skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My only real experience with this type of logic has been with training simulations, where you expressly don't want real time, just real-ish events that happen in an appropriate order. If you're an incident commander, then you aren't going to wait 5-10 minutes for additional units to "arrive" in a training simulation (60-90 seconds is good enough). Same for waiting for ladder companies to check a building, etc.

I find real-time games very interesting technically and conceptually, just no real interest in working on them. Understanding the technical approaches can be very enlightening for a number of different use cases.
Population density (of target audience) is one of the most crucial things for a service like 15 minute food delivery, so if restricted to the Bay Area, few places can compete with SF. Further, cost of living in SF is significantly higher, which allows you to charge more... but your costs also increase, unfortunately. So you might be motivated to have a second “back office” in a cheaper neighborhood doing as much of the processing as possible, and then doing the final assembly in the “front office”... but food can lose freshness very quickly; so the game goes. I guess the point is that they “learned” that there doesn’t exist a sustainable market for food delivery in the given situation.
What is the opportunity cost of that land investment? Is YC really better off getting into the landlord business rather than using the same money to fund more companies?
It's not an English surname though.
They have this other way to force updates, by removing support for the OS you are running every few years.
Windows kicked off an update in the middle of a friend's funeral where there was a slideshow running.
I don't follow. How do you propose that the gov't build the infrastructure? A: get bids, award the task to highest bidder... :)

Profitability should be automatically part of the bid. It doesn't mean the bidders pay the government, it could be the other way around too.
Facebook is no public space if you want it to be, regulate it.
This might be true for certain kinds of crime (possession or sale of drugs). We know it's not true for many other kinds of crime (especially violent crime) because these communities report crimes at a higher rate and because the murder rate in these communities is much higher. Crime reports and murder rates aren't functions of police presence (they don't depend on police stumbling upon a crime in progress). There are also more shootings, stabbings, assaults, etc as reported by healthcare officials.

(I shouldn't have to say this, but none of my argument above suggests that the US incarceration rate is ideal or otherwise not a problem).
> Arguing that dynamic vs. static has better RAM utilization or not is pointless because nowadays we have plenty of RAM ...

Using more RAM means having lower cache hit ratios. If dynamic linking means using less RAM, you win. But it's not a clear-cut thing -- it will depend a lot on the surrounding ecosystem.

In any case, for C, the problem with static linking is about semantics. Until those are fixed I'll be resolutely against static linking for C, and for everything else, well, do whatever performs best.
In addition to my sibling comment, I would like to add:

> since no one will use jpeg at a point where its falling apart.

Hence we also put it at bitrates people actually use :) And then the point should be that HiFiC uses much fewer bits.

> below-knee for HiFiC

We actually did not train lower than this model, HiFiC^lo. That it works so well was somewhat surprising to us also! From other GAN literature, it seems reasonable to expect the "below-knee" point for this kind of approach to still look realistic, but not faithful anymore. I.e., without the original, it may be hard to tell that it's fake.
If we want to stop neighborhood gang violence in the long term, we need to work on why people join gangs, and what they are fighting over. We can't do that with police, who generally don't come into the situation until after it's too late and things have gone wrong.

But if most of our money is going to the police, then what resources are available to do the longer-term work on gangs and neighborhoods?

In software development terms (since this is HN), it would be like spending more and more money on QA and support because your products have so many problems. At some point a wise manager is going to say "wait, we should invest in better product development instead."

If you have infinite funding, you can do both. If you don't have infinite funding, you need to look at changing your allocation.
When an authoritative figure with no accountability (the software) tells you to expect bad people, you expect bad people. Even if there are no bad people, or only a few bad people, you will invent bad people because you are primed to find them.

So you end up punishing people for small infractions that are occurring everywhere, even in the so-called "good" neighborhoods that you're ignoring. (Let's also recall that broken-windows policing doesn't actually work.) This just reinforces the software's opinion that all the bad behavior is occurring in these same neighborhoods.

Meanwhile, cops enter the "bad" neighborhood on mental high alert, expecting a high level of trouble ("if the computer sent us here, it must be bad!"), even if there isn't much trouble at all. This creates an "us vs. them" mentality, which leads to dehumanization, and you can expect higher levels of police violence, especially of the unjustified kind.
The actual proposal.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BtrfsByDefault
That feature screws me all the time. I'll load windows to play a game and try to reboot back into linux, and the update kicks off. I always have to force shutdown and just let it update the next time I start it to play a game.
What makes you think creditors would keep helping Bain "load up [companies] with debt" if doing so yielded an intolerably high risk of default? It seems obvious that they'd run out of patsies, sooner or later.
The state funds it less now than they did in my parent's day. Debt is not state funding.

