skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't do drugs (aside from caffeine) myself, not even the legal ones. I'd also prefer smoking were banned (please, please, buy edibles). Yet I'd still generally legalize, and regulate (nearly) everything.

The "drug" war is entirely caused by society being crummy and having incomplete social safety nets. Those things should ALSO be fixed, but take far longer than a moderately sized reply to even begin to discuss. Staying on topic for just 'the drug war' and related arrests.

It would be trivial to make all of the criminals in the drug war vanish nearly instantly: just make getting a drug fix legal, cheap, and easy. (General reference, compare the Prohibition of Alcohol to booze today vs other drugs.)

Yes, some drugs are really bad, but making them not-legally-obtainable just means some criminal's going to fill the gap.
What's the URL to the app?
1kw of solar panels could do 5 tonnes a year. That seems feasible. 1000kw * 3600 * 5hr/day / 1.29e6 * 365
I do this same thing. I have a couple hairs that are thicker than others and I'll end up finding them (or I think I find them) while watching TV, reading at the computer, etc. But I end up accidentally pull out a lot of other hairs around the ones I'm trying to get. I have a thick and long enough beard that I can cover it up, but there's a bit of a bald spot in there.

Really interesting (and comforting) to hear someone else doing the same thing.
I've seen some ad-free alternative, but they usually have much less budget on promoting themselves, so harder to reach the critical mass (for network effect)
After a bit more searching and an email I found out it (Spontaneous Assembly 3.0) is posted here: http://300m.us/docs/computing/ :)
Ah, I thought this was a hip new 60% keyboard layout!
I keep [half] joking to my managers that they should spend a few days on the work floor doing those jobs they argue so easy about. Not doing so makes it impossible to prioritize their own tasks properly. There is some child like joy in picking tasks by what they feel like doing.
I greatly enjoyed this article. It was interesting and insightful, with many pertinent and eloquent quotes well and tastefully places.

I myself am more of a system-builder in my own philosophical work, and I tend to recognize, praise, and respect system builders such as Kant more than aphoristic writers such as Nietzsche (although that man is truly truly eloquent!), but nevertheless I appreciate a good aphorism highly. They're like gems, versus entire well crafted pieces of furniture.

In fact, in my own newest philosophical writing I've been attempting to write in a more dense and aphoristic style, as opposed to the wordy, turgid, and pedantically argued style which characterized the majority of my prior work. I do this simply because I think it allows for more pleasure in reading and more depth in certain kinds of understanding, and allows the reader to borrow idea of mine that they like even if they don't accept the system or the argument. As such, I am attempting to merge a highly systematic philosophy with a highly aphoristic writing style. It's developing, though, and I've not really caught on yet.
Apple Business Chat doesn't seem to be Blue though, at least in my experience with Apple Card Support. Messages seem to be Black, unless that's exclusive to talking with Apple (maybe businesses can have configurable color schemes).
That isn't police's job either. As Stuart Schrader recently documented on "Intercepted", the average cop makes one felony arrest per year. [0] Most of the time they're doing exactly what we've somehow noticed them doing recently: menacing people who don't have resources to defend themselves.

[0] https://theintercept.com/2020/06/03/the-rebellion-in-defense...
You're saying some people exclude others from their friends group because of fucking smiley faces on a message? God that would be stupid if true.
An open source tool built for monitoring heart rate
Recognizing non-programming open source contributors
Ask HN: What is the future of communication tools/protocols?
Is it Quantum communication? or something else?
You're a moron, I don't even care about any temp ban for saying that, too. Anyone who thinks like you do is a moron.
I am having trouble conceiving any situation at a school that would necesitate a vehicle like that.
I'm aware, I've owned a few 60% keyboards. As a non-vim developer, it's not fun for programming, to say the least, though I do get to practice some hand contortions.
I'd argue that "precise and clear enough description" means using a subset of English that's more complicated and much, much more verbose than python.

