skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not the person you are replying to but I would never use a non atomic refcounted smart pointer in C++ because the risks associated with it are just too high. In Rust however the compiler protects me from misuse.

Separately emotionally I feel different about Arc<T> because all the counting is explicit and I see it. Understanding where shared_ptr<T> in C++ counts however can be quite a challenge, even if you consider yourself proficient with C++.
It's dimensionality reduction. You cannot recover the original object.

Makes me think of the Simulacrum[1]. "The map is not the territory."[2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation
Countrywide stats don't indicate the lack of a problem. It just means profiling is unevenly distributed. While it's not a big issue in some places, it can be a big problem in others.

Also, of course there are other factors than race, but the stats show that race is a non-trivial bias.
Bad hiring, or bad management.

There is a well-known "triangle" of [money, quality, time]. You can fix two factors at most, but that means a third factor will suffer. This decision is made by the management, whether or not they realise this triangle exists.
It's a distinction without a difference though. If you use 1TB of data on Amazon or on OVH, and one service costs you $x and the other costs you 20% of $x you've got the same service for less money.
I am neutral in the Israel vs Palestine debate...I think. At least, as neutral as you can be. And I find it ridiculous that Israel can try to claim jerusalem for itself, a ground that is considered equally sacred by every religion of the book (christianity/judaeism/islam).

Frankly I feel all religions of the book are ridiculous and we’d be better off if nobody had claim to the holy land. But ofc that will never happen.
Ask them to update your account to the newest version. I assure you they handle automatic renewals and they handle them very strictly - I'm getting emails blasted to both main and optional email account at the first time there is a card decline.

Here some screen shoots from minutes ago:

Exhibit 1: huge yellow sticker to tell me to switch to auto-pay, which I actually don't want to for some of my clients.

Exhibit 2: both bills for servers setup as autopay.

Actually the option to pay in advance is a blessing and as far as I know, only known to me provider that does that. Last December where I was for $35,000 in taxes, I was able to significantly lower that down for purchasing OVH services for 12 months in advance. OVH rocks!!

[1] https://ibb.co/enhmen

[2] https://ibb.co/nGGJs7
You quote

> A disproportionate share of the estimated 20 million police traffic stops in the United States each year involve black drivers, even though they are no more likely to break traffic laws than whites.

In response -- how do you know? In rebuttal:

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/21/nyregion/study-suggests-r...
Your assuming the usage of such a library is sending, let's say, a network crushing amount of data. But, this is really intended for games that try to fit under 512Kb/s (or even less). We're not trying to jam down 20MB/s of JS, 5 MB/s of CSS, and 100MB/s of PNGs. Reliable packets are sending you, at worst, "the state of the world" in a few KB.
> It has flat-rate billing starting at 40k/month for unlimited queries.

plus storage costs?
Concepts – Stratechery
Is it fair to demand that whites and blacks be pulled over at the same rate, when whites and blacks do not commit crimes at the same rate? For example, African Americans make up 12.6% of the US population, but commit:

- 52.6% of all murders [0]

- 29.1% of all rapes [0]

- 54.5% of all robberies [0]

In fact, when it comes to almost every single violent crime category, blacks commit them at a rate that's at least twice that of whites. [0]

So statistically speaking, being black is a stronger indicator of being a criminal than being white. Similarly, being male (white or black) is a stronger indicator of being a criminal than being a female. Even more so if you're a male in your 20s.

If your intention is to reduce crime, and you have the choice between pulling over a 55 year old white lady to see if she's got any outstanding warrants, or a 20 year old black male, are you really going to pick the older white woman?

Or how about if you're a young female driving to a convenience store at 11PM. As you pull into the otherwise empty parking lot, you see a group of people in hoodies standing outside of the store. Are you more likely to keep on driving if you notice the people are all white males in their 20s, or if they all turn out to be white females in their 20s? Is it wrong to be more comfortable walking into the store if they're females? Why or why not?

[0] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
Since a concert, I also have slight hearing loss on one hear.
Now I'm constantly being reminded to take care of my hearing due to the difference in "sound color" between left and right.

Fortunately I don't have a significant tinnitus, but was it certainly was a wake-up-call and I protect my ears much better now.
Here is the study in question[1] and the money quote from the article's description:

> In a recent Stanford study, participants were presented with brief passages about crime in a hypothetical city named Addison. For half of the participants, a few words were subtly changed to describe crime as a “virus infecting” the city. For the other half, crime was described as a “beast preying” on the city. Otherwise, the passages remained exactly the same.

I don't have a critical review to offer, but the first thing I thought of when I read this paragraph was the fraudulent study published by Michael LaCour a few years ago.[2] Ever since I read that, I've become very skeptical of new studies that purport to change opinions based on small, seemingly magical differences in interaction or presentation.

