skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that all restraint methods are upsetting, but "inject with dissociative drugs" should really be a lot further down the list than "hit with stick".

Personally, I favor hitting people with billy clubs, because it leaves evidence of what happened and it requires the police to actually take physical action against another human. Giving cops needles full of magic compliance juice seems less responsible to me.

The reason people were upset about Rodney King was because it was brutal and easy to understand. Injecting ketamine is also brutal but it's less visible. I cannot imagine anyone ever getting over the fact that they were restrained by authorities and injected into a k-hole.

They won't be visibly harmed in any way, but that will absolutely mess someone up for life.
Hmm, that’s interesting. Why is there no unlimited texting?
If his parents had that kind of money to invest, back then, he was already extremely rich.
So you were semi-conscious, could communicate, but could not move. I am afraid that is excellent drug to pacify someone. If we defund police and add more women in police force, we will see much wider use.
Specifically no, but I do know they are trained. That said, training is just that. If you see X, do Y. And sure, net, it's a positive thing. But again, they aren't medical doctors. It's not always IF THEN. Oftentimes it's IF AND NOT THEN.

Either way, I don't want to go down a rabbit hole of arguing life saving procedures. My entire point is that we should not be injecting people with non emergency drugs like Ketamine.
If someone breaks into your home what do you think police response time will be? 20 minutes? 40 minutes? An attacker can do a lot of damage and run away in that allotted time. The police will just be there to fill out the paper work after the fact.

Whatever course of action you take, do something in addition to or besides call the police.
The US is 5% wilderness (officially designated) but 97% rural.
It is already as up the stream as it goes, bruv. Debian is the well from which Debian packages spring.
Those aren't necessarily examples of Western companies displaying "aggressive levels of cultural ignorance", just examples that they've not penetrated the Japanese market (which I don't disagree, can be caused by cultural ignorance).

The last game I worked on getting publishing deals for, you could easily look at it and say "hah, cultural ignorance".

But we rejected deals with publishers who wanted to just give us some cash and then start promoting the game in various Asian countries with no changes, because we understood that changes were needed and that unless we, in Europe, hired people who knew exactly what to change we needed a publisher who would dictate the changes.

In the meantime... the cost of adding Japanese language to the game and not blocking Japanese buyers on Steam was minimal, far less than money made from a fairly small number of Japanese gamers buying it despite not being adapted at all. We just didn't have the business case for doing a proper Japanese version with a big push to get users there.
I'm already personally paying Mozilla $8/mo for their VPN and private browser extension.

If they offered something like the services offered by mailbox.org, or Librem One? I'd switch my GMail account tomorrow, including the storage fees I'm paying on it, and would do it at triple the cost for not abusing my data. Hell, they already have the domain experience with their proximity to Thunderbird devs.
Echoing your comments:

Playing with defi applications and dex’s this week got me pretty excited about where the space is headed.

There are now smart contracts that exist where the admin controls are disabled and users can do things like flash loans where you put up some collateral borrow huge sums of tokenized money and then pay it back in seconds or years later. No paper work, no counter party risk, intermediary is code. You pay gas fees and whatever apr you agreed to. https://dydx.exchange/

Dex’s are becoming awesome, https://uniswap.org is friggin rad. So easy to use.

There’s obviously going to be tons more scams and projects that blow up or get hacked, but out of this will come some very useful finance applications that never existed before.
This blog reminds me of one of the most frustrating naming patterns I see among coworkers, former students I TA'd, and open-source code: reversing the adjective or adverb with the noun. I attribute it to language barriers but seeing, in this blog, "VerseFake" instead of "FakeVerse" peeves me.

Its a VERSE class, not a FAKE class. It just so happens the class is described as a "fake" so...FakeVerse. Its like saying "Hey look a person tall!". While it sounds silly in english its incredibly pervasive in programming.

Another common pattern that drives me nuts is when people prefer nouns over strong verbs in functions. doDatabaseRestore instead of restoreDatabase.
yikes.

