skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who controls the discussion is not of importance, what is important is the subject matter - it is the search for the truth which should 'control the discussion'. In the case of BLM versus ALM the truth varies from location to location and from time to time. Systemic racism was a matter of fact in the first half of the previous century in the USA. This is not the case now in the largest part of the country, nor is it true in most parts of Europe. In other words, had BLM been around in the 1950's they would have been 'in control of the discussion' as they would have had the truth on their side. Nowadays this is not the case, those claims of 'systemic racism' are unfounded and easily refuted. Even a tragic death-by-abusive-police-conduct like this does not change the fact that systemic racism as held forth by groups like BLM is something of the past, not of the present. There are racist individuals, some of those may be in positions of power where they can effect racist policies over a limited amount of people but this is the exception, not the rule. When held to the light those racist policies tend to be struck down by the force of law. The policemen involved in the death of George Floyd now are in custody and will be tried, either for homicide or manslaughter.

So, yes, All Lives Matter. Black lives just as much as other lives.

By the way, Wikipedia is not exactly the best place to start looking for absolute truth around politically contentious issues. One of its founders has spoken out on the way the project dropped the original NPOV policy [1] and replaced it with something which purports to achieve the same goals but falls far from that. Judging from the examples he holds forth I assume that he leans more towards the conservative end of the political spectrum so those who lean towards what used to be called the progressive end might want to dismiss what he says outright. That would be just the wrong thing to do if what you're after is a repository of knowledge which is free from political bias - or at least as free as it can be given the fact that those articles are still written by human beings.

[1] https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/
>> Registering to vote is just not a thing outside the US.

It’s absolutely a thing in Australia and NZ, and in the world’s largest democracy, India, too.

https://www.aec.gov.au/enrol/
https://vote.nz/enrol-to-vote/enrol-check-or-update/
https://eci.gov.in/voter/voter-registration/
As someone who pays attention but does not proactively search out patent litigation information most of the time, I would say it’s rare. The most benefit I see for smaller collectives is:

- Patenting an idea that’s core to their business. Doesn’t really prevent immediate attacks from clones, but it does make it much easier for them to get funding from VCs.
- Inventors who license the ideas: they patent, then contact manufacturers.

Note: These are not really software-specific as I’m not aware of any software cases where patents benefit smaller businesses.
Or it could be because Sweden has reacted far less than us...

There are plenty of dark skinned Norwegians, Finns and Danes these days.
A Drop in Commercial Flights Is Bad for Hurricane Forecasts
You also need the sun at a higher angle to get enough UV exposure (vitamin D creation is triggered by UV B exposure).

More sunshine isn't enough.
What makes you thinks that?

When I think non free, I think of the CCP prohibiting peaceful rememberance of Tianamen square.
Yes, I've done this for a few months at a time.

Buying notebooks to write in, and books to read, and a radio to listen to, helped.
Norway and Denmark had the same factors you’re pointing to, with a large influx of cases from Italy and Switzerland.

But they shut down immediately to stop further spread. In Norway, things were spurred on even faster because a royal testing screwup in one of the biggest hospitals sent 30 people in quarantine. I think that event spooked everyone to take it seriously right away, along with some video conferences with doctors in Lombardy.

Textbook case of reducing the exponent of an exponential function early for massive benefits, if you ask me. That’s a very simple explanation. I don’t think the truth is more fancy than that. Even a week or two is an eternity when the doubling time is 3 days, everyone being unprepared and all.
During the lockdown, normally busy areas of the city have been largely deserted.

Of course, there are concerns that the city likely is under-reporting the incidence of infection, but as for fatality data you cannot hide mass deaths.
There are face blender type algorithms that merge X number of images of faces. Could use something like that. Grab 10,000 facial images off the net, merge them, then use that image in every shot, for every face, so everyone looks the same.
I've been digging through the latest related commit in the repo: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commits/master

They appear to use "com.google.firebase:firebase-ml-vision-face-model:20.0.1" to detect the faces.

The actual blur appears to be done here: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/514048171bf...

Not sure what "ScriptIntrinsicBlur" stands for exactly, it appears to come from the android SDK itself: import android.renderscript.RenderScript;

EDIT: https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/android/rende...

