skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see both sides on this.

An insane amount of crime is caused by the same people, over and over and over. In fact, 1% of the population is responsible for 63% of all violent crimes. They commit crimes over and over and over. So part of me is, like, the heck with them. Keep tight tabs on that one percent and eliminate 63% of all crimes in your town. That's a big hunk of the problem. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3969807/

Although I don't have the statistics, maybe the top 5% of people commit 80% of the crimes.

Why should the police patrol the citizens who are NOT committing crimes? Why SHOULDN'T the police focus on those people?

I mean, I get what people are saying here, but maybe they don't understand the statistics of crime.

There's about an 80% chance that a person committing a crime will commit one in the future - the recidivism rate.

The one thing that DOES help is education. This has been proven, because with education, one has more choices. The percentage of people in prison, jails, penitentiaries who have a university degree is 2-4%, while those with high school degree or less commit 96-98% of the crimes. Therefore, having a university education is a good thing. By no means am I saying that only having a high school degree or lower is a bad thing, I'm just saying that of those who end up in prison, they don't.

When you look at the statistics of former inmates who received degrees in prison, the recidivism rate drastically lowers for each level of education.

For example, in New York, over 21 years, Hudson Link has awarded 700 degrees in collaboration with eight colleges and five prisons. The organization reports a recidivism rate of less than 2 percent.

Wow! Stunning!

Since 2007, Tulsa Community College has awarded approximately 500 associate’s degrees and certificates to incarcerated students. These students have recidivated at a rate of only 5 percent.

How cool is this?!

Chemeketa Community College has operated a college program in prison since 2007. The recidivism rate among its 256 graduates is just 6 percent. In 2018, 42 students graduated with a cumulative GPA of 3.8.

Yet again.

That is why I think all prisons should should offer educational degree programs, AND give the inmates significant time off their sentence for completing each level of education - a% for an associates degree, b% for a bachelors, c% for a Masters, and d% off for a PhD. So if someone is sentenced to 30 years, maybe they can get out in 25 years for an associates degree, 18 years for a bachelors, 13 years for a masters, and 7 years for a PhD. If someone gets a PhD and never commits a crime again...that is a total win.

I'm not saying people with horrible crimes should be let out. But even they could take part, because they still benefit and can become mentors.

I mean, it's not like they have other things to do while in prison. We are already paying for their room and board.
I’ve been looking for something like this. Will check this out. A few questions:
1. Are you guys registered financial advisors
2. Any plans to support robinhood / schwab outside of alpaca?
3. Do you automatically rebalance portfolio?
4. Any automatic tax loss harvesting
I wonder if Townsend will be next https://www.activisionblizzard.com/leadership/frances-townse...
At this point HTML is quickly turning into not a markup language
My understanding is homomorphic encryption is extremely useful if you want to do computation on someone else's server with data that you don't want to reveal.

However, in practice, you reveal some information about the data if you do computations in it. One notional example is if you see a bunch of XORs in data. You may not know what the data is, but if you see a bunch of XORs, you can make an educated guess that some sort of cipher operation occurs (as XOR is used heavily in it).
I think you're being grossly unfair there.

Nobody expects to be able to pull a 10,000gallon tanker truck up to a "free refills" soda station in a fast food joint and fill it.

Anybody who's in the target market for these also understands the "Includes IoT cellular connectivity for 10 years" isn't going to mean "Cool! I'll get one of these to stream 4K video to youtube 24x7x356x10, sweet!!!"
Work on iOS?
Why do they need vacuum pumps at all? Do the materials of the satellite itself offgas too much?
There's no need for employees to be able to run personal political campaigns directed at customers at work.

Would you also insist that TJ allow employees to wear "Meat/Abortion is Murder" buttons?

> employee fired for sending a letter to the CEO about working onditions.

Allegedly. The journalist made no attempt to investigate or disprove TJ's side of the story, not even to ask the employee about it.
> tamping it down manually.

In other words, the problem was that the machine worked perfectly, and would have resulted in a bunch of union job losses.

