skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s exactly the case I’m describing in the second paragraph. I don’t understand what this has to do with the “option” scenario claimed by the post I replied to.

It maybe looks like the landlord is selling a years rent for x and buying a put for the next years rent at y (and recursively options for the later years), but it isn’t really like a put either because it’s really a right-to-try-to-sell rather than a right-to-sell.
Police brutality is a real issue. It's less clear that racial bias in policing is a statistically significant issue, however, when accounting for obvious things. If someone has numbers that tell a different story I am all ears. Here are mine when I attempted to find it for myself:

black arrests (all crimes) a year: 2.2 million
white arrests (all crimes) a year: 5.6 million

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

black deaths by police: 4.5 per 100k
white deaths by police: 1.5 per 100k

https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793

USA black population: 13%
USA white population: 75%

Given a black committing an average black crime, and a white committing an avg white crime, the black person is 16% more likely to die in a police altercation. Whether or not this is statistical error or a real difference is harder to tell, but this difference is not nearly as large as most media outlets lead people to believe.

Again, If someone has numbers that tell a different story I am all ears
If nothing else, Russia would benefit from the transition period slightly, and may prefer shorter presidential terms to longer ones generally for this reason. However, since Biden has been VP before, he would be able to get up to speed quicker than some.
Okay. I see.

Unsolicited coaching tip: don't spend many cycles on stuff like this at work.
> Voting hasn't worked. Oakland PD still has half of its budget to brutality complaints. It's been 7 years since the movement started and 66 years since voting was allowed for Black people. Voting isn't going to change anything.

Really, honestly, think about this rationale and think about what it would look like if people with different views than you applied this line of reasoning. Would you be okay with anti-abortion activists employed direct action and did to clinics what these protestors did to police stations?
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I know on ubuntu servers i had to revert any DST/timezone settings and just keep everything in UTC. Because the systemd daemon for time didnt respect DST changes and would break services like kerberos.
I have noticed only one common demographic among rioters: age.
Can we get a better name than "dark pattern" please?

Something like "fraudulent practise" or "criminal process" seems to capture the essence of the thing more accurately. I'm sure we can do better than those too.
I see there was no shortage of creative self-proclaimed linguists in these parts of the lands behind the iron curtain as well.

Our expression for "mouse" was quite byzantine: "manipulator stołowo-kulotoczny" (table sphererolling manipulator?). This just begs for a TLA like "MSK".
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One reason for a minimal web would be the idea that I could one-day be living on the far end of a rather slow modem as my only Internet connection. Sucking ten tons of Javascript/images/adtech down a link like that would be pretty awful.

Didn't think of it before, but your "server-side" suggestion could minimize some of the pain of that, I guess. Low-bandwidth VNC on the client to a browser that's actually running in a DC somewhere. Maybe a VNC add-on to block/freeze rapidly updating squares (videos, gifs, etc).

Not great, exactly, but would ameliorate some of this.
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It doesn't look like it is about giving anyone money, just making it easier to come to the US.
Is there a place where I can learn more about this? Clever and scary.
Many large buildings in the past had mail chutes[1]. I’ve worked in a building with one; it also had a pigeon-hole messagebox per floor so people could get their mail.

It wasn’t used that much, though, except for the odd journal subscription that someone had delivered to their office address. The system would only work with envelopes and magazines, anything bigger had to be collected from a central mailroom.

Sending mail between offices was a little more convoluted —you could just use the post or a courier yourself, but if you got your document or memo in the hands of the right person (typically a mailroom clerk) before a cut-off time, it’d be sent as part of the company’s larger delivery.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_chute

PS. Google Image Search has a good selection of office memos.
A few years ago I found it hard to believe driver assist systems were doing all sorts of massive complicated (potentially buggy) processing instead of "large object directly ahead ---> slow/stop." Folks gave all sorts of reasons why that wasn't good enough.

I'm going to reiterate here that I don't want anything more complicated than very simple forward collision prediction (resulting in slow down) aka "Automatic Emergency Braking" in any car I purchase.
There also needs to be a registry of officers fired for cause. There is a long and sordid history of cops finally crossing one line too many, only to get the same job two towns over and repeat the process.
I wouldn't have written my comment if it weren't.
Ah, an outlier. I don't see any significance to this story other than being a $TSLA trigger word... I've seen many people, including truck drivers get hurt as a result of relying too much on technology (Lane assist, auto-headlights, etc). This is why they're all labelled as an assistive technology.

