skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit of a shameless self-plug, but it took me 4 weekends to implement iMessage message receiving with BlueZ[0]. Sadly, all I learned about Bluetooth LE and Apple's ANCS will be completely useless when it comes to sending messages, since MAP works over Bluetooth, while ANCS works over Bluetooth Low Energy, and these 2 protocols are almost nothing alike.

[0] https://github.com/pzmarzly/ancs4linux
This is like saying "learn to read a schematic to become an electrical engineer."

There's a hell of a lot more to engineering than that. Couldn't they at least have said "learn coding to become a programmer?"
I think protestors should adopt a uniform of wearing a high-visibility vest and hard hat because they are supposed to be there and are just doing safety checks.
> A Gaussian blur is not reversable

This might be narrowly true (it’s hard to recover precisely the original image), but is not really an accurate summary in this context, if the only goal of reversal here is to recognize the face. Deconvolution will quite effectively undo gaussian blur. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconvolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson–Lucy_deconvolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_deconvolution

In Photoshop, the deconvolution tool is called “Smart Sharpen”, and has a preset for a gaussian PSF.
All elections are important. State and local laws can't protect you from federal policy, and so the presidential election is arguably as important as any other, if not more important related to individual rights. As the president picks Supreme Court nominations, which are approved by Congress, all of these elections are important. The Supreme Court has been instrumental in reinterpreting existing laws, in order to make explicit how laws are meant to work and be implemented. This has caused things like gay marriage to now be legal, which is clearly consistent with our Constitutional values spirit; the letter of the law was used to discriminate contrary to the intent of the law.
Speaking of elected officials...

https://theappeal.org/ice-friendly-policies-a-string-of-jail...

“Sheriff candidates must have either an advanced certificate from the state’s Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, or a certain combination of education and law enforcement experience. The law, enacted in 1988, was devised by a subcommittee of the California State Sheriffs’ Association. Before then, the only requirement was that a candidate be registered to vote in the county.”

Where were Deukmejian and Wilson when this was passed?
Not OP but I don’t think so. He’s remarking on the phenomenon on how there’s a few people who have a strong bias against Trump and anything he touches
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Turning the other cheek and buying more training is not an effective strategy of reforming an institutional adversary.
I love pipelines. I don't know the elaborate sublanguages of find, awk, and others, to exploit them adequately. I also love Python, and would rather use Python than those sublanguages.

I'm developing a shell based on these ideas: https://github.com/geophile/marcel.
How exactly is that a problem of wealth disparity?
Ask HN: What do you use email for?
I think it's safe to say that email as a concept is pretty much broken. You're fighting spam. There's no true privacy between correspondents, not even with PGP. It's used everywhere as an identification token. Some people still even use it to exchange files.

There's no easy fix because it's next to impossible to retain backwards compatibility. So it got me thinking: what use case would you actually carry over if you were to replace it by redesigning it from the ground up and everyone got on board in an instant?

I took a peek at my inboxes and my correspondence (if you want to call it that, because let's face it: most of it is pretty one-sided) mostly falls into three categories:

* Newsletters I was signed up for involuntarily by signing up to a website

* Newsletters I actually signed up for

* Commercial correspondence (e.g. insurance, bank, landlord)

The last one surely could use some privacy that scales. But the first two? Is that really what email was intended for? In the 90s you stayed in touch with friends and family. But that's been replaced by instant messaging platforms.

I'm curious what your opinions are.
Use this WFH time to learn to cook easy meals.

Check out Anna Jones videos on youtube, like this one

One-Pan Genovese-Style Pasta Recipe | Food Honestly | The Pool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GjEXxkph-c
Try learning Electronics and you will see what I mean.

First you need a shit load of equipment: Soldering station, Scope, Multimeter, Power-supply, Function generator, and so on...

Then building something and testing it costs money. PCB manufacturing is pretty expensive.

Finally debugging and crashes are not free like the software. If you made a wrong connection, then the PCB goes to trash. If you screwed up the Voltage, probably your components will blow up and go to trash too.

And all that are on top of the computer and bandwidth.
I don't think you know what you are talking about. California is experiencing the lowest level of gang violence ever. Oakland, LA, and San Francisco are seeing lowest homicide rates in decades. SF just had 35 homicides last year, compared to nearly 100 in 2007. Oakland had 75 last year, compared to close to 200 in the 90s.

Based on data and stats, 3 things are true
1. CA has no gang problem
2. As South and Central population in CA has gone up, homicides have dramatically dropped
3. As more gun laws are introduced gun violence has radically reduced

https://www.ktvu.com/news/oakland-murders-dip-to-lowest-leve...

https://laist.com/2020/01/15/violent_crime_Los_Angeles_LAPD_....

