skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just a status quo bias to choose "act to preserve without prior of belief > 0.95". It's a novelty bias to choose "act to change without prior of belief > 0.95". But there are many modes of action in between. Knowledge is necessarily imperfect (cf. Conjectures and Refutations). The engineer/scientist difference isn't all that useful in reality. Even disciplines dominated by engineering rapidly see advances over time purely through process improvements which often manifest across the field as the hypothesis-test-apply loop of knowledge acquisition.

Public policy, like all decision making, should work with a gestalt view of utility and certainly most organizations attempt to do that irrespective of whether their spokespeople claim otherwise. It's like any intervention: if the patient will almost certainly die if you do nothing, you try the most unlikely things (assuming consent) but if the patient will most certainly recover with no ill effects you are not going to try an experimental intervention. And naturally you do account for change fatigue, etc. etc. Put simply, the science of policy is not as puerile as you think it is, but the nature of its execution is necessarily a complex interweave of the power centres available and their objectives and influence on the policymaking body.

After all, we don't all have the same objectives.
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It’s still destroying their reputation by charging more than the food is ‘worth’. Aka the expectation is higher for an 8$ burger than a 5$ one.
Except now grubhub et all basically controls their web presence through vastly superior SEO, and if they don't agree to grubhub's terms, they basically disappear off the internet.
Smart doesn't really get you that much. I compare it to height for a basketball player. Realistically, you're not gonna make NBA if you're not over 6' tall, but that's just the buy in. After that, it's just grueling hard work, and everyone else is 6'+ as well.

So, as a first step, count intelligence as nothing more than a (very) rough constraint on what you might possibly accomplish, but nothing more. It covers the ante, but not the hand.
This seems really cool, but I don't quite understand what I'm looking at. Is this a processed version of the LIDAR data for the environment?

Also why do the "pixels" get less dense at the edges of the view? I.e as you rotate, the pixels that were previously at the center of the screen get more sparse as they reach the edges of your view? My intuition is that if you sample points on a hemisphere equally (a difficult task in of itself), then you shouldn't get this kind of pixelation. So is there something going on here with either the orientation of the squares, or sampling that causes the density/exposure to fall-off with cosine of the vector looking ahead and vector to the side?
'Tis but a flesh wound!
>There’s no excuse for policing that doesn’t accommodate existing (when being stood upon by the neck) or pre-existing health conditions.

Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggshell_skull. Literally double standards for police vs everyone else.
the only time you need to coordinate beyond rooms is for presence and for synchronising device list updates, fwiw.
If I wanted to read about politics, I’d go to the dumpster fire that is reddit. I come here to read about interesting things.
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It was honestly naive to believe that hopes and wishes would mean anything in fifty years. There are solutions that increase democratic representation. I have heard arguments against these solutions. All of the arguments have been bad.
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I've generally had your experience but I've had a few instances where third parties failed to play nice. HP puts weird bloatware and recovery partitions that do some naughty things in their laptops. I had one relatively recent hp workstation laptop that HP messed up so bad it wouldn't update. I just run Arch on it now.

In general though, I've not had those kind of hardware/driver issues ever.
I'm not sure pre-existing conditions are so cute & dry. Given violent subjects unwilling to deescalate means some level of force (which should be the absolute minimum possible) may be needed, and any use of force risks bumping into pre-existing conditions. How do you know the person with a gun that you're chasing has a heart condition? Minimal force might mean tasering, and when you taser them there's a risk of cardiac issues, but what is the lesser-forcen alternative when de-escalation fails? (Though tasering is used all too frequently for very little reason)
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Now is a very good time to focus on local politics.

For example, the police is very much controlled locally. Do you have real civilian oversight? There are a host of policies that are mostly enacted locally that are recommended by this org:
https://www.joincampaignzero.org/
Can you elaborate on the current ML/AI work and the specific goals? I can think of a few cool use cases, but curious what all is being looked at.

What organization do you mean by "Citizen"? Not aware of any major nonprofits that go by just this one word.
> White people in ths United States riot to get haircuts.

This is both misleading and racist, for a start.
A three wheeled electric car.
Just wondering-- why would you worry about that? Got anything factual to cite?
Great question! Unfortunately the long term costs aren't clear yet, right now I'm using google speech as a bootstrapping technique, but that is prohibitively expensive to run long term.

