skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how many people here have personally been wrongfully shot at by the police versus just watching it on the media? I for one have been shot at several times after being mistaken for carrying a gun when it was really just groceries.

Even I don't want the police defunded.
also a lot of the riotets are young, upper middle class, white males

what says black lives matter better than trashing their neighborhoods?

read ellison's invisible man written in 1950s to see how long white people have been exploiting African Americans in this way!
I like what you're doing, but I really wish you'd provide debs and rpms for x86 and arm; I use common lisp on machines with very little ram, and compiling is too much of a hassle. FWIW, ecl and sbcl are my go-tos.
I have been in dev, qa and support roles. When I write code today, I always keep in mind what steps I can take to help folks in support troubleshoot any issues with it. Having clear and informative logs, comments including wiki links for more details etc. I have a lot of empathy for support now. Once you have to baby sit an error-prone daily batch or deal with issues from users who think you aren't much use - things that basically screw up your day - you never forget.
The reality is defunding does literally mean completely eliminate to many of the groups calling for defunding. The partial reduction in funding is just a stepping stone. See https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol..., an opinion piece titled “Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police”
are you gonna rebuild all the images that you use and push to ECR?
Lovely. A psychological study on how to manipulate people into supporting your social agenda.

How about using, you know, reason? Treating them like adults? Give them pros and cons so they can make a rational decision?
From that page:

> Julia and I believe that one of the best ways to make the world better is to donate to effective charities.

I would argue that the best way to make the world better is to First do no harm. Making a large income by pushing ads at Google doesn't uphold that rule, in my opinion. And perhaps this person's sensitivity around their job is why they feel the need to publicly list their donations, rather than giving quietly. Public philanthropy has often been used as a way to try to deflect criticism from how the money was first made.
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> Another luxury belief is that religion is irrational or harmful. Members of the upper class are most likely to be atheists or non-religious. But they have the resources and access to thrive without the unifying social edifice of religion. Places of worship are often essential for the social fabric of poor communities. Denigrating the importance of religion harms the poor.

Since when is human rationality “luxury”? This article just shot itself in the foot.
It's hard to tell because I didn't have much insight (I was "just" an engineer); but I people loved working there and the folks on my team in particular were smart, interesting, and engaged.
I treated my parents to dinner.
After experiencing the UX disaster that is AMP, I'd just prefer Google stop throwing its weight around "innovating" on the core web standards and stick to what it's good at: giving me what I ask for in the search bar. No, I don't trust the company that first monopolized search, then the browser, then manufacturer-neutral mobile phone OS to maintain a level playing field. Google has plenty of cash to throw at developers to dream up new schemes to bend the internet to their will in subtle ways. The rest of us don't have the resources to play that game, and we shouldn't have to. No one is more eager to have a well-reasoned, thoughtful debate Monday to Sunday than a lawyer paid by the hour. I suppose engineers, too.
...in the context where collective problems are foisted on the individual.

I ain't gonna start ragging on individuals less for individual failures. Communication is the only way forward.
You want all people to do the right thing? Fine them if they don't. It's the only thing that's helped us get the virus under control.

Greetings from Melbourne, Victoria, currently on stage 4 lockdown because enough people are selfish and don't care (unless threatened).

EDIT: (Leaving my original text unmodified above) Agree that this sounds crass, and probably not very cultivated by HN's standards, but it's from the point of view of extreme frustration with the situation - having done all the right things myself, only to see it undone by others who just don't care.

I did observe significant changes of behaviour after the fines started getting press coverage. I believe it is indeed incredibly hard to reach out and educate the masses, but when the health of our society depends very much on the last few %s doing the right thing, and this segment is so hard to get to, then drastic measures do have a play. It definitely ought to be backed up by other educational efforts though.

This crisis is making me think hard about where we draw the lines on individual freedom, when they can cause harm to others. Also, having said the above, a number of breachers were in the upper echelons of society financially wise - so it's definitely not a clear cut thing about who needs to start caring more.
> That's the case with every state

No. No it's not.

Apparently you've never heard of the US Supreme Court.

Here's a list of the past 250 or so years of US Supreme Court rulings, which have a long history of protecting citizens rights against state and federal encroachments: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court

I suggest you read a few of them, get educated, then come back to me and we can have an intelligent discussion.
It is sad to see this downvoted, I know several people who were outcasts for "acting white" by trying hard in school (their words, not mine).

The issue really isn't about race though, it is about poverty and culture. I know a kindergarten teacher from a very rural, very white, very poor school district who was cussed out by one of her 5 year old students. The parents don't care, and it shows in the students' progression through school and young adulthood. If parents show up at all, it is to yell at teachers for giving their children bad grades or any sort of discipline.

