skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like 'Agile' then. Everytime agile bullshittery falls flat someone invariably comes to explain how people are not doing agile right.
France doesn't even honor / agree with the Eurail pass. So then you have to pay twice.
In much of USA the school district is a separate entity from the city. Often this is because many students live outside city limits.
There is a spike in violent crime in many cities.
If the staff in your local monopoly grocery store is underperforming, do you defund the store? How about your engineering company? In each case, the solution is to replace/remove under-performers while increasing funding, rather than to defund.

This is what Camden did when they "defunded": dissolve the city police, bringing the city under county sheriff jurisdiction, then pay for new staffing at the county level. They may have been able to save some money because they broke the police union, but in the long term funding increased.
But neither of your websites have a section for website authors!
Augmented Reality apps. Apple includes a LiDAR Scanner in their latest iPad that performs plane detection for AR object placement.

https://developer.apple.com/augmented-reality/arkit/
> THANK you google for stopping this total abuse of internet standards

Sending all browser DNS queries back to google by default seems abusive in a different way.
No. You can submit your work as epub, docx, and some more formats. You can then view how the converted version looks on various devices on the amazon website. I used google docs for a short story and the docx version worked the best (epub from google docs had some weird spacing issues).

The software helps as an alternative to having to submit it on amazon website during the various drafts.
Send one request to such a random domain over DoH or DoT to some DNS server you control for the purpose (Google can easily set such a thing up). Ensure the response is NXDOMAIN. If it's not, generate a new random domain and retry.

Send a second request of the same domain via the system DNS. If it's not NXDOMAIN, it's hijacking unknown DNS requests.

One request that might hit the root instead of 3.
> This is why the defund the police people really need a better slogan.

The defund and/or dismantle groups have acheived sufficient support to drive policy in a number of cities. What they need is concrete results to point to. While defund might also benefit from a better slogan, truly novel complex positions just aren't ever going to be effectively communicated by any simple slogan, especially when they have opponents that so understand what it means, don't want it, and are dedicated to fogging the issue to avoid direct engagement. But when you've got concrete examples to point to, it's a lot harder to fog the issue.
Is that a joke or you believe in this?
Hey, at least you got $1000 in seed money for every fake star you got for the repo.
It is a race between AI and the massive disruptions of civilization due to climate change and the mass extinction of ecosystems. The fulfillment of those two are not mutually exclusive.
Thankfully, the amount of mortal danger for peaceful interactions with government employees is already incredibly close to zero.
Unfortunately people don’t work that way. People are highly influenced by the way things are presented. There are numerous examples of this. See Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman for a good primer.
NewPipe. I couldn't stand youtube without it.
A point that often gets lost in the discussion is that the United States, having no gendarmarie [1], has a police force that is less militarized than many European nations. Gendarmaries are literally a branch of the armed forces for the sole purpose of internal policing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendarmarie
The problem is more nuanced.

Nobody can argue fines for socially unacceptable behaviour don't work. They do.

The problem is that this method of ruling only goes so far.

Eventually you run into situations where a significant enough portion of the population believes something different from another.

Its in these situations, fines and laws prohibiting actions (alcohol, abortion), that things start to fail and where positive reinforcement starts to win out.

All this is with the caveat that I don't want to live in a non free society, if that's on the table, then yes, negative reinforcement works fine, if you don't mind attending the odd struggle session in a north Korean death camp.
Yes, same goes for following traffic rules. You cannot just fix the traffic problems by patting people on the back for stopping at the red light. You need to fine people as much as possible; the higher the fines, the lower the cases of traffic rules violation.
'Racism' has become a politically weaponized one-way street in popular discourse. Double standards abound. Take a look at some of the reactions to black speakers at the Republican National Convention. Ultra-PC Twitter had some very un-PC racial pejoratives trending in regards to these speakers.

When you start from a point of compassion you can't end up in this place. The intolerance of differing views baffles me. From my eyes, it looks like holier-than-thou guilt projection and condescension. People have their own agency. Not everyone identifies as a victim and lives through that paradigm. You're right to observe racism in this narrative.

I look in the rear view mirror at the US where largely white crowds are destroying the US for the sake of 'racial justice'. Who asked for that?

Part of this may be due to the tools political parties use to observe their markets. Everyone becomes a demographic to be marketed to. Victims need saving and politicians would love to paint themselves as heroes. Pay no mind if the rationalizations for their heroics are racist. In fact if you question that, you're probably a racist in their view. Even a self-hating one according to the woke-brigade.

