skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If people are interested in the topic, a more recent paper from 2020 is "Pump and Dumps in the Bitcoin Era: Real Time
Detection of Cryptocurrency Market Manipulations", available at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.06610.pdf.

The researchers got some very good results (their detection tools has a precision of 93.1% with 91.4% recall), and made their data set publicly available on github.
Crime statistics for DC: 2020 vs 2019

https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance
Everyone came forward with whatever they thought was suspicious, but we're at the point now where things that even sound like "voter fraud claim" are automatically dismissed.

Take for example, this: https://mapthefraud.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DATASCIENC/pag....

If the thousands of votes here were fraudulent, the quantity is sufficiently high to assume that some organization is trying to interfere with the election. If there is an organization capable of creating thousands of fraudulent votes in this instance, then what instances are we unaware of that the same organization is also involved with.

I'm not asking for a 2-year investigation based on allegations of a pee pee video recorded in a Russian hotel, I'm just asking for:

"Republicans opposing Wednesday's electoral count have one proposal to deal with the controversy — that Congress delay action for 10 days so an "emergency" electoral commission can audit the results and investigate voter fraud claims in the contested states."

https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tall...
MIT Machine Learning Uses ‘Graph Grammar’ to Automate and Optimize Robot Design
EV automaker Nio unveils a luxury sedan to compete with the Model S
I, for one, get terrible nausea and motion sickness if I look at screens while sitting in a cab.

I suspect this is a fairly big issue among commuters who aren't taking the subway (which, in America, is practically no one outside of NYC).
There is a third option on the table! Using DMA controller.

People say what's the difference in between copying memory by CPU, or by DMA controller? The difference is exactly that.

You rarely need that, but in some cases you have:

1. You do very long copies, and want to have full CPU performance.

2. You do very long copies, and want to have caches to not be flushed during it.

3. You care about power consumption, as DMA controller may let the CPU core to enter low power mode quicker.

4. On some CPU architectures, you can get wildly spread out pages quicker than with CPU/software.
Maybe they can just sell their millions of cars built in the last few years and sitting on lots all across the globe...
> 1-2 rep range at something like an 85-90% of 1 RM [...] will give you more strength increase faster than doing 8 reps.

It will give you more strength if you measure how much you can lift in a 1-rep set. It will give you less strength if you measure how much you can lift in an 8-rep set.

The key false dichotomy here is strength vs. hypertrophy. They are not in opposition, bigger muscle is a stronger muscle. To be as strong as you can, you need to do two things:

1) Get the biggest muscles you can.

2) Get practice in the rep range you are interested in being tested.

As good as Mark's books are, a lot has been researched and discovered since. For rep ranges in particular, this is a good article (backed by research): https://www.strongerbyscience.com/hypertrophy-range-fact-fic...
I think a lot of people weren't thinking things through, and a lot of the "defund the police" stuff was hyperbole.

Also, a violent insurrection literally storming and occupying the seat of the U.S. government, with the goal of changing the incoming government, is very different from what happened this summer.

What happened this summer included a large number of violent riots, but they targeted mainly state and local governments and private property, and without the goal of regime change.

Both are very bad, but open insurrection against the sitting U.S. government is far worse.
I agree with you that left wing logic doesn’t get attacked as ferociously as right wing logic does.

Having said that, the blame for that in my view lies with the right - where else is the critique going to come from?

The far left doesn’t seem to get an easy ride when it comes to the street: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polices-tepid-respo...
The funny side-effect is that if Twitter/Facebook/Instagram become exclusive liberal zones, they’re essentially ensuring that they have a brain-rotting, dopamine-intoxicating advertising trap all to themselves.

Who’s being punished here?
Feeds into the conspiracy theories that it was all orchestrated by the left. Sets them up perfectly to crack down hard on their opponents.
Whenever people do stuff like this, alternative text protocols like Gemini make more sense.
There needs to be a thorough review of the social media and tattoos of all law enforcement in the US. Anyone with a hint of ties to the white supremacist militias or movements needs to be immediately fired. I’m hoping the Biden DoJ will issue a lot of consent decrees and thoroughly investigate every police agency in the country.
No but I did see an unarmed protestor get shot in the face by a police officer
It's all easy looking backwards. If you went through the dot-com boom, bust, and the chaos in between, not so much. If it was easy, everyone would've bought Apple and Microsoft stock in the 80's and just let it ride.
> No serious person was saying we should abolish the police

I don't think any serious person is saying that "no serious person was saying we should abolish the police."

