skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but it's not helpful to pretend that, there isn't a gun at the end of the line that gives the nicely worded letter its weight.

I also believe that the monopoly on violence is the least worst option we have for not having a society at war with itself.

But it's also blindingly obvious that it is the backstop for everything, not just enforcing weapons bans, but even things as mundane as speed limits. When the sign says max speed 55mph, that's asking. When the highway patrol pulls you over to give you a ticket - that's fining you. If you don't stop and they need to run you off the road and arrest you - that's the violence stage.

It's also sitting there behind every right we enjoy in free societies. Everything from property rights to civil rights are backstopped by the monopoly on violence. However, that doesn't mean we bring the visceral threat of violence into every property or civil rights dispute.

Just as important as the underlying threat of the use of the monopoly on violence is the judicious and restrained use of it only in the cases where it truly is proportional to the situation it is facing. Otherwise we get situations like the murder of George Floyd for merely using a counterfeit bill for payment at a convenience store.
Thanks for sharing, this is surprising as the rate-limit should be per IP :/ Investigating.
Imagine what the world would actually look like if that were true.

I mean really imagine that.

If the tech industry wanted to suppress a particular presidential candidate, not only with that candidate have no account on any social platform, but links to their websites or to news articles that sentiment analysis decides are pro that candidate would be blocked by search engines, and videos of that candidate or pro that candidate would be flagged and removed.
Just find the right VC, that’s what they do.
No, he's wrong. Arch Linux is primarily a binary distribution.
Are the last two words in your comment really necessary?
Subdomain works, get on IRC and ask someone for one
Next-gen onsoles definitely aren’t targeting 4k60 as a standard. A few big launch ones are coming in at 4k30. Really unfortunate but not surprising considering the limitations of the hardware. A DLSS-like solution would’ve worked wonders on the consoles.
it's about doing what money-weighted-people want

So Coca-Cola is only made because people with money think it's worthwhile?
> There is a good reason to page- or superpage-align code generally; it burns some virtual memory but reduces TLB overhead and therefore misses / invalidations, which are very costly. You would want to do the same with executable code in a static-linked binary.

But most code isn't performance critical. Thus trying to align functions to page boundaries is just wasting memory. Even in performance critical code, aligning to cache line sizes is enough and aligning to page boundaries doesn't provide any advantage.
Ask HN: Do you use an Ad/Content blockers?
I am curious of the results from a (typically) technically minded group.

http://www.strawpoll.me/20444819
If compilers weren't so pathetically slow this wouldn't be that much of an issue. If this became widespread it might have the positive impact on projects like LLVM and get them to pay some attention to compiling time, not just optimization.
Talking with police is interesting. I talked policing with a police officer who had worked in New Zealand, the UK and Australia. These are countries that are relatively close in culture and the differences in policing described by the officer were striking. A lot of this was in relation to what the police role was and how other services cooperated (or didn’t).
It would be great to have a description of system differences from an officer who had worked in more systems.
Who decides what's designed to deceive?

The right thinks the left is trying to manipulate people and the left thinks the right is trying to manipulate people.

Also, why wouldn't I be able to talk against climate change? I know it's real but that's besides the point I'm trying to make. Why should I be stripped of that right? To me, it sounds like when you couldn't speak about religion or have any kind of doubt. Not only it's bad because it pure censorship but it creates a precedent to ban speech against what some people think it's settled.
"Non democratic countries are not real countries." Lemme up the ante. Countries without free medicine and guaranteed basic income are not real countries". Someone need to come and teach them a nice lesson. "Screwing" will help as well.
The reality is that the police can pull you over at any time for no reason at all, and you are still required to follow their orders.

There is no remedy available in real-time. The law says that you must always follow police instructions. So if the police pull you over for no reason, and handcuff you on the side of the road, you must submit to the handcuffing. If they demand to search your car, you must submit to that. It is only later that you can move to have evidence dismissed, or file a complaint.

I know this goes counter to how we [1] think the law works. But this is how things work in reality. If an officer acts illegally during a traffic stop, and you physically resist it (e.g. grab them to keep them out of your car after refusing a search), you have committed at least one crime and possibly several. Now you can really be arrested, or if the officer is afraid for their life, shot dead. Even though there was nothing behind the initial pull-over.

[1] Edit to add:

By "we" I mean people to whom the police usually show deference and respect; a group to which I belong, and with which I'm assuming there's a big overlap with HN readership. BTW this deference is part of what is covered by the term "privilege."

There is certainly another group of people who have direct experience with getting pulled over for no reason. Consider the stories told by the former police chief of Detroit:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/06/11/floyd-kill...