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1. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

2. https://www.thecut.com/2015/05/how-a-grad-student-uncovered-...
Or my personal favorite: "Driving erratically"
I assume that toilet lids are ceramic to have the same durability and antiseptic properties as the rest of the toilet, and that they are made thick enough to not break if dropped.

There are probably other materials that would also work, though... I'd expect any material used for toilet seat lids (plastic, or coated wood composite) satisfies similar constraints.

Incidentally, ceramic can become razor-sharp when broken, so the article's suggestion of making lids easier to break carries its own set of risks.
Chinas Social Credit System Punishes the Untrustworthy
I grew up in a place where the racial bias narrative of policing was just something I knew to be true. It took a long time, and a lot of statistics from a ton of sources to realize that aside from sentencing, it’s mostly that the system as a whole sucks. The problem is the correlation between race and poverty, and poverty and crime. It’s fair to point to the history of mistreatment of black people in the US as a root driver of poverty, and therefore crime, but that’s often lost in the noise.

Take the recent shooting of a young black man in his grandmother’s yard. The narrative is now that he was unarmed, and shot in the back. While true, both points are deceptive. He was unarmed, but he ran from the cops, at night, didn’t follow commands, and had a metallic object in his hands when he turned to face the officers. This was all caught on FLIR. He was shot in the back, after the first shot to his front spun him around. Don’t run. Don’t resist. Comply with commands and argue your case in court. Your odds of being shot go down to near zero when you’re not running away or acting like a lunatic. Even in cases of obvious abuse like that poor bastardized NYPD cops strangled to death, were predicated on resisting arrest.

As long as people fleeing and resisting gets conflated with cases of compliant people being abused, not much will change. As long as cases of disproportionate arrests rates are conflated with wrongful arrests and convictions, not much will change. The two major predictors of have a bad time in the system are socioeconomic class, and how you act with officers. Race is a factor in sentencing, but that seems to rarely be the issue talked about in popular cases.
That's funny. I remember doing just fine in school at 8 am.
If you changed TCP sufficiently to make it a real-time protocol suitable for gaming, it wouldn't be TCP any more. Reliable streaming and real-time packet delivery are two completely different animals.

I would argue that bandwidth-sharing fairness with stuff going over UDP is easy: Just start dropping packets when pipes get full.

Most updates are going to be pretty small. It's not like game developers want the user experience of their titles to be bad, after all.
Creators Log: Building and Launching an iOS and Android App in 3 Days
I was going to post the detailed answer to your message, but I realized it won't make any sense.

I won't argue with you. I only say that envy is bad for your health.
I wonder how many people are anti-Israel because of the new settlements they keep on building in East Jerusalem? They are doing so despite broad condemnation.
FYI I got shadowbanned from Hacker News for basically saying what you just did.
Second Life does something very similar. Reliable and unreliable messages, binary format, multiple messages in a single datagram.

Unreliable messsages are for ones that are superseded by later messages. There's no point in retransmitting; you always want the latest object positions.

The big problem is message priority. Games need a low-latency, low-traffic channel for updates and a high-latency, high-traffic channel for assets. It's tough making this work on the open Internet. End to end QoS just isn't widely available. So using much less than the full available bandwidth is needed to keep intermediate FIFO buffers from filling up. This is related to the "bufferbloat" problem - network devices now all have lots of RAM, and if they have FIFO queuing and less output bandwidth than input bandwidth, they will build up huge queues that generate huge latency.

For QoS to work in the wild, there has to be some throttling or incentive to discourage too much high priority traffic. You'd like to have under 5% of your traffic at high priority. It's hard to make this work in the public Internet.
I'm not claiming otherwise - just that my theory (and I have no actual evidence beyond the anecdotal) is that the big cloud providers aren't "overcharging" for bandwidth, just that they cannot offer discounts from oversubscription that others may be able to.
"All white people have privilege".

Thanks for that -- I'll tell you what I tell anyone who tells me that. Move to SA.
Can AI Stop Shark Attacks?
He's a graphic design justice warrior and tribalist, without much regard about anything else in public. He hates that devs and entrepreneurs are able to create their own stuff and cut studied designers like him out of the equation. The FB thing is just another opportunity for him to bitch about reality.
It's actually commonly made of thin plastic where I live, except on more fancy/modern toilets, so no, it doesn't have to be that way. But it does look fancier.
The last time I got pulled over (~15 years ago) it was leaving a bar in a vehicle with expired plates.

