skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not something I just came up with. The observation that the media heavily uses the passive voice when reporting on the police, a practice that the police started using to deflect blame in their reports, which the media often cites uncritically, has been criticized for decades. I suggest you just give "passive voice police" a google and look at the overwhelming amount of studies, articles and reports on this topic.
As a point, original comments are only referring to "public sector" unions. The mal-alignment contrasts from private unions being organized by private individuals who's interests conflict against that of the private industry.

Public sector unions "bosses" are the people and politicians, so even though these are "private" unions, their alignment is to protect the political class first, cops (members) second, people third. By focusing on politic over people (bad looking cops = lost mayor, DA political race) their primary interested is not public transparency (where the money comes from, leading to lack of consumer alignment on service rendered b/c cops are serving political interests more than they should).

In a private union, the first people they are protecting are their membership (lot could be said here about how that works in practice), but their transparency problem isn't regarding factory deaths or issues at the work place because that is precisely what they are created to bring awareness to. If Ford's cars are killing people, the union actually wants to bring that up since it can hurt employment opportunities for future members.
> The lack of minorities out in public was painfully glaring.

What does this mean?
On linux: `ddcutil setvcp 0x10 + <value>` to increase brightness (and - <value> to lower it). Ymmv.
Totally understand! In my mind, it doesn't end at social networks. There are so many applications which become better with trust, like dating apps, product reviews, and online marketplaces.
Could you say more about some of these times? I'm curious what it means in more concrete terms.

I only say this because I am a UI engineer who has been in some scrappy situations, so obviously I don't get to change the data model. What kind of structures do you find that "hit the database too hard" or otherwise invoke performance penalties?
Police in the US are also legally prohibited from industrial action. The fact that they do it anyway is just more evidence that they are out of control. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/01/what-is-bl...
> Still, it seems weird that Congress wouldn't get a say in determining what their own bills mean when there's a dispute.

That's an interesting point that has me thinking.

My feeling on this is that this is actually as designed. Congress' job is to pass laws after writing them in whatever way they deem prudent. But Congress doesn't really have an interest in the enforcement of those laws, up until the point their constituents come to them and say "hey, this law y'all passed, it isn't really working out... do something to make it better". And if there's a dispute as to the enforcement of those laws, an independent third party (the judiciary) mediates and decides, as seems appropriate. But, again, Congress doesn't get involved there, because it's the executive's job to actually apply the law.

If Congress does get a say in interpretation, that means they could change their minds on existing law as political winds change, without going through the proper process of passing new legislation. They shouldn't get to do that, especially not for laws that are already on the books. That would amount to the power to write ex post facto laws, which are considered such a bad idea that they're expressly forbidden by the US Constitution. I think the risk of passing a law that gets interpreted in a wildly different way than Congress' intent isn't that high, and in cases where it does happen, it's usually because culture has fundamentally changed over time. Congress' remedy of passing a new law, but one that will only cover future cases, is a fair trade off, I think. And in cases where there's a big screw-up, I'd expect it would get noticed fairly quickly once cases start hitting the courts, so Congress would have the opportunity to fix things, but only have a short window of time where unintended consequences happen.
An aside, but I always thought "din" was only a Scottish word - does it mean noise/racket elsewhere?
> it's too late because he officially owns it!

On what basis does he "officially own" it? Presumably there is a plat on file with your deed of title to your house and its lot that gives the boundaries of your lot, and another plat on file with your neighbor's deed of title to his house and its lot that shows the boundaries of his lot. Presumably both of those plats say the fence is on your property.
This works with my Caldigit dock and Dell monitors and I love it.

No one else in my house cares though.
Just extra pieces to manage. With a VPN, now you need to start worrying about firewall rules (do you isolate clients? What internal resources do they get access to?), IP assignment (now you need to run a DHCP server, or handle static IP allocations). What subnets do you use for your VPN, and what happens if they conflict with the network at some of your locations? Or maybe buy a VPN appliance to do that for you. Then you need to handle VPN authentication...

Lots of that is largely un-needed effort. If you just want to be able to SSH into computers, it's simpler to just have your ssh server connect back.

At small scale, where an ops team can keep track of all the computers individually? yeah, VPN is probably fine, especially if you've already got one. But I think these days, a lot of people are looking at avoiding VPNs outright.
Another comment in the thread

> Collective bargaining evens out the power imbalances between workers and their employers. It doesn't really matter if the employer is the government or a private company. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make about collective bargaining and democracy since the two are unrelated.
There are other ways to handle public sector unions. For example, in Canada the military is not part of a union but their pay is tied to other public sector employees who are unionized. This makes sense since you don't want the military going on strike. When the union employees go on strike to get better pay and benefits the military also gets the same increases. You could do something similar in the US by tying police salaries and benefits to another public sector group like teachers or nurses. I have the feeling that this would be extremely unpopular with the police
Fuzzing FastCGI with AFL-Fuzz
Excellent! Expect an invite email today or tomorrow. Ping me (there's a chat button on the website) if it doesn't go through, I'll set you up.
My barber (well masked up and a face shield) was seeing fewer customers. I was getting my haircut less since I was at home and spending less in gas. I was giving him double the amount that I usually pay for a haircut when he reopened.

