skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but cases are trending significantly downwards

I don't mean to nitpick, as I wish to uphold the high community standards here, but this is false when compared to the worldwide data in aggregate. New cases are actually spiking, higher than during the lockdown. See [1] , at the bottom right, "daily cases" tab. The record for 'total daily new cases' of ~130k was set 2 days ago, on 3 June.

Making individual (or collective) decisions based on the false premise of "cases are trending significantly downwards" is very dangerous.

[1] https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
> This is not just a theoretical either: Google Duo supports E2EE group calls on Android, iOS… and web!

Google Duo does NOT support E2EE group calls on web... They actually don't support ANY group calls in the web app.

Lack of good support for e2ee multiparty calls is probably why - the hope is that adoption of insertable streams will change that.
I respectfully disagree. I think the looters/insurgents are causing the chaos.
Don't those numbers need to be normalized to take into account the size of the populations? You posted absolute raw numbers for blacks and whites, without noting that depending on how the categories are defined, the white population of the US is 4-6x greater than the black population of the US. 4x is the absolute minimum, so if you were to weight them proportionately what you posted would show a very different story.

If the most conservative numbers are used (only 4x as many whites as blacks in the US), then it turns into this:

2017

Whites: 457

Blacks: 223->892

2018

Whites: 399

Blacks: 209->836

2019

Whites: 370

Blacks: 235->940

2020

Whites: 172

Blacks: 88->352

But practically speaking, without splitting hairs too much it's a heck of a lot closer to 5-6x than 4x.

EDIT: formatting
Thanks, man. I've earned several key promotions with this one easy trick.
That's not evidence that it could be done in the US.
Are you paying less, all in? (e.g., taxes)
Sacrificed months of productivity to fast off 70 pounds in hope it would fix sleep apnea. It didn't.
> I also suffer from asthma, you shouldn't be woken multiple times a night from it! That's very severe if it's happening with any regularlity and you should speak to a GP about it.

I agree. Unfortunately I don't have a GP, and now's a hard time to get in as a new patient.
Can’t yet. Valid use case, point taken. I use Safari.
What will you blog about? Make sure the audience is big enough that you can make money from it. Too big though and you might get lost in a sea of voices. Quality content and marketing is key. It’s been awhile since I blogged though so someone else might have better advice regarding marketing / social media platforms / SEO rankings.
I started building an end to end encryption API once that includes server/client setups. I promise I'll finish it one day (there's still client - client to do. client - server is all done) https://gitlab.com/DrRoach/NetworkAPI
That’s not the anti-competitive behavior described above.
I used to work for reddit. I was talking with another former admin, and we both remember a post on reddit asking admins how they got their jobs at reddit. I was never able to find it, but Ellen Pao said something like "I invested in it and asked for a job."
Double checking the dates. CVS is 1990 (source control before SVN before git). Visual Studio first release is 1997. Eclipse and IntelliJ are both 2001 one month apart. PyCharm is 2010. Jenkins CI is 2005 (initially named Hudson). Teamcity is 2006.

Code quality is limited to the tools available at the time. It was an uphill battle to preach for (automated) scripted builds or any form of (automated) testing without having the later tools/frameworks/infrastructure at disposal.

Funfact: The java compiler was still fixing "bugs" in 2016 to be able to produce an identical JAR between builds.

Nowadays if an intern opens PyCharm. He can get right away a lint report on the current file and entire codebase, finding potential bugs and questioning why is this thing not running automatically on commit. This pushes quality up organically quite a bit. By comparison doing embedded C++ development in the 2000's, I can only recall of one company having a static code analyzer, that costed no less than $50k for a handful of small projects (they charged by line).
Facebook live is an obvious example
Fired up this and conferencecall.biz

Now this is corporate horror!
It might not be what the article meant since it only mentioned { } braces in connection with JavaScript, but this is a very good point!
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Also same source, but more comparison against a wider variety of other languages and general benchmarks of data structures and algorithms: https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks
Thanks for the tip, this definitely narrows down problem space to poke around with.
Cops typically carry guns, tasers, a knife, pepper spray, and a baton. Cops in patrol cars also have additional gear in the trunk. Maybe people react poorly to heavily-armed people trying to intimidate them? If we focus only on downside risk then eventually all scenarios require Robocop.
This is a journalist with credentials with a fully sourced and referenced book. It is censorship because of Amazon's absolutely dominance over the market. Their marketshare means they literally control the medium for the majority of people in this world who read e-books.

You can say the same thing about Google/Youtube: it's their platform, but when 90% of people in the world go there first for videos, any removal does turn into censorship.

Yes, we should all be running our own peer-tube instances and authors running their own sites to distribute DRM free books, but until we actually get there (and we won't because people are sheep and don't like putting in effort when so much is in front of them on their 1984 distraction device), then Google, Amazon and others will continue to be The Ministry of Truth.

