skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, you definitely don't want to get a Eurail pass for this trip.

Eurail passes are sold only to persons with a residence outside of Europe. For Europeans there are Interrail passes. I believe prices and conditions were similar many years ago, but I'm not sure and certainly not nowadays after Interrail has seen several changes.

For Interrail you almost never need the pass if you want to go from A to B and can book somewhat in advance. The pass can be good if you have no fixed plans and just like to travel a lot, deciding more or less spontaneously where you go next. Although in some countries like France this doesn't work well anymore because you need reservations and there are no (reasonably priced) seats for pass holders during peak travel times.

I travelled like this between Scandinavia and Portugal just 2 weeks before Covid-19 was a thing in Europe. Certainly off-season, so it was OK.
Take a look here - https://www.smartsheet.com/free-google-docs-templates-google...
Starting Condition: Who goes first?
If it was an artifact - especially a discarded solar sail, explaining the acceleration - there might be a follow-up.

Imagine you were making a sail-propelled probe, with the intent of slowing the probe so it was captured by the target system. So the probe would have two sails. The first would be deployed after launch, to catch the initial laser beam, then later solar winds, to accelerate to system escape velocity.

You'd then detach that sail, and cruise. Later, you'd deploy a second sail to start braking on your way into the target system, to slow to capture velocity.

The first thing the inhabitants of the target system would see would be the first, discarded, sail as it tumbled through their system and accelerated back out ...
>the causes of the disaster appear to be tied to bureaucratic ineptitude."

I'd say it's a trend from the top leadership. Unfortunately, despite this fact, they are going to try to pin it on someone.
This is indeed Hans Reiser-level drama. After reading about their shenanigans I can't believe anyone would choose to work with such a person.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-landlord-hell-defends-te...
I tried to collect as much data as possible for various body/ ethnicity types. The original data collection process is described in https://medium.com/@praneethbedapudi/nudenet-an-ensemble-of-...
They don't. They use the default DNS that's available for the user. That's the whole point of this feature.
I fail to see your assertion that the other points are non-sequitor. OP states:

> And the oceanic cycles absolutely dominate climate change.

And then goes on to provide you studies about oceanic cycles that stand unchallenged.
> If it is eyes shouldn't it be 10 eyes?

Rather imagine Sauron eyes.
why do you keep providing cover for people like this? https://twitter.com/awkward_duck/status/1297746569605898240?...

they clearly mean defund when they say defund. Many other activists feel the same. why say defund when you mean something else.
docker swarm and kubenetes springs to mind, with the latter an overkill for a solo/developer...
Thanks!

For me, and this surprised me a bit, the most frustrating parts actually weren’t any of the APIs but just plain old network headaches - it took me a bit to figure out the UDP protocol OpenTrack needs, but then it was often struggling with it not connecting or working only to 10 minutes later realize I had switched my phone‘s WiFi off while testing.
> why was DDT never tried in Africa

It was used in Africa, at least in 2016.

http://chm.pops.int/Implementation/DDT/DDTMeetings/DDTEG6201...

> Why don’t we use DDT today?

You mean for agriculture? Because using DDT for disease vector control was never internationally banned (only banned at the national level).

It's banned in agriculture because it kills stuff other than the mosquitoes. In particular, its use is restricted by the "Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants". Persistent Organic Pollutants are pretty much as bad as they sound, and DDT is one.
I strongly oppose this but it feels like we are heading this way.
Because we'd pull out the guillotine. We know exactly what happens with populist rationalist movements.

This might not be a morally bad thing, or an overall net negative in terms of utility; when politicians are bad enough, executing them really does have an affect on the upper class. But it's seditious, which is why folks don't want to talk about it; they don't want to be arrested nor first up against the wall when the revolution comes.

The amount of abuse that the upper class has committed upon the typical person is so large that there's no way to peacefully empower them anymore. 10% of the USA is impoverished, 30% cannot afford to own housing, 40% are financially insecure, and our Pareto 80/20 distribution of wealth has slid over the past two decades to nearly 90/10 [0]. Honestly, that last number doesn't stress it enough: Fewer than a thousand people have over half the wealth of the USA [1] and it gets worse with each recession.

Rationally, how would you correct this situation? The guillotine crowd has a solution, and the only cons are that it's illegal and that it can get out of control quite quickly. Meanwhile, the closest thing to a mainstream political solution comes from Bernie and the Democratic Socialists, and their reforms are widely unpopular among the political establishment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...

[1] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2011/mar/10/michael-mo...
I go to a liberal arts college studying CS too. I don’t know if I can accurately attribute what I learned in college to anything but I have broadened my scope a lot.

