skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this only addresses half of what's wrong with Newark PD.

Newark still spends about a third of it's city budget on police, at the expense of essential services like infrastructure and education.

Newark PD still arrests Black people at a much much higher rate than white people. The disparity of arrest rates is even greater when it comes to drug possession.
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Took me a bit to figure out that it's using Ruby code like this to fool the surrounding CI scripts.

"b/#{puts 'test';}"

That happens to run the code within the braces, despite it all being enclosed in double quotes and preceded with a #. Can a Ruby person explain what's happening here? I understand it's working as designed.

Edit: Ah, okay, so the interpolation is #{code here;} everything else is a just a string in quotes. Interesting that they use the # character to denote interpolation.
In a way yes, but I think the issue is largely caused by those up the chain that make it hard to deal with.

Doing a search on should I block ICMP, or what ICMP to block, answers are:

[1] No!!; some security issues; a lot of ICMP should be blocked; suggests further research

[2] you should selectively filter; example iptables rule to allow echo; assess evaluate and make your own rules

[3] listing of types and RFC recommendations for transit and local traffic

So I guess I should take "Should Be Dropped" and "Policy Should be Defined" from [3] and plug them into [2]. Why is it so hard?

Why isn't the answer: "No, defaults are safe, no need to block anything", or "Select one of: Endpoint / Site firewall / Internet router; customize if needed"?

IMO, this is a mess. This is the ultimate cause of all the sewage, time spent both debugging, and even more on learning what and how to block, configuring it all. Issues like this even hinder IPv6 adoption, because who is going to deal with all the complexity.

[1] http://shouldiblockicmp.com/

[2] https://blog.securityevaluators.com/icmp-the-good-the-bad-an...

[3] https://serverfault.com/questions/981558/which-ipv4-6-icmp-t...
I don't know why you would be so upset by this. This is a link to free software and you mentioned expensive hardware. It isn't the same thing at all.
You are absolutely dead on right. We need to stop trying to bang on a model that isn't working and be willing to think even more outside of the box.

All of this is essentially ways to create hydroelectric plants without the water. If we can find a way to create more of them without massive disruption it'd probably be the most effective.

We need to find a solution that isn't just based on good wishes.
Meh.

New tabs are opening in weird places, really faaaar to the right skipping between 6-7 (unrelated) tabs. Really cumbersome to navigate.

Horrible selection of extensions still. Really missing searching for any tab with Cmd+Shift+K (I often have ~100 tabs open across multiple windows) that I get with the Tab Switcher extension.

There's a Noscript equivalent extension but it costs $3...

And I can't initiate a search with "url bar -> you[tab]<searchterm>[enter]" (for a Youtube search).

Meh. Safari just doesn't work for me. Maybe if I sat down for a week or two and wrote a bunch of extensions myself but I don't see the value in that.

On the plus side Safari does seem snappy but then again I only have ~30 tabs open (across 6 windows) currently. So I might give it a win on speed but it definitely loses in overall usability.

Will try again in a year or so.

Edit: OH SHIT this is a definite dealbraker - apparently I can't select multiple tabs by Shift-clicking to pull them out into a new window. That completely kills my workflow of separating topics into different windows, and/or closing tabs in bulk.

Edit2: Wtf, how didn't I notice this earlier - I cannot see the URL when hovering over a link. How does anyone consider this within the realm of good UX?
Thank you for a great answer!

I knew about quite old NLP+Prolog projects. But never thought that such combination can make it through serious funding. Fingers crossed.

To be completely honest I use Prolog for prototyping new algorithms if they involve some kind of search. It doesn't happen often (every 10 years or so), but it does!
No, only a handful of state have common law marriage. California is not one of them.

Canada however has common law marriage. No nuptials needed, assets are split and alimony is possible just from living together long enough.
Lol yeah
I wish we could appreciate women's talents without feeling forced to prefix the whole thing with a blob about restoring them to their righteous place on the pantheon of whatever.
Why can't we just use candu reactors and pebble bed reactors. They are proven technology made by American allies and work really well.

