skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Police unions are fairly unique, and heavily supported by the Republican party in recent political history.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-gop-and-police-unions-a-lo...

> When Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker cracked down on collective bargaining rights of public-sector unions, he exempted cops and fire fighters. He feared the police might go on strike and join the protestors. Videos of that pairing could have doomed Walker’s entire effort. “It’s a decision by politicians not to bite off more than they can chew,” explains James Sherk, a labor policy expert with the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Their impunity to civilian oversight should be concerning to both parties. You're not hearing much concern from the Republicans on this right now.
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> You have always had the need to look at the buttons, like reaching out to the radio.

When the controls are in fixed positions, you only need to look at them a few times, before you memorize their positions. It also helps if they're shaped differently, like knobs and dials in addition to buttons.

Using the example of a radio, I used to be able to do just about everything without looking, with the exception of direct tuning (but that's what presets are for), in my older cars with traditional head units. Now that I have a touchscreen head unit, there's almost nothing I can do without looking. Basically, I can control the volume from my steering wheel, and that's about it.
Your comment has nothing to do with what I stated. As I mentioned already, I do have a tactile steering wheel control for volume. But even the experience for a passenger adjusting volume sucks compared to a knob.

And my touch screen, in general, is snappy enough.
It's not so idiotic. Google collects information that people don't want them to collect. That arguably objectionable, even if it's not strictly illegal. It will be interesting to see whether this case gets a sympathetic judge, but I imagine it will end up being dismissed like previous lawsuits of this variety. Nice bit of publicity for the law firm though.
Being a sikh confused for a muslim is bad, but the implicit assumption that being a muslim is somehow worse is also bad.
In the linked tweets, the Lancet's editor-in-chief points out a lie in Trump's letter to the WHO that directly relates to the Lancet.

How can you criticize the editor's behavior here? Would you rather he remain silent while the US president lies about the Lancet?
Isn't a losing bid simply a winning bid of 0 items?
ParcPlace hired a CEO who knew how to solve problems by buying and selling companies. It worked for him once or twice (he previously sold Ashton Tate to Borland).
There are the data privacy laws that mandate users be able to opt of tracking, and it should be pretty clear to a non-psychopathic company that a person using the private mode on their browser is opting out of any tracking.

Google is one of the biggest companies in the world. Do they really need to be wringing their users as hard as they can to milk out every last drop of ad revenue potential?
Taxes are not punishment. Taxes exist because a certain amount of wealth is required to maintain a state.

I understand that the financial/business world has been trying to convince people otherwise since the mid 1970s, but they are still as wrong today as they were then.

Tax “fairness” is therefore simple. He who earns the most should pay the most.

You cannot expatriate dollars. The currency is issued by the state and the state can seize it. Chinese factory? Great, tariff on iPhones at the dock. Baseline tax = difference in currency value between country of origin and country of destination on that day. HQ in Ireland? Super, you owe the US the difference between the tax you paid there and the equivalent rate here. Don’t like it? No security sales in US markets. Sell bonds and stock somewhere else.

These aren’t hard problems.
Found the full lawsuit PDF https://www.insurancejournal.com/app/uploads/2020/06/brown-v...

It looks like this is mainly about the fact that Google Analytics still works even if you are in Incognito mode.
I also didn't care for the coarse characterizations nearby.

I take your point about the distinction between models that reproduce behavior ("simply predictive") vs. models of underlying components, and what you can learn from both.

This comes up in fields I work on with machine learning models vs. physics-based models. E.g., ML models that take a field of wind vectors at time t, and predict the wind at time t+1, vs. physical models that implement the flow equations. You can fit parameters of both flavors of models to match observations, but we certainly have more confidence in the robustness of the physics-based models.

About mathematically-challenged biologists - here's a hypothesis. I'll bet that if you started scanning conference abstracts in your domain for "uncertainty quantification," then some more carefully-posed modeling activities would crop up. (As you suggest, probably in the domains where more quantitative work is done.)
This related video pops to mind
TL;DR buybacks and CEOs bonuses based on share value, create an incentive not to invest in the worker force
https://youtu.be/ylLTMYt24lA
As a part time military officer (extreme authoritarian culture) and a corporate software guy (no interpersonal structures to be heard of) I find that this is a common assumption but it’s actually quite wrong.

First a little background:

The military is a highly confrontational culture, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. In that kind of culture you tell people the disagreement immediately without tripping over pleasantries. It also means people are not easily offended until you try to waste their time or bullshit them with cleverness.

In the military people have to certify to do anything (super bureaucratic) so you generally know who your actual experts are without guessing and without a bunch of lying Dunning-Kruger insanity. It also means people are generally better about knowing their limitations and staying in their lane.