Have you read laws? That is the style of language that tries to make a "precise and clear enough description" in English, but it does not go far enough, it's still not sufficiently precise to be applied directly, you would have to use something like 'super-legalese' for that.

So even if you had a system that could accept English, nobody would want to use that because it's difficult to express precise and clear enough descriptions in English, and easier to do so in Python or some other programming language; and in any case, the difficult part of programming is thinking up the precise and clear enough descriptions.

This comes up in writing specifications for outsourced programmers. Writing a specification in English that's clear and actually precise enough takes more work than
just writing the code directly - since you have to do all the hard part anyway, and then have to express it in a language that's poorly suited to do so. And a reasonable specification is very much not precise enough to be executed, it relies on the programmer putting in a lot of the details based on their domain understanding and common sense, leading to very different implementations as that domain understanding and common sense varies.
"Secondary Mission" means that it would only perform the action on its way to/from its primary mission. So if--on the way to or from bombing a target--the pilot saw a Soviet AWACS aircraft, it would then attack. It wouldn't have been sent out specifically for that mission.
TL;DR:

- the CDC leader is not charismatic

- the CDC has 3,000 staff, but no mgmt.

- the CDC dropped the ball on notifying local officials of who was getting off airplanes

- the CDC has no data science coordination comparable to a random high school student

- the CDC was slow to do anything involved with testing, and contaminated whatever it did make

- the CDC appears to have gotten some information in Jan., but failed to execute until March (since the Wuhan corona lab is funded by the US, we should have known in mid-Dec. or sooner.)

- the CDC is hapless.

This was all predictable had the GSA, or any senior leader, audited them. I don't see their failure as funding-related - they're just an aimless bureaucracy.
It is opposite. Don't need to focus off from front glass.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/mexico-v...

A few morsels:

> Over the next two years, Arredondo said, he would be hounded, kidnapped, pistol-whipped and stabbed so severely that surgeons removed his gall bladder. In December 2016, he fled to Canada, where he now seeks asylum from gangs that steal fuel from Salamanca and five other refineries operated by Pemex, the state-owned oil company.

...

> Fuel theft is fast becoming one of Mexico’s most pressing economic and security dilemmas, sapping more than $1 billion in annual revenue from state coffers, terrorizing workers and deterring private investment in aging refineries that the government, following a 2014 energy reform, hoped instead would be thriving with foreign capital.

...

> Between 2011 and 2016, the number of unauthorized taps discovered on Mexico’s fuel lines nearly quintupled, according to a recent report by the federal auditor. Repair costs surged almost tenfold, to 1.77 billion pesos ($95 million).

...

> A May 2017 study, commissioned by the national energy regulator and obtained by Reuters via a freedom of information request, found that thieves, between 2009 and 2016, had tapped pipelines roughly every 1.4 kms (0.86 mi) along Pemex’s approximately 14,000 km pipeline network.
Why don’t we look at societies without police and contrast them to societies with police and tease out which have better outcomes?
>I almost think Trump keeps winning elections out of a sense of schadenfreude.

I definitely think a lot of his appeal has to do with his ability to rile up the left then demonstrate their ineptitude at stopping him. He's also doesn't seem to have much in the way of strong principles on subjects, instead, he does pretty much exactly what he thinks his supporters will like.

His corruption is the trade-off one makes for electing a politician like him. He'll do whatever it takes to make his constituents happy, and in return they give him a blank check.
Not everyone agrees that it's been "debunked". There's a lot of motivated reasoning in linguistics.
Tegnell has been openly discussing mistakes they made for at least a month:

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-sweden-lockdown-...

Today’s article is consistent with the statements he made last month.

As others have pointed out, we won’t know if the approach was successful until after we see post-reopening trends.
The state vs non-state discussion is still ongoing. The Stanford study linked above highlighted that there is a change in brain activity during hypnosis but there is also evidence for the non-state theories around expectancy, perception etc.