Abolitionism has been a strong movement, close to the core of American values of liberty, since the beginning of professional police and the Charleston Watch, before the civil war.

I am a serious person. And I do not believe that the institution of the police is the best way for a nation whose laws are based on the commonlaw tradition to establish justice or promote safety. Especially in 2020, when there are cameras everywhere and the capacity to report emergencies at lightspeed, I think that continuing to fund and empower this particular experiment is irresponsible.
I think recently twitter decided to not function with JS disabled. Perhaps someone can confirm.
The efficacy of the vaccines currently being administered to millions were based on decisions made with data from ~200 confirmed cases.
I love how the issue is "the left does not negotiate" after years where right blocks any proposal from left on principle. And "the Left has embraced authoritarianism" ... right after when right decided that overturning elections is what they are entitled at.
Imagine if we had a 2008 Mumbai style terror attack with armed and organized gunman. We'd be f'ed.
So does Steamboat Willie enter the public domain in 3 years?
Every analysis is based on some assumptions and all predictions hold true only for limited timescales. Yes natural disasters happen and we can't prevent all of them. Yes we will have "nuclear disasters". The world is under constant threat of semiglobal nuclear war.

But Chernobyl and Fukushima (and others, let's not kid ourselves) are disasters with minuscule cost in lives and environment harm. Every year 60 million people die and out of that 12 million die due to unhealthy environment. Risks of (non-weapon) nuclear energy to life, while they exist, are a complete non-issue. Apart from political changes, we need cheap reliable energy to fix the atmosphere and to fix that unhealthy environment.
I built a PWA for disc golf speedruns: https://www.anhyzer.io/

I'm really quite pleased with it and I use it often, but there's only one course listed (the one I play on), and there's no feature for letting users contribute data for courses. Also, I use a database with public access, so if you know what you're doing you can hack the scoreboard.

If you're interested or want to add a course I'd accept PRs: https://github.com/staab/disc-golf
Sasha is an informal version for both genders, I don’t think there is any difference.

Source: I am Russian
There are only so many times you can “debate” someone who isn’t willing to learn before you start slamming doors in their faces. Along the way you spend a significant amount of effort trying to see things from their perspective, but their perspective is simply that they are right and you are wrong and the facts don’t matter.

Poor education and a reliance on Murdoch/Sinclair or other similar media for their information is the main visible cause of this condition.
What's really interesting in the Capitol attack is how the terrorists ended up simply surveilling themselves, posting their videos and pictures onto their own social media with their own identifying information attached. You don't need a police state when the enemy is this stupid.
I wrote handbrake runner. It takes a plaintext (glib) keyfile and runs HandBrakeCLI repeatedly to encode video. I use it for my dvd/bd collection. It has a support script (hbscan.py) to build keyfile templates from handbrake's scan of dvd titles.

https://github.com/epakai/hbr
I don't agree.

Similar to the Jan 6 Trump event, many peaceful BLM protest marches were conflated with the simultaneous violent riots. We need to make better distinction between peaceful marching, and wholesale looting and arson.

Now Antifa has been a violent, murderous group for as long as I can remember, but they've gotten a pass. Because of a complicit media, the antifa DA in Oregon, tacit approval by Democrat pols, and financial/legal aid. They are the shock troops of the Democrats after all.
For anyone interested in computer graphics, I find Inigo Quilez's site (https://iquilezles.org/www/index.htm) more helpful than most of the textbooks on my shelf.
"Germany to require fingerprints and biometric images for ... passports and national IDs"

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202011/germany-to-require-fi...
Dont persue?

Dude the reason the cat with the warrant hasn't been caught is because they dont show up to their known residence. They are EVADING. Their home isnt a safe space from warrants.

You just effectively nullified the entire reason to have a warrant out for someone's arrest, let alone reason for bail so someone shows up to court.

And no, it's not safer in the sense they aren't shot. Body armor has gotten better and the likelihood of surviving a few rounds to the chest has gone up. The shootings haven't changed, just the body armor. Get out of your sick fantasy world. Better yet, go be a cop to help reform. See for yourself before you think you have an opinion.
That’s an opinion piece from a nobody.
The pandemic would likely be over by now because we did not have the means to prolong it.
Correct. Not providing access to a chronological, raw timeline is also censorship and anti-user.
"Reform the police" is a slogan and accurate.
Seems to work in Denver thus far.