I’m also tipping delivery drivers a lot better these days.
> "(of an argument or reaction) directed against a person >> rather << than the position they are maintaining"

You seem to have missed the operative word there: rather.

Saying that someone's argument is bad so they must be real dumb means you're saying "A (the reasoning attack) implies B (character attack)", not "B (character attack) means I don't have to even bother with A". The latter is an ad hominem, the former is not.

An ad hominem here would be, "jesus I already know this author is so dumb/bad that I don't even have to bother addressing any of their arguments". "This author's reasoning is awful, so clearly they're dumb/bad" is simply not the same thing.
Right hand thumb to win key + pinky to "L" as I am getting up to walk away still works for me.
auth.log is way primitive compared to what teleport has.

It logs the actual session data, and if "enhanced" recording is enabled, it uses BPF tracing to record all processes executions and files that were opened.

fwiw, the web ui is optional. Nobody's taking away your ssh client.
A lot of people, frankly, don't have any principled understanding of what it means to oppose surveillance. Dataminr says it's not doing "surveillance" but "newsgathering", based on some ad-hoc distinction they have no idea how to flesh out. And the article author doesn't seem to know either; he says Dataminr's defense was a "linguistic distinction" and a "euphemism", but none of his sources really explain what the correct distinction is between surveillance and newsgathering.

Personally, I think any principled opposition to surveillance is going to end up including some practices which have traditionally been considered news. The reason that Dataminr's activity is surveillance is that "look at these random tweets!" news articles are also surveillance.
DoorDash violated SF’s cap on restaurant delivery fees, promises refunds
Teleport solves SSH'ing in to a ton of machines on private networks from outside the private network. Teleport handles the auth at its entry point, so you don't need a keypair for every node in your cloud. Just one for Teleport. That's the short pitch.

You can do the same thing w/ a VPN and a good secret store. But Teleport is just another way of doing it and it has some nice tools around it for folks that want it :shrug:
You don't have to be particularly astute to know that the term 'ad-hominem' refers to a particular informal logical fallacy. (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fallacies/, fallacy 13) The definition used in Webster is a more colloquial definition based on usage. English dictionaries usually take a descriptivist rather than prescriptivist approach to their work. However, that usage is based on a misusage of the earlier definition.

To argue that someone's argument is wrong because of who they are is a logical fallacy, and something people actually do quite a lot. The term for that and as far as I know the only term for that, is 'ad-hominem.' To attack someone's character instead of something they wrote is usually not considered very nice, but is not a logical fallacy (unless we're talking about the abusive form of ad-hominem, but I don't think that's what we're talking about here.) Given that the former needs to called out on occasion, that that one can use other language to call out the later (just say 'personal attacks'), it makes sense that reserving the term 'ad-hominem' for the former use makes practical sense.

Even if you don't agree with my reasoning that it's better to reserve the term to refer to the logical fallacy, many people really do use the term exclusively to refer to the logical fallacy and don't use the dictionary definition you listed. Citing a dictionary to resolve a language usage dispute is a bit of a dodge because dictionaries are typically descriptivist when these disputes are inherently prescriptivist (or at the very least stipulative.)If people are getting confused by what you are saying, it's better to clarify than to die on the hill of what the correct definition of a word should be.

All of that is beside that fact that the reason people get upset about this issue--about the definition of ad-hominem--is that people using the later definition are often performing a bit of equivocation. They are using the later definition, which does not refer to a logical fallacy, to imply that a logical fallacy has occurred. This is a sort of slippery and dishonest debating tactic and I think that it rightly upsets people. If you did not intend to be deceptive, that's all well and good, but understand that that's a big part of why people are getting upset with you.

edit: Removed the first sentence in which I accused that guy of arguing in bad faith. There's nothing else in this comment that is objectionable, AFAICT.
My trans friends say flagging is just another tool that's wielded against them.
Or just be more transparent and charge a higher delivery fee.
Not to my knowledge, most OSS licenses leave out the trademark issue, happy to be proven wrong.
If you aren't being paid hourly, this is utterly fallacious.

If you are being paid hourly, you should be billing for thinking while walking down the street or taking a shower. That is some of your most productive time.

