skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked into it a few years ago. Because it's also about structural racism, you need to compare rastes and numbers with comparable international figures, as there are biases stacked upon biases if you only look at domestic relative rates. Those crime statistics you cited, try to compare them to some other first world countries. Look at incarceration rates, convication rates, ratio of jury trials, and percentages of subpopulations in prison at any one time, and as long as you are willing to accept it, you'll soon start to see a very clear pattern. You'll see that US crimes statistics over ethnicity and income doesn't look like anything, or anywhere else at all. It's bizarrely skewed, not subtle at all.
Wow! Thank you for the compliment. I really appreciate it.
Having worked at NASA, let me tell you that number is 100% BS on all levels. You have to go out of your way to make a satellite cost that much, which they did.

Look at how, say, Planetary Resources was putting together their much smaller telescopes and you'd get an idea of how it could be done on the cheap. Then to scale up you'd focus on cost effectiveness instead of maximizing capability at all cost. Do multiple cheap launches ($100m each) instead of spending billions on a complicated automated unfurling mechanism, etc.
I didn't notice any obvious visual differences, but I'm also not an expert on adversarial examples. The transformer models were similarly susceptible to attacks, but while adversarial examples transferred well within a model class (~40%), they did not across model classes (~5%). These are rough numbers from memory, don't hold me accountable!
Do you have any thoughts on the usage of consumption of Borax to treat Lyme disease (asking because your username)?
The Maya Ruins at Uxmal Still Have More Stories to Tell
That's fantastic news! I'm interested to see whether the 8086 and 8088 use the same microcode or whether the only difference between the chips is in the BIU itself.

I've always wanted a "visual 6502" style emulation of the original IBM PC, and a high-resolution die photo is the first step. Cycle-accurate emulation of the 8088 is fiendishly difficult thanks to the complex interactions between the EU and BIU.
Non-renewable plants are still responsible for far more deaths than nuclear plants. The choice is: do we want a safer plant that fails in a sensational manner every few decades or do we want a more dangerous plant that steadily emits lethal pollution?
I'm thinking defense / electronic warfare. All the data we'll be collecting in the field needs to travel back to a data center somehow. Not sure what the rules of the game for on vs. off-premise storage in that scenario, but I still think this is one of the main demand drivers
I've heard a story that due to the hardware divide instruction in 68000, IBM engineers were concerned about interrupt latency (the instruction took many cycles to execute and couldn't be pre-empted by in interrupt).
This is really cool, thanks.

I tend to have one space per task and have at least a Firefox and an iTerm on every one.

Just running a single monitor is the way to go for me. The benefits of multiple monitors just doesn't make up for all the fiddling.
There are millions of people in the world who would mock the extravagance of declaring a 2-bed apartment in a city to be an essential necessity of human life.
Yes, the fact that "map" is a keyword and "Table" is not really makes a trouble for parser. But I think we should think towards the road. There should be always a solution.
Ask HN: What are the pathways for a H1B guy to start a company in US?
Hi all,
Wanted to get insights from y'all on starting a company within the U.S. as an Indian immigrant on H1b who's never going to land a green card through employment.

I work for one of the SV companies and have recently been serious about one of the ideas I have on my mind. I am currently working on an MVP and plan to take it to investors in a month or two.
I have a positive feeling about it, and I am much motivated to continue in that route and make it my full-time affair.

The only, and only obstacle I see is immigration. I am married and my wife is on her own H1b as well.
I've gone through countless articles, spoken to people, researched the internet, but still do not have a 100% coherence on all the twists and gotchas involved here.
Similar discussions went on here quite a while ago (> 5 years), but I am willing to see what it's like today.
I can think of the following options:

- Get a H4EAD and be dependant and legally found the company, and run it, while taking the risk of being hit by the shaky executive actions for purported to be unleashed at any point.

- Find a cofounder on GC or with an American Citizenship and have them hire me. The risk I see here is that I only get to remain as a "worker" for the very company I founded who can be fired at any point for any reason or no reason. I have heard horror stories that happened to people in the past and I just cannot trust this path 100%.

- Move to Canada, the country that welcomes immigrants with arms wide open. I will be able to run my company with a GC there no problem. I am just slightly concerned about finding talent and VC access there. Shouldn't be too much of a problem I guess though.

Has anyone of you been through a situation like this? what was your path?
What risks did you have to take? What were the factors that resulted in whatever decision you made?

Your answers and insight will be incredibly valuable to me, all help is truly appreciated.

Thank you so much in advance!
There have been plenty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure#List_of_major_dam_...

Worst being Banqiao and Shimantan Dams failure that killed nearly 200 thousand people.
I think it is a big deal but short of going to war what do you think will cause china to change their ways? sanctions don’t do much. stop buying from china? good luck with that.
I'm talking about tiny screens and resolutions, so it's both. I don't see the strawmen.

