skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A French friend of mine, long ago in college, was actually on Interpol's list of wanted criminals for a while. He slipped into the US, (have no idea how), and has lived a crime free life here ever since.

One thing he told me after living here in the US for a while was that Americans tend to believe violent crime in Europe is lower than violent crime in the US because they can easily compare the homicide rates. Whereas people like him know that you don't compare murder for murder, you compare murders in the US, to "missing" people in Europe. His sense was that there was actually far more violent crime in Europe at the time, just far fewer living witnesses.

The discovery of this "shipping container" kind of "jibes" with that long ago street-level assessment.
It wasn't, if it was then Encrochat would not have warned its users they had been compromised on Jun 13th.
Ah, the traditional military coup popular in Latin America. Turkey used to have the military as an unofficial brake on the islamism of the government, but they finally managed have a purge and consolidate power.
The real total value of a hand-full of sand is ~$400, because it can be refined into a 32-core Intel CPU.

That is, if we completely ignore that most of that $400 comes from $400 worth of labour that needs to be put into that sand, to turn it into something people can pay money for.

In that same vein, the drugs aren't (yet) worth $100,000,000, because you still need to put in millions and tens of millions of dollars of labour into them, to turn them into something people can pay money for.
What is unbelievable about this story (and other similar ones reported here) is that YouTube enables bad actors by not making their own reviews definitive.

What's also surprising is Tesla's pettiness and thin-skin response to Rich's videos, having banned him from their referral programme because they don't like them, and which are entirely benign, if a little provocative.
Nice! Mine was similar, for a browser game called Tribal Wars.

Same stack; I (ab)used the referrer header to determine who was requesting the image (from a village ID in the header). I'd embed it in tribe forum posts to mark people as read, display dynamic stats for points, tribes, villages and such. Sometimes I'd do shenanigans like "[current person] is a noob". It really threw people in a loop as nobody had developed anything similar ;)
I view the legacy stuff as a but more nuanced. Universities want to admit people that really want to go there, and that will increase their prestige later through some combination of espousing the benefits of that school, becoming famous, or becoming successful. It's not hard to see how the legacy systems tick a few of these boxes automatically, making those candidates seem slightly better than others (if nothing else, the candidate probably really wants this as their college over any other choices, and will likely have more pressure from self and family to complete college and do well).

The problem then, as I see it, is not legacy consideration helping people get admitted, but legacy considerations overriding the other criteria. If legacy considerations where only a 15-20% in applicant suitability, I think most people wouldn't be that upset about it. When it leads to wholly and obviously unsuitable people going, that's probably when the legacy system has gone out of control.
this would have made a really cool demo the day the touchbar came out.
Doesn't need to be super precise. We are trained to work with uncooperative patients. Of course it helps though.
Except it didn't.

See Exhibit 1 at https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2018..... The "sky high" jump you portray doesn't exist. It's been a quite steady annual rise.

If pre-existing conditions were the primary cause for premium increases, the ACA's one-fell-swoop removal of them would've had far more significant impact on that chart.
But keep asking yourself the similar rhetorical questions until you land on something that's hard to choose between.

The methods of torture devices centuries and millennia ago are just as horrifying as what you see here. Crucifixion for starters. Brazen bull. Breaking on the wheel. Etc.

No, this isn't new. What is new is that this is more rare than it used to be. (At least, I think/hope it is. I might be wrong). We just need to continue on that path.
There is a nice Tcl/Tk port of Acme: http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/ma/ma.html
Search is hard. When ElasticSearch isn't enough, I reach for Algolia. For basic search, this should be good, but ranking is very important... how's RediSearch's fuzzy search results? The second most important aspect of search.
Incredible. Do the right thing America!

Let the Native Americans go. Let them be free. Give them back their lands.

You have enslaved them for far too long. You genocided them. Killed their culture. Killed their language. Raped their women. Killed their men. Killed their children. And now, the Covid virus is about to kill off the remaining Navajo Tribe.

You must be a heartless monster, if you don’t feel any sense of sorrow, for what is about to happen to the Navajos. They’re all about to die from the virus. Their culture is about to disappear from this earth.

For all the hot air talk about foreign nations and their supposed cultural genocide, well, you have one right here in your own backyard. And you have the historical baggage that goes with it.

It’s time to let them finally be free. They have suffered long enough, for the sake of America’s Manifest Destiny project!

Americans need to depopulate the Oklahoma territories, and return that land back to the Native Americans. As wells as the Dakotas, and return that back to the Sioux Tribes.

Americans already took all the good lands on the east and west coasts, by the waters, and left the sh*t lands to the Native Americans. Do the right thing. Prove it!
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But the police federation and ACPO perform similar political functions. At least we have the IPCC which sometimes works.