This is an absurd take for other reasons too, though. "Past generations = dumb" is silly wishful thinking, as is "bad results indicate malice or a scam". The world changes faster than people update their priors, so this sort of wrongful optimization is a common failing that we should really introspect about more deeply. Education level alone was more important in the past, and then everyone realized this and "competed" themselves into a new, overall-worse, equilibrium.

That happens EVERYWHERE so if you're upset about it you need to both push for flexible, adaptable systems, and continuous rapid feedback loops.
That doesn't seem right.

In what timeframe?

By looking at plenty of the "Show HN:" posts we can see many examples of more than just "simple" services that were made on a much smaller ( or $0 ) budget.
Did this happen? A person who is a ham radio operator being doxxed because they were a ham radio operator? Or was it a person using ham radio to promote extremist viewpoints getting doxxed?
Probably some skirting of the rules around temperature keeping for pre-made items.
You are truly insufferable and making incorrect assumptions. This happened once, in my current role.

> This is not a common occurrence in anything but a dysfunctional org.

This happens all the time in orgs all over the planet. Hiring managers and executives get new jobs and things change. Time from offer acceptance to starting work is always nonzero in big companies (measured in weeks to months in most of the fortune 500, I'd bet - my current company is Fortune 10[1], so there's that - cto in this case means of the particular division of this company, not the parent).

Now, please... do us both a favor and stop talking out of your ass.

1. https://fortune.com/fortune500/
Yes, please do a blog post comparing the different approaches to teaching LA.
The client is now full of all kinds of irritating nagware to enable this and that unnecessary feature, even though I’m a paying customer already. Doing so whilst ignoring the design language of the OS is a hallmark of applications arrogantly deluded of their own importance. The Dropbox client UX now puts me in mind of 90s-era RealPlayer, which surely ranks as one of the worst software products of all time.

I do not appreciate intrusive micromanagement and passive-aggressive interdepartmental memos from humans, let alone from my file sync utility, and when this occurs separately on every god-damn device and even after a time machine recovery, I find myself verbally abusing it, and the product managers that spawned it, aloud in the most vulgar language.

Not good, Dropbox.
I'm of the impression that NYC experienced steeper decreases than other cities? I'll have to look into this more. Do you have any resources to recommend? (thank you for distinguishing between "did it work" and "was it ethical"--it's so tedious when these are conflated).
I’ll bite: it either isn’t or it ain’t ;)
I'm glad Windows forces updates, I certainly don't want machines like this connecting to the public network.
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> should not feel comfortable socially expressing that position anymore

The fact that this meta-view (that one shouldn't feel comfortable expressing a certain position) is becoming mainstream is deeply concerning. It is a terrifying attempt at extracting compliance from political opponents.
That's 70 square feet bigger than my first apartment in Boston. And those were the "big" apartments in the building!

OTOH, Beacon Hill was super cool
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So basically no standard. Can you see why it is a good idea not to try to keep pipes as dumb as possible?
I'm confused by your question. Kexec is a reboot, at least as currently implemented, and that comment does not claim that it's "booting a new kernel".
The phrase “abolish the police” is used in the grandparent, great-grandparent, 4-parent, 5-parent, and 6-parent of my post.
I don't think it's good to make 99% suffer because 1% could keep their wealth.
> Facebook’s policy on violence, applied to government speakers, is like people who eat meat being squeamish about hunting

Do you feel a cop's post threatening to beat the shit out of someone in a plausibly legal fashion stays up, but not that same post from a non-cop?
To what extent should a platform have editorial discretion? What sorts of actions should Facebook be permitted to take to avoid becoming 4chan? What sorts of actions should Google be permitted to take to avoid turning in a pure pile of spam?

(For the latter, perhaps we should pretend that Google isn’t already mostly spam.)
> you can't have no moderation AND advertising optimizations at the same time

So the convenience of advertisers and the ad-supported business model should override free speech?
You would have to live in a ridiculous echo chamber to disagree on the political leaning of the industry based almost entirely in San Francisco
A good trick question is to ask them about the trace of noncommuting operators, if you have finite dimensions -

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/10230/trace-of-a...
If it ever went to court there is no legal test that would prove Facebook twitter el, al qualify for Exemption under title 47 section 230

Read it for yourself.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
Who's forcing Facebook to engage in censorship in the first place? Why don't they just go on about the business of making money? They are immune from defamation/libel/slander so where's the issue?
I agree, its not fully analogous. But it would be easy to write a law that has unintended consequences.

