skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Defund the police' means we reallocate the every-increasing funding for armed agents who want for nothing (not unlike the US military — look at the municipal budget allocations for police vs schools etc) and invest those funds into:

1) Alternative first responder services, such as mental health experts to deescalate incidents that far too often end in tragedy
2) Invest in preventative measures to ensure communities and society at-large is healthy: provide educational, medical, and economic opportunities to materially improve people's lives

And more generally, police in America are long overdue for major reform. 'Qualified immunity' has let officers use violent and lethal force with impunity. They are supposed to be the trained professionals, yet their bar for use of force is _lower_ than an untrained civilian's. The oversight boards are a joke, with no teeth to actually hold police accountable. It's crazy when you think about all the principles espoused by America re: limited gov't and power to the People yet we have this superset class above the law they are meant to enforce. I expect them to be held to a higher standard, and to actually know the laws and people's rights so as not to infringe on them without consequence.

And from talking with a (civilian) criminologist inside SPD who studies this up close, the mentality of cops is disturbing — very 'us-vs-them' — they aren't 'peace officers' who 'protect and serve', but are above us and demand 'respect' and unquestioning compliance above all else. They're the high school bullies equipped with guns and a badge. Their training by US/Israeli ex-military is disturbing because they react to all of us a potential mortal threats rather than as a member of a common community. There's a reason we had Posse Comitatus, but now we've militarized police at the local level, and surprise — they act like it.

I enthusiastically am voting for NTK in the general. The fact is heavily-funded and well-armed police for decades _has not_ and cannot improve the situation anymore than the military occupation in Afghanistan did. Crime is a symptom of more systemic issues, particularly poverty and loss of faith in public institutions. In short, hopelessness and despair.
No. Chrome is also installed.
Back when the telecom companies were running cross-country cabling in the 80's 90's in Canada, there's a large part of the country starting about central Canada going east-wards that's called the Canadian Shield. It's made of _EXTREMELY_ dense rock. Cable companies had to literally make a series of controlled explosions to run cables underground or to even set communications poles in the ground.

There's a lot of factors that go into running underground cable, heck even above-ground can be problematic too!

I believe Telus buries their cross-country fiber cables at least 18 feet underground, far below anybody even coming close to excavating it, due to the sheer amount of financial damage that could be caused by a fiber cut.
Yes, naturally.
You still need to attach final wallet(s) to the user, but in any case, I assume they would use Monero (or another privacy coin).
What about schools and infrastructure and public transport if density keeps increasing? And it will only make housing more unaffordable. And plummeting standard of living. Case in point: Mumbai, Hong Kong, Shanghai. Et al.
Footprint Discovery Hints at Humans in the Americas More Than 20k Years Ago
Well, that is something that you're taught in high school algebra, which you end up "unlearning" when you study linear algebra.
When I did it, the rotations were weird for me. I was thinking CW and they were CCW I think.

Simple to fix. Just keep uploading the CPL till it looks right.
Perhaps for now, but not necessarily in general.

I know we’re nowhere near the following scenario, this is just to illustrate how things can go wrong even if the numbers tell you to “burn away”:

Image we have computronium with negligible manufacture cost, the only important thing is the power cost to use it.

Imagine you’re using it to run an uploaded mind, spending $35,805/year on energy.

The 50% of Americans earning more than this [0] are no longer economically viable, because their productivity can now be done at the same cost by a computer program.

Doing this with the current power mixture would be disastrous, doing it with PV needs about 1400m^2 per simultaneous real time mind upload instance (depending on your assumption about energy costs and cell efficiency, naturally).

