skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They need help with data collection on which minority group is subject to which type of policing / force.

Copy/paste finding statement from executive summary:

==

Accurate and comprehensive data regarding police uses of force is generally not available to police
departments or the American public. No comprehensive national database exists that captures rates
of police use of force.
The best available evidence reflects high rates of use of force nationally, and increased likelihood
of police use of force against people of color, people with disabilities, LGBT people, people with
mental health concerns, people with low incomes, and those at the intersections of these groups.

Lack of training and lack of funding for training leave officers and the public at risk. Critical
training areas include tactical training, de-escalation techniques, understanding cultural
differences and anti-bias mechanisms, as well as strategies for encounters with individuals with
physical and mental disabilities.

Repeated and highly publicized incidents of police use of force against persons of color and people
with disabilities, combined with a lack of accurate data, lack of transparency about policies and
practices in place governing use of force, and lack of accountability for noncompliance foster a
perception that police use of force in communities of color and the disability community is
unchecked, unlawful, and unsafe.

==
Then Apple or Google can make developers pay for the size.

And no, Amazon doesn't get it for free, they pay the developer fees like ALL the other developers
How are people in these repressed regimes supposed to buy bitcoin then?
It's totally fair to say that flutter_driver isn't a great experience today. The reality is that you hardly ever need to use it, though, because you can do pretty much everything you want using unit tests (including doing golden file tests). We mostly only use driver tests for on-device benchmarks.
It doesn't though, because black has 20% less time than white.
The counter argument would be police departments rarely buy this equipment - it's given to them as part of a program between the Pentagon and law enforcement. They get the vehicles (and lots of other military grade equipment) for a huge discount or free.

There is also the fact that even if a civilian could technically buy one, it's not really feasible to actually do so.
These numbers aren't meaningful without looking at the bigger picture.

What percentage of farms are going bankrupt? 70 farms seems like a very small percentage.

How many new farms started?
Thanks Chas for responding. Apologies for the parents metaphor if that made you feel uncomfortable - since at the time of my writing lots of comments on gist and HN were concurring with Rich and talking about "weeding out toxic personalities" I was just trying to come up with a metaphor that would offer a different perspective - that this is a type of disconnect that benefits no one and that there is no side that is clearly "good" or "bad" since all sides are needed for the whole ecosystem to work. Rich's statement was aimed at some core contributors (I am guessing now probably a bit more at Tim and less at your follow up tweet) and that worries me. Imho this situation is a lose-lose scenario: for Cognitect to lose contributors, for contributors to have spent hundreds/thousands of hours in vain and for anyone from clojure community who placed his bet on clojure and invested substantial time in learning/using/evangelizing it (affecting his/her market value in the process).
Anyway thanks for all the work on clojure! I am still using some of your clojure libraries!
We have a very different definition of fad
Would you still work for Amazon? Microsoft? Apple? Facebook?

Because they are actually in China and give concessions to the government.
I _think_ you mean most cases preference stack is _at least_ total capital raised... and therein lies the rub... if you have some latecomers coming in at 1.5 or 2x that drastically affects payouts.
I would love to see a specific example problem, I assume it would be a numerical / linear algebra problem, that is well suited for Fortran. I want to get to the bottom
of where the speed / accuracy comes from w a Fortran compiler.
Sure, there are going to be some people that are excited by the fact that something seems new or just because it is written in Rust, but jessfraz and bcantrill certainly don't fall into those categories. They have a lot of experience with Operating Systems, VMs and containerization and I don't get the impression that they are eaisily impressed by shiny things. Note that they all work for or worked for AWS competitors (Google/MS/Joyent).

I think what is impressive about Firecracker is that they have chosen to reuse a lot of
the right things (Linux/KVM/Rust) while also taking a new approach and rethinking important assumptions (No BIOS, no pass-thru, no legacy support, minimal device support).

In my opinion the Firecracker FAQs give sufficient mention to parallel projects and tools they have built on like Kata Containers, QEMU and crosvm. The developers certainly seem open to collaboration with those communities.

AWS doesn't have much of a track record in terms of leading an Open Source projects so some skepticism is understandable, but I think what we have seen so far is a very good start.
I do not know much about Bitcoin or other crypto coins, but how can it be more efficient if it takes on average[1] almost an hour for a transaction to be validated? Credit card, Apple Pay, Ali Pay, etc. are instant.

[1] https://coincentral.com/how-long-do-bitcoin-transfers-take/
Hey...can I borrow $1 from you? I don't want to sign up for some service or create a bank account or anything heavy like that...I just want to borrow $1. I promise to pay you back $1.10 in one week.

