skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You claim (link is paywalled) 10 is the number of unarmed black people killed by the police, which has no bearing whatsoever on how many black people are killed by the police.

From similar stats, about 240 (24% of 1000 total) black people were killed by the police.
Is there a European search engine?
Sounds like you want netcat?
...which is also why it's a bit frustrating to see people saying "Oh, this is from the perspective of gas guzzlers!"...no it isn't. this is a huge win, we're not trying to replace all infrastructure overnight, but it lowers the inconvenience of a marginal EV greatly...174mi in 20 min is damn good, that's 4 of my loooong commutes
Haha sorry my day job is in security so my mind goes directly to abuse.

The transparency is very appreciated. Nice job putting it together, hope you get some actually constructive (vs mine) feedback from hn
I think the closest to otsukaresama might be something like "get some rest", though I admit the original doesn't necessarily imply anything about tiredness and can be used with roughly the same frequency as a greeting.

Another class of untranslatable japanese words that I find interesting are onomatopoeias. The language has a ridiculous number of them! "Pikachu", for example, is a famous example that is a combination of the onomatopoeias for sparkling (pika) and a mouse's squeaking sound (chu).
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good idea, probably the long term goal. We just got the engineering standards figured out, will slowly me towards that idea :)
It's no surprise the French government is involved in this. They love these moonshot projects that aim to create the French X for any X that is a successful service by an American company.

Qwant[1], launched as "The French Google" with a focus on privacy, serves 10 million searches a day (a ridiculously small number). No one has heard of it, no one uses it, and it's another project with a dream of restoring France to its old glory by an old guard convinced that somehow their country is so exceptional that it can just launch any product and that people will switch to it.

The story is more sinister when it comes to cloud platforms. A government project to free its companies from American domination over this sector will typically involve a bidding process in which established and well-connected companies with a history of costly, slow, outdated tech will win the contracts through their political connections with no consideration for their capacity to deliver or innovate. MPs will make sure their buddies get the contracts. The kind of buddies that lead companies that have so little understanding of cloud technologies that they went with OpenStack[2] to build this new world leader in computing.

It's always the same thing. Old, well-connected companies like Bull that have zero ability to innovate and not a clue about the domain will rake in hundreds of millions in taxpayer money and deliver some garbage platform that no one will use except other government-funded moonshot companies. Always behind, always getting paid, never actually doing anything remotely useful.

Source: I am French. I know how this works, I've seen these ridiculous projects get political support and fail miserably due to corruption and ineptitude. This is more of the same.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant
[2] https://gigaom.com/2013/11/18/a-guide-to-the-french-national...
Could police sketch artists use this as a tool?
Signal does a pretty good job at minimizing the metadata it has access to. For example, the app can tell you who of your contacts has Signal installed but the Signal service itself never gets to see your contacts (https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/).
I didn't see any racism defence. I saw wrong think get punished.
It was done for the advancement of mathematics, not something so trifling as an individual's career. Explaining this makes me feel incredibly old.
Professional photographers don't have a significant fraction of their business coming from zoo photos. They do for passport photos. They therefore complained about losing the latter business but not the former.
You know who’s not laying off anyone? The military. Local funding of schools is ridiculous. Education benefits the whole nation. Educational investments shouldn’t be dictated by transient economic conditions.
They were using refurbished part, which contained original partx, which contained the Apple logo.

It's like changing a windshield for a third party one and then getting sued once you try to sell your car because there still the logo on the car.
First that page shows a maximum daily dosage of 400mg/7 (weekly dosage) in adults. What's being used in covid patients is 800mg/day for the first day [1].

Can you point to any studies that shows the safety of hydroxycholorquine in people with respiratory distress or infection?

Can you show any studies that hyrdoxychlorquine is safe when the blood oxygen level drops below certain level often seen in covid patients?

Can I point you to here which shows all the potentially dangerous side effects of hydroxychloroquine?

[1] https://www.pdr.net/drug-summary/Plaquenil-hydroxychloroquin...