Part of the problem with FB, Twitter, Youtube is that they are closed inoperable systems, a problem that doesnt hamper email.

Things like real name policies also suppress speech. If a law were in place preventing Facebook censorship, it would also need to prevent deplatforming and facebook deciding who can and cant use its platform. Blocking speech they dont agree with, is different that blocking all speech from a speaker that sometimes says things Facebook doesnt like.

There is also the issue of the newsfeed ranking algorithm itself. Is deranking something more than a thousand posts deep the same as censorship? They can basically control the spread of information, by allowing people to post it, but not allowing it to rise up the ranks. If said ranking exerted preference or bias, and applied to everyones feeds and all their groups, facebook can control the conversation without traditional censorship. At the same time, algorithmic news sorting basically IS the product, and thats what people go to it for.
> Only the last step involves the threat or at the very end, the use of force.

The use of force is certainly the last step, but the threat of force is present at any step. If the government sends you a letter asking you to do something, they're not "asking" you like your neighbor or your friend might ask you. They are telling you to do something, and it's clear to everyone that, if you don't convince them or a court otherwise, they absolutely will use force if you don't comply.

I don't mind the monopoly on violence (though I do believe that the state must enforce it much more: it can absolutely not tolerate challenges to that monopoly, and it must absolutely crush any violence against citizens), but it's not helpful to pretend that, there isn't a gun at the end of the line that gives the nicely worded letter its weight.
> So you're saying that more police presence is harming people. How?

Ask the disproportionate number of Black men in prison. Ask white rapist Brock Turner why a white judge wanted to let off "because he's a good boy", or the Central Park Five or the Georgetown Jacket Three that spent decades in prison because white cops and prosecutors assumed their guilt based on the color of their skin.

If my posts sounds aggressive, it's because your posts are dismissive of the terrible culture that's led to the biased data that would be used to make predictions, and you have the gall to claim it's all fine and dandy.

> current hysteria

There is no hysteria going on right now, it's a quite reasonable response to decades of bad decision making on the part of police departments across the U.S.
All wide publication systems have been moderated by the owner since the beginning of time, yet your prediction has not come to pass.
I mean appropriately aggressive. There's still plenty of horribly dangerous people threatening citizens. It's part of the reason police in the US are so primed for violence.
> as long as you want UML

... as long as you want UML diagrams.

It can't save out valid UML class definitions to a file.
This a good example of misleading data. For instance, the school district budget doesn't appear because it's part of the budget for LA County not LA City. But If you look at it[1] and adjust per capita, you actually get almost twice the budget as the police. It also leaves out that a very large part of these budgets are pensions.

But beyond that, I've always felt that the attitude of "this is a lot of money, therefore we should cut it" to be a poor way of approaching things. We should allocate funds based on whether or not the return we get is worth it, not based on whether or not the number we invest sounds big. Cutting specific things that are unnecessary or saving money by making things more efficient seem like a good idea, but cutting budgets just to say that you're cutting budgets doesn't.

[1] https://achieve.lausd.net/cms/lib/CA01000043/Centricity/Doma...
Doesn't arch use AUR / pacman for binaries / package management? I wasn't aware that like Gentoo you had to compile most software
What in your view is the mechanism by which perfectly random outcomes are determined?
Just like voting, attending protests is a privilege to those who can afford to not be working 24/7. Lower-income jobs don't even have the concept of "time off" or flexible schedules.

Protests also have the risk of being wrongfully arrested or injured and not being able to get to work the next day.
Wouldn't this incentivize police to even further suppress reporting of incidents?
Facebook is frequently the target of the traditional media because these outlets have been largely shut out in favor of conservative sites. Take a look at the most popular news posts for 6/19 and 6/24:

https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1275852495215042562

https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1274014164487294976

It seems like Facebook’s most active user base is conservative leaning.
This is great for YC, not great for YC backed startups.

By giving each company $25K less, they can now place bets on 3,000 more companies. Less money for you, less risk for them.

I wonder if their success rate has declined as their batch sizes have gotten larger.

YC has become less and less attractive to me over the years. Is it just me?
If you found your collegue does something illegal or unethical, would you? What about manipulative or lying management? Would you?

Looking at our own companies and institutions, we are not eager to deal with own narcissists or quite cool but slightly asshole people.

And the stakes for us are much lower and extend to which we form emotional ties to collegues is lower (shared ennemy, fear and struggle is bound to create those among cops).
There is an argument to be made that carrying a knife should not be a crime for anyone, and that we all have a right to carry a knife to protect ourselves or even use a tool.

