skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Notebooks Accompanying the Book Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading
Racists abuse plausible deniability and care not for the loss in social trust and cohesion. I really think you are right and I hope one day we might know the truth.
Is 'hotels for homeless' even a moonshot? The concept of providing short term accommodation for homeless people is hardly a novelty: it's just that since homeless people are hardly flush with cash it's mostly been the preserve of social enterprises, charities and local authorities

The only thing about it that might be a 'moonshot' is trying to persuade VCs they can build a billion dollar business from the concept, but that's because it isn't a billion dollar business idea and it shouldn't really need a conversation with VCs to figure out they're not the funds you should be pitching if housing the homeless is your priority.
This is exactly how I felt when I was 16. Then I grew up.
If you have a physics background you might find General Chemistry from Linus Pauling interesting and approachable:

https://www.amazon.com/General-Chemistry-Dover-Books/dp/0486...
Claims in article are contradictory to the real life use cases of facial recognition tech, see: "The Best Algorithms Struggle to Recognize Black Faces Equally":

https://www.wired.com/story/best-algorithms-struggle-recogni...

In reference to: “Understanding how predictive policing and facial recognition can be disportionately biased against people of color, we officially banned the use of these technologies in the city of Santa Cruz,” Mayor Justin Cummings said on Wednesday.
The "world police" is already here. Look at all the downvotes as soon as someone disagrees with the party line. Democracy my a$$.
I'm not complaining, and I can live with the compile times I currently have.

I'm pointing out that saying this will benefit source based distributions more is nonsense.
Curing disease is not likely to make more money.

Carbon-free energy: nuclear, storage??

Self-driving cars: just keep throwing money at it, eventually something will cross the threshold of good enough
>Finally, many scientific matters are settled (such as that climate change exists, that there was systemic discrimination of PoCs even long after abolishment of slavery and that Earth is not flat).

And who is it that decides when a scientific matter is "settled"? You? Trump? Zuckerberg? Bartolomeo Spina [0]?

>Stating that those debates are settled and that trying to "reopen" them does not do any good must be allowed.

With this single sentence you have highlighted the entire problem with this approach. "It is a settled scientific matter that Earth is the center of the universe and trying to reopen this debate will not be tolerated" is stunningly similar to what Copernicus was told.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus#Controvers...
If I remember correctly, in Israel they forced the telcos to open up their infrastructure to everyone and the sky didn't fall down.
Really? Because there's a lot of talk that the tech companies were (partly) the reason Trump was elected. How does that fit in?
Moderation is great, I can SEE dead posts on hn if I opt into them. Taste is a good thing. I like the choices about what hits the main page on hn most days, that's why I come here.

I cannot opt into a deplatformed political person's speech on Twitter because they're absent. So, no, I don't conflate taste and moderation with silencing political speech, in an election year no less, like you do.
If curious see also these other Mincome threads:

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11497021

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9004287

2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8792192
Small correction, population of Georgia (the country) is ~4 million, not 40 million. I've been there multiple times, it's a country trying very hard to become more European and less Soviet. I wish them well.
I already use Windows on another PC, and while I don't love telemetry, the only reboots I get are during my scheduled "okay to install updates" hours which is at like 5am when I don't notice it.

I'm not MS's biggest fan, and I have my own peeves with Windows, but the way you worded this seems unnecessarily hostile.

I use Windows, Linux, and macOS for various purposes and I understand the benefits and drawbacks of using them. You don't need to talk down to me about telemetry and updates.

Spinning having to buy unnecessary new hardware to continue running an up-to-date OS as a benefit seems ridiculous to me.
when moneyed-interests can make money by appealing to what non-moneyed people want, then there is alignment. this happens often in consumer products, including coca-cola, which I guess you're confusingly suggesting is an example of a smashing achievement of capitalism.

other problems, such as with providing universal healthcare, ending homelessness, poverty, etc, are inherently non-profitable, so moneyed people won't invest in it, so those problems don't get solved by capitalism.
>The laser receiver on the top of your building (NYC Mesh has been known to use a Ubiquiti LiteBeam AC Gen2) typically has less than 350-450 Mbps of bandwidth total and that's for the entire building to share. I have 30~ units in my building.

