skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>When you make judgements about individuals based on their race

No one is doing that. The algorithm does not take race into account. It's just an assertion that it uses other factors as a proxy for race. I've not seen this proven anywhere.

And indeed, if it were true, you would have to admit that blacks are more likely to be criminals. Even after controlling for all relevant variables. Which goes against the standard narrative that it's just socioeconomic status or whatever.

>you can't say "it's not racist, because 'racist' is a word with bad connotations and I think what they do is good" without being called out on it.

It isn't racist. And the word racist is becoming almost meaningless because how often you overuse it.
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Personal two cents: the actual maximally "fair" and maximally safe strategy is not to release anyone on bail. True positives are 100%, and false negatives are 0%.

Beyond that, I agree with nabla9:

> I think unconstrained algorithm in criminal cases is ethically wrong. Justice should be individualized or it's not justice.
One of the more interesting things that I've seen in Dynamicland is that it allows you to create programs that modify other programs - basically the beginnings of a physical IDE. You can use a scrubber or dial to modify a constant, as a very basic first step.

IMHO, the ability to create new physical interfaces to editing code might allow for new programming paradigms to pop up, or better interfaces for people to develop logic in their own domain. Someone could combine a calculator interface and a context-sensitive variable selection interface to write arithmetic logic using an interface/"syntax" that they already understand, and debug all the way through that with a testbed program that allows the programmer to set variables to specific values and work through how the math works. You can have yet another program which describes a program as a flowchart and allows people to edit it that way.

The thing is, as you make the IDE physical, you get to invite people to interact with it more - rather than staring at a screen, suddenly you're livecoding, you can have multiple people working on it at once. "Ah, but doesn't that fail if you do this? Sets some variables on the testbed", or "I can fix the UI while you update that calculation".

And then, when your accountant has something on a piece of paper that works, they could point a "make this an app on my computer" program at it and bring it out of Dynamicland, into their workplace.
Nice hack, I like it!

Small proposal for improvement: Instead of

N * "gzip -9" + (100-N) * "cat"

I would have used

N * "gzip -9" + (100-N) * "gzip -1"

because "gzip -1" is really, really fast. Sometimes I use it just to speed up copying data (over fast network or onto large disks).

(Yes, I'm aware that zlib's output is slightly different from gzip's output, as gzip adds some more metadata on top of zlib, but this is irrelevant in terms of size and speed.)
I find it odd that the sibling reply by fleitz (all that science can say is "is it false"), which just a precis of Popperian philosophy of science, has been marked dead. Not a view that I share, but seems uncontroversial.
I understand this to mean that you believe the pages in the long range aren't accessed frequently. Otherwise, mmap doesn't reduce memory usage so much as just hide it.

Heavy mmap usage (VMWare sometimes uses an mmap to hold a guest's memory, for example) doesn't show up as memory usage in any system monitoring tools, and the system starts to thrash long before apparent memory usage gets high. Maybe someone here has a solution to that?
I’m not sure I agree with that. HL7 gets messages onto one system (eg the MRI) from the hospital info system (RIS). There is nothing billable in terms of insurers and while departments bill each other it’s all one system (public healthcare, New Zealand). I know we are small fry, but other places use HL7 in ways that have billing as a secondary concern too.
The system I currently use doesn’t bill with HL7 at all, it’s just to get identifying info onto the images and reports to referrers.
Not quite the same, but if you were interested in this story you might be interested in reading "Last Man Off" by Matt Lewis. It's the story of how he survived a fishing boat sinking in the Antarctic. Basically came down to luck and having donned the appropriate survival suit, but very much touch and go and many of his fellow crew members didn't make it.

For full disclosure he's a friend of mine, but the book is a gripping read.
Getting the lowest score possible on the SAT
Ask HN: What happened to RMI?
RMI seems like such a cool idea. Even though it's older than current popular approaches, from web API to serverless, it seems much more programmer friendly. Any idea how widely used RMI is? Any idea as to why RMI is not dominating the client-server or cloud landscape?
Their database prices are actually similar to AWS RDS Postgres now, and weren't that much higher before, especially with the nice features & interface you get in return.

