skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies outsourcing office costs to employees

Young staff having no opportunities to learn from senior colleagues or develop

Those without spare rooms or a home environment conducive to wfh seeing their productivity nosedive

Social isolation

Further normalisation of spending all your time at home staring at a screen
Back during the 2007, when you where in Iraq, I always cmpared US forces to European forces and, yes, European police. I thought, back then, it would be best to leave policing to the police. Mainly due to training, when you are trained for war, I assumed you would be more likely to act that way.

Now, it seems that I misjudged it. What say is basically shedding a very bad light at LE in the US, when even the military, in Iraq of all places, had better ROEs for policing than the actual police.

Maybe it is related to looking like a soldier, acting like a soldier, without being a soldier. No idea, all I can say is that I don't like the situation at all. Let's hope nobody is deploying the armed forces.
What if they shoot everyone? Would that be a satisfying conclusion? I've been looking at how the riot police is handling civilians and it's plain to see most are veterans that still think they're in Iraq. From the 'light them up' when people are watching from their house to how they murdered that guy in the hotel two years ago because he couldn't crawl towards them with his hands behind his back. Something is very wrong with American policemen
> When I was active I could easily tell the difference between someone potentially violent and someone peaceful. Woman with a stroller - probably peaceful. Person in all black with a large backpack - potentially violent.

Wait for it...

> The simple solution to this problem is for the police to target the troublemakers and to let the peaceful protestors be.

You are suggesting that the police should profile individuals based on their appearance?
Just don't buy "Windows certified" laptops...

Upd: why downvotes? My Librem 15 and Lenovo T400 both work flawlessly for many years. They are designed for GNU/Linux.
BetterTouchTool is amazing. Here's how I've got my touch bar set up (from left to right):

- a dock for quick task switching (as well as seeing what apps are running that I can shutdown when I'm on battery)
- a music/spotify widget that can play/pause, go back/forward and that shows me the track and artist as well as the album arg.
- a date/time widget that I've customized so it shows me the week number too. This one has been surprisingly useful, as I'll regularly walk over to my macbook and tap on the touchbar to see the time or date.
- a battery percentage and time remaining widget
- a mute/unmute widget

But what I perhaps like best is the swipe gestures. If I swipe anywhere along the bar with two fingers, it adjusts the volume, and with three fingers I can change the brightness.

I don't currently make much use of app-specific touch bars, and there are a ton of other features I might use eventually. But even just with this I've come to really like the touch bar, where before I much preferred the function keys.

Can't do without an escape key though, but thankfully they put that one back :).
What group, other than anarchists, uses that symbol in 2020?

It probably was sprayed by teenagers, but by spraying it, they're indicating their political affiliation.
His stated goal is to create to start mass producing Starships, he personally wants 1,000 of them with relaunch time of 1 hour for each vehicle, I believe allowing 2-3 launches per vehicle per day.
Just got my new MBP 16 inch yesterday, a replacement for my 2015 MBP 15 inch.

It's been pretty smooth sailing thus far, no big disappointments. My main reason for replacing the 2015 was to get more CPU power and memory, but the 2015 was actually doing ok, not insanely slow yet.

In terms of power I can now have all my tabs open, including heavy ones like Facebook, while running several different IDEs, and changing between things takes no time at all. Compiling is measurably faster.

The migration tool seems to work, it moved everything including stuff you might forget like your ssh config file. Even the bash history is there, and all the apps are in the dock in the order they were in on the old machine. Homebrew seemed to need a bundle command, but that fixed itself easily.

Touch bar is weird. I've basically set it to display F keys, because I can't figure out how to get iTerm2's hotkey to replace the Siri icon. If I could do that, I might not mind, but I go to terminal so often I need it to be a single key. So for now, Touch Bar is a small minus for me. The ESC key is still there so that's fine.

The screen is nicer than the 2015 one, marginally. Something about the colors and the size, I guess the bezel is now pretty much where it can be aesthetically. I wouldn't want it closer to the edge.

The keyboard is good. I tried my wife's butterfly type keyboard and thought it was terrible, luckily she likes it. This keyboard has slightly less travel than the old one, but somehow it feels like I can type faster without it feeling weird.

Main thing is there's been no terrible surprises in moving the stuff over to a new machine. Back in the day when I was a kid it would take a whole day to install software, you would always forget to move something, and there would always be some unexpected hitch.

I haven't run into Catalina slowness issues that people have mentioned, only things like the removal of kexts, which wasn't huge for me.
In the same way as being a National and Socialists is the same as being a Nazi, killing millions of Jews?

Some times things become a thing of their own. Then differentiating makes sense.

Being anti-fascist is a good thing. Being an anti-democratic organisation which violently attacks civilians for having made the “wrong” vote in a democratic election is not.

