skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will this trend lead to fewer and fewer people joining law enforcement, which would further weaken the government?

Regarding whether this constitutes a "failed state", I'd say it depends on how bad this gets.

Similar to the concept of "peaceful transfer of power", there also needs to be a relatively peaceful maintenance of power.

Politicians, judges and law enforcement are the very people who constitute a functional government. If, going forward, a certain threshold of the "good guys" start to opt out of joining their own governing system (in one of those capacities) for fear of having themselves and their families murdered, then the country becomes a failed state.

How can other countries prevent that from happening to them, especially Mexico's neighbors?
At some point post modernist deconstruction should have logical limits, but I don’t doubt there are a lot of people that want to make sure everyone is as miserable about how Bond is a post colonial weapon of capitalism or whatever.
I’m guessing they mean options like https://leaf.arcteryx.com/us/en/

If they mean something else, I’d also be curious.
I think what's missing from some of the samples (e.g. Hurricane Katrina) is that much of the improvement is coming from gentrification, which often entails a wealthier population that has moved in from somewhere else. So the externality of reduced income and affluence has to be factored in
Exactly, I was also befuddled by this.

From sibling comment's link, it is actually "LTSC": Long-Term Support Channel.
by the way you try searching in portuguese?

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=comprar%20passagem%20d...

plenty of options now wow so hard to find
Holy moly. For anyone else wondering what kind of vehicle this is, here's pictures of the aftermath:

https://twitter.com/Abramjee/status/1388195293565489156

Another camera angle of the ambush, shows what's going on:

https://twitter.com/eNCA_BBateman/status/1389839622914510849
Indeed when El Chapo was arrested there were loads of memes going viral about how good he was to the poor. I do believe this is somewhat factual (not El Chapo but drug lords in general) but they tend to be equally or even more cruel to those who don’t bow to their whims.
What systems are you working on? Many are held together by ritual, and deviating from the ritual causes outages. They’re very fragile in some form (deployment, change, infrastructure, dependencies, etc.). They won’t break if you follow the happy path, but to say they’re so robust that an active attempt at breaking won’t bring them down is ... naive? Not sure if that’s the word I’m looking for.

I say this as someone who’s worked at large tech companies that are “internet scale”.
One ambiguously offensive comment during a speech by an aging professor isn't something I'd particularly detest. Outraged cancel culture social media mobs screaming for someone's head at the slightest supposed provocation, on the other hand are thoroughly detestable.

The balance of the problem here isn't this professor, who otherwise spent a large part of his own career helping many women (many of who defended him after his speech) with their own scientific careers. Instead the much more insidious problem is a hysterical social tendency of people with influence in their support for an increasingly dominant social norm then mobbing together under said social banners to destroy entire careers and lives at even minuscule transgressions of their ideas of correct thinking.

The point of these attacks often isn't even about genuine justice for marginalized people. Instead it's about establishing dominance while virtue signalling as aggressively and righteously as possible.
Historically you could maybe fight back with better speech, except now you're also up against internet platform moderation, and the powerful conspiracy theory heuristic that's been installed into hundreds of millions (billions?) of minds, that is frequently invoked in a (coincidentally) coordinated manner by independent journalism organizations (followed by responsible, scientific thinking citizens) when epistemic normalization is called for.
It's making a gamble that legitimate drug companies operating with their own security forces and the support of the government could out-compete cartels in both security and economics.

I think it would work absent external pressures. A drug company that can openly operate on the highways and ports, pay for its own helicopters and operate its own militia for security, and call in the police and army at need, has a significant edge over a cartel operating covertly. Unfortunately, a legitimate company would at the very least not have access to the North American market, which would stop it competing with the cartels.
I don’t know. It didn’t look cool to me at all. I’d classify it as fairly boring.

It also kind of has to explode itself to do it’s job, which feels like a waste to me. So many things you can do with a drone that are immediately useless if it blows itself up.
Since HN downvotes before searching these days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16195392
Oof, yeah, I've got to sit down and record some screencasts. Thanks for the reminder.
ok lammer

on the other hand the boleto system is incredibly sweet and is what we based our stuff around
Show HN: I developed UI Components website
Use pantheon.io hosting for a wordpress or drupal hosting, its free if you don't associate a custom domain. In a headless formulation, you can use them free forever! Plus its darn easy to implement CRUD on any of them.

Fork a svelte frontend and host it over services like netlify or vercel which too ofcourse are free!
Automated laser that melts anything in the sky? Poor birds.
Answer to question two is yes for Bitcoin and all blockchain like that. There are some new ones like Mina who propose a different system in which you only need to verify the last hash.

Answer to question three is not restricted to Bitcoin. There are many other systems, e.g. Proof of stake (POS).
Situations and destinations change. There is nothing "scummy" about changing where you're going on a trip you're paying for.

