skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most activists recognize there will still need to be people authorized to use violence in certain circumstances, they just want to minimize the number of those people and make them more accountable. Most of the proposals I've seen call for the creation of a public safety department whose employees would not be authorized to use force and who could be sent to deal with situations where violence is not necessary (such as, say, a person trying to pass a counterfeit $20 bill, like George Floyd was doing when the police were called on him).
Why spend 3 minutes making your code correct when you can just spend a day or two understanding and debugging user bug reports? (That is, if you have only a few users.)
Why would Apple want to join the Chrome arms race that Google is pushing for their own benefit?
HTTP/2 seems to have peaked and is now dropping off
Correct, these ratings make no sense. CNN should rightly have been labelled as Deep State Media.
There's also no question or sign indicating that you have to take a drone license course, effective immediately. How would someone even find out about this new regulation? By hanging out on hacker news waiting for it?
the £1k gets turned into ~£700.

Nobody says no to an extra £700 if offered on a plate but the lower the % you get of a raise the less motivated you are to chase it.
I think your understanding of "nonprofit" isn't in line with the technical definition of the term.

Note that Harvard doesn't spend their fund on anything, they just use the interest (and dipping in is ultra-contraversial).

The reason they have it is to establish a path to future freedom for themselves.
I think this last point is key.

The problem, I think - and this is pure supposition on my part - is that the algorithm that optimises for "engagement" (i.e. emotional reaction) also kinda accidentally optimises for the shady shit.

You could always find shady shit on Usenet if you wanted it. But you have to go looking for it. Because there wasn't an algorithm feeding you whatever it thought would keep you interested, it wasn't front and centre.

As you say, it never became mass-market enough. Because most people aren't really into the shady shit. Everyone might google for 2 girls 1 receptacle once for kicks, but it's not what most people want to see all day. Without the algorithm, it dies in user sub and most people don't even see it.
The description of Hackintosh as a “market” is pretty amusing
Shopping warehouses in quick succession is p-hacking.
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Slowly.

There's open efforts to work on a protocol that would work with the extreme latency and packet loss. They're really quite fascinating.
What's the "[sic]" for? I don't see an error.
I think the big changes has been the fracturing of “opinion shapers”. Back in the JFK era nobody talked about his affairs - that was an agreement among the media.

Then the disruption of the 60’s happened and the Vietnam War drove a schism between official govt stance and the truth on the ground and some media personalities were famous for exposing it.

Now everything is fractured and when you dig into it you realize both side are trying to shape the narrative, so both are being selective about the truth.

By fighting over whose wool to pull over your eyes they inadvertently pulled it off entirely.
That’s not true. Readers don’t trust you when you don’t tell them what they want to hear. They are extremely fragile.
Programmer/analyst here and ready to help you NASA, just ask me and I'll clear a few hours of my agenda for you.
I know people say this a lot, but in this case I really think a (at least partial) rewrite in Rust of the Hubble software would be very beneficial. We could gather some of the most distinguished coders here in hacker-news and create a task force to show them the benefits of rust's memory safety.
> and tertiary education hardly has any effect whatsoever.

This is the education I use all the time to make money. It matters that I can write and do arithmetic, but my entire career is based on what I learned after the age of 18.
Being left handed and cultural genocide have absolutely nothing in common.
The Guardian is openly biased. But it is at least open.

That's not to say its reporting on the facts is wrong, but its editorials are very definitely partisan and what they choose to report/how they choose to report it often shows this too.

In general it's my favourite news source, but you do have to account for its slant.
I have not yet verified the references, but this SciShow episode seems to propose exactly that:
https://youtu.be/JvzvM9tf5s0
Not at the moment but we have planned it. :)
May I ask how long have you've been programming? I, myself, am finding it hard to make the correct mental models.
> I'm at the point where I instantly dismiss any "world" news that comes from the US. I'll simply wait for an independent source from another country to report on any such story.

A huge problem is that the US does not have many foreign news correspondents posted abroad anymore. This leads to uncertainty and confusion when a crisis occurs. I personally rely on the Financial Times for foreign correspondent coverage. It also has great tech coverage. I have only been disappointed once when reading a tech article over 3+ years of being a subscriber.
I might as well as an off topic questions here:

1. I recently moved and now have a sizable chunk of land attached to a much larger sized chunk of city-owned land which includes a huge open field. Seems like the perfect place to fly a drone. Will it be fun doing this or is this a thing that I would get bored from shortly after dropping serious money on it?

