skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I watched Police brutality videos on Github, someone put together a compendium of it.

We need a similar compendium of brutal protestors instigating violence and promoting things like this, too? No?

I feel like there is a lot of momentum behind BLM movement, I personally support the cause and social changes. But, I am getting an impression of hypocritical aspects of this momentum and not addressing problems when they arise. Saying anything against BLM in the bay area is like a social suicide, I would lose friends. I personally think that BLM is extremely disorganized and doesn't have good leadership to make the change happen. BLM is doesn't know diplomacy and strategy.
You want access to all the food you can get, to eat what you want. Immigrants still need to find an employer willing to pay for their labor.

Additional, the best argument against limitation of immigration for labor is not that immigrants don't have rights, but that this is taking rights from Americans to choose. It is Americans that are being forced into hiring more expensively, or not at all.
Or if they are trapped their skin gets literally cooked.
I believe this is how the UK does it as well. You pay income tax, then you pay your NHS fee.
A Complete Guide to User Input in Python
I've sometimes wondered if rather than recycling paper and cardboard we could sequester it, trapping the carbon.
Companies do a font fork to stop paying for the royalties for the most famous ones. Millions of pages for an unlimited amount of time adds up to more than the cost to create a shiny new font i.e. $50k. This is probably one of the first cost hacks technology companies figured out before big finance.

Who wants to bet Barclay, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank do not have their own font by 2030?
That's a joke, right? Police aren't so stupid to have institutionalized petty corruption with an actual laminated pass, right?
No, you've managed to completely misinterpret how the lump of labor fallacy works and fell for the fallacy again.

Job demand is elastic. If tomorrow X of all immigrants who held a job in the US left, that doesn't mean X jobs open up. You're losing X customers and Y investors where Y is a subset of X. Jobs are not a zero-sum game and H1B does not exist just to take away jobs because inevitably some of those people will go on to create more jobs and companies in the US.

Again, I will repeat: The lump of labor fallacy is a fallacy for a reason.
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The bar is so low that Jewish (like Stephen Miller) and even black (e.g. Ben Carson, Candace Owens) people are frequently called white supremacists. So low that people saying "It's ok to be white" were called white supremacists.

Does the term have any meaning now, or has it become simply a slur for anyone whose political beliefs differ, like "communist" or "terrorist" before it?
I am absolutely not objecting to oversight. I am not sure how you came to that. I am advocating for the opposite, for increased measurable data so that people don’t have to invent their own narratives.
I can confirm the HTML-only option is great, and there is one for holdouts of Facebook too: https://mbasic.facebook.com

(also via Tor https://mbasic.facebookcorewwi.onion)
Easy, inherited wealth. Germany has one of the most unequal wealth distributions in Europe.

Their boomer parents worked hard and saved a lot and managed to buy lots of assets, especially real estate, back in the 60's - 80's when salaries were high and properties were cheap. Now they can just kick back and relax while all that sweet rent money, that skyrocketed in the last two decades, comes in.

If you move to Germany now you definitely won't enjoy this kind of standard of living as your rent costs will be financing their mortgages while you won't manage to save enough to buy one of your own since property prices now are way higher, wages are low and taxes are high.
How activists should be thinking about cybersecurity
I'm sorry, I'd rather not contribute to someones near poverty living so that I could enjoy ramen for $20 cheaper. The argument seems cruel if I understand it correctly - "Cheap, exploitable labour and suffering that goes with it is good because it lowers prices for ME". If that's the argument than I cannot get behind it.
https://crosscut.com/2020/06/medics-say-police-have-targeted...
What about 'Eigen'? There only seems to be a C++ library of that name yet, so not too much overlap. And I like its nerdy implication of 'yes, we are only one Matrix client, but we strive to be an important one' ;)
tax reporting most likely
Indeed. This is going to be one of the maany missed opportunities by Matrix in a series of missed opportunities. Just call it Matrix Web/Mobile/Desktop.
Or, for another blatant example, the way the Irish were long treated as subhuman by English overlords.
Best I can tell, he would have gotten in immediate trouble for even hinting he had a problem with / that there was anything happening behind the scenes. The specific reason is pure speculation, but I can't see him remaining unpressured to take them down. That said, yes, it's just my surmise.

