skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't have a huge problem with it in particular not if it includes the authorities themselves.

I used to see privacy as empowering but I've changed my opinion more and more to seeing transparency as more important, across multiple dimensions, not just policing.

Whether it's tax avoidance and financial havens, human trafficking scandals, sexual abuse victims being empowered by social media to communicate and hold people accountable, watching the police (very relevant), it seems more and more to me that privacy is mostly a tool for the individually powerful whereas transparency is a tool for collective action and impartiality.
you don’t really want to have extensive ground glass opacities from any cause. Happy lungs don’t have them. Here are some causes: https://radiopaedia.org/articles/ground-glass-opacification-...
Many apps already have this. Your browser can restore windows and tabs on restart. Your $EDITORs save work in progress and let you restore on restart (well, VIM does). VMs can get paused and saved. These are by far the most important apps to have restored. Sure, I'd like my tmux instances and shells and stuff restored too, but I script all that setup anyways, so I'm good there. So, really, it's just a matter of integration.
They sold the digital equivalent of crack for so long, they never had to learn marketing.
Maybe it's not the software that's at fault, but society?
I think it’s mostly hype.

I was excited for Hey. I’m disappointed. The interface is colorful but disjointed. Way too much whitespace for my taste. I was hoping for a truly new take on email UI, like an IM-style interface. Hey feels like they took the traditional email UI and split it into different screens with lots of whitespace.

I don’t like the screening feature. In Fastmail, I have a separate folder for people not in my contacts. Anyone I respond to is automatically added to my contacts, so I don’t have to manually approve them. This functionality is available in any email client. The screening feature seems like more work, with pressure to look at them.

No custom domain is a dealbreaker. I’ve used the same email for almost 10 years. I’m honestly amazed so many techies are fine with the shared domain. Paying $999 for a two letter user on a shared domain? Nuts.

The newsletter feed view is nice. But I actually prefer my newsletter folder where I click each email, because I know which ones are unread. The feed view gives me a feeling that I don’t know what I missed.

After playing with it, I sold my invite for $175 within minutes on Twitter. FOMO is very powerful.
You didn't need to trade to make millions in cryptocurrency if you started in 2013. Just buy and hold.
Yeah very cool. I’d say it qualifies as even artistic in aesthetics and meaning. Bravo.
Ah that does seem stressful. I do appreciate that you moderate here though, HN is much better for it!
It's still got lorem ipsum in its teeth.
Interesting, thanks for pointing out a use case. But I don't think backreferences will help with that, it needs to be parsed by something more powerful than a regex.

And that example reminds me that Bash can do something similar:

echo "$(echo "$(echo "$(echo "hi")")")"
A beautiful visualization of a proof of Euler's formula
Private Equity Inferior to Public Equity: Similar Returns with Lower Liquidity
> Go executables are statically linked. It makes deployment a breeze.

But what are we comparing to what then ?

A few custom Go applications, compared to whole classic Linux distros, on which deployment is both not really the same thing, but still a breeze ?

So yeah, to different needs, different tools.
This is really cool! As a suggestion, you may want to add in a toggle for zoom. On my computer the site looks perfect at 67%.

But this is really great work! Great idea and really cool! Good work!

Regards,
Peter @ Oeck.
What’s happening to Boot Camp amid the Apple silicon transition
I suppose there's a very obvious analogy to baseball and mutual dislike of the umpire.
> Entering an unlocked house, in many common law jurisdictions, is tresspass at best.

False, opening or door window is sufficient for the breaking part of burglary at common law, locks.are irrelevant. If locks are relevant, it's not because of common law.
turn off enhanced tracking protection in Firefox if the content doesn't load
Thread ancestor said that the electorate was consistently handing out mandates to "brutalize a minority population".

The electorate's power to hand out such mandates is also the power that it uses to define who criminals are.

There can't be a check on that power without also opening up a huge can of worms for general law enforcement.

> Criminals are people who break laws, they aren't a cultural group.

If a majority hands out a mandate to oppress a minority group they can probably define the minority group to be criminals. In fact, there is a persuasive argument that that is happening.
I have had to keep machines vulnerable because update bundles contain code that breaks stuff and you cannot break them out.

Vulnerable to what, exactly? That is also the other part of the problem with these "security updates" --- if you look at the details (when they are provided, which seems to be diminishing too) the vast majority of them are local privilege escalations that assume the attacker can run arbitrary code on the machine; IMHO if an attacker can do that, you already have a much bigger problem to worry about!
It seems lately as though Facebook has finally found the optimal way to suck me in and keep me scrolling... show me things that piss me off.

I think it’s time to just delete my account. Facebook was supposed to be a means to stay in touch with family and old friends, and for a while it was.

