skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The context here might be that we are in a design review - you are presenting a design. Maybe it's verbally, but maybe it's a document.

Ideally it's a document, so you can describe it by writing it down.

But if someone asks a hard question that you didn't prepare for, well you still have to make a best effort to answer it verbally.

You can use "I'll write down my thoughts and get back to you" to SOME things, but not every time.
It demonstrated in a very straightforward way how the given statistic can result from very different underlying realities, and then provided evidence of the less obvious possibility. The fact that police stops of black people are less likely to find contraband than those of white people seems rather significant.
The drop in crime happened nationwide during this same time in places which did not include NYC. [1] The timing of this seemed to have been more coincidental with the drop in crime.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2016/11/01/500104506/broken-windows-poli...
Nah, cops will just gun you down if they "think" you have any sort of firearm.

Watch this video. The cops don't see a gun, they think he has one because of the call, but they don't see one. The minute his hand goes towards his waste, they blast him...

https://www.abqjournal.com/1380152/apd-man-shot-by-officers-...
I have frequently seen police compared unfavorably to the military in recent weeks. I have never served, but everything I've seen about how the military handles use of force and how it handles incidents of violent misconduct suggest a standard that police units, at their worst, do not adhere to.
Progressive JPEG's go a long way towards that though, no?
Pouring tea down someone's throat is more than "a little pushy".

I mean that "come on, you got me to make this tea, at least have a sip" is perfectly fine to say about actual tea. In the analogy, doing that is not good.

(Assume this is a situation where they don't have a specific reason, so asking why they don't want it is completely nonproductive.)
I am bummed about this. The Microsoft store near me was a great place to check out the latest windows hardware and what xbox is upto nowadays. I liked that I could just hang out at the store and browse around with no sales pressure.
That's sort of like saying, lack of pointer safety is not a real problem in practice. Yes, you can work around it, but when it's a problem for production systems dealing with sensitive or untrusted data it's a huge problem.
Edit: This was not a well-thought out post lol and I'm deleting it.
> But the changes we actually need run much deeper, and they would directly impact our lifestyle, because our current one is not sustainable.

In exactly what sense is our current lifestyle not sustainable? The way you've stated the assumption it's analogous to arguing that we can't feed billions of humans. That's precisely the Malthusian argument, which was wrong. Agricultural productivity has increased by orders of magnitude in the last couple of centuries.

I'm not arguing against solving climate change. But the "we have to change everything" formulation is very limiting. In fact, I think it's pretty much a guarantee that we'll experience catastrophic effects.
I don't know, this is overkilling it. As a Mediterranean, of course you would prep every ingredient beforehand and then just follow the recipe. Mise-en-place or not.
We only use lead in aviation fuels now.. so probably not.
One way to preventing such positive feedback (more policing means more crime) may be to use only reported crime or calls to the police when allocating resources to an area.
Not sure what I snapped them on. They weren't great bits either, I used to pick up terrible security bit sets on Ebay before I realised every Canadian Tire carries a fantastic Mastercraft set with most precision-sized security bits for ~$30 CAD. I've worked on other stuff with security torx just can't remember what. HDD sleds for servers at least, definitely some other stuff over the years.
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Rolex’s cost upwards of $6000.

Mechanical watch functionality evolves extremely slowly - over generations, not years.

Competent Watch repair of actual high end watches is an extremely difficult skill to master taking years.

Read watch forums - repair is often botched.

Computers are almost always redundant before they need repairing, whereas a mechanical watch can last generations, therefore a far higher percentage will need repair.

Watches are not recyclable.

Rolex is an exception. Watches in the price range of computers are mostly electronic and are in fact less repairable than computers in general or any Apple device.

There is literally nothing about this analogy with watch repair that applies to computers.

Also, there is simply nothing to support the hypothesis that Apple makes devices intentionally hard to repair.

They offer good warranties, and a lot of people buy AppleCare.

It is therefore in Apple’s interest to make devices economic to both repair and/or recycle when replaced.

Furthermore Apple has stated that it is their strategy to maximize the useful life of their devices (presumably so they can continue to sell services to users who don’t need new devices).

Increasing the device life is not the same as making it repairable.

Many things that make a device easier to repair, also make it more likely to fail.

People who demand repairability without taking this into account may well be harming the environment, and economically disadvantaged users without realizing it.
Fair enough. Have you tried Pandora's for an extended period and are able to compare?