I had to do a field sobriety test, but the cops let me go with a warning because it was my friend's car. He hadn't said anything about the registration being expired when I offered to be the sober driver. They had quite obviously staked out the car. This was in downtown Plymouth, MI, which from what I understand, the police have a reputation for being strict there.
At least we know for sure the male vs. female incidence is completely bogus:

But there's still one significant increase in cancer in their data, so let's look more closely at that: "A statistically significant increase in the incidence of heart Schwannomas was observed in treated male rats at the highest dose." When it comes to this type of cancer, the control group of 817 rats developed four tumors. But critically, all of those tumors occurred in females; none in males. This apparent sex bias will necessarily exaggerate the impact of any tumors in any of the male experimental populations.

And that's exactly what you see happening. In one female population, 2.2 percent of an experimental group developed this type of tumor, but that was not a statistically significant result. By contrast, in this male population with the significant difference, only 1.5 percent of the animals developed these tumors. A low-dose group of males had the same number of tumors, but the group was larger and so the result slipped below significance.

These numbers suggest that the one statistical effect seen in this study is caused by the unusually low tumor incidence in the control group, rather than a specific effect of cellphone radiation.
Maybe the same way lawyers are? A board set up by the state? Just guessing here
"why?" To ship DOTA2
You’re just thinking of a single game client, if you have a server running 100 matches then it’s real bandwidth and will saturate network links.
I don't think it's possible on a phone, but in a browser you can remove videos from your watch history. Click the three dots next to the video for options, and select not interested. Google actually seems to take these into account, I had watched an Alex Jones video that was linked from elsewhere, and while it is good to not have too much of a bubble there's just certain things I don't need to see more of.

Or, just use a separate browser. I typically only use opera for YouTube & anything where I don't mind Google tracking me, but if I open a YouTube link in Firefox I'm not logged in (and w/ opera's VPN enabled it doesn't appear to affect YouTube recommendations). I'm sure Google does correlate traffic between the two to some extent, but this seems like the only useful way to use operas integrated VPN.
What would be the purpose of such a "bad" encryption? Apple must have known that it is not difficult to decrypt the protected binaries, so what is the point? To deter people who are not determined enough to learn about the code? To tell people who do decrypt them not to seal code?
> -I was "just" using OVH object storage [...]

> -I'm all about "cheap,cheap,cheap"

Have you looked at wasabi.com? They are much cheaper than just about anyone for object store. OVH is 0.0112/GB/mo and Wasabi is 0.0049/GB/mo.
I paste the URL to a window in Incognito Mode and it gets past it.
you can buy light plastic toilet lids if you like, in fact, they are rather cheaper than the more solid kinds.

I don't think there's really anything wrong with plastic toilet seats, but they feel less good, I think, than the heavier, more solid toilet seats.

The worst, in my mind, are the foam/shag carpet covers. those just seem wrong and gross - I mean I imagine my reaction is completely irrational, but I remember once I moved into a very cheap aparment; the toilet seat was sealed plastic covering foam in a way that the toilet seat was actually cushioned. something about it really squicked me out; the first night I went to the hardware store and bought a regular solid toilet seat and installed it.

Personally, I like keeping a heavy seat and just installing a dampener hinge, though I suppose that wouldn't help if you drop it during installation.
Yeah, many people condemn all of Israel. I guess they should just pack it up an call it a day...

The Jews have tried for decades to make peace. They've received rockets and hatred in response. They're fed up, and rightfully so.
Why don’t we think of north Africa as part of Africa?
"Co2 fixation" / capture is the starting keyword you want, though "coalgas" frequently turns up good fundemental work from the 80s. https://pubs.acs.org/journal/jacsat#/action/doMobileSearch?&...

For reviews specifically: https://pubs.acs.org/journal/jacsat#/action/doMobileSearch?&...

See also Royal Society: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/cs/c3cs60... . I can try and do a better filter job if people want, I think jacs keyword matching has managed to get worse.
Thanks! That helped.
I have never found it all that difficult the separate people who are Anti-Isreali government from those who are Anti-Jewish people during conversations. However, it seems those on both edges attempt to leverage that ambiguity to their own devices.

Is it really that difficult for people in modern society to induce and identify the difference between nuanced beliefs and tacit/coded bigotry?
Facebook and Twitter both used to have RSS feeds, and stopped supporting RSS to force people to use their ad-heavy client interfaces. But that's not where the good stuff is. While "social" has dropped RSS, it's still doing great for real news.
Netflix is ‘in advanced talks’ to acquire Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp studio
It’s not easy to share the bandwidth fairly, it’s taken decades of research and it continues to be improved in TCP.

You’re not consindering a server, the bandwidth is very high on the backend and does saturate links. You run many servers per physical or virtual machine due to cost, so you can have 1000s if players connected over a single network path.
Here’s a link to the original piece, but it is in French: https://www.capital.fr/entreprises-marches/netflix-en-discus...
My problem is their support. Packet loss to a server? 'Sorry this is not our issue'. I have one server left there, and if it goes above ~50mbit it drops ~25% of network traffic to multiple sources.
I may be in the minority here, but if you are programming properly, your understanding of the code should always be good enough that this is a non-issue. If you manage to trigger a compiler error like this at all, you are most likely hacking, not developing.
So because of events a thousand years ago the Israelis should be immune from criticism? Give me a break. Israel is an apartheid state and sensible people don't like that. And the right of "ancestral homeland" should be respected for Israelis, but not Europeans? etc.

