skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> (a) commission of a crime and (b) resisting arrest.
> We have a judicial system for a reason.

I don't disagree; I'm actually making a different point, a pragmatic one, that it is really easy to almost entirely eliminate the risk of dying at the hands of the police, and that it is completely within one's own power.

I'm all for doing what we can to do to improve the police to make an already rare problem (relatively speaking) even more rare, but if the objective is to reduce deaths at the hands of the police, that's not where the low hanging fruit is.
It isn't worth responding to secondary points if the primary point of discussion has devolved into non-sequiturs. It would be a distraction from the important parts.
I feel like you're being intentionally obtuse. Civil disobedience is protest against a government, and is usually assumed to be non-violent. Look at Wikipedia, pick any result out of Google. Blocking a highway is classic civil disobedience, in line with making a human chain and blocking access to government buildings.

Equating these acts with "siege" screams bad faith to me, I feel like every example you've given is intentionally misleading or missing the point.
I could be wrong, but I think as long as you have access to the same Dropbox account, you can sync up as many devices as you want. No nextcloud integration required.
I agree, pliny hasn't thought it through.

Smear peanut butter on the bread, NOW tear up the bread, and apply the peanut-butter-smeared shreds to the (peeled) banana.

Still the same primary advantage as pliny's method, same primary drawback (may not exhaust the bread), but we've solved the structure problem that you raise.

I feel the trend-line here is looking good; with a few more iterations, we may reach the true ideal PB&B sandwich.
I hope you are trolling.

You understand that every possible prefix / range has a billion numbers minimum? That japans population is only 125 million?

And actually - you can near randomly assign numbers if you wanted, looking up card issuer is not difficult. Can basically issue card numbers in blocks of 100 if you wanted to reduce lookup tables a bit. This is already happening and available actually. Visa and other (apple) offer tokenization services to randomize your card number. Every phone number uses this type of system to enable number portability as well (you can take your phone number from t-mobile to sprint).

With 16 digits (1,234,567,890,123,456) you have 999 trillion numbers you can assign. As my original comment pointed out, the idea that we are running out of credit card numbers is absolutely ridiculous.
There’s a fine line between trying to to welcome people to a new culture, and being creepy.

Personally I find the “we’re a family” attitude of a lot of these places deeply offputting; most families won’t lay off members when things get tough economically, so let’s stop pretending that we’re doing this for fun.
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Interesting, but looks like this book has examples in Java.

Probably the concepts carry over, but I'd prefer something more directly applicable to C++.
Perhaps the contents of the pages in each tab could account for such differences in resource usage? A tab count is a very very rough measure. A JavaScript heavy page can have a massive footprint compared to a simple content page.
Hoo boy, that's a hot pile of garbage. I'm obviously not going to convince you, but I'll get my hands dirty for the sake of bystanders.

>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/12/13/fact-c...

Yes, fact-checking is hard. You can say things that are literally true but clearly imply false conclusions, or vice versa. And Snopes isn't perfect. I'm not sure what else I'm supposed to be getting here.

>ethicsalarms.com

This is a batshit right-wing conspiracy theory site. Anyone who cites it as an argument should immediately lose all semblance of credibility. Here are some direct quotes from that site that I found within the first 60 seconds of clicking around:

>>>CNN is obviously approaching the election as a partisan mission, and has signaled that fair coverage is not in the cards. The goal is to put Democrats in control of the government.

>>>Pelosi’s Democrats have orchestrated one attempted coup after another

>>>There have been 19 Plans to abuse various processes, laws and theories, all put forward and promoted by members of the Democratic Party/”resistance”/mainstream news media alliance since President Trump’s election in November of 2016... The desired effect of this barrage, apart from serving the goal of removing an elected President without the bother (and risk) of an election, has been to make it impossible for the President to govern, and to destroy his support among the public.

Yep. Fair and balanced, and definitely not unhinged. Moving on:

>Snopes and BBC articles about a commentator named Robert Lee

As Snopes says:

>There is no dispute that Robert Lee was moved off covering a University of Virginia football game for ESPN because of the coincidence of his name. However, ESPN’s intent appeared to have been a desire to avoid prompting public ridicule rather than public offense — a move that ended up subjecting the network (for different reasons) to the very mocking they had hoped to head off.

What else am I supposed to be seeing here? A megacorp attempted to sidestep a potentially awkward situation, and ran into the Striesand effect. Both Snopes and the BBC pointed out that it was maybe misguided, and we all had a chuckle at their expense. Do you think that Disney, of all companies, is a leftist organization, and that Snopes is covering for them?

