skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hahaha, the pre-crime stuff? Love it. No, something boring, you know. A "likely crime-involved vehicle" automatic camera tech that uses just a cross-referenced DB and ultimately just detects vehicle make. This stuff is mostly about doing the bizdev to get into a place. And police are like any other users. If you get a 10% detection rate, you'll hold the contract. And you can get that if it's like a "hit this button to perform scan" thing and you almost always return true. After all, they won't hit it unless they think something anyway.

Whatever, the specifics of the product design are irrelevant details. It's about the bizdev. They still use polygraphs in the Federal Government. The device itself doesn't have to do anything.
Unfortunately, it’s easy to bury your feelings and convince yourself that you’re looking at things impartially, even when you’re actually not.
Systems overtly or tacitly designed to fuck minorities tend to successfully fuck minorities even when operation of local mechanics are effected by minority agents.

This may be non obvious but for example black cops tend to use disproportionate force against black suspects in areas where such behavior is culturally and systemically tolerated. Cops and suspects are in an adversarial situation and being part of team cop or team suspect is more important than sharing a skin color.
In this house we trust science which is why we must take for granted the statements of an important person.
Correct. I was still surprised to see how far the US OCP goes towards appeasing the PRC though. In spirit, it seems well out of line with how Taiwan policy is proceeding these days. As far as I understand it, there is no outcome where the US will recognize a permanently independent Taiwan. That's unfortunate.
There's a lot of Rust jobs in the crypto space as well as some jobs in the trading space.
i mean, do you really believe that today, women are not considered equal, even if it's not perfectly spelled out by the constitution? more importantly, does that matter for using the constitution as a starting point? it doesn't have to be the constitution by the way; that was simply a convenient and relevant example of a starting point.
> So clearly they know a little bit about what is a solid, sustainable profit source.

It is more than a "solid, sustainable" profit source, it is a best-in-class cash cow that feeds a growing monstrosity for shareholders that want more, more, more.

The business they left behind is still sustainable.
I think it depends. Talking with a friend in St Petersberg, last we talked about it was a few months ago so things can change, they are scrambling to bootstrap companies and industries. If they can successfully do that, it may not seize up. But here is the other side of that equation. Trying to stand up something like shops to machine parts in rapid fashion is going to end up with, yea they have parts, but they are low quality. So it may not completely grind to a halt, but it will still be crippling.

Now they could completely fail at bootstrapping those things, which yes, it will definitely grind to a halt. But any day now for the past 60-70 years Cuba was supposed to grind to a halt and well, they are still chugging a long. Maybe with lawn mower engines in their cars, but they still manage to get to point a from point b without walking.
>Cut and dry to whom?

I think it's pretty cut and dry to people who pay attention to what fuels a modern economy: semiconductors. If you have a problem with the subsidies themselves that's a disagreement about implementation, and to an extent I would agree that some additional tariffs are in order - beyond the subsidies.

>Free lunch for students is hardly an attempt to "solve poverty".

Well sure, but any time someone disagrees with the policy of "free lunches" (as if there was such a thing) you get asked "what, do you hate poor people"? Which sends you down a spiral of debate on what the appropriate policy should be to solve a complex problem ... like poverty.

>the only difference you're asserting is that a nationalistic defense ideology should be taken for granted and perhaps that it is popular.

I'm asserting that semiconductors are what make things comfortable in modern society, which isn't really a contested point as far as I'm aware. I'm not really making any commentary on the wisdom of a "nationalistic defense ideology", which in my mind would be something quite different and go much further than "subsidies for building chips in the US".

I'm sensing that a lot of the hostility in this thread has to do with how we already spend so much money on the MIC, and while it's true that we do spend a lot of money on the MIC, semiconductors are markedly different, because military hardware and weapons aren't consumer products. Semiconductors go into everything. I feel like I'm repeating myself here, and it seems odd to me because I would've expected folks on this website to understand this.
Honest question: what probability of finding a shooter is the “right” threshold to go in armed and expecting a shooter?
Or build it in Blender, export it in GLTF (.glb), and import it directly into a game engine that supports GLTF import (like Godot engine for example). :)
I agree the same. Clickhouse is the best if you are looking for Analytics database.
Generally:

- Use the React DevTools Profiler to identify components that are rendering more than expected, or taking too long to render

- Wrap key components in `React.memo()` to have React avoid recursing through those subtrees unless the component props have actually changed

- Avoid putting large state objects into a single context provider, as all components reading that context will re-render whenever it changes (and all of their children too)

- Use `useMemo` to cache any expensive transformations that happen during rendering

I've got an extensive post that covers how rendering works as a whole, and has a section on understanding React perf optimizations:

