skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iPhones and Children Are a Toxic Pair, Say Two Big Apple Investors
>I will also note that all the work I see being done to end 'regular' discrimination ... is being done by the left.

Disclaimer: I am a random person on the internet so have as much faith in my anecdotal evidence as you have in humanity.

I think the issue with what you are seeing is confirmation bias. Because the left and right have different views on what causes the disparity between whites and blacks they go about trying to fix it different ways.

Those on the left see it as a systematic issue and want a systematic fix. There is implict bias in the system against blacks so if we add explicit bias for blacks it will come out about equal. Add the bias for long enough the system will correct for past injustice and everything will be fine.

This contrasts strongly with the view I was raised with, that the difference between whites and blacks is because of different cultures that place value on different outcomes or fail to instill positive traits into members of the culture. Some of the big ideas that are not valued is hard work, respecting property, valuing education, disdaining violence and avoiding having children until you can afford to support them.

The fix for this is to teach these values to those that do not have them. I grew up in a small very white community. Yet, when a black student at my highschool aged out of foster care. My family took him in for the rest of the school year. This let him get his diploma. While he understood most of these values, my father worked with him to control his temper.

Another example is a camp in rural Midwest that is for kids of prisoners even though it is close to a mostly white town the drive black children in from the major city because they want to help them and give them hope.

I guess all of this is to make the point that just because some opposes affirmative action does not mean they hate PoC. I won't denie some people are like that. But I think the majority of those against AA see it as fighting fire with fire and don't expect good to come from it.
Yes that is my hypothesis as well. I have always been able to effectively shutdown my auditory processing when I am concentrating intensely on something (I was notorious in my family for having to be yelled at to get my attention when reading).
Sure, and at the scale & purpose of Debian or Red Hat that’s extremely important.

But that’s nothing to do with bad versioning practices and everything to do with product priorities.

Also C versions are have the same issue. Try to build a C11 project with a C89 compiler. Hell I’ve had C89 code not work in clang...

Versions affect everything.
The Glimpse of Irish Step Dance – Part 2
Archived copy, which can viewed with JS disabled:

https://archive.is/c7AWg
Sorry! Didn't see the flag controls. Thanks for the heads up. Post wasn't intended to insult, just demonstrate how silly it seemed as a response.
> segregate them into specific majority-minority teams

Again, you mischaracterize what I said:

"I believe this can be done by hiring competent minorities into teams [2], where although they are a minority in general they will not be on their team. These teams should not only be that minority as you in a truly inclusive system can't define people by a trait."

Where I in the follow up comment say:

"... the teams are not entirely comprised of minorities and this team structure is supported by research that shows that it feels socially isolating to be the sole representative of your minority in your daily life. Maybe even a majority is not a minority on the team."

> put in or restrict to an isolated or segregated area or group. That is absolutely what your proposal entails.

Because of the preceding comments I disagree with this characterization. These teams are an acknowledgement that many find it hard to feel like they are the sole representative of their minority in their daily life.

It is a tool that should only be applied at discretion and when appropriate, and to make it work it needs support.

> Consider the outcomes of this proposal: I'm sorry, we don't have any $minority teams working on $area_of_expertise right now, so I don't see a good fit for you.
Note that now your minority group is explicitly a marker of what you can or cannot work on.

> Whether or not you intended it, your proposal creates a racially defined hierarchy, ..

This was addressed in the proposal: "Since its a minority you probably have to do some extra legway in facilitating matching these teams well to problems the the team members find interesting and that there are growth opportunities. However, that is an ongoing conversation you should be having at any rate."

I never said it was easy and that we wouldn't have to have extra support to make this work. That support requires staffing, training, recruiting etc etc that spends extra effort to make this very difficult thing happen.

> Please don't object to my calling a spade a spade. I've provided a reason that your suggestion is flawed, and instead of defending it on its merits, you've objected to my word choice.

To my points above these are clearly mischaracterizing of what I am saying by at best not carefully reading the proposal. I am asking you for the same respect in this discourse that I am giving you, and I believe that is fair.

Edit: @joshuamorton I am sorry, I can't keep pointing to the same quotes showing how you interpret what I say is different from what I actually said with no progress in our discourse. I think we just have to agree to disagree.
Not sure how that's relevant.
I think that most people don't really need Facebook Events and Groups. If people tell you to join an event of group, tell them you don't use Facebook (for ethical and personal reasons) and that they should provide another method for people to participate so that it doesn't lock out non-Facebook users.

