skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When reading actual anecdotes about those riots against police brutality (which has occurred mainly in the Midwest cities, and quite regularly for numerous years, from much before the BLM protests), you start to have a very different picture of what’s really going on, that doesn’t get articulated in the mainstream media. From the book Hinterland by Phil A. Neel, talking about the Ferguson protests:

“The perfect storm had been building for some time. Ferguson is at the bottom of the income spectrum and has acted as a sort of vanguard for the outward march of suburban poverty. Like many postwar suburbs, its heyday was in the 1950s and ’60s, which saw successive doublings of the population until it reached a peak of nearly 30,000 in 1970. Deindustrialization beginning in the ’70s was then matched with a continual drop in population to about 21,000 today, in line with St Louis’s historic population loss. As the city grew smaller and poorer, its racial demographics also flipped. As late as the 1990 Census, Ferguson was still 73.8 percent white and 25.1 percent black (close to the proportions of neighboring Florissant today), but by 2010 this situation had entirely reversed (to 29.3 percent white and 67.4 percent black). Inflation-adjusted income dropped, and unemployment doubled from around 5 percent in 2000 to an average of 13 percent between 2010 and 2012.
The political establishment reflected this history. At the beginning of the riots, the city government was helmed by a white mayor, a white police chief, and five white and one Hispanic city council people. Combined with this, the dwindling population, fleeing industry, and plummeting property values had created a budgetary crisis, forcing many of the area’s small municipalities to rely less on their shrinking tax base and more on extra-tax fees and fines, enforced by the police and facilitated by the city’s arcane court system. The result was that Ferguson and similar suburbs existed in what the Huffington Post called “a totalizing police regime beyond any of Kafka’s ghastliest nightmares.” Out of a population of roughly 21,000, over 16,000 Ferguson residents had arrest warrants issued. And this number only counts individuals with warrants, not the total number of warrants. In 2013 this figure was a staggering 35,975, roughly
1.5 warrants per person in the city. These warrants were part of a complex racket designed to impose unrelenting fines on the poor population in order to fund the city government, which itself had largely been redesigned to facilitate this predatory practice. In 2013 fines, court fees, and other such extortions accounted for some 20 percent of the city’s budget. These fines were disproportionately applied to the city’s black residents, with black drivers twice as likely to be stopped, searched, and arrested as their white counterparts.”
> I would have guessed a post like this would be satire!

It is… burlesque!
Here’s a start but you can dig for more https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/facebook-...
Someone I know who owns a hotel in germany said it happens so rarely that it's cheaper to pay the fines than maintain router configurations or spend time to dismiss them.
Especially if you're an in-house consultancy
if i had a garden i'd get a blue phonebox and make it the entrance to my basement...
Oh, I’ve got a good one about this.

Back in 2000, I was living in a new city, and cold-calling graphic design firms. At the time, most of the web looked like utter ass, and my feeling was that it made more sense to try to be the in-house developer for designers, rather than try to bring design to web development firms.

So I put together a resume with my personal URL placed prominently across the top, and knocked on the door of every graphic design firm in Portland. I met a bunch of confused designers, and didn’t get a single call or email back. I noticed in passing — and importantly to this story — that the whole industry was still wedded to Macs running the non-memory-protected OS 8. Months passed and my savings trickled away.

Eventually out of desperation I took a job at a shipping company that was rewriting their in-house software suite. I noticed that they had a couple dusty Macs in the corner for browser testing that they never bothered doing, and thought it might be amusing to see how my site loaded.

It turned out that there was an error in the CSS engine in MSIE Mac that crashed the system. Not the browser, the entire computer. Click, smash. I realized with horror that I had spent months crashing the computers — along with the unsaved work — of every graphic designer in Portland.
I can at least easily/cheaply convert and withdraw it as one of many cryptocurrencies. Of course, if Binance went away or otherwise restricted withdrawals, then I wouldn't have access to it, but that's the price you pay for the convenience and features of a centralized exchange.