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/05/blogged-answers-a-...
Line of Sight Stabilization of James Webb Space Telescope (2005) [pdf]
Oh interesting, thanks. I'm a criminal lawyer and contempt in my domain has been contumacious or not at all.
My plane ran out of fuel over The Atlantic Ocean
I'm pretty sure the "fix" just involved them building a cloud center in the country and serving all the SK map data from there to get around the regulation. Unless something changed with the law itself that I'm unaware of.
what is it about frontend that people have such strong but different opinions? it’s so strange. i think almost everything here is wrong, redux is good, index.js is cursed (love to have five tabs in my editor with the same name, very helpful), and so on. but why does frontend provoke such weird and narrow holy wars
I am in the same boat with you, just not from US. I am eager to learn English from absolutely ground 0, from grade 1, currently I can access all math textbooks in my country which is really good, I think the best way is read the page 1 like you are kid to the last page. This can simulate the environment and will not miss any subtle details which later may proved to be very important to go further in math world.

However, I got a question, where to buy/find all math textbooks a kid would use in USA? I tried, but can't any clues on this. Since I am eager to check how USA kids learn math from grade 1 straight to the undergraduate.

A website called WorldCat, but seems lack school textbooks.

I just need a complete textbook lists of grade 1 math -- undergraduate math. I understand different schools may use different textbooks, but where to find the catalog? I can't find them!
Thank you for the correction. How much more US dollars are travelers allowed to purchase?
> The OP said nothing like this. You're projecting a bad-faith argument onto their comment. But you know that, and are trying to hone in a single example in order to strawman valid concerns about the technology and its effects.

Yes, I will admit I am projecting, or rather assuming, bad-faith on their part, or at least sneaky rhetorical tactics. I used to assume good faith, but the past 5 years or so have made me realize that very few people operate this way. If I see someone making a point, and an underspecified part of their post or a part where they use vague language may give a certain impression, and it just so happens that that certain impression furthers the point they were trying to make(rather than diminish it, or be orthogonal to the point), then I assume there was intent to do such a thing.

OP said:

> It doesn't work all that well and is selectively deployed in minority areas and is used by police to selectively enforce crimes, sometimes also altering the evidence.

Yes, I suppose it sometimes may be selectively deployed in minority areas in order to oppress them, but without any kind of mention of the rate that that happens, this appears to be OP trying to convince you that it may be worse than it is. If you didn't know anything about cars, and I said that cars are used to intentionally murder people, you would probably have a worse perception of cars than if you had a more thorough understanding of their usage.

Therefore, my point was to show that shot spotter is not just used to oppress minorities, I provided an example of a predominantly black city choosing to use the technology, which almost certainly means there are uses of the tech that aren't about oppressing minorities.

> That was the whole point of your post. You had nothing else substantive to say.

I'm sorry, but I understand my point better than you do. I apologize for not being more explicit earlier. Hope my post helped.
>> you have no control over what will happen with your software

Can you please go directly to your boss's office and tell him that you are not even close to being in control of the objectives he told you at the convention, that you should have, if you want that bonus we've been talking about?
So basically even if we assume the data shows they were only deployed to the highest crime areas (and for sake of discussion we're not debating the legitimacy of that data like you could with biased Jim Crow literacy tests AND feigning that shotspotter actually provides some IRL value), it would still be discrimination because in a wider context it's just another tool that contributes to the oppression of minorities?

Which, in the sum of everything, ultimately out-ranks the value of attempting to address the homicides and gun violence that plagues their communities through law enforcement. Therefore it's a net negative for society?

(Apologies if I'm being overly literal here, my brain tends to seek the most rational explanations for everything).
this is true, but that's even moreso why we need to have such conversations openly, especially with people different from us, to elucidate our blind spots.

and that's the crux of why diversity can be powerful. it's not about diversity of demographics, but diversity of perspective and thinking that strengthens societies (and companies and teams).
I should really spend a weekend seeing whether I can get the Trinity desktop environment running with i3 as a window manager. I'm currently using a Gnome-flashback/i3 hybrid that's surprisingly nice.
At the end of the day, all those discussions still result in actual decisions. In some cases, those decisions affect people in a very negative way. Given that, why shouldn't one see someone advocating for decisions that will negatively affect them as an enemy?
I was making a Wikipedia page back in 2004 about Deaf Cultures and Deaf Educators.

Both were summarily deleted.

So I started it again but under my User directory. That too got deleted.

So, Wikipedia editors are inherently anti-diversity.
If you'll look past the unempathetic title of this website, and the nasty tone of the author, you'll see some of how violent crime clusters in Chicago (data visualization)

https://heyjackass.com
This would work to give some evidence for the accuracy levels of the automated parts of the system, at least for true positives vs false negatives, but doesnt test for how the system generates false positives.