It's a gaussian blur filter with a radius of 25px if I understand the code correctly.
Matrix is selfhosted and has e2e encryption support.
Solving Jepsen with OpenCensus Distributed Tracing
Parts of the region are disputed between India, Pakistan and China. The state of Jammu and Kashmir is a part of India, with regular elections and a functioning assembly, although from time to time the central government keeps intruding in state's affairs and has recently redefined certain parts as a union territory.
Citizens of J&K are citizens of India, but have certain special rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammu_and_Kashmir_(union_terri...
My thoughts exactly. Needs a simple, clearly-solves-specific-problems tutorial.
The rich are glad that you believe this, and they wish all of us were so foolish. Focusing all of our attention on the poor is what they want us to do. Meanwhile we'll be ignoring the people whose lobbyists have destroyed our society...
All This Chaos Might Be Giving You 'Crisis Fatigue'
I guess everyone finds the explanation that suits his beliefs best.
It is quite obvious that the reasons Sweden has > 3000 deaths and Norway has less than 300 is because of much less severe restrictions. Sweden has twice the population, but quite similar demographics.
Here's the video: https://youtu.be/rCQEzgtWv-E
Thanks a lot for all the helpful links and relevant questions. I agree, there is still a lot to clarify. I also see Recursive as a platform which could work together with other platforms. Recursive can't solve tax issues for the project owners but can be an additional source for donations which can then be received by any legal entity.
Pine nuts a delicious, especially in salads and it's one of the main ingredients in pesto.
People can lose if they are armed or not armed so that is not valid argument for not taking up arms.

> They aren't using them to defend against tyranny so what good are they.

They are using it to protect their homes and stores from rioters so they are atleast doing something.

Its very easy to say take away their weapons but you dont provide a realistic solution for defending life and property.
how can you make a prerelease build of a non-compiling code?
What Is MLOps?
J&K is a part of India.
Firefox on Fedora Finally Gets VA-API on Wayland
It’s funny, when people ask me my name I always say the same thing. Never gets old.
The apology feels cheap, as there's no mention of any repercussions whatsoever for the mining giant. Looks like it's business as usual.

It's a terrifying precent set here when mining companies can simply blow up ancient sites like this, say "oops, sorry", and carry on with business.
>> the gap between the poor and mega-wealthy doesn't matter as much as the actual conditions of the poor.

I expect that when most people talk about the gap they are referring specifically to the actual conditions of the poor, and not the range of the gap.
The latter half of your sentence is incorrect. I agree we can still do more testing.
Is the pattern on these masks meant to confuse facial recognition algorithms or is it just for looks?
So, pardon my ignorance, but can we finally say that atoms are particles with concrete dimensions? Last time I checked the whole field seemed measuring everything into probabilistic and statistical terms.
Being paid to work with computers aside, I think I'd get by admirably, so long as I have the opportunity to read, write, draw, and still be able to make some form of a living from creative work.

That said, I would need some way to at least make sure my family is ok, when I'm away from them.
The coronavirus outbreak could make it quicker and easier to trial drugs
The real breakthrough here is that with this technique you don't have to crystallize the proteins anymore, which is the biggest bottleneck in X-Ray Crystallography.

Relevant; they used Cyro-EM to elucidate the structure of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein [1], which is a big step towards the development of a vaccine. This is a resolution of 3.5 ångström, but still a very nice feat.

[1]: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6483/1260
Is this really relevant, though? Republican democracy means that the people are sovereign within the laws they themselves have set up and may change; universal suffrage means that everyone[0] may vote. But isn't the choice not to vote itself just as much of a signal as voting? I know that some countries have compulsory voting, but that has always rubbed me the wrong way. If someone simply wishes to sit out, that seems to me to be his right.

Given the reasonably-established effect of weather on elections[1], I am uncertain that forced votes are particularly high-information votes.

0: well, not children or felons

1: e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5463178/
Programming is a non linear writing system. Now that I think of it ... if you replace functions names with logograms you get a top to down writing system of sorts.
Full disclosure, I haven't had time to vet the individual studies cited, but this article could be a good starting point to investigate this idea. Be sure to at least look at the second half, where they move from correlation to causation: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-diversity-mak...

Here's the paragraph I want to highlight:

"Members of a homogeneous group rest somewhat assured that they will agree with one another; that they will understand one another's perspectives and beliefs; that they will be able to easily come to a consensus. But when members of a group notice that they are socially different from one another, they change their expectations. They anticipate differences of opinion and perspective. They assume they will need to work harder to come to a consensus. This logic helps to explain both the upside and the downside of social diversity: people work harder in diverse environments both cognitively and socially. They might not like it, but the hard work can lead to better outcomes."
Debt only delays the inevitable failure of get-a-job freestyle capitalism as we know it.
> I saw some student fail to produce a correct program but had a well organized code.

I don't necessarily agree with this.
Programs are not designed to be readable, they are designed to solve a problem. The first goal is to get the correct program, and only after, it is important to make the code readable.
A readable code that doesn't work is not worth much.

As a former student, I think automatically graded assignment are very nice because they force you to have a programmer mindset (the smallest error / typo will make your code fail).

If you want to grade also the organization of code, fine, but I think the first one is more valuable (how to organize code properly is not learned at school anyway, it is learned by months / years of practice).
Norway has similar ratios for immigration and lower mortality.