Now it’s just... evil.
Long ago I was inside of a church when its steeple got struck by lightning. We could hear the static building up in the sound system before the strike occurred. People said arcs shot from all of the power sockets. There were burn marks on every corner of every wall where it seemed the current couldn't make the sharp bend and jumped out of the metal within the walls. I just remember it being loud.
> The imprecise talk of “observer” and a “measurement” that plagues the orthodox interpretation is thus avoided because the wave function collapses spontaneously.

Why? Measurement is just a photon you shoot at something. Or electron. Wikipedia is saying we cannot define what an observer is and what constitutes “measurement” - sure we do, measurement interacts with the quantum mechanical system because we need to use something - a photon or an electron or some particle to see how it interacts with the system.
I think you missed it the central point of the parent commenter. Take for instance, the fact that men commit the overwhelming majority of violent crime:

* Is it sexist to conclude that someone is a violent criminal just because they're a man? Yes.

* Is it sexist to say that a model predicting that men will commit 90% of violent crime isn't biased, with the reasoning that men on average commit way more violence than women? No.
The internet did and was sharing a wealth of knowledge and changed the world. Personally I saw a large change in both the online community and it's nature when FB, Google and other online conglomerates became more concerned about stock investors interests, Snowden revelations, and the 2016 election. Online communities changed as well as commerce. The internet can still be a beacon of learning and knowledge however, in my opinion initial motivations which brought it's golden age were not based on commerce. Now they are. The culture of the internet has changed. We lost the "initial internet culture", and since this change, it's nature has also changed along with it's initial purpose. We can bring it back only if we choose to do so.
https://unim.press/#LOLHackerNews
You misconstrued that quote, all that sentence meant was I'm fine with defending sides that I know are unpopular and will lose me karma.

Most importantly to gain karma you need to choose the "correct" side, like you do. Ya'know, the Beto gun confiscation side.

If you go against the crowd you will be downvoted, period. That's no surprise, I'm just giving you guys insight what it's like outside the bubble. It's definitely not mainstream libertarian here.
It seems like you’re just making sweeping generalizations in an effort to do ideological battle.

I think people in crime-ridden areas are generally very interested in seeing greater police presence, not less. [1] Studies have shown a larger police presence results in lower arrest rates and lower use of force.

And in the vast majority of cases where police are called to a scene they do in fact care deeply, and help effectively.

I think it’s easy to get caught up in tempest and start blaming a large group for the actions of a small minority. I’m no expert, but my understanding is we’ve done decades of studies and had decades of progress toward reducing violent crime, and increased funding for police has been a main pillar of that effort. Obama’s efforts to provide billions of dollars of police funding, for example, saw decreases in crime rates for cities that received the funding versus increases in cities that missed out.

[1] - https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/13/18193661/h...
Supposedly that can also just be a giant fuse blowing, to protect the lines/transformer (just happened to watch a video about it on YouTube recently).
Are we assuming that police arrests and citations for carrying an illegal knife actually reduce or deter knife crime? Because I don't believe that it does.

--Same as you, just using knives as an example because I agree that they should not be illegal. (And a lot more could be said about certain types of knives being illegal and others not and the idea that certain racial groups or gangs might be more likely to carry that certain type, crack vs cocaine anyone?) But you could replace knives with any type of crime.--

But the reality is that we have a system that will over-prosecute and over-charge people for small crimes which causes a disruption to a lower income person's already precarious situation. Putting through a system full of violence, inhumanity, and other people that are in for much worse and then releasing them back to that same community with a do-not-hire sign permanently around their neck (a felony). After which they are likely to turn to crime to survive.

So while I agree that looking at knife crime data would make more sense than looking at arrests in the scope of the data conversation, the idea that heavy handed policing and a messed up "justice" system will likely create negative pressure on the long term for crime in that community, then the data is sort of moot.

Additionally, the conversation in this mini-documentary pointed to the fact that police were/are incentivized (at least in his Detroit precinct) to "get their statistics". So they would gravitate to these poorer, black neighborhoods because they could stop and hassle low income minorities without repercussion a lot easier than a white middle class neighborhood where people were less likely to even be walking outside and more likely to file complaints for police harassment.
> Trees attract lightening. Best to stay away from them during T-storms.

Yes, this is the common-sense advice: don't shelter under a tree. Yet I always wonder looking at all those trees around me standing there for 50-100 years.. how many of these were struck by lighting? Are many trees struck, but without damage showing, or were they just never hit? Maybe I could just shelter under them..
Yeah, but that doesn't work when you have middle managers who's pay is tied to the amount of people that they manage.
How much is your online privacy worth? – About $3.50 according to a new study
Wat's a Rabbit Mouse
If government just printed this money, then there would be inflation. But this money is taken away from high earners and given to low earners. System is still balanced, just less fair (some may argue).
Why Is There Something Instead of Nothing?
> This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I have heard this year.

