skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I share your opinion about the C64's poor basic -- only reinforced by the fact I'm toying with coding again for the Commodore, since it was my first love -- but someone pointed out the incredibly good game Pirates! by Sid Meier was mostly written in C64 BASIC!

(I had trouble believing this, but all the info I found online points to this being true)
Lately, I was introduced to Magnus Kingdom of Chess to make my 5yo girl learn how to play chess in a very fun and progressive way. Highly recommended !

Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chesskingd... and iOS.
Tobechukwu she earned a 6.9 cummulative GPA and A's in all her courses
Vogt personally sent out an email to various Zoox engineers encouraging them to work for Cruise.

https://gmauthority.com/blog/2020/06/general-motors-looking-...
I saw a great talk explaining linear algebra where the presenter used it to solve the angles of an arm joint to place an animated robot arm at a specific co-ordinate.

I think it might be this actually, can't watch it all right now to check. Demo I'm thinking of should be https://youtu.be/3v75aX5-gSA?t=1436
When I was in the military I was taught about esprit de corps, loyalty, camaraderie etc. but they stressed that any order that goes against humanity must not be followed. Fortunately I never had to test that on my own ass, however I'm sure that the Police protecting their bad apples has nothing to do with that. Loyalty and esprit de corps must never ever go beyond the law, otherwise they become essentially like the mafia's code of silence, that is, a crime that covers other crimes. If I see a cop doing that, I cease to consider him as a cop as he just became a criminal wrapped in uniform.
Both of these statements can be true: 1) the vast majority of shootings by police are justified, and 2) there are way too many cases of excessive use of force by police, including shootings.

You can look at the reports. They don't usually leave local news, if they even make it there, because there is nothing remarkable about them. People have done aggregations of the data. I'm not saying it's going to convince you if you're already convinced otherwise.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/10/24/o...

"But only a small number of the shootings — roughly 5 percent — occurred under the kind of circumstances that raise doubt and draw public outcry, according to an analysis by The Washington Post. The vast majority of individuals shot and killed by police officers were, like Snyder, armed with guns and killed after attacking police officers or civilians or making other direct threats."
Found the delusional power hungry fascist. What’s it like to lack complete empathy?
Is there some independent research on the subject that you’re referring to? Note that the bar for “legally justified” is extremely low[1], so it would be nice to see some kind of audit that doesn’t rely on legal rulings.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Tamir_Rice

> An FBI review by retired agent Kimberly Crawford found that Rice's death was justified and Loehmann's "response was a reasonable one."
I think what they mean to say is “ordinary users don't need crypto for everyday conversations”. Which leads to “if you got nothing to hide...”.
This is a great way to tell the story of climate change and what led up to it. I loved the narration style, you could probably create a childrens book from it.
Best books are often written by academics, who get paid to work on them by their university. The royalties are just some nice extra income.
I would argue that this applies to the people being policed as well, if not more so. A black man has little recourse if he is assaulted by a police man, or if his wife or child is killed by them. Families are torn apart by drug laws and prison pipelines.
Says who? From what I've seen I'm pretty sure many could be avoided using a different approach/mentality.
99.999% accuracy is indeed extremely bad once you multiply it with the expected number of searches.

But what you are describing is really a problem with your "justice" system. A system where most people are coerced not to use their right to trial ("accept the plea deal or your sentence will be much worse", with many innocent people taking the plea deal) is simply incapable of delivering justice.
Woke up this morning thinking...

There is a part of me that is little sad Apple did not just wait to add this feature until iOS 14 released or one of the last GM's.

If only because it would be a huge wakeup call for users about what their apps are doing and possibly collecting, instead of it all being patched out now. Instead we are seeing basically no traction on this outside of tech circles.
You have to pay for public defendants unless you're indigent ...?
That’s a recent development. For most of their history they never did. AFAIK
No, I didn't say that they are wrong. My imagination is unlimited of course.

A shortcomming I see here is that the danger is reduced to fatalities as average over the whole profession.

There certainly are areas in the US where policing is extremely safe, everyone knows you by name, sponsors you a donut from time to time and is happy to see you. I would do it without a problem and this is probably true for most officers. But allow me to specify, I wouldn't want to be a police officer in urban areas with focal points in crime.
This is very similar to the Pareto principle : 80% of the highest result is obtained through 20% of the highest effort. To get to 100% of the highest result you will have to deliver four times more effort.

Most of the time, 80% is good enough. Save your resources for other endeavors.
Tito Joker- A humorous AI that uses state-of-the-art deep learning to tell jokes
This is a straight up political hit piece published in August 2012 a few months before the Presidential elections when Romney was a major party nominee.

