skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think it's intellectually honest to compare countries with very, very low rates of firearms access to a country where firearms are available to anyone who wants one?

You're comparing the USA, which has about 100k shootings per year, 36k deaths involving guns of which 33% (~12k) are homicides, to the UK which has 50-60 cases of homicide involving a gun per year.

The fact is that the US police are far, far, far more likely to encounter a suspect with a gun in the course of their duty than the UK police are.

38 US police officers were shot dead in the line of duty last year. The UK had 3.

They're not equatable.
If it avoids context switches and memory copying, or even reduces them, it could be a big win for high throughput networking stuff.
I could see myself tuning in a couple times a week.
> If it's indistinguishable from random data, then you've given them no reason to suspect you.

It depends on the IT person really, your company, and your opsec. Does your shell history contain luks commands? Are your logs clean from any trace of mounting? Are dirty blocks on the disk free of that data too? Are your machines centrally managed with logs shipped out? Do your local logs look like they've been only continuously appended to, or are there likely uneven rewrites? Does your system contain encryption software you're not using in normal operation?

If you really want to hide that information, the encryption itself looks like the smallest issue.
https://www.cringely.com/2020/05/11/jeff-bezos-cant-lose/

[Considering Amazon breakup or ...] John Malone of Liberty Media could advise Bezos on ways to keep Amazon together yet gain much of that additional value through the use of tracking stocks. These are separately traded shares that are linked to the financial performance of specific Amazon divisions. Malone has used tracking stocks a lot to get Liberty’s market cap up and it works. Maybe it’s only 75 percent as efficient, but then it involves a lot less paperwork and investment banker fees.
I read some stuff about how various cognitive biases produce poor investment decisions, like "fear of loss" and "sunk cost". I recognized that I fell prey to them.

I thought "how would I invest if I was investing Monopoly money just to win a board game?" and realized that my decisions would be completely different. With that gedanken experiment I was able to make better investment decisions, though I still can't entirely overcome the biases.
This is really cool - how have your customers found you? I imagine a lot of people would do content through Instagram?
You're digressing from the core, indisputable truth: these protests, in the present environment, will result in a significant number of deaths. Sure we won't start to have a sense of just how many until a few more weeks have passed, but we can say with relative certainty it will be "significant".

The reason people are dodging this is because it makes these protests morally indefensible, on balance. This is terribly inconvenient if you've entrenched yourself in a particular way of thinking and no longer wish to question it.
He was impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of congress, both pertaining to Ukraine. He can be impeached again on First Amendment charges.

> He wouldn't be indicted.

A First Amendment violation might be harder for some Republican senators to stand behind.

> There's so many better things to go over now like the actual cause of the protests.

With Trump threatening military action to break up protests? I think protecting the right to protest could be more important. It's also a clear problem with a clear solution. That doesn't exist for abuse of police power; it's a much more nuanced issue.
I'd kinda prefer it then, too. If it's short and I'm just scripting stuff up it's probably mostly calls to existing code (libraries) so almost all the static typing would do is tell me when I'm screwing up and give me hints for valid arguments with types and names, with little or no added overhead. It'd be very nice.
Treatment of the coronavirus has been anything but trivial. The monetary cost per year of life saved has been out of line with that of any other intervention for any other disease or threat to human life.
I happen to agree: several hundred, or even several thousand more people dying as a result of COVID 19 is a worthwhile trade off for the progress and change these protests are enabling. If that’s your opinion, own it. But that’s a political opinion, not a scientific one. Scientists have no business trying to clothe that political value judgment in the garb of expert analysis.

The problem the public health sector has worked itself into is that it dismissed any attempts to analyze “trade offs” when we were talking about economic trade offs. So now they have to pretend like we’re not talking about trade offs at all. Hence the completely non-sensical premise that protests are okay because police brutality is a public health problem.
Wheelbarrows (Both European, and Chinese) are very useful, and do not require large animals to pull.

They aren't super-great in hilly terrain, though.
> Fenn, who lives in Santa Fe, said he hid his treasure as a way to tempt people to get into the wilderness and give them a chance to launch an old-fashioned adventure and expedition for riches.

Pretty cool. I wonder how long before we see that part of the plot of Ready Player One come into being from now?
Curious, never used Netlify but I'd assume they provide server based analytics?
If this is accurate, then they are indeed talking about going without a police force, in their words a "police free" future.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MattFinnFNC/status/12697741470239...
Oooh. More words == real substance? Nope.

