skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So the more important point, to me, is whether the public understanding of what the pollsters are asking matches how the movement wants to define itself.

That's a good point that's worth making. And it's important to note that even if you go all the way to the police abolition movement, very few of those people aren't also talking about replacing police officers with extensive social services. So I think you're right-on with the idea that the movement is often characterized poorly.

But is it unpopular just because it's a communication problem? Maybe. In the sense that if you figured out the right way to present any policy idea it might become popular, I guess.

> wouldn't that stem precisely from the unclear communication problem I'm trying to highlight?

I don't know. I don't personally think the biggest reason defunding the police is unpopular is that a vocal minority is corrupting the phrase and giving people the wrong impression. I think that minority gets blamed for a lot of stuff, but it doesn't seem to me that the general public is really engaged with the conversation that much to begin with, and they don't really have much information about it at all, if they even care enough to look for it. And that a big portion of the public might reject the concept even if they understood it well, because they're fundamentally more pro-police than people on Twitter realize.

When I brought up "defund the police" as a cultural signal, what I mean is that as a mainstream topic of debate the phrase may be entirely separate and orthogonal to anything that even far-Left activists are actually saying. I'm not entirely convinced the movement's problem is messaging, because I'm not entirely convinced that most mainstream Democrats/Republicans are even on Twitter to hear the movement's message in the first place.

When I hear 18% of Democrats support the idea, I wonder how many of them support it purely in the sense of them saying, "I'm a progressive." Maybe part of them are interpreting it as slashing police budgets, some of them are interpreting it as redistributing resources, but I think that some of them just aren't interpreting it, the phrase is just something they think that progressives like.

I agree with most of what you're saying, but I think it's a little over-simplistic to say that miscommunication is the biggest reason why the idea doesn't have traction. Here's a weird fact: support for BLM as a movement among mainstream Democrats fell once protests calmed down, completely contrary to the narrative/fear that people had that looters would hurt support and that a calmer environment would be better for mainstream acceptance. To me, that suggests that messaging alone paints an incomplete picture of what's happening.
> pip provides isolation between workspaces that apt has never been able to do natively because it's too generic

This is hardly a concern on production systems. It's been common practice for decades to deploy each service on a dedicated host, or at least a VM in order to have a degree of security isolation. [or a container if you don't care]

> npm, cargo, etc showed how to include a dependency multiple times at different versions

And this is why they cannot provide stable releases and security backports.

If you want security updates you can use Debian or pay $$ for SuSE or Red Hat or $$$$ for custom support from some tech companies, but they will mostly support one version per package.

The combinatorics explosion of packages times versions on archives like npm or pypi makes it prohibitively expensive to reliably patch and test every combination of packages and versions.

Debian has been pioneering reproducible builds and automated installation CI/QA and it still took a lot of effort to get there.

> I don't think the system you want (isolation, version freedom, but with safe/vetted packages) is going to be something that's possible to evolve out of any of the current systems.

I don't want version freedom: it's not attainable. It's not a software problem, it's a math problem.

> It's got to be something that goes back to first principles.

Any idea?
Interestingly, in this case, the driver's smartphone remained in the stolen car. Presumably Uber does have information that would be of use in tracking down the perpetrators in this case.
Germany will never run an trade deficit out of a stupid sense of pride, it's completely irrational, so 99%.

Just think about it. If Greece needs x billion € to pay its debt off the most logical way to deal with the problem would be to just buy a huge amount of Greek products rather than send x billion € directly.
China's GDP growth owes largely to the construction of its ghost cities. I have data to show that.

Also you can look at the average income in Tier 2,3,4 cities in China adjusted to inflation, as well as deterioration in food quality. You don't need a middle age taxi driver from Hubei working in Hangzhou to tell you that.

Also maybe look at the pollution levels in most rural areas too?

Middle and Lower Income [1] classes (>90% of the population) in China tend to work really hard for little returns (so long as they're convinced they are gaining lots, which is why hyped-up nationalism and state-sponsored dezinformatsiya are rampent).

This is not healthy.

[1]: Quote from Li Keqiang, "600 million people earning a medium or low income, or even less. Their monthly income is barely 1,000 RMB yuan." http://english.www.gov.cn/premier/news/202005/29/content_WS5...
I read this article yesterday. Then literally two companies rejected me with the follwoing reasons today! I found it a funny coincidence so posted it here :)

(a) You are clearly too technical, we need a more managerial experience for this role

(b) You have too much managerial experience but for this role we need a more technical person.

Similar roles in leadership area, different companies.
My other feelthy trick is, for the D conferences, I make sure all the steenkin' badges have the names written large on them, and on both sides. That way, the peanut butter side always lands face up (or face down, if you prefer!). It ensures I never forget a name!
Yes, and it's probably time pass it around.