"And the drama of this rhetorical high-wire act was ratcheted up even further when Romney chose his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin – like himself, a self-righteously anal, thin-lipped, Whitest Kids U Know penny pincher who’d be honored to tell Oliver Twist there’s no more soup left. By selecting Ryan, Romney, the hard-charging, chameleonic champion of a disgraced-yet-defiant Wall Street, officially succeeded in moving the battle lines in the 2012 presidential race."

The rhetoric and the journalism are hard to separate in this article.
Something I found interesting when running analysis on Ising models; if you do an FFT (2 dimensional) on it, you get what amounts to a wavey star-like blob in the middle (assuming you center the lowest frequencies)

If that blob is a small dot, or even nothing at all; you have a stable system, and if you have a sprawling kind of wavey response-pattern, then your lattice is gone critical.

(Also it looks cool, and it’s quick to diagnose by a glance.)
Why do HN cares so much about uber and lyft?
Is there some sort of preview material?
I am always quite skeptical about mathematics through programming books, so it would be nice to get a feel for it's rigor.
Don't forget the Dal Segno, for which you have the Dal Segno al Coda (on repeat, jump to the sign) and Dal Segno al Fine (on repeat, jump to the end) which are if/jump statements. There is also the reverse, Da Capo Al Segno (from the sign) which is a jump, versus Da Capo by itself (from the start again). The coda looks like a circle with a + through it, the segno a fancy S with dots, and the fine looks like a cartoon eye.

These are similar to repeats, except that they branch.

Also, there are other "commands" for technique, such as , for "pause and breathe," ties and slurs, rubato, and glissando for how you connect the notes, crescendo/diminuendo, fortes and pianos, for volume control, etc. There are a lot of these "object oriented" touches. Consider the zigzag "trill".

There is also another branch type "command" that you don't see very often outside of orchestral music, which is marked fp. Visually it looks like the normal forte or piano, except instead of referring to any time the segment is played, the first time through is played louder than the following time(s).

And those STILL aren't all the different branching commands. There are numbered brackets, slashes on note stems, slashes through some of the symbols I've mentioned above. Lots and lots of flow control.

And if that's not enough, there are instrument-specific "commands" for things like pedals (on a piano) or bow techniques (on violin) and slides (on guitar) etc.

So, personally I believe OP is correct in thinking written music (and tabulature) are programming languages.
Table view of files looks terrible. Hope they will fix it
I feel the same way. Earlier this week I read a wonderful article from Bruce Tognazzini, who worked at Apple from 1978 to 1992 and was instrumental in designing the usability guidelines for the Apple II and the classic Mac OS, called "The Third User" (https://asktog.com/atc/the-third-user/), where he makes the claim that Apple's UI approach for iOS heavily focuses on buyers at the expense of users. I personally believe that this trend is commonplace throughout personal computing and on the Web these days. UI has now been tied into notions of brand identity, with some developers going as far as to demand that operating system environments respect their design choices rather than enforce system-wide conventions (see the "Please don't theme our apps" petition from some GNOME developers: https://stopthemingmy.app). There's been a shift away from the utilitarian UI designs from the 1990s (such as the classic Mac OS and Windows 95) to designs with a lot of visual appeal (such as Mac OS X's Aqua and its iterations over the past two decades, Windows Vista's Aero, Windows 10's flat design, Google's Material Design, and iOS). Unfortunately, there's a tendency for some of these visually-appealing designs to not work well for users in practice, especially for power users.

I agree with you: the solution should be to allow users to not only theme their UIs, but to even modify them as they see fit. Consider GIMP for example. While some people like it's interface, other people complain that it's un-intuitive and not like Photoshop. Well, what if GIMP's functionality was separated from its interface, and there were two modifiable files that GIMP use: one that describes the UI elements (kind of like HTML: e.g., buttons, views, menu items), and another one that describes how those UI elements are displayed (kind of like CSS). Imagine if users could modify these HTML and CSS files to create different GIMP interfaces based on their liking. Imagine if the GIMP user community shared UI configuration files amongst each other. Users will have a lot more flexibility regarding how they want to use their software tools. This will also be a tremendous boon for people with accessibility needs.

This is not just talk; I'm actually currently in the design phase of a side project where I'm building such a UI toolkit for the X Window System in Common Lisp as part of a larger goal that I have of building a OpenDoc-style (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFJdjk2rq4E) component-based desktop that leverages the powerful Common Lisp Object System. The UI toolkit that I'm planning to build will define UIs using three S-expression configuration files: a content definition file, a style definition file, and a localization file.
Not just that, but much of the hierarchy above police forces is opaque if it exists at all.

The Austin PD chief has come under intense scrutiny for his department's handling of various arrests and protests over the past few months, and after roughly half of the city council called on him to resign, it was reported that neither the city council or the mayor could legally fire him.[0]

The city manager, which is appointed and not elected, has the power to demote the police chief, but the state does not permit a police chief to be terminated.

