skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peelian policing is but one of the foundation influences on U.S. policing, introduced in northern metropolitan areas: Boston, New York City, and Chicago.

The other major influence was the slave patrol. This is why there is such a strong overlap between the membership rosters of the KKK and police departments.

As policing expanded, and the institutions intermingled, the former was corrupted by the latter.

It is impossible to uphold #7 in an organization that implicitly divides "the public" into "citizens to be protected", "citizens to be ignored", and "savages".

The only way we can get there from here is to completely dissolve municipal police departments, and rebuild them from scratch, without re-hiring anyone that has ever served as a cop, training them specifically to be wardens of the whole community, rather than employ the "everyone is trying to kill you" videos that they show the young cop-cadets to make them twitchy and paranoid whenever anyone has a non-visible hand or is within 7 yards of them.
I really like this! It is so hard to find and compare Solidity and Truffle developers for the EVM
I've heard of some people getting stuff scheduled way out at suburban hospitals, often out of network, and clearing out their health savings accounts to get essential surgery. That's fucked up.
The failure to implement Peelian principles in the USA is not an oversight, but a deliberate decision that stems from the USA’s racial tension. When this debate has arisen, white law-enforcement elites have claimed that Peelian policing is inapplicable to the American context, because if black communities were policed by representatives of that community (i.e. other blacks), then the police would likely overlook much of the crime going on. The black police officers would sympathize too much with the citizens they policed, they would see both themselves and the local citizens as opposed to an outside white world, and they would be unwilling to put fellow blacks before white judges and prosecutors. (Not to mention that there has been enormous suspicion among the US national-security apparatus about any kind of self-organizing among black communities.) Therefore, critics of Peelian policing claim, the only effective solution to ensure prosecutions for crimes would be to have these communities policed largely by outsiders.

So, if you wanted to fully implement a more just form of policing in the United States, you would have to somehow overcome this deeply entrenched racist thinking. Yet unfair policing also drives racism, because it tends to perpetuate among white society an image of minority communities as hotbeds of chaos barely kept in check by a "thin blue wall". So, the result is a vicious circle.
Data from Italy makes for a good head-to-head comparison.
Five regions locked down much sooner than their neighbors, and fared, at least initially, much better.

Preprint: https://t.co/JYf1F5GnYu?amp=1
Figure S3 is probably the most relevant.
I've done lithography in research settings. To me, the chemistry is the scariest.

High voltages, high-power optics, vacuum systems, etc, all exist, too, but the risks associated with chemistry/process-gas accidents are perhaps the greatest.

As a teaser, HF is used throughout the industry -- it is spooky stuff (and awesome at getting things done).
For 8 years, a hacker operated an IoT botnet just to download Anime videos
It's broken now because of API changes but it's the same concept as LonelyStreams (https://lonelystreams.com).

It's always fun to see some begginner streams.
That's interesting! I would watch it

What's your Twitch name?
Most "western" nations provide roughly the same legal rights to their citizens.

There's some variance, but there's also a large amount of variance in laws between states within the USA.
I don't have the cash or the time to do that.

My approach was to allocate my portfolio to 50% cash/short term bond in the fall/winter as a reaction to other factors that I wasn't personally comfortable with. I'll start dollar cost averaging into a more equity focused allocation later in 2020 or next year.

It's too risky for me right now, Federal policy is so unpredictable and insane you have no idea what will happen. For example, the proposal floated last night to delay 2019 tax filings to after the election will bankrupt states with income tax, whose policies didn't forsee a madman POTUS.

If we end up in a depression-like state, i may use the cash to keep my house, etc.
or, you could be angry that it became highly politicized and many media outlets absolutely overhyped the danger for clicks and political points.

if we'd been more levelheaded, we would have suggested the public should either

1) physically distance, or

2) wear a mask

in enclosed spaces and face-to-face situations.

if you're an essential worker or particularly vulnerable, you'd do both where possible. that's it. that likely would have provided all the risk reduction we needed to get the spread under control.

the message would have been simple, the effects likely as good, and we wouldn't have left a hundred million poeple on the edge of (or in) economic and psychological collapse.

but that doesn't punch the emotional and neurochemical pathways the way politicians and news peddlers want.
I have an old A* pathfinder I wrote in C about 13 years ago that I revisit with surprising frequency. Every now and then I'll have a glass of whisky and pull up the .h and .c files and smile.

The code is good, but something about the simplicity of the language and the bareness of the algorithm that makes that header and source file pair so meaningful for me.
That sounds pretty cool. I also found it difficult to optimize for both performance and word density with the approach I took. Maxing out on one seemed to negatively affect the other. I'm sure there have to be some better algorithms out there to do this sort of thing.
Astronaut Christina Koch on making space history and how to survive isolation
I wish someone would do this for legal work. I always felt there could be similar plot charts to help reveal the outcome of wildly different needs, and still give a feel for what to expect
Buffalo to Montauk is 500 miles. Even something like Plattsburgh to NYC is 300 miles.
Shades of Asimovean Positronic Brains
> I'm writing this because I think HN is one of the very few communities able to properly discuss ideas with hard science and facts.