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/09/06/denver-star-program-me...

> Since its launch June 1, the STAR van has responded to more than 350 calls, replacing police in matters that don’t threaten public safety and are often connected to unmet mental or physical needs. The goal is to connect people who pose no danger with services and resources while freeing up police to respond to other calls. The team, which is not armed, has not called police for backup, Sailon said.

> The team has responded to an indecent exposure call that turned out to be a woman changing clothes in an alley because she was unhoused and had no other private place to go. They’ve been called out to a trespassing call for a man who was setting up a tent near someone’s home. They’ve helped people experiencing suicidal thoughts, people slumped against a fence, people simply acting strange.

> “It’s amazing how much stuff comes across 911 as the general, ‘I don’t know what to do, I guess I’ll call 911,’” Richardson said. “Someone sets up a tent? 911. I can’t find someone? 911.”
>With federation, the content can be stored on any platform, with hooks to pull in into your feed.
>At that point, the differentiators are UX quality, level and type of moderation, data licensing model and tracking/spying/ad components.

This sounds like it would work to avoid censorship but I'm pretty sure I don't fully understand the mechanics of how distribution is handled and how users would find the appropriate site that hosts the content the user is seeking in cases where their normal node decides to block it.

I was hasty in dismissing this line of thought. There's more merit to it than I initially thought.
Zero chance any of that would have happened. It certainly could have gotten more ugly than it was. But a loosely organized mob of protestors is not going to achieve that. One SWAT team, or the military if necessary, would have dealt with it easily.
Today was the deadliest day of the pandemic so far
This page says 16+ million flights in the USA occur yearly: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/by_the_numbers/

Sure, maybe it's pre-COVID info. Let's do a Fermi "how many piano tuners" and say subtracting the small private jets and Airbus, there are 5 million flights on Boeing hardware, in the USA alone. Let's say maybe 20 million worldwide (probably way too low a number). There were 20 million successful flights with Boeing hardware per year, year after year. 1 of them crashes, and you say "Never flying a Boeing again?".

Anyway, why should I take some random Internet outburst seriously. How about I make a $1000 bet that you'll find yourself on a Boeing flight between now and Jan 1, 2026? Would you be willing to do that?
Yes, the number of categories and the number of items shown.
There is no paging or endless scrolling, so users have more time for other things IRL :)
I don't know if the the more reasonable but equivalent slogans got replaced by the more spicy ones in some sort of meme survival of the fittest, or if it's a trend of today's social movements to use divisive or easy to misunderstand slogans on purpose.

Ex: "Black lives matter too" vs "black lives matter". or "replace / reboot the police" vs "defund the police". The police one I'm having a hard time thinking of a slogan that would be better, maybe that's why it stuck.
For a better approach, you can check this paper from 2020: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.06610.pdf.

Quote from the paper:

> Not only our performances are considerably
better than theirs, we score 93.1% of precision and 91.4%
recall against their 50.1% precision and 75.0% recall, but our detector is also faster.
I guess a statement like that can always be true depending on how you define serious person. But millions of people were and are arguing for the strongest possible interpretation of “abolish the police”.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...

I have to admit I find it pretty disheartening that mainstream liberals are for the most part just as unwilling to take a critical look at the most extreme, “all cops are bad”, toppling statues of Abraham Lincoln and burning down police stations subset of the left or even acknowledge that it exists, as the mainstream republicans have been of condemning the trumpism/q-anon alt right.
Well, first let me say that I agree that neither cmake nor autotools is perfect.

I am saying that cmake is fundamentally broken and unfit for purpose even in addition to what you mention. I've mentioned some in another comment here, but really why cmake should be thrown in the garbage is too long a rant to fit into a comment field.

I am VERY interested in hearing new ideas. If you have a truly better way, then I want to use it.

Though I'm not sure why you say generating code is so bad. Code gets compiled to machine language, and (especially with optimizations and all the new fancy instructions) are not a thing that most people usually look at anymore.

Yes, actual developers need automake/autoconf installed. Of a sufficiently recent version. But what exactly is your suggestion? Autotools at least makes this an issue only for the developers (and not even all of them, since they may not need to change things), not for the orders of magnitude more users.

But this is not a unique thing to developers. There may be other generated code. E.g. they need to have protobuf compiler installed, with all the plugins required. End users, even those who build, don't. Developers who don't modify those parts don't.

