skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That attempt at the problem looks pretty nice. Thanks for sharing it.
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Count me in; if I can help I will. I live outside the US but I suspect this problem probably exists in countries all around the world.
Intuitively and practically, I agree that public transport is worse on in the Bay Area than it is along the Northeast Corridor, but qualifying and quantifying how it's actually different is a challenge. For one, the Bay Area's primary transit backbones are BART and Caltrain [1]; there is a missing link between East Bay and San Jose; there's not enough Transbay options; Oakland is the true hub of the system but not the primary activity center.

Also, most of the activity nodes of the Bay Area are actually close to transit, which paradoxically hurts the efficiently of the system. Traditionally, you'd want each station to be its own hub from a larger catchment area that you'd serve with, say, buses or other transit. But in the Bay Area, because of the Bay and mountains hemming in the built-up areas, every interesting node is already on the One True Circum-Bay String of Pearls, and have minimal catchment areas beyond them.

This also means there is no express option to get from one end to the other, without having to traverse through all intermediate points first, regardless whether that's accomplished with an 'express service' that skips stops, or a transversal direct line.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/SF_Bay_R...
I have seen casual weed consumption among outdoor climbers in some places in Europe. Nothing that I would call "drug culture". Maybe it's different in other places.
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So the solution seems simple - have the rich white suburb courts take half the cases in the Bronx.

Spread the available resources around.
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Try running any such program through Softbound + CETS or SAFEcode (already in LLVM). They turn C programs memory-safe. Should knock out most of your risk immediately with an acceptable performance hit unless your volume is really, really high. Code-Pointer Integrity at least protects control flow with max of around 10% penalty. Given they're all alpha by few developers, they need more people using them on various software and doing error reports if they fail.
The way this works in X11 is that you usually start your X11 env such that the environment variable pointing to the agent (which got started) is shared and the agent is accessible by applications. That way running ssh or gpg in any xterm will just work. This is not possible at the moment in Wayland. Think of it like OSX's keychain.
we don't have a lot of choice at the moment, from a practical and self-funding perspective which retains 100% control and thus can remain true to its ethical business roots. i outline a SMALL selection of the dozens of processors evaluated over the past five years, here:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/pic...

since then i've been alerted to 2 more processors... but anyway the point is: out of all the ones on that list, the A20 is by far and above the most "ethical" one - irony that, given allwinner's background - that we can GAIN ACCESS to, that is also capable of running 1080p60 video so that people can go "ehhh.... yeahh okay, i could put up with that for a year whilst these guys figure out the next Computer Card".

now, there's been a lot of discussion and evaluation on various other forums including phoronix and reddit about RISC-V, i was going to do a separate update about it, but basically, RISC-V is not ready for prime-time.

or, more specifically, the people doing SoCs based around RISC-V haven't yet put something together that would match the minimum functional requirements of EOMA68. those requirements are quite modest, including 18-pin RGB/TTL @ 1366x768, SD/MMC, I2C, SPI, UART, PWM GPIO, EINT GPIO and 2 USB interfaces... but they still haven't actually managed that. the closest team that has is the lowRisc team.

now, on top of that, we need operating systems. it's no good trying to think you're going to raise $1m on crowdfunding selling 10,000 computers if the only OSes available are based on "linux from scratch" or "buildroot" for embedded computers. you need debian, you need android, you need chromeos, you need arch, parabola, gentoo - everybody needs to get on board.

once you become aware of these things you start to realise that RISC-V based SoCs and required OSes are at least 3 to 8 years out, so it would be much much better to start with something like MIPS64 for now.

if you know of a way to raise between $5m and $10m i can start that process NOW and have a chip ready in about 18 to 24 months. i've been through the process back in 2012 (google "Towards an FSF Endorseable Processor slashdot") so know what needs to get done.
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I pointed out the lack of relevant evidence in my very first post, and the second, and third. And again as the first sentence in this post.

Once again you've missed the point, because your agenda about society has led you to ignore the facts of this case.

The author made allegations of racism against a specific officer based solely on his belief that such officers are common in society.

And you refuse to acknowledge that you have no evidence this officer is racist. No matter how common you may believe racism is, you should not publicly accuse people of racism without evidence.

And about society, you're also ignoring two simple facts: 1) more white people are killed by police than black people, 2) the number of people killed by police, by race, is roughly proportional to the violent crime rate, by race, as well as the murder rate, by race (which is what one would expect if police were not racist, but rather simply targeting criminals).

