skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. It doesn't create negative consequences for the individual wrongdoers, or even the police collectively except perhaps extremely indirectly. It is symbolic collective punishment, but substantively it's just a way for the public authority to defer its own consequences so they are distant from the problem, since a pension fund is literally just the fund out of which the public authority pays it's pension obligations to retiring police before having to resort to using other funds. Depleting the fund for unrelated purposes doesn't reduce the public authority’s contractual obligations to each retiring officer.

You may be mistakenly assuming that exhausting the pension fund directly cuts pensions for those covered, which would still be remote just in targeted individuals and time, but there is no necessary relationship there. It just makes it more likely that the public authority would be forced to declare bankruptcy because it can't meet it's pension obligations, at which point it might be able to shed pension obligations for employees (not just those covered by the fund, if the police have a distinct fund!) as part of the bankruptcy, but that could happen as a result of direct settlement payments, as well.

In the fairly common case where the police don't even have even have their own pension fund but contribute to a common fund with other employees, perhaps not even from the same local jurisdiction (e.g., California local governments where often both police and other employees are covered by CalPERS), taking it out of the fund would even lack the symbolic sense that it has in the more simple case.

If you want direct liability for the people doing the immediate wrong, you want an end to, or limitations on, qualified immunity, not redirecting public authoriry liability to pension funds. That, of course, would make the public authority not responsible, but to would mean that individual cops would also be responsible on civil suits.
This is yet again a misunderstanding of the GDPR thanks to the tons of bad advice around it.

The GDPR requires consent for tracking technologies for non-essential purposes. It can be cookies, but is not limited to them. Local storage or browser fingerprinting fits the bill as well.

Moving the cookie consent management into the browser won't fulfill the intent of the law - sure, cookies are now disabled by the browser, but what about fingerprinting or server logs? A compliant site will still need to ask for consent for those.

When it comes to user experience, the regulation explicitly sets rules around how you ask for consent. Consent should be freely given so that users are not forced to opt-in (you can't force them to accept, so cookie popups where opting out is not possible or "by using this site you agree to our use of cookies" notices are not compliant). Tracking should also be opt-in, so pre-ticked checkboxes or where the flow to accept is easier than the one to decline (one click to accept, several clicks to decline) is not compliant either.

Finally, functional cookies such as for shopping carts or logged-in user sessions are explicitly allowed without requiring consent nor disclosure.

The problem here is not the design of the law but the lack of enforcement of it. All those obnoxious sites where you'd want to ad-block the consent popup are not compliant by default and should be fined. If the law was enforced we'd quickly see changes around this and consent popups would become unobtrusive.
It's not every app as far as I know because I believe you can opt out of BitCode, but this would be widely the case with exceptions:

https://thenextweb.com/apple/2015/06/17/apples-biggest-devel...

https://www.highcaffeinecontent.com/blog/20190518-Translatin... (other direction but clearly demonstrative of what apple can do here)
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Does anyone know if any of the artificial food research tackling a cows milk substitute?

Oh, wait, I have a Google. https://www.sciencealert.com/news/20142910-26413.html is a six year old press release, so I guess it didn't get to market 'in five years'. It would be good if they could get something that could be made into cheese, or skip the wasteful bits and go straight to cheese. All I hear about is burgers, but I would have naively assumed milk a much simpler goal.
> Anecdotally, I've met people who homeschooled because they thought it was cheaper than their other options.

This almost, but not quite, matches my anecdotal experience. Basically, from what I've seen, it's not that it's cheaper[1] to homeschool, it's two things:

1. They don't trust the childcare they can afford. You can hire a 16 year old to care for your kid for minimum wage, but a trustworthy adult costs more.

2. The work they could be doing does gain them some net income, but the net income isn't worth the effort. I.e. if you can work for $30/hour for 8 hours with a 2 hour commute, and childcare is $20/hour, that's $30 * 8 = $240, $20 * 10 = $200, $240 - $200 = $40, $40 / 10 = a whopping $4/hour. It's not cheaper to homeschool, but it's not worth it to work for $4/hour.

[1] I'm interpreting "cheaper" to mean "cheaper in terms of money"--if that's not what you meant, my apologies.
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I didn't say there was no 64 bit legacy software. I just don't see it as being a "bigger" problem, due to the cutting off of the 32 bit legacy.
Voter disenfranchisement and suppression is a pretty big problem here.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/poll-pr...

> Does this mean that people just do not care, or there is only some minority who thinks that the police is too violent and the rest is ok with that?

Yeah, basically. Especially that last part.
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There's no way that were completely unaware of this possibility when they started the service. They did this intentionally to get as big as they possibly could before the music industry came after them, leaving their users high and dry in the process.

