skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think people are disputing that there is racial bias in policing. What's being disputed are the cause(s) of the racial bias. Do the police have this bias because they are bad people who were raised to be racist or do they have this bias because some demographics exhibit statistically different patterns when it comes to violent crimes?

Hanlon's razor states that you shouldn't ascribed to malice what can better be explained by ignorance/incompetence/etc.

When even those officers belonging to the demographic experiencing the bias are guilty of being biased that suggests that Hanlon's razor is applicable and that the root cause of the police bias might be something else. Looking at the statistics for violent crime by race, shows why this bias and predisposition to being more aggressive with a certain might be explainable psychologically. It's human nature to form preconceptions based on experience.

Now that said, Hanlon's razor should also be applied in favor of the demographic responsible for violent crimes at rates several times higher than they exist in society. I have no reason to believe that anything about being black leads black men to be responsible for more crime then men of a different race, yet the statistics show this is the case. With this in mind, can we find some potential causes that might result in this. The two hypotheses that I think are reasonable to explore are lead poisoning and the lack of male role models due to incarceration. These are two causes that can impact one another. Higher lead levels could lead to greater violence that leads to greater arrests of black males which reduces male role models, and so forth.

When there is such a stark effect of lead poisoning on violence committed later in life, it's important that we give this serious consideration as one of the factors that might be really hurting the black community and its reasonable to infer the potential for causality of lead poisoning leading to violence that leads to bias against the lead poisoned group as being more violent.

It's fucking ridiculous that we can't have a reasonable academic discussion of this hypothesis without it and those considering it being branded as racist. It is anything but. No one here has suggested that a persons race is the cause of being more likely to be arrested for a violent crime. The hypothesis being proposed is that their race merely correlates and that lead poisoning may be a significant cause and that lead poisoning could have impacted anyone from any race, but it impacts black people more for unfortunate historical reasons. No one is trying to blame black people or men. We're merely trying to have an honest discussion of unfortunate environmental factor (lead poisoning) that maybe should be getting a lot more attention than it does in the discussion of why the racial bias against black people, especially black men exist. I wish that the problem of racial bias be solved as much as anyone else. The difference is that I'm not going to shut out any possible explanation just because its inconvenient to the politicized narrative being furthered by a group that violates Hanlon's Razor.
My impression is that the experts don't speak with a ton of confidence. Popularized versions tend to present the latest "this seems kinda likely, but who knows..." as fact.
Well that and Flash was a massive vector of security problems.

Plus it wasn't very good on mobile, even when it was supported (ie - on Android it was still bad and never got out of beta anyhow)
This is a very interesting article. It turns out that Einstein was a very serious philosopher of science, in dialogue with leading philosophers of science of his day such as Schlitz and Reichenbach.

It seems to me that his overall philosophy of science is a version of pragmatism.
The relevance of that study is a massive stretch.
It depends heavily on if there's any prospect of your shares becoming liquid any time in the near future.
Nice. I don't agree with lots of things but it is a great way to think about how software organizations work.

It focuses a lot on whether or not tools are used. IMHO, the fact that a tool is used doesn't tell you much. Often is the wrong tool for the wrong problem, or the tools is not properly being used.
I love the "throwing your vote away" argument. Sorry guys, by voting for the big two, YOU are the one throwing it away. Third party support growth is a great indicator of the public's desire for real change. So what if you lose? You're voting to express your opinion, not to win.
My dad had become a civilian employee at that time. Union Carbide I think. William Gerald Palmer (Jerry). It would be very cool if they knew each other. Dad was on a ship 10 miles from the blast.

I played with Mercury as a kid. I hope I am lucky.
My suspicion is that it is based largely upon context.

I would postulate that academia and journalism are still pretty sexist compared to the 'tens of businesses' you observed.

Potentially in support of your perspective: I see the overspeaking roles inverted in the context of reality TV shows, though that could potentially be seen as a counter-action to normal social roles which develops as structure of society is removed... which would imply the sexist paradigm is the prevalent one.
Just want to point out 5/12 of the design award goes to puzzle/game apps and they were showcased as the first apps. It could mean something or it could mean nothing.
Usually from:
https://www.sweetmarias.com (or their more commercial counterpart http://www.coffeeshrub.com)
Also, I don’t seem to be able to properly run it in docker (I’m trying to deploy it on kubernetes), do you, by random chance, have experience with deploying gitea?
we've been telling people this for years.

drinking is stupid if health is your priority. (we understand there are other reasons you may drink, like fitting in, which is invaluable in its own right)

we challenge anyone to give any health benefits of drinking that are not social (because drinking is not necessary to have the social benefits) that drinking water doesn't also give you.

we will wait
I learned that in my 1st year HCI module at University nearly 20 years ago. It shouldn't be a joke. It should be normal.
Active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14508029
I suppose another point worth bringing up is that hardware has made some pretty strong advances in recent, especially with SSDs being widely available. Stuff like that has raised the ceiling on what a single box can do compared to 2000 and earlier, when Google was building MapReduce at first.
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Does this suggest that something needs some sort of revenue to provide some sort of services?

