skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I agree with the idea that "nonlethal" weapons are often used irresponsibly.

There's a reason that the article uses the term "less lethal". These weapons are not "non-lethal". They're not "less than lethal". They are weapons that are capable of, and often cause, the death of their target. Calling these weapons "non-lethal" is irresponsible at best. They are "lethal".

In the same vein, shooting people in the kneecaps is a "less lethal" response, in that with proper medical attention the victim is less likely to die than a more vital hit. It has been openly and widely employed without significant outcry from the global community (1).

Let's plug that into your statement instead and listen to how it sounds: "I agree with the idea that 'shooting people in the kneecaps' is often used irresponsibly. But what is the alternative? What are police supposed to use for crowd control?"

To state explicitly, I also believe it is unjust and counterproductive to allow a crowd to seize control of a common area. But It is unjust and counterproductive to use lethal weapons (even if you use ones that are a little less likely to cause death) against citizens who have done so.

There are plenty of other strategies; de-escalation instead of deliberate escalation comes to mind. There are plenty of other tools; agents that cause obnoxious smells without inducing harm are a good example.

(1) - https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-42-kne...
Yet the marketing push for Ice Lake was that even if the CPU cores lost most of their IPC gains to lower clock speeds, the GPU itself was to be a massive improvement.

I'm looking forward to seeing if the demos were on the Dev Kit hardware, because if that was the performance on a specially binned two year old iPad Pro chip, it's pretty darn impressive.
We have a culture problem, both in the public and in the police. We also have politicians who show no shame in exploiting class warfare to the point of telling people that the deck is stacked against them, wealthy people stole it, and more. Politicians who in one turn tell people to stay at home, don't go to church, or parties because its dangerous to their health, then turn around and say protesting is more important. Who never fail to exploit societal strife as a means to get their name in the press. Out one side of their mouth they claim that the police are out of control while behind closed doors curry favor of the public employee unions who empower the problem.

We have an inner city culture whose music celebrates violence and does not celebrate women but instead treats them like property or worse. We have an inner city culture where schools teach kids to rely on the government and not their parents and the adults. We have an culture where not getting an education can sometimes be seen as a badge of honor and time in jail as the same. We networks with endless broadcasts of cop shows and other crime and violence shows which normalize the environment

Then on top of this you get the police. A group which has been militarized from day one from boot camp, supposedly part of which is to insure healthy cops but rarely is the physical requirement part of a continued job requirement. Who have ranks like any military organization. Who salute each other like any military organization. Who have uniforms , some for daily use, which makes it near impossible to separate them from military members. Who are issued guns for all routes and allowed to keep them on their person off duty. Who are trained by their organization and union that it is them versus the bad guys.

So there is a lot to fix but it starts at the top. Politicians must be held accountable for the mess they create and division they foster. We have to get to the music industry to police itself and tone down the violence of their lyrics and treatment of women. We need a entertainment industry which does not rely on the crime and shows with excessive violence. We need schools to emphasize the good of society and how to improve each student's outcome regardless of situation.

We did not get here overnight. The riots in Detroit back in the 60s should have been understood better but instead politicians capitalized on the fear, drove further wedges among all races, and empowered the police to be more militant. Remember who has controlled politics in most major cities since then and you may understand the lie sold to everyone. They never intended to fix the problem, they intended to feed on it. The political class used it as a guarantee of power.
> My hypothesis is the point is to compete with Jira.

When they start making everything drag & droppable at a huge cost to UI latency and bundle size (plus, for some reason, idle resource use), we'll know for sure that's what they're doing.
Can we build a country on the Internet?
Can we build a country on the Internet?
The Citizen Lab reports (one linked from this article) about the Israeli NSO Group's Pegasus spyware have been really scary for a few years now already.

This is a frightening 8-part series about the abuse of "Pegasus" in Mexico 2017-2019: https://citizenlab.ca/2017/02/bittersweet-nso-mexico-spyware...

Here's a category of articles on the citizenlab.ca web site described as "Investigations into the prevalence and impact of digital espionage operations against civil society groups": https://citizenlab.ca/category/research/targeted-threats/
It only has VP8's intraframe compression, not VP8's interframe compression, so animated WebP is not a proper video codec and is a different beast to WebM video.
https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cps_charts.pdf

The unemployment rate for university graduates in the US is 7.4%, which is not great, but is considerably lower than the civilian unemployment rate of 13.3% in that same report. In past reports the unemployment rate in IT fields is even lower than that of university graduates. US university graduates have been hit the least in the covid economic downturn.

Please explain how suspending L1 visas is going to help this same set of debt-burdened American graduates. Or perhaps these people are all expected to become au pairs now that those visas have been suspended as well?
I had other reasons that I needed my PATH to be in the order it was.
I may be wrong, but I thought GPT2 could also output partial words/syllables (for unknown words), or individual letters if they don't make a syllable.

