skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, thanks for explaining! Sounds like pitfalls of going with a custom design.

Do you think it's a necessary tradeoff? Are other laptops with custom designs subject to the same internal engineering mistakes?
>Guys, police are self-abolishing.

Do you think 2021 will end with less police in uniform than 2020? Do you think 2020 had less police in uniform than 2019?

Of course not. This is one of those "trend" stories that is basically inventing copy. Find isolated examples and propose a trend.

But if a police officer feels vilified or unfairly treated, blame the officers who grossly abuse the power society gave them, not the public. Blame unions and the knee-jerk circle-the-wagon attitude that defends these bad apples. If a group abides by and supports the bad apples, they are all bad apples.
£300 a month for a student flat isn't really all that different to the rest of the UK - I lived in student accommodation in Manchester for four years and paid between £350 and £420 a month plus bills for houses in varying states of decay, with bills maybe being an extra £100 on top of that.
Our current financial system has, at best, only a veneer of democratic oversight, evidenced by decades of deregulation and the inability of the government to sensibly reregulate it after the GFC.

The banking system pretty much owns politicians cradle-to-grave - you need massive political donations to get elected, then lobbyists have super-access to politicians while in office, then politicians are offered lucrative revolving door jobs and board seats on leaving office.
Most people I know can't distinguish the difference between an anonymous hacker and their IT department. Many roles are vilified by society due to ignorance, not just the police. I hear about the good software developers are doing in the world, much more often than I do the police. That certainly has an effect on everyone's perceptions of these roles in society.
Yep, most around here just get put on "desk duty", essentially a "hey let's wait for this to all blow over then we'll get you back out there" play.
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Hi Tim,

I'm a nobody who has been "investing" in and around the crypto ecosystem officially since the date on this gpg sig.
Just saying thanks.
Long before these markets existed and trust was difficult to define, reputation on internet relay chat
was where this ecosystem was birthed.

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Police departments increasingly utilize military gear and tactics. I wish they would also "take" the UCMJ, rules of engagement, and Geneva conventions.
I was debating getting a watch. Maybe I'll give this a try.
Show HN: Beautiful Gantt charts for your next pitch
> So, let us perhaps say, instead: democracy is theory that the extremely-online elites and activists know what they want, and that the common people deserve to get it good and hard.

Holding a (small time) elected leadership position, this definitely matches my own observations. I have to deal with the opinions of those I represent on the matters I’m elected to handle quite frequently; the opinions of the few and the loud quite often do not match the opinions and priorities of the majority, but the few and loud do stand out, and the pressure they create gives the illusion of majority opinion.

Does this make sense, or am I not expressing myself well?
Coincidentally, the murder rate is way up.

> A 25 percent increase in murder in 2020 would mean the United States surpassed 20,000 murders in a year for the first time since 1995. (The final official numbers for 2020 will not be released until late September.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/upshot/murder-rate-usa.ht...

Thanks, BLM.
Which is a good thing. More high educated people is better.
Back in the days only a handful of people with the right background were able to study.
Yes it might diminish the value of a degree. Now actual additional skills and experience are needed to stand out. I am totally fine with this. Gone are the days of arrogant students thinking their degree is automatically bring them wealth (ok not entirely true in lots of countries). But still. We are heading into the right (not always perfect) direction.
A16Z: "It's time to build"

Also A16Z: "We're raising (another) crypto fund"
I don’t know about that… most liberal art degrees now are a signal that the person has severe mental health issues, will make themselves a bad fit, and generally be a pain in the ass.
Hi there

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We would love to know what you guys think? Looking forward to your feedback.
Bit of a broad brush there, innit? Who is "they"?
I wonder if the stress comes from how a police officer dies on the job rather than the absolute death rate of the profession.

Lumber harvesting is the most dangerous profession in the US but I imagine that most deaths would be described as "accidents". For example, someone cuts a leg with a chainsaw, a tree snaps in a weird way, someone gets pushed off a cliff.

Police officers, on the other hand, usually due to violence while interacting with other people.

In other words, a lumberjack, roofer, etc could think that they won't die today on the job because they are being careful, because there are safety protocols set by OHSA, etc. The same might not be true for police officers because there is little that they can do to address how others will interact with them.

In a sense, police officers might process their job more closely to how a soldier process their job than a lumberjack/roofer.
It's amazing how, 34 years later, that book is at least as relevant now as it was then.