Hence, it was "no good" and had to go.
Overcoming pandemic cave syndrome: Why is it so complicated?
"Advertising solves satiation"

You're not thinking big enough. A star trek style holodeck (or matrix-style brain port) has the possibility to simulate literally any experience with roughly constant resource inputs.

Short of literal deception, advertising cannot offer someone with access to those technologies anything.
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Probably true but why not turn it off and on again daily. While you are at it, you can restart your print queues regularly via a cronjob or Taskman.

There is no need to suffer if that will do the job.

Pragmatism is not the enemy of perfection.
Simultaneously movements like MeToo is growing. People tend to avoid relationships with coworker a bit.
If you're in tech, things are changing so rapidly I don't think it's realistic to walk away for 15 years and then be able to come back and get hired as a practicing, competent engineer, unless you've been keeping up on personal projects in the meantime.
I'm planning to build a house, and it has surprised me that standardised house plans are not readily available online - particularly for European weather conditions - the emphasis is instead on custom floorplans.

Creating new designs millions of times over seems like an obvious inefficiency.
Interesting, I had no idea they were so simple. That could help explain why they haven't produced bigger devices like a full keyboard. The costs likely don't scale as well when you need a screen the size and shape of a keyboard as opposed to the commoditized screens they are using in the smaller devices.
I've been monitoring this area and believe that there's an RSS resurgence going on. Albeit small and slow.
> Rather, it means the risk of infection among vaccinated people was 90 percent lower than the risk among unvaccinated people.

OMG that's the second time I encounter this nonsensical formulation, people in media just repeat stuff (big surprise /s) without understanding it. It makes no sense to say "number A is 90% lower than number B". Language of percentages is not supposed to be used this way.

What that result means is that given equal number of vaccinated and unvaccinated people, estimate of number of vaccinated people who got saved from infection per one day is 90% of the number of unvaccinated people who got infected per one day. In other words, not knowing other factors, a vaccinated person has 10x lower chance of getting infected than an unvaccinated person.
Not only this, but ransomware companies are even more nakedly in pursuit of profit than most non-ransomware companies. It's hard to imagine any ethical framework regarding capitalism etc. which would enable a favourable view of ransomware companies.
This could have been handled better:

* Position and clip the alert box within bounds of the frame, so that it doesn't display anything that the frame couldn't do itself.

* Don't make framed alerts steal focus, so that it also loses special behavior.

* Ideally, provide some replacement like `await alert()` so that authors can migrate with minimal changes.
I made a thing so that anybody can make AI-generated art
I'd suggest changing "WA" in the title to "Western Australia" to limit confusion with Washington state in the U.S. (postal abbreviation: WA).

https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/COVID19/WANotify
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What hypothesis is being tested here? Is there any theory that predicts that large objects won't behave like waves if they are properly isolated from the environment?
> I did not like that undelimited continuations were not mentioned. They are so much easier to understand than call/cc continuations as they are the rectification of some segment of the return stack as a function which when called returns through that segment and then to the caller like a regular function.

I think you mean delimited continuations? "Undelimited continuations" is call/cc.
Tried with a brand new Firefox profile, on OSX. Still wonky.

Screencast: https://youtu.be/XGTyDQGTC4E
I find it strange that an article on interracial dating doesn’t mention children at all. Isn’t that an important consideration for a lot of people?
A few other possibilities are:

- edge of punctuated equilibrium: we reach a Kardashev level and getting through it requires major breakthrough again - would produce a flattening increasing sigmoid zigzag

- slow catastrophe pending resource depletion outstripping rate of innovation or travel, very slowly reversing progress

- singularity immediately halting the progress - flat horizontal line - the Accelerando situation

- potential speciation or technological fragmentation where it stops to be useful to talk about a single progress
Excel refers to it as the “Data Model”. It allows joining tables/sheets and referencing them from other tables.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2012/08/2...
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Not sure I see the equivalence between showing my kids have their childhood vaccines before they go to school and having to flash a vaccine pass every time I go to the gym or to eat. Honestly I would rather it was mandated by government and then assumed (not that I think that is compatible with western rights) than having to show this kind of information on request to businesses as I go about my day. Most people here would agree with that for most things - people get bent out of shape about advertising cookies. But somehow covid has made everyone hysterical and no indignity can be too much in the name of preaching and checking for covid orthodoxy. I find it really weird.
Thanks for doing the hard work of experimenting here!