The cost overruns always come from demanding we have to come up with a novel way to do it.
It can run on other Linux platforms beside x86. It runs on a Rasberry Pi https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=932411#p932411
Check the demographics, white people make up only about one third of the population in Newark.
I live in urban Texas. At a glance, my truck has perfect paint. You can't see the 3rd party liner I put in and the gouges in the truck bed. Most of the time you aren't going to see all the gear or trailers I haul for different organizations. Sure, some people buy trucks to compensate for something, but some of us who have an entry level Ford F150 or Ram 1500 do in fact use them as trucks when you can't see it.
Do people like oneself exist?

I have never met anyone with whom I agreed fully or shared everything. I can't imagine that one could, or that someone that smioar even exists. Maybe if you come from a small town and had all nonconformism beaten out of you? Even that sounds hard to imagine to me.

The paradox of living with someone as I have experienced it is that the larger the apparent difference initially, the more the existence of differences and the necessity of being prepared to expect the unexpected is. Ultimately any romantic relationship ends over incompatibilities that cant or wont be overcome, and in my experience the more similar we were, the more certain people were about gaps being too wide to bridge.

I'm married now with a foreign person, whom I met while in a third country, we've been together for over 7 years and while what you describe is always present and is sometimes tiring, the truth is that we also regularly discover how we have changed and 'infected' each other with habits and opinions. And that happens in any relationship: you grow towards each other, if you can and want to let it happen.

I therefore think it may in fact be easier when you are different: there is nowhere to hide and you need and are obviously prepared to deal with difference. When you are similarish, you might delude yourself into forgetting you are in fact not.
It's string interpolation where you can provide an expression, not just a variable.

> String interpolation is common in many programming languages which make heavy use of string representations of data, such as Apache Groovy, Kotlin, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scala, Swift, Tcl and most Unix shells. Two modes of literal expression are usually offered: one with interpolation enabled, the other without (termed raw string). Placeholders are usually represented by a bare or a named sigil (typically $ or %), e.g. $placeholder or %123. Expansion of the string usually occurs at run time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_interpolation#%3A%7E%3A...
This video goes over the failures of the UK, US, and Canada switching to Metric (from the perspective of a Canadian) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s95cxZkC_es
> it seems to me that many people think drugs and mental health issues are the key causes. This is untrue.

In the US it is true. Men are not eligible for welfare in he US, and police dedicated to homeless areas report 100% are on drugs.
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It appears to me that I triggered someone on the internet by using a word they didn't like. It triggered them to pivot, ironically, to an unrelated warning about talking about people you don't know personally.

I'm disengaging, but I suggest you look up the word "irony". Or maybe it's "hypocrisy". I don't know. Either way, I will not stop calling out anyone, famous or not, who I know personally or not, who watch a LEO murder a man in cold blood, from the start of the murder to the end of the Floyd's life, and STILL defend the cop! It is outrageous, monsterous, and that's where your energy should be spent, not attacking someone who, in your opinion, used the wrong word to characterize this kind of inhuman reaction to a gross injustice.
> The worrying thing is that the West gave international legitimacy to these wealthy elites, while only pointing fingers at the endemic corruption in their countries.

Wouldn't it be quite difficult to prevent foreign money being laundered in some other country? I would guess verifying whether the money is legit coming from some weird foreign jurisdictions is probably quite difficult. The only way to work around that would probably reject all customers who are sending money from there.
A guideline to limit indoor airborne transmission of Covid-19
I like the phrase "hugged to death" as a more generic version of "slashdotted" personally. It's a shame but /. is no longer the web powerhouse that it used to be, though I still read it regularly just because it will sometimes have stories and things I don't otherwise find in places like reddit or hn.
We could if Canada would build them at the border and sell the power to US grids. The Northeast US already imports clean hydro and nuclear from Ontario, for example, and Canada could use the revenue to replace the oil and gas revenue from tar sands wind downs.

