skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I believe SSD native sectors are similar, so again, there's not reason to go for huge sectors.

SSD "erase" operations involve fairly large sectors but these are something you'd want to limit anyway, for the sake of data resilience. So using small sectors for SSD's may make sense too.
> "That or he will feel tricked and betrayed and wonder what other things in his reality were crafted for him by his parents."

Don't agree at all. Do you feel betrayed that Santa is not real or there is no such thing as a tooth fairy?
Stirring biopic of the first woman to win top maths prize
Related fun fact: bc is a dc preprocessor[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bc_(programming_language)#Hist...
In absolute units it goes up.

Simplest model: peasants get 90% of their calories from cheap grain, and the balance from expensive meat. The price of grain goes up, so now they can't afford meat and have to eat more grain to meet their caloric needs.
Whoops. I was sure I got it wrong. Thanks.
The rape thing is tricky though. Very unlikely they were really "misplaced". That answer sounds like an attempt to avoid the real, much harder discussions about the rape case pipeline.

Go investigate this for yourself if you don't believe me, but there are good and difficult reasons why very few rape cases go to prosecution. It's not a US problem or a Minneapolis problem, the same things are found throughout the world.

Core problem: a huge number of rape allegations are false compared to other crimes. It all starts from there. In anonymous interviews police will normally claim about 50% are false. There have been academic studies that reach similar numbers. There are also a lot of rather motivated studies that try to claim it's much lower, but when you dig into the methodology there are usually big problems and it's clear they've started with a pre-determined conclusion.

So how can a PD end up with 1,700 untested rape kits? Easy. A woman walks in and claims she's been raped. The police administer a kit. They also do a bit of investigation, probe her testimony a bit. She changes her story and renounces the claim. This happens all the time, it's an extremely frequent way for these cases to end. There are even pie chart breakdowns in some of these studies for the top reasons for renouncing an allegation, for example, it's often a tactic used as part of a fight, when the couple make up she goes and admits it wasn't true. Or the claims fall apart under investigation and she admits she was lying.

So the police shelve the kit. It's not worth sending it off to the lab when the claimant already did something that ensures no successful prosecution will ever occur. At the same time it's evidence so they don't destroy it.

One day someone finds the big pile of untested rape kits and goes crazy. OMG evidence of institutional sexism at the police, how can this be justified. Some police manager looks at the data for the reasons and decides "the kits are untested because we think 1,700 women lied to us" isn't going to go down well and doesn't want to start that argument, because a whole lot of very angry people, wrongly and delusionally, believe women never lie about rape. So they come out with this nonsense about them being "misplaced" and hope it'll blow over.

Low rape clearance rates are mentioned in the article as evidence of poor performance at this PD, but it's a bit vague as to what they mean. What you see though is that this particular crime has very low clearance and prosecution rates globally. When people drilled into loss rates at different parts of the case pipeline, they found there are no easy answers and no ways to change things beyond the obvious one of relaxing standards of proof to make it easier to put men in jail.
Santa? Tooth Fairy? Easter Bunny? Disney Land?

Memories are real, experiences are as real as one wants them to be.

We all learn critical thinking and separating fact from fiction eventually, but that doesn’t mean you can’t look back fondly on experiences you enjoyed as a kid.
Linux on the desktop "works" today just like it did twenty years ago -- painfully and with a lot of work to work around the operating system's inability to be a desktop OS.

Same thing with Java. Sure, it's not as slow as it was 20 years ago, but it's still slow and painful in comparison to compiled languages.

I've used Linux actively for 30 years or more, and I've never had a "great experience" once with it. It's a tool that I have to beat into submission to get it to do whatever ridiculous workflow someone dreamed up that can't be done on a real operating system.
I read your original comment as a simple historical statement that did it's best to make it clear that it was speculation about a possible cause and not a justification. Not sure why the GP is reading a moral stance into it.
Ignoring what issues? The police force is a respected institution in many countries, who act diligently and courteously.

Trying to sell an anti-police message to an international audience is American cultural imperialism at it's worst.
Hacker earned $10k in bug bounties just by GitHub search dorks
Also us at Swarmify[3]

[3] https://swarmify.com/
Astronomers have finally measured the distance of first observed Einstein ring
High and low fantasy: essentials to know
China's upcoming space telescope+station will share an orbit to allow repairs
The trajectory of cities following riots is well documented.
Cloth masks aren't trying to form a seal. They have a few roles:

1) They capture a lot of droplets coming out of your mouth. Do you sneeze in your elbow or in someone's face? A face mask does better than an elbow, and for every breath (not just a sneeze). So does a beard for that matter; if your sneeze goes around through a beard, it's catching big droplets too.

