skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated.

There seems to be a trend to paint people as imbeciles who can't tie their own shoelaces without somebody standing over them, and then on investigation it turns out not to be true.

There was a story a while back about a couple who drank fish tank cleaner (containing chloroquine) after Trump touted chloroquine against the coronavirus. Come to find out the couple were not fans of Trump but were having marital difficulties, so now you've got to weigh the possibility that these two were stupid enough to drink poison against the possibility that the woman discovered a way to intentionally poison her husband and pin it on Trump:

https://nypost.com/2020/04/29/homicide-cops-investigate-deat...

More often than not, when you see someone doing something apparently colossally stupid, it's because you don't know the whole story rather than because they're actually that stupid. People understand nuance plenty when it's important to them.
It is stunning at how effective the crackdowns have been at radicalizing the population against the police. Thoughts that were the absolute unthinkable left edge of political discourse are now policy in one city within a week. That’s lightning fast.
Yeah, that's actually what I said in an earlier comment. I said a lot of people who instruct forgot that certain techniques they do are actually part of the process but it's so automatic to them they gloss over it.

Agreed with you that I rely on videos less and less as I go. But I just kind of tinker with stuff until I figure it out.
The recommendation against masks was probably a knee-jerk reaction. Or maybe a bureaucratic "we know better than you" reaction

At the same time the amount of people that think that have the mask below the nose or just at the chin or mishandling it because it feels "uncomfortable" to them is astounding. I'm not sure but I believe an intubation is more uncomfortable (and yes these are predominantly people at risk ages)
I'm comparing actual stats of natural deaths that have happened, and you are saying it is better to compare hypothetical/imagined stats with the real ones to be more accurate?

Should we now also imagine/project the homicide death rates if all civilians were peaceful and happy and compare it with that of the real deaths caused by the police?
Bintracker a Chiptune Audio Workstation for the 21st Century
> One possible reason is for security/abuse?

> I assume these extensions require communicating with some central server (owned by Microsoft) to exchange information with peers at some point during its use.

So I'm no WSL expert but why would Windows Subsystem for Linux or SSH need to communicate with some central server? Also unless they're doing some obfuscation, you're going to see those URLs in the binary to start with, no? Or you just... watch where it calls out to?

> Allowing the extension to run in contexts outside of VS Code could be an issue for them?

How? If it's a warranty issue then they should just issue the right statements in the license and make sure no one is under the impression that there's a warranty attached?

I tried to think of some too but security doesn't pass my admittedly simple sniff test.
There are more kinds of profit than money. Specific knowledge and access to where it came from can be priceless.
when I was a college student I have to admit I resented continuing education programs. Here were thousands of people like me were racking up of thousands of dollars in debt literally mortgaging our future to pay for these classes and there were senior paying little to nothing to take classes. I still am not sure how we can justify a system where we convince impressionable minors that they need to in-debt themselves for decades and then allow seniors to take the classes free? this just seems inequitable to me.
> This repository contains build files to generate free release binaries of Microsoft's VSCode. When we speak of "free software", we're talking about freedom, not price.

> Microsoft's downloads of Visual Studio Code are licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contain telemetry/tracking. According to this comment from a Visual Studio Code maintainer:

> When we [Microsoft] build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this. We clone the vscode repository, we lay down a customized product.json that has Microsoft specific functionality (telemetry, gallery, logo, etc.), and then produce a build that we release under our license.

> When you clone and build from the vscode repo, none of these endpoints are configured in the default product.json. Therefore, you generate a "clean" build, without the Microsoft customizations, which is by default licensed under the MIT license

> This repo exists so that you don't have to download+build from source. The build scripts in this repo clone Microsoft's vscode repo, run the build commands, and upload the resulting binaries to GitHub releases. These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. Telemetry is disabled.

> If you want to build from source yourself, head over to Microsoft's vscode repo and follow their instructions. This repo exists to make it easier to get the latest version of MIT-licensed VSCode.

> Microsoft's build process (which we are running to build the binaries) does download additional files. This was brought up in Microsoft/vscode#49159 and Microsoft/vscode#45978. These are the packages downloaded during build"

That's the entire contents of the link. Which part of that do you think explains why they don't use Microsoft branding?

> none of these endpoints are configured in the default product.json

Literally all it says is that by default it doesn't use Microsoft branding. It never says 'why'. At all.
I didn't know that this is called a refinement type! I've been wanting it badly, both in Nim and in Rust. Now I have a way to search for what I'm looking for to learn more.

