skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolute false argument. Humans are the cause of nearly every extinction for the last several hundred years. Nature wouldn't be peaceful, but it sure as shit would be more balanced. By arguing that nature is violent and chaotic (and thus we are only doing what is natural) absolves us of our responsibility to try and undo the damage we have wreaked on this planet for centuries. We are the enemy of every creature on this planet, and we need to face that.
Ask HN: What are the challenges of developing your project?
What are some of the challenges you have when developing your project?

For example

- It takes too long to develop.
- I can't think of any ideas.
- I don't have anyone to give me feedback etc

Share your challenges
（The same question can be found on ProductHunt. https://www.producthunt.com/makers/1-makers/discussion/68542-what-are-the-challenges-of-developing-your-project）
Defunding is a solution because reform has never worked.
You forgot about global warming and that we are in the sixth mass extinction. Global civilization collapsing in 50 years seems as likely as AGI.
Such images are showing up for me with region set to Australia.
Surely you didn’t actually fall for that BS line.
They should only bring efficiencies and competition to a few places that 70 year olds in Washington permit them to?
I suspect that they were overstating a limitation of these devices rather than speaking from inexperience. While it has been years since I've used a Kindle, I do use Kobo devices and the delays are perceptible. While changing a page may be quite quick, user interface elements (such as a box containing a definition) seem to take longer. I suspect that they have to be more agressive when refreshing the screen before and after these user interface elements are displayed in order to make the ghosting less perceptible.

If you want to see what I mean by the ghosting of user interface elements being more perceptible, try using KOReader. The ghosting after using a menu can be quite noticable (at least on Kobo devices, which are based on the same technology).
Maybe goal was the wrong word choice. The end result will be more private forces.
It might also be worth leaving artifacts on them, in case of discovery by future spacefaring species - assuming the objects still possessed system escape velocity.

Actually, wouldn't it be a blast if we found signs that someone had done just that already?
You should go talk to the guy who manages your money about something called a SMA.... it's a little bit more of a legal headache and incurs more fees.
I enjoyed this piece. One thing I’d add is handling failure. Whether it’s a business process breaking down or a server crashing, eventually every engineer will face failure conditions. How to handle these varies greatly by the situation but the most important factor is the takeaway. Being able to identify and fix patterns that can lead to failure is important, but learning from mistakes and picking your team back up is the most important lesson, because eventually everyone falls. These lessons can only be learned through experience and are a large part of what makes a “senior” engineer.
Even after pension funding, they lost $3.5 billion last year on operations. They've always been extremely inefficient. Between 1960-1995, they lost a net accumulated total of $91 billion
This book formulates calculus by starting with the concept of continuity instead of the concept of limits. (It shows that limits can be defined in terms of continuity, rather than the other way away, which other texts usually do.)

The simple idea that substitutes for limits in the definition of the derivative is that the derivative of f(x) at x₀ is the value of d that would make (f(x)-f(x₀))/(x-x₀) continuous at x₀ if (f(x-x₀))/(x-x₀) were to equal d (instead of being undefined) when x=x₀.

That is to say, there are approximations of the tangent slope on both sides. The derivative, if it exists, is the value of the tangent slope that would make these approximations continuous.

The book credits Carathéodory with this concept

> that f:ℝ→ℝ has a derivative at a∈ℝ if there exists a continuous function q:ℝ→ℝ such that f(x) = f(a) + q(x)(x−a)

and in this case that that derivative is q(a).

I actually like this a lot; it feels very elegant.
Sure, I don't disagree. The implication though was that this was a story mainly/entirely coming out of so-called conservative media, so I posted a small sampling of links from other places.
Defunding is a two-part task:

1. Balkanize police into distinct departments with different training and oversight. The police are tasked with far too many jobs at once and don't do a very good job at any of them.

2. Redirect some portion of funding to community development and fighting poverty, i.e. crime prevention. Instead of buying military surplus equipment, create after-school programs, ensure that kids get fed, etc.

If a police department is stretched thin, balkanizing should help with that. Having police doing too many things is a big part of the problem.

The police resist reforms constantly. They protect themselves and lie brazenly with little consequence. While morale is certainly something to consider, it's not the elephant in the room. There must be real consequences, and for that there must be real mechanisms of oversight, firing, and prosecution of cops and those who act in bad faith to protect fellow cops.
There were people in the buildings that got burned, many people got injured in the mayhem.
paulgb.... just want to point out that accounting for long-term contracts is a standard way to manipulate earnings (and nearly everyone has been dinged for it at one point or another).

accrual accounting is the devil's work.
This is fascinating because I am myself half black, lived in many communities of mixed demographics and never once heard a friend (of any race) say they want more police at all, ever.

I guess I also don't know anybody who has done a gallup poll or anybody that knows anybody who has ever done a gallup poll in their lives so who knows?

