skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure... well, let's just say that if and when the founders of Encrochat turn up in small pieces I wouldn't be surprised at all and that could simply have been the one shot they had left at hopefully getting out of this alive. Pissing off a very large number of people that have zero problems with killing your and/or your extended family is a career limiting move if there ever was one. Sleep with the dogs, wake up with fleas. Or not wake up.
> I would consider it more believable if they seemed more 'congruent'.

Why?

Social norms were very different for regular people, imagine being the emperor, especially Nero, whose family history make GOT look like a family camping...

Another example is Elagabalus, who is considered the first example of a transgender emperor in history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus

In ancient times homosexuality wasn't a problem at all.

Just look at Greek history
Guessing your point is that "herbicide" makes it look like it ought not to affect us and other animals, and that is misleading because evidently they do? Fair enough.

My point, that there is no chance of robots eliminating the temptation to spray insecticides, remains.
From the article:
Alonso describes the app as “a demo of Samplr for the MacBook Touch Bar.”

Samplr is Alonso's full featured iPad app.

From the website:
*This free app is distributed as is. No support is provided and no future updates are planned.

That said, I'm sure a talented and adventurous person could off pull using this. You define your limits =)
You would be surprised how often flagging is abused on HN.

Say something that puts certain companies (you know who you are) in really bad light and your post will be magically flagged.
For the purpose of PPP we need to narrow down to the businesses that have paid employees. Over 95% of black owned businesses do not according to the 2012 SBO Census.

Edit: More data -

"Data from the Small Business Administration indicates that just over 19 million businesses, or 70.9 percent of all U.S. businesses, are white-owned. Blacks own about 2.6 million businesses or 9.5 percent of all U.S. businesses, and Latinos own 3.3 million businesses or 12.2 percent of all American businesses. But the sales and employment numbers tell a more depressing story. The 19 million white-owned businesses have 88 percent of the overall sales, and control 86.5 percent of U.S. employment, while black businesses have a mere 1.3 percent of total American sales, and 1.7 percent of the nation’s employees."

Seems like the loan rate roughly matches the % of employees by group.
> these individuals give me the impression that they trust SSC more than the NYT

Anyone who's read both and trust the NYT more has severe reading comprehension issues...

Note that "trust" here doesn't mean "their conclusion is definitely correct". It means trusting what's on the surface of the article: that descriptions of linked-to references aren't completely fabricated or misrepresentative, that some baseline level of honest reading of sources has been attempted, etc.

This isn't quite the apples-to-apples criticism that it appears: NYT has tons of people trying to cover a big chunk of all the events of note happening, and has no way of hiring at scale that narrowly selects for particularly intellectually honest or intelligent employees. Scott is a single person who happens to be really intelligent and quite intellectually honest, and he posts at the cadence he prefers about topics that he thinks he has something valuable to say about. If he had to scale his posting to the level of the NYT's, it's probably get more untrustworthy too.
Safe bet.
> I know a lot of liberal gun owning people. I have a hunch this is like environmental issues. I think many conservative want to support environmental issues but since it clashes with more government control, it get's thrown under the bus.

The American political system doesn't support a la carte ordering, it only has prix fixe options. If your priority is some main course, you might not be able to get the side you want with it.
Haha I did the math on this for that exact reason. I guess it only makes sense if you live in New York and can walk by the mailing address.
Not the same here. The seized drugs are already processed and ready for sale to the public. There is no millions of dollars of labour required to split 2000kg into smaller and smaller packages to end up with 2,000,000 x 1g amounts.

This is closer to entire wafers of chips being seized, which require some work to turn into a commodity for public consumption i.e single CPUs, but that is a lot less work, and less technical too, than creating the wafers in the first place.
Its not :/ I'm curious what would happen if you looked up the definition of ad hominem and showed me how the excerpt doesn't match the definition
Although ranked-choice voting (more precisely, instant-runoff voting) is a step in the right direction, it will not solve this problem. Yes, it lets voters safely express maximum support for a third-party candidate that’s guaranteed to lose. But as soon as that candidate gains enough support to become a viable threat to the two major parties, the game theory doesn’t work out so nicely.

Approval voting is a much simpler system that gives better results.

https://www.electionscience.org/library/the-spoiler-effect/
Interesting - that's how the Israel National Fund managed its land in the pre-state period.
Is there anything in the definition of assault weapon that has to do with a shorter barrel though? I'm genuinely curious where this person came to the conclusion that it was relevant.
Why bother insuring yourselves then? Just to cover yourselves incase you get "unlucky"?

Couldn't you structure the contest so that you know you'd payout $X per week and not need insurance?
That's really not true. You can try as hard as you want but you will not be able to spin up a search competitor right now because the funding literally doesn't exist.
Even before the rollover it get's bad. I had a CI failure on 31 December 2018 for code which worked fine on 31 December 2017, because it was the first time for that code to have Dec 31 in week 1 of the next year.

