skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't seem to find the paper, but there was a study conducted in my city that found that, beyond a certain point, more lighting makes people feel safer, but seems to also be associated with more crime.

As I recall, they didn't really figure out the reason for that, but the paper suggested one potential problem is that adding lights simultaneously ruins people's dark vision and creates more shadows to hide in. One other hypothesis I'd want to rule out before drawing any big conclusions is that law-abiding citizens aren't the only ones who know that people choose the more brightly lit streets when walking at night.

My own personal best guess is that, if there's any relationship, it's non-causative. I'm guessing that what muggers actually prefer is areas with low foot traffic, and it just happens to be that places with less foot traffic also tend to have fewer lights.
I think the $9m they're talking about is the 2019 expense for "other operating expenses" in that budget statement you linked.

It's... probably not the category that's relevant, since they're complaining about parties that happened at conferences, which would presumably be accounted under "travel and conferences" which is just $3m for 2019.

"Other operating expenses" _would_ probably include things like a staff party, based on the definition at the end of the document, but that's not where the complaint started. More to the point, it also includes "facility expenses, funding of the Wikidata project, staff related expenses, insurance and personal property tax expenses, and other general administrative expenses", so claiming it as a party slush fund feels rather weird when it's almost certainly the category that includes things like office rent.

(I know nothing at all about the WMF's accounting practices, so I'm just reading the document and extrapolating.)
Association between egg consumption and risk of cardiovascular outcomes
Agreed, and that also raises the question of why the original poster chose to include the bit about breaking curfew in the first place. The comments stands up just fine without it, it's not important to the story they were telling, and all it's done is created an irrelevant, pointless subthread. And I am a part of the problem for contributing to it.
Why is it a waste? If Google has enough demand to fill the cable, then how is it waste?

(And I assume that Google has enough demand: If it didn't, why would they build such a large cable?)
I would say it contains much more information, in addition to being accurate.

If anyone can suggest a better (i.e. more accurate and neutral) title, we can change it again.
Wikipedia also has the Stack Overflow problem of 'deletionists' (who mark everything as already described somewhere else, or not notable).
Tagged unions built-in into the language can have layout optimizations, e.g. in Rust sizeof(Option<&i32>) == sizeof(&i32), because Rust knows it can repurpose NULL as the None value.
CNN as well?

Some CNN lies:

1. "When President Trump met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last November, the pair took part in a koi fish feeding ceremony. A video posted by CNN appeared to show Trump dumping his entire box of food into the koi pond unprompted.

An unedited video revealed that Trump was simply following the lead of Abe, who emptied his box of food first."

2."CNN claimed that only Democratic members of Congress gathered to pray before the 2017 Congressional Baseball Game — the first game after House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was shot and nearly killed."

3. "After a May shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas, CNN reporters immediately began claiming that there were 22 school shootings on the year.

However, CNN wildly exaggerates the number of school shootings by using methodology that includes accidental firearm discharges on school property, domestic disputes, and other non-active shooter events."

4. "Multiple CNN reporters speculated about the whereabouts of Melania Trump after a scheduled kidney surgery and then denied responsibility for any conspiracy theories about the first lady.

Media reporter Brian Stelter led his “Reliable Sources” newsletter on June 3rd with the headline “Melania M.I.A,” and insisted the first lady’s whereabouts were a “mystery” because she had not been seen in public since May 10."

5. "CNN fakes internet meme to smear alt-right. CNN told their viewers that this racist meme was going viral in alt-right circles. However it was revealed that the network actually created the image themselves in an attempt to smear Trump supporters as white supremacists. The internet did not exist on the internet at all."

There is so much more fake news from CNN than these few examples.
Epic wasn't taking a stab at unity. They believe in putting money behind great projects to push the industry forward.
One-tab extension.
Big Brother is here, except the telescreens are mobile and owned by a business corporation.
> What niches would those be?

I can't enumerate all niches that exist in a large back catalog of media. My point wasn't that HBO should cater to 1,000 different "I wanna see the racist stuff" niches. Rather, there are a thousand different subsets of their subscriber base that all have an outsized interest in something otherwise obscure. Or largely unpopular. I was responding the to general point about the tradeoff between serving those small subsets vs. avoiding the ire of the wider subscriber base.

