skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At one of the biggest malls in San Jose, there is a Microsoft Store and an Apple Store right across the hallway from each other. On a normal day, anyone walking by could see that the Apple Store was packed with people, and the bored employees at the Microsoft store were standing around with nothing to do. It was kind of sad.

It's not like Microsoft didn't have popular stuff to sell, especially the Xbox.
> Growth is based on productivity gains.

> without entering recession for a few year

Isn't the problem we can't keep growing when there's only finite resources?

We need to change our definition of what it means for the country/world to be improving.
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Thought it would be relevant but a few years back California was also in the news for building a gang database of children as young as one year old (for which they've since acknowledged as a mistake).

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/calgang-california-gang-databas...

The phrasing of "predictive policing" sounds fairly harmless, but in practice it is a way of finding out which kids are going to be future criminals, thus robbing them of their self-determination.
Maybe a hybrid model where basic malpractice insurance is included in the job, but if your premium raises you pay the difference.
Well according to the list you posted, they seem to be the most climate friendly mass smart phone producer on the planet. Perhaps they deserve the title.
The very first one didn't, but every other one after that did, and that's across two different phones.
Yes agreed, enforcement has to be standardized as well. Justice should be blind, except to the law. The pendulum swinging though has me worried, where dangerous crimes are currently unenforced.
hell, reading the wiki is half the fun!
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> “our product portfolio has evolved to largely digital offerings”

evolved to? And here I thought Microsoft was always a software company first? Or is software not a digital offering?
I mean, these were obviously set up as a (marketing) counterpoint to the Apple stores, but Apple stores aren't just marketing. In any given mall, Apple stores usually have the highest revenue per square foot - they even beat out the jewelry stores. Microsoft was never going to be able to sell enough surface tables and xboxes for this to be viable long-term.
Soundcloud is still the place for finding EDM in general. The community sure has slowed down, especially with spotify being such a huge force in the music world, but I still find tons of great content there.

Bonus, you don't have the same recommendation issues that spotify has (I'm in the same boat with non-sensical recommendations, or the same tired songs getting recommended over and over again).
> When one of the transitive dependencies fixes a security issue, is it then re-evaluated prior to being updated in the internal repo?

Yes, but this is typically pretty low overhead. And when it's not, it usually means there is some issue that has to be addressed anyway.

> I'm guessing you work at a pretty large tech company.

I did once, but right now "we" is a tiny startup (we're using Elm and Erlang.)

> I wonder if there might be the opportunity for a body to review & approve packages on behalf of many companies.

Ideally, that's what Free/Open Source Software would be, eh?

In the old days there were "sysadmins", System Administrators, who handled a lot of this sort of thing.
What's the book title? "About Face"?
Police are funded by the municipal or county government, not the fed
I need any legitimate citation for that.
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https://medium.com/@mattlane66/spatial-audio-for-speaker-con...
Wow!! Thanks for posting it. The page was on just few weeks ago!! This is a legacy..Steve work and writings should be accessible and archived.
Given Wikipedia's demand for citations, is there really any advantage to allowing anonymous edits? If somebody has privileged information, that may be valuable knowledge, but it's not what Wikipedia was intended for. I'd expect anything like that to be deleted as Original Research, or marked as Citation Needed.

If the citation is public, a non-anonymous person could make the edit as easily as an anonymous one. That's not to say it will necessarily be made, but there doesn't seem to be a case that only one person could make the edit. Allowing anonymous contributions does increase the work force to include people who feel the need to be more secure, but they don't have access to special information that makes them uniquely qualified.
The doctor who is a radiologist probably means "common" from the patients he sees, not common amongst the general population. "Many things that can cause it" probably means many diseases that are probably not pleasant, especially if they have to see a radiologist for it and not, say, a GP.
There are some fantastic TDs that allow you to build your own walls in an open field, they just need to be explicitly balanced around that.

Besides Desktop TD, the other main classic of that subgenre is Bubble Tanks TD: https://armorgames.com/play/4962/bubble-tanks-tower-defense
I thought that this book[1] was an enlightening read into the topic.

It outlined that the conventional thinking about crime falls into two broad categories: "heroes/villains" (there are bad people that just do bad and need to be stopped) vs. "victims/survivors" (criminals are effectively created by poor circumstances / just want to feed their families, etc).

The author argues (with research to back it up) that the truth is neither / both / there are other factors at play, on of the more interesting factors just being "opportunity".