And last year someone else's code failed on 30 December 2019, so I had a pretty good idea where to look.

Still need to fix a bug in code written only yesteryear because the 1st of July wasn't on a Monday this year, but I decided to snooze that test failure ... it'll work fine again in 9 years.
The Making of Half-Life: Alyx
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

Honestly if you cannot see the difference between the West and the Not The West, it's because you want to believe in the big lie. If you cannot see the difference between genocide in China and systemic racism in the US, it's because you want to believe in the big lie. I dare say that the fundamental problem in Western Civilization right now are people like you, who may believe different big lies but believe in the Big Lie all the same.
The issue here isn’t that police unions exist - they can exist and protect the rights of their members without influencing policymaking. The issue is that public policy can be influenced by any special interest group with deep pockets.
Fun fact about Roman roads: The Romans would build roads as straight as physically possible. Unlike the modern day, where we will wrap a road around the landscape to keep it relatively level, the Romans would direct their roads straight up and down hills to keep them as short as possible.

Also, on the subject of maps of Rome that look like subway maps, the Peutingeriana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_Peutingeriana is supposedly based on a Roman original and definitely feels like a subway map, prioritizing the connections between cities rather than their correct spatial distribution.
There is this concept of 'added value', that 2000 kg of cocaine is very close to being ready to go, cutting it will only dillute it, not increase the street value, it is simply a compression to make it easier to ship.
> It is more efficient to put in place industry specific rules which then can be enforced with much simpler reasoning.

I could not disagree more strongly. If you could point me to a rule that meets these criteria I'd love to see them -- all the rules that I've had to deal with in my professional life have been contrived to benefit the small number of companies actually capable of complying with them, rather than supporting the end goal of the regulation directly, and most of the time, allowed sufficiently large players to circumvent them entirely.

Antitrust legislation is hard to enforce, costly and time consuming, as you say, but it should be hard, and it should be time consuming, because the alternative is that you outsource the hard and time consuming parts to the industry, which is just "weaponizing the complexity" -- the cost to comply does not scale linearly with the benefits, so small players are just wiped off of the board.

(Note: I think you got confused with the double negatives in your first sentence -- you say "There is this misconception that the absence of regulation is bad" but I think you mean "There is this misconception that regulation is bad" or "There is this misconception that the absence of regulation is good". Not that I agree with you, but the rest of your post argues for sane regulation rather than deregulation)
I'm sorry if it seemed like I made that assumption. I certainly didn't mean to. There were attempts at similar things in the Nordics, and certainly Russia displaced many local tribes in its hunt to stamp out any ethnical uniqueness through-out Russia, under Communism, for the gain of assimilation. We see similar tendencies today in China, although there seems to be a sort of uneasy acceptance of the minorities there. Well, if you disregard the not-so secret re-education camps... Anyway, a great movie about the difficult adaptation to Scandinavian modernity among Samis, and the prejudice towards them, is the Swedish movie Sami Blood. Highly recommended!
"Fluid mechanics is the study of how fluids move. That may sound simple, but it’s actually very complex."

Right! Thus, to solve practical cases quickly there's little point in coming to grips with the complex mathematics that describe the movement of viscous fluids (that is unless it's being undertaken as an academic exercise). The fact is that the differential Navier–Stokes equations that underpin fluid mechanics are (a) very complex and (b) that often there are insufficient data points available to calculate or give a reasonably accurate picture/understanding of what it is that is being modeled.

It seems to me that given the urgency of the COVID-19 problem, the most practical solution is to just do empirical experiments and then extrapolate from there.

BTW, a caveat, I'm aware that there has been some recent work that supposedly improves on Navier–Stokes, I do not know whether that is relevant here or that it could be adapted effectively given the current time constraints.
Is that the Tribal police?
That is a far more well thought out argument than mine.

> But to maintain the status quo in perpetuity, locking in Temperance Movement reforms without defectors slowly eating them away, a national law was desirable.

But overall yes — this what what I was referring to. Even if I wasn’t clear on the state vs federal level, the overall argument that I’ve seen is that the proponents of prohibition wanted to increase the difficulty of rolling back prohibition. And if alcohol was banned through legislation, it would just take a single election (state or federal, depending on the law) to change things back.
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How’s the tooling for that? Haskell has the “best” compiler and garbage tooling that should be built on top of the ol’ rolls Royce engine it’s rocking on.

