skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Look at San Fran. The DA won't prosecute shoplifters, yet people walk out stores without paying under the statutory threshold. You going to try to say that the law makes even a lick of sense when you get degenerate circumstances?"

Let's just focus on this nugget-

-the DA made no such claim

-the threshold in San Francisco is actually LOWER than Texas. So much was made about that when people were truly clueless about what they claimed

-in reality there are almost no prosecutions because the activist police force simply doesn't bother responding

Police nationwide tend to be pretty far to the right (see the NYPD having a barely above 40% vaccination level right now as a good benchmark of that, which as an aside vaccination should absolutely be a requirement for their job), and they like to intentionally do a really shit job if it achieves their talking points.

The guys rushing into stores and filling garbage bags? Yup, the police should be arresting them. That they don't has nothing to do with the DA.
I wonder how much Django's async views and ASGI support would affect the request rate.
> There isn't a "Yes allow" prompt, it pops up a list and you have to select something specific.

And once hackers figure out a device they can use for attacks, they’ll tell the user some nonsense reason why they need to allow access and then pop a dialog for that device and hey presto you have a massive security mess.

I don’t know any concrete exploits, but the theoretical application is not complicated. Any information you can access about the user’s system (like what USB or Bluetooth devices are visible) will be used for fingerprinting purposes, just like they’re already using screen resolution, fonts, canvas tricks, etc.
I agree with 98% of this :-). And it absolutely flows from the top. What is more, good leadership knows this and understands that no matter how something happened, they are responsible for it. The entire games industry however has a reputation for being "bad" at empowering good leadership.

But let's talk about 'culture' for a moment.

In my experience, the tech workers in the US make their "work" their "life" way too frequently to be healthy. What I mean by that is that they do not choose to separate their "work" life from their "non-work" life in any meaningful way. As a result the parts that would nominally be "non-work" like friendships where you travel together, or date, or share political affiliations, or other causes, are not kept separate from your "work" life.

It isn't easy. People interact on social media and at work and so if you're angrily criticizing the plight of the Palestinians on social media, your pro-Israel co-worker may bring that conflict into work with them, which make it harder to get things done. And even when you support the notion that employees are their own people and what they do in their own time is their own business, and not to bring it to work, it shows up anyway.

For a long time people have advocated to "not bring your work home." That helps you maintain family relationships because at home that is your priority. We now also have to "not bring home to work."

I am aware of the situation of an excellent engineer who lost their job because at "home" they were a supporter of the policies of an administration that many of their co-workers despised. I can assure you from my experience with this person that their technical capabilities were in no way diminished by their political preferences, and yet their company saw the "disruption" as a bigger threat than the loss of talent.

So ActiBliz really needs to be corrected here, and firmly, because they allowed a non-professional culture to emerge and flourish within their company at the expense of many of their employees. But it isn't just "bro" culture, it is any non-business culture.

It is one of the under appreciated complexities of what a good manager can overcome.
The industry is broken. Self-identifying gamers are one of the most toxic online communities long preyed on by groups like pick-up artists and men's rights activists. The games targeting this group of self-identifying gamers have overindexed on machismo for decades. Every problem can be solved with violence and the reward is fame, money, and women. Why is there Overwatch porn and not Candy Crush porn? For marketers these gamers are fish in a barrel.

Game companies who make games for this audience rely on this audience as their talent pool because no one else will build these games on absurd timelines at great cost to every other aspect of their life. They are in effect paid in 'cool points' which matter only to those already hazed or yet-to-be-hazed.
Ask HN: Addicted to Phone, Want to Stop
I am addicted to my phone, bringing them everywhere event to the toilet.
Want to stop, but without success. What to do?
You could try screen time which is built in
They misunderstand. The whole point of drinking coffee is to increase brain volume.
I may try again when my roof gets replaced. Right now the numbers don't work because I've only got about 15 years left on my roof. So for a 20K investment, I'd break even in about 10 years, then get 5 years before the system needs to be replaced (the panels will still have value, but it seems like the cost of the labor for uninstall/reinstall will dwarf that).

So for a 15 year timeline, all I need to get is about 3% from a regular investment, and if I do better, then I should do that instead of solar. The numbers may be more favorable if I do the solar at the same time I put a new roof on, but mine is only 10 years old so it's early yet.

One of the reasons I'm thinking of a smaller ground-mount system is that it won't have the same time horizon limitations as a roof-mount.
Bolshevism was a disaster, but the traditional Russian society that preceded it was not much better. The Russia that overthrew its Mongol overlords never managed to develop the social and cultural institutions required to form a stable and prosperous society. Novgorod had them, but it was one of the first victims of Muscovy.

