skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Breonna Taylor, who was asleep?

Ryan Whitaker (who was white, incidentally), who opened his front door armed with a gun he was legally and constitutionally permitted to have and to use to protect his home and was kneeling to put his gun down when he was killed?

(And, uh, Jacob Blake?)

I mean, yes, I have been pulled over by the police on 101 and not killed, and I once ran a stop sign in Palo Alto and I wasn't killed either, and I went to pay my ticket at the police station and I still wasn't killed then. But that's true in the other direction - I'm sure I have interacted with millions of people throughout my life, and yet if I killed a single one of them without cause, I would rightly be called a murderer. No one would be saying that the risk of encountering me is virtually zero.
> Nobody would be trying to disperse crowds if everyone was peaceful.

That's not really true. There is an area between "lawful protesting" and "rioting" that's usually called civil disobedience. Civil disobedience as usually understood is peaceful, but it's also by design inherently disruptive.

In Austin, TX protestors blocked the main highway through the city. That was obviously incredibly disruptive, but many people believe the city police's forceful response of shooting less-lethal rounds relatively indiscriminately into the crowd was the exact type of response people were protesting against. A large group of trauma doctors in Austin wrote a paper arguing against using these types of rounds for crowd control due to the horrific injuries they treated: https://www.statesman.com/news/20200816/beanbag-rounds-cause...
This is why homeless people are stereotyped as sleeping on cardboard with a newspaper as a blanket. Because they actually do, because even paper is a great insulator that you can scavenge easily.
What about Lafayette Square? https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/27/national-gu...
I was thinking of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Ray_(Amazon_Kindle) ...roughly the same thing, or maybe the same thing under different branding.
I'm inclined to agree, and I've been a Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape user since the first release; my previous browser was Cello.

For me, there were three worrying changes:

1. The end of Netscape

2. The end of the Suite

3. The end of XUL

And now, I think:

4. The gutting of important development teams to refocus on ... VPN service reselling?!
Somebody shoot holes in my idea. I want to do wifi over coax with the baseband into the coax and the up/down converter on the antenna side. This is interesting for such a project, but of course I want full speed modulation (gigabit). I don’t want to just transmit data like MoCa. I want a direct interface to an antenna. The point is to make roaming over large distances completely transparent to the client.
I'm not keeping anyone hopeless.
I'm suggesting you can't beat builtin Bayesian inference.
Check out the history of NYPD “brownies” and, most recently, the green uniforms.

Every time they try to disarm part of the police force, those officers get attacked.
Yikes. Definitely meant Dale Carnegie.
Agreed! We should start by teaching police what lawful orders they're actually able to give, prevent them from lying about their powers and individuals' rights, and putting the ones who do intimidate people into relinquishing their rights in prison.
(2011) although the byline says 2019 (probably a reposting date). There's a 2013 snapshot on Wayback Machine dating the article to November 28, 2011, plus the references are from 2011: http://web.archive.org/web/20130807195501/https://basementge...
Vietnam is currently closed to tourists but the trains are running as usual. I travelled along the south central coast hard seat class in July which has some amazing seaside and mountain views. I also did a personal first took the once-daily train along the branch line to Quy Nhon; highly recommended.
The end goal of these defund movements will be to replace police with private forces.
You can tell Democrats hate cops by the way they put a former district attorney and state attorney general on their ticket.
It’s truly amazing. You must be thinking, people can’t possibly be this dumb. Unfortunately it’s true. Marxism is alive and well. Anarchists in west coast cities have been emboldened by the riots. The whole movement is a combination of the painfully naive and criminals.

People keep jumping in to say “defund doesn’t mean defund” or “abolish doesn’t mean abolish”, but they really do mean it literally. They also chant “all cops are bastards”.
I see a lot of people lately citing the military as some bastion of self control when it comes to ROE too.

What they usually fail to see is that the military on patrol is usually in squads or at least in pairs, not alone like civilian officers. It's much easier to maintain control of a situation when you outnumber potential bad actors. When a normal beat cop is on patrol though they are usually alone (unless in a top 10 major city like NYC). That changes the dynamic as officers have to maintain the upper hand as if they get overpowered the suspect now has access to multiple firearms both on the officer and in a patrol vehicle.
>"Lisbon-Hendaye with an overnight sleeper .."
Is this the coastal route once it crosses into Spain? I've heard the coastal route is my slower which is fine by me as I would imagine its quite scenic. If not could you recommend which one that would be?

>"The specific country level passes, as well as buying discounted tickets, will nearly always be cheaper."

Whats the discount are you referring to here? Is this just the booking far in advance discounted rate or something else?
Ask HN: How to learn advanced C++ (atomics, memory ordering, etc.)
I want to learn the details of lock free programming, atomics, memory ordering, etc. I've been writing concurrent code in C++ for a long time, but not in an environment where I had to think about the memory model.

