skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, banning the practice is the first step towards doing exactly that. The whole world is a lot more understanding of the stance, "Sorry, we cannot go and rescue [person X]," when person X got in trouble because of illegal activity they were performing - and there are few more effective methods of making someone adopt the stance espoused by your proposed note, "I forbid you from rescuing me," than making the practice illegal.

So, essentially, I agree, I just think this is the proper way for Nepal to go about de-prioritizing this particular problem. :)
That's even worse.

If it's for Instagram selfie pleasure I have better ideas for these people.
Movies prepare you to critique a fighter about as well as [..]

That's a pretty patronizing assumption to make about the many and various people you're discussing this with. I've been in a lot of violent situations, including armed ones, and I think your rationalizations are facile, to put it mildly.

I do a little martial arts

OK...

Look at some videos of knife attacks, for example:

In the first one the guy was astonished to be attacked at all, and it's obvious that he knew his attacker, who was equally obviously not a professional criminal. It's not relevant to this context. I could talk about defensibility against his physical attack too but I think it's sort of pointless to write text descriptions for a general audience.

The behavior in the second video is suspicious, defensible, relies on a distraction tactic, and it's notable that the soldier actually deflects the attack successfully. It's hard to tell whether the attacked was subsequently shot by one of the other soldiers or stabbed with his own weapon by the soldier who took him to the ground, but I think this actually showcases the difference between being prepared to handle violence and being jumpy, which means you're not well-prepared.

I realize you're trying to make a positive contribution but would urge you to take your own advice about not overestimating your insight.
Cops act like thugs because the overwhelming majority of people they arrest/hassle/shoot are guilty. Period.

However, this does not justify any of the collateral damage to the ones who are innocent - the scales of justice are not a probability distribution! The entire point of the rule of law is to have a clear dividing line between the acceptable and the unacceptable - every innocent person assaulted by the police is a victim of a freshly-committed crime, and should be entitled to (at the very least) civil recompense.
Defaults matter immensely for two reasons:

very few people ever bother to change them unless a specific, user visible problem is occuring

due to the first point, non-defaults receive little or no testing, and are highly likely to be broken, and stay broken because the catch 22 of nobody cares so its broken, and because its broken nobody cares.

Off by default is very much the status of mitigation technologies in FreeBSD atm, its a shame that the author did not touch on this as its one area OpenBSD is miles ahead of FreeBSD in particular (mitigations on by default, breakage exposed and fixed due to it, they remain mostly unusable on FreeBSD due to them).
Wow, I look at the building everyday but this is the first I've seen it from that vantage point. Thanks for sharing.

Found another photo that is a little closer:

https://i.imgur.com/Px7Apnq.jpg
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This is a common misconception. As has been stated before on similar threads, Amazon comingles inventory. So if you as a third party seller have a bunch of fake widgets for sale on Amazon and anyone else (including Amazon themselves) sell the same widget (same by name) then Amazon has no control over whose inventory a buyer receivers, regardless of the Sold By label on Amazon.com

https://www.wsj.com/articles/on-amazon-pooled-merchandise-op...

Relevant paragraphs if you can't get past the paywall:

"As more third-party sellers have signed up to offer products through Amazon and use its order-fulfillment services, the Seattle-based giant has allowed many to pool their inventory with supposedly identical items supplied by other sellers—in essence commingling products from third-party merchants with those supplied directly to Amazon by the brands themselves.

In other words, a product ordered from a third-party seller may not have originated from that particular seller. If the bar code matches, any one that is on the shelf will do."
This music is not “performed” it is “programmed.”

I think this is a false dichotomy - it's often both. Even people using completely digital sources (like electronic musicians) still perform live, and not all just press play.

I'm also reminded of Bret Victor's demos in Stop Drawing Dead Fish; programming and performing can be intertwined into new art forms.
See this is why I come to HN. For nerdy interesting analysis that's relevant. Much better than 90% of the comments that are fools who find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.

This is no better than a political article as far as bringing out the dark side of people.
"Into Thin Air" by Krakauer. I've seen it other places, too.
There's no hoodwinking. The grandson is the problem, and has been for a long time. I've met scholars who've been personally confronted by him at conferences. It's his personal crusade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_James_Joyce
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The competing design for transbay (salesforce) tower was much nicer but their group didn't win because they bid less money on the project. [0]

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zKV9lrNlb8M/maxresdefault.jpg

0: http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2007/09/pelli_clarke_pell...
Slight correction, they let an ml algorithm control the cooling system in the data center, not Borg. Borg is what schedules Google's software tasks, this was not changed during this experiment.
Ideally it wouldn't get this far but at a minimum, the police should not shoot until an actual gun is seen. Thinking they are in danger is not good enough, their rules for engagement need to be as high as the military, if not higher... they should have to confirm there is an actual threat and should not fire their weapons until at least that threat is confirmed. A feeling is not enough to shoot on.
Of course people can misjudge the details. But that doesn't mean they are deliberately sacrificing the long term for the short term. It just means they are mistaken.
> The skyscraper came late to this city, a shipping and manufacturing hub for much of its existence.

