skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's worth noting hundreds of police officers lose their life a year in the line of duty

From your own link it shows less than 200 deaths of police per year from the last five years. Hundreds as you've used it imho is misleading. Furthermore those stats include accidents which makes them even more misleading. Do you honestly think deaths from cancer related to 9/11 should "count" in the context of this debate? And yet they closely trail and sometimes even eclipse the death of cops by gunfire in the past 5 years.

I do agree that it's a dangerous job but I don't agree that they're "required" to be heavy handed because of "gangsters" with "serious weaponry". The weaponry issue is a gun control one, not a "gangsters" one. There's absolutely NO NEED for so many ARs over there. NONE WHAT-SO-EVER. And I say this as a reformed red-stater expat who had a AK under my bed as a teenager and a 40 smith in the night stand.

From my perspective I think the narrative for cops is disproportionate and out of hand. The ample, arguably overwhelming, footage of cops beating, maiming, shooting, and killing people in the past month alone is ridiculous and should be evidence enough that the police have lost their way. Instead you're in here defending them in spite of overwhelming video evidence to the contrary.

In Australia and NZ the police are legally bound to these key principles.

• Police should only use force that is reasonable, necessary, proportionate and appropriate to the circumstances.

• Police should use no more force than is reasonably necessary for the safe and effective performance of their duties.

• Individual police are accountable and responsible for their use of force and must be able to justify their actions at law

Do you think the video below is a good example of the use of proportionate force? Do you think that shooting was justified?
https://twitter.com/i/status/1272177941519257600

On a related note I found this an interesting read.

https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard...
I cant believe Apple is just saying nothing about it. facepalm
Thanks for posting that.

The idea that DeVos, whose family owns a school lending company, is in the administration is not just a conflict of interest, but an indictment of our entire political system.
Did you see it live? Not a great experience on Youtube, audio problems unfortunately.
Rendering at a higher resolution makes a giant difference, even for low poly games. Old games were not only low res, but didn't have a lot of antialiasing either. On an emulator you can have resolution, antialiasing and better texture filtering.
You mean the same government that still hands out farm subsidies to
tobacco farmers?

https://www.ewg.org/agmag/2018/05/thank-you-subsidizing-smok...

How many decades did it take the government to rule that it was discrimination not to allow gay people to adopt kids? Get pregnant by in vitro insemination? If you aren’t in the affected group it’s easy to tell those who are to be patient.
The police have never done anything for me, and I can't think of a time they've done anything for anyone I know. I don't really see how they are heros.

I can't even think of things they regularly do that can be called heroic? I know they do some good stuff, but nothing that comes close to the level of "hero" in my opinion.

Firefighters, EMTs, nurses, and doctors are all examples of actual heros, IMO.
How Japanese Americans Built a ‘Useful American Life’ in 1940s Chicago
This is a great post and I think discusses many interesting things. I think there is this dichotomy in how people think what policing is about. One camp thinks policing should be to stop "bad guys" while the other thinks it is to protect and serve, emphasis on the serve. Disclosure, I fall into the latter camp.

I do think we do need to seriously talk about the incentives around policing, justice, and prison systems. They do not have seemed to change much in the last 50 years, but I think many would argue that we've learned a lot, especially about the root causes to what causes people to turn to crime and why they turn away.

I think we also need to revisit Blackstone's ratio[0]. This was an idea from many of the founding fathers. Anyone that is familiar with engineering and failure principles is essentially aware of the topic here. So we need to revisit what failure mode we want the justice system to have. When justice fails should a guilty person go free or should an innocent person be punished? I don't think this is an easy question to answer (disclosure: I believe we should let the guilty person go, because I highly value freedom). This does not mean that we should just let knowingly guilty people go, but means that we know no system is perfect and if we don't design a system with that in mind we are doing a disservice and ignoring an integral part. We always should be trying to improve, but we should recognize that we are not perfect and cannot create a perfect system. We don't design buildings to collapse, but we do design how a building should collapse if for some reason it does (think skyscrapers falling in on themselves so they don't take out other surrounding buildings). Imagine building a bridge and not thinking about possible failure modes. Problem is, a bridge fails catastrophically (unplanned) and a dozen or a hundred people die. A justice system fails thousands are killed, stricken of their rights, or harmed.

WE MUST DISCUSS THIS. While the article discusses topics that essentially say they agree with Blackstone's ratio, I do believe that we need to talk about what we are doing. If we don't then there's no arguing with the other side because our premise is different.

