skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don’t seem to know what empathize means and didn’t read my comment very carefully.
Comparing Australia to the US, the difference is that in the US what happens is that the Supreme court rules on a law, and the ruling directs how the government implements the law for the next 50 years.

In Australia the High court makes a ruling then legislation is put into the next legislative session to 'fix up' the issue with the existing law. Although this doesn't always happen, it seems to be the most common outcome.
That’s actually a very neat line of thinking! If you could model it in terms of gait (slow and heavy vs light and limber) rather than specific gestures, it could make for a compelling system.
It's possible to do this without resorting to the sleazy practices of Grubhub. I used to work for Slice, which provides order-taking (but notably not delivery) for mom-and-pop pizza shops. They don't add people to the platform without their permission. They only charge $1/order. They help restaurants digitize their menus, keep prices up to date, and they take orders digitally and over the phone. They have a large and responsive customer service department. It's all up front, honest, and affordable. It's not a direct comparison with Grubhub, since the restaurants still do the deliveries themselves, but it's a good business model and an honest company.
> The millions per day paid to Ethereum miners will stop being paid, forever.

Do you mean paid _by_ Ethereum miners?

The network pays miners rewards (which will continue under proof of stake, ie the cost _to the network_). The miners pay the cost of running their mining (eg electricity and hardware costs), which is what will be reduced by proof of stake.

Am I understanding this correctly?
> GTA5

Curious, are you using Vorpx to play GTA V in VR? I need to give that a try.

My biggest issue with non-vr games in VR is that you don't get to use your hands to aim. Would be amazing if a mod could get that to work.
Why do they ask the credit card number? I would expect to pay on delivery on a portable POS with card or phone. Safer for both.
Individually, yes, except if they actually find his actions sufficiently disagreeable, they could quit.
They should be sued for this too!
Signal or Riot? For Riot, it's easy to switch the default server - e.g. https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/blob/develop/config.sa... for Riot Web. Building the server is trivial too.
$25??? That's criminal!
I don't doubt that this could accurately reflect your experience in the industry, but it is not a universal truth. I've worked on sustaining engineering of systems that were years old, the stewardship of which involved refactoring only, and which are still in production today. There are lots of systems that are more or less right in version 1.
What exactly do you want to empower people to do? Loot Louis Vuitton and Walmart in the name of stopping police brutality? This violence isn't good for anybody and needs to stop.
Beat Saber is a great example
- it asks you to do something tiring, but it’s super fun and you have immediate feedback so the effort is worth it.

Games can ask players to do almost anything as long as they’re having fun in return - but that means that the more outlandish things you ask them to do, the more fun they must have.
I've cut all my paper subscriptions (or digital, for that matter) except for these 3:

- Communications of the ACM -- the signal/noise ratio is good, and the value for the money of an ACM subscription is excellent [1]

- Circuit Cellar - good if you're interested in electronics, FPGA, DIY projects and similar stuff

- Maximum PC - I like keeping an eye on what's going on in terms of PC hardware, watercooling machines, etc.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22799753
Tmobiles system was a lot more open but still fucked.
Did they ask about democracy vs. a constitutional republic?
Facebook is sufficiently influential that any Facebook business tends to become our business.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect

Of course the current US constitution is V2.
I don't see that your argument is any more fair than the one you are replying to.

Store clerks are also targeted because they are often alone and in poorly secure places. They have no choice weather or not to approach dangerous people because those people are approaching them. They have little or no training for handling these situations. They have no back up. They likely receive no pension or disability when injured. If they do something unwise in a dangerous situation, they will almost certainly be fired with no union to protect them.
It's like the JRE all over again
28 CFR § 0.100: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/0.100
RIP Civil – Lessons from a failed startup
Of course, very few people actually like democracy in practice, they just tend to prefer whatever system/government that agrees with them.

Imagine you let people from one party (doesn't matter Democrat or Republicans) to anonymously vote on a constitutional amendment that outlaws the opposing party members from participating in the next presidential election, my gut feeling is that amendment would pass the vote overwhelmingly.

Either way, democracy is a nice ideology that won't scale in the 21st century anyway, but that's a different discussion for another day...
> I think everyone agrees they don't like violent policing

That is not completely true. For example, the narrative on thedonald.win wrt recent rioting is that most protesters are looters and that looters deserve being shot. They seem to be ok with militarized, strong-men police.

Also, "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" is used as a justification for violent policing. "Of course you're gonna get tazed/hit/shot at if you don't comply with orders/resist arrest/insult the officers."

Now, we can argue about how representative thedonald.win is to the entire population (I think a non-negligent part of the population subscribes to those views), but the point is, party affiliation does affect one's position wrt violent policing.
“ In July, New Food Economy reported that Grubhub was buying restaurant web domains without restaurants’ knowledge or consent, and though Grubhub argued it’s technically allowed to do that in the contract, it was still a bad look.”

