skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be scary to see a country like the US fail to point where public police services are abandoned in favor of private forces.

I think it could happen too because private police forces benefit the rich at the expense of the poor and middle class. Why pay for police in the poor neighborhoods if you have walls and private police for your gated community?

What we’re seeing in western countries worries me. The progressive tax system is being attacked IMO because breaking it benefits the wealthy. It’s much cheaper for the richest 20% to fund private police forces for themselves than funding a public police force for everyone.

And IMO the reason the police can’t keep up is because we’ve had 40 years of underfunding public institutions so the wealthy can hoard more and more money. It’s not shocking to see increased levels of drug abuse and crime because those correlate with poverty.

We need to force the rich to pay there fair share of taxes. The resources being used for yachts and private jets needs to be getting put into education, healthcare, infrastructure, etc..

This is a great example of a misallocation of capital. Instead of funding an app for a private police force we’d be better off if that money had been collected via taxes and allocated to building schools.
What happens when advertisers do not care about pornographic content?
> If you wanna install your own OS

Yes, please. Who do I have to call at Apple to get an iPhone's bootloader unlocked?
The article briefly touches on why not 7 or (almost) 11:

"If we discount those cicadas with life cycles of ten years or fewer (as being too close to predator life cycles), we find that the most successful emergence rates for cyber cicadas are thirteen and seventeen years—precisely what we find in the wild."

Why not beyond 17? The article does not say. The next prime would be 19 (only two years longer). Perhaps 17 provides a sufficiently large local optimum that there is little pressure to lengthen the cycle to 19 or beyond.
I think there's some context that matters. I often don't need the full functionality of übertool and can implement the functionality easily because I don't have to worry about 90% of use cases with their associated edge cases. It's dead simple to keep toilet paper stocked in my house. But I would not use the method I use for my house to run inventory for a grocery store chain.
I suspect that some major ISPs want bad queuing in routers to force people to upgrade and buy more bandwidth. Then they want to charge more if you use the bandwidth.
We don't live in the age of mass media any more, that's the point. In our postmodern age where everyone lives in their own internet sphere regulation and 'mass anything' doesn't matter.

You can like or it dislike it, but there is no one single reality any more where an elite of educated gentlemen sits in a room and decides what society looks like. This is why there can be no revolution, or counter-revolution. That finance and polite society do not manage discourse any more should have become clear in 2016.

As Bruno Macaes pointed out in a great recent piece[1], the world we are in now resembles Westworld theme parks. The elite can go to the Victorian park, and everyone else goes to the saloon. But this is truly virtual, we're not actually rolling the sexual revolution back.

[1]https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/what-com...
Completely agree. Should not have taken a jab at it (maybe a reaction to those both supporting defunding public police and also vocally opposing my decisions in a private market to recover my security).

IMO The entire justice system should be revamped with a focus on rehabilitation in society and viewing most drug-related "criminals" as victims who need treatment for their addiction or illness. Also concerned about the militarization of the police, and feel their budget could be spend better.
Why do users care about this choice? What are some top experiences available to Android which aren't available to iOS customers? In fact, isn't it often the other way around? iOS gets things and Android doesn't?

Or are users seeing awful prices for the app store?

Where are Customers complaining the most?
"Reject Modernity, Embrace Tradition" -a popular meme

Sexual counter-revolutionaries targeting "commercial sexual exploitation" will fail. Just as the Meese Commission in the 1980s failed to combat the mainstreaming of content that deviated from "community standards". It just moved to VHS. And will further move to IPFS & privacy preserving crypto coins.

I see the prohibition of regulated sex work falling in a similar vein to cannabis & psychedelics. Expect to see large investments from Founders Fund or A16Z. Even a YC style incubator for sex tech coming soon.
Handwritten example of famous Einstein equation gets $1.2M
This is missing the forest for the trees so badly it hurts.

Why do you think I said I'd be forced to shoot? Because even without training common sense tells you "not allowing the attacker to close enough distance with you to use the knife" is a pretty good course of action

By your logic the moment a person calls 911, the people who are supposed to help, the person has been sentenced to death. Think about that for a second.

1. The cops will arrive

2. "avoid knife getting close to me"

3. Less than lethal is not reliable, hell even lethal force isn't instant, I feared for my life, they're shot very dead.

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It's not an easy problem, but how is that ok? There's not many ways to fix it other than trying something other than lethal force.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mzPj_IaMzY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G06mi2hVg8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgdhxLPJBgQ

Like the stuff in those videos is not easy, I'm not trying to pretend I could do it, or most people could. It requires cops being able to put the most efficient response for self-preservation behind trying to save someone, which again, I'm not saying we require of anyone...

