skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly in Ayurveda this is called kapha dominant body and it occurs when eats a food heavy in kapha heavy foods like sweets, dairy, cheese

So it's possible this reduction reflects a change in our diets
Thanks for your feedback.

> "use technology to your advantage" is doing a HUGE amount of work, and is the entire subject of the linked article.

My biggest issue with the linked article was it attempting to present a technology as causing a quantum change in military matters. However, militaries have a very long history of adopting new technology into and modifying existing frameworks.

>Genuine question: how useful is a principle like "deny the enemy the use of territory and resources"?

I think this is a very important principle. I feel one of the places where this was forgotten was Vietnam. There was a ton of bombing, and McNamarra, etc made a big deal about the body counts. Vietnam was almost a trial run for "let's win a war just through massive high tech". It turned out to be disaster. Although lots of people were killed and lots of areas deforested, the North Vietnamese were still able to control a lot of territory as use that as the base for the NVA to launch the Tet offensive which massively changed the appetite for continuing the war.

Again a historical perspective might have been helpful. A country that was able to successfully resist Kublai Khan and the Mongol army is going to be pretty hard to successfully invade.
Reading a lot of the comment there seems to be a recency bias towards complaining a more recent set of policies to change police funding and ignoring the more long term problem that police may not be meeting the people needs even with large budgets.

The issue might not be funding level but misuse as you point out.
"defunding" is a loaded word and ripe for misinterpretation.

The intent behind that movement is to take money spent on policing where it fails and move it to where it might be more effective.

How many lawsuits are there for wrongful deaths where the police showed up for a mental health crisis? Since funding is finite and the police get a lion's share of it (community wise), why not shift some of that money into personnel who are better equipped to handle it?
The Future of Microprocessors (Sophie Wilson CBE)
Maybe the only way everyone can have all the power they want (or at least the perception of having it) is to build the Matrix, put the power-hungry people in it, and make it so they only ever interact with AIs.
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Industrial designer would be more accurate than ‘supercomputer designer’.
Genesis block was hardcoded by Satoshi in Bitcoin client. It was something like seed the beginning of one big and long tree.
The question is - will they take the same approach that they use in streaming video? That is, to say, original content produced en-masse and delivered via a monthly bundled subscription, all beamed to the end user as video pixels...
Why not Google it yourself? The first few results:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201028171432.h....

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/01/human-body-te...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-human-body-te...
Saving you a click, and a few thousand scrolled-thru words, the drug is ivermectin on which the jury is, at absolute best, still out.
With enough wealth, you can buy violence. Wealth inequality begets power inequality.
The existing local police is a coalesced group effort. In some regions (like SF) the existing institutions are no longer effective. There is nothing surprising or particularly heinous about an attempt to create alternatives.
Async Ruby is rapidly maturing. I haven’t run Falcon in production yet but it’s not difficult at this point to setup Rails to take advantage of async IO.
I took seven years off and didn't write a line of code. But I wasn't just dicking around (although there was copious dicking around); I was doing something else as an occasionally-paying gig that didn't come close to paying the rent.

I got very lucky in that a former colleague called me with an opportunity to return to software development exactly in my wheelhouse. I avoided giving a number when asked for a target salary and basically said give me your best offer. That offer was probably higher than I would have asked for, and pretty much equivalent to what good friend makes never having taken time off in 20 years.

I immediately had to bust my ass coming up to speed on the required platform and language, but since then I'm back in the game no problem.

So... your mileage may vary, but if you're always afraid of falling out of the industry you'll never do anything else. I don't know where you are, but in CA nobody is allowed to ask you about salary history anymore. That adds an interesting twist.
I have had two big gaps: one over 1 year, and one around 4 months. I did not really accomplish the things I had said I wanted to accomplish during those times. However, I had a lot of fun, and I think it was highly beneficial in terms of mental health. Freedom and low-stress works wonders. I felt like I rediscovered my true self. I highly recommend it.

One thing to watch out for is judgement from others. Many people apparently do not understand the concept of voluntarily not working. Some will think there is something wrong with you. Some will think you are lazy and wasting your life. Some will try to help you find a job even after you explain to to them that you are intentionally taking time off.
Not in California, where it explicitly cannot be a felony and has widely increased since prop 47 passed.
That's generally true of the large/default subreddits with no community guidelines.
So you run into the kid at 1 mph? Are we thinking people hammer down on the accelerator when leaving Walmart? And if so, we then blame the vehicle?
They literally said “hunt this guy down” and “get out there and bring this guy to justice” in their broadcast announcing the reward. They also directed users to a specific location to investigate. Surely you can understand how “hunt this guy down for $30k” is _very_ different from “please call us with tips or information you know for a cash reward”?
DeepMind Tried and Failed To Win AI Autonomy from Google
Looks like they explicitly plan on incorporating bounties into the app itself.

