skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're talking about poor people, not minorities, though there's an overlap. There's also an overlap with white people. Actually, the focus should be on people that are disproportionately affected by pollution, regardless of their skin tone. There are towns around refineries and heavy industry that are predominantly white. Are you implying we should care less about them?
> There's questionable billing policies/pricing policies.

I blame ICANN. A few years ago Uniregistry changed pricing for a bunch of TLDs including existing registrants and ICANN did nothing.

All of the other registries routinely reclassify domains as premium when they drop and it's really short sighted IMO. Domains would make an incredible, pseudo-anonymous, collision free web identity system, but many of the registries (AFAIK) are owned by private equity and can't see past the next quarterly earnings report.

It's really sad. The new domains could have been an opportunity to expand the market by convincing regular people to buy domains for email, identity, etc., but instead we got a bunch of short sighted price gouging :-(
>> Of course that aspect of it gets a lot of press, because it makes for easy narratives for liberal arts major journalists who have trouble with science and economics.

Wow, hah, that's mighty condescending and laughably misinformed. I think perhaps you're the one who should read a little more about the science.

In short, the history of pollution is - people invent something with 0 thought given to side effects (e.g. smoking). Side effects turn out to be very bad. Company maliciously hides all evidence, and tries to manipulate data/researchers (usually fairly successfully). Only after decades and decades of fighting does the scientific consensus prove that yes, secondhand smoking, lead exhaust, air pollution, PFOAs, microplastics, hundreds of (now-revoked) pesticides, pthalates, etc was even worse than everybody thought, and the policies are adjusted after massive suffering.

That's why your fairy-tale about legal tradeoffs crumbles under the gentlest scrutiny. Because these policies around air-pollution predate any meaningful research on the health effects of this pollution. Just off the top of my head, here's an article from last year of PM2.5 as a potential cause of depression [1]. Nobody knows yet how many more indirect and damaging effects from various types of pollution are yet to be discovered (from PM2.5 or otherwise).

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6447209/
> Defensive equipment promotes escalation, as there is less worry of harm.

I think there's a conversation about law enforcement and civil rights that people in the US need to have. But its awfully hard to have a real conversation when people don't want police to use lethal force and also don't want cops to have access to things that allow them to do their job with less reliance on lethal force.

> Also, you know, tanks. https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/towns-dont-need-...

Actually those are not tanks. And the US military has no problem using .50 cal on personnel. Which are just nitpicks but they illustrate how hard it is to talk about these subjects when the people making the criticisms are so profoundly ignorant about the facts of the matter.
That is not a remotely reasonable way of looking at the situation. Your odds in a criminal trial do not in fact reflect the likelihood that a random accused person will take a plea deal.

If we're discussing police charging into houses of people accused of nonviolent crimes armed to the teeth, we're on the same page. But otherwise, I'm not clear what your suggestion is here.
China too.

When I lived in China I felt like I was in the Jetsons- 200 mph trains, gleaming airports more skyscrapers in Shanghai tahn in the Ten top US cities combined. Plus new mission to the Moon every year.

In American I feel like the Flintstones- so backwards.
She does a great job of showing how to analyze how something works - e.g. the logic behind using 12v - and what you need to know to do that. Very patient and thorough.
East Palo Alto and San Jose could be either from pop-density, or from relative # of poor people.
Please share more info about your case
Wikipedia says that the shuttle's payload to LEO is 24,310 kg, at least 4x less than Starship (currently quoted at "100+ tons", meaning it could be somewhat higher, probably depending on where the booster lands (boostback to shore vs autonomous droneship vs no recovery).
DIY Covid-19 Vaccine
it allows LEOs and medical personnel to approach an area that is in danger of lethal force by criminals.
Like everything else in finance, they do good by making their investors money.
These investors then can use the money for fulfilling their purpose/charter/business plan.

For example, a school could use its endowment to give out scholarships, a pension fund pays out retirees, etc etc.
> Why is climate change a left or right issue?

Because as with all politics it determines the distribution of resources. Those who stand to gain v/s those who stand to lose have both heavily manipulated the science, or at least the reporting.

> Why is wearing masks a left or right issue?

Voluntary masking wouldn't be. Compulsory masking runs afoul of those who have a fundamental belief in self-ownership, negative rights and reject most positive rights [1]. This has deep political roots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights
Right, the facts presented to the judge, taken as stated, have to add up to cause for a search. Judges shouldn't ignore a paucity of factual assertions. I don't doubt that many do. But short of an adversarial process, which I don't think can work with warrants, I don't know what you can do to mitigate a police officer fabricating evidence.
> If there's anyone out there designing tech support procedures, you should add an "is this a 5% problem?" question to whatever checklist you give to support staff.