What a wild idea!
.NET Core is not a rewrite in any way. It's the same runtime with the same GC and JIT, same language compilers and mostly the same standard library. It has just been stripped down by removing deprecated features (such as code sandboxing / partial trust) and made support non-Windows platforms.

You might have confused it with ASP.NET Core, the web development framework, which is a full rewrite.
Only two of those things are communication channels, and one of those has a plausible case for tolls. And that same one is also heavily regulated.

Comcast has an effective monopoly on service to my home, granted to them by the gov't, paid for to some extent with my own tax dollars. They should be regulated.

And to be completely frank, the gov't should own the last mile wiring and make it available at central locations to any ISP who shows up. Then _maybe_ you have a plausible argument for allowing ISPs to discriminate on content, because I'm more likely to have options to switch to a competitor.
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Everyone takes issue with this definition, except the medical community, which has used this standard for decades, to account for how reasonable people consume drinks casually.

It's important to inspect the effects of drinking, even at doses perceived as low. This isn't about college kids killing their brain cells by partying. It's about long term health effects.

Three beers a day, spaced out over 16 hours, as one per meal, will still ruin your liver over decades. It's bad for you. This is pretty common information, and is important to understand, since people tend to find this counter-intuitive. Three beers a day, evenly spaced, sounds like moderation and good behavior.

The new information here says that even one unit a day is still bad for you, even if one unit of a specific type of alcohol (perhaps wine) might provide for a trade of hazards versus benefits.
Maybe that was after the "let her speak"?
It's possible that a person's perception of reality is warped by their own fears and biases. They may think X is happening to them more than to other people because they have Y distinguishing feature, but in reality, they just notice when X happens to them, because they're hyper conscious of it, or it's actually happening to them because they exhibit Z behavior.

I think I've probably done this myself many times, and I imagine others do it a lot too.
This is what happens when politically correctness and social justice warriors take control. The thought leaders and brightest minds in a field are replaced with social and gender appeasing minds.

Let me ask the following... If you had to have a life or death surgery performed and it was determined that best team of doctors in the entire world was white, and male... Would that prevent you from proceeding with the surgery? Would you object to the lack of diversity?
You've got your value streams all mixed up.
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I don't think that stopped or harmed the investigation. I also don't see evidence linking the Flynn conversation to the firing.

The firing is a valid concern. But directors have been fired before. Could be many reasons.
That's an unnecessarily broad statement.

Nobody is arguing that we should be taking snippets and examples verbatim and use them 100% of the time without understanding them, just that there is value in having those snippets and examples available.

I know damn well how arrays work in javascript, from how they are implemented and what structures they use in memory at smaller sizes all the way up to the difference between a missing element in a sparse array to a dense array with an undefined value in it.

But sometimes I just want the snippet from MDN that "densifies" a sparse array. I know how it works, I can re-write it myself if needed, but I know that the one on MDN works and I won't hit any unexpected edge case because I forgot about some arcane bullshit thing.

Not to mention that when I'm first learning a new language or syntax I personally do MUCH better seeing examples of the code and being able to step through them to get the basics down (where I can then dive deeper into the system to understand the edge cases, hopefully with examples themselves to make sure I get the point).
In the current system, it sure seems like all those third party votes do is make sure that whichever mainstream candidate you consider the greater evil is that much more likely to win, since presumably you're voting for a third party rather than who you perceive to be the lesser evil.

To the degree that the US government really is disconnected from the people it represents (which I hope it is, because the alternative is much more hopeless), the solutions are getting money out of politics as much as possible, and adopting systems of voting which make it easier for third parties to be successful (or at least, constructively influential).
While the math of options value may not always work out, the mindset - that I'm a real part of this thing - is why I got attracted to startups to begin with. Feeling like I own a non-negligible part of it is part of that feeling.

When companies act like that's not the case, whether in terms of compensation or in other ways... it really turns me off. For instance, at one ~10 person startup I worked at, it was common for "Senior Staff" to have closed-door meetings and try to keep us totally in the dark on what was going on, BigCo style.