My prediction is someone will go all viligante and beat/maim/kill someone, probably who is innocent. Then the app will get pulled.
Stretching the scope of violence over the entirety of human history is not a good metric considering the mass death and wars.

Lowering the scope down to the past decade I would say an entire year of BLM riots, mass looting, firebombing courthouses, small business owners devastated...you catch my drift.

I'm not sure whether your comment was just naïve or intentionally misleading to downplay what has been happening the past year or two. There is definitely a correlation between that and increased security presence on site at many locations. Especially when the police simply stood by in some instances while looters had free reign over entire city blocks gleefully snatching whatever they could. Disgusting.
Indeed, the postgres drivers I’ve encountered are all blocking.

On this topic, a warning for anyone trying to implement async rails with postgres: beware. Connections are per-thread in the ‘pg’ gem (and every other driver I’ve used), so one client’s connection may commit/abort another client’s transaction, and they end up stomping all over each other. Which you will only observe under load.

There’s an eventmachine-based driver for postgres but it’s almost completely unmaintained afaict, and doesn’t work with any new rails versions.

I spent a ton of effort migrating an internal rails app to eventmachine, only to realize at the very end that it fundamentally doesn’t work with typical CRUD/database apps.

(Note, this experience was probably 4 or so years ago at this point, things may have matured since then, but I’d still say approach async rails with extreme caution.)
Of course it does, you're physically leaving. My point is that not everyone can do that. Fundamentally "time off" is a psychological thing. Traveling is one way to detach psychologically, but it's definitely not the best way for a lot of people.
Well; and when it boils down to it, what did Notch even really do for programming in general?

Minecraft is incredibly popular and very well made; but in no ways is it revolutionary or game-changing for the industry in the way Wolf3D or DOOM was.

There is essentially the game industry before and after DOOM.

Quake, similarly; changed the game; and, in fact - the engines for Quake/II and DOOM/II would go on to be the engine behind a quite massive quantity of games in the 90’s.

And then there’s Carmack’s massive contribution to FOSS by allowing us inside the code to learn how the craziness was constructed...

Honestly, there are only a handful of people in the world who even had the chance to make that kind of impact.
> the DA is pressured by the city council and mayors office

I don't understand this; the King County Prosecuting Attorney was elected, just as the mayor and city council were. Why should any of them be able to pressure the others when they're all 'hired' by the people, not each other? And if the people of King County elect ideologically compromised mayors and city councils, isn't it likely they elect politically compromised DAs too?

I do believe crime is under-reported in this city because it goes unpunished. But I'm just not buying this "DAs as victims" narrative. I think they're as much to blame as the other elected officials.
Damn hope u can fit all of those words in your truck
My dad did some consulting work in Colombia in the 90s and he was provided with armed drivers and they took different routes between the plant and the hotel every day.
Maybe. We'll see!

The point is that if Apple chooses to do business in our country, they'll follow our rules. Nobody is forever in debt to Apple for starting an app store. The fight can continue infinitely since we can change the rules as we see fit to.
900 comments so far, Tesla is in trouble.
The _existing police_ is a banded together mob.

Citizen and all other private security firms operate under the same laws as any other individual or company. It’s not like these guys went out and started committing violent felonies...
And you don't see those children there when you get into the vehicle?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ExIGSZ3UUAQ22gV?format=jpg

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True, until it isn’t? It’s quite a big gamble and a large lock-in.

What would the benefit be for choosing Sqlite over MySql?
I'm a Linux user. It sucks but you deal.
In Denmark the cost of testing for Covid amounts to 60.000.000 DKK daily, that is about 8M euros.

If that money was a gift to all 18 year olds in Denmark, each would receive 120 euros a day.

The testing effort will go on at least until August, each 18 year old would then be 28.800 euros richer.
> the rails devs were super excited to get the performance up to slightly below one second per request

If that was the case then Rails was their least important problem.

At the prototyping stage back-and-forth with the client I write VERY rudimentary Rails code, n+1s be damned, but I don't remember ever seeing a second long request.
Everywhere? Have you not looked outside?
Obviously paying for textbooks is not the breaking point, but it's a similar mentality (that society should not be responsible for its kids) that leads kids to crime when they have no marketable skills that can be used to get a job.
I’d also add this is on a tiny vm, so not amazing, but more than adequate for a small website.
Tech-enabled feudalism is considered very innovative by the wealthy sociopath club.
Celebrating two years of decentralized storage in production
In that case this could end up being a win-win situation it seems like.