Edit: I don't know how or where these are conducted, or their exact phrasing of their questions, but I'm very curious about that.

Because, some rural areas in America have a "posse" system where volunteers get to ride around armed, sometimes outfitted (by taxpayer money) with bulletproof vests and big stickers for their cars showing their semi-official affiliation with the police (or sheriff's department). On the record, they're only supposed to observe or report yet in practice I'd question why it's crucial in some places to outfit posses with bulletproof through taxpayer money in that case, especially in places that have a very low crime rate?

I only bring this up because if I wanted to tilt a poll, I'd ask folks in areas where this is a possibility, where asking about a reduction in police force implies an increase in these somewhat-sanctioned vigilantes. You wouldn't even have to include it in the question, you'd just have to ask somebody standing in the right spot.
Can you explain further? It seems very feasible to have AI generated media for humans as the target audience to me.
CDC warns employees not to argue with anti-mask customers
The prefunding period lasted ten years and was over in 2016.

Even after pension funding in 2019, they lost $3.5 billion on operations. They've always been extremely inefficient. Between 1960-1995, they lost a net accumulated total of $91 billion

Blaming the pension funding bill for the economic woes of the USPS is wholly inaccurate
On the other hand, a world with rapid tech innovation is the only world where I'm alive in 50 years. So I'm probably best off betting on AGI existing 50 years from now. I think laws are such that my heirs don't have to make good on my wagers.
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We can argue about the marginal benefit of investing in late-stage interventions, but it's certainly doing more than cops buying Humvees and LARPING as tacticool warriors.
No, they aren’t.

More people get struck by lightning every year.
52% of USPS volume is junk mail, while it only contributes to ~30% of revenue.

So quite a lot.
Not sure why you are being downvoted. This is a post about predicting the future and your comment highlights an uncomfortable truth. That climate change is really disruptive and could disrupt this quest for AI.
> What I don't see many talk about is how much harm the belief that they harvest everything is, on top of just the actual deed itself.

Snowden, Assange? They've both talk(ed) at great length about the perils of a Society that will self-censor due to the fear of retribution that follows when everything one has said be it in text/phone/online is constantly held in bulk collection.

Moreover, if anyone has followed what has occurred in China where dissenters are forced into re-education black op sites and are forced into public apologies, or in other cases they're disappeared altogether, you have what then appears like a very forceful form of cohesive group think.

This occurred in HK prior to the passing of the NSL, people were essentially trying to scrub their online presence for fear of retroactive punishment from the CCP [1], who only hours after forcefully passing the bill to great local and international condemnation, started to arrest 'violators.'

Which gives the CCP the appearance of a forceful enforcer of its policy writ large, at least on the surface with low hanging fruit like journalists and physicians speaking out about COVID on the mainland, but in reality China is wrought with seemingly permissible corruption provided you have any connection to the CCP.

In this respect this isn't a East Vs West issue, but rather one of the oppressed and the oppressors, if Government is to exist at all, I think a mandate of constant surveillance and absolute financial transparency should be in order.

I fear Humanity refuses to accept we must create alternatives to the Nation State model, which this pandemic and economic crises has clearly demonstrated to have failed in every conceivable metric. There are outliers, but they tend to be more city-states, which I'm not entirely averse to but can also have the very same entrenched power traps that the nation state model has.

If anyone has the time I highly recommend Snowden
s recent talk with Naomi Kilne on Vice [2] discussing the path forward to circumvent the Surveillance State/Economy that has been created by the Tech Industry that has only been incredibly sped up in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic and the protest against police violence/crime.

At the end the people talent, many of whom hang out here, are the one's that build this tech not the corrupt politician(s), nor the VC big wig. Having them re-evaluate their positions is critical moving forward, as both conclude that this much needed detour will simply not occur from the Leadership.

1: https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Hong-Kongers-erase-digital-...

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUnbhXtXixc
Defund also means balkanization of police duties. The police spend about 5% of their time on violent crime. They're also highly resistant to reforms and oversight. If we reduced police budgets by 80%, restricting their duties to those we consider necessary police work, they would be much smaller and easier to manage. The excess budget could go both to funding social services and to paying social workers, etc to do the other jobs that police currently do (and do badly).
COVID-19 speedup quite many digital transformations like wars created infrastructures and advanced technologies. This might be the stone age of AI but one day some people will create one ‘particle collider’ as planet brain.
It's not a PR campaign. It wasn't planned for maximum effect or focus grouped. It's just what caught on.
That's part of the problem, and it costs everyone, and it only subsidizes advertisers. 52% of USPS volume is junk mail, but it's only ~30% of revenue. It's time to get with the Scandinavian countries and privatize post.
This definition of is ridiculous to me, implying that only the privileged few (policemen, those with specific knowledge) may be civilly disobedient.

