skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elijah McClain was not “ridiculously agitated”.

The video shows that police escalated every chance they got.

After receiving a phone call of a “suspicious person” they went from in their car to hands on Elijah in less than 10s.

In a matter of minutes Elijah was on the ground surrounded by a dozen officers.

They’re saying “was he suspected of anything”, “why are we here”?

They don’t even know why they’re there... but they know that they need to indiscriminately dominate a young black man until he’s puking and crying and ultimately has a heart attack.

Ridiculously agitated, my foot. They (Police) create the situation, then they (Police) prescribe ketamine. These are not the people who should be making these calls. No one should be allowed to have this kind of latitude when dealing with another human.
> hard workouts early in the morning

This is interesting, thanks for sharing, I’ll try this out.

All the best to you too. It’s good to know that you’re happy. I hope everything works out the way you want them to.
Can a screenreader user use an app written with this library? That’s a major thing Qt and pretty much no other cross-platform UI system get right.
It would change based on google rollouts. A forum would have more upto date information.
Height Modernization: Recalibrating where the U.S. physically sits on the planet
> As it seems, blind, to the customers feedback.

I wonder how they gather feedback internally. Because either they don't even test some of their services by 50 employees, or ignore any feedback of coworkers too.

Even though the old app felt like it was build and tested by a team of 1, it feels like not even the single person either used it daily, or want allows to make a change after it was published.

It should take a elaborate company vision to build a service for people, who actually want to use the service
I see that you worked for a FAANG - how much of your motivation for building ente.io came from an insider view of how corporations leverage user data? In other words, did your stint at a FAANG fuel your desire for a privacy friendly photos alternative?

P.S: Native Malayalam speaker here - love the name "ente.io". Nannayi varatte :)
How Much Is a Physical Album Worth in 2020? $3.49? $77? $1k? Maybe $0
Tangentially related, ketamine was what they dosed the kids stuck in the cave with prior to dragging them out last year.
It seems you're missing the point. The point is that bastions are prove to be effective as defensive structures (it minimizes blind spots in a battlefield) in scenarios where the enemy carries mostly light weaponry.

The design is also effective to conduct psychological warfare for some of the reasons that they become tourist attractions in Europe.
Why would gases “have to come “down” to burn”?

You need 3 things for a fire: something to burn, oxygen, and heat, so as long as newly released gas comes into contact with burning gas in the presence of oxygen, it will burn.

That need not be near the exit of the gas main (for an extreme example, look at a flame thrower (military ones typically use liquid, but commercial ones typically use gases such as propane)

Efficiency and cleanliness of burning will likely go down, but I would think the design of gas exits isn’t that critical to keep a flame burning. One reason could be that, initially, it isn’t density that controls whether gas goes up or down, but gas pressure.
1GB in India is pretty cheap+good. A small amount of stupid censorship but otherwise pretty solid.

I lived in Canada for about ten years. It's a ridiculously expensive place in terms of food and internet costs. At the time I was pleased because the best connections we had in India were 1Mbps. When I moved back I was happy to see we had way better internet, digital payments and banking services.
I'm assuming those moving to fastmail from gmail are not concerned about mass surveillance.

Fastmail is an Australian company, a 5-eyes country, subject to the Assistance and Access Bill [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_Australia...
Solo founder of Gumroad here. Highly recommended. It forced me to learn a lot more about every aspect of building a business than I would have otherwise.

I'm also a fan of investing in solo founders: https://shl.vc
I wrote a tool to do the opposite thing: allow writing "shell scripts" using Rust. Still early days but https://github.com/staktrace/khaki is where it lives.
Wow, he went out in a k-hole.

Interesting and scary experience.
The only websites which would force you are:

- legitimate websites using this feature for valid purposes, such as to control devices on your local network

- targeted malware attacks trying to hack devices on your local network

I’m certain we will not start getting popups for this on any mainstream website.