You have a fair point - looking back on the tweets, I think I conflated two things: that he mentioned something in (presumably Vox) Slack, and that his concerns stemmed from a Slack conversation. The latter has no evidence, and I incorrectly assumed it.

I'm still expecting that the discussion was happening between multiple media orgs - at minimum, NYT and Vox, given context and timing - but I can't speak to more than that.
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Honestly, you'd benefit more from idiomatic bindings rather than a pure Java implementation. There are quite a few high quality Java libraries that wrap C/C++ code but maintain a nearly 1:1 API, which is what ends up making them difficult to work with. OpenCV is a good example of this.
“You're using an incompatible browser.“

Don’t put this on users. I’m using latest iOS Firefox, not Netscape 4.0
He definitely should not have brought up "black-on-black" crime. The statement he was trying to refute was that blacks are more likely to die from police than from random criminals.

To evaluate whether or not that is true, we just need two numbers: (1) how many black people a year are killed by the police, and (2) how many black people a year are killed by random criminals.

It's hard to think of a good reason one would narrow #2 to just "black-on-black" crime if the goal is to show that the original statement is wrong.

It's also kind of irrelevant in another sense. People have been working on stopping crime for millennia and are still nowhere near figuring it out.

Police killings are something we might actually be able to do something about, so it makes sense to concentrate on them even if they are not actually the biggest immediate danger to individuals.
My results with libvips have been way more encouraging than this post suggests with MozJPEG and the WebP reference encoder!

Here's a MEGA folder with my example files so you can compare for yourself. Sorry I know this host might be blocked in many places, but every image host I tried (imgur, postimg) recompressed my uploaded files negating the fairness of the test. If anyone has a suggestion for a better host I'm happy to re-upload.

https://mega.nz/folder/JsUXWIqI#xYIohBdiVKrGYTi-BeENEA

e: another host: http://www.filedropper.com/libvipswebpvsjpeg

My random sample is a black-and-white JPEG photograph vs its WebP equivalent. The results are in line with my results for many other images of different types, like other black-and-white photos, color photos, clean computer graphics, screenshots of UIs and media/games, etc etc. The original image for this test can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Hill_Road

Both test images were output by libvips after loading the original JPEG. The libvips-generated JPEG is 1.22mb, smaller than the 1.26MB original, but the libvips-generated WebP is 944KB! I included two sceenshots of each libvips-generated version opened in a same-size window too, both much smaller than the full res. Tabbing between the two on my PC does not visibly change on screen at all.

I don't entirely enjoy WebP just because the software support is still spotty, but I haven't been able to argue with the compression benefits!
Three finger drag is the killer one for me. Once you're used to it, it's difficult to go back.
> I don't understand the desire to assume the most cynical takes on this initiative.

Because of Amazon's (poor) history when it comes to exercising corporate social responsibility?
How is this true? H1B employees can freely move jobs, with a small delay in moving visas.
I don't think I said anything that was factually incorrect. If you read the Telegram FAQ they say that secret chats are end-to-end encrypted and regular chats are only client to server encrypted. That means the plain text of your messages is accessible to the server by default. Anyone with access to the servers including Telegram employees, governments, and cyber criminals can read your messages.