How about mirroring the Who’s hiring format?

>Launch YC: S21 (August 3)
> urban areas where most Japanese (especially younger Japanese) live

Not "most" people live in where housing price is rising. Foreigners tend to see only metropolis. There are many people living non rural (some are urban? but having car is good) area but affordable housing price.
It actually, as written, asserted that all fish have air bladders.

“Fish with air bladders do not, in fact, use oil in their livers for buoyancy. They have an ‘air bladder’, which you may read about. [...] Fish with air bladders are much more closely related to you than to sharks, so it is a big error.” is critically different than what you actually wrote upthread, and is obviously kind of silly. It also would have made no sense in response to the post it responded to, which also referenced “fish” in general and not “fish with air bladders”.
I think how most people still keep on-going without stress been shown on their faces, I was living very okay with my two kid's before I lost my job as a result of Covid, tried getting a new job but the salary was too poor, I came across brokers who made me believe that with $3500 US Dollars capital I will earn $30,000 US Dollar within 2 months, I was so much interested cause with such an investment I will have no worries about my bills. I decided to invest with the ETH cryptocurrency trade and after 4 months intervals without being able to withdraw my profit funds but end up spending more than I taught which randed me into a loss of $58,250 US dollars then I discover it was a scam platform. Wasn't myself for over a month simply because I was then into debt so I decided to look for a recovery hacker who is very well trusted but I also got scammed again by four different hackers so I gave up on everything and life, I was referred on a very good day and I was so lonely and filled with the pressure I just received a notification from Trustpilot about how wizard harry got scammed funds recovered then I summon the courage to email him through wizardharry (@) programmer (.) net but didn't get his response so I decided to contact him through is WhatsApp which I found on the internet +1-( 807)- /808-?/ (6168) and immediately I send him a message through WhatsApp he responded quickly and I negotiated with him, to my very surprise wizard Harry recovered more than I lose into my ETH wallet address. Today I'm back to my normal life and I live better than when I was living fine right now. My deepest respect goes to him.
PB is prime brokerage

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

CS is Credit Suisse, and FX is foreign currency trading.
I agree with your basic premise, and I agree that there are areas we should look at using hydrogen, but I'm not sure I follow how it's being applied here. The hydrogen lifecycle would be

> power source > grid > hydrogen generation > truck > power

And the lifecycle in the article is

> power source > grid > truck > power

There are fewer energy conversions and it's hard to envision a system with fewer losses.

I'm not arguing against hydrogen. Just trying to understand why hydrogen would be considered superior to the article's method.
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
>(at least on my 50 year old fork of firefox).

Since you're obviously from the future, can you give me tips on some stocks or sporting events to "invest"?
True. VC as we know it will not survive as is because of that.
HVC – React Hook, View and Controller
We should presume everyone in management has perfect knowledge of all the rules in play, and that everyone voting on unionizing has no idea what is going on because of some pamphlets which have been removed.
When did we lose RSS? It's going strong right now.
Not for me on OSX. New FF profile to rule out extensions/settings; https://youtu.be/XGTyDQGTC4E.
I just need the Touch ID button from this, not the other aspects of the subpar typing experience.
Most software people don't leave jobs for a 20% raise (certainly not if they have to move). They leave jobs for a 50%+ raise.

The problem is that companies budget raises that barely cover yearly inflation.

If you aren't budgeting raises at 7-10%+ per year, your good employees will leave. It's simply logical.
"In Spence’s case, the NLRB has made a finding of merit to the charges, and has
indicated that it plans to issue a formal complaint. A finding of merit is not an official decision, but a crucial step in an ongoing proceeding. Amazon will now have the opportunity to settle. If Amazon does not agree to do so, then the NLRB will schedule a hearing before an administrative law judge."

They are making me do a lot of work for a "finding of merit". Working me to the bone, you got me.

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Good skills.

It has never occurred to me to do that but it is actually quite an obvious thing to do when you "know" that everything is a file.