Long story short, none of Austin's leaders have the power to fire the police chief.

0: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/18/austin-police-chief-...

edit: added reporting
A more important question is what is the homicide rate of the demographics of people who go into policing. Probably lower than 3.0.

It's easy to get a drastically lower personal chance of being murdered in the US through simple steps like not being part of a gang.

Most Americans on HN aren't going to be murdered at 5.6/100000, or even 3.0
How to Measure Your Professional Development
Thank you very much for the feedback. And for adding the url above.
I genuinely don't understand why people buy the "New Microsoft" marketing line. They are adopting Linux because they have no other option. Where they're strong, the desktop, they're still the same old Microsoft.
It isn't meaningless anymore when we have found that there are multiple national level or greater conspiracies involving some of the most vile things known to mankind. We are 2 for 3 with these three cases and we have seen how corrupted the media and legal system is with handling those two cases (yes, the media eventually did report on them, but go back and look at how the media treated reports on the Catholic abuse before the main story broke and how many individual reports were silenced).

It is like if you catch someone gas lighting you twice, and now this time they are telling you they really didn't do it and are definitely not gas lighting you again. At some point their demand to prove their gas lighting becomes part of the attack itself.
Works fine for me (Windows 10 1909 with Windows Terminal)
Last 10% of bug fixed, 90% of total effort. I'm with you. This COVID-19 thing has changed my perspective on work, (although I'm not so sure about my employer's.) We're split into A/B team, one week in, one week out. I really happy, probably the first time in my working life I've achieved the nominal "work/life balance". The office feels more productive, I'm more productive, fewer people making ad-hoc demands on my time. The project is more focused if you make allowance for some handoff gaps. I'm not completely destroyed on Friday evenings, and if I am, I have a week to recover. I look forward to my ON week Mondays, I have had a week to think about what I could/should do. Really, if this continues with some adjustment, I think it would be the perfect cadence.
Sorry about the title! It was my (probably poor) attempt at putting an exciting spin on the news. In the sense of "all publicity is good publicity".

Dark is a very cool project. Every time I wait for a long CircleCI job to complete, I wish our programming environment was like Dark.

Good luck with it!
> Using 2007/2008 studies to defend the 2010s behavior of an industry doesn’t really make sense

In this case, it does. Bain was prominent in that time. In a vacuum of data, something is better than nothing.

Post-crisis private equity is more sober than 2000-2007. It was only about a year ago that we reached leverage ratios approaching those of the last decade's peak [1]. On a cash flow basis, most of this decade was subdued compared with that period [2].

> you work in private equity

I work on the venture capital end of the private equity spectrum. Not comparable to whole-company leveraged buyouts of Bain's style.

There are valid criticisms of private equity. It weaponizes the tax deductibility of interest, which I don't think funds should be able to use. Its fee structures are opaque. And its largest deals tend to be destructive. But heightened frequency of bankruptcy is not sustained by any data I've come across.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/leverage-climbs/leverage-lev...

[2] https://www.intuition.com/have-private-equity-valuations-rea...
Truth of the matter is if you hire from soc-sciences experts on racial whatever, you might as well just ban everything right of Mao from the platform.

You can like or not like or hate trump but a very large portion of the citizens of the republic voted for him.

Those requests will basically lead to FB loosing control to a bunch of sjw crusaders(more then they already have). It will all be weaponized, current climate in US allows for nothing else.
> Declining severity is good, but it's not that important.

It is IMO, because the mere fact of being infected is a necessary, but not sufficient condition to cause problems. What matters is being infected and needing hospitalization (which as far as I can see not clear cut and heavily dependent on the place of spread).
Coronavirus overwhelms intensive care units near border
Does that really happen that often? Police officers getting "almost killed"?
Nitpick: That would be a 256 colour palette, from a 4096 colour colour-space.
> It also means they probably only hire young, single people with no kids.

I worked at a company that did this. It actually attracted a lot of parents who wanted to spend mornings with their kids while their spouse was at work, rather than send them off to childcare.

Just because it doesn’t work for you doesn’t mean it won’t be ideal for someone else. Always good to have options.
"Recycling" in the context of electronics means that a few rare minerals (gold) get extracted, and the rest (ie. almost everything) ends up in landfills or as filler for roads at best. It's a very energy intensive process with often murky environmental effects, and defintely not just "used to make nee iPhones". Unfortunately!

That's why the phrase is "reduce, reuse, and if all else fails, recycle" and why Apple (and others) are indeed in the wrong when they don't design their products for repairability and long life.
Amazon launches ‘Smart Stores’ in India to win mom and pop
not hand guns... you mean footguns?
Virgin’s unrealised value is in the government handouts and concession that are still to come.