2. Are drones that follow you any good? Would love to do a video of myself riding a motorcycle while a drone follows me.

3. Any recommendations for a good beginner drone that isn’t $1000?
I think it's part of an onboarding strategy, because remember that the next tier is $1/mo., or $12 a year. Peanuts. It could easily be rolled into the purchase price of the device for a year or two. Apple TV+ which come with a year free with purchasing an iPhone would be $60 a year, or 5 years of iCloud 50GB.

However, by charging peanuts, you got the user into a subscription, which is the important bit. A person in a subscription who jumped the hurdle of not paying vs paying a little is much more likely to upgrade later.

It also plays into a Steve Jobs strategy, for better or worse. Many people don't hear about this, but Steve Jobs had a view that people don't value things that are free. He made the Cafe at Apple HQ subsidized but require payment, not that Apple couldn't afford it, but because he knew people wouldn't respect free food. This view of Apple's, that people don't value things they didn't pay for, seems to permeate many of their business decisions.
It's always been the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_(1889)#Yellow_journa...
There is very little innovation going on in general. It's kinda like measuring if chance encounters in retirement homes lead to more kids. The main problem is not that people don't spend enough time around each other.

For a meaningful comparison you would need environments in which significant innovations are being made. Then you can tell where it's going better.
This is really cool. I'm looking to build something similar
Could you point me to any new sources on this?
Sorry what’s your point?
I disagree with that president about many things, but that I agree that the press is the enemy of the people.
You're also describing pizza delivery and convenience store cashier, but they don't have the legal ability to beat the shit out of their customers because someone wasn't fast enough / was too fast getting their wallets out.
Not everyone works for an evil tech employer. HN certainly doesn't stand in solidarity with, say, facebook.
> How can crypto "restore trust"?

Crypto can be held and transacted in a secure and trust less way. I can store my $ in the bank which is secure but requires trust, or I can store my $ under my bed which I trust but isn't secure.

> How can it enable "new kinds of governance"

New crypto has introduced the idea of a governance token, if you hold one of these governance tokens it gives you a vote on the policies of the token. This is similar to how you have a vote in the building society if you hold funds at that building society, much more democratic than more traditional banks.

> How can any economic benefits be distributed when by definition cryptocurrency holders are accountable to no one

Holders are accountable to the economics of the token in the same way that the government is accountable to the economics of the country. If token holders do dumb stuff that devalues their token no one will buy it and their token will be worthless in the same was as a government just printing money makes the money worth less.
The distrust is so high because people realize CNN, MSNBC and Fox do opinion based journalism, not actual objective reporting as there is no money in the latter.

See this article about the concerted effort between the democrats and the media to defeat trump:
https://archive.is/CRSYG

How many times has the NY Times or the WaPo ran a story about Trump which has proven to be absolutely false?
How about spending years on some false Russian collusion theory about 2016 election? Google: "The Washington Post forced to admit Russia “collusion just isn’t there”"
Trump tells immigrants to not come illegally across the border - "Far right Nazi playbook!!!!"
Harris tells immigrants to not come across the border illegally - "Harris discouraged illegal immigrants from making the journey"

And one wonders why the media can't be trusted.
For comparison, a 2019 survey of 33 European countries ranked countries by their trust in the written press [1]. The UK ranked last (75% do not trust the written press, just 15% trust the press, 10% don't know).

Unlike newspapers, TV and radio in the UK is regulated by a government-funded body called OFCOM (Office of Communications) where broadcasters are required to follow rules around impartial news coverage. These rules exclude opinion-based shows e.g. talk radio shows.

These impartiality rules apply to all broadcasters i.e. public service broadcasters (PSBs) like the BBC and Channel 4, and commercial broadcasters like ITV and Sky News. People often criticise PSBs for their news coverage (justified in some cases), but there is no editorial standard or code of ethics for national newspapers in the UK.

Most of the national newspapers in the UK lean to the right, and a few to the left. But they are all awful. The Financial Times is the only half-decent national newspaper in the UK and even they have their biases.

I have long held the belief that the national press in the UK has poisoned political discourse in the UK for decades. Despite declining newspaper circulation, they continue to exert outsized influence on public discourse (and on politicians). The relationship between journalists and politicians is uncomfortably close and unhealthy. (Journalists often move to positions of influence into political parties).

Interesting tidbit about UK newspaper columnists: attendence at private schools makes up just 7% of the general population. Yet, in UK national newspapers, the proportion of news columnist who were privately educated is disproportionately high: 44%. [2]

[1] EBU (European Broadcasting Union) Media Intelligence Service – Trust in Media 2020 Report

[2] The Sutton Trust: Elitist Britain 2019
You don't? Multiple people I know who fly regularly say they're required to fly a certain amount or else they'll lose the license to fly.
I don't exactly understand the mechanics, but it seems pretty widely accepted that the polarization of media outlets and the rejection of journalistic ethics are a consequence of the online advertising business model. Before the last decade, a larger share of media business revenue came from sources other than online advertising, and the media was less polarized as a consequence.

