skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To quantify the value of a method it is useful to consider the amount of information that the method recovers from the data stream, the prediction accuracy of the resulting models, generalization ability outside of the conditions used to fit the model and decoding/reconstruction accuracy. For all four of those criteria, the best approach is to use linearized encoding models that estimate an FIR filter for each voxel separately.
>To be clear, "defunding" here doesn't mean to zero, just defunding most.

You should talk to some of the people advocating these policies. They mean what they say, which is the police budget should be zero. While I'm sure some thoughtful activists exist, and some referenced in the article seem to be, it's going to become impossible to control the fringe who just want "more".
It seems that Blue Origin must be making good progress.
There was also a group of people who wanted to see Clojure succeed who donated money ($100 each, if I recall correctly). But I would guess that was a drop in the bucket compared to what he had to spend of his own money.
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How Cities Offload the Cost of Police Brutality
Do smart people tend to be more liberal? https://theconversation.com/do-smart-people-tend-to-be-more-...
Have you considered putting the app on f-droid?
Fix your tracking and privacy from Google
The article shows a simple workaround for getting around any tracking or privacy. This works even if you are browsing in incognito mode.
Book Club: Startup Edition
Take the rod out of your own eye. What do you believe and why? Is it based on facts?

Step back for a second. Some of these cities that are currently being ravaged by riots in the US are being run by left/liberal democrats. In places like Chicago/Detroit, they've been run by black democrats for years!

It is about class. They are well off minorities in power who are using the system to keep themselves in power, just like their non-minority counterparts. They are part of the problem. What if this is less about race and more about class (and yes, systemic racism is likely leading to more black people being kept in that lower class, but that's actually a slightly different issue).

In a period of extreme civil unrest, do we really need less security? Disbanding the police didn't work in Iraq. It turned things to chaos.

How about just more police, with less guns, less expensive vehicles, and get rid of all private prisons?
Agree. Probably should’ve used a more solid example, but was just trying to convey the essence I suppose.
Is Mountain View particularly high crime?
Absolutely pathetic and shortsighted. iCE40 is popular exclusively because of the reverse engineering work that this prohibits.

I was actually thinking that Lattice might be an interesting place to work, considering the growing open source ecosystem centered around their devices. No longer.
Reminds me of the great Line Wobbler game: https://wobblylabs.com/projects/wobbler

Still need to make one of these using the Twang code https://github.com/Critters/TWANG
stick to safer topics, like "What's your mother's maiden name?" or "How many 9-digit numbers do you have memorized, and what are they?"
My copy of Manufacturing Consent has yet to be opened. I need to get into it, as people keep referencing it regularly.
Author here. This application was initially part of my domain parking service https://projectpending.com/. Bunch of people asked about the DNS server powering the service, so I extracted it into a separate open source project.

In general the development for PendingDNS was fueled by my deep hate towards zone files and slowly uptdating DNS servers where you have to wait 15mins before any change actually gets propagated. There is no reloading in PendingDNS as all record changes are written directly to Redis and also read from Redis to serve DNS requests.
How do you even tell whether something is right? That's not always a simple question to answer.

Sure, one way is to have an automatic test suite and an integration system that moves commits that passed it from one branch to another. If you can actually make a test suite that has no false negatives and finds enough negatives to be useful, that's great.

In my (limited) experience test suites are not close to that ideal. I've worked with systems where there was an automatic build test at least, and sometimes that catches a bad commit. But I think for many fast-moving projects there are few useful errors these systems can find, and sometimes they have annoying false negatives. The thing that I can think of that would most improve my productivity right now is a check that nobody added tab characters in the source code.

(I realize my comment might not apply to a situation like LLVM, where there could be a large test suite of programs to compile and run for example).
Is amazon the only way to pubish an ebook?

Surely he could just post a PDF for paid download and have readers send the PDF to kindle if they really need to read it there.

Calling a book "unreported truths..." while things are rapidly changing is misleading at best
Can't help but think the AI-generated content is a little ambitious, with results like these, for reference I chose Music & Entertainment > Indie Music as the categories for generating content:

> Indie music is a great genre of music. Indie music is the best of indie music. Indie music is my music, my life, my music. Indie music is the world. Indie music is life. Indie music is indie music. Indie music is Indie music.

> The band formed in 2009 in the New York City music scene. The group has been featured on: MTV, NBC, BBC, CNN, PBS, The O’Reilly Factor, BBC Radio, MTV, NBC, BBC, MTV, and MTV2. The band has been the subject of performances at several shows such as: E3, E3 2013, E3 2014, E3 2015, and E3 2016. The band has been featured in: YouTube, YouTube Red, YouTube Music, MTV Music, and YouTube Vlogger.

