skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a senior in college, I got pulled over by Chicago Housing Authority while driving (with out of state plates) through the south side projects ostensibly for a lane change without signalling (which is bullshit, signalling is a pet peeve of me, and I always signal).

There were 3 officers. One was being a real dick. Was asking me all sorts of questions unrelated to the traffic stop, like why am I here, where do I work, etc. Told him it was non of his business. Then, he threatened to arrest me. Told him I'm not answering any more questions without a lawyer present. He went back to the van to write up the ticket. The other 2 officers apologized to me, but did nothing to stop the ticket.

They were trying to get me to admit I was trying to score drugs. I was just on my way to school to take a final.

They took my license as bail, leaving me without photo ID, the week I was supposed to fly home for Christmas. Had to get a state ID. Only cost $4, but I was broke, didnt even have enough to take out at an ATM. Paid the $4 in dimes so I could have a photo ID to fly. The clerk at the DMV was pissed, but once I explained the circumstance, she patiently delt with me.

Tldr; white college student with out of state plates is profiled in a poor black neighborhood known for dealing druga on his way to take a final.

And, no, I didnt fight it. It would have been my word against 3 cops. The only way I could have won is if all 3 cops didn't show up to court. Repercussions of pleading np contest are far less than pleading not guilty and losing in Illinois.
Not according to the plea. You should try reading the article next time.
In this paper Bostrom lays out several scenarios whereby advances in technology create potential existential threats to civilization. In response to such threats he imagines what steps might be necessary to prevent or mitigate the risk of such threats. Some of these steps would be anathema to most freedom-loving people.

In light of the 2020 Coronavirus outbreak, we're seeing glimpses of what such steps could look like. Except the weapon spawns spontaneously, as opposed to coming from some rogue actor. Yet the cure might be the same.
When you cancel the Netflix service (like I just did, after 8 years), please make sure to specify the reason. There's a form (Go to "Account", then look for a cancel button in the upper left part of the page) where you can enter some text.

I'm pretty sure this text is read by a real human in the end. Each cancellation likely represents a pretty significant loss of recurring revenue on average.

Clarification: This was a total BS move. A French EU politician yesterday tweeted a random idea, with no support (or even any request) from any network provider. They all seem to be saying traffic is slightly higher than usual, but they're coping.

Then Netflix just randomly decides to do this, to everyone in Europe. To me this was the straw that broke the camel's back. Goodbye, Netflix.
Who doesn't have skin in the game in that sentence?
They can decide to murder you for allegedly resisting arrest. The list of people killed by police for no reason without anything happening to the cop is not short enough.
If you can’t install Linux on it, it’s not a PC.
Wishing isn't the point for me. A lot of us were taught a particular security model, and then that changed silently, and now we might make bad decisions because of it.

I wish I could at least control these things. I'd like to turn them all off and see what happens to the modern web, and at least understand what I'm allowing when I turn them back on.
My heart goes to her family during this tough time.
Her contribution will never be forgotten.
So you are saying that you know for certain that keeping children home from school... cannot deprive them of an education? And keeping billions of people home, unable to socialize for months, with no end in sight... won't increase depression and anxiety? I'd like to know how you came to those conclusions...

Frankly, the discussion about trains has nothing to do with anything, and should be disregarded. "Once upon a time someone was wrong about something, therefore this person is wrong about an unrelated thing" is silly.
Can you tell me what about the notes in LT made it hard to use them? We're hoping to make the app better. (I'm founder @ LT)
I'm wondering this as well!
In all the TV shows I've ever seen featuring police as protagonists, I believe 100% of them show police corruption as part of standard procedure.

And it's gotten far, far worse over the years. Dick Wolf's "Law & Order" (1990) sometimes had rather subtle corruption, while his "Chicago P.D." (2014) makes torture a primary investigative method in every episode. Even in the rare case where a corrupt cop is taken down on TV, it's done by a slightly less corrupt cop.