Phones and watches are a different use case, so I'm not sure what you mean. I don't type code in either.
Way to steal work from someone else. And you're actually charging for the email notification service!?

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Lemme know what he wants, if its food, groceries etc, I'll take care of it. Im from new Delhi but I have friends in mumbai.
Humans have a really hard time balancing consistent, boring risk against low frequency high impact risk.
> It implies that are entire teams of engineers out there whose sole job it is to play cat&mouse with reverse engineers and nothing more

Do you think the same thing of anti-spam teams too? This is pretty much just anti-spam/anti-abuse.
> Microsoft is investigating a bug that causes Chromium-based Edge to automatically launch when Windows 10 version 2004 starts up, while Firefox and Chrome users are also reporting issues with this version of Windows.

If my laptop was to launch a browser every time I boot into windows 10, I wouldn't even consider this a bug. Yesterday after a simple reboot (no updates, no new software or drivers, no nothing) my jack audio output stopped working (works fine in debian). Go figure.
No, it doesn't. As far as I'm concerned, violence or shit like this should draw life. The law-abiding public doesn't need to be exposed to people like this.
Why do you care about aspect ratio so much?
Having worked in aerospace on SBIRs contracts for a period, I can testify that we delivered PowerPoint vaporware for that level of funding.
Thank you for pointing this out; this accords with my recollection, but you clearly stated a fundamental issue with the approach in its current state.

I thought of the idea as more a sketch of how things might be looked at with a perspective change, rather than a full-blown theory (at least in the form I saw it in 2014). I guess I was holding out for the (highly unlikely) possibility of an asymptotic limit or something similar. It just seemed to be rooted more in reality than most of string theory/LQG. Of course, that could be my bias towards novelty!
Why would you think they were referring specifically to mammals? Mammals isn’t mentioned once whereas species/animals is used very broadly In the context of very broad ideas of evolution.

In either case, the hypothesis suggests animals should live longer in the wild than in captivity. So let’s take the only mammal that isn’t more likely to die from age/don’t die from old age, the naked mole rat. We don’t understand why they die and any given day there is a 1 in 10,000 chance they die at any age. In captivity they should have the same lifespan as lab rats (6 years); however, in the wild the have an average lifespan of 17 years and in captivity that expands to 30 years (again in contrast to the hypothesis where wild animals of the same species should live longer than those in captivity).
The Caltrain only goes to the very eastern edge of SF. BART has more coverage, but it's full of drug addicts and none of the stations in the city have working bathrooms.
Yes, under certain conditions, setting a police car on fire seems like an ethical action. Welcome to the US. If the police are unaccountable, they're thugs and not police. It's fine to burn the cars of thugs and those that prey upon us.
The Banqiao and Shimantan dam failures in China killed ~170K people.

The Machchu-2 dam failure killed 5K people in India.

The South Fork dam failure killed 2K people in the US.

Coal mining directly killed over 100 people annually up until the mid 1980s, and continues to kill 10-30 people annually.

Oil drilling in general kills about 100-110 people annually.

There's not much good data for wind turbines, but generally wind power kills 10+ people annually, either due to fires in the turbine housing or falls.

There have been a number of deaths at various power plants, often due to electrocution or steam boiler explosions.

The only truly safe power utility-scale power source in widespread use is solar.

BTW: Fukushima killed 1 person directly due to the nuclear material. Even Chernobyl only killed between 30 to 80 people directly, depending on how you count it.

If you want to count indirect deaths due to Chernobyl and Fukushima, then you also have to compare that to indirect deaths due to traditional power. You don't want to know how many people diesel, oil, and coal kill annually!
A ground station doesn't have to actually be on the ground. They could park a boat in the ocean between London and NYC with equipment to act as a repeater. This YouTube video (along with others on this channel) does a good job of explaining how this could work. [https://youtu.be/m05abdGSOxY]
It’s like “PC” or “fake news”, it was originally meaningful but got co-opted by people who use it in bad faith.
Ex-officer who killed Rayshard Brooks charged with felony murder
I don't have a copy of the indictment, but in other police car cases they've used the fact that the car itself was imported, therefore destroying it affects international commerce.
Note that Armin Labs are considered quacks by many. For one example [1]. I will leave it to others to do your own research but just wanted to recommend caution about their use. Especially for diagnosis of Lyme, plenty of tragic stories of people getting an Armin positive test while negative on the others and then being encouraged through years of serious antibiotic treatments only to have always been negative all along.

[1] https://forums.phoenixrising.me/threads/documentary-undercov...
I think that’s a little lacking in nuance. The team they have putting this together say to me they’re putting their money where their mouth is, at least. That paper has a fucking legit list of contributors.
Not exactly the same, but there's [1] and [2].

