strangers with kindness is an unparalleled feat of strength that no one can witness except you yourself.

Becoming your own witness, detached from the hatred or the euphoria, is the hardest thing about living with depression - but afaict it is the only road available.
I'm sure if protesting could cure coronavirus, the masses would have been out in the street for that too.
I mean, people like to throw around race war occasionally now but I only hear about it from the far-right.

Nobody on the far-left is advocating for the extreme violence. During the 1960s, I believe Malcolm X was ready to have a real war to defend Black Americans. Now, at worse the discord is about justifying some looting that has diminished.
That's why you have to move out of the github. It already looks like Facebook, what happens next?
The NIH could cunduct the studies or the FCC could make it a condition of using the frequency. Funding should be a drop in the bucket compared to actual deployment (low millionions for a study vs hundred of billions invested in 5G)

>How about you raise money to fund the study virtually nobody wants to do and if you find something you can watch smugly while everyone tears down towers.

I find this to be a very rude comment. I have no interest in being smug, And honestly don't think it is a high risk. Given the health of hundreds of millions of people, I would like to see some basic confirmatory testing conducted to confirm safety. It is fine if you disagree, but why bother responding if you are just going to make snide comments and be an asshole about it.
These protests are a complete rounding error compared to how many personal interactions were going on in a single day back in March when everything was still open for business as usual and no one was wearing masks.

COVID-19 cases will go up when the economy reopens. Until then I'd be surprised if we even see a statistically noticeable blip from these protests.
For example, countries permitting residents to "gather in groups of 12", or "protest in groups of up to 100".

For example, https://cchealth.org/press-releases/2020/0602-Businesses-Reo...

Why create specialized rules for protests that allow an order of magnitude more people to gather than those allowed in a "close cohort" gathering?
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The letter is gobbledegook. Police brutality isn’t a “public health problem.” It’s a bad thing, and it may well be that reasonable people feel like protesting police brutality justifies taking the risk of increased COVID-19 transmission. (I certainly feel that way.) They’re deciding that “protesting police brutality is worth some excess deaths from COVID.” But the authors don’t want to own the fact that they’re making a value judgment. So instead they resort to literal newspeak to make it seem like they’re making a scientific judgment instead of a political one.
> Also, "Most software at Google gets rewritten every few years."

That's hardly point in favor, given Google's "reputation" for long-term support and stability, and the sheer amount of engineers that they can throw at literally every problem.
Hi Matthew. Is there a way to connect with the team behind cloudflare.tv? We're building something similar (netflix original for tech conferences and meetups) and would be happy to talk with like-minded people.
This is more-or-less exactly what I would expect: the younger you are, the more in-person learning matters. At the extreme end of the spectrum, imagine attempting remote preschool for a toddler (or maybe you don't have to imagine it these days). It clearly wouldn't work!

Adults are able to learn from mostly independent study. Teenagers are able to learn somewhat from independent study. Elementary school kids can maybe do some independent study, but not much.

Unavailable parents are part of the problem—but another way to phrase that is, the parent isn't available to act as a teacher (albeit one heavily aided by online resources).
Because engineering discipline is actually hard. Not necessarily in the "here is how you do it" sense, just in the sense of getting the buy-in from engineers and engineering leadership that will make it happen.

This is like the one thing that microservices might actually be sort of good at: drawing a few very hard boundaries that do actually sort of push people in the general direction of sanity, e.g. it's easier to have basic encapsulation when the process might be on another computer...
Interesting perspective. For anyone else who wasn't familiar with this usage of "selection": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_program_theorem
Exactly what I needed for doing some whiteboarding during a teleconference. Thanks!
No, Firefox has telemetry built in, its not stripped on compile time.
Unfortunately, the rape kit problem is much worse than you think.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2019/07/nati...
Scientists are no more qualified at discussing the trade-offs of economics and racial justice and policing than anyone else. By attempting to do so they politicize science and thereby reduce public trust in science.

My problem with their letter is that they made a judgment about these trade-offs and attempted to portray it as a scientific one, when it really wasn't. Based on the data alone, there is no way to reach their conclusion.
Oh, crap! I forgot that I can ignore context and nuance—and even redefine words and terms at will—to win arguments with zero-effort pedantic nonsense! What have I been doing, arguing in good faith all this time?

Was the civil rights movement a political stunt? I think I'm rolling my eyes so hard over here that they might fly out of my head. Call it what you want, anyway. I don't care.

> the issue is that the gloom-and-doom arguments that a lockdown is necessary and correct have been well and truly rejected by the activist wings of politics, and implicitly by a large portion of the commenting-class of journalists. And business. And possibly the public at large. They clearly don't agree.

This is an outrageous simplification and IMO outright misrepresentation of a very complex issue.

Where I live, where there are big protests with general neutral-to-positive public sentiment toward them, the majority of people have been taking the public health advice re: COVID-19 very seriously. I'd be very wary of suggesting that my own personal perception does or does not match with the country at large, and I think you should too, especially if you're unwilling to acknowledge the nuance of the issues at stake and/or the reality of racial oppression and violence in America.

Would you run back into a burning building to save a 24-pack of Bud Light? Probably not.

Your family dog? Maybe?

Your daughter? Probably.
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This is a great idea, but its always felt super daunting for me. As in, just walking into a massive code base makes you wonder where to even start. Do you reach out to other contributors ? Look for easy bugs and hope you can keep finding them ?
this seems like retcon. I never heard it before now, and there's not been agreement on the method or role of contact tracing in a free society. Am I going to be quarantined if some app says I got near a person who tested positive? That seems ludicrous. States are reopening without tracing or supportive isolation.
Another addendum is that it does not trigger the authorize keys dialog on my android device, which is further proof that it is reading keys that are already authorized from the computer
Why should they shift that risk onto the public? Why are they lauded as heroes when they err on the side of killing innocents? Why shouldn't they be the ones to die instead of the people they've miscategorized as threats? Why are their lives worth more?
To add to this, Lua has a thread-safe interpreter, which allows running multiple Lua threads in the same process. This contrasts with Python's GIL.
Disbanding the force is more important than everything on your list.

As others have said, once you lose institutional control, and the mayor and the police chief have both effective said that they have lost this, than small reform don't matter.

Plus Minneapolis PD has a strong reputation as one of the most corruption in the nation.

https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-police-officers-convic...

https://www.patrickburnslaw.com/Articles/Business-Law-Articl...
I don't see why America would be outraged by the man in Philadelphia? Like it seems a terrible murder but what do you expect people to rise against?

I'm glad the Democrats are shifting the conversation. You think this hasn't been happening regularly for decades? At the very least this has been brewing since 2014 and Ferguson.

They might try to blame Trump but honestly he's given the Democrats enough material just by literally stoking the flames instead of trying to be conciliatory.
Public health officials can presumably take a non-political stance for lockdowns. This it seems to me that even given a neutral stance on BLM issues, there can be a non-political basis for discriminating between the value of the goals of the two different protest movements.
Is that story written down anywhere? I'd be interested in learning more about it ^_^
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> Imagine fighting against a swarm of 10,000 drones

There are examples in media!

Many mechas from the Gundam series use funnels, a form of drone, in order to overwhelm a single enemy or attack multiple ones:

https://youtu.be/qc6ME9S_qps?t=1m5s

Ace Combat 7 features a massive battle against an airborne UAV carrier and its swarm of drones:

https://youtu.be/JQJpRwkXHj4?t=19m50s

Sometimes the entire screen is filled with targets!