skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are literally training officers to do this. There is a systemic problem that needs to be addressed by a complete defund and reorganization of the criminal justice system.
Nvidia and Mercedes partner to create a next-gen car computer
>> When people ask me about my life’s ambitions, I often joke that my goal is to become independently wealthy so that I can afford to get some work done. Mainly that’s about being able to do things without having to explain them first, so that the finished product can be the explanation.

OMG Yes.
In previous conversations and articles it made it seem like the dish would be something too massive for a regular person to own, and more of something for a small community to use.

I don’t think the photos provide the best sense of scale, but to me it looks slightly larger then a directTV dish.

If they can get it small enough that the average home can have one, I think adoption might be easier. (The idea of doing something like last mile fiber for a community, and run a sat link for a group of houses makes a bit of sense if they are expensive to make, like the 5k/10k antennas the article compared to )
Where are you living? very interesting!
> Imagine if you ran all those NPM install scripts and they only had write permissions to their subdirectory of node_modules, only had read permissions to your path, and would dynamically prompt you if they had a reason to request something beyond that

This sounds entirely possible to do within the existing macOS sandboxing framework.
Barcelona opera house reopens with performance to 2,292 plants
Awesome - great to hear
Where was NYT's policy of using real-names when they:

- quoted anonymous source behind the White House "Op-Ed",

- used "well-connected", (but anonymous) sources reporting on the "Russia collusion" news?

I must be missing something here?
I've taken Crystal out for a spin with a number of popular and less popular frameworks. Even for my small test application, edit/compile/run times were slow. Only the thinnest frameworks like Kemal seem tolerable to me.

I really do hope that the compiler gets faster and the larger frameworks figure out how to compile faster. These are the benchmarks that matter to me before I'd make a recommendation.
> I can't imagine how bad it is there if you've got too much melanin in your skin.

It's the same. That narrative you're pushing is hindering genuine discussion and potential solutions to the very real problems of abusive police and injustices within the legal system. It's them versus us - all of us - not some of us more than others.
quad9.net DNS servers are blocking freedomfromfacebookandgoogle.com domain... Interesting.

https://www.quad9.net/result/?url=freedomfromfacebookandgoog...

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/url/freedomfromfacebook...

Might be a false positive probably because bad stuff came from the same subnet of the web server; might be just a byproduct of shared hosting
Almost every browser has this feature...
Affected Company A passes the 1% cost increase of the tax to the consumer.

Affected Company B changes their packaging, e.g. to recycled paper, to avoid the tax at a 0.1% cost increase and passes it to the consumer.

You tell me what happens next.
As with everything, it depends on the implementation. There are some things I'd like to clean up about our app, but overall feedback has been very positive.
I second this recommendation.

You need a lot of practice for a new language to stick and once you’ve done your first 1-2 tutorials and feel like you get kinda get it, actual tasks involving regex will seem far and between, but these crosswords are a great way to crystallize your new learnings.

And also fun to do!
I agree.

I just can't see Adobe, Autodesk, etc, distributing their desktop apps via the Mac App Store.
I have a similar story. I am on an H1b with an EB1 approved petition for a Green Card. I am presently waiting for my priority date to be current for the GC to be issued. My wife who was on an H4, had to leave the US in March and got stuck in India, where US consulates have shut down. Then the travel ban hits, followed by the latest executive order which means she can't come back till at least the end of the year.

Even worse, the priority date for EB-1 India, where I am from, jumped nearly 11 months forward in 1 month, and my priority date is just 7 months behind. If I end up getting a GC before she is able to come back, we'll have to go through an entirely separate process to get her GC, which will take at least 1-2 more years.

The only option seems to be to wait for the GC for a few more months, and then move to a different country so we can be together and start anew. We will then have to start the process of getting her GC and deal with all the paperwork that entails, assuming laws don't change again. Who knows, in this time maybe we'll just end up living in the new place for good.

Both of us have PhDs from a top engineering school, own a house, and have lived in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. The chaos this is creating is mind boggling.
The recommendation is to write only idiomatic code that implements a certain algorithm without tricks: https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame/...

Did you actually see programs that do not follow the guidelines or you're just stating this as what you would expect?
I think if by some divine miracle Twitter disappeared and some mysterious supernatural force prevented re-creating it by any means - our culture probably would be much better off. There are some excellent people on Twitter but by now they're just giving legitimacy to the cesspool. Twitter adds nothing to them and they'd be as well - probably much better - on a different platform.
I wish there was a completely technical solution to moderation sadly it's a human problem and humans come with their biases. It's election season if someone could document systemic political bias would that be treated as an in-kind donation under the FEC regulations?
How do you know it isn't doing much to stop it? The story of Camden NJ says the opposite. Crime flourished as the police force shrunk, and declined when they disbanded and reformed a much large force.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/apocalypse...
For me the problem can be summed up as: "Every new MacOS release has less Unix and poorer (for a power user) design".