The poor get rid of the police in their neighborhoods and the folks who want more policing get it?

We've had a fair bit of retail closing as the police are pulling back out of some areas.
Two more fiction stories on the same subject:

https://youtu.be/Eo2OQsPDwBI

and

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertari...
I have a large Sceptre TV. Very happy with it.
alternative project gutenberg link to the rocket book

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17104/17104-h/17104-h.htm
Are you asking if 'the Associated Press' is a legitimate outfit?
"Now a Burbclave, that's the place to live. A city-state with its own constitution, a border, laws, cops, everything."
How is this different than what was already happening other than it's more obvious with a car and app? This has been going on for a really long time in the neighborhood where the mayor of Seattle lives: https://laurelhurstcc.com/security/

So I'm sure this was standard practice in certain areas of LA and elsewhere too.
Reading some of these comments, it appears that HN is turning into IRC...
> If we aren't getting what we're paying for, we should stop paying.

Would you apply that to government services generally, where we're not getting what we pay for?
Associated press is considered a pretty trustworthy and neutral news service, or was at one point anyway. Why would a story about surveillance plans be “just to stir the pot for clicks”?
> Minneapolis is getting rid of police department entirely

This is incorrect. The city council made a non-binding “pledge” to dismantle the police department. But according to the New York Times, the pledge "has been rejected by the city's mayor, a plurality of residents in recent public opinion polls, and an increasing number of community groups. Taking its place have been the types of incremental reforms that the city's progressive politicians had denounced." [1]

The ideas behind “defund the police” are simply not popular in the US. A majority of Americans want a police department - but they want a police department that protects everyone equally.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/us/politics/minneapolis-d...
Easy to scale distribution of files vs having to scale a db server.
Did everyone give up on remote work?
I live in a rural area. I personally know plenty of people that own truck that shouldn’t, and plenty that actually use them.

Both sides are right. There’s a significant portion of the population that think trucks are “men’s vehicles,” even if they never actually use the bed. All of the dealerships around here (usually) have their front highway facing row all pickups and maybe one sports car.
Adequately funded police can still take forever to arrive or decide not to come at all. This has absolutely zero to do with defunding police. Which by the way doesn't mean taking -all- of their money away. It means readjusting their budgets and allocating some of that money to other types of responders.

There always has been a market for immediate response private security, if one has the money.
Even for middle class people, the police are basically there to file the paperwork you need to file insurance claims.

"Oh, somebody broke into your car and stole stuff? You shouldn't leave things lying around. We'll never catch the guy. Oh, you have video of the incident and know exactly who it is? Yeah, we can't really do anything with this. Oh you need to file a report for the insurance company? Fill this out and check back with us next month."

I'm very much NOT surprised that people who've actually needed the police for something have decided to there needs to be a private alternative.
What evidence do you have for your assertion? Here is a meta-analyses showing 95% of 56 studies support ivermectin to prevent and treat covid: https://ivmmeta.com/.
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It's going to be very interesting to watch the folks who are replacing their police. I think Minneapolis is going to be first. If they can make it work - fantastic!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/06/12/minneapoli...
Replying 9 days later to share that I just signed up for scuba lessons, in part thanks to reading your comment!
I think only people who never been to a beach think that plastic straws are in any way a significant part of plastic pollution problem.

It's always mostly plastic containers like bottles, plastic bags, fish nets and some random broken pieces of something bigger. Almost never straws.

https://i.wpimg.pl/3500x0/d.wpimg.pl/355768210-77880789/zani...

https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_lossy,ret_img,w_7...

https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/garbage-on-the-sand-bea...
Movies etc would need to be transcribed accurately to be useful for training and even then just provide a single sample for the specific item.
This surprises me. The shim should only introduce the latency of a single disk read, right?

Have you seen a difference yourself, and if so, could it have been from the overhead of loading gems instead?
This is why those we elect should never be involved in science. It was never supposed to be the role of government.
The expectation that those we elect should be knowledgeable over the entire domain of knowledge that represents important things we care about is unreasonable and is why they always fail our expectations.
Instead, the domain of their responsibility should be very limited as to not impact everything in our lives.
Well I too could imagine some sorts of shenanigans that will mislead the majority of validators especially in PoS that doesn't lock any of validators computation resources. It's even worse in the sense that a validator can be anonymous and doesn't hold any legal responsibility (in contrast with WebMoney). Thousands of validators could be one entity now or in future and you'll never know that (in contrast with PoW). Some infuencer (just like Vitalik) can come and convince validators to mine incompatible fork of Ethereum - you can do this for free and won't be slashed on main chain - and why not, maybe this fork will prove better and people switch (yeah this can happen with any crypto that's not Bitcoin)?