The driver should have seen a gigantic truck blocking his entire lane, and though it was a failure of autopilot to not detect it, autopilot shouldn't be receiving all the blame for something that is inherently not its job to do 100% perfectly.
The majority of crime in America is committed by white people, in terms of absolute numbers of arrests, value of stolen goods and funds, etc. By your logic, it would be most effective to target white people. This is without even taking into account that white suspects tend to avoid arrest, prosecution, conviction, and long jail sentences at higher rates than other racial groups (that is to say, when brought to a particular level of the justice system, they are less likely than others to proceed further).

However, it's clear that the vast majority of resources are devoted to black areas and poor areas, and to responding to directly "violent" crime. A mugging is more sensational than white collar crime, but from a purely utilitarian standpoint, I'm not sure it's rational to devote more resources to catching the mugger when, for example, there is widespread wage theft depressing incomes in the mugger's city. Which causes more damage in the long run?
The riots were mostly contained to Minneapolis until the weekend. The riots in my state and across the Nation mostly happened after Chauvin was arrested.
Yes. An example was moving to the version of GHC where the semigroup change happened. The codebase was using this library: https://github.com/brendanhay/gogol. The library dropped support for one version of Google's API for another version. Fair enough, except the old version would no longer work because of the semigroup change. So I ended up having to waste a ton of time completely changing on how we were using a library to satisfy the semigroup change.

Again, this is the problem. The ecosystem tends to only aim at GHC latest because of the attitude that "its mechanical to change!". Yeah, for the code you write maybe, but if the dependencies have that attitude, all of sudden upgrades can be a huge effort.
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Anyone who can force the web developers to make more responsive, small, junk free, sites that focus on user than ads will have my support. I don't see anyone else making the attempt to force a change. The author is mistaken in their views.
The NYC stop-and-frisk numbers should be considered.

https://www.nyclu.org/en/stop-and-frisk-data
It's kind of sad. Working at 1960-1990 Bell Labs 1127 is my dream.

Maybe in 100 years people will realize that maybe there is something more to business than short term appeasement of shareholders.

Maybe in 100 years people will realize that regulated monopolies are not necessarily a bad thing.
Except this kind of behaviour is neither fraudulent or criminal. Plus, unlike "dark pattern", those words have legal-repercussive meaning, so wanting to subvert those to mean something they don't is arguably much worse than not liking "dark pattern".
I could believe that, but the question that most people are asking is not "What is the average rent that people who choose to stay in the Bay Area are paying?", it's "If I choose to move, can I get cheaper rent?" Certainly I saw that at the higher end of the market in 2009. (The low end of the market - where most people are, and hence the biggest contributor to the average - moved much less then, because there was much less room for it to move.)

I wonder if house prices will also behave similarly. Right now, the "mainstream" market (i.e. the house that working professionals can afford on income and mortgage without being independently wealthy) tops out at about $2.8M-$3M in Mountain View or Los Altos, but there are a lot of houses selling in the $4-6M range that presumably are being bought with stock options. Could perhaps see a collapse of the top end of the market down to the mainstream real estate market if the stock market collapses.
I got a SMS the other day of an incomplete form in a Shopify shop. The service is called SMSBump. I do not even recall giving them my number but maybe my password manager did autofill it.
Got a source for that absolutely impossible to source claim?

People pay for content all. The. Time.
Not a bad idea but it probably depends on a level of convenience and ease of access to voting that does not seem to exist currently.

Unrelated side note: when you are talking about a hypothetical politician, be aware of your choice of pronoun.

You might be the type of person who picks between he/she with a precise 50/50 split but I'm going to assume you are not that type of person. Similar to the way you seem to have assumed that if a person is a politician they are also a man.
You can get an F9 to the moon if your payload is only a few hundred kg...
sabu[1] existed and was an actual person behind a keyboard at least some of the time. Hard to say where it starts and where it ends now, or then.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Monsegur
As outlined in "Flatlander" the General Products hulls are made of matter (stitched together in an extremely exotic manner).
No one is doing that.
I think the libertarians are basically right in this instance. Apart from systemic racism (which I believe is a very real thing, but an abstract and not directly unactionable one), I see two problems:

1) The people with the power over the police have almost no contact with the people being policed. Neighborhood schooling reinforces that problem. It ensures that ability to afford housing segregates black people from white people. (Note: it’s not a question of funding. Here in DC, most of the shiny new LEED Gold schools are 99% black. Therefore, white parents won’t send their kids there, notwithstanding the gleaming facilities and lower housing prices in the surrounding area.) School choice gives black people the power to create integrated schools, instead of waiting for statistically wealthier whites/Asians to get woke enough to want to do it. I think people would be much more sensitive to policing issues if they didn’t just hear about these things a couple of times a year on the news, but were faced with people in their PTA suffering the consequences of police brutality. I would add that, unsurprisingly, a decisive majority of black people support school choice.