Apple has been slowly whittling away at the MacOS value proposition for developers.
> Not being able to block ads with Safari makes an automatic no-go for me

I actually turned it into a very specific use-case: when I need to be tracked for cashback/referral purposes on big purchases, I use Safari. Everything else goes on Firefox.

It's a bit ironic to use Apple software when I want less privacy, after all their spiel.
Frankly, if you qualify for H1B, you really should qualify for a green card (resident alien status).

Do we really want to bring skilled workers to the US, give them work experience and training that raises their skill level even higher, and then kick them out of the country?

That seems like an unimaginably stupid idea. We should be seeking to retain highly skilled immigrants, not flushing them out of the country.
In other news .. https://outkick.com/media-ignores-90-coronavirus-death-colla...
I can't speak for why the OP feels this way, but I think one of the main gripes I've seen from "power users" of the latest MBPs are the touchbar and Apple's continued insistence on it and the larger trackpad that some find obtrusive (these features are generally embraced by end-users). Then of course there's the lack of USB ports that some take issue with and the fairly disappointing built-in webcam on the latest models. These are not problems for everyone and most have workarounds, but some "power users" are turned off by this. The abandonment of the butterfly keyboard is definitely a step in the right direction.
The title "Mathematics in type theory" is like mathematics in real analysis or set theory.
That's a commodity feature at this point.
The only image format I can think of where you can encode a blur applied to some part of the image is SVG
couple of items which struck nicely

>Q32-17* - 32 cores and 4TiB RAM is 58W TDP, i.e. basically beefy laptop level

>4-Wide superscalar aggressive out-of-order execution

So, with the last item being the key to modern CPU performance, it isn't just Intel, it is probably whole x86 family will feel the pinch. Add to that Apple's move to ARM. Sounds like a promise of great times to come - i.e. competing architectures.
79-Year-Old Tycoon Torpedoes Lufthansa’s 10B Dollar Rescue Package
Arrange your time and your mind will follow
I think I dislike the new repo view because the two main columns are reversed from what my brain thinks they should be.

Did a quick jumble of the html and css to things I would prefer: https://imgur.com/a/1HEROxa

Not perfect but I like it more than what they went with.
Still do not understand the point of "herd immunity" Swedish way. Pointless to me. What it is supposed to protect from? From the disease you are supposed to get sick with to acquire that immunity at first place?
Does this mean Safari may get the React or Redux extensions? That’s all I care about.
I'm not denying slave patrols existed, I'm denying this rumor of them being the root of modern police because it's straight up not true.

The very simple historical trend that brought us the police we have today started with the King enforcing the peace, was delegated to sheriffs who enforced the peace among other things, was inherited in the colonies where the sheriff took on a primarily peace officer role in early states, and as the population grew and cities got bigger were augmented with more specialized and local peace officers. Slave patrols being the root of police is just propaganda.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23585596 and probably others
...by the one and only Fabrice Bellard: "gpt2tc is a small program using the GPT-2 language model to complete and compress (English) texts. It has no external dependency, requires no GPU and is quite fast...The compression ratios are much higher than conventional compressors at the expense of speed and of a much larger decompressor. See the documentation to get results on text files from well known compression data sets."

A natural question I've pondered from time to time is whether Fabrice is really a time traveler from a more advanced civilization in the future, sent back in time to show us, mere mortals, what humankind will be capable of in the future.

If this sounds far-fetched, consider that he has created FFMPEG, QEMU, LibBF, SoftFP, BPG, TinyEMU, a software implementation of 4G/LTE, a PC emulator in Javascript, the TCC compiler, TinyGL, LZEXE, and a tiny program for computing the biggest known prime number.

And that's just a partial list of his successful projects, which now of course also include software for lossless compression with Transformer neural networks.

Any of these projects, on its own, would be considered a notable achievement for an ordinary human being.

Source: https://bellard.org

--

Copied and edited some text from my post a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19591308 -- I never cease to be amazed by the guy.
I tried so hard to be a gamer on macOS, and I kept telling myself it would eventually get better. But I had to give up. You can't even turn off mouse acceleration, which is a bare-level requirement for RTS games like StarCraft.

There's something about an OS that won't let me decide how my mouse works that just irked me to no end. For a while there was some sketchy kernel extension you could pay $20 for to kill the acceleration, but even that stopped working.
Title should be renamed to "Language Models are Lossless Compressors"
I would also consider myself to be a power user. However, one huge annoying problem I've encountered is sharing homebrew between multiple users. It seems like it's not possible for homebrew and all of it's libraries/binaries to be owned/usable by more than one user at a time.