No thanks.
> Since when is human rationality “luxury”?

Most people's interpretation of "human rationality" is little more than a religion of its own.
Focusing on the rare cruel cases has meant we aren’t funding preventive measures which could prevent the vast majority of other crime.
without even broaching conspiracy theories or secret organizations it's not like government has a stellar track record of dealing with data it promises will be kept secret and single-purpose (for example SSNs).
Naismith's Rule Wiki
> unexpectedly forced on a large batch of Firefox 68 Android users without any warning, way to opt out or roll back

I wish they were more careful. FF displayed a warning about the change ~a month ago and you could opt out by disabling FF updates. There are bad things about this change, but this is just not true.
I'm nearly the opposite of “woke” but I try to be nice, and that wording reminded me of this awful Biden quote: “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids”

As a general rule, yes, poor people don't care about education. That's typically a contributing factor to being poor. Exceptions are common.

Poor areas and poor families have a sort of cultural rot. Some have given up. Some see other things, often less honest or less productive, as an easier path to getting by in life. Some fear loss of friends if they choose a different path in life. In those areas, a kid who does well in school will be attacked by peers.

So at home, the parents are not reading to kids. The parents are not asking about homework. The parents are not taking away sources of entertainment that distract from success. The parents are not bothered by a non-A grade or in a panic over a below-B grade. Instead, the parents are creating chaos. The parents are getting arrested, coming to blows while drunk or high, and cranking up the TV volume. Very often, the families are broken. Sometimes the kids don't even know their father. All sorts of non-academic nonsense is glorified. The priorities are just all wrong. That is not an environment that promotes discipline, studying, or academic success.

If teachers are really treating black kids of equivalent income and wealth different from white kids, that is interesting. It's particularly interesting because teachers are among the most “woke” of all, commonly marching for BLM while accusing the MAGA crowd of being racist. In the name of BLM people have torched black neighborhoods (both business and residential) and torn down statues of people who fought against slavery, and the arrested people have included numerous teachers.

Life isn't fair, so some hints for your son: wear a nice suit, speak crisp standard English, and keep the grooming strictly traditional. Basically, adopt the mannerisms of a lawyer.
Allegedly, there are only a few strains of mosquitos that bite humans/mammals. So if we remove those strains, the other ones will take their place.
I understand Reverse-Mergers generally, but I don't really understand how the money works.

?People? buy stock in an existing 'shell' company.

The shell company buys the target company and immediately re-brands itself as the target company.

I guess I don't understand valuation and dilution and who has ownership after the acquisition. It would seem that the founder would want to have a lot of the stock (more than 50%), but the owners of the shell company would also want to retain the ownership of their stock... Where does the stock come from for equity for the founders and employees?
Nobody is trying to quell protests. I don’t know how that misconception is still alive. The problem is the rioting. Nobody would be trying to disperse crowds if everyone was peaceful.
But... you did this intentionally--when it would have been easier and simpler to not do so? Doesn't really fit the mold of "clean it up later" chores.
Looks like betavoltaics in general have super low specific power
Why fret so much over the language though, that's what I don't understand. I think most people, of any POV, would agree it's not the best phrase given that without explanation it means what a small minority wants. Move past it, to the issue.
Ok. Let's take your claim at face value.

Can you explain how to accomplish content blocking with WebBundles? For example, adblockers?
The Thiel Fellowship is not for equity, but is a program.
Zappos is an interesting experiment but I’m not sure what to make if it overall. It isn’t ubiquitous or commonly known to everyday consumers. The model of shopping online for something that requires personal fit just doesn’t make sense to most people.

Hsieh has also made some strange choices internally like to reorganize using “circles” (holocracy). I’ve heard secondhand that this experimental approach to management didn’t work out in practice, that a lot of talent left, and that the circles ended up having organically emergent managers anyways.
That doesn't mean 66% of black adults want to defund the police.

I'm sure they, along with many others, want changes in police behavior and improved accountability, but that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with funding (or "abolishing" as the root of this thread wondered about).
They are engaging in a Motte and Bailey argument, perhaps unintentionally.
You can see it in the current political party in power in India.

It never acknowledges any problem with their policies or nation or even its people. Atleast that's what comes from their supreme leader.

As a result lots of people have developed blind faith in this particular supreme leader and any criticism is met with "anti national" tag.

