skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cops talk about the blue all of silence not just regular people. It shows up in multiple court cases with cops lying to protect other cops up to and including perjury.

To read the bias read up on the Jason Van Dyke case, first time in 50 years a Chicago cop convicted of murder after being caught on camera and he served 3 and 1/4 years in prison. “The U.S. attorney's office confirmed on April 13, 2015,[57] that they had been conducting a federal criminal investigation of the McDonald case in conjunction with the state attorney's office, after contradictions were found between the initial police report and the dash-cam video”

Look, if you have zero counter evidence than any evidence to the contrary should be persuasive.
I'd say that about 70% of our recent hires came from the monthly HN threads, and among first-interview invitees the % may well be even higher. Somehow the average quality of applicants via HN is way higher than via other platforms and I don't know why.

Sidenote: we're not a big company, we hire single-digit new people per year. I have no idea how to scale this success up, ie if we'd advertise way more aggressively elsewhere the % would likely go down.
Yeah also looking at what jobs are in demand at recruiters from LinkedIn, I can see already since the pandemic it's more from companies with proven business models and rather small startups. Good to see some real numbers actually. But of course the effect is there, job seekers and companies get more cautious. Still, better than hiding this data. Also I don't think there is a real reason to worry within tech
They also conveniently keep volunteers and churches from feeding the homeless, so subsidized corporations can handle that.

One needs only to taste legit French cheese, compared with, say, Austrian manufactured French cheese, to know food quality laws have little to do with actual food quality, and Austria has one of the strictest food legal systems in the World.
Another worrying sign is "remote US only".
True. I meant it in both senses. That is, if we don’t actively examine our biases, we are susceptible to whatever big lie is the Big Lie of the time.
Hey when all you have is a hammer…
https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941

"Contributor Covenant was created by Coraline Ada Ehmke", ah yeah that one
> My biggest issue with Thread is (AFAICT) it gives each device access to the internet.

Thread is a protocol, this is only as true as the statement "WiFi gives each device access to the internet".

It _can_ give devices access to the internet, but only if you plug your (border) router into an internet connection. (Or otherwise bridge the networks. Your border router could still have internet access itself without bridging the thread network out to the internet.)
Journey before destination
A while ago I started using the AWS CDK and never looked back, I can write all the infrastructure code in a real programming language with auto complete and proper IDE support, no more hacky YAML syntax for simple if statements!

Issue with using config for these things is that more complex structures don't scale that well, in code you can do abstractions to make everything easier to reason about.

https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/
Learning on the edge
No, I didn’t forget.

I was referring to the fact that Trump (and Musk) were not accepted into the “Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Gates, Waltons, Kochs” circle OP mentioned.

So they blazed their own way, happy to ruffle feathers and make enemies along the way.
That's a reasonable expectation for what qualified immunity is.

But then there's the reality, which is that it's been abused via a "chicken and egg" problem.

It's called "piercing the veil of qualified immunity" and the standard for doing so is "currently established law". IOW, if it's not been pierced in the past for exactly (and I mean exactly) the same thing, then the default is that qualified immunity applies.

What ends up happening is that even if the broad strokes are exactly the same, they'll claim there is no currently established law if some of the minutia of the details is different. The police officer kicked the pregnant woman in the face instead of the stomach.

The effect is that qualified immunity stopped being reasonable.

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If I may, I suspect most reasonable people understand that qualified immunity is there because police officers are human and mistakes happen. But it's been abused, and as such it needs to be reformed.

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editing this in as a perfect example of what I mean about courts using specificity to effectively make it impossible to pierce the veil of qualified immunity.

Many thanks to btown for the link, I went looking for something similar and was unable to find it.

https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/qualified-immunity-lega...

> In other words, prior case law holding it unlawful to deploy police dogs against nonthreatening suspects who surrendered by laying on the ground did not make it clear that it was unlawful to deploy police dogs against nonthreatening suspects who surrendered by sitting on the ground with their hands up.
The particular way in which the data is loaded into DuckDB and the particular machine configuration on which it is run triggers a problem in DuckDB related to memory management. Essentially the standard Linux memory allocator does not like our allocation pattern when doing this load, which causes the system to run out-of-memory despite freeing more memory than we allocate. More info is provided here [1].

As it is right now the benchmark is not particularly representative of DuckDB's performance. Check back in a few months :)

[1] https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/3969#issuecomment-11...
Actually I've told some people "don't struggle on something all day and then at 4:45PM tell me you haven't made any progress and ask for help" many times, and I still get the 4:45PM messages from them. It's not like the idea of telling them these things did not occur to me.
Probably depends a lot on age.
I'm not sure what your point is actually? Are you reading my comment as being somehow pro-Trump?