I wrote about this in 2017:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/the-new-era-of-corporate-...
I literally almost wrote this. I am glad I didn't because because you framed it better.

My gut tells me that there's no financial incentive for the government to target them. I.E. telco lobbies
I have no idea what the skin color or gender or sexual preferences of other users on HN are and you don't know mine. That's how I prefer it.

The other day I unsubscribed from a popular Javascript mailing list, after the writer switched from writing about Javascript to writing about how white people and black people should interact.

Or rather I didn't unsubscribe right away: I emailed the writer politely and mentioned how I prefer posts to be about the thing that unites us: Javascript.

Their response: "my platform, my voice", "all tech is political", "this mailing list isn't for you", and later on Twitter: people who unsubscribed are racist and should "eat shit".

I don't believe I'm racist. It's just that I signed up for Javascript tips and the writer switched to politics (in this case, the politics of a country and culture I don't live in).

I'm no more interested in their political views than they are in mine. On the internet, nobody needs to know I'm a dog.
It's just a thinly veiled allusion to "dog whistling" which all of these supposed free speech zealots like to throw around whenever they feel that their safe space is being questioned.

I'm no fan of r/politics, but to actually believe that they're basically the same as TD is just wild.
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Just as an example: there's a site Tom's Guide that monetizes in an article here: https://www.tomsguide.com/best-picks/best-vpn

The site is huge and they're doing affiliate marketing on multiple pages, not just my example link.

Also: The articles are also authoritative, authentic and not mere blogspam. They explain everything in detail and offer insights; the affiliate links are not the sole purpose: they want to write a blogpost too!
I have one kid and two cats. Two cats is less work than one cat.
That’s an argument for a level playing field on trade, enforced via regulatory means; what’s wrong with that?
But they did some good work on stories about people in the public Eye that they did not like. Thiel won that battle but will ultimately lose the war.
Here's more about how this came about:

https://github.com/pippinbarr/itisasifyouweredoingwork/tree/...
I don't know what to tell you. I followed it during the election but it got too disgusting. Immigrants, and Muslims were large targets from what I remember. Lots of misogyny towards Hillary Clinton as well but I guess that doesn't count. It was certainly much worse than r/politics which is very biased but not racist.

Plenty of really gross Pepe memes. I mean, I don't know what to tell you.

538 did an interesting analysis into the kind of people on the sub at the time https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dissecting-trumps-most-...

They always did a good job of some token news story as a "see we're good guys!" type post but if you scratched the surface and read the comments its was obvious.

The 538 article has some examples
https://np.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5ldfmg/red_pills...
The CDC and WHO both at various times recommended against the general public wearing masks.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/4/13/21214114/media-coronavi...

This advice was wrong. It is not just sick people that benefit from wearing masks. It is not true that people are flattening that into "masks don't work". Masks don't work was repeated many, many times by these organizations.

Here's an example:

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/commenta...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-masks-r...

https://www.businessinsider.com/who-no-need-for-healthy-peop...

Let's not practice revisionist history here. These organizations were dead wrong, and it had severe consequences for the spread of infection.
Many places have decent telecoms competition with a similar number of carriers.

As far as I understand the problem in the US is that many locations have just one wired service provider. Meaningful competitions would require that most buildings have multiple sets of fiber.

Splitting telecoms by geography seems pointless: California and Texas ISPs can't compete with each other without huge capital spending.
How can it be that the right wing are simultaneously back woods idiots and also capable of out teching the coastal elite?
This article by one of the Crystal developers explains why this comparison is not fair: https://crystal-lang.org/2016/07/15/fibonacci-benchmark.html.

> When doing operations between integers, Ruby will make sure to create a Bignum in case of overflow, to give a correct result.

> Now we can understand why Ruby is slower: it has to do this overflow check on every operation, preventing some optimizations. Crystal, on the other hand, can ask LLVM to optimize this code very well, sometimes even letting LLVM compute the result at compile time. However, Crystal might give incorrect results, while Ruby makes sure to always give the correct result.
... is there a problem at all? If all they're doing is shooting up then the problem, if any, lies within the observer's mind. OTOH if they get so high they can't perform their job, and the corporation still doesn't care, then I guess there's an issue somewhere. But I don't know if heroin is the problem; if my coworkers aren't doing their job because they would rather play Snood that's equally as bad.
«anything that may destroy your future»

Did I mention a specific event? No. Stop bickering, it is childish.
I appreciate when technical writers use humor (those headlines!)
I'd be amazed if TruffleRuby could beat Crystal, given the problems most JITs have had with Ruby. By restricting the extreme dynamism of Ruby a bit, Crystal can allow for optimalisations that no Ruby implementation will be able to match. It's just really difficult to properly compile languages where it's possible to dynamically redefine the + operator based on input from HTTP requests. That said, Truffle is looking super cool and Crystal does not have anything near the size and quality of the Ruby ecosystem yet.
I did specify "(mostly)" which I think is rather accurate. It's rather close to a completely single-provider model (in each of the constituent devolved regions, as you note) compared to the system in Canada, for instance.

