skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Police locking up black people in America is the reason police in America were created.

Formal policing in America has a long and sometimes infamous history, but it definitely did not begin with "locking up black people"; it varied based on the locale.

For example, in NYC, it goes back to the Tammany Hall days and was notoriously corrupt.

In the west (where there were very few black people, and those that were there were free), police forces began with various marshals and sheriffs who were hired, typically by the merchants, to tame the wild western towns.

According to Time, "The first publicly funded, organized police force with officers on duty full-time was created in Boston in 1838."

https://time.com/4779112/police-history-origins/
I’m not too well read into this space, but I would argue a large cause in the boom of hacking is external to crypto. The fact that so much monetary value and information has moved online would make me believe the pie was by growing regardless of crypto. The article points out the Biden administration being unsure of how to tackle the hacking problem, but governmental infrastructure being hacked is not a monetary extraction problem, it’s a national security problem. I’m much more concerned about power companies being shut down than Target leaking customer records, for example.

I definitely won’t say crypto isn’t used effectively for ransomware payments, it’s obviously the current go to. My issue is the article seems to reduce it down to ceteris paribus, hacking wouldn’t be a problem. When many of the bad actors here are nation states, that is not a valid argument.
New Simulator Helps Robots Sharpen Their Cutting Skills
From the article, albeit a bit... buried:
There is a petition to exhume the bodies and confirm the identity theft

https://www.change.org/p/m-emmanuel-macron-p%C3%A9tition-en-...
Yeah. It seems like a lot of hybrid setups are going to have
shared desk spaces going forward.
I think good marriages work with the couple in close proximity for extended periods of time.

Many people are in bad relationships. Many married people spend little time together.
Do your state maps show cities? From the pics it looked like they only show natural features.
Dubai police will use citywide network of drones to respond to crime
> A better alternative is not trusting any of them. Realize that they're all distorting the truth, and yet also sharing a part of the truth, and dig deeper.

I think that's kinda right, but I have some quibbles. Basically, I feel the attitude that they're not trustworthy and distorting the truth leads to a kind of paranoia, feelings of helplessness, or succumbing to the trap letting an uncritical indulgence of one's own biases dictate what's "factual." I think there's a better way to say a similar thing:

You can trust the members if the mainstream media to try their best, but realize they make mistakes for understandable reasons and have their own biases, so you need to read with those biases in mind and try to correct for them with a measure of skepticism (e.g. a grain of salt, not a boulder). Realize that they're all sharing a part of the truth, dig deeper, and withhold judgement. The news is a first draft of history, written before all the facts are in.
Fujitsu uses quantum-inspired algorithm to tackle space waste
Curious about what sibling dynamics you've observer.

I'm the oldest child, and my youngest sibling definitely doesn't have, "that kill instinct".
> Well if it’s bullshit you should have no trouble providing a counter example.

That's logically not true. It's not like there's a huge pool to choose from. There are less than 1800 GMs right now in the entire world.

And it also depends on what we mean by all this. Learning the pieces? Most children learn the rules of the game at some point, I'd imagine. That takes a way too many people.

Actually starting to try? There are a few examples I can find of people being around ~1700 rating when aged 18+ and making it to GM (Jonathan Hawkins, Jacob Aagaard, John Shaw)

Ye Jiangchuan didn't learn the moves until they were 17. Still young, but not crazy young.

> There are tens of thousands of adults learning the rules of chess each and every day.

How many find they have a massive passion for chess, without having a job, a significant other (or pursuit of one), any worries about money/bills/etc, or have children or family to take care of? That, and they can't have found their passion for chess during their childhood.

Probably almost zero people fit that bill. You basically need a lottery winner or trust fund person who doesn't care about having an abnormal life of chess with minimal upside in the small chance they actually reach the GM level.

But those are all not related to the fact that they have an adult brain, which is my point.
The big climate LIE is that CO2 is a problem when in fact it is essential for life.

Sure pollution is not cool and we can work on it but THERE IS NO EMERGENCY.
Because 100% is not enough. We need to be carbon NEGATIVE to get back to the good place. (And, yes, we'll never be 100% non-emitting. We need to be NET negative.)
With hardware, comes software. Having fewer targets for your software can simplify the software and lead to superior results. Edge cases will always be there. You might be introducing some in a particular area with their vision-only approach, but reducing them substantially elsewhere. With radar, they had phantom breaking events and according to them, it's the primary reason they want to ditch it.

I'm on the fence as to whether it's a good or bad decision ... but let's not pretend they're idiots.
Clearly they don't care enough to force their own employees to use it, which is how we got the absolute utter crap that is a proprietary 802.11 protocol implementation in the kernel and the endless streams of ObjectiveC userland exploits.
Event Streaming in Clojure: Ziggurat
There's no evidence that anyone is specifically targeting only "one" "side" here, other than the "terrorist manifestos" and material in question are associated with right-wing extremist groups.
Ziggurat: Event Streaming in Clojure
By "upstreaming to the original projects", does this include upstreaming changes and packages to Debian, so that stock Debian will work as well as possible on these devices?
The main objection to computer-aided proofs is not that they are more difficult for humans to understand.

