skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doing a quick google search, there are claims of "6,000 tweets per second in 2020", or about 6 tweets per millisecond. The blog posts mentions there is an edge case for getting more than 16 tweets per millisecond.

Rather close margins assuming an exponentiation usage growth of Twitter. I wonder how long that variant is going to last.
Don't get me wrong, it absolutely is completely nitpicky. I just had to get it off my chest :p
It is hard to solve a crime when your main witness is only accessible trough Ouija board
This seems like a knee jerk reaction to the current political climate. "Predictive policing" has a scary sounding name but it is really just "efficient resource allocation". If there is a crime hotspot, shouldn't there be more police on hand to enforce the law there? Why have them idly patrol other areas? If someone has a history of crime and is being released, shouldn't they be monitored to ensure the public's safety, especially if there is a risk of recidivism?

The line of thinking I find dangerous in the article is that differences in outcomes are seen as racist. That doesn't make sense to me. If more people of race X commit crimes, and more members of that race are therefore subjected to legal consequences, then that is not necessarily a racist situation. If race isn't an input factor into these algorithms, the algorithms are not racist.
> It's sad to admit but there are enough musicians in the world.

There was a time when you had to have two mediocre gifts to make it: talent and beauty. Or just have one of those gifts, but in spades. It seems like there's a lot more mediocre talent now, since we've evolved to devalue beauty.
My company's BYOD policy is that you have to load the company's management software onto your personal hardware, and then if you leave the company, they wipe the device remotely, including all of your personal data.

I think it's draconian, but plenty of people signed up for the program. I prefer to keep my home and work gear isolated from one another. I don't even have them on the same ISP.
How many government organizations (especially unionized ones) get rid of or otherwise deal with bad performers?

Instead of pointing out the military as the rule and police officers as the exception, maybe we should consider that the military is the exception.

Teachers, federal employees, and government employees at all levels of local government are known for being able to keep their jobs long after they should have been fired or disciplined.

The egregiousness of bad policing is that many times they are breaking laws. But honestly, there are gray areas. The police are allowed to hit some people. They have to shoot some people. So it's not a huge leap to assume that some of them will overstep their bounds. And when they do, the union will back them, and their colleagues will back them. And we'll hear how underpaid they are (just like teachers).

And they keep their jobs, just like bad teachers.
That’s a great point. Oddly enough it works the other way too. My neighbor is a detective and told me that a young lady livestreamed herself looting Target. Shared it on Facebook.
> For the record - I checked with them - and they told me they were asked to take a test to check if they harbored "unknown biases". They were then sent to diversity and inclusion training, and came out totally confused about what to do and say, but they were assured that the hospital and the ambulance services were monitoring comms and wouldn't look favorably on "potentially offensive" terms.

The tragedy of that is that IATs don't even measure what they purport to or, generally, work: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/174569161986379...
The ONN segment about the MacBook Wheel, a MacBook with an enormous iPod wheel replacing the keyboard and trackpad, was brilliant. They really committed to the joke, with excellent prop work and even punchy Apple-esque slogans. "Reinventing the wheel" indeed.

And with MacBook trackpads getting larger, and their keyboards getting smaller and more terrible, it's starting to look less like satire and more like prophecy.
This is somewhat tangential to your point, but I think catching more “criminals” (I.e. people who break laws, which is virtually everyone at some point - though many won’t even realize it and are unlikely to face consequences) can certainly lead to an increase in crime. In the US, at least, contact with the criminal justice system can significantly reduce social and economic opportunities and increase the likelihood that an individual will engage in future criminal activity.
Nice. This is very interesting. I suppose it would be hard to make any assumptions about the reasoning here. At least Vox interprets this as black people "view inadequate protection and inadequate service levels as part of the larger pattern of mistreatment." That's entirely reasonable. If someone were to believe that the police institution itself is not racist, and it's just the individual cops who are the problem, then it's fair to come to the conclusion that more policing may solve the very real issue of crime in black communities.

However, just like the author of the article, I agree that we would need to see a similar poll now after the George Floyd protests to see if the opinion still stands, but it's important to note.
External watchdogs are only as good as their leaders. For example, the Seattle PD was recently under a consent decree with the Department of Justice over civil rights abuses. Yet they still beat the shit out of people expressing their 1st Amendment rights.
I’ve noticed this too. The title has an air of “this is how you can pull yourself up by the bootstraps” feeling that turns into a “just takeover your dads company” when you read the article
In case anyone misses this reference, there is a claim that the cause of all of the violence was exposure to lead on a society wide scale.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposur...
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>Compare that to 144fps (6,94ms frametime) you loose only 3,5% which makes the perception much smoother

Keep in mind that the total end-to-end latency is probably higher than 6.94ms. eg. with overwatch even running at 144hz will get you around 30ms of latency. https://youtu.be/OAFuiBTFo5E?t=331.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o25I2fzFGoY
The knee-jerk reaction against policing will cause more harm than good, all in the name of some nebulous "long term" outcome that is borderline undefinable.