You can't start a music platform without having some sort of peripheral awareness of how litigious that industry is. They could've tried to build it out more responsibly early on and chose not to.
'Farm' animals are the ultimate victims because they have no voice.
Too many social activists start from the top-level (humans) but I think starting from the bottom-level (nature and animals) will give the most efficient change because it has a transversal impact on every aspect of human life.

If more people could feel empathy toward "farm" animals, all other social problems would start being solved.
Recent update:
U.S. lawmakers ask Zoom to clarify China ties after it suspends accounts https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zoom-video-commn-privacy/...
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What can a person do as a hacker to combat global warming? Is the startup a better adversary to climate change than political organization?
> Very few people want bitcoin for itself, most are in it purely to get rich through speculation, and even those who use it to transact will find it less attractive if it can't easily be converted.

From an outside perspective, it might seem that way. There is a plentiful, and growing crowd who understand Bitcoin as a means of saving and avoiding state interference in their finances. Conversion of fiat to Bitcoin is highly desirable because people want to save over long periods. The conversion of Bitcoin back to Fiat is less desirable because it is trading good money for bad money. People only do the latter when they have a liquidity crisis. The bulk of bitcoin users are HODLers, as can be seen through the UTXO ages on the blockchain. Market speculators are a minor subset of bitcoiners.

> Your Heath-Robinson process of money laundering there is hilarious, and reads like a how-to for lengthy jail terms.

I wasn't talking about money laundering at all. What are you reading? Not sure you know what money laundering means. I'm referring to people taking their legitimate earnings and storing them in Bitcoin for the purpose of avoiding devaulation by inflation and illegal surveillance without warrant.

People pay their income taxes when they earn (Usually with no choice because it will be deducted fromn their wage via a PAYE scheme). They also pay their sales taxes when the purchase any items from outside of the black markets. The Bitcoin saver who merely interacts with this black market as a means of exchanging fiat money for bitcoin is not engaging in illegal activity. It is the black market vendors who provide the services who are.

Consider this: You go to a shop and purchase an item which costs $0.99 (inc. sales tax). The owner of that shop decides to pocket the sales tax and does not pass it on to the tax authority. Have you engaged in illegal activity by purchasing this item? It has nothing to do with you whether the shop owner pays his sales tax - you paid yours.

Ok, it might be possible to dodge sales taxes by purchasing within black markets, but the black market doesn't necessarily provide all the commodities one would want. The most common use case will be converting back to fiat cash to use at local stores, where every purchase has a sales tax.

If money laundering is a concern, then a government would really want to deregulate bitcoin and encourage its use in paying taxes. By utilizing the blockchain and its auditability, they could largely automate the process of tax collection and save significant amounts of money. People will still be paying their income taxes via PAYE, but the process can be fully automated by every participant involved (employer, employee and tax authority).

By attempting to overregulate, they push most of the activity underground, where they are no longer collecting sales taxes on the transactions.
Somehow your link is truncated. The complete link is: hyper://a8e9bd0f4df60ed5246a1b1f53d51a1feaeb1315266f769ac218436f12fda830/ (with a '30' at the end)
This is perfect because so many programmers are unnecessarily triggered and reminded of the time they were slaves and had a “master”.
I tried reaper for a day and could not figure out how to do anything. Switched right back to live.

I think it's a promising project but he urgently needs to hire a UX expert.

+1 for platform independence though. I can't understand how logic users lock themselves into the apple ecosystem only to complain about the expensive RAM upgrades to keep Reaktor snappy.
Really? Git doesn't have any actual references to slavery. Even if it did, is everyone now disallowed from using such terminology in a benign manner? I'm not sure calling it "main" makes sense, in any case; anyone who uses git flow knows it's not the "main" branch where most of the day-to-day development takes place. As the article points out, this is a reference to "master" as in a master copy, which is why there's no corresponding reference to slave. If you download the official git book from the website and control-F for "slave", do you know what you'll find? Zero results!
I think your read is more accurate than mine. To be honest, the article gave me a bit of indigestion because these sorts of discounting antics always sit poorly with me. I don't have the time or energy to haggle over pricing; and it really bothers me when squeaky wheels get all the grease.
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At 44% mortality reduction for 4,700 steps, and 65% at 7,500,
I can’t help but draw a curve in my mind where 10,000 steps is awfully close to the asymptote it is approaching, or at least an inflection point where further benefits rapidly diminish.