Any guarantees to the driver are an issue for the company to deal with.
The placebo effect has similar outcomes

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2269908-benefits-of-mic...
Funny that throughout Her books, these are the same false allegations she describes as being cast against the protagonists by the villains. Competence and having a self serving moral code are attacked and labelled as evil behavior. "__the one__" meaning a competent talented architect or steel maker (the idealized heroes) are just people unapologetically capitalizing on their skills and the whole point is that in a fair capitalist system, competence should be rewarded, there is plenty of space for many "__the ones__" to co-exist and build a thriving economy. It is exactly the moochers/looters who feel threatened by competence and feel threatened by the success of a fellow human who try and turn these into negative behaviors and describe them as "ego-boosting" and "very broken". So thinking that a person might being exceptionally talented is a bad thing? Got it. Ayn Rand is warning of the consequences of what happens when too many people believe as you do.
I think it's a bit more complicated than that.

First, just because the state loses its monopoly doesn't mean some other entity gains a monopoly. In Mexico, cartels aren't just fighting the state, they are also fighting each other. If the state collapsed, they will continue fighting each other, and the people of Mexico will effectively live in a semi-permanent warzone.

Second, not all violent entities are created equal. Cartel members are motivated by greed and lust for power. Many are willing to employ tactics such as torture and terrorism to advance those goals: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Mexican-drug-cartels-new...

I'm not claiming every cop is a saint, far from it. There is certainly room for improvement in the US at least. However, bad cops are newsworthy because we expect better from our cops than our gangsters. On a statistical basis, a much larger fraction of the police force is motivated by a desire to protect and serve the public. And our police forces are subject to at least nominal democratic accountability.

If due process requirements don't meaningfully differentiate cops from gangsters in your eyes, we might as well do away with them anyways.
This, and the easily being able to share the album with family is the most important feature right now for me.

I have shared albums with my wife that are generated automatically from photos of our kids based on facial recognition, and then we have a shared album with family where we add curated photos to - as the initial album is shared, we can do this with the other person's photos, not just ours. This works pretty much seamlessly for both photos and videos.
That might have helped if they did it decades ago. At this point, there are plenty of other victimful crimes—human trafficking, protection rackets—to keep the cartels in business.
I'm not clear what is illegal and where is the jurisdiction in this case. Apparently it is about Danish Intelligence allowing the tapping of Danish internet lines in Denmark. Is that a crime? Is it even something China would deny doing within their own country? I thought the US govt would just refused to allow services or something be sold to the US from China if they knew it went on. Or you know, try to, before the outrage and legal process overturned the ban.
Calculating time and distance between locations by Geocoding and Directions API
It does not strike me as a particularly honorable way to kill someone.
The most surprising thing about this is that academics write research papers on Cloud Atlas. Is that really a good use of research money?
Mexico has a decaying monopoly on the use of force, not only because the cartels are violent, but also because the police apparatus itself has been corrupted. This would certainly qualify as one of several traditional criteria for a failed state.
> The farmer has to box up their produce in retail sized bits instead of shipping a truck sized load for someone else to do that. They also have to pay someone to man a store, handle returns, etc.

We're able to get fresh milk from a local farm. It's (literally) sold ten steps from where it's milked, you can hear - and smell - the cows in the building.

It comes from a chilled stainless steel vessel with a spigot, you bring your own bottle and serve yourself, and as for payment processing ... there's an honesty box.
Targeted killing of journalists? Uhhh.. basically never in the us?
> The reality is that the internet was immediately extremely interesting (either useful or fun) for practically everyone who got access.

That's quite an absurd statement to make. I can easily find people right now that find no interest in the current internet, it's literally impossible that in the past it would have been different with way less interesting things to do on it..

There's a huge bias in what you state. I have no doubt that plenty of people who got access at the time found it interesting, but the thing you ignore is that theses are the one that found it interesting that got access in the first place.

Like sure email are incredibly useful, but to send to who? It's is right now that I can send them to 2 billions users, but in 1996, that was 16 millions... kind of much less useful, the chances are most people you knew, didn't knew anyone that was on it at the time... thus literally useless. FTP are nice, but plenty didn't used computers at all, sharing files meant nothing. I know so many right now that have trouble sharing files, yet FTP still exist... no chance they would have shared any in the past.

You are now on that team, the ones that don't have any use for it right now. It's fine that you don't find it interesting, but please don't be that old grandpa that scream "get out of my lawn" please...

> The early Internet was infinite times more fun.

