skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love your songs :) Thank you!! <3 And you defnitly popped up on discover weekly :D. I usually star songs that I like there, and / or order them in my custom playlists.
Microsoft Stores actually had a policy that the PCs they sold were only allowed to have clean OS images ("Signature Edition" was the branding term), which means that it was the safest place to buy Lenovo/Dell/etc. You'd pay on average about $50 more than if you bought directly from Lenovo or Dell, but you'd have peace of mind that you wouldn't need to reinstall Windows to make sure that you had removed all the spyware/adware.

ETA: Which is maybe the biggest loss with the Microsoft Stores going away. You could point a relative at a Microsoft Store and not worry about any PC they picked, but any other store you'd need to expect to do a reinstall for them or worry about which specific brand name they picked.
> Police are funded by the municipal or county government, not the fed

It's not that black and white, because...

Police slush funds are funded (indirectly) by the federal government—drug search and seizures are passed off to the feds to prosecute (because many states have laws banning the practice), and the feds shares a portion of the value seized back with the local police department. Win-win.
This is coherent with a weak infection that subsides after a few days, and was weakly transmissible so only infected one or two people.
Thanks!

IIUC, a "batch" request is run in a transaction.But if I need to run business logic in the middle of requests that's not supported?
This is going to be skewed by the fact that not all people - and certainly not all protestors - carry cell phones. It also wouldn't be terribly surprising if the rate at which they do so varies by race, income, etc.
I don’t think many people are arguing that income inequality is the only variable in the crime equation. What factors do you think are generally underemphasized today?
I was more upset that the parent was implying that his neighborhood would have equal arrest numbers if the police had been more present on account of his pot smoking. I hope everyone can see what a stupid argument that is and that’s the hill I’m willing to die on here.
>to send officers to target chronic offenders, or identifying places where crime may occur.

Those are two very different things in my mind.

Targeting individuals is very Minority Report and definitely not cool.

Focusing on problematic areas seems like good policing common sense though? 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.
Furthermore, the stated ideals of the PD/vendor might be far different from the actual metrics used to evaluated the PD (and, therefore, the software used by the PD).

You can pump up the clearance rate by practicing outright discriminatory policing. You can substantially increase revenue by targeting the poorest areas. Etc.
Tangent here, but after visiting the Pennsylvania Dutch area a few years ago, I had this mini-epiphany of a vision of an alternate universe where most of society lived in small communities like the Amish do, that were mostly self-reliant and farm-based with cottage industries, BUT in which the communities embraced technology.

Basically, with 3D printers and solar power and local grids and machine shops to fabricate for local needs, and a loose mesh network to connect these decentralized nodes/communities together (like Mastodon, instead of the paper-and-print Amish newspapers that exist). A kind of techno-libertarian-Amish blend, to form a society that was more resilient and modular, rather than hyper-centralized, dense, and easily swayed by viral influence/behavior/trends or literal biological viruses.

EDIT: Of course it would never "scale" since such a system probably could not support higher population levels at all, but maybe that's okay in the ultra-long-run or some post-apocalyptic rebuilding future (also dangerously veering into population control and genocide-ish topics).
Why IQ is bullshit (Twitter thread)
Luckin coffee delists from Nasdaq following Fraud Allegation
The answer, in general (and this is a bad place to generalize because it really varies from place-to-place), is "yes."

The correlation between poverty and higher crime is real, and the police find more crime in places they're looking than in places they don't.
Secure, open, and community-run digital marketplace
While the demographics, techniques, & reaction are all interesting, there's no support in the article text for Buzzfeed's headline claim of "almost 17k protestors had no idea a tech company was tracing their location".
For example, there's no survey of the involved mobile users – or even a quote from a present individual! – to ask or otherwise confirm how many had 'no idea' of such tracking.

While often people are surprised at the tracking that's happened, usually as a result of 'fine print' they've clicked-through at some point, this is a young, activist & heavy-mobile-using population. Many will know or suspect tracking is happening. The more privacy-oriented organizers often inform participants of such considerations.

Those affected have probably consciously enabled many kinds of 'location sharing' options & location-sensitive apps – and then specifically used those features to share updates/photos, with explicit location disclosure, from the protest site. Many may have a generationally blasé attitude about the inevitability of such tracking.

Some may even be happy that "I'm being counted". There's always controversy after mass actions as to the actual number of participants, or how many truly represent a certain local community, with biased estimates from those with agendas. A possible silver-lining of technological tracking, if the potential abuse for persecuting individuals can be prevented, is that it can turn mass actions into more-accurately-measured "super-petitions", reflecting both viewpoint & intensity-of-commitment, for change.
Yeah seems like we should lift the H1B1 visa ban and perhaps even expedite those who have expertise in this field it domestic semiconductor manufacturer is the goal?
Yep. Except this time, the people asking about the jelly beans are trying to prove they cure acne, and are also selling jelly beans.

