skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s actually been demonstrated that more police in high crime areas reduces crime and increases safety. When they pull back, crime goes up. So I don’t know why people say this.

I also don’t know why people think it makes more sense to divert police resources away from where crimes are happening. Not even the linked report agrees with this.
Yes, that's been a big hole in their argument from day one. They tried to avoid this by putting in provision to not let Facebook/Google just block Australian news material or just the ones that qualify for payment, but didn't think they would go this far of not letting anybody in Australia post any news.

The other point is that the news sources could easily use robots.txt and other methods to completely cut off Facebook and Google from scraping their content. If their content was as valuable to Facebook and Google as they say it is, a few players organising a boycott and cutting them off for a bit would be a very powerful bargaining tool. Or if they just felt the content was being misused, they could just block them on principal. But they don't do either. Why not, if it's so valuable to Google and Facebook?
Sure, you may be able to rank your subjective values. But implying your stack ranking is more valid than someone else's is unempathetic.
> People don't donate to NPR just to get tote bags. [...] The interactive nature of the content on a site like Twitch doesn't necessarily make it any different than non-interactive content you might find on a site like Patreon.

Comparing someone like Pokimane or Amouranth to NPR is laughably disingenuous. There are amazing content creators out there (ranging from math, to dance, to music, to films, to politics) that don't exploit parasocial relationships with their audience. Onlyfans is, arguably, positioned to specifically exploit parasocial relationships.
nVidia has the most sane naming convention.

Sure beats AMD. Is an RX Vega better than an RX 570? What about an RX 5700?
This study is from April, I wonder if there's been any substantial progress on whether this hypothesis is true?
It used to be possible to do this with Google Trends, but they removed the number of searches and the y-axis is along the lines of 100% popularity now.

Otherwise I just compare to competitor products to see if the market is sizeable. I've done analysis before with a cofounder and things like keyword popularity also helps, but in the end it doesn't really do knowing that there's a huge market for "jobs for teens" sites unless you want to make a product for that.
Its almost any two trips. Its the exception that two people take the same trip together. I can think of a handful of people I could eventually find 2 trips for who wouldn't want me to have their entire travelling history.
The linked blog makes total sense to me, and frankly, I'm astounded that the false dilemma presented in the parent is the top voted comment.
Is this because Facebook distributes their content?
Or Rupert is putting a lot of pressure on them to get this done?
A little confused, you say you don't want to disrupt the containers, but https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket#updates seems to indicate you still have to reboot for the update to take hold?
that's not the point - they were saying that retroactively going back and viewing old content on 4k, you can easily spot the CG/issues etc.

ex: Farscape - all the CG was rendered in low res, so even when you view a 1080p copy it looks silly. Imagine all the content that would have to be re-done and upscaled to make it watchable in 4k.
I don’t understand this argument here:

> Up until 1993, the federal government merely guaranteed/backed student loans that private lenders gave. This meant that only in the case of someone defaulting on their loan would the government be on the hook, stepping in and paying the college what’s owed.

> This amendment completely overhauled that system, making it so that for the vast majority of student loans, the federal government directly made the loans to students. More specifically, the federal government pays the universities/colleges up front, and the student then owes the government that money.

What’s the difference between the federal government directly making a loan and a private lender making a loan and immediately pawning off all the risk on the federal government? Either way the lender does not care if the borrower will be able to pay it back. It sounds like the problem predates the Student Loan Reform Act of 1993.
What's Rupert's next move then? He's not stupid and had to anticipate this response as well.
So are you saying just because she is pretty she can pull in those $$?

Because there are a lot of pretty women in the world and I would say 99% aren't 1% as successful.

There is definitely skill and knowledge involved.
Sometimes famous tech people comment on hn. That makes me feel like im rubbing shoulders with giants in the field, while in practice its a unilateral and illusory connection.
Higher resolutions IMO are not about the models themselves, but the edges of them.

A character model can look decent in 1080p, but the edges of the model in front of the background will be jaggy. Various anti-aliasing techniques can only do so much.