When I say 'state', I don't necessarily mean a distinct cognitive state, instead, I'm describing the characteristics: heightened suggestibility induced by expectation and focused attention.
A lot of keyboards optimize the wrong things at least as far as programming is concerned. All the optimizations seem to focus on letters but most of the time an editor or shell can auto complete keywords or identifiers. A ridiculous number of symbols seem to be a very long way from the home keys on weak fingers with modifiers required to access them. If I had to write huge amounts of plain prose and had RSI I think I would just dictate it rather than try and optimize the alpha layout.

I have been tempted to get a large ortho (lots of modifiers suck) and setup a split qwerty with a heap of symbols in the center columns between them. I type '"[]{}().=<> all day so I don't get why they should be marginalized. It is like expecting an accountant to use the 1-0 row instead of a numpad.
I'm a Starcraft player too. But I am not just a Starcraft player, and neither are you.
Well the teachers union in lausd at least is well known for protecting pedophiles salaries.
You can ask your team about the flexibility of their architecture. How easy is the current setup such that new team members can be added, how piecemeal are the components and apis such that tasks can be delegated.

It’s fair to be concerned that one or very few own your product implementation (and I speak as a developer).

MERN stack is okay, but it can easily have ten other pieces that will make it a highly specialized stack.

Things should be designed so you can rip out any of those letters. If you end up with a convoluted UI codebase, it will cost money and time to rip the R out.

If you don’t get the right people to setup your database right, you won’t be able to pull the M out.

The E and N are probably the hardest to mess up amongst the letters.

Don’t add anymore invisible letters to the stack if you can avoid it (there’s a plethora of extra stuff a typical full stack dev now days is prepared to pull in if you search around).
Why do you feel that phones aren't an ideal viewing device? The resolution and color gamut generally can't be beat. Is it the tiny overall size that turns you off?
It's amazing how we have, and used to have, all this great knowledge about process and methodology. (McConnell and Brooks) but yet the industry would rather throw their hands up and micromanage projects into the ground. (Agile).

The books that are published feel like they're targeting entry developers and it's a lot of stuff you'd learn on the job. It feels like we're over-promoting way too quickly and demanding delivery over experience or quality.

Interviews: You have developers that refused to learn this skill and they just skim a few leetcode problems and expect the interviewee to solve it in 15 minutes.

Best practices: What happened to developing standards and demanding/expecting tests (and their appropriate categories unit, integeration, smoke, feature/functional, etc)
Their portfolio
The idea of moving to a different chat platform won’t even come up if your current system has the features you need and everyone you want to reach is on it. What would nudge a group to collectively move to WhatsApp if iMessage is the default and works well for them?
That was my point with "when it's going to the same app". Messages from SMS and iMessage both show up in the same "Messages" app, and are indistinguishable from each other. So it doesn't matter if you're getting spam only from SMS when the app is still lighting up all the time.
I have no end game.
Ultimate Commodore 64 Reference
I was under the impression that quarantine was an option only to "flatten the curve" (and make it easier for the hospitals to treat people) and that the same amount of people would die regardless (from the virus), is this wrong?
VPC Peering in Google Cloud
Here's an extensive reply to Chollet's essay, also by the author of "There's No Fire Alarm":

https://intelligence.org/2017/12/06/chollet/

> ...some systems function very well in a broad variety of structured low-entropy environments. E.g. the human brain functions much better than other primate brains in an extremely broad set of environments, including many that natural selection did not explicitly optimize for. We remain functional on the Moon, because the Moon has enough in common with the Earth on a sufficiently deep meta-level that, for example, induction on past experience goes on functioning there.

>> The intelligence of an octopus is specialized in the problem of being an octopus. The intelligence of a human is specialized in the problem of being human.

> The problem that a human solves is much more general than the problem an octopus solves, which is why we can walk on the Moon and the octopus can’t.

