skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 'p' in '240p' doesn't stand for pixels, it stands for progressive scan. Also 240p/480i/480p are the standard accepted terms for these low resolution video signals[0], nitpicking technical details as a 'gotcha' when people use standard terminology isn't helpful.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-definition_television
Previous discussion (8 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442998
in 2019 there were a mere 89 deaths, and 41 one of those were vehicle accidents.
I believe they're legally compelled to remove them from the search listing. Write a letter to your congressperson?
The point is, the claimed moral authority over China's spying activities is a tribalist fallacy, because after all, when it comes to using the intelligence services of the state to usurp progress in other countries, America leads the way.

If the US were really treated the way it treats other countries, Chicago would be a pile of smoking ruin and a sizeable portion of the American population would be trying to find refuge.
I think he is being truthful. He is not posting anonymously: his profile contains a link to a professional blog.
Maybe I'm just naive and sheltered. I'm shocked by what I've seen these past weeks. There is a serious problem and it's going to be addressed.

A moment with a search engine will turn up story after story of people in uniform putting their lives on the line to help others.

Personally, I think they're heroes because they're people just like you and me who are willing to risk their lives to help other people. At least most of them are, I believe.
I’m a Mozilla employee.

> Quantum uses a new UI framework called Photon

Photon is just the UX design guidelines that were overhauled with Quantum. Having said that, they were developed in close collaboration between the UX designers and UI engineers to ensure that it performs as best as it possibly can.

> new CSS engine and rendering architecture called Servo

Servo is an experimental engine developed by Mozilla Research. Its style system, dubbed Stylo, was adapted for use by Gecko.

> and the compositor has been completely overhauled to integrate Servo.

Gecko’s compositor was moved into its own process during Quantum, and Servo’s graphics subsystem, WebRender, is in the process of being gradually deployed on release, with several more cohorts pending.
Of course, it may be a matter of taste, but the quiz is mostly asking you to make fine distinctions between small countries' (or percentages of) power generation portfolios, which is not something any average person is tracking.

It would be a little more interesting if the quiz could lead people to understand something new / unexpected about clean power. Or help them choose to do something about it.

Aside from that, it really is trivia. Or minutia.
Or maybe it is simply shaming and dominance thing. Fear is used to emasculate and shoe the supposedly afraid person as lesser.

Like with masks - those opposed them like to frame wearing them as fear "I will not be afraid". It is never responsibility, caution nor fashion nor "who cares why not". It must be fear, because it shames.
Sure, I combined the two tables in the spreadsheet linked below, and there are many occupations that are more dangerous than police officer if we look at fatalities by per-capita occupation.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dXtv2wnutujfXWUHB9Bm...
Most of the existing Android codebase is Java. There is some Kotlin code, and PiranhaKotlin is certainly in the roadmap somewhere but, especially when the goal is removing older features, Java makes the lion share of the use case for such a tool right now.
The fact that people instantly go to both-sidesing this is absolutely infuriating. This isn't some kind of red-team/blue-team dynamic bullshit sports thing. Police officers are the designated empowered representatives of the state and they absolutely must follow the law. There is no rule of law if they can beat your ass and kill you and then hide behind a wall of denial, a police union, unaccountable processes, and phalanx of defenders like this.

Police officers die in the line of duty. Yep. It's a dangerous job. You know who else dies in the line of duty? Truck drivers. Truck drivers die at 2x the rate of police officers in America. Do they get a free pass for beating the shit out of people and killing them? Hell no.
You are correct, I misread this.
It’s about 100 officers a year in the U.S. About half are homicides and the other half are car accidents on the job. It doesn’t rank in the top 10 most dangerous jobs (per capita) in the U.S. according to the BLS. The number of deaths will be much higher this year, at least double, due to COVID19 deaths. The job pays well and comes with a pension. It’s nearly impossible to get fired and if you do get fired, most officers get rehired elsewhere.

https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/police-officers-2014.htm

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdf

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/05/08/the-nu...

https://www.policeone.com/coronavirus-covid-19/articles/covi...
Those 500+ incidents are since May 30.
assuming you get a job offer at a smaller company.
This is similar to what Spain
did in 2014 when passed a law to make Google pay for the news they published on Google News. Google closed the Spanish version of the site. There hasn't been a Google News for Spain since then.

https://www.rt.com/news/201031-spain-google-tax-law/
> There is a gene for basketball--it's called being tall and fairly muscular

so then by that logic, you can argue why there are so few whites in basketball must be that they aren't as tall and muscular.
Even if you discount the racism - why do the police kill so many dang people? Too many brown folks, white folks, and other folks - more than is reasonable.
You're right, and that detail about the UN not denying it (but her claims) makes me a lot less skeptical. Either way I'm very skeptical of the Chinese government w/r/t human rights and I appreciate you drawing attention to it.
27x1 1/4 at 8 Bar and I'm good.
> Setting up your own multi master cross regional database is not free.

