skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, the US is incomparable (in the neutral sense of the word) when it comes to most socio-economic issues. There literally is no other country that is similar to the US across more than one or two important factors.
Thank you for the work you guys do! This is nice.
Yes, and the reason why is unfortunately articles like these which only compare US states to each other or the US to Europe. If you look in these places, there is no good solution. But all we have to do is look across the Pacific Ocean.

There are many Asian countries aggressively stopping the virus without lockdowns. Their citizens are leading fairly normal lives right now except many still must wear masks everywhere. They have achieved this by contact tracing every single case and stopping all new outbreaks. But the US is still trying to learn how to do contact tracing, and without federal leadership on this it is unclear if the US will be able to get proper contact tracing working.
It looks like I did misread it. However I still think it's not intellectually honest to say "not all violence comes from police".

Yeah, sure. So most of the violence comes at the hands of the police, and somehow decades of abuse is comparable to a week's worth of rioting.
What are those concerns?
That seems like a good argument to expand unemployment benefits during a global pandemic, and I suspect most public health officials would agree.
In the case of the Chinese wheelbarrow, that is correct, but the sail is an improvement added later to the existing conventional design of the region and era which happened to use a central wheel.

I'm no expert on international wheelbarrow histories, but assume that the term "sailbarrow" being so general applies to any wheelbarrow having a sail. The historic precedent of the Chinese incarnation is literally their conventional wheelbarrow with a sail added.

I assume the same approach can be (and probably has been) used on any wheelbarrow in appropriate conditions.
When I see health experts saying we can have groups of up to 12 people outside BUT protests up to 100 people, it really does not look good for the credibility of these experts.

Nobody denies that the pandemic is/was a real thing. But at that point it has been politicized ad nauseum and this is bad.

It will for sure have an impact on how much people trust experts, and general trust in experts was already bad before this. But now nobody should dare blame anyone for not believing an expert after the sham we have all seen.

Very sad that the pandemic has stopped being about science but moved to being about politics. Good luck getting compliance if there is, god forbid, a second wave or another more deadly virus in the future.
No need to imagine

Fiction: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA

Reality:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ndFKUKHfuM0

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BF1sJjk66rU

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/9/20799148/darpa-drones-robo...
The problem with this option in the Greek system is that alumni come back and are welcomed with open arms.

Over free pitchers of beer the undergrads are regaled with tales of hazing and wild parties...giving them the template to start shit all over again.
"This time I'd like to start really pouring my soul into something that can provide meaning to my life"

Your kid?
Well it literally came from their marketing department per the blog post, so that's exactly what it is.
Nim supports both qualified and unqualified imports[0]. One uses `from module_name import nil`. Then every access to members of that module must be qualified.

From my viewpoint (I'm sure there are others) I see two main reasons why unqualified imports are the default: operators and templates/generics.

First, operators[1]. In Nim, one can implement an operator for any type, without extending that type, and without even implementing the operator in the same module as the type definition. If qualified imports were the default, then

a + b

would by default be

module_name.`+`(a, b)

(The backticks are used to force the plus sign to be recognized as an identifier)

Yes, one could hypothetically perform an "unqualified import" for that specific symbol, but what if you have 5+ operators to import (like for a math library)? It would get tedious rather quickly.

Now, templates. If you're not familiar with Nim, templates are similar to C templates, except that rather than a template performing textual substitution, it performs syntax tree substitution. As an example, this is how "less than" is implemented:

template `>`*(x, y: untyped): untyped =
## "is greater" operator. This is the same as ``y < x``.
y < x

If qualified imports were the default, templates would be almost useless. Something like this:

template toJsonString(value: untyped): untyped =
$(toJson(value))

where `$` turns its argument into a string, and toJson turns its argument into a JSON node type, would fail because the template doesn't qualify any of those procedures.

The same reasoning for templates also applies to generics (and might be a bit more familiar). A generic doesn't know where its input type comes from ahead of time, so it can't know how to qualify function calls.