So as long as this permissions thing is more than a simple yes/no dialog, I’m not worried.
Ask HN: Does karma give any privileges?
So the question is: does karma matter in anyway on HN?
AFAIK, the toxicology report showed tiny amounts of methamphetamine and THC - I don't recall opioids being mentioned at all.

A quick Google shows that only in the past few days, the cops are now trying to say he does from a fentanyl overdose, rather than the knee on his neck. TBH, this seems purely like an attempt at scapegoating, making him out to be the "stereotypical black man, crazed on drugs".

But we're veering off topic now. I'd rather not discuss the rights and wrongs of the police in this case, because I will disagree hard with any attempts to justify the actions of the police, so there is no interesting discourse to be had there, and HN is not the right platform regardless.
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Mantis: Reactive Programmable Switches [pdf]
It seems like Kabbage specifically targets loans to online businesses, which are booming right now. Even still, it seems the decline predates the pandemic.
More footage about the line:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2roHdZ9UB9Y

I don't speak the language but the auto transcribe and auto translate seems to work ok.
> the history of Europe in the 20th century can be summarised as "from Sarajevo to Sarajevo"

...if you live there. In the broader historical perspective, Sarajevo was both in 1914 and late in the 20th century a pretext used by orders of magnitude bigger players making orders of magnitudes bigger moves, responsible for many millions of deaths.

Somehow, this line concentrates the partial perception of that, including somebody in Nigeria relating in the comment there:

https://twitter.com/tejucole/status/463672671226429440
I set up Bx (https://usebx.com) a solo founder/dev in 2017, after a fairly good career in finance (got to MD-level at a bulge bracket bank front office in ~7 years, but was extremely unfulfilled despite the decent money).

First few months were tough (no money, no customers), but things suddenly clicked towards the end of 2018 and we got a fair few users. I even managed to sell to a few corporate clients, which really bumped up the revenue. The version from 2017 still serves as the core product today (with a few tweaks for our corporate clients). Three years on, after receiving lots of feedback from our users, we're getting ready to launch Bx 2.0 in the next few months. I can honestly say, nothing has been more enjoyable than working on Bx, despite the ups and downs.

I don't think I would have stuck it out for so long if I had a co-founder, as I've generally not found many people I can work with for a prolonged period of time. I think the most freeing thing about being a solo founder, is that you can own your mistakes without having to be answerable to anyone.

To be honest, even in my finance job, I operated as a bit of a lone wolf on the desk, so working solo just happens to suit me. I admit I am not the best team player, but I am a good at delegating, dependable and back myself to get difficult stuff done. I think those things are really important when you have no one else to rely on or blame as a solo founder.
In case anybody else had to look it up: The US as a whole is 63.3% white (55% for people aged 18-19, 74% for people aged 55-64).
Several references to “my office”. Give me that kind of retrograde, please.
Threatened by Facebook Disinformation, a Monk Flees Cambodia
Yup, this architecture makes sure you have gun coverage for all your walls, in case people try to get close to them / scale the walls.
I have never understood how acts of love (at best) or reproduction (at the least) are considered in some societies to be dangerous, shocking, and in need of the strictest censorship -- or at the very least, not on prime-time TV. Yet acts of war, killing, maiming, and violence in general are often the mainstay of entertainment.

Sex is part of human nature – and, I would argue, a much bigger and better part of it than violence and aggression. Why do we hide from it?
That looks interesting. Have you tried posting it to privacy groups?
https://GitHub.audio was fun
Ask HN: Can Dynamo DB Handle Google?
Hypothetical question lets say if google migrate their data store to Dynamo DB. Is AWS powerful enough to handle google scale ?
Well yes, but it wouldn't be YTS but YIFY-TORRENTS.
A Rip in the Fabric of Interstellar Dreams
Easy in theory, however difficult in execution.

