skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have 1 possibly-armed-with-a-handgun guy of unknown intent and ability on a porch, vs 5+ SWAT officers who are definitely trained in shooting people, are in cover, have body armor, rifles (presumably good ones with scopes and whatever else), and high-powered lights trained on the house.

So yeah, I would say they should wait until a suspect starts shooting because they have an overwhelming tactical advantage. Yes, that's a risk because the guy on the porch might be John Wick or Jason Bourne or the Terminator, but most people, even most professional criminals, are not expert marksmen under any circumstances, let alone ones where they're at a large tactical disadvantage.

Next time you meet a cop socially, ask them if criminals are smart or supervillains 'like in the movies' The cop will laugh and regale you with stories of how dumb and inept most criminals are. Police know perfectly well that most people don't have a clue, are easily intimidated by police, and not super-skilled. Sure, they have to consider the small number of dangerous exceptions, but overstating the risk factors is also a really convenient way to get off the hook for their own poor firing discipline.
They did invent a workaround to them that impacts other features without informing users though.

I'd also query the batteries more directly anyway though - if throttling is needed this aggressively, that _may_ indicate they aren't really up to the task (e.g. they don't have enough capacity to allow for the natural dip without it being an issue / Apple are claiming battery life figures that are basically unattainable in the real world, and propping them up by slowing the device).
Don't own any handguns but I think you can have several as long as they are different class/caliber. I.e. a .22, 9mm and a .45.
Edit: I see others have addressed this in the very long time it took me to express myself!

As I understand it, as batteries degrade it's not only the total capacity that drops, but also the voltage the battery can deliver and the CPU requires a certain voltage to run at a higher frequency.

So, a fully charged, yet degraded battery, may have the overall energy needed to run a CPU at normal Mhz, but may not be able to deliver that energy fast enough.
That hasn't ever been my experience. I love talking about code I've written, details of how it works, and so on. It has never gotten me out of coding tests.
Hear, hear! My friend group in high school had its own Proboards forum and we spent so much of our free time on there. (And we weren't the only ones, either.) I'd say the split was 60-40 male/female. We talked about everything—political topics, gaming, arts and crafts, literature—and I owe much of my development as a kid to those conversations. It makes me sad that those kinds of half-online, half-offline communities don't seem to be around much anymore. It felt like we owned our own little plot of online land, tended to it, inhabited it. It was nothing like renting some page space on Facebook or standing on a Twitter soapbox.

After reading the delightful chapter on Community Memory in "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution", I've been thinking of ways to get back to this local, more intimate style of online conversation. It seems that with the centralized nature of the web, an abundance of resources leads to the formation of a limited few communication hubs to which everyone gravitates. How easy would it be to create some sort of mesh network hub or beacon that would only let people in a local area connect to each other and create their own decentralized forums or databases? Thinking back on my high school forum experiences, the success of things like Nextdoor, local community events such as UC Bekeley's Anoncon, and even things like Geocaching, I think this could be an incredible paradigm shift for those who are tired of the overwhelming numbers and impersonality of today's "social" web.

It's only the spark of an idea, but few things excite me more than the social possibilities of a publicly-accessible network firmly and intrinsically rooted in a particular physical area!
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I really liked Vlad Zamfir's papers on "correct-by-construction" consensus protocols. What I love about this work is that it unifies traditional BFT consensus with blockchain consensus to make something better than both! Really exciting!

Abstract CBC: https://github.com/ethereum/research/blob/master/papers/cbc-...

Casper the friendly GHOST: https://github.com/ethereum/research/blob/master/papers/Casp...

I found the Abstract CBC paper a little easier to understand, as it goes into more detail about the correct-by-construction process.
Replaceable batteries are going to be the revolutionary new feature on the iPhone 8. It's going to be insanely great and you're going to wonder why everyone doesn't do this with their phones.

With the technological advances of recent years they might even be able to do it on MacBooks too.

/Sarcasm
Dividends are the most reasonable way to get a return on investment. If you want to buy low and sell high, you're playing the greater fool game - why would anyone buy if you think it's time to sell. How should a company stock be priced? It's based on earnings, or in other words the ability to pay dividends. P/E ratio or price to earnings is a direct measure of the ability to pay dividends whether they pay them or not. At a PE of 20, the company could pay a 5 percent dividend. At a PE of 100 your stock purchase is misguided - you either expect the earnings to increase dramatically which would make the price more reasonable, or you expect someone else's investment decision to be more unreasonable than yours.
I have a 6 plus. I broke the screen a few months ago, so they replaced it with a brand new 6 plus (hence new battery). It is very slow in much the same way that many other people describe -- it will just pause for a long time (a minute or more) in some weird stuck state. The old phone that I broke had the same problem. I have the minimum apps installed, and background refresh disabled. My wife and mother both have 6 pluses, which exhibit the same weird long pause slowdown behavior. After trial and error, the best hack to get around it is: (1) when it happens, immediately turn the phone off and on with the upper right power button, then (2) immediately after the phone turns back on, close all running or suspended apps. If you don't do (1), then you're just completely stuck for a long time. I've had this problem before and after iOS 11, and with my new and old phones.
A caller just wasted the time of the SWAT unit.