"Not injecting people with a drug without their consent" is not the equivalent of "let criminals run amok."

I have trouble reconciling the notion that after someone has been restrained to the point where it is considered safe to inject them with a drug, they find it necessary to inject a drug for the purpose of restraint.

It's a bit like placing your knee on the back of someone's neck who is already handcuffed and crying for his mother. Unnecessary, cruel, and dangerous.
Just thinking out loud here, but how long would this level of having no “major” wars have to last for it to have been worth it if it ends in nuclear war?
It's a search engine that searches other search engines for you with a focus on privacy (e.g. provides direct links to results instead of Google-style tracking links, etc): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx
Thanks, I wasn't aware of those Linux laptops, and will definitely check them out. I hadn't seen the Zephyrus G14 either. How great to have so many choices!
If you've seen the video footage of Elijah McClain you’d know there was no good reason for it to have been administered.
I disagree that it is evidence of some "lacking of personal responsibility". There are many concerns here from the health of the elderly to the potential unknown long-term effects of Covid-19, and so on. Another is the potentially long-term effects economically on the new entrants to the job market due to shutdowns.

We've seen the devastating effects and setbacks faced by millennials unfortunate enough to graduate during the Great Recession and found very few jobs in their fields. In other words, it's an important consideration: should the graduates and new entrants NOW, who are otherwise healthy adults capable of making their own risk assessments and caring for themselves, be by all means harshly economically impacted to ensure the safety of much older generations? Why can't we implement a scenario where the elderly are the ones locked inside with a check slid under their door while the rest of the world continues? What we currently have seems incredibly regressive: relatively well-off older generations holding the rest of the country hostage while the relatively poorer (and much less at risk) younger generations take the blow that may set them back for years or more.

I recognize that this is a very nuanced topic, and I didn't give nearly enough detail and information here to really lay out a fully equipped argument, but the point stands: there are more costs here than just the disease, and they may be more grave than the debate seems to mention.
> the Mac App Store is a pathetic ghost town for the most part

This definitely resonates with me. If you want to see what a good app store could look like, check out SetApp [0]. They charge a monthly fee for access to a curated list of paid apps, they offer a 7-day trial IIRC. I initially subscribed for their two email clients, then stopped using them as they were both shit (slow, glitchy, poor UX, etc.). I am still subscribed just because I like the idea and just how many apps they offer.

0: https://setapp.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20200823055904/https://www.youtub...

http://web.archive.org/web/20200823055750/https://www.youtub...
Back in 2018 it was estimated that bitcoin network itself used more energy than Switzerland. In addition to the energy this also translates to global warming.

Anyway you mentioned "If someone can show me a non-blockchain design for decentralised over-collateralised loans then I’ll concede and go back to full skeptic :)"

My question is, why it has to be decentralized and come with that huge cost?
People are doing that.

My kids tested sending https://kamalaharris.info and https://joebiden.info to each other on Instagram, in private messages. The sender would see that the message was successfully sent, but it would never arrive.

Another case is that the person who ran the primary campaign for Kamala Harris now works at Twitter, where he blocked an opponent's campaign account.
So there are only 2 options, violence by armed gangs and violence by state-sponsored armed gangs?
What is there to understand when it comes to police brutality? Not that western European police is without faults, but this feels just wrong on many different levels
I assume this is just a word-for-word translation for "зона полного разрушения".

If you "detonate" 100M Tzar Bomb on https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ it tells you that

>Moderate blast damage radius (5 psi): 32.6 km

So I assume that the “ring of absolute destruction” ~= "Moderate blast damage radius"
Why do you keep changing the subject of the discussion?

First, you wrote that most police and police unions are not antagonistic towards sectors outside of the usa.

Now, you wrote what is called a red-herring or a strawman.