The main objection is that most proof-assistants use a different logical foundation than modern mathematics. Modern mathematics is built on ZFC[0] whereas most proof assistants, such as Coq, Isabelle, Agda, etc use different logical foundations, such as the Calculus of Constructions[1].

Many important results in modern mathematics are not easily stated or proven in systems such as CoC[1]. For example, Brouwer's _Fixed Point Theorem_[2], a pretty bog standard result in Topology that is useful to proof many things in Functional Analysis, has a clear statement in ZFC, but does not, to my knowledge, have an equivalent in CoC (and if it does it will be stated radically different).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo%E2%80%93Fraenkel_set_t...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_of_constructions
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer_fixed-point_theorem
> Time to add tariffs on goods produced by states who made the decision of going all-in on polluting power generation,

Seems like it might make sense to me.

> and potentially apply immigration quotas to citizens of these countries.

Um, what does this have to do with solving the problem at hand?
The following claims HVDC transmission losses of 3.5% per 1,000 km @ 800kV, therefore 20,000 km is 100% - ((100% - 3.5%)^20) ~= 51% loss; I guess my previous calculations were a different voltage, but as I’m asserting that even the difference between 30% and 70% doesn’t matter, neither does this :)

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/J...
I don’t think that’s correct.

https://www.columbiadailyherald.com/news/20191121/medical-de...
But if you gpg sign your commit
Now all your contributors will have to sign their next commits too.

My workmates would hate me if i introduced this to production.
I’m not sure why you believe the money needs to be spent “efficiently”

By creating Amazon, Bezos added tremendous value to our world, and he deserves his profits from it.
> Users and businesses are entrenched

What dependency do you think most users and business have on the instruction set architecture, even if you ignore that you can translate?
What are the indications that the design isn’t good?
Event streaming in Clojure using Ziggurat
>>They lost all access to banking meaning that there was no physical way for them to create redeem Tethers.

Temporarily being unable to transfer USD to fulfill redemption requests is not the same thing as being unbacked. Having USD-denonimated commercial paper backing the tether is still having something of value backing it, which is in a different universe from tether being unbacked.

People need to be more careful to not make inflammatory accusations, that are not substantiated, about an operation. This is true even if there are numerous red flags associated with the operation.
I feel like a lot of people are not taking into account that there should be way better options than zoom/slack, we should have fully immersive 3d video, screens, camera's, such that you wouldn't miss face 2 face interactions at all. That would change a lot of minds, and the technology doesn't seem far off.
Then I recommend you stop using software.

Pretty much every operating system has some fun places near its core that are a steady stream of problems.
I'm looking more for a replacement for the generator, you can usually get a generator + transfer switch without too much difficulty because you are not backfeeding grid, but you would be backfeeding your house.

The capacity in these vehicles is actually relatively good relative to household loads.

Their powerwall stuff with grid support / virtual power plant obviously has much bigger grid impacts / risks (ie, how do workers lock out feed to grid when working on lines etc).
Compared to other distros on the pinephone, it's hampered by having Debian as a base system. The pinephone's singular camera program Megapixels is stuck on an older version on Mobian, because the newer versions require GTK 4, which Debian and thus Mobian does not package.

(You can of course compile the GTK 4 stack yourself if you want. It's Linux after all.)
is it the company that hired the dude that was fired from Apple for his book?
The driver situation is super tough. Modern phones are full of proprietary shit and nobody is willing/able to reverse engineer all of this, and things like documentation and data sheets aren't really available.
Not just painstakingly hard, I think for many it is impossible. Many IM's do think it is worth the effort but just can't reach it.
this, social media platforms really have minimal incentive to ban bots until it starts hurting their bottom line.
You're the one who brought up "fur baby attachment." I'm not entirely sure what it is, given that this discussion is simply about kids being kind to non-domesticated animals.

I'm sure there are people with unhealthy attachments to animals, and who knows the extent of their issues and how they manifest. But a child who rejects a hobby that, at its core, is the deliberate killing of animals that they find beautiful, isn't that. As a parent, I say it is exactly how a child should be at that age.
Arrow is getting support for N-d arrays, so if anything they're expanding in that area (which is exciting). I don't think they're interested in creating a universal libarrow though, the point of the data format and C data interface is to have languages define their own implementations.
There probably hasn’t ever been a time with more options to do just that than today.