1: http://aosabook.org/

2: https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x
Good point. But Occam’s razor, and Hanlons as well. Given the evidence I’m going to go with equifax.
If it is nonfree, there is no way to know if generated keys are private. There is no way if there is a backdoor. There is no way to know if that mandatory update will install it.

Give me a Free software client and an open and reliable standard to encrypt. Otherwise, this is bullshit.
These Apple tactics are nothing new. Why is DHH acting so surprised?
Yeah, I do business-to-business ecommerce and our yearly revenue coming from Internet Explorer is _more_ than _mobile_ (excluding tablet).

So, yes similar story. IE11 needs to _work_, though maybe not as well. Though, I generally avoid polyfills (even jQuery) and try to just write code works natively in IE11.

I have a feeling IE11 will be around a while.
Arson laws were designed around the idea that fires sometimes go out of control and cause huge amounts of damage, and potentially loss of life.

Laws are also designed around intent rather than outcome. So there are harsh punishments for intending to start/spread any kind of fire, even if it looks unlikely to go out of control in this particular case.

Also, it's unlikely that she'll really get 10 years without someone being hurt in the process.

If I were to highlight excessive penalties, I'd probably point to drug crimes rather than arson. I don't think lighting fires should be a part of the protest landscape.
Fun fact: Lua started its life as a language for representing data like this. At first it only had lists and hash tables but over time it gained support for things like if statements and loops, to be able to describe more interesting data. Eventually it morphed into the Turing complete programming language that we know today :)

https://www.lua.org/history.html

The current version of Lua still has some traces of that origin. For example, to keep RAM use manageable when parsing very large files the parser directly emits bytecode in a single pass, without building an intermediate abstract syntax tree.
Crime statistics are definitely skewed, and discrimination is a huge part of that. But the question is not whether black people are being killed at a higher rate due to discrimination, the question is whether black people are being killed at a higher rate because the police are targeting them due to their race. The answer to the former is definitely yes - due to a variety of factors including discrimination black people commit more violent crimes and as a result are killed by the police more frequently. I think the answer to the latter is no, there is not strong evidence that police officers are more likely to kill black people over white people in the same situation.
I think the generalized version is important for the most accurate (if slow) simulation specifically because it doesn't make the core assumptions that lots of existing specialized simulators make.

This is for the same reason you can't use almost any existing airplane simulator for calculating space travel far beyond the parameters of {gravity near the surface of the Earth, air friction far from STP at sea level, time elapsed as the velocity of the craft approaches the speed of light, heat as the aircraft approaches temperatures far beyond its rating}. A very narrow simulator can make approximate values for these items at the cost of not being very flexible for a wide variety of testing. Example: being able to test the properties of a ton of materials at near 0 Kelvin or near their boiling point would be far cheaper and faster if they were in a digital simulation than if we had to hire specialist workers to find the pure material and create the environment required to mimic those settings.

Which brings me back to why I posted it here, in this moonshot thread and not just some fan article about a flight simulator. I think a general physics simulator is like basic science -- it's a foundation upon all of the other layers of the stack of existence on Earth is based (ignoring temporarily the more complicated things like consciousness, gods, and other philosophies). If someone sinks the cost for the simulator, they could potentially take a royalty of all of the material science breakthrus of all new innovations found using the simulator.
> it bares repeating

it bears repeating

(Sometimes you get the bare, and sometimes the bare gets you.)
typical mentally ill radical progressive. lock them all up, please!
Tito's still post billboards about being Texas Handcrafted and other BS.

He actually sold out to a big distillery years ago, it's all just marketing lies now.
Does the 2600 allow you to set a static DFS channel? It looks like it might support an auto-switch mode but I can’t find anything specific.
Isn’t Docker implemented in Go already?
There is a purpose, but it's not HFT... It's orbital mechanics.

You can't have efficient coverage of the whole planet without launching all of your satellites at fairly high inclination (>45°). There will be more satellites per area near the poles and so that's why Starlink will be available at very high (and very low) latitude before it's available at the equator.
The article is all based around this premise:

> Times of low-resolution displays are over. High-resolution displays are a commodity now.

I reject that premise. 4K is basically the maximum number of pixels you can get for less than $1K, and that's only a handful more pixels than a 16" MBP screen. It does not make sense for most people to shell out the $$$ just so that they can see the same number of pixels from slightly further away.

It is absolutely not the right time to upgrade your monitor. Wait until 5K+ becomes affordable again[1] so you can actually get the benefits of an external monitor (more usable screen space) without having to sacrifice the sharpness and quality of retina.

[1] https://tidbits.com/2018/11/16/what-happened-to-5k-displays/
Discovery Communications Uses Armory (YC W17) to Collaborate from Code to Cloud
In what way is there a difference between virtue signaling and performative?
I highly doubt your second sentence is true
this is mental illness, logic does not play a role here. purge these radicals, please!
> Can you explain how using a TSA lock on a gun case you're flying with, if you want to, is "a big no-no and could result in problems with the law"?

