skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are very few areas on the United States with no crime...

"Cops are humans. It is illogical to assume that there will be no mistakes made."
They are but when they make mistakes people die or are sent to jail for decades or are stripped of their property. To give people this much power and shrug and say its a mistake is not acceptable. Very often these same cops have many / dozens of complaints against them and they still continue to act with impunity because they know that they are not going to be punished. A mistake is a mistake, 10 / 15 mistakes in and it is a pattern, extrapolated out over tens of thousands of officers and it is a systematic problem.
Notion: The Greatest Bundle in the Making
In my area, the lag in testing results is only 24-36 hours (that’s for free city-provided testing without a requirement to suspect you have it or have been exposed [so utterly routine processing])
The “not within my lifetime so who cares” trope has been around for decades, and guess what? Climate change is happening faster than anyone imagined, mostly because scientists can only present findings on things they are certain about, which makes the predictions conservative. Most people are already seeing the impact of climate change, and if it’s not visible to you personally, it has never been easier to seek out information on those that are. If you really can’t see past your own lifetime and feel that you should be able to take whatever you want from the planet simply because you don’t need to deal with the repercussions, then you are not part of human society and are free to leave the planet at any time.
I'd love to see the same for public playlists. Example: an anonymous user pastes the URL to a public playlist that someone else made on, say, Spotify. The Web app creates a public playlist on another platform -- or even just spits out a bookmarkable "Playlist equivalent page" that has Songwhip links for each tracks (and the user has to play each one).

Given the number of public Spotify playlists, I'm a little surprised that TIDAL, Deezer, or Qobuz clients don't have native support for pasting URLs to public Spotify playlists. Even if it couldn't authoritatively match the songs and instead played the first search result match (for artist name and song title), it would be right 99% of the time.
I am sure the top will not be as diverse as the bottom for centuries due to systemic biases in the promotion process and correlation with other symptoms of inequality. My point is just that you should temper your expectations about responsive change in the end of such a long assembly line.
I just recently discovered https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri

It looks like a good alternative to Electron but haven't tried. Anyone?
What is your estimation of creating something like this: https://notes.sciter.com/ ?

UI, application logic and data storage.

QML is far not enough for this I think.

It took me 3.5 months ( https://notes.sciter.com/2017/09/11/motivation-and-a-bit-of-... ). But I shall admit that this does not include architecture time as I knew internal architecture of EverNote upfront.
For all practical purposes, Catholicism is an example of a religion that forbids nudity. Depictions of nudity that the church would find acceptable, online or in popular media, are rare enough that a concerned Catholic would be justified in avoiding all nudity out of caution.
Heh. I've certainly been handed stuff I didn't like. It's always been easier to work through if I avoided anything that came off as emotional or insulting.
Aside from that, yes.

Worth mentioning that at least one excellent piece of commercial software, Beyond Compare, targets Windows with Delhi but Linux and MacOS with Lazarus.

https://www.scootersoftware.com/

I haven't tried the Linux version but it'd be useful to look at, for the sake of comparison.
Why does it use two sets of vectors?

One sum of vectors is enough to trace any continuous line.
I just installed this, and my whole browser grinds to a halt when I load a page...
That's a bit hand-wavy and optimistic. Li-Ion batteries are notoriously hard to recycle, not because the chemistry is hard, but because the logistics are hard in the face of such a wide variety of batteries in use. Maybe solar panels are more uniform, but the challenges of recycling some non-radioactive items are an existence proof of recycling difficulties.
> - One is a slur based strictly on the color of one's skin

I've talked to far-right people who would dispute that. They'd say there's a difference between a black man and a n., and you can be a n. if you're white, because it's the behavior that defines it.

> - One is a slur based on one's sexual preferences

That one is even more questionable, I believe. Effeminate men are called f., especially homosexuals. Nobody calls a bear that. Sissy would be a similar term, and it's used in similar ways as a pejorative towards heterosexual men when they act "unmanly" in the same way.

> One is a slur based on a self-applied label

As was mentioned: it is not always self-applied, especially not when used as a slur, where the usage has reached inflationary levels on e.g. imgur.
One of my friends built a PC into his dad's Threadripper box, inspired by this: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14473/spotted-at-computex-a-r...

Remember, these things are targeted at a subset of an enthusiast market (and some HEDT stuff, too) and are mainly Halo products- and for many people, if they're paying $600 for a CPU, a nice box / unboxing experience is a quite nice touch.
Looks like Linus Tech Tips just posted an unboxing of one this morning.
I'd love to see your private correspondence, Mr. Kissinger. Preferably as part of the legal process of discovery.

(Sorry, it's off topic but I couldn't resist)
Web based user interface is always compromised over native UI, Electron is just a little less compromised.
It's already partially responsible [1] for negatively impacting Northern California's wine growing and this year could be worse.

1. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/10/climate-c...
> How could an organization that had its hand in so many world-changing technologies fail to thrive?

The reasons are simply because:

(A): The users don't care about the technologies (Firefox, Rust, Privacy)

(B): No one wants to pay for a web browser; i.e Mozilla can't monetize it.

Which is why they rely on a partnership with Google (as the default search engine on Firefox) to fund the majority of their operations. This is similar to how Google is paying Apple to be the default search engine in Safari on iOS [0] but the figure for Mozilla is much less [1] than with Apple.

From a high-level standpoint of Mozilla's future, it is literally in Google's hands and they also compete against them. Why use Firefox when there is Chrome? Rust, Firefox and Privacy are really not selling points here for the user who doesn't care about the "technologies".

At the end of the day, Mozilla has to stand on its own if it wants to live true to its mission of "privacy" rather than taking funds from a privacy hostile company.

[0] https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2018/mozilla-fdn-201...

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/1/21310591/apple-google-sear...
> I am a strong believer in the right to have a gun in your own home and the various “Castle” laws. If you break into my house or try to take my car while I am in it, I am going to assume you mean me harm. Shoot first then call the cops.

Do you know how absurd this sounds to people in actual civilized countries? Kind of amazing how many of you Americans are living in some Wild West fantasy.
Great, can't wait for the days when I finally need to pay to drive my BMW over 80 mph.

In all seriousness, they probably try to look for additional income sources since they have hard times ahead of them with the switch to electric and lower profit margins.
Publish or Vanish
This is like giving someone a litter of puppies as a gift and then walking away.

Hooray, free puppies. Now you just have to care for them for the next 10 years.
That's not true, you can have an inverter setup which fails over to a battery backup when the grid goes down. It's also done all the time with natural gas generators.

The setup is more expensive, and it does have to meet certain requirements, but it is definitely an option.
Trans-Planetary Subway Systems (1978)
IIRC mixed up mother goose randomized item locations, but nothing else.
My understanding is that very short men are handicapped by not wanting to face the stigma associated with being shorter than their partner, and that tall women face a comparable difficulty finding partners.

The issue here is not so much that men do not find women taller than themselves attractive, but the second-order concern about drawing attention to their own height.

I have the impression that it is typical that men usually become less distressed by such stigma when they get older.
Feature selection library in Python by ITMO University
How can Apple prevent an unrelated dev from publishing something made with Unreal by banning Epic's account? Can't I deploy an app to the App Store with my own?
I find the bookshop.org model a bit weird. There's no real reason that independent bookshops need to be part of it, apart from a marketing angle to court people who want to "help local bookstores" over Amazon.com.

From a recent NYT article on the site:

"Orders are fulfilled through Ingram, a large book distributor, and mailed directly to customers, so stores don’t have to have the books in stock or process inventory. Bookstores get 30 percent of the list price — less than they would typically make from a direct sale — but don’t have to pay for inventory or shipping."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/books/bookshop-bookstores...
FWIW, my local secondary school here in the US has no issues showing Schindlers List to students in class. But this attitude isn’t something that would extend to a movie with nudity of a sexual or casual nature.
I never knew that, but I have used their Swing GUI tool before:

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/gui-designer-basics.html
https://github.com/cdr/code-server is an interesting way of running VSCode in the browser.
because the impending layoffs that mozilla is incurring in light of covid means it's very bad for development and bug tracking. i've been using firefox for several years and that part is kinda worrying.
It depends on what I am learning - if it is required training or continuing education, that is part of my job and I do it on company time. If it is for my own personal projects, hobbies and interests, it is my own time.
The next thunderbird will contain OpenPGP support build-in because they are finally getting rid of XUL addon support and enigmail would not work with it.
It seems cases and pandemic related deaths are likely dramatically under reported and detected:

https://austingwalters.com/u-s-covid19-less-tests-more-death...

Real deaths seem to be closer to 250-300k at this point (whereas officially it’s 170k-180k).

Also testing is down for those curious... about 25% down from a month ago.

edit: added “pandemic related deaths” - not all deaths are necessarily covid, but could be from lack of healthcare availability, etc.
So you think caring about nuclear waste along with CO2 emissions makes someone a fake environmentalist? Nuclear waste is highly toxic and difficult to store and transport safely.

Also, have you ever heard of Chernobyl or Fukushima? Nuclear reactors are great in certain ways, but can be catastrophically bad too.

Hydro also can cause a significant environmental impact, flooding natural habitat and interrupting water routes for different animals.

Solar and wind aren’t perfect either, but the idea is to try to chose a power source that is as clean as possible.
>What people should understand that this "fascist government" will be sitting in DC. They will not be sending somebody from DC to Minnesota because "someguy at gmail dot com" wrote something against them. How inefficient that would be.