Some knee-jerk reactions that we're seeing or considering"

1. Banning facial recognition.

2. Banning predictive policing (this article).

3. Defunding police departments

4. California's ACA5 amendment that seeks to remove anti-discrimination laws, allowing racial and gender discrimination.
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Not sure what the answer is for pedophiles. Hopefully it is not this:

https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-authorities-placed-children-wit...

The point being, some sort of predictive model is always used to evaluate sentencing and release. Is 5 years enough, or will that pedophile attack more kids when they get out? How about 10 years? Gee, they don't seem to be attacking children in prison, maybe we should release them early for good behavior?
This proposal echoes my concerns and ideas very closely, thank you. Unfortunately, the project is “currently in very early phases,” there’s no “particular deadline,” and there’s a lot of opposition to the proposal [0], so perhaps it’s wishful thinking after all.

[0]https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:IP_Editing:_Privacy_E...
I'm implying that common might mean not bad. That burden of proof is on the writer. The writer has failed to meet that burden regardless of which way it is, good or bad.
I couldn’t agree more. I absolutely fell in love with the Surface Studio they had on display there. It was really set up to make a great demo too, preloaded with software that takes advantage of the “wheel” device and stylus.

Not only that, it was the only place where I’m sure I’ll ever see the Surface Hub[0]. An incredible “interactive whiteboard” running a special version of Windows 10, the price of which is “please ask for a quote”.

The Microsoft store was really like a mini CES more than a showroom for Microsoft things. I will miss it dearly.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/business/surface-hub...
They usually use past crime to determine the problematic areas, and this past crime is a source of bias. If there's any sort of racism in the system, problematic areas will turn into areas of specific race. Races and especially income levels aren't spread evenly across Santa Cruz or any city.
How do you feel about Blokada application?
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Sure thing, that mitigations would apply.

But again, the OP is about credibility. So, for the advocates of legislation changes (e.g. climate activists) it would give their credibility a huge boost if they started to surrender symbolically from things like traveling abroad (and also, would remove a rhetorically very easy target from their critics).

The proposed legislation itself should of course refrain from being "just" symbolic.
> By and large the government (my corner of it anyway) doesn't pay extra for licenses to commercial software

No, but governments often do (under policies that have a built-in, explicit preference for COTS or MOTS solutions because [in terms of public rationale] they are presumed to be especially cost-effective) pay for commercial software that's not well adapted to the specialized circumstances of government agencies, which even when broadly similar to public actors are often significantly governed by unusual or even sui generis considerations applying only to government or to that particular government jurisdiction or even only to that particular agency of that particular government. And then pay extra (either in terms of custom modifications or business process adaptations to the poorly-aligned software) for the mismatch.

In some cases this has knock-on effects, because managing the government cost ends up with the government requiring (explicitly or practically because of the requirements of interfacing with the proprietary system) encouraging trading partners, including intergovernmental ones with the same kinds of business fit issues, to use COTS/MOTS solutions from the same vendor.

Things like Office 365 are not the main issue.
No! The whole point of removing qualified immunity is they no longer need to take criminal actions to be sued. Anything they do can be subject to a civil suit which the cop will now need to defend against.
> When you've invested your time and energy in building a hammer, you really want to figure out how to treat anything as a nail.

And to be fair, this is reasonable, right up until it isn't. When every tool costs onboarding and maintenance effort, it makes sense to leverage as few tools as possible to the greatest effect - but much as "everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler", you want the fewest tools that will do the job well, but sometimes that is N+1, and a new tool will pay for itself.
NeoAxis Engine, 3D/2D game engine, switched to royalty-free, open source license
I hate that America has become so neoliberalized that I end up needing to consider how to build a profit motive into having cops not violate constitutional rights.

The sort of person who makes a good cop isn’t motivated by money. You don’t pay him to be a cop, you pay him so he can be a cop. So he can pay his bills while deriving job satisfaction from duty, honour, etc. The same way the really good programmers are in it for the love of the craft.

