skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fortunately it has significant interest in the US. COVID has put a bit of a kink in collaboration but it wouldn't surprise me to see the team working for US R&D labs.

https://www.sel4-us.org/summits/2020-summit/
> Democratize access to police.

Pay to play policing seems... the opposite of what you're asking for? Can you elaborate on this?
I took a year off after my first job. I got bored after six month and tried to start a company with friends. That did not go well.

Make sure your finances are in order and that you have enough money to go for significantly longer than you intent to (in case of a bad job market, difficulty finding a job, unexpected emergency, etc.). I had two years worth of living expenses covered and had a plan to go for up to five years if needed at reduced spending. Don't forget account for health insurance in your budget since you'll need to either buy your own or pay the full COBRA amount.
Four Pests campaign – and the extermination of sparrows in China
It was a Radio Lab (Fungus Amungus):
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/fungu...

The theory is that in wealthy countries with good public health, there's less need to maintain a high body temperature to fend off threats. The show said that human body temperature "has been steadily declining for decades at a rate of, like, .05 degrees Fahrenheit per decade." (though not in less developed countries)...average is said to be more like 97.5 degrees.
> You rationalize it by asking: am I competing with Apple or building on top of them?

You have no choice but to build on the illegal monopoly that is Apple. At least not until the DOJ breaks the company up for abusing our industry.

Chip foundries need to start locking hardware if they don't start getting subscription revenue. (Isn't that a dumb idea?)

Or maybe ISPs should do deep packet inspection and make you pay more for Apple traffic. This is what Apple and Google have done to freedom of computing!
Yes, we're gonna have bad officers. What happens next? Are they shunned? Forced out of the profession?

This isn't some abstract hypothetical. We have generations of police who "washed out" of training because they weren't bad enough. It's important to have an accurate diagnosis when proposing a course of treatment.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/racism...
How are they not guilty of impersonating the police?
I'm bought a Tundra mainly because I needed something tow my boat (my old 4-runner was just too small). But, once I got used to sitting up high, having all the space, and having a full sized truck bed for hauling whatever, it's pretty nice.
- Not getting sued is generally #1

- Large corporate customers have their own accessibility requirements for software they purchase, so if you want their business you have to be serious about it

- You will have a slightly larger potential user base

- Generates goodwill for the business

- It helps your existing customers and fully abled users as well. Everyone can appreciate sensible keyboard shortcuts, tooltips, voice narration, good color contrast, font size etc.

- It's generally the right thing to do
Ford already has 20k reservations for new electric F-150 Lightning pickup
Radiolab published a podcast about it in 2020: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/fungu...
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"PL/Rust could be fun, too. I like the idea of using macros to generate lots of code, especially type definitions across multiple languages."

Can you explain what you mean here?
A POS POS chain may not have a ton of value or attacks. But when splitting off, ETC for example probably was hit by some attacks until the value was gone.

The way it works is whoever accepted your coins can have them lost and you could respend them if you were the attacker.

https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-classic-blockchain-subject...
Still much bigger than the Rangers of years past.
I had the SUV/trailer combo for years, and it was handy but there are lots of things it's just not worth the hassle for. Now I have a pickup and making a daily trip to the town compost pile (to eventually get rid of the large pile of stuff that accrued over the trailer years) is super easy. I still have the trailer but haven't touched it once, I'd rather just make two trips with the truck.

P.S. Trucks are just more fun!
P.P.S. They're also cheaper to lease than SUVS thanks to crazy resale values.
These are not developer docs first. There are plenty of wonderful other resources that serve as CSS dev docs as a primary resource.
Yes, and no. The app depicted in Season 3 is a gig economy app for hired muscle in general, for jobs both legal and illegal. The implication is that the latter is the norm.
That seems really low. There has to be massive areas of the world with no birds at all. I mean there is, like the sea, but then there are 20 sparrows in my garden.
I agree with your opinion. I consider "Citizen" filling a usefull role of protection for those who can afford it. As/when they start becoming problematic, we will figure out how to deal with it. Until then, we have to go by the service they claim to offer in good faith.

I want my family to feel safe. It is my responsibility to do everything in my capacity as a law-abiding citizen to ensure their safety.
Well the cultures of the states differ significantly. It makes sense to me that regional variation would reflect in laws.

I grew up in southern MO. Arkansas was only about a 40 minute drive away, but I can always tell when I'm there compared to at home. The people dress and look a bit different, the houses look different, it's just a different culture. California and New York are like alien worlds to me. The idea that such different people should live under the same framework seems like a good way to amplify regional tensions.
Same deal. If the other smaller half decides it's worth less because of it, your big stake will decrease in value.
I can "think" for a long time, but my peculiarity is that I think with my hands. So I make things, and play music. Also, I'm terribly disorganized, and I speculate that making things, even programs, is a way of helping my brain with organization.
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Please be mindful of the other person. Some parts of your comment do not exactly stand as a good example of this website.
The provocative title is surely one, if not the main reason, the article is here in HN, and not utterly ignored in a sea of other articles with effective and clear titles.