Besides, I know I'm more interested in higher frame rates. I'd rather do 1440p @ 144 hz than 4K @ 60 hz.

And I don't think there are even any 8K monitors out yet.
You might want to go on a ride-along, because you seem to have come up with an idea of how policing works that is completely detached from what they actually do.

Simply prevent future crime by helping people? Just like that right? This painfully naive, wishful thinking is causing a lot of our current problems.

Just open some food banks and send social workers into Chicago and South Central. The gangs and crime will dry right up. Hey let’s fix the Mexican cartels while we are at it!

Come on man. Have a little respect and humility and consider that maybe your untested theories aren’t the simple fix to extremely complex societal problems that nobody else has thought of before you.
How much of that value is entry into the world's most powerful country?
These days basically every kind of mass storage device you will use has its own dedicated controller chip which is pretty much a cpu with its own RTOS now. Those 2 cent 8kb eeprom ICs don't but its crazy how complex something like an sd card is.
Social scientists have wanted to predict when victimization, abuse, suicide is going to happen for a long time.

This is the other side of the coin.

I suggest that as long as 'individuals are not targeted for culpability' - ie they are looking in 'general terms' and especially for 'victims' then maybe this might work?

'Jane Doe is at very high risk of abuse from a family member' -> maybe we should just check in.

'123 ABC St. is at very high likelihood of break-in - maybe just cruise on by to 'show a presence'.

All of this said, I often wonder if these 'algorithms' just reproduce with cops on the ground, managing relationships already know.

'Yes, thank you computer, Jane Doe who's been beaten by her husband 3 times is 'at risk''.

'Yes, thank you computer, 6th and Finch, aka 'crack corner' is at 'high risk' of crime'.
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There is a world of difference between humans being humans and a superhuman intelligence with total control of the discourse manipulating it into the most agitating possibility.

It may be that the internet would always finish this way. Nobody really knows, but the evidence we have hints into a much milder and more varied destination.
This law was pushed by News Corp and is exactly the response they were hoping for. Their goal is to be the only game in town, because they know they can survive without FB and Google, and no one else can.
AOC also goes live on Instagram pretty often. It's much more personal, free form and natural way to talk to her fans.

Real time is also nice.
Oh no!

Anyway... goes off to read news on actual news sites
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So why is this design bad? It seems like when you actually start running into scaling issues that singleton translates naturally into borrowing from a shared connection pool.
Arson is in a whole different category from normal "property damage", but we don't need to go there because there are enough murders being committed by BLM protesters:

24 year mother killed after responding with "All Lives Matter" to a "Black Lives Matter" group: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2020/07/23/jessica...

BLM murders a man because they think he's a Trump supporter and celebrates it: https://nypost.com/2020/08/30/blm-activists-celebrated-as-tr...

That's what "violent extremists and lawlessness" look like. This is what the Democrat-controlled Ku Klax Klan looked like when it had power, and this is what the National Socialists looked like. I hope you're proud.
Are the men underaged? Mentally incompetent? Is there some other reason that hapless men must be protected from these temptations, but selling them, say, netflix is ok?
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Let's say Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway. If ONLY THERE WAS AN ARTICLE SOMEWHERE THAT COVERED THIS.

> Notice too that countries with similar falls in GDP have witnessed very different death rates. For instance, compare the US and Sweden with Denmark and Poland. All four countries saw economic contractions of around 8 to 9 percent, but the death rates are markedly different: the US and Sweden have recorded 5 to 10 times more deaths per million.

I'm not trying to "demonize" Sweden, but the poster above is trying to imply that Sweden is some kind of exceptionally good case. By the metrics I can see, it's not that either.
Quite fascinating, no India our there. India is worst affected, both Covid wise and economy wise. Worst mismanagement of all time.
Yeah, NVIDIA makes blower again. RTX 2000 FE lacks blower design.
I'm not sure what law you're talking about here, because requiring Google and Facebook to pay news sites for reposting their content is very different from "banning its citizens from discussing any news online".

