skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those not familiar with why cobras were mentioned above:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

Long story shortened:

1. British are ruling India
2. Concern about cobras
3. Establish dead cobra bounty
4. Cobra population crashes
5. Entrepreneurs breed cobras
6. Bounty program halted
7. Breeders release stocks
8. More cobras than before

The source story is just an anecdote, but there are plenty of historically verifiable examples of the effect, not necessarily involving cobras, specifically.
That's what any publication that has to pump out content according to schedule to stay profitable turns into.

If insight on demand was achievable, we'd be living in a different world.
Your are describing a nightmare scenario.
That's certainly true, but it does look like in this case. I did the preliminary benchmarking on an 8-thread CPU (the actual HPC cluster has higher counts), and the total execution time on the processing was just under 8x, which I imagine came from the OS-level thread management overhead. I still need to check that pattern holds once thread counts increases, but I'm fairly optimistic it'll work out as long as I don't run into thermal throttling or I/O limits.
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You make it sound as if the author is some middling engineer building smartphones for Apple.

An EE professor at a well-regarded research university deals with the scientific method all the time. Whatever opinion you may have about the article, as far as I can tell the author is certainly not on "the sidelines" and more than qualified to write about the state of science.
I don't think we're there yet, and I think we can still use the ballot box to effect change, but fear of a socialist revolution and mob violence was one of the catalysts behind the new deal.

So if you can't understand how hurting the pocket books of "the elite" can encourage them to compromise, you haven't been paying attention to history.

History says that mob violence is probably more likely to lead to a dictatorship than to another new deal, but you're being willfully ignorant if you don't acknowledge the existence of a potential chain of consequences that starts with "damaging companies' bottom lines" and ends with policy change.
Sweet talk a cellular network engineer into giving you the engineering firmware for your phone and a list of all the cell ID's.
Hmm I wonder if we could find some counter examples...
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"This would be a great opportunity to avoid the classic Unix mistake of using text files"

Don't get it. Where is the mistake? I think it was its biggest strength. In the successor, Plan 9, everything is a file...
I've done it in the UK (three times) by failing to notice my contactless debit card has not been accepted and walking off with the newspaper/sweets etc. (I've gone back later to give them the money, but this is seems surprisingly difficult for a large store's systems to cope with.)
The resource fork idea was OK, but it suffered from a implementation optimized for a floppy disk. Writes were deferred as long as possible, and if anything went wrong, the whole data structure was corrupted.

"Text Edit is not a text editor, and the resource fork is not a database" - early Apple publication. Both could have been. Programs tend to need little databases, for preferences and such, and the resource fork was way ahead of doing everything with a text file. But the implementation was never toughened up to database standards after the Macintosh got a hard drive and more memory. And Text Edit was limited to 32K for a long time.

Meanwhile, Unix struggled along with text files for everything. And lock files for the text files. And daemons to remove dead lock files. And a lack of file locking. And a lack of interprocess communication. Eventually the Unix/Linux world got that all fixed, but way too late.
If I were them, i'd have it firetested by giving free public access via yandex.cloud or something. Thereby leveraging obsessive-compulsive nerdness for shiny new strange things.
I can feel your pain, feeling of not getting what you deserve is a tough feeling to keep inside.

By identifying ourselves as being smart we are getting into the trap of being hostages of this label. Lot of scenarios in our life require us to make mistakes. Mistake is something a smart person cannot afford and deliberately avoids.

We are awarding ourselves with an achievement award of being smart without actually doing the work (doesn't it feel great to be smart?). Being smart is a capacity to think logically, not something we achieved in life. It is given, but to feel fulfilled we need to do something with it.

By declaring myself smart I set the scale of measurement for myself, and then I suffer when somebody smarter than me is around. Understanding that even my intellect is not something that defines me is a crucial piece of this puzzle. Intellect is one of the MANY tools available to each one of us. Exploring those tools requires some .... testing and learning, and intellect is a very lousy helper here.

And if you really want to focus on the money in your life - look at the people around you. Money come from the relationship with the people around us not from the ideas, thoughts, reasoning. Knowing you strength and focusing on helping people - producing much better outcome long term than focusing on a great idea.

So as you said - time to kick your own ass! ;)

Hope this was useful.
> Then you can just nix-env -iA your-package.

This is what always gets me stuck. It seems like lots of tutorials assume you're installing packages by hand still. For me, the whole reason I'm using nix is so that I can use the declarative package management.

I get having local dev dependencies on a per-project basis and running a nix shell to make those dependencies available in your development environment.