How do you suggest to make good use of this situation/setup?
I don't see any censorship here. Is there some viewpoint that you see being censored in this thread?
> I don't see it.

Have you looked at any of the videos of police beating up peaceful protesters from the last few months?

Sure, there are cases where protests escalate into riots, but that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about the many, many, documented cases of peaceful protests where police initiated violence.

How do you reconcile behaviour like this https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/20/christopher... with your view that "Polices are always either just there, or they escort specifically"? In this case they actively escalate violence against a peaceful and unarmed protester (who also happens to be a Navy vet).

How about Buffalo police assaulting this old man, leaving him with blood pouring from his ears? (https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2020/06/05/buffalo-police-push...) Are the riot police "wanting to do the right thing" here? Especially when they walk past him and leave him lying as his blood pools on the sidewalk? Can you honestly watch that video and feel fine with how the police handled that situation?

> but it's insane to think the majority of them are psychos.

This is a strawman. The post you replied to was not claiming anything close to this.

> I think most of them are fine with people just protesting.

This can be true at the same time as the viewpoint you're arguing against being true. A couple bad actors escalating things can result in a peaceful protest turning into an uncontrollable riot. Also, use of force orders vary by county, as do the orders handed down to the cops on the ground. Read https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/de-escalation-keeps-pro... for some evidence-based discussion around varying use-of-force policies and how they affect the outcomes during protests.

> There was a time when local police would turn fire hoses on peaceful protestors and release dogs.

We've made progress since then, but to claim we've fixed the problem is like claiming that racism in the USA ended with the victory of the civil rights movement.
> Analytics can be done less granularly and still benefit the user. Also, surely not every data point collected is used to benefit the user.

How? For all we know, it isn't granular - it might be aggregated at the server level to hide specific user's actions. But they'd still need to be sending in the data from the device to the server.
You're the only one fabricating accusations about "analysing" in a discussion about how Kindles send data with whispersync, a system widely known to be used to sync data across devices.

More importantly, the only usecase mentioned in the discussion that resembles anything like analysis is synching page reads across devices, and tracking reading progress to compensate authors who make their books available through subscription services.

Either you know stuff about "analysing" that for some reason you're keeping a secret, or you're talking nonsense about stuff you have no grasp over.
Hi, I'm Haseeb
Thank you. Improving comment thread is on my TODO list and would be addressing it soon.

As for the front page ranking algorithm, it's similar HN/Reddit's Hot but the difference is that the problem/need gap karma is visible only to the creator of that post and the comment karma is visible only to the commenter although the profile karma is visible to everyone. This was done to limit populism, limit discouraging those who might post a problem which could be perceived as 'small', limiting hive behaviour and for the general health of the community.

You can read more about karma on needgap here - https://needgap.com/problems/2-contributor-guidelines-for-ne....
Here is the relevant Discourse discussion:

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/add-on-support-in-new-firefo...

and the relevant GitHub issue, which was locked due to too many people complaining:

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/11308

which was closed and moved into this issue, which was locked immediately as this change is... rather unpopular, as is their proposed solution:

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/14034
Removing Quora, Pintererst, Instagram and other login-walls with uBlockOrigin
Open uBlock Origin settings. (i.imgur.com/O8FfkqA.png)

Go to 'My Filters'.

Enable the filter lists 'uBlock Annoyances' and 'Fanboy's Annoyance' - (i.imgur.com/POboA3n.png).

Lists taken from https://github.com/gorhill and https://www.fanboy.co.nz
optional typing though?
Yes, my association with the catholic church ist also mostly about guilt and fear. Scaring people to make them do the right thing.

In general the church was the dark symbol of fear. Have you ever been to the vatican? The same in big. Everything there is big, with the intention of making you small and fear them. At least that was my impression. Other people I was with had different experience

The catholic religion in itself is also a lot about loving and doing the right thing out of love and wanting to help for the sake of it.
But yes, for me it mostly comes down to doing good things out of the fear of bad things happening to you.

"and saw four people standing there, gawking, taking pictures and video. He asked if anyone had called 911, and no one had."

And wow, I have to say I cannot imagine this happening here in germany. Except maybe for some very dark areas on a bad time of the day.
Lo and behold the wonder that is adversarial AI - 11 years later we can automate this. My guess is that Google is quite happy about open source Recaptcha solvers. Delicious fodder for improving the adversary.
Salesforce Layoff's Announced over 15 min video calls across Sales Distribution
This basically matches the timeline I arrived to after seeing GPT-2 in action, except 10% by 2045 is too low (coincidentally, he realized that also mismatches 50% by 2050).