I think once my models are viable enough to do this at scale, the cost will be basically the cost of running a dedicated server per N streams. So $100-300/mo per N streams? Where N could roughly be at least 100 concurrent streams per server. I will know this better in "stage 2" where I'm attempting to scale this up. It's also a fairly distributed problem so I can look into doing it folding@home style, or even have the stream's originator running transcription in some cases to keep costs down.
Sandboxing would help a lot.

Is it this hard to publish on the Microsoft Store? Is this a play to make the Store more relevant?
> To create the new form [nitrogen] was pressed together between two diamonds to 1.4 million atmospheres of pressure, and over 4,000 °C (7,232 °F)... It appears to have good conductivity, much like that of graphene, which could make it useful in future electronic devices.

Are you kidding me? Kinda grasping at straws if that's the application -- who are we selling these electronics to, magma golems? This is good & pure science, please don't sully it with such foolishness.
I once worked for a co-founder who despite all the warnings I gave about not committing infra credentials to source control still went ahead and explicitly committed credentials to public source control because "the developer experience was better".

The CEO was not pleased with the 30K (or maybe it was 60K) bill... and I just pointed at the CTO and was like "I fought this battle and was overruled"
They weren't attacked first.
It should be judged by its merits and looked at askance according to its author, because that often helps you spot sneaky-sneaky demerits being slipped in by the back door.
I don't see it as a double standard if the incident occurs when police have done everything they can to de-escalate a violent situation, resort to the minimum force possible, and the suspect still gets hurt. But this is why things like body cams that are always on and robustly tamper proof are needed, along with strict discipline or automatic firing if the officer does manage to disable or obstruct the camera.
hm, weird - not seeing anything around 14:20 on the graphs. might be network connectivity or something else going wrong, but not an overloaded synapse for once.

status.matrix.org exists but is fairly useless - we need to publish the graphs publicly.
At least the stock market looks amazing! /s
Pinebooks Pro's as a chromebook replacement is actually quite appealing to me.

I service a couple of chromebooks that I bought for my non-tech savvy family members. It's ideal since they spend 99% of the time in the browser and are less prone to drive-by attacks that download random executables.

However, I have a couple of concerns:

1) The build quality of the (various) chromebooks I've bought tends to be quite terrible, which is not great since many of them use it while cooking and get banged up a great deal.

2) Occasionally, they'll need a desktop app (e.g. the MS Teams web app has fewer features, or Google Docs just not always cutting it).

3) I hate locking them onto the Google ecosystem.

Now that they're due for replacement, I think I'll just get a Pinebook. The build quality is certainly better than the Acer and Lenovo chromebooks we have, and the fact that you can just replace the board for around $100 is very appealing.
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What are some other open mysteries in physics / chemistry / science? Anyone have some favorites?

Bonus points for simplicity + obscurity. Everyone knows that dark matter is an open mystery, but I suspect not too many people knew about black nitrogen.

EDIT: There are some nice lists on Wikipedia that are fun to dig through: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_unsolved_problems

Is Feynmanium the last chemical element that can physically exist? That is, what are the chemical consequences of having an element with an atomic number above 137, whose 1s electrons must travel faster than the speed of light? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_periodic_table#Elemen...
lol....b21 content next to the kardashian's....sounds about right for the masses!

at this point the Russian's and Chinese don't even have to try. They can phone it in with this s* and go drink.
I'd say that Blaise Pascal founded game theory, with his famous God / no God vs believer / non-believer matrix, at least a century before the American Revolution.

I suspect such a style of thinking was not alien to intellectuals of the time, even if not as a formal theory.
I'm sure the protesters will check with you next time about whats reasonable before they dare to object.
The judiciary is not a legislative body. I don't think anyone is claiming it is. But it acts, in practice, often as a legislative body. Certainly any application of judicial activism is indistinguishable from legislation due to the use of judicial precedence, i.e. it is parallel law-making.

For what it's worth, the nature of the judiciary appointed by representatives chosen by voters is just slow representative democracy. It is no surprise that, given the ability to make a law-like, appointed in a manner that is representative-like, they act lawmaker-like.

They are, in their activism, isomorphic to lawmakers. That's what judicial activism is. In a POSIWID sense, the judiciary are lawmakers, no matter what you call them, like North Korea is a dictatorship despite being called a Democratic People's Republic.
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Editorializing titles like this is against the site guidelines. We take submission privileges away from accounts that do it repeatedly, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ask HN: Forecasting of Hardware/Wearables Startup
This is my first time getting into the wearables/hardware market and I'm looking for guidance on how forecasting hardware/wearables development is different from the software/apps space.