There was perhaps a chance in the 19th century, when Alexander II tried to turn Russia into a constitutional monarchy. The chance died when nihilists killed him and his son reversed the course. The same ideas that gave rise to social democracy in the West turned into Marxism-Leninism in Russia. One was a great success story, another was an equally great catastrophe.
I found these videos very interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svNg5w7WY0k&t=5s

This is on my to-do list:

http://climatechangeacademy.com/courses/carbon-removal/4

https://bootup.airminers.org/

I found a lot of information from comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27822694
The New Leaders of Remote Work Livestream
Tried, not that strong not to change the settings
Forums were 1000x better. You could actually browse most forums without logging in, and they were search indexable. I feel like there is a lot of information locked behind unsearchable discord that I will never see. If trying to build a community everything that goes to discord that could have been a forum post is tying your community to some company that makes messaging software instead of your own forum.
Just an aside, but if the primary goal was to increase capacity (transactions per second), actually performing a write on every ad view would be the first thing I'd seek to eliminate. Is it possible to keep the details as a class/object in RAM, update an in-memory array or cache, and do a bulk write to the DB once every, say, 5 minutes? Even if you lost 0.5% of your data (and I would expect your actual losses would be much lower), we're talking ad clicks, not bank transactions. Eliminating the DB write and confirmation on every request, especially over the network, could easily speed up responses and therefore capacity by 5x or more.
I'm still playing relatively old ones with my friends:

* Supreme Commander & Planetary Annihilation

* Sins of a Solar Empire

* Zero-K
>> SaaS company continuing to charge you despite cancellations

Credit card chargback is the most logical solution to this.
Thank you for taking the time to provide links! I read through the Weiss article, and I'd already read the Greenwald one. However I don't believe either can credibly used to point to any kind of historical trend.

The Weiss article isn't even about any local editorial change: the paper found someone to provide a contrarian voice; that contrarian met frequent disagreement with the editors; that contrarian resigned--regression to the mean.

The case of the Greenwald and Reality Winner is much worse. But at the end, it's just a case of an editorial board taking control of story, nothing historically unprecedented.

I've been politically conscious since 1996 or so, and I don't think I can ever recall a single time where editorial boards didn't work to push through the position of their publication. I think I became acutely aware of "position" in 2003, with "Operation Iraqi Freedom" and Fox news, etc. But using the media to hype up war on false pretenses is a venerable tradition in the history of journalism, which, at least in the US, is a business and a political enterprise.

Everything I've described in the last paragraph is socially harmful, and I think it's very important to have underground media and alt media as a counterweight to the mainstream. But there is also a strong need for professional, organized journalism, and I'm sure it still exists in at least some pages the New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, the Economist, etc, and even local Tribunes throughout the country.

I don't think the proportion of quality fact checkers and editors has somehow degraded in the last x* years. The only things that I think have changed are the _widely-held perception_ that journalism is somehow terrible now, and the explosion of news being distributed in social media. The first is just standard tongue-clucking about the decline of democratic society; the second is about information being distributed at a totally new velocity and availability. I have no idea how the future will deal with that, the effect is only just beginning.

* I'm not sure over what time period your proposed decline is supposed to have taken place.
Perhaps it won't, if things don't stop improving in China and we don't improve enough. But if that happens I don't see any way at all of changing things in China from our position.
It's still extra shitwork that has to happen because of other's design decisions, however small.
I should have said 'legally'.
PureScript: A strongly-typed functional language that compiles to JavaScript
I have always viewed personalities as essentially waveforms, which when combined may exaggerate certain aspects, negate others, or complement them in other ways that make the resulting form more... well, pleasurable, for lack of a better word. I visualize it this way not for woowoo^1 purposes but just to make sense in my mind why some personality traits and quirks in others seem to boost parts of my own, or adjust spikes of my own personality that I view as too strong (i.e. I am generally very introverted when alone I'm a group, but a close friend who "evens out" that aspect of me can lead me to being more gregarious).

^1: it is, however, curious that similar visualizations can be found in woowoo circles
Seems far to philosophical to be useful in my opinion.
Not only was my comment in no way an ad hominem, it's pretty ironic that you attempt one to denigrate.
League of Legends: Wild Rift on iOS does this. You’re always the team on the “bottom half” of the map.
Looking forward to trying this out!
I doubt it has anything to do with the ethnicity of MLAs _now_ because the change happened _twenty years ago_.

That said, British Columbia has had a sizeable, and growing, Indian population since roughly around the time of joining Canada. The Komagata Maru incident[0] was the precursor to an influx of immigration from the punjab.

After English, the three most spoken languages in BC are Cantonese, Mandarin, and Punjabi[1]. The ethnic chinese population arrived in basically two waves: as early settlers during the western expansion, they were pivotal in the creation of the railways and as foundational members of small towns[2]. And then the transfer of HK to CN brought an influx.

0: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/komagata-m...

1: https://www.welcomebc.ca/Choose-B-C/Explore-British-Columbia...