I believe most people underestimate chances of AGI arrival because they overestimate humans. The famous post "Humans who are not concentrating are not general intelligences" got most of the point.
I disagree. The chaos and riots are a direct result of weak leadership. When the mayor and governor practically declare a "purge" this is what you get. This would happen in any place and any time in which the government stands down and tells the civilian population they are on their own. We've been locked down for months and it seems like the only thing that's legal to do is burn down buildings and rob stores.

This will only be ended with overwhelming violence. Either the state needs to step up and accept their role/responsibility as the monopoly holder on violence, or I fear the general population will. And if the average joe does it, it'll be in the form of mass killings at rallies, which no one wants.
Funding for NASA also dropped off a cliff and no government really cared about going to space anymore, and there was zero company out there with the funds and motivation to go to space.

Now we have countless companies and several countries all competing and building off each other's work in the AI space. So long as people don't get bored or the global economy doesn't collapse, progress should keep chugging along. Another key difference is that it's basically free to get into. Anyone out there can download data sets, existing algorithms, and get to work on tweaking things. There's a strong foundation for any motivated person to build off of.
Relevant 99PI https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/policing-the-open-roa... This episode talks about the history of people ignoring the road rules when cars came about.
No, she didn’t lie, and yes, it was a screaming mob. A mob that literally showed up on city council members doorsteps, among others. I see you’re siding with the anarchists though, so this won’t be a productive conversation.

Accusing a black woman of racial profiling. Good lord. You people are more racist than anyone.

The consent decree did not recommend against hiring her (I just read it). It’s also over 8 years old, long before her time, and they have since found them compliant.

The data says they use force in only 0.3% of encounters, and significant force likely to cause injury is only a small fraction of that:

Further, the use of serious levels of force – force that causes or may be reasonably expected to cause substantial bodily injury – remained extraordinarily low, occurring in 21 of nearly 870,000 (0.0024% - or less than one quarter of one hundredth of a percent) of officer dispatches.

Considering how unwilling many perps are, 21 out of 870,000 is shockingly low. Well done on the reform!

There may be evidence of racism, but probably not the kind you think you are protesting. 42% of this force was used against white people, including 2 officer involved shootings, while 28% was against black people, including 0 officer involved shootings.
Correct me if I'm wrong (I haven't worked with health data science like this) ... wouldn't an end-to-end approach work better from the get-go?

What I mean is, rather than developing a segmentation algorithm and then a motion detection algorithm, why not just feed a bunch of frames into a CNN and have it directly predict "heart attack risk"?

Or is the segment-then-motion-detect approach necessary because of its better explainability?

I guess I view the end-to-end approach as being less fiddly than the more traditional computational imaging approach. And it has a bonus. If data is available, you could feed it historical ultrasound data from patients that later had heart attacks. With that, it's possible it will learn other features of an ultrasound that predict future heart attack.
The speed limit drops drastically once you get into Edmonton, and congestion increases, and there are traffic lights, and so on. You can't maintain 130 km/h into the centre. You are making a pretty unrealistic calculation. And just because many people drive that fast, doesn't mean a "typical" driver does.

Other comments say 3 hours and 3-4 hours which is much more in line with my experience. Of course, it depends heavily on where you start, where you finish, time of day, and so on.
I haven't heard this. Do you have a source?
> I do have to comment that the diction used is a bit dramatic.

Fair. I wouldn't use this kind of language when talking to colleagues in person, for sure. In fact, I wouldn't address the subject at all.

> But, at the same time, I think this is more just a human problem, not a PI specific problem. Moreover, I think a lot can still be gained from such a document...

Absolutely. I think the OP has good intentions and believes what he writes. But I wanted to warn prospective grad students not to take this kind of thing completely at face value.
Ask HN: What are some no-code tools for the back end?
Off the top of my head, I would love an add-on kind of tool that I can point to my database and all manner of CRUD APIs are generated and managed by the tool itself. Although I'm speaking as a developer.

Just brainstorming here, what kind of no-code tools can exist for the backend?

- Simplified drag-drop schema builder

- CRUD API generator on top of the above

- Templatized plug-and-play schemas for common use cases, role based user access capabilities, teams, billing system, feature based pricing etc. <-- All of these really have the same-ish playbook in every tech stack, might make sense to abstract it out in a nocode tool

What other nocode tools can be built for the backend? I'm specifically talking about backend only, since this is likely the hardest area for nocode to tackle, it would be like automating all of software development itself, or at least laying the groundwork to begin with.

Keep in mind I'm talking strictly about the no-code audience (which means no code at all, no/optional SQL, no tech stack, nothing, no tech stuff - only tools that can be used easily by the 99.7% of humans that don't code)
> Best way to get people to do the right thing: pay them to do it.

