skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's this opinion shaping that convinces people not to care about the imprisonment of someone acting as a mere conduit to the dissemination of information.
> Uli Hoeneß

That would be an example for someone punished lightly. If you and I did this it would be near maximum possible. Some people are more equal.
> there is little that they can do to address how others will interact with them

Don't police generally get training in conflict de-escalation?
Now we've got "Invest in students" programs that amount to indentures: how long before those are "a success from private finance we must make public for the children" and worse?

When do our societies ever look at the silly shit they're into and say "this shit is silly, let's stop it"? The Civil Rights movement maybe... Usually tho it comes to doubling down on the silly until something else breaks.
I wonder if it is mostly "good" cops or "bad" cops quitting.

Bad cops might be sensing that there time is up and are upset that they might be held accountable for something they wouldn't have before. They also feel like they might be losing some power, which might be what attracted "bad" cops to the position in the first place.

Good cops might be finding it too hard to do their job, and be fed up with being demonized even though that got into the profession to help people. Which is what the article seems to indicate, but this seemed to be based on interviews with retiring police officers. Of course they are going to think that. I am sure the internet mobs attacking retiring police officers is not the correct way to respond.

>>last summer had chipped away at his professional pride

why do cops get to have "professional pride" when basically all other dangerous jobs are un-glamourous and lower paid? [0] Do these people contribute less to society?

I am in the camp, which I assume most people are, where most cops are good, but they need additional qualification and help dealing with different problems (homelessness, drug addiction, mental illness, evictions ...). The fact that someone can graduate high school and, before the rest of their class starts college, can be a full blown police officer doesn't sit right with me. Also, the fact that it is nearly impossible to arrest a police office is not right, if anything they should be held to a higher standard.

Overall, I think change is needed, but it is important to not take it out on individual people, nobody thinks they are the "bad guy".

[0]https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/careers/2018/01/09/work...
Many large companies serve the world (Xiaomi, Hikvision, Hitachi, Samsung, Mitsubishi..) while their employees in their home countries are overwhelmingly native. So if international customer bases are the norm, but only Google (or US companies) have significant international hiring, that effectively disfavors US workers.
Psychopaths will not do bad things, if they fear real consequences.

The course is very simple but basically a reminder of the rules. Now potential violaters are more aware of it. Combine that with real consequences - and the number of idiots flying close to airports or peoples bedrooms will get lower.
> despite most of them being professional and doing their jobs the best they can

I've gotta question your interactions with the police, if this is your stance. Maybe you live somewhere with a decent police force? But my experience is precisely the opposite of what you're describing here. I was arrested last year, during the George Floyd protests, for precisely nothing (I was recording the police beating a man in front of me). I was tackled to the ground by 3 police officers while my hands were over my head. Bloody and bruised, when I arrived at the police precinct, the ~20 officers standing out front mocked me, laughed at the fact that I was bloody. I said not one word.

Every officer I encountered that night was the antithesis of professional or "doing their best". They were goons and bullies.

With respect to the crime wave: crime is increasing across the US, regardless of political slant of the city. Crime is increasing in NYC, despite the NYPD being larger than the next 3 police forces in the US combined. Maybe raw spending / police presence isn't the only factor in crime statistics.

ETA: For whatever it's worth, my case was immediately thrown out in court, and the officer who arrested me is under investigation for misconduct.
How much money are you making vs cost, on implementing your innovations?

In a big company, you increase the bottom line by millions by profiling a 10 yo application for a few days, the exact opposite of innovation (studying someone else's old crap).

So dream and pursue, but when you want to build, expect to grind a bit.
Today? There is little reason, because there's not much out there.

But if it were actually possible to build a competing store, you would see companies offering features, innovations, and value that you will never see from Google or on Google Play. That's the free market.

I know I would install a store that was actually curated (not like what Apple and Google claim) with apps that have no malware, maybe no ads, etc. There are a lot of potential business opportunities in this space that cannot possible succeed today with the current anti-competitive practices of Apple and Google.
India has banned gazillion apps - they were mostly of Chinese origin, so no problem, right? Well, sooner or later 'Swadeshi' will come to many of the apps in App Store.

Indian had "draconian" terrorist laws under INC, remember TADA ? No one called Indian Government FACIST then.. i wonder why ?
> I'll simply wait for an independent source from another country to report on any such story.