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Criminal-Truth-About-People-Things/...
No no, during lockdown the CO2 emissions have _definitely_ dropped: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/04/coronavir...
I'm not in the business but I'd guess that an ISP can determine with pretty high confidence your race, ethnicity, gender, approximate age and approximate income simply by analyzing your DNS requests. And they probably have a lot more data than DNS.
Finland's government-owned railway company, VR, has a notoriously bad train ticket reservation system that still uses Flash. They've only recently started to roll out more modern versions of the app (that are actually surprisingly ok quality from what I've seen).
At some point (like years ago) when browsers started dropping support for Flash, we got some nice hacky solutions [1] from tired consumers because VR themselves weren't stepping up their game. At some point I even saw VR promoting that project on their Twitter as a solution when someone complained that they couldn't book tickets. They should've paid the author and just put it on their site.

[1]: https://github.com/tuomassalo/vr-no-flash
Lemme guess, Roosevelt Field Mall? Sounds like my experiences at that mall.
Only if the site is using a CDN. I said some sort of "cloud" service, which (IMO, it's an admittedly fuzzy term for someone else's computer) includes shared hosting providers. All together there are a LOT of shared hosts out there, not just AWS, Azure, and GCP. So collating all your habits becomes much harder.
You got that right!

Thank you.
Let me tell you a story. 4 Samsung smart TV models bought as a "pack" to bring down the price. Me and 3 friends bought them. 3 of them died in 5-6 years. One was just replaced with larger one but still works.

Difference? First 3 were connected to internet, last one, mine, was on stock firmware, never connected anywhere (I have computer near it and lately raspberry pi 4).

Coincidence?
It’s a challenging problem, but the way things are currently going, do you want a 70’s NYC in 2020+?
You guys really should maintain a newsletter of some sort so you can push out notices on your progress with CheerpX.
No it never was. AWS was always built from the ground up to be an external service. A number of publicly available interviews say the same thing.

https://www.se-radio.net/2014/12/episode-216-adrian-cockcrof...

Edit: that’s not the right podcast. This was before he went to AWS. I can’t for the life of me find the interview.
I think that an interesting part of that lag is directly Windows Phone related. Phones seem to be the one consumer hardware product that customers "demand" a store to exist. Look at the retail landscape, other than big box electronics stores and office stores and Wal-Mart/Target, who is selling consumer electronics physically? There's a lot of strip malls packed with phone stores. People that want PC laptops/desktops mostly buy directly from OEMs on their websites. People that want Xboxes or PlayStations are fine grabbing it at Target, but more likely Amazon today.

Phones for various reasons (and a lot of them are phone carrier bureaucracy related, I would imagine) "need" that extra bit of handholding, that service relationship when buying one. Even Apple Stores, the vast majority of the store space is devoted to phone sales and services and laptops/desktops an after-thought. If you hear of lines and busy days of Apple Stores, it is almost exclusively phones.

Microsoft created their Stores just too many months too late to save the Windows Phone after the main US carriers decided 3 OSes was one too many options to carry in their own stores. Once Microsoft Stores were no longer selling Phones they always had less reason to exist, mostly existed already as either Xbox Experiences or shadow versions of (for instance) Best Buy's Surface section, without the rewards/brand loyalty of something like Best Buy.
Which other cities are you referring to in particular?
You seem to intuit that the risk/benefit is rather low. I'm not sure I agree: it seems like a sure thing that this program will eventually kill someone. It's not exactly evident that the efficacy of the program is high.

Even if the program is effective at control, it doesn't leap out at me that the attained benefit surpasses the risks and costs.
In our society, everyone is a lawbreaker. There are so many laws that surely everyone is guilty of breaking some law. This results in police being able to discriminate by selectively enforcing laws. Since everyone is probably doing something illegal, police do racist things by profiling people who are 'probably doing [something illegal]' without sounding racist.

It's a common pattern in societies where the laws are so invasive and numerous that everyone breaks them. We need reasonable laws that are equally and fully enforced to reduce this particular outlet of racism.
Bringing this up because it's insane that I can't push over SSH or HTTPs protocols. There has been barely any communication from them.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/2...

I really hope they address this soon as i'm very quickly losing trust. I have been using GitLab for years because they are OSS, but now that GitHub is offering free unlimited private repos there is much less reason for me to say if there is going to be outages like this.
Exactly, on a finite planet you can't grow indefinitely. In fact, you can't even have a constant, non-zero consumption of goods forever if said goods don't renew.
load up the company with debt, and let it plummet into the ground, which is why Bain has both the name and reputation of a Batman supervillain.

