skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No matter what the topic is, if you focus only on the negatives and pretend the positives don't exist, it's gonna sound bad. Reasonable people can argue about whether the negatives outweigh the positives, but reasonable people don't pretend that that there just aren't any positives.
I don’t know if the OP is even on Facebook, but I it noteworthy that it’s not on their list of sample blocked sites. I don’t find FB to be addictive either, unlike a lot of people. Usually when I check it, I find myself a quick skim of notifications and the newsfeed to be sufficient, really just a minute or two a day. It runs counter to the popular narrative of Facebook addiction.

Anyone else feel that way? I wonder if it’s because Facebook has no longer become a place for novel content, and there’s an aversion to lingering on it. Of course this is my personal opinion, but I do think it’s easier to find topical content on Twitter and HN, and so they’re more distracting and worth blocking.
I use Roam [0] with Neuracache [1] to get a similar workflow to what you're describing. My notes are hierarchical and searchable w/ Roam. If I want to create an Anki entry, I add #flashcard anywhere in the note. I use secondary tags and links to further categorize these notes. The next time I import my Roam db to Neuracache all #flashcard entries are synced.

[0] https://roamresearch.com/
[1] https://neuracache.com/
What do you mean by “suspend civil liberties”?

These people are being detained by people with POLICE written on their vests, charged in front of a magistrate, and released. All the info is on the Portland website of arrests.

https://oregon.staterecords.org/multnomah

What civil liberty has been suspended?
Defeatist, maybe. But short of finding an outlet whose editorial slant matches one's preconceptions, I can't imagine doing better. https://ria.ru will reliably run the russian slant. https://apnews.com will reliably run the US slant. https://www.bbc.com may be relatively neutral on US politics, but internationally it reliably runs an anglophone slant. I don't read chinese, so I don't know what their equivalent may be, but I'll bet it runs a chinese slant. (a while ago, I found a website that seems to be running the north korean slant, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23738281 . Even the Amish had, at one point, http://www.thebudgetnewspaper.com . It may be a little while before they notice it's down.)
> coworker would have also worked

I think some consideration of the social aspect here is required. I agree that part of a marriage is agreeing to help one another in these small accountabilities, but, if a random coworker tried to impose this on me, I would not appreciate even the small imposition on my time. It's not, and shouldn't be, my job to help a random coworker stop procrastinating.

… But maybe you meant "a coworker who is also a friend", in which case it's fine; but still then I'd argue that the important point is that you could give it to a friend, not that you give it to a coworker. In fact, even from a selfish point of view, the friendship is important: if a coworker asks this of me who isn't already a friend, then I'm less likely to spend energy in arguing with any password request, and so will simply grant it reflexively.
I'm a xenophilic restrictionist.

Open borders or xenophobia is a false binary.
Ask HN: If you are not failing you are not growing” – Agree or disagree?
Been working at a FAANG for 4 years and I can't remember my last failure. Work flows are very expected and not much challenge is given.

What constitutes a failure? When and what was your last one?
Gaslighting occurs with respect to a current situation, not a hypothetical.

Here are top results on Google for "defund the police."

“Defund the police” means reallocating or redirecting funding away from the police department to other government agencies ...

“Defund the police” means reallocating or redirecting funding away from the police department to other government agencies funded by the local municipality.

"Defund the police" is a slogan that supports divesting funds from police departments and reallocating them to non-policing forms of public safety and community support, such as social services, youth services, housing, education, healthcare and other community resources.

Instead of funding a police department, a sizable chunk of a city's budget is invested in communities, especially marginalized ...

Police abolition means reducing, with the vision of eventually eliminating, our reliance on policing to secure our public safety. It ...

No sources in these results say "create a power vacuum". That is the invention of critics. Please demonstrate otherwise.
So I can not pay for it if I don't use it? Donation is a form of association.
If a significant number of players defect, the scam as a whole would stop working.

Presumably all competent scammers benefit from being able to repeat the scam, and would lose out if the scam stopped working, so they all have an incentive not to defect.

Scams like this depend on the scammers understanding the incentives better than their targets and so it’s reasonable to assume that the scammers are aware of the context.

However - this is probably true as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23949046
For a little more effort you could "interleave" the Sentinel 2 images as well, which are of a similar resolution and also have a simple access API.
So if I were to grab you off of the street, question you, refuse to answer your questions and drop you off 30 minutes later without physically harming you... you'd be fine with that?
I wager no firmwares support them at all. Those work only after whole system boots up and loads appropriate drivers.
This might be interesting: how about a hundred years ago, a German Carpenter dressed up as a Prussian officer and got the local guards to hand over the town treasury. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23950138
> Is America really such a police state now that you are just supposed to submit to anyone in a uniform? And does this not seem ripe for abuse to everyone else?