One of my best friends likes to just say "facts" when he agrees with something. If you study Shannon's information theory, you'll find that using more characters doesn't mean there's more entropy in your bit stream.
"Hey buddy, you're the one with the sex toilet!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83KLxQ1jjdg
Conceivably, you could do some sort of analysis on how much systemic racism has an impact on black lives as a measure of year of life lost, etc.

But you'd also have to do the same for the 3 months they've taken from everyone else due to lockdowns.

Until they do that sort of thing, its politics not a social science.
that's what I was hoping for when I saw the headline!
What is this about? This is not even April 1st.
That does sound interesting, but the link says it streams 6:30-7am. (I presume that’s a local time for my time zone?)

Any chance it will show up as a podcast or on YouTube, or available to watch at another time?
I'm a Ranger. One of rules though is not to put ourself in danger. Which is opposite of what a cop might need to do.

We have a few must reports (rape, lost child, and sexual assault) that we must call in but anecdotally I've rarely heard of a Ranger calling in LEO (law enforcement officer) to handle anything that isn't a gun/weapon or a must report.

But Burning Man has no guns and everyone is there on vacation. It doesn't apply.
Single-cell-resolution transcriptome map of human, chimpanzee and macaque brains
Lots of things that don't seem like heavy IO operations can still incur high walltime costs, e.g. stating all files in a directory tree. Since each stat is a syscall executing all of them sequentially is clostly. io_uring can be used for batching these kinds of things even when your code isn't built around asynchronous execution.

And with the 5.7 changes you can do polling + buffer selection + reading for any number of sockets with a single syscall[0].

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/815491/
is it just an ideology? At a certain point, you do have to actually work to make the economy spin. No economy, no money for healthcare. People die from no economy. So this is not an ideology so much as acceptance of reality.
Oh of course! I've just heard the a440 debate more than the tuning debate.
Do you think most protestors would be okay with contract tracing, especially when the most critical times to trace are during protests?
Being young is hard, no need to judge to harshly, often a rivalrous blogpost-driven discussion can be turned into a cooperative exploration, which is exactly a way for them to gain the experience.

Quiet, or at-arms-length, dismissal hurts self-confidence and reinforces this blogpost-driven defense mechanism.
>The civil bureaucracy is up for grabs too, as the protesters announced yesterday their political goal is to remove the mayor from office

The removal of one public official is nothing like the deBaath party decision. Acting like there is a possibility this situation mirrors Iraq is ridiculous.
Maybe I'm not understanding the term "structural". To me the word indicates institutions officially set up to behave in a racial manner, i.e segregation. Obviously we don't have much or any of that anymore. But I agree racism and profiling (which I think of as a separate issue... note, I do think it's an "issue") exist. I just balk at the use of the term "structural". Structural is rounding up Muslims in Western China. Structural is passing a law that says if you are black you can't come in. We don't do structural anymore. Which isn't to say we don't have racism or racial problems or classism or profiling or injustice, obviously we do.

Unlike the average San Francisco resident I've actually spent a lot of time around blacks and black communities so this isn't theoretical one dimensional abstract signaling of the type that is unfortunately too common lately.

The issue is deep and not nearly as simple as one sided "structural racism social injustice". A lot of it comes down to culture and how people feel about proper behavior. Along with contempt for cultures that don't have the same values. And willingness to engage in violent behavior.

But I don't deny black Americans have a rough time with the police and I do think we should do something about that. Maybe that is what is meant by "structural" in which case I agree, no argument.

I'm not sure what to do about people not liking each others culture though. I expect the bigots are the ones missing out, but I don't know if we can legal that problem away.
> White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19. Black people are twice as likely to be killed by police compared to white people, but the effects of racism are far more pervasive. Black people suffer from dramatic health disparities in life expectancy, maternal and infant mortality, chronic medical conditions, and outcomes from acute illnesses like myocardial infarction and sepsis. Biological determinants are insufficient to explain these disparities. They result from long-standing systems of oppression and bias which have subjected people of color to discrimination in the healthcare setting, decreased access to medical care and healthy food, unsafe working conditions, mass incarceration, exposure to pollution and noise, and the toxic effects of stress. Black people are also more likely to develop COVID-19. Black people with COVID-19 are diagnosed later in the disease course and have a higher rate of hospitalization, mechanical ventilation, and death. COVID-19 among Black patients is yet another lethal manifestation of white supremacy. In addressing demonstrations against white supremacy, our first statement must be one of unwavering support for those who would dismantle, uproot, or reform racist institutions.

Is that all BS, then? No, I don't think so.

