skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having been in a mixed-race relationship where one partner is brown, I can tell you firsthandedly that if you think racism is rare, then you’re probably white or Asian or you have consistently lived in areas where racism is actually rare. I lived in places where when I was young, I never saw anyone engage in racist behaviors. This changed the moment I entered that relationship. It may have ended long ago, but it’s definitely made me more aware of the subtle ways that people show prejudice when it’s not outright. Is it a majority? No. At least one in ten? Much closer to reality. We’ve got a long way to go, even still. Don’t forget that schools were still segregated in America less than a century ago — there are leaders in government and industry that grew up in that environment. You’ve got at least two generations to die off before we can really say that the impacts of that era are negligible.
The disc service still exists, I’m a customer. It still lets users give star ratings and still has user written comments/reviews.
That idea has been floated[0]

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-15/uber-ceo-...
What if it correlates with protected group membership, like zip code does?
MST is a beast, I use it for everything. It great for abstraction, has good typescript support. tree based nodes are just a super nice structure for applications in general.

I've used flux, redux, mobx, context, combinations of those, and I think I finally found something that will stay.

If you haven't tried it, I highly recommend it!
The goal isn't just to have a "veggie burger bleed", it's to replicate the experience of eating meat.

Perhaps they have failed so far (according to your taste test), but the goal is valid. If someone can find a way to make a product near-indistinguishable from meat without raising and killing animals, it would be a massive victory for the environment (meat production is CO2-intensive), for the cause of bringing decent food to poor people, and for reducing animal suffering.

It may be one of the most underrated technological efforts happening right now IMO.
I think most likely is a consent decree that says they're not allowed to engage in this behavior, and the gov has the right to inspect their operations to ensure compliance. That along with a token fine.
installed spyware on their hardware?

Can you explain more?
Can someone genuinely explain this: How is that Uber continues losing cash but is about to IPO, but when MoviePass tries to do the same, its about to go out of business.
That we we know about.
What you're describing makes sense, but would it not also be possible with inclusion-based targeting instead of exclusion-based targeting?
Yes, I’m using an X1 Carbon with Fedora, no problems thus far. Hardware is solid, and drivers work without issue. Fedora does what you’d expect.

Only issue is battery life, maybe 4-7 hours with VSCode, Slack etc, but maybe you can’t complain too much given these are electron apps.
Could you please point at the time in that video where this superior generalisation ability is discussed? It's a long video and I'm not sure what I'm looking for.

Better still, could you link to a paper where the relevant results are presented?
You just want to change the law to benefit Facebook. Seems odd.

Your other comments state that you value the ideal entirely over the practical, with the practical having no value to you at all. Fortunately, the practical is considered important by lawmakers.
I'm not saying the concern is right or wrong, but...the sort of people who aren't fussy about what they put in their mouths may be off somewhere happily eating a burger from McDonald's.

Being concerned about the quality of what you consume is likely to be correlated with being skeptical about meat substitutes made in a lab. I suspect the whole project of incorporating a little inherent contradiction.

If you tell me meat is not good for my health, or the planet, and I'm convinced, then I'm going to reason that I should probably just minimize my meat consumption and eat things based on age-old recipes, not be a fanatic about meatless purity or seek out weird meat substitutes.

This may not be an obvious point of view if you see avoiding meat as primarily an animal rights issue and associate it with technological progress.
Sure. But income or wealth aren't protected classes. And anyone can walk into a Whole Foods just to see the ads, without spending any money. There is targeting happening when you advertise in Whole Foods but it's not discriminatory against a protected class.
Moviepass doesn't get enough investment money to continue operating.
That you know about.
http://web.uconn.edu/mcbstaff/graf/Medical.html

Leeches actually are valid medical science. There just were not better alternatives at the time, and they sometimes can still be used today.
Sure, but you did not narrow down the audience. People as a whole, it would seem, slightly prefer checkout counter magazines as opposed to NYT. Likewise, I'm not sure bite-sized bullshit regurgitation services like Twitter/Mastodon are even useful in the first place, let alone benefit from refined moderation.
Stair surfing - I've still done it as a middle aged guy.

I would like to learn to do it hands free, one foot in front of the other (forward and down to the next step). I can surf a bit without grabbing the rails, but only rarely make it to the bottom. Definitely needs the perfect wooden stairs to get maximum flight time!
Careful making any conclusions from that show. A number of the participants have said they were totally misrepresented.