>Google search for "snopes strawman"

The top results for me are, in order:

1. A bunch of Reddit results referring people to Snopes as a source because the thing they're arguing against is a made-up strawman.

2. Snopes's own Facebook page

3. A blog nitpicking semantics over... Amelia Earhart's bones? https://tighar.org/wordpress/earhart-project/fact-checking-s...

4. ethicsalarms.com, discussed above.

5. "A Guide to Arguing with a Snopes Denier", from the Houston Press
http://archive.is/eXxqv
Yeah, that's not for me.

I have better uses for 4k than a chair that's probably way heavy and clunky

Let them enjoy their "$4k" in illiquid storage. It will go for $50 in a liquidation auction most likely
Shrinking a Kotlin Binary by 99.2%
Customers will pay a premium if they think you’re going to take care of them.

That’s basically the business model of REI; they rarely have the best prices, but if something breaks they’ll make it right.
Exactly, but the idea that with a billion numbers to issue they can't get 100 million folks into the structure - that's also silly.
There's a pretty big niche market for submersibles, and they aren't very price sensitive: drug cartels.
At the cost of a bit more latency.
"Correct me if I am wrong, Snopes, you pathetic fools" -EthicsAlarms

Clearly you are citing some high-quality, objective journalism here my friend. Whoever writes for that web site needs medication and therapy. It is legit unhinged.

None of these links are sources. The first two are just editorials, the second one is practically frothing at the mouth.

The Robert Lee ones are pretty interesting, though. I think Snopes did an OK job of covering that particular story, though not ideal in my analysis. They pointed out that Mr. Lee was not actually fired by ESPN (he was not) and that ESPN was trying to avoid potential embarrassment and in the process ended up embarrassing themselves more - which is exactly what happened.

ESPN hired the guy, they clearly weren't offended by his name. They thought they were covering their asses and ended up making asses of themselves. All over an imagined issue that was really a non-issue.

That said, there is more opinion in that Snopes article than I would like. I'm don't think Snopes' best and highest function is to try to explain why ESPN behaved the way they did (unless they have facts to share). That said, their analysis seems sound.

Really, your links are kind of the opposite of sources. All you've proven is that many people do not trust Snopes or any other news source when they don't like what it says. More News at 11 folks.

p.s. - it's garbage in, garbage out. Your brain deserves better input than that.
They can do more than that, yes, but the vast vast majority of glasses users just need a prescription refresh every 5 years.
Archiving of world heritage sites https://hyperallergic.com/438821/google-arts-culture-open-he...

Archaeology finding things under the surface https://3dprint.com/140498/3d-aerial-laser-scanning-cambodia...
and https://www.sciencenews.org/article/lidar-reveals-oldest-big...

surveying https://terra-drone.eu/en/drone-mapping/drone-lidar/
I get angry at Mozilla every single day for that horrible search behavior.

It's virtually impossible to search for anything without sending your search string to google. Yah right Mozilla is "privacy focused".

How are you supposed to use search autocomplete with any other search engine except your default?
You need a 2FA style confirmation code for online transactions.
The link was in response to this.

there doesn't seem to be a significant difference between races on their opinions of police

I'm sure they, along with many others, want changes in police behavior and improved accountability,

Is “improved accountability” a nice way to say “stop shooting and beating unarmed Black people” or “stop pulling over Black people in neighborhoods where they ‘don’t look like they belong’”?
16 digits is a thousand trillion. That's 1.2 million numbers PER PERSON in the global world. This is two few for 5 credit cards in your wallet?

Come ON! STOP with these clickbait / alarmist headlines.
What does take home pay look like for bootstrapped non-tech CEOs?
Should have picked a better slogan.
It wasn't creepy to me, just unrealistic. Power structures form, whether you want them to or not. So 'holocracy' still has managers, it's just unpublished info who they are.
Basically as you add energy to the system things get more extreme. Storms including hurricanes and monsoons. Dry places and times get dryer due to increased evaporation. Wet places and times get wetter (more severe floods). It's a predictable consequence of higher temperatures.
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Finally, someone willing to advocate for the voice of the server rather than the obstinate user!
My understanding is most of military equipment is donated or sold very cheap to police forces.

I've even heard of police forces declining equipment because even though it's free, they don't have the budget to maintain it.
This might be pedantic, but there have been fatalities closely involving the Shinkansen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen#Safety_record, though, no fatalities from derailments or other issues directly caused by the trains themselves.
This is addressed in his writeup.
Tom Lehrer's Mathematical Songs (1951)
> 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.

and

> Yes, it's not true AGI but AI that replaces 95% of all jobs

To be fair, being able to create an enjoyable full length hollywood-esque movie or becoming an author that can write a (creative and entertaining) book is something well under 5% of humans are capable of doing.

