skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly the community reacted:

- Many in the community marched to "Defund the Police".

- Others in the community started committing more crimes.

Unfortunately those two groups are part of the same community, so they'll have to learn to get along.
I love Thinkpads and bought some for myself. I also pushed for them to be adopted across my company's entire engineering department.

We're sending them back for a refund and buying XPS Developer Editions for everyone instead, even though it's IMO a much inferior product with no ports and a crappy keyboard.

The Realtek wifi cards they're putting into the new Thinkpads are just a damn shame. Even with 3rd party kernel modules that you compile yourself, we couldn't get it to work reliably, and while I'm OK with opening up a laptop with 37 tabs and replacing the wifi card, we can't ask that of everyone.

For our team the laptop needs to "just work" and the new Thinkpads don't, which is deeply disappointing to me.
They only get one screen in the Tesla. If it was a separate screen for the passengers to be gaming in.

But Elon cheap, so we're having this stupid conversation.
I'm guessing there's something about how they're doing recognition of who is speaking that would make it hard to scale the cloud based speech recognition. Though I also notice that Alexa can answer more questions with the network down than it used to. Early on it was pretty much only the wake words, and then it'd given an error no matter what. Now it "listens" and will answer some requests to some degree without a network connection (e.g. if you ask to set an alarm it'll tell you the network is down and it can't set new alarms, but that it will still alert you, so it'd seem the full smarts of parsing an alarm request goes to the cloud, but it recognises at least enough to know you've asked about an alarm)
Just build an electron browser, you can control whats going on inside in.
having grown up alongside lots of people in these communities, this is nonsense. violence in the black community is much more around the economics of the drug trade, poverty, and poor quality/adversarial/under-policing.

the drug trade is similarly violent in Mexico, where rap music is not as popular and there are fewer black people.

> It's not like I never enjoyed 50 cents.

Sure, "50 cents"
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Looks like Tailwind has an answer to this: @apply. https://tailwindcss.com/docs/reusing-styles

I am going to give it a try. The argument against using it is that it defeats the purpose of Tailwind, but I think its useful to start by spraying classes until things work and then moving those classes into e.g. btn-primary once the styles become stable and need universality.
But with all things geopolitical, how many buttons must be pushed to reach a consensus? Or better phrased, how many do not have to push the button to make it useless?
So basically the "social networking" of the world is causing everyone to value superficiality and conformity?

Plus internationalization/internetification of the world is spreading megacorps everywhere, and English, which to a certain degree is homogonizing culture?

And a lot of good ideas are in isolation, science, art, technology. It is a problem that everything gets exposed too early to opinion and gets chopped down before it can germinate into something interesting and offbeat.

Also, crap is there a lot of entertainment available simply for the cost of an internet connection.

But I'm hoping COVID will result in a wealth of new ideas, since there was a fair amount of isolation.
> Police don't prevent crime. Hell, they barely even respond to crime.

Awarding a well-marked group with some measure of public accountability the right to use violent countermeasures for the protection of life and property in a geographic area facilitates commercial trade and societal advancement.

However, the “garbage-in, garbage-out” phenomenon applies to policing, which makes it less of a silver bullet. A certain amount of criticism lobbed at police forces in America can be reduced to hysteria over police being unable to turn lead into gold.
> Keep in mind that that generation had a much fresher and more direct memory of a significant conflict (WW2)

Not just the generation you refer to (pre-boomers who would have some memory of WW2), but also boomers and us Xers also were also quite aware that nuclear war was a real possibility.
In 2017 Copenhagen had a wave of gang shootings with 1-2 daily fatalities during the worst weeks. That is nothing compared to the most violent US cities but it was completely unprecedented for a Danish city.

The gang warfare was stopped by massive police operations and surveillance. This included military surveillance and signal intelligence planes [1] and helicopters to aid the police.

It worked. I know it goes against techno libertarian ideals on HN to suggest that police and surveillance can actually stop crime but it did in 2017 in Copenhagen.

[1]: https://www.berlingske.dk/samfund/politiet-tager-nye-vaaben-...
This is understandable. But if it is experimental, please label is as such. No mention of that on the landing page right now.

EDIT: Oh, I should say: If it's meant to take over the world, say so, as well!
I have a feeling this strategy will not be a great success with the ladies!

After all, the woman has the ability to choose, too. So the matter may remain rather academic.
The gist of the slogan, as originally intended, is to take some (not all) money and responsibilities away from the police and give them to unarmed or lesser-armed civil enforcement agencies when appropriate (for example: parking enforcement, mental health interventions with unarmed people), and to take away funding the exceeds that scope of reasonable armed police activity (e.g. no MRAPs, no elaborate SWAT teams in small towns).

