skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like you've misunderstood the conversation about these killings. The mainstream of the discourse about police killings of black men is rooted in the notion that they're being killed because policing is a malevolent, explicitly racist institution whose racism manifests in a proclivity to kill black men at higher rates than white men. This is what a very large fraction of my affluent, nominally-educated social circle believes, and it's dominated the conversation about these protests. This isn't a new line; the original round of BLM protests were even more statistically illiterate on the point than the current ones.

I've always found it ludicrous for people to tar a statement as offensive on grounds of being a non sequitur and thus in bad faith. This relies on being confident that both you and the accused have an aligned and 100% accurate sense of the discourse, and that there's no way that any reasonable number of Pinker's more than half million followers could hold the belief he's addressing.

(Not that it matters, but since this is a pretty high-emotion subject, I'll just lay my cards on the table: As far as I can tell, the notion that police kill unarmed men _at all_ is abhorrent. I am and long have been a strident supporter of greater limits on the police (and carceral system), but fantasizing that police killings are racialized is just going to lead you to the same blind alley of pseudoscience and IATs that BLM is in. That doesn't mean that I think the racial skew is a non-problem: the higher arrest rate is largely mediated through a higher crime rate in the black community, a problem whose roots lie in a much larger racial justice problem that is similarly disserved by misinterpreting reality).
The most promising plan I've heard along these lines is detailed in a recent episode of This Week in Virology.[1]

We could have this disease under control by the time school starts by giving everyone (or at least everyone in highly affected areas) tests every day.

This is possible, practical, and affordable.

The technology for fast pregnancy-test style tests for COVID-19 exists right now, and they could cost as little as $1 per test.

The reason these tests aren't being used yet is because of the FDA's misguided requirements for extremely high sensitivity for COVID-19 tests. If these requirements could be relaxed to allow lower-sensitivity tests, then these tests could go out on the market... or, better yet, the government could take over and ensure everyone gets tested with these tests every day for $1 a test.

Even a more limited plan of testing just all schoolkids every day for $1 a test would be way better than what we've got now.

[1] - Starting at about 6'20" in to episode 640: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-640/
F droid is an exception. Google, Apple and Microsoft app stores are the best guarantee you're installing spyware. That's what ubiquitous telemetry is after all.
Again, I think you're in a bubble. I have met large groups of people that do exactly that.

It's also worth mentioning that it's very common for companies and celebrities to use Twitter DMs as a sort of "customer support" where they specifically ask people to send them private information via DM. I've seen tweets from utility companies where they say "Please send us a DM with your account number and we will look into your issue" [0], for example. There's the possibility for valuable information there.

0: https://twitter.com/comcastcares/status/1284358479835258881
I know PMs that have meetings amongst themselves calling them "scrum" meetings. I suppose it's no worse than a department of programmers that named itself something that is also a field of math without being aware of it.
Ah, I see.

This got me Googling, and best as I can tell, CF doesn't support zone transfers. (They support being a client, but not a server. So, they could function as one's secondary system, but not as the primary.)
Yeah sure the racist hypothesis of Chinese people eating bats is far more likely than a virus escape from a Wuhan lab with known protocol defects that worked on coronaviruses. /s
It will certainly go away if $CHOICE is elected.
The US already openly uses the entire surveillance apparatus legally anywhere within a few hundred miles of the border.
I've been working on a webcomponent based reddit/patreon competitor for about a year now, and one thing I found was how incredibly easy it was to spin up my own micro framework.

I would highly encourage people to give it a shot. It's just going back to basics and working with class-based inheritance. It will take you a day to write out the basic functions you will need for 95% of your components, and you'll be left with a tiny library that not only solves your needs, but you know inherently.

If you're curious, lines 1-26 are all you need to easily bind an html block, a style block, and to do event/attribute binding via @/? statements: https://github.com/jjcm/soci-frontend/blob/master/components... . The rest of the file are just shared helper functions.
The PinePhone is a very interesting platform. Unfortunately, the circle library I'm using only supports Raspberry Pis so far, so porting crosstalk to the Allwinner A64 in the PinePhone (even though the processor cores are the same as in a Raspberry Pi 3) is quite an effort.

Considering the large number of Allwinner-based systems out there (by Pine64, Olimex and many others), it might still be worth to spend some time on a port of circle. I can imagine this would make a nice project for Google's Summer of Code.

