skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IANAL but I think one issue is that the end user can readily run or distribute a modified version - you need a) Mac hardware to comply with the toolchain/compiler, and maybe b) a developer account with Apple even to run a dev build on your ios device? Not sure about the last part, though - maybe an actual ios dev can elaborate?
I really hate the fact that RHEL updates kernels so slowly. This becomes very painful when your product cannot take advantage of some advanced kernel features just because you have customers running RHEL :(.
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Actually, development started before Dyson's Photoshop product, and sure it leans on his style, but the hatching existed before and was popularised by him. It's a common style across many existing dungeon mapping tools, and just one of the styles offered by the tool.
There isn't any easy answer.

The problem is that yes, they are an apples to oranges comparison. You may use them for the same problems, but different languages lead to different styles, different trade-offs, and even different ways of thinking.

As an extreme example, a slow language may make it easier to do some high-level optimization that you would never be able to do on a fast language, getting a much faster program. And we have no reliable way to measure or communicate that kind of thing.
> They should only be allowed where deadly force is legally justified, though policies could call for using them before firearms when possible, e.g. to incapacitate a person who is brandishing

These two proposed policies are contradictory.
Oh boy, just wait til you see how many protocols make up an IPSec implementation :)

Those get named after the overall framework (if they're not just named "fooVPN" or simply "foo") even though there's no single IPSec protocol, and many many different underlying protocols.
Works well on Firefox on Android.
There's an induced demand factor too, though. People are buying more stuff now because it's easy to get.
Another reason is there's a lot of police that are sympathetic or even members of those far right and white supremacist groups. (eg: the Lynwood Vikings a white supremacist gang in LA composed entirely of deputy sheriffs) [0]. It's not isolated either and supremacist groups in some cases encourage members to join the police. [1]

The podcast Behind the Bastards is doing a series at the moment about the direct evolution from slave patrols to police and the, lets say cozy, relationship between groups like the KKK and police.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynwood_Vikings

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-i...
It turns out that kids like to go into settings and click every button and change every thing. I don't really mind. I pretend they are learning something about computers.
He has certainly not been silenced in any way shape or form. Him closing his blog is just a way to create outrage, it has no effect in whether the NYT article will be published with his name or not.
Edit: OP originally I said "I work at one of the companies that nyt constantly disparages," hence my last line. He edited that out after I posted my reply, so my comment now sounds snipey and out of place. I figure FB is a fair guess for the intersection of his remark and HN audience.
> I don’t see this distinction in the big city where I live and each of my neighbors are black.

Not sure if anyone can feel anyone else's pain. If millions of people are complaining about a problem, why try to say the problem does not exist?

My experiences are nothing compared to the terrible stories I've heard from PoC, but I'll give you an example. I'm Muslim. In 2004, I ended up on the restricted fly list, effectively ending my Management Consulting career. My co-workers kept telling me, "just take your shoes off, get thru security, and stop complaining". None bothered to hear my real issue -- i could not fly. Forget security, I could not get a boarding pass issued. It would happen randomly, about 50% of the time. Once, I was stuck in Europe, unable to get back home (FYI: as a US born Citizen.) Many times, i'd get half a boarding pass and be stuck at some random airport (ATL, ORD, etc.) Once I had to take a train back from Washington DC because I couldnt get on a flight.

Co-worker opinion mattered, because it affected my ability to get on local projects (where I could avoid flights.) Eventually, I had to leave the consulting firm despite an imminent promotion.

It is so easy to dismiss people, but seriously -- if millions are complaining -- just accept there is probably something there.
I don't think they are using significantly more force. Looking at the riots across the US, the police appear in general to be showing an almost saintly level of restraint, and being killed and severely injured as a result.

This is simply too much to ask.
They deploy based on anomalies. Unexpected loss of altitude or attitude, primarily. Or an obstacle rapidly approaching.
Example repository of a project that's invested in using GitHub: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

Discussion on /r/github: https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/hei81f/

Personally I think it's an improvement on mobile - finally the entire README is readable by default.

That being said was there any warning/reasoning behind the change? I cannot find any announcements.
It's information theory. No matter what blur technique you use, there's only so much information in the pixels. You can't produce more information by magic, or by technology so advanced that it is indistinguishable from magic (h/t Arthur Clarke).
And still need to pay market wage set by DOL for their experience.
WebP also supports animation, and is clearly more efficient than GIF.
I seem to be in the most expensive state in the country for that. That's rent & food for a month.

But it's a one-time fee, so you're probably still right in general, but for the moment I'm mostly coasting on savings & sponsorships, focusing on the stuff I care about while I have the breathing room. I might consider being a bit more organized if/when I ramp up business again and am considering looking for new clients.
GIS is when you rotate your x with y coordinates for your CAD drawings or maps.