Their dynos are insanely expensive though. A dedicated instance (VPS) with 2.5GB of RAM will set you back $250/month, while a similar EC2 instance will cost <$75/month.

It's hard to justify that the Heroku platform makes up for that $175/month/server difference compared to what AWS & co have nowadays.
Ok then: playing PCM with PWM...
happens quite often and nearly everyone dies/goes missing
Appeals to authority, such as those you've made, are worthless.

The motto of the Royal Academy of Sciences is quite literally "take no one's word for it".
If you wish to blindly swallow assertions made by people with academic titles, perhaps you should start to listen to those who advise against it.
Can companies have cognitive biases?
The analogy works because the customers were portrayed to be 'trapped' in the slow lane, with no option but to pay the extra fee or wait. This is a compelling real life example that anyone can relate to. Of course, repeat customers would avoid such a burger joint - but it's a real debate if they would be able to avoid data selective ISPs given the low competition in most markets.

From an advocacy and PR point of view, it's a very good piece that conveys the extreme case in which they are not able to switch ISP.
Anatomy of a Ceph meltdown
> be able to disregard recent history with p5p if you were welcomed back

It is essentially impossible to do so, as the problems are systemic and run extraordinarily deep.

Would you honestly consider any possibility of working on a "level" with people like this: https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/01/m...

So I can't fault rurban for walking away. The project still has merit. Its current leadership - none.
Rc Shell: Frequently Asked Questions (1994)
We’re Hiring a Developer to Work on Thunderbird Full-Time
Something will be said of us and social networks.
Google executives use our social media platform Google+.
...and they are probably the only once.
Provided that the compression stems from repetition of blocks. If you have a file with 16-bit integers, each either exactly 1 or 2 greater than the previous one, you will have 128K with no repetition that zstd will be unable to compress; However, if you transpose the bytes (all high order bytes, followed by all low-order bytes), the compression will be very significant; similarly, if you replace the numbers with their difference.

The correct term from information theory is that it approximates a "universal" compressor with respect to observable markov or fsmx sources.
Ref patterns, destructuring, and invisible borrows in Rust
He was very er, gratuitous with his adjectives. Like. Blasphemous, amorphous adjectives that should not be spoken aloud.
There're two statements without any proof:
1) that only capitalist system can create electrical cars and solar panels (obviosly false)
2) that electric vehicles and solar panels are good for the nature (there's not enough data, but to manufacture both you need a lot energy and materials, and not all electricity is created by clean sources)
Build a real self driving car in 72 hours
To add to your points. In my opinion, the reason people in corporate companies can behave as you describe is that once corporate companies get moving they are hard to stop. Like a ship. When the company was started it was innovative and found a product that was required by millions of people. These millions of people will continue to use product despite corporate shenanigans happening in different internal teams.

People will continue to use Google to search for pages on the Internet despite all the products Google launches and retires. Millions will send parcels using FedEx no matter what software is used to run it. All manner of corporate games can take place at FedEx i.e. use Oracle or Posgresql. Remove Java, use PHP ... it doesn't matter people will still send their parcels. I know I am over generalizing but the shenanigans make it hard to tie your contribution to revenue.
Lovecraft would've added at least three more adjectives.
There is also this guy surviving 438 days adrift, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Salvador_Alvarenga
the reason i do it is to make it easier to scroll. if im reading on a large desktop screen, especially if its in portrait mode, scrolling fast can make all the text seem like a blur. so instead of having to scroll slow to keep position its quicker to highlight something and then scroll until its at the top

i should really just be hitting the spacebar but you know, old habits
I don't know what percentage that is. It is more than 0, however.

