skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Japan? It has tons of problems: chronically low birth rates, one of the highest suicide rates in the world, extreme workaholism, decades of economic stagnation, and probably the world's most intense forms of social alienation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori

The latter seems a direct refutation of the alt-right's contention that racial uniformity promotes social engagement and unity. The Japanese are so alienated they barely even have sex anymore. A recent trend in Japanese restaurant design centers around making sure patrons never see another human being, not even a server.

In addition to moral reasons a big reason I can't take the alt-right's racism seriously is that I live in a very racially diverse area (Los Angeles/OC area). Being white I might even be in the minority, or nearly so. My neighbors are more often than not hispanic, asian, or black. Our kids play together, and my daughter's best friends are pretty close to a random sampling of the planet's genetic diversity.

If anything I've found the more recent immigrants to the USA to be more friendly, more socially engaged, harder working, and even more patriotic than multi-generational American natives.

Last year I witnessed the spectacle of a bunch of first and second generation immigrants actually celebrating the Fourth of July. Like really celebrating it. I've seldom seen white Americans genuinely celebrate their country like that. I'd say a good half the white Americans I know are depressed, cynical, and disengaged. This is true on both sides of the usual political divides.

Japan's problem might actually be too much isolation. At the very least some immigration probably would have prevented three decades of economic stagnation.

The neo-racist thesis is bullshit. There is no "white genocide," though there might be a bit of self-inflicted white suicide. Sometimes I think white Americans suffer from the same problems as native Japanese, namely the social diseases that stem from multiple generations of extreme wealth. Wealth promotes social alienation, laziness, a sense of entitlement, and generally taking things for granted.

I've long wondered if the cycle of civilizational rise and fall is caused by wealth. Civilizations rise on a tide of innovation, cooperation, and optimism, but then they get rich and succumb to the social diseases that result from wealth and power.

Edit: Yes there are racially segregated high-crime ghettoes in the LA/OC area, but this seems to happen when you have racial isolation combined with poverty and criminal enterprises like illegal drug trafficking. The entire metro area is incredibly diverse and the majority of it is pretty safe. The area I live in is extremely diverse and has among the lowest crime rates in the state.

Edit #2: If I didn't live in the USA I'd probably want to live in the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, or Canada. I'd like to add the UK too since I love a lot of their culture, but the UK's government seems just as insane and dysfunctional as ours.
There's a pretty hard limit bounding the optimizability of SHA256. That's why hashcash uses a cryptographic hash function.

There may be - or, very likely are - shortcuts for proof of research better than Grover's; which, when found, will also be very useful for science and medicine. However, that advantage is theoretically destabilizing for a distributed consensus network; which is also a strange conflict in incentives.

Sort of like buying "buy gold" commercials when the market was heading into the worst recession since the Great Depression.

SSL accelerators may benefit from the SHA256 ASIC optimizations incentivized by the bitcoin design.

"""The accelerator provides the RSA public-key algorithm, several widely used symmetric-key algorithms, cryptographic hash functions, and a cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator"""

GPU prices are also lower now; probably due to demand pulling volume. The TPS (transactions per second) rate is doing much better these days.

How would you solve the local daretime problem in order with Git and signatures?
If you open the article, you will notice that the word "White" is in the title.

Todays news has nothing to do with journalism, it is about nitpicking to fit whichever agenda you have. In fact that entire website is a bunch of pathetic filth:

"Is Cold Weather Racist?"

"The Most Useless Types of White People"

The Root is a black news website, so perhaps I will make a white news website of my very own; I doubt whichever factual information I spout will get any coverage on Hacker News, though. You snowflakes would not be able to handle reality and it will be swept aside as "racist" and against policy, that is, before Cloudfare gets around to shutting me down.
Or the reports of others in the neighborhood... How does the power utility collect these reports?
See, that's the basis of the effect - it only works if the person has subjectively put in at least some (qualitative and quantitative!) level of perceived effort into it.

You most likely just don't reach this level of effort needed when assembling IKEA furniture.
"When confronted by a police officer,
you must keep your hands up or on the drivers
wheel at all times."

This seems to be the new reflex we must learn
and practice? Perhaps the rule should be
codified so that officers know they can't
ask you to do anything else with your hands.
People have been shot while complying with
a request, ie, getting car registration from
the glove compartment or moving closer to the
officer by crawling. Just because one officer
gives a command does not mean that another
officer heard it.

Since this is a life or death sort of reflex,
perhaps we must be teaching/practicing in elementary
school and refreshers as part of drivers training.
The period since Enlightenment in West contains two world wars, genocide, nationalists movements, monarchy keeping in power through censorship, revolutionary attempts, KKK ... All of them totally full of critical thinking and self-determination for sure.
This should be seen as a great signal that humans now have the capability to quickly divert funds and invest in areas to explore new opportunities.

