skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that framing issues in a way that allows people to avoid feeling like they have done something wrong is more effective. I also think most activists are aware of this.

I also think that crafting positive, uplifting messages requires a certain level of societal support. Hard to know what one could buy to stop police brutality right now, for instance. I suspect people will come up with things.

When I see a protest right now I don't think about a carefully crafted campaign. I think about a tent revival[1]. Just like a tent revival, sinners are welcome as long as they already want to repent, but there's not going to be a lot there to make you feel good if you aren't a believer. I see the Social Justice left as being in a phase like "young atheists"[2] or young gay people go through when they first embrace their identity: loud and proud and insistent that others recognize their validity.

I think a lot of people mistake preaching to the choir as preaching poorly to the unconverted. It's not unique in any way to the left - people often mistake messages that are intended for the conservative faithful as outreach and mock it for its ineffectiveness.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tent_revival
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/8rjtsi/young_athei...
Then come up with a different slogan? There isn’t any ambiguity in the word “defund.”
So half of the traffic is Chrome requests, but how much capacity is all of the traffic actually using?

Are the root servers 90% idle or are they overloaded? That changes everything. Also servers are fast, bandwidth is cheap, and DNS is lightweight. How is this really a major resource issue?
2014 Brendan Eich was removed and replaced with the Chief of Marketing as CEO[1][2].

I mentioned that it worries me back then and that nothing good can come out of the Chief marketing guy becoming CEO.

Today what we see is the result of that. Yandex browser on android has more chrome extension support than firefox for android.

This isn't just about Mozilla as a company. It's also about how we as a community supported Mozilla in becoming that company and now being surprised at why it does the things that it does.

Obama made a speech not too long ago about not to conflate people doing good things with being good in all situations. The only people always seeming to be good are the ones groomed to be politicians without ever sharing a bad opinion in public.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7551896

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7530807
GitHub should tie stars to commit hashes to avoid this sort of crap. Your repos stars is calculated from the started commits that are in this repo but not any it's forked from, on the default branch.

Still prone to abuse from transferring repo to credit somebody else, but the original repo owner would have to sign off on the transfer at least.
That's nice that you get told that you do a good job.

I second the idea about becoming an architect. There are also other roles like sales engineers, help desk, security consultants, etc. It depends on what you enjoy, how much human interaction you want, and what positions are available in your area.
Yes, that was the point of the Thiel fellowship. It gives out grants if you apply for people who decide to drop out / not go to college and pursue something ambitious.
Yes, Austin Russell dropped out of Stanford.
>racist individuals

So you have to rotate your entire police force every few years.
If you're feeling brave, you can either build your own TrackIR (basically super glue a few LEDs to a hat). IIRC you can also use OpenTrack with a regular USB webcam
> The police have all the responsibility to de-escalate situations

This is an absolutely naive position to take. Police have no such obligation, and citizens should absolutely be educated and informed on their rights.
The Fennel programming language: rationale
Previous record holders have used people in planes to scout for police. I'd imagine they did something similar. GPS systems that let people report speed traps probably help a lot too.
> I'm an American and have only seen the police rioting

I'm an American. I can't believe you can say that with a straight face. As soon as you say that ONLY the police are doing something wrong means you have an understanding of the situation that no facts will fix.
Sure, no one has suggested police departments as currently constituted should both exist and withdraw from Black neighborhoods, except for police unions applying terrorist negotiating tactics.

More relevant questions

(With regard to “defund the police”): should significant funding and responsibility be redirected from the police to preventive and specialized responsive social services?

(With regard to “dismantle/abolish the police”:) Should centralized all-purpose paramilitary local law enforcement agencies be disbanded, with law enforcement responsibilities distributed within specialized agencies whose agents (both armed law enforcement and other) would be domain specialists as well (for law enforcement officers) trained in law enforcement (which also involves transferring non-law enforcement responsibilities and funding more to non-law-enforcememt units.)
In my experience from living in Tanzania, malaria is way down in Africa. Almost everyone said that true malaria isn't very common. I started a school there and none of the 200 kids there got malaria over the 4 year span of the school's existence.

