skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why wouldn’t it be possible to get worse? The murder rate of 19 per 50K is still fairly low in overall terms and could dramatically increase without triggering any “natural limit”.

Combine that with the adverse selection of population, it could get quite a bit more dire. If you had significant resources and flexibility, you’ve probably already moved your family out of Flint. As things get worse, people with “any” rather than “significant” resources/flexibility will move out. As you remove swaths of population who (for whatever reason) tend to commit less violent crime, your remaining violent crime rate gets worse.
> implicitly blesses dangerous behavior

How does it do this? From where I'm sitting it's a very necessary protection for groups that are currently at risk and definitely need protecting from these things, such as sex workers. Wearing a hard hat doesn't give blessing to accidentally dropping something heavy enough to kill without it, I fail to see how this is any different.
The city of Flint has extremely high poverty and the schools were very bad well before the water issue came to light. I wonder how much of this is due to the lead in water vs just the situation of the city, high poverty, and poor schools, etc. anecdotally I don’t think the things mentioned in this article are all that different from other cities in similar situations without the lead in water issue.

Either case hopefully they can turn things around for the kids who have to grow up in this situation.
I'm probably missing the point since I don't know the movie, but isn't "You can fool some people some times, but you can't fool all the people all the time", which the article title is riffing on, more or less it?
You're right. And I'm sure Service NSW had the best intentions, but were ignorant to the wider implication.
Not directly related, but if anyone is living in Budapest and would like to hang out some time, email me (email in profile).
Is there a purpose to this, other than tricking the user into thinking they are talking to a human?

One the one hand, if you have a large database of facts on which you can train this to accurately answer questions, why not just index the database in Elasticsearch and let your users search over it? This is just as efficient, a lot cheaper, and a lot more transparent to your users.

On the other hand, if you _don't_ have such a database, the thing will just end up lying to your users. Which is basically a worst-case-scenario, because you're abusing trust that you gained by pretending to be human.

I will take wikipedia + elasticsearch/google/bing/duckduckgo over a chatbot trained on wikipedia any day.
Google Weighs Changes to Political Ad Policy
Thinking through potential race conditions is certainly the right thing to do, but we still make mistakes and concurrency bugs are hard to find and sometimes even to notice. I'd still rather have the borrow checker keep an eye on my code and if its unnecessarily conservative in a situation that you know is thread-safe you can still use unsafe code.
One problem I see with Graphql, in general, that it seems like it amplifies a problem which is something all OXMs inadvertently do. And it is the problem of managing business logic. And from what I can see is that graphql now pushes this to the client and erodes the server side’s encapsulation of business logic. Now you have the problem of having business logic everywhere? Isn’t this something we have learned throughout the years is a bad thing?
You can’t downvote submissions.
I haven’t read the whole thing yet, but clang seems to be benchmarked here: https://parallel-rust-cpp.github.io/results.html
Liquid-in-liquid printing method could put 3D-printed organs in reach
I thought it was an interesting and well written piece of reportage. It wasn’t news and it didn’t pretend to be. It’s in the Life and Style section, where you will also find gardening and makeup tips.
That's funny, because so did I! =)
>WTF, are you out of your mind?

I was doing a PhD in high energy experimental physics until I finally notice that the majority of my peers were not doing science, they were padding a resume.

Today we could stop doing high energy physics, both theory and experiments, for 50 years and we would not actually retard the progress of the field. We lack the engineering to build experiments better than the ones we have for any sane price and we are sitting around counting angels on pins. The brainpower that we are wasting on un-rigorous mathematics could be much better spent in any number of fields.

I dare you to read 100 papers in any field that you are familiar with and tell me that 95 of the papers aren't there just because someone needed to publish something. I've talked to people in astronomy, genetics, mechanical engineering and computer science and they all say the same thing.

We don't need more science, we need better science. The simplest way to do that is to do less of it. We won't even be hurting progress because you will be able to trust it, unlike today where if you try and synthesize an experiment from three papers you're pretty much guaranteed it won't work because the papers are either fraudulent, p-hacked, flat out wrong or not even wrong.
Passed away.
That and, everyone doesn't want you to have any way to uniquely identify them and contact them right up until the moment they forget their password.
The book "The Meritocracy Trap" points out that inter-generationally this isn't true.

More money helps fund better training which leads to elite networking/training (elite colleges, for example) which leads to well-paying, high status jobs and the cycle continues. Granted, it's not just money alone, but the major theme of the book is that high income from labor (rather than inherited wealth) is a positive feedback loop passed along generational lines and concentrated among the upper quintile of incomes
If most people are hard-wired to be duped, why does it feel like only recently people are getting even more conspicuously duped by their political leaders (a la Trump and Johnson)? Presumably this effect should have had a more uniformly distributed effect throughout history.

