jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This affects black students in many ways. For example, People suffer from biases as well. If you are a teacher and you mostly see black students flagged, you'll probably be biased to assume black students cheat more. It's not a rational deduction it's an artifact if the way our mind process information (hebian learning, fire together wire together)

This is just one hypothetical way it might harm black students.

You are also assuming that teachers do their job and review the video. How about some lazy teachers that don't, and decide to trust the computer? Can you really assume there is no teacher like this? If so, this software bias may very well manifest as a accusation against an innocent. If the software makes more mistakes with black students, then this innocent will probably be black.
Even if after some investigation it'll be sorted out, it is rather rattling being accused of cheating. And all of this ordeal is just because you are black.

I also really dislike the culture and race war narratives coming out of the US. That given, I'm still very concerned about trusting crappy software with meaningful life altering decisions. Handling color is just how this software is crappy, it's not the real issue.
I think you should throw away everything and start from scratch sailing on an already solid platform. Whether that is a plugin for Office 365, a paid app for Smartsheet or Airtable or any other *already successful* platform.

From your submission, I think what you are failing to understand is that you are asking people/companies to move their excel app/reporting to random-joe-bloggs' platform. It's not about the marketing. Even with the best marketing in the world, as a buyer I would ask myself "where this is going to be in one year?", and well...

Pick a solid platform. Hundreds of thousands of buyers are already there, the technology is already there, and you are not asking them to rebase their business. You only need to pipe the solution to the problem. If there is such problem then marketing will be way easier with a solid ground.
> Cars similarly don’t directly employ as they’re not sentient beings.

Yes, but auto plants do directly employ people.
I think it will be more effective if you put the politicians in power or the owners to live next to them, i can assure you there will be no lack of money for building and maintenance of the nuclear plants.
That is the title of the article.
I realise you're being snarky, but of course it is. Do what makes you happy. For an increasing (but numerically very small) amount of people, building their own service is what makes them happy.

In terms of awesome features - well yes. There are tons and tons and tons that are available from pages dynamically generated by a server-side program that would be a real pain to produce on manually updating HTML pages.
Most emerging market currencies like Brazil. Paul Krugman feels this is temporary.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/rupee-panic/
Right, but isn't radioactive water like cordial, you only need a small amount to change a much larger body of water?

Ton for ton, I can see your point of how it's only a drop in the ocean, but if that drop is highly radioactive and spreads in the currents, wouldn't that be enough to cause serious damage?
You are missing a point though: this is the public administration side. They can (and should) demand any document sent to them to be formatted in a public open standard (such as ODF).

If anyone, it's the companies interfacing them that will have to bear those "interoperability" costs. At least until they also switch to LibreOffice or something compatible enough. IMHO this is much better than them requiring Office-formatted documents.
What about PGP or other encryption? Surely, the NSA couldn't crack a PGP encrypted message sent over tor, could they? (Assuming no access to private keys)

Disclaimer: I have basic understanding of security, but not much more.
People are all equal and should be afforded the benefit of the doubt. On the other hand, there is a massive power difference between a rich corporation and an individual. Inverting the burden of proof is warranted in such cases.

Your accusation would be very troublesome if made against individuals but for corporate lawyers its just another day at the office.
No, you're not the only one.

If you hire based on physical traits it's only logical to assume that a person may have been hired based on criteria other than competence until you get to know the person. It's the unfortunate byproduct of these hiring practices.
My paternal grandfather and great grandfather both died of cardiac arrest in their 50s. My Dad has always had high cholesterol but went on drugs as soon as they were available - first Niacin, then statins. He's still doing great at 75 and very much thinks the pills are to thank.
The claims of racism here are as always completely and predictably ignoring the context.

As things stand, there are two major dimensions of misrepresentation on the committee: it is completely over-represented by women, and it over-represented (33% of the board vs 15% of the student body, and would be 40% if the candidate was brought on) by white people, and significantly underrepresented by Asian Americans (1 board member vs 33% of the student body).

