skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crime is a function of far more than just income inequality. If you perform your regressions on this single variable and then attempt to extrapolate those results to make policy, you're going to end up spending a lot of money without solving anything. Worse is that you'll potentially put millions of lives at risk.

If we want to solve problems in society we must be prepared to acknowledge all of their potential causes.

I have spent my entire adult life, some 15 years, in pursuit of objective inquiry and this is a hill that I am willing to die on, or be martyred when it inevitably costs me my job.
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Arbitrarily citing https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/policy-basics-w...

The bulk of social services spending is social security and medicare, which _each_ account for somewhere between 20-30% of federal spending. Military spending is closer to 15-20% of the federal budget
Have you tried jupyter notebook + pandas dataframes? You just import a csv and you can explore, clean, manipulate data and make any sort of calculation using a real programming language. On top of that you can use something like seaborn and create visualizations. Then you click print pdf and you're ready. It almost feels like cheating.

You can say all you want about how fast,optimized and superior SQL is, but the python experience is way better for almost any time you need to make sense of some data.
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> In one of the studies included in the review, these lung abnormalities were present in 54% of asymptomatic people with Covid-19.

Do we know what the usual rates for GGOs in regular people?
This NBER study suggests that protests had, if anything, a slightly favorable impact on infection rates: https://www.nber.org/papers/w27408
He was a graduate of my Alma Mater. Heard about him a lot when I was there!
Only in the presence of social distancing or other countermeasures.

20% antibodies means that you could have an R = 1.25 and still get an effective R < 1.0, preventing further onwards transmission. R0 estimates for COVID-19 ranged from 2.5-6, so by itself 20% of the population with antibodies wouldn't do anything (it'd reduce R to 2-4.8, which is still pretty quick exponential spread, faster than the flu). However, R in the U.S. around the time of the protests was measured at about 1.07, because it wasn't fully opened up yet and many people are staying home out of fear. Under those conditions NYC gets an effective R = 0.85 (epidemic dies out), while a state with 2% antibodies has an effective R = 1.05, which is still positive (albeit slow) exponential spread.

I suspect it's a combination of the lax social distancing requirements + lack of immunity. NYC would still be experiencing exponential spread without existing immunity, but it's only because they're still locked down that the level of immunity they have can prevent an epidemic.
Unfortunately, law and order has to be standardized for everybody, regardless of background. Pot was decriminalized in many states already. Are there other things you would like to decriminalize? There are avenues for those, but it’s not a fast turn-around, those things take time.
How do you add an atomic clock to a satellite that is already in orbit ?
MAID, IDFA, etc are all slightly different but in effect yes, they provide a device id for use in advertising.
I hadn’t thought of that but you’re right.
That wouldn't explain things like murder and other violent crimes. It's not like people are regularly getting murdered in the suburbs, but nobody bothered to check.
Are these devices surrounded by warning signs to ward off individuals that may be getting too close? I've not heard of these devices before and as someone who lives on the edge of a large wooded area with young kids this alarms me. I'd presume they would at least nail some signs to nearby trees supporting bright colors to inform an uneducated passerby that danger lies ahead.

EDIT - After doing a bit more research on these mechanisms I feel a bit better knowing they are triggered by animals biting and pulling on the cloth portion to release the poison (I still don't like these devices). I was concerned it was more proximity based. They do appear to be tagged with a bright colored warning label on the device itself.
If 16GB of memory isn't enough to run a text editor or glorified IRC client, then the problem is probably the horribly bloated software.
Yes, it makes sense that it could be perceived that way. But that would not be entirely accurate, since it will get much cheaper to emit less CO2 once there is effective regulation in place.

For example: If a really painful Carbon tax was introduced over night, the next day people's lives would look a lot different. Activities that used to be mundane would suddenly be expensive luxuries.

However, that's ignoring the fact that the economy would start to route around this tax. What are currently still niche low-carbon technologies will get a lot cheaper due to economies of scale. Photovoltaics are already a super cheap way of making electricity while the sun shines - suddenly there's going to be a huge incentive to building out storage.

(Of course, you wouldn't actually do that over night.)
> In practice 'good iteration velocity' is often dependent on using a language/stack that you and/or your team is comfortable with and proficient in.

This is true, but some stacks impose such a high cost that the costs exceed gains from familiarity. Basically you need to evaluate the savings of switching to a better stack and how long it's going to take before that savings equals the cost of switching to the new, less-familiar stack. For greenfield projects, the cost of switching is just the opportunity cost of slower initial development velocity while the team learns the new stack; for existing projects, there may also be the cost of rewriting in the new stack, which quickly becomes prohibitive.
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Please be less vague/imprecise.
Also here - read up on 'IMSI catchers'.
If you expect a discount on your mcmuffin expect your data to be sold. That's the only reason store apps exist. To exfiltrate your data including tracking your movements.
There are some semantic issues, e.g., the distinction between "mandatory" and "discretionary" expenditures, but the data is pretty easy to explore.