I agree, but I‘ve never understood who the creditors are in this scenario. Why would you lend to a company when you know the VCs are going to trash it?
Amazon doesn't sell your data. You can't have a legitimate discussion about this on HN because no one does their research and so just make outrageously incorrect claims like that.

Netflix, apple, etc don't sell data. There is no such thing as building a 'personal profile' by combining data from all these different sources. Data is licensed in aggregate, and typically anything under 1,000 user ids can't be used. Unless your bringing in data yourself, you can't build profiles on individuals.

I 100% agree that we need major privacy regulation, but the first step in that is putting in effort to actually understand and discuss the facts.
To some degree. Compare London and Paris: both large, multicultural cities.In Paris, the separation between rich and poor is very clear when it comes to housing location.In London, social housing is often buit even in very expensive areas. London doesn't have no go zones, however, large,purpose built social housing estates sometimes become 'city within the city' and the bigger the estate,the bigger the problems.
> Imagine if they were like mini Micro-center,

Not to be rude, but this idea is out of touch. Basically no one would want this and the PC building market is impossibly tiny today. You'd get zero foot traffic.

No one is building their own computers anymore and those that are, are serviced incredibly well by Amazon/Newegg/etc.
More specifically

> Datta told BuzzFeed News that his company, on average, has access to location data for 30% to 60% of people in any given location in the United States.

And getting down to it more: which 30-60% of people? I find it odd that when HN is talking about Covid they are so keen on finding the slightest bias in data/report and arguing over that, yet in posts like this most of the comments presume accuracy. I would expect the same scrutiny (which I think is good!) everywhere.
You can buy Apple products from other places too, though.
Fast.ai has a course on numerical linear algebra which folllows more of a "top-down" approach:

https://github.com/fastai/numerical-linear-algebra/
Have there been recorded cases of police forcing people to unlock encrypted phones of protesters in the US? I would feel pretty safe with my iPhone in airplane mode (with all the radios off).
Its an enterprisey service that forces you to go to their website to review it.
Exactly - with these packaging services, developers have learned how to make their software more re-usable. The 3rd party component eco-system is a multi-billion dollar industry that continues to grow.
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Is he really whining about something being closed and proprietary? Can't fucking believe it.
One would have to explain how the virus appeared in both china and Spain. Did a bat carrying it make it all that way or did the virus evolve twice independently? Both seem unlikely.
I think there are a lot of factors that go into a persons environment that influence something like murder rates.

Also, depending on what you consider a violent crime, lack of reporting / local police department's doing something about the report can very well have skew crime rates in certain areas.
This is not an "honest question". It's an intentional attempt to give equal weight to a fundamentally racist hypothesis to its alternatives.

If you want to posit that low-income, black communities are inherently violent and need violence to keep them in line then at least don't be coward with your views.
It's also possible that people who felt most at risk were also most likely to turn off their phones or leave them at home.

It's hard to know what kind of biases are in this data without access to it.
Is there support for lightning? If so, I’ll donate.
Yeah, I was confused by this pull quote given the pie charts later on the page showing majority-caucasian (over 72% in the four cities)
More policing may indeed catch more minor crimes that would otherwise go unobserved.

But the morgue has a pretty close to 100% set of data on murder victims. It's hard to argue that those are caused by catching more criminals. (And in fact, murders in high-crime neighborhoods are less likely to be solved. If anything, murders are caused by this failure to catch first-time murderers, before their second go. Their victims are also, usually, residents of the same bad neighborhoods.)
Anecdotal, but Spotify's Discover Weekly feature has ridiculously good recommendations for me and I usually end up adding half of each week's playlist to my library. The recommended music is fantastic, obscure stuff I would never have known about otherwise. My experience with Spotify recommendations couldn't be more different to yours.
I recall some stats from Pandora a few years ago that showed Mumford and Sons were their highest paid artist that year by a decent margin. Also that year, M+S songs would show up in all of my unrelated Pandora stations. How curious.
Trump is racist no matter what he does. He says neo-nazis and white supremacists should be condemned totally, they claim he said nazis are fine people. NYT, WaPo, etc. call it the Chinese corona virus? No problem. Trump calls it the Chinese corona virus? Racist. So fuck it, it's the kung flu. I think it's a gross thing to say and don't choose that language myself, but fuck everyone's faux offense. Also, people generally have a POSITIVE view of Kung Fu. Positive associations are not slurs. China is not an ethnicity. Good for him going scorched Earth.
Follow us on Twitter, all we post and release is published there as well:

https://twitter.com/leaningtech
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget
We already have all the technology we need. It's just very expensive to switch over to clean alternatives. Carbon capture won't change the economics of this.
I appreciate the brevity of this article.
I think that's our best option for avoiding oppression. Case in point, video of George Floyd. If we had widespread public (by the public) surveillance, I think people would feel safer. If someone is "disappeared," hopefully there'd be evidence that the ACLU could pursue.
Related I’ve been wearing out webwormhole.io to send large files to coworkers.