The problem is I haven't found much structured content on this. Is there a good book or class syllabus dedicated to this subject?

At this point I'm just piecing together CppCon talks on youtube and blog posts.
>“There are groups paying these looters money to come in and they’re getting paid by the broken window,” said Chief Mylett.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/bellevue-police-chief-says-...

Buzzfeed, Vox and even Snopes are a bit partisan on this.
Is this inherent to all people, or is behavior reinforced by the way the problem is presented? Those first two sentences seem to indicate different possibilities.

This article frames motivation as based on either a positive or negative self-image, but it doesn't question whether motivation based on self-image is the best option.

I haven't seen any evidence that self-image is universally the primary motivation across cultures, so the degree to which people are motivated by it would seem to be influenced by the way things are presented.

Reason is one other potential motivation that could be considered a special case of acting in accordance with perceived transcendent principles. Loyalty to others or aspirations for collective achievements are other motivations that are not always centered on self-image. These aren't inherently more valuable, and they can be just as positive or negative as self-image, but they present alternatives.
I would not want to live in a world where the average life expectancy was 25 years, and where most people died from exposure to the natural elements, easily curable diseases, or being eaten by wild beasts.

Sure, they may have enjoyed a life free of that ol' 9-5 grind, but I much prefer air conditioning and vaccines to stoning rabbits to death to evade starvation every week.
You were asked to link an example of people not physically resisting. You linked Breonna Taylor, who's death while unfortunate, doesn't quite fit the bill. She had links to 2 known drug sellers, a warrant was being executed, and her boyfriend fired on officers.
I hope that soon, aging is classified as a disease, and makes it onto that list.
The problem with betting against you here is the question of "what fraction of the possible worlds in which AGI exists are worlds where I am alive to care about collecting from you, and care about money, as compared to those worlds where AGI does not exist in 50 years".

That said, I would take the flip side of this bet to be settled at the end of the 50 years, for at least 90% chance of AIs able to create hollywood-esque movies within the next 50 years, though possibly not for AI plumbers in that time frame. For that matter, I would put at least 10% on a movie with an AI-generated script having global box office numbers topping $1B by the end of this decade.
The context appropriate response would have been: “great of you to share this mention and also the close-to-correction on the author’s name. You may also find it interesting that Andre C...“

Though to go meta on myself, your humor here is wonderful. You might enjoy an even stronger response with ...
How does that chip work online? As far as I know, CCs around the world still depend on numbers.

For what it’s worth, in the US, chip is pretty much everywhere. Main difference is that it’s chip and signature vs chip and pin. I wish we’d switch to pins as well, but it’s not like it’s the dark ages or anything.
> I think we're done here.

Yes, sir.

But also ...why though?

All it takes is a few dudes with an iron cross tattoo to fudge the numbers here or there. It's really not uncommon, again, if you look at what happens often, not what happens loudest.
So I know quite a few people SF who are both anti police and anti second ammendment and it just makes absolutely no sense to me. The craziest thing is half of them seemed to be on the marxist/anti-capitalist spectrum too and I always wondered what their plan would be to enforce those ideals without police or an individaual mandate like the 2'nd ammendment. It boggles the mind.
Bit of an overstatement in both directions. If you burn an entire tree each year and maintain a woodlot of 20 trees that take 20 years to grow, you’re neutral. Scale as necessary.

It’s bad for local air quality.

Also need to be clear on whether we’re talking individual home wood heating or industrial centralised systems.
The Register makes some of the most clickbait titles in the area.

The real ones is that Firefox Quantum is finally out for Android (Firefox for Android jumped from version 68.0 to 79.0), and this bought a completely new interface too.

Now, the new interface is very nice (bottom navigator bar FTW) and the browser is much faster, but it lost some features and there is a limited number of extensions available for now (Mozilla seems to be manually approving them).

So what happened? A small but vocal number of users complained and we get this news from The Register like this was the worse mistake ever. It is not.

Sure Mozilla could have managed this update better (losing settings seems pretty bad for example), but most users are probably pretty satisfied with the update. I couldn't use Firefox Android before (too slow compared to Chrome) and I was using Nightly (and afterwards Beta) just so I could get the performance improvements since the browser is so much faster. And also the new interface looks fantastic.
I think the age difference might be caused by the fact that people over 65 are now watching television as a full-time job and their brains have turned to soup.

https://www.statista.com/chart/15224/daily-tv-consumption-by...
Same, but once every 2 years. Just email me for goodness sake!
Google collecting user data for ads is a different issue from ISPs intercepting DNS requests, and then hijacking the response. You are conflating two different issues.

And can't you select your DNS provider in Chrome by going to Settings > Security > Advanced > DNS Stuff
> 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.