My only agenda here is to find the truth. Your agenda is to ignore the truth and simply accuse people of racism without evidence.

On a happier note, I'm encouraged to see some people have put aside a racial agenda in favor of protesting deaths at the hands of police regardless of race:

> But one group of mostly African-American civil rights leaders is stepping up to question a deputy's shooting of an unarmed, white, homeless man in Castaic — because it just might be the right thing to do.

> "We can't only be advocates when black people are killed by police unjustly," says Najee Ali, founder of Project Islamic Hope.

> "They shot this homeless man for nothing," Ali said of how witnesses have described the shooting. "He was unarmed and they killed him. I found out he was white later on. It doesn't matter to me."

http://www.laweekly.com/news/an-unarmed-white-man-is-shot-by...
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But doesn't this also mean that google will read it and use the info in targeted ads, analytics, etc. If so, it might make this approach less desirable if your goal is a decentralized comm channel not spied on by big guys.
Some things should be probably updated on that page, I think the Sonoluminescence problem has been mostly explained.
Something seems a bit off about the geek-cred timeline flashed at the beginning:

I had my first email address in 1989. It was via Prodigy.

Then, a year or two later, we got AOL. My email was kelly at aol dot com.

(Yes, for those wondering, I kick my ass nearly every day for deleting that account for something cute and trendy, as a 10 year old would.)

Also, when I was 10, I designed my first website. One of many I would learn to code the hard way, via raw HTML and CSS.

According to Wikipedia, CSS first came out around '96. HTML around '93.

So, if the author was at the forefront of technology, and made her first web page with CSS, she would've been born around '86. Or, more generously, maybe she just used tables and had been born in '83. Either way, she would've had an email address in when was 3 or 6 years old, depending on which of the above is true.

Or, you know, she's just recounting this all wrong.

There is very little programming involved in CSS/HTML. I respect design work, but conflating that with development is not helping her case.

~

At no point in this article did the author bother to make a clear distinction between the "tech industry" made up of hardworking developers and engineers and sysadmins and managers and the "tech industry" made up of spammy blog writers and advertising folks and feel-good event coordinators and media strategists.

I don't mind having a frank discussion about the shortcomings--of which there are many!--in how engineering cultures handle diversity. I do, however, greatly dislike being tarred with the same brush as the dudebros who infest more business-oriented cultures by a writer too lazy or complacent to articulate her biased perspective and who has as much to do with technology as Medium does with RFCs.
Exactly. I forgot which exact essay but Paul Graham has a great point about most controversies in philosophy being an argument over imprecise definitions. Exceptionally intelligent, young would-be philosophers see this and thus choose not to study philosophy, leading to the current situation where we have few incisive professional academic philosophers. If it's worth anything, I feel I learned more about how to live a good life from reading Graham's essays than in three semesters of studying academic philosophy in college.

Aside: paraphrasing another answer, you can remove all of the straws from a bale, and you're left with a bale of zero straws.
> It results in visual differences, and it's doubly stupid that this is touted as an "advancement" just for the rate case that you want to override the title bar.

Which is a stupid idea in and of itself. It means there's no trusted path to the window manager that programs can't spoof.
> Why does California not have a better public transportation system build? Especially in the Bay Area?

NIMBY.

The rich folks on the west side of the bay don't want extra train traffic through their enclaves. They like it gridlocked, thank you very much, so that the plebians have to stay out. And they have enough money to fight it.

East bay, on the other hand, has been working on it. BART is apparently almost to Milpitas.
Java in HFT environment is wonderfully perverse and beautifully abused in so many ways.
Given that i have seen one driver work for a multitude of devices (like 20+ different brands of webcams, because they all use the same internals), i think i prefer the current method.

The larger problem is the number of "winmodem" style devices. That do as little as possible in hardware, and everything else in the driver.

And releasing source code is one thing, but companies like AMD are releasing the interface details that allow others to produce and maintain the driver. The problem there has been third party licenses and patents, particularly as GPUs do more than apply shaders to triangles (video codec acceleration being a big one).
> 1. Is there any RISC-V silicon available?

not anything useful

> 2. Is there even a complete spec for RISC-V?

yes.