But let's call a spade a spade at that point. That's not the concept of policing I see paraded. That's not the "thin blue line", it sounds more like a cell of civilians that are deployed to bad situations where they then "apply self-defense"...
I always love that quote (can't find it) that Elephants have a special noise for "warning! there are bees nearby!", and someone pointing out that humans do too, it sounds like this: "warning! there are bees nearby!"
They aren’t just a game streaming site. “Just Chatting” is a huge category, as is live music
Please don't. It does no good and only makes threads worse.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...
To me, "put that in your pipe and smoke it" has a sense of rubbing in that the listener was incorrect, so it has the same connotation as "eat crow" or "how do you like them apples?".
Look I don't know about Taco Bell, does it come installed in your car, like you push a button and a taco comes out from your dashboard? Because that's the only case this terrible example makes sense.

If you get a job through a phone interview, do you owe Apple 30% of your salary? No.

Using your phone's services doesn't cause Apple to get a cut of anything that happens while you do so. Selling apps THROUGH ITS OWN STORE does.
Vim supports the style of editing you describe; see the documentation for the 'virtualedit' option.

https://vimhelp.org/options.txt.html#%27virtualedit%27
The author certainly meant extended ASCII and therefore you can not make this change. Sure, it may be technical incorrect but ASCII is so commonly used to refer to extended ASCII that this should probably be the default interpretation unless it is clear from the context, say a discussion of the history of character encodings, that it is meant in its original sense.
Amazon was also included in the article. I don't see Amazon on the title. And the submitter even put Google in front of Microsoft. The submitter not only added Google, also changed the order.

Probably not random. Since there is always _at least_ one anti-Google article makes to front page every day. And the quality of discussion on Google related is probably the lowest on HN. The mod team didn't seem very eager to moederate Google related threads so far.
Apple’s Tim Cook Faces Pointed Questions from Judge
It amazes that people like these are able to get a driving license in the US. Simple google search is too difficult for them?
So the subscription scams in the iOS app store are an acceptable level of malware. Got it.
I've never seen anyone use Mathematica outside of academia other than myself. It also occupies a slightly unique corner of the language design landscape. One that I like!

I wish that Mathematica was modernised and made into a proper, compiled (or at least JIT-ed), heavyweight language with all the trimmings. A proper IDE, debugger, tracing tools, etc... The current version is a bit like Visual Basic -- a very old language that had grown past its original design capabilities and now needs a revamp. A bit like how VB.NET replaced VB, and was superseded in practice by C# on dotnet core.
So “we had to call an ambulance because the car was installing updates” is a real potential scenario?
The first thing that we need to change about the perception of these vehicles is we have to stop calling them e-pickups. Because e usually means economy. And economy means cheap and flimsy and no legroom. People who are buying Ford pickups don't want cheap and flimsy and no legroom.

Just call it a pickup.
They should have a time bonus as well, so if you signed up for your appointment 10 weeks ago, you get a bonus of say 10 x $1000, that would get people really rushing to sign up.

(And not a bonus dependent of when your first shot was, because then we'd have a surge of people showing up at vaccination sites tomorrow without appoinments...).
Typing without diacritics is also popular in Croatia in casual scenarios
I guess your neighbour's thinking the same thing about the same 20 sparrows.
We're tracking this in Coda now (https://coda.io/@dpup/post-covid-reopenings) and would welcome submissions from other companies. You can submit here: https://coda.io/form/Share-your-reopening-plans_dg7q5vsZrKB
HBO Max Will Sell a Lower-Cost Tier with Ads for $10 a Month
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Android build
Link: https://ioair.link/a9vhc3
APK: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FbBhz9FMnwkJ5At4If2M3k1LxjsXIhpr/view?usp=sharing
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iOS build
Link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/VTUDkqAE

Build: 14.5
The new iPads literally have the same SOC as what are some of, if not the best consumer laptops on the planet currently. But what can you do with them? Not a heck of a lot, thanks to the walled garden that is iPad OS. If you ask me, that's a crying shame.

I don't see how it hurts anyone to allow side-loading of apps on iOS devices. Even if you make it as hard as having a toggle behind a scary warning 2 layers deep in the menu, 95% of users will never use it, and it will open up a world of opportunities for people who actually want to create with their devices.
I remember when I was at school in ~2000, I bought a paper book about PHP4.