In other words, the intent is to fundamentally remove the institutional potential for cases like "I called in a noise complaint and then an officer showed up, shot my neighbor's dog, and kicked my child" by making it so that police are no longer the unfettered monolithic response for every possible civil disturbance.
Net-zero pledges seem analogous to Exonn starting "climate focused" think tanks and creating marketing material about "investing in algae based biofuels". It's purely marketing, kicking the can down the road.

However, applying the blanket statement of "<insert initiative here> [are] not good enough" is also a lazy approach to actually finding a solution.
Towards the end of his life Stanisław Lem was asked about Tokarczuk (the recent Polish Nobel prize winner) and said the following:

"Tokarczuk offended my rationality to such an extent that I wanted to write a polemic, but I decided that it wasn't worth it, because it would mean I have to read her entire book."
Scotland and Portugal have had success in reducing crime rates by treating crime as a public health issue and focusing their efforts on prevention. If you're genuinely interested in how to build a less violent society, I'd suggest starting your research there.

I am unaware of any evidence that early, swift violence is an effective long- or short-term deterrent for crime.
Part of the problem is older consumer networking equipment. Comcast has supported IPv6 for quite a while, but many routers I've used are not configured correctly out of the box to work with Comcast's IPv6 implementation. Even getting IPv6 to work with my new UniFi equipment took changing a setting or two away from the defaults, though that is more expected with prosumer and enterprise gear.

I bet there are lots of customers with 10 year old gigabit routers that have had no reason to be replaced, and will still be perfectly serviceable for another 10 years, especially if they use a separate wireless access point. Many of these people probably don't even know what any of this means.
Wait what? Why would criminals be angry at the police for not interacting with them as much? I think a more likely explanation for increased crime is increased opportunity due to reduced police presence.
We cache builds on my work c++ projects. A clean build would be 2+ hours, using cached artifacts is about 5 minutes.
If you want to really destroy morale tell your employees you're gonna IPO and then agree to an acquisition instead. Especially if that acquisition results in only a tiny bump in share price. Ask me how I know.
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I dislike seeing smoking described as a "habit". 80% of smokers want to quit but can't.

"Habit" minimizes the reality that smoking is an addiction that kills 2/3 of its victims.
https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/ca/san-francisco/crime...
I do this sometimes when the line gets too long due to long names. I do not like it.
Many urban police departments are seeing a lot of officers quitting, and having problems filling vacancies. They are down hundreds of positions, and this has the effect of reducing police presence for deterrence, and also lower arrest rates so that more criminals are out on the streets.

There were only 2 city council-members who voted against defunding.
Whether or not actual budgets get reduced, urban cops got the message that they are not appreciated, or worse. The good ones can easily get jobs somewhere less stressful and with higher job satisfaction.
i think knee-jerk is unfair to characterize any sort of reaction that has been brewing for decades, both the problem and proposed solutions.
radii?
That's a valid perspective and I find this community to be a place of interesting content and discussion the majority of the time. Obviously my comment was flagged, and looking at the original parent I replies reveals a vast array of discussion circling around dangerous speculation and paranoia, so whatever goals I aimed to accomplish failed.

Oh well, it's ultimately just the internet, I have to believe people are good enough not to become radicalized. Worrying about these issues is more likely to get me banned then to generate anything productive.
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I think it’s a justified emotional reaction to injustice. A significant amount of the public exposure police have is extremely negative. Is it clear to anyone barely following along that police are providing value to society?

Here’s a simple example. Portland, OR has had extremely high gun violence this year, like many cities. The public perception is that the police are doing a very poor job handling that, either with bringing people to justice or preventing crime. Now, just a month ago, there was a manhunt near where I live. It seemed like half the force showed up for it, and the reason was that someone allegedly shot at police. It is very difficult to take this in a positive light when it seems the police are only turning up in force when they are threatened, rather than when the public feels unsafe.

I’m not trying to make a claim about what they should or shouldn’t be doing really, I’m just pointing out the severe PR problem the police have created for themselves. And it seems like they continue digging themselves into a hole.

I also think this has less to do with individuals, but it’s clear that the system of policing in place just isn’t working for the community. I don’t think the community will or even has to be experts on what the system should look like. We’re just people who want to feel safe in our city!

But everything about policing seems set up to primarily protect the police (qualified immunity, asset seizure, police unions, lack of accountability from top to bottom, extreme focus on violence as a solution), rather than the public. That’s very concerning.

Anyways, my point is that when average people see a system that isn’t working for them, and don’t really get the “good” that the system may also be doing, of course the reaction is going to be very negative. It just makes sense. And since if you have a very negative view of a system, why would you want to deal with it at all?