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/san-fran....
SynthScaper[1] could definitely make those sounds. Mind you, probably most of the Korg iOS synths can probably do it too.

[1] https://motion-soundscape.blogspot.com/2017/07/synthscaper-s...
I want this but in an Xterm.

https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Xterm-Title-3.html
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The issue was also that “orange man” was not basing his statements on any convincing evidence.

However people across the world associate the prestige and respects of the POTUS office as conferring authority on his statements. They think he has access to sources of info they may not (His HCQ boosterism seems to have been based on tweets and watching Fox News cable hosts though, no inside info).
The Chinese system is BeiDou. If Wikipedia is to be believed, they will only achieve global coverage in 2020.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeiDou
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That too. And it illustrates another reason why extreme inequality is bad: even if you're a total psychopath with no concern for anyone except yourself, it's not in your interest to live in a society with extreme inequality - unless you like the idea of being surrounded by people who have so little compared to you that they're desperate for what you have, and are willing to use violence to get it.
Yes your probably right, but then i will not choose mars or earth but the belter's...oh damn again the amazon connection ;)
In my BMW i3 I hardly ever use the brake pedal. But releasing the "go" pedal all the way seems to add braking to the regen. I know because my brakes are noisy at the moment.
For this even if you automate the driving and package delivery you would still want a human to be onsite to make sure the system doesn’t fail. It would make the amount of delivery trucks smaller making shipments more efficient .
That makes sense. thanks for the feedback.

I just created a ticket to work on this aspect of the library soon. I'd appreciate if you add your comments to https://github.com/grid-js/gridjs/issues/25 if you think there is any specific components that needs immediate improvement.
Overall, it seems less common than you aver. What percentage of cities do you think have elected police chiefs?
Sure, but he's doing it in a very inflammatory way. There are many alternative phrases which would have expressed the same idea without making it look like he's picking a fight.
> This is a culturally important moment in which people in all 50 states are holding valid, peaceful protests in response to centuries of injustice.

Not that peaceful, even from my side of ocean (Europe) I see stores being looted (e.g. Apple store https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-SqQBuDbRE, Louis Vuitton https://streamable.com/mniwap )

It is possible that there are groups that just mix with protesters to loot stuff, but it doesn't look good for the peaceful stuff.

As for centuries of injustice, is it still happening? And why are e.g. Asians not protesting?

> When he says "when the looting starts, then the shooting starts" he's encouraging a general atmosphere of unrest, fear, and vigilante justice against all protestors, not just violent ones.

For me it is just a warning, either you protest peacefully or something bad will happen.

Your right to protest is limited by right of other people to go on with their life peacefully - that is democracy 101 - your liberty is limited by other peoples liberty. You can protest, but you can't break windows.
I see you haven't updated your registry of asinine conspiracy theory lately...

The conspiracy idiots think the black helicopters are on their side and are waiting for "the storm", where the executive sweeps in and arrests all of the members of a secret global pedophile ring.

Conveniently they tend to believe that ring includes any and all politicians that they don't agree with (most of the Republican Party, all of the Democratic Party), professors, medical experts, more or less the entire population of San Francisco, etc. Oh! Almost forgot: also Jews.

They're essentially all in on some form of bloody coup and/or purge, but euphemize/rationalize it as a heroic liberation from unseen oppressors (hmm... where have I heard this before...).

"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire
I'd rather have it earmarked for something else then. The police can apply for more funding if and when they can justify it with facts and figures instead of feels over reals.
It'd be neat if GM rebooted the Motorhome [0] as an EV, or maybe a plug-in hybrid.

Hell even if they just took the original FWD ICE platform adding a skateboard full of batteries with RWD electric, cover the roof with solar panels, it'd make an interesting plug-in electric hybrid.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMC_motorhome
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One of the sections of this article that struck me as particularly relevant right now was this passage:

"Kurosawa later claimed that I Live in Fear was inspired by conversations he had with his longtime film composer Fumio Hayasaka, who had become seriously ill during the making of Seven Samurai. Hayasaka had said to him, “The world has come to such a state that we don’t really know what is in store for us tomorrow. I wouldn’t even know how to go on living – I’m that uncertain. Uncertainties, nothing but uncertainties. Every day there are fewer and fewer places that are safe. Soon there will be no place at all.”

Hayasaka died during the filming, and "Kurosawa was devastated by his friend’s death", which affected the direction the film took.
Have you actually participated in these meetings or where exactly does this knowledge come from?

