skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Blacks are dismissed as violent thugs, who are the fault of their own problems.

Black men are dismissed... as are most men, TBH.

The incidence of incarceration goes: black men, white men, black women, white women.

Also, rich tends to beat poor, even considering race. e.g. O.J. Simpson.

https://www.law.umich.edu/newsandinfo/features/Pages/starr_g...

Men tend to get 63% larger sentences than women. And that difference is larger than the difference between races.
Moving Away from Zero Config for Development and Infrastructure
You can "brute force" scale pretty much anything just by throwing up more computing resources at the problem - but that means the language/framework/library is less scalable than something else which requires less resources. If the different in scalability is large enough, I suppose one can claim that one of the alternatives is "not really scalable".

I suppose that quote could use better wording.
We're both part of the exploited majority. I'm not sitting on fuck you money. I grew up in a trailer on gov cheese, eating spam, being told I'm a mooch for not being born rich.

I'm 1/4 native american, though I look white. I knew my 100% native american relatives. I heard the stories, passed down. I literally smashed some racist a-hole in the face while hassling my obviously native american grandmother, among numerous other encounters. I mean it's easy to say you know what I am, and not have a clue.

Don't stand up to the machine itself then. Stand up to your family, friends, and neighbors. Challenge them to find ways to get off these services and avoid mindless consumption.

I've been helping people setup Raspberry Pi's with Syncthing to share their private files (mostly pictures). Fuck Facebook and Snap. Undermine them.

I am seriously weirded out by the tech scene, with all these smart folks that mindlessly go work for these companies rather than using their knowledge to simply help their neighbors solve problems. Narcissists and sycophants the lot of them.

Our time and effort are the means of production. Point them at alternative solutions. It's actually easier than you think
Yes. Hence why cheaper construction cannot solve this problem, even in theory. The more people cram into a location, the higher the land prices will go. Cheap modular apartments just continues what is already occurring.
More likely that quote is a Fallacy of Single Cause.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_the_single_cause
It's strange to remember that no-one had ever seen 'swipe to scroll' before the iPhone unveil in 2007. It's so fundamental to everything now. Before, touchscreens had little scrollbars with up down arrows. Nuts.
>Christianity is quite focused on the idea of good and evil. Norse mythology was never like that. Norse mythology was never like that. There was no evil devil. The world was divided into order and chaos not good and evil.

What? Why do people say stuff like this? The Norse myths were from a millennium ago, no one has believed in them for almost a thousand years. Maybe Norway is largely atheistic now but for the majority of its recent history it was a Lutheran nation and before that the nation had a Catholic tradition dating back to 900 A.D.

Even today Christianity is Norway`s biggest religion, enjoys regular church attendance of a quarter of its population, and has half of the population declaring they believe in a Christian, not Norse, conception of God.

Clearly Christianity has some influence on Norwegian thinking.
The Internet in real time
While i am personally very skeptical about Snap.

We had similar blogposts about facebook - even google to an extend.
I'm currently working on trying to replicate the success Wordpress has seen in monetizing open-source, It's my belief that the key to creating a viable open-source product revolves around creating a platform people can host themselves and make it open to plugin development. I don't see much value in the smaller projects most people work on because those rely on licensing for revenue.
On OSX, in Sublime Text:

- CMD with arrow keys moves to line ends

- Alt with arrow keys moves between words

- Ctrl, under some circumstances, lets you operate on parts of a camelCased or snake_cased word (with backspace and with shift + arrow keys, but not with arrow keys all by themselves)

It's the best setup for moving around code that I've encountered.
We need laws to settle this issue once and for all. Even disregarding how boring these Internet disputes are, we can no longer ignore the fact that all these coding style guides, whitespace normalization patches and python bugs caused by mixing tabs with spaces are costing our economy real money in lost engineer productivity and decreased reliability of software products. Programmers of all countries, unite!
Juju 2.2.0 and conjure-up 2.2.0 are here
I did 45 days in solitary within the context of a longer bid. It was hell. Given the effects it has had on my mind and life, I cannot imagine what 29 years will do. It changes the way you behave so subtly, it's even interesting to me now. My friends think it's hilarious how casually I talk to myself. I live a pretty isolated life; I feel more comfortable that way.

