skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you have a citation for your claim

I know this is a popular trope in certain political circles, it's weasel words used to shirk accountability or scrutiny.

The article is literally about the Police's failure to comply and submit documentation of all uses-of-force. In the vacuum of any official documentation, the only thing we have to go by are citizen reports.

If you watch pretty much any video upload to social media about officers harassing citizens you'll see intimidation by the threat of violence and from actual violence. You'll see whenever someone is taken into custody they're handcuffed and that officers use that opportunity to inflict some physical pain on the individual.
(From a GitHub product manager) Thank you for this feedback about the pain of having to repeatedly change repo settings. It makes great sense that you'd want to repeat certain settings. Would it meet your needs if repository templates allowed you to have settings that got copied when you created a repo from the template (https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managin...)? I also wonder if you'd be interested in repository settings being settable in a text file. If you want to continue chatting about this it would be great if you could post it in GitHub's feedback discussions here: https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/categories/ge.... Thanks again!
Great question. It is partly what I suggest, I think...
> This is what has always amazed me about the political party which are very much supposed to be for smaller government yet it whole heartedly supports the police in almost every instance.

That's because the Republican ideology is actually not about small government. If you trace their ideology's history, you'll find it's about limiting the government's ability to protect the most vulnerable so as to create an environment that's ripe for exploitation by existing wealth holders. Every Republican political stance is either in service to this greater goal or propaganda stating that the US is exceptional (and you should feel good about the status quo as a result!).
State-sponsored terrorist organisation, with a reach greater than any other.
This book is a fun read too!
No. I code switch to a character I created to role-play work. Otherwise known as being professional. No doubt he inherited some of my characteristics.
We're not running out of easy energy at all. Renewable energy is quite easy and we'll never run out while the sun has hydrogen left. Economic growth has increasingly been decoupled from increases in energy use (at least in developed nations).
You’re missing my point. PayPal doesn’t use crypto and it’s easy to use to send money around. WhatsApp, just like PayPal, requires a user to onboard. What makes PayPal complex is the international law around sending money, not the tech stack.
The various cryptocurrencies may all look fairly similar from the outside but there are, actual, material differences between them. Whether or not there was an existing cryptocurrency that met Signal's needs requires more in-depth knowledge of the world of cryptocurrency than I have. Their whitepaper lays some of this out.

If your other complaint is that Signal tried to make money, I hate to break it to you, but that's kind of, like, how capitalism works? If Signal runs out of money, Signal stops working.
Am I missing something here? "Her" genuine question, did he transition!?!
This is great! Do you know if this can run an M1 mac? I would like to journal on a laptop versus my phone.
> Yes agreed for complicated, rare problems you should do your own research if you can.

When it doesn't work out the way they planned when they pull it out their a* they call that a "complication". Seriously.

I think there's operant conditioning at work: It seems like there's less interest in extracting money from us by (cough) "practicing" medicine than in edubicating us that something is "serious" and it's our obligation to learn more about it, and extracting money from us that way.

I think there's a model for this operational paradigm, I think it's the smart phone. They train you to dismiss "alerts". Then they show you inchoate alerts, engendering anxiety and a feeling of lack of control. Then they propose a way you can get "in control" by following their narrative.

Are you really an expert because you're over 50 and you still have college loans to pay off? Really? You're gonna say that with a straight face, doc?

Funny you should mention Covid. Last year I asked for an antibody test, they said they'd do it. They didn't. They lied and said I'd never asked. Then they piled it higher and deeper by telling me that if they had, they'd have had to report the result to the CDC. WTF? Is that a bad thing? My wife was there for both exchanges. Furthermore, because electronic records there is no record of the tests which were ordered, only of the ones they want to tell you about: that is correct, I have no receipt for the blood which was taken or the tests which were ordered. (Lesson learned.)

I suppose it's easy to attribute this to some grand plan, but I'll choose mundane misfeasance as the reaction to errors arising from incompetence.

If there's any question about the efficacy of the treatment or any way for these amateurs to screw it up, why the hell would I trust my life to them?
I've noticed I have a tendency to search for and latch on to the big existential crisis of the day. I have no desire to bring children into this world when climate change is largely 'baked in' and unsolvable. I can't imagine how my parents decided to have kids back at the height of the cold war when nuclear oblivion seemed right around the corner.

And yet? Humanity has faced worse and still kept going. The black death? The mongol invasions? The 30 years war? All of these had absolutely huge death tolls. I can't help but think they were made of different stuff than I am.
A similarly sized building, the Empire State Building, was built in 1930-1931 in 13 months. Of course it was the depression, so when it was ready for occupancy they had a hard time finding tenets.
> $70..none of us have enough money.