Is it solely due to the weaponization of technology for this means? Or are there other reasons for “why now”?
The Management Myth, haha.
You're proabaly up to date with the war in Syria but why not Yemen? Why is Syria vastly more newsworthy than Yemen? Because this is what the column inches suggest.
Our future may be like Sea Levels 125,000 Years Ago, 20M Higher
This is itself nonsense. It presumes several obviously false things:

- That people who are bad at writing books are either equally bad at everything, or derive most of their income from writing books. "Don't quit your day job" is a meme for a reason.

- That writing quality (by some metric), as opposed to marketing, is the primary driver of book sales. Sales of Twilight demonstrate otherwise. It's even more clear in music: see any one-hit wonder from a past decade. In many cases, people who liked it then now wonder why.

- That the economic model of book sales is representative of the economy as a whole. Books are almost pure intellectual property. Intellectual property is typically characterized by high development costs recouped through high margins. Services and commodity physical goods are typically characterized by low development costs and low margins, with non-commodity physical goods lying somewhere in between. The latter categories make up most of the global economy, so most of the economy doesn't meaningfully compare to books.
Revolut to update their privacy policy
Huawei founder calls on Europe, Japan to step up development of alternative tech
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It can technically And definitely get worse but if you are using that statistic only you wouldn’t understand the totality of how bad it is in Flint. You really have to see it to understand how bad it is. My point is you cannot make it seem like all of sudden flint is going to become high crime rate going forward due to this.
Well, you said it... 3 crashes a year vs cost of 200 ECC RAM.
(say refresh of pc every 3 years). So in lifetime of those machines you will experience 9 crashes.
Is it really cost effective?
Also file versioning, automatic backups of files should be a standard in any serious business.

So in reality no work would be lost to crash, only bit of time.
"There's something straight ahead of me, unclear what. Let's just ram into it, full throttle!" If that's your thought process, please cease driving immediately and permanently.
I thought under GDPR, companies had to explicitly ask users to opt-in for any matter related to data protection and privacy.
Why users are opted in by default and have to opt out?
Vascularized tissues are hard to build up in traditional solid layer-by-layer 3D printing. Instead, researchers have used liquid polymers to create a stable membrane that do not shrink. [1]

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/adma.2019046...
More work but you can open devtools and delete the "pop over" div that blocks the page, and then set "overflow: scroll" on the second div after <div id="app"> :)
We Need to Talk About Peat
right now at 12p UTC there's a different set of top stories.
I call these Euro top stories. Within the next 2-4 hours USA will wake up and the top stories will change.
My TLDR: don't base your choice on performance if you have to pick between Rust or C++
Answer to that question going to prove what? In my city metro drivers are unionized and paid on pair with software developers. Similar for bus. There is absolutely no shortage of the bus or metro drivers.
But how long has led existed in the pipes? People now grown up could have been impacted when young.
I wouldn't give NSW police that much credit.
It's called "cold reading"[0] and the "Barnum effect."[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect
It been happening all along, it's just a bit more mask off right now.

It always become more blatant as the contradictions of capitalism intensify and the status quo becomes untenable. You see the same in Western European propaganda from the 30s, particularly in the Weimar Republic.
Wishful thinking. Those "in principle" agreements were inked, I think, 3 times already just to be rescinded a week later.

I do not even exclude the plausibility of it being Liu intentionally leaking half truths, in order relieve pressure from Beijing from his back.

After all, Xi recused himself from the talks because he knew it will be a big blow to him if he would be seen as a man who blew up trade talks.
There is a vast swathe of jobs that are labour under very strict conditions imposed on you by middle management, for example anything in a harbour or construction context. That's not the sort of rule that you can just opt to take some time for self improvement under. I would wager the percentage of jobs with such conditions is probably higher than without.
For good reasons or bad, but... machines don't strike. That on its own is a very good reason to fully automate the metro.
And for some strange reason, the ability to pair with Bluetooth devices. Which I have no idea why it exists, I can't find a single service that the app has access to which would require that feature.
It's illegal to use your phone while in command of a motor vehicle in NSW, regardless of whether you're moving or stationary. If you're parked you're fine, but if you're stopped at the lights, for instance, it's illegal.
Yeah.

This is (100-eps)% of classical psychoanalysis (including the extensive word association, etc.) except for the crucial bit that's transference -- the long term relationship between patient and analyst.

Psychoanalytic theory (at least Lacanian theory, which is what I'm studying at lunch hour) explores a lot of this stuff -- the healing of people by prodding them to heal themselves and maybe grasping a clue here and there.

