skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two words: Judgment Proof

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

But if it's Section 8, maybe he can find some govt agency to sue?
> The sensor actually has 12 stops of dynamic range but automatic pre-processing knocks it down 2 stops (though there are tools that circumvent that). "Hahahahaha".

This comment suggests you don’t even remotely understand the poisson statistics underlying sensor noise, or else it would be obvious why they “knock off” those two bits. The SNR of the iPhone sensor is fundamentally limited by the size of the capacitors at each photosite.

> You have never seen the actual RAW data

Yes I have, and my mention of “libraw” should have been a clue for you.

> Do you know what a Bayer filter is?

Yes. I also know about X-trans filters, foveon, etc. I’m fairly confident I can out-namedrop you here ;)

> the iPhone 11 has better dynamic range, single shot, than many SLRs.
> the iPhone 11 has a better noise profile than many SLRs.

Give me a specific SLR in the last 4 years where either of these is true. The data is right there on photonstophotos, so go ahead.

You’re going to have a hard time, and if you understood the physics of how a CMOS sensor works you’d know why.
Canadians do not have violent warlords on their streets.

You don't understand what it's like to live in our (mainly South Western) cities, and live with threats of drive-by shootings, vandalism, and getting caught in gunfire. My dad worked driving around downtown LA and surrounds for 20 some odd years and there was more than a few times he was caught in gang-based gunfire. This was in the 80s and 90s mostly, and things have become safer since then, I'll grant that, but it's not perfect.

This is ridiculous. People complain about the police having war weapons. Certainly, it seems nuts, but it's also nuts that our cities -- at any time -- can turn into a warzone.

People act as if the cops are over-armed. This weekend alone there were 21 homicides in Chicago. Altogether, there have been 231 just this year. To put that in perspective, the entire nation of Canada had only 651 in 2018 (https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=351000...). The fact is that Chicago will have more homicides this year than the entire nation of Canada, as will LA, and many other cities. The police seem like soldiers because we have asked them to fight a war, and we're okay with civilians being collateral damage.

Instead of figuring out how to end this war (hint: it's not drugs... if we legalize drugs, they'll just find something else to do, like child prostitution, unless you wanna legalize that too), and admitting what the problem is (most gangs are coming in from Central America and Mexico), we pretend the militarization of police is because some white guys want to play soldier. Give me a break.

Here are the kinds of violence we expect American police to deal with on a regular basis. These kinds of things should not be happening in america, period, and it's high time we figured out how to stop them to protect ourselves and our police:

1. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-07-16/ms-13-co...

2. https://www.11alive.com/article/news/gang-members-sentenced-...

3. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/12/tyshaw...

My goodness, can you imagine potentially having to deal with that and then turn around to give some one a parking ticket? It's no wonder the police go nuts, and only the sadistic / psycopathic end up staying in. It's no wonder you can be 'too smart' for American policing. Anyone with a brain and time to think would go absolutely crazy pondering the dregs of society they are forced to deal with.
Corporate landlords are rational and reasonable negotiators who will readily respond to market signals. Small landlords are a crapshoot; you might get one who just prefers an empty unit over lower rents. You can easily see this from craigslist data right now. Large buildings are lowering rent faster than small buildings and single-family houses.
Idk why you got downvoted. You're absolutely right.
I would say that a CEOs salary should be based on: 1) the level of responsibility (how big is the company), 2) the CEOs performance (is the CEO improving performance).
Pricing is per-location, so the hotel thing could be part of it. Downtown locations will also be more expensive than suburbs etc.

Typically, at all locations, you'll pay a much higher per-unit price for smaller containers.

(I only know about non-prescription stuff.)
It’s June. I don’t know about SF but in NYC most leases expire in June or July.

A lot of companies aren’t ending WFH till 2021 or fall. Plenty of young people are not renewing their lease and staying with their family outside the city or state.

My building had has four tenants move out in the past week - one a family.

They’ll probably be back and rent again but by then rents will have dropped.
Timescales matter; a 2% increase in food prices over a year would be an indication of normal inflation; a 2% increase over a month indicates above-average food price inflation. In either case, the evidence of inflation in one area does not mean there is generally high inflation, it just means one thing is increasing in price.

You can call it cherry-picking, but any presentation of data in this format will be guilty of that, so it's not a particularly damning indictment.

As I said before, I don't agree with the previous version of the other post, but I think you're being a bit broad.
Any idea if we could just simplify this by using a virtualbox VM setup with the right software?

Then it'd be cross platform and just a matter of running an optimized VM that can run on a limited amount of resources.
I'm not sure. But you can try to find a friend who is already donating and give them the money to donate for you.

