skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without the police would we have bands of marauding warlords tormenting the citizens that are much worse than the police? Maybe some people are less aware of what that would look like, and some are more aware. Especially when it comes to their families/loved ones.
My feeling is that people start out wanting to create a company either because it's trendy to do, or because they have a big idea they care about.

I've rarely run into a business consultant, adviser, etc who doesn't immediately want to rein that in and advise that they do something smaller and profitable.

It's not bad business advice, but I think that people just tend to get more conservative about what they're willing to try after being bombarded by consistent messaging that they should scale back their ambitions. I'm not sure I think that's bad honestly, a lot of ambitious ideas are really bad and usually more based in the assumption that the competition is stupid than what I'd call honest vision.

It's good for the bottom line probably, but definitely sets an upper bound on how far you could take a project aimed at broad social welfare goals that wouldn't or shouldn't generate a profit. I've seen funding of non-profits (not sure if VC or not) but truly unsure how that works if investors actually expect something in return. They seem to have to rely on government grants and the largess of the already wealthy.
Pets are closer to a slave than a child, they have no ability to ask or demand things of you and they get only what you choose to offer them. You can ignore every single need a pet has and just put them in a bag and carry them around like an inanimate object that can never protest your actions, and throw the bag in a river if you get tired of carrying it. You can have them killed or sell them or abandon them at your discretion. Children are only raised like this in the most unfortunate circumstances.
I started a startup in the ISP space, and when I was running it, I was always kind of jealous of companies that just had a web app. Our target market was theoretically enormous, but in the day to day, adding customers was slow and difficult. It was easy to envy companies that just had to get people to click the sign up button, and then scaled with a few clicks in the AWS dashboard. Maybe founders and VCs end up making “generic software companies” because it’s easy money.
>You can also use `softwareupdate --ignore` on Mac to shut off the notification. I'm not aware of anything equivalent on Windows.

the ability to cancel or ignore updates on a windows machine is relegated to a downloaded tool on the Microsoft site[0].

[0]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4026726/windows-10-...
>So to extrapolate that any one person is more likely to commit a crime because they are black is the definition of racism.

But it's true, a black individual is on average more likely to commit a crime. How can recognizing an obvious fact be racism? Aren't you also racist for recognizing that crime is higher among black populations? It's racist to treat a black individual as if they have committed a crime or treat them differently because of it, not to recognize that a black individual is on average more likely to commit a crime. I don't understand how you would come to that conclusion.
>I always find myself suffering from choice anxiety when I open those up

This whole analysis-paralysis trend seems to be a thing not just in food delivery, but Netflix et al as well. I've lost count of the number of times I've kept scrolling through Netflix with a bunch of "okay" options at the back of my head, but searching for something better. Ditto for DoorDash.

I wonder how well an "I'm feeling lucky" button would do on a food delivery platform.
Out of curiosity, if you found a member of your unit doing something illegal, would you report them? Does how illegal matter? How about who it is in your unit?
> I'm surprised that the authors felt comfortable drawing an actual conclusion based off of the 2019 finding and presenting it as "indicating" that widespread circulation was occurring nearly a year before the pandemic hit worldwide circulation.

“widespread” is your own embellishment.
Played around with postgraphile a bit and love how easy it is to stand up a graphql endpoint with a ton of features. Liked it a lot more than hasura because you could use it as a library to expose a graphql endpoint on a next.js api endpoint rather than running as a separate service.

I do wonder how a project built with a lot of logic in the DB ends up evolving over time. With a Rails project (my recent professional experience) if we're tweaking a feature, I can refer a new engineer to my_feature.rb where they'll find all the logic around that feature. With triggers and functions in the DB, it seems like there's not a common notion of organizing the source code. Anyone dealt with that in the past?

The thing that's attractive to me about Prisma is that the mental model seems a lot closer to ActiveRecord and I just understand that way of working and scaling a productive team using it.
Can you link to a meta-analysis or a well run RCT that shows benefits to mask wearing?

There are a few that don't show any benefit to wearing masks.

What should CDC / WHO / etc do then? They have evidence, it's good quality, but it doesn't show any benefits to masks wearing. Should they tell people to wear masks? We didn't know at the time whether this would cause people to drop social distancing or not. There was a real risk that people would wear masks, but drop isolation.
Put another way, if as a leader you don't take time to recognize the priorities of those whom you are responsible for, they'll eventually revolt.

In some sense, what I'm saying is that it's not possible to be apolitical. Politics is just lens through which we analyze human interaction. You can't have social groups without politics.