> Why is HBO Max responsible for all of them

I didn't say they were. Just reframing it as a business decision that they could make. The long tail is a thing that has been traditionally hard to cater to, but is easier with the technology we have today. (i.e. Physical video stores don't have 1/10th the floorspace that would be required, but online streaming does. Once a title has been tagged and categorized, you let your software take care of the curation with 0 marginal cost)

> I don't even know why OP and yourself are going after HBO for this.

I'm not "going after them". I was responding to the parent's comment with my own ideas how the situation could be navigated. If HBO decides that, no, they'd rather just sidestep the whole issue, I don't blame them! Their math might work out different than mine. (Okay, maybe I "blame" them, but I get it. Can't say I'd be Mr. Principled Archivist in the same situation)

As for OP, I figure he really loves Tom and Jerry, and would love to see all the episodes.

> Almost seems like a dog whistle if I had more evidence.

No. The "I'm a sensible adult" is fine by me on its own merits. I don't need to whistle. Like I said, mark these episodes "TV-MA".

I guess I'm frustrated because I wish streaming services weren't so ephemeral. The one that really got me was the episode of Community where the group played D&D for the first time. It's one of the best episodes of that show, but it's no longer available to watch. But it's reasonable for me—a non-bigot—to like that episode, right?
How many Aurora shootings have there been? How many people have used those doors as entrances? I very much suspect the odds suggest it was not a bad decision.
I'm too feeling like this more and more. I get an email every time a new user signes up and I will manually check how they are doing on my site.

If I see they may need my help, I email them (people really love this kind of proactive help).
Scammers rely on iteration to discover and optimize scam approaches, and to adjust when the platform changes things (e.g., to prevent the scam).

Scammers need an order of magnitude or more iteration over a legit dev to be very effective, so a per release fee will hit them much harder than legit devs.
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This can't be written after four years of Trump right? How is this even upvoted
Once on my way from work I saw a cat jumping and catching its collar in the fence and choking. Fortunately I got there quick and released the poor thing.
As a brand new account can you prove you're actually a gig worker, and not some PR firm working for Uber to manage the online conversation about this topic?
I don't think I have a bullshit job. Pay's good. Trajectory is good. People listen to me. Most of it's just fairly arbitrary business decisions. One had a client confirm months later that they believe the work directly contributed to saving lives. If a CEO point blank asks me for my opinion, I think that's more or less the definition of not being another cog in the wheel. The archetypal bullshit job is the finance/accountant who shifts a couple excel cells on a standard template that could have been automated in VBA ages ago. I know this, because that was my first job.

Contrary to popular belief, a good deal of McK work is not just regurgitating a pre-ordained solution. Most of my work involves creating original solutions tbh. But sure, you probably know my job better than me.
+1 for Walkable City! For everyone saying that the conclusions in the post are obvious, it apparently wasn't obvious enough that in the US, many cities are built for cars and not people.

Another good book is 'Happy City' although I liked Walkable City more.

https://www.amazon.com/Happy-City-Transforming-Through-Desig...
I feel like the Unix philosophy of very small programs that do one thing, and do it well, is an application of the concepts in this article.

> One of Naur’s main conclusions is that making changes to an existing program (to accommodate changing requirements) is often more costly than writing new code from scratch, at least if done by people from a different team. This is because there are intangible aspects of the model/theory in the programmer’s heads, which can’t be expressed in code and documentation:

Small, single purpose applications require less maintenance (which is expensive), but proper design allows them to be combined to create more complicated programs.
Would you object to google or facebook getting private keys installed on your computer without being asked?

How about a repo just for the CCP/US Gov/Russia?
> If my only role is "being there" then my only element of control is "not being there", which is sort of the poster's entire point.

But of course it's never that simple, which is sort of my entire point.
People in cities optimize for safety when traveling on foot. America is an interesting place.
Feels like there could be a good business in providing this CIDR-hopping push-updating proxy as a service other apps could embed. Like what CloudFlare does for DDoS protection, but as a forward-proxy + client middleware, instead of a reverse-proxy.
This is correct, just set one of these up and it uses extra Nginx plugins.

Also the way they’ve done it makes it incredibly easy for anyone who isn’t a tech expert with a web server to still help out with a $5 domain and a $5 VPS. You literally run three commands and it’s done.