There's nothing stopping them from just turning it into a hyperlink like it would've been in the old days. Sites grab excerpts and thumbnails of the target URL in order to keep you on their site longer and minimize the number of clicks away.
>Gene gain and loss across the metazoan tree of life

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-1069-x

>Widespread patterns of gene loss in the evolution of the animal kingdom

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1129-2
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You sort of do on Amazon but they intentionally slow the shipping speed by quite a lot when you opt for that in order to make Prime more appealing.
> Facebook is undoubtably the scummiest company of our generation

Well we are comparing them to News Corp and politicians, everything is relative.
This certification is great news. I wonder how much sooner one of these small reactor designs would have come to market if there was $50 million dollars of paperwork needed in instead of $1/2 billion.
What Google and Facebook are mostly doing is telling you to go and listen to a particular song somewhere else. Linking to content. Driving valuable traffic to the content provider's sites. Their sites, where the news content providers can show their own ads...

I think most Australians wouldn't be aware about the playing music in small businesses thing too, so I wouldn't use that as a benchmark.
I mean, on macOS, when something's using too much CPU, or when there's not enough RAM, the foreground app sometimes freezes as you type and loses half of your keystrokes. That annoys the hell out of me.
Will take your word for it (I haven't looked into it).

Do you think the politicians are just feigning surprise/insult here in response to Facebook's actions as that's what would be expected of them?
Is it time to invoke section 230 on HN? Liberal News? Covid News?

Since when has this actually been Hacker News?!
Which venture blogs do you recommend?
which venture blogs/newsletter do you regularly read?
I stand by my statement :)
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How would Biden's trade policy on China differ from Trump's?
> To say that value is subjective does not mean that we cannot rank things.

Unless you mean “...according to one set of preferences”, it means exactly that..

> Clearly some things are more valuable than others.

No, you are again trying to make your own preferences and objective yardstick of value. Something's are more valuable to to some people, and these things are also less valuable to other people.

While there are lots of reasons to argue it's not an ideal aggregate (e.g., and this is far from the only factor, because people don't enter transactions in the same starting position, so preexisting wealth weights things) markets are one of the mechanisms of aggregating preference to arrive at “value”.

> To give a computer science analogy it’s like say that just because numbers are infinite you cannot count them.

No, saying that subjective value can't have objective ranking is more like saying that because there isn't a bijection between reals and naturals, the reals aren't countable.
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Sure it is. Sometimes I feel guilty watching football and hockey players get their brains knocked around and getting seriously injured. Especially the younger or the less well-known players who presumably aren’t making as much money. But I assume if they’re on the field it’s because they understand the risks and they’ve decided that they’re compensated for those risks through some combination of their paycheck, potential fame, and love of the game.

And the same is true for women on OnlyFans.
This is the only rational move for Facebook. I highly doubt AUS news doesn’t move the needle enough for anyone to care. Even for way smaller firms than FB.
Agreed. My high school economics education was limited to supply and demand curves. It would be so beneficial to having a class about household budgeting, loans and interest, credit rating, mortgages, property, investment, stocks, LLCs/corporations, capital, unions, labor law, taxes, government budget, deficit, trade balance, etc. All the things that people have to learn later in life, hear biased people/media who pretend to know the answers, or never really understand (I guess such a course wouldn't get to Quantitative Easing anyway).
>requiring Google and Facebook to pay news sites for reposting their content is very different from "banning its citizens from discussing any news online".

Part of the law says that Facebook has to grant access to News Corp. so they (and they alone) can moderate any and all comments posted on Facebook about any of their articles.

So, actually, yes, it's exactly that.
As long as the incentives are there, the business and technology will follow.

Do you have the same strong feelings about other addictions, like social media in general or gaming? These are industries designed around creating psychological hooks at the expense of their user (some are worse than others).
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2 million pages of additional requested documentation? What would all of that possibly contain?
> Well, good old prostitution has been pretty successful since the dawn of mankind, so the answer must be "yes" for a lot of people.

To be fair, much like drug dealing, it's not clear how "successful" prostitution is.