(We also used to have a paramilitary organization with close ties to a police force that went around murdering dissidents, but we disbanded the Royal Ulster Constabulary. And, surprisingly, the full tanks and snipers in the streets civil war wasn't quite as deadly as 80s Detroit)
I wish. How many good EVs are coming from Toyota, GM, BMW etc?
Seems a pretty fair system to me (horrendous abuses like in the article aside)
Nice! Thanks for making it free!
>> Why do you dismiss the unconscious search that humans do in Go?

The question is why you say that humans perform an unconscious search when they play Go. And what kind of search is it, other than unconscious? Could you describe it, e.g. in algorithmic notation? I mean, I'm sure you couldn't because if you could then the problem of teaching a computer to play Go as well as a human would have been solved years and years ago. But, if you can't describe what you're doing, then how do you know it's a "search"?

Note that in AI, when we talk of "search" (edit: at least, in the context of game-playing) we mean something very specific: an algorithm that examines the nodes of a tree and applies some criterion to label each examined node as a target node or not a target node. Humans are absolutely awful at executing such an algorithm with our minds for any but the most trivial of trees, at least compared to computers.
If you consider that a 2000kg bust will have little to no effect on the retail price of cocaine you can assume that what gets through is a lot more.
For a serialisation format, I like the Ts, because it sometimes makes munging data with cut and awk and so on slightly easier. I'd agree it's not a great display format, but then I don't think it's supposed to be.
While this is true in some senses, Rust's type system is very different than Haskell's when it comes to handling IO.

That said, I don't think it's impossible to type IO. https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2020/01/19/no-dynamic-typ... isn't the same problem, but it's related.
Not an authority in Roman history but looking at the Iberian map, the Roman city of Conimbriga is not modern day Coimbra, it was around 15km away from it. It's actually Aeminium [0]

This makes me a bit suspicious of the overall quality of the maps.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeminium
On what basis is this comment getting downvoted to hell, in contrast to the comment it is replying to? Neither is any less an assertion without support. I'd argue this comment is, in fact, the less extreme and incendiary one.
Cool to see the general shift back to relational databases. Back at peak graph DB hype I felt like a crazy person reading all these comments about how amazing graph and key-value stores were.
This is an interesting and important fact I wasn't aware of, thanks!
Is you like MS Paint art then you should check out Jim'll Paint It (https://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/ - also on facebook).

He takes requests.
Don't scrape it out, use air duster!
Actual, unmodified title as of Thu Jul 9 1609 CDT:

Chicago Police Department arrest API shutdown is its own kind of ‘cover up’
andrewprock already found an example and I agree with his assessment. If you have snippets that you think are worthwhile then feel free to post them. Associating assassination with people, even as a question, is sinister. A polite and kind person would not make that association or even ask the question because it implants the idea in the reader's mind and they start thinking antagonistically towards certain groups that he's suggesting should be "assassinated".

It's terrible and dreadful writing (it elicits terror and dread in the reader).

Should people ask taboo questions? Yes, they should ask such questions in private conversations with people they trust. When the interpretation is out of your hands then you need to be really careful what information you are making available to the public / audience. It's clear he doesn't think through the logic and wants to come across as smart. It's juvenile. Adults speak with intent and they address people directly and respectfully. I have never seen any adult conversations on SSC, I've only ever seen people that are peacocking their intelligence.
...Ah. I see now why the article didn't mention SMB. Because that's not a thing. Oops.
As someone trying to start a company of my own, I really enjoyed that talk he gave on the steps, where he talked about how nvidia was born and grew up. Highly motivating. In fact I curate such entrepreneur talks.
A 2011-era FiveThirtyEight article (https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-liberal-is-presiden...) looked at average DW-NOMINATE scores over time for the House of Representatives. Its conclusion was:

> According to the system, both parties have been on a trajectory toward more “extreme” positions since roughly 1970, the natural result of which is more polarization. However, the parties do not quite share equal responsibility for this: Republicans have moved about twice as much to the right as Democrats have to the left. Also, while the Democrats’ leftward shift was essentially a one-off event, the result of many moderate, Southern Democrats losing their seats in the early 1990s, the Republicans’ rightward transition has been continuous and steady.

Although to caution too-credulous interpretation, the DW-NOMINATE scores are derived from roll-call votes, so they may be biased by the issues brought up for such votes.
Any Googler here?
Any Googler here?

I want to report a spam network of around 3000 links, but the online form only allows 1 at a time (with captcha)
The jig was already up at that point, and it gave the entire thing a veneer of plausibility.
I now tend to focus on a black box logic coverage approach to tests, rather than a white box "have I covered every line of code" approach. I focus on things like format specifications, or component contract definitions/behaviour.