If you already have line of sight I don't see a reason this couldn't be replaced with a 60ghz 802.11ad link, which should give you 4.6 gigabits.
It is a performance feature if you are memory constrained. Shared libraries are “shared” for a reason. On a server with high multi-tenancy the savings can be significant.
Same with most non-profits.
Are you unaware of the fact that police plant evidence?
Agreed! I laughed out loud.
Windows 10 Product key Finder
http://paulgraham.com/founders.html

What We Look for in Founders

4. Naughtiness

Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter. This quality may be redundant though; it may be implied by imagination.
[HN Search admin speaking] We disabled the rate-limit for now. A load-balancer experimentation that didn't behave as expected (the LB's IP getting rate-limited).
I certainly do not know! Just wanted to share the story
Language has to be precise for any nuanced conversation to be effective, otherwise it risks becoming rushed, oversimplistic and divisive.
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Abolish = to end an activity or custom officially

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/abolish?...

1) "Abolish the police" = To end the police officially
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Defund = to stop providing the money to pay for something

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/defund?q...

2) "Defund the police" = To stop providing the money for police
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Reform = to make an improvement, especially by changing a person's behaviour or the structure of something.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/reform?q...

3) "Reform the police" = To improve the police by changing its behavior/structure
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The meaning of these sentences is very clear and is not open to discussion.

My opinion:
1) is simply anarchic and unrealistic in any form of civilization.
2) is similar to 1), but might suggested perhaps a privately funded police instead of publicly funded? (a whole can of worms there)
3) is the most realistic and practical option and seems to me to be what most people mean and what states are doing. It's not the most dramatic and "attractive" thing to write on a poster though...

There are many more views and opinions of course, these are just my takes in 10m of writing and thinking.

Regardless, attempts to make this into an oversimplified binarily sided discussion reveal, IMHO, a lack of reading and comprehension ability or an agenda that is alternative to understanding and resolving these issues as a collaborative democratic society.
> Often our critiques of capitalism are not critiques of capitalism at all.

While this is superficially true, the structure of capitalism arguably makes such concentration of wealth and power inevitable, so the phenomena of monopoly and oligarchy are intrinsic features of capitalism. Not free markets, but capitalism, i.e. the system where individual, private citizens own the means of production.

I'm not sure yet whether I think that capitalism can ever be made work for the people (including the underclass that our society currently consumes as human fuel to keep the status quo). I think it's quite possible that it will foil all attempts to reform it. But we'll see.
At no point was there ever a threat of force from Beto, especially not with armed police.

Maybe you should read up on how the Australian government handled gun control: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law_of_Australia#2017_Nati...

Hint: their campaign poster said "Now's the time to hand it in without penalty".

You're comparing two very different things here - disingenuously. One in which the president _literally threatens force_, the other which says the government will take ownership of guns.
How is this idempotent?

cat <<EOF > /etc/motd
"Ever make mistakes in life? Let’s make them birds. Yeah,
they’re birds now."
--Bob Ross
EOF
I totally agree with you. It’s a shame so many don’t understand why this is so important, instead seeking a quick political win through ill-gotten means. It’s also a shame that younger generations have somehow come to devalue principles like free speech.

Companies like these cannot be trusted to moderate neutrally and are a threat to society due to their size. Their organizational cultures can be taken over by a vocal/fanatical minority, and then weaponized against those outside their tribe. And this is exactly what has happened - for example consider this leaked video of Facebook moderators (https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/06/23/facebook_...), talking about deleting people with MAGA hats by flagging them for “terrorism”.
Yes, there is an implicit asterisk in all of this about "state violence under the law is okay".
On a related note, Blizzard added a feature to Overwatch about half a year ago that enables the processing of mouse input at 1000Hz! Or well, it doesn't process it at that rate, but it figures out where you were aiming when you fired, even if you fired right between two ticks (or frames).

The videos in their blog post [1] explain it much better than I can.

[1] https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/new-feature-hi...
Right, I was continuing the analogy.

One example of a community being labeled as right-wing extremists (or worse) is Gab.ai. Another Example is Zerohedge's comment section.

Was anyone doxxed for using these platforms? I don't know. I do know those platforms have been deplatformed.

There seems to be a concerted effort to label Facebook a place where extremists gather, lots of people virtue signaling about how they're not using Facebook because it's so toxic and full of Nazis. It's only a matter of time until it's a sin just for using Facebook.
I think maybe you're missing the point? I don't think the parent was implying that there'd be equal arrest numbers.

The difference is that if you send all the cops to the "bad neighborhoods", then the "good neighborhoods" get away with a lot of crime, even if that crime is low-level.

Let's say all neighborhoods have 100 instances of low-level crime per day. A so-called "bad" neighborhood -- where most of the cops get sent to -- also has instances of much worse crime.

