skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that police have very little accountability to the citizens they are policing. I live in Minneapolis which has been at the center of these controversies, and the closest citizens get to influencing police policy is by electing the mayor who appoints the police chief who then (in theory) sets the policies. In practice, even if we elect a reform-minded mayor who appoints a similarly-minded chief who sets good policy it's up to the officers to follow that policy and they often tend to just ignore policies that they do not like.

Additionally, the police officers who work in the city do not live in the city and are much whiter and more conservative than the city's overall population (reminder that Minneapolis's current representative in the House of Representatives is Ilhan Omar, a Somali immigrant who is one of the most progressive members of the House). It should not be a surprise that the citizens of Minneapolis do not like people with a different cultural background applying force against them, all while we pay six figure salaries to them through our tax dollars.
I'm glad to hear you conducted a thorough survey with the millions of good police officers out there and found out they support the bad apples. If only everyone had access to this unprecedented data you have collected, we could finally put this matter to rest.
Wow that website is incredible!

Yeah it definitely destroys my little thought :D.
That doesn’t mean a bad slogan like Defund the police isn’t just divisive, ill-advised, and harmful.
Rosół is even better. Żurek may be too heavy in case of upset stomach.
Also imagine that your profession has become so highly politicized that many people actually hate you based on some misguided ideology vs how you have actually comported yourself while on the job. While I respect law enforcement, you couldn’t pay me enough to work in that field. Although . . . big tech is also becoming highly politicized so many of us may find ourselves in the same boat to one degree or another.
> Also, let's not pretend a lot of them aren't doing it for the power trip.

... and the ability (in many/most? places) to retire after 20 years with ~50% pay. SO many of these people give zero fucks about the communities they're policing because they don't actually live in them and, generally, aren't incentivized to do so. They take these jobs because it's the best of a limited number of options. They then adopt a siege/deployment mentality and bulldoze their way through 20 years of service in order to retire early and open a bar, fuck off to Florida, hang out on their boat, etc.
Miami Building Collapse
I find that meetings in the office definitely makes meetings more useful. Why? Because of the side conversations that happen after the meeting. With Zoom there isn't much of a natural breaking off and really figuring things out after the meeting is over.
> “And I’d ask, how much creativity and innovation have been driven out of the office because you weren’t in the insider group, you weren’t listened to, you didn’t go to the same places as the people in positions of power were gathering?”

How does remote work avoid insider groups, or people not being listened to, or meetings you aren't invited to?
That appears to be a general argument for self-determination or segregation, according to tastes.
Not commenting on whether the regulation is helpful or reasonable, but quadcopters are in practice different, pretty clearly.

I lived a long time before quadcopters became A Thing. I drive by a place (empty, rural field) where sometimes people fly R/C 'copters and airplanes. Lived lots of places. Nonetheless I bet I've seen at least 3x as many quadcopters in my life as other R/C aircraft, almost all in the last 6 or 7 years. I'm not sure I've ever seen those traditional R/C aircraft flying in a neighborhood, or out in a public area, or a small public park (not one with acres of empty space). Maybe a helicopter once? While that's the only place I see quadcopters. Indoors, at parks, at outdoor gatherings of all kinds, weddings, trails, everywhere.

Whether this difference warrants the regulation, I dunno, but there clearly is a difference.
> We believe that the next wave of computing innovation will be driven by crypto.

There’s actually another less obvious interpretation of this, which is that the creation of cryptocurrencies is funding the development and deployment of new technologies, some of which may be useful beyond cryptocurrencies.

There are a number of academic research labs that have been funded in part or in whole by cryptocurrencies, and which exist to pump out new cryptography, distributed systems architectures, etc.

For example, zk-SNARKS got a huge boost in use by cryptocurrencies the past decade, and there’s been an explosion of derivatives and advancements funded by the cryptocurrency industry since.

Beyond the hype and buzzwords, that’s at least one lasting and tangible benefit of this industry.
Honestly, I don't have a lot of sympathy. Many PDs have done this to themselves with bullshit like asset seizures, buying military-grade equipment for no reason, dragging their feet on officer investigations and complaints ("paid administrative leave"...what a joke) just to name a few.

Over the past ~60 years as municipal budgets for infrastructure, parks, social services and the like have shrunk, you know what part hasn't but actually got larger? Police budgets. And look where it's got us today.
The course can be found here [1]. The FAA designated 16 organizations to make materials for it, and we can take it from any one of them.. I look forward to reviews comparing them and finding the best one.

[1] https://www.faa.gov/uas/recreational_fliers/knowledge_test_u...
A hangover is a symptom of physiological alcohol withdrawal. That's why having a beer at breakfast helps with the hangover.