Where I was, there was no outside fenced area for the hour mandated rec time. It was a 6'Lx3'Wx6'H fenced dog cage. At least there was a large open window to the outside to look at from the other side of the room.

You're also mandated an occasional hour at the "Law Library", which was really just a single computer with LexisNexis and Microsoft Office in an otherwise empty 4'x6' room. That VB class I had taken really came in handy.

I learned to make some reasonable dice out of toilet paper. Too. Much. Yahtzee.

In the case of the man in the article, his case was overturned. Hopefully, he won't have a criminal record. Getting a job today with a criminal record is incredibly difficult. That's the biggest reason why recidivism is high [x]. It's great that there's a push to "ban the box" (that is, to not ask about criminal history in job applications), but it hasn't made it to all the states. Furthermore, many companies blanketly don't hire felons[x] regardless of the context of the crimes and/or rehabilitation of the individual. Background checks aren't a fair process in their review. Good-bye any real life.

[x] I'm sure somebody is going to argue that the bigger deal is a lack of quality mental health or addiction services provided to inmates and the dearth of such programs prior to conviction, and they'd be right too.
http://rentaminority.com/hire-us/

So, yes, this is a joke. Obviously. You can stop getting angry now. Or get angry, but get angry at what Rent-a-Minority is angry about. The site is a #satire on a type of tokenism that is particularly rife in the tech and media world.
AKG K240 is a marvel of audio quality.

I bought one pair more than 15 years ago. Followed quickly up with another one so I could have the same crisp sound both at work and at home. Both are still in active use. Replacement earpads cost a few pounds a pair, and you need to buy them every 4-5 years.

My wife loves them too, so these days our household has four pairs of K240. (One of them a Mk2. I'm not golden eared enough to detect any difference. The same reason I originally didn't bother to pay the Sennheiser markup.)

Oddly enough I experienced something similar when hunting for proper loudspeakers. I spent some time in specialist shops and actually tested different pairs with my own selection of music. I eventually ended up getting Amphion Heliums[0]. The things were not exactly cheap[1], but they still sounded a LOT better than notably more expensive competitors. Similar B&W speakers would have cost 40% more - and those babies are not bad but they never got even close to the clarity. Or the price.

I later learned from couple of audiophile friends that the loudspeakers I chose were known to be "frighteningly accurate" and as such both revered and often avoided by professional studios. The friends were correct. Every mixing and recording mistake became painfully clear. Both me and my wife have been able to spot badly done recordings in 80's and 90's TV shows. (Have you ever tried to watch a nostalgic TV show episode and realise that the left and right channel balance is constantly fucked?)

0: http://www.amphion.fi/en/products/helium-410/ [note: this is a MUCH more recent model. The ones I bought have not been in production for maybe a decade.]

1: €300 a piece might be peanuts to audio pros but for a home user it's not an easy purchase. Especially as you still need a good amp to go with them.
They already have those. They're called Walmart parking lots and the arrangement is mutually beneficial. Walmart gets security, people get a place to park and sleep for free without being hassled by cops. I understand that people who live in "nice places" may be skeptical of their existence but trust me, they exist.

"Nice places" with Walmart usually make the existence of said Walmart conditional on that particular store not allowing overnight parking.
> listening to them side by side makes the difference obvious

No, it doesn't. First, a lot of people like the Beats audio profile. Second, people aren't using them in a quiet space with a good amp and high quality sources. They are streaming Pandora on a noisy bus with the volume kind of low so they can still hear the announcements.

Those removable fasteners that make the headphones repairable, also make them uglier. That's not a trade-off many people will accept, especially on a consumer good that people expect to be disposable anyway.

> The only thing Beats has going is the branding image of Dr Dre and now Apple.