How would you facilitate the extremely simplistic example I listed above with USD?
> Thing is, anything that literally takes more than 3 seconds is a disaster.

And just to add onto this, the problem isn't that Bluetooth pairing takes three seconds, per se.

The problem is that we already had an instantaneous, reliable, and universal solution. In it's place is an option that may be better in some ways (namely, wires are gone), but is worse in many others. And for what? A tiny sliver of extra volume within the phone?
Has anyone else ever thought the inflation of the amount of other crypto offerings has massively diluted btc's value?

Coinbase used to offer just btc then it upped to btc,ltc,and eth.
Then it offered btc cash and now there's literally 20 or more cryptos available on coinbase.

To the average 'normie' who uses coinbase they used to just pick btc
and call it a day. But they have way too many options nowdays which probably scares them and also dilutes the value.

It might just be coinbase and the crypto casuals who inflated the price.
I'm a front-end developer, but I picked up Rust originally to do some audio processing in the browser/node - a thing that's still a little to heavy and time-critical for JavaScript.

Also the compiler is pleasant and gives you helpful advice on how to make your program compile.
I like Matt Taibbi's writing but this piece is unusually naive by his standards. The whole 'clamp down on fake news, Russian trolls and Nazis' schtick is just an excuse to limit free speech, which FB have every right to do in their walled garden.

It's v unclear to me what FB is actually for these days. It's clearly not a high school yearbook style 'facebook' any more. The closed groups are AOL redux and the whole 'newsfeed' thing is a mess.

My more paranoid side suspects it will be sunseted soon as a newer, more sophisticated surveillance system becomes ready. A Yahoo style security breach will flush everybody off FB and onto a shiny platform with exciting new bells and whistles...
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You missed what they said. Yes, the economy/google/ford/big company is doing incredible. Profits are off the charts.

That however stopped translating to things being good for the average American in like the 50s
"All of economic history is one lie and deceit after another. Your job as a speculator is to get on when the lie is being propagated and then get off before it is discovered."

-George Soros
Fabi wasn't looking for counterplay, he was looking to secure his king. If he managed to do so in a few moves, he would have less to lose by playing on than Magnus. Giving Fabi a chance to fend off Magnus' attack only increases the chance that Fabi plays on.
No suggestion, but an anecdote that illustrates a false negative like this.*

Stack Overflow's got an Azure SRE spot open, asking for experience with PowerShell DSC and Terraform, among others. The main goal for the role appears to be scaling their enterprise offering.

I've worked as both a sysadmin and a dev for years now, and used both to manage sizable deployments in public clouds, both Azure and others, mostly for enterprise software companies. This is a mildly specialized skillset (though getting less specialized by the day), and I figured I'd get at least a screening call.

I didn't even make it through the automated resume screening, and if I had to guess it's because I don't have a degree, much less a CS degree.

* On the off-chance my employer reads this, this was more of an exploratory application than me actively hunting for other opportunities.
So you are saying "since the law is full of holes, don't blame Apple for being crooks". I disagree. Whitewashing monopolistic abuse based on how neutered by years of lobbying by monopolists anti-trust laws are, is quite bad in itself.

> in your ideal world, if you made all the laws, Apple would be put out of business.

In the ideal world with functional anti-trust, they'd be held accountable for their disgusting anti-competitive behavior and they'd fix it. In the current world their monopolistic abuse runs unchecked, causing damage to the industry and progress.
Yeah, but these guys blitz out great moves like crazy, I just don't think an extra minute is enough time to capitalize on any slight inaccuracies induced by the time pressure black is under. I could be wrong of course, which is why I was interested to know if there are any win ratios for the format around.
From the perspective of capabilities, I think you’re right, the market is nearly fully served. From usability, I think we still have a long ways to go.
And it takes longer if the device or OS you want to switch to is not made by Apple.
I think they're serious. Recipe websites make for great content farms as they naturally get page views that last for several minutes while requiring no creative writing skills for the recipe content. Prefixing the pages with some prose that the user has to skim through while searching for the start of the recipe affects engagement for the ads which monitor that.
OpenBSD's package manager comes unconfigured out of the box, though :(
No, it doesn't make any sense at all. The only people that care about Carlsen during the tournament are the same people who care about Carlsen not during the tournament - chess fans.
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An alternative opinion for why Carlsen offered the game 12 draw: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/11/ga...
Sure, but that is not controlling your own money.
Anyone still think a hominid with cognitive facilities honed by evolutionary processes for small group interactions is (magically) up to the task of managing a global civilisation?
> Wouldn't it be great if we could finally remove demographic physical characteristics from judgement so these biases from race and legacy are gone?