I think the statistics about it might be overestimating since people constantly say they have malaria, but rarely if ever have it. It means just sick colloquially in Swahili.
New model can detect deepfake images by looking at subtle visual artifacts
They probably chose 60Hz to match the broadcast framerate, but that doesn't seem fast enough to be accurate after fast collisions.
Everyone remembers when you are right and no one remembers when you are wrong when you make timelines like this.
Why such an emphatic no?

it is of course the officer's job to deal with the situation.
--

here is an analogy of a pedestrian crossing. It is the job of the motorist to pay attention, but it helps to train the pedestrian as well.
While the responsibility for the accident is put on the motorist, wont the pedestrian be better off with the training?
Have you currently open sourced the CMS? I couldn't find the source code.
> “You just don't know how things used to be before the police", which I think really misses what people are asking for ie: redistribution of grossly overbudgeted police departments to preventative

Or more likely they don’t think preventative measures work as well as you think they do.

Edit: Once you have seen acts of senseless violence - real cruel stuff - it is hard to believe that some people can be reliably rehabilitated.

Maybe that cruelty could have been nipped in the bud if they had received better care in the past - but that’s not a risk I would take with my community.
> If they weren't mostly lost they couldn't be valued antiques in the first place as they would still be common.

Not necessarily. There may never have been enough. That said, even if none were lost and there were enough available to meet demand when they were made, population increases mean that the number available per capita is going down increasing effective scarcity.
Can anyone in plain English explain the advantage of JAMstack over the typical nodejs or LAMP stack? All I seem to get is jargon filled press releases from companies with millions of dollars of venture capital.
Agreed although I don't think the delete after 10 tries will do anything if they're using a cracking software.
I feel like one of the worst things to happen to software engineering is telemetry. It just leads to companies cutting all the features that I like.
NOT FUCKING CHROME
Sorry to be the downer on this article, but if you head to oneroof's "news" page [0] you'll see their entire raison d'être is to push out articles for NZ's media outlets to reproduce in the hopes of encouraging the continued misallocation of capital into residential real estate. So them making light of the house heating situation is in extremely poor taste considering such issues as NZ being the only developed country in the world with significant instances of rheumatic fever [1] and a quarter of South Island renters being stuck with cold and mouldy accommodation [2] (which they couldn't leave for weeks due to the pandemic).

[0] https://www.oneroof.co.nz/news/latest-news

[1] https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/122260447/we-have-to...

[2] https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/warmth-issue-25-ren...
I have a Nintendo switch hooked up to a cheap USB capture card, which is hooked up to the jetson. The capture card also has HDMI out loopback so I can display it on the TV normally. It's a cheap streaming setup with some performance hiccups here and there. I don't have a webcam or anything, just the game stream.
90% is merely my own estimation of the size of the problem, and it's not really a well-reasoned estimate; I could just as easily have typed 99%.

I think the easiest way to get a number would be to count up all the "on a computer" patents that were issued, divide by the number of software patents in total and there's a nice lower bound.

> There are still a finite number of instructions that are unique and would reasonably pass muster under our patent laws. If you’d like to further clarify, I’d love to hear it.

I would say that there are actually an infinite number of unique programs. Of course the Incompleteness Theorem states that there are an infinite number of true facts which cannot be computed at all, under any system of logical thought, but inconveniently it doesn't tell you which ones. Nor does it say that there are only a finite number of computable things left over. The real problem is that most of these programs are very similar to each other, and most programs are useless.

As a concrete example, imagine the program that converts an MRI's sensor readings into an image that can be displayed on a screen. This is definitely a very useful program, and one that probably embodies many patentable inventions. But now consider the set of all programs which are almost exactly like that program, but have one typo. This is a much larger set of programs than the one program running on the MRI machine, and we haven't even considered the set of programs with two typos yet. The set of all programs then is vast, and it can never be fully enumerated.

Now, whether or not any of the patents embodied in the MRI program are "good" or not is a different question. I'm sure some of them are; the others are just an implementation of an existing idea but "on a computer", or are otherwise not novel, not new inventions, or are too obvious.
I WANT TO GET OFF MR. BONES WILD RIDE
Judge for yourself:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/how-i-beca...

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/george-floyd/minne...
I went to college with a girl from Africa who had Polio and was wheelchair bound. Good to know it's not a problem anymore!