“In the contract” implies the restaurants are opting to work with Grubhub and pay them fees.

As for “non-partner” listings, how can Grubhub charge a fee if the order is phoned in or payed over the counter like a normal order? So I don’t think that situation is one where restaurants are paying Grubhub any fees (though Grubhub is surely charging customers fees and possibly marking up menu items, the latter of which I agree is shady and should be stopped.)

I am happy to be mad at Grubhub but I’m not condemning them for charging a restaurant a fee the restaurant agreed in writing to pay. Why did the coffee shop in TFA agree to pay $6.76 or whatever per call??
> The way we fix legacy software systems: By carefully refactoring it one step at a time and testing and monitoring to make sure our refactoring doesn't break stuff that's working correctly.

Have to be careful with this as these protest are about things that are indeed working as designed.
I was opposed to the equipment transfer until this week. They might just need MRAP’s moving forward. That or get used to the NG getting activated.
Don't forget Skype. A successful project will be a target.
Ask HN: How does your company handle scheduling jobs?
Is there a "run-at-datetime" library/framework out there that works well in production? At my last company we hacked together an event queue + cron process to replicate the functionality, but I'm curious how others have handled scheduling jobs like this.
Since there are many Californians on HN, how about getting tear gas banned in California via a California Ballot Proposition?
The quote may never have been uttered but the sentiment and intention was certainly there in the legislation and its enforcement.
I don't think facebook is a hoax!

A "Racial Justice Leader" which is an amazing title, is confounded about how the CEO of one of the largest media organizations in the world does not want to partake in spreading his message and thinks its because "he doesn't understand".

Please.
It's sad that we're comparing ourselves to India, rather than something like sweden or switzerland.
> How far can we push this software analogy...

People used to talk about the "Microsoft tax"... well this system already has Federal, State, and local taxes...
It's interesting how the USA is becoming again a Brzezinski Experiment State.

This time it's all the new fancy tech combined with the military on home soil and a mad head of state.

Did anyone spot those fancy microwave crowd control stuff yet?
This needs to repealed perhaps? Or perhaps someone knows how this can be approved at all?
18XX
Why are so many popular startups run and funded by sleazebags... anything and everthing to win! Digusting!
I'm wondering if they changed their policy in SF or if the restaurants I looked up just have opted out of this.

I checked Phat Philly (all phone numbers on their website, grubhub, yelp, and google maps were the same). Same with Sultan Kebab & Gryo King (I couldn't find a number on their site but everyone else had the same number)
I beg to differ. None of the places I've placed orders with (and I've been doing it a lot what with quarantine) have ever asked for CC over-the-phone. Most just want my name, some a phone number. Ordering usually takes less time than it would to fiddle about with a bunch of dropdowns, even if it had my customer information already saved.
...it's both.
Food for thought (no pun intended)

The value that GH added here was that they were higher up than any of the restaurant's competitors, too.

So, absent of GH, that pizza sale, instead of going to GH, might have gone to a competitive pizza place.

So the restaurant has to evaluate-- it is better that I get the order through GH, or that I don't possibly get the order at all, and it goes to a competitor?
This entire subthread is based around the premise of "they're too stupid/racist to know what's good for them".

Whether or not the specific phrase 'white trash' is said or not said doesn't matter. It could be 'clinging to guns and religion', could be 'deplorables', etc.

Racism totally does exist among the demographic we're talking about but it's not the only motivator anyone ever has.
With gerrymandering, the non-proportional Senate, and the Electoral College system, it might be a stretch to call the US federal government a democracy. Something like it, but not exactly.
They're great if you're part of the union, though.
Interleaved might be easier. Thanks!
I'm gunna go ahead and assume it was due to them being conservative white guys with guns.
Kinect offered good full body skeletal tracking. Saying that it could “only recognize dancing” is objectively wrong. And even if that was the issue, look at eg Magic Leap, which had excellent finger tracking. What compelling things were built for it?

The issue is that “gestures” are not a binary thing that you do or not; they live on a continuum. What is waving vs raising your hand to swat a fly? Categorizing these “gestures” in a meaningful way and layering effective gameplay on top of it is the challenge, that pretty much no one solved despite the huge incentives.

Gestures on two-dimensional multitouch screens are not what we’re talking about here (and even then, you can’t expect people to remember much more beyond the 5/6 core ones).
From what I can tell your only change was to add the word “unwarranted” before destruction.

Could you please help us understand your position on “Should abusive officers be reprimanded?”

And if we agree they should be reprimanded, what are your thought on how we build that system?

