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No, if you mean the recent one called "Police" you are mistaken. At about 5:00 in he spends 6+ minutes talking about the decisions that put police in this position.

* "Look, clearly, the police are just one part of a larger system of inequality, and for tonight we're going to focus primarily on them"

* Then spends the next few sentences talking about how TV and film have painted an extremely unrealistic picture of police in the US

* The history of policing and the policies we created it based on (slave patrol)

* The Jim Crow laws & segregation that drove policing

* Racist voters that tried to keet regions white

* The media's whitewashing of the civil rights movement

* Nixon & Regan's drug war + broken window policing

* Stop & frisk policy and how more than 3/4 were black / hispanic

* Then the big bomb at 9:05: "And let's be clear here, Democrats were very much involved in that, from big city mayors all the way up to this guy [shows a supercut of Bill Clinton in '93 promising 100k more police on the streets in various speeches, then "another 50k more in high crime neighborhoods"]"

* This all came hand in hand with cutting every social service possible and pushing all of the extra work onto police

* "So, while we should absolutely be angry at the police right now, let's also be angry at the series of choices that left them as essentially the only public resource in some communities"

So he spent around 15-20% of the total time making it incredibly clear that while this is a police problem not a police only problem.

What I'm more interested in knowing is, are his facts wrong? Or maybe is he leaving out an entirely separate side of things that point to the real issue? That's what I always wonder in the back of my mind.
That can work but it has to be low friction and reasonably priced. Many people who do dual licensing charge waaaaay too much.
Yes, like transparent shells.
But why should they focus on solving "problems immigration can solve" as opposed to "problems immigration cannot solve?" You could end up leagues ahead of the rest of the world in something like biotech or materials sciences. There's no intrinsic gain to be had by weighting the problem space.
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One thing I don't hear a lot of people talking about are ML/AI systems in the hands of government agencies. We know that the military and NSA are often ahead in many technologies but when it comes to AI the assumption seems to be that the industry is moving faster than the government. Is that really a safe assumption?

The goverment is openly using autonomous systems to pilot drones, but what else are they leveraging AI for? Threat analysis? Logistics? Weapons optimization? PsyOps?

The DoE is openly a very large consumer of GPUs. What about the military?
Hi. There is just no way to manipulate images without JS, with pure html/css. Even if we wanted to. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if someone does it.
My solution was SteerMouse. It allows me to individually set every scroll option and mouse speed and acceleration
I read the article but still don't understand the use case. When would you use one of these?
Looks like their secrets feature pops you out to an external site where you have to authenticate separately, and the secrets are entered there, and stored for later use. Check out their video, seems they thought it all through
In one place I worked it was about helping junior engineers reinforce the things that were otherwise a difficulty for them, and it happened with both sides wanting it and evolving goals throughout the months. Assess the needs and discuss them if there is a disagreement, establish actionable items, set up metrics together that can be tracked more or less loosely depending on the subject and the people, and when necessary figure out ways to communicate to the team or to higher up any request related to that project for growth (time to learn, structural change, etc). And when it doesn't make sense to do the mentoring anymore, just stop. It doesn't have to be a permanent thing at all.

Sometimes practically it might have been about technical stuff, but really it was mostly about helping people communicate better and helping them navigate the structure of the company to feel more at ease with its different parts. Sometimes it enabled them to bring to the surface skills they weren't confident they had or that they had but weren't being put to use. People outside the team would also tend to notice the change positively, which can have an impact on a junior's career path.
IMO, for most people in tech the problem is fairly frequently anything-that-isn't-tech-itself.

It can be very empowering within a team to have people who grow beyond their comfort zone with the perspective of a more experienced person who also knows your day-to-day struggles.

Of course that implies working in teams where there's an investment in the teams, in the individuals, in the value of long-term returns of such growth, etc. Not a fit for every company - I just happen to have experienced such things at a very nourishing place.
i have worked with a junior multiple times.

a junior-senior combination works well with pair programming.

i suspect your problem is that you can't yet judge what your junior is capable of, so you assign him tasks and then find out he is struggling with a task, or doing it wrong, and then you have to spend time correcting or teaching.

in pair programming these activities go hand in hand. you tackle a problem together. at first you take the lead, but ask the junior how he would solve it.
initially you drive (type the code) and he observes. once he has seen you code for a while, you can let him drive. as you work together you slowly learn about his abilities, and when tasks come up that you feel confident he can do by himself, then let him, while you bugger off to deal with your email.

depending on the nature of your work, you may need to spend some time doing managerial stuff that your junior can't help you with, or you have to attend meetings. (although for meetings about the code you write i'd take the junior along)

with only one person in your team i do hope though you get at least 50% of your time to code yourself, which you can use for pair programming. the other time your junior will spend on tasks on his own or learning something that you'll need next.
These got a vinyl release recently
https://bleep.com/release/72066
That's actually where I got the idea from! My app works the same way except uses Swift instead of Objective C.
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To your above list, I'd add:

6: Factual knowledge / information

I find myself quite regularly searching for factual information related to gadgets / devices / machines etc. that I want to find out about. For example; 'Is car AAA easier to find spares for than car BBB?', 'is camera AAA better constructed than camera BBB?', 'what are the things to look out for when buying a second hand CCC?