>> Recursively self-improving systems, because of contingent bottlenecks, diminishing returns, and counter-reactions arising from the broader context in which they exist, cannot achieve exponential progress in practice. Empirically, they tend to display linear or sigmoidal improvement.

> Falsified by a graph of world GDP on almost any timescale.
I'm a well spoken law abiding brown guy and American police don't frighten me. Have you considered your fears are not grounded in reality? Even with the cop killings as high as they are (and they should be lower), you are much more likely to be hurt by criminal violence than violence from the police.
Thanks for the insight on this. As another anecdote, I used Google Sign-In to sign up for a certain popular coding exercise site. I just clicked "Sign In with Google", approved whatever email address access it needed, and done! However, when I later decided to delete my account, the account deletion UI required me to enter my current password twice to delete the account. Because I signed up with Google, I never made a password for this service. I imagine things like this lead to massive confusion for users. I still haven't figured out how to delete the account.
Yeah, before reading one of the carbon capture from the atmosphere papers, I hadn’t thought deeply about the challenge. Then I realized “oh, we’re talking about 350-450 ppm” which is less than 1 in 2000. Even though that CO2 is there and it’s damaging, you have to be really good at filtering to focus your energy on anything at a 1/2000 rate.

By contrast, the tailpipe folks (like [1]) or the smokestack ones have >10% of the emissions as CO2! (Figure 3 in the paper, also directly here [2]). It’s literally “1 in 10” versus nearly “1 in 500”. You can be a lot less fancy when the density of your target is nearly 50x higher.

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2019.0014...

[2] https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/465010/fenrg-07-0...
Sure it does, but cross platform IMs are not so socially discriminating. You can easily download LINE and move on with your life in Japan. But getting iMessage is an economic barrier for many, for which they end up being socially ostraostracized
> If I include a 3rd party package in the JVM, I have absolutely no guarantee that it will work well, much like in Node.

In the JVM you can use the security Manager [1] and limit file access and access to similarly sensitive areas. If you want you can fully guarantee that nothing is accessed randomly.

Of course that builds on the JVM not having a zero-day bug.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_security
RCS: no e2e, multi-device support, or any 3rd party application APIs on Android. In other words, gimped by Google.

Google's messaging department has been chasing it's tail for 10 years. Unless they clone iMessage from the inside out, RCS has no hope. Personally, I want to see RCS fail. It's a lousy spec with few privacy protections built-in. I had it enabled on my phone for a while and there was no indication as to whether my messages were passing through my carrier's servers or Google's RCS endpoint.
Clearly these people are not outraged. They're annoyed that we are, and the purpose of their debate is to dismiss us.
Mass Media was also... Not a thing. At least nothing like we understand it to be today.

In hindsight being 20/20 it's hard to comprehend the blurred optics of the past era.

Moreover, the blood libel of WW1 was still a fresh memory, and so many who did hear about Nazi atrocities were skeptical.

The world would be different today if not for the photographic and video evidence.
The da is not the police.
Oh, I've got a relevant story. There was a spec sent overseas for a system where one of the entity descriptions had a typo - in the title instead of 'Customers' it said 'Custoners'.

The 'Customers' table was referenced in multiple other places and tests, so the delivered system had no problems with that, the customer functionality worked properly; however, sure enough, in addition to the 'Customers' table the database schema also had a table 'Custoners' with all the fields. Because the specification required that.
Monzo to lay off up to 120 employees as ‘economic situation’ remains challenging
The Physics of Magnetic Monopoles
Lets restructure the problem slightly, so the objection is clearer.

Instead of binary data, think of decimal numbers. We’ll take a five digit number and compress using function f to a four digit one.

We could come up with many different ways of doing this, but lets just throw away the most significant digit.

F(00123) = 0123
F(01234) = 1234

Great - but now what happens with a five digit number?

F(12345) = 2345

We lose information. We can’t encode the fifth digit in any of the other digits because that would change their meaning.

