skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think a potentially improved tweak to baybal2's

>There should be no plainclothes officers on duty.

might be "there should be no plainclothes officers with regular police arrest powers"? I agree that there are certainly cases where it's valuable to have officers working undercover. I also think there is a strong argument though that while they are in plain clothes, they should also have more restricted "plain clothes powers" more like a regular civilian. They shouldn't be able to arrest anyone or demand special recognition as police, or at least to no greater extent then what any random citizen can do in a Citizen's Arrest [0]. That could tamper a certain amount of abuse and room for mixups while still preserving the valuable investigative and monitoring aspects. Basically if they want to surrender some of the typical recognition and accountability they must also surrender some of the power that goes with it, so it's more self-regulating. Feels like a parallel with other areas of force like military, where in general legitimate combatants justified in full protection of the laws of war also must have identifiable uniforms and so on.

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0: Rules vary by state and country. In the US at least in general (though not all states) citizens may do arrests, but there are much stricter requirements. They need to directly witness the crime, they do not have qualified immunity and aren't entitled to the same mistakes of fact when it comes to personal liability, and are much more limited in use of force.
Depends. Most CEOs I interact with are anti-fragile. The legitimacy of crypto has a lot to do with CB, so it is in everyone’s best interest to fight scammers being front page promoted by YouTube:)
It might just be nostalgia, but Windows 7 did look good. Be it 7, XP, 2000, etc. I get the feeling the main advantage is a consistent UI. So many apps try to mix both desktop and touch oriented interfaces, or create their own "style" by moving everything around, fluffing up the UI and choosing random colors to represent some brand. Come to think of it, windows was already doing that with their ribbon UI, but it wasn't that wide spread(?).
The free software world has been having the same issue with GNOME 3 and their client side decoration initiative one the one side, and Electron apps on the other.
The desktop is just a mess. It might be inevitable, a product of cross-platform support or too many developers (or designers) trying to influence something. Either way, it is a burden that contributes to the general lack of pleasure most modern computer systems provide (hence why I take refuge in Emacs).
I was thinking just put multiple colors on the ports and/or labels.
Key Points:

* Scientists discovered a relationship between cancer and extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) in 1965, but considered ecDNAs rare and not worth investigating.

* Researchers subsequently learned that ecDNAs are common and central to the behavior of some of the most aggressive forms of cancer, enabling remarkably elevated levels of oncogene transcription, creating new gene regulatory interactions, and providing a powerful mechanism for rapid change that can drive very high oncogene copy numbers or allow cancer cells to resist treatment.

* Like Ptolemy’s flawed map that placed Earth at the center of the solar system, cancer researchers today may be analyzing genes and diseases with flawed maps.

Related Articles:

* https://www.the-scientist.com/features/cancer-may-be-driven-...

* https://chemh.stanford.edu/news/shining-light-extrachromosom...
It isn't really apolitical. Ironically, it seems to be more supported by the left (like the people downvoting you), despite the lack of consistency with progressive economics. I suppose it enables big spending and debt, which can be progressive, while more than undoing itself with X-inflation + deadweight loss.
Sharecropping in these rentseeking App Stores is a model which caps your maximum amount of success and increases your odds of failure.
Wow, that's way shorter than here in the Netherlands. AFAIK, rolling stock over here is revised after ~20 years, after which it goes back in service for another ~20 years before being retired.
A line built around double deckers could remove some of these (basically all you need is double decker platforms and upper doors) but it’s also easier to just run more trains.
Smart contracts need to financially incentivize their enforcement, giving rise
to a limited circulation of casino chips for that particular blockchain. For
whatever reason human beings are compelled to speculate on limited quantities
of things whether they be baseball cards, cryptos, or comic books, even if
their intrinsic value is practically nil (well, I suppose you could wipe your
butt with the comic books).
> Furthermore, no company would be asinine enough to allow bots, AI, or ML make decisions without a way to undo those changes.

Sadly this is actually the norm across all these big tech platforms these days. Algorithm bans an account, humans might give it a look later if a big enough fuss is kicked up about it, else there is no appeals.

Of course there is a button a human can press to undo these things, but the trouble is getting a human to bother looking at it in the first place.

Google, Facebook, Twitter, Discord all do the same thing.
As far i know, pompom has a decidable type check though.
This kind of aligns with the ideas presented in the 1980 book Life beyond Earth : the intelligent Earthling's guide to life in the universe. A major part of the thesis the authors (Gerald Feinberg and Robert Shapiro) present is that "life" can be identified not only by the biological processes we are familiar with on earth, but by its ability to accumulate energy for organized processes.
I’m interested, can you share some source for this information?
Way back in 2006 Monbiot published a book, Heat: How To Stop The Planet Burning, which set out what would be needed to have a shot at limiting climate change.

