skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine the main difference would be salt content, but I can't speak to how that would affect things.
I'm not doubting it's impossible, but I can't come up with any scenarios where something would work perfectly at 95% but then break at 100%. What could be some examples of things that can break like that?
NZ government deploys'porn actors' in web safety ad
remarkable v1 user here. The pdf/epub reading experience is not perfect, turning page is a bit distracting as the screen refreshes with all sort of artifact for nearly 1 second,but the can't beat the ink factor. And can annotate. I prefer it to the kindle to read because it's larger.
I conditioned the retreating on “if you do something that could be met with justified self defense” (as was here the case). So this was not a blanket policy.

In general I do think there are many situations where police should not automatically return fire when fired upon. Not all situations – but many situations.

Also, I’m not obsessed with making all criminal acts impossible or making sure that there are never any loopholes or ways for criminals to get away with something.

First of all, that’s an impossible standard to meet even if you put no limits at all on police action. Crime happens regardless and criminals get away with it. (Which is not intended to be defeatist hyper-cynicism. My intention here is to say that perfection in terms of solving crimes is an impossible standard even if you don’t give a fuck about human rights and dignity. You have to measure differently.)

Second, policing that respects human dignity and reduces overall harm (as opposed to being fixated on this one possibility of some criminal getting away with it) will sometimes lead to criminals getting away with it and that’s a trade-off I’m more than willing to accept.

I would be much more keen on talking about trade-offs, otherwise you always run into the trap of running into a situation where a policy could possibly in some way be abused by criminals and as soon as that happens this policy is automatically no good anymore. That seems like dangerous dead-end thinking to me. You always run into stop signs.

Loopholes are a valid argument against a policy, however they are not the final argument against a policy. Put them on the con-side and keep on thinking about it in terms of trade-offs.
The amount of thought and awareness that goes into the experience of corresponding by letters seems like a bit of a lost "art" today.
My guess is she took advantage of times when the airlines hadn't announced the delay yet but had no chance of making it on time. Then occasionally got burned when they switched planes or something and cancelled a different flight instead.
Presumably you'd want to retrain the model from time to time and that would require the original material.
Open-source to run your own pool of proxies on a cloud
University of the people is giving opportunities for people who previously were not able to secure admission into college. I am a medical doctor currently pursuing a bachelors in community health and i must admit the institution is up to date and top notch!
I'm mostly just impressed by how many improvements they've made to their UI since hiring Tantacrul.
Nations also interact, muddying the “compare” waters further.

Where I live, we drive cars, but we don’t fight the overseas oil wars. We’ve outsourced all that brutality to the US. That lets us smugly reap the benefits and point fingers at Americans for the violent, backwards, gun-toting culture.
I feel they are on the wrong path.

Musescore has significant UX issues and things have been getting worse with each release. Instead of adding new complex functions that are already done better by others they should try to fix the basic things first.
author here, thank you!
I tried to distill everything down to some kind of fundamental of computing architeture - hopefully the three (data, exec, move) make sense, I originally called them "data, compute, messaging" but the last two terms are have too much baggage..
We know much more about the world-model of GPT-3 (which is none, but it has a language model) than we do about the three year old (which we can't build or reproduce in silico) but we know plenty well enough to say that no, things are not going to magically "emerge" at some scale. You need something fundamentally different from endless cloze deletion exercises to learn what a drawer is.
But then it is the insurance that is betting on you. Sort of like a Mr Beast video.

I would reserve gambling for something offered to some kind of a consumer/costumer market.
> - Does Instagram prioritize scantily-clad photos of attractive people over scantily-clad photos of relatively less-attractive people?

If my theory of "It's not Instagram that prioritizes attractive people, people prioritize attractive people" is right, then yes, less attractive people are less attractive and therefore less prioritized.
The sources are clear that the Romans and Greeks considered sub-Saharan Africans "exotic" because the latter had black skin, and prostitutes of sub-Saharan African origin were sometimes sought out by Romans and ascribed certain qualities due to their dark skin. It has been suggested that such othering is an act of oppression regardless of what historical era it occurred in. That is, the Romans did not need to have our contemporary understanding of race in order to engage in racism towards black Africans.
A tool to help you write more, focus and edit the clutter
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> Lawsuit settlements for the police committing human rights abuses should come out of the police pension fund.

No, they should come out of taxpayer funds. The principal is responsible for the actions of their agents.

If the public authority doesn't properly screen, train, supervise, and discipline police to protect civil rights, it is their responsibility and the responsibility of the public who chooses that authority.