If you mean specifically "politics" in the US democratic/republican party sense, that's in theory a more attainable goal, but keep in mind that under that definition you excuse what is objectively bad behavior (IBM supporting the Nazis, as an example). Not to mention that the political parties in some sense have a vested interest in making things that shouldn't be political issues "political".

And you also get into the question of what is political? Are facts political? Is saying "black people are killed by police at a higher rate than white people" political? You're ultimately just advocating for a different form of censorship, which is fraught with all the same problems as any other form, but additionally with the duty to appear unbiased in how you define what is or isn't political.

That's an inherently conservative position to take. Which you should recognize if you want to take it.
> Stop taking sexual identity so seriously - its not central to anything.

> You are just looking for something to get offended about.

> You might come from a social environment where people are much more fragile than in my environment.

It sounds like you might need to grow some thicker skin yourself. You started off by stereotyping, making a lot of assumptions and also accusing another user of being rude.
There also are many people who have severe problems with these habits due to regular schools.
*A page that looks like the normal Algolia HN page, but with no results.

And it's working for me now. Hope I didn't cause any panic; sorry about that.

It was "offline" for me and a friend for about an hour, but it's back up now. Might be some kind of intermittent issue.

edit (18 mins after this comment): it's blank again for me, and I'm getting a 429 error.
Well, proponents of the electric universe theory have an interesting explanation. First of all: lighting is not caused by clouds rubbing together. It is a result of the protective capacitance layer in the upper atmosphere leaking. Sprites are discharges from surrounding space across the ionosphere which trickles further down CAUSING thunderstorms and electric discharge to ground, or lightening.
First - you've misused the term 'technocracy' is. A 'technocracy' is not government based on technology - it's a government run by 'elite experts'.

Second - "We are not willing to give up liberties regardless of the benefits of the technology."

This makes no sense. It's like a line from a Rambo film. Communities trade liberties for benefits all the time.

Suppose police could clear 100% of murder crimes if we all consented to having our fingerprints taken. We we then do that? Probably. So long as there were no other ill effects.

This arbitrary notion of 'freedom' completely abnegates the fact that people live in communities with other people. Everything is a tradeoff. Absolutely everything.

Go ahead and use your chainsaw at 1 am in the city and see how 'free' you are to do such a simple thing as trim a hedge when you please. Or do it naked in the front yard.

Second - both these comments have shades of fear of the unknown.

This is the same kind of uproar people had about 'finger prints', 'DNA' and possibly 'seat belts'.

Both DNA and fingerprinting have been used expansively and widely for law enforcement, we generally accept their use, and are better to understand the parameters of them.

Using AI on a case by case basis in fact - is considerably less invasive.

Your fingerprint and DNA are semi-private bits of information.

You face is de-facto public.

Using 'AI' is no more 'technological' than any thing else, frankly, the term 'AI' is misleading because there is nothing special about it.

We could very well frame it as 'database search'.

---> The police took video footage from the crime scene and identified three possible suspects to the database one of the assailants was found to have the gun used to commit the crime.

It's ridiculous to assert there's something wrong here, let alone some kind of fundamentally new way of policing.

As for 'arbitrary surveillance' - that's another thing entirely. We don't have camera speed traps in a lot of places, that's fine, that's one application of technology.

I suggest we don't need broad surveillance either, but that has little to do with AI.

Crime is a real thing, cases unsolved and criminals unpunished definitely represent 'injustice' and so we need to use the tools we have to make the world a better place.
Apple is intentionally making things harder to repair. They already have added drm checks to batteries and screens.
Or a simulation/long running task you kick off knowing it'll take most of the night, then wake up to a rebooted computer.

I don't even defer updates if I can help it, but have still been bitten by this multiple times.
Twitter will disseminate your tweet, but it doesn't really have the features that you'd need to, say, organize a bombing of a federal facility (to name just one recent example of a Facebook use-case).

As for sex, that's conflating two different topics. Some people want to see it and some people don't. There's not any reasonable argument in favor of using a platform to coordinate armed insurrection.
Of the people I've talked to in real life, most don't, so these numbers are not too surprising to me.
> I hate to break it to you, but if this bill bothers you, then you’re best bet is to vote for the progressives.

Haha no. They both suck. It's only politically convient

> the Democratic party also veered to the right

I think you mean the left have veered radically more to the left.

> I just wish the senate wasn’t so skewed toward conservative states and against city dwellers.

As designed. Really we should go to the way it was supposed to be with the state legislatures choosing senators.

> hey simply refuse to appoint judges when there is a Democrat in the white house

The democrats will do exactly the same in the reverse situation.
It’s not clear to me that the Trump precedents were incitements of violence by that standard.
If i ask people if they think the tech industry has a very clear political bias i'd expect the majority would agree, if i asked which way the bias leans i suspect the majority would disagree.