Smalltalk-78 shouldn't be significantly different to Smalltalk-80, so a bare metal version of it sounds feasible.
There's already a project to run Smalltalk-78 in a JavaScript-based VM [1].

[1] https://www.freudenbergs.de/bert/publications/Ingalls-2014-S...
Collecting potential ammo for later blackmail so they can get the OG username?
Yup. Unlike the poor desolate folks at Google who ... checks note ... dominate the narrative on Web Components. And are, for example, consistently adopting a general aggressive anti-framework, and a specific extremely aggressive anti-React stance.
A unrelated(?) repo of material about Covid-19's source, last update was May 2: https://project-evidence.github.io/

Regardless of the source of this one, it is only getting _easier_ to engineer these extraordinarily valuable weapons. The 24x7 induced fear response is the real threat, not the virus.

Excess deaths are the only real measure: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
I've worked with a lot of organisations, including tech orgs. It's very believable.
Yes. Just installed it. Result on first video:
Exception in NewPipe 0.19.3

{"user_action":"requested stream","request":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRdkI09KCpk","content_language":"en_US","service":"YouTube","package":"org.schabi.newpipe","version":"0.19.3","os":"Linux Android 8.0.0 - 26","time":"2020-07-18 05:29","exceptions":["org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo$StreamExtractException: Could not get any stream. See error variable to get further details.\n\tat org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.extractStreams(StreamInfo.java:192)\n\tat org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:70)\n\tat org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:62)\n\tat org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper.lambda$getStreamInfo$3(ExtractorHelper.java:116)\n\tat org.schabi.newpipe.util.-$$Lambda$ExtractorHelper$5fJcha6Sq5APJBLdG6osaJby-mc.call(Unknown Source:4)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.operators.single.SingleFromCallable.subscribeActual(SingleFromCallable.java:44)\n\tat io.reactivex.Single.subscribe(Single.java:3438)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.operators.single.SingleDoOnSuccess.subscribeActual(SingleDoOnSuccess.java:35)\n\tat io.reactivex.Single.subscribe(Single.java:3438)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeFromSingle.subscribeActual(MaybeFromSingle.java:41)\n\tat io.reactivex.Maybe.subscribe(Maybe.java:4154)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.drain(MaybeConcatArray.java:153)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.request(MaybeConcatArray.java:78)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe$ElementAtSubscriber.onSubscribe(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:66)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray.subscribeActual(MaybeConcatArray.java:42)\n\tat io.reactivex.Flowable.subscribe(Flowable.java:14479)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe.subscribeActual(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:36)\n\tat io.reactivex.Maybe.subscribe(Maybe.java:4154)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeToSingle.subscribeActual(MaybeToSingle.java:46)\n\tat io.reactivex.Single.subscribe(Single.java:3438)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.operators.single.SingleSubscribeOn$SubscribeOnObserver.run(SingleSubscribeOn.java:89)\n\tat io.reactivex.Scheduler$DisposeTask.run(Scheduler.java:578)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.run(ScheduledRunnable.java:66)\n\tat io.reactivex.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.call(ScheduledRunnable.java:57)\n\tat java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)\n\tat java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:301)\n\tat java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1162)\n\tat java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:636)\n\tat java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:764)\n"],"user_comment":""}

And this isn't on anything hard or new. It's a London Underground technical video.
>If people insist on making choices that will continue to sink the ship, I don't have to go down with it.

I think this calculus flips around when your commitment has entered a stage where other peoples' livelihoods depend on it, basically. That's all. Get out before it springs a leak in an org like that, is my advice.
Would you please explain more clearly?
I would think that the post you respond to either supposes a hosted service (you do not control the server and its iptables) or that it multiple layers of protection is good for something critical.

But yes, if it's your own server, everyone should remember that regular Linux features are darn powerful, too.
This exact point is addressed: see thread.
> Some people have EXPONENTIALLY more impact on saving a business than everyone else in the building.

This is true in every organization.

The canonical example is Steve Jobs.
DS/ML/DL/NLP/NN/RL/AI. We are Just scratching the surface only right now. Application to Numeric, text, images, voice, motion inputs/outputs are still the niche and siloed.

Think of applying existing Techniques and developing new techniques to combination of Variety of inputs and generating combinations of variety of outputs.
> if, in use, its thickness approaches the wavelength of your charge carrier

Tangentially, a conceptually similar and equally counterintuitive phenomenon is attenuated total reflection. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenuated_total_reflectance)
Meanwhile, Europe's non-performing loan ratio rises to 3% while US stays at 1%. Go figure.

