skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article meanders too much. The basic point is this:

> While stochastic models present us with numerous difficulties, an even more perplexing conundrum faces contemporary scientists and engineers who wish to model highly complex systems involving hundreds or thousands of variables and model parameters. Owing to their sheer number, many model parameters cannot be accurately estimated via experiment and are left uncertain. As a consequence of uncertainty, for each different set of possible values for the unknown parameters, there is a different model—possibly an infinite number of models.

> Confronting the problems of complexity, validation, and model uncertainty, I have previously identified four options for moving ahead: (1) dispense with modeling complex systems that cannot be validated; (2) model complex systems and pretend they are validated; (3) model complex systems, admit that the models are not validated, use them pragmatically where possible, and be extremely cautious when interpreting them; (4) strive to develop a new and perhaps weaker scientific epistemology.

At the moment I am in favor of option 3, though option 4 might be more appealing in the future.

This isn't an easy option to take. Recently I had an article accepted for publication where I basically argued that no models, including my own, were truly validated because none fit a non-naive data set well. (In another paper I argued that most data sets used for validation are too easy to match because they don't cover the parameter space well.) A reviewer recommended rejection, basically saying that because the model isn't validated, it shouldn't be published. So much for being intellectually honest!

The paper was eventually accepted after I made it more clear that none of the popular models work that well (some are absolutely terrible in my view), and that my model improves on the status quo in a few ways.

Note that this situation isn't exactly the same as that described in the link. In the case of my article, I think we can get enough data to validate a model. We just don't have that data at present.
The armed right-wing lockdown protestors blocked an ambulance. And a right-wing governor threw a tantrum that blocked ambulances.
no, the mining difficulty self-adjusts, so the supply is only increased for a very brief time
No, it's not that I'm having a permission issue - /dev/fb0 simply returns all 0 on my machine.
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Just to add to what others said regarding question 2.

After you write a derivation that you can build, you need to create a module [1]. The module defines configuration options, then takes the donation and does other things such as creating service users (if needed), services and configurations.

Then you simply import it and use it.

Regarding question 1 what was suggested by others is what is the current way of doing it, but I will recommend to go through Nix Pills[2]. The author starts with making a simple derivation and then starts introducing conventions. The conventions make things more complex, but they make things more flexible. I can't wait for Flakes[3], they will standardize a lot of this, removing extra cruft and allowing things to be more composable.

[1] https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-writing-module...

[2] https://nixos.org/nixos/nix-pills/index.html

[3] https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-05-25-flakes/
Not at - I knew what you meant :)

Someone used it years ago to make a neat visualization where they rendered the Street View imagery as normal and then used the same 3D data to overlay foliage and create an apocalyptic environment. Seems to be gone now but there are some articles about it like this one: https://www.citylab.com/life/2014/03/epic-google-street-view...
I don't know of a "significant amount" of employees, but my LinkedIn feed this morning had two engineers post that they had left. But also had one guy say that he had just joined. Take that for what it's worth.
Zuckerberg defends Trump's “looting and shooting” reference in leaked audio
No because the supply is fixed in time
Sex Worker Rights Advocates Raise the Alarms about Earn IT
On news.ycombinator.com? It's Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif

https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css
Yeah, that checks out - some variety of this line of questioning plays out every time I have this conversation, so it's just about time you got here. Let's see if we can save some time here:

"Your friends must be terrible people!" - no, as we've already covered, they're not. They helped get me through some rough times. Terrible people, and I've known my share, don't bother.

"Well, then, you must be a terrible person!" - if that were the case, the apologies I got wouldn't have happened, much less been heartfelt. They weren't snubbing me on purpose, or deliberately cutting me out. I've seen my share of that, too, from both sides. This wasn't it.

"Well, then, what you're saying just doesn't make sense!" - sure it does. We're all busy professionals, no longer young, many with young families, all with significant demands on our time and mental energy. People drift apart, it happens. That's probably what it looked like, from the perspective of people on Facebook: me drifting apart from them. In a sense, I suppose it's even true.

Just that it didn't happen that way because I wanted it to, or because they wanted it to, but rather because Facebook wanted it to. Because as you grow ever more accustomed to communicating with everyone you know via Facebook, it gets ever easier just not to think particularly about communicating with anyone any other way.

There's an activation energy barrier to everything, not just to joining the mailing list for some SaaS startup. The more you get habituated to Facebook, the higher that barrier gets with everything else by comparison.