Python, C#, and other class based languages deal with these complications by using classes as a kind of "automatic unqualified import" signal. Though it doesn't have classes, Go uses a similar mechanism (explicit methods types that must be defined in the same package as the type implementation). Since Nim has neither method types nor classes, it just uses unqualified imports.

I agree that unqualified imports are a pain for code navigation, but with the right tooling that navigation can be made easier (I know there's a Nim plugin for VSCode, and I believe there's ones for Vim and Emacs?)

[0] https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#modules-from-import-st...

[1] https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#syntax

[2] https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#templates
According to what definition are you claiming that police brutality is not a public health problem?
If 'show me how it's done' is video then books are 'tell me how it's done'. The 'let me figure this out after reading it' would mostly be some docs.
> I'm guessing it's slow because capturing the display and encoding it takes a while?

This is a possibility but encoding is already pretty optimized (ffmpeg and libx264 with ultrafast as preset), which is faster than my previous approach of just streaming PNGs. And streaming PNGs was not that slow either, even on a rather old laptop. That's why I suspect there's something wrong on the tablet.

Regarding noVNC: What latencies do they achieve? I am not a webdev so I guess they might have some more tricks up their sleeves, I will probably have a look. As far as I can tell noVNC does not support things like multitouch and pressure sensitivity so that rules out just using it (at least for my usecase).
You see that reflector, gears, evaporating liquid stuff in the solution, yeah that will not last 3 months in a rural area. For a rural area, this is a complex setup.

In 1 week, you would either have bird shit all over the control mechanism light reflector, probably have a bird build a nest in it, or perhaps have a flying piece of plastic tangle in the mechanism.

Electronics does not imply an infrastructure we take for granted. Just look at mobile phone usage in African countries. No one thought mobile phones are a bad idea because they don't have the infrastructure to repair them.

A motor controller with a motor attached is cheap, can be made to work for years, sealed off in a water proof and dust proof container, and still be configured with bluetooth.

And, the infrastructure problem you talk about, that will only be solved with consumers in the first place.

No one in Africa built a mobile repair business without the phones being their first.

Sorry, your perspective is negative and counter productive.
Many states require you to reveal your identity to claim the lottery prize.
> Keeping people out of offices and shops is not a public health risk

Telling people to stay at home all the time does have a negative impact on many people's mental health. It can both exacerbate pre-existing mental illness, and in some cases even cause the new onset of mental illness.
Thank you for stating this. I’ve spent a nontrivial amount of time recently on self analysis. To wit: am I racist because I find the doublespeak regarding quarantine/protests to be entirely illogical. Asking these questions on social media is a genuine reputation risk.
CPU architects make lots of different choices and tradeoffs - in this case Intel have chosen hyperthreaded physically larger CPUs, while the ARM chip's designers have decided that hyperthreading brings no meaningful improvement but lets them build smaller (and maybe faster) CPUs, and as a result more CPUs per die.

These are tradoffs that we make all the time when building CPUs - none are 'best' it's more that a group of changes is better for a particular case.

So the people benchmarking here have NOT turned off hyperthreading on the ARM chips, there is none to turn off, instead there are more CPUs - the ARM guys have optimised their 64 core chip to be useful in their target market which happens to be closer to what these guy's application does
Not OP, but I’d bet they meant that deaf or hard-of-hearing people should be able to enjoy the programs
This argument makes no sense in a world where any person on the right would be destroyed if they were associated with people who were looting and setting businesses on fire in the name of conservatism or whatever bullshit.

Either people are responsible for those associated with them, or they're not. I have seen a lot of protestors and people on the left try to separate themselves from the rioters and take no responsibility, but not a lot of disavowals.