It is traditional and there's nothing wrong with it every now and then. I'd caution against allowing it to become a habit though.
Because (at least originially) the goal of cryptocurrencies were to combat the double spending problem, providing an alternative to fractional-reserve banking.
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Google wants in the china market bad, and have changed their "do no evil" policy to reflect that. To be in the Chinese market requires compliance with the CCP.
Well, everyone being in the same echo chamber is much better than what we have today. At least that's the conventional wisdom. Agree about technology making an existing problem more visible, though. It's not like human nature has suddenly changed.
When I was a student they used to get minimum wage. You can't go lower than that. Absolutely terrible way to make a living. 'Lucky' for us, it's now mostly pre-recorded robocalls.
> has been a consensus in the community

If the community wants more support from outside themselves, pick a better slogan
You're saying that the development tools, backend hosting, and other play services provide no value to developers? I disagree but at the same time google has been doing a less than great at promoting android apps and helping developers monetize their apps. Atleast compared to apple.
20+ years ago when I flew models as a kid, the various clubs all required an AMA membership and a certain amount of flight time with a trainer. Seems like the hobby self-regulated a bit more back then.
My father is a Police Officer and he and any other officers with military service are using their service time to retire early. None of them enjoy being cops any more.

I don't think anyone, even the cops are saying that there aren't issue with today's current policing. And I think that is the biggest problem with the whole defund police movement. When you have one side shouting "All cops our bad" "F the police" etc, why would you expect the other side to listen, even if there were valid complaints/criticism. Of course the cops are going to bristle, dig their heels in and be stubborn. It's just human nature.

I think the movement would be more effective if this was treated like how the people tried to convince coalminers to get green jobs. Retraining for other jobs, financial support etc. I can guarantee you that plenty of cops would love to be park rangers, park wardens, student mentors, etc, especially in todays climate.
The Globe and Mail has built a paywall that knows when to give up
It sounds as if Signal could comply with this by removing the "forward" button in India, right? Then there is no "first originator" as seen by Signal.

There still is, of course. Cut and paste works, and android's share works, but both of those send the message out of Signal (and perhaps back into Signal).
Conveniently ignoring that there was a global pandemic going on for most of the year with record high unemployment. Crime went up basically as soon as the pandemic started.
If you give people reasons to mistrust you, it should be no surprise when they don't trust you.
Don't forget that the President of the United States called the press "the enemy of the people" [1].

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/437610-trump-cal...
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Fringe congressmen and an op-ed written by a fringe organizer aren't really evidence of what the common consensus is.
This comment ignores all previous events to 2020.

Ferguson was deeply studied; an average of 3 warrants per citizen. International attention has been coming to America's police tactic for at least 30 years.
Not if you look at literacy rates.
Absolute death by police in 2020: white 457, black 241. https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...

Population: white 197M, black 40M. https://statisticalatlas.com/United-States/Race-and-Ethnicit...

Per-capita: close to 3 times as many black people shot. I couldn't find clear statistics for unarmed victims. Please post if they're much different.
And I am sure we are all in agreement that this has absolutely nothing to do with pushback on FLoC and increased attention from regulators...
> Unless...and here 9-tsiak's agent-modeling systems came online...unless ve could negotiate a conditional surrender.

9-tsiak wanted to be. Or, at least, had good reason to risk the possibility.
It seems like most of the people still arguing about what it means are the far edges on either side, or simply those interested in slandering people with the opposite political identity. However, their noise is a permanent source of confusion on many topics, and we should strive to not allow them to affect rational conversation.
Just wait until you hear about babies
Yes but so is any asset. Gold, property, etc.
I had a gorgeous curly black hair… that turned gray in a couple of years when my startup derailed.
I tried to hide the problems to my family, friends and relatives… but the color of my hair was a very strong signal.
A couples of years later I started to suffer of some medical conditions related to the long periods of stressing events in the startup.
Stress can destroy your health. Take it seriously.
On the “Usefulness” of the Netflix Prize
Personally, I've always felt the "chance meeting/collaboration/innovation" argument against remote work is total bullshit.

My current fully remote team of the past year is leaps and bounds more collaborative and innovative than any of the in-person teams I've worked with in office environments for most of my 16 year career.

IMO, it's deeply backwards thinking by executives who are scared the world is changing.
This is a fine example of the tragedy of the commons [0]. Every local actor is trying to their best but the overall result is far worse than the global optimum.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
> it used to be really uncommon in European companies to have advanced career path for engineering, and switching to management is still kind of expected.