Hacker News for example is also client to server encrypted using TLS (as are most websites) but obviously our comments are still accessible in plain text.

https://telegram.org/faq#q-so-how-do-you-encrypt-data
They could pay taxes and we could, as a nation, decide how best to coordinate efforts to fight climate change.
Consider using wrk2 in order to avoid coordinated omission.
Well, wasn't the US about capitalism, free market and all that they have been lecturing others about in a rather holier than thou fashion. What gives ?
Oppression of a population, more specifically.
I don't see anything in there to refute what I said. In fact, he seems to agree with my numbers at least. He admits that Blacks are roughly 10x as likely to commit murder. If we agree with that and agree that is some rough proxy for criminality why wouldn't we expect about 10 times as much police violence against Black people?
Excited for this significant milestone!
Genuine question. Aren't most fonts free?
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> My country is on the cusp of actual war.

If it means anything ( I hope it does). It's that democracy take a while and wars in Western democratic countries are only a very small probability.

Because people don't want land anymore, as they wanted in the ( for us) distant past.

They want money and trade/work is the best way to get it.

Edit: It's not worldwide applicable. But be hopeful that the right loyalists are a servere minority.

I wish you the best, from Belgium :)
Reminds me of this poem by Rainer Maria Rilke:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Panther_%28poem%29
What would be better, from the perspective of a non-US person, would be having a de-militarised police force who were trained in de-escalation and the application of force (any force) as a last resort.
I'm migrating to gitlab
Furniture Restorer or Botched AI?
Any pro tips on growing your customer base? Did you do all the 'selling' yourself? Did you hire someone to help you with that?

I am in the same situation as you in your first 18 months. Got a product, need to get eyeballs and customers!
the point is that they are being used to suppress speech rather than control violent crowds.

things usually don't get violent until the police escalate and start trying to disperse the crowds (which is unconstitutional but again, no accountability, which is exactly what's being protested). That's consistently been the pattern with the current wave of protests.

When the police start kettling and tear-gassing and firing rubber bullets, things get violent. Where the police do their jobs and stand back and surgically remove instigators/violence, things stay peaceful.

at the end of the day I don't think anyone disputes that these should be in police arsenals (as opposed to some of the heavier weaponry), but they shouldn't be used to suppress speech or demonstrations. There needs to be much more restraint with their use, and there needs to be way more oversight and accountability when they are used.
comparing civilians to police officers is a false equivalency.
When that becomes an issue, we'll address it. Police still have weapons and tools to address violence, but they shouldn't be bringing them to peaceful protests.

Edit to address your edit: When you bring that question to the current discussion around the current police brutality, it appears that you are trying to draw a line between the two OR trying to reframe/divert the conversation. It's a common tactic used by trolls online (not saying you are trolling, but your question probably trigger the immune response many people have to trolls online.)

If it's a serious question, I'd ask it on its own and see if you can get any engagement.
Don't invest, subsidize, and expect no investment return (the return is climate change is mitigated). More DARPA, less VC fund. Identify critical technologies needed to rapidly decarbonize transportation, the supply chain, and the electrical grid, and directly subsidize them if they are not yet cost competitive with fossil use. Capitalism primitives (in this case, equity investment) are not always optimal tools for engineering solutions. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation has saved >100 million lives by donating vaccines to the developing world. Donations, not investment.

Also a path to consider is lobbying and political activism. If Amazon has aligned itself with driving carbon out of the economy (their historical PPA efforts and this fund seems to communicate such a stance), they should be using their dollars to support political representation that will codify this into law (more aggressive subsidies for low carbon technologies & mobility electrification, and implementation of a carbon tax).
My Catalina install broke the dictionary app for me, so there are no dictionaries other than Wikipedia. This was one of the most useful features of force touch for me :(
Ugh, they've gotten rid of the commit message, because they merged "commits" "branches" "tags" into the header bar. If you want to see what the latest commit was you need an additional click.

Turns out that glancing at the header was useful to tell what was going on!

On the plus side, GitLab's repo view (which I disliked because it felt cluttered and always hard to find what I wanted) is now easier to use and read than GitHub's, so that makes changing easier.
You call in the national guard

But no one is doing that? You have a bunch of peaceful protests that the police want to portray as looting and rioting so they can get out their jackboots and step on some throats.
"For each donated dollar, I will create and send you 100 random bytes that you can use in your cryptographic applications."