This is strictly not the best way because it both requires the extra cost of reinforcement to be administered, and tragically fails for anything we haven’t installed that mechanism for. It is practically impossible to install reinforcement points for every single agent and for every single thing they do.

Intrinsic motivation is simply much cheaper, making people want to do the right thing by their internalized codes, by reinforcing the frame in which they see themselves as moral people, reinforcing the benefits of reciprocity and gift economy.

This is why purity codes are much stronger in rural communities where most of the transactions are not through money but good moral standing. Granted, those codes themselves can easily get outdated, and distributed moral standing calculations basically limit the practical group size to a function of Dunbar number, but the alternative of codifying desired behavior in monetary or legal terms is just too blunt and easily gameable.
The only additional data going to google would be intranet requests incorrectly sent to google as searches. I don't think google did this to collect that data, but some legal standards would be nice either way.
And there's an opposite argument to that, that the police would be able to properly allocate the appropriate officers to where they're needed.

Right now, officers are trained and conditioned in a way that keeps their gun at the forefront of responses. Especially in Minneapolis, where--as of six years ago--96% of the MPD were not from Minneapolis, but commuted from surrounding suburbs, there's an "us vs them" occupier mentality that results from not being a public servant in your own neighborhood. Many MPD cops openly talk about Minneapolis being akin to entering a warzone.

If we had people properly trained in deescalating non-violent or domestic situations, who people would feel confident in calling because they wouldn't be worried about somehow getting shot, the armed officers would be able to focus their efforts on the situations requiring their presence.

It's a complicated situation. But it's been shown time and again that our system isn't necessarily working, and it would be beneficial to look at other approaches and countries for guidance.
Where the hell are unarmed police the norm other than the UK and NZ? I lived in NZ for three years and the police still had guns, just locked in the boot of their cars. Australian cops (lived there for 1 year) had firearms.

Unarmed police are pretty rare on this planet. Even Japanese cops carry guns.
I think a single human can envision an entire movie and all the other human labor is just low-creativity grunt work suited for AI.
Might be related to the more general case? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_gender_gap_in_the_Unite...
The whole thing reminds me of how the post WWII German society was in turmoil because of the student protests in the 60s. The new generations didn't feel silence and not guilting the old Nazis was the appropriate thing to do.

What they did instead was going into the places where Nazis worked ("storm the institutions") themselves and started moving into official positions there. Over time they just replaced them.

I am not sure how German society would look like today if nobody dared to guilt the Nazis about being Nazis after WWII, but one thing is true: guilt alone doesn't work at all. You have to provide alternatives, make them attractive, allow people to take a new role within the new that you are planning (and be it repenting sinner).
> Once you have seen acts of senseless violence - real cruel stuff - it is hard to believe that some people can be reliably rehabilitated.

It's ironic that this is exactly how many feel about the police themselves.
> the blame for storing 2750 tons of a dangerous chemical in a warehouse without proper safety measures in a port located at the heart of Beirut for six years still rests firmly with the Lebanese authorities...

The problem is, which ones?
I'm a black American and I've been pulled over twice here in Japan (in the past 5 years) for what I concluded was basically "Driving While Black". I still think "Abolish/defund the police" are terrible slogans and equally terrible policy positions to take. But I continue to live in Japan because I know that the police here aren't inclined to put a bullet in my ass either. I like the Japanese "koban" model for deploying police forces. I also recognize that the overall baseline level of violence, and the proliferation of firearms, presents a vastly different force protection situation for urban American police than it does for their Japanese counterparts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dban

There's a ton of problems I have law enforcement in the US, and the bulk of it boils down to terrible screening of personnel and inappropriate training. Fixing both of those issues will require more funding, not less. Better psychological screening (to eliminate sociopaths), higher pay (to retain quality personnel, and be able to rotate people off the streets more frequently), longer training and with different curriculum (stop learning tactics from Israeli counter-insurgency personnel), etc...
I wonder if this is 81% of black Americans, or "81% of black Americans who had both the time and inclination to fill out a targeted web survey/ answer a landline phone call related to policing"

I know polls claim to correct for this, but if even the census, mandated by the constitution and backed by federal law and billions of dollars, can significantly under-count black and Latino Americans, I'd be curious to see how well Gallup can do.

All this said, I DO think the majority of people (regardless of their relative melanin levels) would like to see more police in their neighborhoods, with the giant caveat that it's more than simple numbers in most people's minds.

Be wary on conflating a general desire for more police with specific acceptance of current policing.
>What if the real goal is actually to republish entire web sites on google.com, i.e., AMP?

Why would Google have hosting everything on their domain be an end goal?

WebBundles address the technical limitation that causes AMP to serve everything from Google's own domain.