skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not op, and I don't get the sense that you are asking the question in good faith based on the snark, but will give you my thought:

Our need for accountability and oversight over jobs that involve the ability to use deadly force outweighs their need for collective bargaining power. The greater good, at least presently, is served by being able to scrutinize police conduct with less interference.

I don't think police unions created this problem, but I think they are helping perpetuate it.
I think folks who feel like this is a hit piece need to watch out for the biases that Scott himself described in https://web.archive.org/web/20200619200544/https://slatestar.... I don't want to assume that no one has done that accounting, but I want to highlight that it's important.

Some scattered observations:

> Alexander, in another widely circulated essay, published in 2018, has popularized an alternative heuristic—a partition between what he calls “mistake theorists” and “conflict theorists.”

I think it speaks well of the piece that the author spent so much time on mistake theory vs conflict theory. To someone who isn't already an SSC reader, that's probably a pretty boring topic. But it's a big piece of context for what regular readers consider important and interesting. If I were writing a hit piece, or a clickbait piece, I don't think I would've made space for this.

> By their own logic of gamesmanship, some of the positions they tolerate actually have to be extreme, because only a tolerance of a truly extreme position is costly—that is, something for which they might have to pay a price.

This is an interesting take. I don't know if I fully agree with it, but at the same time I don't think it's shallow.

> “Feels like tech pieces would benefit from pre- or at least post-publication peer review by experts in the field, namely the investors and engineers and founders”—in other words, the subjects of stories should be allowed to edit them.

A case of one group misunderstanding the fundamental, traditional values of another group. I haven't thought before about how the "Gell-Mann amnesia problem" might be fundamentally at odds with journalistic objectivity. It's not just that journalists don't have the time or the background to understand technical topics -- it might be that sometimes one must not have that background in order to write about a subject objectively. Or maybe that's one way to be objective, which can work in cooperation with other ways. Who knows. Again, not sure if I totally agree, but it's an interesting observation.
What is the difference between the Algolia HN API vs the Hacker News API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API)? The Hacker News API doesn't have any rate limits but appears to be similar to the Algolia API. Does Algolia have its own HN dataset?
You can throw most of that conventional wisdom out for sealed IEMs.
I programmed the first 10 years of my life in compiled statically typed languages (C, C++, Java, etc), then I needed to start programming in Ruby for production environments and initially I felt "naked"; I felt so insecure when building something and not having it compiling successfully. That's when I really got into Unit Tests, bugs as stupid as "vlue" instead of "value" typos can plague your codebase in languages like javascript, python, ruby, etc; and testing is the only way to find them (other than... in production errors).
It’s also common in India which had a socialist economy with the same “take or starve” outcome until the 90s. It prevails to this day due to to corruption.
"Oversight of data" != absolute authority

And when certain states broke off from the union and for a century continued to oppress the civil liberties of a race, the feds stepped in.

There is evidence of widespread abuse of police power and lack of accountability. There could be a Constitutional argument made about equal protection regarding a federal mandate on police oversight.
The 14th Amendment says:

> No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. [ ... ] The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

That gives ground for the US government to oversee the states, at least in matters of judicial and policing oversight.
You can’t make that conclusion from the evidence presented.

The fact that ad revenue is declining doesn’t tell us that they intentionally moved focus away from clicks.

As another matter, all those subscriptions grant access to their website content. More clicks on their site probably lead to more new subscriptions, and better retention of existing subscribers. To the extent that clicks lead to subscriptions, they are undoubtably all about the clicks.
yes, I had the same experience and the same issues.
> If you want more precision then you will need to point me to specific posts of his so we can argue about them

This was basically a random selection because I'm curious to hear what your objections actually are:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190102011649/https://slatestar...
I accept the principle; I wish people would take more action, but I for one am American and I have shifted most of my hosting out of the US because of it. I probably don't have much worth spying on, but on principle I oppose any form of blanket surveillance.
Anything that doesn't have an arrow in its type.
> and you accept that government workers do not need to negotiate with capital

Government workers negotiate with capital; they don't negotiate with private capital, but state capital is still capital.
What if they can support fabricate such evidence that you’re considered a criminal?
Almost all BA IEMs use in-line re-radiator “resistors” to smooth out peaks.
Like most tech marketing pieces, this comes across as very absolutist and preachy -- to the point where its hard to take it seriously. The concept of relational databases (and SQL) are not "failures of engineering", they are among few software innovations that have withstood the test of time.
$5,000 for first place? That's not exactly enticing...
Yes, different clubs are common and beneficial, and there's a lot of growing taking place during your uni years. But the parent was linking to professional actors, and I fail to see any relation there. The topic wasn't about admissions to theatrical majors in art universities.
Rotterdam is one of the largest transshipment points for containers in the world and is also one of the largest drugs transit points for Europe. Crime there is relatively heavy compared to other dutch cities.

https://www.erasmusmagazine.nl/en/2019/11/14/why-there-are-r...