And eventually you get tired of feeling like you're carrying the relationship, and tired of feeling stung by hearing after the fact about another fun camping trip or dinner or wedding that you didn't get an invite to because the whole thing was planned on Facebook. Eventually you just give up, and maybe it takes a few years to realize that you weren't at fault, and neither were your friends. You both got screwed out of each other's company by a machine that is designed to do exactly that, because it can't make money from social interactions that occur outside its hegemony.

That's that punishment I was talking about. It isn't a metaphor. It is a consequence imposed by design to convince Facebook abstainers to do otherwise.

And to forestall your next objection, no, I don't think anyone sat down and planned it that way - probably not, anyhow; I don't put much past Silicon Valley, these days. But even if it's an emergent property rather than an intentional one, that's still no excuse. The purpose of a system is what it does. And this, again, is what Facebook does.

Anything else?
The other way around - google's browser could figure out that it's a google analytics snippet and not run it. Kind of like the existing google analytics chrome opt-out extension does.
It absolutely didn't seem strange to me back then, so I guess we disagree. The memory buffer isn't invisible, you can list it and modify it.

Lots of Basics worked like that back them, to me it's understandable without a second thought -- much like a REPL today is. In fact we designed a console/REPL just like this in my day job. It's superb because the shell to the computer is an interactive programming language. If this puzzles you, a Smalltalk environment would blow your mind :P

Some people argue computers ought to go back to that: you boot up, you get your programming environment and file and device manipulation interface ready, and it's all the same thing.
You're okay with people getting shot on the streets because some cops are bad and that will always be true but insults must be called out and dealt with. Fuck you too.
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Yes this is a huge problem. After several years of shunning Facebook I installed WhatsApp last year because it’s the only way to stay in contact with much of my family these days.
You're right—what Mozilla should really, ideally do, is revert back to the old behavior, with no option to re-enable the new one. :)

Just about any other design would be fine, actually; I'm not married to the old one. No other browser has a URL bar I find particularly offensive.

I would bet a very large sum of money that if you sat every person in the world down in front of two computer screens, and let them play with both URL bar designs side-by-side, a large majority would say they prefer the old design. Not everyone, to be sure—humanity will never agree on what is most aesthetically pleasing—but most. That is why the modern field of graphic design focuses on grids systems and consistent spacing and margins—because most people find them appealing. (Not even to mention the other issues around covering the bookmarks and tab bars.)

If I seem a bit overly worked up about this, it's because working in the graphic design industry has made me very sensitive to poorly-aligned visuals, in the same way type designers become sensitive to bad kerning. And I live in my web browser.

I'll eventually adapt, as most people will. That does not mean this is a good change.
I call this the computer-human scale of board games. That is, how much of playing this game is doing the work that could be done by a computer, vs. how much is doing human reasoning and actually playing.

As an example, Carcassonne is I'd say 95% human. The computer parts are the physical placing of tiles in aligned fashion and counting score, but those take almost no time and effort, compared to actually playing the game. Mage Knight (or god forbid Relic) score very low on that scale - the computer activities start dominating and there is too little game left.

My cutoff point is basically "this would be more fun to play if implemented as a program". Conversely however, if implemented as a program, such games become very good fun. Even just simulating the pieces in a way that frees you from physical constraints (i.e. Tabletop Simulator implementation with almost no scripting) can make a game like that enjoyable to play.
Um, they did exactly that, in 2018. And it was the right decision to make.
One thought ... the author talks a lot about working in an "HPC environment". Most HPC sites don't allow services such as a database to be run.
Who decides when to enforce that law? Who decides if something is lawful or not?
> How exactly did Reddit "amplify" r/the_donald?

I'm unsure if she was thinking of this argument, but Reddit does foot the bill to host r/the_donald on their servers, which gave it exposure to millions of people.
What does it mean to inherit authorship? Can I be th author of something my grandmother created? Can I bequeath my athorship to some corporation?
I rewrote a codebase for a major stock exchange in about four months. It was originally in Ruby, which is my most proficient language, and my implementation was in Python, my second most proficient language.

The original Ruby codebase had been worked on for years and was a complete mess. Not because of Ruby, but because the people that developed it were a little sloppy or junior or time pressured. Who knows?

It's totally possible to do a rewrite and to do it well. The advantage of having a pre-existing implementation is that it's far, far easier to write tests before you implement because most edge-cases are covered in the existing implementation. Make sure you do a feature freeze before you start, then once you're ready for production do both shadow testing and canary testing and things will go well.
agree with all of this, libertarianism all the way
I don't know who you are talking about. This isn't meant to be an insult, but I don't know a single person anywhere on the political spectrum that is trying to justify police incompetence and violence. That sounds like a very fringe view.