You made a very strong but incorrect statement at first. Strong statements are easy to debunk, just with a little proof. I provided a link to pages of that. It's very telling that you now characterize that as "one case every four year average". That's telling, indeed.
(a wired connection, just to clarify)

Yes, it is ridiculous, and very common with Telekom (though there is a difference wrt. existing vs. new connection, that takes a couple of days usually everywhere) but of course the old tenant didn't have internet on the appt. Of course.
I've got a hand rolled direnv that's quite simple:

function lenv {
path=$PWD
while [[ ! -f "$path/.env" && "$path" != '/' ]]; do
path=$(dirname "$path")
done
if [ -f "$path/.env" ]; then
source "$path/.env"
fi
}

function cd { builtin cd "${@}"; lenv; }

It lacks the security but it works recursively and allows more than just environment variables. A common script I have is to automatically build for instance:

here=$(dirname ${BASH_SOURCE[0]})
function autobuild {
(
mkdir -p build
cd $here/build
../configure
while true; do
make && make check
inotifywait -qr -e close_write,delete $here/src $here/test $here/Makefile.am
done
)
}

I've tried generalizing the latter but between different targets, different build systems, different projects structures etc, copy and pasting something like this per project is the least worst option.
https://erowid.org/chemicals/ketamine/ketamine_dose.shtml

My goodness that's a lot of ketamine.

A "strong" recreational dose would be about 1mg/kg. 2.5mg/kg and the person is anesthetized.
"Chrome Apps"??

You mean the things they've been talking about deprecating since 2016?

https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.ht...
Testing the New Twitter API
Do they? I mean, most of these vendors are already competing, and unlike Firefox, they're not necessarily competing for the average Joe, but technical users who often have different priorities.

Those are also services that groups are used to paying for already, which means if they could eat the start-up costs, even at a reduced scale, they could make a profit at even a slight premium for things that they already do very well, and go from there.
"Please install this extension" is one that springs to mind.

Disclaimer: I work at Google, but unrelated to any of this.
What's interesting tech what isn't necessarily whats great for end users. Would you trust your mission critical data to a decentralized store? I wouldn't. What's the latency and throughput of Arweave? Can I serve 100k QPS off of it? What happens in the end of a protocol hack or client, bug? We've seen many blockchains destroyed by bugs and flaws, and we've seen others just fade.

I mean, we've already gone through several distributed file stores, FreeNet, eDonkey, Gnutella, OpenNap, etc. They were still attackable by organizations like the RIAA, but more than that, they were slow and unreliable. Adding financial incentives in I don't really think will improve things that much. How many people are running Ethereum clients and yet DApps are horrifically slow.
Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_lightbulb
Burning plastic should be first https://cen.acs.org/environment/sustainability/Should-plasti...
It just makes sense, because you have the "parent class" in front and can order classes in docs etc. "AnimalLand", "AnimalWater", "AnimalAir" instead of "LandAnimal", "WaterAnimal" and "AirAnimal".

In fact I would probably prefer databaseRestore to restoreDatabase for the same reason because it would allow to cognitively group database methods in your flat namespace instead of grouping restore methods.
Right, but we didn't notice it till to late.
I think it would be cool if there were some sort of currency kids could use in exchange for screen time.

Giving real money to kids as a reward has always been a bit iffy. What are they going to spend it on? Candy? Video games?

Screen time would probably be better since its something they’re going to consume multiple times everyday, but also something parents want to control.

Instead of giving them cash for completing chores, or getting good grades, give them something they could exchange for screen time. Let them earn interest accumulated screen time, or trade it away to their siblings. That’ll help them build some basic financial sense without them actually holding currency your family might need.

Would this need a blockchain? I’m not sure. I imagine a single company trying to do it wouldn’t go so well since there’s so a couple closed off ecosystems out there (ie Apple), and collecting data on children has legal problems.
Facebook is pressuring its independent fact-checkers to change their rulings
You probably have a phone with a limited coverage of European 3G/4G frequencies and/or need to change a setting on your phone.

