skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prisons are absolutely related to police. The only way I'm aware of to get into prison is via an arrest by police.

So, every arrest a police officer makes, they need to consider, "knowing what I do about prison, is it ethical to arrest this person?"

Police militarization is supported at the federal level through grants of military equipment, and nationwide through the use of trainings that teach officers they are "warriors" or "sheep dogs".

And yes, police are fragmented from a logistical standpoint, but culturally they are very similar. Police unions make holding bad cops accountable nearly everywhere, prosecutors refuse to prosecute bad police because their jobs require a good relationship with police, the idea of the "thin blue line" permeates every police dept, etc. They might all have different funding and standards, but there are systemic nationwide problems.
My Dad always had a computer in our house, starting with some very early machine (pre Apple 2), then an Apple 2 then many PCs. I learned Logo and Basic. I coded, but very casually and just for fun.

It wasn't until many years later in college that I randomly stumbled upon a Visual Basic book my Dad had. I thought it was so cool you could drag a button onto a form, then double click the button to add an event handler. Been coding ever since, that was about 25 years ago.

As for Linux: I bought an internal dial up modem for my PC. The manual that came with it had a section on how to install it on Linux. It was pages of bash commands, compiling the driver, etc. I was fascinated. How could installing a modem be this difficult? Rather than being repulsed, it got me curious what this crazy Linux thing was.
Find Infected Websites?
I remember I once stumbled upon a website that realtime was listing hacked websites - but now I can find it anymore. Anyone here by chance remembers this service? The closest I could come was this: https://www.onehoursitefix.com/websites-detected/ - although it was defiantly not this one.
GDPR doesn't apply to collection mandated by states for law enforcement purpose.
There’s plenty of reasons beyond corruption. Repaving a mile of third avenue in Seattle costs a lot more than a mile of downtown Wendell, Idaho which will cost a lot more than chip sealing a mile of dirt road just two miles away from the center of Wendell. Salaries are more expensive in big cities. The job is more complex as the amount of infrastructure beneath the road surface, which requires ongoing access, so lots of man holes. Repaving in a dense urban center requires removing the old pavement, in a rural setting it’ll just be piled on top until it’s been layered four or five times.
This sounds like a great model to try out in newly-built, 'experimental' communities. Retrofitting existing ones would require more cooperation among residents than you could achieve, I think, except in unusual situations.

I am sure there are large numbers of lower income people who would be willing to try something other than a crappy apartment in a bad neighborhood if the per-month costs were similar. You'd need to deal with transportation issues (i.e. better buses, shared small electric vehicles or bikes, etcetera) and some other things, but it could be a promising method to explore.

Some people might even be willing to try things like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine-diverting_dry_toilet (incinerating toilets may be needed instead depending on the area) or agree to lower electricity usage for a reduction in monthly fees, among other things. I've been thinking about this idea for a number of years, and am somewhat surprised we haven't seen efforts toward it yet. Maybe I should do something.
Is not just the sample. I'm worried also by the homogeneity of the researchers
These days a lot of doctors also cannot make independent decisions due to pressure from insurance companies, hospital board etc. Interesting to compare with software engineers.
Outside HPC/ML I think our programs are now trading off useful ops per watt to take some advantage of the elusive beast called thread level parallelism. A web browser is happy to get a speedup of N by throwing 2N or 4N spinning threads at the problem if correctness and stability can be retained.
Right. No optional stuff then!
Most of the suicides I know of happened because of booze. And the drug is available for mass purchase at the store down the block...
I went to tech school with a couple of State Policemen.

First, I should qualify that I had nothing but respect for these guys. Real professionals, and they were serious about the spirit, as well as the letter, of their vocation. The State Police, in that state, are quite powerful. They have (at least in the early 1980s) complete jurisdiction, throughout the state.

I also think they would have written their own mothers jaywalking tickets, for going across the street to borrow a cup of sugar.