Some of the newfangled DeFi cryptocurrencies try to get around this, but of course they can't offer a visa card.

As with all things, its a trade-off. For me, Binance is a better trade-off than my bank, for the things I use Binance for. I also don't exclusively use Binance and I do keep some of my crypto in my own wallets, separately from the centralized exchanges.
Event better - instead of a conference call, why not just have the discussion in HN format? Is it not far more efficient?

You can have multiple threads of conversation at the same time; it relies on arguments, not charisma; it easier to search, index and reference; it is faster to read than to listen; it is 'greener' in every way.
Fortunately, UWP was deprecated recently.
https://www.thurrott.com/dev/258377/microsoft-officially-dep...
Don't give them ideas. Also, with Thunderbolt, USB is pretty much just a transport for PCI-e.

Edit, here's how Google justifies the existence of WebUSB (https://web.dev/usb/):

"""

Let's see the behavior you could expect with the WebUSB API:

1. Buy a USB device.

2. Plug it into your computer. A notification appears right away, with the right website to go to for this device.

3. Click the notification. The website is there and ready to use!

4. Click to connect and a USB device chooser shows up in Chrome where you can pick your device.

"""

The goal is to make Chrome the OS. As long as your USB device works on Chrome, who cares about it working on the rest of the system. Absolute madness.
Advancing Health Equity: A guide to language, narrative, and concepts [pdf]
Well, yes, but they are not atom CPUs, so they won't likely be vulnerable to this issue as it is not part of the core.

In any case, it is not like I was making some deep point, other than a cheap shot at Intel mobile/embedded effort :).
That's right, they use butterflies (or emacs).

Why shouldn't you design a GUI using a visual interface? Do you also write SVG's in notepad?
No mention of the term "scarcity"? Weird. That is like marketing/sales 101.

https://getsitecontrol.com/blog/scarcity-principle-in-market...
Like most taboo academic subjects it involves joining that data with demographic data.
Soon we can have nonstop nuclear airliners (that land only once every five years), where passengers are exchanged with shuttles.
I'm reasonably sure VLF and ELF are very much in use but it seems as though ELF was abandoned by the US Navy. The Navy does continue to use VLF though.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25728/chinas-new-york-...

http://www.nukeresister.org/static/nr135/135elfcloses.html
We're Doing Mindfulness Wrong, Psychologists Say
EXTREMELY competitive salaries. The company owner believes in paying for talent.
I don't think Word or Excel need any "apologia". They are incredibly successful software products which in general are well liked by their users.
+1 for a simple structure.
I just use one folder per year (2015/, 2016/, ...) with everything inside.
basically says don’t be in one twice lol
Ebay is probably a good source for this sort of thing. Prices on a lot of things are overheated at the moment of course, but it looks to be maybe a few hundred dollars. I have some old computer stuff at home but it's far from mint condition and whenever I looked didn't seem to be worth the hassle of selling and shipping it.
I’m surprised at the top tier $249 per month plan, you still only allow 1GB max file size. Is this a technical limitation?
New Guidance Bars Immigration Enforcement in ‘Protected Areas’ -- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/us/politics/biden-immigra...

Migrants were encountered 1.7 million times in the last 12 months, the highest number of illegal crossings recorded since at least 1960. -- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/us/politics/border-crossi...

“The Biden administration has created a disaster,” added Mr. Morgan [chief of the U.S. Border Patrol in the Obama administration], currently a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation. “It did so by methodically – and by all indications intentionally – undoing every meaningful border security measure that had been in place.” -- https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/19/bidens-bung...

President Biden Eviscerates Border Security and Immigration Enforcement on Day One [Please try to refute the many specific claims made in the article, instead of attacking the site itself.] -- https://www.fairus.org/legislation/presidential-administrati...

Attorney General Merrick Garland has rescinded a Trump-era memo blocking so-called sanctuary cities from receiving funding from the Department of Justice. -- https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/550675-doj-resci...