The system where we the civilians who witness or are victims of the abuse and other “good cops” who witness the abuse, can get legal ways to highlight and reprimand those few abusive police officers[0]?

[0] such that the person/people accusing (with evidence) the abusive police without worrying other police officers will “hold it against” the accuser.
It's venture capitalism, I guess. Enough cash became available for high-risk, high-reward ventures at a massive scale. The result has been this experimentation with platforms that undercut competitors using VC cash and have some vague plan to make a profit in the future when they've grabbed all the market share. In the meantime, plenty of individuals are making money off the scheme, while the competing businesses and the shareholders left holding the bag at the end will be the ones screwed.
I cannot speak for the authors, but my impression is that the vocoder (WaveRNN) part of current TTS systems takes much more computing than the part that this research addresses, so this may not help all that much.
I laughed so much at this
Well the idea is that the safety deposit box key is if everything falls apart, all the employees go missing and you dont have any other options. Ideally multiple employees would have keys as well that could respond in those crucial hours.

But if for instance, your whole security team got in a car accident and all the keys burned up, you'd have a way to recover the creds and save the business.
In simple words. Police job is to police - ensure order. Brutality is definitely not a solution.
I understand the desire to be able to listen in/oversight during riots and conflicts between demonstrators and police. It make less sense in cases where someone is a victim of a crime or a patient being transported as such individuals are protected from the public prying eye. When recording devices and storage is so cheap as it is now it should be assumed that any communication traveling in clear is captured and stored.
Proof of stake is as equally expensive as proof of work. The trick is that both of based on burning money, proof of work burns by using CPU cycles while proof of stake burns through lost interest.

http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/ gives a nice discussion of how this works.
So I couldn't find it either, but this may be helpful to others after similar: https://www.programmableweb.com/category/weather/apis?catego...
Imagine a virtual protest over zoom where people loot copyrighted media by sharing it with fellow protesters... kind of like a civil disobedience Napster / scihub thing. Bill Gates, and the RIAA and MPAA and the publishers would historically be horrified, but given the transient, justifiable protest, their political message would be accepting. the DEA and NSA would want in again, not because they care to stop retail piracy (free advertising), but corporate espionage and tax evasion by people who have a lot of money.
Queue China...
> I think Guix might be the answer as a more approachable implementation of the Nix ideas, using Scheme for its config language. I haven't spent much time with it but I got going a lot quicker initially compared to Nix.

Out of curiosity, did you tried Guix before trying Nix or vice versa?

When looking at Guix myself, all I see is that the derivations are just wrapped in parentheses otherwise they do look similar. So I'm wondering if scheme actually brings anything here, especially for someone not familiar with a functional language.

IMO Nix language isn't actually that hard, I believe the most complexity comes from nixpkgs and still not adequate documentation of it, so one needs to study its source code.
If that's where your thoughts are going, maybe I can't help you much; anyway here's something to consider: I'd prefer to keep the outcomes open to all kinds of win-win possibilities. Assuming that those outcomes must involve looting does both of us a disservice. You can do better here. Maybe just leave it at that first sentence?
If you’ve never seen videos of police tear gassing peaceful protestors, or driving into them with their cars, you’re living a very sheltered life.

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867532070/trumps-unannounced-...
Because every other country in the world has a vested interest in keeping the USD stable as a currency, which would mean that they'd help keep the country up if needed (whether it's good or not that a civil revolt is extremely difficult here is up to you).

The entire world's economy, as well as many countries political configurations, rely on the United States existing. I doubt it's going anywhere, but hopefully reform might actually happen this time.
"you have a highly vulnerable population with little recourse against the people in charge, because those people have so much control over residents' lives."

Isn't this also true for non-private prisons?
LinkedIn is professional, so I think people tend to self-censor.

Reddit is small in comparison to Facebook. I think it's like one or two orders of magnitude smaller than Facebook in DAUs. Medium is tiny likewise. I think both Instagram and WhatsApp individually are bigger than Reddit, let alone the big daddy FB itself. 1 in 3 people worldwide visits Facebook at least once a month.
Microsoft was aggressively hinting its fonts to align with screen pixels, so perhaps they might've done that with the licensed TNR too? Not sure if they did that to third-party fonts, especially before Verdana & co. And for some reason TNR on my Mac is credited to Microsoft & Monotype, which suggests that the same decisions are inherited (though Wikipedia says the Windows and Mac versions differ at least in ligatures, or differed at some point).
Do you think this might have something to do with it?
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-16/nations-bigg...
I'm saying that Matrix does not aim to be globally consistent within a room, or even seek consensus.

It's perfectly valid and indeed desirable for the network to partition, and for one side of the network to go off talking amongst itself, and the other side to continue, and then for the conversation to join up again afterwards.