I need to care about my company, and to feel like my company cares about me. Them letting me have a small slice of it is part of that equation. Acting like they can totally shaft me on cash compensation as a result... well that doesn't work, of course!
Another instance of Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." When companies introduce certain tools because they heard that successful companies use that tool, rather than because they want to use it to improve their processes, it won't help much.
This logic requires your definition of educational systems to be inherently beneficial and also financially a net-win for graduates. If you turn this around and say that educational systems don't always produce better workers than the self-taught and the apprentices, then we must say they are not necessarily "better than nothing." Which is why it is super reasonable for many of us not to want our tax money going to them!
For me it is disrespectful to interrupt someone speaking, so that is why I find it "weird". But it is most probably a matter of preference. I don't think everyone should have discussions on my terms.

In the context of interviewer<-->interviewee, though, I think it is generally more interesting to listen to the interviewee than the interviewer. It seems to me that the whole premise of the interviewer<-->interviewee is for the interviewer to get the interviewee to talk.
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In the article they cite as evidence for serotonin deficiency's depressogenic effects:

"Overall, this evidence suggests that impairing serotonin function can cause clinical depression in some circumstances, but is neither necessary nor sufficient."

From Wikipedia[1]:

Since the 1990s, research has uncovered multiple limitations of the monoamine hypothesis, and its inadequacy has been criticized within the psychiatric community.[44] For one thing, serotonin system dysfunction cannot be the sole cause of depression; antidepressants usually increase synaptic serotonin very quickly, but it often takes at least two to four weeks before mood improves significantly. One possible explanation for this lag is that the neurotransmitter activity enhancement is the result of auto receptor desensitization rather which can take weeks.[45] Intensive investigation has failed to find convincing evidence of a primary dysfunction of a specific monoamine system in patients with major depressive disorders. The antidepressants that do not act through the monoamine system, such as tianeptine and opipramol, have been known for a long time. There has also been inconsistency with regards to serum 5-HIAA levels, a metabolite of serotonin.[46] Experiments with pharmacological agents that cause depletion of monoamines have shown that this depletion does not cause depression in healthy people.[47][48] Another problem that presents is that drugs that deplete monoamines may actually have antidepressants properties. Furthermore, some have argued that depression may be marked by a hyperseretonergic state[49] Already limited, the monoamine hypothesis has been further oversimplified when presented to the general public.[50]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology_of_depression
What if carriers were forced to provide a package that gives access to the entire Internet, but also free to provide packages that makes streaming Netflix or Spotify free?
Rhetoric changes, though. Now that Obamacare is at risk of repeal, people are paying a lot more attention to the details of what it does. That's why GOP members, who thought they would be heroes back home for finally repealing it, are instead getting screamed at.
Sorry, that was actually last year's. This one's should've been a WebAssembly blob.
...with only 10+ high-CPU large machines.
Interesting tangent, as I understand it smoking a pipe isn't particularly dangerous compared to cigarettes, snuff, chewing tobacco, cigars, etc. When smoking a pipe the only contact with carcinogens is the smoke in your mouth. Chances of lung cancer aren't greatly increased as you shouldn't be inhaling and rates of mouth and throat cancers are only marginally increased. The chances of mouth and throat cancers are increased much less than if you were to chew tobacco or smoke cigars as both of those involve direct contact between the tobacco product and your lip. The biggest risk due to pipe smoking is heart disease due to nicotine. If you only smoke occasionally and choose tobaccos with lower nicotine content the risk here is negligible as well.
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Out top of my head: It could be used as the payload for some serious cyber attacks. Imagining the mass panic it would cause, if it was to be played on every TV across the country for real.

This kind of attacks are hard to pull off and one'll have to nail it on the first try. It would be sad for the hackers, if they failed because of a poorly made fake news video.

Practice makes perfect.
I mean people will sit around and collect profits.

I don't have any links about this. This is my own view on an ideal future. I haven't come across any objections to it.
Do you hate any type of ads? I see great potential in having service app options that do not seem to me to be very harmful, but I may be wrong... For example, when I mark that I had dinner with my friend at a Japanese food restaurant that I really liked, I could not have an option to book a table using an app like resy.com. Or yelp to find a different one?
Or when I note that the last time I was with a friend, it was in a movie theater and this week will launch its sequel, a link to redbox.com. Or in the case of a band show we like, link to ticketmaster?

It does not have to be something that makes it difficult to use, an icon at the end of the note could be enough.
Everyone should look at http://equidateinc.com

I think it is the direction of the future.
I've never drank and don't plan to. I just tell people I'm allergic to X in the alcohol. It's easier than trying to make up a reason for why I don't drink and people don't think I'm weird.
This seems like a very common line of thinking on the "liberal" & "democrat" side of the "debates." That in situations that already have money being spent on them - and are not going to plan - all of the best solutions involve spending more...
I think I am having mental breakdown.