And less details, much less objects, more grander scale.
Only points, polygons, polylines and markers.
Several years ago I was test driving a car owned by a cop in rural Tennessee. He was riding with me and I turned onto a smaller road with a 45mph speed limit. I was taking it slow and easy when he said "ah don't worry about the speed limit, I've got an E-Tag, let's go" I didn't know what an E-Tag was at the time but apparently it's an "Emergency Vehicle" tag given to officers to put on their unmarked, personal vehicles (in Tennessee at least). I guess it lets other cops know not to bother with stopping someone with an e-tag since they're just going to let them go anyway. I was pretty young at the time, and it was my first time seeing that the police are above the law.
I think there is an unrealistic but understandable desire to have some way giant disorderly masses of people can be managed with perfect safety.

Crowds are intrinsically dangerous, even fully peaceable people following every instruction can crush or trample individuals.

To whatever degree a crowd is more antagonistic to control measures, the risk increases.

I, personally, can’t figure out a way for any of this to be safe. Every intervention injured and upsets people, while zero intervention runs a risk of many injuries and property damage.

It just seems so difficult.
My wife has asked them about it. I have not myself as I have been away on military service since the beginning of May. I think the reasoning for most people in the area is that police interventions motivated by systemic racism are not a visible concern in my area of the city but that they could be a concern, which is fairly distant. Perhaps if this were any other year such concerns could really stand on their own, but this year they are pretty minor with concern for the changes imposed from Covid.

Part of it is also social effect. When multiple people encounter a similar problem they have a shared experience they can talk about and that social experience can seem to magnify the importance of the problem. When nobody is having the problem and almost nobody is talking about it the concern is much lower.
That's not necessarily a bad thing for writing web services. I used to spend a fair bit of time tuning JVM to achieve acceptable tail latencies for Java services, not to mention once in a while, they would need to be tuned again... Not so with Go.
It's relevent because you need to compare the costs of police (e.g. police violence) to the scale of problem that is supposedly being solved (e.g. murders).

You can choose to fear who you want to fear, I guess. But the numbers seem to suggest pretty much everyone should be more concerned about being murdered than being killed by police.

Being killed by police is more of a betrayal, for sure. For that reason it might be worse in some sense. But I'm not sure why that should result in disproportionate fear on the order of 20X.

Also, I should say that it's much harder to pin down how many murders police prevent.
How do you control huge crowds if they go violent, go into neighborhoods and start killing/robbing/raping ______ people?

Edit: I am raising a hypothetical question which people are responding with the current reality. Yes, I know that it is not happening currently, which is why I am raising the what-if question. I've even left the race or sides off of the question to talk about the objective ways of dealing with a situation like this.
> We haven't done anything special to deserve a job more than they have.

By being born to an area you have done something special. You have received the special benefit of local education and infrastructure, you have familial and social connections to the people of that local area. You may even have a shared sense of local obligation to uplift the people you live near.

The problem with importing foreign labor isn't that they can't develop feelings of community or form social ties to an area. It's that someone local is harmed or excluded (after significant investment in them) while a foreign worker is underpaid and overworked in a job that exists because of the local's tax dollars.

We're allowing greed to create a permanent underclass of locals who can not climb the social hierarchy while also importing highly-educated quasi-slaves into the country. The whole thing reeks of economic opportunism and, to me, represents the very worst of capitalism.
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It already is... Irish-American, Polish-American, Jewish, etc.

"Black" isn't just about skin tone, it's about the shared cultural experience.
Literally just buying an insurance policy is significantly less complicated and roughly the same cost, IME. Professional liability, errors and omissions, etc. cost me ~$1k a year when I was doing consulting for $1mm in coverage. My LLC taxed as an S-corp cost more than that just in tax prep services.

A single member LLC provides some benefits but those benefits often require a lawyer to invoke (i.e. you're getting sued, gotta file things and work the legal system). If you have insurance you just tell the insurance company and they hire the lawyers.
Some time ago I experimented with a reduced color palette and dithering while keeping the fill alpha info. It reduced the file size a lot while keeping the alpha.
The reality is that the US government has done NO meaningful progress on immigration reform to guarantee a path to citizenship for skilled people. This leaves H1B as the only option and now that is gone too, but only due to executive order. I find it hard to believe there will be any meaningful reform under any administration. Particularly until they can get out of this habit of clumping all kinds of immigration (legal and illegal, skilled and unskilled) into one bill, so that nobody can agree on anything.
OK. Let's say a magic wand is waved, and all of us Americans have bikeable and walkable cities with excellent public transportation. Let's say this happens literally overnight.