C’mon - a) none of us likely see $70/yr in personal value in Facebook; b) Facebook thrives on participation. It’s not like ads and PII harvesting are a consequence of people not paying, it’s the other way around.

To put in perspective, most of us would spend $70 on dinner with partner or friend because that one-hour experience, during a single day, has so much more silly value than a whole year of Facebook. Consider that.

Nobody “promised” anything, or if you listened to some futurist high on their own farts, joke’s on you. Those people still exist, btw, and are presently telling you fully autonomous cars will be ubiquitous in five years, and alternative energy can replace fossil fuels by tomorrow.

Global supply chain improvements have a far greater impact than providing you a “glorified mail-in catalog”. I think the attitude you expressed in this comment is a case in point of not seeing the submerged portion of the iceberg and thereby not appreciating the truly remarkable changes in the last thirty years.
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There are a lot of book recommendations, but I would not focus on books if I wanted to get the equivalent of a solid CS education. Instead I would work through university lecture slides, assignments, and exams -- basically fast forward through a CS undergrad leveraging what you already know.

I'm partial to CMU's CS syllabus for obvious reasons, but I find that it's also one of the most open and available resources on the web; i.e. not locked in on an intranet, etc.

With pre-existing background in software development the basic syllabus is more than doable in a 3-4 months. There are two sequences below: programming and theoretical fundamentals; you can do them in parallel.

Programming:

15-211: Introduction to Data Structures. Used to be in C++; now looks like it's in Java.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjs/121/lectures.html

15-212: Principles of Programming. Still in ML.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~me/212/schedule.html |
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/courses/96-212/ (unlocked assignment pages)

15-213: Intro to Computer Systems.
I hesitate to recommend this; 90% of the value in this course is in the labs and assignments, so it's difficult to do on one's own, but I would at least go through the slides and try to work through exams.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~213/schedule.html

Theoretical:

15-251: Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science. Used to be Discrete Math with a heavy CS lean; it may have evolved.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15251/schedule.html

15-451: Algorithms. Here's a decade worth of lectures, exams and assignments - take your pick: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15451/
The 2013 course looks pretty complete:
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/academic/class/15451-f...

Next steps:

Since you are interested in VR, etc, you should probably look into the Computer Graphics courses. Note that the undergrad and grad courses are combined; the only difference is the expectations:

15-462: Computer Graphics
http://15462.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2020/
Exam problems and solutions are gold: http://15462.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2020content/exams/finals...

15-463: Computational Photography
http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/courses/15-463/

15-464: Technical Animation
http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/nsp/course/15464-s21/www/syllabus...
http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/nsp/course/15464-s21/www/assignme...

Hope this helps. Good luck!
The hand-cranked Curta mechanical calculator (2021)
An other issue is the link to your profile in order to get back to discussions you were involved in.

On some phone widths, you end up with the profile and "logout" links right above one another and it's even odds you'll have to log back in on all your device because you'll fat-finger the wrong one and there's no confirmation or anything, just straight fuck off.

No idea why that damned logout link can't be moved to the profile, is anyone really in such a hurry to log out they can't just hit two links?
Is a PHEV any more complicated than a regular hybrid car? You still have gas and electric motors, just a bigger battery pack in the PHEV. The Prius has proven that even with a gas motor, they can be super reliable. These cars are beaten and abused by taxi fleets and Uber drivers for over 20 years now, and they still hit over 300,000 miles reliably. The electric motor takes so much work off of the gas motor, the gas motor is still usually in really good condition after that many miles.

And if you buy the right PHEV, like as in, you buy the one that fits your commute, you probably don't have to gas up much at all. I know people with PHEVs and they love them. They rarely ever put gas in them, except for long trips. All their commuting is done on electric power. They work great. I don't really get what you are on about.

Maybe you are biased as a Tesla fan and Tesla driver. I mean, I'm not even sure why else you would have mentioned that. Maybe as a disclaimer that we will know your post is biased? The fact that you're a fan has nothing to do with the reliability or quality of a PHEV, and is totally irrelevant otherwise.
The energy is there but it’s too expensive to extract store and distribute compared to Saudi Arabian oil. Hydrocarbons are not just a source of energy. They are also a storage mechanism that can also fuel their own transportation and distribution.
There’s probably not enough rare minerals on the earth to build enough batteries to take care of all global transportation, electricity and heating let alone future needs.