I doubt any comment in this thread could possibly be the stupidest thing any of us has heard or read in 2020.
For all the UI badness Real Player had some impressive compression support, at least back in the day. I remember watching the stream of a launch of one of the early ISS modules over what was effectively a dialup connectio. The quality was pretty good for that and you could see what was going on pretty well.
Ask HN: YouTube website UI super buggy for anyone else?
I've noticed over the past few months that YouTube's web UI has been incredibly slow and buggy to the point where I just want to stop watching videos.

Going into full-screen mode sometimes takes 30 seconds; it'll keep playing but show a black non-full screen and an empty UI. It randomly skips to other videos when I try to pause the current video. I could make countless other little nitpicks. The search bar's text isn't vertically aligned when searching for people's videos on their channel, etc.

It feels like they introduced a bunch of blocking code in the event loop and the UI is just slower than a turtle now. This happened recently, too. YouTube has otherwise been fine on this computer for a really long time.
OT: Ugh. Another site that hijacks the back button to display more articles rather than letting me go back. (Chrome iOS) When did this start?

Edit:
Video: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0qLMMePqiSOETXWt2Z77Ae8jA
Ah yes, now we come full circle.
> Dynamic linking, in the context of an OS which offers a curated list of packages in the form of an official package repository, means that a specialized third party is able to maintain a subcomponent of your system.

You nailed it, in my opinion. The biggest reason I favor dynamic linking is not because of any inherent advantage that I'm determined to believe in (in the face of purported evidence to the contrary, like this article), but because I fear the ecosystem changes that a major shift towards static linking would allow.

If everything is a static blob, you have an environment that is much more friendly to every dev shipping their app as a binary download on their website, like Windows "freeware". Or worse still, they only support AppImage or some other "modern" method of distribution. This cuts maintainers out of the loop. I want to continue using a distribution with maintainers. I think they solve some important problems: when a maintainer is the gatekeeper, it means that a dev has to convince a third party that their app is (a) worth including, (b) not malware, (c) open source - at least heavily preferred since the dev will be building it themselves. And plus having a maintainer means someone besides the original dev is responsible for making sure you get security updates.

Now of course you can distribute statically built apps that way, but there's a reason it's less common. There are so many Go apps out there where the only supported method to build them is using the Go toolchain and pulling in 150 Github repos.

See also: this defense of the maintainer-based ecosystem, from an Arch Linux dev. http://kmkeen.com/maintainers-matter/
I had a surface pro 1, and when it decided to randomly completely fail, I called and was met with the same kinda customer service treatment you explained. They offered to replace my week old tablet with a refurb if I shipped mine to them and waited a couple weeks.

I found out there was a MS store right by where my internship was, so I stopped by, explained my problem and showed it to them, and they handed me a new replacement on the spot.

So yeah, same experience here lol. I wasn't going to mention it because I figured they had gotten better by now. I'm sad to hear they haven't! That.. means I probably won't be buying any surface hardware again lol.
> it's a really nice API hiding an absolutely unholy mess

Aint that universal.
When it comes to server admin the libraries available for Ruby is miles ahead of anything available for Python.
Back before computers were a thing in most people's homes, let alone pockets, police would plot on a map the crime reports of the past year and assign more patrols to areas with a high density of crime.

Is this practice now banned? Because this is predictive policing, albeit in a crude form. Presumably it just means computerized predictive policing, but it still seems odd that people see to think that analyzing past patterns of crime to better allocate police is something novel.
How did a private company deciding to regulate speech, become a strawman about how all government is violence?
This isn't the first time Burger Kings marketing team has turned a weakness of a machine learning system into a campaign.

In 2017 they ran a TV ad designed to trigger Google Homes. [1]
They used a well-timed Wikipedia edit to get them to say exactly what they wanted them to say!

IIRC Google fixed this pretty quickly using voice heuristics.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/12/15259400/burger-king-goog...
I don’t think that’s true. They use ATT copper for reselling their DSL but for fiber they roll their own. I’m lucky and have Sonic 1Gb symmetrical service for $40.
Recognizing the fact isn't racist (although one should qualify those facts with all the many factors not taken into account, like how much more likely a white person is to get away with the same crime). But acting on that data is definitely racist. It is punishing innocent people because other people that have a similar skin color have committed crimes.
I fear that HN folks have got tired of this topic, but this is really well written and it made me think.
Looks cool. Superb!
That's not a problem at all.
The logic of your argument seems to be: "There was slavery, so there was systemic racism." Am I right? Then you extruded that argument into: "Because there was slavery, there is also systemic racism today." This is quite a leap, especially considering that slavery was ended on a particular date due to a civil war. Since then, several settlements has been made with racism (systemic or otherwise), some of the most important ones being during the 60's. These settlements have come both in the form of physical changes to the law, but also in the form of a change to the general zeitgeist and in the attitude of most people towards racism. What is happening today, however, is purely the widspread misunderstanding and politization of facts and statistics. On the whole, crime is going down, but if you look at this table from the FBI, the bias does in fact seem to be biased towards whites and not blacks.[1] What do you think about that?

