skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is it a conspiracy theory that the timestamps were modified? Timestamps aren't difficult to modify and it's not hard to imagine a script introducing jitter to make it realistic. It's also not a stretch to believe that real USB transfers were used to create the timestamp, but it doesn't indicate that the primary hack/exfiltration was done via a USB transfer.

I don't think you know what a conspiracy theory is or why they tend to be ridiculous.

It's hardly wild to think that a bad actor capable of exfiltrating sensitive data might also cover its tracks by easily modifying metadata of files that the bad actor itself is leaking. That's not a conspiracy at all, timestamps can be modified alone without much difficulty and without recruiting a conspiracy of people and institutions.

Binney's argument, however, is wildly conspiratorial. Let me highlight a quote from the AMA [1]:

> They all blocked any reference to the forensic evidence we were coming up with, publicly. They were all part of it. It includes the Mueller investigation and the Rosenstein indictments.

Apparently it's more likely that multiple political and judicial institutions were "part" of an effort to block critical evidence. But wait, there's more:

> The MSM doesn't want anyone to know it happened!

Ah, all the "mainstream media" outlets were also in on it! Apparently they also worked with the multiple political and judicial institutions to hide this fact from the people.

Apparently The Mueller report, the intelligence agencies, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence are all wrong, were all part of an effort to hide important evidence, and even the many organizations that comprise the "Mainstream Media" are all in it together to stop people from knowing about it.

Wow, this is a secret and intimate collaboration between massive organizations on a scale we've never seen before. It's ridiculous.

It's not that I don't believe timestamps are usually accurate, it's that I don't believe easily modifiable timestamps is more reliable as evidence than the extensive intelligence and investigation carried out and reported by multiple independent institutions.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/igeixp/i_am_william_b...
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Thank you, I will look into it. In other areas of my life I sometimes feel like I do have ADHD.
I agree, and I think that the Venn diagram of possible futures to consider includes not just AI, climate change and mass extinction of ecosystems, but also nuclear war.
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Yep. In Seattle the vast majority of protests had no issues, because they were peaceful, permitted, and constructive. Literally the only ones that ran into problems with the police were the ones that were breaking the law, violating police orders, committing violence, blocking highways, etc. Those particular situations were often claimed to be “peaceful protests” in social media but were definitely just violent rioting and opportunistic destruction/theft.

I have no idea how people have fallen for the misleading narrative that violence was caused by police. It’s a textbook example of either the naivety of an emotionally charged mob, or incredible social media marketing, or both.

Unfortunately many well-meaning protesters were also swept up in events that were subsumed by antifa/far left groups whose aim was confrontation and violence. For them, the coming backlash against their movement (due to violence) is going to sting.
GP might have been thinking of MPs. ISTM many of the ex-military people who become cops had served as MPs.
> Incentivize customers not to pick up the phone and call

How companies should do this: provide self-serve options for most things. Make the status of a long-running transaction transparent. Fix issues that cause people to call in the first place.

How companies actually do this:

IVR>You can find self service options on our

Customer> 0

IVR> .. site to check your ...

Customer> 0

IVR> ... transfer funds and ...

Customer> 000000...
Or the “community” is a fiction itself.
Per wiki looks like just over 200 deaths involving Amtrak since 1971 - not including most grade crossing accidents and trespasser strikes.
> Why fret so much over the language though

Because impressions matter, and if you want to get buy-in from an already weary broader populace, you need to have clear messaging.

Shouting "defund the police" in the middle of riots where innocent bystanders are attacked and businesses are looted is terrible messaging.

BLM have overplayed their hand at this point and are on the cusp of real public backlash.
People are protesting because that’s simply untrue.
AFAIK it generates a dynamic CVV. Your credit card number stays the same.
It isn’t, it only shows you know absolutely nothing about police budgets, and your well intentioned but incredibly naive attempt at social engineering using completely untested ideas will get more people killed.
- Laid off about 250 employees.
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> Police have no such obligation

Maybe the _sophisticated_ approach here is to say they should have that obligation?
I've been saying for years we should switch to credit card numbers which are a nice easy sha512
What form does it take in your country? Is it based on the amount of melanin in the profiling victim's skin, or are there other arbitrary factors?
This loses such a big advantage that the current services have... only entering your information once and being able to order from any restaurant in a single portal.