2: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/chinese-ca...
Scientists Use Scalps of Aborted Babies to Create Humanized-Mice, Fauci Funding
What a sick fuck!
Should have added an 
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Quick question: Why "for Europeans?" I tried from a couple of EU-based endpoints and could access the second link just fine. What error did you get?

I ask because I know the operator of CHS via a friend of a friend kind of thing.
Not so. I actually rented a car in LA a few weeks ago, which is why I had the figure in mind. See for yourself: https://i.imgur.com/aWL365O.png

Vans appear to be slightly more expensive but not outrageously so (and honestly it's not at all uncommon to get a free upgrade when you book the economy car).

As for insurance, why would our hypothetical family need to get insurance? Surely they already have it, if they have a car that they drive.
I agree. It's certainly beneficial to know different paradigms but it's not the end of the story. There are OCaml codebases out there which are pretty messy.
And some places in the US hearing a gunshot isn't a cause for concern. People sighting in their hunting rifles, plinking cans, whatever.
The force would scale with the area, since pressure is force per area. Not the other way around.
That time with normal hypoxia wouldn't be a problem, but a sustained 10 G without any training means losing all blood flow to the brain. I'm not a doctor but I can imagine 60 seconds of no blood flow damages the brain enough to make you not come back from unconsciousness.
Illusory Truth Effect: intelligence and analytical thinking offer no protection
I'm aware and I disagree with Ellsberg on this.
Wow, that lead me down quite a rabbit hole, impressive work.
1) IDF "kneecaps" reporters (shoots them in the knees) to get them out of their way. This has been reported for decades.

2) The SJWs, regardless of side, refuse to recognize there is a war. Protesting isn't going to solve anything since neither side has anywhere to go.

3) There was plenty of media coverage of Iran involvement recently. Again, if you're a SJW and don't know that, you're misguided.

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/irans-role-in-the-latest-g...

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/555594-irans-desta...
It does seem to actually be an unofficial implementation in Julia. So it shouldnt have any impact on the actual development?

Im kinda wondering if Jeremy Howard has ok'ed using their name on a library that they're not in charge of? I didnt find a clear answer to that. Particularly troubling since it seems like the FluxML organization is behind this, not some random dude
What identity did Europe have in the past? There are many independent countries on the continent. Countries with a long and unique history... and many of those countries still have a strong identity. It's bizarre how many commenters on HN seem to treat Europe as a single entity that is failing both ideologically and financially.
I haven't been a subcontractor for 7y.
My anecdata says women are as self conscious as men, if not more, about driving minivans. I've heard numerous women say they want/"need" to sit up high when driving but that's never been a reason quoted to me by a man. My sister chose an SUV because she was averse to the equivalent minivan (no reason given other than "it's a minivan").

Generally speaking if a car comes in coupe and hatchback form factors, the hatchback is more popular among men and the coupe among women (in the USA). Since hatchbacks are unequivocally more practical, the only explanation I can see for preferring the coupe is aesthetics. This would imply that statistically, women make car buying decisions more heavily weighted by aesthetics as compared to men.
I wonder How many of that are users from Apple TV+ which forgot to cancel their subscription? It could also be a huge increase in iCloud usage.

No wonder why they are creating Apple One, they want to convert those 700M subscribers into higher paying account.
I really doubt that listening to people try to emulate the belter language and lingo is any better than listening to jar jar impressions (or klingon...), but it's hard to be say until it happens, so... bring it on
thank you -- I built a (tiny) processor for class with Mentor Graphics, but laying out logical gates was as far down as I went. This is really fascinating and thanks again for sharing.
They don't make economical sense, and the government grants for developing those ran out
Aw, totally random to see Seattle on the front page.

Yes it's gone and the locksmith shop is still there, for now...
Having tried fastai for a "serious" research project and helped (just a bit) towards FastAI.jl development, here's my take:

> motivation behind this is unclear.

Julia currently has two main DL libraries. Flux, which is somewhere between PyTorch and (tf.)Keras abstraction wise, and Knet, which is a little lower level (think just below PyTorch/around where MXNet Gluon sits). Frameworks like fastai, PyTorch Lightning and Keras demonstrate that there's a desire for higher-level, more batteries included libraries. FastAI.jl is looking to fill that gap in Julia.

> Since FastAI.jl uses Flux, and not PyTorch, functionality has to be reimplemented. FastAI.jl has vision support but no text support yet.

This is correct. That said, FastAI.jl is not and does not plan to be a copy of the Python API (hence "inspired by"). One consequence of this is that integration with other libraries is much easier, e.g. https://github.com/chengchingwen/Transformers.jl for NLP tasks.

> What is the timeline for FastAI.jl to achieve parity?

> When should I choose FastAI.jl vs fastai?