So my question is, "So why do employees make money in X% of successful exits, where X is more than 0?"
Cause they have better things to do than watching your friends spiritual enema/yoga experience in Cambodia ?
Maybe not, but it was inspiring; people like Guillermo del Toro wouldn't have had their style or whatnot if it wasn't for Lovecraft. (speaking of, he still wants to do a Mountains of Madness movie)
The article mentions this problem, and there seems to be a concept emerging that is called "volume": Basically, how complex the algorithm can be you can run on a quantum computer, taking into account the number of qubits, their error rate, the stability, ...
I used to object to using zstd based on Facebook's onerous license and patent policy; but now that zstd is plain BSD+GPLv2, I endorse it.
Unless your potential product is for tech users, I don't think IndieHackers is a good place to discuss your idea. If you're building software for cafe owners or dentists, then you need to be talking to groups of cafe owners or dentists, not other tech guys like you.
They're buying the product because of the advertising. It's a cost of goods. You have to make the product then market it.
Thoughts about developer laptop 2018
I need a new laptop in 2018, I want to use either MacOS X or Linux. I've used Macbook PROs and I like them but they're limited to 16GB of RAM.

I liked the concept of Purism Librem laptops, but since they have to disable ME it's somewhat ageing hardware at a premium price. Also limited to 16GB.

I liked the System 76 Galago Pro since it's a good balance between power and portability on the System 76/Clevo line, but I read they have terrible battery life since they have an extra SATA bay so they come with a very small battery.

There's the much hyped Dell XPS Developer Edition, which again it maxes out at 16GB RAM.

Same applies to Lenovo X1 Carbon.

So we may wonder, why all these laptops max out at 16GB RAM?
Because Kaby Lake supports DDR3 but not LPDDR4 (Low Power RAM which draws less battery), so they use LPDDR3 which has lower density and maxes out at 16GB.

Coffe Lake doesn't improve on this, and 10nm architecture Cannon Lake has been pushed to end of 2018 (so Ice Like eveb more) so if you can wait to get new laptop until 2019 great. If you need a new laptop on 2018...

Then they showed T480 and T480s on CES which ia still Kaby Lake but uses DDR4 (like the Galago Pro) so it can get 32GB, and has a 2 battery system which means you can hot swap your battery, neat!! And with the extended battery it gets impressive battery life. Good selection of ports, Thinshutter to blind the webcam, Wi-Fi AC 2xMIMO, option of SIM slot, SD slot...

Downsides is not sexy like a MacBook Pro, a XPS DE or a X1 Carbon, as it's slightly bigger, thicker and heavier than those... but not by that much!!!

T470 had good compatibility with Linux, it's to be expected T480 will too.

Your thoughts?
I believe this is a docker limitation (or, my version of docker limitation) I'll look into it.

Thanks for letting me know.
It might be possible in C++, with some template meta-programing love.
Australia's $46 AUD million 2022 World Cup bid 'never had a chance'
Open Your Eyes Wider
Show HN: Start or Fund an emerging market company with less risk
You absolutely are manipulated, and without even realizing it. That's how it works, because if you did realize it then you wouldn't be.

People are not rational, they buy on emotions and random facts and influences from friends and folks on the internet. You claim to be the perfect objective consumer who never gets affected but the data (petabytes of it everyday in an industry that's absolutely run by numbers) proves otherwise.
If you would like a modern take on Lovecrafts ideas (with a whole bunch of IT geekery) try Charles Stross' Laundry Files
drysuit given that he's a diver

Divers' suits are not dry. There's water between the skin and the suit. Actually that warmed water layer is what isolates the body against the cold outside.
Just to check - you meant to "strongly [dis]agree"??
An appeal to authority is perfectly reasonable if the person in question is actually an authority in the topic discussed. The logic fallacy you probably meant is about appeals to authority in cases where the authority is in another domain.
I second that. You can even tweet Franscesc about possible topics and he will listen.
Normally, with competition between power supply companies, the result would be you get lower electricity price if you use Samsung's electronic, you are still allowed to use other brands' electronics, but you need to pay regular/higher price.
Thanks for the explanation.