Christopher Magnus [..] He is an advocate of Sanctuary cities [..] Magnus was nominated by Joe Biden to become the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Director. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Magnus

I'm sure I could keep going, but I think I've made my point. At the very least, you should be able to understand how I got the impression that the current administration disfavors border enforcement (as if the record-high legal immigration, that continued even under Trump, was not enough).
It's great! Are you going to implement notion connector?
it is mostly for behavior studies. Commonly for testing marketing but also for behavior studies in vehicles and even sport
Density Raises $125m Series D Round Led by Kleiner Perkins
I scan everything pretty aggressively, since I hate physical papers of any kind lying around. Documents that are scanned within the last ~month sit unencrypted on a NAS, and organized in the style of "/2021/Taxes", "/2021/Bills", etc.

Periodically I take the current batch of unencrypted files and add them to a VeraCrypt volume, which contains files organized in this way, going back to around 2005. The encrypted volume sits on the same NAS. There have been surprisingly few times that I've had to "search" for an old document in the archives. And when I do, I can just go to the target year folder, and glance through the scanned images, and also make sure to give descriptive names to the scanned files, if it's important.

Once every few months I back up the encrypted volume to a gold-layered DVD disc (The encrypted volume is still nowhere near 4.7 GB), and store it in a cool, dark place.
Printers used to rum much better on Windows back in the day when the manufacturers developed drivers with the intention to make them run well. I've never seen any one doing the just "plug, install driver, run", except for shared printers maintained by a contractor. But they used to run better than Linux.

Nowadays the main advantage of Linux is that it won't install the manufacturer's driver. Anyway, the arcane settings aren't required anymore.
> This is a post about a bug in Safari, but if you just want to ship a Phoenix app, the easiest way to learn more is to try it out; you can be up and running in just a couple minutes

I'm sort of sick of this phenomena/trend of marketing/promotional material being masked as technically helpful content.

This is exactly like the appalling methods of native advertising (aka sponsored content), but now used for self-promotion.
There are deep historical roots for this. In 1861, the US South just wanted to be left alone. It was the US North that forced their moral values on the South.

Some of us think that's a good thing.
I also really enjoyed that one - if you liked it I recommend Brose's Kill Chain and Helberg's Wires of War
nuclear airlines... Two words I don't think will ever be in a commercial offering. For one, can you think of the TSA theater that will precede such a flight :)
I love the idea of Flutter, but tying it to Dart just seems like a way to guarantee it'll have a long slog to getting larger-scale usage. It feels like Google had a language that had no users and had to use it for _something_.
So socioeconomic factors suddenly don't influence crime rate? Broken homes? Missing fathers? Drug epidemics? Rotten crabs in a bucket culture which disproportionately glorifies violence, drug use, misogyny, homophobia, none of these things influence crime rate? We don't even need to touch the subject of genetic predisposition to lower intelligence and/or aggression, which are scientifically documented facts.

Let me put it this way: would you willingly move to the ghetto, since as you imply these are friendly people just like you and me who are merely victims of disproportionate scrutiny by police?

Modern antiracism is a competition in mental gynmastics, built entirely upon denial of statistics and science. If you are going to acknowledge differences in culture then logical consistency requires acknowledging that certain cultures are more violent and criminal on average than others. That's the nature of our reality and to deny this fact is naive.
That looks pretty cool
Watch out or you'll get "A licky boom boom down".
The history part of that book was really good, but when he starts talking about economics it quickly becomes clear he is confused about even the most simple concepts. He tries to critique economics without knowing anything about economics.