That's a big part of it. I would wager that professional athletes wearing them is a bigger factor, but that's just a guess. Social signaling is a big part of anything you wear and I don't think there's anything special about headphones in that regard. People are buying shoes because they like how they look, why would you expect anything different for headphones? Since they frame your face, I would expect aesthetics to be the number one factor for headphone choice.
Yawn Nobody cares about counterfeit cash. The technological gap b/w counterfeiters and national mints has continuously expanded. Today, even most countries have given up trying to update their technology, and have started buying their bills from a small number of printers (i.e. Giesecke & Devrient).

More importantly, only a tiny fraction of money in circulation is actually held in cash. Today, most countries could declare all cash worthless overnight and it wouldn't have a major effect on the economy. All the infrastructure to move to electronic payments is already in place, and trade could continue unharmed.
"Do better"? Us, and what army? With the possible exception of Sam Altman, none of us has any non-negligible agency in the political realm of any nation, let alone our own.

And it's not just an issue of quantity: we aren't the people who control the mass media and thusly the opinions of the majority.
GIF - Graphics Interchange Format.

Hard G. for graphics. Not "jif."

The matter is settled.

Anyone who dissents gets sent to the camps.
SNAP is on the NYSE not Nasdaq.
> Bitcoins goal has always been ....

You realize this is exactly what I'm talking about, right?
Well said. Unfortunately, California has Prop 13 which prevents implementation of reforms such as the Land Value Tax.
OK, fair enough.

Then try any of the r2 GUIs.
Telegram offers at least some degree of anonymity, you can join group chat without exposing your phone number. And even if telegram administration closes the group, they are unlikely to report all members to police.

WhatsApp and Signal offer non-anonymous groups only. They are probably used by people who already know each other.
I interpreted the word "buy" more in the sense of social capital.
Also, BTC has risen in value by 30% since 30 days ago: https://bitcoinwisdom.com/
too bad that it would take humans several generations before they'd stop developing allergic reactions and cancer from insecticide.
Thank you for sharing your perspective. A lot of Snapchat analyses are from people not in the biggest user demographic.
To put it in context though...it was $1000 like two months ago....So even with the crazy drop it's still gained 100% in two months...
Ah, and here I was picturing something that combined vacuum bottles, sound baffling, and battery-powered DACs and ADCs so that no wires would have to cross the vacuum barrier. And also, de-wiring the cans of a headset from the headband so you could test each can individually.

That's not the standard? I'm shocked, shocked!
Wouldn't the miners have to actually run the new software in order for the new coin creation to be valid?
High quality schools help, but people still graduate and run off to the states to make more money.
Listen on whatever you like! I feel it's the mix/master engineers' jobs to create a final-product recording that sounds good in as many different environments as possible. Just my opinion, of course, and there are certainly recordings that will only sound good on fine hi-fi gear.

I like to think of a recording as a miniature of a real-world musical experience. I love cranking up my old Mesa Mark I guitar amp to the threshold of pain and wailing on it. It's an amazing sonic experience. But I cannot reproduce that sound on a pair of $20 Skullcandy earbuds. So instead of going for accuracy of reproduction, I'm trying to reproduce the feel, the vibe. Kind of like how a painting represents a landscape differently than a photograph, and neither really represents the landscape well. I'll take the painting, when it's truer to the feeling of the landscape.

This can be seen in dynamic range. Human hearing has tremendous dynamic range, and live acoustic instruments do as well. But your average modern record has no more than 20db, probably far less (often less than 6db). The "loudness war" of RMS vs peak volume is at play here, but more importantly, it plays to the dynamic weakness of consumer audio gear. Less dynamic range sounds "better", up to a point.

You don't want to listen to un-mastered mixes. You really don't.
It depends on your view point. For Bitcoin to succeed it must be able to withstand what some view as an "attack" on it. If bitcoin is vulnerable to this attack it doesn't deserve to last, it needs to be fixed, tested and tried again. All of these cryptocurrencies are still experiments and advocates equate changing the code consensus code like patching a 787 in mid flight because of how much value is dependent on the network working.