Advertising introduces a visual symbol usually without cohering to the architecture and layout of the space, by design, to attract attention. So if all man made structures are visual pollution, I'd say that advertising would be visual meta pollution.
OpenCV AI Competition 2021 Highlights and Team Profiles – Part 6
There's complete cognitive dissonance and confusion at the moment over popular notions of national prosperity. On one hand people readily agree that the GDP is an inaccurate measure of prosperity, that wealth gained mostly goes to the top and it ought not be a prime focus, while at the same time suggest that high rates of immigration are crucial to prop up said GDP. Many countries with stagnant birthrates are rather enviable places to live, i.e. Iceland, Japan, SK. Besides a large aging population to support for a generation in some cases, I don't see the problem.
I Failed My Startup and Tactical Advice So You Don’t Fail Yours (1 of 4)
You can leave out SCOTUS. They don't have much impact on fiscal or monetary policy.
The Valve Steam Deck was announced on July 15, 2021 and isn’t even released yet. The Elgato Stream Deck has been for sale since mid 2017.

I don’t think Elgato, the manufacturer of the Stream Deck, or this guy, who wrote code to integrate with it, have anything to worry about.
To be clear, what we're discussing in this thread, are the options of:

• own a simple, reliable black-and-white laser printer for printing text; go to a print shop for fancy color-glossy prints

• own a fancy, unreliable color inkjet printer, and use it for both simple black-and-white text prints and photo prints

Nobody's suggesting not owning any printer at all.
The TPM was being used just as a straight up storage device. It wasn't actually protecting anything. An EEPROM/flash device would work just as well. In particular there was no protection of the key used for whole disk encryption.

Why did no one get suspicious when they noticed that they were not even being asked for a PIN?
Audi's in-car system help drivers avoid red lights
It's all over-collateralized loans. So if I want $50k cash to buy a car, I can deposit $100k of ETH to borrow $50k USDC. As ETH price changes, your loan has a "health" score and if it gets below a certain threshold you can get liquidated if you don't start repaying the loan.

The reason for involving crypto in this scenario is so you don't have to sell your crypto assets. This will be more useful going forward as platforms allow users to use NFTs as collateral for example.
Bringing the jury to the crime scene via a 3D headset
Requiring people to consume a medical product, especially one that has not been subject to the full FDA approval process, just to live their normal lives is morally wrong. They are making people into test subjects for a multinational corporation. It doesn't matter if we already do this to an extent with other vaccines; nothing in the past has ever come close to this.

It doesn't matter if you think the vaccine is more or less dangerous than the coronavirus. It goes back to basic human dignity and human rights. You wouldn't want strangers mandating injections into your body that you don't want. No one would be okay that, unless they are insane.

You might make the argument that anti-vaxxers are endangering others' health by being out in public without a vaccine, but that's only a claim. Lots of people make claims about others infringing their rights all the time, and a nontrivial number of those are baseless. A huge number of assumptions about medical science and constitutional law would need to be tested in court for it to hold any weight, unless you're willing to jettison the entire process of civil society.
Crypto is not an effective currency. Currencies need 3 things to be effective: store of value, unit of account, and medium of exchange. Crypto fails at storing value and being a medium of exchange. It's value is completely unpredictable and transferring it is slow, costly, and annoying. Many of these problems could conceivably be solved, but without government backing crypto will never be a good store of value, as macro economic policy is required to keep currencies stable.
Exactly.

The position of the sun doesn't matter that much. Many locations already do daylight saving and would actually prefer to switch their clocks to "saving time", which moves the sun to a point that isn't highest at noon. (As if it actually mattered to keep the sun fixed.)

We can always calculate where the sun and stars were positioned if we care.
Only 44 percent of millennials between the ages of 23-38 were married in 2019.
EIP-1559: Crypto Memes
> The signing bonuses are not a sign of employee strength

Always look at the dark side of life.

Next time you're offered one of those meaningless bonuses, just send it to me. I promise to enjoy it!
How would you cancel the underlying debts and maintain any semblance of order?
There is a wide spectrum between sending 3d models to web pages and The Matrix. There are 2 things going on here: 1) making gpu more accessible to the www 2) the headsets/glasses hardware. Everyone seems caught up on 2 when I think the more important thing is 1. I hope the future is to do 3d dev in www by default rather than depending on exporting a unity/unreal/etc thing. I can see www replacing a lot desktop 3d content creation apps if that came to pass.
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Guns do a lot of good? I’m sorry we’re probably living in different universes. In my, I see school shootings after school shooting with lots of thoughts and prayers sprinkled in between. It’s the best guns+religion==winning!