Huh? The Pac Bell building (which Yelp is now in) is a classic 1920s skyscraper [1]. San Francisco never ended up with as many tall buildings as say NYC, but that's also partly a function of city size.

NYC had 5.6M people in 1920 [2], while San Francisco was about 500,000 [3]. Even if you compare just to Manhattan to avoid metropolitan area comparisons, we're talking about 2.5M almost (so 5x).

If anything, it would be apt to say that skyscrapers never caught on in San Francisco like they did in Manhattan. New York currently has ~10x as many skyscrapers (buildings taller than 150m) than San Francisco [4 and 5]. The article even goes on to point out that early newspaper folks competed over tall buildings:

> San Francisco has always been like this. There were so few skyscrapers in the city’s first century that the ones that were built tell a tale of rampant egos and unrestrained power. At the end of the 19th century, the city’s newspapers had hubris and wealth to rival today’s internet companies. In 1890, the owner of the San Francisco Chronicle, M. H. de Young, erected a 10-story building worthy of his publication. It was the tallest building on the West Coast.

The Bay Area is just spread out compared to NYC. It developed much later and wasn't a big city before automobiles were popular (and didn't have a real metro until 1980!). With Silicon Valley being in the peninsula, and tech only developing somewhat recently, San Francisco simply wasn't that big of a commercial city (in comparison to New York) to dictate large skyscrapers.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/140_New_Montgomery

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_New_Y...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_San_Francisco

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in...

[5] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in...
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Aka the old fasttext vectors, aka the fasttext vectors.
I thought the act of observation was what caused the uncertainty. But it appears to me that you’re saying that may not be the case. Could you please enlighten me? What causes the uncertainty if not the act of measurement (observation?)
Do the two terms, observation and measurement have different meaning? Could you please explain me the difference? Thanks much!
I find this post intriguing not just for the actual effect, but as yet another little signal of the slow and steady mixing of serious-ish mathematics (though mostly applied maths) into engineering culture; which there was almost no trace of only a few years ago.
Agreed. Just don't call poor people to come clean up your mess.
thanks for this interesting information. I won't edit my first comment (which puts what you're saying in the 1% possibility).

I didn't base my judgment on research.
That's very fair. Unfortunately, being a big black dude is a great way to look threatening, which does suck. As a point of encouragement, though, it is worth noting that in spite of the national news, encounters with police are really rare, and deadly encounters super rare. Many officers go an entire career without ever firing their gun at anyone - it's just very rare. Your staircase is way more likely to kill you.

In fact, I remember having a really interesting conversation with a friend about this stuff a few years ago. We were talking about the statistic that black people are shot by police at twice the rate white people are. And yet some black people are so afraid of police in a traffic stop, they freak out if they haven't adequately prepared for it, and white people are so unafraid that they're shocked it's perceived as anything other than paperwork by the officer and nothing about it seems even potentially dangerous. I said - the difference between those two views isn't 2x. Black people don't think cops are twice as dangerous as white people... more like infinity x. And I said, either cops are way more dangerous than I was raised to believe, or way less dangerous than you were raised to believe, or both.

Well - I think it's both. I think if you are afraid of police in every encounter, a good reality check is to look up the absolute number of people killed by police anually and figure out how dangerous that really makes them compared to, I don't know, lawnmowers or something. And on the flip side, I think if you think police are really safe, a good reality check is to look at some of the training they do, some of the threats they face, understand how very fast a peaceful situation can turn violent and how easy it is to look like a threat, and understand that you have to be thoughtful and deliberate about everything you do around a cop, particularly in the situations that are most dangerous to them.
The cheap credit perverts the entire economy away from productivity growth, which is what produces real wealth that tends to be widely shared. It doesn't matter how the cheap credit is distributed, the credit just redistributes wealth and doesn't increase it.

