skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really know what that represents other than stress. Your average veterinarian is as likely to kill herself as your average police officer is to kill himself.
I wouldn't trust any of those organisations to actually do it cleanly if my life depended on it.
Our language is full of ambiguities, and this is one. Both interpretations are listed in the Cambridge dictionary.

The truth is: clarity require lots of words, and that makes a terrible slogan. Most people react stronger to a slogan than a nuanced discussion, so the messy slogans will remain.
I don't think enough people are talking about the huge change in the crime landscape. Here in Atlanta, violent crime is up 50, 60% while arrests are down 40%. We're down hundreds of cops and morale is terrible.

Cops aren't doing their jobs because they fear politically motivated prosecution. And for good reason given that a handful of them faced politically motivated prosecution.

We're still below the worst days of violent crime but it's an extremely worrying trend. It took US cities decades to recover from the high crime of the last century and we really don't want the cycle to start again.
you need crypto because crypto even with intermediaries is different than traditional fiat with intermediaries
> This is a completely rational reaction of people who feel they're being unfairly demonized as a group

That also explains the public backlash against police in the first place, doesn't it? We can't keep speaking with this perspective of police always being the good guys / bad guys and protesters / rioters always being the good guys / bad guys, otherwise we've just given up on any societal sense of right and wrong and all we're doing is picking sides to fight for the sake of it.
Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves found at residential school
Yeah, as a meta comment, I've seen personal insults thrown around (including at me) that don't get flagged, but what does get flagged sometimes leaves me baffled.
> You only think this because you were brainwashed by your preferred flavor of anarchism ever since you started reading those propaganda web sites on the internet.

No, you're lying. The state is an artificial construction, and I'm advocating the lack of thereof. I'm not promoting the construction of an institution that is supported by enslaving men and women. If you're, finding a way to defend this sick vision of the world is on you.

> Making such a claim doesn't bring any value to the conversation and only serves to estrange you from this community, which is a form of self-ostracization and self-censorship, which in itself is quite funny and ironic.

In other words: you disagree with me, and you want to ostracize me, and would be happy to see me estranged by society. This is a psychopath thinking. If I were you, I'd rethink it.
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100% agree on just making it a tax at this point. We're basically at a point where it is a tax, except:
1. The very rich can stop paying it, and
2. People who end up wanting to change degrees too late down the line end up falling through the cracks and aren't given the option to try another degree (again, unless they're very rich)
Then why did no EU members do it?
Maybe I just shouldn’t read Hacker News anymore.
This applies to ALL drones, including ones under 250g that don't need to be registered.
Got a source on that? I do, but it doesn't bear out your assertion:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...

> Sadly, the trend of fatal police shootings in the United States seems to only be increasing, with a total 371 civilians having been shot, 71 of whom were Black, in the first five months of 2021. In 2020, there were 1,021 fatal police shootings, and in 2019 there were 999 fatal shootings. Additionally, the rate of fatal police shootings among Black Americans was much higher than that for any other ethnicity, standing at 36 fatal shootings per million of the population as of May 2021.
If people were picketing me that intensely, I'd do some serious soul-searching of myself, my coworkers and my reporting structure.

If programmers were resulting in deaths in my community, I'd be picketting right with them with "I'm a programmer. Please hold me accountable. End qualified immunity for programmers."

assert great_power == great_resposibility

Etc
This is ridiculous because the default use for a lawnmower is solely your own yard, and it doesn't fly. Most literally power down if they leave your hand.

And the reality is that drone testing and licensing isn't based on hypothetical risks, but real world incidents which have disrupted public safety and caused injuries. So if you have sources for lawnmowers threatening the public safety and injuring anyone outside the owners' household, let me know.
Why do you think that is? In regards to Cloud Foundry being steamrolled by Kubernetes.

There's not a day that goes by where I'm using the "current stack", i.e. K8S, Terraform, etc., and not wish I was using Heroku or something Heroku-like instead.
The media leftist bias is real, I guess it’s hard to notice from inside the bubble

I was never interested in politics , left or right and never listened to conservative or liberal commentary you mentioned but the coverage of BLM riots, Trump etc especially in 2020 was mostly fake news and blatant propaganda. That’s what brought me to vote for Trump in the first place, the constant lying and manipulation by the media.

