skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always am asked when I say we should reduce policing budgets, "have you ever needed police?" In my experience, they've always been either so late that myself and neighbours have had to get involved in breaking up a rape / other violent situations, or just completely useless when I've needed them for paperwork related stuff, i.e. credit card fraud. I think the police are asked to handle too many edge case situations, e.g. managing mentally ill populations, but are also grossly overpaid compared to other civil institutions, that if budgets were appropriately distributed, would lead to less of the issues police are required to intervene in. Also, among police put-maneuvering pregnant women, beating elderly bystanders just standing in Buffalo, or the myriad other documented instances of unnecessary police violence, there is a serious "bad apples spoil the bunch" issue in US policing due to the culture of other "innocent" officers backing their bad apples instead of weeding them out.

In any business, a department/team that isn't serving clients is usually re-evaluated, and budgets/resources re-allocated if they don't meet some performance plan. I don't see why bringing some business-world reasoning to policing in the US is so controversial, but I suspect that's more a framing thing of "defund the police" enflaming peoples emotions, as they get mad before reasoning.
Right, but I'm talking about the novel ways companies try to optimize premiums. Car insurance is already doing it with some companies wanting you to install an application on your phone to track your driving habits in hopes of maybe lowering your premium. Disgusting shit.
the middle-of-the-road opinion that defund activists hate is the "just get rid of the bad apples!" concept; that most police are good people and a few of them are bad apples. But let's say you're in the "bad apples" camp. When people like this, who are pro-police don't seem to be able to identify any bad apples whatsover, including an officer as egregious as Derek Chauvin, it points to the possibility that they don't actually believe in the "bad apples" theory and it's just a smoke screen.

"bad apples" might not be satisfying to anti-police activists but it would be nice if more people could agree on some of the obviously very bad apples that are present.
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> Floodwater contact with the nose, mouth, or eye was reported by 51% of firefighters (254 of 500) and 30% of police officers (258 of 864); 52% of police officers (473 of 910) and 63% of firefighters (330 of 524) reported rescuing citizens from flooded areas.
I have a different view. I saw a lot of friends lose their fathers and mothers to the system thanks to dirty cops. Being white in a poor (understatement) neighborhood was an enlightening experience.

The police are very powerful voices in local governments. They have too much power. I consider the number of police officers to be inversely proportional to how civilized a place is.
Crypto is an area of startups that HN collectively is wholly ignorant of because of a rabid and devoted group that despises anything related to blockchain and crypto. It has driven crypto enthusiasts away from commenting, allowing the downvote brigade to take over. There are deep-pocketed investors, talented developers, and very intelligent people in this space (but you won't find them commenting here).
The paranoid mentality that any call could kill you is the exact reason why so many unarmed black people are shot. If you can’t carry out a day’s work without the unreasonable fear that you will be shot, and any action makes you “fear for your life” so that why you emptied your clip into a car, then you shouldn’t be a cop. Cops needs to have cooler heads and this should be measured and verified before allowing them to carry weapons.

I’ve heard that ex-military make the best cops because they are used to dangerous situations without panicking. I fully support this because they know that they aren’t GI Joe.
I imagine that information doesn't help very much psychologically.
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The news rooms are dying out. The journalism jobs are disappearing.

The interesting question is what will replace what we now call "journalism", and how it will work.

Interesting times ahead!
Making terrible anti-virus software doesn't make up for murder and rape
This quote sounds like a bit too similar to the political proposal… maybe a cherry picked quote but doesn’t seem like something most police would say without prompt.
Sadly, Britain is not alone: https://climateactiontracker.org

Current policies are even worse that current targets, and even the targets are incompatible with the Paris agreement.
You have a right not to be intentionally offended. Because that is an attack.
Discussing value for money on a free degree aside, I'd argue that the value of an EE is immense. I graduated last year studying EEE at a UK red brick uni, had the best time of my life, and learned a good number of skills that have come in handy in the last year having been employed as a professional engineer.

The debt question, at least in the UK, is more academic than anything - I'm currently earning 30k a year (which is already more than I need to live comfortably) and I'm paying £20 a month back on my loan. In 30 odd years the debt will be wiped off and given that you only pay back 6% of income above 27k it's not really like you'd ever notice it. FWIW my friends that went to uni and ended up with non-vocational degrees are earning around the 20k mark if they're working full time so chances are they won't even get close to having to consider their student loans for a good while.

In terms of the specifics I learned on my degree I would have to agree that not much of what was taught is actually helpful in my career but having four years to mature as a person, especially in an atmosphere where you're surrounded by other people who are happy to discuss engineering and related projects, has helped in a way I could never put a price tag on.
You're probably 1000x as likely to be fired for a bad commit than you are to be fired as a cop that has made a poor policing decision.