Which countries specifically? I know that German-speaking news outlets aren’t any less partisan, and I have little reason to think that the rest of Europe is much better.
They're planning to swap intermediaries, because in doing so the VCs can capture enormous value from the old guard. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Instead of Jamie Dimon, it'll just be the next Zuckerberg (and when you propose a contentious theory about an emergent pandemic, they'll merely censor your ability to pay your bills, buy things and feed your family).

It's worth noting though, that just because there are intermediaries, that obviously doesn't mean they're all the same. It doesn't mean their attributes are the same. One intermediary can be superior (or worse) than another. All successful, large scale approaches to crypto will always require intermediaries. DeFi is a fantasy, identical to the fantasy of decentralized Internet services in general from the past 10-20 years (real DeFi will languish for exactly the same reasons; the reasons for which the evangelists never seem to understand, because their emotional buy-in clouds their judgment).

Part of that script by A16Z is entirely fake of course. They're inserting rather comical wokeness into it (communities, collectively, economic redistribution, har har), because you have to do that with all corporate PR now. Their goal is merely to establish the next banking & finance kingpins and to mint as many billions of dollars as they can in the process.
YouTube is obviously carrying water for the CCP. Now think about all those videos they said were election or pandemic related propaganda, like the videos about ivermectin from Bret Weinstein, and ask yourself what makes those situations different?
I agree that an effective police force probably needs to see their job as a profession and a career and that investment into officers is important, but also I think cops are already well paid.

Cops in my area cross six figures within about 5 years of joining (this is informed by police officers I know but probably far from uniform) and they get some of the best pension benefits available and have to work far less time than most other professions to receive full retirement benefits.

My understanding with my state's troopers is that they can retire with 75% of their highest earning years after working 25 years, or 50% after working 20 years.

Raising compensation from that level would make them some of the most well paid workers in the state and they only require 6 months of training.
>Do you think 2021 will end with less police in uniform than 2020? Do you think 2020 had less police in uniform than 2019?

In large cities run by liberal mayors/councils? I'm 100% certain.

>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.

No, they'll blame the abusers they see every day, quit, and won't police your streets. If you think they should be defunded/abolished/reduced anyway, it's a win-win.
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They are equally-weighted opposites.

If you cannot see that, you are the problem.
One big difference here, is that for these other recreational activities the license is only required if you doing them on public lands, however on private land you do not need a hunting license, or fishing license at all

From what I understand these FAA rules apply even if i am operating a drone in my back yard.
ATSB: In-flight troubleshooting led to depressurisation and crew incapacitation
> They no longer see themselves as a medium to disseminate events but rather shapers of opinions about events.

Journalism has always been shaping opinions, alone by selection aka what gets reported in the evening news and what not. The only ones who manage to pass that mark are the huge news agencies with a worldwide presence, but no reasonable human can consume all of that content.

Reporting about science is another ... hotly debated issue. It is scientific consensus that climate change is man-made and that the virus SARS-CoV-2 causes COVID-19, a disease that has caused the death of at least 600.000 people in the US and about 3.9 million people worldwide - but for some parts of the country, mostly on the right wing, simply the act of reporting these facts is already seen as "opinion shaping".

And finally, even reporting on events can be seen as "shaping opinions" - think of events like mass or school shootings, where the 2nd amendment crowd complains that the victims or their relatives are being interviewed and calling for gun control. Or BLM and LGBT events - some people see the mere mention of these as "political".
> There's also usually signage warning you to not do the running-through-the-nest thing.

"No drones, no dogs, and no bikes. Those are the posted rules in the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach." https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/after-thousands-o...

Indeed, licences won't stop stupidity but they do help establish penalties.
Innovation is a joke in most companies. The few that actually innovate are probably startups with <10 employees or big companies with small groups acting like startups.

It's not chance meetings that brings innovation, it's purpose driven meetings (often had in stressful circumstances), which can happen very well on zoom.

The real trade-off for companies is retention - productivity. People will have less distractions and be more productive when working remote from a quiet environment (unless you fill their schedule with unnecessary meetings because you don't trust them). The extra productivity comes at the expense of making friends and building relationships at work, which makes it easier for employees to just dump the company when you don't like it anymore.
Yeah. The only time I've "needed" police was because my insurance required a police report. It's not like the police did anything except file "yep, burglary at (address)".

The number of times I've seen police in situations they were clearly unequipped for is insane though. It's a not-infrequent occurrence near where I live to see them standing around and talking to a homeless person. Regardless of the motivation (are they trying to help or hassle the person), they don't have the training or incentives to be the right people for that.
Feel free to use whatever slogans you want, and I'll feel free to ignore you
This gets toward the heart of the issue here. (Also, same issue when discussing public education.)