Most of the US south has enough wind and solar potential to avoid needing such a solution. Texas could be a net exporter to other US grids and Mexico if ERCOT gets its act together and upgrades the interconnectors between other grids, not to mention the vast solar potential of the US Southwest.
It doesn't surprise me one bit that dutch politicians neglected to do their due diligence.
This. And the problem I've found is whenever anyone gets to a position that could legitimately deal with this issue, they become either compromised or they become involved themselves in the situation.

Basically there's another very rich black market that won't be stopped easily.
> It sucks!

It does, but it’s better than what we had before.

Forcing us backward will not improve things.

We need an actual open OS and open ecosystem, not a government regulated one that is still owned by a monopoly.
My son’s 3 and he doesn’t have the patience now but when he gets older this will be on his watch list amongs others.
Probably not causation. Crime rates are up nationwide. NYC is seeing a spike too and we've got the most expensive police force in the world. More likely the pandemic is to blame.
That's probably because partnerships are not an upfront contract and termination terms are negotiated post-hoc, which is completely unlike "business, finance, housing, consumption" contracts.

For some reason prenuptial agreements aren't that big of a thing, and I'm not even sure they would hold any water in Europe.

So when I enter a contract with a business, before signing, I know who owes what and what happens if someone fails to provide that. Also, we know what it means to fail to provide. Usually, "Meh, I'm just not happy anymore" isn't a part of that.

So I totally understand people (usually men) not wanting to enter a contract where they face a significant probability of being taken to the cleaners.

If my company fails to deliver a service to a client, or the product delivered is subpar, it's clear what the penalties are.

And those penalties are established upfront. If in the meantime my company goes from a thousand dollar startup to a multi-billion dollar enterprise, I don't suddenly owe an angry client half of what I own. I still owe them what we agreed beforehand, which may be an insignificant sum. Even if it's somehow thanks to them that we became a huge company.

It's my understanding that marriage doesn't work like that.
String interpolation. It can be used for good but it’s possible to exploit if the user picks the string. Many languages have exactly the same feature:

Python:

f”Price: {get_price()}”

JavaScript:

`Price: ${get_price()}`

Notice how both Python and JS require more than just double quotes; you have to explicitly opt in with f-strings or template literals.
Boxedwine was used to bring an old game, The Voodoo Kid, that has some compatibility issues with modern Windows to Gog.com

https://www.gog.com/game/voodoo_kid
You can’t listen to baseball games in a 40,000-50,000 car? Wow.
Also known as the members of the lost and banned.

Once a member, there is no 'Please, I can explain' or 'It's not what you think it is'. There is no redemption for high crimes of wrong-think.
Well, good luck for your endeavors and please let me know (email in my profile) if you need a beta tester or early user.
Why WINE on Linux instead of ReactOS? Do browsers have some Linux simulation facilities built-in?
> we actually cared about this things as a society

No, the buildings that survived are generally more aesthetically pleasing, most old buildings where shacks. Walk around an old plantation for example and the slaves quarters didn’t survive. Search around for some original outhouses and you realize what survived isn’t simply representative of what was built.
Indeed SpaceX is basically controlled by Musk ("Owner Elon Musk Trust (54% equity; 78% voting control") and he's said he's kept it private basically so he can work on making humanity multiplanetary without having to answer to shareholders as to whether that increases shareholder value or not.
For this to be true, Apple would have had to remove no scams. Not just let a few through.
What's this guy's game? Why go so deep into this charade?
> Christianity brought "turn the other cheek", but 2000 years later look where we are.

I've no interest in a debate on religion, but Christianity is the religion that brought "bad people burn in hell for eternity".
AWS Right sizing and cost optimization tools
I am looking for a comparative information on the AWS Right sizing tools in the market interms of pricing and features. Any recommendations?
I can hear past 25kHz, and I prefer 44.1kHz sample rates to 48kHz. No one knows how to record higher freqs and they just add noise when they try.