Untill now I had believed those were paid trolls and IT cell employs but my own relatives are not tolerating any word said against the political party so it seems all have been colored in the faith and belief of this party.
Not everyone can take rational decisions. Even if they are in a position to take rational decisions, external factors like greed, pride, social pressure and situation hugely affect those decisions. For example, if there's a plantation programme in the community, and my buddies want me to hang out for a drink at the same time, I will most likely decide to go to the plantation programme, but the buddies will make me hang out with them as much as they can.
Grubby wrote about this yesterday:

> I [used a 6-digit passcode] thinking, basically, that even though a 6-digit passcode is less secure, anything truly dangerous like disabling Find My iPhone requires my iCloud password as well. It simply never occurred to me that if a thief (or law enforcement, or any adversary) has the device passcode, and your iCloud password is in your keychain, they can get your iCloud password from your keychain. All you need is the device passcode to access all of the passwords in iCloud keychain.

— https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/08/24/can-thieves-cra...

Btw., I'm sceptical about this part of the original Twitter thread:

> why [is a weak passcode] an acceptable alternative to biometric verification to decrypt your keychain

This assumes that biometric verification is better for this purpose. I don't think that's the case when the attacker grabbed the device right out of your hand and then gets to work on it for several hours. What your face or fingerprints look like isn't all that secret. Fooling the device into accepting a clone as the real thing takes some expertise and special equipment and time — but so does “using some kind of device like the GrayKey”.

When it comes to somewhat sophisticated attacks (as opposed to keeping your shoulder-surfing kids from making in-app purchases), Touch ID and Face ID are merely improvements for people who would otherwise use no passcode (or ‘00000’). I hope what they'll actually be used for, eventually, is sparing you from having to re-enter the same code you just unlocked your device with ten minutes ago in cases where you had it in your hand or in front of your face that whole time.

This would allow for more nuanced threat models. For example, just seeing your home screen and then opening your podcast feed could have a way longer time-out, whereas toggling ‘Find My …’ still requires a password every single time. That sort of convenience would convince me to use these features.

But for now, if you want an alternative to a 6-digit code that's definitely more secure, use an alphanumeric passphrase. Quoting Gruber's post once more:

> a 6-character alphanumeric passphrase would take on average 72 years to crack by brute force because it takes 80-milliseconds for the secure enclave to process each guess.
Or, make them pay for not doing the right thing?
Maybe its time to move to a uuid-type card number - prefix with country code to increase the available space even more.
> There's just no way AGI can replace blue collar work like plumbers and electricians, etc. that quickly.

OP specifically called out AGI as not requiring touch or taste, only text to beat the turing test.

> Programmers, also unlikely...Sure, you can have AIs generate more code for you, but then you'll just have the programmers working one abstraction layer up from that.

At what point do you stop calling them programmers and start calling them system architects? If I'm a programmer and my whole job can be replaced, isn't that replacing _some_ programmers? I think it's fair to argue that some programming jobs would be straight up gone. Maybe most of them.

> Sure, I could see a lot of medical professions and other "knowledge bank" type jobs being replaced. I've always thought optometrists could largely be replaced with "measure my prescription" booths controlled by a computer. But anything requiring any creative juice whatsoever will likely not be replaced.

We're not talking about what today's AI can do -- today's AI sure as hell can replace knowledge banks and some medical tasks like radiology and optometry, and yeah it can't quite make blockbuster movies. But generative AI has come a long way and there's reasons to be optimistic again. Alex cites GPT-3 and iGPT as evidence of this trajectory.

He also says "imagine 2 orders of magnitude bigger" -- models with 1.75e13 params. What emergent generative powers might we discover? Synthesizing a blockbuster movie no longer seems entirely out of reach, even if we have to move another magnitude bigger and make several more algorithmic breakthroughs.
Wishful thinking, make large and dumb models even larger, throw in more data and it will somehow magically lead to artificial common sense. The only thing missing is philosopher's stone and the right mix of hyperparameters.
It’s probably a mistake to even try to comment here, it feels like wading into a battlefield where words don’t even mean what they say.

This survey tells us what I thought we already knew for decades now. Black Americans, particular those living in high poverty and high crime areas, overwhelmingly support increased police funding and increased police presence in their communities.

While some protestors who are carrying signs like “Defund the police” may not take the slogan at face value, the ones spray painting “Fuck 12” or “ACAB” across their local courthouse certainly do, and they do not speak for the people responding to this Gallup poll.