Of course, putting any sort of onus on the parents gets talked down, as it undermines the argument that things will magically get better if only we threw more money at the problem... because the problem isn't the school or the teachers at all.
My wife and I started building a new house late last year. When covid hit early this year, I really worried about how the sale of our then-current home would go.

Luckily, the local real estate market stayed strong. We sold the house about 30 days before we moved into the new place in July-- above asking price! It felt like a miracle.

It felt like the last parts of the new house took forever. Appliances, lights, etc. took a long time to arrive. Window blinds took several months. (All this affected by covid, we are told.)

I feel bad for people who have houses under construction now. I'm told the wait for materials is much worse (!)
Yes a lightweight, low-power lidar would be useful for collision avoidance when flying near terrain.
> In comparison the fundamental theory of arithmetic is also strange but there is a good intuition behind it: any non prime number is a product of primes, because if it wasn't it would be prime itself!

That's true, but it doesn't prove the fundamental theorem of arithmetic. You need to show that e.g. if p,q,r,s are four different primes, then pq does not equal rs.

(The important part of the theorem is that the prime factorization of an integer is unique.)
I don't disagree, but then I'm in the “abolish" camp anyway; the misunderstanding there is, I think, not something that can be cured with a different slogan, because “Redesign community services and local government, with a particular focus on deemphasizing force-based law enforcement and decentralizing it within domain specialized agencies, usually with broader responsibility for their focal domain than just law enforcement.” Doesn’t reduce well to bumper sticker size. It's just something you have to explain a lot until people understand it.
Sublime text.
I'll ask the same question as I did above: Explain to me why any of this is necessary once HTTP/3 is widely adopted?

Doesn't it already solve all of these issues, and head-of-line-blocking as well?
In your town more money is spent on the police than the public schools? Certainly not in mine.
hi all creator here. We built this version of our product focused on dynamic data science teams that just wanted to be able to deploy, scale and run their models without worrying about ops. Some more details:

https://algorithmia.com/developers/teams
Kopia v0.6.0
I don't know why it's exploding, but it also appears poised to explode here in the US too. I recently got a recruiter in my inbox for a startup "Guild Credit" that makes loyalty CC cards easy to issue for small businesses. Not sure what has changed recently.
> 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.

So you’re saying running multi regional, burstable (metered by minutes or even seconds) VMs with redundant power and networking and without having to hire a bunch of maintenance staff is not one of the benefits? Imho it’s perfectly economical at small to medium scale.

> Have you ever budgeted a project plan involving a large migration

I’m doing one right about now. If you design your stack to be multi-regional from the get go and dont get yourself into aforementioned cloudlock it’s a simple matter of bringing up new kubernetes clusters in a new cloud region and possibly setting up some peering.
Note that “defund” and “dismantle/abolish” are separate positions (though many people who hold one as their preferred also view the other as superior to the stays quo, and worse yet while there is a strong tendency in what the language means, the use of each isn't perfectly consistent.)

Which probably shouldn't be surprising since there isn't a single top-down organization behind any of them.
I mean, the environment of humans is getting better day by day. That should count for something.
There's no evidence the 6-digit passcode was the issue here. It is more likely the thieves immediately turned off the device then used an (offline) chain of vulnerabilities to pull sensitive data off the phone. That's typically how these hacks go.

If no vulnerabilities are available, the thieves will often just keep the phone offline until one becomes available.
The recession was caused by a pandemic, not a forced shutdown. Even if you want to point at lockdowns as the cause, it is an empirical fact that the decrease in public foot traffic happened prior to any lockdown and continues for a large % of the population. The pandemic didn't disappear and people getting sick will continue to drag on the economy until it's manageable.
It seems like fraud.
I should have linked to the original source instead:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-...

and some related links:

[1]: http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13665907
[2]: (Aug 24 Announcement by MOFA) https://www.mofa.go.jp/ca/cp/page22e_000925.html
Wow, thanks for sharing this link! I took the train to Pyongyang in 2009 (from Wuhan via Beijing), so the photos of the North Korean train bring back some memories, I even have a copy of a propaganda magazine in this photo I took off the train on the way back.
It’s pretty racist to assume most blacks are in poverty, are not interested in community safety, or are monolithic in their beliefs. You’d be surprised how many have turned to conservatism after the recent showcases from the left political structure.
Managers Can Only Influence, Not Enforce
I think there are fundamental questions still unanswered that could put the brakes on the whole thing.

