skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Communities which experience more crime tend to interact more with law enforcement. The perpetrators of those crimes, who generally come from the same communities as their victims, tend to get arrested and incarcerated in proportion to their rate of criminality.

Over-policing and racial profiling is a large cause of the increased criminality. The base rate of illegal drug use is fairly similar for all races but arrests and convictions have been much higher for Blacks and other minorities for quite some time [0][1].

> The notion that law enforcement arrests and incarcertates more black people mainly due to racial antipathy, rather than that community's starkly higher rate of criminal violence, is not supported by evidence.

Actually, traffic stops are biased against minorities despite a similar base rate of infraction [2] yet this increases the rate at which Black people interact with police which compounds the harm caused by statistically harsher reaction to infractions. Further, sentencing is influenced by race in complex ways for which there is unfortunately limited data [3] but Blacks tend to receive longer sentences and be at risk of minimum sentences [4].

The root causes of violent offenses are even more complex and although income disparity, childhood trauma/abuse/neglect, and oppression are all potential causes I haven't found good sources with solid statistics to dig into that.

[0] https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/rdusda.pdf
[1] https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2019.3054...
[2] https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/suspect-citizens/A399F1...
[3] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228718440_Reassessi... preprint; 2013 publication is behind a paywall.
[4] https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi%3Fartic...
I only use it in the rare times I'm driving on a quiet highway for long multi-hour stretches. That's definitely not my preferred way of driving, as I usually trade around a half hour of extra travel time to take more winding, fun, and scenic routes.
Another classic way to monetize open source is via support contracts. Enterprise love support contracts where someone has to answer the phone. This doesn’t help the “no on call” criterion, but is a good way to increase revenue.

Or sponsorships… this project is sponsored by X. But that’s probably not a good fit for a hardware/software combination.
I could, but I worry that it would drive down sales volume and reduce total profit. I've sent the product to several IT reviewers, and they all bring up the $300 price point as borderline too high, so I've been reluctant to increase it further.

That said, I've increased prices several times thinking it would drive down volume and it never does, so maybe I should just bump it up again. I just have this weird mental block about exceeding $300.
> For a period of time she responded to that harassment by imitating the rhetoric of her harassers

Such a cunning rhetorical device that it became indistinguishable. What utter dreck.
A great inspiration to someone dabbling in launching a "lean" hardware business.

How is $15,637.68 in raw materials calculated -- assuming $300 unit price and you sell 100 units? The rPI is $40-80, and the capture card is $35? The case and fan is probably $10 at the most?
How is it hard to buy with USD as a US national?

I haven't bought any Monero, but I saw this website the other day: https://localmonero.co/

If that's legitimate, it seems pretty easy.
Why would they shut them down when they can just recruit them? Think of these ransomware groups as the minor leagues, the best get to move up to Russia's cyberwarfare teams.
I was surprised when one day my stepdad had a fancy gaming mouse. I asked him how he got it and he shrugged and said “I entered a contest and won”. I’m so cynical I didn’t really believe anyone won stuff out of contests, but I guess you’ve got to enter in the first place to win.
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The power requirements to run, say, 100 chargers, potentially all at once, are potentially bananas. If there's going to be large-scale charging, there's also going to have to be some kind of load-orchestration system involved, too.
A virologist unpacks the COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis
Scotty knows his stuff about cars but he is an entertainer first and an informer second.

If you don't hit all the tropes and get people to share your content and get all the resulting clicks the algo will bury you.
Oh huh, interesting, I've never seen that done before.

I'm struggling to understand what the rationale _for_ doing it is though. Maybe it's to avoid an import cycle?
> >Put another way, he didn't work around any computer controls to get at the information.

> That's irrelevant. You can do unauthorized things without having to "work around" controls.

You are conflating bypassing security measures (which in the digital world would be equivalent of lock picking) and abuse of trust (throwing a party and trashing the home of someone who trusted you with the keys to only feed the cat).
Not an expert, but from what I recall it was a mix of direct stimulus (I think every adult got $900 and were encouraged to spend it) and a huge amount of public sector construction. There was also strong Chinese demand for our resources.

Our economy had one quarter of negative growth but we recovered almost immediately.

The banks didn't get bailed out at all - they didn't need to be because the financial sector had strict regulations that prevented them from engaging in the systemic risk that ruined Europe and the US.
"for a brief period during unprecedented times, a city apartment was as pleasent to live in as a proper house. This has quickly passed."
You may find this relevant if you found previous article [1] interesting.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27071432
It's a list of classes. At least the way it worked when I attended, CS students chose a particular track (Theory, AI, Systems, Graphics, HCI, etc.). The core curriculum was 3 theory classes and 3 coding classes. Each track has 2 or 3 mandatory classes (for systems it was operating systems, and either compilers or computer hardware). And on top of that there's general requirements.
And I pointed out how he didn't do that.
This is the most shocking article I have ever read in my life. I'd ask everyone to please read it because it is incredible.