In a rational society, any and all groups as valid targets for fair criticism. It doesn't mean that racists/reactionaries get a free pass, but it does mean that nobody gets special treatment.
Thank you for your service, sir!
Could you give me an example of different use cases for libquantum vs qiskit? Thanks.
This code implements RFC 5348-style TCP friendly rate limiting [0]. Is your concern about the implementation being wrong, or about the algorithm in 5348 somehow being insufficiently fair?

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5348
Pay them a living wage, and or somehow it becomes cheaper to live a modest, reasonable life, and that will change.
In another comment, they said the police never gave a reason for these stops.
Yep, saying your going to gassify crude oil and then recycle the co2 is basically like saying your going to unspill milk. The only point in the thing's favor is that there's tons floating around already.
Yeah another thing I'm surprised at, being a relatively new podcaster, is how often I approach people/businesses to interview them and they tell me they either don't listen to podcasts or don't even know what they are.
On Windows that ABI is COM, on Windows 10 it was updated to UWP and is quite feature rich, even if it doesn't support 100% C++ features.
Anti-semitism is on a bullish trend in Europe. Since this is very controversial, I will let reputable sources state the main reason:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/david-ranan-wrot...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2017/12/...

https://www.ft.com/content/f8d5e066-e0ac-11e7-a8a4-0a1e63a52...
This will be absurdly political if we go on but please try to have an empathy a bit.

Arabs have been there since centuries, some well planned religious migrations happened in last 100 years and then we have this mess. Why can't we go back to UN plan and call it a day ?
This particular article is interesting because the author, Bruce Sterling, is known by the HN crowd: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bruce%20sterling
One thing that has always been a worry is the budget deficit the postal service runs. I think more should be done to examine where costs are going, where profits could be made, or expanded. Quoting from their 2017 financial report: "The Postal Service reported a net loss for the year of $2.7 billion" [0] That use to be $8 billion ten years ago, so perhaps things are getting better...

[0.] https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2017/pr17_069....
Reference count problems routinely result in vulnerabilities. Google for [cve reference count].
Thanks for the advice! I'll make a gallery that will show more features of Marta.
both can be true. you can have discrimination and also have people who think every negative outcome is due to racism when it is not.

Brietbart/Buzzfeed actively push not looking at actual complex reasons in favor of inflammatory headlines that lead to clicks. For them it is race 100% of the time. If you see this everyday it isn't surprising that people start to believe everything is due to race.
For better and worse, I wouldn't say anything so absolute about Scala. Scala contains multitudes ;)

You can write Scala as Java or Haskell or anything in between.
2.1 deaths per year? I believe there is much more pressing matters to use AI for.
Calling people anti-Semites also is a tool for bullying countries into compensations that are completely undeserved, such as ones from Poland because allegedly the country took any active role in Holocaust:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Polish_death_camp%22_contro...

> Some Israelis have gone so far as to accuse the Polish government of Holocaust denial.[13][14]

> Israeli political scientist Shlomo Avineri said young Israelis unintentionally associate the Holocaust with Poland, sometimes far more than with Nazi Germany. Writing in Haaretz, he called for a reappraisal of Israeli Holocaust education policy, to more greatly emphasize German culpability and Polish resistance during the March of the Living.[118]
Subsidized by whom? The USPS didn't receive any tax dollars.
I’m all for progress as long as it’s achieved responsibility and as safely as possible
I'm pretty sympathetic with PR departments doing what they have to do, in terms of putting out the official boilerplate remorse, the promises to cooperate and keep people up to date, as well as publishing the incident data, and then keeping mum until the investigation is finished.

But Tesla is shoveling in the bullshit pretty early on. Besides the fuzzy and deliberately vague stats (why is the mileage attributed to Tesla's "equipped with Autopilot hardware"?), this graf is just despicable:

> Tesla Autopilot does not prevent all accidents – such a standard would be impossible – but it makes them much less likely to occur. It unequivocally makes the world safer for the vehicle occupants, pedestrians and cyclists.

"unequivocally" has an actual meaning: leaving no doubt. And yet it's used following the paragraph that pretends Tesla's and all U.S. vehicles are directly comparable. I know it sounds silly to focus on that word but someone in Tesla PR thought it needed to be used with the pile of crap numbers. Such blatant and pointless deception -- "significantly" would work just as well for that inane sentence -- feels like a strong a signal to doubt the rest of the info given, as if the evidence weren't already so obviously dubious.