I'm D2C, so social media strategy, brand building and generally getting enough volume to convert in order to sustain the product without a huge ad budget is very tedious. Very much the long game to get people interested (probably over the course of years unless you go viral and have good network effects).
Please don't let the fact that you didn't bothered to read the article you're commenting on stop you from accessing the information you never bothered to search.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency_in_the_Maghreb_(200...
There's also a picture of that one in the article.
The Lazarus IDE has built-in help. Apart from that you can get component-specific documentation as well.

Freepascal Runtime Library documentation:
https://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.io/docs/rtl/

Lazarus Component Library:
https://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.io/docs/lcl/

Freepascal Component Library:
https://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.io/docs/fcl/

Freepascal Wiki:
https://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Documentation

Something else I should have added in my original comment:
Lazarus has a very capable built-in debugger.

That is invaluable if you want to step through and understand how things work.

EDIT: Other sites:

Some demo projects here:
https://www.getlazarus.org/

Lazarus project showcase:
https://www.getlazarus.org/community/showcase/

The Transmission Bittorrent GUI client was done in Lazarus:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/transgui/

Other apps done in Lazarus from the Lazarus website shown by category:
https://wiki.freepascal.org/Projects_using_Lazarus
TPB has an .onion site.

But the real danger with torrents is when you're actually sharing the data. Any of the IPs you connect to could be a malicious peer who will later track down your IP through legal channels and send you abusive notices.

I guess the way to protect yourself there is to torrent only over a VPN or through a seedbox.
Citigroup clerical error of $900M; a beneficiary refuses to hand back $175M
There's a sequence in the BBC drama "Micro Men" which appears to dramatise this, albeit with an external clock wire as the culprit. Worth watching, it's brilliant.
This begs the question: Is it illegal to design a nuclear weapon? Or any weapon for that matter, sounds like hell of a hobby. Could you outsource a modern day Kalashnikov to the third world through the daily Slack and Zoom?
The same patterns apply at smaller scales of time, work and team size, down to the boss deciding who interrupts their interesting work to spends some minutes to look at some idiot's "incredibly urgent" support ticket and who shouldn't be disturbed.
Where does Prepear actually use the black and white version?
Quarkus vs. Phoenix
Ah, Sahil, I remember your tweet: if you can build and sell, the world is your oyster. :)

I'm also a solo founder. I'm happy that you have sympathy to solo founders. Maybe I'll apply to your VC later.
I don't get the product manager hiring process
I started as a technical project manager over 10 years ago and slowly moved into product management in my last job almost 5 years ago. Cannot say it is a very successful product (due to the technology and market choices, both made without me at the very early stage of the product).

But the reason I'm writing this post is to say I don't get the hiring process for product managers. And before I go ahead, I accept that the problem can be with me and not the process. But the process feels entirely superficial and arbitrary to me. The typical problem given at the interview is like 'Design a solution to the problem X'. What exactly to do next is an entirely subjective choice. I've read the famous "Decode and Conquer", but even then it leaves a lot to be answered. In the end you are not really solving the problem, you need to please the interviewer instead. Do they want you to challenge the problem first? Do they want you to challenge the suggested technology to solve it (why do we want to build a bot and not a mobile app?) ? Do they want me to dive straight into making hypotheses? Design solutions?

It feels that the key to pass a product manager interview is to find an interviewer on the same wavelength with you. Probably I'm just venting, but not sure if anyone else feels the same or maybe you have any tips (including 'change your job!' haha)
That's not everywhere, it's two examples. Beaches and communal showers.

"Almost nude" simply means not nude, and personal, private nudity is obviously different from seeing other people nude.

Even if someone doesn't mind seeing naked people in the situations you describe, it still doesn't follow they should therefore be okay with nudity on screen in front of their family.
how are they dating something that isn’t there? are they dating the sand?
The article says that 17% of uses in Colorado lead to complications.