What one really gets from this book is an understanding of where the human 'crabs in bucket' attitude comes from and how it is deep within our natural instincts. Having spent a lot of time in 3rd world countries, I can say that his description of debt and how things work through guilt and people manipulating each other is exactly how things still work. He actually treats it like it is a good thing though, but once you see it for yourself it is clear that this is has a lot to do with why these places are still poor. Breaking free from that, and inventing objective measures of credit and laws for proper debt accounting and repayment, has a lot to do with why we are so happy and rich in the modern world, I think.
https://www.kitschencat.com/pfeffernusse-cookies-peppernuts/

That one is pretty close. Just at step 4 instead of 30 mins she did 24 hours as the previous steps usually took 1-2 hours and she was tired because of how much flour she used. She also used 9-10 cups of flour instead of the 3-4 that calls for as she was also wanting to make a larger batch. If you did that little amount of flour it would probably be very and goopy to roll and cut in the next steps. She also fiddled the sugar, with corn syrup and molasses, I do not have it in front of me but I think it ended up being 1/2cup each and 1/2 cup regular sugar 1/2 cup brown. She also would add in 1/4tsp of anise. But basically all the wet stuff, spices into that, incorporate it good, then add flour until the correct consistency to roll out. With as much flour as she used you better have a good arm or a monster blender. But that recipe should be pretty close, there are thousands or variations on the internet (many include pepper and lemon), these fall on the ginger tasting side. They should be a crunchy cookie not doughy.
You're correct, and it's very concerning that people flaunt arrest statistics without considering that important element: arrests don't indicate higher rates of crime, they indicate higher rates of enforcement.

What's more sad is that this is clearly fueling racism of the worst kind - I call it pseudo-intellectual racism. It's not the kind born of ignorance and cultural differences. It's racism that was reached through broken reasoning, resulting in one who believes their racism is justified, and thus, isn't racism.
Only one way to find out.

1. download or use some screen recording software

2. Push record

3. Start coding

4. Upload your video to some site (youtube, etc.) when you're finished - or just live stream it.
OT: iPhone comes with a documents scanner in the box. It's called Notes. Tap new note, click camera icon, choose documents.
Can you share the workshop?
Apple M1 Pro Review – Is It Faster Than Intel/AMD? [video]
> Your employer requires unpaid overtime adding up to $1,000? A slap on the wrist at best.

Because the two are not at all the same.

I would imagine the reason is that everything should already be on record, and you'd be expected to take said employer to court. That said, if employer tried to explicitly commit fraud e.g. forge documents, illegal employment, I'd expect someone to see jail time.

Theft, on the other hand, is inherently off-the-record and fraudulent.

Also, if said employer forced you to work I'd expect to see punishment vs asking (possibly illegally) for you to work overtime - in the case of theft no-one gets the right to refuse.

> But again, why is it under civil law, not criminal?

NAL but I think its something to do with breaking/violating contracts versus the law. It makes sense to me. You seem to be focusing on the sums involved rather than the context of the theft.

> it's almost as if the laws were structured against poor people in favor of business

legal action is expected (in the US) to be funded by the participants, i.e. they put in a stake. This means those with less money will always have fewer options. A small business can also suffer this way.

The flip side is those with wealth have more to lose, and big pockets often attract lawsuits.

What we perhaps need is better union - no-win-no-fee lawyers to help combat wage theft, but I suspect the cost of layers now is so high that lower salaries just aren't worth the fight - 2634 USD pa might not cover a lot, so you'd need to pool resources and make it all v efficient. I'd be interested in what barriers there are to this.

> lead poisoning of the water of Flint, MI and its coverups a crime?

I think it should be, absolutely. The whole think with Depont dumping shit in rivers is also terrible. I wish the government were more pro-active in punishing these actions, and I'm quite frankly surprised how little action there is - a sign of corruption at a higher level?
Mind sharing the relevant config line?

I thought this was default but just realised it only does the <FFFF> thing when there is no printable glyph available.

Allowing printable unicode in strings seems like a nice balance if it can be done reliably.
I was not on a road bike, I was on a hybrid or MTB.

Sweat was an issue, but you get used to it and it stops being tiring
Show HN: Clientless (zero download) remote browser isolation
Is the only benefit of having/keeping money in a bank - billpay?

Sounds like Facebook/Novi are working around the pushback from regulators.