The largest bust this year iirc is 2000 KG in a single container from Latin America, street value well over 100 million, decoy was a load of bananas.
> In case you wonder, they are not random people put there for reasons, like for example since Madelyn is a woman so there was some pressure to add she

Kind of a strange thing to call out.
Updating is mostly relevant for unicode completionist families and emoji.
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> Advertising is eating the Internet alive. I fucking hate it

Advertising is one of the biggest factors for wealth disparity. What used to be thousands of people handling marketing now consists of millions of people gambling away their life savings on ads in hopes of making it big.

I speak to at least 20 sellers a week and some of them have acos of more than 60% taking in a loss for months in hope of making it big. Most of them go bankrupt.

The house always wins.
Article says they still have access to a less-useful access tool, can someone help set them up with a scraper?
In other words, jail is only for punishment and revenge, and doesn't give a s*it about reeducation.
> If you can never turn a profit, why would you enter the market?

Because you can still raise money, sell your company, and make money in the process. An extreme form would be a pyramid scheme where early investors make lots of money, leaving later investors with the problems.
> Our national debate would be so much better if we had better data.

I doubt it. People have crunched the data that we do have and found that it doesn't support the popular narrative - and been fired from their jobs just for crunching the numbers.
Right after the couple explained the pattern, predicted the consequence of placing her on the bed, and how to solve it!
Because the restaurants aren't allowed to charge higher prices to their higher cost delivery customers. Which doesn't stop the food delivery places from charging higher prices, of course. And taking a cut, and collecting a delivery fee, etc etc.
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Depends on the treaty.

Reservations vary from quite well off (I personally knew a guy who basically had a few hundred thousand in trust from his band when he turned 18 - money from resource extraction on tribal territory) to reservations that resemble shanty towns in developing countries.

Can’t lump them all together.
>For silicon valley startups like Doordash and Grubhub

Ah, yes, Grubhub, the Silicon Valley startup that was founded in Chicago, is headquartered in Chicago, and has been a public company for 6 years.
It's not the phrase "America First" on its own, but its history of use.

"While the America First Committee had a variety of supporters in the United States, 'the movement was marred by anti-Semitic and pro-fascist rhetoric.'"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_(policy)

And again, this is another example where they could have literally picked anything else... but they didn't. When pressed about its history Trump literally backed up the phrase's use by stating "I like the expression."

It's isolationist, nationalistic, xenophobic nonsense with a tinge of antisemitism. It's been denounced by multiple jewish scholars and the Anti-defamation league.
Correct, but I haven't seen it happen often in practice. I mean, pretty much every project uses HOF, but few have many of them.

I also tend to avoid HOF when I can instead pass data around explicitly.
How can the system rely on “no response is construed as failed”?!

Bad design right there.
Could you transmit ultrasonic carrier waves that intermodulate at the right spot?
These questions underly a particular argument that I don’t buy. We institute fairly hefty national standards on schools. I can go and look up the average scores for standardized tests for students for the high school I attended, and, afaik, essentially all schools in the US. Why can’t I do the same thing for police departments?

Somehow, police unions are able to avoid having similar accountability.
That's a terrible analogy, and regardless, buying any of the Intel range of Apple machines today is going to see them being literally incapable of running macOS once Apple decides to dump support. With some work you can run Catalina on a 2008 machine, 12 year old machines can still be coaxed into staying relevant. I expected that a 2019 Mac Pro would last more than (at best) 5 years, but given how Apple treats pros these days I fully expect them to drop Intel support completely in 3-4 years.
This is kind of the same point I was making. I'm not trying to prove that anything was just or not in some grand scheme of things.

I'm arguing that "what happens after war" is not some fixed law of nature, but a human decision. Human decisions are not laws of nature, they can be changed. Historical precedent can be a useful tool, but it's not the same as "something immutable we must adhere to".
I was wondering about this. I clicked around for several minutes...