I don’t know how otherwise reasonable people can not notice these 24/7 lies by CNN, WaPo, NYT etc. I’m a first gen immigrant, from former communist country, we have a good nose for propaganda and can smell it from afar, I’m surprised American-born Americans are so easily fooled.
If you have backups there is nothing to hold hostage. I wish people would refrain from bombastic titles like these.
> Who is going to hold them accountable?

What instance can you think of where governments have been held accountable for their censorship? There aren't a lot of high profile cases there.

> Option (1.) is the status quo and is the worst. The others each have pros and cons.

Based on what evidence? Where have alternatives been tried? Why aren't those alternatives in general use if they are so good? Is this a comparison of messy reality with unattainable theory?

Trading a thing we can choose not to use for a thing must use and that is integrated with military force. is always a bad trade. However bad Google is, government control of the media is worse.

The only exception I make to that rule is foreign ownership of media, which is probably worse than government control. But both are pretty bad.
"Zero discussion" seems like a stretch.
Many decades. My grandfather was an avid RC aircraft enthusiast.

They are simply not comparable to the drones that are being sold nowadays. 30, 40 years ago, RC aircraft were a seriously difficult and expensive hobby to get into. You generally had to build the plane yourself, including fitting the electronics and servicing the gasoline engine. They were huge and difficult to fly, too, so, after putting in all that investment, you generally wouldn't even consider flying it yourself without finding a mentor in the hobby to show you how it's done. And you'd generally have to do it out of an RC airstrip that was operated by an RC aviation club that was very interested in self-policing. Hijinks would get you kicked out.

So, yeah, 30, 40 years ago you didn't need something like this, because it was not a, "Some grandparent trying to Win Christmas can just blow $200 at Wal-Mart and give one of these to a 4-year-old," kind of thing. There were some much-needed barriers to entry back then. Nowadays apparently any idiot can have one, and yes, it is creating a legitimate problem. A couple years back I almost took a drone to the face when someone was whizzing it around at night, with the light off, trying to startle passersby for laughs. Thankfully I took it to the shoulder instead.
Even if it's true that more unarmed whites per-capita are shot, there's still an unacceptable amount of unarmed blacks that are shot (a threshold I would argue is crossed roughly at "any of them", but certainly before where it stands now). That data point should be used in the context of "it's even worse than you think", not the opposite.
Most good journalism is moving behind paywalls, but disinformation campaigns are free.
A couple weeks ago, I needed to shut a business down to add capacity to their electrical service. I arranged it to be late in the day, but once I got involved, I discovered it was an unexpected type of meter can and I can't turn off the power. So I have all the breakers off, no load, undo the load-side wires to the meter, live, and make it all up, also live, the last half hour by flashlight. There's enough power to incinerate me, but I know how to do my job well. I'm probably at greater risk from physical abuse of my body over decades, back and knees. Most jobs are less safe than programming.
It's naive to assume that the US would enter into a hot war with China, or that war is the only way countries oppose one another. The most obvious way to 'punish' an uncooperative CCP would be through trade sanctions. If the Chinese government is responsible and the G7 had any interest in coordinating a response, this would put enormous pressure on the CCP, which is dependent on a rising standard of living for its citizenry. Other possible responses would include strengthening China's regional competitors (e.g., India). At a minimum, it could mean the cessation of global research collaboration.
Let's make those paintings Ships of Theseus: recreate the missing parts around the paintings up to universe scale.
Probably to the same level of everything else they do - "We are doing what we want, so get on board if you are interested"

If that leads to lock-in, it's a happy accident.
https://openvallejo.org/2020/07/28/vallejo-police-bend-badge...

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/5-7-million-settlement-r...

https://abc7news.com/vallejo-police-association-union-presid...

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?a=vallejo...

https://abc7news.com/vallejo-police-association-union-presid...
Martin Casado says the cost of cloud computing is a $100B drag
In NL, dinner is the main event, and for years I skipped breakfast and lunch entirely. Due to my wife being not Dutch, and finding this unacceptable, I now eat a little, but you're right, I eat little for breakfast and lunch. Lived in France for a while, and I remember those official lunches well :)
Whenever this question comes up in crypto/blockchain enthusiast circles there are usually two answers.

- read this $blockchain_book
- just wait, these things take time

I have never once heard specifics that are even close to convincing
> Adding licensing requirements will just result in the people with licenses buying from the thiefs.

Lets think about this situation in programming terms. "Fixing this exploit will just result in the people finding another bug to exploit".