> no one is trying to ban crypto
no one is trying to ban it yet. I’m giving it 5 years until it’s outright banned.

Also, if you cripple something to the point where it’s unusable it’s virtually the same as banning it.
How does childcare look in SK? I believe that in much of the Western world, families living further apart is a problem for having children. Having grand parents nearby can make having children so much easier. In the US I think you either need family nearby or have a lot of money to avoid having children becoming totally overwhelming and very negatively impact all other aspects of your life.
Project partnering with Golem attempts to simulate the creation of life on Earth
> On her last day, hours after she posted her memo internally, Facebook deleted it (though they later restored an edited version after widespread employee anger). A few hours later, an HR person called her, asking her to also remove a password-protected copy she had posted on her personal website. She tried to bargain: she would do so if they restored the internal version. The next day, instead, she received a notice from her hosting server that it had taken down her entire website after a complaint from Facebook. A few days after that, it took down her domain as well.

Emphasis mine. This is just incredible. There's no reason hosting providers and domain registrars should have that power. They should be regulated as common carriers.
I wrote a C compiler* using flex [1] and bison [2] that generated MIPS code. The biggest downside was the rather complex glue code.

At some point ANTLR [3] looked promising, but these days I'd probably write a lexer and recursive descent parser by hand, then generate LLVM IR [4].

[1] https://github.com/westes/flex

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/bison/

[3] https://www.antlr.org/

[4] https://llvm.org/

* for a subset of the full C89 spec
> A typical announcement says WHO does WHAT and HOW, maybe even WHY in succinct, clear language.

I think that's really fair feedback FWIW.

> would've been to write an RFC to some mailing list

I don't think this is a thing in Rust, but there is a user forum/ subreddit.

> I'm sure they'll learn as they go along, and I probably am being way to harsh on people who actually are trying to do something good for the community.

Yeah I think that's all I'm saying. Maybe this is the wrong venue, but I don't think your criticism was necessary or constructive in totality - some of it is, some of it isn't. I'm sure that much of this feedback will be incorporated, based on what I'm seeing from the author.
You misunderstand.

What I honestly don't know is if there exist useful algorithms making usage of all these hashes produced by BTC-mining machines.

It's a very precise challenge. And it could change the face of the industry. I'm for real.

For example, any possible usage in mathematics? Or maybe in physics, by switching in a different space to perform the calculations? I'm just throwing ideas.

Figure a world where you cannot use these machines for BTC anymore, because "regulations". Then, what do you do with them? Throw them? What a waste!

Now you understand my point?
Calling Werner von Braun an immigrant is a funny thing to do. Immigrants tend to have some choice in the matter. Von Braun and his band of rocket experts were given a pretty stark choice, surrender to the Russians or surrender to the Americans, they chose the latter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

In a more just world they would have stood trial in Nuremberg.
How do Python generators differ from JavaScript generators?
A man can always always find another woman if one does not want a family with him up until mid-thirties. A lot of time.

If you filter out the overweight, tattoo-covered ones, having kids by another man etc. you are left with just a few percent though.
*Russia and it's allies, CIS states are also off-limits.

But yes, you are correct.
With the number of amazing independent games out now, like Outer Wilds (not Worlds!)… I’ve found sometimes I just really enjoy an Excel Add-on.
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perfectly said!
I'm not sure why this is a surprise to anyone. Hopefully now people are smarter not to invest in China to support the CCP.
I’ve got very mixed feelings about computational photography. I like that it can improve image quality with zero user effort. But where does that end? Maybe the image would improve by reframing it slightly - or reframing it a lot. Maybe the overcast sky could be swapped for clear weather. Add a few dramatic hard shadows. Tune up the depth of field. Heck, let’s just look up the GPS coordinates and auto-download a photo of the same location from Flickr that was taken by a better photographer.
Another way this is done is with reinforcement of social hierarchy outside of comp. This is where you get blatant infantilization of developers and in my experience wildly untrue stereotypes (repeated uncritically as true all over most organizations) about "normal" developers being incompetent at design, UX, requirements gathering, communication generally, understanding business trade-offs and concerns, et c. Nearly all non-junior devs I've known have been at least decent at most or all of those things, actually.

[EDIT] Oh, it's also why devs are compensated like professionals (they haven't been able to figure out how to stop that, yet) but work at open tables crammed together, under management's direct eye, like they're packing cocaine in Colombia or something.
This is really cool but there are a few usability issues. I suggest to overly html DOM ontop of the canvas rather than having users enter form details within the experience as the only method of signing up.
Other users who are trying to stand up can stand between my camera and the form itself, making it such that I can't see what the form is trying to ask me or what I am typing.
unify india what? india was unified many times in history including Maratha rule, britain if anything divided india before it left into many states, they decided to unify themselves into the union of india despite britain breaking them down.
Yes, you have to switch jobs frequently to get those inflation adjusted raises.
I don't know what code Walter is referring to but I had similar experiences during a presentation of the Boost Spirit library (at our Silicon Valley C++ Meeting; must be about a decade ago now).