One of them explained to me, how the state code was written, so that everyone is breaking some law, at any given time, and a lot of their training involved learning all these little violations, so they could pretty much justify pulling someone over, at any time.

I suspect these bar owners did something to piss off someone in some authority. It could have been as mild as their main clientele.
I'm going to take your claims at face value. Let's say this is all 100% correct. Maybe then the prudent action is not to ban a subreddit that is a valid topic, but instead to ban users who have a history of behavior that's not acceptable?

In fact, Reddit does ban users including u/soccer. To conflate r/911truth and r/Holodomor isn't fully honest.

Edit: Meanwhile this exists - http://reddit.com/r/stalindidnothingwrong
I think I also prefer the docile society of technological backwardness, sitting on rocks in the warm equatorial sun and eating algae, none the wiser to the possibilities sitting around me involving smelting and electricity :)

But the comment above us is probably right, it would seem that the iguanas have been "doing nothing" for tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands or millions of years. Meanwhile humans have "accomplished a lot" in the past 10,000 years lets say, at the expense of many many many other things.
Replaced DOS/Win3.1 with OS/2 Warp in high school. Learned enough REXX and Pascal to be dangerous.
But Conway's Free Will Theorem certainly does! The superdeterminism cannot help, either; either the world is so superdetermined that falsifiability and the scientific method are totally meaningless, or the world is not sufficiently deterministic and the Free Will Theorem neatly cleans up the remainder by invoking Kochen-Specker.

I recommend that you examine whatever underlying beliefs are forcing you to require determinism! They probably need to be questioned.
Not sure if it’s nationwide, but my local Vue halved their seat count a few years ago, replacing the crappy fold-down seats with ultra-spacious recliners. It really made a huge difference and pre-pandemic I’d try to go at least once a month, especially at quiet times when I was often one of only two or three people in the screen.

Obviously the fact that so few other people were there is not great for the theatre, but it was a really enjoyable experience.

Not to mention it set up something of a feedback loop—I’d see trailers for upcoming films that I would then go back to see. I don’t really see ads for films at home, so even though cinemas reopened some time ago I hadn’t thought to go until recently (well, that and the fact that it’s probably a hot-bed for infection).
Or another outcome could have been: all the seaweed and plants get eaten up, don’t regrow in time and we would have just vanished. Not sure how the seaweed would have felt about that either.

Some organism would have realized that hunting down other stuff is easier and more nutritious than chewing on seaweed.
Due to the cost and risk involved, few cases go to jury trial... BUT if it's anything like the US a jury technically could consider things like this and refuse to render a guilty verdict.
But less than places where people don't have guns and goverments are oppressive.
Yes people would be interested if the theater focused on quality. There are some movies I'd like to see in theaters just for the experience, and movie theaters can cultivate that by cutting ads, focusing on superior picture/sound quality, and otherwise creating a premium experience. Movie theaters would definitely be smaller than they are now though.
>>Isn't that the whole point of most "safe AGI" research

IDK, honestly. Not my lane. At an uneducated guess, I would say that it's probably a more common topic of "safe AGI" press articles than actual research. Dunno though.

It's too theoretical. When technology is theoretical, we tend to personify it. If we imagined an automated hotel in the 60s, we'd probably imagine a humanoid robot standing at reception. In the 2000s, that image would have been a screen at reception. Today, it's an app that also unlocks the door and there is no lobby.

My guess is that by the time AI can be programmed via abstract ethics, it will have upended so much that its just hard to reason about from our current position.

I hope "AI ethics" are focused on stuff that's applicable now.
Calisthenics
The reason he will never be pardoned has nothing to do with if his leaks were merited or not merited (they clearly were as the activities of the govt were proven illegal). Its because then you green light a govt leaker in critical programs you open pandoras box for govt secrets spilling out and you can lose control. Keeping employees/contractors in fear that they will never stop chasing you is a good way to stop people from doing this.
Ah yes, the idea of the noble savage.