That matches my experience. It concurs with the statement I made elsewhere in this thread that what is holding Europe back is its business culture, not some kind of American Colonialism.
That describes it exactly. I think it will have to completely fail, and then a new generation (tragically, probably not the present one, or even then next) will have to rebuild it from the ashes. Maybe the positive way to see the present is as being that prelude to a better day for your grandchildren.
> Infertility treatments no longer an option, we turned to adoption. 6 weeks later (seriously), we brought home our first child.

Holy SHIT. I thought 9 months was a little short to get used to the idea of having a kid and becoming a parent, I would have had a damn BREAKDOWN if I only had 6 weeks!

Kudos to you my guy. Absolute unit.
> Finance is incredibly opaque with a lot of rent-seekers taking a cut of transactions, and firms doing semi-illegal things but realizing that the chance of them getting caught is slim and the fine is generally less than the profits they'll make.

> Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is almost completely transparent - all major smart contracts are open source and all transactions are made in public. Which gives people a lot more trust in the system as they can see what is going on.

You have yet to explain how crypto will prevent these semi-illegal things from occurring. Like you said "the fine is generally less than the profits they'll make." Also, cryptocurrencies are not inherently transparent, and said transparency can also be used for oppression.

In any case, code is not perfect and smart contracts cannot override reality. I see little to be gained. Ultimately you either need existing government to uphold the true intent of a smart contract or subject laypeople to understand highly complicated smart contract code to know whether what they're getting into is legit.

> Have a look at Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO's). People hold tokens in the protocol, and then anyone can suggest changes as a Git Diff. The token holders vote on the change and if it's approved it gets merged into the protocol. Pretty cool democratic way to make changes to decentralized software without anyone getting special privileges.

This is not democratic - you're describing a plutocracy. Is that what you want?

> I assume they're talking about DeFi not caring about your nationality / sex / skin color / power. Everyone is on an equal participation playing field, and nobody is locked out from participating.

This is not true, those who held crypto earlier will have more weight.
These aren't always mutually exclusive. An example would be the English Channel between the UK & France. It's impossible to transit it without entering someone's territorial waters, but freedom of navigation / UNCLOS allows Russian warships (well, anyone, but a specifically relevant example) the right of "innocent passage".
Since the title * can be mis-interpreted to mean that you’ve never needed a license, I can forgive some commenters here from forgetting that just a few years ago, the only legal way to fly a drone was with an actual aircraft pilot’s license. Drone operators, rightly, thought that was pretty silly, but it took a number of years before the FAA crafted drone-specific rules and allowed drone flights under 400 feet without a license.

Having to attend a short online training course about what the rules are and to stay away from people and out of the airspace of manned aircraft seems pretty reasonable, and perhaps necessary given the growing number of drone accidents in the recent past https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UAV-related_incidents

* edit: the HN title has been changed for the better. To clarify for anyone reading this now, my comment was referring to the previous HN title: “Effective Immediately: You need a drone license before you fly in the US”
Table-level and dataset-level security was always a thing. Row-level security acts as a filter for tables and datasets according to your own organization's ACLs.
Yes, but the accounting is not as clear as you'd think. It's a complicated relationship between understrength departments with unfilled vacancies, and overtime budgets.

Police officers throughout the country, but especially in cities, tend to supplement large portions of their income through overtime work. It means they're chronically underpaid for what they do throughout the country. And the way they bring themselves to what they want to be making is through exhausting themselves with overwork.

In Baltimore, some officers doubled their salaries. Others approached 50%. They averaged 12+ hour shifts per day for weeks. In fy 2019, a BPD sergeant made $260,000. The department went $50 million over budget for overtime. There are virtually entire books written on this, piecemealed in small budget stories throughout USA.
In some cases, yes. But thats also a very small amount of outlets, and a small amount of all coverage.

Still, its the most trusted of the group.
This isn't quite as nefarious as I had guessed it would be from the headline:

"Factory TikTok, in other words, isn’t about workers documenting their own labor, but is primarily a marketing scheme devised by their employers, many of whom may be under increasing financial pressure."

I seem to remember reading something about Facebook being part of the reason TikTok succeeded while Vine failed? Facebook didn't see TikTok as a competitor like it viewed Vine, and promoted it more on Facebook? And now TikTok is a giant. ( I hope I have that right. )
I think you misread my example. I’m also not sure where I come across as angry.

> admitting the biological differences that exist between men and women, is a step towards a more healthy society.

Asserting to 50% of the population that they are, by nature, literal rapists, when the vast majority will never commit anything even close to such a crime, is not a sign of a healthy society.
Art teacher speaking. Cropping is surprisingly easily to detect in an aesthetic image. Its kind of like reading a half-finished book. Aesthetic images are designed for an defined format. If that format is changed nearing completion, the geometry feels wrong. It is even easier in paintings, where there are overt brush marks. The structure of a brush mark is strongly framed by the format of the canvas.