Is it any surprise that we see issues with police in real life, when our entertainment has normalized much more brutal behavior? There's a huge discrepancy here. In the fictional world, torture works, and corruption always ends up being justified.

I love a good crime story, but all I see today is producers competing for who can be the most outrageous.
I've never witnessed Hypervitaminosis D in real life, although it's theoretically possible. Vitamin D deficiency is much more common.

The plasma calcium level is very complicated, and it can't solely blamed on Vitamin D intake. The functioning of the parathyroids and kidneys have as much, if not more, to do with it, and it's a complicated feedback mechanism. Any endocrinologists here who can explain it better?

If you live near Seattle, or are not exposed to sunlight very often, then maybe some supplemental Vitamin D and calcium is in order.

Disclaimer: This is not medical advice. Always consult your physician before changing medications / supplements :)
My worst enemy could use a decade.
Do you think Stephen Hawking would have survived the virus if this had happened ten years ago?

Surely you're not suggesting that he should have been selected out.
Why don’t people just fire up their own domain drop in an e-commerce store and sell these face masks while answering to no one? It should be fairly easy for such a site to go viral given the pent up demand.
She seems similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Pfau
> Thus what we are maybe witnessing today is a natural selection in action

That sentiment doesn't really make sense. The people dying are mostly old people. Natural selection has no agenda. Even if a bunch of young people with health problems die, it's not really 'natural selection' doing it. Everyone's on borrowed time because everyone dies.
I tend to mix introversion with having an overly active internal thinking process.

I'm one of those people who pause before responding, because I'm thinking through my response before speaking, rather than blurting out the first thing that comes to mind.

I find overthinking a response can also be inhibiting as I can fall into the "do I really need to say that...and now", so I don't.
I believe that any gains that result from a crime have to be given back to the relevant parties. If you trade on insider information you forfeit your profits for example. Maybe since this is a settlement he was able to keep it. Idk. Perhaps a lawyer could chime in.
What do you have to do to get a job where you could be liable for $179M for "violating employment contracts"? The mind boggles. I hope they had free soda at least.
It looks like an 18 month siege. Siege economy is unlike anything I have seen so far in 43 years. Recessions, panics, wars. Never saw a siege. Sort of thing reminds me of the movie Baron Von Munchhousan where the town is in a state of calamity all around it and inside.
These are not anticipated dangers. These are well-documented dangers. Keeping depressed people away from human contact is damned dangerous. Locking people up in houses with abusers for weeks on end is damned dangerous.

That's not to say that quarantining is necessarily the wrong move. But these are very legitimate concerns, and need to be kept in mind in decision-making.
There are also violin plots, which are like a cross between a box plot and a ridgeline plot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_plot
Rodney King is complicated. He's not the blameless victim you might think. At the same time, the cops responsible used ridiculously excessive force restraining him, and their initial acquittal was a sham (and everyone knew it, leading to the riots).
They love PR speak and buzzwords. I'm still waiting on my "Amazon Executive Support" person to explain how I was sent previously opened and seemingly washed socks. How about all the other opened products I get listed as new? The fake reviews that are oh-so obvious and have been around for years without a dent?

They are top tier BS. I take advantage of them as much as I can ;) After all the stuff they've made me return or sold me as new, I don't feel bad at all.
2009, in fact. I put it in the further reading.
Designing metamaterials with quantum annealing and factorization machines
Thank you for pointing it out so succinctly: this HN post does indeed smell highhly of serious self-bromotion
This is exactly what Bootstrap does...
The question in criminal cases should be: how many people's lives were hurt by the crime, and how severely?

In this case, no one's life was the slightest bit injured. Uber is most likely too incompetent to be a real threat. Waymo has undoubtedly advanced far from the versions of everything that he copied illegally. It won't damage them at all. If anything, the lawsuit and criminal case were probably more damaging to their progress due to the distraction.

This is pretty similar to copying software or movies illegally. In almost all cases, there is no injured party. It's simply illegal by virtue of the powerful corporations demanding laws that they can use as a bludgeon.

