jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>Please re-read what you just wrote about race and consider whether it might have interpretations other than the one you intended. To me you seem to be asserting that race is a priori indicative of socioeconomic status, rather than the (likely intended, but more nuanced) assertion that a larger portion of minority children will come from lower-earning households.

The point is simply that the article tells us something about how the benefits of education vary with socioeconomic status, even though it doesn't directly measure it. People might also be interested in the direct effect of race too, even though no one brought it up so far.

>Second, I don't necessarily accept the argument that "people who go to college make more money" proves that "college is a good investment". For example, this study found that direct transfer of assets and emulation of behaviors exhibited by wealthy parents had a much stronger contribution to the lifetime earnings of children than education level: http://www.nber.org/papers/w9314

I'm very familiar with this literature, I just any studies at hand that correct for this effect. Also, unless I missed it in the body of the article, the article is not measuring the effect of education per se, but the how much education accounts for the elasticity between wealth of parents and wealth of children (i.e. to what extent education explains this effect). I know the results I showed aren't conclusive, they are just all I have on hand. I'm happy to see more evidence on the payoff to education for low SES groups.

>Lastly, the article you posted makes it very clear that the earnings gap for Latinos and African Americans is significant (20% or more) and pervasive no matter what level of education they attain.
Yes, but I don't think this really changes the argument.
It's actually sequential testing which is not necessarily Bayesian. Also, it's not a cheap knock off. Just another way of getting to an answer.
Consumers don’t magically get more money to spend so as long as everyone has access it’s equally effective at scale. The only real difference is it’s ability to shift where advertising dollars are spent.
Cytokine storm is generally observed with young patients. Their immune system is "too strong for their own good".

My understanding is that most deaths are in the elderly, and that those deaths are due to pneumonia.
let me make a point about why i see one type of targeting as benign and the other (which i suppose could be called 'collaborative targeted marketing', because it involves sharing or aggregating data from multiple sources) as dangerous.

if i subscribe to a magazine about fishing and it includes an advertisement about some new fishing lure, well... it's obvious why the fishing magazine might think i'm into fishing.

but if i just bought a pack of diapers at walmart and then start seeing mailers for baby monitors from jc penny, that's when i start to get nervous.

my fear is of a world where i call up a health insurance provider, ask for a quote, and they say "according to facebook market research, your hobbies include BASE jumping based on the videos you watch on youtube. therefore your premium rate will be [$xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.00].".
One common answer to all questions about covid: we don't know. All we have is extremely preliminary evidence, and we're acting on it in hope of luck and also just to provide people with something to cling to.
Could you elaborate on how its a wealth grab?
Uber could be much more proactive in surveilling drivers and terminating them for noncompliance. Perhaps they can even require drivers to sign contracts making them pay five-figure fines in addition to termination in the case they're found to have engaged in discrimination.

They could make drivers keep dashcams, with microphones, in their cars and stream them to Uber HQ where a random sample of rides will be analyzed by corporate for violations.

They could hire blind people with service dogs to act as "secret shoppers", requesting rides in random parts of random cities, and then reporting back to corporate as to how they were treated.
"The reason for the WHO’s failure to properly act to contain the outbreak, and its repeated issuing of inaccurate and bad advice, is not merely the result of incompetence. Rather, the malfeasance is the direct result of the CCP deliberately buying out WHO’s leadership, with tragic consequences."

https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/17/u-s-funds-world-health-...

"The coronavirus crisis is raising questions over China's relationship with the World Health Organization"

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/14/asia/coronavirus-who-chin...

"Coronavirus: How WHO Corruption Helped It Spread"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwFTZawOc9k
That works! The "join" can go before or after the numeric ID. I just tried it both ways.
(unipi.it: University of Pisa)
> You claimed that Namecoin was "properly decentralised" and "uses blockchain to control ownership of domains and zone edits in a more secure way". Yeah, all 28 domains in use.

Yes that was my argument, we are both in agreement why are you so upset?
The simple explanation is that the word functor is being used for two different concepts.

I found this question on Stackoverflow.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16353066/how-are-functors...
If the app is useful, a premium version could be made, as well as a company branded version for an entire company, etc. HR is tough to sell to, but that doesn't mean impossible. It could be a nice corporate perk.
> Like many people, Einstein's life and work has been fascinating to me, but in comparison to other brilliant scientists of the twentieth century, there are at least a handful if not a dozen or couple of dozen people who were and are equally as intelligent, brilliant, and more prolific.

Looking backward, it is pretty clear that there were lots of people coming up with the formulations for quantum mechanics. Even without Einstein, somebody probably would have handled that stuff.