The end result of this officer allocation scheme is that people get arrested in the "bad" neighborhood for a mix of low-level crime and worse crime. But pretty much no one at all gets arrested in the "good" neighborhood, because there's basically no police presence there. So maybe you see in the "good" neighborhood a handful of arrests for those 100 instances of low-level crime, but in the "bad" neighborhood you see 60 arrests for that similar crime. (You also see arrests for more severe crime, but that's not the point.)

I'm of course making up numbers here, but regardless of the magnitude of the numbers, even if they differ between neighborhoods, the percentage of crime handled ends up being much lower in the "good" neighborhoods because of the simple fact that police aren't there to handle it. Sure, they'll come out if called, but response time is longer, and they have very little ability to see things happening in real-time.

Meanwhile, if you feed this data into your algorithm, it will start to believe that there's basically no low-level crime in the "good" neighborhoods -- even though it's the same! -- so it prioritizes those neighborhoods even less.

If you feed an algorithm bad data, it will only give you more bad data. And it becomes worse when you act on that data and feed it more results based on that bad data.
> If you don't stop and they need to run you off the road and arrest you - we are at the violence stage.

If you're speeding and won't even stop when police tries to pull you over, you're putting other users of the road at severe risk. From those other users' POV, you were being violent to them, and running you off the road is the lesser evil.

> Everything from property rights to civil rights are backstopped by the monopoly on violence.

Even that is not so clear to me. ISTM that humans have an inherent desire to defend their possession of whatever they regard as their property, as well as the social standing ("civil rights") of people they care about - including by force. So even the basic government function of managing and enforcing property rights need not involve any initiation of violence, compared to the possibly-chaotic and unregulated violence that was already inherent in the basic notion of property, or civil standing/honor, or whatever.
If these policy changes are just going into effect, they are not ahead of 2020 elections.
I'm not advocating treating any living thing that way, but society is absolutely okay with it. You can do this with children too but as they grow they will demand you stop and they won't sit complacently while you lunch or work or commute.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=pet+dog+sling

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=cat+bag
> If a whole bunch of people stop eating beef (which I hope I'm part of) then we'll start to see some reduction in production.

It doesn't seem to work this way either. First there will be a long period of beef sources trying to create demand, through marketing, lobbying, etc tactics. Only after they have spent through substantial subsidies, loans, bailouts, etc will they be forced to downsize.

As an example: we recently saw a huge decrease in air travel demand. Response from the airlines? Keep flying the same number of routes in order to maintain status at airports. Run promotions to increase sales.
USGS Videos of Ocean Floor
Web 2.0 was a mistake :/
Yeah having a tight value set and tight enforcement of integrity violations among other values is certainly a function of the federal structure.

Police don't have that. It's too localized and going beyond the current state of affairs requires on a police chief with ethical super powers to really enforce things, as it would be starting from Base 0 with an Elliot Ness-like reform.
The moderation as in "I don't want to see XYZ because offended" is easily solved. The moderation as in "I don't want the other guy to see XYZ because he's too stupid to realize the wrongs" is obviously not solvable because the other guy has his own ideas - double bind as dang pointed out.
There's some longer term unanswered/unanswerable questions as well. How do children do if their parents have never worked?
>I’m not one of those “taxation is theft" but I think a wealth tax is theft

This comes across as wealth apologism. If a wealth tax is theft through a monopoly on violence, then all tax is theft through a monopoly on violence.

Singularly applying this concept as a the negative of a wealth tax, while ignoring the rest of taxes, is biased towards the wealthy.
This comment hits all of the boxes for everything that is wrong with Hacker News.

"First, false statement. Since you know false assumption, I would false conclusion. And of course, this means false conclusion. I'd like to see analysis done on what you did them on."

"Second, the arguments seem a little cherry-picked. "Quote from article about W and Z" is cute. But modern systems have a lot of Z, and Obviously You Didn't Consider This."

"Finally, we're already having serious problems getting Thing the Author Almost Always Rags on for Sucking to upgrade when a security vulnerability is found. Requiring recompilation of all transitive users who the author doesn't care about and who the author has already told are wrong is not likely to win any update speed contests for a use-case the author thinks is invalid. If it's completely automated then the perceived invalid use case would still be viable, but any rocks in the process will leave people with perceived invalid use case endlessly vulnerable. See Notoriously Bad Ecosystem That Isn't Relevant to the Article, etc."
Instagram expands its TikTok clone ‘Reels’ to new markets
wow, that was a very exhaustively informative explanation of how to clone WeTransfer
You're largely right... local ISPs (cable, telco) have serious entrenchment. They received public funding and easements to roll out infrastructure and pulled up the ladders behind them.