Is multi primary the new term? Has an agreed upon term been decided yet? Django seems to be switching to primary/replica.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/db/multi-db/
For anyone confused, ABC here is the Australian Broadcast Corporation, which is Australia's national news network, mostly government funded. Not to be confused with the ABC, the American Broadcast Company.
While it's true that this is the reason for companies like Murdoch, the small and mid-sized ad and journalism industry suffers from this consolidation and market power as well and just brushing the issue off by appealing to unsympathetic entities like Murdoch is just as wrong.

It's not at all wrong to be concerned about the diversity of the news and ad ecosystem and what Facebooks or others role is in vacuuming up economic rents due to sheer size.
We are such a banana republic. Can't stand up to FAANG usually but if Murdoch makes a request we'll just invent new types of laws. Ever asked your local member to change or create a law? Might as well tell a tree.
The irony here being that since that post was made, we've learned that the slashed tire report isn't fake. The Minnesota police ended up confirming it themselves once reporters contacted them.

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racia...
Phosphors may not be pixels, but 240p doesn't say anything about pixels. The number tells us how many lines, and the p tells us that each screenful of lines covers the whole picture (the p is for progressive, vs i for interlaced). The whole phrase 240p CRT TV tells us it's a normalish NTSC tv, not a hi-res tv with fancier electronics to work with digital tv and which would likely have more processing delays.
It certainly seems like a risky situation to get into. I'm sure lawyers would probably always advise you to file first anyway. For one thing you aren't a lawyer so the way you wrote up your publication may only cover an extremely narrow aspect of your invention.

But once you publish the invention, others should not be able to patent the idea anymore as there is prior art (your publication) and patents are required to be novel. This leaves you as the only person who can patent it.
Being a cop is less dangerous than being a pizza delivery driver, and pizza delivery guys don't get guaranteed pensions and a union to protect them when they purposefully beat the living crap out of someone because they had a bad day.
They already teach math...
> They enforce that there shouldn't be tracking.

Doesn't the 2009 ePrivacy directive exclude "strictly necessary" cookies [1], not "non-tracking" cookies? Like GDPR, I think no website wants to be the first to test what falls under "strictly necessary", under the EU directive and every country's specific implementation.

They really should have listed specific exemptions on the directive. Here's hoping that the new ePrivacy regulation will have them and/or just repeals the cookie popup.

[1]
https://wikis.ec.europa.eu/display/WEBGUIDE/04.+Cookies
Sibel Edmonds.
Ask HN: What are some good to know Rails libraries/gems that one show know?
I don't know about 7 mins, but personally I have been doing the 5BX [0] (11 mins) plan since the gyms closed here in Germany. Done it nearly every day for about 80 days. Definitely works, I am currently holding above A+ on chart 4. I tried moving up to chart 5, but for me doing >30 clapping pushups in 1 minute seems fairly difficult (got 18 last I tried) even though I can do about 50 wide pushups for chart 4.

I can feel my cardiovascular fitness is far better than before I started, I lost a fair amount of body fat too. I was fairly fit before though. This scheme, as well as supplementary pullups on a doorway bar seem to give me at least some amount of decent exercise. Can't wait for the pools to open up again though, I love swimming.

[0] - https://campbellmgold.co.uk/archive_health/5bx_cmg.pdf
Quite the opposite. The adversarial job should have higher standards of conduct, not lower.
This idea is similar to DECO [1]:

"DECO is a privacy-preserving oracle protocol. Using cryptographic techniques, it lets users prove facts about their web (TLS) sessions to oracles while hiding privacy-sensitive data."

[1] https://www.deco.works/
There are a bunch of different TV networks, some with local news. I must admit I haven't kept track for a good decade or so, it's possible they've all died out.

I would say local newspapers and radio are the majority of local news sources though.
It's not quite that, but it does sound like cutting all funding. How about "the police have too much money"? It's not an imperative statement though. "Cut police budgets" has the same problem as "defund the police." Any better slogans? Something snappy like "we send the EU £350 million a week. let's fund our NHS instead."
The original question was deliberately and unnecessarily politically 'loaded' in a manner to demonstrate ignorance about things relating to EU politics. It's basically a sport on the internet.

> Whatever the intent of the GDPR was, the practical result is that now I have to click away the annoying "we're using cookies" popup on every website.