The snarky answer is: if people with guns come up to you and tell you to come with them, you should probably comply, especially if they aren't cops. But really you raise a good point, one that the ACLU's lawsuit explicitly brings up.

I recall a case (I think in Myrtle Beach) where some police officers broke conducted a no-knock warrant to arrest someone, but they did so in plain clothes and did not announce that they were officers and that the person was under arrest. The person, fearing for his safety, came out of his bedroom with a gun and the officers shot him multiple times. He later sued. I remember the opinion from the judges was absolutely scathing. They held that the officers would be personally liable for damages (i.e. the would have to pay this guy out of their own pockets, not just the city). I recall listening to oral arguments and at one point the defense rhetorically said something to the effect of "he had a gun, were the officers supposed to just stand there and get shot?" And the judges essentially responded "yes".

Now part of that conclusion rested on the fact that he has a right to defend his home, and there's some specific case law there ( I believe Heller calls out defending your home specifically). But I wouldn't be surprised if it was perfectly legal to refuse to go with someone who does not identify themselves, and even to respond with force if they assault you. But it's probably not the wisest thing to do. Best thing to do would probably be to record them and take legal action. I think the craziest thing about this is that the people getting arrested by these weird federal agents are all being released within hours without charges, because these arrests violate all normal procedures. Actually I kind of wish they would try to prosecute these protesters. Because you have the right to face your accuser, and during discovery all of the information about who these people are and who ordered them to do what would come to light.
Good idea in principle, appears to be well executed, but this must not be a service. Just because it can be made into one, it doesn't mean it should be.

No reason whatsoever why this can't be a locally hosted offline web app that uses local storage for its state. I can see some people wanting to do their exercises using several devices and for that an optional syncing service would make sense, but adding a permanent online dependency for what is inherently an offline app operating with local data makes zero sense. Even if it were free.
Are you using Firefox with DNS-over-https?
No, that's not the difference. The contacts are stored inside the system's framework.

The difference is in how people report themselves as infected. That has to match the country's process for verification of the result.
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Yes, some sites are more resilient somehow. I experience the same thing with twitter. You could try flushing your dns cache but IIRC that didn't even work for me.
Pithy statements should be a solid rhetorical technique for 6th grade debate class. They should also have no place intellectually mature discussion.

That statements like Hanlan's Razor, Occam's Razor, should be regarded as "truths" is the kind of BS that propagandists use to elevate their position.
They exist, definitely.

But I think there are far more front-end developers who know (and are amazing at) CSS, Javascript, react, and all that stuff - and have no ability to diagnose, or resolve server-side problems (be they overheating CPUs, bad RAM, flaky DNS, or other problems).
A control with many, many confounding variables is the GP's point.
This is false and is a modern political narrative. It came from the British Bill of rights which explicitly states otherwise... In most if not all of history the police force was the same as the military.
He also founded the company that sells the food for this treatment:

> Longo is the founder of and has an ownership interest in L-Nutra; the company's food products are used in studies of the fasting-mimicking diet. Longo's interest in L-Nutra was disclosed and managed per USC's conflicts-of-interest policies. USC has an ownership interest in L-Nutra and the potential to receive royalty payments from L-Nutra. USC's financial interest in the company has been disclosed and managed under USC's institutional conflict of interest policies.
I don't think it's buggy, but it's probably too simple. From my observation, it just starts the counter on any HTTP request (with appropriate session data in it, of course). This means if you have HN open on a mobile phone and/or you have lots of tabs, there may be spurious reloads happening even when you're not looking at the page - all of which will start the noprocrast timer.
Endowments aren't slush funds that can be used for anything; they are frequently restricted towards specific purposes, like an endowed professorship/endowed chair. See, for example: https://www.aau.edu/sites/default/files/AAU%20Files/Key%20Is...

"A typical endowment consists of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of individual
funds. In most cases, the donors who have created these funds have set restrictions on how their donations may be spent. In 2007-8, about 78 percent of endowment assets at public institutions were under such restrictions; an average of 55 percent of the resources contained in private university endowments were restricted (See National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) 2008 Endowment Study). In such cases, money restricted for research in a specific subject, for example, may not be applied toward student financial aid, and vice versa. Donations are typically restricted to fund student scholarships, conduct specific kinds of research, finance specific programs to enhance undergraduate and graduate education, create professorships in specified fields, develop or maintain teaching and research facilities, or improve a wide range of campus activities, including the arts, public service, student housing, and athletics."