It's not that.

Sweden tested a lax social distancing approach and it backfired.
Also, what's up with these horrible queues at polling places? In my country (Czechia), I rarely have to wait when I come to the polling place.

We have one polling place (one ballot box, one comitee, about two places where you're required by law to fill your ballot) per maybe couple thousands citizens. These places are usually in a local school for the district. During the election, they are open Friday afternoon till 8 PM and Saturday till 2 PM. We have fully tabulated results by late Saturday. We don't have to register, the verification is done through a central registry, we just have to prove our identity at the polling site.

Frankly, I think U.S. deserves a comprehensive electoral reform. Americans should demand it in a general strike.
Why would peaceful demonstrators need to hide their identity?

I have been to numerous peaceful protests in the US, even been attacked by observers, and have never had to hide my identity.

Additionally, in a large crowd where most will not hide identities, this app is useless.

Only use case I can imagine is a one to many communication likely to be frowned on by authorities, which sounds like the coordination of illegal activity, such as violence and looting.

I wonder if any website where such techniques are popularized would consequently be considered an accessory to whatever illegal activity is being coordinated?

And even if not, as owner of such a platform, it would not rest easy on my conscience to know my site is being used to help coordinate activity that will hurt and harm a great many innocent people.
The headline is potentially confusing, it doesn't mean that this is the first time individual atoms were measured, but the first time this particular method has been pushed to such a high resolution that individual atoms could be distinguished.

Cryo EM is a very hot method right now to determine the three-dimensional structure of large molecules like e.g. proteins or protein complexes. Something like 10-15 years ago the best you could get was maybe 1.5 - 2 nm (these are rough numbers from memory), the results described in the article are 0.17 nm.
>One example of self-referential post-modernist garbage is critical race theory. It basically started as a cluster of self-referentialism completely detached from everything else and then took on a life of its own.

How much CRT have you actually read? It's a pretty interesting and uniquely placed discipline of critical theory.
It seems the demotion show has already started...
Anyhow, WHO also discourages it
https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/24-04-2019-to-grow-up-h...
It's not a ridiculous idea.
I've been using macOS for many years and never knew/heard about this. Thank you!

Feels like this neat feature should be moved to the AppName menu instead of Help to increase its discoverability (and preempt thinking that it only search Help documentation)
Yes, but all these countries, as said, are significantly poorer than Sweden per capita (e.g. Spain has about 50% of GDP per capita than Sweden).

OTOH, Sweden has pretty similar politics and cultural values compared to Denmark and Norway, which means people would react similar to measures like lockdowns etc. Additionally, health care professionals have a similar social standing (as opposed to Spain, where healthcare workers are often poor, which significantly worsened Spains problems).

I fully agree that we cannot have a complete understanding of the situation until everything is over, BTW! But Norway and Sweden are similar enough that a factor 10 difference in outcome cannot be ignored.
1971 having been due to holdouts who are so conservative that to this day they vote* by physically assembling and holding up hands. (this year postponed due to the 'rona).

Despite that, since 1971 there have been 5 female presidents from 3 different parties: Calmy-Rey, Dreifuss, Leuthard, Sommaruga, Widmer-Schlumpf (some having served more than once)

* as they have since 1403
https://www.ai.ch/politik/landsgemeinde
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. If R0 was <1 then we would never have had an outbreak in the first place.

I don't believe Levitt's interpretation. I certainly hope it's true, but I don't think it is. He seems to believe containment measures have no effect, which is implausible to me.

He's just talking about the stats, without giving a biological hypothesis for why infections would top out - that seems to be coming in an upcoming video that hasn't been released yet.
Use Tor, use Signal.
https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A%40thegrugq+signal
> As the looks of it, US is pretty non-free when it comes to peacefully protesting

What is your definition of peaceful protest?
What we see in the US now is definitely not within my range.

Thrashing stores, looting, torching vehicles.
>* "post-modernist fields like grievance studies" - WTF?

It's worth noting that the term "grievance studies" was invented by Boghossian et al. and intended to be used as nothing more than a pejorative for studies and topics of research that the authors didn't like.
How will the remote trend affect startup hiring?
Do small startups need more on-site collaboration than established companies?

Are the legal/tax implications of hiring across different states or countries worth it?

How will this affect their ability to compete with established companies for talent?

Thanks!
Dear Apple, please get rid of the TouchBar
An in addition to that, in his Hardtalk interview, at the end he said "In Sweden we don't wear masks, we stay at home if we feel sick", so implicitly he is completely sure that there is no asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 and that all residents in Sweden stay at home if they feel sick (and I would guess... also allergic people that might sneeze).
Thank you for sharing this one, I agree with you that we should be able to discuss ideas on their own merits. I'm only vaguely familiar with Kaczynski's philosophy and his actions, but I look forward to giving this a read over the next 24 hours.

