skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately the statistics are extremely complicated (ie it's well and truly apples to oranges with no end to the confounding variables), and the subject is so politicized that even academics can't seem to be relied on (Motivated numeracy and enlightened self-government, https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2016.2). Regarding the linked study, note that even they couldn't manage not to be biased - they're supposedly running a neutral psychology study, yet they only manage to pick a single politically polarizing topic to test!

From a quick look at Wikipedia (not exactly the gold standard of research, but hey) the US has a truly astounding suicide-by-firearm rate compared to the UK (7.1 vs 0.15), but if we only compare homicide-by-firearm it's actually even worse than before (4.86 vs 0.06 -> ~80x higher, but it's unreliable because we're dividing by such a small number). But then our income inequality is at least a bit higher than the UK (41% vs 34% Gini coefficient), we certainly have substantially worse social safety nets across the board, and we have serious systemic socioeconomic issues in a downright embarrassing number of locations.

But to me at least, by far the most important factor is one I can't easily turn up reliable statistics on - gangs, cartels, and other organized crime. Having lived in some questionable areas, I've seen first hand that in many cases criminal groups will engage in conflict with one another and not intentionally target innocent bystanders. I used to live in an area where there were nightly shootings (!!!) that I could hear from my house, but it was a seemingly mutual exchange of gunfire. I have no idea how you're supposed to account for that sort of thing in an analysis, but it seems clear to me that it must be accounted for if you're going to attempt to claim that it's reasonably unbiased.
I love the number of white people chiming in, so damn sure others' perceptions must be overblown.
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> After they finished their questions, detectives left Mr. Aiello alone in the interview room. He began talking to himself, the report said, saying repeatedly, “I’m done.”

annnnnnnnd I'm never speaking to police again
And a lot of things took much longer, thus my statement.

Also, just because something's been going on for some amount of time says nothing about how much longer it might take to get the answers.
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You asked for reason why you are down voted, I named two possible ones. For my first point, there are studies out there other people cited already that were done by people much more qualified to judge such things than I am. And for the second one, opinion is fine, most of the things I post are, in a sense, an opionion too. It does help to explain the reasoning behind that opinion so others can learn from it. Just saying.

EDIT: Typos
I think it's important to be careful with the vocabulary here (if only because of the site we're on).

There can be metrics that are targets which still remain good metrics. For example, in many machine learning competitions, the submissions optimize a known, given metric; but the test data is not known. Therefore, it is still a good metric.

I agree with the sentiment in this case, though.
[throw away account as I am a recovering academic and wouldn't want to impact colleagues who have not been able to escape]

Everyone is distracted by the politics here when the real story is the effort.

Three people layman to these fields achieved a near tenure track publication list/ratio in a little over a year. I have a STEM PhD and I know that me and three of my friends couldn't do the same if we tried in a closely related STEM discipline much less an entirely different field.

Hypatia is the journal of record for feminist philosophy (and one of the few respected feminist journals in general). It should not be possible to go from 0 to published in a "real" top tier journal. If the paper is "not too crazy" that's even more damning! They produced a "real" paper as a joke? Do you really think that these same authors could get a paper published in The International Journal of Computer Vision in a little less than a year even if they were using fraudulent data? It would take them two years to know what they could and couldn't fake without being caught.

If the liberal arts don't want the sneering dismissal of their fields as low effort to become culturally entrenched they need to dump or reform the "X studies" departments and journals.
Webassembly is a brand new runtime, it has nothing to do with C#. Blazor is alpha stage and hasn't even finished designing functionality yet.

C# on the server running on .NET Core is one of the fastest web stacks, and the async and threading help greatly with that. You can keep everything synchronous if you want, but it's good to have the flexibility when needed.

How is EF unproductive? What options are better?
Or HBO. Sounds like Robert Durst all over again.
No it’s not. I used to have button prompts for some actions in Workflow, which is faster. Also, there are many instances where speaking to your watch is ridiculous (such as meetings, public transit, etc.)
What if we don't call it a human | engineer it just so it does not meet some agreed criteria for human | offers their organs voluntarily* | ... ?
Is it true that the US police is by law not required to help you, even in situations like when you are being attacked by psycho knife man and they stand right next to you?
There are plenty of pickups in Europe. It's just that they're based on vans, with a tray on the back instead of a box. And very few people are silly enough to buy one as their personal vehicle.

