skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is fascinating to me. The more I see about America's protest history, the more it seems like the last 20 years have been abnormally calm and your normal state of affairs is more like the mood in 2020. A quote I liked from your linked article:

>You have to understand: in 1968, many radicals absolutely believed that the United States was getting ready to collapse. One Weatherman puts it: “We actually believed there was going to be a revolution. We believed 3rd World countries would rise up and cause crises that would bring down the industrialized West, and we believed it was going to happen tomorrow, or maybe the day after tomorrow, like 1976.”
It’s a good idea in principle, the problem is that the devil is often in the detail and people can say things that seem broadly like a decent argument while slipping in details (whether intentionally or not) that completely reverse the meaning or make the meaning quite different.

This is why cross examination in needed in trials - of course everyone tries to make a plausible argument, so noticing the incongruities is important.

Assuming good faith and cross examining are not mutually exclusive.
> > rc elision is super trivial

> no it's not

Fair enough.

It's still not a very difficult problem, though. You don't have to inline all functions (which you don't want to do anyway); you can infer lifetime attributes for each function.

RC has another benefit: it's easier to make a naïve compiler; it'll just produce slow code. Whereas a naïve single-owner compiler implementation (e.g. mrustc) will allow bad code.
> However at the end of the day you do what's best for you

Excellent advice. Remember that you're the only one there who actually cares about what's best for you. If the company ever decided that it was in their best interest to get rid of you, they would fire you without hesitation and without guilt.

> Whether those months will be good or a total hell...

If the company acts abusively toward you after you give them notice that you're leaving, you have the perfect right to walk out the door whenever is convenient for you. You don't owe them anything.
The author actually says the same about the movie in his ps.

> P.S. I haven't seen RoboCop in a while, but I have a vague recollection he was a good guy, who was fighting against the oppressive system.
Yes, yes. The "No True Protestor/Scotsman" argument.
Ha. I strongly disagree.

Any kind of machine maintenance video has so much preamble, when what I'm really after is like 25 seconds of silently accessing the part, pausing to circle stuff in red, and narrating stuff that's hard to see from the video
I'd replace Parcel with https://github.com/evanw/esbuild
Oh cool, that makes sense. I wish you all the best!
It seems like an entirely valid statement. AI can certainly make faster decisions than a human and it can utilize accurate 6DoF calculations and multi-sensor fusion that humans can only roughly approximate in an intuitive way during battle. I'm sure there will still be areas where humans will be better, such as analyzing complex visual information or predicting high-level reasoning of an enemy pilot, but I see human-versus-drone encounters as a clear loser for human pilots in the relatively near term.
I don't have a problem with Adobe's subscription model - just providing my own anecdote about how subscription models saved me from giving Adobe money, and avoided software lock-in. I'm incentivizing faster improvements by only giving my subscription dollars to companies who deliver - and I can evaluate who delivers on a monthly basis.
:D well said, we want our cheese mites fresh and squirming.
This sounds like a really cool project to work on. I dont think beating a human will be terribly difficult. Ground targets? Easy for fixed targets at known location.

Should such technology be created? That's question is above my pay grade. Bad guys could do things like this today so it seems prudent to work on countermeasures.
I was not expecting anything that has to do with coronavirus, and I was expecting something that takes advantage of the strengths of cloudflare the company that no one else has.

As I said, the 24/7 idea has huge potential and I think cloudflare is well positioned to do something in this arena.
One thing that must happen is we must impose enhancements to penalties for crimes committed by law enforcement/police.

Assault, battery, theft, etc., by a police officer is inherently worse than that by an ordinary citizen. They have abused the immense power, privilege, and trust of their position and there should commensurate consequences.
Patrolmen shouldn’t carry guns. I know that wouldn’t have helped George Floyd, but we need to ratchet down societal acceptance of violence.

If a situation warrants firearms, it should at least warrant a radio call to the station for armed backup.
> The article’s authors are losing sight of the original justification for the lockdowns: “flatten the curve” was about preventing hospitals from being overwhelmed.

i think you've lost sight of what flattening the curve was about. flattening the curve, from the beginning, was giving up. it was about accepting that we weren't and still aren't prepared for the virus, and that tons of people would get sick and die. at the moment, the deaths is a rather sickening 100,000+. the "flattening the curve" movement was an acceptance of this and was just meant to spread out the sick and deaths over time. meanwhile, other countries successfully managed the virus where they didn't even have to flatten the curve. they squashed it.

because then, in the end, the fact that the u.s. flattened the curve could be seen as a successful handling of the virus, when it was anything but.

it is still a legitimate threat in the u.s., while other countries came out of lockdown much, much sooner with much less cases and deaths.
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Launch and landing does not necessarily need to happen in the same platform.