As for discovery, I don’t have data, but I know personally that about half of my regular order spots are places I found by scrolling through door dash.
Show HN: Cover BLM protestor faces with a black fist
But the grocery store doesn't do surgeries or tennis lessons. If the grocery store was responsible for surgeries and doing a bad job, i absolutely would defund them and give the money to surgeons instead. Surgeons are trained at doing surgery. See what i did there? Same applies to police dealing with mental ill people. Mental health professionals should be involved instead.

This sounds like an absurd analogy but only because America doesn't know how to operate community services in any other way than with a heavy police force. It's a failure of imagination and / or unwilling to look at the rest of the world for successful examples of alternative methods.
Are you suggesting some people are biologically destined to be bad actors?

Can you not fathom that we're systemically keeping said group of people weak and hopeless?
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Anecdotally of course, most of the MPs I’ve known act much like the civilian police and are trained much like them. My father was an MP.
Couple of points:

1. Not clear how likes proxy to "success" in terms of dating. Some people are just looking for one night stands, while another might be looking for something more long term. If women are consistently looking for something long term, and have to get to at least the third/fourth/x-th date to have a "success", then it makes sense for them to be pickier than men who only are looking for the first date.

2. Not clear how this extends out into the general "Dating Economy", it's quite possible that there is a certain pathological case of people who get stuck in the dating sphere for an extended period of time who end up distorting the statistics. Compare this to the fact that 50% of marriages end in divorce, but that's mostly driven by people who get divorced multiple times, and first marriages have a much higher success rate. Among people who actually do settle, it may be that women have more inequality in their dating market then men do.

3. We're not mentioning that women aren't swiping as much because for them there is a serious fear of being assaulted when going on a date, while for a man that is greatly diminished.
HTTP/3 still allows content blocking, and that's what they're trying to eliminate.
I never understood why baseball doesn't just go all out aluminum. Make the stadiums bigger, put more players on the field, whatever...
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Public philanthropy by billionaires of what for them is actually a miniscule portion of their wealth is suspect. But this is not that.

I can't speak for Mr. Kaufman, but I imagine he shares this information publicly not to brag, but to encourage a new norm of publically donating a significant portion of one's income to effective charity.

He and his partner may have literally saved hundreds of lives with their contributions over the last few years alone[0].

What have you done for the world lately? For myself, the answer is: not enough.

0.https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effec...
Interesting bit of trivia: at -40 it's not necessary to specify C or F, that's the point where they're both the same.

When I was a kid in the boy scouts, they had an award they gave out when the total low (with wind chill) on the days you camped added up to -100F. I got the award one weekend - one day was -60, the other was -40.
Oh good, now we only have domesticated polio
I believe the Get IEEE project has shifted its web location over the years, which probably explains those broken links.

I did a search for "Get IEEE" which gave me the updated one.
The claim is not "Citizens need to take responsibility for de-escalating situations," the claim is "If the citizenry, as a whole, were less deferential to police and more aware of when police were overstepping their authority, police would be less inclined to abuse their authority."

It's not the job of any individual citizen to fix the police, but it sure is the job of the democratic society as a whole to fix it (because if you make it the police's job, they're certainly not going to actually do it).
>Look I'm no fan of drone strikes in general, but if you leave the United States to go join a terrorist organization and incite violence against the U.S. and other innocent people in other countries like Somalia..you clearly have lost Constitutional protection. We don't give trials for foreign terrorists or armies, that's a given.

So if I accuse you of a bad enough crime due process doesn't matter? Seems like a pretty easy loophole to exploit. And even if you can justify stripping al-Awlaki of his rights, it's pretty hard to justify killing his US citizen 16 year old son.
The US DoD has a perfectly useful and operable PKI infrastructure https://www.cac.mil/Common-Access-Card/CAC-Security/
Unfortunately, The whole defund the police movement is going to backfire on the Democrats. Safety is pretty important in Maslow's hierarchy of needs. If Democrats get branded as the anti-police party they are going to lose move votes then they are going to gain by the vocal minority opinion.
Yes agreed. I worked as a Wildfire Fighter for BC gov. for the past 6 years. We had big fire seasons in 2017/2018 which were quite anomalous [0].

For example, the largest fire in 2017 was larger than the total area burned in any previous year. While 2018 surpassed the record breaking total area burned from 2017.

They were accompanied by a weather pattern that we hadn't seen before: We were setting records for the BUI, an index to track moisture content in trees, by mid June. This was accompanied by record flooding. I watched on lookout as 70 km winds pushed a fire 40 km down a valley in one day. So the primary variable in my mind was always the odd weather. I'm sure that fire suppression and invasive species are variables but the weighting was perhaps 10:1 to weather in the anomalous years.