The simple way to achieve that is to have an encoding dictionary of words, but then add to the end of the dictionary "sh", etc., and then add to the end of that "a", "b", "c", etc. When tokenizing words, prefer to use a whole word, but if you can't do that, split to syllables, and failing that, individual letters. That has the benefit that any ascii string can go through the system.
Exactly how many "multiple", and over how many years? The case you cited is 6 years old. If this is occurring at the rate being suggested by the comment I replied to, we should be able to find dozens of cases from this (partial) year alone. That's a lot of George Floyds to go unnoticed, in a media and cultural environment that is very interested in noticing them.
The Infodemic
It would be nice to have links. "defended police in well documented cases of retaliatory and unbecoming behavior" is bit too vague to follow up upon.
You can take donations but AFAIK business licenses are required in every state in the US whether you provide product, service or something online. If you take donations then by law you have to declare that as income.
well, ‘breaking’ basic browser functionality because it breaks the design of your page is not really something i would call rational...

As stated some comments below, the code literally says ‘disable back button’
How does Quest compare to Rift for anyone who's used both?
I don’t think that’s a sound argument.

iOS is behind android in terms of features, the top comment on the ios14 post points out that ‘it’s all just catchup to Android’.

Clearly Apple isn’t trying to kneecap iOS as an alternative to Android, so why would be conclude that they are doing this with Safari?

Their strategy has never been about rushing.
I would like to see a randomize button that creates something random and then lets me edit it to my tastes. It's just so exhausting to plan an entire dungeon from scratch.
Similarly, almost all the YA novels involve a transformation from ordinary mortal, perhaps even social outcast, to someone who has superpowers and/or is the special chosen one (and the story is the journey to overcome challenges and believe in yourself). They go way past "everyone is special" into "you're a failure if you don't change the world".

Here I am, over 50 and I'm still waiting for my superpowers to kick in...unless it's the power of mostly being adequate, and occasionally useful and creative.
Yep. At first it was SHOCKING to see the new cases rise. Then the death tally started rising fast. Then the videos from Italian and US hospitals.

But like most things, once you are accustomed to it, the amount of fear people feel declines. As fear declines, apathy increases.

It's like gang violence, child trafficking, or casualties of war. At first it is shocking, but then people get used to it and go on with their lives.
Great observation. I see the same pattern in other countries, too. One reason for this I believe is the lack of “goal clarity”. What’s the goal we’re aiming for? I see several options:

1) we want to eradicate the virus from our population => total cases matter and should be 0 sometime soon, I think that was and is China’s goal

2) we don’t try to eradicate the virus, but we want to keep the stress on the health system manageable => total cases don’t matter that much, bed capacity is the relevant indicator. This seems to be the goal of the “flatten the curve” thinking

3) we don’t care that much, let the virus spread like wildfire so we will have herd immunity asap => I am not sure, but from outside it seems like Brazil is trying to do this

I think the reason you and I are confused is because it’s seems to be unclear if we are trying to achieve 1) or 2). It’s not communicated. Maybe it’s unclear to policy makers, too.
I can't find a link right now but I read somewhere that farmers in Costa Rica were starting to get liver damage because the wet bulb temperature had been reached there so we're starting to see the effects already
I used ngrok at first but quickly got frustrated due to the maximum of 40 connections/minute (without paying money). Our web app was pretty bloated so refreshing the page twice would disable the tunnel for the rest of the minute, which you can imagine was pretty annoying. Supposedly keepalives are supposed to mitigate this, but our dev server must not have implemented it?

So for my purposes, they did the same exact thing, but Cloudflare's was much more generous in terms of resource limits.
> AdGuard desktop and mobile apps are quite different from hosts files or pi-hole. For instance, they're also able to apply cosmetic rules.

My understanding is that AdGuard desktop is equivalent to hosts file + adblocking extension. Is that correct?

> AdGuard is able to apply different rules depending on which app makes a request.

How is this possible without root?

> AdGuard filters every network connection and not just DNS queries.

How can AdGuard filter secure connections (outside of the browser)? Does AdGuard filter by IP address?
You can add QuickJS [1] to the list, which outperforms many tiny JS interpreters.

[1] https://bellard.org/quickjs/bench.html
One very important positive thing is that the whole readme is now displayed on mobile version and that is the one which is indexed by Google.

Previously they only shown few top lines and thus all README was not visible in the search engine. Something that awesomeopensource took huge advantage of.

I wish they can enable google analytics on Github pages.
In fact, JPEG 2000, which was standardized, in, well, 2000, already has transparency support, and 20 years later still have no meaningful support.

