skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is that's pretty unusual, and that if you looked at a sample of, like, 20 of them, in at least 19 cases whatever was being complained about would remain the case on the website in question, indicating that the site owner did not get value from them. Meanwhile: those comments really are a pox on the threads; it'd be better if users were in the habit of downvoting them to keep the top of the thread clear, which a guideline would accomplish.
I often (disgustedly) hear "it's a war out there". The only "war" that is equivalent to the current policing in the US is the occupation of the axis post WWII. It's absolutely a war, but it's a war where the natives are being raped and pillaged by the occupying force with no recourse because they already lost.

I'd be willing to wager the source of violence in police|public interactions is the public in less than 5% of interactions, probably less than 1%.
> Linux distros have power and customizability, but it's not easy to use. That's par for the course.

I contend that it is possible to have both, it's just that no one is trying to anymore.

> So either a user learns to be a power user, and go with linux, or stay as a "normal" user, and give control over to microsoft/apple/google etc.

And this is why. Because people who have the ability and opportunity to build that future refuse to do so because they like having a wall that separates them from "normal users" so they can feel superior or something. It didn't used to be this way, a lot of effort used to go into making environments that were powerful and had a good user experience and helped onramp the user to programming. Unfortunately, we've basically thrown all that away now because it isn't where the money is.
> a death sentence

For Microsoft? Windows has been on decline in importance at Microsoft for some time.

For Windows? Nah, too many Fortune 500 businesses rely on software running on Windows for day to day operations. While it's hard to see from the consumer/ web/ developer side of the world, Win32 still dominates. Lots of vertical industry specific software which won't be replaced for quite some time.
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The Surface, Hololens, and XBox aren't "interesting"? Stop it.
Ubuntu puts a dot between year and month so it's not confusing.
He Removed Label That Said ‘Medical Use Prohibited’ Then Tried to Sell Thousands
Nice so I'm being downvoted by anti corporate and pro corporate people, good to know.

You compared the level of selfishness of corporations to individuals. I wonder if other people here would agree with that.

My original intent was to confirm that corporations are indeed made up of people, who have motivations.

Most people here would deny that corporations should be considered people.
I mean yeah its possible, I also live in Back Bay (and in reality I would walk in a nice day to Microcenter anyways) so its hard to argue with a 10 minute walk to Apple or Microsoft if I need a last minute keyboard, controller, or something else.

More, I am just sad to be loosing one of the already very few tech stores we have in Boston.
"Reduced" property taxes on low environmental impact residential units. Which in fact turns into increased property taxes on "environmentally inefficient" residential units. Which turns into higher fiscal pressure for people that cannot afford to refurbish their homes. Which turns into them selling their properties (sometimes built by their great grandfathers) to rich turists that are able to afford the required refurbishments.
I wonder if they did tech support like the Apple store does. In my opinion that’s why the Apple stores are so popular.
Unfortunately, a police assaulting a civilian, wherein the civilian victim performs any act of self defense down to and including bleeding on an officer counts as a prosecutable assault on the officer.
https://archive.md/20200626134049/https://www.economist.com/...
If you're a consumer, you probably don't want level 3. If you're a company selling self driving cars, you probably don't want level 3.

If you're a research organization developing self driving cars, you will find yourself stuck at level 3, because level 4 is really really hard. Going from level 3 to level 4 means getting rid of any problem that would keep you at level 3.

Disclaimer: I work for GM, not on SDC, this is solely my opinion.
I think comparing a knife to a dedicated writing device is like comparing apples and oranges. We use different utensils because they innately have different properties that are useful in different aspects of cooking. It's not that a knife and spoon both have the same exact function, only the knife doesn't send me push notifications.

A laptop with a keyboard is not going to give you different writing properties than a screen + a keyboard. They both will write text just the same. One can turn off notifications/connection to the internet if desired, and now they're both quiet devices.
Selectively track changes on ActiveRecord models in Rails
Mobilewalla used cellphone data to estimate the demographics of protesters
The ability to upgrade would be a bonus and usually comes automatically, if you have the ability to repair a device. OWC is well-known for offerings of upgrades for Apple computers, which were not officially upgradeable, as well as of course, repair kits, like for the battery in some models.