Also as another commenter mentioned, cold food. Furthermore, avoiding all of the extra zero-use plastic waste they throw in the bag by default.
That's... nearly entirely false?

America has by far the most relaxed gun laws in the western world. Most other countries simply ban ownership of most guns outright.

The current situation IS the compromise. And it's pretty stupid I agree. But, there are no states that ban guns and plenty of them want to.

There is no hyper political, highly targeted, industry funded political action group just like the NRA on the side of banning guns.

After every mass shooting in this country democrats have to fight tooth and nail to get even a tiny consideration of regulation in response to human tragedy. And even that usually fails. In what world is that rational? In what world is that not compromise from the left?
I think part of the point is that aspects beyond democracy are taken for granted. The US citizenship and model of "being Roman" is pretty imperial in many ways. It has undersung virtues of tolerance. It doesn't matter if you were Greek, Gaul, Barbarian, or even Carthigian - once a citizen you are fundamentally Roman. Viewing nationality as not an immutable accident of birth is pretty damn "Roman". Many "modern" issues like Political Correctness and Multiculturalism are millenia old and can really be better described as "Imperial" Issues. They are encountered due to past and present expansionism and and broad interactions. Despite the negative connotations not everything classified as Imperialism is bad - just as it is a mistake to ignore the travesties of empires so is it a mistake to ignore its virtues.

Rome had many periods and the dynamics have played out before and provided disturbingly apt precedents even with the alien trappings and values.
There is no science today that can make any kind of confident predictions on the effects of climate change on human population in 30 years from now.
They aren’t forcing prices lower. The companies are free to charge a higher delivery fee.
Sounds a lot like one of the standalone-ish arcs of Transmetropolitan: https://comicsalliance.com/the-issue-transmetropolitan-anoth...
Some years ago I built a digital piggy bank to help people save money automatically. The psychology behind the product is really hard. The biggest challenges is that you only see the value of saving money after a long time. Everybody knows they should do it, but it's easier to postpone as it's painful and hard to do in a daily basis.

Yotta solves this with an amazing approach. You get the long term reward of saving money at the some time that you get the exciting possibility of winning a short time reward. It's genius.
I cant't help feeling so happy that this poor woman has such an amazing husband. Best wishes to this couple.
"Benjamin Franklin stated that the destroyed tea must be paid for, all ninety thousand pounds[citation needed] (which, at two shillings per pound, came to £9,000, or £1.15 million [2014, approx. $1.7 million US]).[76] Robert Murray, a New York merchant, went to Lord North with three other merchants and offered to pay for the losses, but the offer was turned down.[77]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party#Reaction
Small bug: on Brave browser, the "fill" tool is not covering 100% of the pixels
https://i.imgur.com/Ej6owmI.png
Chrome extension of the day: free LinkedIn reminder tool
Isn't the root cause that two entities can free the given memory and have no high level coordination of it? It basically states this in the article.
> The Touch Bar should have been right below the screen

So…an extension of the screen? :P
I don't understand what the relevance is (in the big picture) of any of the details in how web pages track people. As long as a server can return a page with arbitrary links, isn't that good enough? Any way at all that the page received shapes the next server access, is good enough for tracking.
In that other fold of the multiverse, the headline could be that uber is charging people extra in Treasure Island, which contains a lot of subsidized low-income housing.
Is that good or bad? Asking for a friend.

Friend also would like less ambiguity on that comment ;)
Brim's Electron choices: structure, libraries, testing
https://gravitational.com/teleport/how-it-works/audit-loggin...

Their audit log can include a lot more in a more structured format, including wire activity and even std{in,out,err}.
Photoshop is better, or should I say https://www.photopea.com/

Is Kolourpaint available as a website I can visit right now?
Lots of editors are "better" from a feature standpoint. That's not the feature that is relevant to the discussion.
MEMS speakers are not used in phones (in general; I'm sure someone will nitpick).

A speaker is very different to a microphone.
Strictly speaking what you're saying is true, but it ignores other realities of the association of wealth and education outcomes which are implied when folks are talking about these subjects.

One of the best places in America to get education happens to be free: the public school system of Lexington [1]. But you'd be hard-pressed to get a house there for less than a million. Secondly, every other student in Lexington happens to have private instructors on the side. It's funny, if you randomly walk into a Starbucks in Lexington, chances are very highly you'll see an elder person with a young person training for standardized exams.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/29/upshot/money-...
No, I'm suggesting that, to the degree that customers suffer from delivery fees rolled into prices, that should be reflected in reviews. Pricing isn't determined entirely by ingredient cost, so there's nothing inherently wrong with a $24 pizza A that has cheaper ingredients than an $18 pizza B (maybe Mr. A is just better at making a pizza). What matters is that the customer feels like the value they're getting from pizza A isn't dramatically misaligned with its cost (incl the delivery fee). This is the kind of thing that reviews do capture.
> It's confusing for me that so many people will complain about how the police unions prevent reform and allow for bad behavior -- but then support unions for all other public sector workers.