They want as many people as possible running these so blocking them all is as difficult as possible. It’s the smartest approach to have a low barrier to entry for something like this.
Well and in the specific context of SLAM, the business of localizing is itself an adaptive and constructive process. "Locating" is what the user does when they simply tell the robot where it is on the map. Localization is building a continuous graph of your immediate surroundings and past movement history and fitting that to what is known about the environment.
Made the switch to Firefox after their big rewrite, haven't looked back. Also use it on my Android phone now, as I feel an ad blocker is critical on mobile, it honestly is a game changer.
Institutions do have long term needs, and one should not be surprised if they take available Federal money. Harvard and other universities with 11-figure endowments get millions of "taxpayer aid" each year in the form of Pell grants and subsidized student loans. If you don't like that, change the laws.
That undersells their liability and (i think) evil behavior.

The original Dr. Sackler invented modern marketing of drugs directly to consumers, starting with getting millions addicted to Valium - which BTW was totally gross sexism. the very Mad Men 60s style marketing /r/oldschool ridiculous keeping women in the house and dealing with their 'emotions and feelings' with downers etc.

The Netflix doc the Pharmacist is really good I highly recommend. Purdue gave direct $ bonus' to their sales people, using prescriber data to knowingly target Drs. prescribing insane amounts of opiates. On purpose because they identified it as the most profitable.

They also basically bribed doctors to attend conferences and put their name on BS 'research.' they spent millions to induce an earth shaking change in pain management - opiates weren't widely used long term before their 'investment.'

Plus the first baseline research they use to justify this was total overstated from one Drs opinion.

It's also the pharmacies, Walmart optimized profits and kept pharmacists from questioning scripts.

And now last I checked the Sacklers still have their billions and are using the same playbook with a new company in the developing world/India.

I'm also totally against the war on drugs and believe we need to fundamentally change attitudes and pretty much remove possession laws.

Personally I would go so far as to provide free prescriptions/handouts for addicts of opiates/stims that are pure, clear doses, and safer to inject or use. Make it mandatory to interact with mental health professionals to get the drugs and offer free treatment (medication focused) when the user is ready themselves to attempt to get clean.

It's also gross that it's a good amount harder for a doctor to prescribe suboxone than it is opiates.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/27/india-opioids-...
Apple shares jump amid reports that electric car deal is near
I agree with the anti black boxes, but it won't solve the disinformation. Once the code is available someone who is either ignorant or intentionally lying will make up some story about how it's vulnerable - and the lay people will eat it up because they want to believe it, and will believe they have proof.
> if you drill it straight enough, you won't even need a cable.

Well, yes and no. I recall they wanted to pursue hollow cables in the early days of optical cabling, but it turned out solid fiber was the answer.

(sorry, can't find a good reference)

So FTTC (Fiber Through The Core) is what you want.
In the first scenario the borrower can't pay their rent, is evicted and possibly becomes homeless.

In the second scenario the worst case is that the payday lender becomes insolvent, the company collapses, and the workers go and find other jobs because they're not the ones suffering financial stress.

How is that worse.
Sometimes you just need a technical project manager (2015)
> at one point would be just north of 100 million USD

What a fatuous remark! It's one thing to have junked a painting that turned
out to be a Rembrandt, or let your one true love "get away."

It's another utterly banal thing to have closed a market position in a
liquid commodity. Your having closed it in 2013 is just as unremarkable as
your "losing out" on any number of bets you could make *today* which would
result in 100M in profit a year or even an hour from now.
Building a UPS with LiFePO4 Cells
I spent some time last century living in Toronto, a moderately large North American city. The main street of the neighbourhood in which I lived was a former streetcar route crowded with small human-scale shops on the north side, and a church with a parking lot and some large office blocks on the south side. The north side was always crowded, the south side was always empty. It was obvious where people preferred to walk.

The same thing could be seen in the downtown core. Developers had torn down a quarter mile of the west side of the main shopping street and build a huge indoor shopping mall with virtually no street engagement except for a parking lot entrance midway. The east side of the street maintained its human-scale former streetcar-street landscape. Pedestrians would crowd both sides of the street above and below the mall, but only the east side in the stretch with the mall. It was obvious where people preferred to walk.

It's about human scale and human engagement. If you want to attract people, make it for them. Not for cars, not for architect's egos, not for political idiology. It's really just that simple.
Google Cloud launches Apigee X,the next generation of API management platform
Printing money is not an investment in the future. There is no net change in resources available.
what is your thought on synthetic data vs active learning?