Back when Zimbabwe was still Rhodesia, in addition to fighting the Mugabe-lead rebels the Rhodesian military had to routinely step in to stop rival tribes from slaughtering each other. The default state of humanity is tribal warfare, not some beautiful Eden-esque utopia. "Colonialism" wasn't the cause, this is just humanity.

I don't know why people are so keen to deny this. Nature is brutal and yet still beautiful, and I don't see why humanity should consider itself to be special in that regard.
Applying ferrites is definitely a little bit of a dark art, I'm glad to see this article. What I did miss is showing what simple turns of the wire without a core do to the signal :)
How can you assume that next administration willn't be of Trump's but Biden's ?
The ‘more of what you already are’ idea seems very reductionist and unhelpful to me.

There are definitely real risks that need to be made known around pre existing mental conditions and psychedelic use. Those are appreciated.

But your thesis suggests that transformative experiences are unlikely to happen which from personal experience I can say is false. The impact of a breakthrough psychedelic experience can be profoundly positive especially for those starting from a less enlightened place.

BUT everyone knows that guy who has the “I’m Jesus” moment instead of “we’re all Jesus” and it’s usually easy to see it coming in retrospect.
I really like the way you think! The open source movement is really getting closer and closer to this organizational structure.

When you stop thinking about "how do I sell this software to other people so I can buy the things I need", and instead move to a model of everybody building software that can help humans obtain the things they need, I think the world changes.
Do you thik all women STEM colleges will improve this.
You make it sound like that's cheap, but it's equivalent to having to replace the router every 3 months.
I think this is partly right. Rather than “media” I think he means “art”, specifically AV media art.

Much of the AV media (Not necessarily art) consumed these days by the younger generation a is transitory, part of a conversation, and short: Podcasts and YouTube videos in particular. They take up a lot of the media consumption time. I see this as our new dominant mode of sensemaking, a section of the populace isn’t going out into the world make making mistakes to learn from them, they’re watching YouTube to learn and make sense of the world. (This is why YouTube’s recommendation algorithm is so dangerous socially and politically.)

As for consuming art... even that has become a bit different. People watch the latest tent pole Marvel movie or whatnot , yes for a multi hour thrill, but also to join in the conversation with their friends and acquaintances and to not get left behind in the labyrinthine plot continuity. Same goes for the evolution of music genres.

In short, much modern media consumption seems to me to be about the current meta-narrative, and that makes it hard to place older stuff in context unless it’s curated by someone that is clever enough to fit it in.

For what it’s worth, I love historical art house cinemas, but know almost no one else in real life or my close online circle that does. But I find it provides a lot rewarding depth.

The Criterion Channel is my preference - it has a great selection on demand.
See also https://mitili.mit.edu/research/boys-lag-behind-how-teachers... .
Bipolar is one of the more heritable diseases. If one person has bipolar, every one of their direct relatives (children, bothers, parents) have a 10% chance of also having bipolar.

As part of my experience coming to terms with bp2, I did a family history and found out that almost everyone in my father's (high-functioning and accomplished) family had been institutionalized.
That's false. The ARM chips are tightly integrated SoCs. They aren't even close to a dropdown in replacement as "just" a new CPU would be. The internals of the ARM Macs will be much closer to the Ipad then to the Intel Macs.

And I don't think it's a coincidence Apple is slowly but surely moving OSX towards a locked down platform. It's already made pretty hard to run normal software.
Growing up in Philly, we had the golden voice of Harry Kalas and his booth partner, Ritchie Ashburn. They made it feel like you were watching the game with your favorite uncles.