The only fact-denying is Europe Inc. hiding balance sheets and pretending everything is fine while the ECB bends over backwards to save the Euro.
To put this idea in perspective, there are ~56 million students in the US. To do this daily for an entire school year at $1/test would cost ~1% of the trillion dollars allocated spent in the first relief bill.

Testing and contact tracing is a bargain compared to continuing to pay everyone to stay home. I don't understand why we're not seeing for-real effective contact tracing from our governments yet.
> On 4 October, 2016, Mr Stone tweeted: “Payload coming. #Lockthemup.”

It was clear publicly that Stone had a very inappropriate relationship with Wikileaks. What would you do, attempt to extort Stone for more than $100k and hope he pays? Leak little more than was publicly known?
They appear to. Even on the video[1], which was obviously shot on a potato (or Twitter compressed the shit out of it) you can see there is a round emblem on the left arm. You can see at multiple times, for example at 15 seconds.

1. https://twitter.com/matcha_chai/status/1283328232033411072
In that event, most of the people in question will accept an offer from a competitor with greater assurances of financial security and return to loot and pillage what's left of the business on behalf of their new sponsors.

If you're lucky, they merely poach the stuff you cannot defend anymore. In most situations, they come after the crown jewels of the business, accounts which create the lions share of the revenue and profits which funds the business.

And then you're screwed. Shut it down, pink slips for everyone...
Strategically that seems like the time where you should start using air power.
Drain the swamp, and fill it with russian swamp.
Yeah, based on the self reported numbers out of Iran, which you can trust about as much as you can their state news agency on any number of topics. Let’s not forget they were simultaneously denying the virus’ prevalence while their political leaders were dropping like flies and they were digging mass graves that could be seen from space.
How is USDZ for bones and skinning? I discovered the hard way what a mess COLLADA is, and I feel like there must be a better format out there.
I'd rather see some irreverent ads. They feel less intrusive them personalized ads. Just a feeling.
Seeing if there were any previous offers made to buy an OG handle - to gauge a good selling-price for the name, perhaps?
Can you please link it?
There are not that many BSL-4 labs worldwide, and especially in China (they only have 2).
Answer to Q1: Don't care. Software that does not honour /etc/resolv.conf is a PITA.

Answer to Q2: No. They have mass cooperation from network admins and DNS software authors to use ICANN roots.

Answer to Q3: Go for it. I have been running a non-ICANN root for myself over 20 years.
Actually, it doesn't. If your boss is your employer, than he is not-your-friend on that deep level of conflicting interests.
"The team also tested their approach on a collection of 30 challenges in DeepMind Lab using a more powerful 36-core 4-GPU machine. The resulting AI significantly outperformed the original AI that DeepMind used to tackle the challenge, which was trained on a large computing cluster."

Well, they presumably tested the same CPU with 4 GPUs (2080 Ti I think) - maybe they wanted to compare.
Never buy a VPN with these kinda names. You can tell they are shady from their names and websites.

UFO, Secure, Pure VPN, etc
> Nobody likes Vulkan but it's there on Android and Stadia and Linux and is pretty mediocre there.

Mediocre on Linux? Since when?
It’s bizarre to me that given the conclusion that this is the only solution people’s immediate instinct is to just say it’s not possible. Nothing’s possible if you don’t even attempt it.
Can you help me out and define what dimensionaltity means for data? And what high dimensionaltity is?

I’m somewhat familiar with monitoring/telemetry but haven’t heard that term before.
This reasoning is too pragmatic for such a hot-button issue. Where is the hyperbole and masked vitriol?
It's a tough call.

If you read the actual paper, what they say is:

"These meet the criteria of means, timing, agent and place in this reconstructed historical aetiology to produce sufficient confidence in the account to reverse the burden of proof. Henceforth, those who would maintain that the Covid-19 pandemic arose from zoonotic transfer need to explain precisely why this more parsimonious account is wrong before asserting that their evidence is persuasive"

ie. Basically, there are enough red-flags here that the burden-of-proof is to show that it isn't artificial rather than that it is.

...and you could hear that argument.

On the other hand, it's not really rigorous.

You can't go and say, hey, look, I invented an EM drive; rather than proving that it generates thrust without any emissions by isolating it and measuring it, the burden of proof is on everyone else to "prove why this more parsimonious account is wrong before asserting that their evidence is persuasive".

Ie. Before you go and measure anything, first you have to come tell us why we're wrong.