However, other articles go on to note that money is fungible, making the restrictions less onerous than they appear. If, for example, a specific restricted endowment fund is restricted to providing scholarships, it still reduces the amount of scholarship money the university has to provide out of general funds by the amount the restricted endowment provides, freeing up that money to be used elsewhere.
Continued gerrymandering keeps the incumbents in power. Ongoing voter suppression targeted at minorities silences their political voices and swings elections, denying democracy its due. Since 1990, the Republican party has won the popular vote for president once, but won the presidency 3 times. 2018 was a wave year where the left picked up a huge number of seats in the house. And the federal government isn't everything. State and local governments hold enormous power, and where progress can be made, progressives are elected. Theres also huge amounts of money in politics thanks to a really destructive supreme court ruling. And do you really think the people in Minneapolis protesting are going to vote for trump and support officials that refuse to serve their interests? I understand you might not be familiar with why people are protesting and the ways the political system is broken. Hell, I don't know what's going on in the UK with brexit and their protests everything for example, and I dont know what the electoral dynamics and structural problems are. And that's fine, because I'm not going around oversimplifying issues I dont understand and saying "wow these dumb Brits are so self destructive why do they keep voting for dumb stuff." Same thing. I'd recommend actually understanding what's going on before making sweeping incorrect statements about how America works. Again - Americans electing leaders that refuse to serve "their" interests. Do you think this deeply politically divided country is some sort of monolith? Do you really think the people protesting are the ones that voted for Trump?
If you're intending to disqualify a peer-reviewed study being covered by Smithsonian Mag due to a single sentence then yeah, you're being pedantic.
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Eating nails! We need to ban nails immediately. 20 years prison per nail!
Since the contract tracing api doesn’t give information to Apple or Google, it’s hard to see what relevance this comment has.
No, I won’t do that work for you. Get some serious numbers for yourself and see.
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Of course the risk isn't equal, it's just that the argument "look at these people risking the live of others by going out" can't hold absolutely because even going groceries is risking the lives of others so the argument needs to take into the risks and reward to decide if it's reckless or not.

So yes BLM protests are high risk, but to the protesters they're also high reward if they manage to affect change which, largely, they are!

Reckless would be going to a music festival right now, and in my opinion, opening schools. The reward just isn't there. Kids will be happy to have an extra long summer break.
I did, I replied to you.

But OP did their argument a huge disservice. Even considering I wasn't focused on that aspect given I specifically chose "bad guys" instead of terrorists. Or that their concept that drugs are necessarily connected with crime. Their argument with or without adding in terrorism is based upon a either a lie or a misunderstanding. One that would wrongly have additional credibility seeming to be true if it got up voted.

But I'm curious to why you're blaming me (rhetorically) for perpetuating a reactive culture when not only am I not even sure what that means, but I didn't even downvote him.
>he was strongly invested in promoting intermittent fasting prior to this research being done, even to the point of selling a $300 mail order diet.

The most ingenious business scheme ever devised: a mail-order fasting diet.
There are videos where we can clearly see these unmarked agents (yes they are unmarked if they have no name or number) attacking and detaining medics without reading them their rights.

Those are the violations of civil liberties we are discussing and this argument throws out.
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Yes. Dominating persons are an impediment to effective teamwork.
This logic applies against all 'victimless' crimes, including drug possession & use.
I understood it that everyone in the chain raises their prices to cover how high it’s predicted to be.
[pipx](https://pipxproject.github.io/pipx/) is a nice way to download python CLI apps in a separate contained virtual env. But I couldn't install your app with it:

https://pastebin.com/syUPRDCp
I might add that insulting people might not provide a way to encourage “intellectually mature discussion” either.
Well, I'm not saying we should jump to the other extreme - though, suppression or denial of rumors doesn't really help them go away. Streisand effect, etc. Rather, I'm just reacting to the parent's claim that we shouldn't discuss anything that doesn't already have substantiative evidence behind it - if we applied that principle more generally, physics would come to a standstill.
I'm not sure we can. What ideas do you have in mind? The obvious strategy would be for local leaders to show up in person to express sympathy and solidarity with the cause, but that's been tried and doesn't seem to have changed anything.

