skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At some point, America is going to have to admit to itself that the police has become the military. Police call non-law enforcement people "civilians", they're armed for tactical urban warfare and they have a kill or be killed mindset.

Of course, this analogy falls apart when they engage in civil forfeiture (they take your money without cause). In that case they don't act like active military, they act like pirates.

I would love to see a 3rd or 4th Amendment case against some of this stuff.
What's the story like for migrating from Kafka to Pulsar?
DDR5? Can't wait to see how the memory bandwidth performs. I have a project that is memory bandwidth limited on c6gd instances.
Its the work of Positive Technologies according to this article from grsecurity:

https://grsecurity.net/watch_your_stepping_atoms_breaking_ap...
https://www.ptsecurity.com/

Positive Technologies got sanctioned by the US government. Seems Google deleted their blog as a result.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210419105554/http://blog.ptsec...
Could two of these cameras create stereoscopic videos that can let us feel what it would be like to be so tiny?
Because of qualified immunity they do not fear any sort of repercussions from the law and since they got all of these military hand me down toys they've been itching to find an excuse to use them. They can do a no knock raid on the wrong house, kill the occupants, and face no repercussions.
I used to use aliases but got frustrated with them when dealing with PRs depending on PRs, so I wrote git-stack [0]. Thought I'd share in case you'd find it useful

[0] https://github.com/epage/git-stack/blob/main/docs/reference....
Why? I use Caps Lock all the time when typing with one hand, although the location could realistically be somewhere else with no ill effect. But the location should be left up to the hardware maker, not the OS.
Singular "they" is not recent at all. The earliest recorded usage of this form is from 1375 C.E., according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Further reading: https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...
You might also enjoy the Flashman series
The current most plausible perspective is amyloid-β pathology causes tau pathology which causes neurodegeneration. Thus it's not surprising that amyloid-β pathology can exist without neurodegeneration, if there is no tau pathology (or none yet).

However, I have not heard of the opposite: people with cognitive decline and amyloid-β pathology but no tau pathology.
I don’t believe them when they say that. Based on the way they keep ending at the same conclusions with different reasonings as facts change, I think they don’t like being told what to do, and keep backwards-rationalizing reasons (“I read somewhere that masks actually _hurt_ people!”) in order to have something to tell people.
Insurance that uses the year's bonus as collateral.
well, within the theory, all of those other inputs are also labor. "fixed" capital like skills, software, machines, and facilities are all produced with labor input. liquid capital like funds, raw/processed materials, and commodities are produced, extracted, refined, processed and/or transported by labor. executive decisions, management and organization are labor.

land itself is just about the only thing that is arguably not ultimately labor, but it seems that through the capitalist lens, land is only valuable due to location (proximity to labor?) or resources gained by application of labor to the land. you could make some arguments about conservation, but those tend to be either moral arguments about externalities which by definition are not systematically considered by capitalism, or arguments about natural environments as a resource, in which maintenance and access management become the value-creating labor.
No, this is for private networks with lots of wirelessly connected devices where using Wi-Fi is not ideal (say, a building with a lot of 24/7 cameras). I cannot say for certain, but it’s unlikely Amazon would be interfacing with major telephone carriers given that 1) they are using low power radio units and 2) they are using unlicensed spectrum.
They would probably bill you for destruction of their property...
Seems like a real thing:

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/crime/fl-ne-fugitive-roy-k...

Someone was mailing drugs into federal prisons, disguising papers soaked in MDMA (commonly known as ecstasy), fentanyl, synthetic marijuana and Suboxone, an opioid dependence treatment, as confidential legal communication in order to sneak them past guards.

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/15/1015447281/overdose-deaths-st...

Friends and family can tuck strips of paper soaked with drugs into mail or books, and if they get past the mail room, people in prison can eat them, or roll them up and smoke them.

https://bangordailynews.com/2020/06/25/news/state/3-maine-wo...

Three Maine women have been accused of being associates to a New York City street gang called the Bullies that allegedly used vehicles with hidden compartments and comic book pages soaked in narcotics as part of their multi-state distribution of cocaine, heroin, guns and money between Maine and New York for 3 ½ years.

Found on first page of:

https://www.google.com/search?q=heroin+soaked+book
One of the arguments high-level language proponents always made was that you could do exploratory programming and prototyping and develop your systems in nice easy high-level languages, and then FFI out or reimplement parts in the painfully low-level languages when you discover you need their performance.

asciinema prototyped and worked out their design, and discovered it needed more performance. And then it got it. Sounds like a success story to me.
I’m certainly not defending all US government actions. That’s exactly the point. Levine tries to lump all of this in with surveillance. The US government funds the NSA, that is true. It also funds food stamps. And torture. The trick is to untangle it.
5G can handle more clients. WiFi (vaguely) slows down if a slow client connects to the same network as you, rather than a fast client using all the bandwidth.

