skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grew up in Harlem though not black.

While I'm sure there are good police out there, broken windows policies effectively act as a safe haven for a subset of cops to enforce arbitrary (usually racial) bias whenever they feel like it. There's no impetus to actually do the neighborhood policing they claim aspire to--just a universal excuse to allocate resources and attention in the name of making neighborhoods "safe".

Metric gaming is real. Ex. strapped for money or not meeting your quota? Stop some drunk teens on a weekend night before the end of your shift and you can make time and a half because your lookup is "still processing" well past 5 PM. End up writing a citation for the kids, tell yourself that they can afford it, tell them that they should be grateful, and wash your hands clean of it all because you're doing "neighborhood policing".

What if there's an actual crime to report in these neighborhoods?

Two squad cars pulled up to my building. The first thing said to me: "OK who was it? Black? Hispanic?"

They have me ride with them as they stopped every non-white group of kids, at least 30 over the course of ~2 hours despite my repeated remarks that no one had actually seen the perpetrator(s). I wanted to back out at this point, but they had to have a case to justify their time. Frustrated, they took me back to the station and had me go through a photo book of juvenile delinquents in the neighborhood they had compiled. It was photos of entirely black and hispanic youth captioned by their name, address (at which they could be arrested), and some minor crime that was enough to put them in the book. They were practically begging me to just point out any dark face. I just wanted to report a stolen phone.
Amazon’s James Hamilton has been bullish on server-side ARM for a long time. [1]

[1] https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2015/10/arm-server-market/
This is what is preventing my move from suburban Washington State to rural Montana or even Idaho. Getting ANY information from wired ISPs is like pulling teeth. Each address has to be called in, and no ISP can say something helpful like "we don't service that, but try ISP X", they all say "that's not on our service area... today".

I have high hopes for Starlink, personally, but my first choice would absolutely be gigabit fiber to the homestead.
Just for the record, in 2011 Santa Cruz was proud to be the first in the US to try predictive policing:

https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2011/01/14/crime-predictio...

https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2020/06/20/santa-cruz-cons...
Immigrant Valley
>> I hate that America has become so neoliberalized that I end up needing to consider how to build a profit motive into having cops not violate constitutional rights.

> The sort of person who makes a good cop isn’t motivated by money. You don’t pay him to be a cop, you pay him so he can be a cop. So he can pay his bills while deriving job satisfaction from...

That's likely also true of many classes of bad cops, as well (e.g. deriving job satisfaction from dominating others/exercising power over them).

I also think your kind of missing the point. I interpreted the comment on neoliberalism to be critiquing the idea that institutional solution to every problem has to be some kind of system involving money and markets. Basically, why dick around with insurance and budgets to dis-incentivize the employment of "cops who violate constitutional rights" when you should have an institution that's capable of just removing bad cops like that simply for the violations themselves.
"And, go ahead and sequence the results of our PCR to see if you can get covid sequences out of it. "

Absolutely. If your hypothesis and/or data flies in the face of all (other) available data, you should leave no stone unturned to prove you are right. Actually showing that the amplified material is in fact COVID sequence would be just one very simple step in doing that. It's been a while, but the cost is about $200 and the time is about 24 hrs to purify and sequence an amplified product? It's quite telling that they didn't bother and/or didn't report the (likely negative result).
Manhattan Office Rents Seen Plunging 26% in Prolonged Downturn
How to judge raw smarts of a developer candidate?
I have had success hiring junior developers who I thought were exceptionally intelligent, even when their experience didn't make them the best candidate. I'd like to continue hiring with this strategy, but to be more deliberate about identifying intelligence.

How do I judge?
I mostly agree with you, but the WHO and CDC famously told people not to wear masks for way too long after data was distributed showing mask's effectiveness for preventing infection. I would not trust them.
Coronavirus death rate falling in hospitals
I worked fully remote for a couple years, then spent a year or so in the physical office, and now back to remote due to covid.
And yet, the crime rate in that county (and in Cambridge and Lowell) reflects the same plunging nature as the rest of the state and nation, since 1990 peak.

Take the big CSV from the github I posted, combine it with the FBI UCR data, and try to find a correlation between incarceration rate and crime rate.
And the way this is typically done with banners breaks zoom! It's so bad.
So excited for variadic tuple types. This will be an absolute game changer!
In Memphis, TN, we have hideous overhead power lines running along most streets, usually with a combination of high voltage, low voltage, communication lines, and untold abandoned cabling. Im amazed that citizens will tolerate a very poorly maintained network of power poles vs arguing with cities and utilities to begin the admittedly long, expensive, and slow work to clean ups the more egregious and prominent locations, like along major thoroughfares. These overhead distribution networks require significant mutilation of trees (ugly) and are vulnerable to a variety of accidents including cars striking poles, trees falling on wires, squirrels exploding, etc.