Every iOS and macOS device supports JPEG 2000… that should be pretty meaningful.
Ugly as hell. (Just my opinion :)
From another article, Apple claims that the transition will be complete in two years. I have 2.5 years left before I will be eligible to have my work computer replaced.

Depending on the exact timing of Apple's product cycles and the procurement cycle, I'll either be getting one of the last Intel Macs or a Windows machine of some description.

If an Intel Mac is still available at this time, that brings other concerns - in particular, Macs are on a five-year replacement cycle at my work, so even if they are available it may not be prudent to buy one. Will it get new MacOS versions for its 5-year lifetime? Will it still get security updates five years down the road? Will the developers of the applications I use still ship x86_64 versions of their Mac applications?

Because of all of that uncertainty, it may end up being a better option to just get a Windows machine when I'm eligible. Fortunately, a lot of that uncertainty should be cleared up by the time that happens.

EDIT: Another remote possibility is that VMware figures out some way to fill in the gaps that Rosetta doesn't. After all, they did figure out how to do virtualization on a platform that didn't even support it.
Oh is that what it is? I was trying to figure out why it looked so bad when not zoomed uncomfortably far "in", when I didn't recall that ever being a problem before. I think that's it.

Ugh now I can't un-see how much farther it is to mouse from the repo "body" to menu items (including those associated with the repo, which are now, confusingly, disconnected from it visually) now. Thanks for that.
This is anecdotal. My own anecdote is that we've had far more trouble with my wife's MacBook than my NixOS ThinkPad which just works, even after upgrades.

The Linux experience depends on the distribution, software and hardware you choose. You need to choose carefully.
You can MOSTLY avoid being murdered by your fellow black people by not engaging in any fashion with criminal enterprises and not staying with a domestic partner who beats you.

People who live their lives in a fashion as they are extremely unlikely to be harmed still worry that cops will murder their children for no reason. People also fear uncontrollable danger more so than things that they feel they can control even if they are in fact doing a bad job of it.
It's indeed much better on mobile, since the old design not only hid most of the README, but also lacked many useful indicators from the desktop version (languages, releases, etc.)

The thing is, they just released an excellent app, which was seemingly meant to solve the problem of browsing GitHub on mobile. It's a bit surprising that this design, by many aspects, seems targeted towards mobile users and is already displaying more useful info than the app.
FYI, this query took 81 seconds:

select count(*) from trips where fare_amount > 0

Presumably this is Hacker News load?
Easy extra income for all. All is easy and free.

https://www.ysense.com/?rb=59429643
> And I presume Crystal is backed by an optimized C library for TCP[1]

On what basis are you presuming that?
White blindness to what is not only self-evident but completely proven out by arrest and incarceration numbers to at minimum 70% of black people if you look at polls is what BLM is fighting against.

The next step is that white people just say its all about economics. Its because they're poor. While being poor in america absolutely correlates to both committing and being a victim of crime, even when you take race out of it, there are countless instances of middle and upper class black people being treated like criminals in a way that absolutely NEVER happens to whites. A white person in an oxford shirt and khakis doesn't get arrested outside of their own home in Cambridge - it happened to a black professor.

Article on police harrassment of blacks: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/inside-100-million-poli...

Source: https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/data/

Here's some additional data at least.
Ordering would be memory intensive. There are configurable artificial limits in place on this demo instance. This is just because database takes internet traffic directly. In any other settings these limits can be relaxed, which is default behaviour anyway.
Update on this front:

Web3Torrent adds etherium micropayments to WebTorrent

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23602008

https://blog.statechannels.org/introducing-web3torrent/
I got it on 19th June (I remember because it was the day GitHub went down). I left feedback, but it feels like it would've been a foregone conclusion at that point.
The timing and effectiveness of a potential vaccine are still unknown. Hopefully some of the vaccines being tested now will work, but it's quite possible that all will prove to be ineffective or unsafe. So from a public policy standpoint we have to proceed on the assumption that a vaccine isn't going to save us.
> An animated image (an image that contains some sort of video media, whether gif or h264 or whatever) is a hint to the browser to play it automatically and without sound. If everything were true video (say, mp4) you couldn’t make that distinction.

<video autoplay muted> says the same thing.
You're really veering all over the place to dismiss this (which is funny given that it was on the A12Z, and we know production machines will be much more powerful).

Now this tiny (less than 1/3rd the die size of the Xbox One SoC...hell, 1/4) SoC needs to game better than an Xbox One whose SoC draws 4X+ the power. Also note that the A12Z has a 5TFlop+ neural engine (in addition to everything else), dedicated video encoders and decoders (separate from the GPUs), and loads of other hardware that consumes transistor counts.

And for that matter, the gameplay looks easily comparable to walkthroughs of this same game on an Xbox One.
It's Tiger Lake that's supposed to see the passable GPU, when they use the same cores as their new discrete GPU.