That being said, in the military I have no trouble or reservations about telling a superior they are wrong and why when it comes to an area I am well qualified. Knowing that the superior can immediately reconsider before making the authoritarian decisions of an iron fisted dictator. Superiors are generally better about considering the advise of their experts because the decision maker owns all risks and consequences.

In the corporate world you have to employ tact and really be careful how you deliver the message if the topic is not something already extremely objective. There is a lot of noise in the corporate world and far less interpersonal structure leaving everything open to interpretation. I find when I am at the day job communicating anything comprising more than two steps I go far beyond normal to be precise in my wording just to be clear.

There also exists a common phrase being thrown under the bus or more commonly known as a scapegoat. This does exist in the military but there are many conventions in place to catch those kinds of failures. Once that is identified it is a major reputation destroyer, which results in a huge occupational risk. It seems to more commonly apply in the corporate world when people are pushed into a corner and risks associated with that behavior are minor.

In most of my corporate employers there generally isn’t a central authority that owns any significant business risk or job terminating consequence when things go sideways (except maybe some senior management), which is certainly different from an authoritarian culture. In the corporate world there is plenty of room to blame external factors when things fall apart.
Because if you cannot offer anything of value, someone else will offer that value on your behalf, making you an extraneous cost which anyone in their right mind would want to remove. And then you are but a slave to whomever you are useful to, meaning whoever controls you, and whoever has the power, and who grants you the means to get those basic needs. If someone is giving you bread for free, you can be sure it's because they don't want you to rebell. But then that is also your only value to them, which is a very dangerous proposal,
because it means you're expendable, and that the guy giving you that bread might not want to continue such a fruitless endavour. That is why an economy must rely on the basis of voluntarily offering something of value. Because the alternative is literal enslavement.
he's not retweeting, he's reposting.

this is a different experiment: what if a regular person would be posting content with the same language as Donald Trump?

the answe is, such person would see his twitter account suspended within three days.

what can we extrapolate from this? maybe that twitter is whitelisting Tump from its automatic content moderating bots/filters.
Protests and Covid responses are normalizing mass surveillance
> The hash rate could be 1/1000 of what it is today

> If you cut the hash rate that much the cost would be only $400 or so.

> during an attack which costs 400k per hour

> under your proposal [of reducing the hash rate by a factor of 1000]

Perhaps I should have been more explicit, but it certainly isn't necessary.

> So, $400,000/hr.

Which, if the hash rate was "1/1000 of what it is today", would be reduced to 400$/hr.
Oh so beautiful: https://main-designyoutrust.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/upload...
Why is it idiotic to expect Google to respect a users wish not to be tracked? Half the world has laws that require Google to ask permission. Using private browsing mode is a very clear indication the the user does not want to give them that permission.

It's really not that hard. Google and Facebook just don't want to understand it.
Yes, it feels like the desktop gui framework/language wars that have been raging since the 90s are finally ending.

As a desktop developer working with everything from visual basic, C++ win forms, QT, swing, C#, html and javascript. I could not be happier.

Finally we have a GUI stack where I don’t have to re write everything every 10 years.
Journals have been hype/politically-driven since as long as one can remember. And peer-review quality is a joke.

Preprints are not perfect, but I'd wager that anything free and truly open to review is better than what we have now.
Is the legal to tell your users you are doing something when you are intentionally not doing it?

A Privacy mode that post the links you visit on twitter. ;)
It significantly depends on who you are. Uyghurs and Falung Gong practicioners would probably disagree.
No, iOS devices can also soft-brick, it's just a general term. Most often people encounter the term in relation to hacking/rooting hardware, like a Nintendo DS/Switch for instance. Hitting up Wikipedia or Trends can help you dig through its usage considering how Google's search algo heavily biases current events wrt relevance.
The big chains won't run risky or unprofitable stores. It's the communities that will be hurt by this. Despite interest-free loans and over $100 million in federal funding, Baltimore still hasn't recovered from the 2015 Freddie Gray riots.[1] Moreover: government funding is a rather blunt tool, and directing it at a city tends to cause most of the money to flow to the nicer parts of town. That's what happened in Ferguson.[2]

Riots tend to widen the disparities, not reduce them.

1. https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-c...

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/business/is-rac...
Every website does.
The corruption of science should be aggressively confronted.

If you dig into Surgisphere, you will see they have significant consulting engagements with Johnson and Johnson. Not saying that's necessarily bad, but so much bad science about Covid and HCQ seems geared towards promoting high-priced treatments like Remdesivir, and not low-cost preventative measures like making sure you're not D deficient. All these studies need to be evaluated based on who's funding them or the political agenda behind them.

HCQ seems like it's been targeted for destruction. Every study I've read on it shows you shouldn't use it in late stages of disease. Fair enough, but the theory of its effectiveness (as a Zinc ionophore) hasn't been fully studied, although there is a good amount of anecdotal and country-level evidence it works well if taken early (with Zinc).