Move money instantly with no fees. Novi(Facebook backed) pilot(waitlist) in US and Guatemala. Via USDP Stablecoin.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/10/19/us-lawmakers-push...

https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2021/10/181962-does-novi-cr...
Friends up in a forgotten corner of the Western Highlands turned one into a passive fibre termination box. Pics:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6827862...
Yeh, this is the system they used to communicate during the rescue.
Ph.D is all about the certificate, which is a symbol of achievement.

One can simply self-study a particular topic to gain more knowledge and become an expert.
Thanks for the idea, I'll consider it.

One of the other reasons I use this style is because it allows me to port code easily between different languages.

For example, aside from the "my" keyword, I can pretty much copy and paste the same code between PHP and Perl.
Refine – A React-Based Framework for Data Intensive Web Applications
There is nothing to tail, because (FAFAIK) there are no clipboard events in Linux (well, in X). The best you can do is poll xclip every X ms, so you'd get:

while sleep .2 ; do xclip -o ; done | uniq | grep -E 'https?:'

but that is pretty wasteful of resources. Luckily processes are cheap on Linux :)
If you are referring to the JEDI contract which was awarded to Microsoft that contract was cancelled.
The one I'm using was recently forced to employ their workers full time. It means no more flexibility, losing about a 100 drivers instantly, and increasing delivery times by about 30-40 min in the short run, and I'm perfectly fine with that.

I don't know if Glovo as their only real competitor is held onto the same standard, I refuse to use them because they approached the market by throwing money at it, buying competitors and every ad they could in whichever media they could (TV, radio, newspapers, billboards, for months it was the only ad you'd get on YouTube, etc).
Understanding the Integrating Factor
Very cool. The opportunity for people with physical impairments to continue communicating - and convey their ability to still experience the world - gives us the ability to help these people lead happier lives.
If Google Maps was little more than a glorified business directory, you might have a point. But nothing else comes close in terms of features and user experience, certainly not Apple Maps.
If Android could make a cross platform app to work like handoff and airdrop then I would go back.
The bitter, nasty feud over making daylight saving time permanent
As an example- new Volvos come with Android Automotive as the main OS, and the satnav is just Google Maps. There is no alternative built in. If you don't want google services then you have no satnav at all. Since the main instrument cluster also shows Google Maps if you disable it it just stays completely empty(only displaying basic information like speed and gear you're in).

Source: I drove one.

Second source: https://youtu.be/d8RJsXePE2M?t=28
I hadn't even thought of that, though I did start the odd Windows .exe from the WSL. Is it usable for actual Windows sysadmin stuff (I mean as the main shell, as opposed to Powerwhell) ?
It’s a bad metric if you are trying to quantify a market. It’s a good metric here, where he is comparing options. In this case actual conversion rate (between people that say they would, and those that actually would) doesn’t matter, and there is no reason to believe it would vary significantly between the two options.

So provided the sample size is big enough I think it’s a perfectly valid metric.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_submarines
This design reminds me in some ways of the disastrous Pruitt-Igoe public housing project in St. Louis. It's demolition in the 1970's was prominently featured in the film "Koyaanisqatsi"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt_Igoe

"Apartments clustered around small, two-family landings with tenants working to maintain and clear their common areas were often relatively successful. When corridors were shared by 20 families and staircases by hundreds, public spaces immediately fell into disrepair.[20] When the number of residents per public space rose above a certain level, none would identify with these "no man's land[s]"

One would expect that a major University building would not suffer from disrepair but the psychological effect of "disowning" the common areas might remain.

The apartments in Pruitt-Igoe were also deliberately small.
What does ownership mean though? It’s purely a status at best.
“ Google gave the Electronic Frontier Foundation $75,000 in calendar year 2017, $15,500 in calendar year 2016, and $325,000 in calendar year 2015, according tax forms, annual reports, and interviews with the nonprofit.”

Add up all the money they’ve accepted from these types of companies over the last 10 years. They shouldn’t be accepting $1 from Google.