Nuclear - fission and then fusion are the only way out.
>One of America’s most important sources of entrepreneurship is immigration—because immigrants are far more likely than native-born Americans to start billion-dollar companies—but the U.S. is in a deep immigration depression at the moment

What is with this obsession in journalism with turning to immigrants to solve all of our problems? Why can't we look to supporting our existing countrymen to innovate instead of brain draining the developing world and leaving large swaths of the US population to languish in uncertainty? Has nationalism really become such a dirty word?
It works by surrendering any pretense of eth being a decentralized cryptocurrency and turning every node into a glorified and bloated transport/identity layer.

If you’re not validating transactions - you’re trusting a third party. There are no light clients that avoid this problem. It remains to be seen if they are even possible.
Install Pihole and set your home's wifi AP to use it as the default DNS. It's the only way to get universal adblocking in all browsers (until DNS-over-HTTPS ruins everything) and more importantly in phone apps. Fortunately most phone apps are just wrappers around the native browser, so it works great in most of the ones I use (e.g. BBC News). It's a great way to help everyone in your home without having to install stuff on all their devices.
Scraping and repainting alone won't remove the lead. You need to do actual remediation. In some places there would be records of permits for that.
Kubernetes 1.23: Dual-Stack IPv4/IPv6 Networking Reaches GA
I'll take the opportunity to hop on to this thread and admit that I have never properly learned C (I have seen some code here and there). Considering there are several comments advising on using C as the language to implement the algorithms, what is your recommendation to get started with C? I'm looking for something that is not too long (I have a problem continuing with big books) and yet is concise and teaches the language in a well rounded manner.
Data Aggregation: Lowcode platforms to the rescue
Honestly I'm OK with that.

Title doesn't actually GUARANTEE there are actually no ads. I would rather train people to look for actual authoritative answer.

(I also personally hate when games try to put attributes in title, it just makes the entire search list meaningless)
Considering how many horror stories I've heard about people getting blocked from Paypal with funds in their custody, you can't see any benefit to doing this with crypto?
> The Signal Foundation, officially the Signal Technology Foundation, is an American non-profit organization founded in 2018 by Moxie Marlinspike and Brian Acton.
Lol I had the same thought. There’s times when HN feels a little like Monty Python https://youtu.be/xpAvcGcEc0k
OK, I've updated that sentence to be a little more neutral. Now I'm interested to to hear your response to the rest of what I wrote.

What is the Japanese government agency that provides reports about the number of foreign nations who die on Japanese soil, and where is the report from the time period including late June 2021, showing that nobody died. And for comparison, where can I read a sample report from a time period in which the number of deaths exceeded zero?

Also, in your scenario, did Byuu completely invent the company Datapower Development for the sake of appearances, or did they merely impersonate the founder, Wayne Becket, when talking to a reporter? Or is this a multi-person conspiracy?
It depends what you're looking at. For example new chemotherapy drugs have slightly extended average survival periods for certain cancers. But they're tremendously expensive, and that drives up insurance premiums for everyone. Are those drugs worth it? Ultimately the answer is subjective based on how we value human life.

One could also argue that those drugs should be cheaper, but without the profit motive they likely wouldn't have been developed in the first place. And socialized funding of drug development hasn't worked out well either.
Which one is the fried chicken? I like fried chicken.
Well, previously that was the case, but that's why they started committing biased censorship. Now it isn't
Clubhouse is so earlier 2021
In my case, yes, though obviously that depends on where you live. You can also make the argument that it's better to have low federal taxes and high state and local taxes than to have the reverse, since it's much easier to leave a high tax state or town than it is to immigrate to another country.
No. Yes, "freedom" ain't worth it.

I don't know.
Astranis and Andesat Strike $90M Deal to Expand Connectivity in Peru
When you're 90% done, you're halfway finished
Leftist ideas don't get very far in US politics because our "left" party is pretty centrist. Every time something "socialist" gets passed (like the ACA), it's super watered-down by folks from both parties and often stripped of key provisions (as is the case with the ACA) that made it at least somewhat workable.

If anywhere did defund the police, aside from police tactics to prevent that (see my other post in this conversation), it would only work if the social services were stepped-up to work toward crime-prevention (instead of crime-punishment, which is what police do), which isn't generally talked about in conjunction with defunding the police because "defund the police and replace it with a not-racist crime-prevention strategy involving community and social engagement and support" doesn't roll of the tongue.
I would encourage you not to go down that rabbit hole. I did so several years back, and wish I hadn't - the level of brutality and plain evilness of rendition and torture at scale (Torture as a Service, you might say) was/is just so utterly horrifying and disgusting. It went on so much in Iraq that they even forgot about people they'd tortured, broken, sexuality abused and left naked on freezing concrete floors in dungeons.