Unless one makes the ridiculous argument that we "just shouldn't see race" despite it being a highly operative factor in our public lives, there is nothing wrong with the school board considering the problems of racial under-representation. They are seeking a qualified candidate who helps them address many dimensions of their demographic representation issues. There are likely many candidates who would be just as qualified but would better represent the community, like an Asian American man.

In fact, they didn't summarily say no to the candidate, just that they want to see a more diverse slate of candidates, and encouraged the individual in question to reapply. Of course, that part isn't mentioned by people who want to cast this as anti-white discrimination.
CT is universal in the sense that if you understand how it is applied in one domain you can easily apply it to others.

The problem with CT education IMO is that it cannot be taught at the abstraction level only -- there are too many floating abstractions that people can't anchor to any existing knowledge.

This means CT can only REALLY be understood once you apply it to a domain. The problem is that not many people outside of mathematicians understand the domains that CT is traditionally taught with.

CT for Engineers, CT for Programmers, CT for XYZ, is probably the only viable way CT is going to see wider adoption.
Depends a lot on the free product.

For a linux distro, my expectations are that it's "free" but support will cost you money. My expectation is not that it's "free" and the OS will spy on you and report back to HQ so sales can make more sales.

If I don't give personal information on installation my expectation is the product is not harvesting or forwarding that information (For example, I expect that with Facebook, I don't expect that with GIMP).

Both are certainly wrong IMO. MS for giving personal info to a 3rd party and Canonical for bundling spyware with their OS. Both are super icky.
No, Humans are specifically and exclusively the species Homo Sapiens. Furthermore, your supposition that "Most of these groups were probably your ancestors" is quite literally what the research described in this article is about, because that is not a known fact, and only one of multiple hypothesis.

The prevailing theory is that your claim here is entirely wrong, and that early humans killed and possibly ate the Neanderthals rather than interbreeding with them.

Step back and think about what you are doing right now. You're commenting about scientific research around an unknown point in anthropological history... making claims that would require you to know that point of history that is not known.
You're describing several feedback loops that are decades long to test. I suspect that's why they all have problems with conclusive results.
I have done it, but only for some very simple stuff like a logo constructed from a small handful of coloured circles. I certainly would not recommend it for more complicated work.
> But it is precisely for these reasons that the working class is unlikely to be decisive in shaping politics for the foreseeable future. However one defines the working class, it has scarcely any political agency in the current system and no apparent means for acquiring any. At most, working-class voters can cast their ballots for an “un­acceptable” candidate, but they can exercise no influence on policy formation or agency personnel, much less on governance areas that have been transferred to technocratic bodies.

What's the basis for this sweeping claim?
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This is exactly the kind of just-so, cargo cult explanation backed by appeal to authority with a tinge of strawman-y, macho bullshit[1] that I would expect when it comes to the semiconductor industry. Having to "read" something "difficult" is not the issue.

Don't misunderstand me. If we grade on a curve by taking into consideration the typical fare that comes out of this sector, these slides are definitely A+ quality.

And it's telling that fabless is placed below the foundries. Situated between actual fabs and their equipment vendors? And beside IDMs? Total category error, but correcting this, of course, would mean that foundries don't get to be the top piece.

[1] "Pain is gain" is a phrase that I've used in the past (and will continue to use) to describe the resistance to improvement and as an explanation of the day-to-day suffocation of working at a chipmaker.
I think the concentration of content like this is a crucial feature of HN I know and love. You have shown some rare examples of topics I am interested in up to the last day of my life. Most of cool things becomes less interesting while age is going on, but I can not imagine any healthy-minded person who is not interesting in enhancing some cognitive functions.
They wanted to get rid of perl, so someone reimplemented 60% of it in C. Nobody continued with the rest, and so it's just annoyance.
All kinds of info/website are also censored in Russia. They censor anything that could be taken as against the Duma-Putin.
Interesting question, and the discussion does still need to be had. Let me try to give some insights:

The FSF today has the highest membership it has ever had. Most new members joined in support of RMS last year in defence of the attacks on his reputation. The Foundation is doing very well now.