All I'm saying that Satoshi really produced the one undeniable cryptocurrency. His idea is sound, you don't need any friends or websites, or "common" knowledge besides his simple idea of the most work burned chain. Anything other is really questionable.
Put the switch under the hood and have it deactivate the ignition when active. That has zero inconvenience for the mechanic servicing the car and ensures that there's no way to forget to re-enable the write lock.
That's perfectly fine. The SVG is within a link tag with the description "Go Make Things" and is purely decorative. It shouldn't be communicated to accessible technology.
I wonder if they are going to look into congress? I wish I were making a joke but this seems like a problem that starts at the top. Nationally was it this bad before the Trump administration?
That is an interesting point. The purpose of government access to that information in this case is to protect the public from shady practices, right?

Potentially the benefit is the distribution of the information. As in it becomes standard for these new banks to make public which addresses/transactions they are associated with. The market will probably do a much better job at detecting especially harmful practices. Especially given that the asymmetry of information in fraud is often the only thing that makes it work.

The privacy question is an interesting one. It seems like it pretty quickly reduces to some fundamental problems in crypto-system design. How can we design a system that is totally open on one end and totally anonymous on the other? And furthermore how do we guarantee that the banks won't set up addresses on the anonymous side to do shady things with?

Not really sure how to align the incentives here. Potentially a combo of escrow and batching transactions. It would be interesting to hear ideas from people who work in this space.
The root of the issue here is that information doesn't convey the same way across all mediums.

If you have a graph that is reducing 1000 words to one image, the 'solution' to make it 508 compliant is to put the raw data in a way the screen reader can read it out. In the specific situation where I was asked to do that, I realized the goal wasn't accessibility, it was to comply with the regulation.
I'm guessing all those shooters who posted in social media that they were gonna shoot up everyone were the most moderate of moderates then.
you often need to know how things came about to explain what they do and why they do it. you can't just decouple the two, and to do so at all would be dismissive of all of the work that went into getting the tool made you so shallowly want to use.
Thanks at k0kubun and all the others investing their time to Ruby optimization.
When performance is a metric one needs to care about Ruby is a bad choice and will stay a bad choice.
I find C# with dotnet a very good framework that has amazing performance characteristics and also good developer tooling.
I coded many things with Ruby and Rails privately and as my daily job but nowadays it is mostly C# for webdev.
Probably worth saying "Discrete Fourier Transform"...
> I suspect most of the increase in pedestrian fatalities is from pedestrians and drivers staring at their phone instead of where they are going

Seatbelt and airbag regulations were fought on the grounds that bad drivers killed people, not good drivers. It was the drivers responsibility to be safe. Since airbags and sest belts have become important safety features, hundreds of thousands lives have been saved in the United States alone.
> Maybe Citizen and NextDoor's adoption is made up. I don't think it is. People are responding to something. It's not racism.

It is racism, and it's been amplified by news media which selectively report on crimes ("if it bleeds, it leads") and fear-based social media like Nextdoor and local Facebook groups which give a megaphone to every overly suspicious neighbor and self-appointed "neighborhood watch" member.

What's changed isn't the amount of crime. It's the amount of it you get told about.
> My prediction is someone will go all viligante and beat/maim/kill someone, probably who is innocent. Then the app will get pulled.

I think it's more likely the first time this happens the person is actually guilty, and there will be a huge debate as to whether or not it's a good thing.
Here in upper US East Coast - most of the older Japanese Trucks that are perfect as a cheap hauler are piles of rust. Really unfortunate.
> When someone has their car stolen, they do not take solace in the fact that...

But people aren't responding to their car being stolen, are they? They (we?) are usually responding to a story about someone else's car being stolen. Or a story about violent crime against someone we've never met. And that's what the statistics do show - there are disproportionately far more angry people than actual victims.

We're getting outraged because we hear regular stories about unfair things happening to people we've never met.

And I'm not suggesting these events don't matter just because they're happening to others. But it is incorrect to conflate what are effectively random and unlikely events happening to strangers as some sort of unacceptable level of threat to ourselves.

This is a challenge rooted in human nature that I don't pretend to have any solution to. Nevertheless, I think it's fair to reject any of this as an excuse for outrage or the vigilantism that Citizen promotes.
HN, right?
I got my truck for <$7000. If towing/hauling are the goal, I'd trust a 90s pickup over any sedan regardless of manufacturer claims. And I do tow more than the A3's limits, so either way it's out the window.

Agree with you on the tow ratings though. It's a really good idea to have some healthy margin between the stated limit and the actual load, unless you're just going down the street.
What if your military systems have been compromised and the UAV is the thing that compromised them?