& I don't know what to do about it!
From the text:

> I am in full outrage. My body is actually beginning to shake.

Outrage to me means anger and not fear.
First, bandwidth is not scarce in the same way that those other products you mentioned are. Channels must be produced and licensed, as must music. Products must be bought/warehoused/shipped. Internet bandwidth is simply a function of available infrastructure, infrastructure the ISPs have in abundance and are seeking to artificially limit to gouge customers.

Second, TV channels are not an essential service, nor is music, nor is Amazon. Internet access most assuredly is in the 21st century.

Third, cable is not the only source of media, Spotify is not the only source of music, and amazon is not the only source of products. In the US ISPs are often monopolies.

A better analogy IMO is that letting ISPs discriminate how users utilize their bandwidth is like letting electrical utilities say that if you buy Whirpool appliances it won't count against your electric bill, because they have a deal with Whirlpool. Or perhaps even more accurate, you're forced to buy the electrical company's appliances, period, or else incur penalties. It decreases consumer choice and competition, and is actually anti-business and anti-capitalist despite the rhetoric to the contrary.
What's weird about it? I am honestly not sure. I know the broad strokes of the story, and nothing so far sounded too outlandish, but I haven't researched it in depth.
"Only idiots need source control. We know what we're doing 'round here!" proceeds to edit PHP source file directly on production server
APIs should be intuitive; they should be usable only from knowing their signature, and from having familiarity with similar functions. For the most part, DOM/WOM functions are like this, and so the doc will only be repeating things you could have derived intuitively. There are, of course, many situations where the use is non-obvious. In these cases it is even more important to have a good example demonstrating the idiosyncratic usage; a sidenote hidden away in the middle of the doc will easily be missed.
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Examples are a great way to learn. Problems arise when they are the only way one learns.
Yes! Terminal vendors had to explicitly support this in terminals, though maybe not just because of printers but because it's actually quite useful.

Note that BS only produces overstrike when followed by certain characters (which we might term "combining" for the fun of it), while most will just change the character at that location. A tty spinner is just |BS/BS-BS\BS|BS... with some delay between each -- no overstrike there.
Or that we should even care about how the recipient feels. In many instances, how the recipient feels is completely irrelevant.
Is the internet a utility or not? That's the real question.
I wonder what the results would be if it were phrased:

"Do you think the government should make it illegal for a cell phone company to allow it's customers to stream unlimited music and movies from Netflix and Spotify with no data charges?"

"Do you think the government should make it illegal for an Internet service company to willingly partner with a content provider to provide faster service for that content?"
Wow, incredible story. I used to be a Sun SSE, so I can feel for you. I know hindsight is 20/20, but this was my approach when replacing failed hardware like memory DIMMs remotely (when the client wasn't there in the datacenter):
- I always asked them to do a full shutdown,"init 5", and would wait until the server physically powered off before working. That would verify I was on the right server. If the server didn't power off because the customer did something wrong like "init 0" instead of "init 5", I would connect to the serial console and verify that it was sitting at an openboot prompt.
- When I ran into a software-related issue like "DB won't start," I would never touch anything or try to fix it. I know you had great intentions, but fixing the init scripts opens you up to a ton of potential hurt. As they say: "no good deed goes unpunished..."

I really don't want you to think I'm criticizing your actions - you were a true hero to the customer in a crazy situation. I think its truly unfortunate that they terminated you for this. Best of luck!
> Instead, you should just ask: "Do you support Net Neutrality?" and nothing else!

That might tell you who will favor a candidate who says "I support Net Neutrality" as a sound bite. It won't tell you if they mean the same thing that you have in mind. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If-by-whiskey .

"If by net neutrality you mean ..."
Small observation: I worked on a dinosaur dig in Montana for 2 summers as a teen. a major problem was not identification of the bones in our case, but the fragility of the bones we were digging. Maybe 50% of our time was flaking rock away slowly with a an icepick, sweeping up the crushed rock, putting it in a bucket, and moving the crushed rock to a tailings pile. Each dedicated quadrant of the dig had its own tailings pile (1x1x1M of rock had its own pile) in case a pice of fragment was lost.

I know that low cost survey Lidar will really help, and that RTK GPS is also improving things. On larger digs, documentation with drones is also likely to produce better incremental tracking of progress. But, for this to be better, improving the actual digging is still a big unsolved problem.

EDIT: the other 50% of our time was:
40% reassembling bones with superglue in an air conditioned room. (pleasant for the temperature, but maddeningly frustrating work)

10% dig notation, journaling, discussion, planning, survey, etc.