The reality is it isn’t 1981 and computers aren’t toys or cloistered academic devices anymore. Mass market platforms need to be more secure than 90s era tech allowed.
> can't be helped by good programming techniques, garbage collection, Rust's Drop trait, the C++ RAII way of thinking, deferred clean-up in languages like Zig or Python, or anything else I'm aware of.

Arena allocation. Every allocation must be attributed to some arena (eg current tab, current network request, current frame being rendered, etc); when the arena goes away, so do all its allocations.
These aren't simply photographs but they do seem to fall on the photographic, rather than the map, end of the scale. Raven Maps is a good source of (large) high quality maps that are more traditionally map-like--though some of theirs are pretty photographically oriented as well.
Can someone explain to me why python uses try/except so often? I see that promoted as a solution instead of;

if 'bar' in input['foo'].keys():
val = input['foo']['bar']

Generally, exceptions cause code to run slower and I feel like in any other language is considered bad practices.

I never understood why Python promotes EAFP vs LBYL. Both performance and accuracy wise, checking before doing is safer and faster performance.
Most EVs do what poorly? Get charged from a 120V cable stretched across a sidewalk? Last I looked, it would take a several days to fill a Tesla's battery like that. That's not because somebody cheaped out on the Tesla.
I honestly thought that the phallic appearance was an intentional stylistic choice and not really driven by engineering concerns as such.

I still sorta do.
How hard is it to understand that Apple is offering a closed ecosystem, with all of the pluses and minuses that implies? If that isn’t what you want, just don’t buy it. Vote with your $CURRENCY.

Personally, the last thing I’ve got time to worry about is what’s going on in my phone. So I’ve got an iPhone and use basic common sense when choosing what to run on it.

Yes, this is HN but it sure does get old seeing the inevitable complaints about Apple. I’ve been around long enough to know what happens to Apple when they aren’t selling what people want. That isn’t the case today. Maybe get over it?
There is no counter example because of the things they mentioned.

You're going to have real trouble finding an adult that is sufficiently motivated to become a chess GM, has an enormous amount of free time, willing to dedicate the next 10 years of their life purely to chess, etc.
Toyota dealers here do not budge at all on prius prices since they don't have a problem selling them.
Perfect - thank you!
Are there more backend options than node?
How much of a life did you waste if you were "the greatest chessmaster of his time" at 22. I have heard worse tales of misspent youth.
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Ah, yeah I think that makes more sense.

I know Matlab is a good R&D tool (like Mathematica), but it is a little painful for the end user and far too expensive for a lot of industrial users who don't work at a company already entrenched with the ecosystem. I don't want to pay $5k for a database toolbox if you know what I mean. If the code is only for a study though...it probably doesn't matter a whole lot.

Python seems like a good lingua franca and Julia isn't far behind overall. What makes me excited about Julia is that (at least in theory) I can write some blazing fast code without being a systems level programmer and also get the ability to look at the assembly output (just all around cool) and write macros (a la lisp). I doubt I'd ever use macros on serious code, but having the opportunity is a plus. It's a neat design.

Best of luck in your future endeavors.
> On the one hand, x86 is (eventually) going the way of the dodo for some of the biggest datacenter customers

For the most part, I'm convinced the bulk of this transition has already happened. If you were running highly-parallelized code or needed to switch to specialty hardware, you've probably done so already.

> On the other hand, x86 is so ubiquitous for PC that it would take a sea change for Apple Silicon to take over.

Not just Apple silicon, but for ARM to take over. Even the best compatibility layers for x86/ARM still present a massive performance hit, and there's otherwise no real incentive for the bulk of PC owners to switch over. I say this as the kid who grew up with a first-gen Raspberry Pi on their wishlist: x86 is an immovable force, and it will be decades before it loses support in the mainline Linux kernel. Even if Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and every other Fortune 500 company made a mad-dash transition to ARM (which they won't), you still couldn't dethrone x86 in terms of support and install-base.
There's the observation that the one modern social phenomenon that's been most strongly associated with a reduction in the number of superannuated persons in a population is accurate demographic recordkeeping.

See, e.g., https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/08/06/are-superc...

Source paper: "Supercentenarians and the oldest-old are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates and short lifespans"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v1
Honestly, your opener "Where do people think the energy is going to come from for these electric vehicles?" could be interpreted as being just as snarky. That statement also has an implied "these people are idiots".
> There's a lot of great EV discussion here on HN but I don't see Lucid mentioned very often

That is the problem is see on this site. All they know is Tesla when there are other competitors around also competing for the EV market. Wasn't Tesla themselves not mentioned often before they listed on the NASDAQ? Clever people saw this as an opportunity for their 'first-move advantage'. Now in 2021, Tesla stock looks somewhat 'priced in' and the competitors are 'catching up'.

Obviously, it is not the only full EV company, but here's another opportunity with another US-based EV company.