There's that and then also the problem of the global monetary system. The average American is getting crushed by the dollar reserve currency system. America can't be globally competitive in labor intensive industries in substantial part because of it. Triffin's Dilemma. But the ability to issue endless USD denominated debt that the rest of the world eagerly gobbles up is fantastic if you're closely attached to the DC cash spigot or NYC banking. So there's this direct opposition of interest between the current elite who derive enormous power and wealth from the system, and typical Americans who just want a job.
But when does 'short-term' become 'long-term'?

If i make good (short-term) decisions each quarter, then won't that just add up to be a good decision after 4 quarters? If it turns out that the 'good' decision last quarter turned out to be bad _this_ quarter, then you'd make a change to fix it for _this_ quarter_.

Rather than plan out a 10 year plan, which you can't possibly predict in advance what may happen.
For now they should simply "noindex" the message history. But your larger point is correct.
GP means police are sometimes willing to use violence even when they don't suspect a weapon.
Not all content. There is a considerable difference between disagreeing about the best policies to reduce healthcare costs and disagreeing about whether white people should violently expel nonwhites from society.
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> and his friendship circle is like the cast of a WB show.

You got me LOLing with that one.
They are changing it by not only selling my eyeballs, but selling everything they can learn about me by tracking me all over the internet. Ad blocking is a change, but it is a reaction to their change (adding tracking to ads).
Could you please explain what you mean by “fundamental natural uncertainty”? Why is it (i.e. uncertainty) fundamental? What makes it natural? Can we not observe it in an artificial (i.e. not natural) setting? Thanks!
There is another scam where the attacker gains access to a business email account and then uses the existing relationship to trick the recipient into sending money to an alternate account.

The attacker waits for a legitimate invoice to go out, then follows that email with a forged email specially written to convince the recipient that the payment should be sent to another account.

They duplicate the name, style, and tone of the person sending the invoice by reading the archived email conversations so that they can sound more trustworthy when making an excuse for the payment change.
In Witcheta, it’s $47k starting salary, overtime over 40 hours, and a retirement benefit equivalent to about another $25k per year.
Tried forwarding three emails, got this:

Message not delivered
There was a problem delivering your message to sp@mnesty.com. See the technical details below, or try resending in a few minutes.

The response was:
554 Recipients' domain disabled
In Java's defense, it's the APIs (3rd party typically) and not the language that determine the performance criteria. It sure would be nice to hear what APIs they were using in Java for their monolithic application and microservices.
Ask HN: Best CRM to use for a B2C startup with 1M users
I am currently working on a project where the client has used WHMCS as their main CRM - it handles all their invoicing, subscriptions, add-ons, etc. The system was developed approx 7 years ago and while it was OK back then, it is very painful to work with now with almost a million users. Even basic features like account upgrade/downgrade, addon addition/removal, etc. are very hard to manage.

Any suggestions for a scalable system that handles all this and can integrate nicely with other services (e.g. Mixpanel, custom BI tools, etc.)
They discuss base camp a lot, so I believe it was Nepal. Certainly it could be China, but I think they would have highlighted that. Also, he did it without fixed ropes.
Well, maybe we should invest some resources in trying to figure out why he does it and how his brain operates.
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And I'm curious, I don't want to compare the palestinians situation to that of the jews during WWII even though there are many parallels especially those living in Gaza, but would you call the Black civil rights activists in the 50's and 60's or the Anti-Apartheid movement "terrorists" or "inciters"? I mean Nelson Mandela himself said “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” Brother, if there is no JUSTICE, there will be no PEACE.
This last year I made the connection that Facebook only provided the illusion that I was socializing with past friends.

Sure, I know what is going on in the lives of my buddies from high school and college. I know when they have a kid, bought a house, that they switched jobs, that they moved out to Denver, etc. But I realized that I had learned all of this through passive consumption.

With the exception of three close friends, the vast majority of my "friends" list are people who I haven't directly messaged, spoken to, or even written on their "wall" in ten years. At this junction, I'm more of a voyeur into their lives then an actual participant.

I haven't deleted my FB account, but I have stopped browsing it. I've started to pick out people who I would really like to re-connect with and then using the platform to start real conversation with people and perhaps drop in for lunch when I pass through their cities. And then perhaps, un-friend everyone not important enough to my life to value maintaining that kind of a connection.
True, but surmounting Everest is not the end-game. K2 is a more grueling, technically difficult climb -- and it's only ~800ft shorter than Everest. That's sort of the problem here, even though Everest is the tallest it's a relatively accessible climb with enough money/gear/training.
I get where you are coming from, but blaming the police officers is not the correct conclusion. You should be solely outraged at the caller Tyler Barriss.
I think that is literally what the project is about.
The second amendment is irrelevant, as employers (eg the police) can simply prohibit carrying a gun as a condition of employment. How many meter maids get shot?
Facebook already has similar functionality. Being in Australia, if I visit a large multinational companies Facebook page, it will redirect to the local page. Going to facebook.com/mcdonalds will redirect to facebook.com/mcdonaldsAU.