Reasonable people living in different places or with different skin colors (as a specific differentiator) in the same place have vastly different experiences with the same individuals or police forces. This creates a fundamental conflict in the discussion/debate because both sides are speaking about it (usually) as if their experience is the experience.

Live in many southern US towns and you'll see very different treatment of people based on race which has a natural result that white people view cops as reasonable and polite (their experience) and black or Hispanic people view cops as unreasonable and oppressive (their experience).
> Think of them what you will, it's beside the point, but the concerns about education were undeniably there.

Yes, as I said, people have be studying this for decades... and then suddenly, in one year, there is a broad belief that there's a need to pass legislation about it across the country.
What? Are you saying that devs in bullpens like livestock wasn't part of the Peopleware vision? Maybe I should give the book a closer reading next time . . .
Lunchtime with colleagues is always the best for making silly ideas workable. If anything, the open office plan discourages conversation because shhhh some people are actually trying to get work done.
Not every view. Some of them have an obvious, indisputable truth value – like “the start of Genesis 2 is just an out-of-order version of Genesis 1” (something I used to think until I looked at an untranslated version – it's obviously wrong, and only the specific word choice of a specific English translation suggests it could be right).
Cloud Foundry Enterprise is still quite expensive, and based on my CF experience, we took a few years of development upon the open source tools before we really had our development environment dialed in.
>This study, like many others, found extremely high levels of distrust — 75% of those who identify as being on the right thought coverage of their views is unfair.

When one party consistently attacks "the mainstream media" for decades for telling the truth about reality, you get this. It's not a "both sides" problem, the problem is only on one side.

>Interestingly, partisans, including conservatives, at least say that they prefer a range of views (74%) and neutral treatment of issues (66%) rather than reports that just reinforce their views.

People say they want that, but people also say they hate negative political attack ads, and we get something other than what we say we want because the product we actually get instead is appealing to many people.
Sinclair viewership numbers dwarf MSNBC’s. They own local news affiliates reaching 40% of American households. MSNBC gets south of 2m viewers in prime time.
No matter which one you think is funnier, they're both clown shows.
I'm in a (similar) boat. I'd probably be a lot more interested if Apple gave me more control over the hardware.
Andreessen Horowitz launches $2.2B crypto money laundering scheme
Let's not ignore the fact that minorities neighborhoods have historically faced higher levels of scrutiny from police.

It's not just that offenders are from minority groups... Consider that police are going out into minority groups looking for offenders.
I posted an article about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27586751
Even the hard sciences are no longer immune to the ongoing racial hysteria (city-journal.org)
5 points by Bostonian 2 days ago
yeah, it's liquidity and network effects from people using it as an intermediate asset in every other transactions (instead of bartering directly). I didn't know Marx saw it that way. My inspiration comes from market monetarists of the Milton Friedman tradition.
Extreme remote debug
When there are dependencies between questions in a form (e.g. only ask for date married if answered yes to married). Its confusing if those elements are visible when not needed, so yeah, becomes dynamic.

Also, I used "tree" loosely. I meant something closer to a DAG.
This is an utter classic.

The follow up, where someone actually did conduct a randomized controlled trial where people jumped out of airplanes without a parachute, is similarly amusing:

https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094
That could reasonably (arguments about FPTP notwithstanding) be claimed be the most recent general election, when the Tory manifesto was the current mess and the Labour manifesto was to “rip up the deeply flawed deal negotiated by Boris Johnson”, to renegotiate with the aim of “Close alignment with the Single Market”, and then to give the U.K. electorate a confirmatory referendum about whatever deal they end up negotiating.

https://labour.org.uk/manifesto-2019/the-final-say-on-brexit...

The fact that the Tories are currently whining about the deal they (1) negotiated, (2) signed, (3) won a general election in order to implement, and (4) explicitly denied further parliamentary time to study and debate the consequences of, certainly implies the politicians are dumb, regard of what it says about the voters.
true enough
Yes, it would help, but a provocative slogan also has its own merits. It usually serves to highlight the very culture it is criticizing. If those criticized took even just one minute to think about it or talk to somebody they disagree with instead of reading from news sources and forums that are highly angry and cherry-picking, then they would easily realize what their "enemies" want. In this way, a provocative slogan exposes these people. However, provocation almost never has more upsides than downsides. But one of the vanishingly few cases where it's hard to blame somebody for resorting to it happens to be where any individuals within your government are using their power to mistreat, unjustly imprison, beat, or kill you, and where there is a large group of politically extreme citizens cheering for that.
That was my question exactly. A big reason why plastics are useful are because they are so difficult to biodegrade, and can thus form a water, air and germ proof barrier.
Lawnmowers have aren't shopping carts. They don't know the boundaries of a yard.