Just looking over the introduction, certainly some strong beliefs there, but it does resonate to some degree. It does feel like this rejection of all-encompassing technological progress in favour of simpler human living is present in a number of modern movements. Things like minimalism, mindfulness and paleo diets spring to mind. But then again, maybe these are all manufactured and part of that same technological/industrial/consumerist wave.

It often feels like I switch on my phone or computer and they are instantly steering my attention towards things which I did not intend and which my simple human mind is too weak to fight against. In an ideal world there'd perhaps exist an OS or browser which has been designed with human weaknesses in mind, something to help one direct their attention to what they initially wanted, and to put walls up where one's attention is likely to spill out into mindless consumption. But it does seem like the world is currently structured in a way that technology is incentivized to give us an overwhelming kind of freedom, both in the sense that one is free to easily give in to personal weaknesses, and also in the sense that corporations are free to prey on these weaknesses.
YourAnonCentral hijacked the news with fake stories
This looks great and really want to give it a try. Unfortunately, I can't add a github organization. It goes through but never shows up in my organization list.
To be fair, so does SpaceX's.
Earth’s CO2 levels hit record high, despite coronavirus-related emissions drop
The simplest explanation that seems potentially correct is - masks and climate. Japan has basically 100% mask wearing rate. The climate in India is probably helpful.

But crazy thought- what if different languages spread this virus at different amounts? some words in English release more droplets than those in other languages? Or because Italians speak more loudly than Japanese?

But I’d vote for simpler explanations.
Rethinking Humanity's Ties to Nature
Correct, you can run opposition. However, a representative in the US is typically voted using first-past-the-post (modified for the US president). It doesn't matter whether the society accepts the winner with 99.9% or 50.0001%, the spoils remain the same.

It doesn't make sense to me that the losing bloc, which now does not have representation, is subject to the whims of the majority (that is the definition of the tyranny of the majority). A parliamentary system with proportionate representation makes more sense if "blame"for a representative is apportioned to the entire set of constituents and not the bloc that gained power.
Sweden has much more of an immigrant / foreign-born parent population. About 25%-30% vs. 13-15%.

As of 2017, Statistics Sweden reported that around 2,439,007 or 24.1% of the inhabitants of Sweden were from a foreign background: that is, each such person either had been born abroad or had been born in Sweden to two parents who themselves had both been born abroad.[22] Also taking into account people with only one parent born abroad, this number increases to almost a third in 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Sweden#Migrati...

Immigrants constituted 13% of the population at the start of 2015, and an additional 2.6% were born in Norway by immigrant parents[12] (up from 8,3% and 1,5% in 2006[13]). The same year, 19% of births in Norway were to immigrant parents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Norway#Ethnici...
Duo came out too late, and Google has a reputation for changing things. Years ago, I tried setting up my family with google’s apps, and they kept changing, and it burned me and wasted my time. So years ago, I switched everyone to Apple, and haven’t wasted any time since.

WhatsApp is really nice, but you need a phone for it, which some of the older grandparents don’t have. But they do have cheap iPads, so everyone uses FaceTime.
Looks like atomic rez is only possible with certain very stable proteins. Hopefully the tech will improve to allow broader application.
Which is why USB-C is bad, nobody asked for a protocol where the benefits are marginal but the downside (one of many) is that a proper hub that replicates the behavior of previous generations now costs more, and since nobody would pay that much, economies of scale don't apply and thus it doesn't exist at all or is available as very niche specialized units (kinda like opto-isolated USB hubs which go for $200.

You could also theoretically use 10Gbit Ethernet to transfer data from your phone but we don't go around putting SFP slots on phones because we don't want every single cable or charger to cost $100 and be more complex (thus more prone to failure) than needed.
Will humans keep getting smarter? [video]
No one in Bangladesh believes Bangladesh's low death number. I live here. Freedom of the press is non-existent (al-most all press/media is owned by government party). There are actual laws that say that you can't say anything against the government online (many have been prosecuted for this).

There is literally only 1 party - all other parties are destroyed, their members arrested or banned, jailed on real or fake cases.

Bangladesh's health care has been horrible even before the pandemic. Air pollution is extremely high. We don't have the infrastructure to handle so many patients - private hospitals are having a hard time handling patients. Public hospitals are even worse. Central oxygen is almost non-existent, lack of proper PPE, masks or proper testing. They only recently started ramping up tests - but the numbers are still very low.

Even with all the hiding and misinformation by the government, the official number is still climbing at an alarming rate.
Could estimate the % of fragments that are currently unplaced? I’m curious to know how much structure has been pieced together so far and what remains.