In a more near-term sense, there are plenty of examples where the Nash equilibrium tells each of us to benefit ourselves at the expense of all of us. Not saying that is the case for Deep Learning right now, but can (and frequently does) happen.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
Various Sioux tribes were pushed west of the Mississippi around 1600-1700 by various wars that took place between natives at the time. It's probably the most well-known pre-contact migration of Native American tribes (at least those that live in US/Canada; the Mexica migration into the Central Mexico Valley is probably even more well-known, as it's a very key part of their own histories).
More terrestrial infrastructure - fiber and radios - is an interesting 'Tech New Deal', but I look at just Starlink (and I hope there are more competitors with customers soon!) and see this area is already covered:

https://sebsebmc.github.io/starlink-coverage/index.html

If we're gonna spend 65B, could we throw 100M at buying everyone in the delta a dish?
Errors - We're getting better at this. You can now use `--inspect` and use chrome devtools which should log proper exceptions (details to setup https://blog.cloudflare.com/profiling-your-workers-with-wran...)
Console.logs - same as above! Real devtools, interactive and everything.
Timeouts and crashes - This should be better now, timeouts and sessions expires now transparently heal and restart, so you shouldn't face errors (Please file an issue if you see different!)

Overall we're working hard on making this experience better, please feel free to file issues if you see anything that's not expected. Thank you!
I'm not sure what that is, and google doesn't seem to be helping me...
IMO it's more fundamental than the parallelism v concurrency split.

Microsoft in general has a tendency to bolt on functionality in a kinda slapdash manner when another team wants it, so you get a lot of cruft that really doesn't belong in the Task class[1] but is there because someone wanted a way to handle their special case so it just got thrown into Task.

[1] See https://source.dot.net/#System.Private.CoreLib/Task.cs,045a7...
You can test these things, sure. But if you're using other people's software (linux, vms, chromedriver, capybara) on other people's hardware (again, vms), you have to tolerate the fact that you can't control everything if you want to actually get work done. A little electrical, magnetic, or gravitational anomaly here, a little memory access blip there, some competition for cpu time elsewhere... I suspect there are probably only a handful of completely controlled environments on the planet and even those are suspect.

Test suites are sort of an eventual consistency problem themselves...
Sounds like you’ve been subject to some pretty poor test setups. I’ve experienced good ones. My cynical take is that well maintained e2e tests aren’t a product priority in environments where they’re flaky and slow so they come as an afterthought. Not that they can’t be good. Usually product wants to ship code yesterday and doesn't care if there are bugs… so good test hygiene is nowhere to be seen.
Mathematics and Its Notation
NYT Crossword Decision Puzzles Many
Bureaucracy is a wellspring of employment.
They're trying to get you to substantiate your claim it's almost never raised in good faith. It's an extraordinary claim.
Yeah, I think the author got the delta mixed up for Arkansas in general.
The last sentence of your GP comment was obviously flamebait. That's what we ask people not to post here. Let's not quibble over what counts as "partisan"—all political flamewar is something we're trying to avoid here.
I know just the feeling you mean. I get it when I read history too, especially biographies that cover a whole life.

I can't remember where I originally read this but once someone suggested that you could also invert this idea for a fresh perspective on the modern world.

If there was a time machine that I could step into to meet these ancient people and ask them about the hand prints they left I would take that trip in a snap! (assuming there is enough fuel in the Delorean to get back of course) In fact I would take that chance to time travel to any period and see what that time was like up close.

While we can't go back and see that, we can time travel to exactly one place. You can look around and see how humans were living in September 2021. Maybe this is the moment stranded time travelers 200k years from now would really like to visit. It was a weird time in human history. Lots of interesting things to observe, questions to ask, and people to meet.
> 1kg of CO2/day

which is crazy low if you put it in perspective and see that (gas powered) cars release about 0.2 kg of CO2 ... per kilometer.
Amusingly after a Google search, I see that 'third brain' is a thing (a paper gave that name to the epidermis, another gave it to the placenta, is a Spy Kids thing, is a consulting company, is in the name of a book.)
No specifics to share just yet, but we're definitely going to integrate wrangler more deeply with miniflare.
Neither the Sioux nor the Navajo were on the Trail of Tears, which affected the tribes who lived in the US Southeast, most notably the Cherokee, but also the Muskogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw.
Your brain does much much stronger “computational photography” on everything you see. Like, there is no hole around your nose, the physical hardware ain’t as good as the resulting picture, we do plenty of noise reduction, etc.