Startups and other small companies don't get any of this "protection", but when someone copies code illegally from Google or Goldman Sachs, the FBI gets involved and makes them pay dearly. Prosecutors use the cases to make their bones.

I'm not suggesting that what this guy did was ethically or legally correct, just that it didn't actually harm any human life. It should probably be illegal but the punishment/fines should be capped at a very low level. The laws should primarily be designed to stop someone from continuing to use illegally copied data.
So basically in 10 weeks the economy will be fucked and everybody will have it regardless of what measures they take.

Anyone else seeing the problem?
Don't say this. I want the world to learn that mass white-collar work-from-home is not debilitating.
A while back I wrote a screen sharer that uses WebRTC and Gun.js for signaling [0]. Nowadays you could use IPFS's JS lib to do this (or webtorrent even). Now if both people are behind a restrictive NAT or something, you do need a TURN server.

0 - https://myscreen.live
I'd have known what xkcd it is, no pasting necessary. It doesn't apply every time someone calls something old. I'm not making fun of anyone.

The other leading HN headlines are:

* GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository

* NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS

* Covid-19 Interactive Model

plus we get the old CSS site from 2003...
Ignaz Semmelweis – pioneer of antiseptic procedures in medicine
Are you saying that those professors who i dont doubt are good and supportive, beside teaching generate some junk because academia requires them? Maybe something is broken
Basically that, but fossils are scarce enough that there are few enough known species so it makes sense.
My apologies for the unimplemented features! Please know it's not because we don't care, we have real-human tech support for even our free users because we desperately care. But we have to focus on the largest demand requests. Fwiw, the biggest request is desktop support, which are in beta now.
There is no legal way for US citizens to actually use their legal-to-own guns to create beneficial policy change.
(Google Sheet) List of Covid-19 Engineering Groups and Networks
"Dares to ask" is such an awful, dishonest phrase. It's begging to derail/mischaracterize the conversation.
Thanks! We've thought about that. The next update will add some tagging features that won't solve that, but will get you partway to a solution to the timeline issue.
Even if they don't show corruption, they do show 100% correct identification of suspect and 100% conviction rates.
The document was an open meeting minutes team spreadsheet. It’s how Google runs their teams, tabs like OKRs, Metrics, Weekly Updates, Progress, etc. Definitely a valuable document but trade secret? jail? Bankruptcy? Meanwhile, Waymo just raised 2.5Billion.
Putting a dataset into AWS is a lot like putting a satellite into orbit. You still need to pay later to get it down, or to safely destroy it.
Yes, but desktop versions are coming. We're testing Windows in beta now! (I'm founder @ LT)
Amazon literally has a tool for this (Mechanical Turk)
Get a Minecraft server!
"worst cases are testing positive" ?????

Most tests are on healthy people that were close to positive. If the R0 is as high as they say (2-4) then most people (60+%) will get it.
> Typescript aims to model a strongly typed, OPP language

That's a rather puzzling statement, to be honest. Strong type system is explicitly one of the non-goals[0]. I write typescript code everyday and most of it is functional. Things like fp-ts[1] make it even more enjoyable.

[0] https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/TypeScript-Desi...
[1] https://github.com/gcanti/fp-ts
"Well understood" just means well understood. That's not necessarily the same as "safe".

Many substances that have been ingested by humans are well understood, but if it comes to drinking a thimble of cyanide, well ... after you.
Sonarr and Radarr are 10x better.
Thanks! This feature is extremely relevant to operational decisions. You can’t tell your operations team/ drivers/ etc that there is simply no plan because the algorithm is still running!
Back of the envelope:

California had 18 death last I checked. A good estimate for real infections is 800current-deaths = 14400 infected [1]. If doubling time is 4 days, that's 14 doubling periods. so 14400 (2^14) = 23,5929,600. I'd guess this is worst case, not likely-case but still terrifying.
Would this be a good use of gofundme? Not sure if they have restrictions on paying for civil lawsuits. I would gladly contribute money towards holding public officials accountable for abuses of power.
If the second amendment of the constitution is supposed to be the guarantor of civil rights in the USA, it does not seem to be working too well. I put somewhat more faith in the first amendment and cellphones with cameras.
Like I've said, the number of tested is irrelevant for the estimate of the future, as the growth speed is stable across many countries, where the number of tests hugely differ:

US 37824 tests 11,604 cases 161 dead
UK 56221 tests 3,269 cases 144 dead

But in all countries the doubling time is also around every 3 days. It's very stable information and allows for easy estimates: 30 days of such doubling makes 10 of them, or the factor 2 ^ 10 = 1024 times more.

Even if the doubling time (for new deaths) increases to 4 days (the number that can now be derived from Italy) the resulting factor in 30 days changes to 2 ^ 7.5 = 181 which still results in almost 30000 deaths in the next month in each of UK and US... as long as something very resolute isn't done to prevent the growth.

But the problem isn't just the dead alone. It's that the number of those that need the hospital treatment is much higher than those that die, and that is when the hospitals aren't overloaded. These numbers are huge. See my other post here for just the number of needed intensive care beds -- those are especially hard to increase.
This sounds nice but isn't actionable. Ok, say we don't trust the cops (true enough for many citizens). What now?
Actually, the snarky poster was correct.

US Academics is about grant-seeking and ass-kissing foremost (and living in your car), not whatever the discipline at hand is.

Physics itself is oblivious to that.
the point was, i believe, that the techs frequently don't know what they are talking about.
We need to keep testing as an element in mind folks.
Whooa, not all cops are predators, just a small minority. I think you’re forgetting what lawlessness means and what these cops do. Some arest dangerous people, murderers and such. Some plant cocaine evidence and some are power tripping. They are people like everybody else and if they get no privacy at all maybe they wouldnt want to enroll to be cops. How about we devs were constantly monitored becaus some dev stole some credentials to some database. But, why, we have nothing to hide, why not be filmed all the time and when you go to the toilet the video gets encrypted and only a judge can see that.. see where its going?

There must be a middle ground. You see, this cop fucked up, that guy did a hit and run and now will probably will go free. Double fuck up imo
He said, verbatim:

> The medical advancements in the last 100 years increased the survival chances of many who would not be here already, if not said advancements.

Ie "those people wouldn't be here if not for the reasons that let them be here", ie tautological bullshit. Guess what, they also wouldn't be dead if not for COVID-19.

Saying "x wouldn't happen if not for the thing that caused it to happen" isn't some profound statement.
But who can drink that much gin a day?
Yes it does, because one was a dirty cop acting in isolation without observation. The follow up with a threat to person, property, or family would be beyond a major felony and egregious. Many people, cops included have been convicted for such things. So no, it's not likely. If this cop escaped charges on some technicality, he sure as hell wouldn't escape charges for a direct threat.
Because hardware is easier to safely and completely virtualise. It's a relatively small surface compared to the entire OS API.
Let's just stop all medicine, apparently, since all it does is "prolong the life of the weak". What infuriating drivel.
Scientists Can Work from Home When the Lab Is in the Cloud
I want to know how social distancing can work in the long run. Obviously it slows the spread, but until 60-70% of the population is exposed (200+ million in the US), we won’t have herd immunity. That means we’ll still be fighting exponential growth.

So how long will it take to expose 200 million people? At 10 million a month (horrific!) it will still take two years. No country can afford to spend $1 trillion every quarter to prop up the economy. I’m afraid social distancing merely delays the awful inevitable.
First of all, that's backwards. These features had to land before anyone could use them. Users can't use them before they land, so they couldn't have landed because they were being used.

Second, how can you know if these features are widely used or not? There's been lots of technologies that have been added to web browsers over the years that weren't widely used, and were later removed.
I’ve followed a similar path but since become a huge fan of Tailwind’s compositional style. It refactors style at the point of HTML generation, which in this component oriented era makes a ton of sense.