I propose that if you pay very close attention to the nature of discussions, over a long period of time, across a broad spectrum of differing topics, you may notice that the ability to "discuss ideas with hard science and facts" varies greatly according to the topic.

Or to be more specific...when the topic involves issues that are "political or values oriented", as this one does, the discussion and thinking styles exhibited in the comments much more resembles that which you would find within less "logically capable" communities.
You still get weird gotchas. My wife wanted to install Microsoft Teams to talk to our doctor. She got the the Linux download page then asked “should I download the .rpm or the .deb?”. Luckily I was there to tell her. Then she installed it like a champ and got it working, so that was nice.

But there’s no way she’d have just “known” this, and it’s just another hurdle to non technical users. Why should you have to know that Ubuntu is a downstream distro of Debian to install a program?
Thats a strawman - the poster didnt say macOS is bad for development, just that no one in the PCSX2 project uses it.
I'm a fan of my recursion scheme examples :p

For the most part my standards get higher as time goes on though. So only small things!
The animal toxins that could save us
The survey in this article claims to have reached about 1000 times more people (though not all JS devs) than the stateofjs survey. I would expect some differences due to selection bias
I am not sure that it is the policy. In the US or Europe, all governments have warned that they would back down from opening up if they see a rise in new cases.
The economy ≠ the stock market

Investors are expecting things to get better in the future and pricing stocks based on that.
As another commenter pointed out, their numbers don’t line up well with other broad surveys like State of JS or Stack Overflow, so I would say it reflects a low-quality survey.
exactly. they panic hired a bunch of contractors with no real operating plan on how to utilize them, and now taxpayers are footing the bill for the contracting company CEO's third mansion.
The overwhelming majority isn't great when you're talking risk of death.

Someone survives playing Russian Roulette the overwhelming majority of the time too. 5 out of 6 times, nothing bad happens at all. 1 out of 6 times, you die. Is that also not something you would consider a "life threatening situation?"

It's actually an interesting question. At what point does the risk of dying in a situation make it "life threatening"? I believe something like 1 in 291 police interactions end up with someone in the hospital or dead.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/b-upk072116....
Struggling to find a word for it, but it’s obvious that humans lack the will collectively to avoid certain types of systemic multigenerational issues.

Climate change is the most obvious, but there’s long list of issues like this that if suddenly every human on Earth magically expected to live 1000 to 10,000 years would become more pressing issues.

As a semi-futurist, this is the core issue, it’s not that humans don’t see the future, they’re unable to change... the issue is that humans simply do not care about the future.
There are plenty of cases that start with mild symptoms, and then progress to severe/critical after about a week. Boris Johnson is a perfect example of this.

Please don't spread misinformation.
We're going to see cascading effects from this.
If you want searching by game, or other categories, like creative, without seeing the most populated streams, try this:

https://www.streamkick.com/browse
It’s unfortunate that a neutral tone loses out to that with oomph.
Correct, I will copy your example to my "How to" page if you don't mind
Unfortunately the rest of the software world settled on keybindings for cut and copy that generate almost the greatest possible pain for Emacs to migrate to them. C-c and C-x are used for dozens of the most important commands. It's technically feasible, but switching would be hard and existing users would be really upset.
You’ve gone far too deep on what was once a very loose metaphor, and is now just a piece of jargon with its own meaning (one which is pretty close to your exact suggested marathon strategy anyway).
The Viral Genome
I made a similar site as part of a hackathon at Twitch: https://twitchraids.com

The idea is to raid random channels together with everyone on the site. Channels are randomly selected and rotate every 5 minutes, and the channel selection function gives preference to smaller streamers. Users vote on which channel to raid next.
The wonderful world of Chinese hi-fi (2019)
You have a very limited understanding of what "works" and what is "impossible", it seems. Actual security engineering occurs in hostile environments all the time, in extremely non-perfect environments, with non-perfect tools, and many of its principles (and practices) noticeably make security better for users, operators, and engineers. Similarly, DRM is not only NOT "impossible", it's very possible, very real, and actively used against people today. I suspect if you truly think DRM is "impossible" you have a vastly more limited understanding of security than you think you do.

Computer people have absolutely got to get out of this mindset where impossible means "according to my made up set of Nerd rules", vs the rules that are in place in the world surrounding them.
Hindsight is 20/20. It's easy to make criticisms like this after the fact...

However, no one knew if the shelter in place order would even work.
I mostly disagree. The purpose of news organizations is to collect data from different sources and provide objective, interesting and useful information that can be derived from the data.