These cities all have ok to good coverage, but if your phone can't match the frequencies you might have an issue (yes, it's ridiculous, and it's the same for some people visiting the US from Europe)
And your kids are watching Godard films?
And what was Uber aggressive levels of cultural ignorance?
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I don't know if "cable.co.uk" reads HN, but there is a mistake in the article: "Estonia is the cheapest of the three with 1GB costing an average of $1.27 and sits in 53rd place in the world, while in Estonia 1GB costs $1.85 on average"

One of those Estonias should likely be Lithuania
Sounds terrible. In a recent surgery in pre op they gave me Versed/Midazolam. I was so spacey it was weird and kinda scary. I can’t imagine what ketamine would be like
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Unfortunately it turns out the police can't read instructions and have a tendency to put far too much in. It's almost like people who administer drugs need some kind of training...
Facetime will be doing that in iOS 14
https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/06/22/facetime-eye-cont...
> This is clearly transformative. [...] The implications are still unclear

Around the time Bitcoin originated (or at least when the name was finally decided upon and the domain registered), the first commercial Android device was launched.

Since then the latter creation has put interconnected computers literally into the hands of virtually everyone on the planet, allowing for numerous other technologies, industries and markets to be built upon it.

That's clearly transformative.

What has "blockchain" transformed? Still unclear? After 12 years, that means clear.
> That arms race is the only reason why we haven't had a major war in the last 75 years, and won't have one in the foreseeable future.

The Cold War was one of largest wars in history by casualties, on the same rough order as (and possibly ahead of) WWI.

Nuclear weapons are a big part of why it was popular to maintain the rather paper-thin fiction that it was simply a series of separate conflicts that happened to have the same parties standing behind the principal combatants (or involving at most one of those backers directly).
> Some of them out of duty, others out of ambition.

Don't forget the fear component!

> Stalin was fascinated by the thought of a “super bomb” and set up an atomic bomb project and put Lavrentiy Beria change and told him that he had five years to produce an atomic bomb or face the consequences.

> Whilst the rest of the Soviet Union suffered shortages of men, materials and food, Beria setup a secret town and put in the top scientists to work on the atomic bomb with no expense was spared. Beria had two lists, one for those who would get promotion for their work and the other for those that failed, they would face the gulag or execution.

https://curious-droid.com/1209/how-the-atomic-race-was-won/

Another "highlight" was Korolev, one of the key designers of the Soviet rocket program, being sent to the gulag. Some of the design work he did was from the gulag. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Korolev#Imprisonment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharashka
No doubt it will bring in revenue... until the lawsuits start.
Speech Emotion Recognition Using Deep Learning
This would probably work well with a Teensy: https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/
Use Polaris to rapidly build a ReactJs application
If prices on raw materials and food go up, then yes. Otherwise, technology keeps up with the restraints. Malthus is still dead.
I am wondering how did they get their data especially for Switzerland. Here most of the plans have unlimited GB, so getting the price of a single one is quite tricky.

Also, looking at the price for the most expensive one (~50USD) makes me think: did they maybe just took the price of an unlimited plan and used that as price for a GB?

Lastly, average in this analysis does not really make sense to me. Especially as some very expensive plans can skew it to very large values.
Seems that hospitals love to give out Versed like candy.
This is right out of Contagion! I don’t understand why even I feel like an injected vaccine vs. a nasal one seems so different. Injected vaccines seem a bit scary and unknown but I can totally get behind a nasal spray. Very weird.
Like what apps? If I need something that depends on Google, there is always this:

https://opengapps.org/
Only due to the recent habit of tossing toys and all kinds of junk in recycling bins, where they don't belong. Over-recycling is worse for the planet than simply throwing away garbage responsibly. Most parts of the US have no shortage of landfill space.
Completely agree. The same thing pops up with filenames, as well as many automation tools where functions end up being commands. Python's fabric for example has a help function that dumps out possible commands in alphabetical order... the "restore_database" convention ends up being painful to sort out visually.
US educators confront back-to-school laptop shortage
> Uber eats didn't really become popular until the pandemic

Maybe it the place where I live (central Tokyo) but Uber eats was always huge even before the pandemic.

