skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately “adequate support to help people reintegrate so going back to crime isn’t their best option” looks a lot like “rewarding criminals” to a good portion of the electorate. Maybe in part because social services in general are so bad that anything at all looks like a lot of aid.

Dunno if it’s still the case but I at one point a tax guy asked me if I’d been convicted of (IIRC) any drug offenses because if I had I’d have been ineligible for certain education-related tax assistance. Dafuq? Yes let’s make it even harder for people to do something other than dealing drugs, when they get out. That makes a ton of sense.
This. We need to keep in mind crimes rates in Switzerland are extremely low.
… and have text baselines align between the columns. Good luck.
You should always have backup navigation aids available (printed maps, compass, watch), regardless of whether you trust your GPS device or not.
That actually sounds worse. Large expensive telescopes will have issues, but amateur astronomers will say there isn't any issue because the pictures they take with their smaller telescopes are cleaned up with software.
I'm not getting what's so special about this exactly, is it just some kind of new, more efficient/accurate way to cull unseen/obstructed geometry? All of the references in the video to Ready Player One and Stadia etc. don't really seem directly connected to geometry culling any more so than any game would be.
Worldwide , the summer is one of the hottest on record. It's only colder in parts of North America
>UN like a League of Nations is rather a sad joke

Well, the UN ultimately mostly reflects actual geopolitical reality. It's not actually a world government, there is no world government. It has the power nation-states choose to give it. The countries that wield vetoes? They also generally wield real "vetoes" IRL, ie., they've got nukes/massive militaries/economies. The formal legal veto they have in the UN merely reflects that if there was no UN, they'd have options on things they didn't like regardless. A basic point of the UN was to try to prevent WW3, and in that respect it did pretty well. For all the ideals, a lot of the core parts of it are pretty pragmatic about the limitations embodied by definition in anything "international". It seeks consensus and to avoid hot conflicts, and the former is pretty important to avoiding the latter.

Obviously it's not entirely without power of its own, particularly various kinds of soft power. But that soft power has sharp limits without hard power backing it, which is a very sticky wicket in most scenarios that make the news.
A fair question, I think the reckoning in the US will happen in the fall, when protections against evictions expire.

Since the protections have mostly protected the old at the expense of the young, it will be interesting to see the social ramifications.
Someone made a good reply to this and as I was replying to that they deleted it, so I'll copy it here:

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> Have you actually done a cost-benefit analysis on some of these solutions?

Yes, I even gave a talk at google in stockholm about it.

For my use-case, hybrid was best, with no cloud lock-in aside from Google Storage Buckets (which can be replaced) but I went into detail about that in the talk.

> Take your Riak / S3 plugin. What do your servers cost to run that cluster?

Depends a lot, don't you think?

> How much time do you spend managing it?

Depends again, if it's anything like my elasticseach clusters then about 2-man hrs/mo.

> How do you test your backups?

Continuously, and with alerting.. and, you should be doing this anyway.

> Are you going to target the same SLOs for durability that S3 offers?

Depends on the business, the whole point of SLO is that you pay in what it's worth to the business.

> Do you run multi-data center for high availability?

Depends on SLO.

> In many cases the cheaper or self-hosted solutions have costs that you aren't accounting for.

Yes, physical machines often need some hand-holding, VPS's can have brown outs, but this is true in AWS's EC2 anyway.

Ultimately, this is where the cost increase will be.. but defining it is important, I've deployed cloud and physical (as stated) and it's true that physical machines are not as problem-free as our GCE ones- but we pay about 50% less than the GCE equiv instances, so it's "worth" spending time automating the unpredictable.

> Sometimes that's fine, but "just run it yourself" is as worthless as saying "just ship it to AWS" unless you actually think through the impact.

This is kind of the main point I always make.. understand your trade-offs, don't buy into proprietary tech. Cloud is a fantastic way to prototype and bootstrap but it's /usually/ better to have a migration plan to optimise costs in the future.

If you fail to take that into account then I don't have sympathy for you, because you put the project at risk. Financial in-viability is a risk.
DNT was as shitty a design as the hypocritical oaths.

It was asking the tracking companies to be “tethical”. Google Analytics and Facebook were never going to follow suit, why should the little guys?
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Arguably so (I'm going to generally stay out of value judgments), but do note that it's not all large expensive telescopes, it depends on the telescope.
Hysterically this usually "turns" for a company right around the point where someone successfully pitches they really need someone coming to the office in a suit on a Friday to signal seriousness.
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That was a great, informative video, thanks for sharing.
I don't know "STP" but Nirvana and Soundgarden got airplay in Germany on MTV, Viva (the other music TV channel) and most mainstream radio stations.