So HN, how do you think failure in justice should work? Do you think should fail so that innocent people go to jail or that guilty people go free? I do believe there are good arguments on both sides, but I also think it depends on what you think policing should be for. So I'll ask that question too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio
It seems like since he wasn't really clearly specifying a region, I should be a little suspicious of the premise. I mean, if you go to a country with mostly black people in good economic standing and find a major university, it seems unlikely that generalization would hold.
I remain sceptical for several reasons:

While these are early alpha at best, so is Starlink atm because it currently lacks the sat to sat laser comms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_satellite

Furthermore there are

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZBLAN and

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photonic-crystal_fiber

to be taken into account, which all have the potential to change the equations without spamming the skies, or at least less so.
Kickstarting from my DD-WRT router
Microsoft News Service’s AI Reporter Decision Backfires
For more on this, William Rhoden wrote a book on the topic:

"Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete"

For those who may pass judgment based on the title and the inclusion of the word slave, I leave this NYT review from historian Warren Goldstein as a mark of quality. [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com./2006/07/23/books/review/23goldstein...
Not all of it is without choice. I used to be a night owl. I woke around 10am, worked from 11am until 1am or sometimes later. The invariant was that I generally slept between 9-10 hours.

I also suffered from seasonal affective disorder and winter time depression with short days in Canada. To help with this I started spending time outside during the early part of the day and generally ate my lunch outside if possible. This helped somewhat. This switch to prioritizing sunlight exposure also made me consider that sleeping while the sun was up and working in the dark was a strange choice.

For more than the last 25 years I've intentionally time shifted to ensure that I don't waste daylight hours sleeping. If I'd follow my natural sleep rhythms I'd almost surely drift later, I'd we waking several hours after sunrise and working in to the evening. Even though I have to have some discipline about using an alarm clock and only allowing myself 1 day a week to wake naturally it is not actually that hard because I do it consistently. I could also easily stay up late one night, but getting up at the same time every day makes staying up harder.

My intentional time shifting isn't that dramatic of a "hacking" of my natural inclination. It has made a difference with seasonal depression and I've found that social activity works better with a time schedule aligned to daylight hours. It is easy to read a study like this and conclude that personal choice plays no part in determining your "fate". You have some flexibility and choice to do what you need to do. An inclination is not an outcome.
Only to build designs that today are possible only in C++.

Type-aware macros might not be the best way to implement the features needed to match C++.
They charge such absurd interest that it doesn't matter as they can just repo it.
I think Zoom's audio filtering (which in my experience is pretty good) is designed only for speech, and so other sounds like music can get messed up.
It probably used to be cheaper to use high-quality optical components until Moore's Law brought down the cost of FEC enough.
Just in terms of numbers, you breathe out a kg of CO2 per day, you need to be growing more than a kg of plants per day to keep up with that.

That's a lot of plants.
Like WhatsApp/Facebook and Zoom don’t have more reputations baggage?
We are at a point in human history where at least the developed countries can easily afford to not let even a single child miss out.
99% of developers probably can't even get onsite interview at FAANG, for the context.
Small correction, at least in the article they talked about the relative thrust of the upper stage engines, but don't discuss the acceleration profile of the two (noting that the shuttle is heavier so even with bigger engines not necessarily quicker to accelerate).

Perhaps the best resource I know to compare the accelerations is flightclub.io, I ran two simulations for STS-129 [0] and DM-2 [1] so you can compare their profiles.

These are in no way authoritative, but it does seem like Crew Dragon would have higher acceleration (as high as 3.7G) compared to shuttle (remaining under 3G the whole time).

Note also that in the article says that Hurley described the ride on the Merlin Vacuum upper stage engine as "kind of like driving fast on a gravel road" which suggests that the proximity of the engines and vibrations may have been more important than raw acceleration.

[0] https://flightclub.io/result/2d?id=bb67b508-71e1-4e4d-8cfc-a...

[1] https://flightclub.io/result/2d?id=4bd73964-9a16-4918-867c-c...
Wait, is it possible to "owe" money to Robinhood? I have never used them but I was under the assumption that you can only lose the money you deposited, because of the leverage, but you can not go negative.

The tweet seems to imply that too, but a lot of the comments here look misinformed.
Some corporations will kill people if there's a buck to be made and then intentionally cover their tracks.

You have been watching what's going on with the police haven’t you?
"Why do you need to X?"

This is what I sounded like when I was trying to convince my non-nerd friends that they should use Linux on their laptops. People have different requirements. If a modern interface that isn't blurry on modern screens is one of those requirements, then so be it. Convincing them that their requirement is wrong isn't going to fix GIMP
Been diagnosed with ADHD as well since my 20s. One could say I'm introverted, but struggle with hyperactivity in thought processes. My whole life I've had issues with both organizing my environments and thoughts, finishing one project before starting another, time management, list making (end up making lists within lists within lists), and bunch of other things. This sense of self loathing that comes in waves from all this. It definitely has some upsides when it comes to conceptualizing digital art projects and prototypes for business ideas, but those aspects are also the curse of it all... because shit never gets finished and I move onto the next thing after some time.