A SWAT unit shot an innocent man.

It is very difficult for me to place both parties as "equally liable". Sure, there should be a punishment for the caller, but he didn't kill an innocent man and it sure as hell wasn't his intention to. He just didn't think of the possible consequence. In no way, shape or form does that equal to "actually put a bullet in someone innocent", which is exactly what that officer did.
If a company has to constantly fire a lot of people - supposedly for not performing well enough - then the company might want to investigate why it's so bad at making people reach their potential.

Note: a constantly looming threat of being fired might be involved in it too.
Just read through this one https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/ecfrqrps/ – and was laughing stitches. Great job!
No, you do not need to pursue this whole curriculum to become good at coding.
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Yeah, that's a very important balance in life - good luck!
For reference, I got it running on my Linux system with the following changes:

Change LDFLAGS:
LDFLAGS=`pkg-config sdl2 --libs --cflags` -g -lm

In interrupt.c, change the two #import lines to #include.
I don't think you've ever been a soldier. Sure the average private or corporal is in their twenties but when I was in Afghanistan the average NCO was in their thirties. Even higher ranked people with office jobs weren't immune from danger. Rocket attacks on KAF and the FOBs was a regular occurrence.

Soldiers can easily get a lot more than one year of combat time. How many full time soldiers only do a single tour in Iraq or Afghanistan?

The stats show policing isn't that dangerous. Most cops never need to draw their weapons. If you want to see a dangerous job look at crab fishing.
The Wikipedia link in [2] doesn't contain that tidbit about Nigerian scams, but a Hacker News comment is not a notable reference.
> It works this way for the military. I can’t fathom why it doesn’t work this way with police.

The military is part of the state's monopoly on violence. We dress it up today and make it seem all noble, and selectively forget all the torture at Abu Ghraib, drop weapons [1], the famous song about the "Little Haji Girl," .. and the list goes on.

The military get away with much more murder and torture than police. Many people I knew who came back from Iraq hate Iraqis; they have to justify their hatred because they've killed so many of them.

In the words of Bill Hicks, "I've been watching all these Congressional hearings and all these military guys and all the pundits going, "The esprit de corps will be affected, and we are such a mora …" Excuse me, but aren't you all a bunch of fucking hired killers? Shut up! You are thugs, and when we need you to go blow the fuck out of a nation of little brown people, we'll let you know."

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqB2a1K9dBw
What? Bitcoin ownership is even more concentrated
I thought it was great for building custom workflows, and I don't know that anything has replaced it since. People seem to hate Lotus Mail in favor of Outlook, for some reason.

I always thought Microsoft was way behind Lotus in the workflow department, but people were used to MS products. Maybe it got worse over time with IBM's mismanagement, and I haven't used it in 15 years.

I recently had to cobble together a worfklow in Drupal, and it was terrible in comparison to what could easily be done in the late 90s with Notes (which did have a web front end by then).
We completely agree on this.
>> Hence, that's why OP read your post as "try not having ADD", because you're literally suggesting solutions that presume that they not have ADHD in the first place.

To be fair, the article does make the point pretty strongly that it is very hard to separate ADHD from natural variations of attention, concentration etc:

But “ability to concentrate” is a normally distributed trait, like IQ. We draw a
line at some point on the far left of the bell curve and tell the people on the far
side that they’ve “got” “the disease” of “ADHD”. This isn’t just me saying this.
It’s the neurostructural literature, the the genetics literature, a bunch of other
studies, and the the Consensus Conference On ADHD. This doesn’t mean ADHD is “just
laziness” or “isn’t biological” – of course it’s biological! Height is biological!
But that doesn’t mean the world is divided into two natural categories of “healthy
people” and “people who have Height Deficiency Syndrome“. Attention is the same
way. Some people really do have poor concentration, they suffer a lot from it, and
it’s not their fault. They just don’t form a discrete population.

Also, if attention etc is a "normally distributed trait", any behavioural intervention that can help someone near the middle of the distribution has a pretty good chance of helping someone near the extremes, also. To take the example of height again, just because someone is short doesn't mean they won't look taller with high heels.

In fact, if you think about it, such interventions are designed exactly to help people with poor executive function, as you say. Assuming that this is basically a description of what ADHD is, I don't see why behavioural interventions can't make a dent in it.
You'll only be able to do it in 2018 for $29, it's a limited time offer.