"This research was supported in part by the REVEAL project, funded by SUEZ Spain."

https://www.suez.es/es-es/seccion-comercial/nuestras-referen...
exactly this. China did all / everything by political decree...

You like their High Speed Rail network? Oh that was a political decree when nobody in its population could even afford to ride a high speed train.

You like their science? That's a political decree as well.
Samsung has a 14nm fab in Austin and GF has a 12nm (?) fab in New York.
> We’re not taking about specious arguments like pot arrests and improper turn signals. We’re talking rape, burglary, murder, vandalism, and assault.

Look at arrest data, the former is exactly what we're talking about. Most of these cases of police brutality come from basically random stops that focus on such minor violations (turn signals, jaywalking, etc) or "your car/description matches a potential subject". See parent and weed usage vs who gets caught with weed.

Not to mention that you throw in rape/murder/assault into a sentence with vandalism. Police have a historically terrible track record with rapes in both processing cases as well as no record of stopping them. Police react to these incidents, not prevent them. The idea that police presence stops these is not supported either as when police reduced their presence in NYC neighborhoods, crime actually went down.[1]

[1] https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proacti...
By upgrading the firmware of course. This is clearly a problem for the software dept to solve.
Docker servers infected with DDoS malware in extremely rare attacks
Amazon to buy self-driving technology company Zoox
I believe Freakonomics ascribed this to abortion- an unwanted generation of people that never were, and subsequently a drop in crime.
Soundcloud's mobile app has chronic issues. The full screen UI for playing music is beautiful, but the complete lack of discovery, or neglected sorting on an artist's profile is just ridiculous.

I will never subscribe even the paid experience is better.
Cops are also looking to throw the book at a hookup, with the help of willing prosecutors. We've given cops the benefit of the doubt for decades, and only now with widespread phonecams are we seeing the truth.
The article also fails to mention that OneWeb will probably go bankrupt within a few years anyway when SpaceX put 100X more satellites in orbit than they could ever dream of paying for.
Does that sound right to you?
> Literally every city in America, regardless of their approach to policing, has experienced a massive drop in crime rates from 1990 forward.

I've never heard of anyone arguing that policing did not increase nationwide in the 90s. All of the data we have suggests otherwise, and pushing back on that is basically the entire point of the recent BLM protests.

One simple way we know crime was more aggressively enforced in EVERY city beginning in the early 90s is because so many more people were locked up during that time period (just review the incarceration rates).
> The reference you are looking for (includes executable C++) is Numerical Recipes by William Press et al.

I bought this book hoping it would be to floating point what Hacker's Delight is to integers.

It is not that.

I'm not really sure what it is. Most of the numerical algorithms I wanted weren't included at all. Those that were, like random number generation, were out of date and covered with much less rigor than you can find online with some Googling. IIRC their algorithm for generating a random float in the range [0,1] is just wrong.

The book does indeed include executable C++. But the C++ it includes is a travesty. It's C++ written by someone who sort of understood C.

Anyway I did not like it. :)
Changing what I listen to for a week gives me more of the stuff I listened to last week (at least it seems like that).

If not I’d still get baby sleeping songs.
My #1 listened to album last year was >Tropical Rain Storm Sounds

To fix this i started using the mediation apps that have these sorts of sounds.
I also ahem downloaded a few albums i really liked

I wish there was a way to tell the algorithm to ignore a specific album, song or genre
Look at the efforts put into reducing bugs in software: how much money is spent on that, new paradigms are creating to reduce bugs, linters are written and used, etc.

What are the specific, and large-scale efforts made to make the law and enforcement more equal?

We could at least try as hard as software bugs - rather than the current situation where the scale is tipped in the other way (ie there are numerous incentives to introduce 'bugs' into the system and not many to take them out)
No, they are supposed to arrest every criminal that tries to kill them. Sometimes they have no choice but to shoot (and maybe kill) someone to protect themselves or others, but that is not the goal.

The inverse is true though. They are not supposed to kill any person that doesn't try to kill them.
So funny that 10 years ago views about Microsoft and Apple were near the exact opposite of what you described here.
> Are these neighborhoods “over policed” because their residents commit more crimes, or do the residents commit more crimes because their neighborhood is “over policed”?