Insulation retrofits on all buildings, replacing cement with non-emitting alternatives, re-doing the transport system wholesale, etc., etc.: you know, the works, starting today--i.e., 2006. I found it to be an objective look at the scale of the problem at the time. I'll re-read it now in the light of another 15 years' events.

He seems much more despairing now.
CalTrain has different “limitations” and fitting the maximum number of passengers in one train is an advantage.
A friend of mine is a mycologist who studies fungi that grow in hydroponic greenhouses. I feel fairly safe saying that there's no such thing as a "clean" environment where anything is allowed to grow. In the best case: if it's clean but nutritious enough to support life, it's ripe for rapid colonization, and probably by something nasty.

See also: biosphere experiments.
The question I have around Google's CPU ambitions is what their end game is.

I understand Apple's end game. They sold lots of iPhones and wanted to in-house the chips for that. Makes sense. Once they had that working well (and Intel was falling behind on their chips), they decided to put in-house chips in their macOS computers. Makes sense.

AWS rents more CPU time than anyone out there. Makes sense for them to want to develop some custom chips for their stuff.

What's Google's end game? They don't actually sell a lot of chips. I'd understand them wanting to create a server chip, but they seem to be targeting phones and laptops. Is Google looking to become a major player in Android hardware? I like the Pixel phones, but they're a very small part of the market. Chromebooks are usually built by companies like HP and Acer, not Google directly.

The article says that Google's Pixel sold 7M units in 2019 (their highest year) and they're looking for 50% more than that (so 10.5M) for the Pixel 6. In 2019, Apple shipped 215M iPhones (over 30x the Pixel). Is Google looking to make the Pixel a much larger part of the Android ecosystem? Are they looking to compete directly with HP, Acer, and others in the Chromebook market?

I guess I wonder what the end-goal is here. Maybe the premium on Qualcomm's Snapdragon chips is so high that they'd rather make their own. Maybe they want to become the primary hardware vendor in the Android ecosystem - or at least a much larger one. But Google never seems to push its own hardware aggressively so it's a bit curious.
Apple is famous for not patching every security vulnerability on older versions.

https://twitter.com/grahamgilbert/status/1386862102942339073... is a public example, and I'm aware of non-public information regarding this as well.
It's not worth it when you have both innocent people and cops themselves frequently getting killed as a result. There are plenty of other ways to catch stupid criminals that don't carry the same risks.

These practices also create a generally high level of fear and animosity toward police which isn't good for anyone.
We will soon get electric Bentleys and Rolls Royce. I'm pretty sure that at that point those vehicles will be spoken about as "an object of desire".

Traditional manufacturers didn't make great EVs because they couldn't make much money with them.

Another thing...Porsche already has a desirable EV. Benz EQS is not that bad either.
People forget the lockdown was for the rich, the poor still had to go work in essential positions at low pay and high risk to keep the spice flowing.
> It should be noted, as discussed by other HN people below, that there is a good chance that author (edit: not OP) is quite sketchy.

It should also be noted that this is just an opinion. I don't find it to be sketchy.
>You’re entire argued through the comments here seem to be that we should trust the government, current monitoring practices, existing limits, and the current science.

I have mentioned government once and even in that comment was in the context of comparing it to an entity which should not go unquestioned much less anything concerning regulations. That's a straw man.

>This is a very fucking shaky foundation to base an argument.

>We have every reason to be highly doubtful of all of those and to continue to seek more refined certainty.

I have made zero arguments concerning any of this. I don't understand what you're getting to.
Google doesn't need a solid plan to do something, they have more money than investment opportunities and since they are so "skilled" at shutting down projects it wont be a long term cost if it doesn't work out.
71% of all 2022 Lost Coast permits have already been booked
I completely disagree about settings. The control panel has always been a disaster of information architecture, and any part of settings which still drops you into the control panel is similar. The big problem settings has is that it hides or removes features which used to be available. If Microsoft had just implemented those in settings, made the search faster, and removed every last bit of UI related to the control panel and weird dialogue menus which look like they haven’t been updated since XP, it would be significantly better.

Either way, I’m almost a little happy that windows is a disaster right now, because maybe more people will try Linux. :p
This never ends.

People never learn.

Someone bets success of their business solely on grace of someone else's private platform and then disaster strikes.

You been booted for whatever reason they felt like.

What were you thinking?