She actually told me when she first came to America a doctor asked why she was in a wheelchair and she said Polio. The doctor didn't believe her!
> to trigger a "Sum of All Fears" scale event, a spying scandal that eclipses all prior scandals, and which outrages hundreds of millions of people like never before

Yep. I've spent most of my life searching for solutions that don't require that level of excess, but the problem is, it is a feature of human cognition that we don't learn until we are forced to (more precisely, we do not fix social, economic and political problems until something so extreme comes along that we can't ignore them anymore, usually due to some version of a threat to survival). E.g. - consequences.

The alternative is the boiled frog, and yet another feature of human cognition is the ability to normalize our conditions. If something goes on long enough, it'll simply become "the way things are" and go unchallenged. You avoid this by flashing quickly to the worst outcome so people realize that it exists.

This is a long way of saying "Humans perceive consequences on short timescales, not long ones" and it really, really sucks.
Your essentially saying, you won't use hardware x because software y is available. Allowing me to use software y does not impact you.
> there needs to be basic training for citizens as well.

Agreed. Citizens need to understand their Constitutional rights and their role as civil masters, and stop deferring, when setting policy, to totalitarians that are supposed to be their paid agents, but prefer to invert that power structure at the expense of citizen rights.

The state of civics education in America is appalling, as is the state of history education that would demonstrate the cost of the problem.
How to Unite AWS KMS with Serverless Application Model (Sam)
Right up there with telling an angry person to "calm down".
I've been using google DNS, and cloudflare DNS (as of late) since I found out about this ISP behavior.

It's unacceptable, it's unhelpful, and I see it as a vector for getting untrustworthy software on less savy users hardware.
It'd be interesting to note which application was supposedly used to copy the files around.

eg `rsync -aP` widely used by SysAdmin/DevOps people specifically sets the timestamp of copied files to match their source.
For me the biggest issue was authority/power on the Service Desk.

The worse cases are when the Customer Rep gets a problem from a customer they have little power to resolve.
When you are:

- logging tickets to a black hole of "higher tier" support with no communication back to you.

- "chasing them up for the customer" aka by putting notes in a ticket

...you feel powerless.

Then when the next call comes in from the customer you begin to think "Why am I even here. I can't do anything..."

Customer Support need to see their efforts make a difference, just like most people, in order to be motivated to do it again.
I regularly go on multi night wilderness backpacking trips–they are a big part of my life and make me happy for many reasons, but the appreciation they bring for the comforts of modern life is big every time.

After several days in the backcountry the comforts come back bit by bit on the way home: a soft and supportive seat in the car, warm or cool air at the touch of a button, hot coffee and eggs brought to your table, fresh water from the tap, a hot shower with soap, clean soft sheets and a supportive bed. It’s really a visceral experience of all of the comforts we take for granted every day.

I’ve been going on trips like this my whole life, and I always love being out there, but the experience of coming back to comfort and convenience never gets old.
You can get over 9 million queries per second from an AMD Epyc box https://en.blog.nic.cz/2019/12/10/epic-dns-benchmarking/ and over a million qps on more modest hardware https://www.knot-dns.cz/benchmark/ but a lot of the root DNS servers are running BIND so aren’t able to reach such lofty heights
The Age of Cyber Sovereignty
> All current Luminar holders will roll their equity stakes into the combined company , Luminar said.

Does this mean nobody is actually selling any of their shares?

Edit: Ah I got confused because this is called an "acquisition" but it's not really an acquisition, is it.
I wanted to write a snarky response to this and went to look for some ad hominem seasoning for my zinger on www.jefftk.com. But I got played. It's hard to hold malice against someone who donates over 50% of their income every year [0]. Good on you. I'm going to keep using my adblocker, though.

0. https://www.jefftk.com/donations
The military connection is very interesting. You're right, of course. Military training is very rigorous and, more importantly, consistent. Police training is a wild hodgepodge and also sometimes basically non-existent.

The other thing I have seen talked about in this context, and which I agree with, is that in the military you are trained as part of a larger unit and loyal to an even larger cause/organization.

Police, on the other hand, are given a partner who they might serve with primarily for years almost-exclusivity. They become loyal to a very small group of people over their career and don't have the same esprit de corps as the military.