A city-led effort to install underground conduit duct banks could be federally funded while also allow new ISPs to come along and lease empty conduit. Thats where I would focus my grass roots efforts.

In Memphis, its rumored to cost some $3B to bury all overhead power lines (estimated by the local public utility), therefore infeasible. I say, excellent, get to work on the easiest 50% of the scoop that over the next decade!
Oscar Health Nabs $225M Round
A big reason they said they were raising the deal previously was the cost of living in the bay area and increased cost of starting a company today[0]. Are they anticipating that those costs are going to come down now? They suggest that this decreased amount will allow them to fund more companies, and hint that it has to do with economic conditions as well. But, if that amount of money is still needed to live in the bay area and work for 6 months, then wouldn't it make more sense to decrease the number of companies funded as to not potentially handicap startups with not enough money?

[0]https://blog.ycombinator.com/new-standard-deal/
We're definitely looking into ways to make the recipient side smoother. Stay tuned ;)
I think you have it backwards. It's the home users that you have to force updates on. Corporate users will have their own patching schedule that's usually on a 1-2 week delay from patch Tuesday.

Like it's wild to me that people want to leave their boxes unpatched for a year because it's annoying.
> Well, aren't you glad we just made it untenable for a large number of experts on the subject to work here?

Even if they lift the ban, its not like these experts will immediately abandon their families and jobs to jump into the uncertain administrative environment of the US.

Why would they come if their lives can be upended by the stroke of a pen?
I heard this recently, but I forgot where: policing software is supposed to be used to help inform decisions in addition to established investigative practices, but police are instead using the software as decision-makers which has possibly decreased accuracy in investigating crimes.
What percent of a population will act is not a good gauge of the percent chance of an individual acting.
I loved Sprig. I used to use them as my example of a favorite product when asked in interviewed. Problem: I am hungry right now and can't/don't want to cook. Solution: As the founder notes, once signed in, it was literally three taps to get food to my door really quick. Also the design was beautiful.

Doordash, UberEats, et. al have certainly (glactically) widened the variety of food I could order, but I always find myself suffering from choice anxiety when I open those up. Sprig gave me a protein and veggie I could order without thinking too hard.

I get why the food delivery model doesn't work well in the US for anyone, and I did notice Sprig's decline in food quality, but I am still sad the company is gone.
It would be possible - but by minimizing residual errors you end up in a similar regime as when minimizing MSE again, likely making reconstructions blurry!
They shot about 20 people dead every week though. Compare that Germany or the UK where it can take decades for the police to kill that many people.
Slack vs. Discord vs. Discourse
Related: I just launched a website with a collection of easily copy-and-paste-able lists in plain text.

https://copypastelist.com/
This is amazing, and I'm surprised this isn't noted down in the playlist description, nor anywhere else. It doesn't simply crossfade, it matches beats up much like a human would. This is insanely neat and such a nice find.
It depends on your use case and usage patterns.

I like Basecamp’s opinionated approach and what they’ve done with Hey.com

As much as I’d like to use it as my primary email tool I depend on G Suite and Gmail for my business because of the integration and automation those tools afford me.
The reactive model is not here because people like it but because it enable to do optimizations that are normally mostly impossible to do.
The real breakthrough is to use reactive programming + Rsocket which allow true asynchronous real time applications.

And rejoice yourself, Kotlin Flow/coroutines has a clean API that feels synchronous and that still manage to be reactive streams compliant!
It's mostly perfect and project loom will be the ice on the cake!
Others platforms (non JVM) really have a lot to learn in this regard
For those of us in the US, the range of symptoms of Covid infection combined with the very real possibility of having insurance denied because of pre-existing conditions sounds like a really bad combination.

If insurers are allowed to not cover anything related to a pre-existing condition, it seems natural they would screen for Covid antibodies as part of any routine work. Then any condition that's been correlated to Covid infection would be denied.

Universal health care can't come fast enough to the US.
And Firefox Send has much higher limits too, for free. Without a Firefox Account, the user can upload up to 1GB. And with a Firefox Account, the limit is 2.5GB. Dropbox Transfer, in comparison, provides (just) 100MB in the free tier.
So, it means Santa Cruz has a track record for being on the cutting edge of policing technology?
> I will say, the surfaces/laptops side of the store was usually empty. Some kids playing with the Xbox or people at the counter getting help seemed to be the extent of traffic the past couple of years.

Exactly my experience last I visited. It seemed like the goal of the stores was misconceived from the start... like the purpose was to coax Surface into being a successful product, rather than build up a real store business of its own.
You described the article as a light variation of panic selling, and said that it throws a scary headline on the details to drive clicks. The headline is "Even If You’re Asymptomatic, the Coronavirus Can Do Damage", and regarding the 'ground glass opacities' it says "How big a deal is this? No one’s sure."
I have no problem with that, but why aren't these types of statistical models and curve analysis being used to deploy drive by patrols? Some of this seems like throwing out the baby with the bath water, does it not?