Often localities are hindered by their state governments thanks to lobbying from the incumbents. I would prefer to see more local governments actively rolling their own telecom infrastructure to inter-city/state endpoints (should they choose to). From a security standpoint I feel that most locations should have two options at the least.

I'd also like to see any civil funding start and end at the local municipalities. The feds don't do well managing these things as noted in TFA.
What if it is such only because we made it so? For example, policing policies that increase fatherlessness in specific communities will result in increased levels of crime. But to then take a 'fair' approach at distribution of policing policies based on the actual crime data, and then use that to continue to keep the policies that caused the problem to begin with seems a bug that needs to be fixed (though some would point out it was more of a purposefully designed feature).
Why stop there? Package every binary in its own container, too! Most programs only use a few system calls, so you're not really getting anything by sharing a single kernel for the entire system.
Apparently I should not have used the word forced because some people went full-boar pedantic about it unfortunately. It's forced in terms of "if I want to run Big Sur, I have no choice" (thought that was obvious).

Not forced, but unnecessarily required to purchase new hardware to run the latest OS version which should not have any reason for not working on the older hardware. I still think that's a problem.

If there was a feature of Big Sur that required particular hardware to run, then I would be more understanding. Yes, I can stay on Catalina on my iMac, but it will continue to get more out of date when Apple could have easily kept supporting it. I'm understanding enough to know Apple has business reasons for doing it, and maybe even technical ones (that no one has yet explained) but it doesn't mean I agree with it.
I was only in five years but saw lots of reports and made maybe half a dozen job-related (DOD order/Constitutional related offenses) and one EO-related.

I'd say in general the likelihood of something illegal on the job being reported is high, while doing something illegal on one's off time (like something alcohol related) is much lower, especially among those of similar rank. On the former, my workplace had a huge layered nest of rules from all levels of organizations, and those being broken were taken seriously, though I did have to argue with my chain of command on whether certain ones needed to be reported. Some of that was due to particular bosses.

Personal/Personal time ones, I heard of things that got reported and some that didn't. Those are definitely more mixed.

On in versus out of unit, I can't really think of much mixing with people out of a unit. I think if there is a difference, someone is more likely to report on someone within one's own unit. From boot camp on, you learn the weak link ("shitbag") in your unit is going to get you all in trouble, so you need to make sure they're dealt with. In my first school after boot camp, there was a beach party reported that had underaged Marines among them. For like a month, the whole detachment on base, maybe 300 Marines, we're not allowed to be out of uniform even in our own room, among other punishments. Group/Mass punishments mean you either deal with a person who will lead to trouble or report them.
They don’t mention hospitalization or deaths. Those are the two to keep track of. I’m guessing far more people are getting tested than previously, hence the larger numbers.
How about America regulates its actual utilities first? The problem isn't private companies regulating their properties as they see fit, the problem is Americas propensity for olicharchs, in every part of society. A people that so easily sells itself out to a single party is going to have the same problems again and again.
and one has to keep investing from one's personal savings to learn new languages and tools every year, even in one's near retirement age!!
We haven't specifically compared to AVIF, which as far as we know is still under development. We'd be happy to compare, but it's unlikely that we'd learn much out of it. As far as we know, AVIF is better by <100% than HEVC, but we're comparing against HEVC at 300% of the bitrate.

Of course, we'd be happy to add any additional images from other codecs if they're available.
People today shoot and chimp, which was impossible back in the day. If you wanted a preview, you needed to have a polaroid around.

Film and processing cost money, and took from an hour or to days to get back, so people would set the aperture in a more reasonable range.
I get this on iPhone search. I see what I want and go tap it, but it changes at the last second and I end up opening the wrong thing. And now I’ve trained the AI on the wrong thing just to make things worse.
This one looks more like a polished wrapper around phpstan and several other tools: https://github.com/nunomaduro/phpinsights/blob/master/compos...
Maybe they had to block TOR because someone asked them to, like the Government
Last.fm's recommender system continues to be the only worthwhile music recommendation service.
In france, last miles are not owned by the people, but usually by the biggest ISP, Orange (which was state-owned before).
But all other operators have the right to use the lines. And Orange has the obligation to sell this service without making any benefits (charging only exactly what the costs of maintaining lines).

To ensure that the prices are fairly calculated, we have a public authority which checks that the prices are correct.
The new Covid-19 surge may be harder to contain
"A proper type-system that doesn't just describe memory layout" is one kind of better tool, whether built into the database or separate.
It's unfortunate that people get a sense of moral superiority for having one political view or another. It reminds me of how certain religious people have a sense of moral superiority and it makes them incapable of introspection. Not to mention that labelling an entire city as "left leaning" is absurd.