"Whatever the intent of docker was, the practical result is that now my computer runs slower. (Thanks Obama.)"
I don't really know any nigerians and I haven't ready any research that breaks this down by income.
Deco lets users prove facts about their TLS sessions while hiding sensitive data
Well, I mostly agree with you, not sure how much I can add to this without getting way into the weeds besides saying that I hope that the sacrifices of people like Snowden were not in vain and the USA does eventually get their intelligence agencies under control.
I sometimes thought I was a singleton set of people who believed this. I'd add that the old media is also in a vicious cycle wherein they can only attempt to gain dwindling share of attention by reducing their credibility. At the micro level, (e.g. on Twitter, where a pan-outlet collection of journalists "mutually discover" the preferred narrative) this sometimes looks a bit like fixed point iteration about a circular firing squad.

I would predict that in this case, Facebook is probably right that news content could be excised from Australia without much cost to the company. It may hasten the demise of the old media in Australia.
Apparently they did not regret enough, because DriverKit was the opportunity to reboot that decision, and it was decided to still be C++ only.
Microsoft Gave a Billion Users a Reason to Quit Windows 10
These are pager dumps re-released by Wikileaks cause I guess they don't have anything else going on for them.

Fun stuff though, the standard is called POCSAG and you can still decode over the air pager signals. Not that you should do that.
The only difference here is that Rupert Murdoch's media empire has a fair bit of political influence in Australia, and they are the ones behind this.
Interestingly the '240p' signal sent out by video game consoles of that era is really a hack, as 240p wasn't a standard signal supported by TVs of the time.

It's actually a 480i signal with the timing fiddled with so that the alternate lines still strike the same part of the screen (this is why games from that era had such noticeable scanlines - the CRT beam is only lighting up alternate horizontal lines).

This also means that a lot of more modern TVs (and even some upscalers marketed for retro gaming) do an extra terrible job of upscaling 240p signals because they run the same logic that they would if it was normal 480i, resulting in unnecessary flickering or dropped frames.
And I assume Google would refuse to implement it being that their business is tracking users through various means to serve them ads
> P.S. I love to see a board game wherein factions compete to control such commanding heights of culture.

In a satirical way Steve Jackson's Illuminati does this (for example, different subcultures, organizations, and professions infiltrate and manipulate each other)

http://www.sjgames.com/illuminati/

although it's not meant to be a realistic simulation of social dynamics.
OMG, no. That's simply atrocious. It makes your beautiful N64 games look like PS1 ones!
My guess in this debate always has been that those ugly sharp pixels must be an aquired taste of those on the side of the console war of the time who had to rationalize their preference for the look of games on their less capable platform of choice. ;)
The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (2013)
In US, because plenty of us were already using J2ME, Brew and Symbian C++ before iPhone happened.
> you mighth need to know what the average joe loser does instantly, or maybe even before the fact, to turn an actual profit.

As in, run a day trading service and analyze anonymized trading data?
For a few applications, like compiling and training, I would be overjoyed to buy a CPU that was 50% faster, but only lasted 18 months.

But for most, I care a lot more about lifetime.

It'll be interesting if this ends up being one of the major trade-off axes, along with power and cost.
And not just in recent weeks, also with cameras trained on them and during a protest specifically trying to draw awareness in part to police brutality. My jaw dropped at so many of them.
That would likely take much longer to default on a loan or loans and owe 700k worth in deficiency than it took this unfortunate kid to lose the same amount even if you were trying, and arguably much harder to find those sketchy mortgage brokers and auto houses than downloading an app and making a few bad trades. A loan on a car or house isn't the same as owing 700k to Robinhood, there's nothing to repossess.
Can you be a little bit more concrete about the tech you are building right now that is not possible to build using classic ML approaches? You see, I am actually going to work thinking about how should we reduce the model size and still keep it within reasonable accuracy bounds so it would not be worse than a rule-based mixed with classic ML system that we use. And here I learn about immesuarable potential, insults and billions of dollars.
Which makes these even more egregious because it means there are still more cases that weren't recorded. These are just the ones we know about!
I know it exists but I cannot think of anything that uses it yet.

What do you people use it for?
Facebook's effectiveness is neutral to the side of politics it pushes unfortunately. It's just that some people are not beneath using facebook to push an agenda.
It's not even really about controlling the narrative though, they still do to some extent. They're angry that they don't have a monopoly on advertisement anymore.
Which distribution provides security updates for all their packages for let's say three or five years? Debian Stable has exceptions, so does Ubuntu and it also makes a huge distinction for thousands of packages in the Universe repository, which for the most part don't get any support at all. Fedora releases are AFAIK only supported for a year or two.

And then you also get the issue of bugs that are actually security issues, but weren't labeled/identified as such, and therefore never get fixed in those stable distributions.
And in 1999 I ported a particle simulation engine from Objective-C/NeXTSTEP into Windows/C++, because the university departments were getting rid of their Cubes and my supervisor wanted to rescue some of the department work.