Why do you think that the biases from both race and legacy aren't still there whenever an applicant is effectively just a number tied to a varying skill set?
But there are no clouds in space! Unless your particular spacecraft is flying through the Oort cloud I suppose, but surely there's not so many of those satellites out there that would make it worthwhile for AWS to start an entire service for that?
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We started with JavaScript actually. We switched away from JavaScript because it was too quirky, among other things.
Color is determined by random draw. I think most people feel that black has the advantage, but because there's no standardized timing it's hard to find relevant statistics. Armageddon is pretty much a thin chess-like veneer on top of a coin flip.
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That's bullshit. What could we do? No political party were seriously against it, and it's not a huge question to form a new political party around.

They did a 'trial run' after the investment which I guess was to make it look more democratic, and there was a public referendum which I actually believe was not in favor, but ignored. (Or was it in favor by only the 20% living inside the toll gates where allowed to vote, and the surrounding 14 regions arranged their own ignored referendums.

They spent a bizarre amount on implementing this, basically paying IBM the complete development cost for a plate reading system but gained no ownership rights into the product, simultaneously implemented a radio based system that was later ditched, hired hundreds if not thousands of people working with the billing and help desks (so how automatic was it), and campaigning on how good this is for the society.

The cost for adding 20 something camera based toll gates were almost half of the cost of building a 5 km long tunnel that was finished a few years before and constitutes about a quarter of an incomplete ring road. 3 billion SEK compared to 6 billion SEK. ($340m vs 680m)

The incomes did not cover the running costs the first years and I can't find any facts on if it's actually covering it's amortized costs now.

Coincidentally, a similarly unloved project in Gothenburg to build a relatively unnecessary train tunnel to huge costs DID actually spawn a new political party that gained 20% of the votes. Maybe there's hope.
These people already do so now. They exchange good and services or other forms of money, in exchange for someone sending crypto to their crypto wallet.

Many people in repressed countries like China and Venezuela are already able to aquire crypto. People in China are among the largest holders of crypto, actually.

This is not some hypothetical question. We can observe the answer to your question, right now, through the people that are using it.
Some Brexiteers favour a radical response: get rid of all tariffs on imports, as Hong Kong, Macao and Singapore have done. Extravagant assumptions about the benefits of this explain why some pro-Brexit economists see no deal as much less damaging than most of their colleagues. But tariff abolition would have huge effects on agriculture and some types of manufacturing. The government has no plans for such an extirpation.

Followed by no examination of the experience of Hong Kong, Macao, and Singapore. Instead bemoans the "huge effects" on protected industries.

One could be forgiven for making the mistake of assuming that a magazine called The Economist would understand the benefits of free trade beyond the EU and the harms of corporate welfare.
So, why do it? Should a razor thin majority in a public vote 2 years ago decide the UK's policy forever?
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> this increases the chance of using force instead of diplomacy in any given situation.

I'm not sure diplomacy works when someone is actively shooting at you or other people.

If people are rioting (actually rioting, not protesting) then I honestly don't care how the presence of a MRAP makes them feel. It's the police's job to stop the riot and they need tools to do that.

> I'm not going to call the cops for anything less than assault.

I'm glad you're not the majority. Because the world would be pretty shitty if all the police responded to was physical assaults and above.
The last generation RAV4 (2005-2017) used Toyota's 'New MC' platform which is shared with the Prius and Corolla. The current generation RAV4 uses the 'TNGA-K' platform which is shared with the Camry and Avalon. Since we're comparing 2019 models, the comparison of the RAV4 with the Camry is appropriate.

I believe Toyota is moving all their FF vehicles onto the TNGA-K platform.
What if I don't want these "services"?
I find this comparison to be very peculiar.

Modern "smartphones" are marketed and function as general purpose devices that can also make phone calls. These pocket computers have more in common with laptops with integrated wireless radios and have been positioned to be or become a users primary general purpose computing device.

In contrast, game consoles are designed to be appliances with a limited set of features that serve a specific set of functions. While it is true modern consoles devices are built with mainstream general purpose hardware the intended purpose of these devices is still limited even if it is possible to do more with them.
Same. The older I get the more I wish I could just spend my time learning to control my body and doing martial arts and such. It'd be so much more fun.
The other thing I've noticed in Wisconsin, the kids don't want to take over the family farm. And quite frankly farmland is hard to sell unless it is for development. Sometimes a neighoring farmer would consolidate but it is low value land. The equipment is probably worth more in a lot of cases.
No time. Interview prepping so it has to be leetcode day in and day out because that's what the industry expects...
Fortran has computed goto's (though marked obsolescent). Most mainstream C compilers support computed goto's as an extension, Visual Studio being one of the oddballs.