For example: there's a new academic paper describing some discovery. I want an easy to understand and accurate summary from the media. What I don't want is them telling me how should I fee.
Sadly, that would actually point the other direction. Ruby was red-hot circa 2010, and while it’s still widely used, it’s not the new shiny thing anymore. I would expect to see more “legacy maintenance” Ruby work than brand-new ruby work these days.
Many times I find these studies that show that hunter gathering was not all that bad are written from male perspectives. It is great to be a guy hunting with your buddies if the women are the ones doing the hard work of gathering. Also, you don’t experience the dangers of pregnancy and childbirth.

Many times these hunter gatherer societies have much higher maternal and infant mortality than ours, and higher rates of violence against women.

It is technology and the knowledge based economy that gives women an equal footing. Before that, men took advantage of their relative physical strength and size to consign women to secondary roles.
there is no need to kill oneself. but making a start by not choosing the ego-project of procreation would already make a huge difference. if people really want to have children there are enough orphans out there and which would make the world better by raising them instead.
I just listened to a little kid play Fortnite while I did some work in the background.

He was very excited to have some unexpected random viewers which made my day.
Is 2020 the year of the Linux desktop?
Insiders who turn against their companies or industries are extremely valuable, because they can suggest respectable solutions.

Your opinion reminds me of purity-testing Bernie fanatics I stumble upon on Twitter.
I'm always amazed how good the fruit and vegetables look, but how little flavour they have when bought from super market here, compared to Europe, or actually most parts of the world where vegetables are grown locally and organically.

Very sour unripe oranges, bananas, grapes, flavourless green peppers, tasteless tomatoes. Pretty much the norm in Supermarkets.
They are definitely borderline; categories tend to fail to capture the continuous. But it is general scientific consensus that viruses do not meet all the criteria for life. They meet some, but not all. And no, they are not still categorized in their own tree of "life". We don't use kingdoms, phyla, etc. anymore. Your argument for viruses being life is clearly out of touch with modern biology, and since clades are by definitions groupings of organisms, and organisms by defintion are living things, no, you cannot say that "There's no reason why you can't categorize a virus under a clade". You have to either change definitions or show that viruses meet all criteria. But then if they did they wouldn't be viruses.

The species definition you brought up does not apply to asexual organisms, for them it's a matter of genomic analysis. As for sexual organisms, it is still a good definition because it is stricter and more "correct" than genomic analysis, although bioinformatics has been getting pretty good with the addition of more sophisticated statistical techniques that go past simple DNA-DNA hybridization.
> Police in the US are rightly very afraid when pulling over someone for something petty like speeding because that person could be upset and have a gun. Where I'm from cops are not afraid because nobody has guns.

They aren't actually scared. Publicly, they might talk about how stressful their jobs are etc. etc., but speak privately with one who is comfortable with you and you'll discover they are not scared in the slightest. They know everyone has their back and that they aren't really in any danger.
The risk of a second wave is still known, and cases are still rising in quite a few states.
You should always take pride in your own work regardless of what profession you're in. There's nothing wrong with that at all.
Your analysis misses an important point, which is opportunity cost. Every action has costs and putting resources toward one area means taking them away from another.
> that it records all attempted tracking events

Locally? While clever, I can't imagine how this would be GDPR-compliant when stored on (no matter whose) server side ...
The others are being "subsidized" by TSMC's R&D expenditures, which are being amortized across a larger market namely mobile and specialized chips.
These beds look just plain ugly and too small for relaxation that is needed for healing when somebody's sick.

I'm extra scared about the virus, because I know that I would get to a place like this, and I don't have the confidence that I would get the right treatment. I have heared of other people as well who would rather stay at home as much as they can, even if they can't breathe well.

But then when somebody needs the ICU, he really needs it fast, and at that time it's too late to go to hospital.
On web sites the goal is typically to tune the user experience to achieve the company’s goals. Sometimes it may help the company if it takes you longer.
In this case, looks to have been a tactic to gain some "virology.*" for the domain name:

https://www.samoanic.ws/
> your theory makes a risky prediction (spacetime is curved, therefore we should see X) and then you go check. If spacetime is actually flat, you're gonna see Y instead

So basically your issue here is that QFT doesn't predict that spacetime is curved? Or it doesn't make a prediction either way about whether spacetime is curved or flat? This amounts to saying "we don't yet have a good theory of quantum gravity". Yes, this is true.

> it sounds like you think that the final theory will not be built on QM/QFT/Standard Model foundations

I am skeptical about whether string theory will turn out to be the quantum gravity theory we are searching for, and string theory is the only candidate I'm aware of that is a QFT of any sort. So yes, if string theory doesn't turn out to be right, I think we will be in the position you describe.