Because that does not sound like any C-suite meeting I have ever been party to.
If they'd couple this to Git, it could be even more useful (e.g. you'd have backups, syncing between devices, and perhaps even multi-user access).
John Locke was famous in his day for his method of indexing journals.[1] It has been discussed here before.[2]

[1] https://fs.blog/2014/07/john-locke-common-place-book/

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21143497
They don't have to be. I will definitely test this particular case.
My point is in thirty years, due to humankinds inability to work together on a common goal of self-preservation and equality, we'll most likely simply be further down the path of the probable collapse of civilization.

If we knew aliens were coming, we'd probably be best off hoping for their benevolence and mercy and preparing as best we could to deserve it.
Thanks to Clojure (and ClojureScript), I was able to build my self-funded SaaS business. There is no way I would have been able to tackle the complexity without Clojure.

I also love the mature approach and mature community. It is, quite simply, a different world from most other software places, and one I enjoy a lot, as I'm mostly focused on building and shipping a large and complex codebase with an extremely small team.
Unix pipelines are cool and I am all for it. In recent times however, I see that sometimes they are taken too far without realizing that each stage in the pipeline is a process and a debugging overhead in case something goes wrong.

A case in point is this pipeline that I came across in the wild:

TOKEN=$(kubectl describe secret -n kube-system $(kubectl get secrets -n kube-system | grep default | cut -f1 -d ' ') | grep -E '^token' | cut -f2 -d':' | tr -d '\t' | tr -d " ")

In this case, perhaps awk would have absorbed 3 to 4 stages.
A tale of two social networks:Twitter, Facebook have Differing Business Models
Let me try to rephrase it in a less cynical manner, best as I can.

It seems to me that Sweden's strategy is attracting more attention (in form of primarily criticism) than f.x. Belgium's, despite the latters deathrate being ~2x that of Sweden's. To me that indicates that the issue is the strategy in itself, and not the magnitude of the failure of it. Other countries have failed worse (although thankfully the vast majority of countries are currently doing better than Sweden, hopefully forever). Why would people care about 4000 dead in a small country far away, when many don't give a damn when 4000 people die from starvation or malnurishment?

Because it says something about _your_ country and _your_ strategy.

For me that is the simplest and not at all cynical interpretation of this. I will admit this is speculation, but I don't think I claimed certainty.

PS. I'm _guessing_ our Achilles tendon is certain organisational deficiancies in the care of the elderly. How it's done and at what stages of life one is moved between different kinds of care. Even if I'm right (big if) I fear that the outfall from this might be "me caveman gruk, weak restrictions bad for COVID19, dum-dum-donut", or the equivalent opposit. That would be sad. PS.

PSS. Belgium seems to be the most "liberal" country in terms of including suspected COVID19-related deaths in the official statistics, but those are the numbers at our disposal. DSS.
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Looks like the data means nothing to you then. I just told you they just aren't good enough.

Anyone can say “We can do better.“, it's just another empty response.

You know what they should do. Show me some improvements in the diversity numbers, then we can talk.
I get seriously torn about resorting to trickstery to live in society. I'd rather live in the woods than faking human relationships, but society seems to force that upon us too often.
They probably only publicly route the ground stations.
Depending on the state, education might not be the city's job at all. It might be a separate level of government entirely.

It's hard to make comparisons like this because obligations and reporting methodology can vary wildly.
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> "t highlighted how it can surface in atypical symptoms such as anger."

That's only atypical if you consider women to be the default, right people.
In a different thread, you say that allocating funds away from police will likely not reach a useful end. In this comment, you seem to say defunding the police is short sighted. Could you help me understand your full position on police funding and defunding in order to fund other programs? It seems like your two statements are mutually exclusive.
YES, exactly that!!

The flag need's a change, the rest is just perfect!!!
Where did I say anything about scale? You're moving the goalposts and arguing about a tangent.

>Also, I will note that right wing sources are exactly who I would not expect to agree with me. They are hawkish on QE.

Right wingers are the ones most likely to argue QE leads to inflation--see Ron Paul. This conversation is a waste of my time. You're basically saying "I'm an expert, I know more than you" which is an appeal to authority, and I'm just pointing out that based on real world examples that we have, that isn't what happened. Theory and reality are not the same thing. End of discussion for me.
When arguing about immigrants and unemployment I always wondered why people get so upset over it. If the immigrant is even able to collect unemployment that means they paid for it.

So they're literally just getting the money back that they paid into it. Probably considerably less, even!

So why should anyone care that they're collecting a benefit that they paid for? I don't get it.
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Using gcc doesn't make your work gpl.
The BBC had an enjoyable podcast about famous mathematicians.
Bourbaki was the last episode.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00srz5b/episodes/downloads
https://github.com/latchset/

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

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/internet/2020/MiniDebCo...
I had to renew my German passport last year.