If you don't advocate for violence or looting, end the protests and stop providing cover for those who are using the protests to commit crime.

https://streamable.com/kgvoqv - louis vutton looted

https://streamable.com/kc5hwj - amazon truck stopped and looted

https://streamable.com/jmr7ez - liquor store looted

https://streamable.com/x8rb8h - another liquor store looted

https://streamable.com/2ka2cm - store manniquens looted

https://streamable.com/53l2qd - office looted and trashed

https://streamable.com/x3al2j - target looted 1

https://streamable.com/e706oz - target looted 2

https://streamable.com/d9t0au - target looted - 3

https://youtu.be/hF6mMCwc8GY?t=6961 [Embed] - target looted 4

https://streamable.com/m3n5ju - ohio statehouse broken into

https://streamable.com/z2ffvm - arsonist sets fire to himself (disturbing)

https://streamable.com/2wjxc0 - daytime looting

https://youtu.be/HUptzxyfpgQ?t=285 [Embed] - people pulling cars up to stores to load loot hauls

https://youtu.be/hF6mMCwc8GY?t=1944 [Embed] - drug store looted by mob https://youtu.be/hF6mMCwc8GY?t=4349 [Embed] - back of store looted out onto street

https://youtu.be/hF6mMCwc8GY?t=5077 [Embed] - store mobbed cop car smashed

https://imgur.com/BPPgQu9 - nations most revered science

fiction bookstore and priceless collection torched

https://streamable.com/6710vr - LA's favela like conditions post-riots

https://streamable.com/vqi0vm - minneapolis aftermath warzone

https://streamable.com/94c32c - minneapolis first night pandemonium

https://streamable.com/revv8g - sympathetic protesters get their windows smashed for no reason

Wow, so many White supremacists.
Can somebody elaborate on the "go-for-it window"?
> . The Go-For-It Window: Large gaps between accelerating technologies and stagnating social norms create lucrative new business opportunities. But they are only available for a short time when people can capitalize on the difference between the real and perceived state of the world. For example, 2007 was the perfect time to launch the iPhone, but Google Glasses launched too early.

What was the "stagnantig social norms" in that benefited the iPhone era, yet left Google Glasses in the dustbin?
Thank you, agree with that, and actually was not suggesting to stick with medium of exchange for technical considerations. More about product focus. The BTC people have the asset/inflation hedge thing nailed. Leave them to it. Disentangle the things that are money.

Here, prices in the offset ecosystem are going to float because goods are exposed to/sources from the actual money ecosystem. There will be aspects of inflation, both colloquial and technical. It doesn't sound like they understand the claim anyway. Just let it go. Focus on liquidity, fraud, utilization, ergonomics. Get trains riding on those payment rails.
In a blog post, he promises photographs and more information. https://dalneitzel.com/2020/06/06/important-advice-2/

Let's see whether he lives up to that promise.
This is an idea I always wanted to build, though never got the time.

Congrats on the work.

Now this is something I'd be willing to use. I've never used cryptocurrencies before because of POW (I believe it is a fad). But trust based crypto is something that will likely change the world like the internet, and this or something like this is gonna be it. No more banking gatekeepers. No more private credit scores.
When people decided to go Microservices route, In my 4 yrs of experience with it, please define couple of things before you go down that route. 1. How to share the database when there is too much of dependency between 2 microservices , think event driven or other mechanism like materilized views. 2. Please give developer more importance in this setup as there is too much of responsitbility being thrown up at devs.
Indeed, white people in the US on average live 3.5 years longer than black people in the US.[1]

Did you know that an even greater health/life expectancy disparity exists between men and women?

One gender on average lives 5.1 years longer than the other.[2]

>decreased access to medical care and healthy food, unsafe working conditions, mass incarceration, exposure to pollution and noise, and the toxic effects of stress.

Likewise all of these issues affect men disproportionately compared to women.

Why is it so popular to talk about these same issues as systemic oppression against group X (relative to group Y), while ignoring or the fact that those same issues affect group XY, often to an even greater degree (relative to group XX)?

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_health_in_the_Unite...