> With largely public or government owned providers, this also fits into the 'Beveridge Model' of health care systems, sometimes considered to be single-payer, with relatively little private involvement compared to other universal systems.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-payer_healthcare#United...
I think you have to accept it. Zoom was in the right place at the right time. Now it's a verb. The good news is that once a brand becomes a word, it doesn't really mean much about the company itself. I blow my nose into CVS brand Kleenex. I have a Xerox machine made by Canon. I've captured many a "Kodak moment" with my iPhone's camera. Windows users routinely "Google it" by asking Cortana, which actually uses Bing. And I Zoom with my friends on Discord.

All in all, the COVID-19 pandemic has created a lot of strange victories. Would Tiger King, Animal Crossing, and Zoom have been popular if they rose to prominence at a different time? Probably not. I think the pandemic forced niche things onto people that don't normally encounter them. Adults have video conferences at work, but the pandemic brought them to kids. That is a recipe for a cultural moment and genericizing their trademark. (Animal Crossing I can't explain. I assume that the people that were going to play it were already going to play it, and I assume that the people that were going to reverse engineer the code to figure out how turnips were priced were going to do that anyway. But maybe not.)
The problem is that this emotionally charged state will lead directly to policies designed to defuse the situation rather than solve the underlying problem. This is how systemic issues persist (well, the main reason is 'doing nothing', but i digress)
Can you share more about this? What’s a capture card? And how did the latency turn out?

I’m interested!
Yes, but there is almost no way to fully follow through on clear and universal principles. Instead of worrying about that, consider the possibility that our moral feelings are generated by a natural receptivity most of us have to the suffering of others, and that even if these feelings to not appear consistent with a universal and logical philosophical schema, I think it's more appropriate to carefully listen to the compassionate concerns of others than to try and develop ways to ignore them.

Maybe there are situations where it's justifiable to sell goods or services to a PD (if there are situations where it's justifiable to buy a smartphone or laptop, this is probably the case in my opinion) but it's still unproductive to dismiss someone who disagrees out of hand. They are probably disagreeing because they have a strong moral feeling about the practice, and it's worth respectfully listening to the reasons they have for feeling so strongly, rather than dismissing it out of hand because you don't think it's feasible to implement universally.
It seems a bit strange that the half-year points would matter... I wonder if it has to do with the season? For example, does your daughter like going outside and it's easier for you to go outside at the .0 than at the .5 because of the weather where you are?
That tweet says they only resigned from the Emergency Response Team. They're still employed.
This reasoning seems much like Communism vs communism;

communism, as a concept seems fair and just. Communism in practice by Russia or China has often benefitted a few.

police, as a concept of investigating and providing justice for crimes is a good thing; American Police, however, are showing fundamental misunderstandings of the rights of citizens and have seen reduced repercussions because of things like qualified immunity, asset forfeiture, or biases.

Another example of an attorney representing the people, is a good thing; but in US law (as opposed to European law) the DA sometimes seeks a conviction EVEN IF the DA has found exculpatory evidence (and doesn't have to share that evidence with the charged or their attorney)
Unfortunately had to leave the country for some time, will miss this chance for now. Thanks for the recommendation though.
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> I’m told the entire
@BPDAlerts
Emergency Response Team has resigned from the team, a total of 57 officers, as a show of support for the officers who are suspended without pay after shoving Martin Gugino, 75. They are still employed, but no longer on ERT

They "resigned" but are still employed? It's not a resignation if you keep getting a paycheque.
"Truth and Accuracy" sounds like a good name for a government ministry. Wonder if it's been done.
I've made that decision myself months earlier, leftism is worse in my country than in yours.

Saying all <insert race here> are rapist because a <insert race here> person is a rapist is not ok, but generalizing on cops is pretty fine, that's what makes leftism an intelectual degenerescence - and I have 15 years of leftism action behind me, regret it a lot, feel kind of guilty about it even.

"ACAB", the slogan of fucktards, now replacing the ecologist bs on hn.
It's not proof but it is evidence
Again: take forum advice with a grain of salt. And apologies if you have already pursued this avenue.

It's possible that something is keeping you awake--a fear, an anxiety, a repressed emotion, loneliness, etc. If your mind perceives that resting would be risky for some reason, it won't--whether or not the risk is physically real, or imminent. There is a lot to be worried about in life, from immediate personal issues to global social and environmental concerns.