Apple should roll their own package management tool or officially support homebrew.
Alan Turing and the Myth of A.I
Are there really that many tremendous public health benefits? Autoclaves, steel, cardboard, and wax paper did the job for decades.
I still wonder about the feasibility of Rob Landley's idea of QCC - TCC with TCG backend - the code generator used by qemu which comes originally from TCC itself. That would make it fast to compile and with quite an extensive repertoire of architectures covered.

https://landley.net/qcc/
It's not in the lists of apps, so I can't remove it.

I'll see if I can install the APK directly.
The webRequest api uses javascript, but with code that runs in the context of the extension, not code that is injected into web pages.
You can read a bit more here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
Limited immunity = total impunity
Facebook runs CentOS with mainline kernels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA_Nd3crBuA&feature=youtu.be
Agreed. As a white person and a minority in ways that can and can't be hidden, I've had the experience of interacting with cops when they think that I'm "one of them", and interacting with them when I clearly was an other.

It's a night and day difference, and I can only imagine it's much worse for those with different skin colors.
That's kind of scary for something developed in the 90s. It was originally run on Pentiums, K6s, PPC 604s, and the like and it's still too expensive for a Ryzen 7?
> In reporting out a story, it is the journalist's responsibility to obtain factual and verifiable information. People are the center of the story, and using their real names adds credibility to the story.

IMO that doesn't apply to a situation like this. By definition, whoever answers email sent to the address on the SSC blog is the author of the blog. It doesn't matter if that person's "name" is Scott Alexander or Santa Claus or SillyBob5319. The piece the NYT is writing is about the blog, not about the specific, identifiable person who writes it. Knowing who that person is does not add credibility to the story; the credibility is already asserted by the fact that the person who controls the email address behind the blog is talking about it.

To your point about "verifiable information": the only verification needed by a hypothetical reader of this perhaps-never-to-be-published NYT article would be 1) visit the blog; 2) find a contact email; 3) send email asking "were those actually your words quote in this NYT article?" The person's name is irrelevant.
> The aim is to start construction of the new tunnel by 2038

Why wait so long? Surely the tunnel is the easiest part of the project, and the Swiss are very good at digging tunnels. The article goes on to talk about funding issues, but I'd imagine they'd be able to start digging the tunnel now and round up funding over the years by expanding their organization or lobbying the EU harder.
Pilots and Controller Blamed for Pakistani A320 Crash
New release big data platform in the cloud – Kyligence Cloud 3.2
Also, gif only supports one-bit transparency; Whereas webp and png allow partial/gradated transparency.
>The most violent people in society will likely have interactions with cops (more often than your average person) so surely that must skew the odds a lot.

This is important point. Another one is that it's likely cops ARE some of the most violent people in society. For example, look at the instances of violent crime inside the home (i.e. when a cop is off-duty, so there should be no skew) - the numbers seem to indicate that domestic abuse is more common that not: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-...
Thanks so much for going into detail and not just “mine is bettererer” like so many do.....

Oh wait.
Just on that last thing in particular: another example of a software license that has an 'all rights reserved' copyright statement and requires distribution of both the copyright statement and the license would be the BSD license.

An example of another software license that explicitly separates copyright and licensing when describing itself would be the GPL, in either v2 or v3 form.
Your causation goes the wrong way. The GP didn't say that less crime would cause fewer guns, but that fewer guns would cause less crime. You can't say "but guns stayed the same and crime both increased and decreased at points, which means that guns don't affect crime".
Everyone "lags behind" Safari in battery life on mac, unsurprisingly: a mono-platform app can pull tricks that multi-platform ones cannot.

When comparing apples to apples, Firefox imho is actually lighter than Chrome on battery, at least on Macs.
Sadly, mismanaged landfills are probably more common than you think. Even if having diminished yields might not be an issue, microplastics concentrating in edible parts of crops might be.
I tried manjaro after living on debian based distros for most of my life. I somehow ended up in dependency hell after only a month.
So, your argument is that you disagree with data being the root of the problem by arguing that data "shapes research directions in a really fundamental way", research is "empirical" (i.e. based on data) and his research can't be isolated from data it'd be used on in production?

Looks to me that you're argumentatively agreeing with Yann.
Thanks for the feedback.
A PR was created to fix this :) :
https://github.com/questdb/questdb/pull/434
Since we're way in the German Kaninchenbau:

https://yourdailygerman.com/meaning-of-komisch/
Good advice is like organ donation
We have too many different formats! Let's make a new standard!

