skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why we need civilian oversight of every police department. Cops are generally too corrupt and/or too incompetent to investigate their own. They've proven their inability to hold themselves accountable for their actions, so it's up to the rest of us to do it.
For those curious who didn't know about this (like me):

>With offices in 11 foreign capitals and an unpublished budget, the ILP’s far-flung counterterrorism cops operate outside the authority of top U.S. officials abroad, including the American ambassador and the CIA station chief, who is the nominal head of U.S. intelligence in foreign countries.

>The ILP is supported by private donors through the New York Police Foundation, which won't say how much it has given the NYPD, beyond a sentence on its Web page that it sought to raise $1.5 million for the program in 2010. The NYPD itself won't say whether any of its annual $178 million budget for intelligence and counterterrorism goes to posting detectives in Paris, London, Madrid or other posh capitals.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/11/nypds_fore...
I've gotten the impression it'd cost like $100 / month to subscribe to the different newspapers whose articles I read maybe once a month?

But if there was a way to subscribe to all of them and pay $1 per article

(But I'd like to use Trim for 2 years, for Nyt.)
Apple had a great opportunity to natively support web extensions in Safari. Instead they choose to do it through the app extensions System. Meaning a developer needs to have and pay for Apple dev account. They need to have a Mac to port and compile it. They have to sign it. And then maintain it.

This will certainly affect adoption. Forcing an open standard into a closed system seems intuitively wrong.

But at least kudos to Apple for recognizing the need for webextensions support.
The article is the one that compared the two, saying that he now makes "more". It is completely correct that you cannot directly compare W2+Benefits to Contractor Revenue. The rule of thumb is to add 50% to a W2 salary to include health insurance and other benefits.

So he is nearly there, but not yet.
The NYT in this case should never be supported again.

Scott Alexander does important journalistic work in deeply analyzing the issues.

It’s worth noting that the story is about how he was right about coronavirus in ways that the NYT was not.

The NYT is knowingly attacking his livelyhood and person by exposing him in this way.
Patent-encumbered? Yes.

> proprietary

No. It is an open standard (ISO/IEC 23008)
http://www.arewelearningyet.com is a good overview. And if there's something missing, trying to create it yourself could be a way to learn the language, even if the result doesn't actually do everything you need.
But Deontology is an entire school of ethics that basically does exactly that. Calling all of it "out-of-bounds" seems like not the most reasonable assumption for a reader to make.
Wow, had not read about that!
I am using syncthing to sync my PC files. I'll add synching into the software bundle some day, it is cool.

My own core requirement is backing up iOS.

Whole-device backup is cool when you want to.

1. setup a new device as same as old ( backed up ) one.

2. prevent from you forgetting to put your important files in syncing folders.

3. even some commercial backup solution can boot up a system via a backup.
Congratulations. Nicely done.

Also you've mentioned github sponsors. Did not know about that program. It is severely restricted by small list of countries. Seems unfair as so many people contribute through github but looks like large chunk is unable to apply for this type of sponsorship because of location. Frankly I am quite disappointed with such policy.
>Their primary concern is to defend private property, the people themselves come second.

And of course the more private property one has, the better the protection...
'Black neutron star' discovery baffles astronomers
"Sponsorware" - it feel like open sourced shareware
Tragedy of the commons is exhaustion of a shared renewable resource as everyone has the incentive to take now when they can and none to steward its growth. Negative externalities are a cost bared by people external to the activity. A common example would be pollution of air or water.
Having the time of my life. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff going on (BLM, The Last of Us 2 being DOGSHIT, sensationalist news, etc.) but I've decided to avoid that stuff cause "why would I do that my brain" (Bill Burr)?

I just spend my days coding, reading, and playing muh games. Gotta admit, I'm loving 2020.
It also elides the real subtext:

The risk is whatever SSCs role in the piece is, they will be unfairly portrayed and de-contextualized with the intention of reputational harm -- probably via cherry-picked quotes from past writing - which is absolutely something the media is dishing out at this moment.
I've recently converted some images to WebP on my side project Portabella [1]. I did it to appease Googles page speed test for SEO. But I agree with other comments in this thread that it's annoying so I might switch them all to JPEG and be done with it.

[1] https://portabella.io
This is true of every police department, not just the NYPD.
Why do it in that format at all?
No as bad as this is the EO against DACA was more nefarious and targeting a more vulnerable group.

This does have reason rooted in the unemployment rate, the issue is that it is done in a way to fuck over a lot of people.