Not a 1:1 here but very useful tool in the same space.
Real world rewards brevity. I predict a learning curve.
Funny that you mention this. I'm developing an easy to use RPG creation tool, and it seems to catch on at schools. (The most recent to discover it are the Spanish teachers https://twitter.com/Educeria/status/1271498731544817666)

For educational games, it are mainly the students themselves that make them (see https://rpgplayground.com/educational-games/). But storytelling is indeed the most important part of it all.

I think that with the right story and game interactions, you can make a game where the player can only progress by learning something and applying that knowledge. Very interesting indeed, especially since remote learning will become more important in the future.
Once I was approached by an ad company that wanted to use geo data gathered by Candy Crush that they purchased to target people with ads on their daily commute.
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In my original comment:

> Per the study, sewage includes rainwater from open drains.

There are even more details in the study.
Joe Rogan recently released an episode with the comedian Andrew Schultz which I found very relevant. So many of us share common ground. It's the extremes that push us to be more extreme.

r/pcm has been a rare instance of unity, blunt kindness, and understanding in these times, and I greatly appreciate it.
Hey!

I'm having problems reproducing this error on my side.
Have you tapped before installing CLI?
Please try this:

$ brew tap foundryapp/foundry-cli
$ brew install foundry

Otherwise, please try installing Foundry through the install script

$ curl https://get.foundryapp.co -sSfL | sh

Let me know if it works!
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In practice, it's a method of entrenching racist practice. Certain groups are profiled and criminalized, and therefore have criminal records so more police are sent to predicted "hot zones" which results in a feedback loop.

What is never said is that crimes are socially determined. Which is more harmful? Shoplifting by a poor person or wage theft by a business owner? Clearly the latter as an actual person who can't afford it is harmed. Wage theft is hugely more prevalent but is treated as a civil issue rather than a crime. Poor people trying to get one over on the system that impoverishes them lands them in jail while the people that own the society get away with doing whatever they want.
But hey, at least there IS a conversation.
Cop work is exceedingly boring. If you ever do a ride-along, you'll see how boring. And with a ride-along, they try to show you the exciting stuff since it's a recruitment method. Lots of driving around, lots of running tags, lots of looking for something meaningful to do when it's dark and not much is happening. Idle hands are the Devil's workshop etc etc.

https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard...
Does the quantity and quality of training play a role?

I don't just mean telling recruits to behave well over and over, although maybe that helps, too.

I suspect that training in general makes people behave a little better. If you are proud of your abilities, in your element, and confident that you are in control, I would like to think that results in a better outcome.
Musicians might be the most saturated field but I think this is true for most things. How many millions of artists or photographers put out their art for piddling views and even less money. Even genuinely amazing artists can be absolutely unheard of. Authors also fall into this category.
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The problem as I see it is if you watch someone long enough they will break some law eventually, be it minor, which can then escalate things. For example if the person could not afford a fine they may end up in jail. So now you have to police disproportionately patrolling these neighbourhoods pulling people over. It’s unfair and certainly leads to hardships for some.
Next a big issue I have is what defines a “crime” as they say? Because a poor man selling a bag of marijuana on the corner to make some grocery money will go to jail if caught but the business man can pay the fee and open a dispensary and profit immune to police. A poor man soliciting sex off the street jail, a rich man hiring an escort no issues. So they laws are discriminatory and the “crimes” these communities are supposedly breaking is questionable.
> Don't be so sure I won't. We should hang out then, since we both like arguing about inconsequential stuff online for way longer than is healthy :-P

Lol, I meant that sincerely. You should do it if it's what you want to do. Life is short, if you want something don't wait. If not now, when. Cheers buddy.
I always hated the trek to Microcenter in Boston. Made that walk countless times.

Though, I guess now I look back on it fondly.
This is remarkable spin on what is objectively a bad thing.
This just feels really picky to me. I mean it's a rounded corner for Christ sake.
Wow. Good catch. So if this wasn't anticipated or disclosed to their authoring tool customers, would it be considered breach of service and qualify for a refund?
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For the radio, in the US, artists are not paid a cent. Only the songwriters and publishers are paid.
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