Different views are a feature. Imagine you're using P2P Matrix to stay in touch while hiking - you fire up adhoc wifi, use mDNS to discover other peers, and get chatting away. Some people drift in and out of contact, and perhaps even the party splits. But the conversation continues fine for those still present in it. Nobody can spoof each other's messages; nobody can replay each other's messages; nobody can reorder messages; the worst that can happen is for messages to get withheld, maliciously or otherwise.

> I'd be keen to see what aphyr could do with a jepsen test.

Me too. We're overdue an audit, and we'll reach out (assuming he's not too fiendishly expensive).

> Perhaps you could run an open hack matrix contest to see what people can achieve. It might surprise you.

There's already quite a high incentive on the open network to show off by exploiting bugs in Matrix - which is what helped accelerate the v2 of the state resolution algorithm that I tried to link earlier.

Separately, the French government maintains a bounty for their Matrix deployment over at https://yeswehack.com/programs/tchap - and we're also looking forward to an academic paper being published in the coming weeks which is a super deep dive into analysing and auditing our state resolution alg. It might surprise you.
Air Force B-21 stealth bomber runs Kubernetes
Hey! Thanks for the reply, by the way. Checking out the links, too!
Apparently, including themselves.

How much of deferring to someone else to make "the right decisions" is looking for someone to blame other than themselves when something goes wrong?
first, the US is a representative democracy, not a direct democracy. we don't vote on every little legal precedent. second, judges and the judicial system are a check on executive and legislative power, not a lawmaking body.

please keep partisanship out of such analyses. if your ideas are good, they can stand on their own merits without trying to rally the party faithful (ironic, given the thread title).
Skype was never maintained by a non-profit foundation, and was never open source. Even if companies building on Matrix like New Vector get acquired by whoever, the project itself should live on.
Yeah, I stopped development of one project due to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22246797
it's very sad that taking advantage of protesting to commit domestic terrorism is so accepted by the left. glad we have an administration that will stomp this out.

when i ask myself why i no longer vote dem it's hilarious i ever did in the first place. grow up kiddos.
Is it nobody knows how to make the jump from basic physics to predicting cell behaviour (sorta like quantum/classical), or would predicting the behaviour just require too much compute power?
That's because we haven't published it there. Do people actually use the Mac App Store?
Just curious - how much organizing do you do? Do you host events with any regularity? Do people like to ask a lot of questions about your events or want to share publicly that they're going to them with people? Do people sometimes want to know who is going to your events so that they can choose when not to go because they don't like that person? (And when someone is going so that they can go) Do you have a very active group of people who like to interact with each other in a public forum? Now is that group size beyond 100 people?

You'd be surprised how crap email is for any of that. You'd be surprised how people don't want to have 10 different apps for all the activities and prefer one central source to catch up on everything. Facebook can be very useful.
My favorite is "Linux Libertine O". My desktop browser is set to use it for serif, sans serif, and all page-specified fonts except mono (which is Inconsolata).

Firefox on Android refuses to use the fonts I have designated in about:config, so HN remains depressingly sans.
Reminds me of the time a court ruling made hard drugs legal in Ireland. The legislature fixed the law in a matter of hours.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ireland-just...
If Trump's lowlife tool Ajit Pai wants it, you can assume it's bad for the USA.
It's more like there is a social philosophy that doesn't afford ideas contradicting orthodoxy. Free elections allow extremists to gain popular support because they're all trying to demonstrate they're the "True Scotsman". In slow increments for Turkey's case. Faster for Egypt.
We check many of our passwords into a git repository ... but they are all encrypted with unix pass with the public key of each individual in the team authorised to access. Our services require the gpg agent running to launch, allowing them to read the secrets.
To start with, the shared libraries (DLLs SOs, whatever) should be something MS makes easy for their authors to get inside of an official package distribution channel. For Windows that happens to be the 'Microsoft Store' and they should be free (as in beer).

That would then let MS worry about only the business logic and other glue using that already trustworthy or at least trust-rated code.

That too, if it's free of charge software, should have ways of being published that make it easier to verify something is safe, and if it's questionable, then engage in more of a process.
I didn't know that, thank you for kindly enlightening me! So from the blogpost, the "compiler debug dumps" are the optimized graph data struct, and instead of converting to assembly or byte code, they want to "decompile" or convert back to ruby. Do you think they're doing this to better understand and improve the compiler? Or to write code that is more easily compiled?
Mentality. I have family members in LE and they have plenty of teaching material on how to properly descalate. The FBI has volumes on how to do this and they provide it to all law enforcement agencies.

From the top down they simply dont care to follow. There is no punishment for them being violent against whomever they want.