For lexer and parser tests, I tend to focus on the EBNF grammar. Do I have lexer test coverage for each symbol in a given EBNF, accepting duplicate token coverage across different EBNF symbol tests? Do I have parser tests for each valid path through the symbol? For error handling/recovery, do I have a test for a token in a symbol being missing (one per missing symbol)?

For equation/algorithm testing, do I have a test case for each value domain. For numbers: zero, negative number, positive number, min, max, values that yield the min/max representable output (and one above/below this to overflow).

I tend to organize tests in a hierarchy, so the tests higher up only focus on the relevant details, while the ones lower down focus on the variations they can have. For example, for a lexer I will test the different cases for a given token (e.g. '1e8' and '1E8' for a double token), then for the parser I only need to test a single double token format/variant as I know that the lexer handles the different variants correctly. Then, I can do a similar thing in the processing stages, ignoring the error handling/recovery cases that yield the same parse tree as the valid cases.
I'm not a proffesional, but I use Garabe band to brainstorm ideas for songs, and often I use the software piano keyboard and it's annoying because you can hit other keys that are not assigned to notes but to shortcuts, and you have to show/hide the piano window that ocuppies space, so I can see having a piano in the touch bar (and other plugins for that matter) being super useful.
Step 5 touches on what I like to call "engineering judgment".

One of the things that distinguishes great engineers is that they make good judgment calls about how to apply technology or which direction to proceed. They understand pragmatism and balance. They understand not to get infatuated with new technologies but not to close their minds to them either. They understand not to dogmatically apply rules and best practices but not to undervalue them either. They understand the context of their decisions, for example sometimes code quality is more important and other times getting it built and shipped is more important.

As in life, good and bad decisions can be the key determiner of where you end up. You can employ a department full of skilled coders and make a few wrong decisions and your project could still end up a failure.

Some people never develop good engineering judgment. They always see questions as black and white, or they can't let go of chasing silver bullet solutions, etc.

Anyway, it's one thing to understand how to do unit tests. It's another thing to understand why you'd use them, what you can and can't get out of them, what the costs are, and take into account all that to make good decisions about how/where to use them.
Scott does not live in Michigan and has not for years.
Its also a way if you go full Templario death cult you become a problem that is dealt with by military force.
Right but feds wont seek a sentence till the year 3000

and who knows what the tribal courts do or what those particular nations have procedures for

and he’s already served 23 years of the sentence

its an absolute win, for him
The is slightly OT, but I just want to throw it out there that there is no way they did this without Mayor Lightfoot's approval. Which makes me think, why?

Source: I worked closely with CPD and to some extent the mayor's office for two years.
Examples of Unexpected Mathematical Images
I wouldn’t be surprised if a stripped-to-the-bone installation of WinXP in a VM, running only Paint, is lighter on system resources than Electron running this.
But a big bankroll if they invested well.
Okay, fair, but the end result is still a two year tenure starting in 2016 where the whole federal government was until Republican control, and almost no progress was made on anything. The big achievement was passing a set of unfunded tax cuts— it's got to be pretty devastating for that to be the high point of a career (Ryan's) built on being a deficit hawk.
What's "spin" here? 40% of all deaths being in nursing homes? That it's not a good idea to send C19 patients to nursing homes? That NY has three times the death rate of Italy? That states which locked down nursing homes have much lower fatalities? I don't see how you can even begin to argue that Cuomo's handling of the crisis was at least atrocious, if not outright malicious.

> about 25% of the nursing home workforce was infected anyway

The logical thing to do would be to _move them out_, not get that number to 100%.
+1 for date-fns. It's not uncommon to look at a downloads in a JavaScript bundle to find out Moment — and its timezone and localization files — are a huge percentage of a download for a single `moment.format()` call.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23782205.
"The state wants to minimize budget"

This is a joke statement right? There is no state in the history of the world that attempts to do this.
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+1, I loved how well it worked, I'd be willing to pay too.
Apple Maps returns results from Yelp, which sometimes have GrubHub's interposed phone numbers in them. So your very own solution doesn't work.

You are falling for the okeydoke.

Break these assholes' backs and we are all in a better place.
Viral Post Highlights ‘Toxicity Problems’ in the Machine Learning Community
Nice theory. The big differentiator for homicides is simply the number of firearms floating around in the United States. That's an enabler if there ever was one and violent crime is to some extent a natural outflow of that.