After all, you don't have a union.
>The meaning of "diverting funding to other resources" has been a consensus in the community for a very long time.

source? or just feels?
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And the majority of those are traffic accidents. If you limit it to homicides it drops many more places.
No, but I think the evidence is clear that the alternatives are far worse in totality.

Bad stuff happens. Thinking you can filter it out is a fools errand.
I don't disagree that this is not surprising; but no one really takes issue with the fact that the most of them are professional.

The issue is that the minority of bad cops are vigilantly protected.

The accountability for cops is almost non existant, and the power they hold is tremendous.

Anyone who genuinely thinks that the police aren't in many dimensions being "fairly demonized", seems to me, to be extremely likely to come from a well-to-do background.

I am white; spent my youth being a dirty hippy. I was endlessly harassed by cops who absoluted loved to wield their power to literally ruin your life.

As I've gotten older and more invisibly middle class, I no longer fear the police, but I have basically zero sympathy for them.

Once they stop protecting the bad cops, they will easily win over the hearts and minds of citizens.
The US isn't and doesn't work like Australia. No nanny state, TYVM.

Fly a low-mass, little toy around, the government wanting you to get a license and track you like you're operating a nuclear reactor is absurd.
No, it really looks like I did not misspell MSNBC: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/a-court-ruled-rachel-maddow...

Court-ruled:

>"Cynthia Bashant, dismissed the lawsuit on the ground that even Maddow's own audience understands that her show consists of exaggeration, hyperbole, and pure opinion, and therefore would not assume that such outlandish accusations are factually true even when she uses the language of certainty and truth when presenting them (“literally is paid Russian propaganda")."
this comment is always on threads like this. as if it's supposed to prove like "meh it's not THAT hard of a job"

roofers don't have to worry about making a split-second decision about whether or not they have to kill someone before they kill you.
> We believe that the next wave of computing innovation will be driven by crypto. We are radically optimistic about crypto’s potential to restore trust and enable new kinds of governance where communities collectively make important decisions about how networks evolve, what behaviors are permitted, and how economic benefits are distributed. That’s why today we’re pleased to announce a new $2.2 billion fund to continue investing in crypto networks and the founders and teams building in this space. This represents the beginning of an exciting new chapter for the a16z crypto team.

Can somehow explain to me exactly how crypto will do this without intermediaries? If there must be intermediaries then why do you need crypto?

- How can crypto "restore trust"?

- How can it enable "new kinds of governance" - unless "new" means Plutocracy?

- How can any economic benefits be distributed when by definition cryptocurrency holders are accountable to no one (something like a redistribution of funds would eventually require either an intermediary in which all holders are beholden to, or voting, however in either case that's the exact scenario you're in if you hold fiat in a democratic country so I'm not really getting it).
Yes, and the largest of those parent companies are explicitly right wing / Republican aligned.
It's no coincidence that the following events seem to coincide

* Distrust of traditional media

* Collapse of local media

* Rise in social media platforms

Traditional media isn't competing with rival newspapers on a stand anymore. It's competing on platforms like facebook, twitter, and reddit. Getting clicks on these platforms is correlated with what drives engagement - usually some cultural outrage or some "out-group mocking". Newspapers are really just catching up to the psychology hacking that social media has already profited from. It's more economics than ideology that enforces this imo.

Frankly, you see this shift on HN as well. Half the time I log on here, at least 2/10 of the top articles are appeals to whatever cultural outrage triggers this site's demographics (let's be honest, this article does that too), and these articles will always have 10x the comments of other on the front page.
They did a plenty fine job demonizing themselves. A generation of police trained to be militarized against our own citizens and unaccountable to the law, covering each other's misdeeds up with routine impunity?

Maybe it's time to rethink how this country does policing. And sometimes that takes a changing of the guard.

Not even an ACAB type. I've had several run ins with the police, some positive, some negative. Some of them were extremely friendly and helpful. Others were power hungry and lied through their teeth in court. The profession as we've made it can unfortunately attract people for different reasons, both white knights and bullies.

Mass resignations are a natural and probably necessary step towards actual reform.

If only we could get congresspeople and Supremes to resign en masse too. This country is long overdue for massive social upheaval.
The benefits probably depend a lot on the size of the company... many of these ‘serendipitous’ conversations I have had were in fact network effects, but technological - I accidentally found out about someone else’s skunkworks project we found useful, or some new piece of technology developed just a row or two over we never knew about.