CSS was explicitly designed not to be Turing complete. Had DSSSL been the choice twenty years ago, we might not be constantly twisting in the wind for a better paradigm.
> What if you’re streaming from a neighbor who turns off their computer?

The default is to download 100% from a CDN somewhere, and P2P that default to the same behavior can’t be a net negative outside of sub 0.1% extra communication overhead. Don’t want to use your upload bandwidth? That’s fine your simply stuck using the same CDN network that’s currently overloaded.

So none of the above are actual issues, a device doesn’t need to stay connected or have the full movie to be useful for P2P. If I start watching some movie while you’re also watching that same movie you can stream whatever is in your buffer to me and that’s a net gain in terms of back haul capacity. I don’t need to depend on anything from you other than what you already sent to me. I can then download from the service bit’s you don’t have and stream them to you.
Like most of the bay area, they do issue shares to employees. If you stop thinking of companies as a monolith but rather a diverse set of agents (and owners) then I think you'll realize nothing can ever benefit AAPL, only it's shareholders, directors, managers and employees.
That's not the bottleneck. The bottleneck is the IP interconnect capacity between edge network and its peers. If you only have 4x100 Gbit/sec IP sink to Level3 in SEA and your other sink is 100G to NTT, no amount of traffic engineering in your edge network is going to give you more than 500 Gbit/sec of exit and that exit will only be available if NTT has entire 100Gbit/sec that is not congested and Level3 has 400Gbit/sec not congested.

In eyeball networks the bottleneck is not upload. It is traffic being brought into the edge network from upstreams (netflix/photos/etc)
I'd say anyone that believes that the current situation will have no consequence for themselves or their relatives, or who are not aware of the current situation in care facilities and so, downplay it.

It has led to unbelievable carelessness attitude, like people organizing parties after government warnings, transmitting the disease to more vulnerable people.

So yes, everyone has skin in the game, but some people think they have not, until they realize that they have.
I take 600mg hydroxychloroquinine daily with no side effects, it varies from person to person.
You don't seem to understand how natural selection works. The people whose lives have been extended from 70 to 80 years are well past their reproductive years, so their genes have already been passed on (or not) and their early death due to COVID-19 can't change that. So when the pandemic kills people in that age group it is not affecting natural selection.
SpaceX Launches New Batch of Starlink Satellites
That'll be me...
Daily one hour train commute, and my IP often changes a number of times as I switch from tower to tower, as well as drop out due to no signal in places.

I also switch between networks as my mobile GSM and portable wifi are different providers.
If only we could get rid of this widespread notion that price gouging is bad/evil...
You actually got me an idea. It should be pretty easy to block many of those with a simple Tampermonkey script.
Gotta check over the weekend.
In JS you can't generally override host objects, but you can generally modify the functions they expose.

@include *

@run-at document-start

navigator.something.someMethod = () => {} // noop

https://www.tampermonkey.net/documentation.php
It says something about what drives many people today unfortunately.
indeed, i am on a mac.

i dislike the attachment solution since that is a vendor lockin and you were mentioning lack of that. if i use attachments and special virtual paths like "@attachment" i restricted from editing my notes with anything but your tool. ios is then obviously gone too. This defeats the purpose of being dropbox-syncable (or at least reduces its usefulness).
That's the default value on the calculator, but all that does is prorate the storage demand over the period. Backblaze is entirely usage-based (speaking from experience; I'm a customer).
Almost certainly more than 475. People are dying in nursing homes so fast they aren't even bothering to test what killed them.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-...
50% tends to be near enough the bottom for these kinds of things that that's when I'll rebalance my retirement fund. I'm going to keep my brokerage out longer as I have shorter-term needs for that money.
Don't steal from rich people is the secret. Madoff made a rookie mistake.
Things to do while in self isolation or quarantine
I find the browser notifications useful for discourse forums. There are some stuffs that I would like to be notified but not by email.