The speaker was proud and beaming for showing how powerful C++ is and the audience was in awe.

I was incredulous! Jaw open! The "solution" was horrible with a bunch of workarounds for a bunch of shortcomings. It was a "the emperor does not have cloths" moment for me.

Boost Spirit may be better today with newer C++ features; I don't know.
What persistent myth about corporate behavior is that it's rational (even if cold, cruel, and calculating). More often than not it's actually just people flying by the seat of their pants and more ego than anything else.

That goes double if the corporate culture tends to be very personality-cult-y, where executives have even more intense power than simply their position in the management chain.

What gets me is that, once again, the top of the chain managed to slide with few consequences. The low-level goons who carried out the attack of this couple got punished, while the exec(s) who ordered it either skated completely, or bailed out with a golden parachute. Truly a consequence-free environment.
Elixir recently added hex diff, which I've found quite useful. E.g.: https://diff.hex.pm/diff/jiffy/1.0.7..1.0.8
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57409218 Was first link on Google. But it’s 1am I need to sleep!
Exactly. Russian sparkling wine is called "shampanskoye", not "champagne" ;)
People are afraid of change. Anyway, there is a bunch of studios that have two-heads, and this seems to work amazingly well.
I've met grown adults that think 12 PM is the middle of the night already. (They don't understand PM vs AM.)
Because this thread is about buying a simple B&W laser printer for its reliability, and how that removes the option of printing photos (which is something people sometimes try to do at home), but retains the option to print pretty much anything else[1] people try to print at home.

And then, as a tangent, this is a subthread about using printing services to substitute for the rare — and as you say, declining! — use-case of printing photos, which, when you realize that that's possible, makes the calculus of "buying a simple B&W laser printer for its reliability" much more clear.

[1] (It also removes the option to print e.g. color flyers or posters or business cards, but people don't generally try to do any of those at home anyway, instead deferring to a commercial printer to 1. get a high-quality result, and 2. not have to buy dozens of ink cartridges and spend hours fighting their printer to get a thousand flyers out of it.)
Yes definitely. I own only manual focus lenses, and most are used old lenses and of terrific optical quality. I hate autofocus. I understand its use for wildlife, sports, and war zone journalism, but that's not what I do.

I shoot a lot of astro, landscapes, and some portraits, and I have time to compose and shoot for all of these, and I don't want some gadgetry between my hand and the glass doing its own thing.

There is good modern glass available, but it's not the stuff sold to consumers at consumer prices. In the consumer price range I've consistently seen better glass in used old lenses from the 70s to 90s. Before that it starts to fall off rapidly due to lack of anti-dispersive elements and good coatings, but there are still a few odd gems here and there from even before then.

Oh and as a bonus, with manual glass I'm not tied into one ecosystem. I own about 5 or 6 brands of lenses; I can freely change my camera body brand and just buy some new adapters.
AI Art Machine: put in text, get art
Amateurs behind what essential tools? Tell me a tool and a name. I've been thinking hard for 10 minutes and every FOSS tool I used the past week has highly regarded and well payed professionals behind it.

Maybe in 1995 it was like that, it's not now.
New model helps map the individual variations of mental illness – YaleNews
So in short you're saying that yes actually everyone has to follow AML and KYC laws. You can't just wave a magic "it's math!" wand and pretend that laws don't apply to you.

Cryptocurrencies are not "clever" for avoiding laws.
Fox News et al way way way way over blew what actually happened in Portland. There were a few incidents (which Fox News blew up into a full scale war), but overall it was very peaceful.

The biggest problem in Portland was not the protesters or the police, it was the anonymous federal troops that trump sent to stir up trouble, against the demands of the Portland and Oregon governments that they leave. I put 99% of the trouble in Portland at the feet of Trumps SS troops.
Increase costs. Everyone should be able to afford labor-heavy industries costs going up since consumers have so much excess capital from cheap Chinese goods.
https://archive.is/xZJau
Also things like the following, appear to be just as bad..

> There are early episodes in which radioactive fallout is dismissed as not a major health concern, as something that could be handled very easily. A thorough head-to-foot examination will reveal any accumulation of radioactive material. Vigorous sweeping with a broom removes contaminated dust and dirt from shoes and clothing.

Note that this is many years after Hiroshima.

https://www.matconlist.com/2019/01/the-atomic-veterans-deser...