Computed goto's can really speed up state machines by allowing you to replace conditional branching with unconditional indirect branching. I've never seen switch-based solutions come close, notwithstanding that switch statement optimizations are supposedly part of the bread-and-butter of optimizing C compilers.

Note that GCC's documentation on computed goto's uses an example where they index a static array of label pointers. AFAIU the example does this because it speeds up linking and because its more analogous to Fortran code. But it's easier and more performant to simply store and use the label pointers directly (in place of an integer for indexing the array), and the additional linking cost is irrelevant compared to the amount of symbol linking required for even a simple C++ program.
Jesus. The loan forgiveness program cost $350M. If they had simply approved all applications, it should have cost less than that!
Do you continue to ignore this information in the interview phase?
That sounds lovely. I wish you the best.
I have personally seen Humvee's driving on the roads so I dont see why not.

Basically an MRAP is just a big truck so as long as it didn't break any traffic laws (too wide, too heavy, etc) then I'd assume its fine. Would depend per state though.
Huh. Don't think I have seen NCAR here before!
What did you expect?

You didn't post about the cool sites you built. You didn't show off your code. You didn't add value.

You posted bragging about "Hey, what if I 'collect' more domains? How much money would that be worth?"

You're not displaying something that most would consider "hacking".
The RJ-45 connector is an open standard that can carry basically anything—internet, video, audio, low-level data, etc—at a high bandwidth and with low latency. Why can't we have a wireless standard that does that?

I want non crappy Bluetooth mice that don't require a separate USB dongle. :(

Edit: To be clear, I'm sure ethernet cables are an entirely different thing and there's actually a very good reason why wireless makes everything more complicated. But, well, maybe that's one of the reasons people would like to stick with wires.
Ask HN: Does your company allow Hackathons?
Our company does not and I'm trying to get a sense of how common/uncommon this is.

Reasons given by leadership:

1) It is a lot of time (and therefore money) to not put towards roadmap items / things that "will never get used"

2) It creates dissonance between Eng and other teams (eg why don't the other teams get a day to do events like this? And of course, to suggest involving the other teams would invoke #1)

3) Though they have heard arguments that Hackathons might be good for culture building, they "honestly don’t see the connection between a hackathon and culture building"

I have never heard of a company outright saying "Absolutely not, we will not have a Hackathon", so I'd be curious to hear if any of you have.
Facebook is fenced yard. Instagram is the walled garden one.
I've been looking into topic modeling lately. It looks like this is the best library for doing that: https://github.com/baidu/Familia

Time to learn Mandarin I guess.
Yeah, I also haven’t seen a horse fly in quite a while
there is no inflation of other currencies. they are all dancing in bitcoin's dance, because often they re only traded against it. BTC is still the entry coin. the rest exist for daytrading-fun in binance.
Part of the reason Android has a reputation as a malware-ridden platform is due to that freedom of choice.
Are people clicking on ads/end screen survey things/anything on a video that is not play/pause with any greater frequency than this?
Which wireless headphones do you find to but up to the task of matching the quality of your wired headphones?
With an enormous influence campaign by a hostile power, too.
> I'm sure the Chinese would say exactly the same thing that the EU does about their system; it "protects" individuals from what they don't need to know.

It doesn't matter what the Chinese government says, because if they say something like that they're lying. Their censorship is meant to protect the power and privilege of the already powerful and privileged, and keep everyone else complaint to them.

The only way Chinese censorship "protects" individuals is by discouraging them from having dissident thoughts that the government may decided to personally and physically oppress them for having.
The problem is that once a cryptocurrency starts to demonstrate such a market, there is nothing stopping Visa from rolling out a microtransaction fee structure and undercutting the cryptocurrency.
China's policy towards political/ideological freedoms and "luring US academics" seems distinctly at odds. Many in academia are ideologically motivated.
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Not interference so much as immense corruption and cooperation re the subsidies per mile you refer to.
We definitely don't intend to push you into Material... can you elaborate on that? What would we have to change for you to think we were not pushing you into Material?

Regarding the crash logs, it has definitely helped us improve stability. We do try hard to notify you that it's happening. It's opt-out because people don't tend to opt in to that kind of thing and so the data would be more or less useless (not representative of real usage) if we made it opt-in.
i think you really are. you can't pay another ebay (e.g.) user today, without ebay somehow being liable about the transaction. crypto keeps people bound to their wallets, which frees up a ton of possibilities.