I believe that here in the UK, the police will either decide you deserve an escort and provide you with one, or decide you don't need one and refuse to provide one.

I could be mistaken, but I believe bailiffs are essentially expected to take on the risk and confrontation as part of their job, a bit like ticket-inspectors on trains, or the folks that tow away illegally parked cars from privately owned car parks.

The police can and do charge for special policing of public events, though - http://www.npcc.police.uk/documents/finance/2015/NPCC%20Guid... , http://www.isanuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ISAN-Guidan...
API documentation for Haxe now provides access to different versions
> You can have a circle of people stand around it and each person would be able to see it from their own perspective. And that’s not possible with a hologram.

But... that is possible with a hologram (a round one anyway).
> Well you certainly can't return other similar media products in this way.

Counterpoint: Amazon offers ebook returns. Barnes and Noble offers audiobook returns. It's not wholly true that media products cannot be returned to other sellers.

> I am just confused why people are saying the policy is draconian.

Very short return window.

I think you're looking at this backwards. "If only Steam would prevent returns, I would keep 10% more sales!" No, if Steam prevented returns, you would never have had those sales in the first place.
Why ~~social media~~ bosses don’t use social media

ftfy
The BS-heavy style of Chris' communication is indeed extremely off-putting, unfortunately, but it doesn't get any better if you ignore the style and go straight to the content. LightTable was an idea I rooted for, but almost every aspect of its execution was broken, and ultimately LT got dumped anyway as soon as it started getting bigger than a tech demo. They then started working on Eve, which was much more ambitious and much less precise idea, and tried to make it into a business at the same time, in typical startup timeline. There was no way it could have worked, I think.

Meanwhile, the IDE and editors situation stays the same, stuck perpetually 20 years behind Smalltalk and Common Lisp environments of the '80s and early '90s.
DataScience for Finance
> You can also float in seawater in the fetal position. Your head will be below water but it is easy to come up for air periodically.

Easy to periodically come up, like, every 30 seconds? 3240 times in a row?
I always remind myself, only half joking, making computers easy to use so that anyone can use one was a huge, huge mistake. :-(
Loading components asynchronously in React app with an HOC
Bountysource aquired by canya.io
Robot gender gap: Women will lose more jobs due to automation than men
> This is a compelling real life example that anyone can relate to.

But that's not what net neutrality is about. Net neutrality is about netflix not being able to take more bandwidth than other streaming services. Net neutrality is fundamentally about producers and consumers sharing a path between them, with that path being neutral towards producers.

The burger king analogy pushes the costs of having a faster path to the consumer. In the case of net neutrality, the producers would be able to pay more to take more of the bandwidth. This wouldn't negatively affect consumers financially, but would affect the quality of service of other consumers.

It's important to get the distinction right because the consumers wouldn't be affected like the video portrays. They would simply get burgers at burger king faster, but much slower at mcdonalds. They wouldn't understand why mcdonalds isn't able to produce burgers faster, and they wouldn't be able to pay to get faster mcdonalds burgers. They would simply go to burger king.
>consistently being late is a sign of disrespect.

What I'm reading here is that you're perceiving it (perhaps accurately, perhaps not) as a threat to one's dominance as manager.

I think you may be using the word respect as, say, a capo would - as in, "respect the chain of command" or as cartman would say "respect mah authoritah"!

If true, then that signals a certain level of insecurity over one's position which I think may be an unfortunate signal to send. As an employee I would see that as weakness, especially if combined with technical incompetence.

>If you still think it's unreasonable, consider if your employer paid you a couple of days late - is this still ok?

It's funny, an employer actually asked me that in my first job and I shrugged my shoulders and I said I probably wouldn't notice, which was an answer that clearly infuriated him.

He later fired me (a real blessing in disguise), and the last chunk of pay actually did come in about 4 days late - something I was keeping a close eye on because I was concerned he may not pay me at all. I am absolutely convinced it was him being spiteful - he did payroll himself and there was no other reason I could see for it being late.