2 years later

We have too many different formats! Let's make a new standard!

shrug
What do you mean by "from the past"? All existing languages are from the past.

EDIT: what would be a language that is "not from the past"? Certainly Python(1991) is from the past if Akw(1977) is. The origin of Python is twice closer to the origin of awk than to the present time.
I upgraded my current laptop from 8 to 16 GB to 32 since 2014. I replaced the 750 GB HDD with 1 TB SDD. Then I replaced the DVD with another 1 TB SDD. It was as easy as slide the bottom out, loose a couple of screws and that's it. Ok, I concede that replacing a worn out keyboard was not as easy as on YouTube but I like serviceable hardware.
One thing I've noticed is the better an engineer gets, the better they are at shooting down every idea they see. While I have seen many cases where a person did it anyways and failed, I have also seen many cases where they did it anyways and where massively successful.
Use a password manager. It's safer than trusting Apple or Google who are after your personal data.
The more I think about this, the less I lump Google and Facebook together when I talk about privacy. Maybe it's just because I don't use Facebook all that much, but I don't consider them to be exactly equal, and suggesting that everyone not use both at the same time no longer works for me. I don't disagree with some or even much of what's on this site, but Google has built some amazing things that are widely used. I can't think of much to say about Facebook in that way. Google has mail and docs and maps and all the chat things and analytics and so on. Really powerful impressive things that are really useful to many people, and certainly useful for Google in obvious ways. Facebook has... Facebook. Maybe I'm missing other things that it does?
The author's name is irrelevant to that story, because the story is about the author only insofar is that relates to the blog, which is written under a pseudonym. In fact, it's actively confusing to bring anything but the pseudonym into this.
That's really cool, care to link? I'm slowly extricating myself from Google and Facebook.

I think we don't disagree for reasons other than raw money about why working somewhere other than FAANG would be good. Probably reasons similar to why I don't work at FAANG ;P
I'm not naive enough to think that adding more police is the solution, but withdrawing them is _definitely_ not the right answer either.

The inescapable conclusion to withdrawing the police is: 1 - response times will go up drastically, 2 - security will deteriorate, 3 - wealthier and middle class folks will stop visiting/living in those areas because of #1 and #2, 4 - the tax base will evaporate, 5 - the infrastructure, schools, and all other communal areas will deteriorate, 6 - the class divide will become a gaping chasm between the poor who are relegated to the slums and everyone else. We don't have to try this again. We know that this is what happens from our own history in the 20th century!
I think I've justified my opinion well enough. And I still hold it.

I'm not concerned with people dismissing what I say on its merit, only presuming that because I wasn't convinced by his explanation that I hadn't read it which is dismissive.
How timely! I've done a deep dive into column store databases for the past couple of weeks. Reading through the Quest docs, I'd give it the following characteristics. Are these accurate?

- single node database, not [yet] distributed

- primary focus is time-series data, specifically in-order time series data (the `designated timestamp` extension)

- physical data layout is an append-only column store

- Implements a small subset of SQL with some affordances for time series (LATEST BY, SAMPLE BY).

- Doesn't support explicit GROUP BY or HAVING clauses.
Instead, questdb implicitly assumes GROUP BY or HAVING based on presence of aggregation functions in the select clause.

- Small standard library of functions: only 4 text functions.

Based on these characteristics it seems the quest db is well positioned against Influx. It's probably faster than Timescale DB but significantly less flexible given that Timescale has all of Postgres behind it. Quest DB might eventually compete with clickhouse but it's long ways out given that it's not distributed and implements a much smaller subset of SQL.

I'd love to get any insight into join performance. Quite a few column stores handle large joins poorly (clickhouse, druid).
You boomers need to know that 먓띑뒢끟 are precomposed hangul characters. It's not hard to just say CJK.
Back when I applied for an H1B visa, the chances that I'd be outright rejected was 30%. The next few years I believe it climbed to 60%. Just the fact that I found a company willing to apply to my visa involved a lot of luck. Even me being on the US before the H1B involved a lot of luck. Then luck to get the visa. So much of my career was based on luck. Sure, I seized some opportunities when they flew by, but it's not like I was steering super hard to make them happen. Some people will make success happen because they're super smart and relentless, but for a lot of people like me, I believe there's an incredible amount of luck involved.

It kind of grinds my gears when some people give lessons on how to be successful and don't acknowledge that luck was a part of it.
Launchy[1] used to be good, but hasn't been updated in a decade. I'm not sure if it works in latest Windows 10.

[1] https://www.launchy.net
Strongly agree. My original plan on unsubscribing was to come back if they blinked on SlateStarCodex (everyone makes mistakes), but after being made to jump through these extra hoops, I'm through with this company.