> and will be different enough that QM and GR will remain incompatible approximations forever

Only in the same sense that, for example, Newton's laws and Maxwell's Equations are incompatible approximations. I don't see that sort of thing as a problem.
Perl code mostly. I rarely use Perl anymore and my current code is much more straightforward and maintainable that the Perl stuff I wrote but wow was some of it elegant and clever. I enjoyed writing lots of it which isn't something I experience much anymore.
Rich people can never do anything good, right?
Purity-testing Bernie fanatic, right?
FreeBSD Journal Browser-Based Edition
This is a report for agencies. They cover a completely different set of customers and most of the time are called in to maintain. Maintaining leaves a little space to introduce new technologies and processes, which leaves you with older technologies.
Also, these companies have no reason to switch to other (newer/shinier) technologies since the software they deliver is tied closely with the chosen language. Switching would mean finding new customers.
> No part of NY is further than a few hours drive from any other part of the state, especially during lockdown traffic.

What? Buffalo to NY is 6 hours.
I am aware of this history. We can't forget the veterans that fought with our allies to successfully defeat the Nazis.

German nationalist imperialism is Nationalsozialistiche Deutsche Abeiterpartei, the namesake of the Nazi Party. The immigration of my own family is a product of German fascism.
I learn to accept when I am tired and need to take a break. Sometimes hours of needling through code can be solved in minutes on a fresh brain. I used to be stubborn and wouldn’t stop until I had made some progress and that went on making a tired day into an exercise in frustration. Took a while to have the confidence to shut down and start fresh the next day.
Resolution: The Appeal of Complete Stances
> In emacs, I have absolutely no idea how to discover features

The built-in "help" functionality[1] is really great. C-h a will find useful documentation for what you need 90% of the time, and the manual is there for most of the rest. It's particularly useful for keybindings - C-h w for "what's the keyboard shortcut for this command" and C-h k for "what command does this keyboard shortcut run.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/He...
Thank you, I really appreciate that. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606535356

I'm slowly getting better at it too and am planning on streaming some Julia Differential Equations stuff tomorrow PST.
You said that those things are theater until the day the product updates. We are beyond the day when that happened. So for it to be a fallacy you have to reject the context in which it was presented, which nobody but you is doing.
This is fascinating, I've never heard of this debate before. Do you have any sources for further reading on it?
It’s depressing that people have already forgotten the lessons from last month.
That's not what the numbers meant. The majority were admitted from home to the hospital, i.e., they were not institutionalized or homeless.
Hey HN - coming at this solo, my first SaaS, after years of being a freelance copywriter and content manager.

A few years back I discovered Python, and very quickly after NLP. To a writer with a love for sci-fi/tech, I was enamored, and spent ungodly hours on my employer's GCC-hosted Jupyter Notebooks, coming up with all sorts of impractical experiments with Spacy, Facebook's Starspace, Gensim, and the like.

For one, I needed a lot of training data. I'd go crawl thousands of pages of text from news sites, using Scrapy and storing data directly on the server. For text extraction and boilerplate removal, I used newspaper3k, and eventually a custom extractor that used a random forest model to select proper element "candidates".

I wanted a simpler way to aggregate text for a dataset, query it, create subsets based on keywords, and so on. The paid options out there - Diffbot, Aylien, Ujeebu, Scrapinghub's news API, etc. weren't exactly what I was looking for.

After learning the minimum amount of JS required, I built a shitty local app where you could paste a bunch of URLs and get back a JSON with the extracted text. I posted it up here, on HN, and there were a few hundred visits, absolutely demolishing the $5 DO instance. I figured others might want something like this.

So I built extractorapi.com - a text extraction API and UI that revolves around the idea of "Jobs". For example, let's say you gathered a list of URLs from the NY Times, or The Economist, or Bloomberg. You then provide that list of URLs to a job called "my_articles". For example:

api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"
endpoint = "https://extractorapi.com/api/v1/jobs"

headers = {
"Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}"
}
data = {
"job_name": "my_job",
"url_list": [
"example.com/article1",
"example.com/article2",
...
]
}

r = requests.post(endpoint, headers=headers, data=data)

This job will then process your input URLs server-side, and once complete, you can query the extracted text or title within the job. All jobs and extracted text are saved on your account - you can use the API or the web app to explore the jobs you started programmatically, download them in .csv or .json formats, and check their progress.

I go into more detail in this Medium piece, "Creating an Automated Text Extraction Workflow": https://medium.com/@aleks_82234/creating-an-automated-text-e...

I get that it's hard to market to devs like myself (why buy when you can build?), so I'm looking for any feedback/criticism/suggestions on your experience with Extractor API. As Faulkner points out, you must kill your darlings - let me know if all this shit doesn't make any sense, or if it's actually helpful. Or somewhere in-between.