A right to repair should be one of the fundamental customer rights. In this case, not only protecting the customer, but also the environment. Customer rights exists for multiple reasons. First of all, to protect against undue forcing of customers into something. Even if a company doesn't have a monopoly in the strict sense, they might try to force you into situations, where you cannot just choose a different brand. Especially if all brands go on a similar course.
We have a hummingbird feeder outside our kitchen window. Watching their antics all summer long is a great source of entertainment. The feeder has six feeding spots, but of course they chase each other off so that only one can feed at a time. Sometimes a wasp is at the feeder and the wasp and hummingbird tolerate each other.
As others are saying isn't there Linux for that? I see that conversation is happening elsewhere, so we can end this thread.
Newsom Announces New Covid-19 Modeling Website, Open-Source Tools for All
I agree, but I kinda feel like the relaxed and comfortable atmosphere was more of an indication that the stores weren’t doing so hot. Every time I went to one is was because it was quieter and lower key than other stores. And I never actually wanted to buy things. Maybe that’s good(ish) marketing but probably doesn’t make good business sense.
The Shape of Epidemics: how epidemiology borrowed waves from water/sound/light
The article mentions that there will be no layoffs and the staff have already been redeployed to remote roles.
Its not that I haven't seen white or purple carrots, rather learning they were bred to be orange for royalty.
Hahaha, your username checks out! I can second those recommendations.
I scoured through two financial annual reports of MS for 2018 and 2019 but found no emphasis on the growth/profit or loss margins of their retail outlets. Though, I've heard a great deal about them and it seems like they were useful.

Fun fact: MS always aimed to open their outlets in serious close proximity to Apple stores.
The USDA is infamous for being especially cozy with the industry it's supposed to look after. Department of the Interior should probably do anything to do with wildlife.
In my experience communicating these kinds of warnings out to the public, especially in a way they'll actually see and notice, is a weak spot. Statistically this kind of thing is incredibly rare, and it makes it too easy for Federal employees to feel like communication is just a chore or a checkbox. I agree that part needs fixed.
I think we're going to start seeing this. Colorado just enacted a new law yesterday that removes qualified immunity from officers. Officers can now be sued personally for civil rights violations. They're going to need insurance. Let the actuaries decide who's a good and who's a bad cop!
Some crimes, sure. I don't think (intentional) murderers should be getting released back into the public very quickly though
I get the sense of "relax", but I'm trying to get the essence of it. Is it to be more mindful, stop obsessing/stressing about the thing that you are doing while still putting action in? I still struggle sometime because the only way I think I can do something is to focus fully on it, I'm in my head tracking all of the different perspectives, and tasks that can offshoot from the current thing I am doing. Also another thing, is if you primarily "think" for a living (any knowledge work) won't you get into a habit of overanalyzing/overthinking? I've found exercise and doing something physical as the best way to get out of your head.
Sort of - It ensures that your logic still generates the same output as before, so perhaps a step after the schema and a little closer to the user. I think people take it to mean the output will still look the same for the end user, though. That's rarely the case since markup is typically styled by CSS. CSS changes will largely be missed in the snapshots unless a class name is added, removed, or updated in the markup.
They're not the #1 phone, they're not the #1 computer platform, they're not the #1 smart speaker, they're not the #1 monitor vendor, they're not the #1 streaming television dongle.

I don't know how you can say "most are industry leaders in their respective segments."
The article is from 2015 but the actual story/experience is from 2010. FWIW, the onion has changed hands at least twice and the entire industry has cratered since then (hence them being owned by a PE firm now). The TV show mentioned is of course long canceled.

I know this is kinda dragging a tangential thing in here, but it really can't be overstated how much Facebook hollowed out the sector. We're talking rockefeller rolling up oil refineries, except instead of cutting them in zuck just middle-manned their entire distribution chain and squeezed them to death.
> The Autonomous Driving hype train is slowing down, so this is the perfect opportunity for this move.

Zoox in particular was a LARP of an autonomous driving company. Until any of these companies start manufacturing, they’re literally LARPing. At least Tesla shipped an actual product.
That's a great point and an understated value-add to the Microsoft/Windows ecosystem. There is something to be said for not having to call a tech support line, but going to a physical location (where you may have bought your device) to get help and support. Even if the MS stores were run as a loss, MS should have eaten those costs.
> Windows 10 has, since it's inception, been a privacy nightmare

Windows 10 is the evolution of Windows, so it's inherited 30+ years of cruft.

It's easy to compare it to Android or Chrome and say "Look how bad this is...".

That being said, if you're calling the Telemetry a privacy nightmare then you don't know what you're talking about. The privacy issues in Windows 10 aren't with the Telemetry and go back way before Windows 10.
Author here. Definitely great questions. I would like to reply but this is touching sensitive information that I don't think I can publicly disclose. ^^

What I can maybe say, is that the scope is touching JP Morgan, the corporate and investment bank with maybe 40 000 employees. It is much broader than you think.
I wish announcements were more straightforward. I’m looking at their announcement but can’t figure out what they mean by:

“...We will continue to co-locate engineering, sales, support, envisioning centers, executive briefing centers, and retail spaces for maximum impact for our customers and our company.”

What does that actually mean in real terms?
The weirdest thing is that police complain so loudly about public mistrust of police, when police don't even trust police.
You know that you failed to understand your own source and therefore claimed a number of officer shootings ~16x higher than reality, right? And 'sacred_numbers was kind enough to correct you?
From memory, the default RiscOS was kinda flat looking, but there was some application you could run that added a theme to it that made it more like the screenshot. This would have been in the mid-90s ('96 or so) when I was using them.