I wouldn't recommend analysis (or astrology) to anyone in pain, but if you can read French (translations of Lacan are atrocious, and I'm told Freud is even worse) reading seminars I and XV are a great investment of time.
It has crossed my mind on occasion.never been in truly violent turbulence yet but generally wary when flying over the Indian Ocean. Can be quite rough.
> Tell him to go to the doctor, but have an in-character way of doing it instead of using logic. If they were willing to listen to logic, they wouldn't be there.

Actually, I'd say the problem was that she did stay in character. I don't understand why she couldn't just say the truth: "I was just reading about a neurological condition with these exact symptoms. You may have $name, and if you don't get it treated immediately $bad_thing may happen."
true, so I just know a recent annoying one, gdb always stops on sigpipe. Quite annoying when you add a signal handler to ignore sigpipes; yet it keeps exiting... only to realise an hour later that gdb decides that for you on default. Though clear example of RTFM, PEBCaK.
Broken printing in an enterprise Java app - it was relatively serious as customer's business process was relying on collaborating using prints. There was no message, no error & it was only failing for one specific customer.

It took us 2 weeks to found the problem. From what I remember some entry in the middle of windows PATH variable had a problem. While loading DLLs this caused a silent failure, and caused printing DLLs not to be loaded. It was all in Citrix environment which definitely did not help.
My hardest ever bug to debug was a core dump deep in the guts of some nasty c++ code.

What's so hard about that? Just load the core dump into a debugger! Well loading the core dump into the debugger caused the debugger to dump core...
You're making a large mistake too. For example, that nobody will pay you to cycle on an exercise bike does not mean your labor has no value -- after all, if you're in better health, you will be more productive in the hours you're not on that bike.

(to make my point more explicit: in Marx' definition of labor he implies labor of enterprise, not just spending calories. Just like your definition of value implies financial value, not just any positive outcome. I'm purposefully misrepresenting your definition of value just like you're purposefully misrepresenting Marx' definition of labor.)
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Run Pac-Man Run
That's exactly what the US system is supposed to to. Continuous, rapid cycling between small improvements and slightly smaller regressions.

As the Federal bureaucracy grows and as elected politicians stay in office longer the regressions become more severe though.

If it gets bad enough you end up with a massive centralized apparatus which inevitably implodes and takes out the nation it governed with it.

As seen in China every 100-200 years throughout it's history, as seen in the USSR, Rome, etc.

Lots of small sadnesses are always better than one or two big ones (which is the central premise of Nassim Taleb's books)
The danger is loss of police revenue. In Australia it’s illegal to use your phone to pay at a McDonald’s drive through if your the one sitting in the drivers seat. Even if the car is in park.
Exactly, imagine if people of the United States appropriated the name 'American'! I'm sure that every other country in the two Americas would be up in arms!

(It is a joke, laugh).
That's great until your phone gets broken or runs out of battery. Personally, I like to keep my phone, wallet, and keys as three separate things.
> 3-5X more development work needed

This is also by and large a mindset you foster. There are plenty of companies where you have engineers on both ends of the spectrum (both having a lot of leisure time and little).
Depends how you define an opportunistic hacker.

https://xkcd.com/538/
Odd isn't it? Maybe it's because we (who? Under-50s?) grew up watching a glowing rectangle and having our emotions be controlled by TV shows making us laugh and cry...

Or well, the simpler explanation is a picture will help you remember the place and the associated emotions, but a video is even more immersive.
I have a similar theory, the right and the left each get to alternate so we stay sort of in the middle.
So you’re surprised that a site called Hacker News is made up of people who appreciate tech?
Or keep them busy fighting over the captain while the competent rest of the ship stay the course :D

Definitely how I felt in pre-Macron France, where the presidents were just telling idiots impossible dreams why the whole country was managed prudently.

Maybe this time I am the idiot in the demographic targeted by the president, so I feel hopeful again ahaha
It's not increased, we're just more aware of deceptions.

Up until 100 years ago, you could go town to town scamming people and there'd be little cross town communication. Each town would know it had been duped, but you wouldn't know about other towns.
There's definitely a lot of dripping condescension in that piece. That said, yeah, I think it's substantially correct. If the Mona Lisa is going to attract such outsized crowds--and, in my experience, they are outsized compared to a work of art in any other museum I've been to--you'd do both the art and the crowds a favor by separating it and putting it in an environment to optimize viewing and provide context/educational background.
Yes but windows calls your event loop directly for WM_PAINT as well as the event loop calling a system function that calls your window procedure, again investing control. On the Mac you used to hit test the event yourself and figure out which window it was meant for.
Elon Musk says SpaceX’s Starship could fly for $2M per launch
Ask HN: What is your most important factors when choosing an employer?
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SpaceX's Starship May Fly for Just $2M per Mission, Elon Musk Says
Sounds like the "premium paid" on a basket of options is realized in more decisions. Quote: "The shift to options on baskets is consistent with people trying to minimize the number of decisions they make."
Living in Paris, where the people that run the trains have threatened to strike from December 5 "indefinitely" (we'll see what that means), that was also my first thought when reading the article.
Which is the exact reason the system is setup like it is. The federal government is only supposed to take action when it can get two ideological parties to agree on something.