It could be reasonable to have a delivery mechanism for drones that's close to where the action might be (so that the drones can reach the target quickly) but the surviving drones have to go way back somewhere else to land and be refurbished/refueled/rearmed for another mission.
The recording, annotation, and sharing is interesting. I'm not to keen to stream logs and such through an unknown company or website...

Back to you!
> It completely ruins the credibility of many health professionals.

Not just the credibility of health professionals, but all professionals.

The big thing will be climate change. This will be brought up to say that technical professionals giving their advice are just partisan hacks who don’t care about the economy and people’s livelihoods, but do care about their virtue signaling.
This is a stub comment to collect replies in one place, so that it can be collapsed and prevent too much offtopicness at the top of the thread.
Why 2020 Peak Coronavirus Risk = 1985 Peak Flu Risk
I _super_ appreciate this, thank you for sharing. I've had to deal with a lot of gate-keeping in my career, so its great to interact with people who are so open to invite people in. We could use more with such a positive attitude.
There is ongoing legal debate on what aspects, including these very ones, of our constitution and laws apply to non residents.
So it's a YouTube channel on a schedule as opposed to on-demand. A quick check shows much of the content is actually already available on YouTube.

What's unclear is if there is content available only here, such as actual live content.
Thanks a lot. What was the most fun you've had with it so far, if I may ask?
Systemic inequality is a component of the clinical presentation of the covid-19 pandemic in the United States. Black Americans have been dying from the disease at twice the rate, as a group, than the population in general. In my home state, half of the reported cases are among Native American communities.

Limited access to healthcare is not a theoretical challenge. The link between historical injustice manifests every day in the pandemic crisis. And the nature of this virus - rapid, asymptomatic contagion - means that any vulnerable population can be a source of ongoing infection in the general population.

Never has the bond in our common good been more clear.

So sure, there are political positions to be taken in how best to move forward, but the virus doesn't care.
> poor leadership, and entrenched policies

This is underappreciated. It's hard to seriously change organizations in less than a decade when employees have long tenures.

Opinions and behaviors are only truly malleable at the beginning of careers, and later change is fighting against the inertia of old timers' "Let me tell you how it's done."

Which isn't only negative. Esprit de corps is what holds together people doing tough jobs for long careers.

But if you want to say "No more of that. Now we're doing this" then a rebuild isn't a bad idea.
You can download the posters here:
https://www.roche.com/sustainability/philanthropy/science_ed...
Or broken up and forced to sell to other orgs that can handle improving things from a security standpoint.
We do that sometimes when a title is particularly contentious, to explicitly encode the contentiousness into the title. It tends to bring down title fever, and it seems to help discussion be more substantive.
I launched 20 newsletters in 20 days – here’s what I learned
Let's see how it evolves. As I wrote in the blog post, this is fundamentally a medium to allow us to experiment with new things and see what resonates.
Good content sells. But you need to understand that whether you make it or not, also comes down to marketing - there are TONS of channels on youtube with world class content, but only a few hundred views on each video.

On other hand, there's garbage content / funnel vids with hundreds of thousands of views. Big difference is that the last guy poured all his money on production and marketing.

As the saying goes, takes money to make money.

Other than that - one needs to be somewhat consistent with releasing stuff. You want people to actually follow your channel, and make a habit of watching / looking forward to your vids.
The Mayan collapse occurred 700 years before the Inca Empire was founded (and the Aztec Empire, for what it's worth).
> The virus is still an awful pandemic and will have major consequences, but we have no good choices anymore.

this is what is unbelievably frustrating. most people in the u.s. basically hold the opinion that everything wasn't so bad, and that things came out okay. meanwhile, most of the numbers point to the u.s. being one of the worst managed countries with respect to the virus. it's really sickening there is this dissonance with people.

i don't feel safe in the u.s. and will be staying away from people as long as possible. it just feels sickening though, because that length will be indefinite in the u.s. until a vaccine arrives.
All public sector unions should be banned, I'm not going to fight you on that one. But, again, I just don't share this optimism.

>The majority of MPD are suburban Trump supporters and like all Trump supporters they can't stand progressive places like Minneapolis.

Maybe things have changed since I moved away in 2013, but this wasn't true back then. Both parents of one of my classmates in elementary school were cops and lived in South Minneapolis. If it is true today, that seems to suggest an interesting selection bias no? Either MPD only hires surburban Trump supporters or only these suburban Trump supporters want to sign up to be cops in the city. In either case, and like I mentioned above, we get to watch a neat little experiment play out in real time if we're going to disband the MPD and rebuild it.
I think its safe to say I'm looking to see if this field is something I'd be interested in pursuing deeper, and get a feel for the types of problems that might or might not put bread on the table should I go further.