I do remember if you ended up in a mode that wasn't running that theme and got the default, it felt pretty old and boring, but the theme jazzed it up quite a lot. Can't remember the specifics about it though.
> I'd love to see what would happen if cops had to carry doctor-style malpractice insurance, instead of the taxpayers picking up the bill for abuse settlements.

Then taxpayers would pick up the bill for the higher salary demands of officers due to the cost of insurance, and then the police unions would lobby for targeted tort reform to limit their liability and insurance costs on the basis that it would save the taxpayers money, and succeed, and the structural problems that foster abuse would manage not to be dealt with at all, and the victims even worse off. That's what.

“Let’s absolve ourselves of liability”—which is what this amounts to unless it's a cop proposing it—is just an excuse to avoid addressing the problem.

(Doctor’s malpractice insurance is not instead of their private or public employer being liable as usual under principles like respondeat superior or just plain direct liability for acts aligned with bad policy or direction, and only covers professional negligence, not criminal acts. Mere police malpractice, is—while also an issue, to be sure—not the focus of concern here, and the acts involved are the kind for which it is generally illegal to insure liability for, for good reasons. Insurance for liability incurred through murder is not a thing, and I don't think anyone who has thought it through wants it to be a thing. Except maybe prospective murderers.)
1. Schmidhuber's Sec. XVIII points out that the basic convnet architecture with convolutional and downsampling layers is actually due to Fukushima (1979). In 1987, NNs with convolutions were combined by Waibel with weight sharing and backpropagation, before LeCun.

3. Sec. D and XIV say that the convnet was scaled up already in 2011 through the DanNet from Schmidhuber's lab. DanNet was the first convnet to win a computer vision contest. It also was the first convnet to achieve superhuman performance and had a "monopoly on winning CV competitions." It won 4 CV contests before Hinton's AlexNet won ILSVRC.

It's true. I checked the references.
Department of Interior would be better. USDA will do anything the farmers want without regard to other interests with a thing like this.
This is just FUD. You didn't give us any real use cases to agree with or refute, only your opinions. Lots of people and companies do very productive, very real, very "typed" and very effective applications and code in PHP. I am stunned that you are writing "because a lot of times your code will seem to run fine until it doesn't" as it wouldn't be such a widely used programming language if that was the case. Your entire comments reeks of trolling.
Physical implications of a fundamental period of time
> Another result of Mr Wantchekon’s political past is a preference for empiricism over ideology. A trip to Albania ended his blind affection for socialism. His school is not part of efforts to “decolonise” the African academy. Any student of politics must read Rousseau and Madison, he argues. The aim is to add to the sum of human knowledge, not subtract from it. “Be angry but also be thoughtful,” he says.

This is something that should be impressed upon all the Americans who throw around the term “decolonization.” What would “decolonizing” say Bangladesh (where I am from) mean? Should we abandon the use of English? Dismantle our Supreme Court, an institution we inherited from the British? Dismantle our legal system built on British common law, or our constitution built on the American constitution and the Magna Carta? Abandon capitalism and free markets (which 80%+ of the population support because it has revolutionized the country)? Abandon western ideas like religious freedom, secularism, feminism, individualism, etc? What would we replace those things with?
Releasing too often is just churn for the sake of churn. Debian issues one stable release every two years, and it takes many months to get a release into shape after the freeze on major (system-wide) updates.
I submit that it's not just about performance.

Both Linux and Windows still take a _lot_ more maintenance than macOS. If you have a room full of creative video artists, who are not techies, then you want them to have maximum productive up-time. You do not want to have to employ a small army of system support techies to keep those boxes running.

I used to work on a PC magazine in the West End of London. The mag was about Windows PCs, and was written on Windows PCs, but it was laid out on Macs. I supported both, and the servers and the network.

The PC side of things needed more than 10x as much support.

That's not materially different even today.

Secondly, it's not just about the boxes and their OS. It's also about the apps. A lovely fast sleek Linux distro is no use at all if it doesn't run the apps you need... and if those apps only run on one vendor's kit, or even just run best on that vendor's kit, then that is the kit you buy.
But you have to fix the unions to get rid of bad cops, since the unions prevent bad cops from being gotten rid of.
And even with a quartz watch a watchmaker can do a lot of things. If you provide the battery, they can exchange it, they can even service the dial and hands. Of course, servicing the quartz movement itself is not possible, but the point I tried to make was, that at least important components should be exchangeable on their own, like for example the battery in a laptop.
I never realized that. As a matter of fact, is there one in CLT?
>, but it seems like I still see relatively new programs that are Windows-only.