Or if you trust random internet stranger, you can Venmo/Zelle/PayPal me the money and I'll donate for you. I'm already on their list.
I thought British police mostly don't carry firearms.
But neither would changing Chrome profiles.
Gitlab Critical Security Release: 13.0.4, 12.10.9, 12.9.9
Any guesses on how to interpret the description?

> An authorization issue discovered in the CI jobs token handling allowed read access to public projects with restricted repositories. This issue is now mitigated in the latest release and is waiting for a CVE ID to be assigned.

A GitLab project can have multiple repositories? I don't think so. Is this just s/project/group/?
> Which... can reasonably read as encouragement (or incitement, or glorification) of violence toward people.

Do you not see how I could just as easily use your empty standard to ban tweets saying “A riot is the language of the unheard.” -- a quote I largely agree with? This quote explains rioting as a consequence of oppression. But if I was as easily triggered as you, I'd have it banned since it "can reasonably [be] read as encouragement (or incitement, or glorification) of [rioting]" a definitionally illegal act.

And frankly, your interpretation of the Trump tweet is not reasonable. The most reasonable, common-sense interpretation is one linking severe consequences to severe actions. Does the phrase "When you play with fire, you're going to get burned" glorify burning people?

> Twitter is a part of the marketplace of ideas, is it not?

In the standard notion of a marketplace, you let decentralized end-users gravitate toward things they like and avoid things they don't like. If Trump's speech is so offensive, then let END-USERS decide to block his content or barrage his comments with condemnation or vote him out of office. Instead, you're advocating for a major centralized "authority" to make the decisions about tweets that should and shouldn't be seen, whether or not they're popular with the end-users. Yes, if they disagree that strongly with the censorship, those end-users can leave the platform, but that's analogous to "well, if you don't like it, then you can just leave". If people like something, they're rather fight to keep it good than let other people "ruin" it.

> ...whether the unoppressed is a straight man or a person who can threaten others with violence without consequence...

Mobs breaking windows, lighting things on fire, and stealing is violence. It exposes people to tremendous danger and tremendous injustice. Saying that violence begets violence should hardly be a controversial idea. I certainly don't think Trump's tweets are helpful in anyway. I think they're incredibly tone deaf and unhelpful. But I'm not going to cry to Twitter or Facebook and demand it be blocked.
The scientific method is hard to explain, and scientists frequently mention peer reviewed papers when talking to the public. I think that this is mainly to dismiss things like health anecdotes that spread around the internet. We don't have time to explain in detail why your uncle's implausible and untested miracle cure for whatever disease is unlikely to work.

There's no easy answer to which sources are reliable, but it helps to look at what reputable organizations say. They typically base their advice on the majority opinions of relevant experts. Scientists are human, so they are bound to make mistakes, but in the whole they have made demonstrable progress in a variety of fields.
The now defunct Dolby Axon had this feature for up to 50 people. It was great, you could drag people in a grid around you (see picture in [1]). I’m still sad they discontinued it, it’s one of the few voice chat services that I would gladly pay money for.

[1]: https://venturebeat.com/2009/09/04/dolby-launches-axon-surro...
Forms are going blue, whether you like it or not
If your website forms use checkboxes, radio buttons or range controls, you're in for a nasty surprise. Instead of neutral grey, the latest Chrome renders these in a bright blue, which clashes horribly with many palettes.

What makes this magnitudes worse is you can't fix it with CSS - it's hard coded. They've taken us back twenty years to when all links were a suspiciously similar blue.

Chromium's blog post with examples here: https://blog.chromium.org/2020/03/updates-to-form-controls-and-focus.html

Please star this bug report if this change is going to make eyeballs bleed on your forms: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1091034
You seem to work at FB so you might have some more insight than I do, if so please share. On the other side, I see new players arriving and proving to be competitive because FB will be forced to take a position, if people don't like that position they won't interact with the platform. Suddenly there's a market for a different platform.
I think it depends the city/county. You may not be getting any extra inspections.
> cross-satellite link is out, so we're basically back to Iridium (read: DSL)

How are those two related? Cross-link will somewhat improve latency, but will have very little if any impact on bandwidth.
> Meanwhile stock market is preparing to for its record high :)

Yes, and I don't understand it. The S&P500 is within 8% of its all-time high (3393). Even without a second wave of coronavirus cases and deaths, the current levels of unemployment, defaults, and bankruptices, I can't see what supports these asset price levels. Any ideas?
I wonder what the advantages were for these authoritarian structures to have stood for so long.
Don't know about outsourced, but part-time isn't a fair comparison since their hourly wage could be comparatively high but their total wage low. It would be fair if salaries were given per-hour, but I'm pretty sure that top executives don't have the same concept of working hours as low level employees
The largest insurance claim I've had was for a little over $5k for a vehicle repair after collision while avoiding a pedestrian in the street. I'm not sure if you think that's "large" but it was very painless to do IMO.
I've reached some geostationary and orbiting weather satellites with Software-Defined Radio (SDR) in the past. I'd love to try and snag some signals from these... Anyone know of a more formal scientific write-up on these to find the frequency/modulation?
Have you tried a full power-off, waiting 5 mins, then powering it on? I am not talking about holding the two steering wheel buttons to do a quick reboot, I am talking about a full power-off through settings.