The miners fork winning will be a bad thing if you value the decentralized aspect of the currency and want bitcoin to succeed. Not everyone does.
1. What is the engineering effort involved in doing X?

2. How many users does it impact / benefit?

3. What is it's estimated impact on core metrics (Activation/Engagement/Monetization)?
The Python programming language grows in popularity
Expenses like conferences (both organizing and sending attendees) are accounted for on the "investment" side of the ledger in this report, FWIW.

(Full disclosure: I'm one of the authors.)
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> however a lot is because people's basic needs aren't being met which prevents the higher levels of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs from being reached and maintained.

This is contradicted by a lot of evidence. Terrorists are most commonly middle class members of their society and often well educated. If anything, terrorism is a powerful means of satisfying the higher levels of 'needs', e.g. meaning, purpose, community.
> It is unfortunate that you've been downvoted. There's a bit of bias on HN when discussion of potential harms of LSD, THC, and MDMA come up.

> Your comment is factually correct and is a relevant counterpoint. It should not have been downvoted.

Sort of. I didn't downvote their comment, though I don't think it's unfortunate that they were downvoted. Their comment is partially correct, but also partially misleading/misinformed, so seems reasonable for it to be downvoted.

> HN: MDMA _is_ neurotoxic.

At certain doses

Again,

> MDMA researcher Matthew Baggott: “To the best of my understanding, doses around 1.5-1.7 mg/kg MDMA (roughly 100 to 125 mg MDMA) are unlikely to cause long-lasting serotonin changes. Studies by MAPS have looked for changes in mental abilities after people participated in their studies, with some participants receiving 125 mg followed by 62.5 mg, and have not found any changes.” MAPS study protocol involves 3 - 5 week breaks, and a total of 2 or 3 MDMA sessions in total.

https://rollsafe.org/mdma-side-effects/

> Although there is considerable debate over how much MDMA it would take to cause damage to a human user’s brain, there is no real doubt that at some dosages damage can and will occur. Fortunately, brain damage doesn’t seem to happen at moderate recreational doses.

https://dancesafe.org/drug-information/is-mdma-neurotoxic/

> HN: Very much so too.

Subjective. Depends on dose. And your definition of very much.

> HN: Overall this causes a lot of problems, since, well, synapses are very important! Mood, memory, motor function.

Doesn't appear to be true in humans http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/harvard-study-publis...

> Today the journal Addiction published online the results of a neuroscience study finding no evidence of impaired cognitive performance in users of Ecstasy, the street name for the chemical known as MDMA.

> Since previous studies of the neurocognitive effects of Ecstasy did not address these issues, their reports of damage to memory, strategic planning, and other cognitive tasks may have been due to confounded study design rather than to Ecstasy itself.

> HN: Microdosing, even though slightly neurotoxic

? I think they might be confusing MDMA and LSD/other psychedelics, microdosing MDMA is an exceptionally rare practice

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To other readers, the most comprehensive summary of the research is here: https://www.mdmawiki.org/wiki/Is_MDMA_Neurotoxic%3F

And regarding marijuana: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/01/05/marijuana-much-more-th...

And regarding LSD: https://tripsafe.org/lsd-side-effects/
Just email a journalist from BuzzFeed, send him/her some proofs, tweet him, and it might be a big story there. Go Google to see if anyone has written Uber-related stories there
Something like this already exists: https://www.linux.com/news/here-come-x86-hacker-boards . I think these should be able to run DOS.

If you want to go full retro, x86 is relatively difficult due to the support circuitry needed. Full ISA, ram, ports, etc. PCs were fairly complex machines back in the day.
Yoko Ono Will Receive Songwriting Credit on John Lennon's 'Imagine'
Unofficial(as in, one entity hedging for a separate entity) hedging is 1) illegal and 2) very inefficient and prone to screw you at tax time.