As for my speculation about the underlying mechanics, perhaps people who are willing to subscribe to media (rather than consume it for free) are more likely to be interested in the truth (i.e., useful information about the world) rather than having their biases reinforced and their hateful prejudices stroked.
I know people say this a lot, but in this case I really think a (at least partial) rewrite in Rust of the Hubble software would be very beneficial. We could gather some of the most distinguished coders here in hacker-news and create a task force to show them the benefits of rust's memory safety.
It definitely is Left, to at times Far Left.

While I agree that NPR puts out a lot content that can be described as 'lefty', NPR News feels pretty straight down the middle.
Even on your source they aren’t the majority
I don’t understand how this would prevent someone with an angle grinder from cutting through it anyway. Especially the aluminum ones
“Even though these problems are societal, not really caused by the minorities themselves but rather lack of opportunities etc”

That’s the line of thinking that keeps many of them in that situation. We need to be honest -African American culture is largely dysfunctional and self-destructive. 120 years ago my ancestors were dirt poor, they didn’t have “equitable” opportunities in education, housing, or employment, yet they managed to not go around shooting each other, having children out of wedlock, or abusing drugs.
Wouldn't it be a good idea to open the source code for community inspection? Of course NASA would panic with Russia and China inspecting for "hostile" actions, but hey, if they don't know what to do, why not calling the expert reverse engineers of the world?
That's perhaps a true fact, but also, maybe a bit of a rhetorical own goal?

I don't think that the gun lobby having been so successful at achieving a sort of crony capitalist vendor lock-in with the American public implies in any way that this is a good thing, which is what you'd have to demonstrate for this analogy to really help the case you're trying to present.

I mean, if you're trying to say that regulation doesn't work, then pointing out that the the gun lobby has secured laws that severely limit firearm regulation in the USA, so now Americans already own a lot of guns and shoot each other a lot and there's nothing that can be done about it anymore, is perhaps doing more to illustrate the case that you're trying to argue against.
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If you live an unhealthy lifestyle, it's easy to imagine how a fairer deal might cost you more money.
I think that's the first time I've ever heard genocide called "best intentions"
You and I both have innate biases that any objections we have would be inevitably colored by, so that's not really a material statement. What I'm saying is that when you say something like:

> They want to keep everything they have and have other people handle all of that stuff they don't want to

...you're criticizing a composited caricature that only exists in such a monolithic form in your head.
I'm not sure I'm convinced the FAA's claim to airspace above private property is unconstitutional. Just as there's not a lot of precedent firmly establishing the FAA's purview in low altitude airspace, there's also not much precedent that land ownership conveys a right to airspace usage beyond the right to place structures upon the land that happen to occupy that airspace. Further, there's a clear parallel here to the FCC's purview over EM spectrum usage that does have significantly more precedent backing it, so I would expect that to set the groundwork for any future case law on the airspace matter.

In any case, it's an area that certainly needs much greater clarity than there is today.
Remove the Indian Act.

Integration of aboriginal culture into the Canadian education system. Not just offering an aboriginal studies class, but truly taking the native perspective into the education system. Most native people I've talked with don't take advantage of their free educational affordances because they don't want to continue to be whitewashed/don't feel comfortable in institutions that don't understand their culture/are understandably extremely scared of "education" in Canada given the residential school system.

Including traditional aboriginal health practises into the health care system, both mandating and expanding the services that are covered by our national insurance, but allowing a medicine man to charge OHIP for their time performing service. People don't die on reserves because they're lazy drunks(as is often portrayed), they die because they don't trust the Canadian health care system.

Adding Ojibway as an official language (either federally, or mandate the provinces provide services in the predominant native language of that territory).

Guaranteed seats in the Canadian parliament.

All of that on top of continuing the repreve on on taxation, and in my likely unpopular opinion, a reexamination of reparation.

What will it accomplish? It will only serve to minimally undo the damage that was inflicted upon these people by colonialists, my forefathers.
I had similar thoughts, you don't need a permit to buy a gun but your kids need one if they want to fly their small toy drone, well that makes totally sense :D
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h/t for the greenfield project mention, learned something.

https://www.webopedia.com/definitions/greenfield/
No amount of furious statistical spin will overcome what will happen in Minneapolis and this time around, people will be watching.
Perhaps they should have chosen a slogan where the dictionary definition differs from the opinion of "a very very small niche".
To me it doesn't seem as bad. I don't like the lies and the slander but it's better than raw violence.
It is shocking how fast javascript is.