I suppose the whole thing is US-centric, but at least those 2 I'd have missed as well.
Do you believe the Earth provides unlimited resources or do you believe there are finite resources?
It's unbelievable that we're still trying to convince people that human-caused climate change is a fact. We are doomed.
Though any self-respecting web developer should sit down and learn CSS.

Part of the problem with CSS is that we seem to relegate it to something we don't need to learn. "Well, it's just CSS. I'm a developer!" And then we complain when we don't understand it or when our jerry-built sequence of StackOverflow copy-and-pastes is a clusterfuck to deal with.

I myself realized I was working off knowledge I read in a CSS book I read in 2004, so I committed a week of updating my knowledge on my own. I realized very few people actually do that, as I'd easily gone 15 years without doing it, and even with my 2004-level knowledge of CSS I'd always be amazed when a fellow 30-yo web developer didn't know how you can offset absolutely-positioned children inside a relative-positioned parent or something just as entry level. Just like, until recently, I'd probably amaze someone that I didn't know what the rem, vh, and vw units were.
Reminds me of that time I exported my MATLAB code as C.
No, personally identifiable health information can be shared/exchanged without HIPAA applying. For example if I email my grandma information about my cancer diagnosis, Gmail isn't HIPAA compliant and doesn't need to be just because some people might use it to talk about their health. Grandma is also free to share my health information with impunity, she is free to, say, forward it to my boss because grandma doesn't have to abide by HIPAA either because she's a grandma.
That's not really the way science works. The theory drives testable hypotheses. We look at data to feel some confidence that the hypotheses are correct. If we don't find that data, we can continue to believe in the theory, but with less and less confidence. If a theory cannot be supported, then I can make the claim that its not correct in its current form. I don't think it's junk, but more that it's causal impact may be less than the theory purports.

And sure, we can have an alt theory that goes against Attachment theory, and generate hypos from that, and put them to the test. Answering a different question, but same problem: can't just say "won't work", need to generate specific testable hypotheses.

I'm just pointing out that the theory is nice and should have more provable (and supported) predictions, but it keeps having limited support from research, fades from view, comes back around, history repeats.

After a while, our confidence goes very low. But it's not zero, and the fact that it keeps showing up again provides new hope. The theory is attractive so I hope we find its proper alignment through this latest iteration. But it has a tough road to hoe.
Garmins update by USB, not GPS. There's no way for them to push an update to you on top of a mountain or in the middle of the sea.

Also, when I plug my Garmin watch into my computer by USB, it just brings up a USB mass storage device. I could drag a new firmware image over if I had one, but it's not going to auto-update and time out. I last updated in 2016, it's been going strong since 2013. Incidentally, battery capacity is down significantly, but it still lasts multiple days and multiple workouts.

They're actually really well engineered against accidental automatic bricking and loss of function, unlike most IoT devices and websites.
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Such simple language allows my mind to instantly start composing syntax. Excellent work.
Are there any technical posts from Nubank on how they manage such a large Clojure codebase (I guess it must be Clojure's largest user in the industry).

I'm looking for things like how to refactor safely in the absence of static typing, for example. Do they make use of spec?

I'm a big fan of static typing, but when using a dynamic language with immutable values and pattern matching, like Erlang, I don't miss it that much. Maybe with Clojure is the same?
I've never lived somewhere where DSL was available and better than cable. The one time I had DSL it was slow and unreliable, standard 30mbps cable was miles better.
It's sad that they don't even thought about when in the timeline the vocal note was sang and recorded. The majority of singers shift their vocal range as they age. This is especially true for male singers that usually tend to shift down their pitch.
Drug dealer? Seriously? You mean those people who happened to sell a couple joints worth of marijuana to a friend while black? Or those who just happened to possess a bit too much to be considered "for personal use"?
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Nubank also acquired Plataformatec and the Elixir team. Very interested to watch how this plays out.
Good call on LLVM. Was thinking about that too, but had to look up IR. This one looked interesting:

https://idea.popcount.org/2013-07-24-ir-is-better-than-assem...

IR looks to be targetting machine code, so not sure it'll be the right format to embed high-level language concepts.
Terminology can do graphics; not sure about over ssh.

https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology.md
USA suburb in New Jersey: $80/month for cable internet 5Mbps.

No alternatives - unless you call $70/month DSL a competitor.
El maestro es un experto en su campo.

Pablo Picasso fue un maestro.
The fact that I haven't heard of 8kun until right now is indicative of the utility of shutting these things down. If people have to go to a backwater site only known about by word-of-mouth, that's fine. Much better than broadcasting conspiracies through Twitter and FB.

