skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I remember this paper from a while back, but read it based on a different perspective (ethnicity).

Unarmed in the context of this paper would only be as it applies to deadly weapons. The suspect could still pose a threat with an alternative weapon (such as a pipe) or even pose a threat with bare hands too. The percent of people killed without posing an immediate threat would be more appropriate, and was 5% (would like to see the details of those with prosecution metrics). I would guess that 5% that mostly fits in the 7% you mentioned (which includes cars, suffocation, falls, etc), but unfortunately the paper doesn't seem to get granular enough for that. So I don't think we can draw a good conclusion from this paper that there were more civilians unjustly shot by police than the police being shot by civilians (the paper leaves out non-fatal incidents too). On that note too, the 2% officer fatality rate you show would not be fully encompassing. Meaning, it would be missing encounters in which the suspect killed the officer without also being killed.
A lot of justified complaints here but the Oracle build of RHEL is 100% free and always up to date (I.e. while CentOS still doesn’t have 8.3 out, Oracle had it out 9 days after RH).

Yes, Oracle sucks but it’s a better RHEL build than CentOS was.
Isn't audio already recorded in stereo? What is the need for re-mixing it again on the fly? Why muck with the artist's intentions?
Yeah, resources and infrastrucure are not some magic that only Redhat can provide. If sources will be released on https://git.centos.org/ or somewhere else, then it may work. Just like the old times [1]

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/128952/
They're certainly more likely to steal your stuff and try to resell it, in my experience.

Most importantly, they're likely to see a contract in terms of "What can I get away with" rather than "I gave my word in writing".
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> “In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to ignore the fact that, deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the sceptics, are trying to figure out how the world works and what our role in it might be. Their motives are in many cases consonant with science. If their culture has not given them all the tools they need to pursue this great quest, let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped.”
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Well, it’s more complicated, but in theory you could do some deep packet inspection that understands the protocols: personally, I’d use this to break DoH connections (for every host name seen in SNI, attempt a DoH query, if it resolves, reset the connection) and attempt to force everything to fall back to plain DNS. Then, whitelist a couple outbound ports (on most networks, maybe just 443 + 53?) and block VPNs.
We still don't have the exact CVR transcript from the Ethiopia Airways crash, but we have a description of it, and it appears the crew followed the runaway stabilizer checklist. They were certainly aware of the Lion Air crash. However, they could not get manual trim control to work.

The manual trim operation requires a large amount of strength to operate when the stabilizer is loaded. It might be true that pilots would now be aware that they need to allow the stabilizer to be in an unloaded position before disabling the automatic trim. But that's a big if when the aircraft is only a few thousand feet off the ground.

In other words, without any modifications, if MCAS were to erroneously operate during a takeoff, and the pilots had perfect information on what was happening, it still might be difficult to recover from it. They could probably wait for an MCAS cycle to complete, then disable the automatic trim. But there's only about 60 seconds to complete these actions.
No hubris here at all.

But seriously, fuck this protocol and fuck every other BigCorp-sponsored protocol to remake the Internet. We the People Who Implement Protocols are too busy keeping the lights on to chase incremental, nice-to-have improvements.
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Can't SVG's also be used to run code?

Yes, you can: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5378559/including-javasc...

brb as I write a follow up article.
There is a highly contagious and deadly virus spreading in an uncontrolled fashion. Can't everyone just give everyone a break? For late gifts, for delayed logistic operations?
I think you're definitely getting it, but you're also trying to see how these combinators are useful or at least usable. That's a bit of a tricky question because as @carapace mentions, you'd need to start combining them in interesting ways to get anything useful out of SKI.
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And their marketing knows this, just like Apple does - their products aren't competing on price. They are competing on the image and brand recognition, and there are people(me) who genuienly like how they sound and are willing to pay the premium for all of these features.
Does it have vector tiles support?
I don't use my QC700s because I had so many pairing issues. I'm using Steelseries ones with a boom (great quality but I look like a helicopter pilot on zoom).
Sucession of power in dictatorship is what I'd think an important attribute of it, not a definition.

Many of those despots have every intent and actions that we have observed to have their heirs assume office, only that it was stopped. It's about that they have that power in their form of government where they make all the calls, not them actually achiving it.

On the other hand, many of Xi's predecessors are well-alive, well, two of them, if they are/were dicators, what is Xi? There are three dictators at different times in China, with one in the office and the other two well and alive? I doubt dictatorship would be an accurate account for what's really going on.
There's a silent but relatively big user base of CentOS in HPC and scientific computing.

ScientificLinux and CentOS rules all HPC clusters. Clusters are like enterprise servers. Big, monolithic, rarely upgraded. They're upgraded in one big-fell swoop and left to run.

