skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I feel the response to this movement shows that there are fewer good cops that anyone would have expected.

What leads you to believe this at an empirical level, though? The inciting incident of course sadly shows yet another example of detestable police and policing, and the reaction shows additional instances of cruel and overly aggressive policing (arresting and assaulting peaceful protesters and reporters in some cases), but the reaction also shows instances of officers standing with the protesters and treating them appropriately.

I don't know how many law enforcement officers in the US are fundamentally moral or not. I really have no idea if this event makes me think there are more or less of them than I thought there were before, if looking at all LEOs in the country. How can you, I, or anyone know any of the true statistics?

Since we can't, I think the most important and most practical task is to try to improve and fix the system and the systemic issues as much as possible, and to try to decrease the odds that shitty cops will be hired or promoted and increase the odds that shitty cops will be quickly identified, removed, condemned by their former peers, and, if appropriate, prosecuted.
Cervical cancer screenings save women's lives: Cervical cancer is an insane beast that often has no symptoms when it is the most treatable. Many, many women get abnormal or inconclusive results once or twice during their lives. It can be a variety of causes, even! This doesn't change the fact that they save lives or seriously increase some people's quality of life.

The sleep studies are similar. Someone getting an inconclusive result doesn't negate all the folks that have been helped by it - and honestly, doesn't rule it out. The money bit is just a shameful side effect of the health care system where you live and I'm guessing it is part of the sting of an inconclusive result.
An implicit threat of force is very different from an explicit application of it. Feeling disgruntled (perhaps by proxy) over a small fine is not the same as being actually beaten, gassed, or jailed.

You're not teaching me anything I don't already know, so what point are you attempting to make here?
Society as a whole has changed and I'd argue police have changed less than the rest of society. Given the videos from the last few days it's clear that the police see themselves as immune to consequences even in the age of social media, cell phone cameras and widespread public opposition.
I'm fiscally conservative, and even trying to discuss those ideas on Reddit has met me with downvotes galore without being discussed. Even while trying to be respectful and open-minded. I gave up after a while. A lot of people can't fathom how conservative ideas would be shunned on there until they actually try to discuss them.

Reddit is comprised of a lot of younger people who are indoctrinated to think in certain ways and haven't ventured far outside of their ideological bubble. So I just chalk it up to that and don't even go there anymore because nothing there adds much to my life other than pointless distraction.
That really sucks. When did you do the test - and was it in a clinic or at home?

I do encourage you to keep trying if you have reason to think you have sleep apnea. Maybe get a home O2 monitor to help you decide if it's worth spending the money on another sleep study.
still made more sense than jira
They're all bought out by price gougers. I've been trying to get one for two months but won't pay $400 for one.
Anonymous answers: Are there any myths you feel you have to support publicly?
Margo Seltzer and folks wrote a fun paper about this a few years back at ASPLOS:

"We present an architecture designed to transparently and automatically scale the performance of sequential programs as a function of the hardware resources available. The architecture is predicated on a model of computation that views program execution as a walk through the enormous state space composed of the memory and registers of a singlethreaded processor. Each instruction execution in this model moves the system from its current point in state space to a deterministic subsequent point. We can parallelize such execution by predictively partitioning the complete path and speculatively executing each partition in parallel. Accurately partitioning the path is a challenging prediction problem. We have implemented our system using a functional simulator that emulates the x86 instruction set, including a collection of state predictors and a mechanism for speculatively executing threads that explore potential states along the execution path. While the overhead of our simulation makes it impractical to measure speedup relative to native x86 execution, experiments on three benchmarks show scalability of up to a factor of 256 on a 1024 core machine when executing unmodified sequential programs."

https://collaborate.princeton.edu/en/publications/asc-automa...
and a talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHZDXC4zJ0c
Justice for Breonna
> What's the alternative though?

The alternative is Slack using someone else as their marketing example, and maybe taking down this blog post. Which is what they've done.

> I feel like this entire movement is really taking away credit from the "ok" and "good" cops.

Why would good, or "okay" cops have to worry about being reprimanded?

What has happened is a "bad" cop issued a no-knock warrant on an innocent woman, and then shot her to death inside of her own home, and then was UNPUNISHED.

Then a few days later, a 2nd "bad cop" stepped on the neck of an African American on the street, killing him. Without the protests, this 2nd "bad cop" wouldn't have met any charges what so ever.

I think what the people want, is a form of feedback that actually works. If we see a bad cop, then surely we should be able to get that bad cop punished without rioting. No one wants to riot to get justice... but it seems like its the only option right now.

---------

Case in point: there are unbadged, unmarked, nameless officers patrolling Washington DC right now. Surely this should not be condoned.

