skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is something I've noticed. Often authoritarian vs anti-authoritarian views are mapped to left-right views. This makes conversation particularly confusing at times. I tend to notice when fairly central left-right anti-authoritarians speak they get accused of being left or right (whichever is opposite of the position the person they are responding to). I'm unsure how to have these types of discussions without them becoming left-right issues.
Plus the market would no longer be two-sided, which significantly reduces Uber, et al.’s moat.
Could be Intel's graphics drivers. I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't properly optimized on Linux. Out of curiosity, what distro did you try?
#1 seems like a fairly optimistic interpretation of how the system works in practice.

Re #2, "sometimes decent people do stupid things": these "decent people" have been doing these "stupid things" habitually, systematically, across the nation, for decades. This isn't some one-off incident, this is the typical procedure.
This will just interview people with the best resumes and will be biased.
Evidence doesn't seem to indicate that, given funding, the police will turn it into meaningful training: it seems to go elsewhere. From [1], a sample:

> We found that, in a two week period at the beginning of June, when the anti-racism protests began, New York City spent $115 million on police overtime, which was over four times what the city spent in the same period last year.

> $14 million went to new locker rooms. $64 million went to motor vehicles and $104 million was planned for police training. During that training, 60 hours are spent on firearm skills while just eight hours are spent on conflict management.

So the training given to police is a fraction of money spent on annual overtime, and the training that is received goes towards increasing violence.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/the-real-cost-of-police-nypd...
JavaScript has some really nice features that this tutorial does not mention 1) First class functions 2) Prototype 3) Function scope 4) What async means and how to master it
Those I think is essential in order to understand JavaScript.
Right, and that is why the "more training" argument I've heard some use as an alternative to the "de-fund the police" doesn't hold water.

My own experience working near a lot of police early in my career led me to believe that the majority of the training instills a "us vs them" attitude in the police, and it carries through to everything they do. Combined with the constant bombardment of stories about the tiny percentage of cases where someone is actually violent and the results are predictable.

Frankly, i'm of the opinion that the vast majority of cops shouldn't be carrying lethal weapons into the average traffic stop or whatever other activity is basically 100% safe outside of infinitesimal number of cases which go violent. After all, by pulling over, the person has basically already yielded to their authority.
My comment is a reply to this: "To blast the Bay Area and state which made them rich and then flee before they owe a penny is gross."

It's not gross to minimize your obligations towards people who have done nothing for you. Seattle is the relevant counterfactual: flourishing tech scene without the punitive tax burden that we're supposed to believe enabled California's success.
There is a video, I didn't watch it, I was just taking her comment about guns at face value.
And anti-cheat doesn't really help the problem either at all. They are easy for cheaters to get around, and it's possible to even have cheat that the anti-cheat can't detect at all as it would use the same inputs normal player would use. Anti-cheat is same as DRM, the only people that suffer are the actual players, not the cheaters or pirates.

It's another social problem that engineers try to solve with technology.
The military equipment is free under the federal grants.
I talked to somebody and he told me he had talked to his "IT department" and they're working on it but who the fuck knows.
> they just never really liked the city.

Pretty hard to like a city where a non-trivial portion of the residents are hating on you and blaming you and others like you for many problems of their own doing.

I left a year ago and I personally hope both San Francisco and all of California suffers fiscal collapse. The state grossly mistreats it's most productive citizens, when its those very citizens that fund the greatest chunk of the state's largesse. Hopefully enough major taxpayers will leave that it creates a fiscal crisis that can only be solved by increasing taxes further, driving more productive citizens out and sending the state government in a death spiral.

You'd be bitter too if you paid several hundred thousand in state taxes in 2019 to a state whose politicians probably at least halved your net worth by using your company as their whipping boy for years just to make themselves look good.
For a person like this, can't they direct her to step outside where they can pat her down and then do the search? Without their guns drawn?
This is the (first) helloworld.letsencrypt.org test certificate.

Now, for most (perhaps even all other?) Certificate Authorities that doesn't prove much, because after all you could manually cause issuance of anything. But the fun thing about Let's Encrypt is they've insisted almost to a fault upon only using their ACME API. After all, if you really believe in everybody else using automation it's hypocritical to have manual systems for your own stuff.

[ I say almost to a fault because there can be situations where for compliance you need to demonstrate something and it seemed (I may be wrong and Seth will correct me) as though Let's Encrypt always chose to just let nature take its course instead. Want to see an expired certificate? We'll put one of our auto-generated certificates on a server, and then just wait ninety days for it to expire. ]

So as a result helloworld.letsencrypt.org isn't just a proof that they could issue such certificates, it means logically that's what all the certificates looked like at that time.
I don't know... rule of law?
Training and equipping peace officers to de-escalate situations is far cheaper and better for the general population than the hundreds of millions in excessive force and wrongful death lawsuits that are paid out of our taxes.