When I was the engineer customer service escalated to, I was damn sure to thank them every time they escalated something. Even the one guy who escalated all the things I'd roll my eyes about in private. At least he was making sure the escalation path worked.

Someone who has taken the time to report an issue is probably one of hundreds or thousands who had an issue and didn't think it could be fixed and shrugged it off. We certainly can't fix everything, but weird network shit like this can be fixed, and it's worth escalating, because when you get it fixed, you can also figure out (hopefully) how to monitor for it, so it doesn't happen again.

OTOH, I didn't work for the phone company. We don't care, we don't have to, we're the phone company. https://vimeo.com/355556831 (sorry about the quality, I guess internet video was pretty lowdef in the 70s :P)
Well I meant the IP was enough for getting a warrant. But people have been in some dicey situations due to funky shit on their IP addresses. "I have an unsecured wifi" is a defense that's been used in court.
On the flip side, I had a friend who was a homicide cop in NYC.

By the time he retired, he was broken by the things he'd seen and dealt with that nobody should ever see or deal with. He got a nice pension, but he earned it.
This is literally the history of California and why most people immigrated here in the first place.
For anyone interested, there's also an excellent article on how nullable types work in Dart, that's more of a deep dive:

https://dart.dev/null-safety/understanding-null-safety
I may not agree with Dr. Morrow, but I definitely salute his willingness to buck consensus. We need civil discourse and robust dissent in our lives, and not in the form of “alternative facts”. I think most of the facts he lists are true, just that his judgements are not quite where mine are.
They both do the same thing, except one includes a copy of chrome inside it.
The major component of the Trump Tax Cut was lowering the tax on corporate profits.

Telsa barely makes any profit, making that change mostly useless for them.

I believe capital gains taxes were also lowered, which may have been helpful for their stock price. But that in itself is helpful to Elon Musk and other stockholders, not the company itself.
> The Mission ... currently isn't a nice town?

I lived in the Mission District. I can tell you some stories. Gangsters and just crazy shit. It's still pretty wild there despite gentrification.

Sunset used to have something called "Sunset District Incorporated" or something like that. Skinheads basically. Dunno how it is now.

I went to high school in Hunters Point. Doublerock isn't as famous as Compton but it gets respect. East of 3rd street down there is where the enlightened progressives of San Francisco segregate our Black folks.

What I'm saying is we have lots of different sorts of gangs here in SF. You don't get jumped for your Nike's on Muni so much these days, but still.

But that's not all.

Go walk around the Tenderloin for a minute (DO NOT ACTUALLY DO THIS, I am speaking rhetorically. It's physically dangerous. Highest incidence of male-on-male rape in the nation in the Tenderloin.) I lived there briefly and saw some wild things.

I haven't even touched on the folks living in tents and in Golden Gate Park and down by Lake Merced, or the rampant public drug abuse downtown.

> Russian Hill, North Beach/Telegraph Hill, the Marina, Ocean Beach, etc.

Are you trolling? Those are the nice neighborhoods!

Even Detroit has nice neighborhoods.

In contrast I lived in a Canadian city for a little while and I can remember the night I was coming home late and it dawned on me that I was perfectly safe, in a way that I had never felt growing up in San Francisco.

I love this town, but she's a shady lady.

- - - -

And BTW wtf are you doing going for walks and doing "many things" in the middle of a pandemic!? Goddamnit dude.
Florida is still a purple state and Wikipedia says Tallahassee is 2:1 Democrat:Republican. I'd have said the same about judges in most areas of the US that don't have a significant tech presence. I would not feel that way about a judge in, say, Austin.
> We are biological creatures, and there are some reactions that are just biological

I understand and I assume you have weapons stashed around your residence in case of these kind of encounters.

But this family almost certainly did not. If you watch the video, the gun is pointing upstairs, presumably at the husband and children. I doubt the husband has a firearm handy or a means to defend himself for this situation.

So his emotional response to attack without proper weaponry is foolish, unless on the odd chance he’s a trained ninja like you :)
You mean poor people tend to live closer to sources of pollution.
I had a ginormous AT&T router/modem (pace 5268ac) with a set of static ip addresses and a few times, AT&T just stopped routing traffic to it.

It had happened before and then magically fixed itself a few days later.

One time I had a week of outage with AT&T basically said the problem was on my side. They could ping the modem, and then punted. I had several truck rolls. The techs were really nice guys, but were basically cabling guys, better for finding a bad cable than debugging a packet loss. The problem for me was that my ipv4 static ip addresses would not receive traffic.