The theory being that if the two sides can find common ground, it's actually a good idea.
Perhaps not strike, but they do sometimes malfunction, go out of order, sometimes due to vandalism, or stop working because of electricity issues.
I've tried both eating a little often and a lot very little and from the experiences of me and everyone I have ever spoken to in the flesh about this, it really is as simple as "more energy when you eat more".

Fasting won't give you mountains of physical pep. Sure, there is that golden time after you have done it for a while where you get great mental clarity and you feel good but you will not be voluntarily running laps or pushing your absolute peak weight in the gym.

That barrier is something you'll always feel, even if you're not pushing the limits. The fact of the matter is that barrier is closer when you are fasting.
The suggestion is to move it to its own pavilion, still in central Paris, highly commercialised and optimized for large crowds.

The article argues that this would be better for everyone: the art enthusiasts who want to enjoy the museum and the box-tickers who are only there to see its most famous attraction, as well as being financially viable.

Not addressed is the argument that some people might come for the Mona Lisa and stay for the rest of the museum, and gain a better appreciation of art that way. The author likely thinks that doesn't happen or isn't important.
cache on internet archive (https://web.archive.org/web/20190804220223/http://rhyal.com/)
The article doesn't mention one more thing that automation might bring: flexibility in working hours. Automated trains could work an extra hour for routes and districts that would benefit from it, or it could also be not working, e.g. extra trains that only work in peak hours.

This is especially true in the context of self-driving cars, but might be true for Metro as well.
The Mona Lisa is the leader product for the Louvre, which is, btw, a public entity whose goal is to educate. Bring the tourists for the Mona Lisa (also very well known to a smaller extent are the David, the Venus of Milo and Samothrace Victory) and then they still are in one of the largest museum of the world, with many things to discover.

When I brought in my teenager niece, 16, she did not know what to expect, but WANTED to see the Mona Lisa, despite my warnings it was really underwhelming, but she wanted her selfie.

And then she marveled for the rest of the day in the middle of the antiquities and learned about civilization she had not even heard the name before.
They may not have planned it, but I'd give them enough credit that this kind of abuse is almost a certainty.
1) Accessibility

2) There's always been some measure of manipulation by political leaders in order to achieve certain goals. Obvious examples are the US in drumming up support for WW2 or the Vietnam war or ... well, any war, really. I don't think anything has really fundamentally changed since the "good old days", except people have realized that they can subvert democracy by just telling people what they want to hear. We have decades of history where you can say something and then do something else entirely, and this is just the natural extension of that. Political leaders, businesses, etc. have realized that there are no consequences for being bad actors, only benefits. Even if they are found out, they can influence the news in ways to make it blow over in a day, or they can tie up courts for years and years if it ever does go there (rare).

All I see is an inexorable march which started decades ago, and it's not going to stop here.
Here's a tiny sample of a voice commanded Pac-Man game. It astonishes me how the game industry will evaluate in the near future. It's exciting to see works like this!
So do 3rd world countries. It's all fun and games in Budapest, until you go around in villages where people walk barefoot. Last time i've been there I thought about taking pictures as the nationalist government of hungary does its best to hide it. But the issue is not that, the thing is it does have an opportunity to develop into something green, as do most east EU countries.
I have no doubt about good intentions of individuals. It's more about where the buck stops.
As Doge said, "much pretentious".
I think you might be missing the point a bit. This is not about two people being otherwise equal, and one being given a million dollars.

The point is that someone who has a million dollars is in a position where it will be easier for him to make another million dollars, or at least it's more likely for him to be in that kind of position than for someone who does not have a million dollars.
Do you think you can close deals with this kind of Data?
iOS has had "Guided Access" since almost forever.

Not quite a guest account, but you can use the Accessibility shortcut (from the Control Center or triple-clicking the sleep button) to quickly prevent app switching before handing a device to someone.

You can even use it to disable interaction with parts of the screen by drawing regions, or disable the hardware buttons, and set an autosleep timer.

What operating systems really need though, is a "fake OS" mode. It should display an alternative launchpad with some random apps with random photos, notes, messages etc. When someone tries to do something it should stall with poor network connectivity dialogs or other fake issues.

Maybe someone can make an app like that? :)
So you would be the brave one, the one that will tell his professor: F U, I wont stay for 3 more years on this slave wage, you're going to have to make me a PhD based on my hard work that amounted to a set of results that you deem unpublishable.

Good luck.