I've seen some people float "do everything the mob demands so they won't have to follow through on their threats", but I hope we can agree that doing that would itself constitute mob rule.
The main developer is very open to merging, so there must have been good reasons to not merge - I presume either code quality or requirements for network connection, which Gadgetbridge intentionally does not permit.
If there were no gatekeepers on this, how much contact tracing fraud and malware would there be?
Self referential comment.
I'm a mechanical engineer who writes software for mechanical engineers. I find that the work of MechE moves slower due to operational issues. if there could move fast and break things cheaply to get to market faster they would. all that matters is that the final product is tested and hardened which is something that software shops mostly do anyways

not to mention things like generative design and process automation are getting us to that point.
Whether or not you are interested in politics, politics is interested in you. It's unavoidable.
Didn't work on Firefox, chrome or edge. I haven't enabled DNS over https specifically, just stock install
> The government already gave them carte blanche to shoot, maim and abduct citizens for exercising constitutional rights to assembly and speech.

Don’t be hyperbolic.

They may have the ability to abuse their position as police officers to do all that, but the government and the law has certainly not given them permission.

Any officer caught breaking the law like this, does run the risk of himself getting arrested and losing his job (even though the risk may be smaller than we’d like it to be).
I live in Ireland and our contact tracing app (using Google+Apple tech) seems to be doing well. There was about 1 million install 1-2 days after it launched, currently standing at 1.4 million installs (population is 4.9 million), along with some positive contacts reported:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53525712

It was also donated to open source.

https://www.nearform.com/blog/ireland-donates-contact-tracin...

While that is useful I think each country will face its own challenges with adoption.
I remember watching a British police reality show and they found a bb gun in a persons home. The police, so unfamiliar with firearms, thought it was real and couldn't figure out how to "unload the rounds". Soon, they brought in an officer from their version of SWAT that quickly laughed it off.
Example of the success of the German app: https://www.lra-bgl.de/t/das-landratsamt/aktuelles/details/n... (sorry German)

In the region of Berchtesgaden a asymptomatic person for a warning from their app and was confirmed positive. Due to the app that person didn't spread further.

Now we can argue how many of such cases we need for calling it a true success and then we can discuss if a single case makes the news if that's a bad sign ... on the later it's important to mind that certainly not every case makes that news and it's from a region with low virus load to begin with.
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There is no such thing as a victimless crime.
Well I'd counter it with:

> Young people aren’t hanging out in the park right now, Gudberg explains, because they’re in after-school classes in these facilities, or in clubs for music, dance, or art.

> A law was also passed prohibiting children aged between 13 and 16 from being outside after 10 p.m. in winter and midnight in summer.

> not to allow their kids to have unsupervised parties

> Birgir trains five or six times a week; Jón, who is in his first year of a business degree at the University of Iceland, trains five times a week. They both started regular after-school training when they were six years old.

I think key is this sentence though:

> Was there pressure to train when they’d rather have been doing something else? “No, we just had fun playing football,” says Birgir. Jón adds, “We tried it and got used to it, and so we kept on doing it.”

It's certainly up to the parents to make it a really free choice (and up to the state to provide it). Maybe you are right and it's really mainly a good thing :). I hope it is.
The vast majority of 2nd Amendment supporters (vocal enough to be advocates) are also staunch supporters of the NRA and its rhetoric.

This is the reason the Second Amendment and gun rights are almost exclusively associated with The NRA and Republicans in the US, and why gun sales in the US always peak during Democratic administrations.

Also, there is a long and established relationship between militia movements in the US and right-wing/white supremacist ideology, which serves to create sympathy among gun rights advocates with authoritarianism which just happens to target leftists, immigrants and minorities.
You do realise Google doesn't use this data to target ads, right? Nor do you need an account.
First of all let me say I appreciate your civility and candor and that I believe you, and your friends, truly believe that your choice is honorable and just. However, consider that many, many people do not have the same privileges of the typical young, affluent and still comfortably employed HN audience. Many people, who worked incredibly hard to buy their chuck-e-cheese franchise or their hair salon are middle aged, have a family to support and no way to do it. Many of them will never recover from this. They are too old, too broke, and do not have the sort of mind that can give them access to the highly paid jobs that we take for granted. Their protests strike me as at least equally noble and justified. Its a big country and tragedy abounds. You can weave true, heartbreaking narratives about almost any group. The question of which of those are worthy enough to justify spreading this germ seems to me, at present, ridiculous. None are. Protests in the streets now just increase our division, make it impossible to take appeals for a lock down seriously and will ultimately just plunge us, all of us, deeper into the hell we are already in.
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I watched Warren Beatty's "Dick Tracy" movie (from 1990?) last week and as part of the plot, one mobster (played by Al Pacino) mattert-of-factly sent thungs-dressed-as-cops to "arrest" and later kill a competing mobster.

I'm sure if you go take a stroll down the history of crime, both fictionalized and real, this has happened tens of times.