Idk why I'm writing this. I guess it was just on my mind and felt like joining in the discussion.
It's on there now.
I would say the only tangible evidence of a "genuine advance" towards AGI would be the growing amount of computational power available to us every year.
Machine Learning Behind Google Translate
AlphaGo

Everything about AI is impressive, as long as there is any

--- By HN AI specialists in this thread /s
this eliminates the ability to do a revert though if things don't work as expected at %100
An app is not a table saw.

And your comment here is at odds with the tone you used above.
Posted 9 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23430934

BoringSSL ticket for implementation: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/boringssl/issues/detail?id=275

Chromium ticket, blocked on above: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=109140...
I think the whole eugenics movement is wrapped up in this pandemic and fits neatly into the transhuman movement
This is silly. Snap's free cash flow is constantly growing and was close to zero the past quarter. Uber & Lyft are generally profitable on rides and with a bit more scale will be GAAP profitable.
archlinux.h:
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#ifdef EASY
#undef EASY
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If I was a bit more musically talented I'd work out how to do a rickroll with this.
To me "learning" means understanding, not memorization on flashcards. Knowing stuff is part of it, but for me, the knowing comes from the understanding.

> people dislike questions that don’t match their mental model

> “what are the 4 parts of a HTTP request?”

I would describe this as a non-injective function. Unambiguous in one direction, but ambiguous in the other. It seems to be very common in lecturers who (1) have forgotten what it was like to learn it (2) aren't precise enough to ensure clarity as a matter of rigour.

Criticism aside, learning something is infinitely better than learning nothing. And finding a way to make it enjoyable and satisfying is a worthwhile end in itself.
Oh interesting, I have been thinking about related things for Oil:

Shell as an engine for TUI or GUI https://github.com/oilshell/oil/issues/738

That came out of a discussion with someone doing a really ambitious overhaul of terminals and display servers (linked in the issue).

I believe you could do some interesting things UI-wise with a shell that doesn't run in a terminal itself. The subprocesses would require a terminal, but the shell wouldn't. For example I've heard the suggestion to always keep the prompt at the top of the screen from a few people. That seems like it would be straightforward in an HTML UI, but it probably requires some cooperation from the shell itself.

Provide APIs to allow users to write their own line editor / interactive interface https://github.com/oilshell/oil/issues/663

This is a more Emacs-like architecture for a shell, with the interface being written in a high-level language rather than C/C++. That came out of running parts of ble.sh, which is an interactive shell written in bash !! (I believe it's the biggest bash program in the world, in both number of lines and sophistication)

If you have any ideas or suggestions, I'm interested. In the interest of time, I'm cutting out the interactive parts of the project and making it more like a library that other people can build shell UIs on top of.

I collected these links awhile ago but haven't done anything with them, there is some overlap:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Interactive-Shell

More shells here: https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/ExternalResources
> but Dragon was huffing and puffing all the way into orbit and we were definitely driving and riding a dragon all the way up...

How can this be interpreted as a negative thing, if anything if I were a school boy watching that it that would make me want to get involved and want to experience it myself! An astronaut talking about taking a Capsule (dragon) all the way to Space, and describing it that way... what could be cooler than that?

Also worth noting that no one in involved in Space is expected to do a comfy job, much less being an Astronaut as it requires decades of rigorous physical and mental conditioning, training and exercise and psychological evaluation to just be a candidate in order to prepare you to live in an environment where even going to the bathroom, sneezing, or coughing could all kill you and potentially everyone in your crew in Space.

Yi So-yeon did an interview at MIT earlier this year with Mar's Society [1] describing this exact situation, and even when having almost died upon re-entry due to a faulty heat-shield malfunction that messed up the trajectory of the landing that almost killer her and her whole crew she was the first to sign up for another mission!

That's what an Astronaut is, they're cut from the same clothe as protype Fighter Jet pilots, where death was the most likely outcome; they're not 'normal' People and this doesn't phase them when confronted to do it again for a bigger purpose. Its why they're such exceptional Human beings and why they should be treated as such.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvXAy6YKWOU
Uh, I'm in this group.

I think that if I'm visiting a website and using its bandwidth, the website ought to get paid. If the ads are too egregious, then using the website isn't "worth the cost" and I go to a different website.

I do however pay for Scroll[1], and I use Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection. Due to the latter, many websites think I'm using an adblocker and complain, which really irks me.

---

1: https://scroll.com/
Sure. Note that 2% of $25B is $500M.

Companies of all sizes (even FAAMNG) will act to protect that kind of existing revenue.