I swear something broke inside of me after reading some of the details - ever since, I don't even watch/read news anymore, because it just makes me so angry and sad. The Americans are supposed to be "the good guys", but agents of the state have performed atrocities on a bewildering scale for decades, and there is absolutely nothing any of us can do about it.
And Apple made no effort whatsoever to coordinate with KDE upstream IIRC. It was not the good kind of fork
This looks really nice, so I'm going to give it a shot.

Thanks for the recommendation!
I was going to post this, but you beat me to it. This is a really useful chart!
This is not true in CSS. In CSS pt is an absolute unit and does not depend on the size of the current font the way em does.

See: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-values-3/#absolute-lengths

Much terminology have a different meaning in CSS than in traditional typography. For example the em unit does not actually depend on the width of on "m"-letter in the font, rather it depends on the height of the font.
React now supports web components
First, "objective" reporting is a very subjective concept! Even if rhetorical bias is suppressed, there is always an editorial bias. What stories get run? What is the shape and focus of stories that do run? All news organizations have biases, and they are all more nuanced than "left vs right."

Second, The Atlantic magazine has functioned as a voice of commentary and analysis since its inception, so of course it's going to have more of an opinionated take than more "objective" outlets like AP or Reuters.
It's hard to recommend anything other than the original K&R - "The C Programming Language".

It's obviously not going to teach you the ins and outs of modern C development, but it's the best introduction to the language out there IMHO.
Doesn't GitHub require 1-person-1-account? I hope that does not cause trouble.
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar hell. We're trying for just the opposite here.

Edit: you unfortunately have a long history of doing this on HN. We've had to warn you many times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29230391 (Nov 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27384626 (June 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23930525 (July 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22030190 (Jan 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21660428 (Nov 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19051626 (Feb 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18799470 (Jan 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15655979 (Nov 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14674597 (July 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14508273 (June 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13742081 (Feb 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10640146 (Nov 2015)

I appreciate that you're not doing this in most of your comments but you're still doing it often enough that we need you to review the site guidelines and fix this properly. If you'd please do so, we'd appreciate it. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
The top two of majkinetor's list are pretty easy to describe:

PowerShell cmdlets (which is all built-in commands, most first party commands, some second and third party modules and wrappers and anything you can easily do in writing your own functions inside scripts) all share a single argument parser, rather than the usual command line application status quo in other shells where it is every app for itself in argument parsing and some programming languages are better than others at it and some libraries in languages are better than others.

One thing the cmdlet argument parser is good at is that it does make it really easy for the cmdlet author to add aliases (alternate names) for arguments (which PowerShell calls Parameters to the cmdlet) right next to where you define your Parameters. As a comparison, this is equally easy in say Python's argparse where you can provide a list of possible argument names in addition to just a single name. (If you are rolling your own in, say, C it may feel a bit harder.)

The other thing that PowerShell's shared argument parser supports is it always allows you to use the shortest non-ambiguous prefix to name an argument. (This is also something that Python's argparse does by default. Other languages/libraries it varies.) Which is basically that it always supports the "tab completion" automatically without actually having to type tab or "complete" the argument. For instance, the Remove-Item cmdlet often used by the alias `rm` doesn't seem to have any obvious aliases for its parameters, but `-r` works just fine like you would just about expect from other things named `rm` because there is no other parameter that starts R other than "-Recurse". It almost works equally well for Remove-Item's "-Force" parameter with the small hiccup that there is also a "-Filter" so you need `-fo`.

Another thing these last couple things demonstrate is that PowerShell's shared argument parser is case-insensitive. (Python's argparse is not, which is where the shared similarities stop.) PowerShell parameters in documentation are almost always shown in PascalCase for readability but most day-to-day use I see tends to be all lower case just like you just have to do in bash (`rm -r -fo`), only in PowerShell it is an option if you are into brevity rather than the only language that these cmdlets understand/parse.

Having a shared parser for all of this across so much of the shell (and easily used when writing your own functions which are treated as cmdlets just the same) means that you can count on it pretty much everywhere and you don't have to know anything about what language your command line tool was written nor worse what library in that language was used for argument parsing. (Python's argparse was only added to the standard library in Python 3.2! There's still tons of Python command line tools in the wild that don't use argparse at all and manually parse their args or use older libraries with fewer features from before the Python team declared a "winner" and added it to the standard library.)
The best part was for us was that after wrangling with their native API, we decided to go with one of the private companies that provide sane API wrapper on top of PACER. It's kinda crazy that there is a small industry of companies who make government api better. You can see some of these services by googling "bankruptcy monitoring".
Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era