You could tell they were going to slant things right from the start when they started first with introducing Bekah and her quirky “witch” and “psychic” beliefs, before even getting to the diagnostics or how they were diagnosed. The documentary makers definitely crossed some ethical lines by cutting in that doctor talking answering general prompts about psychological illness, and splicing that in with patients answering questions about their emotional state, etc.

One thing it was good for though was to see just how horribly taken advantage of desperate and sick people can be by quacks. The show featured a lot of quacks such as Suzanne Kim and the Sophia Institute and that lady on Marthas Vineyard. I really wish I had the hours of material they left out to produce a documentary on what these quacks prescribed and charged their clients.

Edit: I’ll say on the subject of Jamison for example, if you want a better documentary on ME/CFS take a look at Unrest, also on Netflix. (And Forgotten Plague I think on Prime.) But even that science has progressed a long way in the past couple of years since that came out.
Good. Either all religions are fine in public space, or none of them are.
if you think racism is rare, then you’re probably white or Asian

I sincerely hope this isn't an intimation that Asians are somehow immune from forms of racism or racially charged behavior?

Would you be able to clarify this a bit? Maybe I've misunderstood you.
The law finds the combination of "housing ad" and "discriminatory targeting" to be illegal. You can do discriminatory targeting when you're selling wheelchairs or other products. You can post housing ads. You just can't do both.
Educational and useful content marketing is definitely a solid plan. That's been my strategy all along and it seems to work! I figure, some people might wanna sign up for a thing, or enjoy feeling like they're in a "class" of sorts (with the 5-day thing). But even if they don't want any of that, I still want the post to be useful. Give an insight, help them take action on something, etc.
Many reasons, but MoviePass was just a reseller at the end of the day, whereas Uber is a service business.
> Who are you going to get your laptop from now of you ignore all of those - especially if you're going to reinstall your OS immediately anyway?

Clevo. They are a whitebox laptop manufacturer so you will find they are OEM for several smaller brands like MSI, Sager, and others. Yes they are Chinese market, but every laptop is made in China these days, even the big American names, so that part is unavoidable. If that truly is an issue you can't get around, you'll be happy to know that System76 is moving towards producing its devices in house in the United States[1], though I have no idea if the recent tariff wars have affected that situation.

[1] https://opensource.com/article/18/4/system76-us-manufacturin...
Ending their self-driving initiative would expose that their business as-is is fundementally unsustainable (it’s clear expensive incentives are required to continually pull new drivers into the driver pool). They have to continue to try to maintain their valuation and funding, at least until IPO (where they can dump it on public investors).
I am reminded of this excerpt from Orwell’s Road to Wigan Pier, discussing attitudes to colonialism in Britain:

(In other words, it is easy to sneer at US control of the internet, but do people who do so actually want the alternative on offer)

“The same streak of soggy half-baked insincerity runs through all 'advanced' opinion. Take the question of imperialism, for instance. Every left-wing 'intellectual' is, as a matter of course, an anti-imperialist. He claims to be outside the empire-racket as automatically and self-righteously as he claims to be outside theclass-racket. Even the right-wing 'intellectual', who is not definitely in revolt against British imperialism, pretends to regard it with a sort
of amused detachment. It is so easy to be witty about the British Empire. The White Man's Burden and 'Rule, Britannia' and Kipling's novels and Anglo-Indian bores--who could even mention such things without a snigger?

And is there any cultured person who has not at least
once in his life made a joke about that old Indian havildar who said that if the British left India there would not be a rupee or a virgin left between Peshawar and Delhi (or wherever it was)? That is the attitude of the typical left-winger towards imperialism, and athoroughly flabby, boneless attitude it is. For in the last resort, the only important question is. Do you want the British Empire to hold
together or do you want it to disintegrate? And at the bottom of his heart no Englishman, least of all the kind of person who is witty about Anglo-Indian colonels, does want it to disintegrate. For, apart from any other consideration, the high standard of life we enjoy in England depends upon our keeping a tight hold on the Empire, particularly the
tropical portions of it such as India and Africa. Under the capitalist system, in order that England may live in comparative comfort, a hundred million Indians must live on the verge of starvation--an evil state of affairs, but you acquiesce in it every time you step into a taxi or eat a plate of strawberries and cream. The alternative is to throw the Empire overboard and reduce England to a cold and unimportant little island where we should all have to work very hard and live mainly on herrings and potatoes. That is the very last thing that any left-winger wants. Yet the left-winger continues to feel that he has no moral responsibility for imperialism. He is perfectly ready to accept the products of Empire and to save his soul by sneering at the people who
hold the Empire together.”
That doesn’t make any sense, getting rid of user reviews makes Netflix streaming less social. Netflix is not social media.