The instant you bring commercial incentives into it you drive away the people you really want. That’s why the military don’t do it. And why tech goes toxic when the techbros show up.
There really does seem to be this pervasive idea that there's a non-stop linear march of progress from the beginning of time, that despite some bumps here and there "things always improve over time", and that for any of the big problems humanity is facing that "they'll think of something", without much thought as to who "they" are or what that "something" is, or even about the additional side-effects of what that "something" might entail, which could go on to cause ever greater problems later on (where the same argument is again applied ad infinitum). This seems like a common argument made to avoid the emotionally difficult thoughts about what an individual could do right now to help prevent or even just to mitigate existing problems from becoming worse.
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I think it's safe to say that the inspiration for Java lambda almost certainly did not come from the "FP zeitgeist" you're describing, but simply from other JVM languages like Scala and Clojure, which showed how useful they were and how they could be done nicely on the JVM.
I doubt it, otherwise you would name it.
I'll absolutely agree with this. The Discover Weekly playlist seems to know my musical preferences better than I do myself, and i'm certainly not sticking to just a couple of specific genres that I listen to
That’s the same behavior as Babel no ?
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Someone give this link to Neal Stephenson pronto :) I've vaguely remember him trying to kick start a sword game several years ago.
Big budget movies sort of struggle against telling stories about justice for people whom we discriminate against contemporaneously.

You could never make a movie that even loosely portrays the plight of Uighers, who suffer under a notoriously technology-heavy form of surveillance and oppression (what we are calling predictive policing). Not because of censorship but because no one is going to fund your film.

So while I love Philip K Dick and Syd Mead and whatever, it was still a movie that gave more screen time to an Audi than to a black person. Your fiction needs to engage with the real somewhere, and people are realizing that the fiction of predictive crime is really about the reality of arresting black people for crimes that white people do not get arrested for more efficiently.
The author answered the question, and did so before you remarked on it.
Can you also support "Let me know when the download completes successfully?" I assume this is easy if the recipient is adding to their own Dropbox account, or downloading to their client using a Dropbox client, but may be slightly more tricky with a browser download.

EDIT: In the event my comment was ambiguous, I meant these notifications should be configurable by the sender. Essentially "delivery confirmation" for bits.
I'm not sure that your conclusion of universality can be supported by the evidence. For example Middlesex County, Massachusetts has had roughly flat incarceration rate for decades.

https://github.com/vera-institute/incarceration_trends
In college it seems like unless you have a really good GPA and have parents or yourself to be independently wealthy the best advice for academia or even getting a degree is getting out as fast as you can for Computer Science. For me it took me six years when I traded money for time at Community College.

Also, bumping up your own earnings by a significant multiplier is probably easier if you bypass getting a Masters Degree and just start doing interview prep. Whats even better is hitting multiple multipliers. I was in a Computer lab where someone got an offer letter from Facebook which was extremely high and they IPOed. Now I think he is doing some kind of javascript style hosting stuff but I think he is independently wealthy.
That sort of nuance is almost never brought to the fore, unfortunately. Right now, public policy and media-attention seems to be entirely driven by empathy and outrage.
It is complicated at best.

I think that in most jurisdictions seriously planing a crime is a crime in itself.

>A bit like the local nightclub near me has a police car chilling in front of it every Friday night because there are always drunks slugging it out.

And what happens when said policemen block the entrance of the club and start patting down everyone leaving for pico or weed?

A police presence can calm down an area, but also can be used to harass the population there.

Rules of engagement matter.
Rosetta has the specific purpose of running MacOS applications that were compiled for x86 on Apple Silicon. It is not a general x86 emulator and therefore you can't run an arbitrary x86 VM on top of it.

There will be other applications created--probably not by Apple--that will provide general-purpose x86 emulation on Apple Silicon.
Wage theft is treated as a civil issue because it’s not actually “theft” despite its name. It’s not a business taking money away from someone, it’s the business failing to pay money for a contractual obligation.

Do you want a failure to pay your plumber to be prosecuted as theft?
No sympathy.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45083954

https://www.asherfergusson.com/airbnb/

among others
University governance has been aligned by dollars to departments like the business school, which literally didn't exist just a few decades ago. Provost's plan using dollars as the metric of value. These changes have completely changed what the word university means, although these institutions have the same names.

Here's an academic account: https://www.aaup.org/article/rise-and-coming-demise-corporat...

For easier digestion Scott Galloway is spot on (Prof at nyu)
https://youtu.be/d8kwzSTITP0
In my experience for many professors teaching is pretty much a side activity, more like a chore. Fun fact: Galileo was envied by his colleagues because despite being paid full time by University of Pisa he was exempted from teaching and could devote all of his time to research. (source should be Biagioli, Galileo Courtier, 159)
It is terrible, and has hidden gotchas.