But it's just confusing to me how many tutorials suggest running nix-env -i to imperatively install a package. Why would I do that instead of taking advantage of the joys of declarative package management?
> Why was Solitaire bundled even with the NT (i.e. enterprise/business) versions of Windows?

I mean, everybody knows you’re supposed to sneak in a game or two in between spreadsheets.
My understanding is that "color of law" merely refers to the state of being where a person is acting in an official capacity. It imparts no legality or illegality of actions per se, but statutes might criminalize or decriminalize activity based on whether or not a person is acting under color of law.

What GP is referring to is a provision in the federal law that specifically criminalizes police activity undertaken under color of law. (Reading the statute, in this scenario, the police officer can be charged up to and including the death penalty).

As far as I'm aware, states' statutes for murder or manslaughter do not protect people acting under color of law.
Exactly. FB is just a platform and should not be a publisher/curator. Otherwise, it must be made responsibly for every post on it's platform.
what i try to do is read the story from two sources that hate each other and try to take an average. Stay away from opinion and "analysis" pieces period.
If you don't use diodes, it seems like you'd need a lot of port expanders. For example, I've used the MCP23017 to get 16 extra pins each.

Rather than lazy, you should assume cheap. Consumer hardware is usually optimized to cut costs.
How is the new Urbit stuff, since you mention it? Is it usable for a casual but interested user?
Look up articles on what happened to downtown Brooklyn and Barclays center. Black communities getting destroyed to "improve" the area. So something like Fulton Street mall goes from being a black community to just another strip mall of cheap/luxury chain stores and luxury apartments that few who lived there previously can afford.

So you can't really have a positive outcome in your community if developers and the city government decide it's time to displace you in the name of progress. How do you stand on your own in this situation?

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/21/nyregion/a-worry-that-tre...

http://www.bkmag.com/2017/04/05/fulton-street-now-most-expen...

http://www.bkmag.com/2017/04/05/fulton-street-now-most-expen...
If the state wants it, I have no problem with it. If the state doesn't want it, though, and Trump says "You're getting them anyway, because you're out of control", well, that's quite different.
Isn't police radio usually scrambled? It is where I am in Norway. It was legal to listen to it before it was scrambled though. Not sure if it's legal to de-scramble it, if it's at all possible. AFAIK you can still listen to the ambulance channel, though, but sometimes the details are ... grisly.
Pandemic ethics: the case for risky research
Looks kind of like Factorio!
> malware outfits bringing in millions of dollars a year

With that kind of money they can pretty much bypass any measure an OS manufacturer could reasonably put in place without completely sacrificing usability.

You should see most security measures as the lock on your door. It doesn't take an expert to crack but still stops most from even attempting it. No security measure is 100% effective but it still raises the bar for a successful attack.

You seem to have a bone to pick with MS's choice so I'm genuinely curious in which direction would you go. And keep in mind you have a billion users and a truck load of baggage to work with.
Minimizing a sum of clipped convex functions
> I’m a fiscal conservative but I don’t think the inflation caused by UBI will be any worse than the inflation caused by massive deficits due to military spending and other misallocations of resources.

It's sincerely good to see a fiscal conservative acknowledge this. That said, I'll take a contrarian position (to my own beliefs) and question whether that military hardware is really so useless.

> I always wonder why the dorks who go around promoting UBI always seem to ignore the earned income credit, which is our best tool to reduce poverty.

UBI is also intended to deal with the emerging reality of routine jobs being lost to automation, and to increase the leverage of workers who would be able to be choosier in the job they take (a good thing), thus putting upward pressure on wages at the lower end of the income scale.

When there is no job, there is no earned income to take the EITC on.
The real overreach is copyright law's hundred year plus monopolies on imaginary property and their lip service to fair use and the public domain.
It's complicated! The article explains it. (And it varies from state to state)
Aren't zuck and his company made of humans? What magic powers do they have to suddenly curate things accurately and deem the destiny of mankind? I have trouble following what you are trying to say. Maybe you are asking for all social media to be shutdown altogether.
Sounds great to me
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Is 2020 over ?
Yes. fbdev is kept alive for compatibility (and fbcon) reasons, but it's a really outdated API and drivers have to jump through hoops to support it. Please use dumb buffers when necessary. See a simple example here: https://github.com/magcius/drmdemo
Ah, my siblings and I were only allowed an hour of screen time a week when we younger. So that wasn't really an issue. I think an hour a week is a bit extreme, but I definitely intend to put strong limits on my children, especially when they're young.
This is an understanding of power without any understanding of force or sovereignty. It should be more clear than ever what power truly is.
That's a big distinction I think. Also looking at who provides cheap and easy summaries vs raw information / deep investigation helps. Right now even if Unicorn riot is likely biased in many ways, I'll take them actually standing in the crowd doing a live stream for days than another source: https://unicornriot.ninja/
Well, HTML is generated by Hiccup, it's a solid veteran library
I closed out the above math with the following: "We can play with different levels of progressivity and generosity, but the idea is the same."