Or do you think that "good cops" are allowed to run around without badges, refusing to identify themselves while shooting tear gas at protesters? Because that's literally what is going on this week.

What is going on right now, is a discussion about what to do about bad cops. And sure, we'll want to protect the "good cops" and "okay cops" who protect us. But what do you expect the public to do against bad cops?
Kurosawa associates strongly with his black-and-white early work, so I was surprised at the strong use of color and contrasting hues in these. It reminds me of post-Impressionist Pierre Bonnard.
Mandrel: A community distribution of GraalVM for the Red Hat build of Quarkus
> Here is where we are on programs that can understand computer code. We currently have no programs that can understand a one page program as well as a new student in computer science can understand such a program after just one month of taking their very first class in programming. That is a long way from AI systems being better at writing AI systems than humans are.

Excellent point. As far as code is a form of model/theory building we do not have any form of AI that can build and work with theories on an ad-hoc basis like people can.
I wonder if it would be helpful to allow people who experience sleep issues to just get a CPAP machine and try it out, instead of having to go through a sleep study.
This benchmark is kind of useless as it is comparing c5a to m5 instead of c5. The c5 and m5 are both the same kind of Xeon, but the sustainable and turbo clock speed of the m5 is notably slower than the c5. If you were considering a Xeon for your use case, you would want to see the c5a compared with the c5.
Wouldn’t getting your diet under control and exercising regularly be a lot easier/cheaper/better for you in the long run?
I think flat earth falls into that category. However... the problem is there are also things that seem clearly like bullshit that we later find out not to be.

Have you ever been completely convinced about something that turned out to be entirely wrong? Almost certainly, probably more than a few times. It happens to all of us. And sometimes this happens on a societal scale with things like science and civil rights. Ideas not accepted at the time, attempted silence, but fortunately resisted censorship until history was able to bore them out.
Really? The lgbtq+ community has huge debates on virtue signaling every year. Many view pride as being completely overtakes by companies virtue signaling.
Somewhat irrelevant question but is the holographic universe theory a reasonable hypothesis for the universe expanding at different rates in its life since that could be explained by new material falling into the black hole that the holographic universe lives on.
>"The absolute value of the sum of the mean of the square of two vectors mapped over the product of X and Y."

abs(sum(mean(abs2,x .* y)))?
of course, MBO would not be the term used publically, but it could very well be how management is carried out nevertheless :-)

Another way of looking at it is that not everything can be summarized in Excel spreadsheet, sometimes you have to know something of the work to be able to manage it properly.
A similar example I heard was that a chess grandmaster may be able to take a look at a chessboard with a game in play and memorize the entire board immediately. But only if the board "makes sense" - all the pieces are in positions that could actually be reached in a real game.

If you take those same pieces and rearrange them willy-nilly, then this ability to instantly memorize its layout goes away.
In my view: where you want to take your career is up to you. Your manager should provide you with the guidance of how to get there.

Going into management is different than continuing on the IC path (at least in most companies). As a principal or architect, your job is to find the technical areas that should be explored (e.g. should Kubernetes be used, or Rust or something else), what are the implications of these technologies as well as how well they will solve the customer problems. Splitting the project and working with the rest of the team to have a sound solution.
As a manager your job will be to deal with people and conflicts that arise due to various misalignments. Motivating people, making sure projects get delivered, taking responsibilities for things that you weren't aware were happening. Setting direction and making sure everyone is informed on what is going on. These are just the highlights, once you get into the position you get to see the different nuances, e.g. how to talk with person A vs person B. Figuring out what motivates them, what upsets them, what are they good at. Observing people and providing them guidance on how to achieve their goals.
Nah! Failure to do so should result in being fired, loss of pension, prosecution, imprisonment, and a felony record.
Police are suffering from a PR disaster of their own making. Every day they present more examples of why they cannot be trusted.

They seem hellbent in making sure they are the villains.
I would like to point out that the AAPS is not actually a medical group. Its a conservative group that poses to be oriented around doctors. I don't think a single medical professional right now would recommend opening the US economy yet.
To work towards a solution requires understanding the problem. Understanding problems on this scale is very hard and it's much easier to say empty phrases that please your base.
HN should really get rid of downvotes.

They only play one role: To alter how others perceive a post

I am unfortunately immediately biased against a post that is greyed out. Greyed posts are increasingly just a different political view rather than an objectively wrong statement.

If a post is truly problematic, there is a flag option.