One would have expected some improvement in that area but sometimes it feels to me like the opposite is true.
If Apple dropped the case, I think it is fairly safe to assume they saw defeat in their future. Any reason to assume otherwise?
> The interesting question is what will replace what we now call "journalism", and how it will work.

One might well call it for what it is, PR and propaganda, but in my experience one will want to retain the title "journalist" for all the positive emotional weight it contains.

I've had drinks with a few local paper "journalists" of the current, young generations and the reality of their work is shaping of narrative rather than reporting, but on the topic of job title view themselves in the same light as an Upton Sinclair. Brings to mind the early 2010s "positively changing the world" startup software engineers building Orwellian systems.
For people against the concept of police, what do you see replacing it?
Privatized security forces? Community members/ local militia? A more limited public police force? National guard?
I’ve had a completely different experience than you. Cops who I’ve known have been pretty normal, compassionate people. They routinely tell me the most important skill in effective law enforcement is your ability to communicate.
Can we use raw sheep wool for insulation?
Yeah. Just like with cash.

My point is I would rather have a team of people paid to make sure that post-it note doesn't get lost than try to keep it myself.
I believe I had done this, which surprised me that people still were able to get the number.
I'm confused. As someone who dabbled with a basic PCB design. There are a lot of simple circuits that require a lot of theoretical knowledge. Designing the circuit is one thing as you can always copy paste existing designs and modify them. Picking and rating components is another as it requires a complete understanding how your circuit actually works and I was hoping that an EE degree would have helped with that.

I guess there is no need for that and I should just "grind" practical circuits until I understand them.

This is surprising to me because the nature of imperfect components makes EE far more complicated than software development where you do not have to care about choosing a for loop manufactured by Samsung vs Panasonic that is good up to 1000 iterations or that it is polarized so your for loop can only increment, not decrement. Add a hundred components each with their own characteristics and your head will split.
But it's a reason to choose your words carefully.

"Defund the Police" is very easy to interpret as "abolish" or "practically abolish". Which means it's very easy to twist even the less extreme politicians' and activists' meaning toward that end. This sets them up for abuse from their opposition who then cost them possible supporters.

The fact is, many people on the right wouldn't mind if police were a little less of a daily presence in their lives. They also have family members and friends with mental health issues and don't want to see them (or their caregivers) shot in the street because the first response is the armed police instead of medical or social services. They also don't want a gas cannister shot into their infant or toddler's bed.

But a phrase like "Defund the Police" is so easily turned to use the meaning of the most extreme speakers, who really do mean something closer to "Abolish the Police" than "Redistribute funds from the police to deal with the causes of societal issues instead of (just) the results". Once that's done, you've essentially lost and the more moderate voices who mean the latter and not the former get discredited in many people's view. They're saying one thing with, to those individuals at least, a very clear meaning which is at odds with what the moderates claim they mean.
This video specifically goes over why most crdts are inappropriate for collaborative text editing and shows off a plausibly useful crdt.
Because we do not see the value. I was into crypto really early and I was slowly more and more disgusted what it supported in society. Constant exit scams, criminals using it evade the law, etc.

And on the other side, you had to be so freaking careful to actually use the thing yourself without losing all your money. Hardware wallets, backup passwords, whatever. It's not cool to worry about whether or not you still have your hundreds of thousands of dollars or not. It's not fun trying to figure out if you can trust Coinbase or if they're the next MtGox. And besides, if you're trusting one of these players anyway then what is the point? Wasn't this supposed to be about privacy and getting away from centralized banking in the first place?

I just don't see any upside. I made my 200x return or whatever it was and I'm out. If I start to see actual products solving real problems that honest citizens in non-sanctioned countries have, I'll revaluate my position.
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Shouldn't people call for more regulations against the Union instead of the entire department?
Cops first. Seriously. If George Floyd (and countless other minorities who were unfairly demonized before and since) had gotten this respect, these protests, this demonization doesn't happen. Cops are the people in power, abusing that power. It is up to them to be the bigger people in this situation, to re-earn the trust they lost.

Also, this is an emotional reaction. A rational reaction would involve some sort of introspection, some sort of realization that there is a reason people feel the way they do.
Could you point me in the general direction of a source? I would like to find more about this.
> How can crypto "restore trust"?