Just discovered the other day that hearing like mine is classified as a disability: "hyperacusis". Apparently most people can't hear their own pulse, much less others.
MPs are not "middle managers". In many countries [0] Parliament is sovereign: Collectively, MPs are the highest authority in the land. Theoretically, if they chose to do so, they could dissolve the judiciary, have anyone they didn't like executed, and declare war on their neighbours.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_sovereignty
If anything, it counteracts the notion that social media has "caused" this type of viciousness. Social media may be able to amplify it in a new way, presenting new challenges, but that viciousness has been a thread in humanity since almost the beginning of recorded history, and likely much further back.
If you are using erlang you should be using pattern matching not regex. Erlang/Elixir are one of the easiest languages to build parsers in with their binary string pattern matching.
I think this guy is onto something...

Liquid metal batteries will be better than gravity storage IMHO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiRrvxjrJ1U

First commercial scale system is going live in 2021 so we shall see how it works out.
Given the scope of the universe, and aided by the perspective of photos like these, many would certainly describe this idea - that life has only ever existed and will only ever exist on Earth - as "unbelievable".
Students in Germany were apparently asked to analyze a column of mine on an exam
It was Ruby's use of the # character for interpolation that was throwing me off. Apparently you can skip the braces too, if the # precedes some types of variables.
If we have a civil war who will buy the nonstick frying pans?
And the fanatics who win have the bomb pointed at them?

I think they'd rather we slowly wound down in a predictable fashion.
Many of these are addressed in the book 'Understanding Power' by Noam Chomsky. It's very readable. It's got hefty footnotes that are available as pdf [1].

Another book is 'How to Hide an Empire' by Daniel Immerwahr.

[1] http://understandingpower.org/
Arresting at a hire rate means in comparison to the demographics of the city. In 2020, 50% of Newark residents were Black but 80% of arrests were of Black people. 80% of victims of police use of force were Black. A third of the city is white but only 4% of police use of force victims are white. [1]

[1]: https://www.nj.com/opinion/2020/07/newark-must-do-more-to-st...
Greatly informative piece about shady characters laundering money in the US at a pretty large scale by investing in, or outright buying, struggling US businesses such as steel mills.

Managers and employees think they're getting a lifeline. In reality they're getting a new owner who cares very little about the long-term health of the operation and the safety and well-being of its employees.

The new owner will use financial engineering to extract as much cash as possible while cutting capital expenditures as much as possible. Eventually, the business will have no choice but to file for bankruptcy. Along the way, all cash paid out of the business will have been legitimized.

Employees and towns suffer the consequences. Ugly and sad.
ReactOS is a full OS, so it needs to run in a VM which requires disk images. Boxedwine emulates everything it needs and can use the users file system directly. So you can just drag a setup or game that doesn't require installation right into the UI and it will work.
Battery life has been the reason for me trying it in the past as well.

And yeah I mean even though Activity Monitor is reporting high RAM usage I don't seem to have any memory pressure issues so it might not be that big of a deal (MBP 2015 w/ 8 GB RAM).

I'm actually considering getting an M1 myself next week. Have been waiting for the initial kinks to get sorted out and most apps ported to it and I think it's time now. :) SSD wear seems to have been resolved with the latest Big Sur versions and fewer Rosetta apps and now even ST4 beta has an M1 build.

My justifications are that I'll get an excuse to upgrade to 16 GB RAM and I'll get touch ID so I can have a more secure password and not have to type it all the time. And with the stellar performance and battery life of the M1 I can just keep using Chrome (Brave). :P
I tested it with 2 games (non-browser version, just by downloading it off the website) and was not able to get any of them working.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Duck:_Goin%27_Quackers
Says error about not being able to find the CD-rom drive.

https://humongous.fandom.com/wiki/Putt-Putt:_Pep%27s_Birthda...
I just get a error saying "Error É" whilst trying to run the executable.