One interesting (and little discussed) theory about the attack on RMS that I heard was that it was also an attack on the Free Software and the FSF as a kind of coup and championed by people working from and benefiting from the chip makers, corporations and manufacturers.

Now there's is some evidence for that the majority of attackers were from that group, however I suspect it's more likely a correlation between the new kind of professional cultural standard of Silicon Valley highly paid technologists and their income sources, than any coordinated attack on Free Software in principle.

There was some a relation between the more lax Open Source developers and the anti-RMS stance seen in previous times, but I think, again, it's not some conspiracy to take down Free Software but rather a relationship between the more pragmatic Open Source developers being able to work for the Silicon Valley industry and becoming part of that culture.
If my kids play a lot of realistic drone strike games, does it increase the likelihood of their being recruited as child soldiers for the Great Drone War? Asking as a concerned parent.
Which today would get you around US$72
GitHub has some, but there are also gitlab, codeberg, srt, a.s.o.

C folks prefer to talk in code.
Run a plate for any Swedish vehicle: https://biluppgifter.se/

Another privacy nightmare with complete vehicle history -- better than carvertical.com or vin-info.com
A week? Two weeks tops? Once we have the viral genome sequence, which we've had for a looooong time, it's really easy to make a test.

Testing a new virus is not the difficulty! We've had all the info we needed for months, and the bottlenecks are not anything specific to SARS-COV-2. IDT, TWIST, and others can produce the specifics for this virus in no time.

What we are seeing is a massive logistical and organizational failure, driven right from the top of all of the organizations.
Not sure, but Medicare (the U.S. federal public healthcare system which covers older patients and some others) will reimburse approximately $35 - $50 per test.

https://www.cms.gov/files/document/mac-covid-19-test-pricing...
For latest news, I'm working with NewsAPI (newsapi.org) to get latest headlines on the virus from different countries. I'll check what I can do, but this may just be a consequence of their API and data.

Thanks for checking it out!

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The content Netflix produces itself is also DRM-infested, isn't it? That excuse doesn't work anymore.
Very interesting. But is it possible to charge without a company created? I lack the /about and other essential information which will make me trust you more.
I agree you need to use it daily but disagree that an Ubuntu desktop provides any real insight.

Here's some BASIC questions an ubuntu user might never encounter:

Which processes are currently hogging the CPU?

Which ports are currently open?

How do you setup a remote git repo and/or add a user for limited ssh?

How do you increase an existing swap part without locking the CPU during write at peak loads?

How do you exclude/include packages from being autoupdated on apt update?

How do you ensure opaque crontabs aren't silently failing?

My advice: Setup a Linux server on aws or whatever for a paying customer with medium load. Only the stress of respondong to actual downtime will teach you anything useful.
Agreed.

This can be easily verified by putting `time` in front of the cat to measure the time taken. Even for huge text files, the wall clock time might be significant but the "user" time is likely still zero.
My point was: it is not something that everyone needs and yet it is a standard, but something, that everyone could benefit from, is not even on the table.
You're right in that it doesn't specifically state an SLA, but there's plenty of context there, like a cutoff time for originating transfers that's several hours before the end of "operating hours". So, same day if before cutoff, next day if not.
Exactly. Fundamentally, we are dealing with a social problem. And while you might be able to mitigate social problems with technology, you cannot solve them. And even with mitigation, all you are doing in the end is getting in an arms race.
Come now, we don't talk about the Apple machines in almost every American elementary school from kindergarten on. Surely these children won't be trained into using Apple systems; the real imprinting will occur 10 years later when they take high school keyboarding classes.
The one boost error I've ever had come out of a program I was from boost::filesystem, but to be fair, I don't think the difference between Windows' "mklink /J" and "mklink /D" is documented properly anywhere
I don't think a car is something you purchase just for the meme.
Companies don't cherish values unless their customers do.