Who would this actually be useful for?
https://theconversation.com/do-smart-people-tend-to-be-more-...
Decrease funding. Reduce budget.
> I also don't like smug community. When you say about the lack of documentation and get told that's a good thing, clojure is meant to be hard to learn, it's not for everyone and maybe you just aren't smart enough...

Where did you experience this? That is unacceptable in most of the Clojure communities I know, and the only big one I don't know personally is the subreddit.

(I am not suggesting the subreddit is toxic.)
Hardened Gentoo
But how does defunding actually change the rules? The police still seem to be above the law even after defunding.
You're proving the OP's point with those links i.e. the car makers were lying about their plans for a decade and at this point I'll believe it when I see it.

According to the first article you linked, in January 2018 Ford promised:

>Of the 40 electrified vehicles Ford plans for its global lineup by 2022, 16 will be fully electric and the rest will be plug-in hybrids, executives said.

Needless to say, Ford will not have 16 fully electric cars by 2022.

They'll have Mach E this year, maybe. They promised electric F-150, no date given.

What are those other 14 EVs to be shipped in 2 years when they don't even have a prototype today?

If you want to see their real plans consider this March 2020 report https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a31944369/ford-gm-producti...

>The Reuters news service obtained the production plans of Ford and General Motors, which showed that SUVs and pickups, not electric vehicles, are what's coming.

>Combined, Ford and GM plan to make five million SUVs and pickups in 2026 while building just 320,000 electric vehicles

This is based not on PR promises but actual plans Ford has.

320k / 40 imaginary electrified models is less than 10k per model, in 2026, not 2022. And 320k is combined for Ford and GM.
Yep. Depending on if I’m going into the office or staying home, I have two Victorinox pocket knives of which I always carry one. Slicing apples, cleaning dirty nails, (un)screwing stuff, prying out a battery, cutting open packages, uncapping a bottle. All from a package-of-gum sized aluminium tool in my pocket
JVM is not to blame here, it's Clojure that takes a while to load and initialize. Java actually crushes Python in every aspect in terms of performance (which is to be expected of statically typed language).
Well he's absolutely right, but in 20 years when SpaceX owns the only Mars-Colony/City i vote also to breakup SpaceX
The 8 weeks from when the first PPP loans started going out is about to elapse. Weird they don’t mention that at all.
Thank you and very inspirational!!!!
I'd argue that I was able to do the exact same thing 20 years ago using VMWare Workstation - download a VHD image with OS and app(s) pre-installed and configured, optionally map to a drive on the host OS and get started instantly...

Maybe I'm too old to get the appeal of "a fleet of containers" in place of a single (and potentially throw-away) VM image along with maybe even a vagrant-script to make it easily reproducible... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah... basically it forces you to be "more serious". Those moments when I want to check Mastodon, or my personal email, or my RSS feed, I just stop and think: what if I need to share this with a fellow coworker (unlikely, but the thought is there).

It also forces me to think out loud which I found it useful because it helps me improve the way I would communicate my thought process to someone else.
I'm part-way through porting Oricutron to the PineTime developer watch. I just have to work out how to solve the keyboard issue, and then I'll be sporting Oric Atmos as a time piece.

Also, the Oscilloscope Watch is supposed to be shipping now, finally. That's gonna be a hard watch to not add a synthesiser module to.
Well is it not cheaper(by payload mass) to have higher protection to your equipment than more fuel ? Any benefit is useful , and this could be substantial depending on the strength of materials used
Curtailment of QI should come first, but defunding the police in a vacuum will be very dangerous as long as the power of civil asset forfeiture exists. You may remove tax money from the police budget, but that just sets up a perverse incentive to confiscate more cash and property to make up the difference.

Curtail QI _and_ civil asset forfeiture, and we will have set the stage for real policing reform.
Breaking the Renaissance Myth
Let's say a company has a board with members that put decisions to a vote. Even that company is not a democracy.

No company elects their leadership through 1 person = 1 vote.
I think this is a bad idea. We really need drastically more police training on things like de-escalation. I think we actually also need more police. Part of our problem is that while putting police in cars and dispatching them centrally via radio let us cut down on the number of police we use it also had the effect of making police officer isolated from the community. The start of this in the US was during Prohibition and this was looked on as a plus at the time in terms of enforcing laws communities didn't agree with.