> 3. At that level of paranoia, you're always going
> to probe deeper... Suppose someone inserted backdoors
> into your RISC-V core. Suppose the fab house has
> backdoors in the layout tools. Suppose an oversight
> committee got paid off...

the damage that would be done to the reputation of
any company stupid enough to allow backdoors to be
slipped into their tools would be... they'd be
finished. absolutely NOBODY would trust them EVER
AGAIN - not their billion-dollar customers or the
Military or the Intelligence Services that utilise
their tools on a daily basis.

no - what you're suggesting is, far from being
a plausible scenario, is in fact those companies
WORST NIGHTMARE scenario because it's the day that
they go out of business and probably have agents
from all over the world queueing up to murder
them! i love that film with john travolta,
"this is incredible. i never seen anything like
this. ya actually gotta get in
line to whack this guy"....
Possibly. On the other hand, the delays in research and coordination may be so large that they basically negate the advantages of being united. An expanding orb of viciously competitive societies would probably make them pretty damn efficient at deception, murder and hostile takeover. A hive mind that has never had to harden itself against what's basically an expanding sphere of vicious viruses may be easy prey that gets utterly annihilated.

To put it in another way, I think an expanding hive mind needs to develop an immune system of sorts if it is to stand up against nimbler (virus-like) societies, but it's hard to see how it could succeed effectively without extended exposure to the latter.

So I feel there's a kind of catch-22 going on: if we expand without extensive synchronization, we create competitors out of our own offspring, but competition breeds efficiency, so even though the system is a horrible Malthusian hellhole on the inside, it is pretty strong as a whole. But if we try to avoid this and expand as a hive mind, we have to expend a lot of overhead on synchronization and an immune system, but we don't really know what the potential threats are, so the result will be brittle.
I agree with you: deprivation of a person's liberty is, in itself, a harsh punishment, even without taking into account the details of their incarceration.

However, reasons matter. If policy dictates the purpose is to punish, then that justifies longer sentences "to make sure they are sufficiently punished" and to be ill-treated because "they are here to be punished".

If policy dictates the purpose is to act as a deterrent to other crimes, then sentences are not justified as any longer than required to serve that purpose. That can be empirically observed, and I believe it has been studied and shown there is a strong scope insensitivity to the magnitude of punishments. This is even more pronounced in criminals, who are disproportionately more likely to have lower-than-average general intelligence or impulse control issues.

If policy dictates the purpose is to keep the criminal out of society until they are ready to rejoin it, then incarceration should be optimised for preparing them to return to society, and they should not be kept imprisoned any longer when they are ready. How to judge whether this has been accomplished is difficult, but the effectiveness of the methods can be empirically observed, principally by recidivism rates.

Note that the purpose of "punishment" is the only reason of these that cannot be empirically observed. It can justify just about any mistreatment, and doesn't, as far as I can tell, have any firm ethical justification except for the religious or pseudo-religious.

So even if it seems like a minor question, deciding the purpose of the criminal justice system is of the utmost importance and has wide-ranging policy implications.
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>Everybody is somewhat different in how they'll react to various diet and exercise regimes. Understanding that, and taking a bit of time to watch how your body responds, is the important insight here.

This exactly. I did the same thing to lose a bit of extra weight, except the machine learning part was just using my noodle. I found it interesting that the author didn't notice sleep reducing weight right away. He only measures morning weight. If he measured morning and at night before bed, he would have noticed right away. Some other things the author seems to have overlooked in his analysis.

1) While sleep is good for weight loss, eating before sleep is not. I give at least a 2 hour window before bed where no food is allowed.

2) Track how often you poop. When I'm not pooping, I'm putting on weight. I don't mean poop is heavy. The stuff floats. Weigh before and after a big poop and be prepared to be surprised. People will commonly say that weight loss is just energy in < energy used. Well, it's more like energy in < (energy used + energy out). Poop has calories. It burns. Eating foods that keep you regular will keep you leaner.

3) Weigh before bed too. I noticed some foods were "soft" weight and some are "hard" weight. Soft weight goes on fast but drops quickly. I found some things shoot my night weight way up, but it's mostly gone by the next morning. Other foods, hard weight, put on fewer pounds, but take days to lose again. For me, fried potatoes are the absolute worst hard weight. Anyway, if you only weigh in the morning, you may see you gained a pound from the day before. If it's soft weight, no worries. That will be gone before lunch. If it's hard weight, it will still be there tomorrow, and the next day too.

