skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This group seems to have turned into a group that's only interested in scraping "criminal records" and "court records" over police accountability records, and believes that cop names should be removed from scraped records. They've also openly discussed inviting cops and FBI employees into their slack to discuss scraping. Consider that "Police Data Accessibility Project" is another way of saying "We only make available data that the police want us to make available.".

The project itself has tons of managerial types (who happily put PDAP on their linkedin pages..) trying to manage the 2,500 people who have joined their slack, however only a small number of contributors are actually working on scrapers (~2), who like I said -- are focusing on "criminal" datasets and not datasets around accountability. In doing so, they're effectively ignoring the core of the data that exists to aid in police accountability, eg complaints and misconduct records themselves. This shouldn't be a surprise, since police agencies tend NOT to provide information online that could be used against them in court, and they WILL fight to the teeth to prevent the release of damning records. Souce: I spend a lot of time with FOIA trying to get misconduct records..

The group's foundation is also shaky. The group was started by owners of a marketing company, frac.tl that specializes in exploiting emotions to turn something viral, which on its own should raise flags. The blog post that "started" their supposed movement has three listed writers over the course of several months [1][2][3]. The data from this blog post (afaict the only dataset actually released that's tied to this project) was found to contain private information and had to be cleaned up - 6mo after it was pushed onto github and forked many times.

If you are looking for a group to support, please consider either volunteering with or donating to local police accountability groups. Your time/donations would be much better served with them.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20191118214540/https://lawsuit.o...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20200518181855/https://lawsuit.o...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20200527213804/https://lawsuit.o...
> I imagine that travel to Mars, and a moon colony seemed like it was just around the corner in 1970 and yet here we are 50 years later and neither one of those came to fruition.

It was just around the corner. The grand arc of human life altered course, and it took the market 50 years to catch up to collective action.
Sure. But is that sufficiently bad? Minimum wage laws, health and safety laws, and all sorts of other regulations put US corporations at a disadvantage on the world stage. The state shouldn't just exist to make our corporations as profitable as possible.
Who wouldn't love to wipe Israel off the map? Israel was created by wiping Palestine off the map so wiping Israel off of it seems more than fair. :) Hopefully, Palestinians and Israelis can learn to live in peace and as equals some day.

The wipe Israel off the map quote comes from a speech held by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005. The quote is a mistranslated Arabic figure of speech taken out of context and has been regurgitated by Zionist lobbies for over 15 years now.

There is no inherent basis for a conflict between Israel and Iran. Iran isn't an Arab country, doesn't have any territorial claims in the Levant, and the Palestinians' version of Islam isn't even compatible with Iran's. Who benefits from keeping the conflict going? The Israeli arms industry. You can ask the same thing about US trade tariffs on China. Who benefits?
It is actually simpler than this, and that is it is extremely difficult to pierce the corporate veil in Delaware. It is considered one of the strongest states for segregating the officers and shareholders except in cases of outright fraud.
I'm still waiting for the KENBAK-1 core.
For a really high level that includes how people practically use one with storage, I like this simple image:

https://academy.bit2me.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/como-f...
I have two remotes: one for my TV, and one for my AV receiver. I realized I generally only need four buttons: the power button on each, and volume up and down on the AV receiver remote. Arguably that could be compressed to three; I very rarely want the AV receiver on and TV off, or vice versa (unfortunately neither remote supports programming it for the other device, so I can't use the "system on/off" functionality).

So for my regular use, I wouldn't mind voice control for this, though voice assistants have trouble hearing you when there's extraneous loud noise, so volume control (especially when a really loud scene comes up and I want to lower it) would be difficult.

I don't like the idea of a smartphone app, because there's the hassle of unlocking my phone and finding/switching to the right app.

The author also mentions using gestures, which also seems very error-prone.

So I guess a dedicated remote control is the way to go, though I wouldn't mind having a single bare-bones power+volume remote, so I could toss the full-featured remotes into a drawer and only pull them out when (rarely) necessary.
What is it about bloom filters that makes people want to explain them to others? I think I’ve seen more blog posts about them than any other cs topic, with the possible exception of monads.
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This narrative gets trotted out anytime this subject comes up. It's not reflective of the actual literature. Here's an older perspective from 2009 [1]:

> the available evidence clearly indicates that the demographic collapse was not uniform in either timing or magnitude and may have been caused by factors other than epidemic disease. ... Despite the trauma of conquest, Native Americans continued to have their own histories, intertwined with but not entirely determined by Europeans and their pathogens.

Since that was written, the evidence has swung even more strongly towards the idea that disease was intimately associated with the close, persistent contacts needed for the "conquest" and missionary activities of colonial powers.