Much like anything else, there is a power law distribution in effect. A few make a lot of money, but a lot make very little.

Of the women I have known on that path, I know of only two who actually didn't wind up in a bad place at the end. Drug addiction was the primary problem--if you work in the sex industry you work with a LOT of scumbags who want to hook you on drugs in order to control you.
I like this a lot!

A small critique: it might be useful to include a small explainer of why parsers / ADTs are useful - maybe in the context of decoding JSON.

(Learning about ADTs shifted the way that I think about data modelling and application development, so I am a huge fan.)
... and probably only from a specific point. You might be inside the place right at the kitchen's door and be further away in their system than if you stood outside somewhere close to the coordinates of the point.
One could trivially establish multiple trips that anyone with even slightly public social media has taken.
I'd really like an unbranded version with these (or better) specs, even at a slightly higher price (I don't particularly identify with any of the distros that have been released so far, not to say there is anything bad about them of course :-)).

I imagine that is what the final retail version will be?

I'm on pre-order for a Librem 5, but the Pinephone is more compact, and since I'd want it essentially as a portable linux computer in addition to a regular daily driver smartphone (i.e. carry two "phones"), it might fit my needs better...
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Yes, the US government has failed.

> It's gone hand in hand with a narrative that the US is behind the rest of the world in its level of Covid-19 testing, when in fact it's ahead of almost everyone else.

Yes, the US is ahead of many nations in raw testing numbers, and in terms of tests per capita (although some do beast us in terms of per capita testing).

> Last I looked, this trick was being pulled off by comparing based on the number of tests per positive

Indeed, I mentioned this the last time you posted a similar statement. Here's the graph of test positivity rate for a number of nations: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-19-daily-tests-vs-d...

So why is test positivity rate important? Because test positivity measures how well you're controlling the outbreak. New Zealand doesn't need to test the entire nation regardless of symptoms. The fewer infected people there are in the population, the less value you get from testing random asymptomatic people. But, if all your tests are positive, it means that you aren't using any on asymptomatic people. You need to test asymptomatic people to prevent asymptomatic/community spread and as part of contact tracing. If you can't do those things, you'll end up with unquarantined infected people spreading the virus.

So as test positivity goes down, even as testing rate goes down, you can know that you have a smaller number of cases overall. (and that your reinfection rate is <1).

> Clearly it has absolutely nothing to do with how close a country is to being able to test a particular proportion of the population on a regular basis regardless of symptoms.

So while you're correct here, this isn't actually the goal if you can trace reasonably. Which, like, the US can't because too many people are infected. So insofar as controlling things are, the US's case numbers are, to use your words, "catastrophic", while many other nations' are not.
It’s been a while since I tested it (pre-Wayland). The main problems I saw back then was that the window managers tended to do lots of file I/O for things like moving windows or opening menus so it was critical to tune the I/O scheduler (and NFS home directories were game over), and since rendering was up to the app it was common to have, say, the chrome respond relatively well but everything inside the window would be chunky on the main thread.

I’d hope this is much better now given things like Wayland and the increased use of parallelism.
I feel like a latex language editor is easier.
Yes, this is a great summary, and exactly what is going on.

Interestingly, it hasn't seemed to have much change on the spending side. Colleges are charging more to the median student, but are using a lot of it to subsidize less well-off students. It's not showing up in huge increases in faculty salaries, or administrative costs.
It is not the case that free universities are necessarily 2nd tier. QS World Univerity rankings puts ETH Zurich, a free university, as #6 overall. Times Higher Education world ranking lists ETH Zurich as #13 overall.

The other Swiss flagship university, EPFL, which is also free, is ranked #14 overall in the QS world ranking.

https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-un...
As a former CoreOS (now Red Hat) employee, I'm glad to hear of your success with the product and it's awesome to see that scale giving you time back in your day to concentrate on the big picture.
The last paragraph brushes up to the problem but doesn't quite get there. Truth is that ethics are only useful in certain times and places. If you try to generalize them to encompass everything, you start reaching ridiculous conclusions.