I live in Buenos Aires (I'm from Argentina) and the embassy refers you to a couple of places where you can get your photo taken.

I went to the place that was close to a bus stop in the bus line I was using to get to the embassy.

It was a rather badly lit shop; I asked for them to take me a photo for the passport, and they did it with a rather lousy cellphone, and printed it right away in one of those auto machines that you can see everywhere you can print digital photos. They guy cut it with scissors.

Guess it goes without saying that it was of very bad quality; and yes, that is the picture that is now in my passport.

I do not need to alter it in any way, it's so bad probably my brother could enter Europe with it.
Bezos isn’t the worlds wealthiest man because his company is the most profitable. In fact it’s very easy to argue the opposite — AMZN is doing so well because for many years of the company’s existence, Bezos chose not to line anyone’s pockets at all, instead putting everything back in CapEx, I.e. hiring more people.
>> It seems the bigger bias comes from the general media than any particular party political bias.

From TFA:
>> First and foremost, Republicans and Democrats tend to seek out very different news sources so they often get very different information.

It should raise red flags for everyone that news sources vary so much on reporting the same thing. We should be selecting news sources based on the types of things they report rather than the spin. Of course a lot of people taking in politically biased news are only aware of bias in news slanted the other way, and their own.
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Others have beaten the "marketer on commission" horse to death. I fully agree with their comments, but I want to address something else.

>"Spending money on ads is basically burning money and does not work for me. (tried Google Ads, LinkedIn, Facebook ultra-targeted ads, Quora). This became painfully obvious after I implemented my own conversion tracking, because I did not trust their metrics/analytics."

When I hear about solo founders decry poor results from paid media, lack of trust in tracking and metrics, etc., I often wonder how much time they've actually invested in learning what they are doing.

Managing paid media is a career and industry in and of itself that is highly-technical, rapidly evolving, and requires deep understanding of the specifics of individual platforms, creative, audience, etc. The metrics themselves are INCREDIBLY nuanced, and I've come across more fellow marketing professionals than I would like who aren't familiar with the impact of view through conversions, how they should be viewed in relation to other efforts, where/when/why they will mess up your analytics in different platforms (for example, FB view throughs are counted by default, but will not show up in Google Analytics).

So when you say they are basically burning money and not working for you, my gut tells me that there are decent odds things were not setup, tracked, or optimized according to what many in the paid media industry would consider best practices.

This is NOT a knock against you. This stuff is difficult, but the platforms go out of their way to make it easy to get started and spend large sums quickly with settings that may not actually make sense for what you are trying to accomplish.

Which brings me back to the commission thing again. People who know this stuff work on a variety of models. Many of them value their time quite a bit (myself included) and would not be willing to shoulder all of the risk. That said, paying for an initial flat rate consult to evaluate your previous efforts to validate your approach and gauge how much they reach the same conclusion (ads don't work for you) might well be worth the time and money.
How does it compare to Everything from VoidTools?
That's always been one of the primary plans for package delivery...
this is a stawman completely unrelated to the topic being posted
I don’t know. The city doesn’t have much else to spend money on. The next biggest thing is Fire Department, but we don’t have many fires. Then there are parks and libraries and such, but those are pretty low cost.

You could probably cut some funding from the police but it doesn’t seem like a huge misallocation.
I'm just pointing out that the change proposed in the OP wouldn't have saved Floyd. The cops would come for anyone accused of passing counterfeit money and not returning the merchandise.

Offloading cases to social agencies wouldn't have saved him indirectly, either. Four cops were almost immediately available to subdue and/or arrest him.

Heck, it even looks like 5-303.01B here [1[ would have prevented Floyd's murder, had it been followed:

> It shall be the duty of every sworn employee present at any scene where physical force is being applied to either stop or attempt to stop another sworn employee when force is being inappropriately applied or is no longer required.

The problem has more to do with things that are squishier than policy: enforcement and the culture within the department.

1. http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/police/policy/mpdpolicy_5-30...
Ask HN: Percentage of time programming to release a new feature?
I'm wondering what other projects experience as a percentage of time programming to release a new feature. There are all these other tasks such as design, writing tests, and documentation that in my experience are starting to take more time than the programming if we are going to do it "the right way". This goes back to accurately estimating the level of effort for a feature, if we're just estimating time to program, then are we missing the majority of effort in our estimate?
The blog source[1] announcement makes no mention of RT or Xinhua specifically, as enumerated by CNBC. Neither article mentions whether the BBC will be categorized in this fashion.

[1]: https://about.fb.com/news/2020/06/labeling-state-controlled-...
Thanks so much! Really appreciate the info.
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What about the entirety of the mainstream US press? The corporations own the state and the corporations own the press. Common ruler.