A bigger problem is that this doesnt approach any of the process problems with the human moderated parts of the system. For that you would need cooperation from the law enforcement customer. The customer would need to make a request like "are you sure you didnt find any gun shots around this time and place?" and see how the company responds.
Opening up the possibility that other countries, friendly to the US, could also produce some of our semiconductors. We can work to expand S. Korean capacity, for instance. We also don't need to dump money on a problem that would respond to more gentle incentives like low interest rate loans, laws favoring government purchasing of chips from aligned nations, and incentives to boost the infrastructure needed to manufacture chips. One big piece of bringing back mfg to the US is considering expedited environmental review in limited economic zones and commitments to improving our energy and chemical industries which feed into semis. You could write a book on ways to do it, but stealing money from the future and raining it onto companies that already make billions in profits is comically short sighted.
I think you're more describing libertarian or apathetic than centrist.

I always think of centrists as just not towing the party line. Some ideas on some side, some on the other. At least, that's what I mean when I describe myself as a centrist.

Unfortunately, being a centrist gets you no friends. Both sides think you're an idiot for even entertaining the other side.
Full text, anyone?
I've been using linux since '97, RH 5.1 that came on cd in the back of a linux tome I can't even recall the name of now was my first distro. The partitioning tool was called disk druid and the desktop? Fuck man the desktop was ugly, I don't even remember what it was called. Hahaha I just looked it up it was gnome, the beta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkD9jY8cxIY god I'm old.
It really is worth watching “Atari: Game Over” to get a sense of everything that went down during the early video game console era. I highly recommend it
Agreed, component libraries are for freelancers who need to satisfy a client with limited technical knowledge and not for serious businesses with large development teams.
So, where I live, summers are really hot, and we - a couple of million of people here - are really adapted.

i.e. we are here well into the boreal winter, and we had a hefy 35° at midday, today.

Well, then running 10-15 km. in 60 min. at 45-48° (humidity at 80-90%), is quite possible, and yeah, you end up not having any health issues.

Let's take a look how it actually felt to me - several times - to run at 48° and 90% of humidity - actual data from my cellphone - for those who have not tried it.

First you go out to the street, yeah, it's not the Sahara, it is just your neighborhood. You hit the street and the heat hits you, heavily, it is like getting yourself into a body of water, but it is hot air, really hot air. Then magic happens, you get entirely covered by sweat, full-body, your legs (hopefully you're in shorts), arms, everything under clothes is fastly covered in sweat. The first minutes you just take a very slow pace, almost walking fast through the heat, your heart starts to rapidly fire if you try to go faster than this, so you take it slowly, maybe a couple of hundred of meters, at some point the sweat (probably? could be the skin), start to make its magic: you stop feeling the intense heat and start to feel how the sweats cools itself while you are moving through the air. Yep, heavy sweat over your body doesn't heat itself and the air current actually cools it off a bit (probably, I'm not measuring it by any means, just running like many run at 48-50° here).

That's a shield against atmospheric heat, and your body begins to work better, your heart rate slows down A LOT, you keep moving, breathing a bit slower every meter, till you get to an equilibrium, and then you start to actually run.

This happens in maybe the initial 500 to 800 meters of the several km. you're naturally able to run. Then you usually run the 30-40% of what you are usually capable in sub-48°

At some point you'll need to restart the process, you'll feel exactly when, because the sweat over your body begins to be too hot, and your heart rate start to climb wildly. Many runners just slow down to a fast walk till the heart cools it off, or just go to full stop and call it a day or they take cool water and restart the race after that.

I think these studies should be done in places where actual high temperatures have existed for hundreds of years, and there you'll know how able to handle it are real humans who have experience intense heat first hand their entire life.

i.e those that do not consider 40-50° as "heat wave", but just regular summer temperatures.
Okay yeah, especially around the "-ent" ending, and sometimes whether a final s is pronounced, it can be ambiguous. So maybe my feeling that it's much harder in English than in French is just personal bias. German and Italian on the other hand... (of course every language still has exceptions, plenty of).
How do you use your ZFS NAS for Time Machine backups? Very curious, I'd like to do the same.
Okay but I don’t think the argument here is that there was no “bang” sound, only that the company with technology for classifying bangs might not be perfectly consistent, which is still a higher burden than applied to a police officer investigating a bang sound.
Portland, OR is moving towards potentially implementing ShotSpotter.

The population is 6% Black. The homicide victims are 50% Black. We have twice the homicide count of Seattle, or more homicides than Seattle and SF combined. Portland is smaller than both cities, so it is very concerning.

Unfortunately the licensing model for ShotSpotter is such that it is only deployed in the high homicide neighborhoods due to cost. I have to imagine the marginal cost of an extra sq mile is low.