I wish people would test their sites in more than just Chromium! Checking that it works in at least one second browser dramatically improves the portability of your site in general.
That is certainly the opinion of the United States ;) (I'm referring to the laws being ignored by the US government itself, to be clear)
Gun control and the "Gun Show loophole" comes to mind. Avoiding background checks for private transfer was the compromise position for requiring background checks for sales from FFLs.
It can be done though, can’t it? The SEC’s mandate is largely to enforce accurate and timely disclosure of information to the public. It’s not a perfect system but it works pretty well.

Why couldn’t there be an SEC-type entity that requires periodic public filings from police departments or hospitals?
Well, my intent was to highlight that there is a similarity: those deciding how (or if) this data should be collected wish to suppress it because they believe it would result in change when they are invested in the status-quo.

Fundamentally trying to insulate data collection from those with invested with the status-quo (in all situations) would be sensible.
"certain patterns" is still not an outline so it's hard for me to pick a set of posts.

But let's go with this one:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200202214359/https://slatestar...

since I suspect that will comfortably draw out our underlying disagreements (and if you don't know who Phedre no Delauney is, the Kushiel's Dart novels are fantastic and you've missed out).
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"Why you should build your next app with a graph database"

Please don't. Graph databases have only a few niche use cases which, even then, in most occasions, can be adequately covered by a relational database.
Strange there are no pictures. Here is some footage : https://www.nu.nl/281820/video/politie-geeft-beelden-van-bra...
> When the SEC and teachers are capable of using the authority of the State to take my life with qualified immunity

Teachers are covered by QI just as much as cops, and there is much less past precedent on use of force by teachers. Since QI works on the principle of “the absence of precedent covering similar actors in similar circumstances and ruling it unlawful means you can't be held liable”, they probably are more able to do that covered by QI.

OTOH, they have less practical opportunity to apply force.
The design incorporates the idea that we're going to behave with some sense of compassion and justice. There are, famously, four boxes of liberty[1], and if the majority uses the first three to the detriment of the minority, we'll find ourselves the target of the fourth.

So out of simple self interest it behooves us not to just say "the status quo should be hard to change". When we see an injustice, we should fight to change it, even when it's not to our own immediate advantage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_boxes_of_liberty
Curious why 2-3" for down to 120Hz, as opposed to breaking you your array down into a few more cone sizes for more bands, like say, some 8" for low 100s of Hz, and a 3" for high 100s of Hz into low 1000s of Hz before the tweeters take over.

Or is your goal to minimize the complexity of the crossover network that would be needed to cleanly separate the the bands with minimal distortion and the "fun" of correctly lining up the physical phases of each of the different cones?
This is certainly true in the abstract (we see a lot of this in homogeneous institutions like universities and newsrooms and it’s a real problem), but I don’t see the risk in this particular case. Further this is a generic argument against empiricism—it’s hard to get unbiased data, but that doesn’t invalidate the enterprise.
I think it's interesting that you're using the widely used cop-speak of "police involved shooting", a passivized framing very popular in the media, even when criticizing the police.
Proximity in time and space add important context to the issue. There are still many places in the world where injustices are happening due to this kind of problem, saying that it has always been this way doesn't add anything to the conversation.
My point is that this becomes an issue in every part of life when dealing with the government.

And yet, the same people arguing for abolishment of police also want to expand the government beyond anything it’s ever done. They give no thought to the unintended consequences instead crying “but think of the children”. I see I’m getting down voted heavily, so clearly my ideas aren’t valued here, but it’s kinda mind blowing that so many people here can hold these hypocritical ideas in their head at the same time.
Nice! If the author is reading this, the color picker appears to have some bug. Added a circle, then chose a color using the top color picker, and nothing happened. Then chose the same color with the right hand side color picker, and now both top and side picker display same color, and the circle color changed.
I do applaud that thinking; I hope it sets a precedent that can be used more widely. I hope they apply it more widely to things they don't necessarily ideologically agree with. Civil society needs more honesty and dedication to keeping your word, even when that is painful. That might lead to people thinking more carefully about where they stand and what they say as well.
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There is a set of 7 fonts widely distributed enough to be considered "web safe" if not built in to browsers (and at one point most browsers installed them if they were not already supported by the OS, but today almost all OSes support them directly so most browsers no longer ship them directly), but it's not a particularly great set: Verdana, Trebuchet, Arial, Comic Sans, Georgia, Times New Roman, and Courier New.

