skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did I miss something? IIRC Boston police asked foe help finding the people who carried out the bombing and then found them with the help of the general public. The two individuals did carry out the attack, one is dead and one went to court. Was there more to this?
I would imagine someone without a truck was let go instead. It's just the delta between a him and a truck-less employee, not a whole employee.
Interesting topic.

I've recently started to re-connect with acquaintances around the globe via virtual coffee meetings (video calls), and with a steaming pot of hot liquid in tow (even decaf does the job, it's more about holding on to something steaming than caffeine for me) this can be quite contemplative.
I try to do one such call per week, typically towards the end of the week, and often I manage, occasionally not when work is too crazy.

It's not as good as physical travel to see people, of course, but we all need to make the best of the current situation. (Speaking of travel, train rides and walking are great activities to foster contemplating - see also
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philosophy-Walking-Frederic-Gros/dp... ).

BTW, stay safe, all!
“We” in this case is public policy about how tax money is spent, not individuals’ tax payments.

Given that: yes, we should absolutely stop funding services where society isn’t getting what it’s paying for—or fix them.
This is a fork[1] of a basic HN clone[2] written in Vue.js, but with an enhanced scrolling experience for comments. Scroll down and you'll quickly see. It's what I am missing most on websites like Reddit, HN etc.

Hope it is useful to some of you. The app itself requires JS and should be able to stay at that URL forever.

[1] https://github.com/phil294/hnpwa-vue
[2] https://anubhav7495.github.io/hnpwa-vue/#/item/27234039
I see the practicality of a crew cab every day when I see one truck after another of landscaping crews. The crew cab is full, the bed has stuff in it, and many are towing trailers.
"The long-bed was popular back when people owned a truck as an extra vehicle/work vehicle only, now many use their truck as their main vehicle and have need of carrying others."

My favorite configuration is:

- 8 foot bed

- extended (not full) cab

- rear doors are "suicide" doors

Our ranch truck is a Silverado 1500 in that configuration and it is nice to have optional seats but not lose the 8 foot bed. Suicide doors allow you to open the entire vehicle up with no pillar in the way and I love that.

Chevy no longer offers this but I think Ford does, currently ...
Attacking Freenode sent a chilling effect through many communities that would gladly not deal with your infantile rampage backed by what I'll assume is ill-gotten gains.

Check yourself. You're not in the right, here.
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Yeah, it's _both_. More likely to hit someone and more likely to kill them when hit.
Pretty close to 100% of introverts desire some form of friendship and companionship.

Being shy and uncomfortable in social situations doesn't mean you want to be forever alone.

There's at least two conflicting definitions of introversion though. Some think that it has nothing to do with shyness and is just a preference for solitary activity and being reflective and reserved. However even in that case it would be extraordinarily rare for a person to not ever want anyone else in their life at all.
Does mysql still risk eating your data? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6158568/mysql-myisam-dat...
Yes, but it starts at $149. Unless you're doing music professionally, that is rather steep when free ones like Salamander exist.
And then it will come out that the vigilante has a sketchy, checkered past, possibly including jail time.
I took 8 months and traveled the world. Unfortunately that is not an option right now. It was expensive but worth it.
For me, the biggest hurdle has been education and awareness. At least a few years ago, the courses and resources I used to learn about web development didn't cover accessibility, and I had to learn about it after the fact. I'm glad to see more introductory resources cover it now though, like the MDN docs and web.dev.
It seems weird to conflate private policing with concepts like decentralization and federalism; which are pretty common in the world (see: Canada, Switzerland, Australia, the European Union, etc etc).

They don't seem related.

I actually agree with you that decentralization and federalism are critical to a functioning democracy, especially in a pluralistic/heterogenous republic, but there are so many questions I have on how pay-for-policing can reliably work.

* What happens when a private police patroller is within proximity of a victim of violent crime that doesn't have the "first currency" and is not a paid subscriber?

* Are the private police authorized to use force? If so, who anoints this power?
Well, I suspect they're saying volume increases are coupled with margin decreases to zero. Certainly I find it more believable that people are closing honestly because they can't make money rather than people are closing to protest hazard pay.

The latter seems unlikely. If the business is viable, the business owner is going to want to run it. It's his baby and his life, he won't kill it just because he disagrees politically.
> Try to take 3 months off maximum.

This is too strong of a general statement. There are plenty of situations which may require longer than 3 months.

Personally speaking, I’m currently on month 7, and it will probably take a few more months before I’m ready to commit to any sort of formal work arrangement.
Poor people don’t want to get rid of police, they want to not be hassled by police.

In the 90s when the NYPD started firing lazy/corrupt police commanders and cracking down on street crime, evicting families of drug dealers from public housing, and putting down pit bulls.. poor communities were very much in favor of what was happening.