> When I was chief, a white DPD officer pulled me over one night. He approached my unmarked vehicle and without looking at me, asked for my license and registration. Wanting to see how far this would go, I said, "Yes officer." At some point, he recognized who he had stopped and immediately apologized. My question to him was, “Why did you stop me?” He said, "I thought it was a stolen car." The officer was reprimanded for his actions.
My take is that previous attempts were "how can we get news readers to pay", and current attempts are "what news do people who pay for news want".

And in general, if you pay for news, you want opinionated voices you can deeply trust, and whose bias you're familiar with. That's not possible on an aggregated news platform, since that by its nature will try to be all things to a fairly large group of people - you need a mass audience to pay for all the writers. Individual writers can afford a smaller audience. (Which also means they can avoid giving away much content to regularly draw an audience)

What that means for large-scale/expensive reporting is an interesting question, because the independent model doesn't work for that almost by definition.
Death rates are falling all over the globe. Italy and the United States have reported similar. Italian doctors claim the virus is weaker, Americans are claiming it is due to younger patients.
Driving business value: Why cloud native is much more than services and tools
If you'd asked teenage me in the 90s if the internet I loved then was going to turn into this, I'd have thrown my computer in the trash. As a convenience tool its grown leaps and bounds, but as a "place" it's turned into a terrible neighborhood.
Have you compared the result with latest image compression formats, such as AVIF[0]?

[0]: https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-avif/
This reminds me of Carl Sagan, who basically said while people believe the beautiful math and wave functions are the fundamental reality and a universal language, he didn’t actually believe this and thought there was something more and very simple behind the math we use to understand/explain our observations and make predictions.
> Some Linux updates also require a reboot on some distributions.

AFAIK the only time this is the case is an update of something that can only be reloaded to get the updated version by rebooting--the most common case being the kernel.
Beanfield is especially amazing. They recently reduced (!) the rates of their gigabit service to $50/month from $100, and increased everyone's service to gigabit if they weren't already on it.
>The problem with predictive policing is in the name. Inference (ML) predicts the future from the past. If the past is racist, then inference will create a racist future. Since racism is systemic[1], especially when it comes to policing, predictive policing is actively working against an anti-racist future.

One thing that constantly annoys me is that while people are becoming well aware of how racist our legal system is, but are still just as blind as ever to how sexist it is, despite the extent of sexism being greater than the extent of racism (the disparity of justice is greater for gender than for race). This in turn makes any speeches concerning how we need to make the system more just have a bit of a hollow ring to them much in the same way as when you hear a marriage equality speech from someone fighting for equality of interracial marriages while ignoring the discrimination same sex marriages face (granted, that happens far less than I remember 10 to 15 years ago).

For example, you can find many police departments that handle probation have a way to rating the risk level of offenders. People are fine with this system taking into account gender even as they fight to prevent it from using race. I was able to help with testing one such system once, and while the insides were a company secret we weren't allowed to see (which is worth an entire rant on its own), the general pattern was for all else but gender being constant, males received a higher risk rating than females. Very minor or very severe crimes would receive the same ratings but otherwise it seemed pretty clear cut on how it discriminated based on gender.

Even in this specific case, while they have banned some forms of predictive policing, I think it is safe to assume they'll still use other forms such as using gender when assessing the risk level of offenders and then using that risk level to either deny probation/parole or to set the level of probation/parole the offender receives.
Am I the only one here that hated this article?

If the point is we should invest more in things - we agree. We all agree. Pretty much everyone with any sense agrees. Even people on the right like Julius Krein have been pushing for nothing but this. The only ones that don't are our bought and paid-for politicians and their corporate cronies...but no mention of them.

But what does that have to do with private capital investment. Seriously? Where is the connection.

Why is it necessary to call out venture capital and "white male culture".

So far as I can tell this article was nothing but a bunch of crass and nasty attacks.

It starts all the way from white males nerds who "have no social lives". He thankfully teaches us that:

> In the white male culture ... those cultures are extremely narrow. For women and people of color, those cultures are much more expansive.

He then (wonderfully) quotes a failed start up by a black woman to have better substitute teachers that only failed because of lack of Andressen's money. That's some pretty powerful evidence right there.

He then goes on to more directly attack Andressen for the (absurd) notion that a software start up incubator did not help with COVID.

> I revisited the Andreessen Horowitz portfolio, which includes dozens of software winners, like Facebook, Box, Zynga, and Github, but not many companies building things that would have been useful in tackling the pandemic.

Of course anyone who works in tech knows that github and plenty of his startups are used for remote work every single day. But no matter they didn't cure covid, which is his test for good investment. I would love to hear what he thinks qualifies as we literally have no solution for COVID right now except to stay home and wear cloth over our face.