Even if those were somehow the 7 "best" fonts in all of the world, there's still a need to support external fonts because fonts are a tool for creative expression. Creative expression might not always be what you want from the web, but as a 90s Web fan, a web without creative expression would be a terrible web.
I think the potential for dgraph is really awesome. After doing a survey of various graph databases, they seem to be well positioned for one that has the ability to scale horizontally. This is not something many of the others have. From what I can tell the others require a single write master.

My only gripe with it so far is their documentation could use some updating. The onboarding path isn't real straight forward. I've had to jump around to different parts of the documentation and piece together stuff to get started.
> Because the restaurants aren't allowed to charge higher prices to their higher cost delivery customers.

Why can't they? Is this a local or state law?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the problem. You can easily jump to page 10 of the results and scour from there if you'd like. They are paginated.

If the big search engines broke the supposed bubble and put page 10 results on page 1, well, there would exist the exact same "bubble."
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> A single app aggregating Uber, Lyft, taxi, and 3rd-party car services on one screen would open those up for competition. Similarly, a federated Facebook that provided various social networks in one client would let you pick your hosting provider, configure your own feed, and communicate with people on other platforms.

Is there any talk of requiring companies that have or intend to have effective monopolies due to network effects to make their services price-comparable (or aggregatable, in the case of the likes of Facebook where the "price" is your being served ads) in some way as you mentioned? It seems like it would do a lot to solve the problem. Not being able to shop around is antithetical to competition
I just want to note that the thing being read is a "Miranda warning". The rights enumerated in the warning already existed.

I was corrected about this a long time ago by a police officer who knew his stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_warning
I had to stop and check if it was satire.
It's not an easy problem! But Apple should work on solving it–they have already put in some effort in this direction on macOS, although they have their hands tied behind their back there because they're going from unrestrictive → restrictive and such changes usually break things and make people angry. On iOS they pretty much have a "clean slate" with which to start with.

Usually, solutions in this area generally have a couple of characteristics: the first is that the "secure" case is generally useful for 95+% of people, to the point that they might not even know that there are other "modes" that are more permissive. The second is putting surmountable but significant barriers in place to prevent disabling these features, in an attempt to prevent casual/unintentional deactivation. Strange key combinations that lead to scary text and wiping the device seem to be fairly effective in keeping out people who cannot give informed consent. And a third is allowing a user-specified root of trust: for example, one can imagine an iPhone that is every bit as secure as any other iPhone today because I have enabled all the security features, but it's using my keys to attest against instead of Apple's. There's a lot of interesting work being done in this area: one I personally like is Chromebooks, which have the dual purpose of being secure, "locked-down" devices for general consumer use, but also for being useful for development work. And there we're seeing interesting solutions such as using KVM to run an isolated Linux, developer mode, write protect screws, …
I don't think enough people yet understand distributed ledger tech. They are still seeing it through the lens of a currency, or a secured database.

I haven't had anyone yet dismiss my digital provenance use case for any technical reason, just the usual political pearl clutching and strawmen.

Someone tell me why it's technically a worse idea than ad hoc custom built database driven applications.
Maybe the patterns change and that is what makes humans good at it and automated things not.
> I am anxious however to learn more on the subject if you can provide additional evidence that legally the role of the US Federal government is to act as an oversight body for the states.

The Federal government has the power to apply consent decrees to specific police departments when those departments are found to have used force excessively, per the 1994 Violent Crime and Law Enforcement Act[0]. This essentially opens police departments up to lawsuits if they exhibit a pattern of bad behavior. In fact, this law explicitly requires DOJ to issue an annual report on "the use of excessive force by law enforcement officers", although they haven’t.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent_Crime_Control_and_La...
The Allergan example is interesting, super ballsy and got struck down.

It had to do with patent challenges through inter partie reviews (IPR) Basically Allergan transferred the patents to the tribe and said “they are sovereign and thus can’t be challenged through IPR”.
The federal government is responsible for enforcing citizens’ civil rights when states can’t, won’t or don’t.
Getting Things GNOME 0.4 released.
>> consumer grade is not well-defined
WD has laid out a reasonable standard. Blue/Black/Green are consumer grades. Red is for NAS and Gold is for enterprise.
This is the approach I take as well, and also think about it in terms of “setting things in stone”.

When you’re starting out a project and “discovering” the structure of it, it makes very little sense to lock things in place, especially when manual testing is inexpensive.

Once you have more confidence in your structure as it grows you can start hardening it, reducing the amount of manual testing you do along the way.

People that have hard and fast rules around testing don’t appreciate the lifecycle of a project. Different times call for different approaches, and there are always trade offs. This is the art of software.