And my point was that you can do all of the things you listed for less than $500M; probably for less than $250M. Developers are more expensive than they used to be but $100M+ still goes a pretty long way.
The Commanding Heights of Culture
Show HN: Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC group video chat
When thinking about the same problem I discovered TLS Notary, which was interesting.

https://tlsnotary.org/

https://github.com/tlsnotary/tlsnotary

At the time I was interested in using website data on the blockchain. The limitation was that proofs couldn’t be processed in a contract, they had to be passed off to a trusted 3rd party. Unclear on the state of play today.
Open Source should not be politicized.
Defunding police because of police brutality is swallowing a spider to catch the fly. You do NOT want to live in a place without police.

I think it would be much more productive and realistic to have a really deep study of how policing in America is different from other countries, and what can be done to normalise it. America is pretty gun crazy, and that doesn't make a cop's life any easier. The flip side of that is that some gun crazy people become cops, and shoot people on their knees with weapons engraved with "you're fucked": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Daniel_Shaver
I've been there, I think a lot depends on the specific situation and what you make of it, I ended up with a bunch of eastern european and middle eastern friends, all refugees/immigrants and few of us much above the peoverty line.

I've noticed of them have become pretty alt right in recent years though, a lot of it arising out of resentment on being accused of having benefited from white privilege when they get they were afforded neither the opportunites of wealth or acceptance/fitting-in growing up because they weren't the right kind of white growing up all the societal support, sympathy and recognition of their hardships now because they're too white.
In your second link:

At 0:16 a cop pushes Adam partially into the passenger window of an SUV, apparently hoping that he will fall out and be injured while the SUV is moving. When the SUV stops, Adam is mobbed by cops and beaten. The driver Bob (a victim of having a cop push someone into his window) is detained, his hands zip-tied. A bystander Charlie who doesn't seem to do anything is also zip-tied. At 1:43 a cop seems to spit in Adam's face and punch him while he's cuffed and being escorted by other cops.

Edited: In your first link:

If soldiers block enemy soldiers inside a 1-block length of street and use chemical weapons on them while preventing them from dispersing, it's a war crime. I don't really know why it should be fine for cops to do it to randoms.
Not enforce ≠ the law.

Liability doesn't work with a lack of enforcement.
I've been saying it for years, audio files on minidisc are the safest way to travel.
because san francisco
How many pieces of content do u publish a day?
I found this article that Gary Vee said you have to publish 100+ pieces of content a day.
https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/how-to-create-64-pieces-of-content-in-a-day/
Do you guy hit that number? If so, how do you do it? Is it hard to do it alone or as a small team? Do you have a team? What’s the hardest part to hit this number?

Thanks
Looked at their post history, it's this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23373619

A list of three, one of which is a video of a cop slashing a tire, another is a photo of another car in the lot with slashed tires, and the third is a journalist who had to pass the National Guard to find his tires slashed.
That's right its the broken business models that have these companies running rich because we don't care about the banner anyway. The EU is the knight in shining armor that fixed it.
Add one more to your sample (me) 8-(
If you can’t not punch a handcuffed suspect, then you don’t deserve to be a cop. Simple.
Thanks for your insight my friend.

My left and right brain are fighting each other over that video.

On the one hand; what a wonderful story!

On the other hand; I'm sure that lady from the story is one in a million.

My daughter is still in her teens and she's great at Maths, Science and Art. I have no idea what she will choose to do. I would hate to push her away from something she loves but at the same time I need to ensure she can survive in this world without me. She also has classic Asia mother so I need to handle that too haha.

It's tough to be a parent - nobody teaches you how to do this. Nobody you trust anyway.
I can do high speed descents faster on a slick tired mountain bike than on a road bike simply because the added mass bumps up the terminal velocity so it's less of a struggle. You're not proving much beating roadies with a heavier rig.
that plus the industry pulling in a lot of smart people who could have spent their time elsewhere
Your meme is retarded fucking shit, and you suck. Please kill yourself upon seeing this auto-banned comment.
UNM researchers document the first use of maize in Mesoamerica
First one involves two groups of police sorrounding a group of protesters and tear gassing them.
I don't how that can be considered a valid dispersal method (They could not disperse there were police on both sides)
Also allegly firing Pepper balls above the waist which is incorrect usage. (There are marks on the walls well above head height)

If you made it practically impossable to disburse when using what are basically torture devices in that situation I don't see how it isn't brutality.
Well, sure, but it doesn't necessarily incite to the most elegant solution. I mean, the article gives a sample of other possible approaches that one might fall into which are all far most eager it seems.

Even taking into account ComputerGuru insights on all the bumps of the actual implementation, it's still seem far more cleaver and elegant, at least to my mind.
https://brie.fi/ng - a modern pure open source WebRTC implementation. It can even blur peoples background for visual privacy. Sources at https://github.com/holtwick/briefing/
You'd be surprised if you knew how indoctrinated teens get in terms of not blocking ads on their favorite youtuber's channel.