The tide shifted when the cops went all in on stupid metrics.
Relying on users to install security and safety updates is 0% effective.
The other day at Costco (a big box store) I saw some bio-degradable dog bags - advertised as having no plastic!! But, you could only buy them as a pack that included two plastic dispensers to put the bags in..
Then you shouldn’t mind people making use of Mars in the meantime. Planets come and go as well.
> I don't think that's a viable option in the long run.

That would only start all problems again.

It could be an explanation for the Great Filter though.
I haven't heard of VCs doing that. For that to happen I would imagine that the LPs have a considerable position to flex like that. I would also imagine that we be an edge case far from the rule.
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Ah, yeah the used market is a completely different beast. Hard to compare across vehicle classes and models. I was thinking in terms of 'new' truck sales, which is currently bonkers for pickups and have been for some time in North America.
Edging closer to "Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong" and the "Central Intelligence Corporation".
By never claiming they are police.

If their vest said police or had a police badge, or if they claimed to be police, they'd be guilty of impersonating police.

Dressing up in a generic tacticool uniform isn't impersonating police.
Praying is a form of meditation. In Hinduism a short prayer called the gayatri mantra is repeated 108 times, three times a day and this is supposed to improve your focus.
I live in an area where people dump debris (furniture, construction debris, yard waste) in the public park and on sidewalks every day.

I would love to hire security to watch for dumpers and report them to the city's dumping hotline, along with descriptions and plate numbers.

This would be peak gentrifier behavior, but a (hopefully) handful of bad actors are trashing an otherwise nice neighborhood and I'm at the end of my rope.
>DHS will also train analysts on tracking social media and how to distinguish a threat from the exercise of free speech. DHS officials say the goal is to better monitor and respond to story lines percolating on social media that could incite violence.

Where have I heard this before...

>China’s constitution affords its citizens freedom of speech and press, but the opacity of Chinese media regulations allows authorities to crack down by claiming that they endanger the country. [0]

Seems like a good model for the West to follow...

>China has around two million people policing public opinion online, according to a state media report that sheds light on the country’s secretive internet surveillance operations. Dubbed “public opinion analysts,” they work for the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda department, major Chinese news websites and commercial corporations

[0] https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/media-censorship-china

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2013/10/07/world/asia/china-internet-mon...
Given how many people believe the IRS is calling them demanding they immediately deposit $10,000 in a Seven Eleven Bitcoin ATM it’s reasonable to have guardrails in place..
You're taking this to a really uncharitable extreme, but yay you can laugh at the "hilarious" "middling tier mathematically literate people," I guess.
A nice bidet! I got the BioBidet BB2000 but any powered bidet with heated water should do the trick (the unheated hand-bidets are okay but really not even the same ballpark). This thing has seriously been life-changing, I feel like an absolute savage wiping with paper now.
That's an argument for not owning a car at all, actually.
Alex Pentland on data co-ops and credit unions
Alex Pentland, a MIT professor, wants cooperatives are the future of data ownership.

In his plan, the 125 million members strong US credit union movement plays a key role. The legislation and technology required to implement his plan already exist. We only need to turn the key.
That's a really well-written blogpost! I was expecting it to be much more surface-level (something to do with character codes - still possibly interesting!) but it had new info for me on several levels (the background of the bug, and the personal history stuff didn't feel too fillery to me).
Agreed. I really detest how the word "democratize" got buzzed to death. It's become a zombie marketing term, and it wraps familiar ideology with vague associations of a rallying cry. Better phrasing maybe: it's a zombie marketing term that became a persistent and damaging bit of propaganda/ ideological meme.
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Nothing prevents you from hiring a bodyguard or a security guard/guards. Have you tried that?
Or in 2002 or 2011 about coronaviruses or in 2015 about ebola or in 2009 about swine flu or or or...

You don't get credit for predicting 10 of the last 1 pandemics.
Also, greater intelligence and self-awareness brings more suffering. A bird only knows pain. A human with a terminal illness knows it is dying and suffers the psychological consequences.
There's no such thing as "physics defying". There's physics we understand, and physics we don't understand. The job of physicists is to change the latter into the former.

Whatever these phenomena are, sharing all of the information that's available about them can only help us to understand them. If all of that information can be accounted for by physics we know, that's fine. At least we'll know for sure. And if it can't, then we need to work on learning some new physics, as we've been doing for centuries.
Yeah, and it’s a pain in the ass because you realize the renting overhead equates to about 4 hours of wasted time to and fro. Then you’re rushing your project because you hear the clock tick and then need it again on Sunday. Will never do a truck rental again.
I see your account is from 2007, so I'm a bit surprised you're not familiar with the community guidelines. I'll link them here for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm copying out 2 points I think are most relevant here:

- Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

- Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
I tried putting in a reservation in Canada yesteday. I think they got slashdoted. Spinning.... Victim of their success. Maybe they will understand why Tesla does not need paid for marketing?
>>Does your car have an official towing capacity?