Compared to that, these AIs are mostly overhyped noice reducers.
> I don't think it has to do with defunding the police at all. I do think is has to do with removing the ability of the police to make arrests

Or a mixture of the two.
> What the tax money is spent on is irrelevant and doesn’t create the demand.

The maintenance of the army doesn't create demand for taxes? Are you aware this is one of the most significant historical reasons for the collection of taxes?

Could you remind me again of when the Army was abolished in Japan and why, and whether the US military (which drives part of our demand for taxes) had any role in that?

Japan pays for the Army. The US army [1].

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/17/japan-us-extend-agr...
Ayahuasca
Privacy online or anywhere is an absolute psyops. Everything is logged recorded and stored. Every website visited, every email opened or sent, every text message sent or received. No matter who the company is.
> Electricity is just another resource

I hate to be the one to tell you, but, it turns out we are living in the middle of an ecological catastrophe, and it also turns out that means that electricity is a resource we are going to have to conserve.
Gotta rustle up code-reviews somehow!
Been a few years now since I've worked much in C# but these all seem like things that should be linting rules.

Can these be added as warnings to the compiler? Can you have custom lint/compiler warnings from the community like eslint?
Ah, I didn't realize that's what that did, but they looked right with the KiBot config above. I'll double check though, thanks!

EDIT: Yep, the config above produces parts the right way.
This is a very bad list of complaints and it actually makes me angry to read it.

> Engineers had to wait more and more to get feedback from this long-running suite

So speed up your tests. Run them in parallel. Find better frameworks for running tests.

> Flaky tests meant that we had to re-run the suite frequently to see if something was really wrong or just a false negative;

Fix your flaky tests! Why anyone just accepts that "Oh, sometimes that test fails and we have to restart everything" is beyond me. Root cause the problem and FIX IT.

> Manual changes in our staging environment corrupted test data fixtures and maintaining the environment “clean” was a challenge;

Tests should not rely on pre-existing state. Have a setup phase for each test that creates new data in the state you want it to be in. As it makes this data, also note down a reference to it with a Time To Live so that a follow-up process can clean up this unneeded data.

> Test failures were very hard to debug

That's not the fault of the tests, that's the fault of a complex system that is hard to debug. Improve your tracing between services.

> Queueing of commits in the End-to-End suite resulted in less frequent deployments

There are well known solutions to this problem. Lots of companies have overcome this already.

> Few bugs caught in this stage. One experiment suggested that, for every 1000 runs, we had 42 failures, only 1 bug

If your tests have false-positives, you need to adjust your tests. Accepting that the test failed but there isn't a problem, and then not fixing the reason the test failed means that you don't have reliable tests.

> Bugs were still being found in production

Bugs will always make it to production. But after you fix a bug, you write a test so that this bug cannot happen again. Over time, the number of possible bugs that can make it to production shrinks.

And lastly:

> The main difference to the old E2E is that they encompass only a subset of services and don’t require spinning a production-like environment (the services run in memory on a single JVM and HTTP/Kafka communication is replaced by in-process communication). They are used in specific flows that we find too critical to only rely on Contract Tests.

Running tests against different infra than your customers have to deal with is asking for trouble. What bugs will exist in the real production infra that won't in your fake infra?
Obviously there's not enough data to make a meaningful quantitative prediction. But experts can certainly make pretty good qualitative predictions based on patterns observed in similar viruses.
For rewrites and refactors of integrations, there is no substitute for E2E testing.

I’m hopeful to be proven wrong, though.
Android is not using Electron; it’s a completely separate codebase to the web app (hence the complaints about it in this thread which don’t apply to Web or Desktop). On the other hand, Web and Desktop is basically the same app.