Interesting aspect is the following:

> Hydroxychloroquine prolongs the QT interval. Use hydroxychloroquine with caution in patients with conditions that may increase the risk of QT prolongation including congenital long QT syndrome, bradycardia, AV block, heart failure, stress-related cardiomyopathy, myocardial infarction, stroke, hypomagnesemia, hypokalemia, hypocalcemia, or in patients receiving medications known to prolong the QT interval or cause electrolyte imbalances. Females, geriatric patients, patients with sleep deprivation, pheochromocytoma, sickle cell disease, hypothyroidism, hyperparathyroidism, hypothermia, systemic inflammation (e.g., human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, fever, and some autoimmune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and celiac disease) and patients undergoing apheresis procedures (e.g., plasmapheresis [plasma exchange], cytapheresis) may also be at increased risk for QT prolongation.
I'm not seeing it. I've only had 1 of my friends convert to signal in the last week. The rest of them: they've always have been on signal.
set -e makes another pain for command that nonzero isn't mean failed (ex. diff). It changes semantics for whole script.
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Can you point us to some examples of governments beating the private sector in software? I can’t imagine that EU governments can pull together funding greater than Google or Amazon tbh. Besides you then have to convince the private sector to move to your new unproven cloud platform
Build a platform based on open source systems like openstack and k8s?
I have been attempting to locate software for the Illiac IV. I corresponded with as many of the people involved with it I could easily find online and with NASA Ames (which has a history office!).

I've been looking for software such as this:

ASK - assembler for the Illiac IV on the Burroughs B5500 and later B6700

SSK - simulator for the Illiac IV on the Burroughs B5500 and later B6700

CFD - a FORTRAN like language targeted at CFD

Glypnir - ALGOL like language, likely not used at Ames

VECTORAL - vector processing language used at Ames

So far nothing has been found except the manual for CFD.
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In Indian passport offices, we cannot bring the photos instead there is dslr hooked to the computer to take photos when i went to take passport in 2010.
This is like requiring gas pumps at horse stables.

The cool thing about charging stations is they don't require big underground tanks or really any more space than the parking spots. Put them where there's already parking.
Like most general statements about the US, this is only true in parts of it. Plenty of cities in the US, especially the older east coast one's, do not have apartment buildings with parking lots.
This is already a decreasing trend, and drastically at that. Typically, you protest about things getting worse, not better.

Do note that IIRC, this is 10 unarmed black men shot by the police though, since non-shooting deaths aren't properly tracked. So Imperfect data collection could be an issue here.

And on the too many side, I think that 1 is too many, but unfortunately, the nature of the american enforcement landscape (and I don't mean police attitudes here, I mean prevalence of guns) mean that mistakes fundamentally more likely than in most other countries.
Wait, public schools for children are not funded by the government in the US?
> Educational investments shouldn’t be dictated by transient economic conditions.

Could someone not make the same argument about the national defense?

Education is funded largely by local taxes, and local tax revenues are being gutted, so there isn't much that can be done here without nationalizing public education.
Jared Lanier's perspective rings true. It confounds me that social media have created platforms susceptible to the same corruption as governments. Just like Facebook, the Democrats engineer these messages that make people feel good, trusting, meaningful, all while people like Pelosi sit back and lie and cheat and let the wolves in the back door as often as the GOP. Facebook has done the same. Desperate to keep its position and influence, it lies and cheats and lets the wolves in the back door. Same wolves too.
Wow, no responses? I guess it depends what they will use it for. IPads are probably the easiest, could save some money with an older or refurbished model. Or get a cheap Kindle Fire tablet. Both are good enough for email, Facebook, and some basic gaming.
Yeah mlat is tricky but i believe there are open source implementations.

Your second point would be the fun one. Integrate a bunch of sensor data (passive radar, rf, audio, video, thermal) to locate/id sneaky aircraft.
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Just an anecdote, I live close to the town I grew up in, which happens to have a large high-end mall. Over the weekend there have been large peaceful protests (“protest” perhaps isn’t even the right word, more like a show of solidarity) in the town common, a 2-acre square at the center of town.

Police apparently got a tip on Monday night that a separate group was planning on looting the mall. They intercepted a convoy of cars many with out of state plates gathering in the empty parking lot and which fled when they saw the police.

I guess that’s one thing that works in favor of suburban malls being only reachable via car, versus the destruction inflicted upon urban malls in my State.

Apparently there had been public social media posts calling for the looting which got passed along to local police which deployed ahead of time to close the mall and clear out the parking lots.

Op sec is particularly difficult I guess when these groups do not have pre-formed networks and are just sending out public recruitment posts to commit crimes.

Anecdote aside, I think that Signal isn’t going to support the many-to-many broadcast messaging that large groups would need to organize effectively (whether peaceably or otherwise) and a system which allowed mass coordination is that much more likely to be infiltrated (see e.g. Project Veritas’ latest work against Antifa).
> HTML email is useful for reviewing code, but you don't like when code reviews are done over email? Which is it?

I said HTML email is useful because it allows you to send syntax highlighted code to a friend. A chilled out, normal friend. I, err, wouldn't like to try getting Linus or emacs-core devs to review my patch sent as syntax-highlighted HTML.
Would you really want national school funding given how Republicans behave?