Increasingly, I find that, no matter how I couch the search terms, I end up getting given pages of results which are sites, trying to sell me the thing I referenced in the search. I'm lucky if I find the relevant info in the first page of results. Often it'll be on some discussion forum which crops up way down the list.

I wish there was some way to tell a search engine "I'm not interested in sites selling the thing I'm asking about. I just want information" so that the actual nuggets of genuine info would receive a higher priority.
Do construction trades count as "skilled people" in the immigration context in Japan? Usually when I hear "skilled" in that context I think of doctors and PhD researchers.
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What do you mean by desktop apps? To include desktop apps in our mockup examples? Or to create a stand-alone application for Mac/Windows? If you show us examples of what you mean, it would certainly appear on our todo list.
That's unlikely. You're falling into the common trap of assuming laws and computer source code work the same way -- you have a set of instructions that you evaluate from top to bottom until you get an answer. The law doesn't really work that way; there are laws, but there are also reasonable humans deeply embedded in the process. So in your case, you'd have to be the author of some AGPL software, have some third party install it on GCP, and then sue Google to get the GCP source code. Google would send a representative that says "this is a generic platform where anyone can run any computer program they want; we don't suggest that users run this AGPL program, and we have no way to detect that they're running it; this is an issue between Company X and the author." The judge and jury would then see that Google has absolutely no control over that license infringement, and would probably not award you their source code. It would just be unreasonable to any normal person for Google to be involved in your contract; they took no action to enter into a contract with you, after all. No cloud platform could ever exist if they automatically became parties to random software contracts. The legal system would take all of that into account when deciding how to make you whole.

Similar arguments would involve suing Intel for copyright infringement because their memory controller copied copyrighted information from RAM into cache. That's copying! But ultimately, Intel is just infrastructure; some user got the copyrighted data into RAM and knew full well that CPUs copy it into cache from time to time. That doesn't make Intel a party to your copyright infringement lawsuit, even though they did instruct the infringer's device to make a copy without your permission. It simply isn't reasonable -- no efficient CPUs could be manufactured if you won your lawsuit. So it's unlikely a court would hold Intel responsible.

Finally, there is the classic "if you read this, you owe me $50." You just did! But any court would find that an unenforceable contract because you didn't really consent to it. So I won't be suing you for $50. The world couldn't function if I could do things like this. So contract law exists without that particular contract being valid.
It's worded confusingly; it certainly can be that `S` has an even number of elements. (For a silly example, if `f(S) = 1` identically, then `f(∅) = 1` even though `∅` has an even number of elements.) What cannot be is that `f(S) = 1` is equivalent to `S` having an even number of elements (because, as the sibling thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23967766 by @ColinWright points out, that is not a monotone property … unless `n = 0`!)
I was referring to Upwork, but if you've got the will to go through an intensive interview process take a look at TopTal as well.
I agree. I find "natural" to be very unnatural, and it seems to be everywhere now. It drives me nuts when I help my wife with something on her laptop. When/how did this become the norm, because it seems like it was not at one time?

I suppose most computer users don't consider settings at all and just go with whatever the default is and eventually get comfortable using that, not knowing it's not "normal". But who made the change so that this became the new normal setting?
Thank you.

Thiel was an early backer of SI and attendee of the Singularity Summits that ran from 2006-2012.

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

Soon after that, awareness of AI and superintelligence went mainstream, and we got FHI, FLI, etc.

I don't know if Thiel backs MIRI as he did SI. Arguably, he doesn't need to. He made his money on DeepMind and helped trigger a larger movement, and other institutions with a lot more resources, like Alphabet and MSFT, carry forward the torch.
This is the first person/company that actually has a realistic (still optimistic) Coronavirus timeline.

Prior to this, everyone had unrealistic "fall 2020", then pushed to "January 2021".

This still assumes a vaccine and production of the vaccine will be finished in under a year.

A more realistic estimate seems to be 2022.

I don't understand why this is so hard, you can look at pandemic physics to know that Coronavirus is not going anywhere. And you can look at previous vaccine and medical production to understand how long it takes to make hundreds of millions or billions of vaccines.