Perhaps you're setting the bar for AGI too high there? Does it really need to excel and exceed the capabilities of the very best of human attempts at movie making and book writing to be considered "AGI", when the vast majority of humanity can not do that?

(Also, I suspect 95% of jobs probably actively discourage "creative juice" being used. And nobody really wants to found their startup with someone who's "just an ideas guy!", if all he's ever contributing is "creative juice".)
Were you personally targeted? As in there was a line of people that they walked past to personally give you a dose of chemical weapons?

Gas is a chemical weapon. Pepper spray is a chemical weapon. Please don't compare Assad's use of chemical weapons to tear gas.
I think a lot of people are sympathetic to that perspective while still wanting control over their privacy.

It's the difference between someone inviting you to come into their home for a visit, and you breaking in whenever you feel like to take notes on what they're doing.
Have you noticed how the military - even up to the generals - are generally always publicly respectful to the civilian command whether or not they agree with them?

Can you say the same about police?
> There is no oracle that says civil disobedience for cause X is just but cause Y is unjust.

I'm not making any comment about the justness or unjustness of the underlying cause of the protests

> The police cannot simply allow it to occur so they will react with the amount of force needed to end it swiftly.

This statement, however, is simply bullshit, and the US has literally hundreds of years of examples of how civil disobedience can be dealt with reasonably and humanely (of course as well as other examples where it's dealt with viciously). The protest would have eventually died down (an effective strategy to dealing with these kinds of protests is just to cordon them off and wait it out, they'll eventually need food and water), protestors would have been arrested and cited with an appropriate misdemeanor.
That's done with a credit card updating service - not by just ignoring the CVV/expiration.

If the same number were reassigned to someone else, the subscription wouldn't transfer.
LIDAR point clouds are the bedrock of modern surveying and cartography (and thence civil engineering in general).

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-lidar-data-and-where-can-i-do...

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/construction/3d/survey.cfm
Here’s a twitter thread from a lawyer who collected hundreds of videos like these: https://mobile.twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/126675152005...

In my view, these videos are evidence of serious and pervasive cultural problems in police departments around the country, and with how they see their role in society. There’s simply no way to justify the behavior seen in many of these clips.
I mean often online discourse is different from real life discourse. Additionally I could imagine that OP could be fairly upset about this, I know such a culture would drive me insane after a few days.
Taking a risk implies that you are going to be personally impacted if everything falls through.

Peter Thiel is worth $2.1b and almost all VCs are investing institutional money.

So I think it's ridiculous to even mention them in the same breath as founders who are typically working 70+ hour weeks, dealing with immense stress and are poorly paid for an idea that is statistically likely to fail.
Very brave of you to post this comment on HN ;)
While this is technologically awesome, I want to propose an alternate method. What if one gets a sufficiently large/long enough banana that by cutting off the ends, it's essentially cylindrical? One could size the banana to the size of the bread, coat the bread in peanut butter, then wrap the bread around the banana burrito style.

Maybe the banana ratio is too high in that case. I'll have to try it.

Additionally, sometimes I'll take a slice, break it into smaller pieces, and put the smaller pieces in-between the gaps of the other slices. Or I'll be a monster and just layer the slices...

My wife just came up with the idea of slicing the bananas sides off to make the slices square. That way you'd also be able to pack in that banana far more efficiently.

Others also have mentioned mashing the banana and spreading it.
You're allowed to use WiFi on planes (other than take-off and landing, currently) and Aeroplane Mode often allows WiFi and Bluetooth these days. The rules are changing pretty fast.
We are talking 15k qps. A single AMD machine should be able to much higher rates - millions. Yes, there is overhead, but my point was, if verisign or whoever is in charge can't run these root servers to handle 15k qps for the entire global internet then let google do it.

These are ridiculously low numbers, and dns is EASIER not harder than video. Google is doing full live streaming, multi res / format delivery with chat across a ton of platforms.

And no - root DNS does not change at a high rate of speed. It's a 2MB file you can download yourself. .com stays .com for a LONG time and the TTLs are going to be in hours and days.
I'm guessing "the CA system" refers to the Web PKI†. Any Public Key Infrastructure has a Certificate Authority role, so attempting to distinguish the Web PKI by the existence of this role makes no sense.