"There is a secret truth to the universe known only to this secret cabal in the back of this drinking parlor" is an old trope. Far more expected than "There is a secret truth to the universe and Twitter is letting the nutters who believe in it multicast it via one of the most populated social networks on the planet." Better for Twitter to give it the axe, lest people confuse a badly-hashed-together conspiracy theory for actual truth.
Who are you quoting there?
This study by the NYU School of Law figures that 4 in 10 (!) US prisoners are either non-violent or have already completed long sentences, and can be set free with minimal risk.

https://time.com/4596081/incarceration-report/

That said, I agree that reforming drug policy in particular would also be a great way to reduce mass incarceration.
Very well put. It's one of the things I decry often when talking about european politics.

If Europe wants to be taken seriously, it can't just be the French having a medium sized stick to back their soft power.
How many were deployed to Portland though? It doesn’t take much...
You're only underpaid if the company couldn't replace you for the same pay.

In many parts of the world it's not a problem to find good and experienced engineers/devs for 5x the minimum salary.
Jorn Lande!
> It turns out you have to remove both Microsoft Teams and something I think was called "Teams Machine-Wide Installer."

Isn't that because your org chose to deploy Teams, though?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/msi-deployme....
The fallacy behind “Do what you love, the money will follow”
I fear it would require redefining the goals of our economies. I don't see that happening in reality though. A CO2 tax can help a bit, but even that would not change rising emission levels too much. The costs would just be countered by more growth. It isn't just that everything gets a little too hot, we also generally use too many resources:

https://www.overshootday.org/

Working from home obviously helps, but transportation is almost inconsequential. I think it is responsible for around 15% of emissions and that includes every form of logistic emitter. Individual traffic doesn't help but wouldn't necessarily be an issue and people are dependent on it outside of the largest cities.

Agriculture on the other hand is one of the largest factors next to power generation.

If every developing country reaches the industrial stage, we will surely fail hard. So technological transfer to developing countries is a necessity, so they can skip this development state for greener alternatives. That is an obligation developed countries need to acknowledge.

Technological progress can help too, but I don't think it is a good idea to depend on it alone.
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To a first approximation it's just the FCC, but the FCC does listen to and evaluate issues pertaining to light pollution, space debris, satellites falling to earth and landing on peoples heads, and so on despite that not being related to radios.
Yea like all social media platforms these days you usually have to pay in one way or a not to promote a hash tag. I bet most of the popular hash tags you know of were sponsored at some point.
Wow, that's impressive for a human!
Where in the article is the release of ~1 million violent criminals advocated? The story's focus is on California:

> Newsom and the CDCR are prioritizing the 4,800 people who are within 180 days of finishing their sentences for the first round of rolling releases by the end of July, and then those with a year or less left to serve who are living in high-risk prisons like San Quentin. People in jail for violent offenses and perpetrators of domestic abuse are not eligible for release.
Usenet seems like a good place to look, and I can go back to Dec 4, 1999 that way: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sci.math/r9pz4ScvUxg/x8p6V02...

Someone named "Nathaniel Silver" replied, and I wonder if that's the political and sports forecaster or someone else of the same name.
ItelliJ w/Cursive too works great.
I haven't looked at data from other countries yet. In Slovakia, the total mortality this year is lower than in the comparable period during previous years. I haven't investigated it, but my guess is fewer car accidents, and fewer people dying from the usual contagious diseases.

Of course it is possible that some deaths will come later, such as people who missed their medical checkups, have a condition that could have been cured a few months ago but is fatal now, and are still alive at the moment. I don't really think this is a large part of population.

I also suspect that if you do the simple calculation "excess mortality minus confirmed COVID deaths", this will be an overestimate, because many COVID deaths are misclassified as something else, e.g. pneumonia. And all those misclassified excess deaths would then appear as "victims of lockdown".
It's one of my favorite movies ever, that scene included - love the song! Why do you skip it?
I don't think it left the discussion, it's just that it's an other grey area. We still don't seem to know for sure how long the immunity lasts. Infecting a big chunk of your population for merely a few months of herd immunity might not be worth it.
Space man bad is the new orange man bad
Had this discussion quite a bit lately, and I have a theory.

When we grew up (I'm 36 and at the tail end of this) we couldn't easily find the music we liked and exclusively listen to it (unless you had rich parents who bought you all MCs and later CDs you wanted), we kinda had to listen to the radio and experience the whole spectrum.

This is even more true of people in the 35-50 age bracket.

But people who grew up with Napster or even later with streaming on demand don't even have to dig a lot. If they like one artist, they can just listen to them and the (very closely related, surprise) recommendations. No more begging your friends to make you a tape copy of some songs on CDs.

Also afaik the amount of music published goes up every year. So if I actively remember, say 100 songs from the year 1994 that is a much more meaningful representation than 100 songs that came out in 2019.
And here I am working to open a new science museum with no funding whatsoever... I'm currently living in a tent outside

Maybe I'm enough of a cheapskate to survive!
We will exchange white lines for black lines. We won't be able to see through the satellites.