Would it be possible to use this to ensure a string matches a certain pattern? For example, maybe I want the string to look like a phone number or zip code. I know I can use an abstraction to do this and have some level of safety, even without a statically typed language, but I love the idea of implementing that with primitives. As far as I know it isn't really a thing though. I'm assuming a refinement is only really a refinement of a type within the same system, and doesn't allow for special logic like pattern matching. That would be amazing though.

I've spent so much of my career working with dynamic languages, it's hard to know exactly which tools are available to me with these kinds of type systems. I love it though. Learning to leverage types has been such a fun shift.
Also, police departments are insanely expensive for what we get as the public.

Excluding pensions Baltimore will pay $268mil, and has a homicide case closure rate of 30%. It’s hard to say that this is a reasonable usage of Baltimore’s resources.
Fair points! You could probably make an estimate with a stratified approach but if 0.3% have already died there’s no wiggle room for additional deaths.
Yes, but hiding your money in the mattress doesn't create jobs, businesses, innovation, etc. I fail to see the "issue in Keynesian thinking" you're talking about.
I get a lot of my news from text.npr.org. Only a daily basis, it still seems about 40% articles are about covid
Without a vaccine, if people keep social distancing, we'll never have herd immunity. Suppose the US gets 25,000 new cases daily. That's 9.1M per year. OG SARS immunity lasts three years, and other coronaviruses are similar. We need more like 300,000 new cases per day to have a shot at herd immunity. The big caveat is we have 25,000 reported cases per day. How many asymptomatic people are getting tested? There needs to be more antibody testing so we can answer these questions.
The idea is to close it and not replace it. The only tool in the police toolbox is violence; despite this, they have become catchall first responders despite being wholly unequipped for most scenarios.

We should treat drug use and mental illness as public health issues. We should treat homelessness by housing and feeding those who want help. We should treat domestic disputes with social work. These are complex issues that deserve specialized responses.
... what? So people weren't productive before computers? What does your story have to do with being productive or with productivity between now and the 90s or the tools you used?
Seems quite similar to a Dutch app, wiebetaaltwat, which is used a lot here.

It is mostly used for thinks like days out and group holidays, and allows you to share expenses as well. Still, I have heard some people never settle their balance and just have an ongoing list. Whoever owes the most picks up the tab the next outing.

https://wiebetaaltwat.nl/about/how
I didn't mean it was easy "easy". But it's more than doable. And it's been done in Syria: https://www.thedefensepost.com/2018/05/01/russia-syria-elect.... It's also very asymmetric, similar to e.g. advanced airplanes vs anti-aircraft rockets, or aircraft carriers vs submarines. One of the options is way cheaper, and makes the other not very viable if shit hits the fan.
I have an old Tablet PC that came with a program that did this. On a roadtrip one day a friend was bored and she stylused in all the letters. Her printing looks a bit like a child's and I've used that font a bunch of times now, on everything from kids menus to thank-you letters from my dog. I probably ought to pay her some royalties!
This has me feeling excited for something new and interesting. I'll be watching on Monday.
Yes, this is a good option for some.

However, the ZOOM web client lacks quite a few features, including viewing the video of more than one participant at a time. I believe it's also not possible to share audio. So if you need to do any of these things, you really still have to install the ZOOM client on your computer!
> 3/4/5G phones will always drop back to 2G if it sees a 2G service whilst 3/4/5G frequencies are jammed.

This is not always true. For example, Jio is an LTE-only network and phones are set to "LTE only". They will never switch to 3g/2g.
This is unfair due to the selection bias of news. If such a policy works in 99 cases out of 100, that 1 case makes it into news and skews perception of the policy. Sure, there are people who break out of prisons. But that doesn't mean that prisons can't keep people inside.
Right... because they bought Github.

I guess we can gauge how much embrace+extend+extinguish MS is doing by whether Atom gets winded down or goes into maintenance mode. I know it's not as popular as VSCode is now, and development has slowed since it burst onto the scene, but if anyone at Github actively works on Atom maybe those people should be worried about being reassigned.
This is the typical Open Core model. Whatever you need for lighter-weight work is free, but things needed for professional work are paid.

Same thing is done by JetBrains: you can have the open-source Idea CE for free, but if you want e.g. Spring-specific support in Java, you have to pay.

Whether this is a right balance for you, is for you to choose.

[Update: I didn't know the closed parts of VSCode are given away, too]
Could be an awkward situation. If Fenn refuses to disclose where the treasure was buried, he'll go down as one of history's biggest douchebags, at least in the minds of the many people he inspired to search for it.

If he does disclose a location, and the treasure never actually existed, then he risks someone calling BS. ("I searched in that exact spot last summer and here's the GPS history on my phone to prove it.") He would also have to make his way out to the stated location at the spry young age of 89 and dig a plausible-looking hole.