My google searches have not been fruitful in this regard. I have COG for each component at retail pricing, but how does that change in manufacturing? How do you forecast manufacturing cost, packaging, returns, etc?

Is anybody able to share a breakdown of how this is done, or advice to someone new to this space?
Or those in purple states can occasionally vote against the party to provide a thin veneer of bi-partisan support and help them maintain their seats in their state.
Direct democracy can be pretty damn horrible and unprincipled.

Any modern system has check and balances and the process itself is important. Forcing negotiation, coalitions and making it difficult to change constitution etc. Plato had no idea how democracy can develop.
Good luck finding a comparison page of just about anything that isn't SEO spam these days. And I would bet money if you search for DIY mattress, a good fraction of the results will be Pinterest.
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Science journalists are pretty much required to ask about useful applications. "It was cool and we wanted to do it" may be the truth, but (sadly) it's not an acceptable answer.
Your priorities are reversed. Black lives being taken by police aggression are not less important than free flowing traffic. Even more so when the former has been the status quo since before the civil war.
Once? About eight times. Five republics, plus some empires and a monarchy or two.
If you think the Dems are the Left....I don't know what to tell you.
> Who are you disagreeing with? I didn’t say that’s the only way they execute bytecode, did I?

Nope, my bad. Thanks for clarifying.
Transparent Aluminum!
> the team exposed nitrogen to extreme heat and pressure. It was pressed together between two diamonds to 1.4 million atmospheres of pressure, and over 4,000 °C (7,232 °F).

> The temperature at the inner core's surface is estimated to be approximately 5700 K (5430 °C or 9806 °F) ... The pressure in the Earth's inner core is slightly higher than it is at the boundary between the outer and inner cores: it ranges from about 330 to 360 gigapascals (3,300,000 to 3,600,000 atm)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_inner_core

There's probably even weirder states of nitrogen and other elements not that far away from us. Whole chemistries and semiconductor-ish effects we're guessing at. Fun!
The blue wall extends beyond obstructive police: prosecutors have to work hand-in-glove with the police and risk compromising that relationship by bringing charges, leaving only incidents prominently in the public eye or extremely egregious. The rest they let IA and discipline boards handle.
I think it's much worse in Europe.
Not so much a partnership as AT&T bought Warner Media which includes HBO.
Social attestations are another solution to this, unless you count them as an authority over issued names. “If all my friends are convinced this person is called Bob, that’s good enough for me”. Doesn’t help with uniqueness though, but that’s what we have keys for.
Set this as your daily reminder:

Black Lives Matter.

Thank You.
Trump sending in the national guard was not what escalated this. What escalated this was his usual politicizing of every event. By popping off on twitter with his now famous "when you start looting, we start shooting" tweet.

The national guard could have been sent in without Trump, the governor of each state is in charge of the national guard of that state.

Trump is just trying to take credit for what governors could and would have done unilaterally.

(Oh hey, remember coronavirus? Same thing. Everything that happened was up to governors, his contribution was a net negative. Well, maybe not everything. There is what Mike Pence did, remember, he was "in charge" of everything!)
> We've been this before

If you are speaking to videos from bystanders they are often problematic as evidence because usually they do not capture the entirety of the police encounter. In that case they could capture excess behavior but not the preliminary conditions that resulted in escalation of force.

That was the valid legal defense for the officers involved In the Rodney King incident even though the conduct in the video looked grossly excessive. Police body cams exist to solve for gaps like that. Perhaps if additional video evidence had been present from the start of the Rodney King incident the officers would not have been found innocent.

The goal, after all, is accountability.
Trump fires everyone involved in oversight that he can. What is amazing is he is allowed to.
The concept of open source is so horrible to them that it already pains them to just show the source publicly.
Much like he's trying to politicize the response by putting GEN Milley "in charge"

The Pentagon's official response was (paraphrasing) "GEN Milley's responsibilities have not changed; he will continue to advise the Sec Def and President"

EDIT:

I should also add, that he tricked GEN Milley into walking into a photo op in front of St. John's church.

The military tries very hard to remain apolitical, and he duped the man into being part of a prop piece.
I will give you the benefit of the doubt on how racially charged that statement might be and simply point out that we have no idea what the true crime rates are by race. We only have arrest, charge, and conviction rates. Those all start with the police. A bias in laws (e.g. crack vs cocaine laws), law enforcement (e.g. more cops deployed in black neighborhoods), or police behavior (e.g. more leniency given to white people) would all lead to those numbers being artificially high for the black community.
If you're not a skilled windows developer, what use is the certificate?
>A lot of board instructions also suffer from poor translations.