Actually maybe a white line is simpler to remove than a black one on a black background.
I know this article is about the waters off Korea, but I noticed a similar thing flying over the South China Sea, in particular the Tokyo-Bangkok route.

Flying late at night over the SCS, and then peering out the window from 40k ft, you see endless lights - thousands and thousands of them. At first I thought I was over land, but then checked the map. The next trip I noticed the same thing, and then the same. It was literally tens of thousands of these fishing trawlers, stretching as far as the eye can see. Presumably all Chinese, and also presumably present not just to trawl for seafood, but to establish facts on the sea. It was truly frightening and shocking.
Both you and the grandparent are making sweeping generalizations; as with everything, there's various gradations in a crime and it's not a boolean equation.

That said, I do agree that there's a large amount of people in prison that shouldn't be there, and the US prison system ensures people stay or return to prison later on.
I tried it for a small personal project, just for somewhere to put some small images. On pages of about 30 images, usually one of them just wouldn't load. It didn't look reliable to me either.
More fallout from the ineptness of our government I presume. Its forecasts like this that start to mount as we continue the downward trend. Truly a pandemic in every sense.
From your link:

> The way this process works is that, while averaging all of the pixels in a series of, say, 10 images, the program mathematically calculates which pixels fall far away from the mean value because they're much brighter (or much fainter) compared to the same pixels in other frames. The algorithm then discards those out-of-range pixel values so they don’t affect the final image.

Wouldn't this process remove part of the comet trails as well as the satellite trails?

I mean, I get how it works if all you care about is relatively static like distant stars, but would it work for this specific use case?
It would be surprising if it were a language issue, given Bach speaks accented english much more rapidly than the host speaking mostly unaccented english. It seems received or an personality/attitude thing, or maybe it's a substance use issue. Anyway, Bach is interesting enough I'm putting up with it, but I rarely feel so irritated and resentful of a person, so if someone else is repelled by it, stick with the podcast as Bach makes it worth while.
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I'm the founder and CEO of Nebula. I think in the not too distant future, everyone will get whole genome sequencing as standard of care. We think it's important to set up the privacy frameworks today around storing and sharing access to DNA. It's interesting because all of the risks of having your DNA data out there are not fully understood yet. And, as a consequence, legislation hasn't caught up to the technology. Should life insurance companies be able to use your DNA? Should schools be able to use it as an admittance criteria? Well, right now the law isn't stopping them from doing so. This hasn't been a huge problem today because, if you're really concerned about DNA privacy, you just won't buy a DNA test. But, sooner than later, you'll need genetic testing to get the right medicines, optimal treatments, best diagnostics, etc. Once whole genome sequencing makes the transition from consumer use cases to clinical ones, many users will be faced with choosing between their health and their privacy. We don't think that's a fair choice and think we need to start working on mitigating the privacy risks today.
Counterpoint: I think that if we'd solidified flexbox or grids too early, before people started making full-fledged single-page apps with toolbars and sidebars and panels oh my... we might have easily missed crucial use cases, and the "anti-table war" turning into the "anti-flexbox war" might have shattered the ecosystem. And the inevitable "display: flexierbox" to fix the shortcomings would be a recipe for disaster. With such high bars for backwards compatibility, it's good that we moved slowly.
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Pretty damn cold here in Sweden too
I'm using "nonsense" in place of the word I choose not to, to keep the conversation polite. It doesn't indicate a lack of danger.

Don't mistake the lack of force behind the word for its denotation. Belief in Protocols-of-Zion-originated global conspiracy theory is also nonsense.
disclaimer: I work at solo.io -- but here to give you some more info.

Here's a comment thread from our March 2020 release
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22878146

From a timeline pov, Gloo's is...
March 2018 - First open sourced
Dec 2018 - Gloo Enterprise announced
Nov 2019 - Gloo 1.0 (w/lots of features in between)
and a number of releases this year.

One thing I'd say is that the customer base we work with in deploying Gloo Enterprise are major enterprise companies. Many are up and running.

The slack is very active so I invite you to join in and ask the users in there your questions as well.
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this one speaks to me
or, frankly, any of the features provided by your internet browser. back button, bookmark, open link in new window...

(i'm interpreting 'flash websites' as 'websites made in flash'. i'm not referring to websites that contained flash applets.)
> Two kids max.

Luckily, it's becoming increasingly clear that that part will sort itself out without any kind of draconian China-style laws to forcibly limit family sizes: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30677-2

That the population is developing in manageable ways in most of the world is one of the good news that will really help us on our way. The recipe is well-known by now: give women control over their own bodies and their own lives, and provide a social safety net that at a minimum is strong enough that having a large amount of children as an insurance stops making sense. IT WORKS :-)
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UBI-like experiment in Brazil is “like oxygen to the economy” amid a pandemic
exactly,
paint them green