This depends on your use cases and how comfortable you are with a) Julia b) having to roll some of your own code. For the first, I'd recommend poking around with the language before as well as using the linked dev channel in TFA to get an informed opinion.

FastAI.jl itself is composed of multiple constituent packages that can and are used independently, so there's also the option of mixing and matching. For example, https://github.com/lorenzoh/DataLoaders.jl is completely library agnostic.
I have some ancient greek pottery that would VIGOROUSLY disagree with you. Also fertility statutes. Also a mural I got from Kanamara Matsuri (Japanese penis festival) last year.

Pervasive sexually explicit (by today's standards) imagery most definitely has existed to varying degrees throughout antiquity.

I like the idea of an app to help porn addiction though. People can become addicted to anything, and another tool in the toolbelt for those people is nice and wholesome IMO.
> specific type of gunship-based commander sniping

I see someone's played Supreme Commander. I love the game but it's the archetypal example of what you're talking about: winning depends on detailed knowledge of dozens of different units across four factions and simultaneous maximally-efficient economy building. Building a tutorial for it is impossible. It's only playable by the sort of people who will read wikis and watch videos and lose and lose and lose until they have some idea what's going on.

This causes the other problem with RTSes: the (small, dedicated) community has been running for fifteen years and is incredibly unfriendly to new players. Having less than ~150 hours playtime is often grounds for being kicked from games, which doesn't help expand the playerbase.

Unfortunately, RTSes simplified enough to avoid these problems aren't nearly as fun. The genre just works better as a community passion project than a commercial enterprise.
how is a sedan practical? a wagon or hatchback is practical. It also happens to be the type of car used by 90%+ of the population in certain European cities.
The author’s post is based on meticulously collected data, compiled with great care. It would have taken a lot of time and effort. This rebuttal is a half baked idea that likely took mere seconds to put together. Great example of the asymmetry of skeptics vs evidence gatherers. Evidence gathering takes a vast amount of work and effort. Whereas skeptics can throw out vaguely plausible hypotheses, to easily sow doubt.

You could at least support your argument by offering some explanation (and evidence) for why selective breeding could lead to that particular curve. Why is it not a straight line - did we only recently learn how to selectively breed? Why does it go up then down? Did fashions change? Did people originally lean towards breeding for late blossoms, but then change their mind?

Why does the curve fit with the changes in climate, is that pure coincidence? Are cherry trees not impacted by the climate, but only by selective breeding?

Etc.
I think this also plays into the human reward pathways. More variation in intensity means more spikes of adrenaline and dopamine.
Tencent is not a cash starved company, and these stocks will recover at least mostly if not fully.
television and video game gunshots don't sound like gunshots, nor do they meet the pressure threshold that a gunshot does.

But rather than argue that particular aspect, just have it be "off" when it's connected to wifi or moving faster than 30MPH.
Rich people do go to jail. These are just some of the bigger, more famous fish -

John Kapoor, Bernie Ebbers, Scott Sullivan, Jeff Skilling, Martin Grass, John and Timothy Rigas, Bernie Madoff, Michael Milken, Richard Scrushy, Joseph Nacchio, Martha Stewart, Ivan Boesky, Jordan Belfort, Sanjay Kumar, Allen Stanford, Raj Rajaratnam, Walter Forbes, Eddie Antar, Dennis Kozlowski, Sam Waksal, Alfred Taubman, Russell Wasendorf, Samuel Israel III, Stewart Parnell, Chris Collins, Kareem Serageldin, Andrew Fastow, Charles Keating, Martin Shkreli, Barry Minkow, Michael Steinberg, Phil Spector, Bill Cosby, Michael Avenatti, Harvey Weinstein, Suge Knight, Jeffrey Epstein, Ken Lay (escaped prison by dying)

To this list you can add hundreds of bankers from the Savings & Loan crisis that went to prison, and a large number of famous embezzlement cases involving large sums (eg John Doorly, Sujata Sachdeva, Melissa King, Omino Siddiqui).

It's too bad the Obama Admin intentionally chose not to pursue almost any prosecutions after the most recent financial crisis, or you could probably staple many more names to this list. One of the greatest avoid-jail corporate hand-outs in US history, representing hyper corruption at the highest levels.
Mattermost has come up a couple of times recently. Along with Matrix, it's probably our top requested platform. Right now we're focused on improving the core platform, but the nice thing is when we add new platforms all the skills written for other platforms should work on day one. I added your request to our internal tracker for Mattermost and will try to reach out once we add it (your email isn't in your profile, so if you want to email me at paul@ab.bot I can add you to the list).
From TFA:

> We’ll also be hosting a Q&A session 02.08., 10PM UTC (03.08., 12AM CEST | 8AM AEST). Jeremy will be there, too. Meeting link will follow soon.

My understanding is that he's at least been aware of this since early development (just over a year), so make of that what you will.