Making the police's only community contacts be with criminals means that they subconsciously absorb social norms from criminals and I think that's on display right now. We need to purse community policing even at the cost of decreased efficiency. We can't get rid of the police and the US's current system is obviously not working.
Covid-19-Konforme Sitzplanbuchung
The fact he openly supported the abolition of the age of consent and almost certainly engaged with sexual activities with minors
I don’t really know what anyone in this situation wanted to happen here? Amazon and Apple and Google have been trying to stem the tide of a massive wave of low-quality books and apps hitting their stores trying to make a quick buck off people’s ignorance and fear.

Refusing to publish content related to COVID because nobody has the time and resources to go through them all is the best you can do. If they just let people publish the story would be “Amazon doing nothing about COVID misinformation spreading through their store.”
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I agree: dead salmon study outlines the flaws of Statistics. This study outlines the flaws/limitations of poorly formed experimental paradigms to which fMRI is not immune. Its like comparing applies to oranges.
Name any US jurisdiction with an elected chief of police.
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Sourcegraph co-founder here, thanks for the mention :)

Doing code search well is basically what Sourcegraph is all about. We support full text and regex search over many repositories. Sourcegraph.com indexes most repositories on GitHub.com and we also have a Docker container that you can spin up to index code on private code hosts.

Our search is fast and our query syntax is powerful: https://docs.sourcegraph.com/user/search/queries.

Most of our users are daily users and most of our customers deploy us across their entire engineering organization to make all code accessible to all developers (subject to permissions). We view search not as a single feature, but a large collection of related, but distinct use cases:

* Honing in on error messages

* Debugging and resolving production issues faster

* Comparing different packages / libraries

* Figuring out how to use a particular API

* Understanding what a function does

* Detecting patterns and anti-patterns

* Enforcing code quality best practices (saved searches)

* Large-scale code changes (easy find-and-replace across your entire codebase)

* Walking the reference graph in code (i.e., jump-to-def and find-refs, and tooltips as you browse the code)

We were inspired by a lot of the great code search tools that companies like Google and Facebook have built internally for themselves. We're also investing in promulgating new pattern matching languages (e.g., https://comby.dev/) that we think will yield huge productivity gains for programmers who find regex has its shortcomings.

We will always be free to use for individual developers. Our code is open-source. We make money off of enterprise. You can try us out on open source (https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph) or spin up your own free instance (https://docs.sourcegraph.com/admin/install/docker). If you end up checking us out, would love to hear your feedback!
Go back to the market activity during the Arab Spring. The market definitely does care about uncertainty RE trading partners and Hong Kong is a huge trading partner.

40 million unemployed domestically means lower demand for many businesses. Who will buy new cars (with debt), houses (with debt), consumer electronics, etc etc?
Likely because the company that provides OSSFuzz employs a large number of developers that work on the unreleased compiler, so consider it part of the QA process.
I certainly don't like the death rate either. Unfortunately lots of countries are in the same ballpark, 3-4/10000, but with wildly varying stragies. "Only a few months" happens to be the same timeframe for almost everyone else, so not sure why that is relevant. We aren't "doing very little", lots of restrictions on behaviour and travel, but certainly less strict than many other places. "Effort" isn't a good proxy for effective in these circumstances.

I think there is at least two things going on:
- The long-run approach being taken makes it seem like nothing is going on, since there isn't much action. Slow and steady easily registers and stillness.
- Tons of misreporting, in all directions. I get newsclips from friends in the UK that are just out wrongwrongwrong, and they are wrong in different ways and directions!

With this being said, I hope that Sweden's approach is in't the best! Why? Well, that would mean that large parts of the rest of the world is doing something better (if we simplify it into "lockdown" vs "limited restrictions"). That would cost us here in Sweden 1000's of unnecessary death, but perhaps spare millions in the rest of the world.
I know it's against the HN rules to complain, but this comment really feels so generic. Like every time a JS project is posted, 'oh npm is so bloated'. Everytime there is a new app, 'oh electron is so inefficient'. Everytime something is packaged in a docker 'whats the point of containerizing this'.

It's really making me sad to browse HN sometimes.
Right. I've been thinking about how to solve that. One possibility, although it's very manual, is to mark those idle times and then tell my processing program to either chop those bits or making them run faster.