The release you'll have to sign indemnifying Apple against past or future battery related issues or lawsuits will probably be permanent though.
Huh. That changes things a bit. I did not know about this. Do you have a link to relevant material?
I'm late to this, but perhaps I can shed some light...

Don't use someone else's data. That defeats the purpose. But aside from Io and Mercury, you can do a huge amount with a modest amount of equipment at home.

For example, for the blackbody spectrum, you need an empty kiln, a diffraction gradient (for separating wavelengths of light) and a photometer (for measuring the intensity of light). Heat the kiln to a temperature, put the diffraction gradient in front of an opening in it, and then measure the light intensity with the photometer at various angles from the grating to plot out the spectrum at that temperature. Change the temperature and repeat.

The original quantum mechanics work was based on emission lines of atoms. You need a tube with appropriate monatomic gases and a way of exciting it. They sell these for lab classes. Then you put current through the tube, put your diffraction gradient in front of it again, and measure the angle of the distinct lines you see. Those are exactly the data that Heisenberg was trying to explain.

A lot of other quantum mechanical predictions are made via statistical mechanics and describe the thermodynamic properties of material. Now you're back in measuring latent heat, specific heat, expansion coefficients, and all those unsexy things that you can do pretty straightforwardly.

There are lots of ways to measure the speed of light. John Baez describes some at http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLigh....

A lot of the stuff you hear about isn't feasible to reproduce because it's enormous or time consuming or expensive. You're not going to build another LHC (but you could probably build a little cyclotron and measure meson decays). You can certainly learn how to make observations of Mercury and measure its shift of perihelion over the course of the next couple years, but that's pretty low payoff for your time compared to table top experiments.

> Are there resources of others showing from experiment to theory with calculations of real data defending the theory's math

Yes. Experimental physics papers. Theoretical physics gets all the attention, but it's the minority of the actual activity of the field.
If you're interested in this, RVO (reciprocal velocity obstacles) is another multi-agent system for collision avoidance with some good reading[0][1][2]. I've been porting the RVO2 library to Python3 over break and it's incredibly natural the way the particles float around each other.

[0] http://gamma.cs.unc.edu/RVO/
[1] http://gamma.cs.unc.edu/RVO2/
[2] http://gamma.cs.unc.edu/HRVO/
>but he didn't kill an innocent man and it sure as hell wasn't his intention to. He just didn't think of the possible consequence.

How do you know his intent, or what he thought?
> Pray. Even if you aren’t religious.

For what? For the SWAT team to do a better job at the scene? For their training to be better in such situations? For 350 million to not prank call the police?

Any of these three solutions are better than praying to god to someone who is not religious, and yet, none of them will produce any result what so ever.
I just tested my own iPhone 6 Plus that i bought in early 2015 and that i have been using daily ever since.

Single Core Score 1518, Multicore 2607

These are better than the 0 day scores in that article, which seems weird. My phone must have close to 900 charging cycles by now, if not more.
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Also, Nigerian scams are a tradition from long before the Internet age. Using Nigeria is like "foo" and "bar" in programming examples. Sort of.
I don't think any of the jobs I listed are retail. I went out of my way to include a variety of industries, including knowledge work. "Demonstrating value to your boss" could include zero-sum bullshit or actual production. As a programmer, I've done both kinds of work.
Yes but having people pay you $29 instead of recalling faulty batteries at your own cost is a pretty sweet deal.
OK right, you can't restrict ownership.

Would it be legal to simply grant extra rights to owners who adhere to the LTSE's rules? Ie, one share carries 1 'point' of voting power, unless the owner is an individual or an entity which adheres to the LTSE rules, in which case the share carries 1 + kt points of voting power.

If an entity outside the LTSE holds some shares, that's fine. They just extract very little value from them compared to an entity within the LTSE, increasing the value of all other shares outstanding and creating a strong incentive for that entity to sell back into LTSE.
The phone company is accepting calls from the PBX or whatever at the company. They most certainly could enforce that the caller ID match the main number for the office the call originates from. It's been over 20 years since I worked for a phone company, but all calls from any line were associated with a BTN (billing telephone number). There is no technical reason the caller ID could not be forced to the BTN or something similar. In that case you could always call the phone company and find out where the call originated - or at least where they send the bill for it. I guess that's the point, the phone company can identify the origin of a call for billing purposes and I think the callee should also be provided the identifying information - certainly not lied to about it.
I get 40km out of a 400Wh battery with similar weight.
About half in cold weather with snow and studded tires. The tires seem to be the main reason for the reduced mileage. This is in sport mode with maximum assistance and going full speed.
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Interesting for me is that my iPhone 4 is much faster than my iPhone 5S. And the battery lasts much longer on my 4.