Sure, there might not be layoffs, but the system would be perpetually mediocre.
It's pretty likely that most cases of voter fraud are never detected. How would they be? It's pretty certain there almost no undetected cases of people being killed by police, at least in this country.
>Unix is seriously uncool with young people...

Not all of us. I much prefer the Unix way of doing things, it just makes more sense then just trying to become another Windows.
If by pain you mean you have to handle errors, yes, that's what you have to do. It's no different from checking the return code of functions in C.
No, SILLIAC is related to the original tube-based ILLIAC I, which is absolutely nothing like ILLIAC IV other than in name.
> "Could someone not make the same argument about the national defense?"

I took that to be the point they were making.
They are not funded by the national government. They are mostly funded by city and county governments, with some money from state governments.

Basically each city or county is mostly responsible for paying for the education of the children within its boundaries.

EDIT: I am slightly off on the percentages. See the comment below.
Playing devil's advocate:

You could also make the argument in the other direction, so this isn't as cut and dry a case of the prosecution being clearly at fault.

Additionally, this is a legal document, and there could be a strict definition of "torture" or for how one determines "pain or agony equivalent to" that doesn't make intuitive sense, but applies in the legal context (as I understand things as a non-lawyer, it's not that uncommon for words to mean surprising things in legal documents, which is a big part of why lawyers are valuable, they know how to currently interpret words that would mean something very different in conversational English)

Do you have more information on this that would eliminate that ambiguity?
Similar to mine too. Though my 'Desktop' is my Google Drive folder, always sync to cloud. My real desktop though, is temporary place for pile of files of current working project of that day. I clean up this real desktop at the end of the day, put the files into their rightful place or delete it, just some old habit.

I have some kind of 'shelf' too, but your idea about taking element from soon-to-archive project and put it in a shelf is what I overlook. I'll give it a try!
it’s puzzling to me since I don’t understand who is going to replace the teachers. how is this going to work?

also I feel like the priorities are totally wrong. on one side we invest in things that don’t matter or are harmful. on another we screw people that have a meaningful contribution to society
Go to imdb's page for a movie you like, say, this one. Then look at the critic reviews links. Tons of cinephile sites can be discovered this way.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0048198/externalreviews?ref_=m_tt...
Combining this with Deep Fake Videos https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23423372
https://myvoiceyourface.com/video/?id=255d940d00
Low-income districts are particularly troubled because of plunging revenue amid the Covid-19 recession. Districts rely for revenue on local property taxes and state subsidies. Poorer districts, where property tax revenue is low, rely on states for most of their income. With states hit hard by falling income and sales taxes, aid to school districts is dwindling in many places. -- TFA

Property tax revenues will also probably be dropping.
Military spending trend is up for multiple decades.. regardless of who is in oval the office. Obama, or Trump, or Bush. There is no difference for the war machine in the long run, it keeps on working: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...
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as a black person in tech. this is the wrong move. what's 2m to a fund like AH. if this program is to work, they need to invest in the community i.e scholarship funds or dinners etc - have people of color like me interact with VC's on the regular. my disdain for VC's as they're more like vultures these days. most people of color suffer from the lack of opportunity - n the lack of opportunity starts at a grassroots level. I have been privileged enough to be able to afford college get a CS degree, work at tech companies. not be arrested etc. but most people with the color of my skin are not. also scholarship funds need to like a machine gun - not based on some artificial merit metric.
They are, by state and local governments.
Engines had to be totally rebuilt after each flight. SRBs cost around $70M each IIRC. The tank was extremely expensive because it had to be as light as possible, while keeping Hydrogen super chilled without leaking. They came out with lighter tanks later in program made out of more exotic materials.
Wistfulness is a general feeling of sadness and yearning towards something not present, whether or not you've experienced it before. "He was wistful about the life that could have been his if only he'd said 'yes' when he'd had the chance."

Nostalgia is a distinct feeling of want for something in your past, often from your childhood. "His nostalgia for the video games of his youth coloured his perception of how bad they really were."

Since you brought it up, and now that I've thought about it for a while, "wistful" seems like it might be a better fit for "saudade", but I'm sure that that word has all sorts of meanings that wistful doesn't have.
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Are you an American (I am a New Zealander) but my understanding is that the military is the responsibility of the federal government and the federal government is not laying off workers. Meanwhile teachers are funded and employed by state and local government.