However, general relativity was definitely ahead of its time. It took decades until we could even test it.

Finally, while Einstein "lost" the Bohr-Einstein debate about the nature of quantum mechanics, the problem was actually the experiments of the day. One of the strikes against Einstein was the fact that the field formulation predicts that excited electrons in atoms do not decay which everybody knew was an incorrect prediction. Except that Einstein WASN'T wrong--if you put an excited atom in a photon trap and isolate it from the rest of the universe it's decay time goes way up. See: "Collective Electrodynamics" by Carver Mead http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/collective-electrodynamics
You say "the alternative" as if every other country on
Earth has one system, and the US has a second system,
and that first system is what we should have.

That's actually fairly accurate. We have a system with 15% of the population without any sort of insurance, whereas 'the other' system provides universal coverage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_health_ins...

The payment details may vary widely from country to country, but it's unconscionable that tens of millions of Americans are an accident or diagnosis away from permanent financial ruin.
Since they didn't create the wealth in a vacuum, others must have a right to share in it.

I don't think it has to go there. I think there can be a responsibility to give credit that is distinct from the responsibility to share the spoils.

The question here is not whether Andrew Carnegie had a right to keep his wealth, but whether we as a society have a responsibility to give some of the credit for "his" achievements to the other people who made them possible.
The top 3 are great.

I love the magnet like slopes - it's one that just makes you go "wow". Reminds me somewhat of the James Dyson "Wrong Garden" illusion as discussed previously on HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=779555, comments of thread discuss how to see a short video of it).

The "counter-intuitive illusory contours" one is interesting. It is almost as though our brain is treating the image as a liquid, and imagining distortion waves ahead of the "collision point".

The sine wave one is interesting in that you no longer notice the effect if you are reading the text below it (i.e not focusing on the wave beyond your periphery). This is somewhat similar to the "spinning dancer" illusion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spinning_Dancer) in which you can trick your mind to see the illusion in different ways, and sometimes have difficulty seeing it again as you did originally.

In my related searches, found this site: http://yloveillusions.com/en/category/uncategorized/page/5/ which has some other interesting illusions. Particularly like the "A bottle disappears" one.
I was going to develop an iPhone app around the 5BX/XBX programs. Related to that (and especially because I'm a Canadian citizen), I contacted the Canadian government about receiving the rights to use the information in a commercial product. The body of the response I got back was:

"On behalf of the department of National Defence, we were advised that the Royal Canadian Air Force - 5BX Exercise Plans for Physical Fitness are not to be reproduced. These exercises programs are outdated and have been discontinued by the Canadian Forces since they could cause physical injury."

Just so you know.
The only TED talk that has ever brought tears to my eyes - Jamie Oliver's: http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html
Question from someone who maybe doesn't spend enough time examining PLs: How is JavaScript "like assembler with hashtables"? What "messed-up-ness" are Python and Ruby legendary for?
Well, assuming you don't want to try again with another game development company, I'd say look around for something that interests you and just apply. Don't worry if your current skills aren't a perfect match - you're experience (C++, graphics/performance-sensitive code, teamwork, tight deadlines, etc - the stuff other people mentioned) means you can probably pick up whatever you need on the way without much trouble and a good developer (assuming you're not applying to a big company with a clueless HR team...) should be able to spot that.

I found that having a background in C++, before moving to other languages (Python at first, now clojure wherever I can get away with using it) actually helped me program better. C++ makes you careful about managing resources almost to the point of paranoia - at least manual memory management does that to me :) and the C++ performance myth makes me pay a lot more attention at making sure my code is fast, regardless of language (though thankfully I've managed to kick the premature optimization habit in favour of choosing appropriate algorithms). I don't think I'd have picked up Python and Clojure (and Java and...) as easily if I hadn't went through the C++ pains, so you're epxeirence should serve you well. With a bit of luck, whoever you end up interviewing with will recognize that.
If it's anything like SNES/Genesis/other console emulators, the only entropy source is player input. I can't imagine many arcade machines would have a true persistant clock, and even then you could just store the start time as part of the replay data to ensure you get the same output for rand(time()) each time.
Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world: http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_ca...

This talk is not about hallucinogenic mushrooms. It really opened my eyes to the awesome potential of fungi, and how this potential is largely ignored because of the connotation to "hippy" and "drugs." Fungi is just generally misunderstood. I was absolutely amazed at how thorough these clean-up jobs were, at how well the fungi consumed, not only the waste, but the toxins in the waste.