The literal attacks on police (and police infrastructure) appear to be an intentional destabilization effort in order to neuter policing capacity within a community, resulting in increased violent crime (i.e. the “Fergusson effect”). While I think there are many well-meaning and good intentioned peaceful protestors that initially joined with “BLM”, the “Defund the police” movement has been hijacked by radical anarchists who professionally organize riots (there’s another term for this I won’t use) and absolutely believe police should be abolished.

National public perception of BLM which initially spiked positively after Floyd has been decreasing and overall become much more polarized. [1]

[1] - https://civiqs.com/results/black_lives_matter?annotations=tr...
By that logic, no modern technology should be adopted. However i am sure ecologists have studied in depth the impact this might have on the food chain or other dependencies and have mostly found mosquitoes to be completely useless and hopefully the test cases prove the same.
AFAIK The bootrom exploit doesn’t allow getting around the hardware-based lockout. But I’m open to be proven wrong.
Surprised they haven’t IPO’d yet!
> We seem to forget that people are inherently social and need a sense of belonging.

As someone who used to work at a company that also was fairly well known for its 'cultish' culture, while I agree with your statement above, I also strongly believe that the modern corporate workplace is fundamentally incompatible with the sense of social belonging that humans need. Worse, many smart people take advantage of this need for a sense of belonging with the sole goal of making more money for rich people.

Early human social groups, namely the family, village, and tribe, were strongly cohesive. You were only "kicked out" if you had made some severe transgression against the group (or you had "come of age", and needed to start your own group, which is something else entirely). You were not kicked out the second the group's profits took a dip or it was determined you were dead weight and the group you could do better without you. But these days "fiduciary duty" actually demands the group leaders take a simple utilitarian viewpoint of whether they keep you in the group.

This isn't meant to be totally pessimistic. Some of my favorite times and best friends were at companies that had a great corporate culture with a corporate mission I believed in. But these actually tended to be more mature organizations that were honest about what they were doing: being a successful business that made money, was an enjoyable place to work, and created value for customers. It's actually the 'cultish' places I find that people get extremely bitter when they leave because they were sold a bill of goods that was never true to begin with.
Netflix's Top List Should Be Taken with a Large Grain of Salt
> act aggressively and quell the protests

I have trouble with this view. I don't see it. I've lived in a few protest capitals, in different countries, and I've even been on organizing teams for protests. Polices are always either just there, or they escort specifically, unless there's that one group of shitheads that wants to cause trouble.

Portland is greatly misportrayed by the media. NY Times and USA Today show people shaking a fence. You jump to AndyNgo and there's video of people sawing through fences with power tools. Political cartoonist like Matt Bors say police are afraid of laser pointers. People are using green lasers that can blind people, and may have blinded at least three federal officers. People I know there say it's pretty normal for a few hours, and then at night, a lot of anarco-anticaps cause a shit ton of damage.

Police are not actively quelling protests. I think most of them are fine with people just protesting. Police do want to stop riots. Looting is destroying cities and should be stopped. CHAZ was a nightmare where the police stopped showing up when businesses and residents repeatably called them[0]. I watched police cruisers on fire in Chicago back in May, and two weekends ago businesses took a second massive hit. The bigger chains are open again, but many small stores may be closed for good.

Not all police officers are good, but it's insane to think the majority of them are psychos. The vast majority of people I know who are police, want to do the right thing.

There was a time when local police would turn fire hoses on peaceful protestors and release dogs. It's what turned the nation towards ML King and the movement he stood for, because America wanted to stand against the violence. When protestors burn down gas stations and car dealerships, the American people will still turn against the violence.

[0]: https://battlepenguin.video/videos/watch/9f81cd38-3ee9-4f26-...
I was wondering the same thing! I wonder if the Wikipedia article has changed (a quick glance at the history doesn’t seem to suggest that it was).

One part that isn’t mentioned in the article though is how the Canadian legal system would handle someone who has password-protected records about someone else. For example, you and I are friends, and I am on trial. Would the courts be able to subpoena your iMessage history with me? If you refused to provide your password, would you be charged with contempt? It’s not an 11(c) situation, because you’re not being compelled to be a witness against yourself.
I think most us cards have chips, but no pins. It’s bizarre.
For someone to be solely responsible for such an invaluable collection? That doesn't sound outrageous at all.