Now, rather than putting the EM drive in an isolated box and measuring the thrust it produces, you have 50 different people who have to go out and prove that EM drives are impossible before anyone actually goes and measures anything.

See any problems here?

I mean, you could argue it either way, but it doesn't convince me.

While I agree that the paper lays out some interesting points, they're wide open to attack on the conclusion they draw from them.

This, in particular:

"We refute pre-emptively objection that this methodology does not result in absolute proof by observing that to make such a statement is to misunderstand scientific logic. The
longer the chain of causation of individual findings that is shown, especially converging from different disciplines, the greater the confidence in the whole."

Sure.

"We posit that the evidence below attains a high level of confidence."

Yup, that's what they've done here. They posit which means, in this case, arbitrarily assert without proof that it is the case that there is a high level of confidence here.

They just haven't shown that in a compelling way imo.
Here it works without as much redistribution as elsewhere because the lower classes have good wages. (They are currently annoyed that the virus means they'll probably have to take their August vacation domestically rather than internationally this year.)
As long as they’re continually bumping the work factor it should be good for now.
> The value of having a scientific consensus of trusted sources is precisely that we don't have to all individually read random conspiracy nonsense and come up with counterarguments on our own. We can trust the experts.

This sounds like a priesthood. Don’t consider evidence from rando papers. Instead, simply trust the consensus view of these certain, special people who have been blessed as truth-knowers and wear the right robes and hats.
Because China didn't kill George Floyd in daylight?
> I think this calculus flips around when your commitment has entered a stage where other peoples' livelihoods depend on it, basically.

For you, not for others.

> Get out before it springs a leak in an org like that, is my advice.

I'll be fine for a long time even if the company goes under, others may not though, I've seen it happen way too many times to not be prepared for stuff like this. And I can just accept an offer from another place rather than outright reject them.
They aren't competitive internationally, though. And can't be unless they're also going to go down to Morocco, fight the Army, invade Tunisia and Algeria, and then force the extraction of high rents.
Well, that makes them assholes. I'm not in favor of giving bonuses to unethical assholes.
Yes, I know that. But we don't do that anymore, execpt the Japanese.
Here’s the thing, you can be as ideological about this as you want but if you look around the world at what has worked, empirically, national level intervention with a large testing and tracing effort at that level is what works. The best approach is what keeps people from overwhelming hospitals, not what meets some platonic ideal of overlapping spheres of influence.
Unless you're using an incorrect definition of application, then CNN is also an application. Arguably with far more functionality.

The old version of Gmail had 90% of the features and was at least 3x faster and more responsive.

If you load the new Gmail, immediately click the search when it's available and start typing it stutters and misses half of your inputs because they're totally pegging JS threads loading in all the bloatware. It's a far worse experience for almost no benefit (other than for the Google engineers who made the site 3x slower to use as leverage for promotions).
In an ideal world, yes. In the real world school is also daycare so parents can go to work though.
Twitter: 8 accounts may have had private messages stolen
>For you, not for others.

So I see.

>I'll be fine for a long time even if the company goes under, others may not though, I've seen it happen way too many times to not be prepared for stuff like this.

Yeah, and it's their problem up until the point at which the situation is unrecoverable without you, and even then it's still mostly theirs, but I would have a lot of hangups about acting in a situation like that.
I don't like the idea of AMP, and I was really concerned when I first heard about it.

However, ::knock on wood::, I don't seem to have encountered it that much.

Maybe it's because of how I browse, and that I don't follow "football" news, but I almost never see the URL in my browser, nor links to it anywhere.

How do people typically come across AMP content?
It doesn't sound right to me either. They claim 10K per month in just hosting fees but the owner of Soup ("Euphoria hosting") is actually a hosting business. Maybe they're charging themselves a bunch of money (perhaps as a tax write off).
Thank you. I failed reading 101: My fingers ran ahead of my brain. Very good analysis. I can see it took a lot of work and precise attention.
I have already spent some money on the Pinebook Pro, so I hope that my next notebook after this will also be RISC V-based...

But the MNT reform (and the Purism Librem 5, which uses a similar SoC) is a great project and an interesting platform for bare-metal projects, since the CPU documentation is open and pretty good (I think the old Motorola heritage of Freescale shows here...) and there is also open source GPU support in the Etnaviv project [1].

So many possible projects, so little time :-).

[1] https://github.com/etnaviv
A significant portion of those requests are multiple trackers on multiple domains.
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