I wouldn't call it a "scientific conclusion", but the point that black people have poor health outcomes relative to other demographics has a lot of merit and honestly who else should be making it but medical professionals and scientists?
Spine-chilling - romanticising the great wars as we often do - its easy to forget what an absolute meat grinder those machines were.
> Stop on!

Not sure if typo or joke about out-of-order message processing in distributed systems.

> just to easy to just slip

And maybe also about the impossibility of exactly-once message delivery?
> Life isn't a pissing contest of "my problem is bigger than your problem".

> Systemic racism is way bigger than just police killings.

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They do[1], but it costs $9 per site per month.

[1]: https://www.netlify.com/products/analytics/
Opt out means devs get crappy data.

Only way for software to improve is to get usage data.

Would you rather be stuck with crappy software dictated by the needs and wants by the minority?
Their letter makes it clear they are taking about racism, not necessarily just in police brutality.

The letter to me reads as 100% political because it is suggesting that you can get rid of the protests by addressing their concerns. That option is available to you. Their motivation for writing the letter is largely to say "hey, you can stop the protests by addressing their concerns" and to point out that addressing their concerns in this case also advances what they consider to be a public health interest.

It is possible we had different interpretations of what they wrote, but this felt more like "1000 doctors make a poltiical statement about the protests" rather than "1000 doctors say in their scientific opinions that protests are justified."
Congratulations to all who have fought against Police brutality, I hope this sets a new precedent. I'm not for abject destruction of people's property that we saw from a minority during these protests, but I'm in full support of People exercising their fundamental Human Right to protest.

> But if you want to say "No more of that. Now we're doing this" then a rebuild isn't a bad idea.

I just hope they have the foresight to put concrete measures that will deter Police from going back to the way things were, Andrew Yang proposed a bonus that departments gets pulled on the entire department if they get complaints of police abuse, therefore giving other officers the incentive to not put up with the 'blue shield' BS narrative that leads to corruption and violence.

I don't think its over until thus applies to the entire US police departments. I have not participated in these demonstrations, but I will play my part, too.
> Functions allow shared state, they don't isolate errors. Processes over networks do. That's a massive difference.
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> If you read up on the fundamental papers regarding software reliability this is something that's brought up ad nauseum.

I think you missed the point - just using separate processes does not guarantee you separate errors and state between services, there's lots of ways to get 'around' that. What if the two services talk to the same database/service? What if there's weird co-dependencies and odd workarounds for shared state? What if one service failing means the entire thing grinds to a halt or data is screwed up?

Now that said, yes, if you use good development practices and have a good architecture microservices can work quite well, but if you were capable of that you probably wouldn't have created a non-microservice ball of mud. And if you're currently unable to fix your existing ball of mud, attempting to make it distributed is likely going to result in you adding more distributed mud instead. In other words, the problem here isn't really a technical one, it's a process one. And using their current failing processes to make microservices is just going to make worse mud, because they haven't yet figured out how to deal with their existing mud.
Or maybe there are just bigger problems than the virus right now.
They were not responding to "reports of shots fired."

Police were responding to:

> "There's a guy in here with a pistol," the man tells a police dispatcher during the call. "It's probably fake, but he's like, pointing it at everybody."
There's voice, there's radar, there's smell... all sorts of other non-contact methods of user verification.
The lockdown policies inevitable have political component, because they are made by politicians and will be evaluated in a political framework. And for a politician it is always practical to err on the CYA side - one extra day of lockdown costs the politician very little, as the costs of it are not born by them personally and are largely very hard to quantify, they are distributed among the population and spread among many consequences, small and large. However, if the politician raises the lockdown prematurely, the blame - in a very quantifiable and ready-for-election-ad form of raising case numbers - would be directed personally at the politician. If the political power of those who suffer from the lockdown is not large enough and organized enough to exert significant pressure, the smart politician would extend the lockdown until there's no conceivable risk to be blamed if anything happens. Virus research, vaccine research, etc., is science, but decisions on what to do with it is always political. And thus those who want to influence it obviously make a political action.

With the current protest, the political situation changes. Opposing these protests is a political suicide. If you can't oppose them, the only way is to have some contrived argument where you are for lockdowns (because see above) but also for protests.

> health officials should not have their risk assessments swayed by political considerations.

You can publish raw information about risk - which is complex and uncertain, and step back, but then you will have little influence on political decisions that follow it. Or you can recommend a policy - and by that inevitably contaminate the scientific assessment with political stance and become invested in certain policy. I'd much like the former, but vast majority of the policy in the US lately completely rejects the idea that the population can be trusted with full information and making its own decisions about it.