A therapist, psychologist, or psychiatrist may be able to help. I don't mean sleep therapy specifically, but general emotional and mental health.
If you say that, they might claim they took it as a threat and were scared for their lives and shot you.
I'm a pilot. This isn't remotely a fair comparison. There are lots of very complex and nuanced situations in aviation that require judgment calls. People are going to get it wrong sometimes. We're human.

That's a far cry from this situation. There is no "judgment call" here: don't violently shove elderly people to the ground for no reason. If you accidentally do, help them up. If you pass by an elderly person lying on the ground and bleeding, check on them.

There's no "mistake" here.
You may want to edit the link.
Have you been out in any of these protests? I have. I'm not just repeating media coverage — I'm telling you what I've seen with my own two eyes, and what people whom I personally know have experienced.
Just because you claim it to be false does not make it false. You could be wrong.

So what exactly does someone "deserve" for expressing a contrary opinion?
Scapegoating is a wonderful thing
It doesn't get flagged. To be fair to HN, they do want just tech news. Most COIVD and riot posts are weighted down. It looks like it takes them 3~4 times as many votes to rise as other articles. I can understand them wanting to keep HN focused on tech. It's a good distraction during this.

But when we do occasionally see these posts before they get flushed to page 4 or 5, I love the fact that the comments are filled with a lot of rational back and fourth and good arguments.

Reddit is the ultimate cesspool of extreme-left right now in almost every city/state/country sub. It's absolutely insane and people who do not agree with official narratives are constantly downvoted to oblivion.
> "have really perfected the VC signaling down to choices of clothing, speaking styles, and shitty treatment of (some) employees"

Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos comes to mind...
I believe this might need to be enabled somewhere in the settings.
Yeah that sounds like possible sleep apnea. Have you looked into doing a sleep study?
Revolutions always end with some powerful person (often from within the military) becoming the most powerful person.
Maybe there should be a law enforcement equivalent of

https://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/

which is something that the aviation regulators created in response to some of the dynamics you mentioned.

(I don't know how ASRS authenticates that people making reports are really pilots or aircrew.)
Didn't literally the same happen with Standard Oil?
Yes, killing is morally reprehensible. But given that we'll not end the practice of war anytime soon, how can you regulate all the senseless killing people are determined to carry out so that it at least some pretence at morality is upheld. That is the sort of problem I had in mind.
What? I'd be shocked if Amazon even published a majority of books sold. There is no way they are monopoly or even close. I looked and couldn't find reliable stats on it. Does anyone else have any?
How was your productivity affected during your weight loss?
I'm not sure which of the solutions you're referring to, but after Googling I found these three solutions:

- https://obs.camera/ (which seems to be the most promising)

- https://www.newtek.com/software/ndi-camera/ (mentioned in a forum)

- and EpocCam https://www.kinoni.com/ (from the answer below)

I'll leave these here for people who stumble upon this answer, but if you were talking about another alternative I'd love to know about it. For now I'll give OBS.Camera a go and see if I like it. Thanks!
I don't see how you concluded that. I don't see why you would bring white males into this, though it seems like a sensitive topic for you.

> Make people mad at you for existing.

You brought this up, not the commenter.

Commenter:
> Don't tell people anything about your private life, your politics, your religion, etc

Does not say to keep a specific belief private, but in general practice. This helps avoid conflict with people who disagree, as well as deter people looking for a point to drag you down for.

And the above quote is when it comes to personal branding in a business - I believe I don't need to elaborate on why you shouldn't talk politics with a client, as well as keep your personal life separate from business.

The latter half of the comment reveals that that they simply prefer to keep their personal details to themself. To do so digitally makes sense, considering how often it is for people's data to be sold. In-person, the commenter does not practice this extremely because their friends inevitably get to know them better, and the commenter gets to know said friends.

If anything, why don't you elaborate on your interpretation?
US Park Police: It was a ‘mistake’ to say no tear gas was used in Lafayette Sq
"Civilized" societies don't have more natural resources available, they are just able to access a much, much higher portion of the available resources.
"Go" with Ruby like Syntax.
Oh give me a break. You're being willfully ignorant if you actually believe this to be the case. For months there were front page posts on reddit, manipulated by bots, from TD that were some of the worst content I've ever seen outside of 4chan.

I mean, reddit scrambled to implement a subreddit filtering feature just to provide a means for users to filter TD out due to the near constant complaints about the content of that sub.

Meanwhile, they banned other subreddits for much, much less. They actively fought to provide them their safe space and wrote actual features to support that subreddit.
Banning a subreddit doesn't ban it's users.
Somehow professionals under the constant threat of malpractice lawsuits and criminal/civil liability are able to operate and flourish in their industries just fine.