If so and you do not have some disability that makes picking up on sarcasm or humor difficult then please read again as I suppose you may be distracted or going through some problem.

If you do have a disability that makes picking up on sarcasm etc. difficult then no, it was insulting to Trump because it goes back to the common observation that Trump is intellectually deficient, thus if someone is defending Trump they are now left with two problems, I have apparently sided with them and said well of course Trump is stupid so he won't be able to understand that he is mocking a disabled person.

This would be problematic for a defender of Trump because if they admit he is stupid this puts their hero in a bad light, but if they argue he is not too stupid to realize the person they are mocking is disabled then we are back to he knowingly mocked a disabled person.

By pretending to excuse Trump by reason of stupidity I establish the rhetorical point that the mannerisms that were being mocked are commonly understood as being evidences of disability. This rhetorical point once established makes it difficult to argue that he didn't know, they need now to argue:

1. that the mannerisms are not commonly understood as being disabled.

2. that he did not know the person was disabled and

3. because of 1 his not knowing is not evidence of stupidity.

all that would be tall order, and thus someone who was in the bag for Trump would probably prefer not to do any of them.
IEEE 754 does define decimal types in addition to binary ones.
https://archive.ph/dJYx0
But officials are explicitly saying that the unemployment is too low and raising interest rates is one way to bring it up.
The economy is overheated and needs to cool down. It's not wishful thinking or headlines grabbing topic, it is a stated fact that the economy is artificially induced into recession.
If you are a public figure and call a rescuer a pedophile on twitter I question your mental stability. What other comments does he make in private I wonder?
11% technically

https://twitter.com/chancery_daily/status/157555026796932710...
I think Germany will have the worst time in the EU. I think the blankets market will soar in the next season.
Interesting about the springs, I didn’t know that. In practice though, the opposite to everything you say seems to be true based on using many (many) of both connectors over the years. I’ve had a couple of disasters with USB-C ports breaking (on the device, not the cable), while I’ve never had anything go permanently wrong with Lightning sockets. Your point that it has delicate springs inside it sounds concerning but seems to be totally theoretical - you can see customer service staff in Apple stores frequently just whip out a SIM key or paperclip and waggle it about in a customer’s iPhone to clean it with total abandon. And I’ve always done this with mine, treating it very rough with metal paperclips, I’ve never worried about hurting the springs. And it has never, ever gone wrong for me. The evidence seems to be that Lightning is just much more resilient.

You say that cleaning out a USB-C port is safe, but I know it’s not, because of that little snap-off wafer inside, which has broken on me twice before. It’s not safe, I promise. Don’t do it unless you have a good warranty!
He had to take it down. It was only accidentally posted to Google Plus. Though we all benefitted in the end, because it's absolutely excellent.
"HN Who's hiring is probably a low priority platform."

This has always surprised me. At several companies I've suggested to the hiring folks that they post on HN and I've rarely seen it happen. But IMHO, although you may not get a lot of candidates that way, I would imagine the signal/noise ratio is high, relative to the average recruiting channel. (Would be curious to see that (dis)confirmed.)
Thread devices cannot access the internet without the cooperation of a gateway device. The topology is ultimately the same as Z-Wave with the devices communicating with a hub and the hub communicating with the internet. Thread is based on IEEE 802.15.4 just like Zigbee, but it uses IPv6 with extensions as the network protocol, for both a more powerful and flexible network protocol and more implementation commonality with existing network stacks.

That said, an explicit goal of Thread is to make the implementation of the gateway device easier and thus allow devices to communicate with a backing cloud service with less active participation of the hub... the hub is still "in the loop," but it doesn't need application-specific implementation for every device, it can just forward messages.
Although it gets misused, there is a very good reason for qualified immunity. Get rid of it and nobody will ever become a cop. And even if you could find people, you'd have to pay a pretty ridiculous salary, especially with an insurance requirement.

Better to reform the official checks & balances on police power so they are more effective.
Coding a PS1 Game
Didn't Oct 1 fall on a Saturday? Where web traffic to hacker news is typically much lower.
Why is that a worrying sign?
Only for "non-profitable" works. It is a downside in the tradeoff. But even then the escalating price for extensions should offer an incentive to limit what works fall into this category and subsidize society when they do.

We are not just balancing the individual creators vs corporations, but also creators of derived works, and societies benefit at-large of more creative works in general. We want to maintain and compensate creators "enough" to maintain incentives for creation, but otherwise maximize the commons.
It won't payoff, the people who made us all switch left long ago with their bonuses to wreck another company.
Circumstantial evidence is still evidence.

Based on other comments here, there seems to be a plausible reason that this type of exercise might not normally be recorded.

But if there's supposed to be a recording, and there isn't, then in the very least that's a plausible angle for investigation.