Are most people willfully ignorant?
There's nothing definitive that says they paid the ransom or obtained the decryption key from the attackers. Rumors on Twitter say that they're rebuilding services from backups and slowly getting things back online
I notice not a single young (or even younger) woman. Closest is Hilary Clinton? Is this on purpose or an oversight?
In addition to the advice to build something people want and find customers for it, I would say these are helpful items: LLC, bank account, email address, phone number, business cards, website, etc.
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As a regular old non-theoretical-CS computer programmer, it amazes me that a fellow Buffalonian (Dr Ken Regan) pops up on HN and related sites so often for writings in the headiest areas of CS and chess, etc. Not too many internet celebrities in this city.
Wow. That's super interesting. So it was considered a credible threat.

Huh you can actually buy such things on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Shomer-Tec-SHLSD-Laser-Surveillance-D...

Edit: yikes, those reviews...
I tend to agree with the suspicion that this is nothing newu but I'd advice against making assumptions about cultures you're not a part of. I don't think it's lack of prosperity, inequality or heterogeneity that's driving any of this.
Yeah, sorry. My bad.
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If they don't want to use AGLP software anyway, then they have nothing to complain about.
I don't either really, but the timer and the site / app blocker are effective at keeping me on task.
If you ban gas-powered scooters I don't think it would make much difference. The people who ride them won't care.
As Wisconsin demonstrated, the attempts at voter suppression will likely backfire. If the Republicans had agreed to mail-in balloting or a delayed primary, they might have held on to the state supreme court seat they lost, but what they ended up doing kept Republican voters home (why go vote in person in a pandemic when there's no top of the ballot choice to make) while the Democrats stood in line (between the obvious attempt to make them stay home [Streisand effect] and the real impact of their top of the ballot choice). I'm just some schmuck in another state and I could see the likely outcome of the attempt at voting suppression before it happened, but Republicans seem to have only two tools in their toolbox anymore: tax cuts and voter suppression, and those tools aren't doing the job now and hurt more than help.
Ask HN: What OR Are there some multiple perspective books in mathematics?
There are so many mathematical ideas that can be interpreted in multiple ways/ can be used to explain many things with the same theory. For instance, addition in Galois Field of order 2 is same as binary XOR, or that irreducible polynomials exhibit prime number like properties, etc.

I'm sure that there is a general process of consolidation and generalization to come up with better i.e. a more inclusive theory. I am curious if there are books of this kind in mathematics that try to explain to the reader the same concept from different angles?

I am mostly interested in Algebra, but I'll appreciate pretty much any suggestion.

>>> From his quote "You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way", I am guessing that Minsky might have experienced a similar thing.
Soccer is similar in that there is a tremendous amount of "luck" involved. Only a couple of goals are scored in a typical match, so teams can play excellent soccer for 90 minutes and still lose because a ball broke the wrong way.

I think what's fun about that is that it mimics business (and life) much more. You have limited control over a few key factors, luck plays a large role, but if you play smart, you can see things break your way over a long period of time.
Interested in your experience here. Do you feel safe when, for example, crossing the street?
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Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I couldn't disagree more on Neuromancer. I've read it 3 or 4 times and - FSM willing - will read it a couple more before I die. It's definitely one of my all time favorites.

I guess that's what makes these threads so interesting. Seeing just how radically different two people's respective opinions on the same book can be.
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> - We want to ensure that any extensions and modifications of the software (will make it back into the main software as open-source, so that everyone can benefit from them.

isn't that a contradiction with

> We offer dual-licensing by the way

since dual licensing requires every contributor to agree to a CLA and not merely contributing the code under the terms of the AGPL?
It is important to note that things can be more than one thing at once. The general in the video says that Destin created a weapon (of information), which would be propaganda. But the video is also highly informative and educational. Destin is in it for the education and cool factor. The military is in it for the education, cool factor (potential recruits), and show of power (to potential recruits, civilians, and foreign civilians). From my understanding, Destin has pretty free reign in what he can show (military does have to approve but he is free to speak his mind).

The fact that this is also propaganda just means that the military has a motive to show this other than for purely educational purposes. That's all propaganda means here.

(Note: I'm not arguing with the parent, I'm expanding on because of sibling comments that do not seem to understand the nuance)
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Hopefully, if a fan understands this, they'll get less angry when their team's clean up batter takes a close strike 3 instead of swinging at a pitch that has a high chance of ending up as a double play.

It's just a very neat thing to do, figure out what your problem is, whatever it may be, in a way that you explain a path to improving outcomes.