The entire intent is for the masses, with no qualifications whatsoever, to make themselves heard in a way that cannot be ignored.
One day I hope to spear one myself. I have a few friends that have been hard working and lucky enough to spear one and the food that they share from that is incredible. Sushi for days. Then again, these are the smaller bluefin about the size of a man, no one is spearing the giants.
For those who are interested and able, Rotary International and the Gates Foundation have been doing a 2 for 1 match for years, tripling your gift towards ending polio.

https://www.endpolio.org/home

As a past contributor, it brings me great joy to see this milestone today.
Can't this be solved by disarming them, but letting them keep the gun (no bullets)?
Yes, because why are 14 helper processes needed to show a blank page?
This is not a PR campaign and the protests and riots are not a public outreach effort. They are a demand coming from a position of pain and weariness.
Most of these "branded" cards will have an underlying issuing bank/acquirer, not their own identification on the card.

The way that the 16 digits are allocated is defined as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_card_number#Structure

So of the 16 digits for the majority of cards:

Digit 1-6(8): Scheme and issuer identification
Digits 7-15: Account identification
Digit 16: Check digit (Luhn algorithm)

So most issuers have 10 digits to "play with" to identify the account.

So Japan is either running out of issuer identifiers, which sounds excessive, or they have been allocating them badly.
Improving performance for a metric that we actually know how to quantify is fundamentally different than calling interesting but potentially one-off stabs as incremental progress.

Conflating them only demonstrates how far we have to go.
I would consider them a vehicle of capital that tends to do a terrible job covering these things. Conservative-adjascent.
FYI mrgordon.....

Metropolis got deprecated (read renamed) Foundry because they kept screwing up their sales and decided a rebrand would be more effective on their commercial side.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-main-differences-between-...

per someone who runs tech on the commercial side,

Foundry started as our attempt to create scalable process and rigor around data integration. There's a longer story to tell here, but the short version is that we started out with off-the-shelf orchestration systems for running jobs on a schedule (think Jenkins and Rundeck — things that were more robust than cron). At some level, that worked, and we had to figure out how to scale it, leading to a combination of HDFS, Rundeck/Jenkins, a git repo, and a common language for mutating data.
>not some kind of mastermind PR

I would believe one would hire one or two of those for a multi-billion dollar exercise tho.
One side definitely wants a gun battle in the streets.
This is glue for that that makes it a browser extension.
Have you gone to any protests?

I got teargassed holding my hands up and chanting. Twice.
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Pretty sure police officers nightly beating of protestors, pulling off masks and pepper spraying their eyes and assaulting reporters is a very direct attempt at quelling protestors.

If you followed the nightly protests in Portland OR with any closeness it'd be abundantly clear. Examples just in the past 20 days:

- police pulling down mask to pepper spray protestor in the eyes while pinned to the ground: https://twitter.com/_WhatRiot/status/1292012255714787330

- police randomly puncturing a support vans tires, they have done this on multiple occasions for no real reason: https://twitter.com/ScottHech/status/1291711270903844867

- police beating and kicking an unresisting protestor: https://twitter.com/1misanthrophile/status/12959623991035453...

- more police jabbing protestor with batons: https://twitter.com/danielvmedia/status/1292228819588452359

You see enough of these videos and you appreciate the cops and just vindictive and angry at the prospect of losing "power". It doesn't matter what protestors do (and they most they've done to directly threaten officers is thrown water bottles and apples and flares into an empty police building), police will use any reason (or none) to beat protestors.

* As far as I know these videos have resulted in NO reprimands to officers, might as well be standard operating procedure as it continues to happen nightly
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/12/13/fact-c...

https://ethicsalarms.com/2017/08/31/snopes-credibility-death...

https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/08/23/robert-lee-espn/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41022954

https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22snopes%22+strawman+-site...
What is the Project Touch-Captcha (두 터치) mentioned in the readme?
> The iPhone was not ubiquitous when the App Store was released.

But it is ubiquitous now. As of last month, the iphone now has 52.4% of the US market.

> The 30% cut was there from the very start, and people were fine with it.

Anticompetitive behavior become illegal when a company has enough market power.

> It's only now that people are turning around and complaining

Well yes, that is how anti-competitive laws work. If a company has enough market power, previously legal practices can become illegal.
It only hasn't moved in the US. In Australia, nearly all CC transactions are contactless, with the floor limit at AUD100 (USD70).

During the pandemic, I haven't used cash for the last 6 months.
"if they make threats or become violent"

Well yes that makes sense.
That usually means that the police used fairly extreme violence and chemical weapons on protesters and received maybe a handful of water bottles thrown at them after doing so.