Well... yeah. That's the point. You don't necessarily want to stop all crimes (I mean, you do, but that's just unreasonable). Everyone is happy with simple deterrence: making crime harder to do and harder to logically manage.

And you keep fixing the law until the criminals / unwanted behavior is finally fixed. You gotta start somewhere, much like you gotta start fixing code exploits if you want to fix the security in your software.
Fuck it, babies should vote, the ballot they try to eat is their choice.

Fight me XorNot
> Instead, ordinary officers are being treated like the first five paragraphs of this story.

This should be an unsurprising reaction to there generally being minimal consequences for individual bad cops, though.
Is that sarcasm? I don't know many people who'd describe the US immigration system as welcoming. But sure, hypocrisy is often the result of nice consistent reasoning. Bend the law in favor of those we want to favor and against those we want to disfavor. Goals like integrity and fairness require a more consistent process however.
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The comment you are referring is quoting from the article where officers mention being thrown into situations they aren't trained for (mental health episodes, etc). Defunding the police literally calls for taking from the enormous budget police have, and using it to fund personnel, like say EMS, to be trained to handle these scenario's. That sounds like a win for everyone.
Sitting member of Congress: "No more policing, incarceration, and militarization. It can't be reformed."

https://mobile.twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1381745303997...

Sitting member of Congress: "We can’t reform this."

https://mobile.twitter.com/AyannaPressley/status/13817027443...

Activist with 475k followers whose name is currently: "DEFUND & ABOLISH POLICE"

https://mobile.twitter.com/BreeNewsome

Ben & Jerrys: "This system can’t be reformed."

https://twitter.com/benandjerrys/status/1381743962558504969

When activists say they want to abolish the police, they “100%” mean they want no more police, Noor says.

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/07/17/black-lives-matte...

NYT op ed: "Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police"

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...
I'd consider the services provided by the US Department of State and the US Military to have some value for American expats.
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> If you stand in solidarity with those who flagrantly abuse their power, you're not doing your best.

I've been thinking of this. And everyone on HN is not doing their best then.

Every tech employer that we all work for qualifies.
This is my prompt that shows my git branch, AWS_PROFILE etc:

if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
PS1='\[\033[0;32m\]\[\033[0m\033[0;32m\]\u\
[\033[0;36m\] @ \[\033[0;36m\]\h \w\
[\033[0;32m\]$(__git_ps1)\n\[\033[0;32m\]└─\
[\033[0m\033[0;32m\] \$\[\033[0m\033[0;32m\]
AWS:${AWS_PROFILE} ▶\[\033[0m\] '
else
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '
fi
I'm confused, how was BigQuery achieving multi-tenancy without Row-Level Security?
You might want to check out allsides.com [1] which gives a rating for where media sources lie on a left-right spectrum

1. https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings
Well realistically you tend to start seeing patterns after a bit. Then you end up redrawing everything as those patterns in your head. Then you develop an intuitive model of what is sensible and what is not.

This is not something they teach you at university. It’s all narrow forward engineering and simple theoretical analysis.

There is a better education in having a pile of broken shit with incorrect service manuals and fixing it when it comes to EE. Test gear is fun because you get it for nothing, fix it and then use it to fix the next thing.
Firstly, I’ve heard plenty of people say they mean abolish.

Second, it still makes no sense. I am a very strong supporter of violence intervention, mental health services, restorative justice, etc.

But police are and poorly trained. Defunding them will lead to more problems.

We need to fund police training, and create alternative services.

The ‘defund the police’ mantra is clearly just a polite version of FTP.
Then why was the UK head-and-shoulders better than any other member of the EU?
I don't want to get too political, but it seems to be trendy in some circles to bash "high cost of living/high tax" states like California while singing praises of places like Texas, etc.
We have approximately 400 years of "black people should be treated equal to whites". 50+ since the Civil Rights Era of "hey, there's some systemic racial issues we need to address as a country". Sure, you can argue that "Black Lives Matter" is just too hard to understand, but it -has- brought attention to the issue.
Stop that. It's illegal thinking against loyalty to the agenda.