2) You know the six-foot-guideline? They effectively increase that distance. A person talking, yelling, sneezing, etc. can carry droplets 15+ feet in a straight line. If we're both wearing masks (or face shields), it's not going in a straight line. Beards disrupt linear airflow too.

3) You can't touch your face.

They don't stop virus aerosol. That's where you need a proper seal.

I'm not actually sure facial hair makes any difference with a cloth mask. Surgical mask would be in between. And an N95 probably becomes a surgical.
Funny. Despite being long time Linux user this is the first time I remember hearing about dc. I only knew bc.
Tightening Security on Microsoft Teams
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Jester. It’s the web framework powering the official forum site for NIM.

https://github.com/dom96/jester

https://forum.nim-lang.org/
Where's Waldo? Machine Learning Edition (2018)
Legos and Motivation
> There is no justification for this inquisition

I believe you may be confusing cause with justification.
> They weren't piloting an F-14 in Top Gun or something, there was a visibly unarmed elderly guy shuffling towards them alone on the sidewalk. It was literally the opposite of a situation that demanded split-second decision making.

Yea, life isn't a movie, don't you know? Regardless of how old he was, or how harmless he was trying to look, he could still be a threat.

> As with the grandparent comment, I question whether you even watched the video of the incident or if you are just repeating some stupid stuff you heard about the incident.

Yea, I did, several times. It looked weird to me. The push wasn't enough to knock him over.

I also just found out there is some evidence this was a staged event, complete with fake blood.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/06/did_an_aged_act...
Capital One and other debt collectors are still coming for millions of Americans
Dependency Inversion Principle – Solid as a Rock
Concertio Releases Free Community Version of Optimizer Studio
or the first time, conduct full-stack performance optimization using enterprise-grade patented optimization software, all free of charge! The web-based experiment management system supports experiment visualization, sensitivity analysis, sharing and more!
We Need to Rethink Product Management in an Agile Practice
Vivaldi is my "third" browser. I have it setup with maximum privacy settings and extensions.

https://vivaldi.com

"Vivaldi is a freeware, cross-platform web browser developed by Vivaldi Technologies, a company founded by Opera Software co-founder and former CEO Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner and Tatsuki Tomita."
Oh! I should totally make a bold version instead of relying on the browser. Thanks to both of you for testing and troubleshooting! I'll do it later after the kiddo goes to bed. I'm excited about looking into alternate glyphs too.
For an image classification project I wanted to complete, I had to do a bunch of matrix/tensor manipulation, and I thought it would be interesting to do it all client side in JavaScript. Things like changing the color space, taking slices/patches of images, etc. I'd be happy to share some of that if people are truly interested!
So how does one audit this Behemoth?
Growth has been slow initially because you need a lot of listings to be noticed - the bigger sellers all have over 1000.

Have you thought about padding your collection for the sake of exposure?
One of my favorite studies on purpose. Whenever you ask someone to do something, don't forget to give them the "why", or it's very unlikely to get done.
For experts who study coronaviruses, a grim vindication
I'm not going to expand too much on this because I haven't made up my own mind about it either, but you strike me as being in the same position.

I've grown up online, constantly consuming information and thus building up what to me seemed like a large body of useful knowledge on topics from comp. sci, data science, history, psychology, business, marketing and more.

The issue is that just constantly reading articles, books and consuming information has made me think I'm knowledgable, but in reality that knowledge is superficial, shallow, fleeting and hard to act on. Anything I think I know takes way longer to do because of unknown unknowns and a myriad of other factors you just don't get exposed to.

To use knowledge you need to internalize and create mental connections and the only way of doing so is by actually doing - not consuming. You may feel smart when you recall something you read months or years ago and share it in a relevant situation - but that's just a tiny fraction of what you've consumed. People don't learn by reading, they learn by doing.

The question: "why am I spending so much time consuming instead of acting" is an important question to ask oneself and for me the answer is that doing is boring. My brain has been hijacked by easy dopamine from games, forums (like HN and Reddit), YouTube and even Spotify. All of these easy, on-demand sources of digital dopamine have made all other activities harder to do without getting bored out of my mind. For instance I was learning Ansible 20 minute ago, but I got bored and started wasting time on HN instead.

Anyways, while I do enjoy FS, lesswrong, and a handful of other industry bloggers, blogs and aggregators I came to the realization that reading isn't furthering my goals. Only directed attention, effort and completing discrete projects will bring me to where I want to be.