Policing is a unique role with incredibly perverse incentives, and it has special powers and protections granted to officers by the state that no other workers are granted. When an officer abuses their power, not only do their coworkers protect them, but the system that is supposed to provide checks and balances turns a blind eye to the abuse, and fights against justice every step of the way.

It is clear that this role, and the special status it incurs, is vastly different than other roles for government workers.

I'm not sure what is confusing about having a slightly nuanced view on unionization, especially when I gave my reasoning in both the post you're replying to and this post itself.
I hate, Hate, HATE grammerly ads.
> a decision in favor of a man who was convicted of sodomizing a 4 year old child

The decision doesn't mean he goes free. It means he gets a new trial in a Federal court. I expect the new trial will convict him and he'll just be serving more time in a Federal prison instead of the state prison where he has been for the past 20 years.
That’s the worst cookie permission screen I’ve seen. My god it’s awful.
Kernel raises $53M for ‘Neuroscience as a Service’ tech. Hmm
The difference is statistically, most people are going to get old. Lucky is if you either don’t need insurance when you’re young or you live to be old.
I appreciate it. You're absolutely right about how exciting it is to be able to share explanations with people.

This is a video of Feynman's answer to an interviewer asking about what and why you feel something when you put two magnets together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8. It's a great description of the problems inherent to explaining this sort of thing to people. (Also, if anyone knows a video/essay/talk along these lines by a less sexist person, I'd love a link.)
Look at the number of filibusters executed by party over time.

The republicans have led for decades. They are responsible for each vast increase, especially during Obama. Always pushing it further and further toward nothing getting done in the name of never compromising.
Squatter's rights seems related, but different.

With squatters rights, there is a law that says if they squat long enough, they can gain legal rights to the property. Squatters are amending the law through action, the law that gives them eventual rights is already there.

There is no law that says if the federal government fails to live up to their promise long enough, it's no longer a legally binding promise.

The Court is saying that if Congress really wants to break the promise, Congress needs to express that with updated legislation.
Proof Demonstrates a Quantum Advantage, Even for Noisy Quantum Computers
My recipe is "Go to Costco, buy the biggest backup drive they have, shuck the drive and put it in the NAS. When one dies, repeat."

I end up with a great variety of drives and firmwares that way.

I'm still waiting on that 2TB drive to die so I can put in a bigger drive and expand the array!
That's awesome! It sounds like a great setup for a solo dev wanting to save money, or even for bootstrapping a startup. Thanks for sharing
They are safe on a technicality there as they never try to claim continuity with old laws and new laws. Even if dumping the shipments of foreign merchants is illegal under both sets of laws or indeed copied verbatim it is breaking of the old set of law and not the new law as it wasn't "born" yet.
All land is stolen property, there are very few direct inheritance lines going back for more than a few hundred years. There are none that go back thousands.
The torture probably factors in on deals worth a couple of percent of that particular one.
I have actually seen quite a few restaurants do this, where they use a third-party ordering system but then delegate to DoorDash/GrubHub for delivery. Is it maybe because the delivery service gets a smaller cut in this case? I wonder if the total fees add up to a smaller number with the two middlemen than with only DoorDash/GrubHub. Presumably, the latter can charge more if they also handle the transaction as well as bring traffic, as opposed to only handling delivery.
Awesome, this is really helpful to understand what the value prop is!

The non FOSS licensing mixed with comments about needing an "Enterprise" account confused me TBH...
Ask HN: Why can't I comment on an article I submitted?
I noticed that when I submitted an article today, I didn't have the option to comment on it.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/19/world/stasi-leg...
I cannot believe you went ad hominem and wrote all that to justify making up a definition for ad hominem because you're not happy with the dictionary definition.

Be well, sir. I'll try to digest later, not in the mood when it starts off with "ah HA my interlocutor is being intentionally obtuse, that explains why they believe in dictionaries! If I just tell them that, I'm sure it'll be convincing!"

Edit: Alas, it appears I can no longer read it, got flagged. Must have been even worse than the bit I did read :/
I have been lucky, then.

I pulled in moment about 5 years ago into our group’s stack, but we mostly use it for parsing and formatting date (only) strings for date arithmetic. The government vital records forms we are working with seldom deal with time of day, and when they do, it’s an optional string down to minutes resolution only.

I guess all the converting to and from strings coincidentally protected me from mutability. Good to know.
I generally agree, although I think from what I’ve seen, their researchers are pretty flexible.

My post was to counter folks thinking P0 is a Google hit job, which seems to come up frequently on HN.