You just want to make sure that a path to improving in one thing doesn't decrease your performance elsewhere, ala the project management triangle (which is just one example).
Can you comment a bit on the tech on this? I tried something similar with songs: I wanted artists X to sing a song from artist Y. I cleaned the voices, the audios, but the transfe rjust didnt work. I didnt do any annotations on the text (it shouldnt be that hard since all lyrics are available), but if you could recommend a path or maybe an open source project I be grateful. Thanks and great work by the way!
What happens when Slack is down? Does DevOps also stop, or is there a way to do the same commands/workflows outside of Slack?

You don't want two separate run books, as they'll never stay in sync. It'll already be enough of an efficiency hit just switching to an alternative interface when Slack is down, let along switching to different tools/processes.
You're right. I'm blessed to have my wife be a stay-at-home mom, and it means I can be much more productive during this time compared to people in dual income situations.

At the same time, we've forgone extra income by having her stay at home, so there's that too..
This is completely not true.

"The confusion over 75 years may be due to an "accounting" and not an "actuarial or funding" issue. They only have to fund the future liability of their current or former workforce.

https://www.cnbc.com/id/45018432
I’m making no statement on what your priors are, just that if you have the mean and variance, the max entropy distribution is the Normal. If you know skew and kurtosis, you’ll pick something else
Ok so destin works as a scientist for the us gov. He did a video a while ago where he interviewed a general about the cyber domain of warfare. In this interview they discussed that the interview itself was part of that cyber domain, and the access they provide to destin is a part of the US presence in the cyber domain. [0]

The pentagon clearly sees smarter everyday as a channel to spread information to a certain audience, to show off US capability and serve as a recruitment material.

I respect Destin a lot and I think the video is very cool, but I feel that I should add a sort of disclaimer because I'm actively aiding the US gov by spreading this video? they obviously don't care about you knowing it's propaganda, but it cant hurt to emphasize it. Tbh my thinking about this isn't that crystallized yet but I thought it might spark an interesting side discussion.

0: https://youtu.be/qOTYgcdNrXE see 21:00+ for cyberdomain talk
I definitely need this. Looks like I have to wait until you are off the front page of HN though.

I am a writer and found that the best editing comes when I am reviewing audio files of my books from voice talent. Of course, then it is way to late to change anything. With a tool like this I can revise as much as I want!
AGPLv3 is exactly the same as GPLv3 except that it adds 1 paragraph. That paragraph has nothing to do with corresponding source or what a derivative is. Google ships distros with Gplv3 to customers GCP, so Borg and GCP stuff would be equally affected by the "risk to Borg" and other server side code, so, I don't believe that the claimed legal risk is real, just FUD.
I wonder if going after such a well known target was a mistake since once the news leaked out it put Garmin in a position where it would be much harder for them to pay the ransom. I wonder if their chances of success are higher by going after a larger number of lesser known and less valuable targets who may not garner the attention nor have the IT staff to deal with the issue.
If the person who setup the team is full time on the project, then yeah 1 -> 2 is better than 1 -> 1 -> 1.

But 0.2(oversees 5 projects) -> 2 isn't necessarily better than .2 -> 1 -> 1
What’s the next best step or resource for learning about symmetry & invariances?
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Well, that's simply because most MIT licensed projects don't choose to insist on the copyright infringement damages to which they're entitled with respect to past non-compliance. They could insist on statutory damages (assuming they've registered their copyright), or actual damages/profits of course, without offering the option to remedy past violations.

Most such rights holders simply don't do this as a practical matter given their own goals.
Your story is a good reminder that these license questions aren't just about some holy war or ideology campaign. These are real people with real problems. We need to be more sensitive about how to structure licenses such as the AGPL.

I find I don't want even to use the GPL at times. Why? Not because I want to give away free stuff to Google. Rather, because I don't want to force others to use the same license that I use. You can use MIT code from a GPL code base, for example. I want to be nice. If Google uses it without paying me, that's fine, too. Honestly I'd probably feel pretty proud of myself at that point.
Some Dunkin Donuts stores in the New England area were (decades ago) accused of listening to their customers by having microphones at seats where customers ate. Not sure if that was intentional or part of their security system as they claimed. [0]

[0] https://apnews.com/d7e29ace8f0cfdd8e4377e70ef26eff8
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It takes way more than a series for it to even out, it's why they play 162 games. Even then it's not enough. A completely average team could win anywhere from 68-92 games, the difference between a bottom dweller and a division winner. There's a lot of luck involved.
Nice. Is it just me, or is Julia notably missing an up to date arrow implementation?
No, this about signals, not power.
FYI in Firefox, just highlight and right click to select 'Open in new tab'.