The blockchain is one of those half protocol/half business potentials which are hard to solve but which amazing potential.

Personally, I probably consider it more protocol (infrastructure) than business per se, but only time will tell.
You're absolutely right. The difference is that we are a more violent society. Violence is something we value here. Just look at entertainment for children. You're way more likely to find parents more amenable to letting their children watch scenes of people being hurt than people making love. One gets a pass and the other is considered obscene.
Gartner's Hype Cycle for 2017 predicted blockchain to reach its maturity within the next 5-10 years. That 92% of the projects based on blockchain are now dead means that practical applications of blockchain are being narrowed down to a few. But I'd say those few projects are going to get attention sooner rather than later.
I agree, but there is a very sizable constituency in the US that will only relinquish their ICE over their dead body. In fact, that was pretty much the mainstream sentiment, nurtured no doubt by oil interests and a kind of nostalgia for America’s glory days that seems thankfully to be giving way to a hope for new glory days under the banner of Tesla. From Toyota’s perspective, the nationalist undercurrent must be a concern. Interesting then that Toyota is, I believe, still in the top ten most “American” automakers, based on domestic assembly. Honda is even higher on that list, last I checked.
US military people are often quite critical of the rules of engagement employed by US police.

Even in potentially more dangerous situations the military typically is much more disciplined and slower to use lethal force.
NixOS Linux Lets You Configure Your OS Before Installing
To your point about non-lethal weapons: it seems to me that we haven't yet claimed the low-hanging fruit in the US when it comes to this problem. Why not indulge the most base impulses of both silicon valley and police militarization with high tech, non lethal weapons?

It will probably introduce new problems, such as even more unnecessary use of force. It addresses absolutely none of the cultural or institutional problems. But it may also save lives and better maintain justice. A family of a person wrongly tazed has been afforded more justice than a family of a person wrongly shot and killed.

People who hold out for either a panacea or nothing will be unsatisfied. But if we can at least separate incapacitation from lethality, we may be able to save lives while still satisfying the cultural and institutional lust for violence.
You're totally right, however, things get really difficult when the police are barking difficult to follow orders at you. Just watch the Daniel Shaver video. The guy tried his best to comply and then was murdered for no reason.
If you call searching and text replacement evaluation, then sure.
> People appreciate when you fire the right people, so don’t worry about morale.

When you select for sociopaths, you get sociopaths.
Nature and New Scientist online archives? (sub. required).
I'm unconvinced this is true for physiological addiction (e.g. opiates).
You don't have to use corporate sites like Facebook and Pinterest. Check out scuttlebutt.nz for a serverless alternative, or Mastodon for one where anybody can host a server. Or just stick to forums and IRC.
The excuse used in this case what that it looked like he was pulling a gun from his waistband. It is conveniently difficult to disprove this unless his hands are already high in the air. So basically he was shot on sight.
Swing has been obsolete for quite some while, if anything, compare with JavaFX
I have an ebike with 500 watt motor and I generally love it.

That is the way it works, you need a license, plates and insurance for more powerful ebikes(Speed Pedelec Fietsen), which can go quite fast; upwards of 50kph.
I published an iBook back in the day, and wish the format had taken off, as it actually made use of tablet hardware rather than treating the screen as a sheet of paper. Interactive diagrams, photo galleries, etc., are great for a travelogue or technical book. I currently enjoy reading on a Kindle Paperwhite, but anything that relies on diagrams or page layout gets butchered to the point of uselessness.
16mph is already surprisingly dangerous in crowded situations
I will never, ever be able to accept that it is ok for the police to shoot a person who they do not see carrying a weapon. There is no circumstance in which you can say you feared for your life if you did not see a weapon. And if you legitimately did fear for your life when you didn't see a weapon then maybe you shouldn't be a police officer.
Spam is the reason Facebook is currently the easiest way to get in touch with someone. Otherwise you could just put your email address in a publicly searchable database. It seems like we need a service that provides the verification and permission based communication model of Facebook but without the public feeds, virtue signaling, and political garbage.
Convert Marvin Annotations to `My Clippings.txt`
Project Betfair, part 8 (automated trading in Betfair)
Many humans manage to avoid alcohol consumption between 8am and 5pm on weekdays. Is this difficult for police? What could that imply about their sobriety when they're not on administrative leave?
I think the conflict here is more in that way:

Do you want to give people medicine so they can conform to what society expects from them, or do you instead try to change society so it doesn't have this expectations in the first place.