2) With notion of black people being “the other” rooted since childhood, qualified immunity and police unions eliminate the near term, immediate consequences of acting on those instincts.

The two things that make people think before they act are empathy and self preservation. The libertarian approach is a double-barreled solution that could hit both.
Indeed. Ads are just noise that should be filtered out. To visit a website and be served 100 megabyes of noise along with less than 1 megabyte of actual information... It's an absurdly low signal-to-noise ratio, such an incredible waste.

We need to fix the web by blocking these things. No compromises. If a website can't exist without advertising, it should disappear. Eventually, only good websites will remain. Websites made by people who actually have something to say rather than websites made purely to attract audiences for advertisers.
Teslas have been marketed unsafely and promote unsafe behavior. They cannot see many classes of stationary objects, especially at high speed. And because of Dear Leader's over-reliance on "magic bullet" IP investment, they're not going to change how it works voluntarily.
The idea about presentations is very good, but it alone won't fix the problem. We need to be able to vote for individual decisions instead of people, and we on hn are best positioned to fix the democracy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23377423
If assist technology can't avoid an object the size of a barn from 100 meters, I would argue it didn't do its job even 1% perfectly.
Don't get why you're getting downvoted.

I agree with you except on the "defeating Trump" part. Moderation is not enough IMO. Everyone with a progressive agenda who is not stongly distancing themselve from the rioters right now will have his cause collaterally defaced by them, just as they collaterally deface these neighbourhoods.

Disclaimer: Not a US-citizen nor resident.
I remember from a Nova special that TI was actually right there with the planar lithographic technique. And yes, I am also of the position that their R&D was really more like "intrinsic value exploration" - microprocessors being an inevitable necessity for advancing the state of the art of human civilization, so there is a first mover advantage. But this is where "risk-taking" is so underrated, even in a "swingin' dick" American culture, there aren't many of those types in EE departments and Bell Labs!

So, while I would argue it was practical necessity to mass fabricate central signal processing units, gunning for that opportunity would be reserved for a self-selected population pool, which Nature has determined to be those already opting to be mavericks when launching Shockley Semiconductor.
Or to create a fake threat against the police to justify further action, maybe? Or maybe a third party actor just doing it to create confusion and a lack of trust? I think a state actor would do a better job, though.
Not sure what to say to that. If some idiot shows up in your neighborhood and starts beating on your kids, you're not going to call the police because they "shoot journalists"?

The police aren't perfect, but we need them, and they need us. Nobody can just walk away.
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Haven't seen anyone mention the human that almost gets hit. If the person standing in the lane (the truck's driver maybe?) hadn't stepped out of the way, the Tesla would have run him over without slowing down... Looks like multiple clear perception system failures.
Could you offer some tips/advice/resource for a SWE looking to get involved in applied cryptography?

It seems like a very dense subject, with different areas being of different levels of importance depending on how deeply you’re involved (eg, researching vs writing application code)
Huge amounts of savings? It has only been a few months, and surely that would be considered an extremely tiny runway for a large national or international corporation.

But sure, if government bailout money is there for the taking, obviously many large companies won't plan for it.
> Humans do it with vision alone, do they not? This seems to be a failure of processing, not data.

In the best case scenario, sure, but having been in Motorsports since I was 16 and then a lot of my Adult Life in the Auto Industry the reality is a resounding: NO, Humans are horrible behind the wheel of what is essentially a less-volatile bomb with 4 wheels.

I won't even mention my time riding around on a motorcycle on the street, as I have literately looked into the eyes of a driver only to see them make the mistake anyway--it's why I have to have a straight-pipe liter bike for the street, we've tested this and you can seriously hear me 1/3 mile away. Its astonishing how bad 99% of drivers are and realistically don't have the reaction times needed to drive anything with that much weight much less power in public and yet me let them anyway.

Hell, during this weekend's protests saw police and normal citizens running straight into People on the street with signs, why isn't that seen in this same light?