To put this to the point which way do you think the bias leans?
You can flag this comment away, but I'll say this anyway:

If America doesn't crack down on Google's, Facebook's and Twitter's ability to "moderate" (censor) content at their discretion (today!), Western democratic society will come to an end. Sooner rather than later.

These services are utilities, sometimes monopolies, and must be regulated as such.
I disagree that quantum mechanics needs fixing. What it requires is understanding. Many people even ones with PhDs don't really have a deep understanding of QM.

Ask a grad student or even a professor of physics what is essentially different about QM verses classical mechanics.

I almost always get one of two answers.

QM has operators acting on a Hilbert space (rigged HS). It's so mysterious because we have to replace everything with operators. well...

Have they heard of the Koopman–von Neumann formulations of classical mechanics? It's CM formulated using HS and ops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koopman%E2%80%93von_Neumann_cl...

Another answer is uncertainty. QM has uncertainty. Well... so does classical mechanics!

So what is different? That's a very long answer but one thing is the Exclusion principle.

Besides the KvN formulation is it possible to do QM using the equations of CM in the same form?

yes, it is. The Wigner Moyal Weyl formulations of QM. Look it up or Moyal star products.

Lastly, the collapse of the wave function.

Already done long, long ago by John von Neumann in his book on Quantum Mechanics. The correct formulation involves the subtle concept of decoherence. Von Neumann's trace operators are used in extreme cases where standard calculations (which involve a tiny bit of cheating) won't work, e.g. black hole entropy.

What's wrong with QM? So far nothing! It's possible someone might find a flaw but it hasn't happened.

The problem is mostly US. We don't understand all the implications of what we already possess. The enormous amount of myth making and lack of understanding surrounding QM obfuscates what the true problems are which in 99% of cases is the most physicists simply haven't studied von Neumann carefully enough.
> Why is the "x" to close a tab, on the left instead of right? Why do I need to press the ALT key to get the option to open a link in private mode (after a right click on the link)?

I think these are both just macOS convention.

> Why can I not re-attach a browser window as a tab in an open window?

This seems to work for me?
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Dubai Police Release Hilariously High-Octane Video of Cybercriminals’ Arrests
I guess most games cap velocities for most objects if not all, so I doubt that is an issue.
I had this issue last night. What was really odd was that algolia’s API was throttling - 429 error code - when I was connected to my wifi, but when I switched to my cell network it worked fine. Then this morning it worked fine on both.
> I recommend parsing JSON+LD and Microformats

It's a shame that Saffron provides neither on the published recipe pages. If I share a recipe with someone, they might want to import it into a different app.
"I would love to know what the ideal or even acceptable policing policies are"

Some ideas...

A corp of well-trained, unarmed individuals to respond the vast majority of non-violent police calls.

Legalize drugs and sex work to dramatically curtail the amount of "crimes" and associated "police work".

Zero tolerance penalties for abuses of power by armed police. Instead of LEOs receiving less severe penalties when they break the law, mandate more severe penalties.

Plus a whole raft of other, popular ideas like banning choke holds, requiring highly regulated body cams, ending no-knock warrants in most cases, reforming or ending bail for low-level crimes, reform qualified immunity for armed government employees, the list goes on.
Thanks! And agreed - doing is in real time for high-resolution videos still needs quite some research though.
Unfortunately, FB also notices the most controversial posts and rewards them by advertising them. Engagement, clicks, etc. That's the part that keeps me from subscribing to your view. If there were a regulation that prevented social media from automatically hyping "high-engagement" posts, I might agree with you. Just bring back the reverse-chronological every-post behavior and give people tools to do their own filtering and subscribing.
Our startup is profitable, scaling, and in the single-digit millions of revenue per year. We don't have any investors but are still capital constrained. The default YC valuation of $125k/0.07 = ~$1.8M is way too low for us, nor do we want the requirement of having to meet with other startups once a week since we're already quite busy.

Does YC have a "funding offering" for startups at our stage?
I tried on my regular home internet, then my cell phone, then had a friend who's in the same geographic area as me (but different ISP) try it.
Hmm, interesting. Ideally I would like to just have vSphere upgraded, but that’s also not my money.

Let’s assume that it’s in the middle of the night in January 2021 and I really need the access and I can’t be sure my employeer will pay and the solution is available via Apple AppStore and works using SSH jump hosts. In that case I would likely pay €100 - €150 without thinking twice about it.
Rents dropped 9%

but landlords are also offering 8 weeks free

Which really means an annual lease has dropped 25%

quite steep, you could probably offer something closer to 38% lower.
No, not for Rust, and not for Goland, IIRC. The reason is that they have proper namespacing functionality in the language, and generally modern languages record dependency metadata in the direct dependents.