Trying to have people watch just enough to keep subscribing is too hard a needle to thread, it’s easier to encourage as much streaming as possible so people feel like they’re getting something for their money. I’m sure bandwidth is a minor cost compared to licensing and producing content.
Raise the relevant budgets, hire a few thousand more US Attorneys and maybe they'll get around to it.
Well then- who has?
I’m afraid that the law being used to accuse Facebook would apply in that case too.
The Story of Shmetty (1999)
I am unable to see any political arguments here. Need to take off your hippie glasses I suppose.
I think for that purpose it's better to work on lab-grown meat. Making veggies taste like meat seems misguided to me. Either eat real veggies or eat real meat.
This is why you need a wide range of experiences represented in your company. Monocultures tend to miss things that are obvious to others.
Hmm, woke up to the same issue today. My 2018's lid was closed but the fans were spinning near full speed. I have a firmware password set so when it reboots it sits at the password prompt (why can't this timeout and shutdown after a certain period of inactivity?). The crash report indicated Bridge OS as well. This is also the second time it happened.
Agreed, and I have only ever installed Manjaro.
That's a hypothetical question. Does it really correlate with protected group memberships?
I listed other companies which did just as bad things. Why would you trust (for example) Dell more than Lenovo in this case?
You can see them in Phoenix just now https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-31/inside-th...
My Hackintoshes take usually 3 days to set up 100% working; mostly issues with setting up Intel HD/NVidia and HDMI/DP audio properly. Obviously I do some research before buying hardware about the success of other people; some machines like most Intel NUCs or ASUS ZenBooks work flawlessly, sometimes even better than with Linux (which is my primary OS). On all Hackintoshes I have Linux, W7, W10 and macOS. Sometimes I have to buy Broadcom WiFi/BT PCIe module and replace Intel one. Frankly, getting W7 running on newer hardware (hello Threadripper!) is sometimes more difficult than installing macOS...
Uber has many services in many markets, many of which make money. They are just spending it as fast as they earn it. MoviePass is just one service and it loses money on every customer.
"And then, one day, she was too weak even to get to her feet, although she greeted me with the usual rumble, which tugged at my heartstrings. I again stared at the rows of tins in my store. I had tried them all, and then suddenly one on the shelf caught my eye, which had been given to me some weeks before. My interest rose when I saw that it contained coconut oil added to a fat-free base, for I remembered once being told that coconut oil was probably the nearest substitute for the fat of elephant's milk. This last one I would try, and suddenly I felt a good deal happier, at least all was not lost yet.

It worked. My joy knew no bounds. Finally we had unlocked the mystery of how to bottle-rear a baby elephant."
- Dr. Daphne Sheldrick

This was a real tear-jerker. One of the best short reads I've come across in a while, and an interesting look into the science and experimentation that goes into conservation efforts.
That's just one of the charges. The others are even more damning - targeting by sex, religion or country of origin.
Good for you. Same goes for every box you use that you don't personally inspect the firmware source code for the NIC, ME, graphics card, USB, Thunderbolt controller, etc. Personally i'll stand on the shoulder of giants (people who do actually inspect this, I don't have the skills) and monitor the shit out of my network instead of worrying about it, because I can actually do that bit.
> When you hire, you discriminate based on ability

Yes, but not on race, gender, income, sexual orientation, etc.
When it comes wit a dongle, why is that such a problem? The need to remember it? (Ethernet seems like a pretty uncommon thing these days).
The issue here is that Facebook is explicitly allowing the property owners to make discriminatory housing ads. It doesn't matter how many other sources there are because publishers are also forbidden from making discriminatory ads in the law.

In the end they're going to have to either stop allowing housing ads or remove any filtering for those ads that relate to a protected class (including any fine grained geographic filters too probably because those turn into a racial proxy pretty quickly) and anything that's a significant proxy for something like race.
I'm assuming this is because of growth and decay between fill and release cycles. But in the long run wouldn't that be carbon neutral?
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=tanyakhovanova.com

Do you just post this every 3 months?
Please don't call it "ride sharing", which is when 2 or more people going to the same place share the cost of transportation. There is no profit motive involved.