Not that I'm really defending Intel here, they fell behind the curve.
A building catches fire, the fire department starts spraying down the surrounding buildings causing water damage but keeping them from also catching fire. Everyone is ok with this trade off, the reason we are allowing the water damage is to avoid the building burning down. The fire department started doing this when the building fire next door was on the first floor but threatened the rest of the building.

The fire department was able to get that room where the fire started mostly put out, there's still a little bit of fire in the hallway, and they start putting the hoses away.

"There's much less fire than when we started, and people were getting really angry about the water damage to the surrounding buildings. We are all done here!"

Would you be happy about this situation, wouldn't you point out that even if there is less fire, nothing else has changed about the situation. Fire still spreads, it can still catch the building on fire, and that fire could still spread to the surrounding buildings.

The problem isn't over yet, and if the whole point of suffering the water damage was that my building wouldn't burn down, well now I have water damage and it might still burn down.
So that we can take a picture of ourselves and have it tell us which famous person we most look like when blurry?
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> One of my favorite readings are the essays of french philosopher Simone Weil after two visits to germany in the thirties. She was concerned with the rise of the nazis, while at the same time describing the natural and understandable forces that were making them gain support.

Could you point me to those essays? Would like to examine those!
Chrome and Firefox don't.
Google Analytics is the default attribution tool for many (most?) small and medium sized digital marketing agencies. Most businesses have some kind of GA account set up with a few years of history and it's quick to leverage the data.

With ad and taking blocking becoming more popular all the time, there will reach a tipping point where the data is unreliable enough that ROI can no longer be proved with it. It will be interesting to see what happens then in this space.

Alternative attribution models, more insidious fingerprinting?
What's old is new again.

This reminds me of Digital's VEST technology. VEST would convert VAX programs to run on Alpha. From 32-bit CISC to 64-bit RISC. Nearly 30 years ago.

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs343/resources/binary-transl...
The Unabomber, really? There's something disturbingly smug about thinking that one side is emotional to the point of religious and another side is logical and factual. Maybe it's time for some humbling introspection.
At current exchange rates, $100k is about £80k or €88k.

In the UK that pre-tax income would put you well in the 95th percentile.

Post-tax the 97th percentile.
My main experience with tcc was that it was the only C compiler available for Damn Small Linux (a <50 MB Linux distro with X and Firefox).
20 of the identified 21 issues have been fixed.
yep. this and the change to the file browsing, where the lines that delineated files/folders are now gone, causing me accidental misclicks of the wrong file, are two very glaring annoyances. everything else i feel neutral on
The US will always be the outlier when it comes to both opportunities and salaries.

I personally still plan on moving to the US but my employer changing their transfer policy the day after Trump's inauguration certainly didn't help.
I've taken the course, and highly recommend it to everyone! I wish I had taken it years sooner, as most of the techniques can be applied to any learning endeavor.

The instructors do touch on having a "growth mindset", as well as teaching practical skills that are easy and effective both for retaining what you learn and for fighting procrastination.
Another typo is:

> In future work, we believe it be prudent to explore other types of operations: GET and PUT, perhaps, or operations on sets.

Should say GET and SET.
The point is how moneyed and powerful interests align, leveraging technical expertise to target specific investigative reporters, members of civil society, etc.; with the goal of killing democracy.
Die size doesn't matter here, because they're on radically different process nodes; it's gate count that matters to compare apples to apples (or Apple to AMD, I guess, lol).

Xbox One has 5B, an A12Z has 10B.

And when you look at the layout, it's you can see that in each it's about a third of the space for the GPU cores, with each having very large L3 like banks of SRAM before the memory controller.
while HN load is high, this is just because poor implementation on our side. Filters are single threaded, not yet vectorized in any way. This will be fixed eventually to bring in line with queries that we've already optimised
The appeal is that they need something on-trend to put in their portfolios for career advancement. It's their version of résumé-driven development. Project managers have similar incentives (screenshots are very powerful, in many settings) so at least don't stop them, if not actually encouraging them.
Looks terrible. Figures MS would make it look FisherPrice like. GL it is.
One thing I found fun was to start by blocking out one room, then another and another and basically switching between tools - the geometric shape too for a tower or two, and then start linking them up.

After a little bit of noodling you start to feel the outline of a building and then you can be a little more deliberative.

In my experience, the hard part about planning out a dungeon is filling it with encounters.

There's another creator (Donjon) which doesn't make maps as prettily or easily as this one but it does allow you to basically do what you're looking for:

https://donjon.bin.sh/d20/dungeon/
Tanks for the feedback.

WHERE queries are slow indeed. This is not because of the load but rather because WHERE clauses are not yet implemented under the fast path. Currently they run under an old model which is single-threaded which is why they are painfully slow.

We will make these as fast as the rest soon.