This is strictly a C problem.
Why is he responsible? I thought we pay taxes to the government for that.
Food creation & delivery: A hyper competitive, low margin, inventory rotting, regulated, logistical & insurance nightmare. Sprinkle on a San Francisco Office + 1300 employees: Madness.

What waste: taking $2 worth of food across the city then trying to squeak out $10 -- after paying for the drivers time, the cooking staffs time, marketing, lawyers, the inventory staff, SF Rent -- there is nothing left but nursing home level food and bad reviews. Did anyone at this company know excel? One employee car accident your insurance drops you. One blown industrial food fridge your profits are gone for the month. One bad meal you lost a customer. My mind blows that experienced board members went along with this circus. Uber for cats just didn't cut it?
Docker container and image – export and save
Running Gentoo and complaining about long compile times is like cutting off your leg and complaining that walking hurts.
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And I never wanna go back to a 2 dimensional Internet. This is really amazing, the hololens 2 that is. I actually dictated this via voice.
And it's not just assault, either.

There was one famous case from Ferguson, where a guy was charged with destruction of property, because he bled on the uniform of the four officers who were beating him in the cell they've just thrown him in, after he complained about conditions.

(The reason why the victim was in jail in the first place was because they arrested him after incorrectly identifying him as a target of an outstanding arrest warrant. Filing the property damage charges allowed them to keep him in cell for another week, until he could procure the bond money.)
Were they connected with ethernet cables? A lightning could do it.
Isn't that just tenured professors, a small portion of academia, which doesn't include adjunct professors, teacher assistants, or research assistants?
Yeah, so like others recommmend above, you need to create a few playlists and I'm fairly certain you'll be getting different recommendations. Still, I also agree with people here who say that you should be able to 'reset' it whenever you want.
I don't like to default to 'andsowhat' approach, but this type of conversation tends to lead there. If we are go there, what is this abusive behavior?
Previous thinking (based on experience) was that people paid for access to a news platform rather than to individual name-brand writers. This was apparently why earlier efforts at micro-payments for articles failed and/or subscriptions failed.

Ben Smith seems to think something has changed in the market such that people are now willing to make small payments to individual writers. However Smith does not say what has changed.

I’d be curious to know what’s different this time and welcome any insight from the board.
I respectfully disagree completely. I'm an attorney, and my profession is completely beholden to this kind of credentialism, where you can't possibly do the work if you aren't a member of the club.

I happen to believe that the work is the work, and it's done well or poorly regardless of your membership in an organization or an association. And at least for attorneys, most of the work isn't nearly as difficult as we like to pretend. It's just more lucrative for the profession to be scandalized at the idea that people who aren't trained professionals could do many of the things we do.

Journalism does require standards, but I'd say as long as the standards are adhered to, journalism is happening.
There are many small businesses that have a handful of machines with local accounts that used to be on Windows XP, Vista or 7 (Professional/Business editions) and worked fine for a decade.

They do not need, and don't have the resources to install and manage an Active Directory domain and Windows 10 Enterprise licenses, and yet still deserve their workstations to work predictably and not get in their way.

Accepting the idea that you need to invest in Active Directory, Server and Enterprise licenses and an entire IT team to manage all that just to have the privilege of your computers not constantly getting in your way is nuts.
Haven't gotten to the point where I'd want to use something else yet. Unless you have some suggestions that might not be on my radar?
Look at the release channels. The SAC for Windows and monthly channel for MS365 are used to test for the real customers which are enterprise (LTS) users.

Looking at the way MS365 does it for different SKUs makes it obvious. Less money means more frequent updates.
Unilever is latest brand to boycott Facebook
Regulated by whom? The devil is in the details.
I’m no anarchist, so I don’t disagree with that. But we shouldn’t forget that violent coercion is ultimately what makes the rule of law possible. I’m also no vegetarian, but for the same reason we shouldn’t forget that mass slaughter of animals makes steaks possible.
Capitalizm isn't about doing what people want, it's about doing what money-weighted-people want.

This distinction has enormous explanatory power for why the market focuses on some things and not others, especially when there is so much low hanging fruit among the "others."
The idea that quantum mechanics stops working at macroscopic scales is totally unnecessary, as the fact that this appears to happen has already been explained with decoherence, which emerges naturally from the fundamental laws. However, I guess there's something to be said for checking every imaginable possible modification of present theories. As far as I know the only modification that's truly motivated is adding gravity to the standard model, which nobody knows how to do, so the next best thing is to imagine extra terms and then try to swat them out with experiments.