ANTIFA has nothing to do with anti-fascism. Differentiation is not only useful, it’s absolutely required.
VSCode and Visual Studio have first class support for Python.

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/features/python/

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/python-tutorial

Both include quite capable debuggers, and AI powered code completion, intelicode.

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The mass media could use some de-escalation skills, too. Of course, their specialty is escalation, not de-escalation.
Material conditions is key. If you grow up in a neighborhood with high crime rates, the likelihood of you being exposed to crime and taking part of it simply rises. It's very unfortunate, and acts as a vicious circle keeping many minority communities pushed down. It's ironic that the protests and riots going on are just doing more harm to minorities than ever before, by damaging downtown businesses.
There is finally a decent assay for serology so maybe you can get tested soon. It's not one of the "fast" assay kits (those suck) it is a proper laboratory assay (an "ELISA") that requires trained staff or at least an expensive machine to run.
I don't understand your point, really.

George Floyd wasn't shot, but many others were, and the questions regarding excessive use of force and discrimination towards racial minorities persists.

The killing of George Floyd doesn't make it any less relevant, nor any less topical.
> It's interesting to me that my natural book-sorting intuition was O(n^2) selection sort, but then it wasn't a very big leap for me to tweak it a bit and discover a form of O(n)(ish) radix sort.

The concepts don't directly apply to sorting physical books on a shelf. For example, insertion sort works well (pick up any book, then put it in the correct place). It is O(n^2) as implemented as a standard sorting algorithm, shuffling numbers around in an inflexible array. But bookshelves are nothing like that. On the shelf, you just shove everything to the left (or right) in a single operation, opening the gap you need. This is not O(n^2). The bookshelf is more like a doubly linked list than like an array.
>Everyone in Hong Kong had a British passport as good as any British passport.

Where did you get that idea?
I've extracted the end quote here.

It seems the study puts forward the idea that police in general are more likely to shoot minorities.

"FRIDELL: The defenders of police, of course, will cherry-pick the studies that show no bias. And the other side will cherry-pick the ones that do. But we don't have any definitive studies on this.

KASTE: She thinks people should be more open to the idea that bias and demographics can both play a role. And that's something that the authors of the paper and their critics both seem to agree on.

The real question here is not whether race is a factor in police shootings, but when? Is it beforehand in all the things that might lead up to a shooting, such as drug laws or racial profiling? Or does it come down to the skin color of the individual cop holding the gun?"
We have a broad problem with excessive police violence and brutality in the USA. Minorities are disproportionately targeted but anyone can be a victim. There are numerous cases of people of all ethnicities being killed even if they're not under suspicion of any crime, such as via a paramilitary drug raid on the wrong house. These sorts of events are so common you can usually search and find one or two in the past month at any given time.

We have (recent extraordinary events aside) far lower crime rates today than we did back in the 70s and 80s, but we seem to have just as much if not more police violence and police militarization. It's become a kind of macho cargo cult or maybe a bit of security theater that politicians can trumpet. Whatever it is, it needs to be challenged. Police do need the ability to use force when needed, but that should be rare. They are public safety servants not soldiers in a war.

I don't see the Floyd killing as just a race issue, though it undoubtedly is that since blacks are disproportionately targeted. After watching that video I personally (as a white male) feel at least a bit more nervous about police. What happens if you catch a cop on a bad day, or one with psychological problems, or one who has some reason to dislike you? Am I going to get beat up or worse? Who would I call for help, the police?

This is not something that should concern me at all in a civilized country. Is this a civilized country?
Get BetterTouchTool is totally worth it if you want to customise the touchbar. Also a decent window placement tool, shortcut manager and a bunch of other things.
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Metric vs. Imperial Units: How NASA Lost a 327M Dollar Mission to Mars
FWIW, English is my second language, and my first language has grammatical genders that don't have anything to do with real genders. We were also taught that "he" is the default pronoun in English.

I guess some of that bleeds through: that I use "he" without reflecting on it because it wouldn't carry an implication of actual gender in my first language. I am definitely not assuming that politics is a men's only club.
> What if they shoot everyone? Would that be a satisfying conclusion?

Obviously not, and it's weird that you'd go there of all places.
The question should not be whether white cops shoot more minorities. It should be whether minorities are killed disproportionately by police in situations where lethal force is not justified, after controlling for race of suspects generally in police encounters.

Eric Garner wasn't shot, and George Floyd wasn't shot either. So clearly, a study of shootings alone cannot capture the full picture.