$7 = 700 random bytes

$15 = 1500 random bytes + 500 bytes free!

$99 = lifetime* subscription for 25k random bytes per year

* your lifetime or my lifetime, whichever terminates earlier
> The stranger can be tried and convicted,

Not if law enforcement institutions, and society as a whole (including jurors) doesn't treat crimes as seriously where people who look like you are the victim. Were that the case, you might want to correct it by starting a movement dedicated to convincing society of the proposition “Lives of people who look like me matter”.

Not that there is a currently-relevant group with exactly that origin story, where the crystallizing event was the lack of accountability for a particular act of non-police homicide.
Most IRC clients? Weechat, Hexchat, Quassel, Konversation.
Torrent clients? Transmission, Deluge, Vuze.
I padded my lists a little, but I really do think "most" is an extreme and strange claim here. Weechat and Hexchat are the most-used IRC clients among people I know, just as Transmission and Deluge are the most popular bittorrent clients among people I know. irssi and rtorrent are also pretty popular, but it's no less common for things with names seemingly unrelated to their protocol to be used.
It changes because of overwhelming evidence, public outcry and protests. We shouldn’t need to have to protest for that!!
Maybe ubiquitous incident footage will make the window shift. Maybe we’ll end up self surveilling any encounter we may have with police but also with crime.

Imagine we’re all streaming to a personal blackbox in the could that gets overwritten say every month or every hour or however we set it up.
I mean, yes you need to report revenues, but... do you need a company for that? Do e.g. all Finnish photographers on Shutterstock have a company, in order to receive payments?
B) Look into healthcare systems or public health. Defense holds sway because of its budget size, but it's not the only fat cat in town.

Epidemiologists are nice, but they're expensive, rare, and usually bad at GIS programming. Most governments will happily hire a GIS analyst. They can't get enough maps and data dashboards. And most of the ones they do have are terrible (misleading, slow, convoluted, or just plain not useful).
Firefox on iOS is just Safari with different chrome (oh how ironic a word, but I mean the browser UI) since Apple doesn't allow third parties to JIT (which is essentially required for JS, so everyone uses iOS' builtin webview)
Nobody knows what an 850% increase is, so please stop saying it
Snapchat adds free phone number verification to its list of SDK perks
Bill Ackman Wants a Mature Unicorn
I've personally been accused of being a neo-nazi on reddit because my username includes the number 88, which is only there because my wife's birth year is 1988 and I'm not creative enough to think of a unique name. I've seen the same frivolous accusations thrown around here as well.
First, that seems to be far far less frequent than police force abuse. So infrequent that I don't think I've heard of mass-killing crowds in Europe/US in the past 15 years, that sounds more like a theoretical possibility.

Second, you're answering somedy that calls for accountability. How does that prevent violent crowd control?
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Nice! I'm also already at 2$/month.
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> That's insane. A fundamental tenet of (US) law is that using a weapon while committing a crime is itself a crime.

If the police were held to that standard, perhaps they wouldn't be so trigger happy.
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If you go back in time, the NY Times used to print a lot more conservative op-eds. For example, here's a classic, where William F Buckley, a well known conservative (from a different vein than modern conservatives) proposes tattooing a red letter A on the buttons of gay men infected with HIV:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/00/07/16/specials/buckley-a...

Cotton could have written a far better editorial and people would complain a lot less. I tried to read it giving him the best intentions but it didn't take long to realize that he really just wanted to send out the military to beat people up.
There is an option on Amazon to deliver on a single day of the week.
I'm not saying it is, nor that it isn't.

I'm saying we shouldn't hurl epithets at people for commenting on political concerns that affect them, just because we don't like their point of view. There's a difference between "anti-immigrant" and "anti-H1B."