In terms of violent crime overall the US isn't an outlier, it is located at the median of the OECD in terms of violent crime. The outlier for the US is murder, overwhelmingly due to the mass proliferation of illegal gun possession.

This has been written about for decades and remains true today.

"America doesn’t have more crime than other rich countries. It just has more guns."

https://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9217163/america-guns-europe

"The seminal work here is a 1999 book by Berkeley's Franklin Zimring and Gordon Hawkins, called Crime Is Not the Problem. Zimring and Hawkins set out to examine what was, at the time, the conventional wisdom: that America had a uniquely terrible crime problem, one without any parallel in other developed democracies.

"They found, pretty definitively, that the conventional wisdom was wrong. "Rates of common property crimes in the United States are comparable to those reported in many other Western industrial nations, but rates of lethal violence in the United States are much higher," they write."

... "A landmark 1997 study actually tried to answer this question. Its findings — which scholars say still hold up — are that America doesn't really have a significantly higher rate of crime compared to similar countries. But that crime is much likelier to be lethal: American criminals just kill more people than do their counterparts in other developed countries. And guns appear to be a big part of what makes this difference."
There is no set and clear definition of the
Postal Service’s USO; it is generally assumed to
be a collection of various laws and regulations.

from the document
It's only an edge case until you handle white-labeling services for other companies, at which point you immediately need a way to conveniently tweak the styling of everything in your web app per white-label client, preferably in a database-supplied way so that your support team doesn't have to handle every adjustment said client wants to make.
Which tour company did you go in with? I guess Koryo. I went in with CYTS in 2010, and didn't understand a word because it was all in Chinese XD. But it was only 1000€ instead of 3000€!

These days Young Pioneer Tours are much cheaper, somewhere around the $500 mark depending on the number of days.
So is KIRO and the Bellevue chief of police.
Technically true, yet POS support for chip transactions is still a bit less widespread, no?
Well, now we are getting into philosophical territory.

As a simple example, watching a movie doesn't produce anything, but it does give people joy. Similarly, eating anything tastier than the bare minimum gruel to keep you alive and healthy mostly just gives you extra joy.

Orthodox economics is perfectly fine with that. They deal in 'utility'. Fun is a perfectly fine product to deliver.

So eg gambling or playing the lottery can be perfectly rational, as long as you are aware that you are doing it for the entertainment value, and not as a financial investment.

Now for our situation: I hold that the extra work here doesn't provide any net gain in utility. Not even for people who like programming: there's enough other programming work left that's not just churn and that's not any less enjoyable.

Of course, the humble agnostic choice of orthodox economics is not the only possible one. If you are some kind of puritan or a paperclip maximizer, you'll know for a fact that producing fun is not productive. Only paperclips count (or whatever puritans optimise for).
Wow. In many years of reading posts on hackernews I've never seen 3 immediate replies asking if the writer of the comment is the problem, given their tone.

Thank you for calling the abrasive tone out.
Statistically crime in NY peaked in 1990.
They are a tech consulting company masquerading as a startup.
The platforms don't exactly work without a shit ton of Forward Deployed Engineers trying desperately to make their platforms work with their client's tech systems.
Isn’t this exactly like what Google released as open source a couple of months ago https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs-models/tree/master/qna
That makes sense. But isn't that punishing to lower end hardware users? Also aren't you moving much more data back and forth to do that?
Yeah, I think Snopes is a much more credible source than the chief of police here.
Thanks for taking an interest. If you don't mind, I can share a few reflections here.

> One thing it left me with is that it changed the way I walk through the city.

On this subject... I recognize this same quality in the people of the working class district of Vietnam, where I now live. For them the gap between the public space and private is very narrow. This is common in Asian countries, where so much commerce is done on the streets. It is hard to define, but easy to recognize. Perhaps one reason why I feel so at home here.

> I learned something fundamental... that one can get used to anything except being cold.

Related to this topic was the importance of regular shelter. In that time, I slept in three places: a large doorway of an opera house, a bush in the middle of a large public park and under a bridge. Of these three, it is the bush of which I have the fondest memories, to the point where I even now I sometimes look at it on Google maps when I need reminding of who I am. Inside was open, clean and mostly dry. Living on the street reduces one's life to prime values, and the need for regular shelter is one of them. For me the regularity was as important as the shelter (hell... I had plenty of bushes to choose from!). It was the atomic beginnings of my sense of home. Odd to look back on now, when I am actively planning to design and build my own house.