One thing I did not realize is that US researchers who conducted gain of function research tried to downplay and discredit the possibility of the virus originating from the wuhan lab. There was an anti-lab theory Lancet statement signed by scientists, and "Daszak had not only signed but organized the influential Lancet statement, with the intention of concealing his role and creating the impression of scientific unanimity."

Plus there's all the stuff about the miners shoveling bat poop for weeks and then dying of coronaviruses, and the Wuhan institute collecting and doing gain of function research on these similar-to-SARS samples. And then several of the lab's gain of function researchers became ill in late 2019. And there's the weird renaming of samples to hide the unmatched closeness of the mine samples and covid. This is just the absolute surface of the article. There's too much to list here

Edit: here's another amazement for the list: "Shi Zhengli herself had publicly acknowledged that, until the pandemic, all of her team’s coronavirus research — some involving live SARS-like viruses — had been conducted in less secure BSL-3 and even BSL-2 laboratories." And the article says "BSL-2 [is] roughly as secure as an American dentist’s office."
Sometimes simple preventative measures aren't as simple as they might sound. How would you go about integrating yubikeys for login into multi-decade-old SCADA hardware systems?

I'm a security specialist and I honestly wouldn't know where to begin.
>It's great that Toyota has measured the improvement in customer trust or loyalty being more valuable to them in the long run than shirking on quality.

That's a funny way of framing "feeling the heat from the Koreans and Mitsubishi and offering their own comparable warranty"
That is just one of many annoyances that are a total non-issue if you have JS off by default, and of which I am painfully reminded whenever I see or need to use someone else's computer.
Why does the effort matter? Is there some specific threshold of time spent writing a post for us to take it seriously?

Some people spend hours writing a single tweet to get the message exactly right.
With a battery swap out model, you could have spots where you pull in and swap a drained / semi-drained battery (or batteries) for a fully charged one. Maybe like the way it's done with propane tanks in some places, but more complicated.

Quality control, general standardization and ease of access would need to be solved, but if done right this could be automated by pulling up to a vending machine and maybe eventually (super futuristic) on the fly like the way they can do in-flight fueling for aircraft.

The initial overhead could be worth it to not sit around charging, but I could also see other interests winning out here (bored people spend money, standardization isn't necessarily win-win, enabling third party service is less profitable for the car makers, &c).
For the record, could you share with us what “Marxism” is?
For people interested in this area, I highly recommend When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. It is a very powerful and well written memoir of a neurosurgeon who battles with lung cancer.
Three words: Double Gulp Slurpee.
Objective metrics (like user engagement and active users per day) are probably more relevant than your opinion of “quality” content.
Yea, looks like the course catalog, not curriculum.
demand being higher than expected is what causes supply crunch.

Most management people I knew were very pessimistic right around when lockdowns started in March.
You could one way hash the asset, along with the initial resolution and other characteristics, and lock that data in the NFT. As long as you have the NFT, and the original digital work stores somewhere to rehash, you could prove ownership.
It's sad the extent to which some people have shaped their whole personality around this 'alpha' concept. Some going as far as to tattoo wolves on themselves.

Also the whole culture around alpha and beta males as some sort of excuse for why we tolerate 'jerks' (for lack of a stronger word) as our leaders- as if it is some sort of natural law we must fall in line with. "There must be an aggressive alpha to keep the betas on target and in line."

Seriously interesting article though. I love seeing our understanding of other creatures grow and with it our ability to view them as capable of having families, love and empathy for each other
Not all brainstorming has to be in person. Many things can and should happen asynchronously (even if we're all in the office). But not all forms of collaborative work are equal.

I addressed your question (why does this have to be in person) in another HN thread [0] a number of months back and I'm copying that comment here. The rest of that thread (parent and children) explore this in more depth.

> I'm talking about conversations that might take all day, or days. Breaking down enormous problems. Deep collaborative work.
Can you do this in a virtual room? Yes. Will you achieve the same outcome? Early results (in my case) seem to indicate the answer is "no".

> I want the ability to pace around the room at times. Look my collaborators in the eye. Pick up on non-verbal cues that are often impossible to see remotely. Step away as a group to share a much needed lunch break.

> And when passionate people are involved, and many viewpoints are present, the ability to all argue/debate a topic vigorously - even show frustration at the right moments - and then all share a beer at the end of the day, is critical. Having that same vigorous debate on Zoom and then dropping off to our individual lives doesn't leave room for reconnecting with each other as humans - something that is critical for maintaining relationships.