And there aren’t clear solutions to the problem! I’d say getting rid of qualified immunity and asset seizure (to an extent) is a start, but that probably requires constitutional changes. And that’s unlikely to get anywhere anytime soon. And police unions seem to prevent local changes as well. If the police aren’t willing to reform themselves despite the very obvious need, it’s no wonder the public is not reacting in a “constructive” way.
Things like Proposition 47 doesn't help either. [1] [2]

[1] 2014 California Proposition 47: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_California_Proposition_47

[2] It’s Time for Californians to Recognize that Prop. 47 Criminal Justice Reform Failed: https://timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2021/06/16/its-time-for-...
Are Apple tablets better than Android
There is a USB-C port in the "pivot" of the Magic Keyboard case, which permits you to charge the iPad Pro by means of pass‑through charging while at the same time leaving the tablet's own USB-C opening free for use with different extras.
> You mentioned persona, which relies on email. Lose gmail=lose your account on possibly hundreds of websites.

Think about this more: we're not talking about a blockchain where the failure is permanent and irreversible. If you forget your Gmail password or someone phishes you, you can go through Google's reset process and regain control. It's still a mess but it's repairable. Similarly, if you don't like Google for whatever reason, email is a distributed system which means you can run your own server or switch providers easily. Similarly, most sites have the concept of linking multiple email addresses or other means to perform a password reset. Nothing about this problem requires turning your internet experience into a series of microtransactions (often not so micro).

> Cryptocoins are not yet widely used, but there is nothing stopping people from coming up with new ingenious ways to store their hard money safely as they have done in real life.

Yes, and they've largely picked the traditional banking system. Most cryptocurrency users use exchanges because those are hard problems which require 24x7 security and operations, and the vast majority of people choose to outsource it.

This is why I suggested studying the long history of this because while the internet has always been decentralized many things people use have increasingly centralized _by user preference_. OpenID had an unfriendly design but it's far from the only thing people have tried, Persona being an obvious example, and in general the public hasn't cared about this enough to even switch to a free service much less a microtransaction-based one.

> It 's a change of mindset, that it is possible to lose digital assets permanently. I think many people can come to terms with that in the end

People have been getting familiar with that for half a century. The difference is that the proposed systems are designed to be fragile rather than robust, cost more to use, and the proposal is to link more of your entire life into those systems without a recovery path. If there isn't a really clear, compelling benefit this is not going to be a successful sales pitch.
we love to see it
Capital controls. You can’t move the money out of the country very easily.
As a Gen-Xer we were very much aware of the possibility of nuclear war. While the previous generation (boomers) had their bomb drills at school, they didn't bother by the time we were in school because what was the point in surviving a nuclear war?
I’m not. It doesn’t matter what jazz is or isn’t. The point is misdirection.

I’m not going to argue that Rap isn’t often talking about crime and violence, but rap is a wide genre and quite a lot of it is not violent. The origins of Rap are quite different than what we have today, you might be interested to learn the history of rap and how/why it changed.

You might also learn about rap and not cherrypick what fits your narrative. You might understand that alot of rap is about the lifestyle individuals feel forced to live and just about their circumstances in general.

This narrative also convieniently ignores the massive audience for pop, gospel and R&B in the same communities you’re discussing as if black people listen to rap and only rap.

Regardless biggest consumers of rap are not black people, but in your analysis only black people are unable to overcome the influence of popular entertainment.

If rap causes black people to commit crime then country music must certainly cause drunk driving and Call of Duty is why we have school shootings.
We now suspect that's basically what happened during a previous coronavirus pandemic in 1889. Fortunately this time we have vaccines and other treatments to reduce the death rate.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252012/
Which begs the question, will you ever hear it? If a nuke goes off with nobody around, is there a sound?
I vaguely thought that many if not most of the casualties from oxycontin were due to adulteration with fentanyl.

And I also thought that the OG opiate, that has been used and abused for much longer than either has been around, is morphine.

So I'm not entirely clear on why I don't read about the same level of anger regarding makers of those drugs.
I think some context is in order.

Giuliani's heavy handedness in dealing with criminals forced the crime to come down in a way. Meaning, police were forced to deal even with the pettiest of crimes. Giuliani banned all sorts of "unsavory" businesses from Times Square. That reduced crime in the area and helped a ton because it showed that a horrible area can be rehabilitated. One year, the subways were gross, smelly, hot, dangerous and covered in graffiti. And the next, I was riding in clean subways at 2am without fearing for my life.

In Los Angeles, with Richard Riordan, his years coincided with California's "3 strikes and you are out" law, which put away lots of habitual criminals. Crime went down everywhere in the state.
Ask HN: What are the best engineering brands in 2021?
What companies have the strongest engineering brands and why?