For me, Spotify ended up just playing the same artist, same album even, over and over. Same problem with their Shuffle feature - I could have a playlist with 500 songs from various artists, albums, genres and more... but I'd get the same artist, same album back to back to back far too often. So often, it didn't feel random at all. Just anecdotal though.
> The law is standardized for everyone

https://www.aclu.org/other/cracks-system-20-years-unjust-fed...
Meh. This is treating a symptom. Semiconductor manufacturing moves very slowly and it just took it a while to live the US like everyone else did.
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> If you're not careful they'll just produce a little "expat" cluster of Westerners passing through without really looking at the unfamiliar.

I think stage managing the environments is the rule for overseas escapades for young adults rather than the exception, and for good reason. That doesn't mean people with deep preconceptions about absolute poverty can't see them shattered or that the trivia shared by tour guides is without interest, but people are probably still going to need to pick up university-type books to understand why a country is the way it is and achieve fluency in the local language to have real conversations with the average local.

> I agree that a trip to Eastern Europe would be hugely valuable for any actual communists, especially actual "tankies"

Would it though? Some Eastern European cities are rather nice, don't seem nearly as poor as GDP figures might suggest, and "tankies" aren't going to have any problems writing off any evidence of social problems as the product of three decades of capitalism. By all accounts Transnistria with its hammer and sickle flag is a fun day trip involving posing with Lenin statues and tanks rather than a shocking expose, and you'll probably get to speak with more critics of the government in Poland or Czechia! The cracks in 1980s Albania are likely to have been easier to spot, especially for someone whose cynicism was hardened by campaigning against autocracy and despotism in his own country. But also as you said before, people have to be willing to look.
Agree. MS is mainly an OEM and enterprise co focused on TCO, etc. over consumer polish.
I don't know if neutered is the right word, but perhaps diluted, with a lot of effort going into many projects. Also, moving from New York to Chicago c. 2012 caused a lot of staff changes. I was a little surprised they were able to remain pretty consistent after moving from Madison to New York.
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I agree so much. Frequency at which the popular media is reporting headlines from unreviewed preprints is appalling. There should be much more journalistic discipline, but that cow has probably left the barn with the internet.
Just to be clear, who are "we" in this case? :-)
What Netflix does for that is that it lets you create sub-accounts... IE one for you, one for the kids, etc
..Is this satire?
I understand PC players get a better gaming experience, but looking at the average specs of someone on /r/nvidia, my god do they pay a premium for it.

I'm ok with 30 fps outside of VR, as long as it's stable and everyone's on an even playing field (i.e. same hardware).

The next gen consoles will target native 4k60hz, which is nice. Consoles are fantastic value for money, and you're guaranteed to be able to run the newest games even at the end of a console's release cycle, which can be 8-10 years.
> in theory this coronavirus could have spread very weakly for months up to a year

The evidence from the study does not support that theory:

"All samples from January 2018 to December 2019 came out to be negative for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genomes with the exception of March 12, 2019."
This is something we started providing recently (based on user feedback we heard, like yours). There's now a "let me know when someone downloads" checkbox when you're making a Transfer (both on Desktop & web)
I kind of liked that they were right across from each other. Had a nice sense of competition. The Apple store moved to the other side of the mall about a year ago.
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Fascinated by today's "media" outlets' ability to turn a reddit post into an "article"
Can confirm that Tektronix is using Windows also, though I think they had been for quite some time. Seems like a really odd design decision for an appliance. I would probably tend towards like FreeRTOS (or at least some variation of an RTOS). On the other hand the EEs I’ve worked with also use their scopes as workstations with external monitors and everything, so maybe that’s part of it.
Email is where many new software features get invented
If fire departments were carrying out the same injustices as police, then it would be pretty reasonable to push for the same massive changes in fire departments.
Interesting. Sorry to hear that. What are you experiencing? Lack of energy? Decreased lung capacity? Vertigo?
Please don't cross into personal attack and please don't use HN for ideological battle. This comment is quite a major step into breaking the HN guidelines. That's not cool.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
I'm just not sure this makes the point you think it does. There are certainly some who see crime as a morally neutral way to "get one over on the system that impoverishes them", but most people find this to be an abhorrent viewpoint and have no interest in accommodating it.
> This requires a Wikipedia account and an email address

It's borderline impossible nowadays to create an email address without a phone number or a pre-existing email address.