These garbage studies are dangerous and should be called out loudly.
I was under the impression that Trump called the rioters thugs and terrorists which is a little different.
Pretty sure iPhone does or did this
I've seen Disney use the stick vacuums at Disney World hotels.
Do you expect Planned Parenthood to promote the GOP, and do you consider them fascist for not doing so?

Supporting one party over another is not an act of fascism. They promote the GOP because the GOP supports their goals. Do you think it's reasonable to expect them to promote the other party while that party actively works against them?

They promote a stronger police presence in schools, but they also support the right of teachers to be armed and able to defend against attackers. In other words, they support teachers being able to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights. Whether you agree with that or not, the 2nd Amendment is a decidedly libertarian idea. Fascism is authoritarian by nature. Promoting one of these is mutually exclusive with promoting the other.

Regarding police in schools, I don't see how that fits with Wikipedia's definition of fascism: a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, as well as strong regimentation of society and of the economy. Perhaps we're operating on different definitions.
Ideas have a marginal cost of zero. Therefore, it doesn't make sense to monetize them on a per-unit basis. In that sense, copies of ideas are not scarce.

A car is not just an object, a car is also an idea. It's a design, the engineering of its parts, the implementation of its constructions, the code needed to make it work, and so on. And yet if we could replicate it for free, achieving a marginal labour cost of zero, then it would not be scarce anymore.
Yep, and the legal market prices must not be pushed too high due to excessive regulation and taxation, lest the black markets (and crime associated with them) continue to flourish
> but how does that translate to reality when 1/3 of their population lives in cities?

Population density correlates with exposure, specially if we consider mass transit systems.

To put things in perspective:

* Stockholm: population 910k, density 4200/km2,

* Madrid: population 6617k, density 5400/km2,

* Milan: population 3140k, density 7550/km2.
What Google is doing is wrong. That's literally what the lawsuit is about.
Understanding Modern Democracy, in Theory
> The fact that the user uses a private window or other means to indicates they don't want to be tracked probably makes this a more clear case.

That’s a very confusing statement. My server logs don’t filter incoming log entries based on user agent, and certainly not on whether you’re using a “private window” or not.

In addition, the goal of a private/incognito session is to be indistinguishable from regular sessions, otherwise websites can easily discriminate against private sessions (which they’re already trying as hard as they could).

Edit: Wow the number of people on this thread claiming websites should be able to opt people out of logging based on whether they’re using a “private window” (which websites should have absolutely no idea about) makes me question if I’m even on Hacker News.

Edit 2: Chrome sends an X-Client-Data header (which in a sense includes an installation ID, but allegedly has limited entropy) to certain Google properties, and rightfully got a lot of flak for it. It does not do so for incognito sessions. And now we have people arguing that Google should de-incognito incognito sessions to their analytics properties. Crazy stuff.
Does it matter if it's planned? If you have a medical condition and you need to get to a hospital it doesn't matter whether you had a week's notice or a days notice because the need to get to a hospital is unplanned.
> Impersonation: You may not impersonate individuals, groups, or organizations in a manner that is intended to or does mislead, confuse, or deceive others.

the person doin this experiment was very clear about not being the real donald trump.
Liftoff and re-entry are completely automated. The astronauts are passengers and don't interact with the craft during these maneuvers. This was the case even for Apollo.

The Crew Dragon seats also have physical arm-rest controls. Those arm-rest controls are what the astronauts use under acceleration, and IIRC they're primarily comms controls.
This kind of thing is why I have a knee jerk negative reaction to all the corporations tweeting their support to the protests and BLM this week. They'll talk about how supportive they are, donate some money, and pat themselves on the back. But in a couple months it'll be forgotten and they'll continue doing stuff like this.
Snap will stop promoting Trump’s account after finding tweets incited violence
Yes, it's generally young people who get kicked out of their parents' homes for being gay or trans. I forgot to add the 'youth' qualifier in my comment - my bad.
Funny thing is that a modern web browser is probably closer to "rocket science" than the software of an actual rocket.
Sure, but as long as a single unencrypted bridge is running, anyone else within range of that bridge can listen, so you won’t really get significant benefits of encryption until the switchover is complete.
It probably does, but you always have issues where the task that feeds the watchdog works fine, but another does not (eg: GPU gets in an odd state).