—-

Also, I googled “Canada” and “Australia” alone with “Ketamine” “police” and got nothing. Can you support your claim that other countries do this?
Germany Is Starting a New UBI Experiment
That is a shockingly poor comparison, defying all logic.

"Incel" was a term of self-identification chosen by a subculture of people and refers to a specific set of beliefs they subscribe to.

It is not even remotely equivalent to the slurs you mentioned in your original comment. One of those slurs is based on the color of one's skin. Another one is based on one's sexual orientation.

(I can see your original post because I have "showdead" turned on in my HN prefs)
This sounds like a question that may have been asked frequently in the past
Ask HN: When did the concept of CI/CD Become “a thing”?
Am I correct in thinking that CI/CD wasn't really a practice until the early 2000s with the advent of CruiseControl, and then gained real adoption with Jenkins?

I wasn't coding professionally until about 10 years ago and don't have anyone I can ask.
I am not sure what you mean when you say that the development time on Lazarus is slow.

I would actually say that it is perhaps the fastest in the list.
Always, it's been "limit:1" but you can buy the different kits, even from the same vendor but not for $5.
Statement Expressions in C
The "best" way to do it is like you said, "core logic in a cross platform language and native gui code". The general path is this:

1. design things using an MVVM pattern and share all your business logic

2. write all your native gui code manually as you tease out the patterns

3. over time, you can start moving the UI generation into the shared code by writing a custom DSL

The problem with platforms like React.Native and Elecron is that they are based on having a JS runtime, which is a de-facto performance hit and forces an async communication flow to the "native" side (flutter also has this issue). Xamarin does not have that same restriction, and is my preferred framework for this. Xamarin.Native (aka Xamarin.iOS/Xamarin.Android aka Xamarin.Traditional aka Xamarin) has a very minimal performance overhead for what it gives you in terms of native bindings and a shared codebase. Xamarin.Forms is a higher level abstraction that sits on top of Xamarin.Native and lets you theoretically write 100% shared code (by essentially being a community developed UI DSL like I outline in step 3 above), but it is buggy and has much worse performance.

The hardest problems you will have to solve using this approach are navigation and lifecycle. For the most part these are well understood issues and you will find lots of postings with different strategies on how to approach them.
Newton credited the discovery of the inverse square law of gravity to Pythagoras (5th century BC), just as Coperinicus had credited heliocentrism to him. Here is Newton's argument:

"For Pythagoras, as Macrobius avows, stretched the intestines of sheep or the sinews of oxen by attaching various weights, and from this learned the ratio of the celestial harmony. Therefore, by means of such experiments he ascertained that the weights by which all tones on equal strings .. were reciprocally as the squares of the lengths of the string by which the musical instrument emits the same tones. But the proportion discovered by these experiments, on the evidence of Macrobius, he applied to the heavens and consequently by comparing those weights with the weights of the Planets and the lengths of the strings with the distances of the Planets, he understood by means of the harmony of the heavens that the weights of the Planets towards the Sun were reciprocally as the squares of their distances from the Sun."

This article has more:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098
Because FB is probably one of the few places actually trying to grapple with the scope of this problem in a manner that makes business/practical sense.

Not at FB.

Content moderation is developing so fast, and with problems so thorny, that the difference between intuitions of normal people and trust and safety teams is whiplash causing.

Current moderation practices are perhaps analogous to the ages of proto police forces. Since there is also no separation of powers, moderation is a cost center, and comprehension of moderation principles is nascent and disregarded outside of T&S teams, you have people from sales/strategy/Personal connections overturning rules/policy.

The speaker at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J19Xa3-SN1M, has a book on this topic which discusses some of the many problems this field throws up.

FB is trying to resolve this problem by offloading the problematic thought policing to the state, in some way or form - white paper sent in the UK is a case in point.