NYC alone has dropped over $300M on settling lawsuits due to their poor training over the last 5 years[0]

I know a couple current and former NYPD officers and the amount of times I’ve been told of how a routine mental health check up turned into 4+ cops beating the crap out of an unarmed person
in their own home would likely surprise most people who aren’t familiar with how brutal the police in the USA are.

[0] https://nypost.com/2020/01/31/city-payouts-in-nypd-misconduc...
the article referenced was from 2016... many of the LGBT issues presented are still real concerns.
> a bizarre iiiIji logo (or something)

The logo is a stylized "mitp" for MIT Press.
I'm the GP commentor, and in my case, theoretically I can, though in my case I have a wife and two children, so it does get tight.

And while I'm grateful for everything I have in life, and I have been given much more than my grandparents abroad...I do wonder -- after struggling through top colleges and a working hard for over two decades with ever increasing responsibility, whether I really "deserve" a 1br or should I aspire to more for my family and me.

I realize it sounds both selfish but also reasonable based on how one looks at things. For now, we've chosen to live very comfortably in DC.
Does anyone have any insight on why someone would invest in MicroStrategy instead of just buying the bitcoin themselves? Is the volume discount delta > fees that the fund charges?
The problem with Berkeley is that you can’t get to other areas quickly. BART and the Bay Bridge sucked pre pandemic.
My Nokia N9 proved to me that a Linux-based phone without having to be an entirely different world like Android is possible — and I’m stoked to see Librem and the PinePhone take this even further!

We’ve come a long way since the OpenMoko :)
The situation with Travis CI is confusing, has not been communicated well by them, and is definitely not getting enough coverage for the amount of disruption it might cause. Here's what I've been able to piece together:

? 2018: Travis CI announces they are starting the process of merging travis-ci.org, which provided free builds for OSS projects, into travis-ci.com, which until then was only for paying customers. They promise OSS builds will continue to be free.

? 2020: Travis CI announces they are shutting down travis-ci.org at the end of the year and all projects have to move to travis-ci.com. They promise OSS builds will continue to be free.

Early November 2020: travis-ci.com switches from providing unlimited builds for OSS to only providing 10k one-time credits by default. Projects that meet certain guidelines (e.g. no one paid to work on them) can apply for recurring credits.

Later in November 2020: CI for many OSS projects that had migrated to travis-ci.com starts to fail, as they've exhausted their 10K credits.

Dec 2020: If what is reported here is accurate, Travis CI stop providing any recurring OSS credits. CI breaks for the remaining OSS projects on travis-ci.com.

Jan 2021: travis-ci.org shuts down. CI will be broken for all projects using it. They'll have the option of migrating to travis-ci.com, but will soon break again as they exhaust their 10k credits.

I suspect that many, many projects haven't migrated from .org to .com and are going to be surprised when their CI breaks on January 1st. It looks like their only option is to start paying Travis CI or move to an alternate provider (like CircleCI or Github Actions, both of which have free tiers for OSS).

If Travis CI's new owners are no longer willing to provide free CI services to OSS projects, that's understandable. I just wish they'd communicate that clearly in ways that their users won't miss.

(BTW, if anyone from Travis CI is reading this, I reached out to your support team last week for help on a problem that is blocking us from potentially paying you. I haven't gotten an answer yet on ticket 23831. Any help is appreciated.)
> If you run an internet exposed service and you log IP addresses and have the ability to issue a warrant, it is entirely trivial to trace a request back to a specific house.

Having an IP address alone is not generally probable cause enough to get a warrant, because they are regularly rotated, and shared, across geographic areas. And that's assuming nothing proxying that connection at all.
"...or we must move the funding away from the police department to a different department that will do so."

And then you still have armed police without training.
Thanks for letting me know. I’ll definitely improve this.
There are home security videos that you can watch in the article.
eBay has tons
That's gonna be a problem for me... I use coated strings because my sweat is on the acidic side, to the point steel or nickel strings last barely a month or two before rusting completely.

Maybe I need to get better at cleaning my strings, I have to admit I do miss the twang of Ernie Balls.
Who on the "right" is cool with this? Genuinely asking.
I'll have to watch that.

Edit:
Watched it, but did not see guns being pointed at anyone.
I've always heard the phrase, "if two people are responsible, no one is responsible".
The obnoxious thing to me is the hubris that must be behind this. Either they considered it and decided they would never encounter a system error like this and refused to implement an escalation route, or they never even considered it.