It'll be easy as pie. The data is there in an easily consumable format. The tools exist to categorize and find undesirables. Tools exist which can be used to rank you in terms of desirability.

DC won't sent somebody to Minnesota because of what you wrote in a gmail alone. However, what you wrote in gmails would likely contribute to a "social scoring system" which would be used against you.
IIRC we were incredibly lucky that Chernobyl didn't turn into a much more severe global disaster. What happens in a worst-case scenario meltdown? I know we have a very pro-nuclear crowd here, so I am ready for an onslaught of information.
California Department of Toxic Substances Control: https://dtsc.ca.gov/solarpanels/
Browsing a used bookstore (or any other bookstore) when I have some time to kill is still fun. [And my local library has a booksale every year.] But with the exception of maybe looking through cookbooks or art books or something like that, it's not really how I buy or even browse books any longer.

In the "bad old days" when new books were mostly sold at list price and there really wan't a whole lot of independent information about books out there, it often made a lot of sense to buy used books at half off based on serendipitous browsing of the shelves. But that's not really true any longer.

I used to go into Harvard Square on a Saturday afternoon every month or two in no small part to browse books and CDs at a variety of stores (many of which are long gone). I haven't done that in years.
Ah, thanks for clarifying. In that case, can you explain the metaphor? What do you mean literally, when you say that GPT-3 "understands" something metaphorically?

Edit: btw, "learning" in the context of machine learning is more of a term of trade with well-established connotations. For example, we have Tom Mitchell's definition of a machine learning system as "a system that improves its performance over time", etc. We don't have similarly established definitions for the "understanding" terminology. Hence my request for clarification. I literally don't understand what you mean that GPT-3 "understands" metaphorically.
Rails full text search with SQLite
The College Manifesto: Becoming a Successful Student
Movie Recommendation System for Groups of People
You're in luck. The lead author or the nuclear J-value author also applied the method to COVID-19: http://jvalue.co.uk/covid-19.php
They can't. This is another attempt by Epic at gaining public sympathy for intentionally breaking the terms of their licensing agreement with Apple to publish on the app store.
> You seem to be implying that LGBT are somehow different than straight people from a job performance perspective which comes off as discriminatory even though your intentions are clearly positive.

That's not what I mean to imply, nor the basis of the recent push for more workplace diversity as I understand it. The goal is not using people's diverse status to determine whether they'd be good at their jobs. Rather, it's to find people who are diverse as well as meeting job criteria, and hiring them preferentially if there aren't enough people representing their viewpoints.

But even so, merely pointing out that a company didn't have a certain kind of representation doesn't seem, to me, to be a cause for offense.

Editing to add: Yes, there is a tension between hiring on the basis of innate characteristics and trying to be meritocratic. But I view that as a balancing act, not something that always comes down on one side or the other.
This is an example of people arguing past each other because Americans are not trained in how to dialogue.

Sociologists have shown that the introduction of television and the ‘race to the bottom’ that it brought to the masses has dropped population-wide IQ and the ability to form reasoned arguments.

In this example, one side is using a definition of abortion which is essentially ‘taking the life of an unborn human for the sake of taking the life.’ Under this definition, a procedure to save a mother is not abortion, because the intent matters.

The other side is defining abortion as ‘whenever an unborn human dies’ and this could therefore include procedures that are intended to save a mother but result in the death of the unborn.

These definitions do not overlap in a Venn diagram.

tl;dr Americans are not educated enough to discuss these topics
There's a lot of discussion here about ways to use web technologies for performant desktop applications.

A PWA that opens as its own Chrome "window", but shares resources, and runs any non-ui code in a web worker or localhost server, might make sense. But I don't know how to have a nice "install" experience that doesn't make it feel like a second-class-citizen Chrome app.

Is there a way for a desktop installer to install a chrome app, such that to a typical user it just feels like Any Other Desktop App?
Yes, fantastic point. My friend was fortunate to own his own business, but he did miss some scheduled stuff and had to explain it to his customers.
Actually this is not just a Windows issue, it's also something that impacts Mac OS. There have been instances where the native webview on MacOS had bugs that were not resolved until the next major release of OSX. (Can't seem to find a link, will add one later).

In addition, while Windows may now have an up to date version of Edge based on Chromium, which it now uses to render it's webviews, do you know that these Edge installations are not auto updated like Chrome/Firefox for Enterprise installations?

That means they will quickly fall behind from the current latest Chromium, and will throw bugs at some point in the future, when you rely on newer Chromium features. In addition, you will also get bug reports about your app being broken on some windows installations but not others and you will spend way too much time trying to figure out the issue, only to come to the conclusion that you can't really do anything other than change your code back to the older feature-set.