Hyperscript is an interpreted programming language written on top of javascript with an insane runtime that resolves promises at the expression level to implement async transparency.

Head to the playground and select the "Drag" example:

https://hyperscript.org/playground/

And drag that div around. That whole thing is happening in an interpreted event-driven loop:

repeat until event pointerup from document
wait for pointermove(pageX, pageY) or
pointerup(pageX, pageY) from document
add { left: `${pageX - xoff}`, top: `${pageY - yoff}` }
end

The fact that the performance of this demo isn't absolutely CPU-meltingly bad is dramatic testament to how smoking fast javascript is.
Fair point. I should’ve said relatively financially stable (which often translates to feeling poor with a certain crowd - often a point of disagreement between husband and wife) versus abundantly rich.

Funny enough, thinking more, the abundantly rich couples who easily had kids spend the least time together, as the husbands work jobs that dominate their lives.
I certainly see no reason to take what he says at face value, but this includes the "I've been suicided!" tweets.
When it comes to analysis of job hazards, death is perhaps the penultimate risk, but to ignore the vast breadth of other job hazards that law enforcement officers are exposed to is an analytical failure.

Further compounding the issue is that law enforcement is not the job that the police are often tasked with. Some of the job hazards they are exposed to are due to making inappropriate demands of law enforcement officials.
Twitter thread breaking this down https://mobile.twitter.com/propublica/status/140800243612462...
To exactly the same extent as everything Apple does. If they genuinely believe that they can create a custom X that works better than all the other options, and that compatibility with the rest of the world would hold back the user experience, then they go for it and don’t worry about compatibility.

Whether you, as a user, agree with their decisions, is a different story. Apple doesn’t care about making products for everyone, so to them if 70% of the market doesn’t like their design but 30% absolutely loves it - and they can make sustainable profits selling to that 30% - then that’s fine.

Apple thinks of it’s products like game consoles. We don’t get mad at Sony that PlayStation games don’t run on Windows… we understand that Sony has designed a complete package offering and then we either like it and buy it… or we don’t. And that’s fine.

People get confused about Apple’s choices because they make Macs, which are a lot like PCs and partially compatible. But Apple doesn’t see the Mac as part of the PC ecosystem, it sees the Mac and all its products as the distinct, standalone, Apple platform, which is a complete package offering. And Apple expects users to either like that and buy it, or not.
Newton was around (preceded by and followed by) great scientific discovery. Calculus of variations was also worked on by Bernoulli, for instance, who discovered it independently. And Leibniz seems to have as good a claim to being first as Newton does. Newton built heavily on Kepler for both math and the sciences.

I'm not saying Newton didn't do great work. He just seems a poor example of a single lone genius. He was brilliant and alive at a time when a lot of exciting changes were coming around. Those combined to make him great. Just not a sole genius.
Damn Windows updates...

Getting downvoted so I guess I need to clarify I was being sarcastic. I work in IT and we say this a lot.
Usually, these aren't expensive classes nor is the licensing expensive. And generally, those funds are earmarked towards paying either for the education or enforcement.

As for the actual shooting education... I mean, I think I care more about someone being safe with a gun than I care about them being a good shot. Missing the side of the barn matters less than making sure someone's not standing next to the barn when you are shooting.
This doesn't fit with my experience at all. They were somewhat expensive, yes, but only a bit more than a nice Lego set (which I got for Christmas one year). I don't even know if there was an aviation club nearby, but there were tons of RC airplane people that would just launch from their lawns.
It might have been a settlement out of court?
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Supposedly during the second world war prior to America's entry into the war, there was a joke about china's approach:

An American is on a steamship with a Chinese steward. The news reports the Japanese had lost 25 soldiers that day and the Chinese 250. The next day it's worse, the Japanese lost 35 men and the Chinese 500. On the third day, the numbers are 50 Japanese and 2000 Chinese troops. All the while, the Chinese steward simply smiles. Finally, the American asks him how he can be so happy, given the news. The Chinese gentleman simply says "Pretty soon, no more Japanese".
So you'd predict that without Fox and talk radio telling those people that almost everyone working in national mainstream media falls somewhere on the spectrum of "has no respect for you" and "likes to sincerely fantasize in public about the elimination of your culture", most of them wouldn't be able to independently observe that fact with their own eyes and ears?
> crypto money laundering scheme

Does this mean we should call for the arrest and charge of Katie Haun, Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz and the rest of the A16Z crew?