I'm not sure, those are not my words. Ask swimfar.

It strikes me as simply irresponsible gun ownership although I'm not sure what legal liability that may open you up to.

Again, the point of bringing this up is that you can decide to use an actual secure lock to protect your property if you just put a "firearm" in your luggage. It's not actually about firearms at all. It's about protecting yourself from an obviously broken and exploitable government backdoor.
You can read the four part saga directly from Airbnb here: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/react-native-at-airbnb...
But it's true. Developing modern code on a Apple 2 is unproductive. It's suboptimal, and worse. Maybe you don't want to use the word "unproductive," and that's fine. But larger screens, faster computers, and more expressive programming languages all contribute to increased productivity over the older alternatives.
1 is definitely an issue for me.

It's why I actively avoid monitors with small pixels. My trusty old Dell U3011 and the two rotated 1600x1200's flanking it suit me just fine.

I've no inclination to change my OS, either, just for the sake of fonts.

Kudos to those commenters still on CRT displays. One complaint I have with LCD's is reset lag time, which can make it tricky to catch early BIOS messages.
Yes. TIL.

> What Programming Language Does Docker Use?
Docker is written in the Google Go (golang) programming language. To learn why Go was used, we’ll refer you directly to Google.[1]

[1] https://blog.stoneriverelearning.com/docker-101-what-is-dock...
Would you mind iterating on how it could be improved and how these changes relate to the context in which you've worked?

I've used it a bit for simple game development(Love2D). It's an okay language but it seems only suitable for building anything beyond small systems. No good IDE support and needing to emulate OOP was a bit annoying to me.
My current compensation is more than 4x what it was at my first job out of college 14 years ago. It would have been difficult to pull that off without getting in touch with recruiters at major tech companies on LinkedIn.

I did not have an expert write my profile and in fact I’ve hardly touched it in years.
Copyright is ridiculously hard. Beyond difficult.

Even if you have general guidance across the varying nations, most of the time you can't expect it to be compatible. In fact, I've run across differing and incompatible copyrights across states within the same nation. I've seen copyright laws that contradict themselves, and the courts reinterpreting that law in seemingly random ways, so understanding the law isn't a guarantee that you can obey it.

As things currently stand even determining who holds a copyright may not always be possible, and the person who holds the copyright may not be aware that they do.

Even just the concept of Public Domain does not exist in all countries, and does not mean the same thing across most countries - there are subtle differences that can lead to insane incompatibilities.

Distribution rights, whilst complicated, are far less complex than the tangled web that is copyright law.
> It’s an awful metaphor once you actually look into the statistics.

Have you ever lived near a Ppwer Plant? I have, the worst one in the US actually, and it leaked so much that it had to be shut down after continual incompetence, corruption and violations. I actually think its an apt metaphor, if only due to Human error.

Worst yet is that most are built around coastal areas and the infrastructure is such that there is only one way in, and without any connecting freeways around the area for many miles. I was trapped in my car coming back home several times during massive fires with no way to get home other than to stay on that freeway for 7 hours inhaling smoke all the way there, my hair smelled like a bbq pit for a week.

In the case of a melt down, as San Onofre is both on the Pacific coast line as well as along the San Andreas fault line so it was just a matter of time, we would all die. Some slower than others, but death was the most likely outcome due to radiation exposure as an evacuation plan would fail.

When you see this as soon as you walk out the door, and can't tell why and how to react that is then you can comment on what is an awful metaphor or not, until then you have no real idea what it feels like:

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

I also know people from Fukushima, they came to our town in 2011 to warn us, and my friends wife is from Fukushima prefecture and was close enough from the plant to be affected by the Tsunami, it wiped away her family business and home, and all of these people feel the same.

Statistics are only a cursory form of understanding a subject and hardly comprehensive.

Nuclear technology is fine for non-terrestrial purposes, like Mars colonization, we have so many better options on this planet that it baffles me why such short shortsightedness prevails, other than abject greed.

Hell, Elon refuses to use it on Mars, and would rather have a football fields worth of solar farms, which may be a mistake due to weather based outages that are likely to occur, but is also a keener insight as to how myopic this technology is in the Hands of Humans from one of the most cunning people on this Planet.
FF Sandbox Escape (CVE-2020-12388)
I think if the House had subpoenaed Bolton, he would have refused to show up. This would have opened him up to be sued, but it would have been a long, drawn out process in the courts, which would have prolonged the impeachment proceedings by several months, by which time public opinion on the impeachment proceedings could have become negative.
On Android, It can install apps from anywhere if user set a config. But most apps are still on Google Play Store so rarely need to install app from external sites/apps. I expect similar thing happens if Apple allows it.