Absolving the public authority and the public of responsibility just means that there is reduced incentives to address systemic problems.
> You would expect directly elected police to increase accountability

I don't. I have a sheriff and I barely keep up with the issue between elections. And to be honest, local police in my area are a non-issue, I've never had issues with them personally. (IMO: this is because I live in a richer suburban area. Police are well paid, college-educated, and low-stress compared to the city police)

Between the county council, my city's mayor, the state governor, the state representative, the state senator, my US Senator, my US Representative, the President, the School superintendant, roughly 4 or 5 different judges, and the sheriff... I'm frankly leaving most of my election sheet blank during elections.

Besides, the Sheriff has been running unopposed for the last decade. Even if there was an issue, its not like there's even another guy for me to vote for.

I'd have much more trust in a Chief or Commissioner setup. I at least know the name of my county executive and somewhat keep up with what my county executive does.

But the only way you can convince me that my local police, that I'm voting for directly, has any issue, is if protests erupted in my local neighborhood. A lot of these videos that are being posted online do not apply to me or my vote.

> The very large number of police organisations produces some stupidities, like a tiny "city" that's mostly funded by stopping people going 1 mile over the speed limit on the nearby highway, but almost all the big problems are the big unitary police forces of the big cities: New York, Chicago, LA, etc.

Is it really? Think about it. The NYC officers who shoved the man were fired pretty quickly. While its basically impossible to fire a Sheriff.

Hypothetically, how would you convince me or raise awareness if my local sheriff was a problem? No major protests were in my neighborhood.

And I'm somewhat connected and informed about these matters. I've got friends who are fully ignorant, or are even 100% on the police side on this issue. How do you expect to convince them to vote for a new sheriff?
Agreed, but it's not like cable TV isn't a bubble of its own.
The term "main" is a trigger to non-lead developers.
Who exactly lost their home while paying their mortgage on time?

I'm not saying that the GFC wasn't massive (it was) or that people didn't lose their jobs and homes (many did), but MBS were not at fault. Subprime lending was, among other factors.
author here, thank you!
homage to the K&R experience of showing something new, even if the subject matter is very different.
Yes, this seems like a clear case of bullying by FB and in turn by Kaggle. As a contestant I would be furious too. If I shared what data I am using during the contest and to other participants, and then I won then its completely fair. After the match, suddenly the Facebook legal team wakes up, they should have been awake during the whole contest. Ideally, they should give the prizes and then do another contest where the legal team is involved throughout
Apple have often suffered when it comes to external dependencies. That might have been when IBM failed to keep PowerPC competitive, Microsoft Office lagged on the Mac or now when Intel are struggling. The rumours are that several Mac releases have been delayed because of supply problems, the newly released 13" MacBook is shipping with previous revision chips in the low end models.

When you take this into account it's easy to see why dumping Intel is attractive to them.
author here, happy to answer any questions..
Didn't know they had their own app. I regularly watch them and the triathlon version on YouTube, so will check it out, thanks.
Cameroon has digitized its public service recruitment system
While not wanting to downplay the marketing and design genius of Steve Jobs who created a brand identity so strong that for a while, "smartphone" became synonymous with "Apple", Steve Jobs really stood on the shoulders of giants in terms of innovation.

Without the Alan Turings, John von Neumanns, Edgar Dijkstras, Donald Knuths, the researchers at XPARC and Bell Labs, etc., there would never have been a Steve Jobs. He does play a role, but not nearly one as big as all those people that came before him.

Some people like to push for progress for progress's sake; others mostly to make money out of it (not saying this is bad!). The latter get more rich but it doesn't mean they're more important.
Then why draw the line on race?

No one is drawing the line on race. No one is saying "Let's fix race issues and ignore gender and poverty issues." All of these problems need to be fixed. People are focusing on race right now because several people have been literally killed by police officers who have been charged with their murders.
US F-15 fighter jet crashes into North Sea as major operation underway
I’ve been thinking that the next realm for movie studios is to use the random AI face generated people, that look real, but don’t exist.

These faces can be planted on other fake AI bodies, that move like real people.

Then, what you have is a background full of fake AI people. They look like real people. They move like real people. No more need to hire extras.

You can just have your primary actors act in a green screen. And virtually change the world all around them.