How do you expect this would change Amazon's logistics and how favorable they are for consumers? For my part, at the very least, I'm still likely to get a lot of things delivered. Local stores are very rarely cheaper for anything non-immediate and delivery takes much less of my time than going to a store and back.

At a guess, Amazon's still better than this alternative for many scenarios. Maybe not ten times better, but still better.
In the UK crowds are contained until they can be dispersed, without the use of this stuff.

I don't have all the answers, but perhaps studying other countries with lesser police violence problems might help.
There are people being there to break bones and fuck things up, on both sides.
If we focus on them instead of the underlying issues we all lose.
Why not evaluate (estimate) the expected value of sample information of the different experiments, and compare the costs of the different experiments to the EVSIs?

Is it too difficult to estimate the EVSI ?
As to murder:

White Murder victims: 3,499 (2,854 of the victims were killed by other whites)

Black murder victims: 2,870 (2,570 of the victims were killed by other blacks)

2019 police killings by race:

White deceased: 370

Black deceased: 235
I'm not the OP, but the thing that's depressing to me is putting so many of our resources into basically a repeat of what was already done, but slightly bigger and with no expectation of finding anything significant. I mean, are we out of ideas?
How much does it add to reveal the name?

If it's about a blog and its content, I don't see what is won by adding the name of the author if they don't agree. Quite the opposite literally in this case.
The problem is that it doesn’t cut both ways. You will not be able to get a job in their country.
Did a quick Google, looks like that comes to $2800. A small investment for 100k a year.

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Since when is it cynical to analyze incentives? What kind of economics is that?
Actually the washing machine and basic sanitation is what has lifted a large part of the world out of poverty, not high energy physics.
I have experienced none of the fluidity you mentioned.

The UI on macOS to me feels frustratingly slow compared to XFCE. I've tried to disable animations, reduce motion and all the tweaks that can make it a little bit faster, but it remains being unacceptably sluggish.

And please abstain from downvoting unless you've at least tried XFCE and macOS enough in order to make an objective comparison.
The ADS is way worse than anything else because its potential for abuse.
Police appear to abuse any tool they are given. They shoot protestors directly with tear gas grenades, aim for the face with rubber bullets, and pepper spray people in the face that are already prone and in handcuffs.

From the wikipedia page on the ADS:
"..may lead those who use them to become "trigger-happy", especially in dealing with peaceful protesters. Others have focused on concerns that weapons whose operative principle is that of inflicting pain (though "non-lethal") might be useful for such purposes as torture, as they leave no evidence of use, but undoubtedly have the capacity to inflict horrific pain on a restrained subject. According to Wired, the ADS has been rejected for fielding in Iraq due to Pentagon fears that it would be regarded as an instrument of torture.[54]"
The US Railroad liked Chinese immigrants, etc. That's what happened, for the same reasons that H1B visa hires are popular.
It would also favor really large companies, that don't necessarily hire better engineers, but pay substantially more.
This doesn’t seem controversial. It’s how the operating systems class[1] was structured at University of Illinois, though the target was a VM instead of physical hardware. It was easier to reset things when your new scheduler module instantly crashes the OS.

[1]https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs423/sp2016/
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In that case, you may enjoy: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/
Wait you were ecstatic because it would supposedly reduce competition. It’s been pointed out to you that it won’t, but you’re fine with it because... for some other reason? What is it, then?
This manual is for the U.S. Army and military police. Civilian police are more likely using FEMA's Field Force Operations training.
the ability to speak pseuodononymously and or separate out your personal and professional life is critical.

we can try to help you - at least a bit -
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Don't forget, the original founder (who was still running Mixer even post-acquisition) quit Microsoft last year as well.
It’s called priorities, so yeah. Do you care more about people or about discovering super symmetry?
Coll simulation! I'm looking for any pointers to noise or other generative methods which looks like eroded terrain from the get-go, without the cost of simulating the erosion process. Any tips appreciated.
Most of those are very niche products. The big mail clients are: Gmail, hotmail, yahoo mail, Apple’s “Mail”. Outlook is really the only outlier.
After 40 years, I can't forget the image of the felt gag in The Penal Colony.
You should fix the checker to match the whole strings, not just substrings.
One can pass the following example with just \. :
Match cat.
Match 896.
Match ?=+.
Skip abc1
Ugh, all that clicking for the next page. Why not put it all on one page or a pdf for that matter? Reminds me of click bait factory design: Take up the whole page, each nugget of meaning is a separate page, draw it out as long as possible for the clicks.
The medical tent targeting is currently being investigated by the Seattle OPA, and has several eyewitness accounts. We'll see where the OPA lands (though, the OPA is composed of mostly police officers, so....)