I think what Apple changed these days is that the latest version of iOS works both on 5+, while I remember my iPhone 4 was stuck with old version and I was never able to upgrade it.
It looks like the CPU-slowdown-for-old-battery thing was only introduced about a year ago. So you can probably blame your X purchase on this (especially if you came from a 6 or maybe 6S -- a 7 should not have been significantly affected unless there is a bigger battery issue with it), but before then your older phone were probably "naturally" slow.
Apple kept silent everytime the slowdowns were discussed. They could have come forward many years ago, but it’s only after they took it a step too far with the iPhone 6 and people had definate proof that they came forward. I gave my iPhone 6 away out of frustration with it’s performance, while it was easily worth a hundred or more dollars, even taking the battery costs into account. I’m really, really pissed right now.
Statements such as "some part will wear out eventually" can be indeed a bit confusing. What they really mean is "that machine is moving because it's consuming energy stored in some of its parts, and it will eventually deplete it completely".
Would you argue that a car is a perpetual motion machine, provided that somebody "repairs" it by refilling the fuel tank once in a while? Same thing. A machine that moves by extracting the energy stored in one of its parts is not a perpetual motion machine, it's just a machine that runs on a very unusual fuel. On the other hand, there might well be the case of a real perpetual motion machine that needs repairing once in a while- in that case, however, it should be possible to prove that the energy stored in the part that needs replacing is not the source of the movement, either because it's not enough, or because it is going somewhere else- for example dispersed as heat.
> Even when an active war is on, those in charge have learned to limit the length of time a soldier spends in warzone to 1 year. Like US did in Vietnam war.

This is absolutely false. It may have been true in Vietnam, but that has to do more with there being a near infinite source of soldiers (the draft) and also an insane amount of soldiers being killed an maimed and unable to take a 2nd term.

In Afghanistan and Iraq, I knew people who were serving five or six tours.
To be clear, unless I have completely misunderstood this issue, this throttling feature was only introduced in iOS 10.2.1 – which was released less than a year ago.

If you have been experiencing slowdowns prior to that, then it seems like it would be a different issue?
Yeah pretty much. It's risky because type checking produces fatal errors that aren't always easy to trap properly. You don't realize how much a code base relies on PHPs type coercion until you add annotations and watch it blow up, in often subtle ways.
Sure, but it's not strictly the inflationary / deficit issue right? It's primarily (as you say) a matter of who gets the increased currency, right?
How about asking the guy on the porch some questions? Like 'what's your name? Do you have any weapons? Did you call 911?'

It seems not to have occurred to you (and a lot of other people) that yelling commands at people is not an effective way to handle many common situations.
The murder charge was dropped in exchange for a guilty plea on civil rights charges, which is what the 20 years was for. Even with an eye witness and a clear tape of the offense the officer still wasn't convicted of murder.
Ebooks are great on tablets (especially the 7" ones). I've never enjoyed reading comics on even a larger tablet. I've got a bunch of electronic graphic novels that I've been putting off reading, because I'm not looking forward to dealing with the tablet.
you think that the winners in wealth redistribution happening around cryptocurrencies are mostly the not-so-rich? There may be a decent number of non-rich folks who are now rich this way, but I doubt that cryptocurrencies are effectively working in reverse of the wealth-inequity trends…
My almost 3 year old iPhone 6 Plus shows the same scores as the the brand new one in that article, it even is a bit faster.
All i did recently was to reset the OS because it felt very sluggish on iOS 11 and after the reset it got a lot better.
At this point how do we know Apple doesn’t make intentional decisions that slowdown older phones? Maybe CPU benchmarking tools where given all CPU power in the past and they forgot to implement it now, just like the GPU manufacturers were caught cheating.
The whole conversation gives me cringe
The analysis in this article was based on data from Thomas Piketty and collaborators, who have also compiled an extremely detailed and comprehensive analysis of the subject of capital & wealth & inequality. I highly recommend Piketty's book, "Capital in the 21st Century" (see Goodreads comments for abridged summaries and reviews by readers). Not only is it totally convincing (and depressing), but it also provides a very clear understanding of the course of modern history since the 19th century. It's amazing to see how clear economic policy (whether Marxist or Capitalist or anything in between) becomes when viewed through the lens of society grappling with the problem of capital/income/inequality.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18736925-capital-in-the-...
I know some Rockafeller descendants personally. Believe me they're STILL vastly, vastly richer than ordinary Americans.

The value of their wine cellar alone is several times my peak salary-- and they do fuck all nothing. Just attend social functions.

They're actually really nice people, just so completely divorced from reality.
But how do we know the ‘other issues’ weren’t intentional?
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