Curiously, I've seen tons of people having fun with cryptocurrencies, in different ways, you are just not part of it...
Not even just power, I grew up in a fairly poor neighborhood (in the US) and most of my friends were pretty poor. The guys who sold weed or harder drugs had a lot more money to spend than those who worked legitimate jobs as teenagers. When you’re given the option of working a job that doesn’t respect you and then going to college so you can make a few thousand a month seven years from now or selling drugs and getting that plus respect now it isn’t hard to see why people choose the latter. And that’s in the US in the developing world the choice is more be poor and maybe work in agriculture, take a chance and moving far away and maybe finding a decent job or getting into a gang where you can take care of your family now.
A largely untested AI algorithm crept into hundreds of hospitals
ISIS did actually govern. They had their own DMV.
Of course finally service companies (or all companies) need hardware but the situation isn't too bad compared to company profited by selling hardware. BTW the HDD disaster was flooding in Thailand
This month I picked up a Surface Go, which I've been eyeing for a while as a decent drawing tablet. There I learned the fantastic joys of "S Mode", which helpfully restricts the otherwise general purpose computer from running apps that aren't delivered through the Microsoft Store, forces the browser to Edge+Bing and requires you to sign in with a Microsoft Account before you can disable the nonsense. I jumped through some hoops to get that done without actually leaving the account on the system, but the whole experience left an awfully sour taste.

Microsoft... what happened?
”Most” is quite definitely an overstatement.
> If you don't need pixel perfection or 3D, WinForms are perfect.

This is kinda amusing because WinForms is very popular among game developers for making tools and 3D editors :-P.
The article you link to is about microdosing, which is completely different than psychedelic therapy.

It is psychedelic therapy, not microdosing, which has had many studies showing a profound positive effect on depression.
Your home server can be a RasPi or a NUC or similar. Or it's possible to make/convert rackmount server to be quiet.

Right now, I have a silent 4U rackmount GPU server running 24/7 in my living room, cooled just fine by a 120mm Noctua fan (plus a silent consumer ATX PSU fan).

I also have a commercial 1U Atom server that I've adapted for living room. The Atom and mirrored HDDs are passively-cooled (though you can also get Xeons in the same chassis). The Flex-ATX PSU was loud, but I opened it up and soldered in an effectively silent Noctua.

The noise-no-object jet engine servers are a problem, especially full-depth 1U ones with a phalanx of jet engine fans. But people have had some luck removing fans and replacing some of them with quieter fans, or liquid cooling.
This is something that was impressed on me by the Hackintosh world— desktops are comparatively easy to build because you can always buy hardware that has preexistent drivers written. For laptops, everything is proprietary, often with only enough ACPI implemented to get Windows to boot. Usually discrete GPUs are disabled for reasons I never had need to remember, even when drivers otherwise exist.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KeVca9MwDX8
You could say the same thing about Wayland.
So it comes down to manufacturing capacity again?
>Some cartels in Mexico govern way better than the Federal government there.

Do you have a citation for this?
"Typical case of a northern country exploiting a southern country"

Like Canada exploiting the US. Or Columbia exploiting Chile. Or Sweden exploiting Denmark. Typical? No...
I think the laser missile defense systems will take care of this mess. No more expensive iron dome counter-missiles.
It’s not evil. These people don’t go to bed at night thinking they are the villain. The real answer is more depressing: people have to eat. These police are part of a system that is threatening the livelihood of cartels and with the exception of a few people at the top this livelihood is what feeds theirs families.
I have an unRaid server and I found your app to be the easiest to use, but I had to switch to photo prism because you don’t have an easy way to tell the difference between photos and videos.

I know you previously responded that people should upvote that feature, but the inability to distinguish video from photo just seems like a must have fix over other potentially over engineered stuff that others are asking for.
Great video on that by Yes Theory here: https://youtu.be/TWRlPKMAkRk.
Pokegb – A gameboy emulator that only plays Pokemon Blue, in ~70 lines of C++
What are the arguments against two years of compulsory police (or naval) service for men at age 18 in Mexico? It would certainly alter the political dynamics of the war on drug cartels if moms nationwide were to send their sons to fight trafficking, and scooping young men out of their communities might prevent them from getting involved in criminal enterprises.
> In Mexico, cartels aren't just fighting the state, they are also fighting each other.

To be fair, states also sometimes fight each other. They also tend to de-escalate these fights over time as long-term institutional arrangements come to predominate.
Given the payouts are often paid by that same media on behalf of the true customers, players not engaging with the customers can prevent a sport from thriving altogether. A sport with great athletes and no revenue often, though not always, discourages future athletic participation and investment thereby robbing the world of the possibility to view any quality demonstration of the sport.
That’s not a defeat - it’s a race to the bottom. And a country can stay there for a long time. Example - Venezuela.
> after she was overcharged by a driver

How's that? Drivers don't set the fare, Uber does.
And still may yet be. The nukes haven't gone anywhere or become less world-ending. We are just having a moment where there's no serious risk of nuclear powers declaring all out war. But I don't recall inventing a new kind of diplomacy or geopolitics that makes war unthinkable.
I, too, would read that site.
Experience? Infrastructure? Level of development?