But here's the main thing though: Any portable build system, that already requires EVERY user to have that build system installed, is DoA for being a viable portable build system.

It's incredibly frustrating to download a package, only to find that the build system the author in their infinite wisdom chose to use, has not been ported to your platform (or if it has, you have to yak shave for a few hours to get it and its dependencies installed). So you can't compile the thing.

The beauty of autotools is that it "compiles" to a "virtual machine" (shell) that will truly run anywhere. Nowadays even on Windows, which now ships bash.

CMake too fails on this aspect, in addition to all the other aspects this box won't be able to fit.

But please, I truly mean that if you have a better way, then I do want it. It's incredibly hard to build something portable though. Hence the minimal dependency of "just a POSIX shell" for autotools.
Carlson cuts right to the truth. I can see why many on the left dislike him.
Except for running out of VM space, all the other issues are still there. And even if you have (for the time being) practically unlimited VM space, you may still not want to mmap a file of unbounded size, since setting up all those mappings takes quite a lot of time if you're using the default 4 kB page size. So you probably want to do some kind of windowing anyway. But then if the access pattern is random and the file is large, you have to continually shift the window (munmap + mmap) and performance goes down the drain. So I don't think going to 64-bit systems tilts the balance in favor of mmap.
> 1 in 1000 young black men is killed by a cop

Given that ~300 black men are killed by police each year, I don't think that math checks out.

Agree with police reform, although we probably need more funding in many places, not less.
Crash: Sriwijaya B735 at Jakarta, lost height and impacted Java Sea
> I find it deeply troubling that the same crowd who was calling for the abolition of the police a few months ago is now earnestly encouraging informing on their own friends

Uhhh, is that actually happening?

I think I have my finger pretty firmly on the pulse of one center of today's abolitionist movement, in Portland (where I was in the streets getting gassed many times this summer), and I don't know of anybody who holds the contradictory viewpoint you're describing.

I don't think most abolitionists care enough about the Capitol in the first place to get enraged about this.
Pfizers stage 3 vaccine trial have 41,000 participants. I'm not sure how you got 200, have I misunderstood you?

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta....
Mars scientists have a convention that the year starts at L_s = 0°, which is the vernal equinox in Mars’s northern hemisphere.

The next Martian new year by this convention starts on Earth date 2021-02-07, and lasts through 2022-12-25 (Christmas day!).
This is the best comment I’ve read here for years.
> The suggested department would consist of peace officers

So there would still be officers, but the department would be rebuilt from the ground up. Sounds like a great idea. Some departments can’t be fixed and have to be rebuilt.
> “Reduce police funding”?

Better in some ways, worse in others. It avoids the confusion with abolishment, but it looses the connotations of seriously changing the status quo. Because of that, it's less attention-grabbing.
I can't and won't speak for anybody else, but if I wanted to provide random strangers with a free soapbox I wouldn't bother with a static blog. I'd just fire up a new Fediverse instance.

IMO, there's no need for comments. If people can't either send you an email or quote your blog with a link in their own blog, then they probably don't have much of value to say.
That's why your builds are slow I guarantee it. Our build times dropped from ~4 minutes to ~20 seconds when they got everyone machines with SSD
> The media pretends that this is unprecendented

It is.

> forgets the events of last year when antifa forcefully took a federal courthouse in Portland.

A federal courthouse isn't the national Capitol, and the courthouse wasn't targeted specifically because officials were present and inspired in part by public calls to execute particular officials and in part by a direct call by the a defeated candidate as part of an ongoing campaign to reverse election results.

> They also ignore the general carnage of last year - violence and arson directed at business owners and people following the death of George Floyd.

No, in fact comparison of the events and the law enforcement responses is common in the media, even though the coup attempt is still portrayed as an unprecedented event. So the claim that the events of last summer are “ignored” by the media is simply false.
The only websites Google finds in the last 24 hours with the quoted statement are Newsweek and Washington Times, both citing that Tweet.

According to Kim Zetter, a well known mainstream and tech journalist [1], the ACLU sometimes emails statements relevant to breaking news to journalists without posting the statement online themselves [2]:

> People: the ACLU statement about Twitter/Facebook ban I tweeted is real. It was emailed to media from their spokesman. Just because it’s not on their website doesn’t mean it’s fake. They don’t always post online statements they send media to be included in breaking news stories

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Zetter

[2] https://twitter.com/KimZetter/status/1347960620914671616
They dragged their feet for 12 years.
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