Clickbait exists, because we react to it.
I don't dispute that the researchers were dishonest and broke the trust of the kernel maintainers. So they can be a bit peeved off at UMN. But is this sort of thing not the reality of their operation? That liars exist in the world? I don't really see what the volunteer part has to do with it. If anything it means they have less to complain about. I mean...most soldiers are volunteers, which would make it even more absurd, if someone signed up to be a soldier, and then whined and complained when enemy soldiers shot at him. It seems equally obvious to me, that an open network should be assumed to have malicious actors on it, as that a battlefield should be assumed to have enemies on it. Obviously you don't have to like the enemies.
I hear tell that in places where it's legal, you can get measured doses that would allow you to determine exactly how large of a dose you're taking, or adjust it to meet your own needs.
I expect that wouldn't be perfect, though. Sometimes the cut that makes it into the final product doesn't exactly match the script. Sometimes it's due to an edit, other times it's due to an actor saying something similar to but not exactly what the script says, but the director deciding to just go with it.

What might work better is using closed captions or subtitles, but I've also seen enough cases where those don't exactly match the actual speech either.
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I don't know much about how WebMoney works other than what I just read on Wikipedia, but it looks like WebMoney might be best compared to a permissioned blockchain where a group of companies mine the blocks.

Proof of Stake has the advantages that anyone (with sufficient money, or by gathering into pools) can become a validator, and the system itself provides extremely strong incentives not to cheat by slashing their stakes if they do. This slashing weeds out bad actors over time, as well - once their money's gone, they can't stake anymore.

I could imagine all sorts of shenanigans that could cause a small group of companies operating a money system to cheat, either of their own accord, or forced to by a government, organized crime, hackers, etc. Much harder to attack a huge self-healing group of globally distributed validators with extremely strong incentive not to cheat.
Thank you for the clarification. Revisiting this quote:

"Boiled down to its bare essence, a cryptocurrency is a list of transactions, and a protocol for deciding which transactions are allowed to be added to that list."

How is the PoS model not "a list of transactions, and a protocol for deciding which transactions are allowed to be added to that list?"

I understand that the protocol itself is the source of controversy, but I don't understand why the author views PoS as circular but not PoW.
Overseas the end results if the police are totally defunded or weak is that you tend to end up with really strong differences / ghettos around places where there is and is not security.

It's like gated communities on steroids, but starts to include office, mfg and other items like retail (which totally leave places with no security). Can result in shocking differences on both sides of the fence that usually separates these areas. Ironically the police then tend to follow along and provide better security to what are not better areas (if they have any capacity).
Hah this is not a reference I was ever expecting to see on this comment. Will check it out!
In your mind, does a company like Frame have the authority to use force and/or arrest people? What happens if one resists arrest?
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Apologies for coming across angry, it's been an interesting few days on this topic :)
But one of the selling points of iOS is precisely that they don't trust the public as much, so the system is vulnerable mostly to second party security threats. With freer desktop systems, you have the same second party threats, but also third party threats as well. People don't want to have to evaluate their threat model every time they want to try something out - and we entrust a lot more to our phones than our laptops.
This right here. Seriously. Take the time off you need. If you need less its easy to go back to work. If you need more, its great that you took time off.

And remember, time off means time off. Dare to do unproductive stuff. Everything don't have to further your career, or even your life.
We've got a lot of pharmacological weapons suitable for use against bacteria. For fungi we have azoles, amphotericin B... That's pretty much it.

My microbiology professor used to be terrified of these things. Probably still is.
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What a brilliant idea from a business standpoint!

Just like how rideshare apps increased the availability of car services in areas underserved by traditional taxies, on-demand security services like this can provide value in a similar way, by making available security services in areas underserved by the police.
Indeed, defunding the police means the poor will be even less protected. The rich will always have their private security. And now they'll have a larger/cheaper labor force, with ex-police officers looking for a new job?
> My guess is that as police are defunded (Minneapolis is getting rid of police department entirely) folks who can pay and see a role for security will probably contract for it. In the bay area this is already happening to a small degree.

I think in a lot of major metros, even funded police aren't meeting people's needs. If we aren't getting what we're paying for, we should stop paying.
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Engineering Unit conversion is part of the daily life for many engineers. This mundane task, if not done right, can lead to disasters that can cost lives and billions of dollars.