Meanwhile the plugins and IDE integrations for Reason/Ocaml and F# are ready to go from the start and work pretty well.
I write on a 2020 iPad Pro with iA Writer which allows me to save to WorkingCopy, which I use to publish up to a Git powered Jekyll blog. It's decent enough that I haven't bothered looking for a better flow, but I absolutely love writing on the iPad and typing on the magic keyboard.
I might get around to doing the math myself, but what would be the APY given the expected earnings I calculated above with an average American savings account of say $7,000.
Right—HierarchyQL or NestQL would be a better name, even. I’m not aware of its being much more ergonomic or helpful for graph queries than SQL is. Certainly nothing like Cypher or another actual query language for graphs. Doesn’t mean it’s bad, it just has a misleading name (in fact TFA even seems a bit confused about what it is)
Well, either you think security vulns are bad or you don’t. I think they’re bad, just kinda crazy like that I suppose.
Grip – 800k R/S
It has been a long time since I have posted this here, I would like to present you the framework I have been working on for a while now,

https://github.com/grip-framework/grip

For details read the README.md file.

Please review and star the repo for some support and love, Thank you :)
Nice in industrial settings, poor in scientific ones.
Aside from shivering at the mention of "Web UI", I don't quite get what this does that SSH doesn't. The landing page is super useless, and the blog post doesn't exactly explain why a VPN service (since it "removes the need for VPN", it's a VPN) is a replacement for ssh.

Like, "glorious portal radiating encrypted beams into all of your clouds and smart devices", umm yeah okay.
Is anyone else having trouble going View > Zoom > Normal
But we are not seeing further-to-the-left arguments on marriage rights. It's not like now that same-sex people can marry, people are pushing for plural or animal marriage.
Only a few major police departments have done it themselves, Dallas PD being the most notable as one of the first and most comprehensive I've come across.

(Full disclosure, I'm a co-author of the article linked here.)
This is super nice! I have seen similar solutions for Python in the past, but having an easy API + Docker makes this generic and language agnostics.

Have you looked to tweak PSQL parameters to make it faster for test runs e.g. by disabling disk writes?
At a guess this was a V2, and V1 still exists and operates.
> I think you are intentionally playing dumb here

I think everyone else is playing dumb!

They're telling me they're shocked that a business would mark up a product they buy from someone else to re-sell? And I think it's a bit off they're calling it 'unethical'. It's no different to what other companies do all the time and people consider it acceptable and the only distinction is the label of delivery/retailer?

The restaurants do it themselves! They resell wine with their own markup plus charge a service fee!

Also, this is a luxury product we're talking about - restaurant food delivered to you home. Why are people so aghast that they're having to pay a marked-up premium for it?
Little apps like this demonstrate why the touchbar really is a useful user interface for certain things.

Had Apple had the good sense to introduce it without removing an entire row of keys used heavily by the developers tasked with writing software for it it might have actually worked out.
> 17,120x was due to machine improvements (single core). 147,650x was due to algorithmic improvements.

That is just... insane. I knew only vaguely that performance had improved significantly for many NP-hard/complete problems in practice, but I did not realize the magnitude of improvement, especially due to better algorithms.

> The biggest improvements in MIP algorithm performance have been due to improvements in solver heuristics (!), because the fastest computations are those that don't have to be performed at all -- i.e. that are eliminated via heuristics.

That is also... remarkable. Thank you for sharing.

I can't help but agree with you :-)

EDIT: Given that most of the "algorithmic" improvements have been due to better solver heuristics, I imagine it should be possible to train meta DL/RL models that learn how to find good heuristics for training DL models with high sample efficiency. Come to think of it, this competition seems to be asking precisely for such "black-box heuristic-guessing" models, so clearly there are people working on it.
There's a big difference between Eastern Oklahoma and Western Oklahoma.

GP's description sounds like Eastern Oklahoma which is more similar in landscape and vegetation to places in Arkansas and Missouri like the Ozarks.

Your description sounds like Western Oklahoma. I lived there from age 12 to 20 and yes it's exactly as you describe, getting worse the farther West you go in the state. Dystopian agriculture.

Although Tulsa is east of OKC, I would put the dividing line between the East/West change in landscape around the Tulsa area.
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It is mildly humorous that we've gotten this far in and you're telling me "hm I don't like the definition in the dictionary, we should pick something more technical" (???)

I have a CS and law degree and IMHO the divide here is the CS people tend to believe "ad hominem" has a technical definition beyond, well, the definition
Just wanna to add that Trump's DOJ isn't pursuing consent decree. In fact, the consent decree in Chicago was nearly finalized when Trump took office, and Sessions dropped it.

So they have the power to do it, but they definitely have the power not to do it at all.
If they have nothing to hide, what are they afraid of...?
Police in the UK are prohibited from taking any form of industrial action - so the Federation does not have the ability to create disruption (to forcibly get their way) in the way Police Unions in North America can (and frequently do).

The Federation represents officers up to Chief Inspector, the Association of Police Superintendents represents more senior officers, but below Chief Officer rank.