There'll be another clone of RHEL since HPC can't accept CentOS Stream as the alternative. The whole infra is too big to move to Debian too.

So with today's announcement, a new distro is born. Also Greg (CentOS' founder's) domain (HPCng) is very telling...

We'll see. We're in for a hell of a ride. If you excuse me, I need to dust-off my XCAT servers...
More the fool I, of course it would. Though I never heard of the Taliban using them, natural caves are probably better against aircraft.
The first sentence only experiencing diminishing returns can be read negative. Also everything is easier/cheaper/faster than ever for individuals and small companies to enter the hardware space.
There’s a great book that goes over this by Wharton Professor Adam Grant called Give and Take
Yeah, it’s an arms race, but I suspect it’s solvable: at least solvable enough that it’s feasible to just not use devices that break your policies. For things like Pi-Hole, the setup I describe will reduce much of the ad noise even without more complicated systems.
The title of the article is really misleading. I though of a succesor to IPv6 and not DNS. It shouldn't say "internet protocol", thats technically not correct
> People who use CentOS want a boring Linux distro like RHEL. They just don't want to pay for RHEL subscriptions.

I use CentOS a lot for prototyping projects destined to be put on RHEL servers. I like it as a try-before-you-buy version of RHEL, and this change makes that use case a lot less useful.
3DES is still an approved security function for FIPS 140-2 :)

So yea - great stuff!
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Thank you for the clarification (I'm assuming you're the company mentioned in the article). That is crazy and I applaud you for going to the media about this.
Elasticsearch is also not a database.
can individuals sponsor instead of just companies?
I am on BigSur and iOS 14. While watching a video, AirPods switch from Mac to iPhone when I get a call, but won't switch back after I disconnect the call. I have to manually do the switch back. So this is still not an optimal experience.

I forget how this is on my Bose. I think video keeps playing with muted volume when you take the phone call so when you disconnect you just rejoin the video.
I use your site all the time to measure running routes - Thanks for the great work!
Why does anyone provide a pension now? 401ks are much more financially prudent.
"Force control issue" is Boeing-speak for "anti-stall." If you're holding the stick back, increase thrust, backwards pressure on stick needed to lift nose reduces, you stall and die.

What we don't know is how often MCAS actually operated on flights, so we don't know how necessary this component really is. All we know is that Boeing claims it's 'rare' and the FAA did not challenge them on this statement. Unless you have the data, you're repeating their talking points.
A guideline I have held religiously for several years now is to not do anything in bed other than read and sleep (for more than one sense of 'sleep').

I often see people complain about having poor sleep, difficulty sleeping etc. I myself used to sometimes take 3-4 hours in bed to fall asleep, no matter how tired I was or what I did. But only using my bed for sleeping is part of what lets me now fall deeply asleep within 5 minutes of shutting my eyes.

I hope your sleep health is good, but if anybody reading this wonders why they have such a tough time falling asleep or waking up on time, I would recommend giving this strategy a shot.
Hi! I could tell you that we were visionaries and we knew a pandemic was going to come, so we were super prepared, but that would not be true.

In the early days, Jacob and I discussed a lot whether we wanted to be a remote company or not. We were very attracted to the idea, and firmly believed it was the future. But as you mentioned, we were concerned about the ability to move fast and setting the culture. The first employees we hired from our network were actually based in SF, so it was not a problem.

One of the early employees wanted to move back to his hometown, and we started to move to a more remote first environment (eg more async comms, everyone using their own cam for meetings even if they were in the office, etc). We hired our first engineer remotely (who we had the pleasure to work with in the past) and we never looked back.

It's been challenging (communication, compliance,...). But overall, we are super happy. I have a strong network in Spain and the UK, and we have access to world class talent that do not necessarily want/can live in the Bay Area. Also no immigration issues!

Even Jacob, my co-founder and CEO left the Bay Area. Being prepared was extremely helpful when the pandemic hit, since most processes were already in place.

Important note, we DID NOT do it for financial reasons. We pay same salary (based on SF) no matter where you live in the world.
Corporate fangs win at the end. It is social pressure for monopoly autocracy and corporate practices. You should have had the freedom to choose whatever license you had in mind without being harassed by company employees or people who misunderstand how to use a GPL licensed product. Dual licensing would be better than giving up the reasons why you chose GPLv3.

Corporations can use GPLv3 in their codebases, they r just not bothered following the lawyer approvals so that code is shared back. If you cared about that, perhaps a better option is dual licensing.