Essentially you are "both right". > 50% of total spending is Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Whether that is "social services" is another semantic question.

And > 50% of the discretionary budget is defense.

But have a look for yourself: e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget
Why shouldn't smartphone battery be replacable with 0 tools? Why should there be glue involved?

It was a standard that mobile phone batteries were easily replacable.

In fact https://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3?idBatRemovable=1 returns ~6400 results while not removable returns ~2400 results.

In fact that's how most smartphones were until some market leaders decided to move to glue on hard to replace models.
Yeah, I haven't touched this world for over a decade, don't read those papers, had to look up "sympletic" to be sure I was remembering the right thing... and I am still like 80% sure you're full of it. There are no easy solutions in this space. The routine physics of the real world that the game developers in the linked article are struggling with are simply not susceptible to error free integration, period.

The fact that you're talking about orbits and 1/r potential fields tells me you haven't really groked this. The example above wasn't a joke: you can get the two body problem nailed down perfectly and your code will still fall over when a character stubs their toe or bounces off a wall.
I'd be interested to know more about the nature of the actual vandalism and abuse that came from Tor exit nodes prior to Wikipedia implementing the ban. How long did it stay up before being reverted? How difficult was it to track, revert, etc. compared to non-Tor-based vandalism? And how effective a tool was IP-banning for non-Tor-based vandalism at the time?

Plus anything else I haven't thought about regarding the severity of the vandalism during that time.

Any Wiki admins have first-hand experience?

Edit: clarifications
I didn't recognize his name but went to listen to "Circles". Turns out it was on my Discover Weekly a few weeks back, I recognized it immediately. Pretty catchy song. Will have to check out some of his others.
Data management platform 'dmp' is the software where these segments are stored and used in advertising. ie http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/cloud/data-directory-2810...
FISHING SITES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
I agree. If I had the ability to make one change in government, it would be that bills must be focused on a single topic and resolution. I don't want my members of my government voting to pass bad bills which compromised their integrity with a million small inclusions.
Learning C++ by making a Command Prompt Game and selling 20K copies on Steam
Spotify's awful discovery, and shuffle features for playlists are what keeps me firmly with Pandora.

Now that Pandora lets you make your own playlists, or listen to individual songs, and download for offline playback (on airplanes for example), I don't see any compelling reason to switch to Spotify these days.
Seems like a big mistake for them. The closest I ever got to buying a Surface was when I visited a Microsoft store and actually held one and played with it. I ended up getting n iPad instead (which I also spent a long time using in the Apple store). Even if these purchases happen online, I think using these physical stores as showrooms increases sales, even if those sales end up being online.

I guess it’s fair to say the cost of the physical stores is too high for the value they deliver, but I suspect they don’t really know how many extra indirect sales or how much more customer loyalty is generated by the physical locations.
I believe your list has many countries that will fare like Florida, having less industrialization and mobility the disease takes longer to ramp up.

I have come to believe that the rate of the spread of the disease is a primarily a reflection of how people live rather than what measure they take - if a dozen people live in a house with one bathroom how are they going to isolate? Germanic countries like Sweden where a more pronounced distancing was the norm even before the pandemic fare much better.

Google "waiting for bus sweden" to see what I mean. The behavior of Swedes used to be a meme.
If I'm not mistaken, the first arcade game to fully decouple time step and frame rate was I,Robot in 1984. No physics, but the rasterization was variable enough to require this. Oh, and it didnt do physics.
The law is standardized for everyone, its enforcement that is the issue. There are clear differences in enforcement for different races and different wealth levels.

My example occurred many moons ago before pot was decriminalized any where. I am old :)
Freedom of contract.

Think about this situation: a company is in dire straights, and will likely go bankrupt and be worthless. The founders and the employees still believe they can turn it around, however. As an investor, you may be unwilling to invest with a 1x liquidation preference, given the high likelihood you lose all your money. So the company and the investor may negotiate a 2x liquidation preference as a way to sweeten the deal and induce the investor to invest in a riskier than usual proposition.

Similarly, right after the dotcom bust when many investors lost their shirts, terms became much more investor friendly because the risk was perceived to be higher.

At the end of the day, the terms are negotiated between the company and the investors, and it’s a market - if the environment is founder friendly and there’s plenty of capital looking to invest (like today), it’s almost always 1x. If capital is scarce, you take what you can get, otherwise, no capital.