Let the cream rise to the top, but don't tell people how to think.
This article spills a lot of ink to say that you should focus on your Sleep, Diet, Exercise, Stress, and Drugs in that order. It provides a few tips for each topic:

1) Sleep

Tip: "my biggest pro-tip [...] wake up every morning at the same time"

2) Diet

Tip: "Get your food allergens checked and make sure you’re not consuming foods that your allergic to on a regular basis (I used Everlywell.com for their at home food allergy test recently, and it was great)."

Tip: "Consuming multiple alcoholic drinks before bed can absolutely wreck your sleep, which is the first foundation to mental wealth."

3) Exercise

"I’m going to zero in on the anti-inflammatory effects of high intensity aerobic exercise 3 times a week (which incorporates improvement to mood, detoxification, and anti-inflammation). [...] this is all about using a stair-master or elliptical, cycling, or high intensity running for anywhere from 15-30 minutes, etc. 3x per week. Cycling has been shown to be superior to running for the aerobic effects, so I use our family’s Peloton for 20 min HIIT rides at least 3x a week, preferably more. [...] Try this for 4 weeks and see what it does for your mental health (and your sleep)."

4) Stress Management

Tip: "[find] time to sit quietly for 15 minutes in the morning, with your cup of coffee or tea in-hand, to do three primary things has been extremely helpful for me:

(i) Gratitude journaling of 5 things that I’m grateful for (nothing is too small here, from the sunrise to the laugh of my daughter will make the list),

(ii) 2-3 minutes of breathing exercises (google 4-7-8

breathing for a really simple breath work exercise),

(iii) Lastly, 5 minutes outline my to do list for the day."

5) Exogenous Compounds

Tip: "any of these, from the innocuous to the Schedule II prescription, should be last on the list of your personal “mental wealth” audit."
Don't most login forms do this? I assume they just scan all input coming in the same regardless of the field type.
Not caring if there is a pandemic does not absolve people of actions they take that endanger others as a result of their disregard for the situation.
How do you download the app? They require a serial number.
This works well in theory, until managers urge you to treat every task as "P-0" and you suddenly need to prioritize within the P-0's (we would jokingly use negative numbers instead).
If only it was so easy. I was told, in Germany, I have to wait 2+ months for the next appointment.
THAT is not the server, its like saying Firefox is opensource so Facebook is too, thanks and no thanks for the link's.
7 months left...
That quote and watching him interact with Desmond Tutu like they are school-aged BFFs are my favorite things about the Dalai Lama.
Great advice, but too late for me.
U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech business
This a USA healthcare problem, and you should flag it as such.
Keep in mind these are mostly preprints, so adjust their value accordingly:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.26.115832v1

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.18.100545v1

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30610-3

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.17.20061440v...

https://hal-pasteur.archives-ouvertes.fr/pasteur-02569149

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.21.108308v1

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.02.20120477v...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.27.20081893v...

There isn't much completed research about the seasonality of COVID-19 itself (understandably), the "cliff" is mostly an educated guess based on the strong seasonal pattern we see with every other respiratory virus. Here are a couple papers:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.12.20034728v...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.22.20025791v...
Projects that businesses use to do something, or aid in doing something, that makes them money.
I agree that it is a less-than-ideal time to protest police brutality and racial injustice. However, I'd argue still - when is? Minorities are also disproportionately impacted by the pandemic which is highly relevant to both addressing the health crisis and racial injustice. Again, when should all this be addressed?

The people protesting the lock-downs appeared to largely be protesting lifestyle inconvenience. Whether that was the actual case or not, I don't know and I'd love to learn more from any sources you could share.
DuckDuckGo )
I agree.

You can have a series of these things over a few decades and then suddenly end up in a much different spot than when you started out. Humans have done this before. More than once. In fact, it's probably the natural outcome of situations like this and requires some sort of strong provisions to keep it from naturally happening over and over again. It's not like any of this is new.

A lot of people seem hell-bent that this is not the case, however. I'm curious to see if they're able to look at their own actions from just a small remove. If so, why? If not, why? These are technical, UX questions. They might involve sensitive matters, but that's only the more important reason for working them out.

All UI/UX issues shouldn't be about some version of wringing another .4% of sign-ups out of the funnel. There are things that are more important by orders of magnitude.
Eventually I confessed because I wanted to work on some other technology problems the company had, and the owner of the company sat me down for a chat.

She explained that legally, the company already owned any software I made on company time, but she wanted to buy it from me properly anyway, and asked me to write down a price.

I wrote down what I thought was a completely insane amount and she frowned and shook her head. "Sorry, I don't think we can pay that." She wrote down another number and passed it back.

She'd just added more digits to my number. It was more than my take home pay for the entire year.