Yes. Don't remember if it is 1500 or 1600kg. If a trailer is heavier than 750kg it does also have brakes, so that isn't a problem. It is an American thing thinking that you need a car 2x the weight of the trailer to tow it
You can repeat the Easter Egg on the results of that Easter Egg, too.
Isn't that just called getting pulled over?
The contention is with your use of "bloat", which implies that the extra size is useless, or at least not worthwhile.
Ah yes "no true developer"
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Do you believe advanced radar to be infallible?

Do you think the military could be developing radar fooling technology to trick the other side?
Democratized means cheap enough that an upper middle class person can afford it. Disrupted means fucked up. I also hate this language.
>>>It seems like those regulations aren't working they way they ought to

Regulations rarely end up with the outcomes the people pushing for the regulations publicly claim the desired outcome is.
The fact that Texas crashed so severely over snow this year makes me think all bets are off with another Carrington Event that could potentially impact an entire continent.
Plague rats? Really? Is this how we want to talk about one another?
You and I both!

There are encouraging developments.

I recently read about a group of young progressives, basically looking for better, more reasonable, equitable social democracy type policy being active, are 16, and doing activism that appears effective enough to put elections into question! They are digital natives, nimble, smart and if they garner any influence from more accomplished activists, will be knocking on doors asking for help.

I do not have the link handy, but it should not be too hard to find. The phrase "they do not take orders" from the Democratic Party is in the headline.

If that proves real, and is not just being sensationalized, those kids may have somehow picked up on some of what we are discussing as well as the idea of raising the cost of continuing down our current path being effective politics on par with New Deal type efforts familiar to us.

So who knows?

They have very strong incentives! Rough gig for them right now.
The reality is that police funding has maintained even throughout the "defund movement", so this situation is not caused by police defunding.
So I have a 5' x 5' router table that I've modified to hold pens. I was using paint pens that require the nibs to be indented to get more paint to flow. They run out every 2-4 feet of line. It doesn't make great lines. Here is the machine re-loading a pen: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAD-tR1FU8J/

The "pens" i've made are a piece of delrin, with a 1/4" hole drilled down the middle and a piece of 1/4" F1 felt stuffed in there.

Here's the pen, sorta working https://www.instagram.com/p/COE-5dSpPAm/ and here is a longer drawing. you can see that it does still go from "too much" to "too little" as the line draws. https://www.instagram.com/p/CO4xW6QJLf2/

There are many, many other drawings in that profile. The thin line ones were made on an HP DraftPro DXL.
This YouTube channel does a great job of analyzing and explaining "UFO" videos, including those mentioned in the article. They even do experiments and recreations to demonstrate the effects being seen.

https://m.youtube.com/user/mickword

In one example, they were able to fully explain a previously "mysterious" UFO seen in a video taken by a military helicopter in South America. Thanks to the overlaid GPS coordinates and time, they were able to create a 3D model recreating the camera's viewpoint and then overlay the flight tracking data from that day. That along with weather information allowed them to demonstrate that the UFO was in fact an IR reflection from a commercial airliner as seen through a somewhat rare but well-understood atmospheric effect combined with lens blooming. It was impressive sleuthing and very cool to see the flight's 3D track line up exactly with the mysterious blob from the helicopter's POV.
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These things are not remotely comparable.

You're 5x more likely to kill someone in an urban area because more people live there (in fact, well above 5x more, so...)

> being killed by a light truck compared to a car is only 1.45 (i.e. 45% greater)

"Only"? "You're 50% more likely to die if a light truck hits you than a car, that's "only" a bit more!"

> and is 0.96 for a heavy truck ... buses have a relative risk of 7.97

People tend to bounce off of heavy trucks, for better or worse. Buses are 1) significantly different in design than most heavy trucks, and 2) for obvious reasons, operate in very heavy pedestrian environments.
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Nice! I'd say these guys are going to be MetaCops and a soon to be discovered competitor will try to be Enforcers.
Denver has replaced some police with mental health professionals and its been great so far.
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/08/974941422/6-month-experiment-...
This contributes to a thought I had years ago. We used to smoke in the parking lot; a co-worker would feed the birds that came daily - contrary to fight club, feeding birds around a parking lot of cars does not cause the birds to poop on the cars lol

Anyway - I always wondered - how many birds are in the world? Then walk down the street, around town, where ever - how many dead birds do you see on the side of the road? 1 every once in a great while maybe?