People who haven't tried board game design before underestimate how difficult it is to write the rules they think they're writing - very slight wording differences have MAJOR gameplay implications and will decide games.

Here's just one example of two widely different table interactions which result based on the example you've provided.

>Scenario: Immediacy Matters

>Context: I have just become one point away from victory. I have a card that I can flip over on any player's turn to score 1 point, but my friend is wrapping up their turn, and I'm next. My friend says: "Okay I'm done with my turn", and I now remember I have my hidden flippable one point card, because he said the word "turn".

There are two VERY DIFFERENT endings to this scenario depending on which of the two above rules you've written down.

In the verbiage,

>"The player starts their turn by drawing a card.",

If the game doesn't have any other explicit rules about how a player ENDS their turn, there's an ambiguity in the word "by" - it's not clear whether the action of drawing STARTS my turn, or describes WHAT happens DURING my turn (which ALSO ambiguously may or may not take precedence over my ability to flip that card before I draw a card).

This difference seems small, but it will decide the game, because if the act of drawing STARTS the turn, then by not drawing, my opponent's turn is still going - so I win the game by flipping on their not-finished-until-I-draw turn.

This will become a heated table argument if players are invested in winning, because it becomes a question of designer intent, which will probably dissatisfy everyone because suddenly the game's turned into "guess what the designer meant" and "let's debate the definition of words the author didn't even know were important."

In the former verbiage,

>"When it is the players turn, the player must immediately draw a card "

There's still ambiguity (When did my opponents turn end?), but less:

If everyone agrees my opponent's turn ended when he said it did, and it's my turn, because the rules say IMMEDIATELY draw, IMMEDIATELY implies it's pretty explicitly disallowed for me to do something else before fulfilling the thing I need to immediately do, like flip a card on the table. If the card I draw when doing this subtracts points when drawn, I will not win the game when I flip my card.

Disgustingly verbose rules like the above are the scar tissue from play sessions where these heated arguments took place and the developer decided that being overly wordy is worth avoiding race conditions and being unambiguous.
People were previously claiming on Hacker News that Slice was registering websites on behalf of pizza shops, and then claiming the business as theirs on Google Maps [0]. Is this false? One user claimed that the businesses were not aware of this [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23349819

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16824992
Even if I were to accept your weak assertions that the outrage is driven by propaganda and that this is an isolated incident, the incident itself can still be judged by objective standards now that we're focused on it. The standard course of justice for murderers and conspirators is to be arrested, charged, and tried in a court of law. Period. If you don't support this happening, then you don't actually believe in the rule of law.
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> Yep. And there are no more "checks and balances" because POTUS stacks the SCOTUS, and POTUS and SOTUS work hand-in-glove. The last remaining hold-out is HOROTUS, but that can flip any session.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm warming up to the idea of the Democrats passing court-packing legislation for the Supreme and Appellate courts the next time they control both houses of Congress and the presidency. Especially if they can somehow establish a very strong super-majority requirement for all future judicial branch nominations that would be immune to stealth court-packing tactics like the Senate Republicans have been using.

The prior institutional restraints have broken down, and balance needs to be restored and new restraints implemented if the system is going to survive.
In printing, resolution traditionally meant DPI.
True, but if such a attack only costs 400$/hr there's going to quite a lot of them to do things about.
Bodycams are not necessary, they’re like an awkward patch that can be conveniently removed when puss is coming out.

Why are they able to stop body cams in the first place? What is the penalty for not turning it on? Thats sketchy and unclear and a convenient doorway to abuse. Bodycams should record every moment and store everything encrypted in a blackbox and not be viewed by anyone unless theres a problem and a judge allows it. And periodically erase themselves after a number of days/months.

Or simply not use body cams at all but remove their immunity. That immunity is a carte blanche aka a licence to kill for the many who can’t temper their anger.
At least they voted.
Nobody wants their father to be publicly known as a racist, and it's a pretty common WASP family dynamic to never talk about politics anyway.
> The problem is these protest are not effective, period.

I struggle with this one because I think it's true.

> The way to get past racism is not to be a racist and divide people on the basis of race. That is it.

> What is happening right now is going in the wrong direction.

You seem to think the protests are primarily about race. I don't. I frame this as only police reform.
Wait really? How do you unzip your files? I thought files unzipped inside with Windows's built-in unzipper still keep the attachment manager metadata that Windows stores?
Exactly. For most of my usual spots, someone picks up on the first ring, I place my order, they ask my name, and that's it