Your question is flawed because it omits too many variables, including the racial differences in what is enforced as a crime, the endemic poverty and resulting tattered social fabric in high crime neighborhoods that pushes residents - especially younger ones - into situations where committing crime becomes an ever more "rational" choice.
Don't forget the locations services
By definition, if people are buying at the price that Apple sets at the margins Apple wants and there are alternatives, the product is not “overpriced”. That’s kind of Economics 101
So, what's the best distributor to use to get your music on spotify? Is it cdbaby? tunecore? distrokid?
First time I've encountered the term McKinseyfied in the context of academia, can you elaborate on that?
Is this a bad thing? Are we only interested in funding brand new ideas?
I can think of two options, at opposite ends of the cost spectrum: a sawsall and duct tape, or send it back to Boeing for modification. One of those options is crazy reckless and the other crazy expensive. I will leave it up to the reader to decide which is which .
You can call it, "economy of attention". Same could be said about the Paris case.
TSMC makes AMD chips. TSMC recently announced plans to open a plant in Arizona, although I don't believe they've announced what chips will be made there.
How so? What is your though process on this?
Perhaps, but this being March 2019 and knowing how easily transmissible this virus is, there is virtually zero chance it was in the wild as early as March 2019 but didn’t start spreading until nine months later.
Agreed, I don't think those neighborhoods just happen to have a bunch of violent people, but I keep seeing people make the naive agument that the difference in crime rate for those areas is caused by police presence. I remember after the protests in Baltimore that the police stopped doing as much proactive policing, and people who lived in the bad neighborhoods were complaining that the police weren't doing enough to prevent crime in their neighborhoods. There are underlying social issues that need to be dealt with that won't be fixed by removing police.
> I did my due diligence, no need for the virtual gaslighting.

> Unfortunately, you never really find out until you work somewhere.

If you invest in a stock that you tried to research and it drops to a value of zero and you say "well you never really know until you try it", am I gaslighting you if I tell you that there's room for improvement in your due diligence process?

A CTO hiring you and then leaving the company 2 weeks after you started is a major red flag. This is not a common occurrence in anything but a dysfunctional org. Now, there is of course only so far you can predict into the future, and surprises do happen. But whose decision was it to accept the offer? And who is ultimately on the hook for it, whether it's in your control or not? To protect yourself, you need to own the responsibility for that decision, even if you have no control over it happening inside the company.

There are companies you can accept offers from where the chances of this happening are one in several thousand, and companies where the chances are closer to one in fifty. To what extent are you confident in your ability to accurately predict and gauge a range and confidence interval about that?

I used to say the same things you did, and I kept getting the same results. Eventually, I just got tired of it and I realized I'd do quite a lot to prevent it from happening in the future -- or at least, if it happened again, I didn't want it to be a surprise. I'm thankful to say that I'm significantly closer to that point now, although it took many years of trial and error. And surely, I have even more room to improve, and I look forward to honing my technique even further as I gain more experience!

If what you're trying isn't working for you, it may be worthwhile to try to reconsider your process and see if you can improve it. If you don't even try to improve it and you're unhappy with your results, why do you think that would ever change?
A Proposal to Switch Fedora 33 on the Desktop to Using Btrfs
The NYT was definitely on the "news that was better than the facts" train for quite awhile in the early days of the pandemic. I would argue the media as a whole is still largely downplaying how bad things are, likely as a matter of serving the imperatives of their corporate owners, but this isn't an idea which finds any purchase with conservatives (who want not to be inconvenienced by COVID in any way) or liberals (who are allergic to most criticism of the news media or anything which can be painted with the "conspiratorial" brush).
Another difference: The US Army doesn’t have a fucking union. These are public-sector employees who are authorized to use deadly force, and they have union representation. How is even a single person OK with that?
Seemed to me to be made up of a wide variety of demographics, but organized by respected community leaders who typically are homeowners in the areas they live.
I consider myself somewhat well-read, and I hadn't heard of these.
Is that global statistics or statistics for "over policed" neighbourhoods the article and discussion is about?
The follow-up on open sourcing the code was also unhelpful:

> Hey everybody asking that the source code be released: The source code was licensed from another company. If you want the source code, you have to go ask them.

OK, which company?
You really need to manually transfer the playlists? That's pretty retarded. And does this also mean that in order to do so I need a subscription to both?
Pretty much every US city with an Apple Store had at least the mall kiosk version of the Microsoft Store, almost always within earshot or horizon distance from the Apple Store "coincidentally".
Even if the internal discussions were "other services do this and we want a piece of that pie", no company is going to come out in a product launch announcement and directly say "another service is doing this and we want a piece of that pie".

And in this case, I would still hope they did do market validation internally, even if it is just a copy of wetransfer. Just because some other company is doing something doesn't automatically mean it's a good fit for your company to do it, too.