Then he goes on to quote his daughters making fun of Elon Musk and another unnamed executive.

> He doesn’t seem to realize he’s the Once-ler,” she said, referring to the character in Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax

And

> “Who would do that to their kid?” asked Quinn.

> “Don’t worry,” Lillie said. “X Æ A-12 Musk will be able to pay other kids not to bully him.”

I guess that's a good example of the "expansive" culture of women that we desperately need more of.

Of course most of this this article revolves around Ophelia a software startup trying to help with the opiod epidemic.

No where is it mentioned that the opiod epidemic is not a natural phenomenon, but was manufactured in the most heavily regulated industry in America: healthcare. It came from as far a place from Silicon Valley as you can get.

It was pushed by Big Pharma, their associations, and with the blessing of every government and non-government medical institution.

...but god I hate those Silicon Valley bros and their successful startups.
Why do you hate snaps?
> We already trust the big email providers (Microsoft, Google) to perform blanket spam filtering.

And that's the whole issue. Spam filtering should not be irreversibly bundled with the provision of an e-mail account. It can be a separate service, that you can opt-in to at your pleasure, or choose a different supplier to do your spam filtering. It could even be a plugin in your web-browser, automating the now manual "mark as spam" and "undo mark as spam" functions.
*unary
In fact PlantUML uses graphviz under the hood.
No, just exclusive of transport. So 50ms in-the-building and another 50ms for SF-NY and another 50ms for SF->Moscow or similar.
This needs to be blocked
Around the time Win10 came out, these effort curves crossed to Linux favor for me. Running bog standard Ubuntu LTSes has given me zero issues and zero shenanigans over the past decade.
Credit card providers most certainly sell your data. Data brokers have detailed profiles on everyone. They don't anonymize anything when their whole business is selling names and addresses of hyper-specific demographics.
"When the looting starts, the shooting starts" isn't deceptive. It's clearly a call to violence. It is 100% unambiguous.
> So how can I tell?

In communication as the recipient your job is to try to understand what is meant, not what is said.

Conversely, as the communicator, your job is to say what you mean, and ensure what is said is in line with what is meant. The added complexity is that to do this you need to have a decent grasp on what recipients will hear (as in "understand intent," as opposed to the literal words that they physically hear)
Just to point out ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromylgia are not flu like sysmptoms, at their worst they are more debitating than MS. They both carry a hallmark problem not seen in anything else called Post Exterion Malaise, where the body will crash if mentally or physically overexerted often leaving the patient unable to lift their own body to eat for months along with a raft of significant systemic problems. They have extremely limited total energy. Flu doesn't work like that at all, CFS and Fibro are really bad and its a disgrace of the medical community that they have failed to research it and gaslight the sufferers for 70 years.
>Unmoderated "public discourse" on a computer network has a tendency to descend into a sewer.

A stream of sewage can still be shined into liquid gold by a sufficiently intelligent client, that chooses what to ingest and what to ignore.
Owner here. It's running on Heroku free tier and it handles hundreds of millions of requests every day. Cloudflare helps, but occasionally it still gets overloaded.

The code is at https://github.com/mpolden/echoip though, with a Docker image available on Docker Hub. It should be pretty easy to host your own.
"You can ignore every single need a pet has and just put them in a bag"

No, you actually can't.

You can only do this if you switch off massive sections of the common brain modules for "reasonable functioning human". For those who think these are optional modules, please lock them in working RAM now. You might then understand why they are NOT optional.

YMMV
How to Write Microcopy
Would people wait for their death if it was not coming?
Obviously we ban accounts that post things like "you turnip", so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If Facebook didn’t censor their content and allowed all content, all the advertisers would leave. That’s why advertisers are abandoning it now because they aren’t doing enough. You’re not paying money to these social networks, you are not the customer.
> You moved from police presence to sending innocents to prison... That's quite a step.

How do you think people get arrested? They show up at a police precinct and turn themselves in?

> There's hysteria alright on 'racial issues' at the moment.

Yeah, I'm sure the Civil Rights & Suffrage movements were just "hysteria" too right?
~Capitalizm~ Capitalism is purely a theoretical idea. Free markets as capitalism defines them are impossible. Perfect information, competition, price taking, ect, which are baked into the economic theories of capitalism are simply not feasible.

Often our critiques of capitalism are not critiques of capitalism at all. In fact they’re criticisms of monopolies and oligopolies in our modern society, which are antithetic to capitalism.

The American economy is an aristocracy. VCs, the big ones at least, are members of that aristocracy. Many of which are filled with smart good hearted people. But there are some incentives baked into their position of power that we need to be cognizant of.