This also makes your next sentence nonsense, anyone advocating for PKI is advocating for a technology that has trusted authorities, that's how it works, it's as though you claimed computer evangelists don't like mathematics because it uses symbol manipulation.

And then it makes your next sentence nonsense, something like Signal isn't a PKI, it has no CA role, who "Janet" is on Signal is only a matter for you and Janet. Signal also isn't purely TOFU, you can insist on manually verifying every identity just as you can on SSH.

But even though I believe the Web PKI is the only successful public PKI there are plenty of other PKIs in use that are successful in a narrower sphere, and we're already in a discussion thread about such a sphere, the global banking system.

† The Web PKI isn't strictly just a PKI for the World Wide Web, it's actually a PKI for TLS services on the Public Internet. But it exists only because Netscape built SSL, and in practice its oversight is from the major browser vendors (most notably Mozilla but of course also Microsoft, Apple and Google). There was once a good chance the only TLS client implementation you had with any useful PKI enforcement was your web browser, today it's likely other tools on your system also do this... but always relying on the Web PKI.
Really cool idea! My only notes would be it's not clear at first glance what this language provides.

A serverless language doesn't really explain what it is, I mean JS, Python, Java etc.. all run in serverless environments.

But after reading more it seems similar to Erlang, as each function can be deployed to other systems and invoked as if it were a local function... <- this is what you want to emphasise.

I would suggest adding a graphical flow chart on how this works (maybe like this https://i.imgur.com/fJHyJni.png). Perhaps a comparison of how regular programs invoke functions, compared to how Teal invokes functions (showing scalability and parallel computing).

> "Why should I learn a new language?... Because it'll give you a new way to think about cloud software."

This is not a good reason. If you want people to learn a random language, you need to demonstrate the reasons why it's better! At first glance it seems crazy to have no interoperability with another language/package manager.

Anyway, sorry if I sound critical, I think there's real potential in this idea and am excited to see more development for Teal!
Police don't buy surplus military equipment. The equipment is free, the police only pay for shipping.
> I think negative, external reinforcement has a much stronger real-world case. One only needs to look at the behaviour in countries like China or Japan, where guilt and social punishment has been used as a tool for probably thousands of years, with actual results. Singapore's a place that is well known for getting people to do the right thing, I'm not sure they managed to do it with pats on the back.

I think negative reinforcement can work to get people to stop doing things. If you get people to associate feelings of shame or fear with doing things you don't want them to do, then they'll stop. If all you want is obedience, and you're working in a culture where reputation and avoiding shame is a big deal, this can work well.

But if you want more than obedience, if you want people to actually agree with what you're saying, and do (or don't do) things because they truly believe those things are good (or bad), then shame and fear probably won't get you far.

> And to pick up the examples from the article, environmentally-friendly behaviour, haven't we seen real results after we began, often with aggressive campaigns, how ruining the environment is both wasteful and harmful, having turned symbols of excess into symbols of shame?

Sure, and my opinion, at least in the US, is that it hasn't been anywhere near as effective as we need it to be. There are a lot of people here who just don't care about recycling or reducing waste, and many who don't even believe that burning fossil fuels is changing our climate.

Yes, we do have a lot of people who are genuinely trying to do the right thing. Some of that is due to fear of what will happen to them if they don't (which isn't ideal). In some places you can get fined for putting recyclable items in the trash bin; I expect many of the people who mainly recycle because they don't want a fine would likely just stop recycling if the threat of fines went away.

Others actually do believe in the cause of environmental protection, and believe that we need to take care of our planet for future generations; that's a positive-reinforcement outcome, though admittedly an uncertain-future one. Saving money on renewables (when that's possible) is a great positive that makes people feel like going that route is the right thing. I even remember in years past people considering reusable grocery bags as a sort of status symbol, as petty as that may seem.
I've been thinking idly about how to feed ADSB signals into the new Microsoft flight sim so you could fly alongside real aircraft in real time...
Ask HN: Dear software engineers how do manage your money and invest?
As a software we all make good money but with all that money what do you guys do with all that money, save ,invest or donate for good causes
Project management is definitely very important. As a group/team manager where do you put the "deep thinkers, not doers" though? What is their place in business or society?

I personally identify with being a thinker instead of a doer and for most of my professional life struggled trying to find a position from where to contribute without feeling inadequate for not doing/executing.
You mean like the five cops who just stood there while one cop put his knee on someone’s neck for nine minutes?
Then what about pretty much every personal computer on the planet? They don't have these kinds of restrictions. How does that play into the whole "industry standard"?