Also, this exposes that we will need to regulate, educate, license, and certify wearers of trainers so that they can't be used in a way we don't like. No running!
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This particular analogy in the US lead to a whole variety of safety measures, eg you can't mow with a riding mower in reverse without holding down a override switch, and there still dozens of children a year being reversed over by an inattentive operator.
I spent four years on a government-funded binge at university, and am now paying my taxes like a dutiful citizen. IMO anyone who wants to deny young adults the opportunity to make a load of friends and go off the rails before they mature a little and start contributing to society has forgotten what it's like to be an 18 year old!
I'm of the belief that the US model of policing is incompatible with an expected armed society;

This can be seen in police shootings vs armed militias at protests.. If police approached every suspect as if the suspect were open carrying a high powered semi auto pistol, they'd be much less likely to approach suspects as they do. They'd be much more respectful, keep a vehicle between them, and focus on de-escalation as opposed to confrontation.

And in a country with 44% of suspects owning a fire arm, to confront someone is the wrong move.
It's not a binary dichotomy of can vs can't make use.
Trust is very loaded term. Trust what? If the article says there is a tornado in progress at such and such place I trust it. As for the rest I think that journalism now is distorted to the point of no return. Most articles are heavily riddled with propaganda, things taken out of contest, hypocrisy etc. etc. It does not really matter to me whether it is Canadian press, US or whatever other country. All the same.
Highlighting "a very very small niche" of politicians/activists isn't really debunking the "a very very small niche of the police reform community" claim.

I like Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, but they can hardly be claimed to be the mainstream portion of Congress, or even Congressional Democrats.
Ask HN: Have you found an easy way to export designs/Webflow pages to React?
I understand you could take exported HTML/CSS and throw it into a React app, but is there any more elegant a way to get React from either Figma, Sketch, or Webflow? I'm talking about a landing page here, nothing more than copy etc. w/ a few buttons. This is for proving out a concept, not an optimized page -- looking for speed.
Agree. crypto will not fix any of that.
He's talking about a known slogan. You're speculating as to what that group "wants".
I’m curious why this context matters?
It's a catastrophe. Academics have always grossly oversold their own importance and the "value" of what they teach.

The most valuable education is at the primary level (0 to 10 years old); then secondary (to 18); and tertiary education hardly has any effect whatsoever.

By the point you're an adult, you aren't being "moulded" into anything, you're merely acquiring particular useful bits of knowledge that only have value if you're going to use them.

What we have now is people spending tens of thousands to avoid earning money for several years; and thereby avoiding acquiring useful skills.

And this is an economic catastrophe which burdens everyone in society and grossly misdirects public funds.

I would be very supportive of an 12mo "generic higher learning skills" programmes being deployed at this scale. ie., something closer to a teenager-to-gradscheme transition programme which could include higher-level generic maths, writing, humanities, etc. skills.

However what we have now is a gigantic tulip-style bubble that needs bursting or else we will continue to needlessly in-debt the next generations of people.

The emperor really has no clothes on: your* degree really was a waste of money....

(* perhaps less so for HN readers )
Yes, see this post from earlier in the week. It is a youtube video in which dozens of local news stations repeat the exact same script.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27550122
> And then you sell it to an actual rhodium mine who just so happens to be particularly productive that month.

Surely its easier to keep an eye on all rhodium mines, rather than trying to keep an eye on all scrap metal yards.
> How can crypto "restore trust"?

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.

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

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.

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

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.
Interesting, but I'm not sure what "pan grilled fresh bread" means. I take a slice of bread, put it in a frying pan, and then what? Put it on the stove top, put it on a gas grill, put it under a broiler? Can you elaborate?
They can actually choose whether they want to be milked every morning.

One line leads to a tiny milking station. There, retired surgeons use designer nanopumps to relieve silk gland tensions. The spiders appreciate it and get a tiny block of tofu fly treat afterward.

The spiders who don't want to be milked that particular day can instead enjoy a relaxing day. They other like goes to the relaxation area, full of empty corners ready for cobwebbing and prismed sunbeams that emulate natural variances in brightness. When the surgeons are done with milking, they provide enrichment in the form of RF nanodrones, made from recycled cat toys, to stimulate web strands and act as nontoxic prey substitutes.

Unfortunately accidents do happen, since even the tiniest drone tends to be several orders of magnitude larger than the biggest spider volunteers. Sometimes they exhibit something more akin to a panic reaction than relaxation. Steps are taken to minimize these irregular adverse events, but a balance towards profitability must be enforced.

All in all, like with most vegan products, the quality is much lower but the price can be much higher. It all works out as long as nobody asks too many questions.
> the number of police officers to be inversely proportional to how civilized a place is.

On a police-per-capita basis, that would make US East Coast urban areas substantially less civilized than either Middle America or the West Coast.

https://www.governing.com/archive/police-officers-per-capita...
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