The first company that can commercialize this, is going to make a ton of money. And might even be able to gain first-mover advantage, as they lock in all the studios.
I don't fully understand your requirements, but there might be something here:

https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality
Nice but that link appears to be broken: https://gitlab.itunix.eu/skorotkiewicz/owrtwifi2mqtt/blob/ma... ... But yes the script can also be found at the bottom.
Yes, It's totally reasonable that someone could have been routinely capturing all the pager data. Normally over a very large service area (possibly nationally)
Yes, the data can be captured passively. It's just data (sounds a bit like old fashioned modems ) being broadcast over radio frequency.
You just hook up a radio scanner to a pc, and run software to decode the tone, creating a huge text log, that contains all the messages.
Yeah, with $1 million at stake, I can't believe this team of really smart people made such an incredible blunder.

The whole reason Facebook launched this challenge was to try and bury the bad PR over their data practices. If people in the external datasets had complained about the unauthorized use of their faces in the winning solution, it would've been pretty embarrassing for FB.
> Is a daily 7-minute workout better than a 30-minute workout three or four times per week?

The best workout is the one you'll actually do; I suspect this program is appealing to the crowd that figures they can fit in 7 minutes, but not 30.
An easy loophole is to stop selling insurance to someone who has burned you for tens of thousands of dollars already. Except she used fake identities, which doesn't seem fair, or legal for that matter when it comes to air travel.
>But Apple can chew gum and walk at the same time.

No.
Look at MS and the difference in quality.
They are both samey in the $$$ department, but MS much larger focus and enormous dev base makes it not such a nice thing for products.
Apple reduced scope is what lets them have quality thing. They do not have much manpower (I mean, they are one of the few trillion dollar company, their human resources don't look like that), spreading focus would harm quality. Their iDevices makes 5x as much money, that's where their eyes are, that focus can't be made smaller for an "infirior product" money-wise.
>I was an early adopter of PPC and OSX, I’m not gonna sit there trying to get work done via the old-cpu emulation again.

The lowest spec of the very first PowerPC Macs (the 6100) was faster than any 68K Mac, including emulated software.

The first Intel Mac Mini was faster than the G5 Mac Pro.

EDIT: Sorry, I misremembered; 68K emulation did impose a performance penalty versus contemporary 68K Macs. PowerPC-native performance was definitely faster than any 68K Mac, and developers were very good about releasing fat binaries.
> Everything else was not seen as practically exploitable.

For a concrete blog post, see https://cyber.wtf/2017/07/28/negative-result-reading-kernel-...

Note that according to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spectre_(security... Spectre was published January 2018, i.e. this blog post is indeed older.

As I wrote: It was unclear how this potential threat could be used to create real attacks.
I think they're referring to this thread itself.

I've been lurking on hacker news for years and I've never really seen anything quite like it.
Please don't wildly speculate about technologies you clearly don't understand. "Does not strike me as a particularly high bar" means you're unfamiliar with how these systems work at a deep level (by which I mean, you personally cannot sit down at a terminal and build one). So rather than -ahem- making things up and asking "what then?" -- please ask for textbook recommendations on these topics if you'd like to know more.
There's also the Citizen Weather Observer Program [1]. It's more North America-centric (where the data even gets ingested for use by some weather forecast models, after various data quality checks), but anyone from anywhere in the world is also free to share their weather data.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Weather_Observer_Progr...
they actually hired the person behind this video (tantacrul):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hZxo96x48A

It criticize the user interface and experience of various music application. I find it very entertaining yet still informative
I'm more curious on how the nice I2c timing diagrams are generated. It doesn't look like the result from wavedrom[1] so I'm wondering if there are more tools like this out there.

Incidentally, I tried doing searches to see if those images are just copied from somewhere else, and ended up on what looks like a news site with what looks like content of the article after multiple passes through google translate [2]. Anyone has an idea why would something like this exist? Somebody playing with AI/ML perhaps?

[1] https://wavedrom.com/

[2] https://newshimalaya.com/2020/06/15/earn-your-self-a-weather...
Exciting news! This feels like a Blender 2.8-style project.

What's funny about this is that a composer/music YouTuber/UX designer called Tantacrul meticulously roasted MuseScore's UI on YouTube, and the MuseScore team ended up hiring him, leading to this project.

The video in question: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4hZxo96x48A
This is very cool. I'd be interested in a docker-compose script that wrapped this all into a single deployment, as it seems you have created a very nice self-hosted with analytics solution.