They’re both gone now, and the new TV crew is ok, but their radio announcers, Scott Franzke and Larry Andersen are great. They’re funny, have a deep knowledge of the game, and they know when to let the game breath a little. Baseball and radio are such a great combination, when done well.
Factorio seems like a nice UI to program FPGAs
There is so much science doesn't know, labeling it as decorating their homes is far fetched. There are 1000's of other reasons they could be doing this behavior that isn't anthropomorphism.
Not following. Iguanas did evolve. We also evolved. Those that evolved to be 'more like iguanas' actually happened - we call them 'iguanas' and they are lizards. Not doing too well.

The fact is a certain brainy old-world ape has taken over the biosphere. Because evolution gave them the biological tools to do so. That's what evolution does.

We'd have to propose something different from evolution, to get a different result.
Entire communities exist around blogs with comments. That's not something you can easily re-create with email.

So it depends on your use case.
I don't really have to define 'effective' because the thing I'm responding to is a bit of pat mythology to try to sort-of-explain something complicated and unclear like 'Why does the US Constitution have this weird 2nd amendment and what the hell does it mean?'. It's a shorthand, not a real thing, think of things like 'not a democracy, a republic', etc. There's obviously no simple direct connection, historically, statistically, whateverlly, between who has guns and how government works. People who get upset enough with their government to want to violently remove it with guns just get the guns or convince the people with the guns to join them, etc. Nobody sits around around pondering "boy, we'd start a movement of dissent but we won't because none of us are packin".
Wouldn't the first point also be applicable to the medical field? Decisions can be made by anyone but ultimately it's the practitioner's job to actually carry out those decisions and they are able to refuse.
Damn 3-4 hours would prob be too much. Maybe you go to the city for a week at a time for work.

1-2hrs is reasonable for a shoot into the city.

I think this will become very popular.
You can speak Spanish tainted by Galician words and modisms also. Is very common in Spanish speakers. The whole communication can be a 90% spanish and 10% Galician (or the opposite).
I wonder if this is the same material I've recently come across as transparent containers sauces and the window in cardboard packaging, which are supposed to be "industrially compostable".
Does anyone know unconventional ways to treat depression (or bipolar), that are not widely known, but are nevertheless supported by solid science?
> We frequently support such research by providing access to datasets, free of cost, in a way that does not affect access for other users.

This is a bit misleading. They are talking about large datasets here. But in a later paragraph they describe their central fear-- that the downloader was trying to acquire the entire data set. And-- according to JSTOR-- while they feared the entire dataset was being downloaded, the access pattern had changed so that it was no longer interrupting regular JSTOR access at MIT. So disruption to service was clearly not the issue at that point.

It seems reasonable to conclude from this, and from their subsequent actions, that their definition for "large datasets" does not include "the entire dataset."

As the documentary points out, there was precedent for Swartz downloading entire datasets from other databases for legitimate research purposes prior to this event. Is there evidence that JSTOR allowed other researchers to run automated analyses on the entire dataset through their free service? If not, they should have stated explicitly somewhere in their statement that they believe it is not legitimate research to run analyses on their entire dataset.
Apple A14 Benchmarks and Apple Silicon Macs
Maybe we need robot teachers to remove the bias?
Reading this makes me sad and bitter. You have groups of activists such as feminists that claim to be for equality of all (scope creep), but yet they are silent on important subjects such as this. Don't be convinced that feminism simply doesn't care about men's rights, they sometimes actively work against them [1]. To suggest that men may experience oppression weakens their perceived oppression, therefore it's in their interest to fight against it.

It's no surprise that men are outnumbered in higher education too. There is always talk of increasing the number of women in STEM fields, but never any talk of increasing the number of men in the arts, English or the -ologys.