And most people don't know/understand/care what's going on in HK or Xinjiang.
Military releases 2,000 ventilators, up to 5 million masks for coronavirus response

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/coronavirus/article24127936...

Plus tens of thousands in the Strategic National Stockpile.

The bottle neck will be low margin consumables items as we are seeing now with nasal swabs, plastic cups, pipet tips running out.
Though those are not usually pickups. More Range Rovers and similar. The Thais like their pickups though. Locally made Hiluxs are #1
I think it's simply a result of outrage culture.
Now if we could only do the same profile guided layout optimizations with data...
Dart 2 uses strong typing with type inference.
care to write a little howto?

Thanks!
If Coca Cola is depleting a shared resource, then there is an unpriced negative externality. The solution is for the government to transfer some of the gains from the new more efficient system to those worse off under the new equilibrium.

This can be accomplished by taxing the corporation for its use of the aquifers, and transferring the payments directly to those that lost use of their wells.

The end result is that everyone ends up with more wealth than they had under the old system.
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There was, long ago, the lowsrc attribute, with a similar intent. It was deprecated.
Mere Christianity,
War and Peace,
Crime and Punishment
Oh, don't worry. The Activision you're probably familiar with is the one purchased and revived by Bobby Kotick in 1991.
> CFA would likely consider a bitcoin wallet a "system". You weren't authorized to access funds in that wallet.

We don't have to guess. The CFAA refers to unauthorized access to computers, not "systems". The Bitcoin network is not a computer, and someone posting a transaction signed with some key, however that key was obtained, is using the network as intended and not accessing either the Bitcoin network as a whole or the individual computers comprising the Bitcoin network in an unauthorized manner.

> And even if it weren't that's no different than guessing someone's bank account number and paying for purchases that way.

It is different, because in that scenario you're claiming to be the designated account owner, a specific legal person authorized by contract to direct the bank to pay money from that account—not just someone who knows the account number. You generally have to sign a statement to that effect in addition to providing the account details. If you aren't the account holder then you're committing fraud. (Though practically speaking it's really a bit ridiculous that merely knowing the account number—something printed on every check and hardly a closely-held secret—is considered sufficient to set up a direct debit.)

By design, Bitcoin doesn't care about your real-world identity; it only cares about whether you know the private key.

> Its still someone else's money and its still stealing.

Wrong on both counts. Bitcoins are an abstract concept, much like points in a game. They are governed by voluntary consensus among Bitcoin users according to a particular specialized system of rules, and not your private property. In short, they're "yours" only as long as the network says they're "yours". If other Bitcoin users stop recognizing those bitcoins as "yours" for whatever reason—a blockchain fork, a change in the consensus rules, someone else guessing your private key and spending them—you have no legal recourse. There are no physical goods involved which you could sue to have returned to you, and no legally-binding contracts between you and any other participants in the Bitcoin network which you could claim were breached by the change.
Although the computer-generated charts are statistically meaningless, the persistence of number '17' in humans likely has its reason.

The first thing that comes to my mind is that this happens because 17 the number from 1 to 20 that we come into most rarely. When we learn multiplication at school, it doesn't have any factors so we tend to skip it, and for the same reason it's rare to encounter it in various problems. This happens also to '7', but '7' is small enough to occur in many occasions such as counting a number of items etc. So, maybe we are more inclined to pick '17' as 'random' because we rarely meet it. Maybe.
What's so bad about it? I thought that generating 347 random numbers was a neat way to demonstrate the variation in a random distribution with the same sample size actually polled.
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There may be some of this. But counterbalancing it is the desire for more consumers. Corporate interests will be more profitable in the long term by securing more customers than by maintaining cheap labor.

Technology will always provide cheaper manufacturing processes, and alternatives to raw material needs. But it doesn't provide for additional people demanding finished goods.
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"Trolling is a art."

FTFY.
... Why? No, seriously, it just looks like buzzword bingo here.