Or perhaps even worse than that, maybe they considered it, decided it was possible, but just don't care because of their insane borderline monopoly.

I don't understand how internet companies provide such consistently awful service.

Slightly off topic story, I've recently changed to another provider called Starry, and they force you to have a second router in front of your own router which they claim "decodes" their stream between the modem. I don't know the real reason but I'm pretty sure that's not it. If you plug their modem directly into a non-Starry router, the router just doesn't detect a connection.

One day, I tried to torrent something, and my internet would immediately get throttled to 0mbps. After investigating I found out that their router had a custom OS which hid a firewall and various security settings. Amusingly you could still access those settings if you just manually entered the page names into the address bar. Now all their stupid settings are disabled and I just feel badly for all the folks who use their service and don't have the savvy I do to actually get what they're paying for.
You can add the Podcast feed on the dashboard to your podcast player, and it will be available to listen shortly.
Defund the police.
>If more revenue really is the answer, I'm not opposed to bumping up taxes more in certain ways. I'm definitely for ideas that make taxes less regressive, for instance getting rid of the lower long-term capital tax rate is probably good idea and a simple way to raise effective tax rates on the wealthy in a massive way.

So you agree with my point.

The rest of your comment, I think you're making things a little too black and white. You make it sound like people can either bring attention to the wealth inequality that exists today("demonize those at the top"), or they can buckle down and do "the hard work of making real, tangible improvements in the lives of those at the bottom," but not both. I think both of those are possible at the same time. Either way, could you please share a specific example of the hard work of making real, tangible improvements in the lives of those at the bottom? It seems to me like you're echoing the old pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps argument, in a third party sense? Because I'm really not sure what sort of hard work for making real, tangible improvements wouldn't require some kind of money.
I sort of don't want a comment like this, that isn't relevant, at the top. Like you can briefly say you empathize with her position and that obviously the police are misbehaving. But what we all really want is the Republicans to pay for suppressing data, because obviously Florida is in much worse shape than anyone wants to admit, it couldn't be any other way, so whose head will roll for the inevitable cover-up, and if not, why was such a cover-up lawful?
The absence of a national scandal proves nothing. Proof has to meet a much higher bar than that. Does it lend some support for thinking there was nothing there perhaps. But it is far from proof.
That and left or right doesn’t care about Authoritarianism when they think the Authorities are on their side.
I think you hit the nail on the head regarding the $400 million in cash. This was a payment to get ATG off Uber's books, and given how much money ATG loses sounds like it was basically a "we'll pay for a year or so worth of expenses" kind of deal.

My biggest question about this deal is that is combining a 600 person company with a 1200 person company (obviously many/most of those people will not be sticking around). Those types of large technology merges are extremely challenging in the best of times, but I'm curious how it will work out in an era where so many people are teleworking (but I don't know, could even be better, as there is less opportunity for offhand office gossip).
> We have a law that we may not be required to quarter soldiers, perhaps a better law would have been to make it illegal to enter private property without consent armed.

I believe that a warrant gives them this right. But the give a bit more nuance there is a difference in entering armed vs drawn. We should definitely have a high standard for when weapons are allowed to be drawn. It is in fact the police who are in a position of power, so they have the higher standard to meet.
This is exactly my struggle with Brahms' music. There are so many brilliant and beautiful passages in his work but he seems to be determined to take the music in a completely new direction every 16 bars.
> I am respected in universities abroad

That might be set for a change
This.

American police training routinely promotes an us-versus-them mentality. It instills the idea that every situation is a threat that must conquered and dominated. You can see this in their comments that the streets are "a war zone" and talk about being "warriors", and a routine glorification of violence and stereotypes. This is why American police routinely escalate situations. Note on the video, the police don't just pull guns, but then start agressively barking orders.

Contempt of Cop is real.
Why did you decide to take the Police's story as truth? Do you actually believe that this person, a scientist with zero criminal history, decided to not answer the door for 20 minutes as cops were banging on it and yelling? How does that make sense to you?
"It depends" - Your NIC could be doing some tcp offload for you, at which point any checksum you'd observe with tcpdump/wireshark would be flat out wrong.

Generally - both the tcp checksum and the 802.11/Ethernet CRC isn't all that strong, so it's entirely within the realm of possibility of having bitflip patterns that fool both.
> The absence of a massive, national scandal resulting in the impeachment of DeSantis proves that Florida wasn't hiding anything

I'm sorry but that proves nothing of the sort. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Is that right? That seems phenomenally bad. I feel like I have normal American driving habits and I drive a standard 10k miles per year...

So I'm going to kill a pedestrian every 100 years? Assuming I drive normally for ~50 years, 500k miles, I have a 50% chance to kill a pedestrian?
>I'd lose my mind if some swine pointed a gun at my child.