Where do birds go to die? Or are they just eaten right away by their prey? Stray cats? Hawks?
> UFOs were spotted in restricted U.S. airspace “every day for at least a couple years.”

You’d think people would put 2 and 2 together. But many will always see 5. These are the most highly instumented areas of the planet. Just look at google maps of San Nicolas island off San Diego. A Navy range bristling with the most advanced electro-optical and radar sensors on earth.

But like you say, always a fuzzy polaroid. It’s strange when forums of supposed contrarian rationalists are so herdish.
Unfortunately I don’t but I am sure a subreddit on mixology can help!
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The unfortunate situation is that continued employability in this industry almost requires a certain amount of resume-driven-development. It's much harder to get $newJob when your resume is full of stale tech from $currentJob.
That's not what happening here. The money is for the "true crime" entertainment and the fun of being part of a mob, not crime reduction. That's obvious from the substance and tone of the content published in the app.
I appreciate that "making a ****ing iceberg chart" is at the bottom of the Hobbies iceberg :)
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I don't know what they're going to say, if anything, but I'm certain they're not fabricating a UFO scare to distract people from the economy, that's cartoon logic.

If the government wanted to use the news to influence people's perception of the economy, even through deception, they would do so through news about the economy, not by hoping for second or third order effects from reporting on something completely different.
What is not so obvious to me: When should WAL be used and when not? Does it even make a difference? It says that WAL might be 1-2% slower on read heavy applications, but how much faster is it for write heavy applications? I'm trying to think of a use case because most (web) applications are ready heavy.

And another question: Are both, WAL and rollback journal multithreading and multiprocess safe while being accessed by multiple applications on a single server? I always asked myself this but somehow never found a clear yes/no answer.
Ivermectin is not an anti-viral and should not be used to treat Covid.

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-shoul...
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The profile-picture is usually on the right, but "gets put below", if there is not enough screen-space.
> I think the author of that blog was correct: the preferred path is for the compiler to provide data to the programmer to simplify the loop.

Requiring the equivalent of PGO is a rather unfortunate bar, though to be fair if you're that interested in performance it's probably something worth looking into anyways.

I'm curious how how noisy an always-on warning for undersized loop variables would be, or how much code would have broken if int were changed to 64 bits on 64-bit platforms...

> For your godbolt example, use the C compiler not c++

Sorry; that was a mistake on my end. The same phenomenon occurs when compiling in C mode, in any case [0].

[0]: https://godbolt.org/z/TvYrzncsc
I've been trying off and on to work on doing pistols. I think the primary reason people suggest a set of weights and a traditional weightlifting leg routine is because its pretty difficult to develop the strength and balance to do pistols even without weight. I got to the point where I was doing squats with an 80lb weight vest and holding another 70+ pounds of kettlebells and I still wasn't anywhere near strong enough to do unweighted pistols.

Gonna keep trying though.
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Yes, there was. Reddit went after the wrong person.
You’re misunderstanding the phrase “defund police”. This is what it looks like in practice: https://www.npr.org/2021/03/08/974941422/6-month-experiment-...
This is inevitable. Even before the defund the police movement, departments across the country had police shortages where for every 5 officers they needed, they only had 3.

Things have gotten worse regardless of which side of the debate you're on

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/police-in-philly-and-be...

I was just expecting AI and robots to take over ala Robocop and Little Sister cameras everywhere. I did not foresee the gig companies like Bannerman and Citizen doing it, but here we are.
The resulting code will still be asymptotically slow.
Those we elect are not “involved in science”. Still you’re supposed to have higher bar for representatives, instead of saying “representatives are dumb”. You realize this essentially says those being represented are also dumb. Or there is a systemic flaw to address
It already works, as seen in many other blockchains.
The most popular are Cardano and Polkadot.
The people who pay got vigilante private security don't do it to avoid police planting evidence in them.

They do it to have someome to attack the others, someone under their control. They have zero incentive to prevent private security from planting evidence on others.

Gangs in fact did not ended up to be fair non corrupt equivalent of police either.
I was thinking the same thing, and I honestly can't tell. Either way, she had one of the toughest jobs I can imagine and navigated it with badass-tier bravado: that's really what the article should emphasize. Instead of emphasizing the title of "female" over "supercomputer designer", maybe they should have just lead with the Steve Jobs hook (as much as I despise him) and let the reader draw their own conclusions on Thiel.
Great. Now we have olivermarks speculating that high voltage transformer production could be sped up, and lstodd vehemently saying the opposite. Could someone please substantiate the claims with something verifiable?
Yup, that's exactly what happened. Thanks to both of you for your help! I really appreciate it. This was driving me nuts!
Wikipedia mentions that the inefficiency of that is less than a normal AC unit even.

So the vortex tube is actually using up more of the energy in the system than you might originally expect