skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's astonishing the degree to which the public tolerates such forms of ineptitude and subversion – it has a direct impact on everyone's bottom line.

The George Floyd protests were huge. I don't think it's a simple matter of the public being too complacent.

I'd say that insofar as the protests were unsuccessful, it's because their energy wasn't being directed strategically. There was so much discussion of "defunding the police" without anyone offering a clear, compelling alternative approach to public safety and deterring crime.

From a systems-level perspective, telling everyone that police officers are jerks seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Nice people place a high priority on being well-regarded by others; jerks enjoy opportunities to abuse their power. The "ACAB" slogan exacerbates the problem it describes.

One question I wonder about is whether jurisdictions where the chief of police is elected tend to function better than jurisdictions where they're appointed by the mayor. There are so many dimensions along which mayoral performance can be evaluated, and public safety is just one of those. By squeezing all the dimensions into a single vote, we're limiting the amount of signal that voters can send to their government.

I don't think policing inherently needs to be a malicious activity. My impression is that police quality is higher in Europe than the US for instance, and that police quality changes depending on which US municipality you look at. One wild idea I sometimes dream about: Imagine if each city had multiple competing police departments, and every cop wore the logo of the department they worked for prominently on their shoulder. Then for each local election, voters vote for one or more logos, and police work + funding gets distributed to the competing departments accordingly. Every time you call to report a crime, it gets assigned semi-randomly to one of the departments, and you're told which department got the assignment. Basically, make police brutality and police corruption into a customer satisfaction issue. The very best police chiefs could make millions of dollars starting police companies which effectively served and protected cities across America.

Yeah, I know HN dislikes capitalism. But it's interesting that policing as an industry has very little capitalist competition -- it's entirely organized by the government -- and yet no one seems satisfied with it. I'd argue capitalist competition can work great if companies are competing to succeed at the correct metric. Alleged failures of capitalism often strike me as failures of the competition metric rather than failures of capitalism per se.
I to some extent agree. A blog can be an attack surface for someone wishing to doxx you, a point of failure for potential employers, or perhaps an opportunity to open yourself up to criticism for the local equivalent of your knitting community when they're having a purity spiral.

You could, of course, keep to the driest topics, the most tamed opinions, nothing spicier than an animal cracker, but for some this self-censorship of "your most honest, primitive, real thoughts" (to quote Naked Lunch) is tantamount to a sin, just one step up from lying to your diary.

If you are trying to keep it safe, are you truly communicating what is on your mind, or are you pasteurizing your output, homogenizing it, adding a touch of gamma radiation and a run through the freeze-drier, until the final result is palatable pablum, certainly inoffensive and low-residue, but ultimately unworth either consumption or production?

Blogging seems to have shifted on the risk/reward scale and people have responded as such. A pity.
So they are doing a layoff
I've been waiting patiently to shut off my old power-hungry NAS server and move the management of the 8 disk zfs array on to something like a raspberry pi.

It looks like I might be a step closer with the RPI5's pcie expansion options.
A good question. I've found Bard to be quite good at this type of question in the past but maybe it has hallucinated the answer!
I still blog for the hell of it. Been doing it since December, 1996.
> I'd even consider setting up an old Mac for using CS1/CS2

Buy an old Mac online second hand with CS2 already installed on it from someone that originally bought CS2 and installed it on the machine.
I wonder how iOS communication works - does it drop down to layer 2 and send raw data frames?
Speak for yourself! Everyone I know personally have left and re-founded the sources they followed there elsewhere. Anecdotal? Sure it is! All we're going to get from X is anecdote or lies about usage anyway, so why not lean into it, huh?
No, they're trying to get them to leave without increasing their unemployment insurance rates.
Now that the rockchip cpu is very close to full upstream kernel support, how does the raspberry pi compare? Do they maintain their own kernel branch (considering they use a pretty uncommon/restricted Broadcom chip) or is it mostly upstreamed?
What's crazy is this story went even further than what's been disclosed. He had working relations with know scammers/crime groups in the Middle east. If you want to read about how crazy this guy was, read the court docs for his divorce.. To say he was a piece of work is an understatement.

Edit: There's also numerous cases ongoing for fraud relating to loans / purchases under these companies. One of the things he did was buy dormant LLCs around the US so they'd have logenvity making it easier to secure loans.

Source: Worked with a National Paper on the story back when it started.
And I'm sure the British courts will rule in the author's favour when the lawsuit is filed, but that doesn't make flashing other users legal.