What would be better? Stand down. Let the protests protest. Listen to the concerns, make changes.
> I'm just assuming that there exists a scenario in which it would be reasonable and necessary for the police to dissipate a crowd.

If they're assembled illegally, then surely you want to arrest them and have them face justice, not let them go by dispersing them.

If they're not assembled illegally, then leave them alone.
> Black or white statistically you are far more likely to be killed (or assaulted) by non-police Of the same race as you.

That really doesn't matter that much. If a stranger assaults someone and a police office assaults someone, those are not equal. The stranger can be tried and convicted, but the police officer not as easily if at all. Also the stranger is a stranger, while the police officer I pay for and exists to serve and protect me.

An example of this is a police office in San Diego sexually assaulted (forced oral sex) 16 women after going to their house after they called the police to report a crime. That is so much worse than a stranger doing those things. And by the way... the police officer was convicted and served six months.
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To add to the above, the distribution of population-level COVID outcomes has fat tails (the system evolution is non-ergodic), so computing point estimates with ensemble average “expected values” is junk modeling. And computing the (correct) time averages requires owning up to the uncertainty and fatness of tails (which is a very hard thing to model), so people have the lamppost bias of doing the easy (but useless) calculation.

An alternative way to explain the meaning of “large uncertainties” is that you can fudge input numbers slightly to get whatever output decision you want, so whoever is making the policy decision is likely to keep fudging numbers till the outcome “feels right”. At that point, the modeling is just dangerously misleading pseudo-science.

An intuitive approximation of the decision based on time averages is to “play it safe” in the presence of fat negative tails. “How safe tho?” is a very hard question to answer because of the uncertainties involved (as parent post explained).
> As soon as you start pinching, the application seems to receive with the event stream all the x and y coordinates so that pan and zoom can be done simultaneously in lockstep with the finger positions and spacing on the touch pad.

I just tried this in Preview, Safari, and Chrome and none seem to actually do this.
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This advice is invaluable.

I only pay my accountant around $2000 to handle a bunch of housekeeping at the end of the year that I'm to lazy to do during, and to file my taxes. For years I did my own taxes using Turbo Tax Self Employed and Turbo Tax Business Editions, but in 2016 I decided to outsource all of that headache, the first year, my taxes were half of what they were the year before with similar income. Then after the TCJA in 2017, my taxes were only 1/5th what they had been before the accountant, with close to double the raw income.

The biggest changes from doing it myself: I got an accountant; I incorporated (s-corp) instead of doing self-employment income; I draw W2 income now (using Gusto); I set up a SEP-IRA and put 20% of my W2 earnings as an automatic debit from my business account (in Vanguard); TCJA chops off 20% of my distributions on my K1; and I'll state again, I hired an accountant.
An actual shortage would, by definition, mean that, at least in the short term, no amount of price pressure would meet the need, because of a supply constraint that prevents response to price level changes. For jobs that need to be done on site and take significant time to acquire necessary skills, national borders can be a supply constraint for labor if there is an absence of local talent sufficiently qualified but there is foreign qualified talent. That's the problem H-1B notionally addresses.

If you have static demand and it is possible to train to meet the need, you shouldn't have long-term shortages, but dynamically increasing needs can produce a long-term gap, where you are continuously playing catch up.

If H-1B was well adapted to real shortages, the continuous use in tech would indicate such a persistent dynamic shortage. I don't think that's the real condition, and I don't think H-1B is well adapted to serve only real shortages, but the idea of real, including persistent, shortages that price signalling alone doesn’t suffice to close is not to be dismissed.
It's simply not true that communists are canceled. The media regularly openly supports the CCP. The most popular politician in our country as of a couple years ago was open socialist Bernie Sanders. Wearing a swastika is an insta-cancel. Wearing a hammer and sickle gets you a "I wouldn't vote for that guy... maybe."
Not really. You wouldn’t be criticized if you got it wrong, but it’s the kinda thing that would make an English style guide.

You do it the other way and watch absolutely no one care.
So since this algorithm can't be used to reliably recover faces from blurry photos, it won't be.

It can still be useful for entertainment purposes.
>Telling people to stop consuming energy is a more quixotic endeavor than developing more economic renewables

Appropriately taxing energy consumption in order to force people to appropriately ration energy consumption for productive endeavors is more realistic than assuming humans are going to discover a preferable energy source than fossil fuels to move mass in a short enough timeframe to make an impact on climate change and pollution.
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