4) Be on the lookout for magic combos. Some foods individually are weight gain, but combined are weight loss. Take coconut rice as an example. Rice by itself is a soft weight gain for me. It's not hard to lose, but it puts on pounds. Coconut rice on the other hand is weight loss for me. My spouse made it with some spicy thai chicken and I fully expected to gain, but I didn't. Now I can eat it without reservations. Apparently, I'm not alone, and there's some science behind this one

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3009374/Want-rice-...
> The classic panhandling hobo
> however, is mostly
> incorrigible and nigh
> impossible to get on the
> right path

Citation? *

* That doesn't fall prey to the No True Scotsman fallacy
Dunno about wacom, but when it comes to sound there are things like pulseaudio that add extra wrinkles to the issue.
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/3943
A/B testing will show them getting good results until people get tired of them, and stop clicking them.
I bet the jails were getting kickbacks, legally or illegally.
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I'm self-educated as well, but back then (starting around 1999) there was no Github (so less visibility into a prospect's activity) and no frameworks (so problem solving was more valuable than structure)
Just the other day I cooked up some ground beef from Trader Joe's that was obviously adulterated

About 40 years ago when I was a kid the local butcher would literally grind the beef in front of you while you waited. A lot harder to adulterate something when it's prepared on the spot.

I don't see that done any more, but maybe I'm just not shopping in the right stores. I live in suburbia; it's probably easier to find an authentic butcher shop in a real city.

Edit: I don't know the source of Trader Joe's particular ground beef. But I once saw a show on TV about how hamburger patties are made: There have a giant tray (hundreds of pounds) of relatively lean beef, and next to it a giant tray of trimmings (mostly fat). They grind and mix these in proportion to the desired leanness of the final product. Hamburger meat can be purchased in various grades which differ in fat content.

Unfortunately, none of that could explain what happened to you, unless maybe some of the fat mixed in to your hamburger meat was rancid?
I quoted SCTP wiki page, if you using them in combination that means either multiple ports or you need another protocol so you know what type of frame you're getting which adds overhead.

felixgallo already covered most of my points, gaming has some specific requirements that a lot of these protocols don't provide.
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Even then, nobody really implemented 1.0 per-se, because nobody really changed to match what the standard (ex postfacto) said.
One thing I tripped over here is just what is a phototube in this context? https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2016/08/S... "Phototubes protrude from an abandoned building at the Conant Thread-Coats & Clark Mill Complex, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)"

My own knowledge, Google, and Wikipedia have all failed me here. My best guess is it's old slang for pneumatic transport tubes, but I can't say I've ever seen anything quite like what's shown in the picture.
It's not "cannibalization", it's competition. We don't say that firm A "cannibalizes" the sales of firm B, they compete for customers just like states and regions compete for residents and their tax dollars.
What should the markup be? What you say sounds very high indeed, but there is a certain markup that will be required. Why? Operating a commissary in a prison is more complex than a local convenience store

(I'm making some assumptions here) each bag of Cheetos needs to be individually inspected to make sure that nothing is being smuggled into the prison. This would go for every item being sold into the prison.

It would be interesting to see what would happen if there was competition in selling into prisons, but my guess is you'd end up with some kind of split duopoly at best where things would be about the same as they are now. The reason is that no one can just establish a new business, which is the most important thing for creating competition.
It's possible but it's not worth it unless you have a lot of knowledge about it or a lot of time and enjoy it. That's why most small to medium companies outsource this to services like sendgrid, mailchimp, etc.

You can't do everything so you have to pick your battles ;)
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> Linus is famous for rants about how the Linux Desktop requires to much technical detail to know for the average user.

huh? Only thing i recall was him ranting at the Gnome/Freedesktop people over having to enter the root password to connect to a wifi hotspot (network manager and polkit not getting along).
Nope, federal judges are not "employees that have superiors" they are civil officers of the united states whose appointments are approved by the Senate. Impeachment is the only way to 'fire' a federal judge. I suppose the plus side of this is that the government can't fire them for political reasons or because they don't like their judgements. Without impeachment anyway. A federal judge does not have a 'superior'.
Very cool! Dc.js is a very powerful and quick way to build interactive crossfiltered charts.

At MapD we built our own visualization frontend using Dc.js as a base, except we leverage GPUs on the backend both for SQL and rendering data. The upshot is we can scale to multi-billion row datasets with millisecond response times.

You can see an example with 200M streaming geocoded tweets here - https://www.mapd.com/demos/tweetmap.
Marijuana is the one with the least side effects. Alcohol in small amounts causes many, many deaths each year. And by small amounts I mean less than would cause health effects, but enough to DUI and killing people. I think the people here saying heroin users live "normal" lives are just kidding themselves.
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"instructor-level" and "expert" have a lower level of cohesion than you'd expect :-)
Personally I'd rate marijuana the worst.

Why's that?
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