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_ex...
I don’t know a lot about Python tooling, but in general my experiences with pip have been pleasant, so I appreciate all the work done by the maintainers to make it pleasant.
We could use this approach with Google and Facebook.
One pays for it by being a Cloudflare customer.
Gpt2tc: Text Completion and Compression using GPT-2
I kind of don’t get it

Why isn’t auto-aim game over here for both sides?

Approach and simply fire missiles at all the spots the plane could be in the next few seconds. Done.
I suspect the source code would have had way less value without the engineers who created it.

Given they paid > $130M for the company, taking on 15 or 20 engineers who know the code inside & out, and are a proven functional team, would be a no-brainer for Google (they're always searching for talented tech ppl anyway).

The only sort of businesses who regularly buy IP without the team behind it are patent trolls and shitty companies who buy to kill competition.
Wholeheartedly agree. I'm in my 30's with scientific education, but I will never take an "expert" opinion seriously after this.

Very sad to see science shoot itself in the foot in the name of dubious politics.
Wouldn't that suggest that the problem hasn't been solved? That there is some other issue?

I'm not familiar with Camden or the reforms, so maybe there are other metrics by which things have improved. However, "top 0.2% of American cities in terms of per capita crime rate" is an awfully condemning statistic.
The post I replied to was saying that 2020's riots were different than LA or Orlando because this time "protestors aren't the ones engaging in violence, the cops are". Which seems pretty inaccurate from where I'm standing - earlier riots also included police brutality, and these riots include violence from the side of the rioters.
> 1.) I don't agree with taking such "both sides" a view of equating the two: BLM protests are about protesting police brutality, religious congregations are not

It isn't a matter of equating the perceived importance of the gatherings. It is a matter of the government not being content neutral in its actions. If the government is going to restrict public (and private!) gatherings for public health reasons, the restrictions can't be selective based on the speech content of the gatherings.
Those CDC numbers are really weird btw. 0.4% of symptomatic cases is like a 0.2-0.3% IFR.

0.3% of the New York City population has already died of corona-virus. So assuming everyone in New York was infected that gives us an IFR of .3%. But if a more realistic 20% of the population was infected then the IFR could be as high as 1.5%.

I tried going through all the most recent research and almost all of it came up with an IFR in the 0.5-1.2% range. And the few that had a lower rate were looking at anti-body tests in places with very low base rates.
Pretty sure Gates' money is already spoken for - https://givingpledge.org/About.aspx
Here's a good in-depth exploration of the movement. Some of these people are quite eager for such a war.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-move...
I've used Sidecar, and I thought it was more of extending your screen to the iPad, with some basic input controls on the device as well.

It looks like this is more of a mirroring setup where you can use the tablet for touch-enabled input.
It seems like there's an epidemic of fear & fake righteousness in the US. People cowed into taking counterfactual emotive positions by fear of lynching at the hands of hostile commentariat, now possessed of actual foot soldiers in the streets, itself too scared, or perhaps too drunk on its imagined righteousness, to do anything else.

As someone wise once said the greatest misfortune in the world is to have an enemy. It's sad to see US with so many enemies seemingly within. Like a body racked with disease.

An epidemic of emotive counterfactual fake narratives cannot be a good thing for society. I believe current events indicate this. Providing evidence narrative corruption can spill over into disastrous physical consequences. There must be a cure.

Counter-narratives must be deployed. Discourse reform form must occur. Positive censorship and propaganda must be empowered to act like an immune system for the mass consciousness. A media complicit in propagating these divisive lies that fakejustify violence is a media that invites regulation. Does America have the will & the courage to heal itself?
Are black people in Germany especially abused by the police?
Good was hard.

Nowadays anyone can publish a book on Amazon, digitally and get published. It's reflected a lot in their Kindle bookstore.

Sometimes, having a good barrier to entry, brings out the best and the most dedicated.
Is found gold bullion taxable? Trying to avoid the IRS?
I think I know your problem (source: achieved something similar like you few years ago, had a similar 'crises' like yours, and now I've a better grip at life).