I block all of their sites in my hosts file so can't even view a Facebook event page or group. It has only provided benefits, and I haven't missed out on anything. Productivity is up. Social life is better.
I guess I would have preferred to see it be a client on QPI and be cache coherent with the rest of the system, rather than using PCI at all, but yeah, that's asking a bit much on this super short timeframe.
welcome to America. This is why newspapers have legal departments. Personally, I'd rather have to worry about #fakenews and PR and spin rather than have to live in a where journalists fear prosecution from the rich and powerful for errors in their stories...like in the UK. The grey area is an intentional part of american jurisprudence, designed to protect the press and hopefully safeguard democracy. By making a wide grey area we put the burden of proof on the plaintiff.

Also...I am looking very askance at your characterization of 'could' as a weasel word. There are a lot of shades of grey in the world and we need degrees of certainty like could to help communicate that doubt. I think there is a large gap between troubling uses of the word 'could' and the example you gave me...which seems honestly quite innocuous.

What is your point with this comment? To suggest that people can use words to communicate doubt without having a factual basis for those claims and protect themselves from legal retaliation party by an injured party?

To support this conjecture you give me an example which is CLEARLY true. Loot boxes are 100% like gambling. You give money to receive a probabilistic reward with addictive properties. Designers intentionally seek out whales who will drop money on buying many boxes chasing the irregular high.

It seems eminently reasonably that this could make them illegal in places where gambling is closely regulated...using could here seems 100% necessary to communicate that legal experts probably disagree about whether or not loot boxes and their ilk fall under these older statutes.
About life and work in central Appalachia
> who believed that a malicious actor or security breach was to blame

This was a security breach. Their anti-spam system should block repos by freezing the module name and returning blank files, not by deleting the entire module and subsequently allowing anyone to upload new modules. This is leftpad all over again.

Update: Woah, so I was checking out my old NPM namespaces and apparently someone took control over https://www.npmjs.com/package/filesaver.js
The resources already linked from this thread are surely superior but, as a shameless plug, I wrote a blog article recently on this very topic as it was presented in my linear algebra course at CU Boulder: https://thought.place/articles/2017/7/22/pagerank/
Neither of those optimizations looks safe to me. Couldn't they potentially introduce deadlocks?
A manual review misjudged 106 packages at the same time? That seems... dubious. Unless they have a bulk removal based on meta data, instead of careful analysis. Which would also be pretty dubious.
Neither of those is true, lol
No one is asking for perfect, just an ssh style warning of "the key of the system you are connecting to changed from last time" would be a good start. Implementing that is trivial, straightforward, requires zero setup and would have easily prevented the copycats here.
Agreed. It is probably too generous to assume the ideal glide ratio and simultaneously assume generation via the prop.

Depends on a lot of stuff though. It's not a question of energy creation -- the energy of the system includes energy in the air. Generally freewheeling generates more drag than a stationary propeller (google "ESC brake vs freewheel" to see what R/C hobbyists have to say about this). However, you may have an unusual situation where maintaining the ideal glide velocity requires braking, and in such a case it is presumably more efficient to brake via the propeller.

Suffice it to say that even in the ideal case, this particular aircraft would have trouble maintaining flight via solar power, but other aircraft are proving that this is a viable possibility.
Yes that is exactly what I am saying. We should be viewing people as an individuals first and as a member of a group second. Almost all of us do this with people we know well, but many of fail to do this with strangers or opponents.
Sadly, as I'm not that popular, that would make me miss all the events except for the regularly recurring ones.
How Does It Work? The Search for Explanatory Mechanisms (2004) [pdf]
A category maybe?

Wait a sec... everything already is a category.
I know HN is basically an industry wide joke for JS discussion but no, none of that is accurate.

Most of it is plain wrong, though some of it is misapplied frustration to the wrong target.

But again, I guess I shouldn’t expect more from HN.
Should it be automated is the better question.
That's probably an illegal sublet fyi.
> do you consider Trump as a legitimate government?

Yes, absolutely, and I loathe him. Democracy isn't simply majority rule (which is mob rule, not really democracy). While I have mixed feelings about the Electoral College, it's the law made by the American citizens and their representatives; he is President.

Also, the U.S. is a republic, not a direct democracy. For very good reasons, elected representatives don't need day-to-day majority approval; that would get bad results.

The only exception is if the actual vote was altered in his favor, such as if someone hacked election machines or vote counts, or if voters were substantially denied their voting rights. I know of no evidence of hacking - and I'm someone who is very skeptical of election systems security. The latter there is some evidence of, but it's hard to define the line between difficulty and denial of rights, and the net impact on results of everyone of any party who had a problem voting.
The Cost of Avoiding a Meltdown
Nice ad-hominem there ;-P

I'm actually first-generation Australian, grew up in New Zealand, and spent a lot of time immersed in the indigenous culture, learning the language, etc. One of the highlights of my school years was participating in the dramatization of the Maori creation myth. So I know quite a bit about indigenous myths and legends (albeit not many Australian ones), and the way they're used and interpreted in contemporary indigenous society.