Virgin is the second and only competitor to Australia’s main carrier QANTAS, and sole carrier for some routes.

The government will not let them fade away. Big money and concessions will be forthcoming.
I knew a really nice guy that ended up working in forestry in the US, and tragically died after backing into a powerline whilst up a tree in a harness cutting branches. Working with trees is so dangerous.
Drones, Swarms, and Storms of Drones
Thanks for the reference, I didn't know that name and always called it the "aim at 1000 to get 100" rule, which is essentially trading without doing it openly.
Pure Data made heavy use of thread local storage to turn the original application singleton (with lots of globals) into a threadsafe and reentrant library (libpd).
I have ~5-6 years of remote work experience, started off as the only remote employee of a company, then was partially remote at my next company, then worked from an office for a local startup, and have been working for a fully distributed company for the past 4 years.

While my 2 years working at a startup in my mid-20s where we would sleep at the office and worked 24/7 did end up producing some of my closest friendships and a relationship with the company and the CEO that is strong to this day, my last few years working at a fully distributed company has also been really social.

We build friendships, we gossip, we argue, we share interesting tidbits about our lives - I don't feel like the social component is lost. It is usually not as strong as when you have to see the other person every day but it is more than enough for most purposes.

Our company also does meetups 3-4 times a year where we all fly to locations like Bali, Mexico, Iceland, US..etc. and spend a week socializing and working together. Remote work does not mean that you are basically a freelancer contracting for a company, there are ways to build strong enough social connections.
I would think logging would be less dangerous now.
When a was growing up in Maine, loggers cut down trees with the chainsaw and pulled the trees into the wood yard with a tractor like skidder (skidah in Maine-speak).

Now, they are more likely (I think) to use a machine that clips the tree off (like scissors) and takes the branches off.
Dropbox release number just hit 100
I've found it useful for knowing if you have enough of each ingredient. If they weren't separate, one of the first things I would need to do would be to sit down and work out what ingredients I need to know if I need to buy more or not.
This does a great job of putting evolution and geological time scales in perspective.
The take away from this should be:

Look how fucking horrible behavior can be when even when the organization has a publicly stated stance of holding members accountable, and occasionally actually does so.

Now imagine the fucking horrible behavior that doesn't even manage to get surfaced in an organization that takes a public stance of not holding members or itself accountable.

The military is far far from perfect. The police still manage to be worse. And that's fucking terrifying.
Leveraged buyout is a dirty concept to me after what the Glazer family did to Manchester United[1],[2].

They basically turned the club from the number one team in England to something to milk dry and allowing rivals to overtake. They were extremely lucky in the early years post-LBO because Alex Ferguson was in charge, one of the greatest all-time managers, who could somehow extract title-winning performances from a threadbare squad even going up against rivals who were suddenly pumped full of oil money. They installed a investment banker goon as the CEO, who doesn't understand football, who helped broker the LBO in the first place and is gradually running the club into the ground.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/052715/why-manchest...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-manchesterunited-ipo/anal...
Chinese bank requires foreign firm to install app with covert backdoor
Yes. That's actually why my tablet (That I use mainly for reading) doesn't have my main Gmail account linked to it, plus I always use it on airplane model.

My take was that not that many people will have the choice to get their hand on one of these devices (I, for one, can't).
Exactly. Books have always been subscription based. Difference is it’s not monthly. But for that monthly subscription you get so much. Plus the good feels knowing you’re supporting some great open source work.
Out of curiosity, what is the “crisis of the last decade?” Honest question here, I’m personally not aware of any “crisis” that hasn’t been ongoing for several decades before the 2010s.
Because it's the native Windows answer. There's no need to make Windows look like Unix. It's great (really!) the way it was designed.
Great, but this article is not about leveraged buyouts.
Bain is not found in either of those two documents. May I suggest: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/greed-an... or https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/romneys-bain...
Flexible schedules and covered expenses.Spain drafts the rights of remote worker
>If you need a component for an iPhone, you can get it easily.

Really? From where? You call Apple asking for spare parts, they'll tell you to pound sand.
> threatening threatening to use the military to suppress peaceful protests (an actual violation of the 1st amendment).

The 1st amendment only covers peaceful protesters who aren't burning buildings down and having gunfights in the street.
I studied philosophy for several years and love paradoxes. So much time is wasted debating stuff like this though which is just people arguing about ambiguity and is a great example of philosophical naval gazing.
Interviewed there once, employees, leads and managers said the same thing about him being too micromanagey. Apparently they were glad to have him be gone.
I think it sounds much more reasonable if you read it as them saying "We suggest you stay within the PST time zone. If you want to live in a different time zone that's fine, but we won't change our core hours for you".
Mao Zedong, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Mohammed, Nelson Mandela, all responsible for varying amounts of human death and suffering - yet revered or worshiped today.