The ruling paradigm is that the government should limit people's choices for their own good, and push them into actions that it thinks are beneficial for them. And most people expect that from politicians and blame those politicians which didn't limit their choices enough and allowed them to make choices which ultimately brought bad consequences. So, the politicians and people that want the political action to happen play the game that the public wants to be played.
It can be trivially mitigated, you just say that input signals through the time is located in some area of the tape, and from that you can apply all your formalisms.
>Systemic racism is way bigger than just police killings.

A single protest movement isn't going to end systemic racism, no matter how large it becomes. Even revolutions don't end conservatism -- just ask Leon Trotsky.

However, the coronavirus epidemic is here today and it may well be gone in a year. This may be the worst possible time for a protest movement since the Spanish Flu.
On the side closer to 'interactive' books there's the Lifeline series of games which were really inspiring to me. Then, on more conventional videogames there's Life is Strange, which at times feels a lot like an interactive movie where you can optionally go much more in depth by interacting with characters and objects if you want to get more of the story.

On the indiest side, there's an /interactivefiction subreddit as well.
Consuming types in that context is nice, defining them is what's generally a PITA / extra boilerplate / overhead.

To take a concrete example that could go both ways: Say you want to parse a JSON blob for some task. On the one end, you could access it through dynamic typing, or tools like jq, that don't need a schema for the entire data format. At the other extreme, you could make typescript definitions defining a schema for the entire format.

The more the same data gets (re)used, the more worthwhile taking the time to define a full schema is. But to download and add type definitions (often out of date and in need of further tweaking) for every once-off API request? Way more effort than it's worth.
I remember reading every anus is unique, so you could use that for id instead of your face or fingerprint.
Is there a better way to determine it before making verbal contact?
How do you feel about people in the streets with signs that just say, "BLM?" They don't even use a full word.

Mark Twain once said: The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

It sounds like you just don't want people discussing aliens. Sorry, but I think that massive construction projects like that are best explained with extraterristrial assistance. I wish I had lots of data to bolster this opinion, but I don't. If someone could prove a negative, I would listen but we just don't know. So that's why I think a one word thesis statement is best.
Services companies are different breed altogether. I am a co-founder of such services company, struggled a lot with attrition.

I realised that having people who love your culture will always have your back irrespective of what they do.

Also, Being a niche software shop, one could potentially become contributors to that technology which is exciting in itself.
> Daily new deaths have been steadily falling even as states continue to ease or eliminate restrictions

Not in Utah.
Just think: every single ounce of dirt and stone that comprises that structure was picked, carried, and placed with only human calories expended, likely in baskets carried on backs. I wonder what the amount of total calories expended to complete the project would be? Incredible to think about.
Yes, it's hard. Plugging anything into the real world at real time is hard. That is, constraining data to certain bandwidths to play or compress. The real world is noisy at every level and that's difficult to program around.
> I wouldn't call it a "scientific conclusion"

That's my point. If it's not scientific, then scientists should not have presented it as such.
The entire point of protesting is people saying they believe something is unjust.

You can't decide what other people think is unjust. You would be negating the entire point of protests.

I think the quarantine of the healthy was unjust. You're going to tell me I can't protest against it?
Algol 60, a brand new programming language, 60 years ago
1. I don't begrudge the police union for negotiating for all this. It's their job, just like it's the job of my city to play hardball with negotiations.

2. Police are some of our best paid public servants.
Most people who go into restaurants do so to eat. Doing that with a mask on is kind of hard.

The staff is a different matter.
I don't really think this letter is trying to be anything other than an articulation of a value judgment made by people with a certain perspective that gives visibility not just into the effects of COVID-19, but other public health issues that disproportionately affect black people.

I'm also not super convinced that "the public health sector" was never receptive to questions about economic tradeoffs. We have a dysfunctional federal government and the same in many local jurisdictions, but where I live the local public health institutions have been working hand in glove with state and local governments to open as quickly as possible while staying abreast of the disease's spread.
I don't think it's a double standard but yeah I agree with you that cause is important here. 100% it matters what you're risking yourself for.

Lots of people on the left were calling for more support from the government to handle this. EU unemployment is half of what the US is. Germany's at 3.5%. So risking yourself, for the economy didn't seem worth it especially when other nations did so much more. Lots of states started eviction moratoriums to protect people.
I agree about telemetry. The other things not so much. You think authors should get no credit?
The real problem is false positives. Suppose this system puts up a warning. What next? Expensive and/or invasive tests? Could be more trouble than it's worth. If it were me, I'd have to see a very high rate of accuracy before I'd trust it.
Sounds tasty. Link to what happened?
it would probably ensure that all police departments get dissolved and restructured (because the situation would be too bad)