I hope that the project does not become...yet another free labour camp by developers for big tech money bags.
It bothers me how "privacy" has been redefined in recent years to mean "encrypted" and not "surveillance-resistant". We keep building things that make more requests I can't terminate locally, e.g. to a PiHole.

Never forget the lesson in "Using Metadata to find Paul Revere": https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metad...
The problem is especially bad when they get into a position to police other people's conduct and are supposedly there to serve justice.

The problem is that many well intentioned people cannot imagine that it's the case. This will have to be a big realization that the reasonable factions of the social justice movements will need to make. In the current climate this is just too far out to be a topic of rational discussion. Indeed I assume many people now discount everything I wrote due to mentioning this political angle.

But when you actually think about it, it would be surprising if such people didn't seek out some of these powerful positions to roam free.
I've worked at a company that was very particular about the disposal of hardware. To prevent competitors from gleaning information, all hard drives were unscrewed and shredded before the rest of the hardware was sent to recycling. That process was quite time consuming, so reducing the upgrade cycle to one year would have required lots of extra work.
You mean venueentityvessel?
yeah, we should probably never research anything but our own noses, until we know exactly everything about them
Thank you for letting me know! I have disabled that feature on the domain now. We just recently migrated to Cloudflare and probably have some tuning to do.
Is that really the original (English) English meaning of twee? I thought that the English used it more or less where we would use "cutesy" or some other dismissive.

But then I didn't know that there was a "twee culture".
Even Apple screws it up. There's been periods where the MacBook Air wasn't the lightest MacBook. And there's some nebulousness over the Pro lineup (more so on the Mac - the i* lines are more clear).
Nokia phones used to have a feature called "AutoSMS" which would silently send back crash reports and various usage metrics. Of course this feature was never included in production releases, only for field/user testing. After product launch, feedback was gathered by surveys and crash reports from service centers.
Obviously phones have always had the capability to send covert data, but back then it would have been utterly unacceptable. How times & business models have changed :(
> Veolia Environnement SA agreed to recycle General Electric Co. wind-turbine blades into a raw material that can be used to make cement.

> The multiyear agreement involves most of the massive blades GE’s renewable-energy unit removes when replacing its onshore turbines in the U.S., according to a statement Tuesday. Terms weren’t disclosed.

> Veolia’s North American unit will shred the fiberglass blades at a site in Missouri and convert them into a material that can replace coal, sand and clay at cement manufacturing facilities.
Reminds me of those who said they'd never ride in a Toyota again after the unintended acceleration catastrophe. It cost them BILLIONS, now people hardly remember it.
You know what doesn't have a battery never had any connectivity issues (before apple) and just works?

The 3.5mm jack.

I'm all for options though! But apple don't so I guess it doesn't matter.
It's amazing how much journalism is driven by Shareholder Value™
Aaron Sorkin needs to make a sequel to Steve Jobs immediately, where Tim Cook leaves him in the dust and changes the world with truly groundbreaking innovation.
> why is Google developing it.

They want to get a Linux free OS.
I ignored them for a long time because of it. I just assumed they were lightweights being annoying because they didn't have anything else.

It serves as anti-marketing, at least to me.
Not solely, but in part? ;-)
> It doesn't need to make it just like Mars, to be as inhospitable. An asteroid big enough to crater to the mantle, sending out massive waves of lava and darkening the sky for years would do.

No, it wouldn't. That would make the Earth much less hospitable than it is now, but still much more hospitable than Mars.

> It might wipe out all humans on Earth.

This is not evidence of being less hospitable than Mars, since humans cannot survive on Mars. Even at the worst point of this disaster, human life would be easier on Earth than on Mars under normal Martian conditions.
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Thanks, I sure did.

I've copied it to the "Cloudflare and Apple design a new privacy-friendly internet protocol" [0] thread that it was intended for, but it's too late to delete it from this one.

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[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25344358
I've looked into FPGAs that are connected to PCIe and provide high throughput to the host, but it seems these are always in the thousands of dollars.

What's preventing the FPGA AIB from becoming a commodity like a GPU? Is it just economics of scale, or are these things fundamentally more expensive?
The web also allows any producer of physical products to distribute directly to consumers, doesn't it? So why is it OK for Amazon to get a fee, or any physical retailer? Aren't they unnecessary middle men too?
https://www.amazon.com/Mpow-Cancelling-Headphones-Bluetooth-...

It's not strictly fair because you asked for 20 hours, and these do 30, so perhaps disqualified.

I use a similar model MPOW at home. They sound great! Not like audiophile perfect great, but good enough. I have a kid who likes to play with everything, so $500 headphones are a big no. I'm not arguing that these are dumb, or overpriced, or anything, I don't really care. But there are decent alternatives in this space already.
I've also noticed a minor issue, I don't have time at the moment to file a report on github.