While I agree that it's way too soon for this sort of granularity, is it too soon to have 10 block, increased presence of troubled areas helped by statistical analysis?
MAAS might be catching up, what with adding LXD to the mix. Used to be just KVM hosting, but using an LXD container as a VM host makes this a lot easier for me to run my "kitchen table data center" (four ginormous laptops hooked to a switch). It's got some growing to do, for sure -- like, it would be nice to dump QEMU and just use LXD containers as VMs -- but that's probably in their roadmap. Worth a try if you're into bare-metal stuff.
Looks like the removed/moved the page; see: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pX1Cst...

Bing cache: https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=https%3a%2f%2fwww.mobilewa...
Waiting until green energy is cost efficient is certainly a position on climate change, but it's not one that climate activists typically take.

A carbon tax that doesn't raise cost much is not going to have much effect.

Though that depends on how you interpret
"much." If you double energy cost, upper middle class folks won't change their thermostat, but work class folks won't be able to afford to turn on their AC.
I tried the new layout when offered as a beta feature and very quickly realized it was a regression in terms of ease of access to the information I want when I navigate to a repo page. I’ve submitted multiple feedback messages and was shocked when this was pushed through. Natfriedman, please consider these points.
Care to share a link or two to a news story corroborating this?
"~ 3% is a reasonable false positive rate for a COVID test"

There is no way they are getting a 3% false positive rate. That's way too high for a 5 product RTPCR test. Not even the serology tests are that bad.
I meant specifically arresting people before they committed a crime. There is a fine line between that and putting someone under watch, but I think Minority Report was pointing out that this line might as well not exist.

Personally, I think putting someone under watch before they have committed a crime or there is reasonable suspicion that the person is about to commit a crime is unconstitutional. I do not think statistics is justification for "reasonable suspicion."
I agree on your assessment of Gilbert Strang's courses. So many here on HN recommend Strang's stuff. However, he's kind of the victim of his own success. If you've taken LA in college in the last 10-15 years, or any online LA class like Khan Academy, they teach from a geometric approach like he advocates and pioneered. Therefore, you're not exactly learning anything new, just a different person saying it; which, of course, might help. But it's still LA for the sake of LA.

Mind you, they are very good, and out of all online courses I've seen, the questions are actually hard and make you think and understand on a deeper level. Every other course I've seen have simple, fluff questions, if any.

Tim Chartier of Davidson College put out a class on EdX called Applications of Linear Algebra. It's more practical, but I found Part 1 to be too practical and not enough math. It suffers from the opposite problem. Part 2 may be better, but I didn't make it through. Plus, I found his style to be a little woo-woo. You might have some success with it because he actually does talk about real world scenarios.

https://www.edx.org/course/applications-of-linear-algebra-pa...

I've actually looked at about half a dozen online LA resources that take different approaches. I should do a blog post about them one day.
The demo images used on hific.github.io appear to be part of the datasets used to train the system. In another comment you say the trained model is 726MB.
The combined size of the training datasets appear to be about 8GB zipped.
Is the currently trained model usable on images that are not part of the training datasets? with output of similar quality and size?
The US and Brazil have leaders that are particularly awful w.r.t. climate change... and then mother nature drops record lightning strikes on both. Dope.
Discuss substance, not presentation, unless presentation is the topic of the story. Comments about web design and readability are off-topic. Advice for authors is best delivered through a polite private email.
> This literally happens all of the time, though? It's the 'default'.

No. Our conversation is a good example of that. The default is to state your business, not your sexual identity or race.

Normal people don't want to be judged by their skin color or sexuality or things like that, this is why they don't lay it out.

Stop taking sexual identity so seriously - its not central to anything.

> People experiencing gender dysphoria is not a driving force in engaging in this kind of behavior

I say, craving validation is the connecting factor. If you have different experiences with that, so it be.

> I have friends who have dealt with such issues and do not behave in the way you claim.

No one of the trans people i had relationships with acted in this way, either.

But in online communities around open source software, there are always a few black sheep that turn really emotional if you accidentally don't "respect their identity", and this includes alot of otherwise innocent behavior.
I haven't used reactive Java, but I have used the async/await model of JS as well Erlang/OTP, and I definitely prefer message passing. The mental model is so much easier to reason about.
I read the article in full. I love his disclaimers at the end, it avoids people using this for their own confirmation bias.

It seems there must always be a balanced tension between those that cooperate and those that pressure against cancerous cooperation within any system.

I think as the world becomes more complex and interconnect, as people become more specialized and interdependent, there's a trend that is skewing our reward system toward cooperation to the detriment of the balance needed between the two forces.