It is apples to oranges. The argument should be who should employ and fund teachers and if the States are willing to give up some control and taxation to the feds in exchange for ???
its always been done this way.
PowerShell supports breakpoint.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...
They are funded at the state/city level, mainly by property taxes. This is why there is such a drastic difference in quality of education from school to school, and why local school rankings are a big factor in determining housing prices across the country.
I do appreciate being framework agnostic. I think more common components like this would benefit from being built that way.
Yeah I was also a bit torn because of that.

FWIW, "situational comedy" is not something that a english speaking person would normally say (or even necessarily understand without context), and likewise the literal Portuguese translation ("comédia situacional") is extremely unlikely to evoke a mental image of "Friends" the way that "sitcom" does in English. If I had to attempt to explain what "sitcom" means to a brazilian person, I might instead say something like "série de comédia americana", which translates literally to "american comedy series".

In Japanese, there's the word "pasocon" (portmanteau of personal computer). Obviously here in the west, nobody would use that combination of words that way.

So I think which portmanteaus exist in a language is a function of the originating culture, which is an interesting phenomenon on its own.
because tech culture permits you to blame Google and their support team instead of knowing basic domain operation practices
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Glad to see I am not the only one. You should check out a spanish movie called "El Sur".
Ever since you called my content "legacy", I've been leary of your platform.
The article says class sizes will double. But since classes will be through Zoom, teachers can just mute students who misbehave!
They are funded by real estate taxes (high housing prices help fill local budgets) and income taxes.
A large part of the value of a journal like the Lancet is that when stuff like this does happen, people notice and corrections get made.
> it’s puzzling to me since I don’t understand who is going to replace the teachers.

Another remaining teacher. Class sizes will increase.
Part of being a good human is to uplift neglected or underserved or just people in general. Tech has solved so many problems and economic inequity is one of them
I'm using unarmed as somewhat of a proxy for "potentially unjustified", but the BLM movement also uses it frequently.

Of course some of the armed ones are unjustified (for example, the tragic and imo unjustified Philando Castile shooting counts as armed) and some of the unarmed ones are likely justified.

"yet again, another unarmed black man was killed by the police" is the typical refrain and the narrative the protestors are screaming and tweeting.
I suspect one of the most common German words without translation is "Ansatz" as used in math. I find these specialised/technical wordsand their usage in very specific field quite interesting.
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In some ways I view this as an opportunity for society. I would be happy to have a return to decentralized schooling or alternate models with more choice, rather than a one size fits all model that is increasingly being co-opted by political actors to propagandize children with certain views or values.
New Zealand has no new Covid-19 cases for 14 days in a row
Honest question for those in the know: If I wanted to run my own personal “analysis” to verify the security of Signal, where would I start? Is it even possible? Just curious if there was a way to “know” rather than “trust”.
It works with line drawings..
https://myvoiceyourface.com/video/?id=355fb6de15
That assumes that your “posse” will jump in to help you. Not a great assumption to rely on.
"On average, 8% of revenues are federal, 47% from the state, and 45% locally sourced"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_funding_in_the_U...
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so we’re gonna have 2 failures. doubling the class size and remote “learning”. what a mess
Title: about teachers. Anecdotes: about teachers.

Buried in the article:
Susanna Loeb, a professor of education at Brown University, said she believes most of the 469,000 laid off in April were non-teacher personnel, as districts tend to fire teachers last

If schools aren't open, a lot of janitorial, cafeteria worker, etc... are probably being laid off.
Retracted: Hydroxychloroquine study pulled over suspect data
Yeah, I've reported this scam around a half dozen times today. I assume they built up reputation then changed the channel name and deleted everything but the scam video.
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This is mostly correct although some schools do receive federal funding.
Scala has a really steep learning curve when you encounter user libraries. Though I am moderately experienced in functional programming, I still have difficulties understanding scala libraries from very experienced users. It almost feels as if I didn't understand the language at all.

It is true that you can use the JVM ecosystem, but you'll see that your code doesn't look like scala at all. Then you look for scala ported version of java libraries (some essential but boring libraries like xls read/write) that isn't likely to be maintained actively
>Education is funded largely by local taxes, and local tax revenues are being gutted, so there isn't much that can be done here without nationalizing public education.

This should be the case. Having each state decide it's education is in the long term more dangerous than having each state have it's own army.

Imagine if half the country had textbooks that made the Confederates out to be misguided but well meaning... oh wait.
It's odd to me that there is this bizarre certainty on hacker news that within 20 years the most common occupation, truck driving, will be nearly entirely obsolete, yet in an era where almost all human knowledge is available online for free, the idea that the education apparatus will either stay the same or continue to grow is somehow a given.
Learn cryptography to a high level then read the source code?