So here's my very simple, steeped in wisdom, two word advice: dream bigger.
Yes, thank you. Anyone that uses assistive technologies.
I was thinking of everything being under one publishing house, basically a company that just writes high quality documentation and nothing else.

The "like spotify" was more in reference to pay once, get everything imaginable.
The answer is 'hindsight is 2020'
I hope I would pass on the offer if I were ever given it. I don't think Facebook is evil, but I value privacy too much to want to work for a company who has so often made business decisions that hurt people's privacy. I'm not going to lie, the idea of a 3x salary increase is tempting though, but I hope I wouldn't justify compromising my beliefs for money.
It's less that they won't spend it, and more they won't invest it. As you point out if you can get exposure to global capital growth by keeping your money in cash you will do that. This starves the world of risk capital being invested in new projects, the net benefit of which is responsible for capital growth. So nobody invests and technological progress drives to a halt (well maybe governments invest in military technology ands whatso but net investment in risky tech drops).
Not many lives are ended via homicide vs other ways of dying (eg heart disease), but it’s just the unfairness and preventability that makes people angry about the former. Injustice also creates stress inn society, it is difficult to live with it.
@eastdakota are you transcoding the vod content alongside any live stuff using a traditional playout mechanism or are you able to leverage existing pre-transcoded VOD assets for non-live content?
An additional goal should be to de-escalate rather than escalate. Current policing emphasizes "escalation to violence" as the default tool that gets used during any confrontation, which has been on display for the last two weeks.
One thing to consider is this didn’t have to me made in a short time frame. Just like cathedrals have been built over hundreds of years so could these structures.
I have been using Weylus and Xournal++ a lot by now and video streaming is pretty stable (at least on my machine :P). In case the connection does fail a simple page reload will restart the stream.
Discordian Quotes FAQ
Yes, but now we are talking about autonomy

Predator - entered service in 1995 25 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-1_Predator
A number of countries have implemented wage subsidy schemes, in which the government pays employers to keep employees on payroll even while there is no work for them to do due to the COVID-19 lockdown. Those schemes are in some ways better than unemployment benefits, in that they maintain the employer-employee relationship which increases the odds the job will still be there to go back to when the crisis is over.

UK: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claim-for-wages-through-the-coro...

Australia: https://www.ato.gov.au/general/jobkeeper-payment/

New Zealand: https://www.employment.govt.nz/leave-and-holidays/other-type...

Ireland: https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/unemploymen...
Were you as productive then? I don’t know what kind of work you do, but I recently put together a website with a map displaying some public data around Covid-19. That website can be viewed in seconds by essentially anyone on a 3g or better internet connection by nearly any computer or smartphone released in the last 5 years.

I can’t imagine I would be able to delivery even the basic mapping and data visualization features in the 1990s in the same time frame, and it certainly wouldn’t have the ease of distribution.
The only option I'm seeing now is $499/yr or $49/m. Do you have a better price somewhere?
Python has a pretty good type checker.
Comparing apples to apples:

Average daily deaths in US caused by heart disease: 1800

Average daily deaths in US caused by cancer: 1600

Average daily deaths in US caused by corona virus: 1000

https://www.healthline.com/health/leading-causes-of-death

Comparing oranges to oranges:

Total deaths in US caused by homicide (2019): 19510

Total deaths in US caused by police (2019): 1112

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm

Comparing apples to oranges:

> Total deaths in US caused by police. (2019, full year): 1112 [1]

> Total deaths in US caused by coronavirus (last Friday, one day): 975 [2]
Amen. I will never ever trust an expert's opinion again, and I know many others who are equally disgusted.

This is a sad day for science and these experts should be ashamed.
Soon all our future wars will be fought by eight year old script kiddies controlling robots over the internet.
Part of me wants to ask “but who investigates the Inspector of the LECC?” But I’ve dealt with Elixir and I know that supervision trees rarely need to be very deep in practice