I agree with you in that things probably will only get worse.
> Why do you think we need to have a higher justification for good ideas (engaging in sustainable behavior) than for bad ideas (engaging in unsustainable behavior)?

You're misstating the alternatives. We're talking about public policy. The alternatives for public policy are "don't dictate what everyone must do in area X" or "dictate what everyone must do in area X". The former does not need a "higher justification". The latter does.
If you want to know what the result could look like I would recommend the following blog post by Christine Dodrill where she shows off her setup for working with Go code in Nix:
https://christine.website/blog/i-was-wrong-about-nix-2020-02...

It's more focused on the result then on how you get there, but that result really impressed me.
There are instances of people initially thought of as simply witnesses to a crime becoming suspects and then being charged with that crime (or an associated crime.) The point of these videos is that in almost no case does talking to the police help you.
Your Phone Is a Goldmine of Hidden Data for Cops. Here's How to Fight Back
Finding a usb-c adapter which has a good DAC may be a process in itself. I got several $20-$40 adapters from China, and they all have a very tinny, absolutely atrocious sound on their headphone jack.
Yes, when you said

> You decided you were better off without me, fine, save your own store.

That was you saying that people who don't support police don't deserve police protection.
Will someone help a bro out and text me when it is? ITMT, I'm going to wrap myself in bubble-wrap, bury myself about 100' / 30 m down, and hook-up my iPad Pro to a solar array. As long as the internet doesn... NO CARRIER

PS: Hygiene, food, water, and sanitation are WIPs. On the plus side, I'm in a mostly rural/ag county in NorCal rn and not buying the corona "all clear: everyone get back to making the billionaires richer."
Fined?
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Comparisons of mattress materials or brands, histories of different mattresses used by cultures, forums for mattress aficionados, tutorials for making your own or modifying mattresses, general mattress information or facts, other random weird shit the internet used to have about strangely niche subjects that have way more people dedicated to them then you'd expect you'd only discover by searching random terms then you find there's a whole world of weird things dedicated to this niche topic, say mattresses in this case, that you'd otherwise never know about.
Ask HN: Do you prefer your keywords abbreviated?
For example, different languages use different keywords for declaring functions:

1. function name() { ... }

2. func name() { ... }

3. fn name() { ... }

Which of these do you prefer? Is it the same for other keywords, like "var" or "const"?
Consider that the police are heavily networked, whereas the crowd is not. It's possible that one section of the crowd is antagonizing the police, the police respond as a whole, but you have no idea why because you were 200' away in a different section of the crowd and didn't know about what that other section was doing.

> that the police is desperately trying to set a narrative to justify a history of violence by escalating more violence, but please, someone, restore my faith.

The police is composed of a bunch of individuals. It is highly unlikely that there is any kind of conspiracy to set the narrative of excessive violence by being...excessively violent? It doesn't even logically follow.
The BASIC v2 was horrible, but still there were plenty of great games written in BASIC (Sid Meier's Pirates was mostly BASIC, for example).
How did I break site guidelines? The comment I was replying to made wildly exaggerated claims about police violence and racism. I am simply trying to improve the quality of discussion by focusing on what the evidence actually allows us to conclude.

I understand that for controversial topics many people have deeply held beliefs and so experience a strong emotional reaction if they are questioned. It is easier to dismiss someone as a "troll" rather than examining why they hold these beliefs.

This was admittedly my lowest quality comment, but it is hard to see what was objectionable about the previous three comments, which were almost instantly flagged. The statistical evidence points to a very small role for racial bias in explaining differences in the use of deadly force by the police. What's wrong with pointing that out when it is directly relevant to the discussion?
Oakland had had quite a bit of success in reducing police shootings as well which is sad.
It's not about personal responsibility, or ancestral responsibility. Immigrants in the United States chose to become part of that country, with all the benefits, privileges, and responsibilities that entails.

edit: To make an analogy, if you move into a condo, and its roof needs to be replaced the next year, it's not your fault that the building's reserve fund can't cover the cost, but that doesn't exempt you from paying the special levy.
many people (myself included) don't think of it as an incident, but murder - which is just another case of long-running systemic racism and police brutality in the US.