> Not every project requires this kind of interaction. But for things that do, the remote format just doesn't work well for everyone.

- [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24793079
> Jaywalking is typically (i.e. I know of now jurisdiction in the west where it's not)

In the UK it doesn't even exist. We look it up after hearing the word on N American 'movies'/TV 'shows'.

> a civil infraction

IANAL, but my understanding is that the key difference between criminal & civil law is that the latter always has a (an alleged) victim, and it is he who is the claimant.

Is that wrong? Or right but there's some supposed victim of 'jaywalking' (the state on behalf of drivers?!) who goes around suing 'jaywalkers'?
Unless you're talking about something that can be objectively measured--widget output from an assembly line, average times to retrieve/place something in a warehouse, and so on--the "complexity" you note is just fertile ground for gaming. It's downright trivial for an employer to massage "productivity" numbers in a way that supports their agenda.
The sun, through various derivative channels.
Or have a pile of chargers no electrician will sign off on for permitting.
I didn’t know Dogecoin was that old!
How does remote assistance work? My imagination says latency would make that really unsafe.
Ironically, the string "mapscii.me", which it accepted, is not a valid URL, as it lacks a protocol.
Those absolutely insane lunatic fringe conspiracy theories like Covid-19 was engineered in a lab?

Yeah they’re all conspiracy theories until one day they aren’t.
Experience it's not the only path to empathy. We should be exploring more tenable paths and try to find some way of proving that people in authority actually empathize, or to give them consequences when they refuse to even try.
Think about who buys new Toyotas these days. It's a pretty well off crowd. Imagine this was a german luxury car dealership and it makes a lot more sense.

The dealer is making a calculated (at scale, not in any particular case) business decision that these people have enough money that they'll just bend over and take it rather than create a hassle for themselves by fighting.

If the dealer hadn't made business decision the service writer would be apologetic and offered a steep discount or whatever. But they did so the service writer is playing hardball.

Not the business decision I'd make but I completely understand the incentive.
That doesn't mean you avoid making laws for the legitimate threats, it means you also keep tabs on how they're used. A system of laws, and a system of oversight for the use of those laws.
can confirm. You can get verifiably pure and potent LSD for well under $5 a tab online
Critical China Scholars' statement on the lab leak investigation: https://criticalchinascholars.org/interventions/
To preface, I share a lot of the same sentiments as the author. My Elixir was Scala - learned it inside and out, then picked up Akka which taught me a lot of neat Erlang-derived principles. My favorite quote is "Make it work, make it right, make it fast," which is very close to the Armstrong comic.

Having said that, I would not recommend Elixir or Scala or anything similar for startups. The 3 main reasons:

1) It's a hiring problem.

There aren't enough qualified people who can fill these roles. Expect a lot of on-the-job training that's more challenging than you'd think since these languages/frameworks are different paradigms. Famously, the complaint I heard in Scala circles was "There are too many ways to shoot yourself in the foot." I worked at a well-known everyday consumer tech company where the payments platform went down for the better part of a day as people scrambled to figure out what went wrong. Noone had read the de-facto Scala bible which warned that catching `Throwable` could break your code.[1]

2) You really, really don't need to get things perfectly right from the get-go.

> My hot take about most dynamic languages is that they are a poor fit for startups who have intentions of being long-term businesses: you’ve created an environment that’s optimized for your founding engineers to build something quickly in the first 7 months, but the price is a set of recurring obstacles which your engineers will pay down over the next 7 years.

With rare exceptions, most companies throw away or rewrite their initial infra once they hit scaling issues. Having these scaling issues means you've likely hit product-market fit, secured more funding, and hired a badass team to solve said scaling issues.

3) The ecosystem is smaller.

Because the language/framework is deeper, it requires more investment to learn. In turn, fewer production-level libraries get built on top of it. That's when you end up needing to build a lot of things yourself. At which point - you've slowed down _even more_ vs. DynamicLang where you can run `dynamic-package add audit-trail` or something and get the 80/20 solution in 5 minutes.

[1] http://www.tzavellas.com/techblog/2010/09/20/catching-throwa...
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> He started with nothing (including no clothes), was cut off from outside communication and broadcasting, and had nothing to keep him company except the magazines he combed through for sweepstakes entry forms. After spending 335 days to reach his target, he set the Guinness world record for the "longest time survived on competition winnings".

Wow, that sounds extreme.

But then again I remember there was a contest in San Diego where the participants had to stay 15 hours a day on a roller-coaster and many suffered lasting bodily injuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Dipper_(Belmont_Park)#Ev...
Speaking of BMs, WFH has me spoiled in that I get to use the bidet I installed at home every time. Once you’re used to using a bidet, anything less feels like living in the dark ages.
When I got my Tesla back in November 2019, when stopped at traffic lights, cars next to me would be shown to rotate randomly and jiggle and dance.