I remember that as a warm feeling...
World’s First Ever Space Hotel Is Now Taking Reservations
Domestic extremists kill about 40 people a year on average (including domestic Islamic extremism), based on the fairly expansive definition of extremism used by the ADL [0]. So a year of extremist murders for the entire nation is roughly on par with a typical month of murders in Baltimore.

Or alternatively bee stings kill roughly 60 people per year. For a fraction of the cost and none of the civil liberties risk, we could save 1.5x the lives by giving everyone a free Epi-pen.

[0] - https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2020#exploring-the-...

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6829a5.htm
Nice, I hadn't seen that video. I don't recognize that particular waterfall as the Cray-2's, but maybe it's a Cray T90?
At previous job, we ran a rails based 60M€/year photos album e-commerce with 6 backend devs and a dedicated servers fleet on 2 DC that costed less than one dev salary.
why should the government get to tell Apple how to run their app store?

Because Apple has a monopoly in that area. That's what antitrust law is all about - using monopoly power to raise prices.
This is going to the Supreme Court and will not be settled by a single judge, particularly a California district judge. There is just no incentive for either participant to decide "Oh, if Yvonne Rogers says so, then sure we're changing business models".

The entire case is just round 1 of an oracle-google style dispute, which (if I had to guess) will likely have a similar ultimate conclusion -- e.g. preserve the status quo with possibly minor adjustments.
I’m from Ireland and always thought it meant “tough luck, deal with it”
Can you elaborate? I couldn't find anything toegang, but googling this without more information is hard. For starters, what does "African" refer to?
It also violates the civil rights of a private entity if someone beats and attacks him on the street, doesn't it?
The world is bigger than Western countries.

Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other countries come to mind along with the USA when I think of religious puritanism.
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Well, I'm not going to make a kitchen-sink affair out of the title by stuffing Amazon up there as well, so I've reverted to the article title above. Now would you please stop posting this tedious off-topic stuff?

Everyone who has preferences for one $Bigco over another thinks that HN and HN mods are biased against their favorite $Bigco and biased in favor of whatever $Bigco they don't like. You could substitute any other $Bigco for Google in your comment and it would be exactly what other commenters claim. This is tedious, as I mentioned; it is merely a projection of the commenter's own preferences.

It's the same phenomenon by which zealous sports fans think the refs are totally biased. It's actually a cognitive bias rooted in the fact that the bad (what you dislike) stands out more than the good (what you agree with)—i.e. people heavily weight what they dislike, and underemphasize, or simply fail to notice, all the opposing data points.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
This is wonderfully accurate. :)
It’s funny. For all the hate php gets these days, it was a pretty big part of the web getting to where it’s at today. I was super pleased when php 7 came out, this project isn’t going anywhere just yet.
Well I can imagine if 3rd party stores were allowed, I could have a Steam client on an iPad for example, and share my library of games without paying for it a second time for iOS.
>The elites have been obsessed with race and the new religion of wokeism, which has certainly percolated down.

"Wokeism" isn't a religion, it isn't new and it "percolated" up from Black activism to white liberalism to the elites, not down.
>the rest of the world to learn one standard system/language than to have every app/product/document adapted to every single language/script/whatever in existence

But they don't. That's precisely why the text input handling is so difficult, because it has to solve it for all apps. How many apps have you worked on that has had to create their own text input system from scratch? I think for most developers that's zero.

Like the article said in the end:

>The necessary complexity here is immense, and this post only scratches the very surface of it. If anything, it's a miracle of the simplicity of modern programming that we're able to just slap down a <textarea> on a web page and instantly provide a text input for every internet user around the globe.
I think the American health care system is a current dystopia: people are going bankrupt in a first-world country for contracting the terrible disease.

Once basic protection, education, healthcare, etc. is offered to anyone (I do not see America in the future relying on private security forces for basic protection, so I think basic protection is covered), then private protection, education or healthcare should not be a problem.

If America really needs private forces for maintaining basic protection, then it is probably better they have oversight of local government and serve the wider public, not secluded to a gated community.
Author here. Thanks to everyone for checking out voice2json!

The TLDR of this project is: a unified command-line interface to different offline speech recognition projects, with the ability to train your own grammar/intent recognizer in one step.