You haven't seen "The Lawnmower Man?" Carry or swing a running lawnmower upside down through a dense crowd, and it will injure many people.
It's also just a very un-nuanced way to think about anything. It reminds me of a scene in the show Scrubs where one friend is discussing the difficulties of being a child of divorce. The other comments how he always found it interesting how children with divorced parents think they have the market cornered on issues/problems (paraphrasing here, obviously). Think about all the children who grew up with parents who should have divorced but didn't, thus extending the misery of living in that environment.

Living every single moment with PTSD, physical pain, anxiety, and so on shouldn't be diminished because it isn't as romantic and easily captured as death is.
It follows because you may be taking off from private land but you're operating in federal airspace (all airspace is federal in the US)
If I remember correctly that legal requirement was rejected / nullified by legal challenge to the FAA n federal court,
James Gosling's original 1993 use of the phrase just-in-time for compilation alluded to just-in-time manufacturing (as mentioned in the article) but the Computing Surveys article title refers to Hawking's 1998 book. Don't mess with funny titles.
"No-brainer" is purely my describing it as a simple test. If you have an issue with the licensing itself, that might be better as a top level comment.
Your description isn't all that different than how it actually played out, unfortunately. I usually tell new parents that the first one is by far the hardest if you value your own freedom in any way. And then of course, if you fail to come to terms with that (as I did) then the second child can definitely push you over the edge.

It wasn't until I was pretty much threatened with losing everything that I decided to change--I wish it hadn't happened that way, but I'm glad I made the choice I did.
They no longer see themselves as a medium to disseminate events but rather shapers of opinions about events.

When was the golden age of journalism when this wasn't the case?
That's interesting, do you know if they put out a postmortem?
There is a major difference between something being difficult/annoying, and outright impossible.
There's an aspect of toxoplasmosis that I think is interesting, but didn't show up in the (disappointingly sensationalistic) article, or in the comments so far: toxoplasmosis can result in significant personality changes, such as higher extroversion, aggression and sex drive.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/common-parasite-l...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5731508/#:~:tex....
Score voting does solve a lot of problems, you're right.

Unfortunately it also introduces a ton of new ones, because while it's easy to compare ordinal preferences, there's no single good intuitive way to compare cardinal preferences.

If you give voters a scale from 0 to 10, one person's 3 is another person's 5. It's not even remotely clear that one person's vote of 8 should count the same as two other people's vote of 4, or even that the same person's 8 should count double their 4. Is the preferences scale linear? Logarithmic? Exponential? Other?

The arbitrariness and therefore unknown meaning of cardinal voting scores, and cardinal preferences generally, is the reason why philosophers mainly abandoned cardinal measures of utility a long time ago, and most utilitarian philosophy is based on knowledge of ordinal preferences only.
You should be just as bothered, if not more, by the news not making a huge deal out of this and instead reporting on FUD rape allgations against Assange.
I think it makes sense if you're doing the same 5 requests over and over throughout your application. As it stands, I generally build a service class for these scenarios:

class GoogleMapsApiService {
public function geocodeAddress(string $address);
public function getDirections(string $address);
}

That sort of thing. It's all reusable and I can just call `app(GoogleMapsApiService::class)->getDirections('123 Main St')` to request the data. This just goes a step further and makes it more flexible (and probably more testable) by turning it into a class. Creating the class is a simple command line run (if you're familiar with Laravel, much of your application is scaffolded this way).

I think it loses its effectiveness/value if you're using it for 20 different requests that are only used once each, but for a scenario where you're making 1 request in 10 different places like you might be with geocoding, it's not a bad implementation in my opinion.
Yes but what is your profiler is a piece of crap, and the innovation is to modify it to suit your needs better? And, you take that engineer out to lunch who knows the most about it and pick their brains and come up with ideas.
You are asking a free site to comply with rules in each country and not piss off all members of said countries. The outrage should be directed at your governments who have done nothing substantial regarding the China situation or any other humar rights situation around the world. It is not the duty of a private company to be at the forefront of foreign policy.
"This is not true, those who held crypto earlier will have more weight."

I think this is a really important and interesting point. The late majority and the laggards and the uneducated poor will be essentially shut out. They will likely never understand crypto on any meaningful level, and that might actually be a reason for them to cling to what they know for dear life.