ACPO is for Chief Police Officers and is quite different. You should not conflate that as serving the same purpose at the Federation of AsPS.
> I don't bother with science reporting at all, for example. I hear about anything worth noticing on HN or similar channels and then I read the actual scientific paper should I care to, rather than some journalist's half-baked summary thereof.

It's utterly shocking how often news articles summarize a paper incorrectly in some central, significant way. It's gotten to the point that, as you say, reading the paper and the comments on a sufficiently informed forum is my baseline for getting information about science one might care about. That's obviously a lot of work, so you can't do it for everything, but the second-place option is to accept that you're not informed about the topic and don't consider it worth informing yourself about. Reading science reporting is often literally worse than not being informed on the topic at all.
While congress is idle and obstructionist in a way of refusing to allow votes as opposed to "most bills get a failing vote even after ammendments" I wonder how much of the dysfunction is a matter of failing to scale governance.
It's interesting to me that this is the first really interesting use of the touch bar I've seen in the years I've owned a laptop with one.

I'm also sad that it requires Catilina, I'm stuck on Mojave for the time being thanks to a number of 32 bit apps I depend on.
> I miss this version of Paint

Well you are in luck: https://archive.org/details/MSPaintWinXP

I use this all the time on my Windows 10 box.

Just download, rename to "mspaintxp.exe" and put it in C:\Windows\System32. Optionally update Paint shortcut to point to that one so when you type "Paint" in start menu that's the new default.
One of the main argument for Acme was that keyboard navigation is tends to be one dimensional, whereas navigating with mouse is two dimensional.

I find it curious that a higher-than-one dimensional representation of a program is not present: proper syntax highlighting makes debugging much faster.

Say, I want to see some expression with deeply nested parenthesis (lisp-style, or nested function calling in Python) is matching. I can do that with my eyes, checking the color of the beginning and the ending parenthesis. Same goes for, say, if I want to find a string in my program. I don't have to care about the quotation mark, I can just look at its color being different from the rest.

Executing commands with the mouse is heavily underrated and is a behavior I fail to faithfully replicate in i3 - or even Emacs, for that matter - but only if you guys had syntax highlighting...
Aha! I've had almost exactly that project in my ideas list for years. It sounds like the Right Solution for home photos! I have subscribed to your newsletter.
Well, I remember one demo being a DJ scratching and so on. Not that far off.
As I noted in my other comment, in the linked paper, only 14% of business chose to self-identify race, so it's not clear how biased this data set is.
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Abu Ghraib was in 2004 and was carried out by a government.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_priso...

I am not sure why you think that this sort of behaviour is new?
How much more extra do you think customers will pay? There is already a $15 minimum on most apps. There is the 15% flat service fee they charge customers. Then there is the delivery fee that can range from $0.99 to $7.99. Then there's the tips. And to top it off, the apps charge the restaurant as well. Sometimes as high as 25%. If you shift these costs to the customers, its almost a 50-60% premium. I don't think their business will survive.
Not sure where you're getting your information. We've consistently underestimated how fast things are happening, and how much sooner they're happening.

All of those problems you identified are accelerating global warming and will be made worse by it. Unless we reduce emissions drastically immediately (and stop the biosphere collapse), we're likely en route to at a bare minimum a +3C world, with a ~20% chance of a +4C world within our lifetimes.

Estimates of what survive at a +4C world range from a few hundred million to a maybe 1-3B people. That's what, somewhere between 50-90% of humanity dying off. Look to your left, look to your right, unless we do something today, those people are going to die.

The World Bank in 2012 came out with a report as to Why We Need to Avoid a 4C world. At that time, they suggested that +4C is a low probability as early as 2050's-60's. Their assumptions then were that we'd stop curbing emissions in 2015 (they've gone up), and they also drastically underestimated how much higher CO2e concentrations would be increasing in the atmosphere (they assumed CO2e concentrations would go up by 1.5 ppm / year, but instead, they've gone up 2.6 ppm / year)

The issue with climate is compounded by something called "thermal inertia", which in practice means that the action we take today won't bear fruit for another 30 years.

So yea, unless we drastically reduce emission and stop the biosphere collapse, this generation, meaning YOU, meaning the elites who ignore this, and yes me, will likely be responsible for the largest die off of life since ... well the last mass extinction event.

So yea, pay attention to the science. Pay attention to the scientists and the literature.

The picture is bleak.
I think their referring to the 2/3 of the house and senate that voted for it and 3/4 of states ratified it.

Weather or not the law had the desired effect relative to hypothetical legislative action is an open debate but undoubtedly could be overturned with less votes.
My personal recipe for buying drives: wait until Backblaze has run them for a year and then pick the winner. That gives a pretty safe strategy. I also buy them in small lots to avoid having the same firmware and number of hours on them, and order 3 (cold) spares so I don't have to wait for an order to come in in case a drive dies. Call me paranoid.
I laughed. You may well be the most optimistic person on HN. Bravo.