I've read in some recent threads that this method ended up resolving a lot of really weird and random issues like what you described.
I actually lived in this multi unit property when I first bought it. My wife and I were newly married and buying a multi unit property qualified us for a 3.5% down payment which was much more management than >=10%. Also, I live in a rural part of America where property values are relatively stable because there's so much room to build. There are ample new homes available and new homes cost about $100 per sq ft. Existing homes are unable to rise above this except for extreme circumstances.
Mix shift. Oakland has just gone through a major wave of new construction. New apartments command higher rents. This does not necessarily imply a movement of people.
> Anyone doubting this should get a refresher by inputing a street name with a twist dial.

Perfect input method. No one would input street names while driving if that was the way to do it.

(FYI, I didn't downvote your comment.)
I wonder if it would work to have the police split into two separate units (kind of like how the swat team is separate). So you have a general response police unit, which is unarmed or lightly armed (taser / nightstick, etc). They would respond to most situations, and would be highly trained in de-escalation techniques. Then have the backup units be the muscle. In situations that they feel are dicey, the backup could show up at the same time, but hang back unless they are needed.

The main problem with this is that they don't know what they will be facing when they get to the scene. In most cases things go smoothly (traffic stops, domestic calls, detective work). But when things go bad they go bad quickly.

Of course if the first-responding police wore different uniforms, then there may be less chance of escalation. And people would know that as soon as the first responder has to call backup, then things will get really bad for them -- kind of like if you harass a social worker, you will have a very bad day.
Get this, I just found out Google hires for a role called "Application Engineer" which is a role where you program but are lower class and lowered paid than regular "software engineers."

Google might not agree with the "lower class" part but the fact that for an application engineer to switch roles to software engineering within google requires them to go through a harder interview process indicates a deliberate caste based ranking structure that limits growth based off of your ability to pass an algorithm interview.

I actually believe it's 100% within google's rights to do something like this, but I think it's very bad that they disguise this ranking with the role name. I know people who didn't realize what they were getting into until they joined google.

Seriously, just name the role for what it is: High IQ Software Engineers vs. Average IQ Software Engineers because that's essentially what they're interviewing for.
In aviation, pilots struggle with that.

Pilots have a duty "to see and avoid" in VMC, which means visually scanning outside the plane 90% of the time.

But it's human nature to fiddle with instruments and displays. So even in the steam gauge era it was a tough balancing act, and now it's much worse with acres of cockpit electronics.

It requires more training, and one would hope ADS-B provides sufficient collision alerts, to offset the heads-down tendency.

One of the best illustrations of this is the Qantas A380 in-flight engine failure that resulted in 1,000 or so alerts. They had to be manually acknowledged before the systems were cooperative again. One of the pilots was completely occupied with that task alone.
They don’t, but Australia is not part of Britain, so different rules may apply.
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Is it true that public education is being destroyed? I'm having trouble finding metrics by which it has declined. In terms of budget, 4.1% of US GDP is government expenditure on education. For comparison: Japan is 2.9%, Canada 4.3%, UK 4.3%. This number hasn't changed much. Over the past 20 years it has fluctuated between 4.1% and 4.7% of GDP.[1] There might be a slight downward trend, but if there is it has followed most of the other developed countries.

The US is a rich country. If anything, using percentage of GDP understates just how much we spend on education. For primary & secondary education (everything before college), there are only four countries in the world that spend more per student than the US: Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, and Norway. For post-secondary education (college and grad school), the US spends more per student than any other country.[2]

If you look at other metrics such as the percentage of adults with college degrees, or the percentage of adults who graduate high school, the US has never done better.[3][4] If you look at PISA scores, we're very close to the OECD average and that number hasn't changed much over time.[5] (Like most developed countries, absolute scores have slowly decreased over time. It's not clear why this is happening.)

If people have been working for decades to destroy public education, they're doing a very bad job of it.

1. https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/public-spending-on-educati...

2. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmd.asp

3. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2017/cb17-51....

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_...