What about open source brands?
This YouTrack item

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-3729

tells that JetBrains have been working on a JDK17 version of JBR for 2022.1, which amazingly, is almost upon us. I am looking forward to seeing what it's like!
Having played a bunch of infinite, I’m really not sure I’d call it a “triumph” yet. The networking/desync problems are frequent and severe, the customisation is severely lacking, uninspired and far too greedy. The lack of matchmaking for certain modes is a strange choice, and there’s some really boring game modes (the energy seeds mode, just why?)

Maybe the campaign is good? But if they’re launched as 2 separate games, I don’t think the campaign being good should give the multiplayer a pass.
Wow, another self-loving ego-tripping fund manager writing chapters of his life... How interesting.
Huh. I didn't find the first hundred pages of The Name of the Roes notably boring or difficult or anything. I do think literature generally selects against readers who aren't prepared for it. Like how it's hard to get into a new genre of music, especially the first time you start trying to branch out in that way. Don't understand its idioms, its musical language, and haven't trained your ear for it, et c. Like trying to go from a childhood of listening to only radio top-40s to appreciating classical music or jazz or something. It's jarring and off-putting at first, and may even seem silly or bad.
As the business developed, certainly - however in the early days our mutual antagonism served us well - every decision was challenged, and his ying to my yang meant that we got off to a roaring start. Unfortunately in latter years, this became more of an impediment than a boon, as I ended up spending a majority of my time disentangling situations he refused to even acknowledge the existence of. I can fight an uphill battle with gusto, but when it was against my own ally, it became utterly demoralising.
> nerds: stop bringing your own cake to other people's birthday parties.

What does this have to do with nerds? Articles like that are probably written by PR staff.
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You modified the HTML. And... I didn't see the output described in the parent in your fiddle. ?
No. The transition you're talking about is a general tendency in viruses, not some kind of rule. SARS-CoV-2 seems to avoid it, in fact, due to its tendency to spread before people even have symptoms.

It's honestly too early to tell what the characteristics of Omicron are, there's just not enough data. Some anecdotes look positive, but mostly what we're seeing is the media going nuts trying to say something when the responsible thing to do is say nothing and wait.
Who got worse, and how? Seems like a pretty unlikely claim to me on the face of it.
> Also they don’t risk certain things because they might have to use force and they’re worried they’ll be charged with a crime f or doing so, (especially if people riot enough and the DA needs to satisfy them).

It's simple: don't commit crime.

> How do we both protest police brutality when it rears its head, while still treating officers like they’re on the side of the good guys (like most, but not all, are).

Get rid of the bad apples. Simple as that. No more unions and charges for those who decided to cover up instead of reporting malpractice. And liability insurance not paid by the taxpayers.
I've always been a bit apprehensive of Tailwind but with the latest JIT compiler it actually seems usable. I'm happy to see it getting more use for mainstream applications but I wish it wasn't the "default" for a lot of open source projects.

For example, several of the next.js examples[1] use tailwind without explicitly stating so, because I guess it's just become a ubiquitous as css stylesheets or modules for some people. The problem I find is that it adds opinion and mental overhead for people learning related technologies or trying to get a head start without an opinionated styling solution. In order to use something like the blog-starter example for next.js I have to go and learn tailwind and then come back before I can use their blog starter, where as CSS is universal. CSS works with every project, without depending on Tailwind.

Anyway, looking forward to seeing newer improvements to Tailwind, but I hope that people will consider it an alternative to something like Bootstrap instead of an alternative to CSS.

[1] https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/examples/blog-...
> The capacity cost of thermal storage has not been the bottleneck for commercialization, but rather the round trip efficiency.

Has there been any effort to do this directly at power plants, so there isn't a round trip?

You have a heat source that generates the same heat 24/7 (e.g. nuclear reactor). You have solar panels that generate power only during the day. So you put the heat from the heat source into storage while solar is generating, then take it back out after the sun goes down.

You're not going from electricity to heat back to electricity, you're just not converting the original heat into electricity until later in the day.
Not to say that I'm particularly good at it, but this too is a muscle that gets better with time. I recently started playing music again with my highschool band. The guitarist worked at songwriting for the past 15 years and can now write out a song on demand, many of which are (in my opinion) great.
My favorites are the original classic space, but then again it was my formative years.

Did the author paint replicas? The prints look really spotty in the pictures.
That may explain the inverse correlation between salary and market share. You'd have to pay a lot to convince a leader to do this deliberately.
Docusign Ruby SDK has been broken for months
Just started with tailwinds and similiar thoughts. A framework like this without components.

Try daisyui as a tailwinds plugin. It comes with the missing components. It also allows you to replace your 80 character style for buttons with btn btn-primary.