If we need to move mulch or the like, we rent/buy trailers.
For Drive I've found Jumpshare to be awesome, for email I can't see my protonmail replacing gmail, I feel that there should be a better alternative.

One of the hard parts will be to leave behind the awesome google photo
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Counterpoint:
Many companies really want to, but cannot use, some great opensource projects just because they lack serious* commercial backing.

So I agree with the sibling on this one.
How so? If I need a new VM I just click (or make an api call) and it's almost instantly ready to go. If I want a new physical server I have to order it and get it delivered to my cage and then have someone rack and wire it before I can even start provisioning. There is a lot more involved in the second case.
>> Some measure of nonsensicality exists here in the idea of a union composed entirely of warehouse workers that is somehow magically acting against the best interests of those warehouse workers.

...is this hard to believe? This happens all the time with unions. Professional sports unions fall for this all the time, most notably Major League Baseball and the National Football League. The former butchered their negotiations so bad in the last Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that they screwed themselves out of hundreds of millions of dollars due to their own ineptitude and the latter settled a concussion lawsuit that didn't require ownership to admit that they negligently and criminally lied about the safety (or lack thereof) of union members at their job.

Unions regularly act against their own interests; rarely do they have legal/arbitration representation nearly as good as ownership, and this is only one factor that causes it. Oftentimes they have leadership that prioritizes the needs of the few (seniority) over the needs of the many, or are just outright corrupt.
They have some projects to reduce the binary size (it is still an alpha project), like doing tree shaking.

JavaScript isn’t light either, if you look at the amount of stuff a major website loads.
>More likely to be implemented

In the big guys, sure. "My first drone" bought from some low-end chinese reseller over ebay probably isn't going to do anything which raises costs unless it has to, which is why regulation exists.

Not suggesting regulation at this point is fair - but I suspect this will take the path these things always take. A problem is identified and the industry creating it is given a chance to solve the problem itself. It doesn't, and so a harder tool is needed to enforce it for the safety of everyone. Sometimes it does get solved itself, and that's wonderful, but this particular area isn't good at that.
There's a problem with Blazor, and that is that its not ready.

Which is why they're shipping server side Blazor [0], which is all the stupid parts of Blazor with none of the benefits.

Don't get me wrong, the idea of running .Net in WASM is very appealing to me... but server side Blazor is a daft idea, and it's a mistake.

Here's the model:

- Your component view state is rendered on the server.

- A delta is sent to the front-end.

- The frontend updates the DOM in the browser.

- Any DOM event is sent to the server.

- repeat.

Seems ok?

However, the problems here to understand are:

1) Every UI interaction, from mouse focus, to mouse drag, to click to button down, is sent down the wire to the server to be processed. For high latency situations, this will feel terrible.

2) Every client shares the same server cluster. As such, it scales badly; your application may perform well with 10 users, but for 100 users, you have 10x as much server work happening. Not business logic... UI logic. Will it scale? No one knows, but the money is on 'no'. The server scale-out demands will scale with people viewing the website; effectively this means the UI will lag out under load when the server is busy, the exact opposite of modern SPA applications and apps that remain superficially responsive under server load, and compounding issues generated from (1).

3) As many of the examples show, server side Blazor shows how you can execute arbitrary code on the server as part of your components (eg. fetch DB records). However, no vague consideration has been given to the authentication model for this. In fact, the stated high level goal is that razor components will 'with one click' work seamlessly on both WASM-mono and razor-components; ie. They are are naive of user roles and permission groups on the server, and expect to interact with an arbitrary backend 'service' with its own permission roles. (But that isnt what the examples show).

These are not trivial problems, they are, unfortunately, insurmountable architectural issues with server-side Blazor.

...and the work around is a compromise. ie. You use javascript.

Which... kind of makes it rather pointless.

This is being shipped early for business reasons, not technical reasons.

They should just wait for the WASM target to be ready; this will be a disaster, in my opinion.

[0] - https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2018/10/02/blazor-0-...
That's also when Euro tests changed significantly. The difference between cars this century and earlier is night and day.

A Volvo 940 from about 1993 head on at 80mph with a 2004 Renault Modus - the first small car to get 5 stars in the new Euro tests.

I would have bet on the Volvo. No. Dramatically no.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBDyeWofcLY
I just tried Shortcuts for the first time then opened the "Play Favorite Albums" to see how it works and now it feels like I'm dumb. It took me a long time to understand; start from a empty text (I didn't event know I need to fill texts here) , separate lines, set variables, and count. The visial representation was not obvious at the first look.