As for how I had found myself in that situation, it was around 20% unfortunate circumstances, and 80% low-level thinking on my part. At the time, my only response to situations that gave me harm was to avoid them. I had not yet figured out how to construct situations that benefit me. It was this failure of consciousness that led to to the streets, and the day I left the streets was the day intentionality came into my life. I was in McDonalds, ordering a Fillet-O-Fish. When I handed over my money to the guy serving me, he refused to accept it and gave me a look I can only describe as beatific... like saintly glow. It took a while for me to recognize that this was a look of pity. "Why on earth is he pitying me?" Behind me was a wall covered in mirror tiles. As I turned to go, I caught sight of myself in these tiles, and I saw myself for what I had become: a disheveled monster. That very evening I went home to my fathers house and started to take college more seriously.
Ive read on HN SPAC mergers are good for “clearing out saints” ie firing people otherwise harder to terminate. It should in theory minimize volatility of the price after the merger as opposed to an IPO.
Neurons (soul) are easier part. You’d need to replicate also meat (body) part and we are now at about 0% of this. Our problems in 2050 are easy to predict through: we’ll be struggeling in deep levels of the climate crisis with 99.9% probability.
I think it's a sign I need to go to bed when I read "plane detection" and start wondering what airplane detection has to do with AR...
It's only a mistake when you take a single poll, one from a source that has been questionable for over 40 years, and start making wild assertions. I don't see the data here to support "overwhelmingly support increased police funding". How did Gallup determine all of the poll takers were actually black americans over the phone? The whole thing is silly, I'd take it with a grain of salt.

Police are doing too many jobs, and a lot of it has little to do with preventing, stopping, or investigating crime. Mental health, drug addiction, family intervention, school behavior, tenet evictions, social services. We should defund the police, but only because we should fund agencies that enable police to focus on emergency response, investigating and preventing crime versus the later.

I think YOU personally don't like the BLM movement, that's okay, but just say it.
Obviously inflation will be allowed to run higher then 2%. Look where asset prices are. Look where debt is, you can’t have deflation in this environment it would devastate the world economy. Powell is solid, he’s got limited tools and elected policy makers refuse to act.
The goal of the defund movements is to balkanize police duties so that the people tasked with these duties have appropriate training, weaponry (if any), etc, to place more money into community development and fighting poverty, and to increase civilian oversight, since there have been decades and decades of attempts to reform the police and it does not work.
Charities like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation tend to be one of the charities that critics of rich philanthrophy actually exclude. The common argument is that such philanthropic endeavors should not be at the whims of the rich, but should rather be run by the government and the rich should be more greatly taxed by the government to secure those funds.

However, The Gates Foundation tends to fund programs in developing countries where those countries's governments are not capable of funding it themselves.
Buildings are not people.
Honestly, this is kind of like putting your hand inside the mouth of a crocodile and then complaining that you have been bitten. Or if you start insulting/harassing and physically blocking someone and then start complaining that you were punched as a result.

I would consider civil disobedience something more like as a policeman to refuse to disrupt a peaceful protest, or illegally publishing data (consider Aaron Swartz, Alexandra Elbakyan, Edward Snowden, or Chelsea Manning), or someone like Oskar Schindler.
There's a case to be made that while a city needs police it maybe doesn't need _these_ police. At some point an organization is so corrupt that it cannot be reformed. I have no problem with plans to reshape law enforcement through complete dissolution of current police departments.
I love the ui and feel. I am definitely interested because I've felt the need for a little more precise control like this. Keep up the updates!
Converting an Image to a Cartoon Using OpenCV
Is it possible for OpenSSH to block connections based on SSH client version?

I've basically shut down brute force attempts immediately on connection by blocking out 'libssh' and 'SSH-2.0-Go' using Bitvise SSH Server (for Windows, which is free for personal use).
OpenCV is designed for detecting, it is not meant for quantification
None of that was a slogan.
As a Firefox fan who has recommended it in my circles in the past, I'm disappointed by the new privacy and user experiences.

I see it as many steps back from the old experience. I hesitate to recommend this new mobile version to anybody.

They claim this is "the most private mobile Firefox so far". But DNS-over-HTTPS is disabled. There is no way to enable or configure it because there are no network settings at all in the new Settings page. DoH was a simple solution to government censorship in my country. Now, users will probably switch to Brave because it has a built-in VPN.

The UX too irritates...

1) I use the android navigation bar at bottom to jump to Home or switch apps or lock the phone. FF in light theme mode takes over that area with a white background making it impossible to use white-on-white buttons. I had to switch to dark theme just to be able to see those buttons.

2) The top sites list uses smaller icons with website titles as captions. If a website uses the title "Breaking News", that becomes its caption. It's difficult to tell from the favicon and such titles what site it is. The captions are single-line cropped with ellipses making it even more difficult to guess which website it is.

What I don't understand is why the release was rushed with such drastic changes instead of some kind of UX A/B studies to get feedback over time. Their reddit sub is rather hostile to any feedback and reminds me of stackoverflow nastiness. It's almost like Mozilla is trying to shed its user base.