Not to mention, similar epidemics were observed among indigenous southern africans and siberians during their respective colonizations. The Americas were unique in the scale and completeness of their disruption, but not in the mechanisms.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-009-9036-8
Look at Bangle JS, it has JS interpreter on it. There is no IDE on it, but I don't see it impossible that one connects a Bluetooth keyboard and opens up the console on it.
I renovated vacation house and live in it for some time. It is in nature, no cable providers. Also, as I got older, I watched sports less and less, and now I follow only one sport team FC Barcelona, and sometimes I watch national team games, but not always.

So my options are non existent. No cable service (btw, I do not own TV for more than 5 years now, not here nor in my flat in the city), I can't subscribe to any online sport streaming like Fox or Sky from my country. And if I could, would I pay XX eur to watch 2-3 games per month and nothing else?

It is dumb that we do not have pay per game streaming services.
Microsoft is reportedly close to buying speech tech giant Nuance
Visual coding is still in its infancy. We have decades of experience for how to design systems with textual code, and a ton of tools (IDEs, static analyzers, refactoring tools) that work with text.

The fact that some systems are better implemented as text is not an indictment of visual coding as much as it is a testament to the maturity of text as a language for coding.

Game design is only on part of the problem anyway—often a feature which is simple from a design standpoint is complicated to implement in code. This is why you don’t just hire game designers who dabble in coding, but also programmers.
I remember when someone brought an Amazon Echo Dot to a party to play music.
It ended with a bunch of drunk guys desperately shouting what music to play next, with Alexa getting it right maybe half of the time.
I love my MiSTer build!

The usb controllers made for the recent mini systems (NES, SNES, Genesis, etc) make great accessories for the mister. Add a couple of usb arcade sticks and you can really play almost any classic retro games as it was meant to be played.

And then there are all the classic computer cores even including the PDP-1!
I wonder, why is there no DIY Analogue Pocket-style MiSTer project? Is the DE10-Nano too large or inefficient for this?
Well, yeah, it's not replication if it's not an exact hardware replica, but the word "emulation" has very "software" connotations. I guess let's call it.. recreation? (That word is even in the quote above!)
I heard the same argument about Bitcoin.

If Bitcoin is skyrocketing, than you have bigger problems to worry about, indicating societal collapse.
Pro monopolist app store people are like Chinese citizens so happy with the CCP 'because stability'. It's bizarre.

Android, Mac, Windows, Linux are reasonably safe platforms, there's zero reason why people can't chose to download the software they want.

Apple's 'it's the security' line is the most obvious giant lie, it's there to protect their control over the platform and that's that.
You've never run a (non-trivial) business, have you?

Some of the things I read on HN are jaw-droppers. Then I remember that people these days confuse opinion and lack of context with facts and reality.

My wife often repeats a saying that goes something like this: Your Google search isn't equivalent to my medical degree, residency and decades of experience afterwards.
To support java 16 all I had to do was change the release tag in my compiler plugin and everything just worked. Didn't have to ugprade maven, didn't have to upgrade the compiler plugin. Gradle users had to wait until they released another entire major version with all the churn that entails.
Real name and required accounts ruined this. Now, everyone is too afraid to talk. Things were better, on average, when no one knew who anyone else was.
That was what was going through my mind too! What makes it so fascinating compared to other beautiful structures?
>It's not like you used any citations. I'm not asking for one anyways.

You cite biased sources that fit your predetermined worldview. I’ve already conceded inflation has happened, but it tends to be transitory type. Or did you miss that part of the discussion? Even if your source was reliable, it doesn’t display the type of evidence I think you assume it does. It’s fairly clear you start with a conclusion and work backwards, disregarding anything that’s inconvenient from the conversation.

I’ve given you citations elsewhere. But the larger point your statement portrays is that there literally no evidence that can be provided to change your mind. That’s not a productive person to try and maintain a dialogue with.
Cool! It's so funny my internet has been bad just recently so I took an old bash script of mine which did something similar and have been upgrading it into a proper application which exports metrics to Prometheus and Grafana: https://github.com/Noah-Huppert/net-test

I saw a comment below where some was rolling their eyes that you "complicated" stuff with Prometheus, Grafana, and Docker and how you could just use Bash scripts and crons. As I just upgraded my codebase from this more bare metal approach to this "more complex setup" I'd like to mention: there's no way you could do time series statistical analysis easily with "just a cron job and a bash script". Prometheus and Grafana are for more than just buzz words. Prometheus offers an advanced time series database which allows you to, at minimum, do more robust analysis using data techniques like Histograms. As for Grafana, it makes exploring data dead easy.