For people with very poor understandings of economics, and have drunk deep from the sacred texts of Zerohedge, that have been standing on a wooden box on the street corner for the past decade preaching about the evils of the coming wave of inflation, as the Fed struggles mightily to be able to even get inflation up to the 2% target, much less above it for any period of time, crypto is the savior to get us away from fiat money.
This site has lost all credibility.
obnocracy - rule of the most obnoxious?
Maybe it's finally the time for private sector to step in?

Privately funded regional and/or local (HOA-funded) police departments that are immune to political games with funding that's independent from political trends. Private security startups must be working in this area, right?

Just take a look what amazon is doing to shipping industry, how well researched and optimized their deliveries are. Policing is no different (infinite potential for optimizations and innovations) given that private entities (not government) are managing it and (most importantly) are accountable for it.
The deal is it's never paid back provided you stay poor (< £20k) for your whole life. Quite a high cost for a few years of drinking.

It's a sweet deal for employers to create a natural disincentive for people to ask for raises though, while keeping the outward appearance of fairness.
You’re missing out. Cats are amazing and make the best animal companions.
Let's say you're in America rather than Australia, because context matters.

If it happens a few people cannot operate domestic lawnmowers correctly and chase crowds down with them out of acts of terrorism because they slip a gasket, should we have licenses, certifications, and tracking of all lawnmowers? Is that a "no-brainer" too? Maybe we should think first before trying to regulate or educate ourselves out of every edge-case risk.
> I wonder if the stress comes from how a police officer dies on the job rather than the absolute death rate of the profession.

> Police officers, on the other hand, usually due to violence while interacting with other people.

Incorrect. It's mostly traffic accidents. https://www.npr.org/2010/12/29/132441719/Traffic-Accidents-L...

In 2020, it was mostly COVID. https://thedaily.case.edu/study-finds-more-active-duty-polic...
China: A Normal Country?
I don't quite understand. So they say:

> We believe that the next wave of computing innovation will be driven by crypto.

But then they also say that [0]:

> Crypto is purely a software movement and doesn’t depend on a hardware buildout, in contrast to, say, the internet, which required laying cables and building cell towers

That doesn't make any sense, though. Crypto heavily depends on specialised hardware (ASICs, GPUs, SSDs, ...) and existing network infrastructure (have fun trying to establish crypto in underdeveloped countries).

I get that products are just based on software and that infrastructure is provided by 3rd parties, but so far very little has come out of crypto in terms of "innovation in computing".

Just a random pick of their investments, ARwave [1], reveals actual regression, not innovation:

> The maintainers of the network are able to filter and screen the transaction in whichever manner they choose, checking against known illicit material, scanning the data with computer vision software, et cetera.

So basically "store data forever, decentralized, no more 404s, no stealth edits, blah", but also "we decide what's actually going to be stored and reserve the right to censor your data however we see fit".

Honestly, I don't see the innovation in that.
Most of the other investments are either NFT market places or crypto-based trading platforms. Again, not really an innovation in computing.

Maybe I'm just too illiterate when it comes to decoding marketing speak.

[0] https://a16z.com/crypto/#vertical-landing-investment-thesis

[1] https://www.arweave.org/technology#papers

[2] https://www.diem.com/en-us/
The two ABC news links are broken. Are they still online?
Tubay222
The issue should be accountability. Police unions are a root cause of the problem. Instead, ordinary officers are being treated like the first five paragraphs of this story. The most popular slogan is "defund the police". There's people non-ironically advocating for 'abolishing prisons'.

This is why they're quitting, and this is why the drive to meaningfully reform police will be wasted this time around, too. It will be drowned in the consequences of the actions of radicals who push for simple solutions that are simply wrong, and all the nice middle-class folks from nice middle-class neighbourhoods who enable and support them, instead of calling them out on their bullshit.
Or God, 24% pay for WaPo brainwashing subscription
All the more reason you can't afford browser-based automation testing and have to build quality in from the beginning. See

https://www.amazon.com/Quality-Free-Art-Making-Certain/dp/04...
Telemarketers.

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I have been working with the Tink API recently as well and wasn't super impressed. Maybe it was our use case, but I noticed a few gaps in their documentation and am not a big fan of how they handle permanent users.