Look up the definition of "bigotry." People on both sides of the issue should be tolerant of reasonable commentary from the other side.
> Who defines acceptable local candidate?... sysadmin... java

I think your question already demonstrates the deviation of the H1B from its original intent.

Bringing in a generic sys admin or generic java programmers on an H1B is visa abuse. Sorry, but neither of those is a special skill and neither of those jobs is an appropriate use of the H1B. There are more than enough sys admin and java programmer candidates in the USA above a certain (quite low) price tag.

When it comes to H1B's intended purpose, I would expect something like: "we need someone who is expert in this aspect of the Java garbage collector and knows the internals of the X framework. Our candidate has made significant open source contributions to both. There is no one in this country with expertise in both who is currently looking for a position." Or, "we need someone who has extensive experience working in the insurance sector and also has experience being the senior developer on a large project written in Haskell. We can't find anyone who has passed the first actuarial exam and who has also been a senior engineer at a firm using Haskell". That sort of thing. The H1B was designed for __skilled immigration__. Not warm body java school kids.

I get your point that this is difficult to evaluate. That's why one of my proposals was to provide Justice with plenty of funding so that they have the resources to spot-check cases with high accuracy.

NB: I absolutely would support a new midskill immigration program for things like sys admins and generic java app developers. But the H1B program was never really meant for those sorts of jobs. The H1B program has radically diverged from its initial intent, and that is why the abuse of H1B workers happens. And, in fact, this is why even within H1B you don't see nearly as much of the abuse that happens in tech within other sectors (academia, medicine). CS has been democratized over the past 20 years and our H1B criteria in CS needs to catch up.

Oh, and BTW, H1B abuse also fucks over actually skilled immigrants. I've been trying to hire a PhD with huge amounts of high-quality open source contributions, a bunch of publications, and there's a whole class of very particular algorithms that literally no one except him understands. He's literally the only person in the world who is qualified from day 1 to lead this heavy-R R&D project. This is what the H1B is for. But apparently his qualifications are equivalent to low-level Accenture drones doing sys admin and java app dev. I just don't buy that a properly equipped Justice wouldn't be able to hire someone who knows the difference...

If we want a midskill immigration program, we should just create it from scratch. That'll be easier than morphing the H1B into 80% of what a midskill program should look like.
This has to be trolling. The whole thing started because of the police literally committing murder, and in most cases closing ranks and getting away with it.
>If that's happening 10x as often then innocent kids in that neighborhood are going to be 10x as likely to be swept up in police action.

Why do you consider it okay for police to stop and harass innocent people with no evidence simply because they live in a certain neighborhood?
It's actually a very efficient website ;)
> That being said was there any warning/reasoning behind the change? I cannot find any announcements

I had a "Preview: Try the new layout and give us feedback" notification for about an hour, then it switched on permanently.

Optimistically, maybe they accidentally flipped a trial feature flag globally and it wasn't intended?
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Thanks for sharing.

Please use quotation marks when quoting :)
Total time ~30 minutes. Gotchas:

1. Resource Bundles with Bitcode turned ON

2. Non-arm64 external dependencies (e.g. OpenSSL)
I doubt that would satisfy the ego of most regular Americans, to say nothing about the leadership. Exceptionalism is very deeply ingrained here.
> If India and China is the better place to work, better salaries, better consumer market, better infrastructure, better freedoms, better everything - feel free to operate from those places and respect the offerings of the people of that country, and please, put them first.

Believe me, this is precisely what has been happening, and now it's only going to be accelerated. You'll get your wish sooner than you expected.
Why New Zealand decided to go for full elimination of the coronavirus
> a crime.

Protesting is not a crime.

> We're not at war.

I'm not sure that's a great consolation to all the dead black people, those still enslaved in the prison system or in enforced poverty.
That’s because FF on Android is FF and not re-skinned Internet Ex… I mean Safari.