I noticed on the demo that if I zoom all the way out, and then use my mouse wheel to zoom in quickly enough I can clip into the earth and see the black below. This does seem to depend on scroll speed being high enough.
My summary : Snapchat or TikTok as video call alternative.
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No. Apple needs large teams doing complicated or deeply technical things. That's their market. They're in consumer electronics. If it takes 50 people to ship 100M units, then it takes 50 people.
Doesn’t deck.gl also use map box? What are they doing?
You do not handle errors by randomly segfaulting.
I also really appreciate the skin tone being a setting rather than having to pick the skin tone every time I select an emoji. This seems like an obvious thing, but some popular apps (cough hangouts cough) still haven't figured it out.
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> it seems like there should be a way to manage the devices on your network

Administering devices with network settings is convenient, but rapidly vanishing because there's no technical difference between you administering your local network and a totalitarian ISP administering their users.

My ways of dealing with the modern world, in order of preference:

1. Use Free software, so that devices develop user-empowering features instead of being locked down.

2. Firewall all general Internet access from a device/VM, and let it talk to local network devices only.

3. Firewall the device/VM from accessing most of your network, allow Internet access (ideally through a VPN), and inspect the hardware to make sure there aren't microphones or cameras.
Si vis pacem, para bellum. "If you want peace, prepare for war"

I am not Swiss so my opinion might not matter to you but I would say that there are many skills that are taught with military service that help out in other circumstances. Organization, mindfulness and the ability to give and receive orders.

>currently, put 10 Swiss men in a room, and it will take at >most half an hour until their army experience becomes a >topic

What is wrong with having something that is common across generations and backgrounds that allows people to connect with each other?

In my opinion we should train people to have many skills or better put:

>A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an >invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, >write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, >comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act >alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch >manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight >efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
>
>-Robert A. Heinlein
This post reminds me of the phrase "you can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility." Has anybody hear this before? I found a blog post [1] that attributes it to "an old saying of the US military".

* Authority means that you have the power to give orders, make decisions.

* Responsibility means you are accountable.

1: https://www.theleadermaker.com/you-cant-delegate-responsibil...
"Irregardless" is a portmanteau of "irrespective" and "regardless".

It's for when it's really important to express that it doesn't matter.

(kidding, of course)

Now do "funnily", a non-word which I dislike with a consuming passion.
> Red Hat still has to release the patches, right?

Whether or not Red Hat "has to", Red Hat is an all open source company and does and will.
I've noticed a push to "delete staging." The idea is to push everything to prod and QA there with Feature Flags. It's a rat-nest of a solution to the problem of managing environments. Feature flags are perfect for some problems, but other times it's just shoving a square peg into a round hole. Like sure, we can walk to the store, it's cheap and easy. But in the long run, you probably should invest in a car.
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The WEF is next May. If any "elite" has not received a vaccination by then, then they were not an elite. Any billionaire, cabinet minister or Fortune 100 CEO has enough clout to be near the front of the queue.
Sturgeon's law: "ninety percent of everything is crap." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
There are plenty of companies who sell their products directly to consumers. So physical products don't need to be sold through third party retailers either.
The author of that article, William Langewiesche, has written several others in that vein:

- https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-...

- https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/04/inside-el-faro-the-w...

- https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/the-mecca-stampede-t...

- https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2009/06/us-airways-200906

- https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2009/01/air_crash200901
>US tries to ban 1 app that is being used to spread propaganda

Have you ever actually used tiktok? How is it being used to spread propoganda?

>farm user data

LOL. Yeah, please tell me how they are doing anything different than the other billion apps you download on your phone and sign-in through google or whatever.

>and is considered a national security threat

Because of... why?
This is a gross oversimplification and simply a dramatic response to a small problem.
Yes - pharma companys do make money from these vaccines. Yes - that creates a conflict of interest.

But Im not so sure what you expect will happen here? Of course there are side effects? Every medical treatment on earth - literally since humanity started - has had side effects. The question is if those side effects are justifiable in comparison to the prevented harm to society.

And if you ask me, the prospect of millions of dead people due to, or related to covid makes a pretty huge load of side-effects tolerable if you see it like that.
Doesn’t have to be white though, I’ve used anoff white for as long as I remember. Say #f8f8f8, or a warmer tone. i think there is a big difference in terms of luminosity by just lowering the rgb a few notches.
Research involves lots of personal conflict. You couldn't imagine how cutthroat the fight for funding, positions, paper authorships, citations etc can be. Lots of small minded machinators.