Let me give you couple of noticable examples.

1. On September 23, 1999, $125,000,000 Mars Climate Orbiter entered Mar's atmosphere 169 km lower than planned and was destroyed by heat.

Reason?

NASA engineer mistook conversion factor as 1 lb = 1 Newton

Pound (lb) is English unit of force. 1 lb = 4.45 N

Force can be defined as:

Force = Mass x Acceleration
= 0.454 kg * 9.81 m/s2 (1 lb = 0.454 kg)
= 4.45 kg.m/s2
= 4.45 N ( 1 N = 1 kg.m/s2)

This $125 million catastrophic event could have been averted with a more careful dimensional analysis and unit conversion.

2. Another example is Gilmi Glider: The Gimli Glider or Air Canada Flight 143 was a Canadian scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on July 23, 1983, at an altitude of 41,000 feet, midway through the flight. he accident is commonly blamed on mistaking pounds for kilograms, which resulted in the aircraft carrying only 45% of its required fuel load However, the units error was the last in a series of failures that aligned in a Swiss cheese model to cause the accident. This video explains the incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGR0Dep0sqk

In order to address this, we have put together a web-based unit conversion tool that allows for over 4300 commonly used engineering unit conversion.

Web version is FREE. However, CAD add-ins for popular 3D applications such as SolidWorks and Fusion 360 are available for a small monthly fee.

Please give it a try and let me know your thoughts.
Fruitless? Are you referring to the Mueller investigation? I admit I’m an outsider to the US, but didn’t that “witch hunt” catch a hell of a lot of real witches?
> I know enough about the debugging terminals in Chrome and Firefox to just "save-as" the .mp4 file itself.

Right, so this just don't work for like 90% of the population, or when you are on mobile, right?

Edit: what I mentioned about saving the mp4 and having problem later is: if I save the video and then try to re-share it on Twitter, it will be shared as a video, and not as a gif - or at least that was the case last time I tried
Short sci-fi film beautifully illustrating the dangers https://youtu.be/Eo2OQsPDwBI

It is also entertaining to watch
Chunky doesn't matter for a car GPS. They sit on your dash, not in your pocket. For my old garmens, the weighted sandbag mount they used to hold the device onto the dash was honestly less frustrating than a suction cup that falls of the windshield down to your feet while you a driving on the highway.
That's about right. So if you rent 3+ times a month, thats 150 euros ($180) a month. That's easily a car payment on a used truck. Not to mention the amount of time you spend dealing with the rental place, and doing the extra return journey. Considering the hourly rate of the average HN user, that's firmly in range of a truck payment.

Also consider that you get to eventually sell / trade in the truck. Vehicles depreciate, but you get some value out. Rental payments all disappear.
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> Democratize access to police.

That's not what's happening here, for a few reasons. The first being that these are mercenaries (or "security contractors" if you want to use euphemisms), not police. Furthermore, nothing is being "democratized" here. They only work for you if you pay them. This has nothing to do with democracy.
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You can’t have a pirate blockchain. Rather, not one someone would invest serious money to buy from.
Yes, it does seem we're responding to different points.

As for Edmund's TCO vs anecdotal data from my side: I can understand your viewing it that way, but of course, I'm not going to discard almost 15 years of personal data I've collected :-) I think one of the problems I've always had with the TCO is it simply has no numbers for my use case (buying older cars but with low miles).

The other problem is that whenever I look at the TCO numbers, they seem absurd. I just looked up the numbers for my wife's newer car, which was almost new when bought, and the Edmund's numbers are bordering on absurd. We had $3500 in maintenance + repairs over 4 years (and really it's $3000, as $500 was for an extra set of tires just for snow - not really a repair or maintenance). Edmunds estimate, for that vehicle, for the same span of years is $6200 - over double the reality. I've not had $6200 of repairs in a 4 year period even for my very old, used cars. We're not stingy on repairs and maintenance - we follow the recommended schedule. In fact, her car had two expensive repairs that are probably not common for her model, and I would think the amount we spent on it is above the norm.

And she drives her car more than 15K/year.

This is why for me, having actual, real data vs some weird aggregate from a web site is more meaningful. Edmunds may be good at the depreciation amount, but I question where they get the maintenance/repairs estimate.
I agree. For anyone creating websites (not web apps), accessibility is not that difficult if you follow HTML5 semantic markup. Or put another way, you don't have to 'bolt-on' accessibility as another layer on your markup - accessibility comes already built-in; you get it for free.

Where it isn't accessible is when you're using a JavasScript framework that generates non-semantic markup. Or you're using a CSS framework and your HTML markup is littered with endless <divs> rather than HTML semantic tags.