I was at wit's end after a week and I debugged the thing myself. By looking at EVERY bit of data on the router, I found mention of the blocked packets in the firewall log. I would clear all the logs, and found even with the firewall DISABLED, the firewall log would see and block incoming packets I was sending using my neighbor's comcast connection.

I called AT&T, but this time mentioning "firewall is completely off, but packets are blocked by the router and showing up in the log" was concrete enough for them to look up a (known) solution.

The fix was to disable the firewall, but to enable stealth mode. wtf?

To be clear, this was a firmware bug, and caused dozens of calls to AT&T, lots of heartache and finger pointing always in my direction.

I should also mention at the start of this fiasco, I checked the system log and noticed they pushed a firmware update to the modem at the time the problem started. Strangely after one call to the agent, that specific line disappeared out of the log file, but other log entries remained. hmmm.

since then, they basically screw up my modem every month or two - they push new firmware and new "features" appear (like the one that sniffs and categorizes application traffic like "youtube" and "github"). It also helpfully turns wifi BACK ON when I had disabled it. I immediately go turn if back off and then they immediately send me a big warning email that my DSL settings have been changed.
These may help for that:

- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fB5pysccOHvxphpTmCG_TGdy...

- https://www.microcovid.org/
Kahan is always worth reading if you do numerical computation.
> Nested divs have no meaning

That's pretty much true now[1], but the original meaning of "div" was "document division"[2] — i.e. they were similar to the current "section" element.

> outside of that the only way to express meaning of something like a modal or a popover is visually.

That is (was?) the point of 'semantic' CSS and the separation of concerns. A div is (now) just a generic block, but a div with an id or a classname means something dammit.

1. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-div-element

2. https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/SPSD-html32-20180315/#div
Or their computer isn't checking the checksum. As is apparently the case on mac os (as reported elsewhere in the thread).

Another quality product by Apple ;P
Find a politician who wants to raises taxes for everybody in their current term. That's why so many countries are announcing they are banning ICE cars in a decade or more. By that time everybody would have forgotten which politician enacted it, if they are even still in a political career.
California's Covid contact tracing app available for everyone starting Thursday
Lol, these folks keep thinking they're at some academic research group to ask for accountability or transparency.
44 years after the Wright Brothers first flew 120 feet, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. 22 years after that, man landed on moon.

51 years later ... still waiting for the future to arrive.
Costs of War [pdf]
Nothing looks LIKE NULL as that would always evaluate to NULL, which would be filtered out in a WHERE clause.
This is untrue, Taylor was listed on the warrant no different than the other two persons. [0][1]

[0] https://www.wave3.com/2020/05/12/breonna-taylor-shooting-war...
[1] https://www.wisconsinrightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09...
Surely the sane thing to do security wise would be to mark each flatpak as needing config files foo and bar, and sticking those into the sandbox as well on launch. The app itself doesn't need filesystem access at runtime. Linux apps suddenly not reading standard config files on my system would be a pretty big downside.
Innovative universal flu vaccine shows promise in first clinical test
I switched to github actions. Works better than travis ci ever did. So far appears perfectly free for open source projects.

https://github.com/SophistSolutions/Stroika/actions?query=br...
Problem is you kinda need a spaceport at the destination so that the starship can get back to you.
The Skeletons at the Lake
My only question is why the thing is not made of titanium.

He talks about composites and aluminum, but never mentions the titanium alternative.

Clue?
That doesn't take into account the speed of delivery. There may be some customer out there that doesn't know when they need something delivered, but once they know, they'd be willing to pay an extravagant amount of money to have whatever it is there in 30 minutes.

The most immediate thing I can think of is a bomb, which is pretty much exactly that need :) But there may be other use cases with similar required delivery times.
As I pointed out in a response to your other comment [1] this is incorrect. Police as a public institution in the US date back to the colonial era, centuries before you claim the first police departments were formed. Altering the statement to saying that police were reformed to be more professional in the 1800s immensely different than claiming that police did not exist. The latter is akin to saying that armies didn't exist until the early modern period because most soldiers were levies instead of professional solder.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25341633
And age, race, types of jobs, family structure, trust in authority, education, and probably more.

San Carlos is white, rich, and old. East Palo Alto it not.
Whenever I read statements like these I am torn because it's difficult to decide whether to cast it aside as "feel good rhetoric, but rhetoric nonetheless" or take it as it is. Do I simply gather the facts and make up my own truth of things, or do I listen to someone pen something like this up where there are so many self-admitted contradictions that you cannot help but wonder if these people are intentionally ruining social order, if they are just that ignorant of their actions.
Probably both
So what changed this? This was a hill that people were willing to die on.
An alternative is to eliminate or reduce qualified immunity.
The "we miss you" suggests they're older, possibly pre-pandemic photos.
Yeah, that’s true also.