[0] https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/wildfire-status/ab...
When I was 14, I was 6'5". Extrapolating that out, I should probably be 100' tall by now.
Yeah, it most likely is not. I mix imperative, OOP, and functional all the time. Parts of my codebase that has to do with algorithms are written using imperative style, the "public API" is OOP (class, object, methods) which makes the use of my library a breeze, and the rest is functional.

To give you an example of how you would use some crypto-related library that implemented its API (?) in OOP:

let x = new Foo.bar in
x#absorb a;
x#squeeze b;
x#reset

Or take a look at: https://github.com/xavierleroy/cryptokit/blob/master/src/cry...

This (this entire file) is a great example, too!
Not everything in Windows is a file so they created a shell based around pipeable objects and improved shell's logic handling. A bunch of terse commands for piping out text streams from files doesn't make a lot of sense here.
Maybe they should carry signs that read “Fund social services” instead. The entire country has been through a traumatic event, coming at the heals of a massive opioid epidemic, I’m pretty sure it would be a unifying message that every American would support unequivocally.

Notably these funds don’t need to come at the expense of police funding.

We just dumped something like $5 trillion into a fire pit called COVID. There’s no lack of emergency funding for these programs if people demanded it.
Cool research.
I second this: making it easy for users to use your language implementation is very valuable. I routinely test my Lisp on every implementation I can reliably get my hands on, and I’ve never been able to build a good binary for clasp.
ESNI does
In the 50s and 60s aviation and space people often thought that things would keep improving exponentially, as they'd lived through such incredible advancements. Instead things slowed enormously, despite vast efforts put in.

We've lived through enormous computing advances, but it's been fairly obvious for some time that hardware improvements are slowing.

I'm sure there will be amazing advancements in the next 50 years, but I expect a lot of the progress to be in fields that are either currently unknown, or seem unimportant today. Those new fields will see better return on investment.
Why is this allowed on HN, but articles in support of BLM are not? Also, defunding police does not mean completely getting rid of police.

Seriously, why is this article allowed whereas others showing another viewpoint in support of BLM not? This is a real question.
Having a function that calculated a coverage score at the end would also make it easy to take a baseline measure of how effective people randomly placing the slices are. I think a comparison between those and the software solutions would add to the comedy of the project.
I mean, yeah that's fun. "Perhaps someday there won't be any violence." Cops carry guns, it's for a reason.

Cops are people, not some idealized identity of justice. Perhaps it would be prudent to consider the idea that the people with guns who can legally shoot you should be treated with a little more consideration. I can't imagine turning my back on cops and reaching into my vehicle, but maybe that's white privilege.

The government is legally able to take violent action. You don't want it another way. So then really, what's your point besides all cops are bad?
Positive messaging has been used in effective leadership for a long time. If you can frame the behavioral change in a way that someone thinks it's their idea, they're more likely to buy into it. Breaking out the punishment stick only works if the person has no option but to deal with the punishment. Negative messaging always starts from the position of "you should stop doing what you want", where positive messaging starts with "if you do this, it'll be good for you".
That only works because it’s hidden from the user, and can only work on highly regulated approved devices. Try giving a user a private key for making CNP transactions, and all you will have achieved is replicating the user experience of bitcoin.
Putting AGI in the same field as population growth and flight is disingenuous. They are entirely different things, and the rapid advancement of one means absolutely nothing about the advancement or even possibility of the other.

Overcoming physical limitations is one thing. An intelligent being creating something equally or more as intelligent as itself? And obviously I don't mean reproducing. Creating an entirely new class of thing which has intelligence equal to the creator is very different to using the forces of nature to give you an edge over gravity.
"self" was what made it finally click for me that methods are just functions that take a copy of the data structure they're operating on.

Java's "this" is just kind of implicit magic in comparison, and it didn't accomplish the same understanding.
This is a copycat move following Velodyne going public in a reverse merger with GRAF

I think Velodyne will do better as they have a larger market share and the first mover advantage
Why?

Even if you don't have to show government ID for every financial transaction, you need to show government ID (and, often, a lot more government paperwork) to open a financial account that can be used to make transactions. Your ability to move money is entirely predicated on the banks knowing who you are by linking your accounts to a tombstone government identity document.