But the thing about myths and legends - indigenous or otherwise - is that they're mostly bollocks. Sure they can have social value. But it behooves us to be _very_ cautious about how we interpret those myths and legends.

Some are basically true, and it can be frustrating when that's ignored. "No-one knows how the Moai at Easter Island were erected! It must have been aliens!" "Errr, we're local, we can show you if you'd like. Would've been nice if you'd asked."

But many _aren't_. And it annoys me to see people who should know better - actual scientists - treating them with altogether too much credulity.

I suspect that the idea that birds actively seed bushfires falls into this category.

But we'll see. As I say, I'd love to see actual proof of this behaviour. But I know which way I'd bet (see, gambling, I must be Australian ;) ).
Re-reading my post it does sound a bit confusing.

What I meant is:
Ubuntu LTS seems to not give a damn if the kernel they use is also an LTS release.

Examples would be:
14.04, 16.04 HWE kernels, 18.04 (currently planned to be 4.15).
Mozilla's open source license was created 20 years ago precisely to make it easier to distribute proprietary bits with open bits. I'm not kidding, that was a primary goal.
For example: "2 or 3 years ago links was 80-90% of what it took to get something ranked, Panda has changed that in an insane way. Here's the test example. Go to Google and search for 'best time to visit Tahiti'. You'll find my little site, VisualItineraries up there, #1 for that, ahead of TripAdvisor, Lonely Planet, USA Today, all these other sites. These other sites have between 10,000 and 250,000 domains linking to them. My site has under 100. I rank #1 for that. Now in case you think it's internal link, anchor text, or page title match. Here's the other proof. Do a google search for 'when should I go to French Polynesia'. The only word in that that matches the page title or any anchor text is the word 'to' - (and it's a) stop word - that's not going to count. VisualItineraries.com is #1 for that too.

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RvRUt9ejkw
I wasn't thinking about technical constraints, but economic ones. The market that would be able to benefit from this kind of optimization would be very limited as a % of PC gamers (which is already a limited market compared to consoles AFAIK).
json-menu, converts a json endpoint into a electron-dashboard for your mac.

Launched it a few days ago and already made me a few bucks.

https://jsonmenu.com/
When I look closely that work actually looks fine. Solder flow is reasonable and I don't see cold joints. The only true WTF was where a resistor had been ripped out for whatever reason. Also it's unclear whether they had flux-core solder yet and they are essentially soldering in 3D. (Former electronics assembler here.)
Gossip, life, entertainment, procrastination. Nothing wrong with that at all.
>Again, you mischaracterize what I said:

You have not explained how this is a mischaracterization. Your proposal was to place minorities into solely majority-minority teams, my claim is that this is a form of segregation. Which of those two claims is a mischaracterizaiton?

The rest of this post is just distraction that appears to claim that this is morally good segregation, or scientifically supported segregation, but its still segregation.
> Touch screens in the kitchen.

And in the car, where you should keep your eyes on the road. Knobs work really well for adjusting the stereo and heater; replacing them with a huge touch screen is a terrible idea, and trying to make it less terrible with haptic feedback is a poor solution. Hopefully the current touch screen fad will pass.
Ah, not true! You'll have as much type-checking as C allows for, which is actually quite substantial. Moreso in C++. The opportunities for accidental type mismatch are much reduced: basically, to the JNI->function bindings (eliminated if you codegen the glue).
Even better, the first two lines are like fundamental laws that illuminate nothing. I'm guessing on the second but it looks like just expanding what looks like a probability using a complete set. Can't really make out the rest of it.
I had a 2011(?) iMac at my last job that was having GPU issues common to all of those models. The machine had left warranty a couple years prior, but Apple knew of this issue and paid my local Apple dealer to replace the GPU.

For wide-spread issues at least, they do stand behind their machines.
Fyngr fgne pbqrk zhpu?
Behavior is contagious. If you behave in the way that people should behave, then others will follow.
I’ve experienced this when learning new programming languages and other domains. When you start, Google results are mostly garbage with a few useful bits. A few months later, it feels like the web is awash in materials to answer your every question and you can always find an answer for your problem in the first 5 results.

Part of it is learning which phrases to use when searching, but I’m sure a big part of it is also Google figuring out what you want.
You would be surprised at how useful Einstein's field equations are when deciding how many people to cutoff tomorrow.
Really good; web scale; reliable.