Also almost impossible to do using Tor.
Public sector unions and private sector unions are apples and oranges.
You are free to speak and exercise your freedom of speech no one really disputes that. You are not, however, anywhere guaranteed or granted the liberty to a platform for your dialog. That is the problem that we are encountering today, people are thinking that there are attacks to freedom of speech and confusing that with the freedom of an establishment to defend their property from damages. I think we can all agree that art is a medium for free speech but if you graffiti private property without the permission of the owner of said property than the owner of that property has the right to remove the graffiti. Likewise the operator of a website has the same right to remove content they may consider damaging to the value of their property. The only thing that the first amendment provides you with is freedom from prosecution by the government for statements you make. It does not preserve the right to defame, demean, or slander others or their property or to damage the property in a way contrary to the desires of the owner of that property. No one is stopping you though from making your own platform to spread your own message. Although it is also the right of those you may purchase services from to terminate those services if they feel that it devalues their property. For instance if a dns provider decides that website is offensive it is their prerogative to terminate services as a private owner. Same with any content provider, isp, hosting service or social media website. No where in the law does anything grant you an unlimited ability to say anything you want in a private forum and any private forum is entitled to moderating the content on its properties. I wish people would stop conflating free speech as some sort of absolute. It is not. The only case where a platform must provide services outside of the strictest sense of an intended audience is in through US Code Titles that may be applicable by law such ADA accessibilities (these codes are of course regional and may not apply outside the region in which that service is provided).
If was time to assemble they would have not been inventions like pentalobe and 'secure' torx screws. If you have seen a pcb with just an IC (chip) potted in epoxy, you'd know the sole reason for.

Glue has its own issues including degrading with temperature - which doesn't really happen to bolts/nuts/screws.

The specific standard would hopefully begin to address the issue with throwaway culture and planned obsolesce (there is min 2y warranty in the EU for all electronic goods, though). I dont care if a company save less than 1euro, making something that costs hundreds/thousands virtually useless for any minor ceramic capacitor that fails.
Well, in this case, the testimony of cops and politicians themselves
Actually what you're saying comes across as scaremongering. You're trying to say that there are no legitimate sources, the legitimate sources like the New York times or major medical journals are not trustworthy. You're arguing in favor of what you said is a problem.
I’ve been to plenty of protests in low income areas, and the push to defund the police is coming from them, not the higher income areas.
Thanks for filing. I can reproduce this one!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/289062.About_Face_3

This is a link, you can also search “about face interaction design”
Note that even you only mentioned whether answers are socially acceptable (in your view), not which one is true.
Agree, but what we've seen was the extreme opposite of a rigorous protocol.

Based on mere six cases or so, authors made an extremely bold claim. That could justify further research, though, and they were in fact made.

Within some weeks there were already more thorough studies showing the inefficacy of those drugs, but the politicization was already irreversible at that point.
I read this article for the first time a few months ago while creating a rudimentary sound engine. The article makes a lot of sense, but I struggled to map the concepts to sound generation. I initially tried to replace the render step from the article (rendering a single display frame) with rendering a single fragment of sound buffer (called a period in ALSA, the unit of transfer to the sound card). My first mistake was ignoring the interpolation part of the article. The output was very choppy whenever the sound card transfers were too coarse.

And then I learned that I can ask the sound card how much sound buffer it wants, instead of always transferring a fixed amount. In other words, the rate of the main loop did not need to match the rate of transfers to the sound card.

Now I've rewritten the main loop as a series of inner loops, first running a variable amount of simulation at simulation rate, then rendering a variable amount of sound buffer at output sample rate (not fragment transfer rate, like I was doing before). This seems to be working better.

I still need to think about the spiral of death. Perhaps an upper limit on simulation would be enough?

(Any advice welcome!)
It depends on how produced they are. Most of the ones I do are interviews of around 30 minutes. To be honest, most of the work is getting the interview scheduled and recorded. The prep doesn't take long, editing is maybe a couple hours, and posting with show notes maybe another hour.

In the case of the format the parent used, the work is in the research and writing the script.

Of course, once you get to podcasts with multiple segments, edited content from multiple guests, scripted narration, etc. that's a lot more work.

Not saying a weekly podcast isn't a number of hours work in any case, but it needn't be too bad once you have a system down if you keep it simple.
I also recommend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t4aKJuKP0Q - 4D Toys: a box of four-dimensional toys, and how objects bounce and roll in 4D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-yRYmdsnGs - What does VR reveal about the 4th dimension?
Besides Intel (who doesnt need a subsidy IMHO) who even makes chips on advanced nodes in the US any more?
Is it the technology or how the technology is used that is the problem? I have to add disclaimer that I am not in the US so not particularly well informed. Like all technology there good and bad aspects to it. Use it to catch a child kidnapper, the technology is great. Mistakenly identify the wrong person then not so great.
American Institute of Physics Summary:

https://www.aip.org/fyi/federal-science-bill-tracker/116th/c...