I think this is happening at multiple social levels including the business level, but it's most visible in academia since academia lacks a clear success metric.
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As used in medicine, a symptom is by definition something that the patient notices and can report. If they don't notice, it's not a symptom, it's a "sign".

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/341611
Yeah, Citi's web app for managing virtual credit card numbers still uses Flash. That's the only reason I still need Flash. I haven't seen any indication that they're working on a replacement
Most people who love undergraduate teaching choose to work at teaching colleges (of which there are many excellent ones). The downside of going to the colleges is that, in most cases, it involves sacrificing research progress.

Step 0 in getting a tenure-track position at an R1 research school is to have an excellent research track record.

Step 1 is having a plan that is likely to yield at least a decade of reliable research success and grant funding.

A strong desire to teach undergraduates is somewhere between Step 3 and Step 10, depending upon the school.

There are a number of reasons why I haven't pursued a faculty position. Among them is that I love working closely with graduate students, but am not fired up about teaching large classes of undergraduates. Another is that doing a reasonable job of research and running a research group is already more than a full-time job. To layer teaching on top is, for me, a guaranteed path to burnout and sadness. So, I've ridden the research/postdoc train about as far as it will go -- I'm leaving my postdoc position in mid/late summer.
> Properties Overriding Accessors (and vice versa) is an Error

Not sure I like this. Can definitely imagine the following being a realistic scenario, and see no reason to disallow it:

class Base {
public num = 42;
}

class Child extends Base {
protected _num = 42;
// no longer allowed in 4.0
public get num() { return this._num; }
public set num(newVal) {
alert(`new num ${newVal}`);
this._num = newVal
}
}

Did I misunderstand something?
You might find iSH interesting, though it’s a bit slow.
" but for example, "universal" healthcare is a myth. You can't get public insurance in your first 6 months."

We also have "universal" voting rights as well that are not accessible till you become a citizen.
Why not? Apple's whole history has been governed by anti-golden-rule. Treat others as we want to, they should treat us as we want. They've epitomized rejection of the idea of "treat others as we would like to be treated ourselves".
I'm about to embark on building a tiny house this summer. We have done a lot of planning and a lot of learning so far (this is our first major building project).

The more I think about the space, the more I realize how minimalist I will have to be. I have been pairing down my possessions over the last couple of years already. But I think I will have to take my minimalism to another level in order to not feel too confined in our new small space.

As another response mentioned, costs will add up surprisingly fast. We were surprised when we got our plans and started adding up the costs of building supplies. We've pivoted a little bit and will be sourcing a lot of materials free/used from our community.
I tried to get into DF by watching some of the better play through videos. It was fun but in the end it just inspired me to pick up Oxygen Not Included again.
tl;dr:

> through at least the end of the year, we will not run brand advertising in social media newsfeed platforms Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in the U.S.
In 10 years I have never had a forced reboot on macOs, that I explicitly did not allow.

Meanwhile there are plenty of horror stories of people being unable to work, or worse, losing their work, because of Windows 10 updates.
They moved/removed the doc. Here's the link of the cached copy [ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pX1Cst...] and text:

>"Ethnicity Distribution:
A substantial majority of the protesters were white, in the cities where the data was gathered, with the highest percentage in Minneapolis (85%), followed by Los Angeles (78%), and Atlanta and New York (both at 76%). A total of 18% of the protesters were African American in Atlanta, 11% in Minneapolis, 13% in New York and 3% in Los Angeles. Those numbers remained steady during the nighttime hours. Hispanic and Asian American participation was less than 10% in all four cities.

Male vs. Female
During the daytime hours, the majority of Black Lives Matter protesters were male in Atlanta (58%), Minneapolis (56%) and New York (62%). However, in Los Angeles, the greatest number of protesters during daytime were women. At nighttime, the percentage of male protesters increased in all four cities.

African American Males vs. Females
African American males made up the majority of protesters in the four observed cities vs. females. Men vs. women in Atlanta (61% vs. 39%), in Los Angeles (65% vs. 35%), in Minneapolis
(54% vs. 46%) and in New York (59% vs. 41%). There was no statistical change for the nighttime hours.

How Old Were the Protesters?
The overall age of the protesters in all four cities skewed heavily in the 18-34 age ranging from
66% in New York and L.A., 67% in Minneapolis to 69% in Atlanta. Protesters in the 55+ age group ranked second ranging from 24% in New York, 23% in Atlanta and Minneapolis to 20% in Los Angeles."
I wish we could just "ban" a song from ever playing, that way I won't have to make a new playlist from an existing one just because i don't want to listen to these one or two songs I find super annoying.

I have playlists that work as filters for me, if I'm mass copying a playlist I first put it into the filter playlist, then I press "skip duplicates" now all the songs that are not on my shit list (fiilter list) will end up at the bottom labeled "now" on "date added" then I copy those to the playlist I want to and erase them from the filter.