It would also be interesting to consider the statistics of disciplinary action taken against black officers who kill innocent people, versus white officers who kill innocent people.
According to the German, and French, police, illegal arms are the problem. Not the legal ones. And for the illegal ones, permits aren't important.
In addition to what sdkjfhskjfh says, Antifa is not exclusively (or even primarily) anarchists. I've met quite a number of people who participate in Antifa counter-protests who are not anarchists at all.
Well that's also true on a world scale. Oil & gas are both our best friends and worst enemies.

(On this topic I recommend VlogBrother's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibg1-0gfwjI)
Flu and common colds are known to cause anosmia. I guess the scale of it is different when its something novel.
US jails are in the same spirit, punish not rehabilitate /work with them. This is ingrained in the laws and public opinion that cops have a hard job ((they do) and we must give them all the leeway needed to do their job. Time to change the laws a bit so they are held responsible a lot more for pushing the envelope.
It doesn't seem to have happened. Gwern has done some extensive research: https://www.gwern.net/Tanks
Ironic read from Wired. Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? https://www.wired.com/story/why-dont-we-just-ban-targeted-ad...
I don't think is baiting, don't think NWA were baiting ~30 years ago with "black police showing out for the white cop", just wanted to add that you have brought in a very interesting point, that is the social class discrimination which has been largely forgotten in all this discussion.

I've mentioned that point of view in here before, that is that imho the black population in the US has been left behind by the majority "educated"/liberal white class after the first "successes" of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. The next step in that battle should have been to address the social and economic imbalances affecting the black population, but then the depressing 1970s came and then the flamboyant 1980s, and suddenly the majority white population had other worries and interests.

One could say that the No Kid Left Behind was a step in addressing that social imbalance issue, but as far as I understood it was disastrously implemented. Plus not that many people mention the fact that the War on Drugs has been mostly a war on US minorities (mostly the black population, with some Latinos also involved), which, again, as far as I know, has had bi-partisan support for at least the last 20 to 30 years.
PDF of the paper: https://5315b3c7-4fd2-421c-be7a-cbaa4348a7c2.filesusr.com/ug...

A more casual explanation, by the primary author: https://www.cesariolab.com/race-bias-in-shooting
> stupid non-uninstallable games icons in start menu

You can remove them now. At least I was able to in the Windows 10 v.2004 update. Why Candy Crush is included with Windows 10 Pro however is beyond me.
It's fair to consider confounding variables when discussing a statistical analysis.
Yes.
Memory-intensive operations like decompression and sorting will benefit greatly from running on a high memory bandwdith infrastructure.

I think the comparison will be clearer when I put these two side-by-side:

* NVIDIA Tesla V100. Maximum memory bandwidth: 900GB/s to the HBM2 memory

* Intel Xeon Platinum 8180. Maximum memory bandwidth: 119.21 GiB/s to DDR4-2666 at hexa-channel.
> In almost every large-scale protest that has left and extreme left wing elements, looting, fires, and violence is a foregone conclusion. It’s historical record.

Well, because one is made by enemies, vs friends of the power? One expects retaliations, and prepares to counterattack, and another don't because they don't even know why they should?

Every time when the revolution happens, and the power is toppled, its topped by a greater power, which means one with bigger guns, and heavier fists.
Operation Warp Speed selects billionaire scientist’s Covid-19 vaccine for tests
Esprit Board for Exploring ClojureScript on ESP32 Processors
I'm in the process of doing so. We had some issues with it initially but it seemed that it got better since a couple of updates ago. I vastly prefer it to having to ship mdnsresponder alongside my application though.

I'm basing my "deprecated" comment on this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/Windows.Networking....

However that looks to be different from the windns.h stuff. To be honest, I wasn't aware of windns.h and just assumed it was the above link you were talking about. It's probably worth taking a look at :)
Killing coronavirus with handheld ultraviolet light device may be feasible
Did you even read your own link? Not only does it mention that it's a specific movement that is "militant, predominantly left-wing", it outright states that

>Individuals involved in the movement tend to hold anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist views and subscribe to a range of left-wing ideologies such as anarchism, communism, Marxism, social democracy and socialism
Name of Notes – A B C D E F G and DO RE MI FA SOL LA SI
This is something that really concerns me, because it's such an incredibly effective way to undermine any sort of demonstration. Are there any effective countermeasures to agent provocateurs that anyone knows of?
I do wonder why they don't put more effort into the camera on the MBP. Of course it's not going to get used as a camera like a phone but with the economies of scale they have with the cameras going into iPhones you would think they could at least be on par with their own phone cameras from years ago.
Racism should demand citation and proofs.

Inequality is a given, and require leadership.
Windows (the technology) is okay. Not good, but okay. Windows (the experience) degrades every day. Everything is slow even though the specs are good. Granted, corporate “additions” like O365 ATP don’t help and aren’t part of the core system. But many users have to bear with them nonetheless.