Don't get me wrong, I am very happy to see equal opportunity. I am glad to see the riddance of "toxic" environments that discourage people from fulfilling their objectives based on arbitrary characteristics. But I also look at the future young men of today with genuine concern.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO_X4DkwA_Q
Where 'Not Boring' newsletter can automate their referral program
There's 3 copies of the preprint in Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=14339668929271894... And it's 2020, you should know how to use Sci-Hub/Libgen by now.
I'm not sure. My niece was on an all-women STEM floor of her college dormitory. After 2 semesters, she was the only woman still in STEM. The rest had all convinced each other to do something easier. Not the success story you might imagine.
Does defunding police increase crime? Police department budgets have absolutely ballooned in many places, but crime hasn't really dropped a commensurate amount. (In Seattle, police budget has increased over 33% in the past decade, while crime rates haven't moved.)

Reductions in policing are paired with increases in spending on community and social programs that address the root causes of crime rather than just punishing those who turn to it from necessity.

With the two combined, it's plausible that reducing police funding could actually reduce crime rates if the money was well invested elsewhere.
The Sackler family’s plan to keep its billions
I'm not versed in this at all, but wouldn't one call "food" what sustains us in our current state and a "drug" what alters some aspect of us? (Paracetamol suppressing pain and fever, for example.)
Developer can certainly make build using Travis CI if someone decide to test it and contribute build configuration. It's open source after all.
>torrents don't work very well for mostly obscure works

You’re not on the right sites :)
You do a good job avoiding specifics in all of you replies. James Damore's case was pretty high profile.
How could you stop there? I would continue reading this story for the rest of the day.
> Tor Browser is terrible for security

[citation needed]

The exit node can't do anything your ISP can't. Meanwhile you can choose the exit node, which you often can't for your ISP, which means you can choose one operated by someone you trust.

And even if you don't, what are they going to do to a TLS connection?

> and I don’t think Firefox started doing tracking prevention before Safari did

Tor Browser is based on Firefox, so the anti-fingerprinting work they do regularly gets merged back into Firefox proper. Moreover, Firefox has had some of the best anti-tracking addons since forever, but you can only have those if you actually have Firefox.

But Tor Browser is still more stringent about certain things, e.g. they always reset the window to a standard size when you open it so the page can't track you based on that, which Firefox itself doesn't do because it's kind of annoying to the user. Which is another reason why there is benefit in having multiple browsers -- they each have different trade offs.

> They have a different business model but I’m not entirely clear on what their technological innovation is?

They do a lot of good work on ad blocking, and are willing to be a lot more aggressive about it, since it aligns directly with their incentives.
It's not screaming without double negations!!
We always had a computer at home growing up. My dad used it for tracking finances, us kids used it for games. My first program was probably a bunch of print statements on our C64.

Things changed when my dad bought a modem in 93 or so. We had Compuserve but it was expensive. Through Boardwatch magazine I started to try out local BBSes (916). Eventually a few like 24th Street Exchange and this BBS sucks became my online homes. 24th was particularly interesting as it was large (10s of lines), had Fidonet and possible Usenet feeds. Oh and it ran on a BSD. I learned a lot there.

Two key inflection points came:

1) I saw my first demo which made me want to learn to code in 94 (heartquake by iguana ; thanks guys!)

2) around 94-95 I heard about Linux and ended up with a Slackware disc from Walnut Creek.

In 1995 came full internet access with a whole new set of rabbit holes. Usenet, cipherpunks, IRC, etc.

Over times my interest varied as a teenager would. Upon starting college in 98 I had amassed a lot of experience - coding, graphics, graphic design (2d and 3D), web dev, Linux, building computers, etc. At the time I didn’t realize it, but this constant exploration and learning helped me build a huge set of tools that have served me well in my career.

In the end, the biggest lesson? Learn. Follow your curiosity. Roadblocks? find a way around, worst case, spot the dead ends and try again.
That's interesting thanks for sharing. I guess that begs the question: even if there are some documented negative effects, does it outweigh the benefit of young boys experiencing positive role models in the classroom? Measuring the benefit of role models is really hard to quantify, but role models definitely influence people.
Maybe for CPLDs, the abstraction level of Factorio is a bit too low for FPGAs unless you want to work entirely at the transistor level.