To some degree I think they both attract dangerous/violent people who are joining for the wrong reasons. (The desire to hold power over others or just flat-out hurt people). But the Military is more likely to drum these people out, especially before the worst happens, where police don't.
The 2nd Amendment explicitly disagrees with you :)

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Everybody always remembers that last part, but take a look at the very beginning. Three branches—Executive, Legislative, and Judicial—deal in the world of law and are supposed to keep each other in check and balance. Three branches—Militia, Police, and Military—deal in the world of force and are supposed to keep each other in check and balance. Except now in 2020 we're being told nobody in the first group should ever need a tool to defend themselves, and the other two groups resemble each other more and more every day.
Ask HN: Who's “Arrington”?
While looking at very old HN submissions, I found that a user named "Arrington" has commented on every single one with the words "This is why we can't have nice things." All of his comments are [dead]. What happened?
Seems insufficient that the conclusion is just to check the received board against the schematic and BOM.
One of the problems is how police education happens. In Europe, police education starts in high school, you go to a specialized high school for it (and then continue to police college). As a result, the police are much more skilled and professional. You start by studying the law. I don't think you even shoot a gun before you know the law very well.

It's unheard of that the police would say shoot a drunk guy with a knife. The way it happens, is that one of the cops who has more martial arts experience (which is one of the things the cops study, which they can do since their education takes much longer) puts on a protective vest and physically immobilizes the drunk.

In the US, the same situation is very likely to end up with the the drunk having more holes in him than a colander.

What's also funny to me is the extent to which police in the US tackle people. Tackling someone is like the worst idea in the world.
I found a new home for my kitty.

I do not "afford" food, because I do not pay for it.

I eat food others offer me or when I find it in discarded food.

I have participated in the "food stamps" program, but that does not last long, and it's only a small component of my diet. I also largely use them to buy food to share with others, not solely for myself.

As another poster mentioned, there is a lot of good food in dumpsters, as well.
Dang, 90% chance we'll have AGI* in 50 years? I would bet money against that prediction if I could. Any bookies out there? There's just no way AGI can replace blue collar work like plumbers and electricians, etc. that quickly. Programmers, also unlikely. Sure, you can have AIs generate more code for you, but then you'll just have the programmers working one abstraction layer up from that. Also, AI-generated entertainment always has and always will suck. I will eat my hat if an AI in 50 years can generate a full length, original hollywood-esque movie that I enjoy. Heck, I'll even settle for a book that can rival human authors.

Sure, I could see a lot of medical professions and other "knowledge bank" type jobs being replaced. I've always thought optometrists could largely be replaced with "measure my prescription" booths controlled by a computer. But anything requiring any creative juice whatsoever will likely not be replaced.

*Yes, it's not true AGI but AI that replaces 95% of all jobs
In dual licensing you wan the free option to be as scary as possible.
I'm not here to agree with the who you responded to, but Google smuggling unblockable ads does 100% harm Brave. If part of Brave's selling point is the built-in ad blocking and in a hypothetical dystopian scenario the web were overrun with unblockable ads from WebBundles Brave would inevitably be harmed to some degree. I say that as someone who runs Brave on my phone primarily. I know I'd probably switch browsers if one of the primary reasons to use it were largely killed off.
Over 30 people have been killed by the rioters not the police during these violent riots,
If all you’re doing is using a cloud provider to host a bunch of VMs, you’ve already lost the plot. Once you use any cloud provider as a glorified colo without changing any of your processes you’re already spending more than a colo and not getting any of the benefits of managed services.

Have you ever budgeted a project plan involving a large migration.
But isn't Google's business collecting user data and then providing assistance to other companies that may want to stuff trash ads down your throat?

Google's search engine is not an "internet standard". Being the default on Chrome, that is in effect what this DNS querying behaviour is protecting. Protecting Google "search via the address bar" is also the raison d'etre for Google Public DNS. Back in 2008/2009, this type of "search" was being hijacked by OpenDNS.

The solution to not having DNS "hijacked" is to have more user control of DNS. Letting users select a third party DNS provider is better than no choice at all, but that is not really control. The third party still has control. Unfortunately, full user control -- the best solution to stop hijacking and other DNS tricks -- is not what Google and others are promoting.

By design, I have no entries for certain Google domains in the zone files I use on the LAN. I have seen how much involuntary DNS traffic there is from Chrome and other Google software 24/7 (including queries for these random strings). It is significant, even for just one user. Why don't they provide an option to turn this off.
The US is indeed a different place than countries where unarmed police are the norm.

It's a pretty sad realization that perhaps the reason we have such violent police is, in part, because we have such a violent society.
Tuesday Letter #13 – Meditations, Learnings and Cool Projects
Wait until they’re so ripe they can be spread like butter.