Edit: “free-market capitalism” would probably have been a better term. Clearly that was not the point I was making.
Does this mean that the cops can’t camp out in a bar’s parking lot at 2am, watching drunks walk to their cars? Seems like they’re predicting that bar parking lots routinely have drunk drivers at 2am....

If a resident gets a drunk driving ticket due to the above strategy, can their conviction get dismissed because cops weren’t patrolling using a Cryptographically secure random number generator?

Please let me know when a lawyer first uses that defense. Always looking for a good laugh.
That's a problem that would affect normal drop shadow design as well.
I haven't checked if it's happened before, but doxxing is trivial. You can look up anyone's name and address using their callsign on the FCC website:

https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/searchLicense.jsp
A number of comments here mention the regularity of the noise in the Lo variant as producing a slightly artificial appearance (zoom on the woman's forehead in picture 1). Would it improve anything to look for swathes where the dominant texture is noticeably uniform noise and mix it up a bit?
Ask HN: Why has Google Maps disabled reviews for Ouzo Bay?
And therein lies the main problem with all of this "abolish the police" bullshit. It's driven mainly by upper middle class whites who live in low crime areas and rarely if ever need police, and think everyone is the same way. Watch the protest videos carefully - there are hardly any black people there in a lot of cases. In fact last night I counted more high end bicycles in a protest video than black people. It's a common occurrence nowadays to see a self-righteous 20 year old trust fund kid "educate" a black police officer on how to be black. This is utterly idiotic.

I interacted with the police exactly 3 times in 20 years I lived in my neighborhood. Once I got a ticket for the missing front license plate on my car (deservedly so, paid the fine). Once my mailbox was broken into, and a police officer stopped by to ask questions and see if I'd press charges if they found the thief (of course I would, but they never found the guy), and once I had to call police on a neighbor who thought it'd be a wonderful idea to blast music at full volume at 2AM in the middle of the work week. That's the extent of it. There's no crime in my neighborhood, violent or otherwise, by any meaningful metric. If I thought all neighborhoods were like this, of course I'd be in favor of simultaneously defunding police and abolishing the second amendment.

Having seen total lawlessness first hand during the "wild 90's" in Russia, I don't have such illusions. I once saw a dude on his knees with a gun pointed at his forehead within 200m of the Red Square, with police officers watching but not intervening in the proceedings, probably because the mobster with the gun was above their pay grade. Don't know if the guy got shot or not, I couldn't do anything anyway, so I entered the nearby subway station and went home, but the image seared into my mind. Remember, this was in the very center of a large city. You can imagine what kinds of crazy shit went on on the outskirts.

People in South Chicago or in the bad parts of NY have no such illusions either. That's why I support _gradual_ police reform and increased funding (you can't, as a rule, get better service by paying less), have a safe full of guns and ammo, and will vote strenuously against any politician, irrespective of party affiliation or just about any other views, who tries to "defund" the police or restrict 2A. I fail to see how such measures would be in anyone's longer term interest.
So when I see someone on TV holding an "abolish the police" banner, which context clues should I use to figure out what they really mean?

The slogan makes many people think you're advocating an unreasonable idea that you're not actually advocating. Do you think that makes for a good slogan?

Edit: I apologize. I missed where you said it's a bad slogan, and took your defense of it as implying it's good.
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A private company can limit what you can put on their platform, end of story.
Really good article, but misses a large part of why military self-enforces well: integrity above all is a, or the value that is stressed-stressed-stressed.

The reasoning goes that while any UCMJ violation short of the big ones (abandoning post, AWOL, murder, etc.) is recoverable from with regards to career impact by a PCS (change bases you're stationed at), a new commander, whatever, the ONLY thing that will really sink you is lying.

You can recover from all sorts of failures. What you will never recover from is lying on a sworn statement about that failure.

Enforcement of UCMJ proves this out. Officers and Enlisted both follow this in various ways from small infractions to things that involve UCMJ. The service academies only have 1 non-crime that will really get you kicked out: honor violations. Etc. etc.

The interesting background aspect is Army values get pounded into you from Day 0, and Integrity is one of them. Legitimate corrective action will go around violating them from Basic Training all the way through the last day of your career. Not a lot of other orgs take organizational value lists that are on the proverbial office wall quite so seriously.

I'm almost positive the police do none of this approach, but also they don't have a federal police force really to enforce it top-down like the Army does.

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I never considered that use case, is that something you've run into?
Curve is also affected.

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Horseshit. Police response to violent incidents in 'problematic' neighborhoods is already extremely slow. The threat of gang violence is not mitigated by police response. The threat of gang violence is mitigated by providing much better options for people who would otherwise join gangs. Police presence is immaterial to the lack of gangs in affluent neighborhoods.