They should’ve not let companies abuse H1B over the past X years, instead of fucking over a bunch of people.
A better route would be proportional representation. You vote for a party-ranked list of candidates, and the top n% of the list gets into office based on the fraction of the vote the party received. Unlike single-member plurality voting, this makes third parties viable.
I think it needs 3-4 items to get intelligent autofill?
Signal isn't federated because Signal tried to learn from the failure of XMPP to catch on in any meaningful way, in large part due to that federated nature. However, Signal is open source and its devs have said that anyone is perfectly free to fork it and run their own instances, as long as they remove all Signal branding and servers. In this respect, its unwillingness to allow federation does not negate it being free and libre.
Why is "Black" capitalized, but "white" is not?
Let's Get Ready to Rumbleeee
My wife was in Indianapolis for a couple days and she saw the same thing: a cop crossed over to the wrong side of the road and up onto the sidewalk to strike an unarmed black man on a bicycle head on. They claimed later that the man on the bike had struck the car while it was sitting still (hard enough to put him in the hospital with a fractured skull). No investigation was made. I think they do this because running people over or choking them to death produces less paperwork than shooting them.
I take you're point, but this is all still entirely speculative as far as I can tell. Do we need it now? No but we might in 30 years! Or we might not. And there is no good reason to think we will.

Particle physics has felt very tapped out for a while. And we still have the LHC and LHC upgrades to answer the few questions left Remember.
>> COVID-19 doesn't suddenly become a "different situation" depending on the political orientation of the mass gathering.

> It's not the political orientation of the mass gathering - it's the purpose. One is the President organising a gathering in an attempt to boost his election campaign - the other is some random people who came together to protest a specific thing.

How does the purpose of a public gathering alter a virus? Does it have political awareness and dynamically modify its transmissibility according to the righteousness of the cause?

Or perhaps the purpose of a public gathering justifies journalistic framing (altering the description of the severity of the virus, which in turn alters readers mental model of reality). If it's this, what is the logic behind the justification?
I do a lot with 18th-century music and living history, where long esses are prevalent, and it's been a common point of confusion for students/the public that turns into a gag. I released a book of original music a few years ago[1] and people still call me a "compofer"

[1] - https://github.com/tsmacdonald/first-collection/blob/master/...
after taxes
Or we could abolish the police and create a new public safety department without the structural racism and ingrained power-hungry culture.
>Most email clients have the word "mail" in them.

Yes, but mail isn't the same as SMTP or IMAP or POP.
Worth noting archived material on the Wayback Machine[0].

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/*/slatestarcodex.com

Edit: there are some references in the comments already (didn't spot them because I missed the "More" link).
This seems pretty reasonable; I don't know if anyone was claiming otherwise throughout these upsampling results?
Reporters will try to get the person on record, but in the end, it's up to the source.

If he or she agrees to go on record, they should understand the potential risks.

It would behoove the reporter to lay out the options. Tricking someone to say something without knowing whether he or she is on the record is a big no-no.
Is it even a good measure though? Is the community more "confident" in a post that has 1 downvote than a post that has 50 upvotes and 52 downvotes?
I haven't follow the trend much nor seen a recent comparison, so take this with a grain of salt.

WebP is based on VP8, which was considered to be competitor to H.264 (AVC). HEIC is based on H.265 (HEVC), which competes with VP9 and AV1. So I'd assume WebP is one generation behind HEIC. WebP was introduced 5 years before HEIC though.
I slightly wonder if they wanted to get rid of him? (his blog)
Apart from sibling comments’ points, someone from MIT with multiple publications under their name can apply for NIW as well.
Sponsoring the official screencasts/educational content for an open source project is a great idea. I run a company[1] that provides a service targeted at software engineers and I'd pay several hundred to several thousand a month to have a 30 second promo at the start of a video, depending on the size of the project.

Is there a website out there where I can find content I can sponsor?

Also, keep in mind that when you are self employed you need to make 20-30% more than your salary as an employee if you want the same take home pay. That covers the extra self-employment tax you have to pay, health insurance, business insurance, etc. If you charge by the hour, you might find this article on how to calculate an hourly rate helpful: https://help.facetdev.com/docs/how-do-i-calculate-my-hourly-...

[1] Shameless plug: www.facetdev.com
In theory, yes. But I consider Google an enemy of privacy, and I would rather burn my servers to the ground than sell them my product.

The encryption provides some protection for me: the data I acquire does not accumulate value over time (unlike clear-text data), which does not paint a giant target on my back.
Paradise Lost is extremely poorly written religious fan-fiction. The first 4 chapters which describe how Lucifer became lucifer are actually sort of interesting, and then the most boring, wordy, and repetitive of narratives are told for the next 15? Chapters

I'd rather reread such (by comparison) brief works like "A tale of two cities" because literally any other work was far less wordy and far more interesting.

Paradise Lost is the only book I've ever just put down and refused to finish for a "honors" English class in senior year. If you are forced to read this crap for a class - just find the sparknotes and read something more comprehensible in the mean time.
Sure, if you are happy living like a student. If you want to own a place in a reasonable part of town? If you want to be able to have a child? If you don't want to have to rely on two incomes to pay the mortgage? I didn't say it wasn't possible to live on that, only that that kind of salary was table stakes in those cities i.e. it's adequate but hardly living like a king.