Another option is to just detect when I'm not speaking, or typing.
Love it. This is the dream of open-source.
If you believe the news headlines without thinking about how they're feeding you a carefully-constructed narrative, then yes. The stat everyone likes to quote is that cops commit some ludicrously large proportion of all murders by strangers, but of course people don't generally go around killing people they don't know. Beating, mugging, burglarizing at gunpoint? Sure, there's plenty of that... but murders are generally someone known to the victim.
I made a small ruby gem to convert (most) of vimwiki markdown format files into html (using GitHub's markdown conversions). May be of use to some of you reading this.

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Civilian on civilian violence is many multiples higher than police on civilian violence.

Look at what happens anywhere there is a police vacuum. Be it Somalia, Mexico, Paris Suburbs, South African townships.
as you may be alluding, i suspect the education budget is even more bloated than the police budget. it could probably be reduced 80%, and if done sensibly, have no measurable effect on educational outcomes. a lot of that budget is probably spread across administrative overhead, security theater, and bandaiding other societal problems (food aid, healthcare, social/psychological services, etc.)

i'm not suggesting we shouldn't help the disadvantaged, but that it's inefficiently misallocated under education, masking the severity of those issues in some cases.
> Thank you for making my point. iMessage is not texting. I'm responding to this.

To your average iOS user they are one and the same, which is why US iPhone users don't generally download secondary chatting apps unless they have to.
Mostly that there is an interplay between the config that gets spit out by CRA and the editors that consume it, I don't need to give intellij the run config for the 400th time, it's just there by default. I click run and it runs.

An exercise for you to try that might illustrate it. Setup create-react-app and get hello world up and running. Now do the same with Clojurescript. That should include a way to hot reload and edit because that is often the next steps.

Notice the friction that CLJS still has and the aimlessness of starting from a build script as is suggested on the Clojure site vs getting a functional build in two commands.

I don't want to come across as ungrateful for the hard work that David and Alex and the whole team put in, they are the only reason have dev tools that feel comfortable to me and I can't thank them enough for that, but I just want to point out that friction and difficulty and to try and get people who do understand to put themselves in the shoes of developers who don't and to acknowledge that we as a community can aspire to more.
This is the situation in a nutshell. Would be comical if the topic was different.
Astronomers discover 30 degree arc of ultraviolet emission
Oh look, this again!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18963574
Is there any way to buy or otherwise play line wobbler?
"'Back in the day', early Clojure adopters would ask one to read SICP before asking questions."

I was in the Clojure usenet from very early on and do not recall this happening. That's not to say that it never happened but it was certainly not a common response to questions. Instead, I remember early adopters like Chris Houser, Chas Emerick, Phil Hagelberg, and many others taking a lot of time to help people who had questions with the language.
I think it's important not to hate the police. If there are problems with the system, it's the laws that need to be changed. We're seeing that right now with marijuana laws, and it is having an impact.

We can do the same by at least offering better programs for people arrested for meth/opioids. More free treatment. If they fail out, fine, go back to the jail route, but give people a chance to at least try and choose.

The police do take a lot of money, but we're also seeing more money go to teachers/schools, working-class city workers (garbage, sewer, public works). That's not always a bad thing, but if you break down the numbers, you can often find corruption everywhere (like a school district superintendent taking like a $300k income).

I think the focus on police is the wrong policy choice right now. That's not the core issue. It's everything else.
I'm confused by your reply, since we both agree that Rich deserves a wikipedia page.
I doubt it, the valuable thing is the GitHub brand but the meat lies on Azure. Most developers still see Microsoft as the old Microsoft of the 90s but they are actively working on that image or brand by acquisitions like Github or NPM. The inverse is most likely where GitHub is just a web endpoint for underlying Azure services.
> Apple has no motives to send the BSA after anyone

... until your virtualization layer starts having a material impact on their precious hardware sales.

You cannot build business-critical systems on contractual clauses being "unofficially unenforced".
I'm sorry if your company conflated diversity and inclusion with lowering hiring bars. Everywhere I've worked, that hasn't been what diversity programs are about.
I just picked out a few cities - Chicago [0], NYC [1], and Wichita [2] and it turns out that they all spend very similar amounts per FTE (105-120k). I tried to find the online budget for my hometown PD, but couldn't.

[0] https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/obm/supp_info...

[1] https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2...

[2] https://www.wichita.gov/Finance/Operating%20Budget/Police%20...
Yes, when you regulate the supply of oxygen to an organ which uses oxygen for fuel, that organ's behavior will change.
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So your standard is you only judge groups collectively by the actions of some individuals when they have investigative powers?
Note that you have a typo on your landing page text, a bit ironic considering what the site is about:
"Fast, working pages means better rankings."