So, it is exactly because of those experiences that I have to side with this failure being just one of the many to get us to a more viable future where cars are fully autonomous. Its a shame, I'm just glad I got to live and learn in era where Humans were able to do what seems an entirely absurd thing.
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Probably not in a good personal situation to join a startup right now, but just wanted to say I love the stack and the product sounds cool too. Best of luck.
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> without temperature extremes in summer or winter

That's going to limit your options tremendously (in the US at least). Parts of Southern California would fit, if desert is an acceptable type of nature for you. The cities are expensive, but smaller towns aren't always.

What are "extremes" for you, anyway? Are hot summers OK, but cold winters are not? Vice versa?

The only place I have personally been with lots of nature and mild weather year-round is Guatemala. Perhaps somewhere in the Mediterranean region?
Tenderloin, I mainly looked in the Russian Hill / Marina / Lower Pac heights areas for private 1 bedroom situations in 2/3 additional roomates. I ended up going for a place in the Presidio. For the most part the opportunities I was seeing were for subleases where a tenant moved out hurriedly, which seems to be VERY common right now.

FWIW all private room + 2/3 roomate situations were in the range of $1200 - $1500 vs. my current 1 bed room apartment (no roomates) @ ~$2800 previously.
I assure you, writers will write books even if nobody paid them. This is not to say it's ok if they have to live under a bridge because they can't support themselves. But writers write, and for a lot of them money is not the primary motivation, just a welcome (and important) one.

Likewise, painters will paint even if nobody will buy their paintings.

That's art for you.
I don't think this would be shady if a site kept an incomplete form in browser localStorage. It's only shady when the incomplete form is sent to a server and then acted on.
> it's extremely unusual to see the same email address with multiple different passwords in a legitimate data breach as most systems simply won't let an address register more than once

I've actually built a system which did this years ago, over our initial protestations, and the reasoning went like this:

Our client (this was a white label product) has lots of elderly couples as customers, these are our end users and although they're on the Internet (makes sense, this is after all a web site you've white labelled so if you have customers without Internet that's a red flag right there) they only have one email address between them. So some end users want two accounts, but with one email address.

This made the login procedure a bit hairy and obviously there are scary corner cases for things like change password (Alice decides to use the same password as her husband Bob, now we can't tell their accounts apart!) but we felt that arguing with clients about why they should do Single Sign On (and thus eliminate the separate login for our white label product altogether) was more valuable than trying to change old people's minds about what constitutes a reasonable thing for two people to share.
As an Albanian, no. Discussing more complex CS topics is not pleasant at all.
Nah, this is just unimaginative. The issue is that it is really hard to admit one was wrong and start from scratch. Rules should be simple enough for mortals to read. If they keep adding to the existing formula there will be web-lawyers required.
I don’t think the point of taking up the “anonymous” moniker is to get credit. That’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the underlying meme, which is populist, not meritocratic or whatever. It’s spelled out quite well in V for Vendetta...
That’s really crazy.
It’s theft and should be prosecuted as such.
Laws are disproportionately overenforced on black communities. Your numbers are collected after a large amount of the bias is already baked in and collected by the people perpetrating the bias. Maybe that didn't occur to you.

You're just asking questions right?
I'd rather quit my job and find ethical work.
I wish there was a way to index the web which was not so susceptible to marketers gaming the ranking system; it is clear Google has lost the battle there. Moreover, I don’t believe it is in Google’s best interest to surface the best results for me, but those that will generate them the most revenue.
A couple things to consider in the US context:

a) Most elected politicians, especially at highest levels, are spending a HUGE amount of their time on the phones, working on (or being worked on by) donors. Most of the 'real' work of governing is done by staff.

b) About half of the US elected officials believe that the best way to govern is to not govern at all, and furthermore undermine any projects which might make it seem like government can do anything successfully. (For example, Grover Norquist is on record opposing pre-filled taxes because he believes taxes should be as painful as possible. Similar examples of 'we can't do that, it might work' abound.) Which is to say, random people may well still be better than deeply ingrained active saboteurs.
As someone with a mild form of ADHD and a kid who likes to chat my ear off, I can’t count the number of times I’ve placed something in a cart on my phone, went to check out, and then got distracted or pulled into something else, only to return because I got the “abandonment” email that reminded me of what I was doing.
I think that would almost certainly not hold anywhere in the US. You would be charged with resisting arrest, interfering with crime scene etc. There are a crap ton of laws that protect the police.
I tried to make that work, but it didn't seem to do anything. Repeat downloads took just as long as before.
FWIW, George Floyd was indeed driving a Mercedes, which is generally considered to be a nice car.