In single core systems its somewhat solvable, but in multicore and if you want to include multiple chips in the crash domain it gets very hard with off the shelf chips.
Has anyone else deactivated Twitter of late?
Right, but we also know that because Twitter says that. They are clear that world leaders are held to a different standard then the general public because Twitter's view is it is in the public's interest. You can disagree with this, but it is not a secret.
Well if healthcare professionals are trained to interpret study, and separate the wrong from the useful stuff I guess it won't be so hard for The Lancet to hire some of them to review papers... I tend to believe Didier Raoult when he says in his last interview that anybody who works in medecine could easily tell this paper smelled really fishy, and I am sure it would be less costly for The Lancet than the reputation loss they are going to suffer.
Apple also doesn't understand it as well as every browser and website in existence. This lawsuit is stupid.
I disagree, Huawei has a track record of IP theft, fraud, and sanctions violations. The time has come to reign them in.

I know many great chinese engineers and all of them in the tech industry are enraged with how huawei treats IP. They made it very clear to me that they think the U.S is being to lenient with them, and as a proxy of the chinese government, it is time to take them down.
But earnings was only $34 billion. A ~15% hit to earnings would probably not fare very well on the market, even if it is only one-time.
Actually I think it nicely highlights the contradictions inherent in Google's monopolistic position. The user clearly expressed an intent to browse "privately" in one Google product - Chrome. The fact that this doesn't then completely block Google Analytics or forward the preference for privacy to other Google properties is a choice that conveniently aligns with Google's ad business but ignores the intent of what the user is trying to do.
> You called them savages.

Yeah, I did. Please connect the dots from that comment in that specific context to where actual hate comes into play, and more importantly, where that supposed hate translates into a pathway to discrimination, violence, or other ramification of real hate speech.

I'm not trying to be innocent. I make mistakes all the time. If I do an edit, I append and keep the original content intact (save for typos) because I try my damndest to own my words.

My accusations against you are my guesses about you. You are very comfortable in judging me, so I'm not sure why you feel so hurt when I share my tentative assessment of you.

One more datapoint: that within the private group that the original comments were made, the feedback I got on this issue was aligned with my perspective. Something tells me that in your social circle it would never happen.
Strong opinions held loosely.

For a lot of us fonts were a key selling point of early computing and there's a story about Steve Jobs taking in design courses in fonts as an inspiration for the design of the Mac operating system.

The whole concept of fonts on the machine is another example of the message in the new medium essentially encapsulating the old.

Fonts are an important tradition going back to the printing press and we are rightfully protective of them.
As someone that works in Auto on buttons and works with the head unit team, you are incorrect.

The benchmarking shows nearly every company is moving to screens. Sure you might have a few models that remove the screen, but these are cheap cars with limited features.

You literally can't have a button for every car feature.

And if your car doesn't have all the features, you won't sell well.

And if you disagree with all of this, you probably aren't the type of person to drop 40k-50k on a new car. You'd be happy with a 2014 car for 10k.
Ask HN: What % of the new $2 YouTube Applause goes to the creator?
Just saw the button in the wild. It mentions the creator earns 'a share' of the money.

That seems off unless the share is the majority.

Can't find the stated percentage anywhere.

Wrote up a little article about it. https://medium.com/@joshdance/youtube-added-an-applause-button-and-i-kind-of-hate-it-8566b58290f1

Anyone know the breakdown?
> lest the black markets (and crime associated with them) continue to flourish

Black markets of tax evaders are vastly superior to those avoiding criminal penalties up to life in jail.
Picking the right SaaS pricing model: Freemium vs. Trial vs. Paid
It's not impossible, anyone and everyone can become rich, it's just that we don't have a common definition of rich.
I disagree that it "has nothing to do with what [you] stated", as the user experience also influences demand, and I still think Tesla got it right with the touch screen available for passengers to change the volume and the tactile steering wheel control. Do you drive a Tesla?
Exactly, that's (very roughly) why it not only is, but must be, that you cannot, in fact, reduce the hash rate significantly without compromising the integrity of the ledger.
I remember John McCain being praised in the 2008 election campaign for speaking to a member of his audience who echoed the oft-repeated "Obama is a Muslim" claim, saying that "No ma'am, he's not, he's a good man". Nothing else.

Baby steps are better than no steps, but still, it does leave a sour taste.
Or use a template engine. Slim for example allows you to write just .card
I have heard stories from friends who when they were interviewed by huawei were asked what IP they can contribute from their old company to them. If this is not indicitive of Huaweis intentions, I do not know what is. They are a threat to everything we hold dear.
Why should I with all the search available?
It also depends on what these screens are really used for.

The Dragon capsule can operate without any input from the astronauts onboard, so it's not completely clear to me whether these screens are usedfor anything beyond showing what is going on.
Then there is also Elon's bonus, which is actually bigger than all of the profit Tesla has ever made during its entire existence.

But remember folks, we love Elon. That's not evil capitalism or greed, it's Elon. He launches rockets! That's the model for model CEOs to follow. We need more Elons!
Using the sum of three floats to index an array?