[1]: FBI murder statistics by race from 2018, https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-... 2018 was the latest year I could find such data on.
Ask HN: Learn Python coming from C# background
I have been coding in C#/.NET for the past few years. Am interested in dabbling in some AI/ML, especially applications related to healthcare and biology. Based on some quick research, it seems like I need to get familiar with Python before I dive into the actual ML stuff. I have never used Python before. There are innumerable resources on the web for learning Python and I am finding it hard to figure out which might be best. So I thought I would turn to the experienced HN crowd to get some feedback :). Any suggestions on material for the best way to get familiar with Python for a C# developer?

Thanks
What should I search for to get a clue as to what you're referring to?
This is amazing! Like the newspapers in harry potter. You’ve closed the loop on automating a dynamic, crowdsourced, curated front page. The meta paper.

Now do hackers news. It’ll be like the WSJ, a nice counterpart to this, which is a little more like US Weekly.
What happens when the neutron star is a pulsar?
Rent and Protect – Protection of payments on rental income
Yeah, the zoom definitely changes the experience. I tried to strike a good balance between the layout being big enough to read somewhat comfortably, while small enough to see the overall "newspapery" layout, and 1200px wide by default is what I ended up settling on. Of course users I think can zoom in and out on their own if they prefer another size, like you did.
Your final sentence is an oddly specific claim, but nonetheless, I must admit I was surprised how uniformly people seem to like Braudel. And yet,

https://twitter.com/aamandascottt/status/1266765438136049667
https://twitter.com/aamandascottt/status/1266768148063236097
https://twitter.com/aamandascottt/status/1257807522712432641
https://twitter.com/HinchyJessica/status/1164796620879220736
https://twitter.com/arjun_jayadev/status/959596380137447424
"One of the hard things for MS I think is that the Apple store was successful because you couldn't get a Mac in the past anywhere else and it was a good experience that really set the tone of the Mac."

CompUSA and Best Buy sold them, so did a lot of independent resellers. I guess it was kinda like buying a thinkpad back then.

Indie computer shops used to really be a thing in large cities.
What speeds are you getting with them?
Try not to fall into a contract worker trap.

CS degree? They dont value experience?

Good luck!
I like the last quote: "It’s not enough to read, it’s not enough to believe in something, it’s not enough to write something, you have to eventually stand for something if you want things to change"

I think for engineers and scientists, it's an ego thing. We tend to believe that intelligence is super important, but standing for something is about courage. It can even be irrational (or dangerous) from a selfish perspective.

And I am guilty as charged. Having courage is difficult. And it cuts across all disciplines and levels of intelligence (if there is such a thing).
Is this related to the 5G stuff? Supposedly 5G operates at a frequency that causes oxygen molecules to break down thereby starving your brain.
The hyphenation on the center-spread column doesn't look great, leaving big whitespace gaps in justified text.

In my experience, "hyphens: auto" in browsers doesn't work well at widths smaller than 80ch. The "center-spread" column is currently set to width: 600px, approximately 67ch. Changing it to width: 80ch looks much, much better, in my opinion.

I also suggest adding the Safari variant, "-webkit-hyphens: auto", and add the lang="en" attribute to your <html> tag, to enable hyphenation in Firefox.
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As the other person responded, they have seen a neutron star merger, and I believe that is the one they were able to observe with EM radiation as well. Also this event they suspect the larger mass was a black hole, they aren't sure of the smaller one.
Yes. I'm kind of pointing out how even that "positive" vision was naive because it actually did come true and it was still bad. Just creating democracies isn't necessarily a good thing.
Probably the same reservations I have for any political party. A political party is not there to represent me. I can do that well enough on my own with my vote. I only need political parties to provide candidates and put pressure on other political parties.
If it get pulled and you enjoy it that much take advantage of the discount (every game on Game Pass has a somewhat discounted price for members) and buy it. There’s been a handful of games here or there I didn’t want to lose when they were retiring, and others that I played but didn’t really miss. I still save a lot of money compared to buying every game I ever want to play - especially given many of them I enjoy but not enough to shell out full price on