We dismissed Qt because it’s bad enough managing 3 separate apps without adding a 4th one too.

Telegram’s UI is great, but it’s also tightly coupled to Telegram’s backend, which is not Matrix. It’s like saying “Word is a great word processor; I don’t understand why you can’t edit PDFs with it”
Given that the Tibet is particularly cold place, shouldn't these humans wear something to resist the cold? Can humans (or any fur-less animals) survive such cold climate without extra-fat or really good clothes?
I don't understand the claims you're making. Caddy is very pluggable, you can write a request handler middleware very easily: https://caddyserver.com/docs/extending-caddy
Ah right, Linux, the platform where suspend and resume doesn't even work and hibernation is a mess.

AMD
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-S2id...

s2idle is broken and I have an AMD thinkpad with deep sleep and even that doesn't suspend 80% of the time.

Intel (search for 'deep' and 's2idle')
https://community.frame.work/t/ubuntu-21-04-on-the-framework...

I already know the replies I might get but just wanted to get this out there. My laptop is now on 24x7 because I don't know if it will suspend or completely freeze.
Show HN: Bypass soft paywalls with Safari reader mode
Someone sent a link to a NYT article and I noticed that this method reliably allows me to view the article:

1. Open the link.

2. Open reader mode.

3. Reload the page (⌘R).

4. The entire article is now loaded.

This appears to work by allowing Reader mode to load the contents of the page before JavaScript hides it.
I’ll back up your unpopular opinion and say we should have a new Australia. Some people are never going to rehabilitate, keeping them in prison costs a ton of money, and they’d probably enjoy being on an island somewhere better anyways…even if it would be a ridiculously lawless place.

The only problem is I think we’re all out of inhabitable places.
The fact checking services are wrong, a LOT. They are not ideologically neutral, particularly the ones used by Facebook.

For a specific example of the abusive and censorious nature of this business model, see Glenn Greenwald's recent article on the subject, specifically in regards to the blanket denunciation of the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation. Greenwald isn't a right-wing hack, and in fact he is aggressively pro-Palestinian, anti-war, and has been a loud critic of Bolsonaro despite being a resident of Brazil.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/new-proof-emerges-of-the-bi...

Edit:

Yes, a parade of downvotes without any refutations. Pay no attention to the fact that the guy in charge of censoring and fact checking operations at Facebook is a lifelong Democratic Party operative who literally worked for the Democratic House Majority PAC, and before that Senator Barbara Boxer, before going to work for Facebook.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-stone-7575b34a
> Unlike nginx or Caddy, the Apache design and community encouraged writing modules (roughly akin to "middleware" in the modern server-side web stack) that hooked directly into the web server, rather than just using it as a static host + L7 proxy.

Huh? I must be misunderstanding, because everything in Caddy is a module, even its HTTP server, and all its middleware handlers are equally modules that you can plug in as much as any other module you could write and publish.

Some Caddy modules also expose dynamic scripting / language interpretation capabilities as well. Caddy is used for well more than just static files and HTTP reverse proxying.
Yes that part works, the issue is when you wake up the laptop, half the system is broken.
Why do people take ayahuasca?
Dell used to have the option to disable "modern sleep" which is the root cause of all these problems. Dell in a later firmware update disabled the ability for end users to "fix" the problem on their end. This was about three years ago for the 9570 XPS model, they have not reverted this user-hostile action to my knowledge.

I still have my 9570 for gaming, just because I don't have the time to focus on replacing my windows laptop, but that's certainly the Last dell I plan on buying, I deal with laptop users regularly and this is one of the most common dell-specific complaints I hear/see.
One past thread:

Your Face Is Not a Bar Code (2003) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17939248 - Sept 2018 (29 comments)

Related from last month:

Phil Agre saw the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28159708 - Aug 2021 (42 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28167703
Same in Europe. No idea what they do either. I've only put a laptop in my checked luggage once, in 2000 when it was still permitted. It was one with NiMH cells by the way which don't have a tendency to catch fire but they suck in other ways (energy density, memory effect). That's why nobody uses them anymore.