I'm sure they could make it redirect anywhere they want.
Interesting, but is there something for spam callers? It's not enough to block them or report them.
I couldn't agree more, and I'm sorry to hear about your wife's family.

Your thesis statement:

> Police have made these mistakes without false information... I put the biggest blame on them, also important to not label all police officers the same as some are very upstanding citizens.

Is exactly what I wish more people on this forum would read. There's so many people painting every cop with the brush of evil, or either excusing their mistakes/transgressions. The truth is always in between, and our tendency as humans to have knee-jerk reactions is not helpful at all to making real progress.

I wish I had more upvotes to give you.
Copying in a post from Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/7n2qjz/adderall...

He cited the infamous squirrel monkey study without noting that (a) there were no signs of neural death or neurite retraction anywhere, and (b) reduced baseline dopamine levels are exactly what you would expect as part of the mechanism of tolerance.

That study did not establish the existence of neurotoxicity. It merely established the existence of tolerance.
> "our early estimates of Trump’s chances weren’t based on a statistical model."

The Polls+Plus model that Taleb criticized wasn't an early estimate and it seems kind of strange that you'd conflate the two. Trump receiving the nomination can be argued as a 'black swan' event (although whether it was is debatable because it was observed as a possible, if unlikely, outcome before it happened), however Trump winning the election was not.

Your original post linked to a straw man attack by Taleb against Nate Silver based on paper Taleb wrote that is explicitly constrained to binary systems. When I pointed out this problem with Taleb's argument you created your own straw man citing Nate's words about a related, but different, statistical problem involving more than two choices. That is not a result that Taleb claimed and seems to be wholly outside of the scope of our original discussion.

Ultimately I think this is an ego thing for Taleb, he makes a habit of critically attacking [0] people who have fame in related fields without actually contributing anything to the discussion. Again, it's hard to see this as anything but Taleb's ego at work. By calling out the famous 'smart' people as wrong using arguments that are impregnable to people without highly advanced mathematic training he effectively increases his media clout without actually contributing anything to society.

Serous question: Has Nassim Taleb ever admitted he was wrong?

Edit:
I just read about how poorly Nassim Taleb did with Empirica Capital, [1] it seems very surprising that Nassim Taleb has such confidence undermining the work of others given that, objectively, his work during that period was a failure.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb#Praise_a...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirica_Capital
It is the same presentation he gave earlier in the year

https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2025/DEF%20CON%2025%20pre...
That seems extreme. Why shouldn't police be held accountable for killing an unarmed person?
Literally nobody is saying the swatter is in any way justified so I don't know who you think you're arguing with. Harsher penalties for swatting aren't going to make the behavior go away because it's not that hard to do, or conceal, and the people who think it's fun aren't likely to be impressed by the rational incentives.
Tyler Barriss is going to go to prison. He's a sociopath. Nobody is on his side. But the cops killed an unarmed, innocent man. Clearly whatever process they are following is deeply flawed. 'Swatting' is also a UNIQUELY American phenomenon - why?
You think that's sustainable? Ithink you will find that even though all of the countries in Europe have basically free social services, the divide between the rich and poor is not decreasing in all of them. What does correlate with it is institutional corruption and confiscatory monetary policy ( the nordics are not on the euro, which is for now better than the pound). People in the nordics are doing way better than in Europe they in turn are doing better than the British

The funny thing is that the world itself is not increasingly unequal, the global gini coefficient is coming down, mostly due to arbitrage - migration away from countries with corruption and poor, confiscatory monetary policy to ones where the confiscation is slow enough to be generational.
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What about mentally ill people? People on medication that make them groggy? People who are drunk in their own home? People who are exhausted from a huge week at work? Children? Elderly?

People cannot reasonably be expected to “stay calm” at a moments notice. That is completely unreasonable.
I'd pay some serious money for this. In case someone's looking for an idea.
To Apple's credit, 90% of iPhone users won't switch to Android no matter what. So Samsung and Google can innovate as much as they like, apple's user base is not going anywhere.
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That's unfair. What is missing from this discussion is that American crime rates are an outlier in the developed world. I worry that trigger happy 'militarized' police force won't end until crime rate goes down to the level of other developed nations.
>everyone below (the middle class previously) are out of a job

Seems a bit hyperbolic..The unemployment rate for programmers is <3%.
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