You seem to be making the argument that $18,000 is not enough, and that we actually need a UBI of $29,000, or in our fictional US-demographics-proportionally-scaled-down-to-10 person nation, $290,000 total.

Okay sure, it would involve higher taxes for sure, but here's what that might look like:

Unemployed #1-5: 0

Lowest: $10,000

Second: $27,000

Third: $37,000

Fourth: $44,000

Highest: $172,000

Total revenue: $290,000

Unemployed #1-5: $0 - $0 + 29,000 == $29,000

Lowest: $13,775 - $10,000 + $29,000 == $32,775 (effective tax -137%)

Second: $37,923 - $27,000 + $29,000 == $39,923 (effective tax -5%)

Third: $63,572 - $37,000 + $29,000 == $50,572 (effective tax 12.5%)

Fourth: $101,570 - $44,000 + $29,000 == $86,570 (effective tax 15%)

Highest: $233,895 - $172,000 + $29,000 == $90,895 (effective tax 61%)

Now, a top marginal tax rate of 61% is the kind that you see in Sweden, Finland, Japan, Quebec Canada, or Denmark. But on the other hand, keep in mind that under these conditions, you are now able to completely swap out many of the Federal government's existing programs, per your constraint. Also keep in mind that I've completely ignored the payroll tax, which brings in 35% of the Federal government's revenue.

The fundamental point is that you can play with different levels of progressivity and generosity and be able to fund a UBI at varying levels. It's very similar to how we go about funding universal welfare states in general, where the government directly provides goods & services that need to be paid for by taxation anyway.
Yeah just read in another answer of yours that for your scripts probably regexp performance dominates the results as there's not much procedural code to make a difference.
Although I think a lot of police radios don't use encryption I think the majority are using trunked/digital radios which your garden variety scanner isn't going to be able to decode.
Yes -- in my lifetime. Amazing to think about. (I was born in '62). And here I am--in 2020 and I'm married to a same-sex partner. This was shocking when I was growing up. In the North where I was you'd see interracial couples but it was very, very rare.

I remember seeing a movie when I was 10 or so called Future Shock (in 1972) that had a scene with a same-sex wedding and the audience gasped! (It was the second feature at the Uniondale Mini Cinema.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkUwXenBokU
Facebook's Zuckerberg accused of setting dangerous precedent over Trump
If you are on highway patrol, you regularly need to help move stopped cars to get the highway moving again.
I remember the family drama and strife (real or fake, who knows, but the topic was chosen for the audience regardless) around interracial marriages being a common feature of daytime talk shows at least as late as the mid- or maybe late-90s.
It's my first time trying something like this, but I played around in the console and if you copy/paste this into it the issue is fixed

document.getElementsByClassName('ans')[0].attributeStyleMap.set('word-break', 'normal')
I see that as the basic problem in this discussion.

Proponents of UBI say "everyone will receive $X per month". When people ask "how will this be paid for?", the answer is always "changes to tax schedules, savings on social programs", but this tells us nothing without details.
You can assert copying isn't stealing, but the part where "I have something I didn't have a minute ago, and would normally have to pay money to acquire it, but didn't" is pretty clear-cut. The author is being deprived of the revenue in exchange for their service (creating the entertainment), same as if someone snuck into a show.

And it's not like you don't know that. This juvenile nonsense where "copying isn't theft" is the laziest form of post-hoc rationalization imaginable. Not a single one of you would start from first principles with, "it's okay to deprive people of payment for their services as long as the final product of their services is an artifact that they, too, retain a copy of."
Depends on how 'casual', it's definitely usable and works - but there's still some effort required to figure things out.

I've found the docs are generally pretty good and the community is helpful so if you're interested in playing with it it's worth it.
I was thinking the same thing. I actually own the original OLPC, and unfortunately, that thing is a pile of garbage. The entire UI and all apps are programmed in Python, which while good for getting children into programming I guess, is bad for actual use. The system is so unimaginably slow that doing really anything at all is unusable. Like every other adult who bought one, I installed Debian on it and a lightweight tiling window manager.
With root access I suppose you could have created a restricted account yourself!
> Well said, but about whom.