The founders are well aware as they negotiate these terms. The rank-and-file employees may not understand the company’s liquidation preference stack, but they can always ask, and if not given or satisfied with answers, ask for more cash comp than equity. It’s again a free market.
That is what its proponents would want you to believe, except that it's not borne out by evidence. There were similar drops in other cities that didn't violate the civil rights of the citizens.

And that's putting aside the question of whether it's right to deny people their rights in order to deter crime.
It would be better to capture those criminals and dismantle their networks.
Really? SV takes this to the extreme. The never make money, give out tons of coupons, charge super low prices, kind of strategy. If anything, SV is too far-sighted, not myopic.
This might be a good opportunity to lead to research on a "good faith watermark" for GAN-compressed images that may include hallucinated details.
Maybe, but I think it could be better if Spotify paid artists per listen instead of just paying them for being popular.

Also Spotify is definitely missing a lot of obscure music and there definitely aren’t enough live musicians. Otherwise I could afford to have a good band play live in my living room every Sunday morning.
Awesome. Zero help. But thanks for planting that seed of fear.

Well, to be fair, the Killer Asteroid and Murder Hornet aren't living up to the hype, so you gotta go back to the basics.
This data has an accuracy of something like ~80ft on average.

https://www.mobilemarketer.com/ex/mobilemarketer/cms/news/re....
Hell, when the cameras are on, they plant evidence and make threatening comments about killing African-Americans, and judges...
Gitlab has been experiencing a service outage for over a day
Have you tested for STDs?
While this is absolutely true, I'm not sure it's a reasonable argument for defunding the police today. You wouldn't defund the fire department today, because in ten years buildings will average a better standard. The social issues need to be dealt with first, which could take some years.

On the other hand, that the police have become what appears to be a poorly trained, violent militia is indeed a problem that should be dealt with today. Perhaps by defunding. I don't know...
The author is happy to answer questions unless they're somewhat embarrassing
It’s been standard since the days of windows 2000 if not NT to manage business installs of Windows with group policies. There’s no way a business choosing to run Windows should be calling GPO “obscure” - how else are you setting policies on your business windows machines all this time?

> Until you cannot use your system at a critical time because MS decided you needed an update. Then the cost may be anything between what you paid, and the total value of your entire business.

Which could also happen if you put off a year’s worth of updates and get exploited.

> it should be my prerogative to never update if I so choose.

MS released a feature update a year ago, you’ve been unable to find a time to install it all year, now it’s being pushed on you. This is a reaction to the previous state of the world where windows machines all around the world never installed updates and we all suffered when they got malware and became spam bots, DDoS sources, bot farm members and worse. Damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

> If I am not on a metered connection, I should not have to use settings relating to that to manage when my computer updates.

No you shouldn’t have to. But whining “there’s no way to stop it this could cost me my entire business!” Then given a way to stop it you say “I don’t want to” is ridiculous.
Minneapolis and Seattle testing related to the protestors has not shown a spike in cases [1,2,3].

[1] https://www.twincities.com/2020/06/12/mn-coronavirus-george-...

[2] https://abcnews.go.com/US/minnesota-sees-rise-covid-19-cases...

[3] https://komonews.com/news/local/fewer-than-1-of-seattle-prot...
This seems almost definitely a false positive, surely.
Fortunately, not what I said at all.
The poor who get to buy 100% more stuff would disagree with your theory that their good fortune means nothing.
This preference for ideology instead of data reminds me of weird stuff that would happen with science in the Soviet Union. You had things in the Soviet Union like Lysenkoism[1] where a kook got power and explained his science in ideological terms and his theories, unsupported by data, were adopted and defended to the detriment of agricultural production. Workers adopted the theories because people were so afraid of criticizing the dominant ideology that they adopted whatever "science" was mandated in order to avoid being purged. Disagreement with official science was considered proof that one was a political subversive.

"More than 3,000 mainstream biologists were dismissed or imprisoned, and numerous scientists were executed in the campaign to suppress scientific opponents."

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
> OK, but cops are also subject to civil suits

Civil liability for ones own criminal acts (at least wilfull ones, and often wilfull rather than merely negligent acts more generally) is often prohibited (the exact boundaries differ by jurisdiction), for very strong public policy reasons, and the vast majority of the acts of concern with police abuse are (very frequently unprosecuted, but that's not material when it comes to whether the civil liability is insurable) both willful and crimes, not mere negligence in either the general or professional malpractice sense (almost always intentional deprivation of rights under color of law and/or conspiracy against rights, and very often wilfull/intentional violent crimes on the assault to voluntary manslaughter to murder spectrum.)