In addition, using Electron and bundling the Chromium along with it, allows you to control the Chromium version used, and you can be 100% certain that everything that works on that Chromium version will continue to do so, irrespective of the edition or number of updates installed on the user's computer.
i do use multiple profiles on my android phone where the main one is not the one i actually use. I wonder if they would catch that as its kinda obvious if you know to look for this but actually somewhat hidden if not...
The tone of your post (being simultaneously dismissive and insulting to those who have a different view than you) is very trollish. The problem many people have with nuclear power are things like accidents making areas uninhabitable, radiation making people sick, disposal of waste rods is difficult, some materials can be used to make weapons, and the cost to make a safe plant are staggering and leading to cancellation of projects.

Renewable sources don’t have these downsides. Are they ugly? Not any uglier than a concrete dome and cooling systems of a nuclear power plant. You can bet wine country does not want a nuclear plant in their valley either. I think it’s perfectly reasonable to zone land usage appropriately.
Let me start with that first link, because it's a doozy. You said "mental illness have increased over time", but the paper said that _certain_ mental illnesses increased in _young_ Americans. Off that bat, that representation of the facts is not right. But even worse, you are applying this to a discussion about belligerence towards police, and the _types_ of mental illness mentioned by the paper starts with, that's right, depression.

I do not envision depression making a person more likely to lash out in a police confrontation. In the comment chain here, this is also presented in a the-sky-is-falling kind of narrative about the danger of the streets in the US. I'm going to be honest, this is upsetting to me. I was willing to listen to where you're coming from. Is this how police think? I don't like that thought.
This is a wonderful description of "free" to go along with "free as in beer" and "free as in speech", thanks!
How to spot disengaged employees in remote teams?
The code is live and you can try it out on:
https://movinder.herokuapp.com/
(unfortunately, there are only old movies in the database)

We explored multiple methods for the movie recommendation for multiple people:
- Matrix Factorization,
- Collaborative Filtering,
- Siamese Neural Network, and
- LightFM Framework.
One senator on the left wing of his party who has been persistently unsuccessful across several administrations of both parties.

You are making my point for me.
Don't miss the gem in the comments...someone answers this question there:

"Hi. Is possible use this like a "industrial" fpga? For example, for minning bitcoin? Because the fpga is very expensive here in Brazil, and the 7400 is cheap. "
Show HN: wa-automate v2.0.0 released now with CLI
Note that the "border" here is not the coastline, but the limits of territorial waters (12 miles). This also means that proximity to, say, the upper Chesapeake Bay or the southern tip of Lake Michigan aren't relevant, as those coastlines are of internal waters and not the larger ocean.
Empowerment isn’t really a fantasy if there are rolling blackouts but your own power is still on. Sadly, not a hypothetical in California.

Im thinking just from a national security/redundancy/risk reduction standpoint it makes sense to move more generation closer to demand. There are lots of single points of failure in our power grid currently.

Edit: this is assuming the solar setup is designed to enable use when power is out; I assume homeowners who care about empowerment would make that investment, but you know what they say about assuming.
How to get faster internet at a hotel:
Have 4-5 of these connected and talking with the hotels WiFi, and one who share Internet with you. All the traffic goes to a server you have at home that “join+proxy” the traffic. Based on the idea that every user have a limited bandwidth, combining multiple will give you higher speed.
Apple could cut Epic's access to developer tools, which would make it impossible for Epic to support (patch and adding features) Unreal Engine on iOS and Mac. At least this is what the article states.
Did I claim they were the same? The result is the same in either case anyway. Power is a one-way ratchet.
The ACLU has defended gun owners in the recent past though so I'd like to see cases where they've explicitly chosen to not support gun owners rights

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/new-york-state-cant-be...

They have a fairly nuanced and IMHO fair take on civil liberties regarding gun rights. I'm sure many second amendment supporters may take issue with their stance, but in my reading, it's quite fair and non partisan. In fact they encourage people on both sides to work together and vote towards clear law on the matter. The ACLU focuses on rights violations not advocacy for extension of rights beyond what is decreed in law.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/civil-liberties/mobilization/aclus...
I haven't seen React Native for Windows and MacOS mentioned much - https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/

Have folks used it? Is it any good?
Same here, but I suspect many "career" people here on HN, who grind away in startups imagining they are designing the next big thing that'll save humanity, don't want to hear this.
You've overstated the comparative advantages of Sciter so much that, upon clicking through, people might flash back to when they found out was a Segway was and shout, "it's a @#$&-+) scooter?!?"
Microsoft Edge website is the only major browser page that doesn't load on IE8
" Voluntary, industry-led recycling efforts are limited in scope."

Did anyone else chuckle when they saw this?

Also, what will happen to the poor people who cannot detach from the grid? As the amount of people using solar increases, I am sure the costs for those who can't afford solar will increase, right? Also, as solar increases, if it does, the already horrible grid infrastructure will suffer even more so as the utility providers face even less financial incentive to provide upkeep.
What do you mean by "managed" exactly?