I have no idea if I would or would not be better served by a traditional CS background in this case, so part of this is to find out if that is or is not the case.
Shortened link goes to https://thefitlab.io/?utm_source=hackernews_product_launch&u...
Precisely. Your wording is reminiscent of an old thing pg wrote, which I love:

Comments should be written in the spirit of colleagues cooperating in good faith to figure out the truth about something, not politicians trying to ridicule and misrepresent the other side.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Funny when I was learning raytracing, I thought it was going to look real fancy, but ended up with graphics no different to what I was already doing in basic opengl, except for the reflections and shadows.
Have you ever really tried one for yourself?

East Berlin used to be second World, but many of my American friends moved there because they were tired sick of being harassed by their own country brutality and would never go back.

Even many African countries are safer than the US if you are black.

On the other side, one of the most annoying kind of tourist you can find in my city, which is Rome in Italy, are Americans.

They lack the basic notions about "respecting others cultures and habits"
As bad as possible, but not any worse...
got excited that someone was maybe finally going to fix all the stupid stuttering, broken stream, lagged to hell home webcams that the billion dollar newsmedia still hasn't solved after four months because everyone insists on using wireless everything stacking the latency

but this is interesting too
The whole point of the comment you are questioning is to also normalize it to something besides total percent of population. The new comparison seems to say that if you are a violent criminal your chances of getting shot by the police are higher if you are white.
However, how much they charge for it gives a general idea, since they are paying for the power.
It's the difference between "not crazy" (ie, "you don't agree with me, and that's okay") and "sane" (ie, "I'm wrong here").
> I would be really curious to hear his opinion on why the supply chains should collapse before 2030

Think about seat belts. Do you ask the driver:

> "I'm really curious to hear why you think you'll crash the car?"

when s/he puts on the seat belt? S/he'd likely say "No I don't think that at all".

And not impossible that the Collapse OS author might have a similar reply. Still, the project can be well spent time, like, a seat belt in case of the unexpected.

Think about: 1) Likelihood-of-Global-Supply-Chain-Collapse x How-Bad. And 2) How-much-does-Collapse-OS-mitigate-the-bad-things. And compare that, with 3) time spent building C.OS.
Can these mechanisms recover from cloudy periods?
What exactly do you mean by "people we prefer"? I am unclear on the meaning and motive of your language.
If you need to use it heavily, then yes. But I don't. I think Firefox performs optimaly 99% times for everyone. There will be a point where you may switch to Chrome, or Safari, but just for specific things unless that specific is the most important one.
Perhaps you could rewrite that to avoid implying I am stupid?

Your facts don’t affect the argument.
NPR carried a segment talking about making free market liability insurance mandatory for police, with departments only paying the average rate.

There needs to be a neutral third party to assess risk, because all of the current stakeholders are biased (executive government, judicial government, community organizers, police unions).
It’s so fast ! Let me know if anyone else experiencing the same feeling!
So then, if I am a “professional” software developer, and my employer asks me to put a secret back-door in some code to be shipped to consumers... I should say nothing, because I’m a “professional?”

Or what if I’m doing renovations, and someone asks me to make something I know to be unsafe. I point that out, but they insist... Again, do I just do what they ask because, “professional?”

I suspect you are conflating “professional” with “mercenary.” To me, being a professional means approaching my work with a sense of ethics.

In fact, I suggest to you that saying nothing in these cases is also injecting ethics into my work, only it is my personal investment in “The Status Quo.”

You can’t escape ethics, you can only support the existing structure by pretending you are above petty “ethics” and “politics.”
airstrike answered this nicely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23451214.

In curious conversation, people want to know what the other person really thinks and what their experience has been like. In cross-examination, the goal is to defeat an enemy, so people are aggressive, try to make the other person seem as dumb or awful as they can, and generally seek to back them into a corner.

In one case the goal is to receive information from others' comments, in the other case it is to fire weapons into them. One can't do both at the same time. I think there are even physiological reasons for this: one is in a very different state when doing the one vs. doing the other.