More reading:
Deep Work - Cal Newport.
"Digital Detox"
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosurf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqlfWDyS1Io

Ps. It's easy to waste time reading about this too. My biggest realization has been that using any forms of digital feeds in the morning wrecks my attention span most of the day.
The Mali G31 is used in some pretty cool ultra cheap devices. Getting good mainline support for this GPU is really cool because of these ones :)

The Mali G31 is used in the Amlogic S905X{2,3,4} SoCs. You can buy a "TV box" with a quadcore Cortex A53/A55, gigabit ethernet, 4GBs of RAM and 32GB of eMMC storage for $30-50 delivered. Think of them as Raspberry Pis with included storage, case and power supply, preassembled. I wouldn't recommend them over a Raspberry Pi right now - getting a non-embedded GNU/Linux distro running on them properly is not easy - but these developments can change that. Right now it's probably better to spend some extra money on the Odroid C4 with the same chip and some accessories, because of the better community support.

The Mali G31 is also the GPU used in the Rockchip RK3326 in the Odroid Go Advance, a $60ish open source tinkering gaming handheld kit from Hardkernel. The first Chinese clone of this device was released for this with the same chip, so there's some indication the RK3326 will become a standard platform for retro emulation hardware. Pretty old MIPS chips were the standard for that until this year still, because the hardware follows software support.
Ian Tyson did a song along these line titled "Smugglers Cove". It can be found on his "Lost Herd" album from 1999.
The Simplest Microwave Receiver
IANAL but "18 U.S.C. 1038 - False information and hoaxes":

Whoever engages in any conduct with intent to convey false or misleading information under circumstances where such information may reasonably be believed... if death results, be fined under this title or imprisoned for any number of years up to life, or both

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2009-title18/html...
Elon Musk says Starship is SpaceX's 'top priority' from now on
I am not a founder but am simply curious about when the product will ship.
There have been studies which have found that the virus can aerosolize, but it hasn't been established that infectious spread occurs this way. For example, it could be that viral concentrations in an aerosolized form aren't enough to cause an infection (or maybe they can get there, in prolonged close quarters, but by then you're being exposed multiple ways, so it doesn't matter or can't be determined). Either way it seems that the protocol for preventing transmission probably won't change much; the current protocols (including ubiquitous mask usage) have been enough for Korea, Taiwan etc. to control the spread.
Monetary system without banks: Mutual credit at scale
Hence the ice age..extinction. Organisms only encode for certain levels of environments based on their past history. Some mutations get thrown in, providing select individuals with special doomsday survival genes.
List of most common surnames in Europe
Show HN: KeyCombiner – Organize, learn, and practice keyboard shortcuts
Perhaps. The authors, however, are respectable in the time I’ve read their blogs, tweets, etc. Guided by liberal principals and have expressed a generally good understanding of philosophy going back to the Greeks.
Well, that one word "reasonably" covers it all. You paint a fairy-tale picture, and all reasonableness is right out the window.

Oh! Oh! You deliberately left out (those …'s) the part about it being information about a crime! What a troll that was.
Ask HN: How do you deploy a Django app in 2020?
Hi. I'm a mid-level software engineer trying to deploy a small (2000 max users) django app to production.

If I Google: How to deploy a Django app. I get 10+ different answers.

Can anyone on HN help me please.
Or... They could appreciate the amount of effort that their parent made into making the world magical for them, they might reflect on that when they have children and do the same, and they'll be grateful for a wonderful upbringing.
The lockdown will be directly responsible for an estimated death of 40 million people globally due to famine, hunger, job losses and lots of other directly related issues. Is 40M people not good enough to protest against the lockdown itself?
Contextual alternates and ligatures are on my todo list! :) https://ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/punknova?lang=en is an interesting model.
I think it depends on the stylus and the software. This drove me batty for a long time. I now have a cheap Aliexpress drawing tablet (no display), Digimend, and MyPaint under Ubuntu.

It does as well as pencil and paper.

It's not as good as a fancy pen and nice paper, mind you, but it's good enough.

My major problem is straight lines. I haven't got that down yet (albeit with just a few hours practice). But writing has no lag, and comes out fine.
Nissan's CVT seem to be a counterexample of everything in your first paragraph.

I could also bring a lot of counterexamples to your second paragrah (e.g.: many german cars).
Well the organism IS part of the environment. So it wouldn't be able to encode anything if all it consists of is noise..remember.. we aren't separate from physics...we embody it.
Success Stories of Internet of Things
My site is matteomanferdini.com
You need to give us some more context, what do you mean by "analyze" ? how will the "program" get the data ? Is it textual analysis ?
Elon Musk at Joe Rogan (2020)
I want the staking mechanism to incentivise truth. Binary votes don't provide such a system. Binary votes (aka polls) can be useful to gauge opinions, but are insufficient to aggregate knowledge, and can easily be manipulated. Take for instance the stock market. If all a trader could do was make a binary decision of "Is this company good?" and they only get one vote, that doesn't generate any useful information. But instead ask them how much they're willing to pay for a share, then now we have high quality data about the value of a company, and that is hard to manipulate.
Good advice, and I wholly agree: design is important and deserves an expert.