I doubt "normal" people would understand and create new shortcuts.
The author should think about applying to Dropbox ;)
Professional sports unions are also very good examples of this as well.
He was not unarmed, he was carrying a knife. Toxicology reports showed traces of PCP in his system. Furthermore the police were responding to reports of someone breaking into vehicles and brandishing a knife.

That said, the police did not act reasonably and then attempted to cover it up.
Except if the money gets used for reimbursements/damages that the new startup bank has to pay if it's mismanaged --- that is one of the reasons the money needs to be there, I assume.
I would like to introduce to you a really unique youtube channel called "PoliceActivity".

It currently has about 1.2 million subscribers, with about 600 videos.

The channel basically shows police bodycam footage from various US law enforcement agencies, mostly local police/sheriff departments. The videos are not edited, other than to show perspectives from different officers at the same scene, and etc. There are some footage taken by police cruiser dashcam and also cameras mounted on police helicopters. Most are 10 - 30 minutes long. After watching some on the channel, you might even think some of the videos are too boring. But you know both good/bad are included.

Some of the footage show police beating on already arrested suspect, letting loose K9 dog on handcuffed suspect, police (I believe Chicago PD) planting fake drug evidence, swatting, etc. BUT, such cases are rare among the nearly 600 videos uploaded onto the channel so far.

Many videos do include active shooting incidents (some justified, some not) and might be a bit intense. But this channel is a really unique window into what Police encounter everyday. I highly recommend it.
Meh.

On the one hand, I'm against tracking everyone, everywhere. On the other hand, I'm totally for ALPRs dispensing indiscriminate justice on people violating speed limits. I wish we could have auditable, trustworthy ALPR boxes that only report speed violations to be immediately turned into tickets, and don't store license plate numbers of people who follow the law.
I'm reading Pinkers Enlightenment Now, where he does tackle the issue. Namely he claims that not only has our average lifespan extended, but also the number of healthy years has grown.

For example he states that for the average 4.7 years of added life expectancy between 1990-2010, 3.8 years added were healthy.
Check out a youtube channel called "PoliceActivity".
SpiderOak has some serious performance issues if you have a lot of data. I just wanted to back up a few hundred GB of data but the client wouldn't do more than ~10Mbit/s on my gigabit line.

Also worth noting their "zero-knowledge" stuff is broken as soon as you log in to the website or use one of the mobile apps, at which point the server has your key.
Looks like the US is getting ANPR https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recog...
This is largely forgotten now, but notch promised to open source Minecraft if it ever stopped selling.

Obviously it still sells today. He doesn't own it anymore and it's not a proper license like what you're asking. But it's a precedent.
"Young poor people" buying 1000$ phones is a strictly American phenomenon.
Note that on many land-lines this will fail, as the calling party simply does not hang up, waits for silence on the line, then plays dial-tone down it. When you pick up again, it seems like you are connected to the exchange, but when they hear DMTF they just play ringing tones back at you, then pretend to answer as your bank and continue the scam. Bonus points to the scammers if they actually call the number you dialed and MITM the call for extra realism, only jumping in when you get transferred... ;) In fact, I bet you could program Asterisk to do this for you, or similar VOIP PBX software?
For small businesses, sure. But don't underestimate how perverse big businesses can be. If you have the expertise they want (even better: expertise in code form), and some off-shore body shop has the cheap labor they want... hey, let's kill off the vendor, get the source code and ship it over to XYZ coders to cut our support costs.

General Motors and General Magic is an example of a large company that didn't fight too hard to keep a smaller company afloat once they put up their IP: https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/19/business/technology-brief... (iirc, the other vendor was EDS which General Motors had an interesting relationship with at the time)
How much more should the wealthy be taxed? Who decides who is wealthy? For example, you are probably massively wealthier than many hundreds of millions of people in the world. How much should you be giving? How much would that contribute to your lofty goals?
>Vehicles hit junkyards faster

not really. They just migrate faster to Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
> Post 9/11 the US police departments have been militarized with surplus equipment and trained like soldiers.

Both parts of that were true for quite a long time before 9/11. Big accelerations in militarization of police were political/race conflicts in the 1950s-60s, the drug war in the 1980s, and the aftermath of the 1997 North Hollywood shootout.
Don't forget stolen, untaxed, and uninsured vehicles too
I've never been robocalled, but I've had "microsoft support" scammers call me once.