I had a good chuckle over that one.

>Some programmers have the attitude that they are indispensable and can behave anyway they like.

Often it's because they are and they can. I mean, nobody's indispensable of course, but the nature of what they do means that they can create (or destroy) a lot of value and don't have much of a reason to fear termination. This tension between that and managerial refusal to recognize it because it signals a threat to their dominance has, I think, been the result of a lot of self destructive behavior in this industry. A lot of people would rather feel powerful than keep a healthy bottom line. Their prerogative, I suppose. It's good to recognize this and point it out when it happens though, because, for instance, as a shareholder I wouldn't want to be bullshitted about what went down.

I think you should read this:

https://medium.com/incerto/how-to-legally-own-another-person...

By his definition, you think programmers are "too free", no?
Oops, you're right! I thought it was only the build system that had to be adjusted.

About half of the code-changes are just to avoid alloca.
Socialism is about improving the lot of workers, and ordinary people and giving them more power, for instance saying that workers should own the factories together, make their own decisions democratically, rather than take orders from a boss. In that respect the USSR has very little to do with socialism, more resembling state capitalism. See Chomsky: The Soviet Union vs Socialism.

https://chomsky.info/1986____/
Alpha for the MIMIR Blockchain to Internet (B2i) Bridge Is Live
TL; DR:

> Though cheetahs and impalas were universally more athletic than lions and zebras, both cheetahs and lions had a similar advantage over their prey — they were 38 percent faster, 37 percent better at accelerating, 72 percent better at decelerating and their muscles were 20 percent more powerful.

> [...] impalas and zebras were typically moving at only half their maximum speed. [...] The model showed that impalas and zebras have the best chance of making a getaway if they run at moderate speeds, because that leaves more options for maneuvering away at the last second
New 6.1 inch iPhone by Apple without 3d touch to follow iPhone X in 2018
I have just the worst feeling looking at this page.

How do you qualify your service to get into that offering? What happens when t-mobile gets bought be someone who wants to make a youtube competitor?
The message was clear to me yet open to different interpretations.

1) The difference in cholesterol bandwidth is paid for by who is sponsoring this chicken sandwich.
2) Same, but colder. And waaaay late. Too bad their preferential sandwich is not sponsored to be in the "fast-lane" regardless of the subscribers plan.
3) Non-preferential content (ie. those who didn't pay off the ISP to fast-track their content) is at a competitive disadvantage.
OF course they are substantially more likely to be incorrectly classified. They are in a group with far more risk. (this is simple statistics and probability)

Interestingly, if this Algorithm was a human, they would be called a racist by all on the left. Instead, the best than can be managed is "unfair".

Objective truth hurts sometimes. Perhaps some apologies are owed to the so-called racists out there. Turns out they were just being as honest as a probability algorithm (shame on them).

If AI an robots ever police our society, leftists will have to tamper with their highly accurate, objective statistical analysis of who to pull over for questioning to save them from their racism. That is already what is going to happen to this algorithm.

Machines exposing emotion initiated dishonesty (until they are beaten into social justice submission and artificial guilt subroutines added to make things "fair").
A YouTube Video Has Started a Battle in the Secretive Secure Phone Industry
Can anyone explain whats the reasoning behind renaming flatMap?
Why We Canned a $2M App Business to Make Indie Games
No, that's something I don't think I've ever seen before.

I used to read a few of the Spectrum magazines back in the day, Your Sinclair, Sinclair User, etc. But over time they all dumbed down and started to be more about advertising and game-reviews, rather than having a mixture of programming-content and other stuff.

I did get some POKEs printed though, so it wasn't all bad!
Apart from HN "Who's Hiring" post I can also recommend the quarterly hiring threads on r/netsec: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/
Apple Confirms Health Records Solution to Bring Medical Records to iPhone
decentralization, what i understands, can involve more man power to the system. which will lower the rate of unemployment.
CSafe gets EASA nod for new temperature-controlled RAP ULD container
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