Have you not noticed that essentially everyone is pro-censorship nowadays? As long as it’s their preferred brand of censorship, of course.
That model really only makes sense if there are multiple compelling autonomous driving products.

If a company builds an autonomous driving capability and is able to hold on to a monopoly over it, they would either simply drive uber out of business, or license the tech to them in a way that would leave them with very thin margins.
It's just an alternative OS. Alternatives are nice to have.
Pretty sure it would be much faster than 2 hours (at least of flight time).
Great read. (resident in San Mateo County here)

I personally think the whole country should focus more on the greater good for everyone by culling the virus instead of doing this open-nd-close back and forth juggling, as to optimize for the best outcome available (similar to New Zealand). But then again I am not well versed on the Nash equilibrium when it comes to highly infectious diseases.
Are you familiar with the kisrhombille grid?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated_trihexagonal_tiling#...

Scaleable like a square grid.

12 directions.
Starship carries 100 metric tons, a C-17 only about 70, but can get there in 90 minutes, which could be critical for the military.
Before I can suggest required proof for intersection, let's define what we mean by intersection.

Is it:

1. Us finding relics on earth or else where of a long dead alien civilization?

2. Us being monitored by an advanced race of ET?

3. Them living amongst us?

4. Them influencing us, dealing with world governments?

I guess each scenario will require different types of proof.

I'm not sure how to proceed without defining scope.
If the sum of regional policies are effective at maneuvering the neighboring counties toward a rate of acceptable and manageable outcomes, then San Mateo is turning the dial in the other direction for the benefit of their businesses and on the backs of surrounding counties.

If the consensus of the region is net wrong, then we are irrationally sacrificing our regional economic health, and we are certainly also trading lives in the other direction as well. All policy choices from here have the price of blood.

I don't accept the position that a policy without robust enforcement is a non-policy, as I think government largely works by a compliant population that trusts their leadership; however, as it becomes increasingly apparent that some wins are purchased by the losses of others, the disparity will brew acute resentment.
In fairness those pages offered more content per square inch than modern whitespace centric design.
SpaceX's goal[1] is to be able to ship people for around the cost of a business-class ticket[2] to the same destination.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqE-ultsWt0

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dar8P3r7GYA
From looking at the Wikipedia article on the Costa Concordia, 99% of the people on board survived. That sounds like, in this instance, no special skill(s) nor awareness were really needed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Concordia_disaster
Agreed, but what is missing from all of these explanations and defenses is a concrete plan for exiting SAH and lockdown orders. Where does it end, or is it preferable that it never ends?
Many AAA anti-cheats don't work in linux :(
Depends substantially on how many people have to work face to face with strangers, and how large households are.

Everyone living in a multi-generational household with e.g. grocery store clerks is at significantly higher risk than a couple of childless yuppies working from home.
and now this is my current wallpaper:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Toledo_%...
> The github links are broken on that page

All github links lead to some content for me now
She's listed because it's her residence. Read the warrant, and compare the language in it about her to the language of the other people suspected of using the building.
What a delightful thing to read. It's so rare in this pandemic to see public health officials actually speaking frankly with a full command of the relevant facts, instead of either rottenly repeating the current consensus or sticking their head in the sand about the whole thing. I especially appreciated his points about "essential businesses" being a totally incoherent category, and his unwillingness to impose restrictions on the entire county based on that arbitrary categorisation.

Even aside from his particular recommendations, I can't remember the last time I heard a government official talk like an actual human being in this manner. A breath of fresh air.
> Just because they have a warrant does not mean they should be going in with weapons drawn even if they were made to sit around for 20 minutes while the innocent person decided what do to.

Agree.

> You are making a very thin apologium for appalling behaviour.

Wasn't my intent, but I can see how you would read it that way.
Several hundred thousand state taxes in one year? That means you made at least 2.5m. What exactly are you complaining about?
Good article, but there is no "choice". You need both and the article even explains why!

You need union types if you have subtyping to avoid wrapping/unwrapping all the time.

And you also need option/maybe types for the cases where you must not lose information at runtime. These types can implemented by union types even, by simply "tagging" (= wrapping) the runtime values with a class).

A good language gives you both out of the box.
I never launched it on Android, just iOS. At the time Apple had the 30% for first year -- I think they just lowered it to 15% but would have to check that
I totally agree, we do all of these things. It was just a little less clear early on in the project what the best structure for the project was :)