For example, I would put forth that for a given problem, there is a lower limit to how simple you can make divided pieces of that problem. You can't compute the trajectory of a thrown baseball using only a single transistor. Granted most problems can be divided into incredibly simple steps. The question we face is "is AGI reductive enough for human beings to create it?" Is the minimum work-unit for planning and constructing an AGI small enough to be understood by a human?

That's of course putting aside the problem of scale. The neocortex alone has 160 trillion synapses, each of which exhibits behavior far more complex than a single transistor. You could argue that for many commercially-viable tasks we've found much better ways than nature, and that's true, but AGI is a different game entirely. Our current AI methodologies may be as unrelated to AGI as a spear is to a nuclear missile despite them both performing the same basic function.
Do you find that you frequently need to explain "defund the police" to people? Don't you think that's a problem, given that a slogan is supposed to convey a clear message that is easy for everyone to understand what you're about?
I think they're saying that deletion is a consequence of reachability.

A 'delete' is then the removal of all edges that lead to the forgotten item.
I haven't looked at what Google does recently but you're likely getting most of Chrome in a separate package (e.g. the system WebView). Chrome and Firefox are of compareble size IIRC (56MB vs 65MB)
In 1900 the earth’s population was 1.6 billion. In 1903 the Wright Brothers built the first airplane. In 1947, humans flew at supersonic speed for the first time. That was in the span of 50 years. 22 years later, we were on the moon.

A lot can happen in 50-70 years.

We now have 7 billion people, with more of the world coming online to do R&D. China, specifically, has made it a goal to lead the world in AI by 2025.

India’s economy should grow over the next 2 decades and they will also become a world leader.

With so many resources, the world should easily advance more in the next 50 than it did in the last 100 years.
> there needs to be basic training for citizens as well.

I don't want to live in a world where I need training in order to survive a police encounter...
Apparently not beautiful enough to avoid being killed at all, though. It's a shame we haven't stopped eating animals.
I read about this program on several sites including the Linux wireless project page and the osdev wiki and the links seemed broken everywhere. Not sure why I didn't find this before.
A four year undergrad degree would not get him that deep understanding.
Perhaps peacefully interacting with government employees shouldn’t carry mortal danger at all.
Well yes. But it goes both ways. I would argue that the Right doesn't have the ability to have a nuance discussion around this topic either. They read the headline "defund the police" and assume that means less police to deal with violent crimes. "defund the police" means to reallocate resources from police to people better capable of resolving low impact community issues. And let the police deal with violent crimes. If done properly you might see more police resources available to keep the community safe from violent crime.
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This is silly. It's not going to disrupt Li-ion. Power outputs are way too low. C14 has a half life of 5700 years. This isn't going to output Li-ion levels of power/weight for 5 millennia. It looks like it might give you microwatts/gram, but this is much closer to existing nuclear tech like RTGs or beta voltaics than it is to Li-ion batteries.
They could give it their all in support of an open web but it wouldn't matter so long as their user share continues to decline.
I won’t disagree with you about any improvements 11 made, but merely again the delta against competing options available.

FYI, I’m verbally harsh because as I said I miss Solaris and miss having an economic reason to use it.
I worked at a well known hft prop trading firm, and then at an asset manager. The asset manager was staffed by mostly ex two sigma software engineers, a few from tower research. You basically cant even get an interview there unless you already worked with someone working there. A regular engineer there, a few years of experience made around 650k. I know the industry extremely well, and I know your type. I've watched so many buy side firms fall to the wayside because "good tech doesnt help investing, I will hire the humanities degree from princeton instead". Meanwhile, run through the top returning firms in the last decade, they all also happen to be the firms that pay their engineers the most.
> You can't just throw money at the problem to make it better.

To really underscore this point, it’s worth looking at the inflation adjusted total per-pupil education expenditures over time: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d19/tables/dt19_236.55.a...
Most people using the word "defund" mean to reduce the level of funding for police and spend more on other social services. One argument is that police are not well equipped to provide services to people who are having a mental health, relationship, or substance abuse crisis and not actively doing violence. A mental health nurse or social worker might be a more appropriate first responder in situations that are not primarily characterized by violence.