Using PKI controlled by government to authenticate identity for transactions doesn't give government any more control over your affairs than it already has. All it does is add one more layer of authentication to the transaction process by allowing all parties involved to verify that their counterparty is the legal entity they claim to be.
It's hard to see submersibles ever being more than a tiny niche market. There just aren't very many. And commercial and military submersibles often have to operate in poor visibility conditions where lidar range is near zero.
Agreed riots against individualsand businesses and people in communities is extremely counterproductive and is mostly a result of directionless and angry people acting like idiots.

Instead, there should be organization and all violence should be directed to the state sponsored goon squads that can break into people's home and murder them with little to no consequence.

Of course, this has happened before and ended with the comical exposure of the right wing clowns that still serve as idols of right wingers today.
Is it though? There's no legal precedent that would allow for software vendors to force device manufacturers to allow their software to be run on the manufacturer's hardware. Otherwise we'd see Android on iPhones, legally-mandated Facebook integration on everything, custom car firmware etc.
> Police should get gobs of training, they have to take the high road, they have to learn to not let their buttons get pushed, etc., etc. - all of those things are true. But the primary responsibility has always rested and should always rest on the shoulders of individual citizens that the police are interacting with. People need to be accountable for their actions.

Maybe if cops can't control their emotions they shouldn't be given a gun and then immune to essentially any misuse of the gun?

> (a) commission of a crime and (b) resisting arrest.

We have a judicial system for a reason. The police isn't the arbiter of justice. Especially when the historical reasons for the formation of police in many countries and the US was to control slaves, former slaves, and economic activists.

> Whatever problems exist in policing, let's study them and fix them.

The studies are all out there. Are you refusing to take a look?

> while there is a pervasive attitude that crime and/or belligerence towards cops isn't a massive part of the problem.

You're trying to shine a piece of turd and say it'll get better. A piece of turd, no matter how shiny, is going to be a piece of turd. Police, the way & the numbers they have today, are not necessary for a functioning society.

meanwhile study:

Results are based on a Gallup Panel web study completed by 36,463 U.S. adults, aged 18 and older, fielded June 23-July 6, 2020. The survey was conducted in English. Individuals without internet access were not covered by this study. The Gallup Panel is a probability-based panel of U.S. adults whom Gallup selects using address-based sampling methods and random-digit-dial phone interviews that cover landlines and cellphones. The sample for this study was weighted to be demographically representative of the U.S. adult population, using the most recent Current Population Survey figures.

So they excluded the lowest income Black Americans.

And the issue here is that the question just asked "should there be less police" - that's not what the police abolition movement is arguing for.

How would've the results been if the question asked:

"Should we reduce police force presence in your neighbourhood by 90% while also ensuring that you will get more grants for education, healthcare, and housing"

Or even:

"Should we abolish policing (while still maintaining a skeleton force to respond to aggressive incidents) in exchange for providing housing for everyone making below a certain amount of money?"
As far as I know this describes Dr Zelenco’s work.
Google turns up zero hits for review of this paper. This paper demonstrates efficacy for his treatment. If you have any links discrediting this work I would like to see a link. It is observational.
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202007.0025/v1

Dr. Zelenco was working with the FDA to get a trial of his protocol. The FDA director provided some help to get his trial started. The director got criticism for helping. Something about a small trial not being worth his time. I don’t know where this criticism/pressure came from. But this has politics written all over it.

Dr Zelenco made one mistake stating that he had FDA approval to run the trial. The truth is that he had his hospital approval. The district attorney was looking to prosecute him for this mistake. I believe it was a simple mistake. He is not versed in running trials. He was told his trial was approved. He failed to distinguish who made the approval. The DA getting involved is more politics. His trial never got run, probably because of DA pressure. I believe he is a good doctor and has not been discredited. Railroaded by politics more likely. You should be asking why no one wants to test HCQ+Zinc. Why is HCQ condemned without running this most obvious of necessary trials. Why is there no urgency to run a trial on HCQ+Zinc. Why is the media silent on the lack of Zinc in the trials. It might not work, but a trial is more than warranted.

He did one other thing I’m aware of which was to tell his community the current scientific projections of mortality of Covid19. Those projections have proven wrong, and his community blames the messenger.
> it used to have messaging built in at one point

What year?
The things you can't say are illustrative of the climate here.
Probably right down there on the list of questionable things a startup did to get funding.
brb writing a pointless think piece about why I am 90% sure that will happen by 2070