You can act afraid of Mexico or just go there and have a good time and notice the difference. The only bad parts of Mexico is where the recognized government and the local cartel haven't ceded power and are in conflict.

They both like a booming economy and market confidence, just a different strongman to pay from a user experience perspective.
The problem with saying legalization will solve everything is the legal industries, such as avocados, are subject to extortion by the cartels. So if you legalized drugs you'd just have cartels extorting the legal drug makers and have the same amount of violence and gang activity.

Some areas where the local militia has replaced the police now exist because the police are too demoralized, corrupt or scared to protect the industry in that area from extortion, so the industry creates its own security force by arming local citizens.

This makes a case for the second amendment. If the police are too scared to protect you, why not let people without a criminal record have guns and form a militia?

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/may/18/avocado-polic...
For an Indian example where the links between crime and government are more direct, there was a recent scandal where a disgraced Mumbai Police Commissioner wrote an open letter where he said his (also disgraced) subordinate was tasked by the state's Home Minister to extort 13 million USD from the city's businessmen every month. Heck, I assumed that nearly all politicians and a lot of policemen here are thoroughly corrupt. This open letter showed me I had underestimated the extent of it. The aspect of Vaze's "encounters" are worth a read too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachin_Vaze#Extortion_allegati...

Edit: I wonder how imprudent it was of me to not use a VPN'd account to write this comment. On the one hand, this information is on Wikipedia. On the other hand, the political party I wrote about has a history of sending their police dogs after ordinary citizens for comments made on the internet.
> It's a consumer being able to unilaterally say "give me my money back"

That is actually not true. The credit card company must follow established guidelines and pragmatically look at the available information/user agreement/contract and decide on whether there was a breach of contract. They can not blindly stick the bill to the business.
There is this problem where:

1. A situation becomes political, and all kinds of claims are made by demagogues without evidence in order to score points, based on whatever they would like to be true.

2. There is lots of arguing, and subtle points like “we don’t know enough to know the truth yet but X seems practical/probable” get attacked by all sides or used by the people from 1 to show how much they are being silenced or to generate conspiracy theories.

3. Eventually the reality of the situation becomes mostly clear, and the people who happened to jump to the right conclusion without evidence use it to recruit more followers, and the people who were wrong don’t want to give an inch because it benefits the group who were right for the wrong reasons.

In the end most people get more polarized and there is no clear way to short circuit the process.
Has non-speculative use actually grown? The ability to actually buy stuff with bitcoin looks to be on a downward trend, and the fact that the price has changed significantly over the last year feels like a negative for actual use of bitcoin.
I'm pretty much in this boat. I looked up to Google Photos just for the Family Photos Sharing. I keep hoping Apple would come out with a better experience.
Leave Obama out of this.
> It's a consumer being able to unilaterally say "give me my money back" and the merchant basically being stuck with the tab.

That's not even remotely true. The merchant absolutely has the ability to dispute chargebacks.
What Robots Can–and Can’t–Do for the Old and Lonely
What is the intrinsic value of a currency outside of trading then?
> Asking questions is stifling conversation?

Yes. Bad actors ask these sorts of questions in order to stofle conversation. You basically asked this person to do a research papers worth of research in order to prove his argument while you put basically zero effort into your comment. If you think the stats dobt align with what he said look it ul yourself and tell us. Asking questions like the parent did is lazy and often badly intentioned
Thanks for your 2c.

How did you create the partnerships?

What does a typical deal structure look like?
not OP, but I tried to setup a NAS with my older B+, and it was really unreliable. The disk went to sleep every few minutes even when there was a file being read/written.
The mafia's idea of economy is based on sucking people dry via their vices and weaknesses. I don't want any sort of governance by pushers, pimps, and goons.
I’m at 93k myself…
Kidnapping and extortion of wealthy avocado growers is already a lucrative business many cartels have been branching out to.
With a current average of 3 deaths per day in Ireland, how can you call the pandemic "raging"?
That was about 100 years ago. Do you have more recent numbers?

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy
Coronavirus: The Indian children orphaned by Covid-19
I'll disagree. A right to repair law would make most products equally servicable and it will naturally displace the replace-when-broken type of products because this is an enormous waste of resources.
You sure you want to do this? The VAERS database is "The Science", right? I'm seeing daily reports of healthy young people promptly dying after getting the "vaccine" -- dead because they were pressured by government and the media to undergo a medical procedure that almost certainly would not benefit them.