There are a small but significant number of people in the current protests calling for policing as we know it to be abolished; they don't beat around the bush about it. The phrase "abolish the police" has 2.5 million google hits, a NYT op-ed, and a Wikipedia article.
Internet Explorer was already ubiquitous at that point. The iPhone was not ubiquitous when the App Store was released. The iPhone become so widely used because of the popularity of the App Store. The 30% cut was there from the very start, and people were fine with it. It's only now that people are turning around and complaining that a platform that was never open to begin with, is not open enough.
A number that have been caught actually rioting are white supremacists seeking to provoke a race war, and at least some caught encouraging it online (haven't seen any caught actually rioting)have been specifically police officers that are also white supremacists seeking to provoke a race war.
Point taken. Thank you.
The average home size in the 1970s was 1,500 square feet. It’s around 2,700 square feet today. And the percentage with air-conditioning, two car garages, pools, dish washers, etc have increased significantly as well.
I think it's better (for Japan) to force it into a global problem than a domestic problem. Then more people will care about fixing it and the issuers will retain international interoperability.
There's a good case for defunding the police in parts of the country where crime has gone down, but my impression is the worse police-citizen interactions happen in areas where the police are stretched thin (maybe I'm wrong about this), moreover, when you are trying to reform a provider of an essential service, it is typically better to provide a carrot and a stick (see education reform for instance), otherwise not only do you get organized resistance to the reforms but you also reduce morale. Good morale is important, not only for good performance, but for reducing the siege mentality among the police.

Requiring people to make an extra effort to do their job better (even if the level of better is still below average), while cutting their pay (even if their pay probably should not be as high as it is), seems like setting yourself up for failure.
> I can understand the proof in my analytical thoughts, but what I have a problem with is an intuition for it.

The intuition is a lot easier, to my eyes, for the subtraction.

What the proof is telling you is that, if you start with a multiple of 3, and you subtract a multiple of 3, what remains will still be a multiple of 3. (And similarly for any other value of 3.) This is pretty intuitive.

And as long as a and b are positive and distinct, max(b, a-b) is strictly less than max(a, b), so the iterative process produces a strictly decreasing sequence (until you get a 0 -- 0 isn't positive).

So the intuition is in two or three parts:

#1. Subtracting like this can never eliminate the GCD of the original pair of integers. ("Subtract one multiple of 24 from another multiple of 24, and you'll still have a multiple of 24.")

#2. It can, and will, eliminate everything else.

#3. If the original pair of numbers is relatively prime, their GCD is 1, so 1 is what you'll get from this process.
Why spend $2,500 on in-app purchases?
This makes it seem like this app is somehow colluding with the thieves?
The US Economy and Federal Reserve Need to Have More Pain Tolerance
Police kill 1000 people in USA every year.
This is not based in reality. How much money do you think police are spending on “surplus military weapons”? It is minimal and most of the purchase of surplus military items are mundane. They aren’t acquiring carriers and missiles. You mentioned tanks - are you literally claiming that local police departments are purchasing M1 Abrams battle tanks? Because that’s not happening.

Keep in mind the total transfer of military surplus equipment to police departments is just $5.1B over the entire lifetime of the program, since 1997 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_Enforcement_Support_Offi...). The scale of this program has been completely blown out of proportion by activists.

Here in Seattle, protesters/rioters have been calling for a 50% defunding despite 96% of police budget being spent on people expenses, and not “military weapons” like Twitter claims. See https://sccinsight.com/2020/06/30/understanding-the-seattle-...
> The law in many places, especially the US, has become a contemptible thing.

And, yet, I have a friend who is an HVAC inspector for institutions (office building, care facilities, etc.).

The stories he has of everybody trying to cheat the system are appalling. Nobody seals the HVAC properly until he shows up and fails them. Nobody isolates the rooms (these are CARE FACILITIES with contagious diseases) until he fails them. And then the times he has just basic stupidity (intake in a closet, intake next to garage or other combustion/carbon monoxide source, etc.) are beyond numerous.

He has had only one case where he didn't immediately fail the building for absolutely gross violations of code.

So, you can complain about the building codes, but the norm is that most of the people building are bad actors and the law is only thing keeping them even remotely in check.
I'm not so sure it did. The social fabric point is something that even comes up in HN discussions. Religion and religious activities are things that connect strangers and communities. That helps build social trust. With religion gone there isn't much positive that tends to replace it among poor purple.
Or, people are intentionally misinterpreting so they can dismiss the message outright and not have to deal with it.
How so? Do you have some examples?
Haha money printer go brrrrrr

Honestly the only news is who is running that SPAC
This is a simple issue to solve if you have all the issuers in line/on the same page.

Issuers simply need tabs on this.
This means, a) they only allow this for merchants that have had previous transactions.
b) They reset this when a card is reused (owner of the number changes).

Ultimately you just need a system that turns on stricter checks when reuse-induced issues are likely.

Once a card is reused the issuer simply needs to turn off the recurring billing laxness until the card gets close to expiration
again, i.e. a few years, which should suffice to detect any sort of problematic patterns.

This wouldn't affect the customer at all as any legitimate transaction would have been made with up to date expiry and CVV.