When the former USSR collapsed and the war in former Yugoslavia happened cheap arms flooded the market here and that caused an immediate rise in gun related crime. The fact that in the EU countries that neighbor each other can have very different gun laws is another reason why since the Schengen area opened up in some countries there are now substantially more guns than before. They are still illegal, but criminals don't actually care since they are already on the other side of the line and their competition has them too.

There have been shootouts between gangs with fully automatic weapons on the streets of Amsterdam (fortunately not many), and the police has also come under fire from gangs with machine guns during getaway attempts or murder attempts.

I am not sure if they will be able to put this genie back into the bottle. The gangs here are a lot harder this decade than they were 20 or 30 years ago, there are more of them and they are far more ruthless. Some samples: heads left in front of businesses to warn others about territory violations, murders of people who looked alike some criminal or drove the same car in broad daylight, parents slaughtered in front of their kids or in the schoolyard. It's not what it used to be, that's for sure.
Your comment upthread was unsubstantive flamebait to begin with, so it's not surprising it got a flamewar response. Please don't do this on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That may be true! The point is the template has the indexes already built ready to copy. Where the dump file does not.
Well, can you sleep on the street in an American city? Can you solicit charity? Are you allowed to eat a piece of bread to avoid dying of hunger, even if you have no money?

Or will the police fine you and jail you?

I don't agree with your reading of the original argument, but if you want to take it extremely literally, the police do actually force you to work, assuming you do not have money or relations to support yourself without working. And of course, the prison system will literally force you to work if you get that far. Of course, they are doing this through their enforcement of local, state, or federal laws, not by their own mandate, but they are still the ones ultimately doing these actions.

Of course, there are much more faitfhful readings of the original argument that have more nuanced responses.
800 arrests. That's quite a syndicate. The torture chambers are probably the tip of the iceberg.
Definitely extreme - ideally I would want something like a "restraining order" against the disruptive user that legally compels them to no longer use the website. If they still break that, then probably fines+damages of some kind. But you know, something.

The other extreme which some people are advocating "let the users do whatever the hell they want and it's your own fault if they keep spoofing fb accounts/phone numbers and creating new accounts" I find pretty bad and tone-deaf; it gives carte blanche to bad behavior. Any malicious user who is set on messing with you becomes a full-time job to deal with. Most people who run some kind of B2C website have run into this and once you hit 1M+ users you are bound to be dealing with a handful of those at any one time.
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Social media flips the classic panopticon on its head; instead of instilling fear of perpetual surveillance to keep others disciplined, it instills a fear that others can't see you until you self-discipline according to the algorithm's desire.
I think your worry is a bit out of scope.
There is a thing called "Verhaeltnismaessigkeit" in Germany, and in most other countries where "The Rule Of Law" applies, to paraphrase Trudeau.
Meaning: You are not allowed to burn down the house just because the neighbor was playing the music too loudly.
So others are not to caught in the cross-fire of this operation.
So it will be a very technical challenge to overcome these obstacles.
And since an ISP is not providing updates, coercing OS vendors to alter the CA's for a specific user is a bit far-fetched.
The more likely approach is the acquisition of cryptographic keys to create one's own SSL-Certificiate.
Now: This is the domain of the intelligence-community.
Their bread and butter. Compared to the rest of the world, this community is heavily regulated; you just have to think of the CIA's Black Budget or other agencies from less pleasent countries to get a comparison.
It is best they get the legal framework in place (s.o. heralded it as the OS for society once). The alternative would be clandestine operations outside the law, and that is never good.
Only requirement I would demand for s.th. like this: The solution mustn't be scalable, as to ensure to avoid a subjecting large swats of a population to this, which is challenging with technologies these days.
The good thing is that ISPs will not keel over just because the police are requesting it.
After all they have a reputation and their customers to protect and, let's face it, this is not China, Russia, Iran or some other country were you vanish for far less than demanding more paperwork and speaking out against executive orders.
As long as the mechanisms of a society are functioning and everyone watches everyone and there is due process it works.
It will be a problem if these mechanisms fail though. I for one will be watching with keen interest.

As for the new root certificate to a domain for the agencies:
I already pointed out, s.w. in this discussion, that there is a mechanism called Certificate Pinning. Works wonders if the server configured it.
So yes, they are working on the legal framework, but thanks to the foresight of engineers and people concerned with safety for the general non-technical and technical internet-population, it is a hard challenge officials are facing.
good lord I'm sorry it took that long, I thought were all pivoting off OP noting the argument would have been much better without the attacks
These are the times we live in. Thanks to widespread racist/sexist hiring practices, every time I see a woman or minority in an upper level position I can’t help but wonder if they are there because someone wanted to fill a diversity quota. The thought never even crossed my mind 10 years ago.
I did not know the touchbar was that capable. Great job.