So the original figure of 10,000 would be surprisingly close to the mark, considering its genesis.
I don't think society is looking for police to be an average good. That is, we're not looking to optimize on the statistical mean of police interactions. We are concerned particularly about the tails. The outliers are the problem, particularly when they're not as uncommon as we expect them to be. You may call them propaganda, but that's a strange thing to post on an enumerated list of recorded evidence.
Isn't it slower querying elements via attributes?

Whenever I find a «brand» new way to work with CSS (or whatever they wanted to call it), I'm skeptical. Most of the times they just redo what IDs and classes were made for, but way worse. While this might have good intentions in mind, it's just adding classes via attributes.

Also it's explained very badly, I had to click three buttons in order to get examples.
In general I would expect a bulk purchaser to be less sensitive to failure.

If I'm buying one drive or CPU, I might pay a premium to drop the failure rate from 4% to 1%. If I'm buying dozens to hook together in a fault-tolerant system, I'll go for the cheap one and buy a few extras.
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> Cows produce (literally: fart) a lot of methane

Excuse me my nitpicking, but cows mostly belch.

https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/33/which-is-a-bigger-methane-so...
Based on the data, deaths are relatively distributed across the population. 25% of people killed by police are black. They make up 12% of the population, so based on this it seems like they are twice as likely as normal to be killed by the police, but after normalizing for violent crime rates (for a variety of reasons including discrimination, black people commit over 50% of the homicides) police killings seem roughly similar for all races.
When it's a laptop, I'm quite the fan of having as much as possible built into the machine as a single unit. That's the point of the form factor, after all.

I think the last thing the MacBooks need are more dongles.
> Would you report your fellow in company that e.g. goes late to work? Or uses corporate assets (printer, laptop) for personal things?

If I reported that someone is using corporate assets (printer, laptop) for personal things, my manager would consider me crazy. If I reported someone being bit late, it would be the same.

That is exactly the culture thing. The corporate printer or laptop being used is not being seen as an issue by me, you or anybody else, regardless of what official rules say.
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Did anyone believe that the number was exact and accurate for all people?

Are there people who think, "Oh, I've only gotten 9,500 steps a day this week; my health will begin to fail." ?

10k steps a day is not a myth, it's a goal. X glasses of water a day is a goal. Most health instructions are goals, and most people will fall short of the specific targets. How short you fall is likely to have some impact on your health, but each person is different.

While being active is undoubtedly very important for health, it's very clumsy to focus on one behavior and highlight the difference in mortality risk. It's very likely that more active people have other habits that contribute (significantly) to mortality risk reduction.
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Something that's nice about Let's Encrypt is that it forces you to change something every few months. After the first couple months, you'll probably get your issues worked out. If you just change certs every few years, then every few years you have some sort of disaster because of the "well we fixed it, we don't have to worry for two years" effect.

A broader lesson is the importance of "trying out" rare events, even before that rare event actually happens. If depends on a service with a certain SLA, it's pretty dangerous when that service has 100% uptime. You never get to see what happens when it does go down, which it did promise you it will. Some people track their error budget, and at the end of the accounting period, break their service in accordance with the SLA. Then you get to see what happens when it does go down. (Ref: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2371516)
> Among the group, walking approximately 4,400 steps a day was associated with a 41% reduction in mortality compared with walking 2,700 steps a day. Walking around 7,500 steps was associated with a 65% reduction.

The headline does not match the content whatsoever. “The Number To Stay Healthy” implies a threshold beyond which there is no benefit. Yet the data suggests that more steps leads to better health outcomes, so 10k is certainly better than 4K or 7k.

If I were the author of this piece I’d be pissed to see it mischaracterized by this clickbait trash headline.
I'm guessing that that cop in Vegas that was just paralyzed for life by some "protester" would not agree with you.

You don't have to be killed "feloniously" to be dead. And you don't have to be killed at all to have your life destroyed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23518123

Previous discussion.

This one won't be any different.
As soon as I saw this pop up on HN, I thought “hey, MuseScore — isn’t that the notation software Tantacrul loves to hate?”. I’m not a composer, and I’d never heard of let alone used MuseScore before stumbling on his videos a couple of weeks ago. What a great surprise to see they’ve been listening to their critics!

After finding his channel I slowly worked my way through watching all his videos. One of my favourites is about “sonification”, or creating sound from of data. Might be quite interesting to the HN crowd: https://youtu.be/Ocq3NeudsVk
"I'm looking forward to completing your training. In time you will call me master."
This illustrates the pervasiveness of ideology in education.

So Einstein is out because he had pretty bad relationships with women. MLK might be out because he had indiscretions, and maybe quite interestingly many popular icons of art and literature had some less severe and more severe issues with people in general.