Providing users with a Docker Compose setup is also something I did with my tool and the benefits are huge. It lets me distribute a setup which relies on multiple moving parts working smoothly together. Sure I could write a whole wiki on how you should setup Prometheus Grafana and my tool, or I could distribute the setup with a configuration as code tool. Ensuring that even if someone doesn't want to use Docker Compose they can at least read my configuration as code and see exactly what I did to setup my tool.
I just checked a couple of medicine packages and they're all labeled in Braille. Is that not the case in the USA?
>with our programming languages tied so deeply to our cultural norms.

In what way do you perceive mainstream programming languages to be tied to cultural norms?
So where's the data? All I see is a FAQ page and a donation button.

Edit: Found the answer, they dont have any publicily available. Lol.

> Our data isn't hosted anywhere yet.
I think the other things that's happened with VR is just the quality/size of TVs generally. No that doesn't deal with a few specific aspects of VR like flight simulators and FPS. But having a high-res 75" or whatever screen in front of you basically handles "virtual reality" for anything that doesn't involve looking around.
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So it's not perfect but it's better than emulators...
That's because dedicated fax machines mostly died out in the late 90s when multi-function machines and software modems arrived.

I was working at Office Max at the time and the transition happened fast. We went from having more than eight dedicated fax machine models down to one or two.

The first multi-function machines looked like fax machines and could function without a PC but we're so much better when connected to a PC.

Cheap software modems allowed people to send and receive faxes without owning a dedicated machine. I remember eMachines bundled software with their PCs to make them effectively behave like a fax machine. Later they pushed the eFax internet based fax software.

It's crazy that many business transactions still require Fax but the machines don't really exist. We needed to send/receive faxes to purchase a home last year as PDF/email was unacceptable. I was able to create a virtual Fax Server using Twilio in a couple hours and deal with these silly requirements.

Sadly Twilio is shutting down their Fax service later this year and the suggested alternative is vastly more expensive.
> Iran recently attacked an Israeli ship

I think you already tried to say it, but remember Iran attacked an Israeli ship after 12 attacks to Iranians ships in 2020 by Israel. And 4 other Iranian ships were attacked in 2021 which two of them happened after Iran tried to retaliate by attacking an Israeli ship.

Israel clearly believes that the best defense is a good offense, but that strategy makes it harder to have any dialogue or peace.
I didn't understand a thing from this image but I was definitely intrigued and so I found a video on Youtube(1) that explains it quite simply (like for dummies) and now I fully understand it!

You can watch it at 2.5x speed without missing out on anything:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfFacplFY4Y
https://ipleak.net/
This seems beyond stupid. The sits that hosts these places will not be in the EU, and nobody streams it over youtube because it won't give you any money and will just get you banned.

The EU needs to enforce anti-monopoly rules and demand that any copyrighted song, book, music, movie and so forth be universally licensed for a fixed fee only to anybody will to pay that fee. Music piracy essentially ended because it is easier to subscribe to a streaming service that has mostly everything and sports/movie piracy will end the same way.

Unfortunately the industry is too stupid, too short sighted to understand it.
Where are the Trinitron displays and ICs made with 1 µm process?
The only thing that comes close is the Hololens, and if you ever get a chance to play with one (which I do recommend!) you'll see immediately why it Isn't There Yet™. The biggest killer is that the field of view is tiny- think a single A1/Letter sized sheet of paper held at arm's length. It feels less like AR and more like a view portal, and since it currently has no way to block light behind its projections, everything is washed out. Not to mention that it's closer to the headset side of things than regular glasses.

It's certainly a start, but there's a long way to go.
Hmm. Any idea roughly what year? The manuals I can find online all say "standard light bulb".

Like:

https://imgur.com/a/uF9ffe1

https://imgur.com/a/F7WwpGg
The idea that Hamas' ongoing efforts to murder Israeli civilians adheres to their obligations under international law is laughable. Ignoring the ceasefires they've signed which require them to, well, cease firing rockets, they don't even make a pretense of aiming at military targets. Not to mention their habit of kidnapping and subsequently killing non-combatants
I was born 30 years earlier, and I have used a fax machine, but only a few times, and interestingly only within the last 15 years.

You're fairly likely to have to use one even today if you end up in certain places (Japan, Germany) or in certain businesses (medical, restaurant delivery). Then again, I bet many of these have the physical fax machine replaced by digital fax services. It's ironic, because a PDF would obviously be higher quality and faster to transmit, but some places still require fax but will accept you "faxing" a PDF via an online service, which then gets received by a fax-to-email service.
Pretty sure there is a myriad of american working and middle class that would outright oppose a draft now more than ever. The government would have to go full on chinese censorship with the internet to suppress free speech regarding why you shouldn't have to go.
I'm not talking about constraining a line to a 90 degree angle. I'm talking about "draw a single straight line from one point to another". Most editors have a dedicated tool for that. In Gimp, you take the brush, then shift-click start and end.