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_St...
You’ve got it backwards when it comes to residential real estate. More people become renters during a recession. Vacancies reduced dramatically after 2008.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RRVRUSQ156N
s/debunked/refuted and my point still stands.
I'm an american and I do not agree with the description.

If I was ever in a bad situation and a cop suddenly showed up, I'd feel huge relief.
> Formula is literally the only thing some babies can eat particularly less than 6 months old. You cant just give them cow milk, or chocolate or bread or whatever. Has to be formula if it cant be breast milk.

I think the ideal compromise for this situation is that if this describes your situation you get a doc to sign off on it and then your FSA/Insurance should cover it as medical expense. Like it wont and it makes little sense for it to be excluded in the first place but I think we could find a compromise that satisfies everyone.
Not for me. I'm quite content setting a target temperature and leaving the rest on "auto", although I know for many drivers that's not the case. And obviously it's still in my interests that other drivers not be distracted.

But those, too, could be controlled by physical buttons on the steering wheel and/or voice commands.
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>The police seem like soldiers because we have asked them to fight a war, and we're okay with civilians being collateral damage.

A war on... what? Drugs? Gangs? Are those things that can be fought with assault rifles and MRAPs? This whole situation is reminiscent of the wars of vietnam, iraq, and afghanistan.
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It’s funny how early experiences color our understanding of a craft. I remember as a boy telling a neighbor that I was interested in art. She worked with computers and, with stars in her eyes, told me how digital plotters could define shapes accurate to n thousands of an inch. For me that was the worst possible selling point, and may have influenced my decision to eschew anything digital for years. ... and now I teach digital art.
> The debate is now, either we don't have any police and defund them, or, we allow them to continue being completely unaccountable.

Did you read the article? The roadmap he laid out seems to be the middle ground you're looking for.
Very interesting Starlink analysis here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m05abdGSOxY
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Many police departments do not screen for psychological pathologies, and even if they do would they really work for psychopaths who want to kill people? For someone who is a blood thirsty psychopath who wants to get away with murder, is there anything better than working for police/military since they can just say "It was an accident."?

About 1% of the population could be considered psychopaths, so there would be plenty in the police/military.

https://fox6now.com/2017/11/09/13-years-later-documentary-gi...

It is also clearly obvious this cop was lying in order to get away with this. The question is why were the other officers also lying?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eBMNHGAFRI The cop talking to the father
> There's literally no way you can read the 1st amendment and think it should apply to non government entities. It specifically mentions congress only.

It already applies to non government entities. Telephone companies can't deny you service because they don't like you or what you say. Your power and gas company can't deny you service because they don't like you or what you say.

Trump can't even block people on twitter ( a private company ).

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/09/fede...
Does Netflix have full-time employees making content? Or do they just outsource to other studios? It takes a lot of people to make shows/movies, and not all of them are paid especially well. Could easily outnumber the tech employees.
I don’t know much about that and could be off the mark.

You seem to be comparing the cost of doing something the first time with doing it 40 years of technology later

Perhaps it’s wording and I’m sure private companies are more cost effective compared to government
This is how I tried to start all the time and failed.

01.2017 I simply signed up for dev.to and started writing.

Best decision ever.
A war on people shooting each other on our streets? A war on child trafficking? It's not about drugs, it's not about gangs. It's about how both those things lead to homicides and child endangerment. I don't care if a group of kids wants to band together. I don't care if someone wants to take a substance so they can trip. I care when -- in pursuit of those things -- children die, people are beaten and sodomized, sons and daughters kidnapped, etc. Stop pretending.
>In my experience, at least in Vancouver, police tend to use violence and force as absolutely the last resort

Meanwhile on /r/all today... https://old.reddit.com/r/onguardforthee/comments/gvu8fz/cana...
Sure! The military shouldn't be police, and the police shouldn't be military. My point is just they suffice to demonstrate that it is possible to be a violence worker, and yet employ that violence with discretion; and to say that the police necessarily cannot is expecting too little of them.
Abroad in well-developed nations with healthy economies, violent police aren't so much a thing. Our police mimic our own American society, which is inherently violent and promotes criminality (through a draconian justice system that has been dolling out harsh penalties for minor crimes for decades, allows white collar crime to thrive, promotes racial injustice through segregationist state laws, removes social support for the vulnerable people who are most likely to become criminals through necessity, etc). And we're surprised that within this framework, the authorities abuse all the latitude we give them. American police aren't uniquely screwed up, they're just American.
Oh, sorry, perhaps I misinterpreted what you meant when you said:

> You understand why US cops are so heavy handed though, right?

???
$28000 for a car is cheap, especially for a truck. For comparison, the 2020 Honda Civic starts at just shy of $20000.