You know the author of naked lunch. That art house film. If I’m not mistaken he shot his then wife. Would those teachers veto those “heroes” too, or just the wrong less than sparkly heroes?
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This particular vulnerabilities use x86 specific instructions such as CPUID (which provides information about the CPU version) to extract the content of a shared buffer which contains sensitive data in some cases.
This instruction (CPUID) is not accessible through JS within a web browser so there is probably no exploit from a web page.

But this attack is feasible from any native application (without privileges) on the machine.
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Goofy idea, I work with black developers who told me this had never even crossed their mind.
Most of these "recommendations" turn out to be myths. They are generally "good ideas" that have some experimental backing (e.g. "walking is better than sitting"), but then someone puts out a number that people repeat ad infinitum because it sounds good. 10k steps, 8 glasses of water a day, 10k hours to "master" something, are all basically just catchy slogans.
The technique used to listen in on a conversation using the window is an active technique (an IR laser is emitted towards the window to get the bounce), so it can be detected, and requires LOS to the window + to the reflected path if you're not hitting the window completely perpendicularly. For example you can't hit a window a floor above from ground level, and architectural treatments that result in angled windows can reflect light away in directions that are more difficult to observe.
> What's the analogous conclusion from this to police brutality videos? You watch 100 and begin to think you should never talk to a cop again?

You can do better than this rhetoric question. The analogous conclusion would be that there is a systemic issue with the police and you'd prefer not to deal with them again, by defunding or dissolving the police force (seems to be a current wish by many).

> Sure you can post up a bad conclusion to draw and then attack it. I'm pretty sure there's a name for this sort of thing.

Sure you can pretend it's a bad conclusion when it's about the effect of watching selected videos and how drawing any conclusions from that is naive.
I believe a similar sentiment exists in Japanese culture, where life insurance took many decades to take hold.
Because they're providing you a service and their time for an exchange of money not signing up to your company for life?

That person didn't say they'd leave, they said they want to learn something, you took it as they'd want to leave which says more about you and your interpretation of it than anything else.
When other people have been downvoted, they complain that no reason was given.

I am doing the courtesy of telling you why I downvoted you.

If telling you why I downvoted you then also compels me to justify my position in an extended way, then I will not do it in the future. Instead I will just silently downvote when I feel it is warranted.
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We use this when we need to design. It's amazing.
"root" might be more appropriate than either "main" or "master".
10,000 is also a nice number. It's big enough to be impressive, but not so big that we cannot imagine reaching it.

It also takes 10,000 hours to master a skill...

There are probably other "10,000" goals in human behavior.
1) Because "freshly shot lifeless" bodies can and have come back to kill people.

2) Because there is no such thing as shoot to wound. If you've gotten to the point where you're shooting at someone they need to be dead. Any bullet holes in your body are potentially fatal. Especially the famous leg shot; damage to your femoral artery will kill you extremely quickly.
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I read that paragraph and had a completely orthogonal thought. Intel mobile CPUs compare favorably to all established competition (AMD) and the iPad with Magic Keyboard is almost a laptop anyway. Why start with a mobile device?

Intel desktop CPUs are where they have problems and you would assume that this is where Apple has the most frustration with Intel. That's where I'd start.

Also, by keeping ARM and Intel around simultaneously for a few years (both as first-class citizens) forces developers to maintain portable code. If you are using Swift in the manner that they want you to use it, this is already the case. If you're using some other language/approach then you have to either think about adopting Swift or putting in more work.
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Windows file sharing (and by extension Samba) came from Apollo. It's little known:

https://www.oocities.org/zuhair_ali/linux/samba.html
It helps a lot if you show through your words that you're aware of all the existing informed discourse on these things. Poverty is the cause at one level of abstraction. It's well-known among people who think hard about racism.

The best summary I've found is The Case for Reparations: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-cas...

He doesn't actually call for reparations, but a lot of people dismissed it out of hand on that assumption.

It's an abridged list of where racism intersects with poverty over the last century or so, right up to the modern day. It's a long read, but you'll have a much better understanding of where people are coming from even if you still don't agree with them. I think he hoped people would read it and come to the conclusion that reparations are needed on their own. I did at least agree with his conclusion that more research is needed.

The anniversary of the bombing of Black Wall Street just passed, so pay special attention to the 1920s. The tools racists use change, but the effect remains.
Exactly this, sometimes goal posts are directional and not absolute.
Yeah, I think a lot of people here assume you can "just pick up" those skills, because they themselves did that. But most of HN's userbase are technically inclined to begin with -- they're interested in tech stuff and pick it up relatively easily.

Most people aren't like that, they're not going to pick up tech literacy beyond the level of using a browser/email any more easily than they'd "just pick up" trigonometry on their own.