It arrived with a cracked screen so never again...
this is a suboptimal strategy though as only inconsiderate people would reproduce.
To augment coverage, Aristotle [a company profiled in article] is turning increasingly to Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS), a wireless spectrum historically used by U.S. Navy aircraft carriers for radar transmissions. In recent years the Federal Communications Commission has opened a slice of this spectrum for commercial use, enabling Aristotle to beam broadband as far as 6 miles to distant Arkansans over signal stations—installed atop cell towers, barns, even a prison—that are sort of like massive Wi-Fi routers.

What is CBRS?

On January 27, 2020, the FCC authorized full use of the CBRS band for wireless service provider commercialization without the restrictions to prevent interference with military use of the spectrum. Under the new rules, wireless carriers using CBRS might be able to deploy 5G mobile networks without having to acquire spectrum licenses. [0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Broadband_Radio_Servi...
That's what I understood you to mean too. I just added in differently-abled people. I've never seen a persona based off minorities, "victims" (not sure what that means in this context?), or races. It's always been capabilities and life experiences.
You are correct that they can't break the laws of thermodynamics, but they don't need to in order to have a workable business model. The reason is because you don't need it to result in more energy than you put in. You just need it to result in more revenue than input costs. This is practically possible because different energy forms have different costs and they're not all substitutable for each other. For instance, electricity may become a lot cheaper than liquid fuel, but you can't electrify a long range airliner, or most military equipment. So in a world where a watt of electricity can be bought for 1/3 the price of a watt of kerosene, using 2 units of electricity energy to make 1 unit of liquid fuel energy would be economical. (made up numbers, you get the point)
> Food and clothing depend on other things (cost of employees, equipment, materials, etc.) When the costs of those things rise, the cost of food and clothing will have to rise.

Not really. You're pointing to production costs, but production costs just define the price's lower bound, not the price itself.

Price depends solely on willingness to pay and pricing strategy, which is higher than the production cost when the product/service is not subsidized or a loss leader.
they are smart
you were using what network protocol stack in 1991 ? Banyan "vines" or token-ring ?
For unwonted synonyms I usually refer to Thesaurus.

https://www.google.ru/search?q=oh+crap+it%27s+a+thesaurus&tb...
Predict It an Engineer’s Journey into Data Science
I'm sorry if I miss it, but no protocol in this millennium should be without mitigation for denial of service. DJB's curveprotect uses fixed sized packages (refusing small ones) to kill amplification attacks. I wonder if they considered such issues.
For modern DL, a large part also comes from regularization. And then also data augmentation. And self-supervision in whatever way, either prediction, masked prediction, contrastive losses, etc.

Which all adds to the number of constraints / equations.
Yes, your argument that consumers (as a whole) base their choices on performance and technical specs is flawed. Maybe you are concerned about that and most of your peers, but I can bet that the absolute majority of the consumers have other criteria in mind.

Look and feel, for example, would be sacrificed to have removable batteries. Have you seen the Fairphone? It looks like a brick from 2010. It is by far the ugliest phone that I ever had. Do I care about it being ugly? No. But believe it or not, people will not want removable batteries if that means an "uglier" phone, or one that can fall on the floor and get disassembled.

Features always come at a trade-off. If Apple or Samsung wanted to have removable batteries, their phones would have to be larger, or use smaller batteries, certainly they would have different waterproofing ratings, etc. To think that they just don't offer it because they are abusing their monopoly (sic) on high performance hardware (sic) is beyond naive.
I realize there are other reasons, but it does suggest one more reason they have soured on cryptocurrency?
If that was the case I would expect it to be disclosed. The reason there is a reaction from customers and employees is that they were not forthright with this info.

Besides that, I think Kape is highly suspect, and the whole VPN space is filled with marketing of false promises and FUD.