Pick two.
All three of those examples significantly predate the metoo movement, and I'd argue that none lacked due process:

- Lacrosse, due process was followed, but the prosecutor acted in bad faith.

- Rolling stone: The police investigation cleared them, there were no charges or anything, the story was considered a hoax/fake/discredited ~2 weeks after it was released.

- Columbia mattress guy: Found not responsible by the university.

I think I can agree that there was mob like behavior in those cases, maybe, but I don't see a lack of due process.

> Franken was clearly pressured out by the democractic party.

Yes, I think its a bit more confusing because of the Moore election at the same time, ie. the pressure may have been in part manufactured to prevent cries from republicans about hypocrisy from the democratic party, but that's a lot of conjecture. In any case, I think its pretty much unanimous that Franken's actions are less heinous than Weinstein/Moore, or at least the things that are considered credible.

>like the fantastic reporters at the Washington Post did during the Roy Moore expose.

Indeed, but there's a significant group of people that appear to think that that expose wasn't due process, and that anything that doesn't pass through the legal system is by definition not due process (and this is what I object to). It appears that GGP is someone who holds that opinion, but they avoided directly answering that question.
This would be great if I was able to say anything or even comprehend what was being said. I am effectively like a dog being spoken to by its owner. Like the dog I know someone is talking to me, but I have no idea what is being said nor can I say anything back - about all I can do is look at the person intently and wait for the context switch to finish.
> This is a bad metric. We should be worried about healthcare costs, not insurance coverage.

I agree with your general point. However, I'll add that some people will be too poor to pay for health care, no matter what it costs, and they may be the people who need it most (the indigent).

Addressing the more specific issues of metric, I think the best metric is QALY (qualty-adjusted life years) lost due to lack of health care delivery.

But my strong impression is that insurance availability correlates strongly with lost QALY.
Lots of people are piling onto npm here. This reads to me like a fairly simple unintended consequence of what seemed like a good approach.

Automated spam filters help to avoid dodgy packages. Spam filtering operates on heuristics so it’s sensible to not publicise how they work.

The automated spam filter kills dodgy uploads, as these mostly happen on previously unused names a decision is made to not have the spam packages’ name remain taken. Among other things this stops the spammers from leaving all the good names blocked.

The spam code gets a false positive and the above logic kicks in, leaving previously used names now available. This is noticed and corrected within a few hours.

The npm team will likely improve their spam filtering heuristics and also ensure that formerly good packages that get spam flagged do not release their names - they have indicated roughly this on Twitter.

This only just happened, and it’s the weekend, so I’d expect a full write up will be released during the week when they’ve had time to do a post-mortem and work through the salient points.
On this aircraft, no. On other aircraft, it has been done without 100% efficiency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Impulse#2015–16_circumna...

^ About 118 hours of manned flight between Japan and Hawaii.
After a particularly intense day of coding it is almost impossible to be emotional with my wife when I get home.
This is deeper down a rabbit hole than I really meant to go, but I personally think "being lazy" is appropriate; I spend time being lazy pretty often, and it isn't an act, it's true laziness, but it's also temporary.
I defintiely agree
> The code that generates this, MacroAssembler::string_compare in macroAssembler_x86.cpp is well-documented for the curious.

I was expecting that this would be some C++ code, or maybe inline assembly, but it turns out it's just a bunch of macros that are a thin layer over assembly instructions. Is this done for portability, to abstract over differing instruction names on different architectures?
Sweet, I got 34 as well. I'm going to sub that for my ACT score now :-)
Two basic approaches, not mutually exclusive: 1) make advertising expenditure non-deductible or weaker version treat as investment, make deduction multi-year reducing NPV 2) directly tax ad revenue, strength depends on rate.

My motivation is treating ads as mental pollution and force for centralization and monopoly, not preventing election manipulation. Complaints abut the latter are nothing but extreme hypocrisy coming from the US.
like which?

I'm hard pressed to think of a modern unix that doesn't include bash by default. Solaris maybe?
> We have many more points of dependency. So a malfunction in the machinery of life is more likely to be disastrous the further up the pyramid one lives.

You're just repeating the claim, and again, I do not follow the logic. Again, my question is: why would it be less disastrous if we were lower in the food chain? It would help to give an example of a species at a lower position in our food web and explain why, if we took its position, we'd be better off.
I really like Goa: https://github.com/goadesign/goa - it has integration with Gorm via Gorma: https://github.com/goadesign/gorma
Especially when he's copying them from something on his phone.
Quit using it. Let's go back to the way the internet used to be, y'know with instant messaging and a multitude of cultures that have their own ecosystems. Let's stop consolidating all of this information and wealth in the hands of people who don't give a shit about what makes us different (unless it sells an ad).