Anyone interested in the recreation of famous incomplete paintings, should check out Manet's The Execution of Emperor Maximilian. This is a painting Manet gave up on, and chopped up into smaller studies.

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/media/33986/n-3294-00-000...

There are sketches that indicate the format he was aiming for, but Manet was a famous experimenter, so we will probably never know.
Calling the previous century's reductions in crime a "recovery" is a flat out lie.

The world was a much more violent place, and it's been steadily getting less violent.

There's no reason we couldn't instantaneously recover from to the recent increases in violent crime.
One word: California
Is it? https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/administration/security-chec...

No matter how you twist it, it doesn't have the same meaning as the common English phrase: "enabled by default".

And mind your manners...
I am sorry, but your answer is nearly the exact textbook example how wrong most people are with their intuition. In 2000 Latanya Sweeney showed that 87% of Americans can be identified by Sex, Birthday and Zip-Code. As other commenters point out, the connection to external databases is extremely powerful and dangerous to privacy.

There are other concept in research to still use this data in research like differential privacy or using KI to synthesize data according to training data provided. But so far all concepts that tried to alter and then publish a datasets directly for research failed miserably.
I don't want to say policing is not hard, every first responder has hard job because they are not sent to people who are completely fine -- usually the situation involves some kind of crime or distress or both.

But, the dangers, though present, are IMO largely overstated. There are 700 thousand officers in US and on any given day some of them must necessarily come into trouble. The statistics list about 360 officers getting killed in line of duty, annually. That is 1/700000 chance of getting killed every day, over 30 year career that would amount to 1 in 70 chance of getting killed on duty or about similar as dying from all other types of accidents, including car accidents.

Is that small? No, I don't think so, that is nothing to sneeze at. But is still a lot less than dying from some easily preventable diseases. So if you are Police officer and keep eating shit food it might be that the shit food is actually more dangerous to you than your job.

Going through Covid is statistically more dangerous than lifetime of being police officer. At least as an officer you are doing this (hopefully) for public good and you know and accept risks.

It is also less than probability of dying on some other types of duties.

The difference being, that policing is typically done when something already interesting happens with potentially a lot of cameras present on scene, then being investigated.

If you go to be a police officer or fireman or military, you understand your choices and the dangers you are facing. It should not be a surprise, nor it should be a reason to kill any person not to your liking, on sight.
It's significantly more work to run around the nest, and it requires more intentionality than piloting a drone and being stupid about it. There's also usually signage warning you to not do the running-through-the-nest thing.

For obvious reasons, we can't hang warning signs in the air.

I have my doubts that a license will prevent people from doing stupid things, but that is (at least part of) the reasoning for having a license - so the government can say "told you so".

It's on par with immigration forms asking you if you're planning to be a terrorist. It's a useless question, but it establishes a paper trail that somebody has told you not to do that.

It's like rooted in Lambert v. California, which stated that you can't convict a person of violating a law if there was no probability they could've know the law existed. A question, or a sign, or a license establishes that there is a probability.
If you aren't objective to the best possible degree, your readers don't trust you anymore. Newspapers are in economic peril, but the trust issue is something a lot of journalists brought on themselves.
Remind me in which way the licensing/permitting process for drones is at all similar to the licensing/permitting process for a nuclear reactor.
I'm certain that a nuclear reactor takes much more than a 30 minute course to operate.
Not me. I'd rent there for a short-term, but not live there. Its time is numbered, climate change will make it borderline unlivable (if nothing else, because it'll most likely be underwater by 2050, but also hurricanes and the heat will just get worse).

If you didn't know, the stone around Miami is extremely porous limestone from compressed coral reefs and water from the ocean creeps in, including into their drinking water reservoirs[1], and the city already spends hundreds of millions of dollars[2] on various projects to try to fight against the inevitable.

EDIT: Since I wrote this, by chance I encountered news that an apartment building partially collapsed in Miami-Dade county this morning[3]. At least one death and still 51 people unaccounted for, unfortunately. There's probably going to be more of this over the coming years.

[1]https://www.businessinsider.com/miami-floods-sea-level-rise-...

[2]https://time.com/4932565/hurricane-irma-miami-beach/

[3]https://www.dw.com/en/florida-apartment-building-in-miami-ar...
Yes. I, as a student of violence, gained incredibly useful information from analysis of that video.

The ways in which people, moved, hid, fled, Red Sweater Guy's failed counter-attack. Those were all incredibly valuable things to watch. Being involved in security planning, IT and otherwise, I have to bring the best possible information from the real-world to help mitigate and plan.
> does make it almost impossible for European competitors to arise.

There is literally evidence for this. It’s only a business culture that doesn’t celebrate and reward engineering that holds Europe back.