Both do install fine into %APPDATA% though. I've tried both the x86/x64 versions executables of Boxedwine.

Mounting CD-rom directly, extracting it to ISO then to a folder doesn't seem to work either.

Do you happen to have any idea what I might be doing wrong or if those games are not yet supported at all?

Thanks
The use cases the blog post is discussing aren't tri-state bools though. Either the user did or did not sign in. Either the version was or was not published. Null and false are equivalent here.
Are they anti-consumer? Many people seem to disagree.

I want a Linux based phone with the performance of an iPhone and a decentralized App Store with an auditable chain of trust.

I also want an information appliance that is trivial to use and completely managed by a third party I trust.

Why can’t I have both?
60% of Ontario capacity is already nuclear and they sell it to the US. So in a way they are already doing this. Just not to the degree they probably should.
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How to Tell a Story (Mark Twain)
C++20 for the Commodore 64
Good for Newark!

But, from what I understand, they gave the cops better training and got better result. That is how education works.
And do we know why this disparity exists?
You mean they are selling large scale storage and managed to turn a profit?

That sounds great. They are first, but as we deploy more renewables, we'll need much more cases like this.
I did not claim they did not read the article, I explicitly called out the fact that the source they reference in support of a numerical claim actually said something completely different. Please do not try to be a pseudo-mod, we already have people with that task and they seem to be doing a better job of it than you.
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Since they're borne to sin, they can do whatever they want.. God will forgive them
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For what it’s worth, the space race along with the desire to build up missile technology in general are the reason we have computers today as we know them. Not many people outside of the space and defense industries were willing to shell out buckets of cash for a single transistor.
> When governments don't provide good welfare nets, social housing, and social services to help people, homelessness is higher.

Such social services are, themselves, often chains that bind people down. The requirements to receive them often lead people away from incremental work that would allow them to dip their toes in and potentially get back on their feet. Minimum wage laws increase the barriers further for the down and out.

Additionally, there is a kind of depression that hits when you are not providing for yourself. Especially for men.

It's my opinion it's the barriers we build that's the root cause of the cost minimums. The tight and restrictive zoning laws are more to blame for homelessness. Restrictive zoning cause the minimum income level to get housing to be quite elevated, and if you find yourself below that level - you are homeless. Minimum wage barriers to work stem from pricing caused by the zoning. If a society is able to lower that minimum income level significantly, then there will be a lot fewer on the streets.

I always fancied allowing for parking lots that let people live out of their cars, or a tent if you can't manage a car. The lots could charge for rent and provide basic amenities such as bathrooms, wifi, communal kitchen, and maybe power for a heated blanket. Then pretty much any down and out commercial property could be turned into such a lot without much work.

Here the minimum rent is about $1000/mo, if you're willing to be a roommate you can get that down to about $500/mo. A car-turned-home-lot at local real estate prices could support rents as low as $75-100/mo per slot and be quite profitable for the lot owner. If done as a non-profit it could be $40-50/mo at current interest rates. An order of magnitude lower.

Such options give people the dignity and self respect of caring for themselves. And accomplish it at a much much lower cost point. Remove the minimum wage barrier and an individual with no skills but a willingness to work could support himself in a reasonably healthy lifestyle at $4/hr. This would, IMHO, go much further to solving these issues.
Correct, but that misses the point I was making entirely. Running S3/Elastic/API-X wherever you'd like is a separate issue to the kind of problem that Elastic faced with AWS. AWS soaked up a huge amount of Elastic's potential market, because they are so big and entrenched. Only AWS, Azure, and GCP are big enough to do that - and I don't see anyone "stealing" a reasonable degree of S3 customers from AWS by using Minio (let alone any business model that Minio might be exploring).
I see. My mistake.