Use it only if you really really have to, then check if you can't do it in Kotlin instead with native async/await syntax, and only if the answer to those questions is "no", continue to shoot yourself in the foot.
Does Hey have a way of migrating from gmail? Or do you have to finagle it yourself?
I did have a quick hunt around YouTube but I couldn't find any video of the March 2019 event. How disappointing, in the age of the security camera and dashcam!
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What stops them from just making their edits from home or coffee house wifi?
These are federal offenses only. Most crime is prosecuted at the state level and the majority of that isn't drug offenses.

And the people in federal prison for drugs don't get there by smoking pot on their front porch. They're mostly there for trafficking.
> Whether that is "social services" is another semantic question.

This is puzzling to me. I don't think I've ever heard anyone argue that social security, medicare, and medicaid aren't social services. As far as I'm aware, everyone agrees that these are all social services. I would be curious to hear arguments for excluding it from the "social services" rubric.
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Variadic tuple types are so good for library maintainers. Being able to spread your types is a huge delight. For a lot of situation, there will be no need for filling unnecessary overloads. And labels will make the code more readable for those.
“Just” Don’t
Firefox send (send.firefox.com) is an excellent unknown product and I highly recommend it
I can see the appeal of the lower barrier to entry, but I would need to follow the project every month to see if they’re delivering. Really don’t want to be burdened with that.
> I think that "reducing standards of living by force" is an extremist position and it's unhelpful to even bring it up.

We're already doing that. But it's not close to being enough. Emissions need to be halved by 2030 to keep to 1.5C warming: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-emissions/.... The recent economic shut-down from Covid-19 cut U.S. emissions by just 1/3 for one week in April: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/05/19/corona....
This is the intended effect of the tech interviews that HN hates so much. Interviewers talk to the candidate and write down feedback about how the interview went. Then a hiring committee reads the notes and makes a decision. The hiring committee never sees the candidate, so can't judge their appearance. When I was doing interviews at Google, we were also trying very hard to write feedback like "the candidate said XXX" instead of "she said XXX", so that that source of bias was not available to the hiring committee. (It's not perfect, of course, because the person writing the feedback can be biased by those things. But it's better than looking at resumes with photos attached.)
Tech was toxic long before techbros showed up. RMS' problematic behaviour drove a lot of people away from the FSF, and he's never struck me as a man motivated by the fat stacks of cash.
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Why not take your Bayesian decision theory and make a trading system? Invest your farm, and you'll make millions with ideas like, if a stock just had two upticks, isn't it a good idea to put a little money into an upward trending stock. Not only will you come to understand decision theory better, behavioral prediction better, you'll get paid to do it, and nobody else will get hurt!
Is the Whonix project run by fascists?
You are exactly correct, the author has a misguided perspective. Inheritance is rarely considered these days to be the hallmark feature about OO. Composition and encapsulation far exceed inheritance in importance in nearly any software development circle.
> friend of mine is in two or three bands at any given time and bartends most nights he’s not playing shows

What and how has he been doing during lockdown?
Curated playlist to run through LCC: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0XrqQ8tIVGMKuVIC5mIrNN?si=...

Curated videos (worth finding higher quality versions) to test LCC out with: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-lzMEaJTl3p39jZC0iSD...
> 16 Police and sheriff’s patrol officers

Also of note, the primary reason police are even this high is for the same reason as truck drivers -- traffic accidents.
By 2027 all amazon delivery vehicles will be fully self driving. Cost savings due to logistics improvements will be enormous!
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marci 10 minutes ago | parent | on: Mobilewalla used cellphone data to estimate the de...

I don't know what's up with their website. The link redirect to a page about covid-19 as of now
(https://www.mobilewalla.com/blog/fighting-covid-19-with-loca...

Same: no data and no clarification at that URL.
GitLab technical evangelist here

We've been sharing updates on the linked status page, the original link of this thread.

As is mentioned in the issue you linked, it appears there is some network peering issue for some types of traffic between Level 3 in Philly and Cloudflare. We've been pushing escalation at both providers.

I feel your frustration as it's impacting me too. Right now I'm only able to work around it being an intermittent problem by connecting to a VPN. Unfortunately the packets aren't even getting to Cloudflare, much less to us, so while we're pushing as hard as we can, there's nothing we can actually do beyond that.
I've never seen any customers in the Microsoft Store in Oak Brook. I'm sure they must have some once in a while and it's not like I spend a lot of time in Oak Brook, but it has always been empty of customers every time I've passed it by. I don't think I've seen any other store in the whole mall as empty of customers.