- Authorizes funding for semiconductor R&D, including $3 billion for the National Science Foundation, $2 billion for the Department of Energy, and $2 billion for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Electronics Resurgence Initiative

- Creates a multi-agency National Semiconductor Technology Center that would conduct research and prototyping of advanced semiconductors in partnership with the private sector, with a recommended budget of $3 billion over ten years

- Establishes an Advanced Packaging National Manufacturing Institute under the Department of Commerce with a recommended budget of $5 billion over five years and creates a semiconductor program at National Institute of Standards and Technology that would support a new Manufacturing USA institute

- Creates a $10 billion trust fund to match state and local incentives for investments in semiconductor manufacturing facilities

- Provides tax credits for qualified semiconductor equipment or manufacturing facility expenditures through 2027
I watched it, still either too abstract or too much doing math for the sake of math, not enough explaining why I would want to take the inverse of a determinants eigenvalue or whatever the fuck linear algebra is supposed to be about, because halfway through the course I still had barely a clue what the point was.
Steve Jobs killed it just as I had learned all about AS3, so that was a bit of a bummer. But in the end it was the right thing to do.

The company I worked for at the time excelled in creating awful 20mb non-indexable monstrosities, complete with auto playing music and all kinds of other sins. We mutilated the most basic design patterns when the client or bosses thought it would look interesting and even cut a shady deal with a popular meme site to "make it go viral" at one point in time, which it obviously didn't.

Shame about all the brilliant Newgrounds stuff though. I'm not talking about the actual content, I just mean I've never seen such a concentrated outpoor of interactive creativity since then. It felt like there was something amazingly smart, creative or funny to discover every day back then.
I think this somewhat misses the point though - i dont think people are worried about the average TOR user. The average tor user is probably just fine. People are worried about the one person with an axe to grind making everyone's life miserable who turns to tor after being blocked through normal means.

Should people be worried about that? Idk, i think there are probably ways to mitigate the risk of that at least somewhat. However the article didn't address that concern, and you can't change hearts and minds if you don't talk about what people are actually worried about.
You took one very strange interpretation of the word 'wave' and really ran with it into a very ungenerous interpretation and attack. I'm not going to engage with that.
Literally every city in America, regardless of their approach to policing, has experienced a massive drop in crime rates from 1990 forward. This tends to undermine arguments that broken windows or stop-and-frisk are effective policies.

https://crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov/
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The suits tried to get people calling what they sold "applications" right from the beginning. "Nobody will pay for a program, but they will pay anything for an application." Back then, an application was, literally, what you were using the computer to get done: a spreadsheet would be a program, budgeting an application. The suits bought and sold "applications"; users ran programs.

Then Eternal September happened, there were too few to push back, and all the other stuff paying customers used to demand--training, printed manuals, not crashing all the damn time--fell away, and finally the program became, itself, the whole application.

Then the users needed an abbreviation for what it was that was crashing: the "app".
Is there evidence for your claim? My impression was that the impact of those approaches/policies was found to be non-existent to relatively small (in terms of reducing crime, that is - they probably had a significant negative impact on the quality of life of the groups most affected by them).
It is what it is...
You could use an OCR encoder and cat that to the feature vector. Great work by the way!
I hear what you are saying but disagree to a point. How many of these people getting arrested for the serious crimes have pre existing arrests / convictions for minor crimes? Once you have a couple of minor arrests and you are in the system, finding a career and advancing yourself becomes increasingly difficult. I would make an uneducated assumption that if they had not gotten the minor infractions and had a future perhaps the major infractions would not have happened. With that said there are always going to be bad people that require police intervention. Further adding to this if you grow up in an environment where there is a high criminal element you may be more predisposed to it, starting with minor infractions like marijuana use and then you are arrested and the self fulfilling prophecy repeats.

Massively increased policing has created the environment in which many of these people are born and turn to crime. If you are constantly treated like a criminal, you may come to think of yourself as one.
>You don't think taxing meat by its environmental cost will work?

Economically, it would work. Politically? At least in the US, people would vote out any party that installed taxes that reduced meat consumption by an significant amount. We don't even have the political willpower to make energy slightly more expensive.
There's also the problem that large corporations have frequently used the mantra of individual responsibility to remove themselves from culpability. See: the plastic industry running ads about "litter bugs".

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/757539617
But how does the level of policing in an area affect murder rates? I don't know the answer, but from statistics I've seen, it seems pretty clear that police are not exactly great at solving murders.