Here's the thing: HTML is easy. It's CSS that is the monster. (But bearable in its modern incarnation with features like Flexbox and CSS grid.)
Completely aside from the point you're trying to make: it's a pet peeve of mine when people try to describe collisions in terms of kinetic energy. It's the wrong metric--the important conserved quantity in collisions is momentum, which is simply linear mass*velocity (not quadratic velocity). After that, it becomes a matter of calculating the rate of momentum transfer, or impulse.

That's why crumple zones are important for vehicle-vehicle collisions--not because they turn kinetic energy into a stored form of potential energy in deformation, but because they drastically decrease the rate at which momentum changes.
This is the big one for my wife and I. We've been using an old Buick Rendezvous (somewhere between a van and SUV) with the back seats removed as our "truck" for a while now and while you can actually load quite a bit of mulch in the back, you have to load it all by hand which is pretty awful.

Ground clearance is another issue in a lot of places. Our Rendezvous is higher than most minivans, but I've still scraped the bottom before, and have had to turn back from a water crossing on a dirt road.

Generally my experience has been that the Rendezvous can do most of the same things my old Ranger did, but not as easily and with a lot more anxiety about breaking things. Ohh and come to think of it, it actually gets worse gas mileage.
I think verhoven has a particular sense of humor and while he himself labels some of his movies satire I think he makes a particular kind of low brow action movie first and foremost. Its more "demolition man" than "a modest proposal". Labelling the whole thing as a Satire and pretending to be above Hollywood audiences is part of his sense of humor imo.
There isn't a hard limit. I think I should have said "discourage". I have a friend who was an exec at Chipotle. It took him two years to get permission to open the first one in Paris, in part from that sort of push back. I also remember the controversy over the first McDonalds there.
I’ve lived in rural communities for 95% of my life. There are times when I really think that electoral college is obsolete and should go away, but all it takes is a thread like this where I just see comments from adults that seem wholly uninformed and underexposed to basic aspects of living outside of metropolitan environments. Yes, by itself, doesn’t really bother me as I am certainly a group of the inverse in many ways, but the derision that comes along with it is the part that really makes me think we’re probably not quite ready for a proportional representation at the level of each citizen citizen.
Minneapolis is not getting rid of the police department as a quick Google would happily show you.

Its a fallacy to assume it is a failure of a public option when it just as easily can be that we've been marketed that we are vulnerable and unsafe. Almost all stats have TODAY being just about the safest moment for violent crime in the history of humanity.

Dont confuse a change in peoples purchasing habits as a logical response to something intrinsic. Its barely ever correlated.

edit: I actually reread and saw you said "perceived value," I agree with you, I just think its a tragedy people are so scared. Although SF seems to be really having a problem.
I found this video enlightening. It’s a bunch of objects people might call UFOs getting zoomed in on by a Coolpix P1000

https://youtu.be/s64qV134Xis
There's a difference between saying "its impossible to do it securely" and "few currently do it securely". Also, I'm not trying to make the same mistake as the OP and claim that bootstrapping computers is at all relevant to analyzing whether PoS is secure. I'm just pointing out the absurdity of the OP's argument by showing that his metaphor trivially breaks down: reductio ad absurdum.
So 400 writes per second is not exactly what I would think about when thinking about a "Production" environment.
This isn't a particularly good analogy.

Microsoft didn't build those computers.

Microsoft didn't sell those computers.

Microsoft didn't ship those computers.

They merely licensed their OS to the manufacturers and/or end users.

The X Box would be a better analogy, and MS does get a 30% cut there.
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That's all well and good, but which part should I read to understand how gravitons travel from inside the event horizon to outside of it? Or maybe your response is a nice way of saying that the question is flawed and gravitons don't actually do that or don't need to do that?
I think it's a psy-op to distract people from what's happening in the economy. They have a collection of topics which they release when people start talking too much about money printing, which could potentially lead to a mass panic and hyperinflation.
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> If what you built isn’t accessible, it’s not complete.

I'll be here waiting until someone builds an accessible sketchup to prove this point. Until then, I'll call it for what it is, idealistic bullshit from people with limited experience of what the web can do.
I second this advice, having done it. I flew one-way from Seattle to Dublin in 2010 with no plan beyond the first week. 25ish cities and 4.5 months later, I flew back. You'll figure it out as you go.

But, a warning from experience: when you fly one-way to another country where you'll go through immigration, always pre-book travel OUT of that country as well, and have printed (on paper!) proof to show border control. Fortunately this doesn't apply between most European countries due to the Shengen area. Immigration is not the part of the trip where you want to wing it. Always make sure you understand the visa and border crossing rules in advance.
Anything in a car is a theft target. I've had a window smashed so someone could steal my $7 knockoff lightning cable.
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