But lets accept for a moment that reducing the number of knives on the street reduces violence and protects innocent people. If you accept that premise, then you have to say it's beneficial to society that the police remove as many knives as possible: whenever someone gets arrested for a knife violation it's a good thing, regardless of their skin colour.

And given that we have limited enforcement resources, we should focus most in those areas with the most knife crime victims. So while i accept everything you relayed in your post, the proper conclusion would change quite a bit if there are many more victims of knife crime in the black neighbourhoods... I do not know if that is the case, and i'm not implying the answer is more likely one way or the other.

But if in fact more people are getting stabbed or robbed at knife point in black neighbourhoods and you accept that knife laws are good in general, then it's good that such laws are more strictly enforced in that area, to help protect all the innocent people in that area who might fall victim.

And this principle really is colorblind. For instance many people speed in their cars everywhere, but we should more heavily enforce speed limits near high traffic and pedestrian areas and locations where accidents keep happening.

Now, maybe the rate of knife crime is worse in white neighbourhoods, in which case it really is a miscarriage of justice that more black men are getting charged for illegal blades. But I don't think you can say one way or the other without knowing and considering that statistic.
I was also intriqued and put ~10min looking into it. This study[1] seems to suggest that although reproduction rates might increase modestly when the population is reduced, high immigration rates are the bigger factor. If anyone finds anything on the (voices disappearing)->(estrus) mechanism described above I'd like to see it, sounds really interesting.

[1] https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jwm...
> In this case, why would you be interested in YC? What would it offer you?

It's a fair point. The irony is that because our startup is doing well, we'd rather spend our time talking to customers and building the product than pitching to investors. Maybe what we're really looking for is a next-gen take on capital that would look something like this:

* Minimal time needed by us to reach a decision on whether they'd like to fund us

* Known good terms (preferably open source) that we don't have to spend time digging in

* No board seat

* Minimal equity take

* Minimal reporting requirements. We already share financial statements and KPIs with the whole company. We're happy to share those but don't want to spend a bunch of time writing an "investor update."

* Minimal distraction from running the business

* Access to advice from credible individuals

* Access to resources that can help us do things like recruit, setup security policies, etc.

In other words, we want reasonably priced capital, support and advice with the minimum possible overhead. We're happy to share in the upside (by granting equity), but want to spend our time with customers, not investors.
Crime dropped faster and more consistently in NYC than almost anywhere else in the US. Plenty of big cities have been nearly immune to the national trend while NYC has done better and better.
What you suggest has already been done: train a neural network with the output of BPG or JPEG, and ask to reconstruct the input with just the decompressed pixels being available.

It definitely is a valid approach but the limitation is that if the network needs some texture-specific information that cannot be extracted from the decoded pixels, it can't really do much.

There were approaches where such information was also sent on the side, which yielded better results, of course.

The field is wide-open and each approach has its own challenges (e.g., you may need to train one network for quantization level for example if you're going to do restoration).
That's actually very close to what happens in Windows 10 2004. UWP apps, store apps, and any app updated reasonably recently (so, ime, Chrome) will absolutely reboot and resume state after a machine restart. Try it out, it's cool.

Shutdown is currently two-phase, and has been since 7. Programs receive a shutdown notification, and then can handle it, and the machine doesn't shut down until all are handled... or until 2 minutes pass, because occasionally programs misbehave, and one program shouldn't be able to hold up the entire shutdown process.
QM is essentially deterministic. Neither CM or QM allows for true randomness. Maybe at this stage it is only a philosophical issue. In the end Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics are what truly rule the world. There is no hard and fast rule on when QM should kick in. We adjust the rule based on the need, which is why we largely don't need to deal with foundational issues while interpreting the world in QM framework.
> It does not racially discriminate and it is not racist. It does not harm anyone.

False. I agree that the software itself is not racist, but the decisions it makes are only as good as the data you feed it. If you feed it racist data, then you will get racist decisions from it. And given that policing has had racial biases for centuries, all we have is racist data.

And the more you act on its racist decisions, the more racist feedback it will have to act on, giving you more racist decisions in the future.
That’s true but they may have grown up with English or at least studied in university where English was spoken.
Those only send your location to Google when they are used, unlike AGPS, which sends it whenever any app looks up location data. GGP comment complained about the latter, which is easy to turn off on Android and impossible to turn off on iOS.
They are not immune from boycotts like the one they are currently facing. That's why they are censoring certain types of content, because their advertisers don't want to be associated with it.
I think very few people want to get rid of the police. I think people are tired of the militarized police. They don't need MRAPS. They don't need to show up at a domestic call with full body armor and assault rifles. We need to end programs like 1033 that gave them access to military equipment. End no-knock warrants. Things like that.