But realistically... you know non-wealthy stockholders(ie employees) want to cash in, so you buy into the retail sell-off on lockup day, bid it up 3 points, then close when you see the other retail buyers chasing the rally. Closing several thousand long shares should be sufficient to run their stops, depress the price, and present you with another buying opportunity at or near your original entry price.

All that said.. guessing what will happen with the market is how you lose your money, and fail at day trading before you ever got started.
Slack is an enterprise platform.

Given how deep it is in a company's workflow you could think of it almost like an operating system where apps can attach to.

It would perfectly fit to eg salesforce, google etc

Unsure what Amazon's goal would be - maybe "enterprise as customers" are the interlinking part between ecommerce and webservices
I'm in my 40's and can't hear above 13kHz any longer. :(
"Well, no, because the problem is not the regulation, but the lack of enforcement of the regulation. "

Problems in complex systems with large numbers of variables, attractors, etc are not solvable by just doing a single thing (if it was, it's not a complex system :P)

This kind of "if only x" thinking, IMHO, does not lead to actual solutions. It usually just leads to some other gravity well of the system, where now someone else says "if only y".
This is the right way to do it always, because it is the consistent way. You'll always be indenting the same way everywhere if you do it like this.
I think that's disingenuous. We are all caught up in political ideologies. We may be resisting and still desirous of truth. We might have both desire and fear, and fear might be winning.

I think the practice of ad homineming your political enemies is harmful to anyone's political aims. It strengthens your hold over your base, but it makes it harder for you to grow the boundary beyond it.
Only because I've had several people ask me how Rust handles memory ordering after they've learned of Sync. Sync documentation focuses very narrowly on there being no data races against the type that implements it. There's also obviously a difference between a struct consisting of a single AtomicUInt (for example) and a struct consisting of a plain uint. The former can be published unsafely because it internally already provides the appropriate fences by virtue of the atomic. In the latter, it requires the publishing to provide the necessary fences. Again, I don't mean to say that doesn't make sense or is unexpected (after one thinks about it), but I'd urge a bit more focus on that part as well.

Given there's no official memory model, similar to say Java Memory Model, there's not much to go by (correct me if I'm wrong). The JMM, for instance, spells out what needs to happen for happens-before edges to be created. It also talks about racy publication of values. Granted there's no close analog to Rust's unsafe in Java. But saying "T: Sync means it's free of data races in safe code", while correct, is a slightly vacuous statement since that T interacts with other components. And yes, those components will likely involve unsafe code, and unsafe code has its own caveats, but still, I don't think it hurts to make this more pronounced. Concurrency is a special beast, rife with its own hard-to-debug hazards. Being a bit more verbose and possibly repetitive about the hazards won't hurt :).
No, you're not talking about different things. You're talking about exactly the same thing in two domains: a signal which is transduced from air pressure to voltage in real time, and then later goes back in the other direction. Audio engineers should know that, and many of them do.

"Recorded instruments sound wildly different from live-in-a-room instruments." Yes, they do.

In the best case, you have two nearly perfectly accurate transducers located inside the not-quite-ear-canals of a dummy head doing the recording, and you play those two signals back to transducers located similarly in the head of your listener. This is the best case for accurate reproduction of instruments. You can get a recording that sounds nearly the same as being in the room where it happened.

In the most common "purist" method, recording engineers are using two or three mics arrayed in free space somewhere near where the audience would be, and hoping to capture the sensation of being in the room. This is problematic because the instruments are complex, moving three-dimensional shapes producing sound in a field which interacts with all sorts of things before being sampled by those 2-3 points. That throws away nearly all the available information. Then playback emanates from two not-really-point sources in a completely different room.

In the normal non-purist methods, engineers close-mike each of the instruments, take direct input from some electronic instruments, and may or may not try to capture some room ambience. Then they process everything to the point where they are as much a performer as the recorded players, and work on it over and over again until (hopefully) everyone is happy with it as a work of art. There should be no pretense that this is going to get you an accurate rendition of the feeling of being there, though.