Then we had to integrate with a hot-shot European startup banking provider and I started to appreciate Tink's API a bit more. God, that one was a clusterfuck of misleading/wrong documentation and horribly inconsistent API design.
https://ghuntley.com/the-office
It should be working now, after refresh.
Its just difficult to look up to a person who behaved like he did. Its a shame Hollywood depiction of Steve Jobs missed most of it:

https://www.businessinsider.nl/steve-jobs-terrible-small-fry...
I certainly wouldn't want to be a cop. The downsides right now seem so much greater than any upside. And you already needed to be doing it for some reason more than just money.

But a lot of the problem is self-inflicted. The bad apples may be few, but instead of making a show of culling those from the force, they celebrate protecting them. We need less militarization, a lot more transparency, an actual separate oversight organization that has the power to police the police. And we need to 'defund the police' only in the sense that we need to quit asking them to be social workers, and actually shift funding to that department so it can be properly staffed.

It's possible, and very desirable, to rebuild trust in our police force. But we do need to agree on that first. It's become yet another front in the ongoing tribal warfare so I don't think anything meaningful will change in the near future.
"Free Speech is a good. But it is not the highest good. "

Sunlight is ALWAYS the best disinfectant. Free speech is the first amendment in the US Constitution because those that wrote it had first hand experience what life is like without it.
The police. It's funny how you question my use of "they" but not the person I responded to. His "they" isn't broad?
I've been wondering. We are citizens, police are citizens, "we" are all responsible, but it turns into an us vs them attitude.

I wonder what society would be like if every person had a mandatory stint as a part of a police force (like countries that have mandatory military service). It would make everybody everybody part of both sides. Probably not practical, but an interesting thought.
The data do not support your statement. Using the search term "per capita police violence deaths" on DDG in private mode, the links below were results #2 and #4. (Results #1 and #3 were comparisons by country, and are not included here from irrelevance. This is not a case of cherry-picking results.)

https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/07/16/the-research-is-cle...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1123070/police-shootings...
Dates and times are generally deidentified by choosing a random initial date and changing subsequent timestamps to the random initial plus the duration between visits. The sequence and delays could potentially be used to identify patients, but this would be a lot harder than having absolute timestamps.
While they only listed one scam as an example of having the performer ripped off, my experience is the scam works in the other direction usually.

Someone asks me to pay in advance for something with Cash App, Venmo or others and they're unwilling to meet in person to sign a contract it's likely a scam. While all these companies pretend they investigate fraud it's really just a gamble because ultimately it's two people in dispute with no real agreement. The payment companies don't get paid on refunds so guess which way they normally decide.

They're trying to move the handshake deal in to the digital age but haven't solved the problem that anonymity breeds dishonesty.
I can imagine how they become this way. With most offenders being from minority groups it's hard to keep an open mind if you're having to chase after them every day. Even though these problems are societal, not really caused by the minorities themselves but rather lack of opportunities etc

But if you're on the business end of society's failures on a daily basis I can imagine how this changes one's opinion.

I've worked as a technical support agent and I really started to be afraid of our company's products, being confronted with the worst that could happen to them every day. The knowledge that the calls I was getting were only about 0.1% of products in the field was easy to forget.
Yeah, the “defoliation” analogy seems the opposite to what is actually happening. The creation of many cryptocurrencies is akin to money supply inflation, not deflation.
It’s important to understand that this includes everyone in policing even those who work behind a desk not just those that are near the front lines so to speak. The usbls collects it for the entire policing sector not just the job of police officer:

https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfar0020.pdf
It is true that even among minorities support for the existence of an active police force remains high. However, the principles of policing by consent still hold: a community deserves to be policed by police it recognizes as members of that community, not outsiders, and which have the community's best interests at heart. There is still a lot of work to be done in the US regarding these things.
In most places that is the issues that the communities face. But Police like firefighters need to exist irrespective
of any current need, so what else would you have them do in the mean time? Maybe they need to up their training to include those items. They aren't just town guards.
However, qualified immunity would protect me from being held responsible.
"There is always a risk"

I think there's an easy way to figure out what people mean when they chant a slogan. Talk to them.

"In my experience the community is quite divided on most topics and tends to come to a consensus using the literal meaning of words"

Well, even if your experience is correct, so what? Defunding the police -as it currently exists-, in its entirety, and directing those funds to different agencies, including what the current police would turn into, is still removing 100% of the funds from the existing organization and redirecting them. No one is arguing to remove that funding and then setting that money on fire.