It should be evident that there is no scheme where you can encode a five digit number as a four digit number without either being lossy:

For some X:
F’(F(X)) != X

Or having undefined ranges i.e.
F’(F(X)) = X, only where digit 5 = 0

Increasing the number of digits just obfuscates the problem by moving it from the realm of numbers, where it’s clear there can be no 1-1 bi-directional mapping between two sets of unique numbers where the cardinality of the sets is not equal, to the realm of ‘data’ where we can confuse the issue.

At the end of the day, a function that only takes 2^(1015 * 8) Unique input values can have at most 2^(1015 * 8) unique outputs. And while thats a lot of outputs, it’s far fewer than 2^(1024 *8) that you need to represent to be able to compress any random input.

Ill leave you with a quote from Oscar Wilde:
“A true friend stabs you in the front, not the back”
Yeah this is the sort of bullshit detail that gets inserted into the narrative for CYA reasons. Pedestrian hit-and-run victims are reported as cyclists because of course drivers can't help but run over cyclists. The scary black man was "menacing" Karen, not telling her to pick up her dog's nasty excrement in the public park. Obvious bullshit.
Looks very interesting, but re-learning how to type is so painful, not to mention devastating to my productivity at work, that I think I can only afford to do it once in a lifetime...

I recently made the switch from QWERTY to Dvorak, during a 2 week period while I was in between jobs, and it was one of the most frustrating things I've ever done. Over a month later and I'm back up to a plodding 60 WPM (from a glorious 120 with QWERTY). Not to mention how shot my vim keybindings are!

Maybe if I eventually switch again it will be less painful, but the experience has taught me that typing is almost 100% an exercise in muscle memory.

Anyway, my point is, I wish I could be the kind of person that could type fluently in multiple keyboard layouts, if nothing else then just for the heck of it, but I'm not sure I'll ever have the kind of time to make that happen. Cool project though! There are certainly words and bigrams that are needlessly hard to type in Dvorak.
> My guess is pretty much never

I'm not able to know how often it could prevent such slander in those times, but we can look at the incentives. In those times, the authorities (church, newspapers) had central control over the main narrative, which is still mostly true today, but is beginning to fall. Back then, it seems you could slander minorities and there was pretty much no way for minorities to defend against it. In contrast, the upper classes had a means (duelling as an example) as an incentive against slander, and that imposes a cost on it. On social media there is no cost to publish lies. Verifact seeks to impose a cost on lies because you need to have something at stake. So I think if it existed at the time, Verifact would make it more costly to slander minorities, and it would be more profitable to disprove all kinds of pseudoscientific beliefs such as racial superiority and Nazi eugenics. Of course though, Verifact requires access to communication channels and tokens and that wouldn't be viable in those times.

> authorities of their own choice, one could easily choose more forward-thinking judges

Yeah could be interesting. I'd just want to make sure people don't create echo-chambers or follow others based on political opinions rather than facts. Perhaps letting people 'invest' in the judgment decisions of others would help, and you'd get notified when they stake.
Problem tenants are different levels of problem in different jurisdictions. In San Francisco, I can imagine a landlord being perfectly happy to eat the distress of a tenant burning down their property, given that in the same stroke they solved the problem of their occupancy of the property.
This is 100% true especially stupid libraries that are someone's class project. And JavaScript developers are so used to dependency hell that one of my developer imported 3rd party package for date formatting.
I'm amazed that people are able to quickly "try out" new keyboard layouts. I'm not a particularly good typist as it is. I feel like a new layout would take months of infuriating practice and lost productivity to learn.
Crosswalks in the middle (not at intersections) like the UK. (This is an engineering solution.)

Make the posted speed limit actually tend to line up for green to green when going straight, and send turns down the road from the sides just before straight (to make going a tiny bit slower hit the green).
I'm talking about having to move the focus from the road to the windshield. That still takes time. If the HUD is "at infinity" then it's ok, but would you need special glasses to make that work?