Then again, I doubt someone is going to file a police report, especially when the URL of the page would bring the reports to an entirely different web page in the first place.
Try reading the rest of the review and you will see multiple explanations for why things are not a good idea. I don't even think your cherry picked example is that repetitive. It sounds like a normal conversation to me.
Well, you could theoretically offer to give people their tax credit in monthly installments but I'm pretty sure everyone would opt for the lump sum.
It's a lot better in the last few months. If you're still looking for an RPI 4 then sign up on a waitlist at place like adafruit and you'll get one soon.
Is it possible to 3D print an object from a 3D Gaussian based scan?
I like this idea, but what do you do for GPIO (and SPI, I2C etc.)?
The version of that story that I read is much longer, by Funranium Labs. It is entertainingly written, but I wonder how much is urban legend:
https://www.funraniumlabs.com/2018/09/the-fringes-of-regulat...
It's great that you're both smart and stubborn!

Here are some UX basics in case you really want understand the topic:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-basics-study-guide/
So every time the image is served, the website is hurt in a marginal, indirect way (-1 user, a bit less revenue stream),

while one unrelated user is hurt in a substantial way (somewhere from pretty disgusted to mildly traumatized)

Does nobody see the obvious problem?
NYPL showcases 'electrifying' rare subway photos from 1970s
This is a weird rambly post. Blogs became "corpo" like 15 years ago. But in the last 3-4 years there's definitely been a return to "blogging for the hell of it".... especially around these parts. Tech people just doing writeups on their projects, something random they learned, discovered etc. After like the 5 years preceding that it's been refreshing that more posts shared around here are like personal blogs and not just news sites etc.
Oh, there is.

See Haldeman's Forever War, Drake's Hammer's Slammers, or Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga.

Maybe some of the better MechWarrior novels.
Exploiters accumulate public goods into private caches

That’s literally capitalism
just knowing that my neighbor was sending his mail this way would aggravate me!
> The page is blocked because of your cookie settings. To continue, please allow all cookies.

How is this legal?
I also read it a few days ago and for me it was very underwhelming. A disappointment for me was that Tolstoi was always looking for some perfection or regularity that would explain everything. It is arrogant of us to think that there should be something when as far as we can see there is only all that has ever been and nothing more. But I think there was a hidden theme there, which is something that many people who have read Nietzsche but also positive nihilists agree with: we give meaning to life. This was what Tolstoi found in tradition. A meaning that had been passed to new generations, evolving bit by bit but retaining it's essence. Only he couldn't stand that God was so ingrained in it.
do you have strong opinions on the matter? geez
You might expect they'd have contributed a lot, what with the being shut down and everyone and everything involved being subject to endless accusations and calls for investigations.

Now tell me, how did all of those accusations and investigations help in the pandemic?
V2.5 was fairly accurate but it was quite opinionated and didn't shy away from taking the piss here and there
Adding to this list: danluu.com
>but how in the heck is a gallery lightbox anywhere near 4 lines of CSS and two lines of PHP?

Most implementations are massively bloated as a legacy from the jQuery days when that was neccessary. CSS is incredibly powerful now, and the browsers are all evergreen, so it's pretty trivial to implement a pure CSS/HTML gallery:

https://css-tricks.com/css-only-carousel/

This is fully featured, with indexing, scrolling, animation, etc., but you could slim that down even further to just a few lines for a simple automated slider. Obviously doesn't work if you need managed control, but 99% of gallery use-cases are just flipping through a homepage hero like the OP.
Totally agree. A huge benefit of TT is the automated importing and parsing of forms, both for speed and accuracy in doing taxes. Without that connectivity, FreeTax USA is not much different from just filling out the IRS official pdf's.
CRDT - Conflict-free replicated data type
The difference is that they are not managing me, they "manage" their area of expertise. Better than an "all-rounder" who is doing PO, SM, HR, approving vacations and doing 1 on 1s ...
Right, I've always just entered the summary. However, that process is manual and requires scouring the forms for correct info. With TurboTax, it lets you integrate into the brokerage and just sucks down the info.
Kotlin is what I meant by "weird derivatives"

But anyway I have used it. Didn't understand why it existed then. Still don't.

All these weird languages and UI frameworks where you write hundreds of lines of code just do simple UI layouts, no thanks.
I've also compared many 1L PCs from a performance/price/power consumption perspective.
I decided on the HP prodesk/ elitedesk 400/800 G5 with the i5-9500T. It idles at ~2-3W and has considerably more computing and storage than these embedded solutions. I only see something like a raspberry pi be handy when relying on GPIO ports.
"A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" Simulated by GPT-4
> Towards sustainable systems

The same words as 'Not sustainable systems'. This does nowhere near enough to create true sustainability. As long as we allow drivel corpo-blogspam like this, we will never be sustainable.