I do wonder if Metabase is too resource intensive for this purpose, and perhaps a more lightweight data analytics resource might not be better suited? I say this because I usually run metabase on its own server. Perhaps not an issue, more a question.
It's hard to look at her work as anything but criminal when she used 20 fake identities to pull this off. Once she ran out what she could do under her own name and started using fake ones, she crossed a line.
> Who is "we"?

Presumably society.

> You can't "set aside" something which a free market has chosen to accept.

We have set aside CFCs even though they were accepted by the free market. They were harmful to the environment, creating the ozone hole.

Similarly, PoW mining has an enormous and well-documented ecological cost.

> If you're upset about PoW, invent a superior replacement which the market would prefer over PoW.
> However, I suspect you cannot. I'm doubtful that such thing can exist.

PoS exist.

> Bitcoin is now an essential commodity because there is no replacement for it when it comes to saving money or evading warrantless (illegal) surveillance.

All transactions and account balances in Bitcoin are public. From meta data and corresponding networks one can figure out where and who the people are (NSA does this too). It is not very private at all.

> The central banks and governments around the world caused this, and they aren't capable of reversing it.

I doubt that it is a essential commodity and suspect you are overestimating the economic importance of Bitcoin.
This isn't the right yardstick, middle class does not mean 'median income'. Its a cultural idea.

Non-conpetes should be reserved for select few in the firm that know the secret sauce, and are paid well enough that a year on the beach will hardly affect their cash flow.
Basically executive level compensation and responsibility.
This clearly does not qualify.
All the other formats talk about how easy they are to use, and when you mention security, they throw up their hands and say "I dunno". Flatpak, on the other hand, its entire shtick is how applications are sandboxed for security.
Prob not bad for some applications, but if you are trying to have cost of a overall system low in order to make it more available to more people… id rather go with the ice40LP's
There's a bit of 'Change it to feel like we're doing something' going on for sure; it's human nature. Go to any HOA, school board, or other minor political meeting to see it in action.
1) The main loss for LNG wouldn’t be transit, it would be efficiency during synthesis.

2) Any inefficiency during transit of LNG isn’t leaks, it’s the fuel burnt moving it around.

3) The cost of building high efficiency LNG power plants wherever you need power is another cost that should be considered.
DOM event listeners and garbage collection
What are some of the UX problems you're thinking of? Personally I've been pretty happy with it so far. (My main point of comparison is Sibelius, which I used until I went all-Linux three or four years ago.)
Really cool, great work!

Only weird thing I feel is the video. For being an application all about empowering people to be able to "say" stuff without speaking, it doesn't have a lot of demonstration of it actually being used for communicating with people. Most of the time there is music in the background, otherwise it's just a short section of the video with what results you can expect from the app, or people who can actually speak saying something.
I think the problem with this is that it’s not fun because it’s too hard :/ headlines have seriously degenerated.
I'd agree 100% but the state of how janky and alien their own Catalyst ports feel don't give me much hope.

If they want this platform to remain the world class computing experience they actually have to invest in it fully not just hope that some work can be skimmed off the top of their iPad investment.

Where is the example of a best in class 2020 Mac desktop app? Because it certainly isn't News.app.
The article states the videos used a Creative Commons license that allowed for commercial use. It is an extremely liberal license that does not state "free for commercial use except for when used with facial recognition."
The KantBot described in the article is a fascinating character. I didn't quite get the joke on how Trump's victory presaged the completion of German Idealism, but I could not help but look up his reading list for these troubled young men [1], which overflows with learnedness, so I think it would appeal to HN readers interested in liberal arts.

[1] https://autisticmercury.com/2017/02/25/kantbots-critical-for...
A Catalyst app can be implemented with SwiftUI though, I don't see your point
Is SQLite able to handle multiple processes that want to read or write to the file database at the same time? Or nearly at the same time.

They say that SQLite is more in competition with fopen, for file open, rather than a true RDMS system.
Do you really think we can apply the policing methods of Iceland or Japan to the areas of Mexico where you have cartels chopping up people? Crime and violence are not homogeneous around the world, so I don't think police can be either.

See how far you go with a compassionate police in Brazil.
Thank you - clear breakdown there!
Sweetheart deals with ex-Microsoft Executives leading the company. In my opinion: This is a cautionary tale of career executives.

There was, however, an anecdote banded about the Helsinki R&D Nokia offices: "We have, easily, the most expensive clock application ever made, it's been rewritten so many times". So maybe the inefficiency was always going to kill it.

That said, Nokia was betting on Meego replacing Symbian, symbian was so crazy optimised for low end hardware though.
Yes so the website owner is in a dicey legal position, not the plugin author.