Any idea what the visual equivalent would be?
I thought maybe that’s what Terry Pratchett’s Hex was poking fun at, but it looks like Children of Time is quite new (2015 vs 1994 for Hex’s first appearance). I wonder what the origin of that trope is.
True, but Facebook also reorgs every six months, moving team responsibilities across orgs and cities all the time.

Surprise! Your team is shutting down and being moved to New York! Go back to the dating pool!

FB is a company that is successful in spite of all its internal failures.
At the time of the explosion, I suspected that the damage caused would be a net positive economically for Lebanon as there would be an increase in development due to the necessary construction and repair.

Clearly, I could not have been more wrong. Of course, neighboring Syria is in no position to aid Lebanon, but Israel could do well to aid a neighbour and benefit from a stable friendly country in the region. Of course, Lebanon's relationship with Hezbollah, would make that difficult.

Can Carlos Ghosn not put on his cape and sort his home country out?
As an aside here... MDN docs are pretty awesome. I've been learning pure vanilla Javscript on this site more than anywhere else.

I used to automatically include jQuery in every project as a habit/reflex.

Now, because of MDN, I never do that anymore, unless It makes total sense. Kudos guys!
No matter how clever/appealing the Smirnoff advertisement becomes, there is a point where drinking more vodka just kills the customer. There are analogous limits for any product that one can eat, drink, inject, or inhale. For products that aren't directly consumed by the body, the limit is time if nothing else. An hour spent watching Marvel® characters save the world is an hour you can't spend driving your Acura MDX with A-Spec®. Even the best ad agencies can't create enough hours in a day to indulge every urge they cultivate.
The White House Is Deciding Whether to Support a Bureau of Cyber Statistics
You Fell Asleep Watching a DVD
I miss writing HTML instead of telling Javascript how to create the HTML that I would use. I preferred JQuery's $('<htmlcodegoeshere>') vs document.createElement('element').append(document.createElement()) bullshit
I remember back when ALSA was a hot new thing on Linux, and it kinda sorta solved the "only one app can play things at the same time" problem that existed with the traditional OSS.

Meanwhile, OSS on FreeBSD just worked.
Reading about your father having such a long career in brick masonry sparked joy in me. Thanks for sharing
If you’re on a ship and want to get longitude, you don’t predict local noon. you measure local noon and compare it to a clock that was set to noon at a known longitude (such as Greenwich), and correct the offset using the equation of time.
> That would be an easy task, since "o" means "the" for male subjects in ancient Greek (grammatical articles like "the" were gendered).

Not really. There would need to be an explanation why ho -> ō in this case where no such change occurs in other words. As well as why it does not follow the model of οὗτος in declension.
What about the situation where they borrow against their stocks, pay some small amount of interest and then when they die all the stocks pass to their heirs after settling any remaining debt without paying any income tax?
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You don't think holodecks will come with freemiun subscription plans or micro-transactions, a la video game skins and upgrades today?

Why would someone sell you a holodeck once, when they could sell you plugins and content modules for your holodeck continuously forever? You don't think you'd get bored looking at the same trial plan holo-beach for years?

Of course, piracy and/or open source will hopefully be around to offer free alternatives.
This is interesting. Have you seen quantconnect.com?

I get where you're going with the ETF thing, but feels like you're trying to make a faster horse, when the real money makers have already got cars.
> Doing the 'bare minimum' to keep a job is actually generally far under-performing, as most companies won't generally let people go.

Isn’t doing the minimum exactly the same as the company paying workers the least amount they can get away with?
> I don't see why you couldn't implement continuations in modern Free Pascal/Lazarus, all you really have to do is make a copy of the stack(using the heap), then adjust BP and SP, everything else on the stack is relative to those two registers.

Easy-to-understand but nonsystematic counterexample: what happens when the stack contains a pointer to dynamically allocated memory? If you shallow copy it, you have a double free. If you deep copy it, how? Do you even know how much memory to allocate? What if it's a file descriptor instead?

(Fork only works because the OS can blindly duplicate the entire process and everything in it, and even then you have problems like IO buffers.)
Whose building do they tear down and turn the value to $0? That makes no sense.
That's a way of saying "decades old".

Not to count years literally.