I would imagine the is less true in small companies, some because of the size, but also because of the homogeneity of focus - you have to have a different environment, a different work biome for the output to diverge enough to take advantage of this.
Haha yeah a full english is not something you want every day, unless you want to die at 30 with arteries full of sausages.

Most places I've been, breakfast seems to be a bit of an after-thought, and lunch is the main event. A lot of places tend to be along the lines of "coffee and a croissant", which I find really hard to adapt to as I often eat a heavier breakfast and a lighter lunch.

Aside: I have a friend in France who was introduced to a kettle and how to make cups of tea, and it resulted in an interesting French/English hybrid breakfast where we dipped some sort of French breakfast cake into a bowl of tea (only thing bigger than a coffee cup he had) :D
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Is the main site done? (https://www.blotato.com/)
- nav jump links are not hooked
- "get started" links to webflow
Imagine using your online community notice board to murder a member of your community, and when your community tries to hold you accountable your fellow programmers, politicians, and members of your political party around the country circle the wagons and shout PROGRAMMER LIVES MATTER!!!
> When one of the two major political parties and their friends in the mainstream media decide to team up and demonize an entire profession...

Setting aside as presumably unproductive the discussion of whether Democrats are actually demonizing the police, I think it's fair to say that especially Trump-era Republicans did and do their share of demonizing.
Also, ALL acronyms are ambiguous. That's why it's best practice to say the actual thing you're talking about then put the acronym next to it the first time it's used.
Right, but it seems like many of the cops have the same perception.

Could be a case where better awareness of the statistics would actually improve the problem.

Also though, danger resulting from your own stupidity, from other peoples stupidity, and from other peoples malicious activities, hit different psychologically IME. I'm willing to bet consturction workers get a lot less of the third and a lot more of the first.

Maybe something that better training could help with a bit, but probably not fix. Also selecting people who are well suited for that sort of environment.
I went to a UK redbrick too but didn't finish.

If I was 18 now I wouldn't bother going, I would admit that I'm lucky in how much my parents and grandparents could teach me.
Keep in mind as you comment here, on this anonymous forum, that China has a well-documented policy of paying people (wu mao) to post positive comments about the Chinese Communist Party and derail any criticism of it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
What if it is a single person project, or a small team with only devs having to manually test each other's work?
I don’t think there such a thing as objective journalism—- there is only who is honest about the lens from which they view the world.

For instance, CNN is left leaning and Fox is right leaning. They should just explicitly state their viewpoint so viewers can calibrate how much credence they give to unsourced claims and see past the political posturing.
I'm talking about what we refer to as "Student Loans" https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/student-loans-co...

"We are a non-profit making government-owned organisation that administers loans and grants to students in colleges and universities in the UK."

In many cases, it's never paid back in full, and the students don't ever need to worry about it.

From the perspective of many students, it's free money.
What makes you think they aren't listening? The problem is they're just further down into the nuts and bolts of the problem than the "defund the police" folks ever get, so it only looks like they aren't listening when they ignore infeasible or impractical ideas.
I kinda like NFT's actually, they're not dangerous to the economy like crypto tokens used as currencies. They're more like digitally autographed pieces, a nice way to reward artists. They do seem to sometimes be weirdly overpriced for autographs though. De-Fi is dangerous nonsense.
For people replying to this comment, the point is, policing isn’t as dangerous as you might think. Certainly it isn’t risk free, but people perform many more dangerous jobs. Police deaths are often tragic and a result of human on human violence though, so it tends to spark a stronger reaction than “well, a giant tree fell on Jimmy and he died”. Still tragic but there are no “bad guys” in that scenario for a lumberjack, for example. Police also are supposedly serving their communities and there is a perceived nobility to the profession that makes deaths while in service to the community much more visible. It can even trend towards a bit of hero worship. Not judging the profession itself, there are a lot of human factors in the job and certainly, anyone who has dealt with conflict can attest that dealing with other people all day is a lot more stressful than many other professions in that list.
Except "so many unarmed black people are shot" is a lie. A larger per-capita percentages of unarmed whites are shot than blacks.
Maybe ex-combat military, but the vast majority of military never see combat.
Couldn't the Government ban Signal relatively easily? A simple dns ban should suffice, no?
I suspect this doesn't account for the subset of cops out on the beat versus law enforcement clerical workers.
I would think it varies depending on where you are policing.
That's to be expected. It seems to make sense that a lumberjack and a roofer have an easier time becoming too relaxed compared to the police.
I mean, sure, if that online community board somehow shoots unarmed people I'd want to picket your house too.
Probably, but so should teachers, nurses, etc. Can you name one occupation outside politics/lawyers where you think people should be paid less?
Is there a reason that someone couldn’t do the same damage just running around among the terns’ nests?
Enjoy the crime wave seems similarly inflammatory and impolite, but I find HN moderation frequently falls on a certain "if you say something rude/inflammatory but phrase it a certain way it's okay" which drives me up the wall.
BigQuery have both column and Row level security.