I'm in Sweden. Not sure if the difference between 90% and 0% is technological or legislative.
As I mention on the page I linked to above, my family (=brother) knows how to release the source code in case I disappear.
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Big US cities have had mobile license plate readers for a while:

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/02/13/cpd-license-plate-re...

Just not coordinated at the national level yet. It would be pretty expensive given the size of the country, the number of police vehicles involved, and the current cost per vehicle.
Also the old workflows ran directly on the watch (for example calling a REST api) which gave you the result right away.

Now they can only run on the phone and take a lot longer (usually it says "I'll tap you when I'm ready...").
> I can assure you that you sleep well when you lift every two days, years after years

You can assure me, but it won’t be true. Source: lifted at least five days a week for years and was deeply insomniac the whole time
I look forward to me getting very excited to try this with F#, only to find it requires a pile of hand-spun hacks only comprehensible to the most dyed-in-the-wool Visual Studio user, half-documented scraps of git repos that will only to get working, and will inevitably break completely upon the slightest update or change to your .NET installation.
the link is not working for me. Is there an alternative link.
Out of curiosity. How did you manage to gather so much data?
Sure, but at the end of the day, nobody will take me to court over it. And I could game it however it is phrased. The only reason why fman's development would seize is if it weren't making enough money. (Otherwise, I'd be incentivized to keep working on it, or hire someone to do so.) In that case, I'd have the choice between a) continuing to make very little money, and fman dying or b) open sourcing it to ensure its legacy. I know which one I'd choose.

It's not just for Mac! Works just as well on Windows and Linux too.
Even if it would work reliably I just don't like to talk to my watch.
> Do we have more innate intellectual horsepower?

It seems very likely. Though not from genetic improvements. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
Isn't this basically how gerrit is supposed to be used? At least that's how we use it (but it's a very small team so anything would work I guess).

You work on master, you rebase -i your commits to make them nice to review, you push them to gerrit, someone reviews them and pushes them to master or returns with stuff to fix. You usually have a few commits on top of remote master in your local master, and when any of them is pushed to remote master from gerrit you just git fetch && git rebase.
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People tend to underestimate Europe and the EU. When asked what the world's leading financial power is almost half of people say the USA. The USA is third, with China first and the EU second. The EU's share of the world's GDP is shrinking because the rest of the world, especially the developing world, is catching up, which is a good thing.

What people think depends upon perspective. US tech companies are in the news more but there are unicorns and big tech companies in Europe, some of which I couldn't tell you what they do. As well as many large older IT companies there are also big new tech companies like Spotify, ASOS, Just Eat, skyscanner, Deliveroo. All big, all tech, all headquartered or started in the EU recently.

This is also ignoring the current shift to offshoring development to Europe. Eastern Europe is getting the lion's share of that but the western side is home to a lot of big divisions of international companies.

It does like you have the tech blinkers on, which happens to a lot of people working in tech. "Tech is the future and tech is everything." People tend to forget that the traditional industries are massive (the biggest companies in the world by revenue aren't tech companies) and they tend to play a larger role in a country's economy that tech does. These are companies that build their own towns if they need to and cause massive effects when they move.

Manufacturing is huge and ultimately everything tech uses is a product of manufacturing. Foxconn is as much a manufacturer as a tech company. The biggest companies working on self driving cars are the traditional car manufacturers, including European giants Volkswagen and Daimler. Other players like Uber use other people's cars. And when these cars go on sale half or more of the profit will be to the company that makes the metal.

Finally, a large part of Trump's promises were to bring back these old industries to the US because they're the industries that create long term jobs and transform towns.
Why '(sic)' after favourite?
Your post may have been more revealing than you expected
Huh. Nice one, 'keyle. My favourite "encryption" scheme :D.
That's what I am saying. The average person is incorrect in their assumption, so the simple solution would be to change the name of the system.
It's the house style at the New Yorker to use it wherever possible or vaguely plausible: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...
I wonder what's the difference between countries that makes the police behave so differently as to citizens having to come up with video surveillance to back up their case?

In Scandinavia you'd have to be genuinely paranoid to not trust the police. The presence of police generally has an aura of safety: actually, with the reductions in force we've been quite unhappy to not see officers patrolling in the city centre in the evenings as much as before.

I'll have to assume that most cops in the US must be friendly and considerate but there seems to exist a minority (hopefully?) that seems to suggest it might be safer to hang out with criminals rather than be confronted by the police.

It's somehow mind-boggling but there must be a path of history and reason why the behaviour of the police forces have diverged so much between countries.