Stamets recently wrote his fungi take to cleaning oil spills: http://www.fungi.com/mycotech/petroleum_problem.html
Check out this video:

http://python.mirocommunity.org/video/1531/pycon-2010-python...

Doing a search for "Panel data" yields some interesting courses.

MIT's OCW and Apple U should also have lots of material.

As far as books go, I've been recommended "Lords of Finance" "Too Big to Fail" and "My Life as a Quant".
I can imagine a scenario where the bandwidth is so slow, and the client CPU is so fast, that theoretically sending a small file that is expanded into CSS would result in a faster page load. The use of JS Web Workers might further this.

In addition, with more mobile internet providers capping monthly usage, every byte counts.

I'm assuming that these CSS compilers generate larger output CSS files than their input.
Results of and a link to Google spreadsheet of TED talks in order of "engagement". http://blog.postrank.com/2010/05/and-the-most-engaging-ted-t...
This should not be legal.
Somebody waited their entire career to write that headline.
There is also "political science" and "social science".

There are also those who advance the premise that mathematics is empirical, but for the context of the discussion I'm not sure that either is relevant.

Mathematical "testing" can be described as deduction.

We can present math axioms, but can we present scientific axioms?

Science as a religion or science as an all encompassing worldview is unscientific. This is better described as scientism.

If you examine the premises of climate doom, you'll find unscientific presuppositions. There are also necessarily moral implications to the goals of regulating consumption and population size. It becomes even less scientific for cynics who question if the climate scientist's "experiments" and models are incentivized to necessitate certain conclusions.

These are items which are best disputed in their respective arenas. "Believe the science" doesn't tell us anything about morality or the ideological progenitors of the climate movement. It narrows the issue while mischaracterizing science as a system of belief which can inform us on moral matters or the historical record of climate doom ideologues.
Can you point us to any evidence of actual election fraud? If so, what do you make of the courts not being clear about the facts as you see them? Was this evidence simply not part of the tens of lawsuits that were filed or are you suggesting that the courts are simply complicit in this stolen election? Or is it something else?
"Working independently" is not the same as "working in isolation". Not sure that this is also what the GP meant, but "work independently" usually means that you understand what the business needs and can initiate new tasks on your own, without waiting for someone to tell you what to do.
I don't think so? It's a pretty core feature of America's system to ban actions, not speech.
Yes, this functionality is required by law and is done at the chipset firmware level these days. And even before phones supported this, it was done by triangulation at the carriers towers.
excited to try zig one of these days!
> It's also the only state to prohibit radar detectors

Which is arguably outside of the state’s jurisdiction. Only the FCC has the authority to regulate the airwaves and specifically transmitters and receivers.

I bet that cop’s radar gun has an FCC sticker on it.
This is all under a warrant. Of course police can and do get location records from cell companies with a warrant, and it doesn't seem like a huge stretch for a warrant to require the cell company to "ping" to get the most quality location data.

The problem here is the judges granting the warrants.

Judges in Virginia are chosen by legislatures [1], which means they're accountable to political establishment who in turn have good political cover from being responsible for judicial actions.

Judicial oversight and judicial elections are needed.

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/Judicial_selection_in_Virginia
I see, thanks. I suppose I too live in a pro-cop area then. The police, judges and county attorneys all know each other and work together quite a bit. I know them and they know me.

I suppose the way I handle the situation is to not break the law and not treat them like we inherently have an adversarial relationship. From my perspective, having the local community support first responders is a good thing and works very well for us here.

This is rural Texas, btw.
do you know of which ones exactly? I was looking into using an old kindle for such a think, but couldn't figure out a straightforward way of pushing data onto it
Of all the gear and prep that was needed, they even made sure there was pie and cake. Really important. Really.
I work for big FANG. Even though my salary is not at the ridiculous level I feel it is more than enough to support my family and have a big chunk of saving aside. In contrary to what I assume, I never feel bored at work. I almost always find something more interesting to do. But maybe because I am lucky to have the trust and support from upper management to let me loose and find things to work on or improve.
If I could just keep at 1000, that would be great success. I think if somehow the site doubled again, it would become possible to even hire full-time help.