You don't build things that must be changed to be sustainable, you build things TO BE sustainable. That is true human centric design.
But that's old school tech, modern day solid state phased arrays are cheap now.
Yes, Floutwork is primarily designed to streamline the use of web-based apps. Unfortunately, integrating local apps isn't in the current plans, as that would be a significant technical challenge.

Floutwork does have a built-in email app, but its primary role is to supplement your main email client, not replace it. It currently makes it easy to clear out high volumes of emails with just a few clicks and can be used for sending quick replies. Over time, I plan to develop a richer experience that could serve as a replacement for your primary email client. The email app supports Gmail and Outlook.
This is a complaint on Reddit during tax time every single year. I would be surprised if no one at FreeTaxUSA heard of it.
My agent talked to him at length and sussed out enough details to assemble the pieces. IIRC, there was a point where the lister got frustrated and revealed more than he intended.
Agreed on not becoming too dependent on Stripe. Billing (or in this case, pricing) is the last thing you want under another entity's control.

There is surprisingly little in the OSS space around this, but I can recommend KillBill (no affiliation). Although it is one component that does combine billing and pricing model, they are separate abstractions within KillBill, that provide the exact benefits the article describes (the ability to quickly iterate on pricing model). Stripe and co. are relegated to simply processing payments when they are due, which avoids the lockin of their value-add services. I'd love to see more in this space but honestly KillBill is the most rounded that I've found.
We all used to have steady jobs which paid the bills.
The "stack of paperwork" is definitely far from impossible.

You have form 1040, which gives you a run-down of every possible form you need to reference. You fill out the boxes with the info it wants, then you go down the list, filling in each number box that applies to you: Got W-2s? Probably, attach 'em and sum them up. See a phrase you don't recognize? Read the relevant instructions. Got interest? Time to fill out a Schedule B, which itself references some other forms, and attach some 1099s. Sell any investiments? Schedule D, which might have you fill out an 8949 (strictly speaking, you can skip this one if all your investments have declared basis on your 1099-Bs that you received from your brokerage). If you think you might have more deductions than the standard, there's Schedule A, but for most people you can safely skip that one and take the standard. Taxable income determined!

Then the taxes section contains a bunch of forms that apply to you if you're in certain situations, maybe you have a kid (Schedule 8812), the instructions are very helpful in telling you what you need to care about here. The first box is important, it includes your income tax which the instructions will tell you how to calculate.

Sum up your witholdings from the W-2s and 1099s to figure out how much you've already paid the government, then figure out if you owe the fed money or they owe you.

Sign, stick in an envelope, and send. Whole process takes a couple hours the first time, when you need to learn what you actually need to fill out, and in future years less than 2 hours.

If you can read at a 6th grade level and do basic addition and subtraction you can fill out your tax forms.
Have you tried using SRS for anything productive and failed or just haven't gotten into it yet?
It's also a more convenient theory for the Chinese government. Its much less embarrassing to say "The virus came from rednecks eating weird things" than it is to say "The virus came from a government funded lab".
Yes that's a fantastic one.
As noted in my comment, that's potentially problematic legally if Adobe finds out I'm using that CS2 license for commercial purposes since they have the right to invalidate licenses at any point.
I'm only 42.... police in the UK got their perpetual guns and SWAT outfits post 'war on terror' iirc. I remember clearly seeing the first 'bobby on the beat' in my home town wearing a stab vest over his white shirt and tie. He had traditional dark blue trousers and shoes (rather than combat boots). It is a rural town. I never heard of a knife crime. We thought it was health and safety nonsense. This would be mid 2000s.

I told a policemen friend (non uniform) that i didn't like that they moved someone after to black polo shirts. He said it was because sweat made the colour run from the stab vests into their white shirts...
You know that the GPT is trained on data including that documentation, right?

If you don't like ChatGPT, that's fine. But it's clearly useful to many people, and you aren't entitled to feel superior for not using it.
The Tom Middleton Star Wars Essential Mix from 2005 is another classic:

audio

https://soundcloud.com/grimgringo/tom-middleton-star-wars

tracklist

https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/essentialmix/tracklistingarchiv...
He wants to put his bachelor's degree to use that he paid X amount of money for. He has the same blogging-as-a-job mindset.

Why is (for example) Raymond Chen's blog interesting? Because he has a real job that gives him stories to blog about and occasionally vent his frustration, and the result is entertaining but real, useful information. He doesn't spend time pondering what to write about next.

You don't need a degree in creative writing to blog. You need a real job or hobby to have something to blog about. I don't care about some rando's opinion on some video game, whether he writes like Shakespeare or not.
For anyone wondering if there is any subgenre that he seems to not vehemently dislike, French House seems to have a surprisingly charitable description.