Generocity and grace of FAANG's will never end?
Would you consider password sharing the same account instead of inviting other people via email as a workaround? I'm thinking if it's only one account, the blast radius of 'guilt by association' is 0.

Or does Google associates even if you're logged in into multiple accounts in the same browser?
In America’s Next War, Machines Will Do the Thinking
Not sure if this is just because of site overload or intentional but the way the non-progressive jpeg's slowly load from different directions due to the exif rotations add to the experience of reading the article for me.
Your assuming the market is homogeneous with you. Someone buys their kids phone X because they don’t care. Now their kids friends are forced to use a different app to talk to those kids. Even tiny fraction of the market can force huge numbers of people to install and use a different messaging app.

The effect is like crystallization even if 99.99999% of a mixture is in state X only a tiny seed is needed because it’s a one way conversion. People have a reason to install app Y, and no real need to use app X over app Y but they do have a reason to use app Y over app X.
You should checkout Twitter spaces.

With the BTC tipping functionality, I think it'll be a great place for monetizing creator content.
The sad thing is that many trust Google. It's not me though.
With open source software you have to select the right hardware. If you want things to keep working I would recommend NixOS (if you're comfortable writing code and learning a new language). If things break you'll roll back your entire system (except /home essentially).

I was on manjaro, but my move to NixOS made me stay Linux (still have 2 gpus to GPU passthough to a Windows VM though)
The only restriction they have for unrooted phones is lack of auto updates, a mild inconvenience at worst. You also have to hit "install" on a little pop up window when you install something. That's it.

Most regular users are capable of hitting an update notification manually.
I agree 100% but this is a terrible comment. It's mostly irrelevant, contributes no information, and is just stating a popular opinion.
oh my god, side talking
I have found it to be a great heuristic for companies which focus on process for the sake of it and usually treat engineering as a cost center instead of there reason of being.
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Let’s just take one example:

Sodium Bicarbonate, commonly known as Baking Soda works well as an efficient and cost effective fungicide and insecticide. It is actually registered with the EPA for use against certain plant fungi, powdery mildew. As a foliar spray used in the garden, it works wonders against fungus and bugs.

There’s approximately no amount of sodium bicarbonate a person could reasonably ingest, in this context or any other, that would be either immediately harmful or prove to be detrimental long term.

You’d have to really try.
Based on the specs, range, and reputation, I'm eager to see how the BMW i4 does when it comes out next spring.
My family lives mostly in the UK. None of them use Whatsapp. They still use SMS for random messaging, and they use Telegram for coordinated messaging. They range in age from 30 to 78. WhatsApp might be dominant, but "No one uses SMS" is almost certainly an overstatement.
Inflation used to include house prices until the 1980s where they wanted to quell inflation. An easy way to do it was to change the definition.

Now, it includes something called owner equivalent rent, to include both rent and owning a house.

The intent is to include a house prices in inflation indirectly.
I recall M2K as more art-mag/future-style than substance, whereas (earlier) Wired more fully explored ideas with feet on the ground. Those curious can see https://www.mondo2000.com/archive/ + https://archive.org/details/mondohistory
One of these platforms needs to pull a YouTube and share their own revenues. They don't realize that they are nothing without good creators, and consistency requires compensation, eventually.
Yep, these codifications are just examples of what you can do, as Vmladenov said, try reading the examples above.
or more likely find an organism that already has.
>The overspray-free technology also allows vehicles with intricate designs, including two-tone offerings, to be painted faster and cheaper.

This is the use case. As a matter of historical anecdote, the very same use case was the motivation to develop painter's tape: https://paintdenver.com/the-history-of-painters-tape/
That's surprising, thanks for mentioning it.
It is a tragedy of the commons scenario. The individual actors have no conscience or plan, of course, but it all amounts to the same: some cells can morph into freeloaders and those that morph into the most aggressive replicators "win" in the short term.
Hey, be nice. LARPing is a good passtime. Especially the kind with boffers!
Your bank account was suspended because the algorithm deemed one of your youtube comments as misinformation.

Edit: Touching a nerve, eh?
Not explicitly, but it can influence the price, in turn influencing the market value.
> a speed of 100 is 42.8571…% faster than a speed of 50

I think you mean either "100% faster" or "faster than a speed of 70" there.
This is electrostatically applied, a bit like powder coating from my understanding, so yeah, it probably won’t work on drywall.
> Or does Google associates even if you're logged in into multiple accounts in the same browser?

Of course they do. Fingerprinting browsers is extremely easy.
> Today you have WhatsApp and Signal. 95% of your friends are on WhatsApp and 5% are on Signal.