Moreover, since curiosity evokes more curiosity and aggression evokes more aggression, the effects are systemic, meaning they apply to the site as a whole. We must choose which one we want, and we choose curiosity. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Doctor are not free to me, I pay taxes.
What I was trying to say, your example is an USA problem, most people do not have to decide if seeing a doctor is a financial decision. So your case is not universal, and should be mentioned.
I guess I just don't agree with your characterization of weaponization

So in that context, no I don't think it's fishy
Changed it to http://thefitlab.io/ to not confuse people
Thanks for point it out.
No, that's not what police abolitionists are asking for. That's what police reformists are asking for. These are not the same. I posted another comment on this post with plenty of references if you want to read up on the difference.
Diligent in preparation, effortless in action.
Not in 18th century. You could get a gun then for about month's wage of a skilled worker. Not exactly cheap, and significantly more expensive than now, but not exactly impossible to have even for a skilled worker or a middle-class person. And there are now firearms in that price range, though many common ones are significantly cheaper. Something like a cheap car - not pocket change, and you won't get one unless you need one, and if you aren't rich you probably won't get more than one - but for most people, not out of reach entirely.
Can't speak for anyone else, but I'm against more police. I think communities would be better served by an increase in social workers in most cases. Drug usage and homelessness won't be solved by imprisoning people and forever branding them as criminals. You need bridge housing, treatment programs, and services for these people. And an educational system that is well funded, regardless of the community it serves. I think criminalizing social issues has proven to be pretty ineffective, generally harmful, and really expensive. I'd recommend checking out "The End of Policing" for a thoughtful, well-reasoned argument for decreasing the number of police.
The ebook is free: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing
Simple shell script to detect bad checks of mmap() return value
I agree with nearly everything you said except modularity, I don’t find it’s a metric of code quality. At the early stage I fail to see how to properly modularize, most of the time features and customer requirements evolve so much between customers that I usually find it’s more pains than gains for the rare time the initial design hold. In my experience (B2B/high touch sales) I sometimes write a plain and simple hardcoded « if customer == "XYZ" » until the use case is refined and the market for the feature proven with at least a few paying customers.
I think 'live' television serves as an effective master clock for synchronizing shared experiences. I would expect that it's especially effective when the community of people who share a common interest is large enough that peer to peer election of that kind of timing authority would be infeasible without for-purpose technical infrastructure that either currently doesn't exist, or is so niche that the results are equivalent.

Synchronized experience seems to enable some pretty powerful community interactions around discussion and participation that just don't seem to coalesce into a critical mass when everyone experiences (and then comments and participates) asynchronously.
De Blasio Vows for First Time to Cut Funding for the N.Y.P.D
You don't like that one browser has poor extension support, so you use a browser with no extension support? How does that make sense?
Adult Swim's Smart Pipe coming to life.

https://youtu.be/DJklHwoYgBQ

I actually thought it was a cool idea when I watched that, besides the exaggerated parts for the joke.
I'd argue CDN services are our best defense against centralization like AWS and GCP. Cloudflare makes it possible for me to host something out of my house without getting taken down by a mild amount of attention.
Worthy isnt the number of deaths involved, its the amount of justice it might achieve in response to.

Protesting the lockdown is not a just cause.

Saying "Well now anything doctors say is political!" does not show good intent or faith, but someone looking for a gotcha statement so they can say "See, they were political actors all along!"
I hope they let others place ads on it. Then it will be real "TV."
The protests and the surprising violence from the PDs have actually shown the value of 2A. If anything, I'd vote for disarming police, except maybe a few special units, because most of them are emotionally unstable and can't be trusted with guns or any sort of power. If you think about who the most cops are, they are just a bunch of dudes that would normally be some retail workers, but with a few months of training they are given the license to kill. Obviously, most of them can't handle this level of responsibility.
You wait in a loaded area and then the game locks you into an area of the map then the enormous Travis Scott figure appears and dances about.

You can still move around in the game but the game applies external forces to you to throw you around and put you in the different environments etc.
> In my dream world, every engineer can and should be allowed to intervene in as many layers/slices of the code as his mental capacity and understanding allows.

The problem is that a sufficiently-complex system is impossible for a single engineer to comprehend in its entirety, so each engineer will end up only understanding a subset of the overall system. Splitting a monolith into clearly-delineated services - and splitting those engineers into teams developing and maintaining those services - helps make that understanding less of a daunting task.

I agree that engineers should be able to move between these different concerns mostly freely (so long as there are indeed engineers covering all concerns), and should be encouraged to learn about those components which interest them, but that clear delineation and a clear notion of "ownership" of different components expedites the process of figuring out who can fix what (since "everyone can fix everything" is unrealistic for all but the most trivial systems), who to call first when something goes wrong, who should be reviewing PRs for a given component, etc.
Your comment seems to actually mean that “science is partisan the moment it is being applied at all.”