Cellular ISPs also don't do routing the way wifi/wired ISPs do, so your IP address isn't tied to your physical location anymore. That wouldn't apply to private 5G so much though.
the outsourcing is a boon to beijing
Yes. Tariffs for all countries that have lower labor law and environmental standards.
Microsoft Defender scares admins with Emotet false positives – keep moving
Exactly. Muscles and bones are nothing without good cartilage, and the fact is cartilage wears down over time and doesn’t get repaired, and I think this is one of the key reasons people feel “old”.
Some nuts will have trace amounts of mold on them, depending on how they're sourced or how long they're sitting around. I've read that it's most common on pistachios. Not sure to what extent it actually happens but rinsing the nuts certainly won't do any harm.
Not really, assuming you mean "continuous" by "analog". ECC relies on the existence of an elliptic curve group to be reversible. Groups are inherently discrete structures, I'm not aware of any continuous structures with similarly useful properties.
IMO, the best part about this is that 1.6 is officially the new LTS. Hopefully this finally ends people trying to use 1.0.x which at this point is really sub-par.
> HN wants to trust the experts on many topics, yet for some reason not on this topic.

Where does your expertise in this topic come from?
Hi Jeff, Is this AWS custom SSD based on their own SSD CTRL and FW not commercial SSD??
If you're responding to me, specifically what bad faith argument did I make? I initially made a moderate (but reasonable) snarky comment towards what I believe to a very bad faith argument by @jf22 where I would posit that he used mind-reading to assign certain motives that do not appear in evidence.

As far as the Google searching goes, I confess to not memorizing the entire corpus of national crime statistics. I should do more objective reading in this regard by looking at official sources like the FBI Criminal statistics. But I looked into the crime stats as per user @Philadelphia's provided Wikipedia link and it appears that Chicago is indeed in the Top 10 range in per-capita murder, if I'm reading that right, and is by far the biggest city in that range, so mentioning it in the context of crime-ridden cities seemed reasonable for that and other factors. But I'm not sure why it wouldn't be reasonable to mention it, why mentioning it would agitate or alarm, or what other cities are appropriate or not appropriate to mention for what reasons.

I'm attempting to be polite and precise in everything I mentioned. If I got any facts wrong, please clarify so I can be further informed. Thank you.
You would enforce it with tariffs.
This right here. Qualified immunity means they will face zero legal liability, and any sort of civil suit only means that the city or county may pay, not the department.
> They had toys and a rare chance to play with them

That's one of many things the author of "The Rise of the Warrior Cop" argues.

He also argues a fundamental flaw in recruiting for SWAT and similar police units: these squads should be all about de-escalation and defusing violent and complex situations, but instead are full of guys who just want to blow shit up. The kind of police officers who would like to join SWAT, he argues, is precisely the kind who should be rejected.

Good luck fixing that, though.
> Corrections theory has evolved a lot since 1950s and it hasn't been about applying punishment for a long time.

It's apparently also not about rehabilitation, so what is it actually about?

> Source: Corrections in America book

At the danger of sounding a bit too flippant; The US ain't the only country that has written books on "correction". Maybe it's time to expand the horizon a bit and try to look for inspirations and solutions outside of America?

> As for your article, it's not proper to lump together prisons such as Guantanamo Bay

The article is explicitly about the UN envoys visit to US domestic prisons.

His potential visit to Gitmo was another story, there the US offered him to visit but only under such extreme restrictions that he wouldn't have been able to do his job, as the US even denied him unsupervised interviews with inmates [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/11/un-torture-e...
> Pretty much every modern file system is tolerant to computer crashes via journaling. Mounting an in-use FS as read only is effectively the same as mounting a file system after a computer crash. Not self consistent, but close enough it can be repaired in memory (i.e. without touching the disk) via replaying the journal.

Filesystems generally don't replay the journal to memory, but instead replay it to disk as part of going read-write. Conventional replay of the journal would make these issues even worse.
Sure, but it was never said to be purely an identify verification process. There have always been other requirements, some of which were not public. It's fair to assume that one requirement is to adhere to the T&Cs, although I can't confirm that.
Feel to me like asking mapmakers to leave out the locations where laws are being broking, or for the post office to not deliver mail to those locations.
> Twitter is your only viable podium in the public town square

hah. Get a blog. this is a ridiculous assertion.
Latest Sunway OceanLight perf indicates they use better process like at least around 7nm rather than 28nm.

https://www.hpcwire.com/2021/11/24/three-chinese-exascale-sy...
It probably doesn't help that we only let stupid people be cops.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st...
Um, ok. All of the above projects use not only reproducible builds for many platforms, but they’re all open source, and they all have public security audits. Those three pillars are about as good as it gets. Is there something you would add?

I’m not claiming PBS and the BBC are perfect entities, but they do offer an alternative source of information that runs against the grain of corporate media. You would prefer…what exactly?
> stopping every few words to make sure nobody's getting their feelings hurt is a cost with very little benefit

Fortunately, nobody is saying to stop every few words to confirm the consent of your interlocutor, so that's just a stupid fucking straw man, isn't it?

> other than airy and nebulous principles like "inclusivity."

Ah, I see. You're one of those people on a perpetual crusade against "political correctness" (funnily enough, an airy and nebulous principle!)