Interestingly not all sweets makers are that interested in selling in bulk. My approach seems to need some tweaking. Currently I would just send an email like "hey I'd like to buy 1000 of these cute candies you make, how much would it be?". But instead of a price, I just get "we don't sell wholesale". It's strange to me as I would imagine they would be happy to sell more of their product, but apparently a more gentle approach is called for here. My first hire would likely be someone who is really good at this, unless I can somehow turn into that person myself during this year.
Very good point; typically if you inspect the factories and only work with ISO9001 factories, you can ask to see their random selection / testing procedures that are in place.
And, as you say, asking to see the policy is one thing, asking to see the records of the last random test they made is another :D
Is tennis elbow the only problem? Do you do anything else to help with the pain? Are there any other tools that you use?
http://www.copyblogger.com/the-10-second-rule/

Not that I used that, but I'm a diagonal reader myself and I do appreciate the bold parts. But as I said before, there are 2 things that don't work too well, which is, the current blog theme isn't great and too much bold parts on my side.
where is the download link?
I don't think you understand how mandates work. If the federal government has the direct power to issue a mandate in the context, it does so, states' be damned.

If the federal government does not have the direct power to issue laws in the context, it uses the power of the purpose to convince states to play along as a condition of receiving federal funds. The states can receive without punishment, they simply can't receive the contingent federal funds. That happens a lot in practice.

By the way: the legal age of consumption is imposed on the states through this latter method. The federal government, as you point out, doesn't actually have the right to impose a legal age of booze on wholly-intrastate lanes of commerce. So, it makes receiving federal funds for roadway/transit construction and maintenance contingent on setting a legal age equal to or higher than the federal "mandate".
I found this same email in my gmail spam today.
While the plugin is probably awesome, there are two things that really suck here.

1. Lack of a real demo. This is the sort of thing that will not convince me until I can click "upload" and have a detected face on my own crappy image.

2. There is no clear link to the actual plugin. I know we're all web guys and can extract links from source, but come on. Even the "source on github" text isn't a link ...

edit: the word Github is a link, but there is no visual way of distinguishing it from the rest of the text, which leaves me dazed and confused.
Anyone who participated in this program earlier care to leave a review?
In the sense I meant it, it does, though I guess my comment was ambiguous. I believe I am sufficiently introspective and aware of my own biases to determine whether I'm making such a basic rationalization, especially when the question is made explicit. If I make the question to myself explicit before pirating something, I feel secure.
>any residential ISPs that do [native] IPv6

It seems there must be (though I guess not necessarily end-to-end), as jjcm notes there is a peak every Sunday and a local minimum nearly every Friday suggesting that the usage is primarily domestic. If this analysis is correct then this surprises me.
> The frequency ranges supported by my device are 281 - 361, 378 - 481, and 749 - 962 MHz. This is about 50% more than the chip is advertised to support and covers quite a bit of interesting activity in the US including ISM, LMR, television, amateur bands, pagers, and mobile phones.

Do hackers of this device risk running afoul of laws against intercepting mobile phone transmissions?
Not entirely, not for the purposes you're describing: https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/summit/
that would be great indeed! Both for inkscape as well as for XKCD, dilbert would be cool as well, though :-)
My guess for what that meant was different: that you could go to the test room any time in that window, but his emphasis "if you have to give birth, you're going to give birth in the exam room" suggested that once you entered, you were under some observational time control and limits on reference materials for the duration of the test. That is, it was not a 'take-home' test.

The bimodal distribution he showed did not have the massively sharp mode, or bulge at perfection, that might be expected if people were looking at the answer key while answering. Instead, it appeared to be two normal distributions, with different averages, superimposed. That suggests to me imperfect pre-test memorization of a larger answer pool, some of which was forgotten during a monitored in-room test.
I think the privacy argument is that extensions cannot steal cookies. The current model grants extensions permission to steal cookie values right?

I am unfamiliar, so please feel free to correct me. Thanks for uBO!
> The UK Government is arresting people who film empty hospitals:

The police arrested one person who walked, mask-less, though quiet public areas of a busy hospital (and was abusive when challenged by hospital workers). The vital need to spread conspiracy theories on Facebook isn't one of the "reasonable excuses" for leaving your house.
In addition to what has already been said, DOSBox has a strong focus on games and quite often they decide to not fix something unless it directly impacts a game. Many people were not happy with this, because it would mean that trivial (and also not so trivial) fixes to make some demos, trackers or business software run were never applied. In particular they refuse any patches for the latter (probably scared of possible liablity).

Edit: Vanilla DOSBox is also unlikely to add support for more hardware (e.g. MMX or early 3D accelerators) because they don't want to maintain it and it won't be needed by most games.
It sounds like charities have an accountability problem that could be solved with technology. If everything the charity did was public then people could rest assured that their money is well spent.
No screenshots, no examples in the readme, builds failing.

Nah.
Privacy, conspicuously absent...
China manipulates its currency so any number in dollars would be inaccurate. It probably has maybe 2-3 times the amount stated here. It's still a pretty poor country though per capita.