And have you looked through the diagnostic data Windows sends? That cannot be turned off without hacks? They get live notifications when you add or remove hardware, software, when an application has crashed (even when error reporting is off), …. The data contains unique identifiers for your system and user. I don’t even want to know what’s sent when you select full diagnostics.

Windows is a privacy and performance nightmare. It’s good for two things only: corporate environments (manageability) and games.

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Well, sorry about that. Just had to get this off my chest.
The final sentence summarizes the flaw of any conclusions over racism that one may come to from this study:

> The real question here is not whether race is a factor in police shootings, but when? Is it beforehand in all the things that might lead up to a shooting, such as drug laws or racial profiling? Or does it come down to the skin color of the individual cop holding the gun?

But it also misses another question, which is whether or not the chances increase starting from much earlier in time. Is it a buildup of all things leading up to when a shooting may occur? Is it the environment of the child’s upbringing? All the negative externalities in one’s life can add up to bring someone to a point of criminality. But the real question is could that have been avoided at any time leading up to it happening? Because certain races in America have a lot of prejudice that lead to a lot of externalities on any given individual that definitely shape their life course in a way that isn’t natural.
Carnegie Mellon tool automatically turns math into pictures
Not sure why you are being downvoted. Negative placebo effect is real and anosmia (smell blindness) has been making headlines with the 'rona.

To answer the original question: "Postviral olfactory disorders usually occur after an upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) associated with a common cold or influenza. With a prevalence between 11 and 40% they are among the common causes of olfactory disorders."

From here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16733337/?from_term=anosmia+...
Acme – A framework for distributed reinforcement learning
"8-9 hours with all apps closed except Safari. Browsing lightly, with an occasional video, and brightness at the literal minimum. This brightness level is only realistic if it's night time. In a normally lit environment you need to set the brightness level at around 50%."

"When I push the laptop a bit more, with a few Docker containers, Pycharm running, Google Chrome with some Docs opened, and brightness near the maximum, I get around 4 hours."

Honest question for those of you who have Dell XPS 13s, ThinkPad X1 Carbons and so on, what battery life are you getting? Dell for example advertises 12 hours. Are these figures realistic?

Are MacBooks not the battery champs anymore?
WSL 2 does indeed solve the FS performance problem because you’d use the Linux VM’s block device, not the host fs (NTFS).
It is basically a way of allowing them to work indefinitely until they are good enough for Citizenship. Whatever Good enough might means, I would guess that would be some sort of professional requirement.

As long as they dont have Citizenship, they wont have any benefits such as medical, retirement and other benefits etc.

If I am going to guess they want people to fill them gap of some low cost labour that wont be available post Brexit.
My favorite quote: "My advice is to not look for the perfect data structure which kills all birds with one stone, because this is called a Lisp and few people use it."
I’m also native (NRW), never heard of Zettelkasten before here, we just say Karteikarten (not even -kasten). Same for a Bavarian friend of mine. Where are you from?
Because the experience is terrible for the uninitiated. And this is coming from someone who ran Arch as their primary OS since I was 10. Laptop Linux on the whole is not a fun experience for those who just want a machine to work (which was what MacBooks were supposed to be about).

I just bought a Surface Laptop 3, and the machine is great. The hardware is nice, Windows on a laptop has improved tenfold since I've last used it. WSL2 means Linux isn't left out.

It's one machine/OS combo that does everything for me, including light gaming, whereas Linux and macOS both have significant compromises when using them.
You can set windows not to update in core hours and even then you can decline the update.

I have never had a bricked OS from an windows update

You know you can unpin stuff from the start menu to get rid of clutter.
But they literally are police--that's the difference between these two arguments. Police can be held to account through voting and policy shifts, individuals cannot without community enforcement.
PLDI 2020
> I've never seen anyone make the argument that looting is helping the cause. What I have seen is arguments that acknowledge the 'badness' of the looting, and point out that the same arguments are not being applied to the police.

There definitely are people making such arguments. The assertion is that property is the root cause of injustice so presumably destroying it is just. See for example https://twitter.com/ImReadinHere/status/1267402206220869632

What puzzles me is that some people supporting this argument are highly paid software engineers. How do they reconcile this with the fact that it is precisely the concept of private property (and yes, violent enforcement of it) that allows them to sit in front of the computer all day building some cool stuff and not worry that some violent thug will break into their house and take away their laptop?
>Also, all changes to policies to be parameterized and adiabatic.

"No heat, only work". I like that proposal :-)
My favorite visual debugger for Python and many other languages is CodeRunner, because it's so lightweight. (Mac-only, not free.)

https://coderunnerapp.com/
There is a certain point where few enough people know something that it can’t be called common. Maybe GP is not the exception for not knowing but you are for knowing?