As for the design, it's pretty hard to say that "a generic file selection panel in the middle of a page and a Sign Up button at the top right of the page where it typically is on most sites" is a "straight up clone". The color schemes are similar, but that's just because the main color branding of both companies happens to be light blue.
I think I appreciate it well enough to stay far away from Chiraq.
Do these guys ever talk about how they love teaching? The primary purpose of universities is ostensibly teaching, yet these people are all about other things. That's fine, but perhaps they really are working in the wrong place.
I guess you're one of few with a static address, where doing something via your IP can automatically be connected to you as a person. I've made plenty of Wikipedia contributions, but going to "my" user page with my current one, I find none. I don't care about if someone can connect the IP with my contributions.

But I completely understand if you're making more "risky" edits and/or have a IP address attached to you like that. Then it makes sense. And if it's too much to create an account for the tiny edit, I guess it'll be left like it is. Some things I see on Wikipedia are wrong too, but the work to verify, archive, link and do the edit, is more than the edit is worth in terms of shared knowledge, so I skip it too.

On the other hand, I quite like that you can connect the ASN with edits on Wikipedia. Makes it very obvious what organizations are trying to influence what in which direction. But maybe the information doesn't have to be fully public, require a different access rule than just user.
The "extraordinary rendition" program the CIA was using to disappear terror suspects into places they could be tortured was discovered in part by airplane-spotting hobbyists. Because planes are extremely hard to hide, and there are people who watch airports to see what takes off and lands for fun.

When they pooled their data, they were the first group to notice the military had started running flights to and from locations they didn't normally fly, and it didn't take much investigative journalism after that to discover those planes were carrying people.
Are you saying the build quality wasn't solid on the Surface lineup? That doesn't match my experience at all.
Show HN: Building a TODO API in Golang with Kubernetes
"The record for the greatest sales in relation to area of selling space is held by Richer Sounds plc, a British hi-fi retail chain. Sales at its branch in London Bridge Walk reached a peak of £195,426/m² ($27,830/ft²) for the financial year ending 31 January 1994."
Agreed, but I wouldn't describe that as "being voluntary provided by customers."
There’s 6 more ‘playlist for you’ things now with music/artists that you’ve listened to over different genres, maybe those can help?
If I remember correctly, every time a tweet is made, a fan-out operation is made, adding the tweet to each of the follower's timeline. I would think the app just needs to remember the position on their own timeline?
tl;dr preventing spam by blocking all TOR users is lazy.
"I don't know if camera based computer vision by itself will ever be enough for full self driving."

Rebuttal: If you had a 3D camera sitting in the driver's seat of a car and hooked up the control to a remote controller, I believe that car could be drive-able. A sufficiently advanced perception/control system could theoretically use the same 3D camera feed and replace the driver. Not saying it's easy, just that all the necessary info to drive a car safely can be contained in camera feeds.
I agree. The use of 'they' to refer to a group of people is very problematic.
They have a "family" mode where you can get six subs account. Unless you really like baby shark ;)

https://www.spotify.com/us/family/
Minneapolis. Seoul.

“In the 1970s and early ’80s, we built 70 percent of our subsidized units in the wealthiest white districts,” Myron Orfield said. “The metro’s affordable-housing plan was one of the best in the country.”

"Only three large metros where at least half the homes are within reach for young middle-class families also finish in the top 10 in the Harvard-Berkeley mobility study: Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh, and Minneapolis–St. Paul. The last is particularly remarkable. The Minneapolis–St. Paul metro area is richer by median household income than Pittsburgh or Salt Lake City (or New York, or Chicago, or Los Angeles). Among residents under 35, the Twin Cities place in the top 10 for highest college-graduation rate, highest median earnings, and lowest poverty rate, according to the most recent census figures. And yet, according to the Center for Housing Policy, low-income families can rent a home and commute to work more affordably in Minneapolis–St. Paul than in all but one other major metro area (Washington, D.C.). Perhaps most impressive, the Twin Cities have the highest employment rate for 18-to-34-year-olds in the country."

"In 2008, Seoul imported a version of Minneapolis’s tax-sharing scheme. Since then, the gap in funding for social services among the city’s districts has narrowed. According to a 2012 analysis by Sun Ki Kwon, then a graduate student at the University of Kentucky, this has helped Seoul’s poorest communities grow their tax bases while only minimally affecting the city’s richest districts."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/the-mir...
Another similar example is EBV, commonly known as mono, which is often associated with chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. Viral infection occurs, followed by a prolonged period (sometime years and years) of flu symptoms.

I would guess there is nothing special about the virus aside from it being "high intensity". My best hypothesis is that the symptoms are the result of a maladaptive "freeze response" which results in the symptoms. Viruses don't actually cause pain, it is your body's response to it.

If you want to avoid this scenario with COVID, probably the best thing you can do is to reduce your stress level as much as possible, as I think that is a key risk factor. Exercise is good, but overdoing it is a form of stress!
I'm 16 years into using gmail, so the thought of converting to a new email address feels harder than trying to change my social security number right now.

Anyone done this successfully?