My apologies for the broken packages; I'll get those fixed shortly. My focus lately has been on Rhasspy (https://github.com/rhasspy/rhasspy), which has a lot of the same ideas but a larger scope (full voice assistant).

Questions, comments, and suggestions are welcomed and appreciated!
Of course. All social media is censoring now. People here also seem to be ok with censorship with the intent (if I'm generous) to protect other people.

The evidence is you can't talk about censorship itself, it will get censored. (this post will be case and point)
That seems like a fair point. No doubt the news cycle distorts the importance of these things. If the capitol hill security were capable of repelling LARPers we probably wouldn’t be having this debate (though no doubt some equally silly debate would have ensued).
Because they don't like competition, for example.
> Backfeeding houses with generators is indeed a killer feature...

oh, you mean like solar PV on-grid setups ...
Human Antibodies Target Many Parts of Coronavirus Spike Protein
My main complaint against right-to-repair laws is mostly to the extent that some people push for. I am not against manufacturers being forced to provide things like schematics or parts to third party repair shops. I don't think that companies like Apple should be able to decide who is allowed to or not allowed to access parts to repair their devices. I also don't think that Apple should place DRM on its parts to check in the software whether or not what is being used is a genuine part or not. A part is either within spec to work correctly or it's not.

I am, however, against the idea of companies being forced to design products around being easily repairable. If a company wants to make a super thin device with basically no easy way to take it apart, that's their prerogative. If a company wants to solder on components to the device like RAM or the storage or the cpu or gpu, that's their prerogative. There are tradeoffs to both approaches to designing the products and you'll find in many markets you will absolutely find many options on the market to suit your own needs or wants. The government doesn't need to be involved in this respect.
The financial power comes from somewhere.

> Or maybe a company is on top because of their execution.

I already explained that part.
Or better yet. Sue your school for a refund. Why make the rest of us pay with our tax dollars?

Hypothetically, even if we did collectively bail out a bunch of liberal arts majors, I would still want to see an extensive shuttering of half the country’s higher education institutions for hoodwinking so many people out of their time and money.
I think google pay[0] is entirely flutter[1] (how much is actually flutter is unknown). It does seem pretty slow, actually - it’s like it only plays every third frame when animating switching between the app’s tabs.

0: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-pay-save-pay-manage/id1...

1: https://developers.googleblog.com/2020/09/google-pay-picks-f...
The idea that police help in situations like this betrays a lack of experience living in San Francisco.

Ideally everyone would be protected from random attacks on the street, not just those able to pay.
It's popular for some reason even in countries where it doesn't save keystrokes. For example in Croatia we have 5 characters with diacritics (š, đ, č, ć, ž), all of them have dedicated keys on the keyboard and yet many people have a habit of simply not using them.
> but they clearly believe locking them down is part of the appeal of the devices in the first place.

Do they believe that? Their behavior and stance could equally be explained by pursuing their economic best-interest
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Alternately while the page is loading hit ESC and it will prevent the pop-up from opening :)
I really hope devices, services, and infrastructure get separated and also that it would become illegal for a device manufacturer to retain any kind of control over a device after it's been sold. Burning a public key into OTP ROM as trusted and not providing its private counterpart counts too.

You want to set up cloud backups? You get a text box to put a domain in. You get to choose whose infrastructure you use. It might be pre-filled with apple.com, but that's as far as it can legally go.

Protocols, not platforms.
With YouTube tutorials and iFixit instructions all I needed was a screwdriver and parts from AliExpress. I replaced 4 times a screen and 3 times a battery in my wife's BQ Aquaris X until the motherboard gave up. It still probably is repairable, but not as easy. The phone had seen too much water in it's life... I repaired in my time also: Moto G1, Nexus 5X and Pixel 1. It was all not difficult. Now I wonder how it will go with Moto G7 that my wife has when its time will come.

That's one of the reasons I think about Fairphone, but with my experience I bought for myself Pixel 1 with a broken screen, that I repaired myself. Now my phone is all good except software and that makes me think about the Fairphone again. Can't wait until Linux phones will get better, maybe Pinephone 3 will be a good main phone. But I would like to see a small phone, like latest Unihertz Jelly, but without an awful Mediatek SoC.
Underground (or partially underground) parking garages are fairly common for newer and especially fancier apartment buildings where I live. I'm not sure how common electric car chargers are in these garages, however.
I'd recommend pulling the face-plate and checking the wiring. In my experience, builders use CAT5e for phone jacks (and for other low-voltage systems, like alarms.