Meanwhile if it really is the case that the exercise wouldn't normally be recorded, then there's also an open question as to why this guy was assigned to an unrecorded training with somebody he was investigating for rape.

Police investigations and juries aren't logical proofs, that's why there are juries, character witnesses, etc.
JavaScript is one of the few languages that works well both in the browser and on the server side. I don't think this is the time or the place to explain why I didn't write my software in JavaScript — let's just say that I don't think I could handle the incidental complexity in my team of size 1.

As for JSON, others have replied, but my point was perhaps not very well made. It's not just the limitations of JSON itself. By using the same language on both sides, I can avoid adapting to the limitations of any transit format. In other words, I can (pretty much) pass native data structures through and get them out on the other side. In my case, that means not just maps and vectors, but also sets, keywords, or UUIDs. Can this be done with JSON? Sure! But then I'd have an entirely new bug area to deal with (encoding/decoding, forgetting to coerce, etc).
Heh, you're right of course. Can't believe I forgot about that. Even I've fallen into the rut of only thinking of Javascript for any kind of interactivity on the Web. Uggghhh.
That's fine, I agree, and your reminder is reasonable. I have no issue with what issues you've raised here plainly. I just feel that flippant sarcastic zingers are poor way to conduct that conversation as a metter of principle. It's shallow and allows everyone to read their own narratives in between the lines for and against the issues. Your point was not well made.

Compare this to many other comments in this thread who delve into the story. What do we know happened? What makes this suspicious? What are the compounding concerns? What is only speculation thus far?

It is unclear if you responding because you've familiarised yourself with the story? Or is it a simple dismissal because "Fuck LAPD"? A shallow quip directs the conversation to cheer around generic platitudes like this and everyone gets to go home with their own biases reaffirmed without any new knowledge gained.

It's the worst of Twitter

Edit: probably an unnecessary rant, but it's been on my mind a while.
A Look at the Possible Future of 3D Graphics
Also the guy who wrote the follow up to Joel Spolsky's brilliant "Smart and Gets Things Done" article with one entitled "Done, Gets Things Smart" which is nearly a tome and also brilliant.

Check it here: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/done-and-gets-things...
Losing insurance is making a number of police departments actually make changes:

> Even departments with few problems are experiencing rate increases of 30 to 100 percent. Now, insurers also are telling departments that they must change the way they police.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/20...
How to set up a server so that it is secure and safe to use.
This would be a literal example of survivorship bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
AITemplate only supports fp16 data types with fp16 or fp32 accumulation right now. We are working on supporting more data types and quantization.

We don't have an official comparison between AITemplate and tvm / onnx for now, but we do have perf numbers like https://github.com/facebookincubator/AITemplate/tree/main/ex..., https://github.com/facebookincubator/AITemplate/tree/main/ex.... Feel free to run these examples on other frameworks and compare perf.
Fossil is not less modern than Git, just less popular.

Under the hood it seems a lot like Git. The UI is more Hg-like. I disagree with D. Richard Hipp's dislike of rebasing, but he's entitled to that opinion, and a lot of people agree with him.

Calling Fossil "not modern" is a real turn-off. TFA seems to be arguing for buzzwords over substance.
The "expansion in the money supply" has been going on for 15 years. The supply issues started 2.5 years ago. The inflation started about 2 years ago. So only one of those factors is correlated with serious inflation.

The explicit goal of expanding the money supply in 2009 was to drive inflation in order to combat deflation. It didn't work. We ended up with a decade+ long period of low/no inflation.

Even today, the USD is growing stronger relative to other currencies. So in spite of this continued money supply expansion, Americans are experiencing inflation the least of anyone in the developed world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler#Shutdown_by_service_pro...
Binge drinking all the way down
I'm not sure what training you've had, and don't care to get into some sort of measurement contest, but I can assure you anything beyond "Introductory" classes/training hammer this into you ad nauseum.

The gun only comes out for one reason - that is to kill something that you perceive to pose an immediate danger to you or someone around you. The gun does not come out for funsies - if it's out, someone is getting shot until they're not a threat anymore (which can mean different things depending on the situation).

It's not a "mag dump" as some have indicated, it's "fire until there's no more threat, reload and keep firing if there is still a threat".

The gun is a tool for killing. It is that simple. The gun comes out, someone is dying. It's that cold.

This isn't the movies. People don't get hit once and leave the fight... this is real life.
"Police have discretion on enforcement." - That is perhaps one of the underlying problems. Many of the laws as written rely on 'discretion' to be functional. Nearly every driver in the US who has been driving more than a few weeks is a yet to be convicted multi-time felon.. by the very nature that the laws around driving only work when paired with sometimes arbitrary discretion. Imagine if you go over the speed limit even .1mph, which will happen to almost every car many hundreds or thousands of times per day, and you are sited for such. Consider rules like turn signals needing to be indicated 100 feet before a turn. 99.9 feet and you are violating the law and due a citation. Multiple citations and you should automatically have you license suspended. There is a never ending collection of officers saying that if they want to pull someone over, all they have to do is follow them due to it being impossible to drive with 100% legal compliance.