It works much better now, but it was always kind of amusing. It only did it when we were all stopped. Moving cars (whether it was them moving or me) were rendered just fine. My guess is that it was extrapolating movement based on more than one "frame" of sensor data, but at a stop there's no changes beyond noise, and the noise was being extrapolated into extreme movements.

I have seen it show cars "crashing" into me, but it's only semis when in the neighboring lane.
Is that the case with all of these hacks? How many would be prevented, is what I'm wondering? My mother's hospital was hacked this week and now they can't even clock in but they're not running SCADA
Given the fact that Indian and East Asian men far exceed their US population ratios in the ranks of SF programmers, I'm baffled why you highlighted white.
N . .
Still happens today in Vietnam. If the owner refuses the random, the dogs are butchered and sold as meat. It's happened to a couple of people I know.
There are so many laws that there's an incentive to throw as many as possible that might stick, so that at least one of them might get a conviction.

It also adds a lot more pressure on the person charged to take a plea deal.
I remember liking the circle in the Back button 20 years ago (Netscape 6, Phoenix and Firebird). Unfortunately, it was dropped when Firefox 1.0 was released. Since then, I’ve come to accept that styling of UI elements come in and out of fashion.

Most of the time, it doesn’t take too long to get used to the interface changes – though I think a lot of such changes are superficial (make it look shiny and new) and I’d rather developer resources were used elsewhere. It’s not like there are no open bugs on Bugzilla. Also, I wonder if they do any testing of the UI changes with an older demographic.
Does anyone know which of these courses are great to learn more about system design?
It’s mostly me having a programmable thermostat, taking full advantage of free food, and having negligible transportation costs.
A woman died competing in a radio station water drinking contest (for a Nintendo Wii):

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/jury-rules-radio-station-jennifer...
"Bombs for bits"
Depending on workload, Go also does sub-1ms p99 pretty easily. I'm getting sub-1ms p99.9.
> Straight people, particularly men, have a strong physiological reaction to male homosexuality that doesn't really exist with female homosexuality.

That’s blatant homophobic apologia. There is no physical basis for a negative reaction to seeing gay people. That is a product of millennia of straight people banishing homosexuality from their society and perpetuating a hatred and taboo of gay people. I have never observed any non-homophobic straight person holding in their vomit when I kiss my boyfriend. The fact that you think observing gay people causes straight people to naturally have a negative reaction says a lot about what you think about gay people and homophobia.
Unrelated cross post (can't comment on the story I only just read).. where is this magical food forest? Sounds delightful
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I'm aware I've had good luck with regard to physical health.

Not getting into details, the main surgery I had was a routine operation which cured an otherwise life-threatening issue. So I'm a bit biased here.
If anything good can come of this, I hope some of the folks who trusted the science begins to realize that people are behind science and people often act in their own best interest. Not that it will change much but we can at least stop yelling down and shaming skeptics.
I think this is an unfair false choice. I blame security "experts" who store private keys on public facing web servers or allow for SQL injection in the same way as I blame doctors who over-prescribed Oxycontin for way longer than was safe to avoid dependence. Sure, there will always be procedural mistakes and zero days, but gross dereliction of even basic level expertise deserves scorn.
That would be a local bye-law, which is neither criminal nor civil but could become criminal.
So how is this any different than my front door if I don't lock it. Can you just walk around in my house if the door is unlocked. Trespassing doesn't depend on doors being locked or not. The act of trespassing (and most crimes) doesn't depend on the victim setting up a suitable defense before what you've done is a crime. Even things like sex require some sort of consent (implied or otherwise) or it's a crime.

Can I walk into a bank and take all the money from the vault if they leave it open? But yet somehow with a computer that isn't yours you seem to be stating that if you don't properly protect it then access to it by anyone who happens upon it is completely legal.
I share my costs in a previous post:

https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2020/12/#voyager-pricing

My costs are a little higher because everyone's sold out of 2 GB Pis, so I've had to upgrade to the 4 GB, which costs $20 more. The big costs are the Pi boards, the HDMI capture chips, and the case. It also requires a lot of cables and a custom PCB, but I'm trying to reduce those in the next version.
Which company are you talking about?
JSON is easier for people to consume, but formats like csv can be much more efficient when comparing the amount of space used, and easier to consume for an application.
Skills and experience were not distributed fairly, but they are still real and still necessary. The fix for missing education is more education, not trying to somehow do without it.
Doesn't the local government want to tax those digital "currency" sales you used as a transfer mechanism as capital gains income?
Do you *really* need a changelog?
In my opinion living in Seattle is $200k-$300k better than living in Tacoma.