This is likely the way forward for major firms, it seems unfortunate, but unless someone reframes the incentives and problems, government sanctioned censorship is the likely future.
The decision of whether or not to administer any drug should always be in the hands of someone who knows what they’re doing, and if that decision is not made by the person receiving the drug it should be made by somebody sufficiently detached from the situation so that they can make a good clinical decision as to how to medically treat the person for a condition they are suffering from. A cop who has someone in a chokehold is not sufficiently detached from the situation.

You cannot say “give them ketamine” and just leave the dose up to the paramedic and call it safe.
Logs and Time Series are not the same
That had nothing to do with tracking. Cambridge Analytica was able to gain access to large amounts of data that people had created while using Facebook as it is intended to be used. Even if no one was being tracked, the exploitation could have occurred.
Good Reasons to Still Learn Languages
I was always curious why the website told me to register, felt very suspicious. Some torrents are restricted to users, weirdly.

Not to mention the occasional shady popup ads.

The weirdest thing about YTS, is the high quantity of very low-quality movies it has. I mean things you would not watch even if it was free. It makes it impossible to really pick anything.

So in doubt and in paranoia, I would say that I have low trust for YTS.
It really depends on the type of application.

A Drawing application, where the 'core' is the drawing/filter/etc code, should probably be done in a shared library (C/C++/Rust?) and then have a native UI as the UI won't be the complicated thing.

A Video editing app (where the UI for timelines, etc etc) where the UI is quite important, should probably be a mix where generic stuff (menus, buttons) use the native libs, but then have most of their controls rendered independently of the native UI lib (timeline, custom controls, etc).

A audio mixer where the UI is mostly all custom, you can even do it in Unity (or Gogot/OpenGL/whatever) as 95% of it will be custom.

A 'show data' ui filled with tables and lists and the likes, while I don't like, probably something like Electron would work. Or QT/wxWidgets

A game pretty much doesn't matter and use a game engine that is supported in all platforms.

I would recommend to use something like QT/wxWidgets/Xamarin Forms/etc as a generic take all, and depending on the app, adapt it to your needs.
- One is a slur based strictly on the color of one's skin

- One is a slur based on one's sexual preferences

- One is a slur based on a self-applied label some have chosen for themselves and represents (and I am phrasing this as neutrally as possible) a very specific set of beliefs

Which one of these is not like the others?
I'm an anesthesiologist.

This is insane.
The aim isn’t to compete with the companies at large. But to provide an alternative for users who (like me) care both about privacy and convenience when it comes to the niche space of photo storage. The size of the audience might be small, but I’m optimistic about it being large enough for me to sustain this as a small business.

And yes, I am using Flutter to build the mobile apps. It does come with its own set of problems that I have to bang my head against, but I can’t complain as it’s saving me quite a bit of effort.
Comcast handles terabytes of telemetry data daily from customer-premises equipment[0]. They could have internal machine learning models for customer retention / churn reduction from the data you're generating, whether bandwidth usage, sites visited, etc. Some model(s) may have inferred that you had a higher likelihood to move and or churn. You can train such models from historical data of people who have moved in the past, and if there's a chance that people who move tend not to care about their subscription anymore, cancel it, or renew it after a long period, there is lost revenue to be minimized. A provider will then engage you, either through email or via a customer support representative if the revenue per customer is high.

This does work and organizations pay close attention to it. If you have a retail bank that makes around $1,000 per customer with 6% churn rate and 10 million customers, this adds up to quite a chunk of change.

It could also be a coincidence due to the current trend of people moving around, and sending emails like this to remove one cognitive process from someone who already has many things to sort out.

[1]: https://www.nctatechnicalpapers.com/Paper/2019/2019-what-can...
I'm glad this is being brought up, since it doesn't get addressed enough.

One major difference is that investigative journalism was already on the decline by the time the Net showed up.

Cable news, media consolidation was already underway. Fox news existed before the internet truly became a global fact of life.

If anything, it was craigslist that became the last nail in the coffin. It killed of the classifieds section, which was what gave news rooms their last trickle of cash.
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