> iMessage vs Line

iMessage doesn't cater to Japanese needs but I fail to see why would iMessage be an example of aggressive levels of cultural ignorance.

> instagram vs Twitter

they are both SV companies with a huge userbase in Japan.

> Docomo is trying with Bikeshare since 2011 but it never took off.

Docomo is a Japanese company. I don't know why you included it.
Then why don't you? GSuite is a thing.
There's https://gsuite.google.com/pricing.html which even lets you have email@yourdomain.com running under Gmail.

To get rid of ads and get Spotify-like music on Youtube there's: https://www.youtube.com/premium
But make them non-transferable.
Will this work to migrate from the matrix.org homeserver to a self hosted one?

I want to run my own homeserver, but I've already got an account on matrix.org and would rather avoid losing my contacts + rooms if possible.
Are you experienced with drugs? Because most of my friends think ketamine is one the greatest drugs you can do. It would have probably a lot more fun if you were in a comfortable place, like your house, hanging out with your gf or something.

Some of the most chill and relaxed moments of my entire life have been on ketamine. I only do it occasionally because of the nasty chronic side-effects, though.
Mozilla let politics take over its corporation to the point where it's basically a far left extremist group now that's relying on semi-bribe funding from Google.

There's no technology left anymore.
What they're actually talking about is getting rid of the "swapper", also known by the misnomer "sched", which traditionally in BSD (and indeed AT&T Unix) systems ran as process 0. Process 0 now sleeps in an infinite loop.

The surprising thing was that it was still there in DragonFly BSD. I had been thinking of the DragonFly BSD kernel as more radical than that.
Here in Eastern Europe (Romania) it is definitely an option. I know both people who do and people who don't like to do it.
The real promise of the semiconductor revolution which made it simple for almost every human being to literally own computing machines which are more powerful than supercomputers of a few decades back is the promise of entirely owning ALL your data and performing your own computations locally and merely communicating with other peers by means of dumb pipes.

Just changing from Google to N does nothing towards this goal, and we're now even further away from the promise of a decentralised Internet than ever before I believe.

Wake me up when a non-tech user can spin up an email server the same way they can open a browser and and send emails to any other person on the net. And with phones being powered on 24x365, one would think the dream of being a home server would be easier than ever...

But of course this way promises no money/profit for businesses in general. Or at least less so, since vendor-lock in and data monetisation would be much more difficult if not impossible.
8D Audio Ever
https://youtu.be/x5LvDjpJBNk
SWIM is a tremendous fan of injected ketamine

> Think of the hypnosis scene from "Get Out"

this is EXACTLY right.

> an empty void for an eternity when it was only a few minutes.

if you maintained the ability to interpret audio and visual inputs, then probably 20-30 minutes, if SWIM had to guess.

> the thought that police use it to pacify someone during an arrest is sickening.

this is EXACTLY right.

reminds me of the psychonaught/rapist sex therapist guy who was mega-dosing women with MDMA or 2CB before forcing himself on them.
June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller Tried to Redesign Harlem
Buying a Tesla or something similar shouldn't be enough to very Exxon/Shell out of your life? Or you mean more abstractly? (E.g. the people transporting your food, mail, et al)
Maybe in games where you want more convincing NPCs, something like Skyrim, where the main characters are very well branched, but it’s impossible to give every one depth.
Do your friends generally take drugs involuntarily and without informed awareness of the effects and without a trusted trip sitter the first time they do something new and with associated negative circumstances (like a broken bone or an arrest)?
Ah, sorry for being obtuse, I meant "democratized" as a euphemism for US invasion. You can definitely be "democratized" without becoming democratic.