So people are really going to resent him unless the treasure was real and he discloses where it was. It's understandable if the finder remains anonymous, but the burial location had better not.
No, they didn't. They reasonably believed masks to be useless (at least compared to the burden of having everyone wear masks).

They simplified (and arguably over-simplified) the public communication.

Insisting that they lied is uncharitable at best, and a hallmark of all sorts of conspiracy theories right now.
Love this project. I wonder why not make it run on smartphones? I'd imagine that's the vast majority of computers out there today. Easier to find a working smartphone than retro consoles.
The downsides are huge, including everyone knowing or thinking that they know your medical secrets. More or less we know what we have or risk, yet until it hits us like a ton of bricks we keep eating, sitting and drinking.
They protests are only directed at a subset of those killings.
worry about this "The latest Parenscript release, version 2.7.1, came out on December 5, 2018 "
Here it is, from peopleware:

> I was teaching an in-house design course some years ago, when one of the upper managers buttonholed me to request that I assess some of the people in the course (his project staff). He was particularly curious about one woman. It was obvious he had his doubts about her: “I don’t quite see what she adds to a project; she’s not a great developer or tester or much of anything.” With a little investi- gation, I turned up this intriguing fact: During her 12 years at the company, the woman in question had never worked on a project that had been anything other than a huge success. It wasn’t obvious what she was adding, but projects always succeeded when she was around. After watching her in class for a week and talk- ing to some of her co-workers, I came to the conclusion that she was a superb catalyst. Teams naturally jelled better when she was there. She helped people communicate with each other and get along. Projects were more fun when she was part of them. When I tried to explain this idea to the manager, I struck out. He just didn’t recognize the role of catalyst as essential to a project.

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I don't think engineers blindness is the cause in the majority of cases, and that woman would be put on a PIP.

To get ahead things like unethical behavior, lying and corruption matter far more than competence, teamwork and making real contributions. A lot of people simply can't stand to admit this.
It’s true. I tend to be on that far left edge of political discourse, but had you asked me three weeks ago I would have bet a lot of money against the Overton window shifting so much and so quickly.
An interesting question is this: which 20% got it? A representative sample, or a localized group with unusual risk characteristics, like retirement homes or prisons?
Or training police to be social workers?

A good friend went through multiple police academies a few years ago. They all had lots of training in “social work” and “community policing” and “root causes of crime”.
Every time I hear this, it contributes to a little tickling feeling I have called "What are in this office for, then?" When I hear it, I can only wonder what it is these managers actually do, if they aren't there to solve problems?
Yes I do. That easy access to guns on both sides is a big part of the problem. Militarised police and easy access to guns are IMO one of the biggest reasons for this discrepancy. It can be fixed, it just requires gradually tightening gun laws and changing police culture.

There are also cultural issues - policing should be with the consent of the population, if you lose that trust and end up in an adversarial position, violence moves from the last resort to the first resort.
Baudline is awesome, thanks for the TIL!

What errors are you getting? You're right it doesn't work OOTB, I needed to fiddle with it a bit.
Exactly. Why do you think you disagree with me there?

The point is that when almost all contagious people stay at home, we don't need community masks. We only need them because contagious people are asymptomatic (that's new!), tehrefore don't know about their status and therefore go out in public.
There’s the risk of death and injury, which is an interesting discussion, and then there’s the fear. With cases beginning to rise rapidly in multiple states again, I expect the latter to have a more dominant effect on our behavior
Lately, I started to think we make a mistake when we guess what motivates large, poorly defined groups like “Democrats”. I say “we” because I do it all the time, too. Maybe the way back to a less polarized society is to focus more on what people do/say and less on their perceived motives.
The highest ranking officer in a democracy is the president -- an elected civilian.

This was not the case in nazi germany, and the military was forced to follow orders, regardless of their consent. This means that if you had the choice and the ability to disobey but didn't, then, by definition, you were a culprit.