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/column-level-security...
I have a community college diploma and a university degree. I can say that the 3 years I spend in community college learning to code; learning systems, design patterns, various languages, etc... it has served me far better than the knowledge I earned at university.

Community college is a second class citizen and it's hard to convince people of its merits to society.
This is the major downside of centralised app stores. On the plain old internet, nobody had to care about the whims of regressive governments. Worst case, the government would try to block the website and often fail and/or face public backlash. Now, the government can just tell google or apple that they don't like the app, and the problem is solved. This is quite tragic for an app like signal because it really does not deal with the country's currency in any shape nor does it have any presence in the country, but because google/apple have to do business in the country, signal takes the fall.
Programmers have none of the authority, nor the history of abuses of power that cops do.

I'm not saying all or even most cops are bastards. But there's a non-trivial number of bastards, and the harm they've done to the communities they police (and to other cops, honestly) is immense.
I have often felt this. The skills learned are of little direct value, but the qualification is signalling enough. I mean how much different for a middle management position is I got accepted to Harvard and I graduated from Harvard.
You only need to register knives longer than 2".

is still an absolutely absurd imposition.
Accidents are less psychologically stressful than violence.
Also people who says "good apple" "bad apple" don't think accessory after the fact applies to LEO's, like it would in normal situations.
The coffee you serve in one of those is brewed roughly three times as strong as coffee that is typically served in the US, so it would be roughly equivalent to 5-7 of those diluted with 3-4 cups of water.
The decentralization argument comes up fairly often in similar discussions. Assuming it was Matrix and not Signal, what advantage would there be in the current situation?
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Curious as to why you think having Amazon on your resume is a dealbreaker to some companies? Is this something that is known?

Amazon is probably a better name to have on your resume than the vast majority of other companies out there. I'd imagine you'd instantly be considered higher at first glance than someone with say, JP Morgan, or Lockheed Martin, or IBM, or any number of no-name startups on their resume.
tput query a terminfo database and return an escape code suitable for that $TERM. sgr0 is the name for "reset" (e.g. "\033[0;10m" in ANSI). Using tput instead of escape code directly is better in a lot of ways. For example, it allows the shell script to be adaptive to the type of TERM it runs on (e.g. not outputting color codes at all if TERM doesn't support colors).

You can see what each tput commands are doing by running infocmp. Most TERM implement ANSI-compatible escape codes, but may prefer other escape codes for the same effect (e.g. try comparing `infocmp -1 ansi` and `infocmp -1 xterm` and `infocmp -1 screen`). You can see the entire list of these commands in terminfo(5) (`man 5 terminfo`) in Predefined Capabilities section.
No, I don’t
> I think that we will look back at the billions/trillions spent on office space in the world's most expensive cities as one of the biggest misallocations of capital in history.

Status symbols _are_ an efficient allocation of capital, for a select few.
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I've had a similar change of heart in that I value police a lot more than I did as a youth frustrated by irrational drug laws.

Unfortunately I still have experiences which prove to me that some police have nothing better to do than annoy otherwise law abiding people. It's like any group of people, there are good cops and there are bad cops.
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How can anyone rely on a third party business to host content for free, forever?

Just because it’s worked for years doesn’t make it so forever.

The trust and reliance on Google for free video hosting seems both foolish and dangerous.
> Was it? Or did he go to a conference that Epstein staged?

[Strong citation needed]

Is this really the hill you want to die on?

Maybe you also should ask Ghislaine Maxwell as to why Marvin Minsky was on Epstein's private jet log.
Just an FYI, your first link, (abc7news), is broken - "PAGE NOT FOUND".
They vote. All 1.4 billion of them. Right down to the smallest and poorest villages. It fields a vast array of parties and political ideologies. India well deserves its title as "the world's greatest democracy".
Untrue at least for USA, only 28% are road related deaths.

https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfar0020.pdf
Idiotic, yes. Autocratic is just as applicable.
While journalism was/is the fourth estate, the watchdog of the government, the people as the watchdog of journalists is becoming the rising fifth estate. This fifth estate isn't so organized or always of much quality, but observable signal is emerging. Truly, I've noticed a more substantial signal coming from HN comments questioning the veracity of the fourth estate. It's great to see.
Do you work at that station for 7ish hours a day? Or are you quite mobile as it's a laptop... if you stay there the whole day - it looks miserable if so!