For some domains, with privacy concerns or rarity of objects, getting labelled data for deep learning is challenging.

There is decent research on sim2real i.e transferring models trained on synthetic data to real world applications
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.06907.pdf
I've only been to 3 superchargers:

- North Eugene, OR (https://goo.gl/maps/y7Jt1S3D1o86h1uF6) - Back corner of a hotel parking lot. Has several restaurants within a 3-minute walk.

- Lincoln City, OR (https://goo.gl/maps/2cJa4ofK6CHWuHGR9) - Located behind an outlet mall. Plenty of shopping to do to kill time, plus a couple places to eat, but probably not going to be a common spot for road trippers unless you're doing the scenic US-101 west coast trip. I charge there when I visit my wife's parents.

- Tumwater, WA (https://goo.gl/maps/92dmuHmtNcSHF2eW9) - This is a Pilot Travel Center, which of course means you have a couple fast food options, large selection of snack foods and drinks, and a restroom. Though apparently, the owner of this specific location is upset about how long Teslas are parked there because it's a small parking lot and during busy days, there's not enough parking. They've shut off the chargers here and they'll likely be taken out. Luckily, just about 10 miles north, there's another supercharging station that just opened (https://goo.gl/maps/ExQEx5waA3CoTPb18) that's at a large shopping center with plenty of food options.

That said, I've planned a road trip from my home in Portland, OR to San Diego and back, about 2500 miles total, and checked out all the charging stops I would do. All of them having dining either in the same parking lot or within a 3 minute walk.
The private keys are specifically for accessing a repo, which is also easy to disable. No, I wouldn't object if I was downloading software from them: I'd want it to be cryptographically verified. Similarly, I accept an OS with keys from Google and all kinds of people and governments in the form of SSL root certificate trust.

If I was getting software from the CCP/US Gov/Russia then that would also be fine. Here I'm not, it's a repo for VSCode from Microsoft. Context matters.
> First of all I am not stealing, you haven't lost anything.

So in the future when he provides you with the format you pirated you will purchase it? Despite having pirated it before?
Why? Because people would actually be held accountable for their decisions? Shouldn't that be how it works to begin with? It would be painful in the short term but in the long term i think it would make people better off
Instagram Fortune
Ah apologies. That's totally my mistake!
Considering Apple put all data of Chinese users on Chinese servers to keep the CCP happy I have no doubt they’re perfectly happy and willing to comply with government requests elsewhere too.
Yeah, I have an AMD FX-8150 (AM3+) based desktop tower from 2012, which I recently wanted to upgrade, and which largely inspired my comment :)

Even with AM4 based CPU, I'm under the impression that recent CPUs cannot always use old mothercards.
Author here, you are absolutely right and I will correct that!
UC Berkeley Library acquires FBI records of surveillance of Black leaders
I wrote a basic allocator for runtime lightmap packing (a very different problem than dynamic image packing tbf), and a simple skyline got me very good results, for about 50 lines of code:

https://github.com/magcius/noclip.website/blob/master/src/So...

Compared to shelf, I think it did really well on the input data I had. I didn't even use the Halo Reach tricks for removing border padding when packing subpixel lightmaps!
It's simple, very simple.

XMPP is by far more fluid, and "productive" when it comes adding new protocol features, or at least if you compare it with Signal.

Marlinspike is making up the problem.

A messaging client is as agile as its developers are, and in case of Signal, not that much.

Evolving a protocol, and developing new features is done by doing programming, and not by some philosophical discourses, and pooing over the competition on tech events.
This. Decades ago I once innocently noted

Biology is a system of exceptions!

still hear the echos.
Life after Jeff: Can Amazon's next boss fill Jeff Bezos's supersized boots?
> I drove a diesel box truck and my partner drove the Model 3. We took the same route but didn't explicitly stick together.

Probably could have extended the range of the Model 3 considerably by driving it behind the box truck and drafting.
Not travelling through 20 routers in the process tends to help. Again it would be good to get a tangible idea of how much better this is vs just stating the obvious about peak theoretical throughput.
Cooky Action on the Blockchain
Solitary cinema: A Swedish film festival has just one attendee
lol i accidentally rented a decent VPS for 30 days in switzerland and now I have a use case for it whoo
- There's no such thing as programming

- There's only research programming