Politics is greater than the military. War is defined as the act of imposing your political will over your enemy through organized violence. The "organized" part is the part that you have a problem with, but that is fine because you can be a civilian or even a critic of the military. However, I can't see how a person, who, out of a superior moral capacity, able to cooperate without the understanding while still keep and protect their values -- I can't see how such a person is blind or looking for excuses for exemption of responsibility. Not everyone can have that capacity and it is most likely a result of upbringing and I don't know if there is a military in the world that can generate that in a person.
> Are youtube ads really unskippable

No. I never see ads on Youtube on my own devices, and that barely requires any effort.
How was the first assembler assembled?
Can anyone explain to me why I should be concerned about vs code telemetry? I have zero personal information in the IDE and all the code I work on is already in the public domain with an open source license, so why should I care?
Maybe for software that runs on computers that you manage. But what about end-user software?
You'd probably be on the hook for the amount of the IOU, so you'd better hope no one found it before breaking even.
At amazon a lot of the "engineering" managers are so incompetent they can't write for loops.
Exposure to peers.
What are the chances that someone compromised his phone and tracked him via that? With $1M at stake, anything is possible.
If you expose water to sunlight UV, it will sterilize.
Every other night I am reading a children's book to my 3 year old son where a very similar story takes place, plus pirates :)

I hope that we can "replicate" this adventure some day.
>Why not at least do some health studies?

Why do it when you can get by without doing it? You just need to use the "science" label here and there, and throw the word "peer reviewed" here and there. And nay be you will have to pay off (which comes up to virtually no cost to the entities in question) some of the top people in the research (Who probably are planted long time ago in various fields)...
That’s an interesting point about police brutality vs. violent crime. Is that supported by evidence or just a supposition? Not trying to send you on a wild “source?” goose chase. If it’s just supposition, that’s fine.
That's a different definition to what is commonly accepted.

Structural racism is often called systematic or institutional racism[0]. It doesn't have to be deliberate, but instead is something that perpetuates reduced status of a racial minority by the way laws or institutions are structured.

A commonly used example is the difference in laws and sentencing between crack and powered cocaine. The 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act created a mandatory minimum sentence on 5 years for 5 grams of crack cocaine, but the same Act made the 5 year minimum sentence apply to 500g of powered cocaine[1].

This doesn't appear to have been deliberately racist, and instead it was mostly in response to media hype about crack. But it had the result of meaning blacks were much more likely to be sentenced to prison for minor drug offences.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism

[1] https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/crack-vrs-po...
Is there a newer version of this? This is for Linux 2.6.36, released October 2010.
Of course there is. There are legitimate reasons for owning a rifle in rural America (hunting), there are no legitimate reasons for owning an assault weapon, and guns can easily be made gradually less attractive. If you don't accept this even as a possibility you are part of the problem.
Now you would have to argue that real time face recognition is truly and solely a bad thing. If used correctly it can help reduce the violence in communities, catch child molesters, rescue kidnapped kids etc. Finally it would help defund the police as it can increase its efficiency.
"Mark Twain" had a posthumously published essay in which God points out that, just as one builds a boarding-house for the benefit of its boarders and not of the building, man was created for the benefit of his microbial population.
That Reddit post is funny to read from a 2020 perspective. Things aren't so stable now.

If I won a $600MM prize, a good chunk of the $30MM spending money would go to buying a large property in rural southern Utah with good water rights, quality arable land that can grow fruits/vegetables/hay, an airstrip, and a defensible position. I would stock it with lots of food, guns, ammunition, and diesel fuel.

Having that retreat is as important to me as having the $30MM in treasury notes.
> to undermine our trust in the social institutions we rely on.

Is it YTs fault that the WHO was the absolutely dead last institution to recommend face mask usage on the planet? That even some countries that are having a very poor response have already recommended (or made mandatory in some circumstances) the use of masks?

That the WHO is accepting all manners of political interference from China?

Is it YTs fault that Lancet and NEJM published a completely fabricated article about HCQ usage at the point where this has become a contentious point? Sure, in the same week we have had other serious studies about it, but that one was, most likely, a fraud, that was rubber stamped by journals.

That, at a critical moment, researchers from a prestigious epidemiology centre have pulled some models they had on the shelves without enough second-guessing it and predicting very catastrophic results (which granted, there might have been unknown at the time reasons for it)

So yeah, I don't think it's solely the fault of Youtube and Facebook.
This is funny to me as it reminds of my early days on help desk where we would get fed up with people coming in telling is what solution they needed for their tech problems instead of telling us the problem and letting us find a solution that made some sense.

So we’d say the opposite, “Don’t bring me solutions, bring me problems.”
High-humidity areas will destroy any electronics. For example, you can literally watch mold grow on a wall in the Bali interior.
When I went to submit a physical copy of my PhD thesis to the relevant office, the person in front of me was an old lady, at least in her 70s or even her 80s.

We had an interesting conversation. She had completed a PhD in Greek literature, I think. Self-funded. Taken the standard time. She was sorry about all the domestic responsibilities she had put on her husband. She had, with her, a younger friend (a lady probably late 50s, early 60s) to help her with computers :D

Made me feel very differently about all the hard work I had done. Very inspiring and uplifting. She said, she did it because she was bored and wanted to go beyond her two Masters degrees.