Europe is doing much much better than the US in terms of dealing with the virus, so it's actually not unreasonable to say that it might be a risk worth taking.
Less speech out of you please.
People write for free constantly. We're doing it right now, Tumblr was absolutely full of freely available fiction, and there were plenty of stories and technical knowledge written and passed between people before copyright was even a concept in anyone's minds. The primary thing the copyright industry gets us in regards to writing is that some people can get paid doing things others will do for free, and a large body of advertising is created around the non-free works.
When a developer says "I am going to rewrite ..." you have to question why? If you were not doing this "rewrite" then what else would you be doing? Refactor is usually a term used to minimally modify legacy code to allow new functionality to be added.

Rewriting implies rewriting legacy code (regressions) and wasting time. If a developer says "it's the only way" then you need to be sure you can trust their judgement.
Why else would the police get all this military equipment that they are so eager to try out?

Never mind that you always see them as law enforcement and not a service to the community.
Here's NYPD telling each other to run over and/or shoot the motherfuckers: https://twitter.com/balleralert/status/1267928451287220224
I don't find it that obtrusive and it's likely it would have taken me a while to notice it if it wasn't pointed out in this version and in 76 threads.

When I click it I also get the address bar drop-down with other common addresses in it, which is many many times larger than the small expansion of the address bar - unless I am missing the gripe here.

I don't know why it was needed to expand like that, but it certainly doesn't seem like an egregious use of space to me.
Oh nice!! I was listening to your platform for NYC Citywide-1 for a couple of hours last night after someone in YT chat of Louis Rossmann's security cam feed (retail store that fixes Macs in Manhattan) dropped some Broadcastify stream links.

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/32890 CW-1

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/31439 Manhattan
I thought they were all males and it was the rookie that said it
Kathy Marinello, yet another Hertz ceo who surrounded herself with Yes people mainly her friends and former colleagues. She failed on so many levels.
The main failure was her inability to bring in system updates and the low I.Q of her I.T staff who did not deliver the most basic upgrades and integration of Hertz systems unlike Hertz competitors like Enterprise and Avis, who will ride out the covid downturn.
The company was overloaded with clueless management and usless team leaders, in some cases in accounts, there was two managers for one employee.
Also her use of H.R as bully boys and girls meant there was a huge turn over of employees.
her disdain for older men ( those with knowledge of the industry) Michelle Tarride was made clear in his unceremoniously dismissal, getting rid of old dogs was the term used by his replacement. The covid downturn was not the reason for Hertz downfall the reason was A one Kathy Marinello, who just like Stalin killed off the older generation of those with knowledge in the company.
No one disagrees that in any group only a small number of bad actors are causing this issue.

However, when a civilian acts inappropriately there are legal consequences. When a police office acts inappropriately there are few legal consequences and they are very-very-rarely enforced.

I'll ask the question differently,

"Is destruction of property what you expect from rioters?" Yes, 1% or less of rioters are going to be stupid. "Should they be reprimanded?" Sadly yes, and we have specialized government entities that can utilize appropriate-force to reprimand them.

"Is destruction of property what you expect from police?" No, not even from the 1% or less that want to be stupid. That is unacceptable, their job is to protect and serve. Even from each other. "Should they be reprimanded?" Yes! but we as civilians have no legal way to do this, and even the "good cops" have no good way to do this.

What are your answers to these questions lawnchair_larry?
But you're not including any other taxes required to run the federal government and you're also handwaving away the effects of a 97% tax rate. Tax rates would have to increase even more just to counteract the fall in government revenues from enacting such high tax rates as every high earner starts figuring out how to structure their income to avoid such taxes or just gives up earning extra income altogether.

Imagine what a 97% tax rate would mean in practice. In order to earn $30 for an hour of your time you now need to charge your customer $1000. As far as I'm concerned 97% is close enough to 100% as to be almost indistinguishable in terms of the economic outcomes.
Thank you for your service! FWIW, this was one of the things I wanted to do and learning about SDRs made that possible.
You understand why US cops are so heavy handed though, right? It may be because they have to deal with a population with 3 guns per capita, where the amount of police killed per year on duty(even disregarding accidents) is more akin to a third world country than anything going on in the EU.

> and high level LE people still not accepting any blame

I don't know how you get that from OP saying that both sides need to de-escalate.
It doesn't appear to be. Microsoft provides an open-source alternative called Selawik which I suppose could in theory be added to Google Fonts and thus become available in Google Docs, but that hasn't happened.
It is helpful, but not necessary. I am listening in on Seattle's trunked radio system with just one, and I get most of the comms.

I documented my setup here: https://dantler.us/seattle-police-scanner/