With ADHD what a lot of people see is this: You are not being efficient, so that is a flaw that needs to be fixed. But where is the line? Should we really optimize for maximal productivity or are other forms of society possible?
You don't understand how culturally deep the 2nd Amendment is for many Americans. The right to bear arms is a foundational freedom, enshrined in the Bill of Rights. The country was founded in violent revolution and then expanded across a wilderness frontier. Firearms are a key part of that history. The view is also that people aren't truly free unless they have the ability to resist government tyranny. The 2nd Amendment has actually expanded pretty dramatically in the last two decades-- many states have expanded concealed carry and the feds have rolled back so-called assault weapons bans, and the courts have strengthened the 2nd Amendment as an individual right. You'll literally have a civil war if you tried to disarm the population.
He is white :)
This python script can convert annotation file exported from Marvin into Kindle's My Clippings. Perfect for people who reads on Marvin and Kindle at the same time.
Their methodology defines 'project' as github repo. That's probably quite strong as the vast majority of repo's carry no formalised initiative or organisation driving it, but are 'merely' places for tinkering of individual users.

If anything, I'm surprised about 10% are still active. If you compare it to the failure rate of formal (money-backed) initiatives of startups in general, or say restaurants, or hell, people starting a workout routine this time a year, it's not a particularly unique failure rate.

edit: they later differentiate between users/organisations. The latter has about double the activity rate (15%) after a year. But they define organisations using GitHub's definition, which can be had for as little as $300 a year. At that level the difference between user and organisation is probably limited to the difference between casual user and casual entrepreneur.
You still need a reason to regularly take them in the first place, before the physical addiction kicks in.
I'm torn on this. I prefer explicit types in declarations as well, but very much like the convenience of inferred types. I find myself thinking, though, that the demand for the convenience of inferred types in these languages is a result of the verbosity in the type specifications themselves, usually with generics (Rust) or templates (C++). I rarely use the convenience of inferred types for concise type labels (e.g. non-generic structs, integers, etc.). Maybe this is a deficiency in the languages' designs?
Ask HN: What are your New Years resolutions?
You don't think there is perhaps any other way to read that headline? Like, "a non-African man in the US has been arrested for a crime where nobody ever gets arrested because the perpetrators are usually in Africa."
This quote is so very true, and it drives me nuts:

> “Society likes black and white,” he answers. But answers in science are not always so cleanly resolved. “We have to be careful because if we give the impression that science never says yes or no, says always maybe, then people say, ‘Well, then I should not trust science.’ It is very delicate how to give this message.”

It reminded me of some of the polls before the 2016 US Presidential Election. Nate Silver at the time gave Trump about a 30% chance of winning, and when Trump won, there were lots of "Even Nate Silver got it wrong!" comments. Most people really don't understand the difference between anything less than 50/50 and 0, and it becomes a real challenge to explain things when reality works in probabilities at a fundamental level.
Ostensibly because he reached for his waistband instead of immediately putting up his hands.
> the police in the US does face a population with more guns on hand than the Norwegian police does

Number of guns is a contributor to the difference, yes, but a more direct measure might be number of officers killed. The first source I find (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Police_Service) says that 10 Norwegian police officers have been killed since 1945, or something like 0.14 per year. The US figure (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36826297) is something like 50 per year, though that's actually way down since the 80's. Running with those numbers and dividing by population today, the US has almost six times as many officer deaths per capita. And that's an average; there are many places where it's as safe as Norway, and some places where it's a hundred times more dangerous.
Web link to page: http://statistics.zone
Author seems to think an internal drivetrain for a bike would be more reliable. Maybe somebody more mechanical can chime in, but my understanding was that the opposite was true: only reason cars have to use an internal drivetrain is for cooling and external ones are generally more reliable?
It's a weird coincidence to see this domain on here. I just heard of them the other day. I agree that these folks display a lot of racial resentment, so it's generally not something that belongs on HN, but the topic happens to match.

Just FYI your post is (currently) getting downvoted, and you may suspect that it's because the "snowflakes" here can't handle your perspective. However HN is actually pretty open to different points of view so long as your tone is in line with the culture.
>" I'm honestly not sure what I can do to prevent that."

Watching the video of the shooting in the hotel hallway a few days ago, I think that the answer is just go to the floor with your hands visible and don't move, never mind what they say.

I think there is a training problem. For instance, in that video, they control the situation using fear, that it's, I think, the correct thing to do. But then, when they guy is trying to comply with everything, almost crying and obviously confused, instead of trying to calm him, they keep scaring him.

When they shoot, they shoot five times, five times in a hotel hallway. It's like they are trained for war or even video-games instead of police action.
Lifeguard : SWIM-ing with Situational Awareness

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.00788.pdf
In general I'd agree, but this site is not any old news site:

https://www.theroot.com/tag/white-tears
I read a lot of good ones but I'll answer what was most important rather than best. We're seeing a revival of formal methods ranging from lightweight (TLA+) to heavy. Two problems are in my sight: lack of framework plus consistent, empirical data for evaluating how suitable a given method is for a specific project or company; many who would use lightweight or practical methods will quit because someone convinced them to start with heavy ones. The paper below is a start on the former:

https://www.scch.at/de/rse-news/passende-formale-methon?file...