This is what I want to see. More competition from outsiders and not being married to a particular company stock, because 'I know people who use it right now'. The fact that it is not talked about IS the opportunity.
Our black and white images (such as the image on the linked article) aren't satellite images at all, they are high resolution elevation models that we've used GIS software to light and create hillshade.

We do have some color images that use satellite imagery and the creation of those images is going to be the subject of my next post. We do things like remove the natural hillshade and apply our own (due to a quirk of human perception where sun coming from below causes terrain to be perceived as inverted) and blending images from different days, etc.

Re: is this really a "map?" That's a comment we get quite a bit, especially in FB comments on our ads. These images are not traditional maps, but a map is a depiction/representation, which these are. Anyway, "map" is certainly shorter than "visual representation of a geographic area" so it's what we go with.

Re: detail. It's all about the size of the area you are printing. Our world map uses 30-meter data, but you'd need to print it on the side of a building to see the limit to the detail. So in our sizes, using 3-5cm data wouldn't improve the maps, you wouldn't be able to see any of that detail. We only make maps if that is true.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/19450687.brexit-scottish-c...

Plus lorry drivers. And hospitality jobs. And god knows what else.

And we're in the middle of pulling out of the deal we signed, because no one read the Northern Ireland section. Or they did and lied and now they're pretending otherwise.

We can have all the elections we want, and you're right that Bojo has a solid majority. But that majority does nothing for our relationship with the EU. And it falls apart when the "have your cake" part notices the "eat your cake" part are eating all the cake. And that's without getting into the reliability of anyone in the current government (except maybe Sunak, he's doing rather well...).
I used to experience this a long time ago, and I know many people who still do - but on my system (running an Ubuntu 18.04 derived distribution) the OOM killer takes at most 3-4 seconds to step in and kill whichever process is consuming the most memory. Does anyone know if Ubuntu/Debian tunes the OOM killer differently to try and stop this from happening?
A minor pet peeve of mine : I would like English-speaking writers to stop using the term « Victorian » for places that are not Britain or the British Empire. There was no Queen Victoria, no Victorian era, no Victorian spirit in France. Indeed it was a time of humiliation, political instability and rampant nationalism, albeit on a canvas of industry.
The latter (he said sheepishly). My mom named me after: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainier_III,_Prince_of_Monaco. But added a vocalized "y" for whimsy. (Boomers--my kids all have biblical names.)
> if you are building an unlock mechanism the first question you need to ask is how you build a UI which clearly communicates to a user that they are likely giving control of all of their data, location/camera/microphone, etc. to whatever they're installing.

Facebook puts a large "Stop!" warning in the browser console when you try to open developer tools with a link to https://www.facebook.com/selfxss. I'd be really curious to see if that's helped to stop such attacks on their side.

Full text: "This is a browser feature intended for developers. If someone told you to copy-paste something here to enable a Facebook feature or "hack" someone's account, it is a scam and will give them access to your Facebook account."
As a Pinephone user, i am grateful for such project as it is important to upstream changes instead of end with shattered ecosystem of per-device distributions.

But the default UI based on Phosh is problematic. Minimal configuration, broken and convoluted approach to scaling makes it rather hard to use.

Also, no project mailing list?
That’s why it’s important to stop miseducating them that all popular forms of exercise are roughly equivalent. It’s too easy to choose the easier/least embarrassing option if the stark differences in outcomes aren’t apparent.
A more reasonable metric to use seems to be whether a group is over/underrepresented in a company compared to the available workforce (not overall population), and I'm not sure whether neurodiverse people are overrepresented by that metric.

However, even more important would be to try to give everyone a fair chance, as opposed to trying to meet some metrics which can often lead to discrimination (https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/02/590346891...).

Since neurodiversity isn't one of the "popular" diversity/social justice topics, I suspect the main motivation here is to avoid missing applicants that are technically skilled and suitable, but may not do well in the interview process due to their neurodiversity.
The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane. The premise of this book is that you can change your psychology to become more of a people person, by cultivating confidence, warmth and the ability to focus. It was recommended by someone on Hacker News six or seven years ago and I wish I remembered who it was so I could thank them. This book changed my life more than any other.

Apprenticeship Patterns by Adewale Oshineye and Dave Hoover: A set of "design patterns" for your career as a software engineer. I read this relatively late on, when my career was in a bit of a rut, and I credit it for giving me the motivation and the tools to get out of that rut. I wish I'd found it earlier.

Other brilliant non-technical books: The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Mastering Communication At Work by Jon Wortmann and Ethan Becker, Mindset by Carol Dweck, Drive by Daniel Pink, The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg.

Some brilliant books focussing a bit more on tech and code craft: Growing Object Oriented Software, Guided by Tests ("The GOOS Book") by Nat Pryce and Steve Freeman, Refactoring by Martin Fowler, Clean Code and Clean Architecture by Bob Martin.