I wonder if things like this are what honor duels were about in the past? A way to semi-legally call out someone personally with potentially severe consequences.

Pointing a gun at a kid in a situation like this seems like it should be punishable by itself.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/04/barack...

I suspect your comment is greyed out because of this term. Such a fucking stupid slogan, when you turn off people and then try to clarify "It means..." to an audience that's mostly stopped listening.
> Besides deleting letters under it could affect layouts.

Which is in and of itself a security risk. Not only can the length of the redaction give an estimate on the length of the password, but for variable width fonts, could even rule out many passwords using pixel measurements between the text on either side.
Military equipment is provided under the federal grants. It is only "free" in the sense that it isn't being paid for by local taxes. That means that local police need to be defunded of federal funds as well as local funds.
Plenty of people in America think that having your kids put in refrigerated cages is a perfectly normal and justifiable consequence of your commission of a misdemeanor.

Just threatening them temporarily with violent death is nothing compared with that.
Thanks for the correction. I was looking at 13/14/15" laptops at that point - which maxed out at 1440 by 900 on the 15" I believe.
Don't forget that the poles are usually owned by an existing power or telecom company, and if they even let you use their poles, you have to pay rent on the pole. Same for conduits. Building new poles and conduits can also be legally difficult and expensive.
Something better than a shithole country?
Have you seen the PolyScience Control ºFreak? Four of those types of elements on cooktop? yes, please!
I've never thought that Linux Desktop provides unified desktop experience.
TrueNorth (YC W20) Is Hiring
Doesn't GDPR already require that companies restrict and document who accesses PII?
"Maybe not perfectly optimally first try for all but who cares about that."

That's the purpose of LeetCode. If you're saying you can't solve all of them, what happens when you get one of the ones you don't know?
Wikipedia:

In 1989, Morris was indicted for violating United States Code Title 18 (18 U.S.C. § 1030), the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).[2] He was the first person to be indicted under this act. In December 1990, he was sentenced to three years of probation, 400 hours of community service, and a fine of $10,050 plus the costs of his supervision. He appealed, but the motion was rejected the following March.[4] Morris' stated motive during the trial was "to demonstrate the inadequacies of current security measures on computer networks by exploiting the security defects [he] had discovered."[2] He completed his sentence as of 1994.
When you can have an entire South Park episode predicated on the notion of smugness in San Francisco, you can be assured the rest of the country is aware of, and partially buys into, that characterization.

https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Smug_Alert!

Now, it’s not bragging if it’s true. The problem is...well, it’s a big, wide, wonderful country and world with lots of great places and ways of life to be discovered. Keep an open mind, and try to keep a closed mouth. Reminds me of the buttons that proclaimed “I don’t care how you do it in NYC”.
I agree. And the responses so far indicate either cynicism or justification. Neither is useful imho.

Police _are_ overly militarized and overly aggressive. We should be able to have a conversation in a healthy democracy about appropriate rules of engagement and escalation.

Personally, I think it can be traced directly to the failed war on drugs. and indirectly, to the wars on terror creating both an excuse and a market for police weaponization.
You're just assuming that's what the warrant was related to.

She hasn't been charged, let alone found guilty, of any crime.
The reason that breaks down is that a backdoor to achieve this isn’t for that one case, it’s for everyone on the service (or easily made to be). It’s like getting permission to break every lock from a particular manufacturer, rather than permission to enter one particular home.

I know in this particular case they’ve said it’s for a singular mailbox. I’m curious how they achieve it.
Limewire's peak years were immediately before settling a lawsuit. When the lawsuit threats started, the owner panicked, put out a press release saying that he would shut down the company right away, then back-peddled and announced he'd fight the lawsuit. There was a ton of noise in the press and lots of media speculation about what was going to happen, which generated tons of free advertising.

Part of the settlement was using the auto-update feature to update the vast majority of users to a record-label-developed application that was skinned to look like LimeWire. (I left a year or two before the killing update, but as I remember, they made one release that removed the optionality from the auto-update, waited for the majority of users to update, and then force-updated everyone.)

LimeWire's fall in popularity didn't look anything like a normal decline.

I don't think the media frenzy free advertising was intentional, but the owner was a bit of a mad genius. He has tons of ideas, 80% of which are batshit crazy, and 1% of which are out-of-the-box brilliant. He has a few people close to him who are good at picking out the uncut diamonds. He also founded and runs a very successful hedge fund. On the other hand, he emailed everyone a paranoid email and then talked to journalists about it when it leaked[0].

[0] https://gawker.com/the-astounding-conspiracy-theories-of-wal...
Oddly, I can't even resolve example.com (using AT&T DNS).