I think that was a great start on an evalution criteria because its comparisons match what I read in the various experience reports. ASM's and TLA+ coming in the lead on usability but B method on code generation. It will also help to note what projects have been completed or reusable libraries available in each. A person building verified compilers for functional languages might want to learn Isabelle/HOL due to CakeML, doing a new TLS extension learn F* due to miTLS, type-safe assembly learn Coq due to CoqASM, and so on.

For the other issue, I made a proposal on HN first and then on Lobste.rs about avoiding people quitting early from finding formal methods too overwhelming or useless. I proposed having a default intro or lure that matched the goals of different people to tools with a warning of some's difficulty. It got some interesting responses (below) I'll turn into a mini-essay with links eventually.

https://lobste.rs/s/n7v658/your_thoughts_on_this_advice_thos...
Statistically, policing is nowhere near top dangerous occupations in USA. And most causalities are from traffic accidents. It is safer and safer every year. So maybe they could give some of that safety to public too.

There is such a thing as exaggerating risks and you are doing that now.

Non trained members of public are expected to keep perfect calm and control. It makes Bo sense that expectations on random Johny are higher then those on trained cops.
GSM assembly with SIM holder costs about $5 in a mass-production-wise quantities. I don't know about UK, but here in Russia typical "dumb" resource meter costs between 10 and 30 USD. Smart meter could not be more than 2x expensive to be competitive. So you should squeeze all other functionality into $5 production cost just to have zero margin, and you should completely forget about autonomy. And I don't even want to start ranting about running costs of GSM.

This is what LPWAN like LoRa, Sigfox, NbIoT and Nwave are made for.
Thanks that could work, but I haven't unlocked developer mode for security reasons; so side-loading .apk isn't possible.

Anyways, I'm quite sure it's an issue on ChromeOS side. Apart from streaming like Youtube, Netflix; there seems to be no HW acceleration in default video player itself.
Perhaps one answer here is to require military service before becoming a police officer.

That potentially could solve two issues; better trained police, and employment for veterans.
When I saw The Root at the top of HN, I thought: oh no, I don't want white folks to know about The Root.
What's wasabi, and is your fiery buzz legit? (2010)
He actually made four, it seems. Sibling comment shows one but I haven’t seen the others yet.
My mother's husband is a retired police officer who spent ~20 years working business-related crime, and he once told me that the "Nigerian Prince" scam even predates the Internet, it started out on Fax.

Some things, apparently, do not change. Or at least not very quickly.

It is kind of sad that there are people who are so gullible, but I wonder how one can live with oneself exploiting this gullibility.
A friend of mine who has ADHD takes Vyvanse instead. Does it have similar risks?
The killer is not the momentum, but the impulse. Let's do some simple kinematics:

The M82 has a barrel length of 20 inches (51 cm, .051 meters) and fires a 45 gram bullet that, at the end of that time, is going 900 m/s. Meaning the bullet goes from having zero momentum to 41 Newton-seconds in 1.13 milliseconds. Meaning the shooter feels over that 1.13 millisecond period of ~36,000 Newtons of force on his shoulder. The person getting shot has to make that bullet go from 900 m/s to 0, but he has to do it over say 2 inches of distance or his organs start getting smushed. Meaning he's experiencing, over that 110 microsecond period, ~360,000 Netwons of force. The exact same momentum, but in the shooter's case it's like getting punched and in the shootee's case it's like getting your torso gummed on by a T-rex.

This is why going from 0 to 100 in a car can either be no big deal (if done over 60 seconds) or kill you six ways from sunday (if done in a few milliseconds when you crash into a wall or something).

We're also not getting into the power of a good muzzle break or the weight of the rifle itself, both of which considerably reduce the felt impulse by the shooter. You can look up people rapid-firing 50 cal rifles from the hip on youtube for an illustration of just how much you can tame the recoil of these guns.
It's also important to remember that police go into what they understand to be life or death situations.

When we look back on these incidents they seem horrible, but if you give someone a gun and give them a reason to believe their life is in danger you're probably going to get deadly consequences. It's obvious to us that the cops life wasn't in danger in the instances you mentioned, but people are fallible and they may have brought past trauma or prejudice to the incident. It's probably extremely rare that a cop actually wants to murder someone and is looking for the right opportunity.

That said, if cops had better non-lethal alternatives to guns, we could save lives. Something that is more effective than tasers and works immediately at a distance. The cops objective in a potentially deadly situation should be to immediately incapacitate rather than kill.
>given the current political climate of identity politics there is really no reasoning with those people.

Can I just point out the irony of saying there's no reasoning with 'those people' because of identity politics.
Just had a flashback to "Boys From The Black Stuff" [0].

[0]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083689