Yes if we think of well-known software like Photoshop (Windows or Mac) and MS Excel/Word (Windows or Mac), etc. ... or cross-platform apps (Slack,Skype,Discord) using Electron ... then it seems like avoiding Windows is possible.

However, a lot of the "invisible" or "dark matter" of the software universe is LOB (Line Of Business) apps and they are overwhelmingly written for Windows instead of macOS/Linux. As random trivia, I also noticed that the newest high-end oscilloscopes from Keysight have embedded Windows 10 instead of Linux as the underlying os.[1] I'm not sure what the technical reason was for building the scope's ui on Windows because their older scopes already used Linux. Maybe it was better graphics SDK with DirectX or some other Window's dependency.

[1] https://www.keysight.com/en/pcx-2935671/infiniium-uxr-series...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23598724
I think you’re starting from the wrong place in your analysis. The first question we should be asking is why we would want this technology at all. The potential for bias is a moot point if we as a society decide that we don’t want this kind of government surveillance.

Even if the systems were perfectly fair and not the least bit biased and were operated by a perfect utopian police force I still wouldn’t want facial recognition. I’ve yet to hear a potential benefit of this sort of software that would justify the huge cost to citizen privacy.

Just because we can train computers to recognize faces doesn’t mean that we should.
I've noticed that Safari on iOS autocompletes so aggressively that if you go to a full URL on a site (e.g. https://example.com/somesection/page.html) you can pretty much no longer type just "example.com" into the address bar. It will pretty damn aggressively autofill in the URL to the page you visited earlier.

Maybe it was a bug in an earlier version that's been fixed, I don't do a whole lot of browsing on my phone. But that was (or still is) easily the most obnoxious browser bug in my recent memory.
I have 10 year old PCs that are perfectly functional. My main desktop is mostly from 2012 with a couple upgrades in between and works like a champ. 7 years is far too low. This is planned obsolescence.

With Apple preventing dual boot on ARM this problem will only get worse.
No they didn't. The story seems rather light on accuracy.

See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geological_history_of_oxygen and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoclimatology
Mainly Surface and Xbox. Remember that Microsoft launched the Microsoft Store model under Ballmer when they were trying to go head on with Apple in the consumer space.
Physics simulation is really interesting. I had the fortune of working on a physics simulation engine in industry (although the company culture was dysfunctional, that’s another story), and I often hand-roll my physics simulation code in games that I make as a hobby, or use off the shelf engines like Unity’s or P2.

The timestep naturally has to be small enough that you can get good results with values that change quickly. The simulator I worked on professionally used adaptive step size. For these applications where accuracy is paramount, the adaptive step size gets you there with a smaller computational budget. For games, you often want a very repeatable physics simulation. For example, if the player can normally jump onto a 3.5m ledge, and the step size changes, maybe the player can now jump 3.6m, or maybe only 3.4m. This can frustrate the player (or it can be exploited in speedruns).

I’d also say that for most games, physical accuracy is very rarely a useful tool. That’s just my experience. 90% of the time, I just want velocity, momentum, and collisions. If you are using an existing engine like Unity, this means, among other things, that you probably don’t want to make everything in your game a Rigidbody. The physics simulator is great for things like knocking crates over and making characters ragdoll, but for your characters in-game, try doing the physics yourself in a custom character behavior instead of using Rigidbody.

You might be surprised that a ton of examples from the Unity site are like done like this.
I wonder how this could be coupled with facial detection?
Amazon Buys Self-Driving-Car Tech Company Zoox
What about liberal "information" like "racism is a public health threat" and endorsing congregating in humongous crowds for protesting?

Don't even try to "whataboutism" this because now everyone's jumping around about a resurgence of spread weeks after the protests.
Despite good intentions and my own discomfort, I can't help but feel like the anti-surveilance movement is mostly an extension of privilege politics and virtue signaling. Police brutality is a real problem, but a wildly common observation of life in the hood/ghetto/LI-housing is the prevalence of crime. You could make neighborhoods a lot safer with a lot fewer police by using modern methods like facial recognition cameras and unmanned aerial surveillance. Break-ins and robberies suddenly become wildly easy to punish afterwards and a lot of investigative work like tracking gang members to get a sense of their operations morphs into a trivial affair. We're rapidly approaching the point where basic physical crime is optional and while there should obviously be oversight and moral considerations at every step I can't help but feel it's a bit entitled of me to live in an okay neighborhood (some crime but its mostly kids drinking in parks and hobo drama) while telling people that the risks are too great to use this kind of tech in any circumstance.
It's not simple in either direction. You have some events where responding faster is considered better most notably detecting input and some where you need a consistent frame-rate to avoid issues (e.g. simulating drag is really sensitive to framerate and will behave quite differently as a game slows down). A fixed timestep also causes the game to slow down if it can't hit the desired update rate.

FWIW neither Unity nor UE4 use a fixed timestep for their default update and tick.