> If you're in a field where Things Have To Get Done

Man I work in academia, so I assure you I've met a million guys of your type. Guys who are oh-so smart and oh-so intelligent (as per their own assessment of course) and have a planet-sized ego, who think they are so above the riffraff and their attention is oh-so important that they don't even owe their colleagues the courtesy of basic manners.

Nope, sorry, you're not so special that you can't say "I think that's a bad idea [because X]" instead of "That's stupid [because of X]".

Excuse me the brashness of my post, but hey, I'm trying to correspond to your desired level of discussion :)
There are plenty of people who see the police as the standing army the founding fathers warned us about.

You just don't find many of those people on HN.
It's not terribly surprising that courts with their (poor understanding of technology, unchecked belief in their own authority, and pay to play dynamic) will find that any party who can act to prevent a crime should do so. I think the only winning path is to make our protocols independent of centralized identities, such that the content cartels can technically take any participant to court and censor them, but that doing so to every participant is cost/time ineffective. Of course these protocols have to be adopted for general use as well, so that merely being a participant can't be seen as criminal activity.
The red and blue gang. Pirates for sure.
Saving the front page of a Github project isn't the same thing as clicking the download source button.
Been at a company that was acquired by a much larger company to more or less integrate it in, after a lot of push back, and politics, eventually the company was sold, and than sold again, and maybe again. Not sure if it was eventually migrated into the company that owns it now.

If you have the opportunity always tackle technical debt.
Correction: He was transferred to a penitentiary in Tucson, Arizona.
Where did I claim to be an expert? I'm referring to the actions taken by the experts who oversee the prison system mentioned in the article.
I was a huge Desqview fan, and I tried Desqview/X but didn't stick with it.

In the 80's I built a multi-line electronic claims submission host for a local insurance company that ran the same app 4 times under Desqview (not X). Each app talked to different port of a 4-port serial card, each port hooked to a 2400 baud modem. I had to write an ISR in assembly to handle the incoming serial data because the drivers for the serial card couldn't do the job, but other than that, the Desqview APIs were all I needed.
This release was a long time coming. Very glad it's now here!
I think having the police force be liable promotes them having better policies relative to scapgoating one person.

After all, its not like the officer went rouge. The problem is police policies not that one individual.
From some other incidents, it seems as though the motive is often to use their cool toys. These swat teams never get a chance to use most of this stuff, because their community doesn't actually need a swat team. A siege is an excuse to drive around their huge armored vehicle and throw grenades.
There is no financial reward in giving LSD to kids so that’s obviously fake.

There is an enormous financial incentive to smuggle drugs into prisons by any means, and soaking drugs in paper has been done all over the place. Here are 3 cases:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndoh/pr/eleven-people-indicted-...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/multi-state-drug-smuggl...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/two-sci-inmates-two-all...
> uses complex technology culminated over centuries to estimate there are 10^25 planets

> Yeah, we're definitely alone.
I’m glad they didn’t kill her like the dirty cops in Houston do.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-ju...
Or, we could look at what people who've thought about this for a long time suggest: abolish private prisons. Recidivism isn't the only way that incentives are misaligned. Everything from cutting corners on food safety to lobbying for stricter prison sentences results in bad outcomes.
There's certainly been a recent trend due to people pushing for everyone to use it more, though, which was the parent's point.

Btw, not every usage of singular they is equally commonplace. e.g., "When someone says X, they mean Y" is a pretty typical sentence, whereas "My child told me they wanted this toy" is quite jarring in comparison. And then you have sentences like "My boss told me they preferred X" that people try to avoid in order to avoid potential ambiguity.
I still seem to be the only person I know using UltraEdit.

Been using it 19 years now.
"secure networking"
Hey, that's some great real-world pentesting experience!
That's a natural a priori hypothesis but there's extremely strong evidence that amyloid is causally upstream.

For example, mutations in the enzymes or proteins involved in the production of amyloid-β (APP, PSEN1, and PSEN2), which structural analysis show have the direct effect of producing either more total amyloid-β, or more of amyloid-β 42 (the specific peptide implicated in Alzheimer's), deterministically cause Alzheimer's. That puts amyloid-β causally upstream at least in those cases, the so-called autosomal dominant variety, which are ~1% of Alzheimer's cases.

The remaining ~99% of cases are less straightforward to interpret, but the disease looks essentially the same as the ~1% of cases described above: first amyloid-β builds up in the default mode network, then it spreads throughout the brain, eventually reaching the medial temporal region where primary age-related tauopathy (PART) is waiting, only then does the tau pathology spread, and neurodegeneration follows the tau pathology in lockstep. The way the amyloid-β and tau proteins misfold in autosomal dominant and sporadic Alzheimer's are the same, too, even though other tau pathologies have different tau folds. So basically, there's every reason to believe sporadic Alzheimer's is essentially the same disease as the one which we're basically certain is caused by amyloid-β.
> willing to look at informational resources once step above scientific controlled studies (unfortunately many folks are not).

The End of Alzheimer's by Dr Dale Bredesen is all about "scientific controlled studies" and comes to the same conclusion about keto diets. No need to be open-minded :)