After I accepted, she explained how sometime in the past they'd paid 10x that price to a "professional" firm for a prototype that didn't even work.

Several years later, at another, bigger company, I created a solution to a similar but larger scale problem we had in my spare time and offered it up for free. (I never learn.)

Instead, they signed a $2.5 million deal with a "professional" firm to create something.

That CEO bet me $100 it would be running smoothly in production in 6 months, but I could only take the bet if I didn't quit. I patiently explained how their proposed solution could not even work in theory, and wished him good luck.

10 years later, they were still doing it manually.
It's not so hard if the media didn't cherry pick examples for the purpose of enraging Americans. There's probably a lot to be legitimately upset about, but blacks are killed by police less frequently than victim-reported crime statistics predict. If the media gave proportional attention to white victims like Tony Timpa or Daniel Shaver, it wouldn't feel so much like police are targeting black citizens. Maybe we would be having a different conversation--"police are too brutal in general, and while they aren't targeting minorities in their fatal offenses, perhaps there is a racial disparity for lesser forms of brutality, etc". But that's a terrible headline what with its nuance and truthfulness--I would never hack it as a journalist.
Post something conservative on /r/politics, and see where that gets you.
4chan has paid moderators and unpaid volunteer janitors keeping the beast in the state that its in, imagine what a wasteland that site would be in absence of any moderation.
Not sure what relevance an "exception" a judge made up to justify censoring protest against WW2 japanese internment camps has to this conversation.
This.Post.Is.Gold.

It's now been a few years after my burnout/depression episode and finally someone put my thoughts into words.

I came into the same conclusion after learning about depression, doing therapy, and among other things/research/trying things.

So I refused to take pills, but instead make a lifestyle change. I also started developing Habinator app (see: habinator.com), which is a tool to help to make a change.

I'm glad that there are professional smart people who see the bigger picture in (mental) health and not the short term fix. It would be great if the decision makers and people with money would also see this.
Do you have a following or technical writing / journalist skills? I hear you'll make peanuts, so do you have writing skills useful to startups / biz that you can freelance with while you build the blogging side up?
>We can condemn the police and hold them to the much higher bar they should be held to, and also condemn whatever looting and vandalism is occurring. "Two wrongs" etc.

I do condemn both, but you have to remember that one caused the other and one is a matter of your country becoming an authoritarian police state, not the other.

I'd take temporary riots over permanent US style law enforcement abuse. In a perfect world I'd be happy with none of the two but were not in a perfect world.
building != city

thanks for playing though.
As general rule of thumb exercising close to exhaustion 4-6 times a week will greatly improve your ability to sleep and overall mental well being.
> black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers.

Black Americans are also 4 times as likely (per capita) to kill a police officer.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka/2018/topic-pages/officers-feloniou... (bottom of page)

The reality of course is that the relationship between law enforcement and the black community is dogshit. There are terrible people on both sides that escalate nonsense into homicide, and this puts both groups on high alert in tense encounters.

Unfortunately I feel that one side has to move first to fix the situation and to me that's obviously law enforcement. But even if they started, in earnest, today it's going to take decades to equalize and sins of the past will eternally haunt us all.
B) It is easier to pull someone down than it is to pull someone up
No, you talked about attendance of an event - I quoted you in order to make the context clear. It is simply untrue to say you were talking about participating in unlawful activities.
No one can sell anything to any police department ethically? If I'm a plumber and the local precinct calls me to fix their toilet, I am morally obligated to refuse?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Georgia_(co...

This page says Georgia has 42k police officers.

I think the disbandment you mention was clearing out old corrupt officers and replacing them with new recruits, which is mentioned there. Not actually getting rid of the police.
The data are likely bunk and wall street is trying to convince main street that all is well [1].

I certainly do not share the optimism of the participants in the market. I think many people are in a state of denial and willfully ignorant optimism, which is understandable since people get irrational with their own money at risk (I've been there). The US (and arguably the world) is going through a lot of pain right now and it's tempting to look at this article (or any sign of hope, no matter how trivial) and think "everything is fine."

^^ Take a moment to reflect on the above - did it upset you? Are you smashing your keyboard in reply? Before you do, consider: that's exactly how rational markets become irrational, how markets crashed in 2000-2002 and 2008, and how they'll boom and crash in the future - unchecked emotional reaction to fear. If you need to take it out, just downvote and get it out of your system.

[1] https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/nothing-has-happened-shock...
Not that you need to be told this, but for anyone else curious, the Bhagavad Gita is so much more than an old story. If you are interested in reading it, I recommend having it read to you by a master, else the old cultural symbology and references will be lost on you or otherwise completely impenetrable.