I asked google:

number of signal users: 40 million
number of telegram users: 400 million

I know this is not completely central to your point, but it does speak to a part of what you're saying in that the choices are typically not binary.
There are a lot of (quite limited) handheld ink printers on aliexpress ))
He made those trades in late February, not late march, so if the result of those trades was net long he probably did worse than people who traded after hearing the announcements.
That feature annoyed me to no end, so I found a way to turn it off:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/turn-off-office-a...
Yeah. SMS is not free here either. Probably. I don't even know, nobody uses it anymore. I do remember friends describing "plans" that included some number of free messages or whatever. I also remember the mobile service providers absolutely seething about WhatsApp. They lobbied the government for protectionism against the app that was disrupting their shitty services. Hilarious and sad at the same time. Wish these legacy corporations would just get wiped off the face of this earth so that humanity can make some actual progress instead of keeping these parasites on life support.

> But SMS is gone and a lot of people disabled notifications for it as it’s only used for ads by the provider (and it was a big issue with the government tried to run health campaigns there).

My mobile carrier also thinks it's acceptable to send me ads via SMS. The very first time they did this, I disabled all SMS notifications forever. The government also tried to send me COVID-19 related messages but I only saw them years later when I randomly decided to clean up my SMS inbox.

They have only themselves to blame, really. If they wanted a clean communications channel, they should not have allowed companies to pollute it with an infinite amount of worthless noise. Nobody wants to be subjected to advertising.
From TFA:
> the new method works without electrostatics, relying instead on jet application.
For sure; alternative headline: "Tesla swerves into tree to avoid deer".
The technology actually belongs to Dürr. They’ve been building paint shops for BMW for a few years now.

https://www.durr.com/en/products/paint-shop-application-tech...
The pattern here seems to be that the only way Microsoft can produce a Windows release that will be rated as "pretty decent" is by first subjecting their users to several years of a release that lowers the bar (or a subsequent release that makes an earlier one seem better in hindsight). 98 appears to have been the end of Microsoft's ability to ship consecutive major versions that were unambiguously an all-around improvement.
This is the first time I have heard this endogenous pesticide argument and I gotta say, it seems extraordinary! Is there some solid evidence for this?
It's actually by this company:

https://www.durr.com/en/products/paint-shop-application-tech...
Trying (and failing miserably) to kill Control Panel blows my mind every time. There's not a single thing that Settings improves upon. Even its "touch-friendliness" is a direct result of omitting important features.
“I regret ever Open Sourcing Java – mostly since my daughter is now coding.”
That’s pretty good
Yeah? How are progressive web apps working on iOS?
The mitochondria also have circular DNA, exclusively. I wonder how similar these forms are.
Wouldn't that protein need to penetrate the cell wall? You'd need something more like a virus.
In 2020 and the UK alone 50 billion SMS text messages where sent, that’s quite a bit for something nobody uses. It’s very true people send use other platforms to send a lot of messages, but they all lack the utter ubiquity of SMS.
If someone would pay me I will just share my location data... wonder how many people are like myself.
You don't get any crystallization when the people with the old phones can run both apps. The one kid gets the new phone, he convinces five of his closest friends to install that app, then those five people have both apps installed and use the other one to talk to the other billion people on the old app, none of which have any reason to switch.

Meanwhile the first kid could only convince five out of twenty friends to install the new app, and also couldn't run some other apps the new platform doesn't have, and then complains to the parents to return that phone and get a different one.
Win7 was my last version. Then I switched to Linux Mint permanently and never looked back. I'm a developer using open source web tech, and this made my life a million times easier.

Sure, there's some things that require some/lots of tweaking/research and yea I still miss a few "apps" (Total Commander), BUT you gain so much more. When I rarely dual boot onto Win7 now I really cannot understand how I survived using it earlier.

Windows gets worse every time. Linux just gets better and better. No brainer if you ask me.
Sketching in eInk
Some sort of smartphone app to scan and verify badges via a PKI might be the best solution. There isn't much to stop someone with bad intentions from impersonating an officer, uniformed or not. Every non-emergency police encounter should begin with validation.
This is a great short film that goes into detail about the project and the challenges faced in getting it off the ground: https://youtu.be/3VZSJKbzyMc
> For example, the M1 chip can run Linux.

Can it run native Windows?
Huh, do you know anything about that "history project" on Internet Archive? I could scan all my old issues, but I imagine if they wanted that they'd already have them, they can't be that rare (and are of course still under copyright)...
"Agents" where the new hotness when General Magic was doing it's thing. CS depts everywhere were writing about agents, "everybody" imagined them as the future. It wasn't just GM that got this, uh, wrong.