Drawing analogies to medical malpractice misses the fact that medical malpractice covers mistakes that fall short of the professional standard of care, but don't cover when someone who happens to be a doctor just decides to murder someone.
These satellites are likely too small to support a proper positioning system. They would need the radio transmitters, power system, and clocks all redesigned at which point you have an entirely new satellite.
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> I learned recently that Airbnb (YC W09) actually sells your chat logs[2] and stay history(!) to data brokers, which can be used for stalking or kidnapping in the wrong hands.

That's a pretty big misrepresentation of the NY Times article. From the article:

> Sift doesn’t sell or share any of the data it has with third parties.

Sift is a third party risk analysis provider. One of its big selling points is that it can correlate fraud signals across multiple data sets. So, essentially, companies that DON'T want to share data with each other can share data with sift and rely on it to provide aggregate results back. In this way it's the opposite of a data broker. Companies trust it to hold sensitive data they don't want to share.

There are a lot of reasons why any centralized fraud prevention service is concerning and I know that many companies, including Airbnb, limit their use of these signals for that reason. Truthfully, I think the dangers of such a service far outweigh their value and it simply shouldn't exist at all.

Regardless, it's quite different than selling your data to a data broker. If there were any indication that Sift were selling or sharing this data I guarantee they would get dropped instantly. If you believe that a company can't really care about its users' privacy (and you might be justified in that) just consider that sharing this data would be the same as sharing it with the fraudsters it ostensibly tries to stop. That would defeat the entire point of the service.

To a sibling poster, the premise of the NYT article is that Sift allowed end users to download their own data because of GDPR not in violation of it.

There are often threads on here criticizing Airbnb for allowing fraud on the platform and saying they do nothing to prevent it. Here we're criticizing them for sharing data with a centralized fraud system to gain signal on potential fraud.

I think this is the crux of the discussion about the surveillance state vs "defund the police". Algorithmic fraud detection is a frequently racist invasion of privacy. But fraud and crime are also both bad and tend to have a more significant impact on a company's brand / reputation than overreaching in terms of data collection and surveillance. So it's very important to hold them accountable for their use of data but let's not muddy the argument by misrepresenting what's happening.
You don't fight climate change by stopping the economy, you fight it by building renewable energy, insulating homes and getting rid of fossil-fueled transportation wherever possible.
> I get about 177,000 plays / month. Spotify is 96% of those plays.

> I earn around $800 / month from music streaming. Spotify is 93% of that income.

> And every month about 65,000 people listen to my music on Spotify.

The number quoted was for listeners, and is correctly 1.23 cents per listener per month. If you want to go by listens, then it's ($800 * 0.93) / (177,000 * 0.96) = 0.44 cents per listen.
I suspect the target audience of many a website would be blocking GA too.
One of the things we discussed to address this is to have the ability to:
a) turn off detail hallucination completely given the same bitstream;
and
b) store the median/maximum absolute error across the image

(b) should allow the user to determine whether the image is suitable for their use-case.
To be clear, I don't have an iPhone myself, which is why I was wondering if you could check. I was referring to the video linked by the post. The phones there are brand new so they shouldn't have a learned dictionary, yet both the 2nd and third phone have the same behavior of adding an extra "m" at the end there if you look closely at the video.
Thank you for your suggestion. We use libjpeg for the Demo. Keep in mind that we compare against JPEG files which are at around 100%-400% of the size of the proposed method, so 5% would not really add much as far as we can tell.
Right, this is a really good question. Dropbox Transfer achieves the same purpose as WeTransfer with a few differentiators. Unpacking this a bit, there are two parts here:

1) For a company with an established sharing model (shared folder, live-updating links), a departure or addition to this needs to be thoughtfully orchestrated. Moving to snapshotting content, gathering content inside and outside your Dropbox, and enforcing expiration in this tool is a very different paradigm.

2) However, specifically because we are also a storage provider, we can provide a much faster sending experience for them as we can remove the upload step, which is especially important for folks sending really large files. We have a large user base storing their content in Dropbox, this is a net new added value/functionality for them.
Yet it ran on early, low powered, Androids (pre-2012). It seemed to work during the couple of times I tried it.

I guess it was software decoding those videos on YouTube beta.
Take a look into the Surface. The interface isn't always 100% touch optimized, but I'll take that vs being locked into mobile apps. I've been really enjoying WSL, I have my Linux terminal without having to deal with Linux GUI. I ran desktop Linux for 10 years, but I just want my computer to work and not spend all my time playing sysadmin.

This is personal opinion, but I compared the Surface to the iPad pro and to me the iPad felt much more like a toy than a serious tool for getting work done.
As someone who lives in Texas, I'd point out that Texas "reopened" before the protests and I saw people with huge public gatherings and birthday and pool parties and no masks.
Yes. Apple has added cross-talk cancelation to their macOS devices; albeit, not as wide or flat as ours. See here: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H.... Funny, we chatted with them ~1 year before they filed...