Personally I can think of a plenty of other places I'd rather live in where you could truly live well on that kind of money.

Source: I live in the first of those on a similar salary.
Linux Touchpad Like a MacBook update: progress on multitouch
How to add a custom calendar event in a native iOS app using React Native
I would love to agree with you, except the present situation has been the one "media event" of my lifetime where having early warning through social media was materially useful: I stockpiled food before the two weeks or so of supply disruption and empty shelves at the start of the crisis.

I've found twitter to be both an extremely valuable lockdown coping mechanism with friends and replacement events, and an anxiety amplifier.

Materially I'm fine. I'm still getting paid and spending very little. All my travel plans for the year are cancelled and in unknown limbo and I don't know when I can dare to make plans again.
Well, in that case, the journalists should adapt and give credibility through pseudonymity.
OK, that's weird. It doesn't entirely come as a surprise that they would have an international arm, since they are home to the UN and were the most visible target of the most prominent international terrorist attack. But having that money come anonymously... that's suspicious.
When I see things like this I always wonder if any of my ancestors were involved. Did any of my ancestors go to see these zoos? What would they think of me if they knew of my disapproval? Would they think there is something wrong with me?
> $100k is still not even close to how much you can make in SV as an engineer.

$100k iS sTiLl NoT eVeN cLoSe To HoW mUcH yOu CaN mAkE iN sV aS aN eNgInEeR

jokes aside, you can do even more money with less taxes in the united arab emirates.

So, when are you moving?
I'm pretty sure they expect to pay for the software engineers who write open source.
Depends on the blur used, right? Straight pixelation is very lossy, but gaussian is less so.
I feel this, I'm facing homelessness and have no prospects, just high intelligence and aptitude and good leadership skills. I don't really want to kill myself that much but it might be nice to stick it to the sort of people who post about suicide hotlines whenever you're open about it.
Euclid space telescope to study 'dark Universe' makes progress
You can take the same set of rules and reskin it with the opposite narrative. So I disagree. The rules aren't persuading - the narrative is.

In case of factorio the resking could be about evolving an ecosystem of plants, bacteria, fungi and animals that defend against invasions of robotic miners. Instead of pollution the determining factor that causes invasions would be biomarkers in the atmosphere (which alien probes notice and aliens send the robotized fleet).

There are games like "Cards againt Humanity" or "Dungeon Keeper" where if you take the narrative seriously (which you shouldn't) - it's persuading people to kill everybody. But I'm pretty sure nobody went on a rampage because of these games :)
The Last Decade of Nikola Tesla’s Life
The Infantorium was also a thing. People paid a quarter to gaze upon the wonder of premature babies displayed in incubators¹.

While an infantorium still feels awful as a general concept, it did provide genuine medical care to very vulnerable babies. Eventually saving the lives of thousands of premature babies. The linked wikipedia article probably allows you to consider the morality more than my first paragraph ;)

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_A._Couney
I don't think that was running on Rosetta 2's dynamic recompiler, but instead used Rosetta 2's other stated feature of being able to translate existing apps at install time. In the demo they state that they downloaded the game from the Mac App store.

Certainly static recompilation yields somewhat-close-to-native performance when it is available, but that is not possible for x86 "VMs".
How many newspapers would you realistic subscribe to? If you're reading the NYT, LAT, WAPO, WSJ, FT, then yes, the subscriptions add up.
The small states getting the same number of senators as large states is partly a legacy of slavery. Interestingly, the constitution explicitly prohibits the 2-senators-per-state rule from being amended away (Article V).
If what we have today is a market econmy, then a market economy is perfectly acceptable way to address the issue: taxes of some sort.
Just like in academia, interdisciplinary research is best served not by a single polymath, but by a collaboration between domain experts. In this case, the proper (money-is-no-object) approach for an editor to take, would be to attach both an ecology-expert journalist and a tech-expert journalist on the piece, likely with the tech-expert driving doing the research and the ecology-expert writing the piece.
It doesn't matter if anyones favorite or hated.

Breaking trust, going against wished how people prefer to be addressed and endangering people for now good reason - well, it's at most style of irresponsible, tabloid-level journalism.

If NYT aims for tabloid level standard, indeed, the journalist was doing his job.
More context: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-d...
This is definitely helpful for testing.

Also related is the tiny C compiler and its `tcc -run` command.
I think I would also add, try to find a way to make your tests run fast. If you have a huge system and 3-4 minutes to run all the tests, that is really slow. Your feedback look gets limited.
Gojek lays off 430 employees
> I was following the time honored HN tradition of posting one line about the article and then taking up a tangent.