I’d like to see a diversity discount or something so that it would be economical to put the system everywhere and dispel the racial bias issue. Or maybe charge per homicide or gun recovered instead.
because it doesn't help in the long run, even if it soothes the feathers in the short.
I suspect he just wanted a sponsor for the kit he didn't already have :)
I don't think it's rare to prefer GNOME 3 over GNOME 2; in fact, I would wager that that is the majority opinion.

By the way, I find it even faster to launch apps by pressing the Super (Windows) key and typing the app name. For example, you can press [Super] [t] [e] [Enter] to launch a GNOME Terminal instance. Just my 2c :)
That would require some regulation, since commercial web design deliberately obfuscates the underlying structure.
The video and commentary are not from Princeton. This is from a political organization (represent.us) with a political agenda.
Microsoft purchased Nokia’s mobile division in 2013 for $7bn.
The magic box already exists, it's called people who call the cops to report gunshots every time they hear fireworks are a car backfiring.

If you think it's wrong for police to investigate a shotspotter alert because it might be a false positive then the logical conclusion of that line of thinking is that it should be illegal for the cops to show up to investigate when someone calls in to report gunshots, since those are mostly false positives too.
Yeah I think Gnome 3 nowadays is very good. Though I recently switched over to KDE and I think it’s also pretty great from a “gadget” perspective. The options offered in a right click in the file browser are a good distillation of the design differences between KDE and Gnome (as well as the screenshot widget…)

Definitely would have no issue recommending Gnome to a normal computer user. I like having the busier interface nowadays though.
Have you read the second paragraph of my reply?
Sorry, was going off memory. Thanks for calling me out.
A better analogy would be, if you asked the cop how he decides it’s a gun firing vs some other innocuous cause, and his department refused to allow the records of his brain scans to be admitted into evidence to determine if he were perfectly consistent in going after gun-like sounds (assuming it were a department that had brain scans going on for officers on duty).
It’s not really that simple though. You can always go back less than 40 years and point out that street gangs were a response to police harassment. That communities were selectively devastated with targeted infusions of dangerous and addictive drugs. That there is a continuous pattern of profiling based on superficial attributes. A bad summer can ruin a person’s life, I don’t understand how we don’t expect generation abuse to do the same. Clearly the “sub Saharan level” life expectancy is not a racial attribute but contained within precise geographical boundaries in a prosperous country. You could say it’s purely cultural and if you wanted to be more edgy a “racial or genetic” failing, but really it’s the system that has deliberately and purposefully failed them and any current circumstance cannot be considered mutually exclusive of the very recent past, let alone the past few centuries.

For counter examples, look how long the richest and most dominant countries for the vast majority of human history— China and India — took to recover from a much less brutal form of dominance.
Well, if nothing else hopefully someone else notices this witness statement exposing the above-linked revisionist history for what it is--a fabrication.

On the topic of Unity: I, a linux user since the mid 90s, worked an actual linux job through the forced deprecation of GNOME 2.. I don't have much anything constructive to say about it. I even used fvwm2 for a while after gnome2 got yoinked.. it was a nice reminder of my halcyon days writing perl in xemacs, running fvwm on my sparc 2. It wasn't too long after that I landed on xfce. I still wonder what gnome2 could've been.

All I ever wanted was a compositing, focus-follows-mouse, raise/lower window manager with a full-featured keyboard shortcut config. I still feel as though we were sold out. I don't think my mental representation of Canonical will ever recover. It just felt so blatantly anti-user during that period, and that impression has not been tempered with the passage of time.
>> Nothing is free in this world, not even code. The shortcuts you are making aren't really shortcuts. Instead, they will become your doom.

> We're discussing React in this thread, are we not?

So, by this, what you mean is purely limited to React? Or FE code? Or code in general?
That's predicated on their ability to help catch murderers as well as their inability to allow police to enforce other kinds of crime.

It's also possible for good-faith efforts to play into a feedback system that ends up resulting in racial injustices. They can even do that while doing other good things too.

Then you have the uncomfortable and terrifically subjective question on your hands of weighing the costs and the benefits - both now and into the future.

I don't think you can dismiss this as being largely about race, nor dismiss it as irrelevant to race.

In some ways, it'd be easiest if it doesn't work. That way the questions get real simple.
StarCraft mineral mining is interesting.

50 minerals per worker + 100 minerals per supply depot at some amortized rate.

You have a dampening term on workers/mineral patch which saturates between 2-3 workers. It’s pretty linear till then.

Then you get a new base and do it again.

The problem is you have both time and minerals (and supply, gas) as resources, which means there are multiple competing derivatives. I’d be interested in seeing if you can approximate the economy with derivatives alone but I think you’d have to have some discrete simulation.