The turns that the world does.
I miss Wikileaks. I'm looking forward to whatever replaces it coming online. It seems that Assange is headed for the grave - I wonder if the leaks will continue, anyway?
Add to that the first paragraph, which is literally a complaint that flatpack does not make things better compared to rpm.

Indeed the one about security updates is valid and my biggest grievance with such an approach. Note, however, that propietary software like sublime could easily use statically linked or embedded libraries anyways, as they do not have to adhere to any packaging guidelines. So this applies only to free software that has been packaged with the distro.
Please, don't use RT to support your point, since it may create an impression they're a trustworthy source of information.
Polarization, scary stuff :(
The market is still there, the customers I work for, keep buying such components, even in 2020.
How does the encryption work here? The home page says "end-to-end encrypted"; is there a key management concept and a key verification feature of some kind?
I mean, if you just want to be contrarian, watch your holdings for what's going up over whatever period, and sell that --- that's what everyone is buying.

Look over the whole market for whst is going down, and buy that, that's what everyone is selling. Every finance information outlet ever tells you the day/month/year's biggest winners and losers, and most people aren't watching that and taking the contrarian position, or the winners and losers would be pretty boring.
>Some of the messages right after the first attack talk about a plane crash or fire at the Pentagon rather than a terror attack.

Why do you find this interesting? I'm genuinely curious. As a civilian, until the second plane crashed an accident seemed like the most likely explanation. And it wasn't clear what happened at the Pentagon for a while.
I'll agree that your interpretation is the correct one if everything is taken completely literally.

That being said, it seems like the ultimate end run around otherwise well established law surrounding books. As you noted essentially all software works in this way. Throwing out all established laws and end user rights "because digital" hardly seems reasonable to me.

How does such a line of argument square with the fact that even making personal use of a digital item inevitably involves multiple copy operations on a local device in the best case? Even moving it between two partitions on the same device involves copying it. (I suppose I should just be grateful that the digital overlords saw fit to grant me permission to move things between logical volumes. /s)
I don't believe that's entirely true. There is a lot of anti-facebook/social-media that's mostly stemmed from the tangible negative influence it's had on society. We can disparge Facebook and News Corp in the same breath, as it seems to me that they were cut from the same cloth all along.
Because your boss has a boss who has a legal adviser who tells him they have to have the appearance of meeting the requirements of the law/regulators. Compliance theatre. They all know it's smoke and mirrors but it ticks a box in someone's board meeting agenda.
We're still doing that in the traditional web hosting industry.. while many are using cPanel and just scaling out X customers per server at my company since 2007 and earlier we've done this using linux and load balancers for a long time for both web and email.

Unfortunately however this mid-game between "traditional" and "scalable" makes it difficult to get people to move to a few things that would help which includes always using S3 so we don't need a central NFS server (which you lose a lot of performance to, even if it was just for some folders like the main code directories). And the reality is the majority of our customer base is on wordpress... and there are a lot of terrible wordpress developers which lead to all sorts of fun stuff.

Also PHP in general reloading the entire code base every page load is stable though somewhat intensive compared to a Rails-style application for people that want really high hit-rate sites but don't want to make everything static - for example someone with a shopping cart. (We have had customers exactly like that, wanting to hit a badly designed wordpress site with thousands of people at once in a rush sale).

So it is a thing.. but there are challenges. And honestly, surprisingly, getting people to move the needle a little from their basic cpanel setups is surprisingly almost harder than just changing platforms entirely because you have to educate people on how you want to be different to everyone else rather than selling a fun new solution.
If I am a Robinhood customer who is investing for the long term instead of day trading - should I care?
Quantum Changes
Alright, then maybe this article is more explicit for you

https://www.discovery.org/human/2020/04/20/taiwan-didnt-trus...

The WHO person in the interview could have responded to the second question on how Taiwan was handling it. Just responding with "China is doing great in all regions" is just a big fucking joke. If you don't think so then it's clear what kind of person I'm talking to.
It's a consequence of three things:

1. Facts can't be copyrighted.

2. Continuous publishing.

3. Google and Facebook cause a large preference for free content.

If you do great journalistic work and try to charge for it, moments later (no longer a full day) someone else will change a few words around and offer it for free. And Google and Facebook will lead everyone to their story.

Those who create value are unable to capture it. This leads to great journalists getting fired, quality declining, a less informed populace.
Ah what is appropriate? Letting them take over entire city blocks as Seattle has done? Allowing mobs to burn down minority neighborhoods in Minneapolis?
Some financial aid plans only provides up to a limited amount of semesters.
Good luck finding any payment processor that doesn't have a single instance of what would be enough to make you find an alternative.

For myself, until someone else has a micropayments fee schedule like PayPal, I'm stuck with them.