> ...every kick for just a fraction of a second, adding a new dimension of chunky French goodness.

> French House is still around because anything this addictively funky will never die. Just like Disco.
Yep, very standard to upgrade at end of the 5 year warranty period.
CS2 was free to download from Adobe in 2013. Technically they made it available for people who bought it but they shutdown the activation servers so basically it was a backup option with universal serial numbers.

Archive.org and many other sites have it. Both the Windows and Mac version (well that needs a G4 or G5 PPC Mac)

https://archive.org/details/Adobe-CS2
> that doesn't negate what I said about this being correctable in software

“My house is on fire, but that is easily correctable by the fire department using water, a cheap and widely available commodity. The real concern is alien abductions in my neighborhood. We are defenseless against these!”

> It also does not qualify as "pwning" your device, at least for my interpretation of the word "pwn."

Random people on the same train as me being able to crash my phone fits my definition of “pwned”. And so does me having to use wired headphones as a countermeasure.
I'm not sure if it's broken or if I'm doing something wrong. I focus one of the text boxes, put my cursor at the end and press control + enter but it does not seem to do anything.

Consider this a bug report I guess? I don't feel like joining a Discord to report it

Windows 10, Chrome 118.0.5993.71
I don't think we'll ever find out. There's no incentive for the Chinese government to investigate this issue, and plenty of incentives to keep it hidden.
I agreed with everything the parent said, but to deal with the points you're implicitly raising: just send people checks instead of offering tax credits.

Do X? Get Y!

instead of:

Do X? Fill out 3 forms, cross-reference to 2 others, be eligible for a tax credit if you earned enough, file ....
So I was at least somewhat correct, they're trying to do anything but lay off the people that they no longer want.
I'd agree with that, to the extent that understanding how badly your tools can hurt you is an important thing to learn.

Consider how a surgeon would respond if told not to use a scalpel because of the risk of accidental injury when using a sharp tool.

We learn from our mistakes - to which I'd add, sometimes we can afford to make mistakes (home programs) and other times we can't (safety-critical code).
Where do you buy an Orange Pi? When I was researching these devices I found it to be extremely weird/sketchy. These are three different websites all apparently from different companies:

- https://orangepi.com/

- https://orangepi.net/

- http://www.orangepi.org (note: https does not work)
Cisco iOS XE Web UI Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
NIMBYism != People being concerned about their neighbors possessing weapons of mass destruction/super viruses capable of killing them and millions/billions of other people.
The Pi 5 looks neat and I hear it's finally got a power button built-in, which was always the sorest point of the rpi series for me - the fact that it had no good story for safely idling was always absurd. The default configuration was "if you lose power there's a good chance the filesystem will be corrupt".

Still, does the new one do better beyond having an off-button? Like does it wake via USB properly? Does it have some way to safely recover the filesystem after power-loss?

Because that has always been the gigantic asterisk on the otherwise-cool RPI. "It's a ticking time-bomb until its memory gets corrupted, and if it crashes you have to roll the dice by power-cycling it" was never a good story. That and its unbearable prima-donna pickyness about voltage.
Link to the support page: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5487
How does this compare to Briar? It doesn't seem to support creating a mesh via bluetooth?
There’s nothing in the story that says it was submerged in water
If you instantly switched over the average person and took away their Windows/Mac, they would be lost and would constantly get bit by the cons of those technologies. Ever had to teach someone something simple in Excel? Imagine how teaching them SSH would go.

However, that doesn't mean it can't be a gradual process that takes years or generations even.
Original Scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKwyjsJGxk

- O U T - O F - I D E A S -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHcqNVjGJN4
What they mean by spontaneous is things happing by chance. You pinging someone isn’t happening by chance, you’re choosing to do that - to make contact.

Compare to a physical office, where by chance you’re in the cafe at the same time as someone else who you usually don’t think about. But somehow you start talking and a good idea comes from it.

I’m remote and have no problem pinging anyone on slack from my teammate to the CEO — but when I visit the office I always find connections & ideas I would never find sitting at home.
This site allows anyone to inject content, you don't need an iframe.

https://joshcsimmons.com/post/eJyVlD2PgzAMhvf8Cm8HlcD76dSlf8...

Created using

wget "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/snipe/5512408/raw/db9f4051eeb1079de436ec5ae9ba9aff2a99549c/gistfile1.txt"
python3
>>> base64.b64encode(zlib.compress(b"<pre>" + open('gistfile1.txt', 'rb').read())).replace(b'/',b'%2F')