Until we reduce that ability ( which is in the hands of our elected lawmakers), the movement of the 'discretion' just moves where the power target is.
social security, medicare, medicaid, WIC Programs, public schools, public transportation, all come to mind.

I mean, no coincidence that they are always on the top of the list to threaten and scheme to cut by the right wing.
Love the visual explainers for machine learning nowadays.

The author has more here: https://jalammar.github.io/

Amazon has some highly interactive ones here: https://mlu-explain.github.io/

Google had: distill.pub

Hope to see education in this space grow more.
> found them useful ON TGE JOB?

Algorithm training is useful on most jobs for preventing you from going accidentally quadratic.
> It was the reader which settled all the syntactic facts about what operation is applied to what operands.

The reader does not know anything about operands or operators. It does not even know if the thing read is data or code. It also does not know if it is valid code. Enter (3 4 *) and the reader happily takes that expression, not caring about operators and operands. The reader will print zero warning about such expressions.

To really know what the symbols in an expression actually are, one would need eval, compile or a code walker. Are they used as literal symbols? variables? functions? macros? block names? type names? ...

> Because, look: (- 10) and (- 10 1) behave differently: the 10 operand changes semantic role between minuend and subtrahend based on syntax. All that eval knows is that it's passing arguments.

That's semantics, not syntax. EVAL and COMPILE check that it is a function call, what arglist it expects (zero or more args, &optional args, &rest args, keyword args, and process them recursively. But Lisp has also special operators, macro operators and a lambda expression. There the syntax requirements are different or even context depended.

Also if Lisp reads the expression (foo * +), the reader does not know if FOO is a function or a macro, it thus does not know what * and + are. Are they variables? Are they operators? Something else? They don't even need to have a definition at read time.
Sorry, I was indeed talking about Unicode email addresses but I worded it poorly. Thanks for the precision!
That's interesting and a very good point. There are definitive links between solidarity and dementia.
For a moment I thought this would be about stationery.
Building honeypots with vcluster and Falco: Episode I
Ask HN: Distribution List service for hobby group
Any recommendations for a creating an email distribution list for a club with 25 members? Would be nice if there was was one email address we could all send to that included all of us.
You wrote: <<but most women don’t use it>>

First, do you have any sources? Most (Western culture) highly-educated women that I know use online dating apps.

Second, as I understand, a major issue about dating with highly-educated people: Women (almost) always want to meet same socio-economic status or above. Dear HN readers: Read that last sentence mathematically: Greater than or equal (>=)! As women are quickly holding more than 50% of highly educated jobs (economically practical masters degrees and above), this creates a huge mismatch. See: Medicine, science, finance, technology jobs. (Commentary: By 2030/40/50, I feel a huge portion of medicine will be women. Great!)

Real-world example: If a man is a public pre-school or elementary school teacher (middle to lower income), his chances to meet a high-income woman are very low in 2022.

On the contrary, many (Western culture) men are happy to meet / date / marry women whom have (far) lower socio-economic status. "Sexy, not smart." In the classic (out-dated) cultural view, this is "big (male) boss" dates/marries low socio-economic status executive assistant ("secretary"). I have observed this is quickly coming to an end in the last twenty years.

Real questions:

(1) Whom are high-income male bosses dating these days? I assume: High-income women whom are breaking the glass ceiling for senior roles. (Great! I support these women 152%!) Or: These men date younger (and younger!). I have observed both in my professional career.

(2) Whom are low-income/-education female executive assistants dating these days? I assume they are mostly single. Why? They want to meet high-income men, but these men are more-and-more focused on other (still rare!) high-income women(!).

Final comment that is very (deeply!) personal: If you are not alpha-male or very high income, it is difficult to meet highly-educated women. Basically, they are "vaccuumed/Hoovered" (sorry: American English slang!) by other high-income/status or alpha men. It is so tough. Please, please, do not read this final paragraph as discriminatory against women whom choose these men. Dating is complex! Personally, my dream is to meet someone who is a science researcher (academic) with a low salary, but passionate about their work. Lots to talk about!

Last: Please, please don't read any of this post as something negative towards women. No, exactly the opposite. I am more interested in how wealthly, highly-educated societies will rebalance when women hold more than 50% of educated positions (very soon in rich countries!). In my view, it is terrific that women finally have equal opportunity in my society. My mother never had these opportunities, but her daughters will finally have the chance for economic equality. Huzzah.