> Reach out to some on social media

Any tips on how, or where?

My experience with fiverr is very much "hit or miss" and getting designers interested for a startup in very early phase is hard in my experience.
Because retirees don't know how to Google information about their own bank or retirement benefits.
I even spent two evenings getting the tools set up so that I can install a library that apparently supports unicode. I got nowhere. The core language might be interesting, but everything around it - including unicode strings - is a mess.
>The lack of support for btrfs is very unfortunate, as a NAS shouldn't be using ext4 with zero integrity measures and zero bit-rot protection in 2020.

Yes. But 220+ is way more expensive than 220J. For Something I expect in 2020 should be standard feature.

And those Ironwolf HDD aren't cheap either. The way things are going Cloud Storage is an increasingly attractive option.
Security fixes, for one. It's more convenient to rebuild one shared library instead of having to rebuild all downstream consumers.
Broadly speaking there is a tension between those two aspects of money that shows up in economic context: store of value optimizes for asset qualities, preservation of value in the face of inflation, risk, etc; medium of exchange optimizes for liquidity, fungibility, etc.

There is also a tension between those two aspects from a product perspective. The various aspects of money are slowly getting decomplected and decoupled. BTC does a perfectly fine job in the market solving for the store of value feature, and in particular for the inflation-hedge subfeature. It is a terrible medium of exchange.

As a product, Offset should leave store of value be and just solve for medium of exchange. From store of value perspective, touting Offset as an inflation hedge is going to turn out to be wrong, because their toy world understanding of inflation is wrong. But there is opportunity in medium of exchange, and plenty to do there. Focus on getting users, transactions, dealing with fraud, liquidity issues. Get trains running on those payment rails.

This kind of private credit network has existed for thousands of years. Find the specific ecosystems today in which this sort of private trust/credit machinery is compatible, ergonomic, and automating it meets a need. There are potentially lots of them!
> Value to society is rarely obvious

It's rather obvious. There are even offices that collect the relevant statistical data.

> you can eliminate most physicists and mathematicians

No. Both disciplines are required by a lot of companies today. If you have a look at www.indeed.com there are currently 3.5k jobs for physicists. There are subjects where there might be a dozen jobs per year per thousand graduates. But engineers are missing everywhere.
Perhaps, if gasses produced by life could be detected?

But we've detected life in volcanic vents, in arctic ice, in the upper atmosphere, in pretty much every niche on our own planet. Apparently life is pretty adaptable. So we have some clues already.
Manyverse: June 2020 Update
Notes from Reading Machine Learning Interpretability
I think your analysis is a little over-simplified but I generally agree. Facebook is clearly betting on American conservatives retaining power given their "light handed" approach on political advertising. Progressive and even moderate politicians are calling for regulation or even a break-up which makes it in the best interest for Facebook to support conservatives.

Regardless, if American conservatives lose some or most power in November, Facebook will simply move the dump truck full of cash to the other side and sadly things won't change.
To show a positive example, without word redefinitions: IMHO western society largely managed to end prejudice against left-handiness, while keeping the word "right".

(And this "left -> bad" or "right" -> good (or both) association is as (or more) prevalent in languages of the world as the "dark -> bad" association)
> could have been used [more] productively

Ah, that's the thing though.

Who gets to determine what is a worthwhile use of time and resources, and what isn't?

You?

Or the faculty, administration and the student herself?

I think you have trust them to know their business. Who better?

Anyway, is counting widgets produced (or software released, or academic papers published) really the best way to measure value?
Dickens was a serious social reformer though, not just providing comfort food. The point of "Oliver Twist" was to make people angry at the state of orphanages, "David Copperfield" at the idea of debtors' prisons, and even "A Christmas Carol" had a lot to say about how abusive bosses could be in the era before mandatory holidays.
Non-paywall: http://archive.li/2NeGG
Stack Choices: JavaScript vs. TypeScript
Death Spirals and Working Too Damn Hard
Thanks. That explains it. I wasn’t sure if <script> at the end of <body> blocks rendering of the preceding content. Apparently not.
Wheels don't, and shouldn't, replace RPM or deb packages, and I don't think anyone advertised them as such. They replace eggs or installing from source .py files, you should still build RPMs or debs on top of that if you want to do any system-level stuff like set up systemd services, config files in /etc and so on.
I tend to use print because it's easier for me to speed-read my sketchnotes that way, but I did come across a typography tutorial that explains how to do cursive connectors through variants. Maybe someday, if the kiddo starts learning cursive. :)
"shitbit"
Penetration Testing and Validating Security Controls
Critiqued coronavirus simulation gets thumbs up from code-checking efforts
> biggest impact on french comedy TV culture ever.

And french politics. French politics in the '90s and '00s wouldn't be the same without Les Guignols de l'Info.
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