The answer is clear...unless you think racism is a hoax and civil rights leaders are mainly in their line of work for the money.
This is a bad post for HN. Wikipedia links are good when a topic hasn't had much or any discussion, and then only if there isn't a good alternative article available. But since race relations in the US are the most-discussed topic of the moment (perhaps in the world? and certainly here), this is the worst-possible use of Wikipedia on HN.

For some reason, this issue about Wikipedia submissions has been coming up a lot lately: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Moreover, you editorialized the title to make it more inflammatory. That's exactly the opposite of what the site guidelines ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
I get that they're trying to address the current issues this nation is facing. But if the issue is related to police officers not facing punishment for their crimes, wouldn't revising qualified immunity[0] be a pretty good solution? It seems to be clear that qualified immunity has been taken advantage of and is potentially the main reason why officers are able to get away with the crimes they commit. This might get burried in the comments, and maybe I'm wrong, but what are others' thoughts on this?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity
Does anyone have a guide/instructions for self-hosting a Matrix server? I'm not sure which server to run, I heard Synapse is a bit heavy and there's a lighter Rust alternative? Which one should I use?

Is it okay to run it at home, or will I lose messages on downtime? I assume other hosts will retry when my connection is back up?
complicit does not mean what sgt think it means.

The title should be edited to be accurate.
Over a decade ago, I read there was research on slippery foams that could be sprayed on a crowd or individual. There could still be injuries from falling, etc. But the sprayed would then find it difficult to hold anything or get back up.

Not saying this is the way to go, just wanted to point out an interesting tidbit.

I found this with a web search just now: https://www.military.com/defensetech/2003/04/15/slippery-sol...
So it's ok if the police use violence against protestors because there were a few looters?
kdb/q, or many other mature data platforms.

250M records isn't big for a lot of data platforms. I've seen plenty of solutions in traditional RDBMSs that would easily scale an order of magnitude larger than this, if not several.

Moving into anything analytically focused, like an OLAP engine, or just a columnstore in an RDBMS easily gives you another order of magnitude or few.
Hi! One of the authors here.

We thought this paper might be of interest to people in data analysis or machine learning for fitting problems which have many outliers in data (in relatively simple ways). We a few examples where most common heuristics fail pretty badly, yet this approach does surprisingly well (see Section 6.1).

We also show an application in autonomous vehicle control for lane-changing and such, which may also be of interest to a slightly different crowd! :)

There is also an open source implementation, for those interested in using this package: https://www.github.com/cvxgrp/sccf
That's fair. Still, "nuh uh" is not an effective rebuttal. Asking for evidence is better than "you're wrong" or "you're a liar". "Here's evidence that you're wrong" is even stronger.
> 2) If not 1) then make it illegal for the unions to exist with regards to any public servant who is armed

As a condition that police behavior is better prosecuted, and a lot is done to change their culture, unions have an important role to play IMO.

Regardless of how I feel about police members in general, they also are in a job where they’ll have a hard time negotiating terms. For instance during shelter in place they are on the streets patrolling and cannot refuse to work in time of crisis, don’t have effective striking rights. Getting fair conditions for the sacrifices requested should be granted, otherwise there’s no way to get reasonable people in these jobs.

Excessive power given to unions is of course bad, but no unions could be equally damaging.
The term was coined by Publius [1] in his blog. It's resentment towards black people due a belief of having *"been significantly deprived of various things because of minorities".

Also, WaPo recently used one question from historical surveys by the ANES (American National Election Studies) to measure what they consider "white resentment", and there seems to be a large correlation between that and other political positions. [2]

(Skip to the "Here’s how we did our research" part and the graph if you're not a fan of WaPo)

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[1] https://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/08/my-on...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/01/1...
> So, the president can call for military action against American citizens, inside the borders of the United States, in direct contravention of US law (the Posse Comitatus Act), and that's okay?

Deciding not to talk about something or not to restrict hosting certain posts is not the same thing as thinking they are ok.
Grand-parent commenter here, and I have no idea why everyone is talking about Voices of Music. It's interesting to compare them with the Akademie für alte Music, whom I find much more alive, much less posh.
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I've gotten this problem _twice_ now from Trendy SV Companies and I've come up short each time. I'm clearly missing something in my explanation. If you give this problem, could you walk through the solution please?

Cheers!