Your news sources have an agenda and tend to get these things wrong. Go to a protest and see for yourself if you want to viscerally watch them lie in real time.
TL, DR: You want a retimer since it doesn’t amplify noise and distortion like a redriver does.
DNSSEC isn’t coming anytime soon. AWS and azure don’t even support it yet. More likely this will be resolved by DoH than DNSSEC. Isn’t chrome suppose to adopt it this fall and Firefox already has it with the default being cloudflare as the resolver.
If I blocked someone from getting in their driveway and shouted insults at them, I think getting punched would be reasonable. I am not a professional conflict resolver.

Police, on the other hand, are our paid civil servants. It is their job to remove passion and emotion from the interaction and to deescalate potentially dangerous situations. They have a duty to respond sub-proportionately in a way that resolves conflict unless their life is in danger.

Time and time again we see police responding by escalating tension, passion, and violence. This is a spectacular failure of their duty and huge breach of public trust.
Not sure why this is on HN - can someone fill me in? Maybe I'm missing something
Generally armored vehicles police get as surplus are sold at basically the price of gas / transportation to get them to their destination. The feds just want them off their books. That compared to the price of a new Lenco Bearcat is hundreds of thousands of dollars less for a more capable vehicle.

I have never once seen those vehicles used in regular law enforcement duties such as traffic stops.

They are used in exceptional cases like active shooter situations, hostage / barricaded / swat scenarios, natural disasters like flooding due to their high clearance, and the occasional parade or community day to let kids play in the big truck. In all, they are a defensive vehicle with no weapons that costs the department very little and has a wide range of uses if the shit hits the fan.

I really don't get the outrage of them other than the optics of it "being from the military" and idiots calling them "tanks". If there are specific bad uses of police force those are great to call out, but the utility of the vehicle which is basically free for a real world need is a no brainer.
Or even just nuclear accidents.
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As someone who was personally targeted by violent police for kneeling and holding my hands up, let me assure you that they are correct.

Have you gone to any protests where the police used chemical weapons?
What's the takeaway here supposed to be? That you understand the subject so deeply that no concrete or constructive content is necessary in your criticism? Because I take from your comment the exact opposite conclusion.
I am not implying that. For example a worker in a gun manufactory can be civilly disobedient too by not showing up, slacking off, or intentionally making arms of subpar quality.

Edit: I am talking about wartime labor mobilization. In addition the government owns gun manufactories too.

> to make themselves heard in a way that cannot be ignored.

You are stepping away from just civil disobedience then. Riots, sieges, or a full scale revolution fit that description better.
You would need some serious clips and line... and maybe a boat as your float.

Even other species of tuna that get relatively large look like an absolute life event to spear. There are albacore in the blue waters where I live, and some day I’d absolutely love to drop on a school of those. They get over four feet long!
He wasn't merely accused, he was living with Al Quaeda in Yemen. If I move in with Al-Quaeda in Yemen and incite acts of terrorism against America and other civilians in Yemen and Somalia, yes, it doesn't fucking matter. Any Navy SEAL is free to kill me if I ever do something that stupid and criminal. In fact, I'll even pre-posthumously thank him for his service.
I'm a bit conflicted on this. I don't want content like this appearing in search results. But I don't think a clumsy keyword filter will make it go away. And it might push pedophiles looking for a quick fix to places with harder content or echo chambers.
No, not when state or county governments disagree with or refuse to enforce federal government laws. Haven't 37 US states legalized (to some extent) marijuana, while the federal government still has prohibition laws/rules in place? Or county/city governments that have countered executive orders from their respective state governments regarding COVID-19 (Orange county in Florida, or the Pennsylvania country York PA is in)?
From further down in the thread:

> Today I watched a police officer in kenosha wisconsin get knocked unconscious with a brick. The fellow police officers picked him up and dragged him away - while the crowd changed "Fuck the police" and recorded it.

The idea that the worst the protesters have done is throw apples at the police is so crazy I don't even know how you could be that deep in a bubble
An autorefractor can already figure out a patient's eyeglass prescription without an optometrist. It doesn't use any AI, just high precision optics with deterministic calculations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorefractor

However optometrists do a lot more than just write prescriptions for corrective lenses.
I'm glad you had the good sense not to mention any of the cases over the past few months that have been the main source of riots, but please re-read what I was responding to and what I wrote because it still stands: these cases - though tragic, and worth trying our best to prevent - are so incredibly rare (relative to the number of total interactions with police) that the odds of violence truly are virtually zero.

(FWIW Breonna Taylor wasn't asleep, not that it justifies her death and Jacob Blake was most definitely resisting - even the super shaky cell phone coverage from a bystander makes that obvious)
No, that’s what it means.

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

Many articles from BLM leaders making this unambiguous statement.
Certainly, I agree that it would be better if they attempted to arrest these who block the road rather than shoot at them.
"Yet". It's been almost 25 years.
Sure, but if I have 8 different cards issued by SMBC then that's still 8 cards.