I don't have too much of a problem with that, it's asking a question you should research first.

It's not that I don't want to talk about it either, I just don't want to explain the basics every time. I'm also not an expert on the issue, many people have much more to say on the matter.

If I could add something to what you've pointed out, I'd divide the reasons into two categories:

1. Why women don't go into IT

2. Why women leave - and boy do they: "Women are more than twice as likely to quit the tech industry as men (41% vs 17%)" per https://medium.com/tech-diversity-files/the-real-reason-wome...

The second one worries me a lot more. We are talking about women who chose IT, who are trained, who made it. We are talking about a market where jobs and opportunities abound, where you can work from home, move anywhere you want. And yet so many women find this industry unbearable.

From personal experience, I can't contribute much to point 2, as the temptation of leaving is foreign to me, nor do I know women who left. Maybe it's a cultural thing - I live in Europe and while brogrammers exist here, I have no problem finding good and respectful teams. I have worked for startups without staying late and yet got promoted to team leader. I have encountered sexism, but I also have been treated better because of my gender.

I have struggled with getting into IT, and my biggest obstacle was my lack of self-confidence. This is by no means reserved to girls, but we do hear the "girls suck at math", we see boys dominating math contests or math-oriented high schools, and it leaves a mark. Here's another good article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-science-success/... The takeaway is that since girls are praised for results and boys for effort, "bright girls believe that their abilities are innate and unchangeable, while bright boys believe that they can develop ability through effort and practice", a vicious circle.

Still personal, but not limited to me: neurodiversity. Girls are far more often undiagnozed for ADHD and autism. We cause less trouble, we get less understanding for not behaving accordingly to society's norms. Life without diagnosis was one without help and resources to deal with my symptoms. Instead, I was told my problems were my character flaws, which left little of my self-esteem. When you don't believe you can do it, you don't try yet another solution, you don't search yet another query, but you buy into the narratives mentioned above: your gender leaves you at a disadvantage and always will, you got As because you were gifted but this is how far your talents go, clearly, you're not made for this.
Gee, it sounds like using the proper channels works way better than trying to push trashy ads in an NPM postinstall script.

Hopefully this story will help tone deaf people to make the right decision next time.
An fMRI study of prose and code writing [pdf]
Yeah, they’ve been doing the pre-linked mega archive thing for years. It’s in /var/db/dyld. The only difference here that I see is that they’re not shipping the originals and not rebuilding it all the time. And I’m guessing the resulting archive is now sitting on a protected partition.

This thing can be taken apart, but it’s a little tricky, since it’s pre-linked. I wrote something years ago to do it, not perfect, but enough to get symbols out. (I was trying to annotate iOS stack traces.) I don’t recall if I got it working well enough to open the libraries up in hopper and poke around.
Good move. The name has actually discouraged me from recommending the software to friends and family. People who want privacy shouldn't have to frame themselves as dissidents.
Moved from Superhuman to hey.com. I really like both but hey.com is way cheaper.
All well-behaving software will of course check if AVX is supported before trying to use it, but at least in some cases that just means they'll refuse to install or run on systems that don't have it: https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/production-expert-1/2019/9/... (Developing parallel code paths and keeping them working indefinitely is a lot of extra work, and AVX has been around for close to a decade at this point.)
Personally I'm using todoman, though that's not really an "app"
yes, I would not consider using this given we use the more popular runc
It was superior to what the humans were trying to teach the visitors which was more akin to putting a primate through a communication test.
It is certainly no positive development. Shame requires a central authority or is based on the minimal consensus of the majority of society. I wouldn't recommend it. To regulate society, we have laws. Far better and objective system. Doesn't protect you from social prosecution which is restricted to people with a public or know persona on Twitter as it seems. There are also pretty shameless people.
I have a bunch of projects which seem to be popular, and a lot of followers. Income received via sponsorship? €0.

I think a lot depends on luck, and the kind of repositories you manage/create. Some projects are obviously more commercially useful than others, and those are the easier ones to receive income from.

https://github.com/skx/
USB-C Is Taking over When, Exactly?
Non-scientist here - do existing colliders like the LHC become useless, or can they still be used to make new scientific discoveries?
It's still relatively huge, and not widely supported without a polyfill, but FLIF [0] is a pretty neat format that tends to be smaller than the equivalent PNG, and can be converted to a lossy image "on the fly", and also supports alpha transparency.

The polyfill is still kind of slow, at least compared to native PNG rendering on the browser, but it does work, and hopefully some day it can be integrated into the standard.

[0] http://flif.info
As that is where most of the people live, why is it wrong?
Why does largely unpopulated land get a vote?
Where you remain long enough for one person who is carrying to breathe enough viral load into your airspace.
Tom Bilyeu said something in a video (don't remember the video): "On a long enough timeline, I can learn this". I've found it to be pretty helpful.