How do you do the solid color background in Gimp? In Photoshop, I'd select the background with the magic wand (contiguous or non-contiguous, depending on preference), potentially use one of those edge-improving tools, then either press delete or create a mask. It apparently also has a special tool for it that I haven't used before but seems to do basically that.
The limited market is problably covered with Odroid Go / GPD XD / RG350M etc. Mister leverages an off the shelf FPGA board that would require a lot more work in a handheld form.
> I particularly like the idea that corporate tax returns should be public

This is the sort of thing that sounds interesting but would be an absolute disaster. This is particularly true in the context of a globally competitive marketplace.

Simple example: If I want to enter your market and know your exact cost structure, sales, etc. I can engineer a viable competitive entry, secure IP and financing/investment come into the market and destroy you. If, for example, I know your margins are running very thin and funds low, I can squeeze you out of existence.

Put in simpler terms, this is the reason you don't tell your opponent what you are thinking and what your strategy and concerns might be during (and even after) a chess game.

Same reason armies don't publish their battle plans either. Business isn't a vacation in paradise. Every single competitor (and other actors) is actively trying to kill you. If they are not, they aren't a real competitor.

Public corporations are a very different story. Until the advent of SPACs (aka: Ponzi Scheme) a company was very careful about when to go public and had to achieve a certain mass and scale to be able to justify and endure the scrutiny and exposure.

The world of successful businesses is paved with stories from entrepreneurs and companies who went to the very edge of insolvency in pursuit of a dream, mission or objective and came out of the other end with a massive success.
We went through the 2008 financiy crisis and this is what people think is a good idea?

How long before people are trading options on risk weighted batch of people? Leveraged buyouts if whole specialties? Movement controls to enforce greatest P/E? "I'm sorry sir, you can't leave the country without presenting a Holiday Risk Bond. Perhaps a Virtual Vacay is more affordable?"

And most of all: you, as an individual, have almost no information about the market, and are almost certain to get a bad price.

Anyone who thinks they are good at this should practice buying a new car. Once you get to the final sale price, with no finance, demand another 9% off. If you can get that, and the car isn't a lemon, you're ready to negotiate for a well understood commodity.

Selling people futures, when you've just given them capital up front with the goal of enabling higher returns, is less understood, though of course there are many immigrants who do just that. But already wealthy people? It seems much less certain.
I've been playing with this stuff on and off for the past few weekends, getting an environment set up on my M1 air.

I ended up going with a VM, as it still allows (IIRC) the thin client to be thinner. There's definitely bits of containers I miss, like I'm back to keeping notes in a markdown file for commands that would be added to a Dockerfile, but I'm also not having to do weird things to get something like my shell history to persist.
I’d reckon it’s the same reason that there isn’t much of a custom laptop scene. The open ended nature of stuffing a screen, battery, and input peripherals into a chassis seems an order of magnitude more difficult than just making a headless box to plug into your TV.

But with some effort, it would be awesome.
> Bloom filters test if an element is part of a set, without needing to store the entire set

https://python.land/bloom-filter

There.
“Alexa, watch Daredevil” is much easier than turning the TV on, opening Netflix, and searching for the show.
The remote can then be for just pause/play or volume.
Because the parent implied fair odds when that's not the case.
That's why you need to purchase a half dozen doctors.
To very large degree Boss/Management role is to support (indirect control) allocation of human capital resources to tasks in relation to objectives with minimal inefficiencies such as; conflicts, overlap in tasks, miscoordination.

I would argue there is virtually no justification to manage people by means direct control, virtually for any team/group sizes.
Holy shit... I read Bellingcat from time to time, I've known of them since the founder's kickstarter. This is nuts. If even half of what this article says is true, they're just a mouthpiece for the US intelligence community.
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I also have this issue.

What's helped me is a combo of the following:

- Start with games or experiences less likely to trigger it. This means ability to run at high frame rates, 6dof, and ideally optimized for a seated experience in a cockpit. Your body expects the world to move around you when you're in a cockpit or car.

- If doing PCVR make sure your system is beefy enough. Elite: Dangerous is just barely playable on low settings with my potato gtx 970M. And that's with low frame rates that can cause discomfort, and some situations like in stations where I max my card out and it starts doing a seizure inducing level of flickering and jumping of frames.

- Munch on some ginger root or drink ginger tea or chew ginger gum.

- Open a window and have a fan blowing at you.

- End your session the moment you feel nauseous. Do not power through. Over time you'll be able to go longer and longer but training your body is not instantaneous.