What Uber and others do is an unlicensed/subcontracted taxi service.
The main website reeks of social justice, and take a look at the rules of mastodon.social (the primary instance) if you want something to laugh at: https://mastodon.social/about/more - All the big instances are exactly the same, and I guess if you make a more "free" instance, the big instances will completely ban your instance from theirs, so it won't be of much use. So federation doesn't really solve any censorship problems.

Mastodon is as politically aligned as Gab.ai. Someone should create a Twitter clone that isn't politically aligned, now that would be a step forward :P
Have you tried just turning off JavaScript? A website often is a hundredth the size without it. This is because many use JavaScript to add iframes, images, videos, and more JavaScript.
I've been wondering for a long time how it is that symmetry groups are used in science, and I was thinking about it some more while looking at this.

Is the idea that when analyzing some natural phenomenon there's a bunch of complexity, but in certain cases (where we can use symmetry groups) the complexity follows a pattern. If we recognize the pattern, then in order to get at the heart of the matter we only need to look at one element of the pattern for the next stages of our analysis (rather than considering all of its repetitions).

And then maybe the next thing is that often times the patterns occur in abstract mathematical spaces rather than being literal physical patterns.

Can anyone comment on the accuracy of that interpretation?
Does anyone know if you can view past crash reports? I sent the same crash report to Apple this morning but neglected to save it. Would be interesting to compare similar reports.
So I'm coming at this from the perspective of somebody that has been vegetarian for about a decade or so.

I agree the bleeding bit seems pretty gimmicky, but if it helps convince non-vegetarians to give it shot it might make sense.

Otherwise, I rather disagree with your post. It's certainly one of the better veggie burgers that, to me, tastes quite a bit like real meat. The Beyond Burger, which is in the same niche as the Impossible Burger, actually tastes too much like meat for my mother (vegetarian for far longer than me) to enjoy. I don't think I'd confuse either of those for real meat, but it does hit a lot of the same notes which is more than I can say for any other veggie burger I have tried.

A friend who really enjoys his meat tried the Impossible Burger and found it almost identical to some non-burger meat. I think it was some sort of pate from an animal I don't think many Americans usually eat.

I suspect you haven't tried many of the standard grocery store veggie burgers. Like so many vegetarian and vegan products, despite their branding they are really more for making a new dish that's similar to the meat version. I think if they branded themselves more as alternatives rather than exact replacements they would be far more acceptable to people.

Only recently, with products like the Imposible and Beyond Burger, have we started to see products that are really starting to push into the realm of direct replacements. I don't think it's fair to call them just average veggie burgers.
The Bernie Madoff off of clinical trials?

People in my immediate circle suffer from ailments mentioned in this article. Do these researchers have any conscience at all? Did they understand they're playing with people's lives?

I put them in the same category as the pharmacist who watered down the chemo drugs. There really should be criminal prosecutions and jail time for these crimes.
The thread is about Apple.
Hasn't the inability to upgrade or repair the MBP been true for the last couple of generations of MBP as well though?
What about the people who gave up meat for health reasons?

There is a market for this, just because you aren't in the target market doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Upvoted. I'm not saying there isn't an issue (my spidey sense says there is) but taking an advert in isolation doesn't prove anything.
This is a hardware project I started when I was a senior in college. U2F Zero, a open source U2F token / two factor authentication device.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01L9DUPK6
https://conorpp.com/designing-and-producing-2fa-tokens-to-se...

Brings in around $500-$1000 per month of revenue (when in stock haha). I started just to learn how to lay out a circuit board and make my own embedded device, just kind of took off.

Using the U2F protocol is nice, since it's a standard and the PC side infrastructure is all there for the users to use it. I just have to do the hardware development :)

Also, I'm working on a new U2F token. It supports FIDO2 (password replacement protocol, upgrade to U2F), NFC, USB-C, and will have a nice case. If you're interested, sign up here, we'll be releasing more news soon :)

https://solokeys.com/
The A-Z of belief: A is for Atheism
In C, `struct tm` is literally a struct whose fields are all `int`s. But people typically represent time in C programs as an integer of some width measuring time in some fixed unit since some fixed point in time.

Even C has a bunch of functions to work with the date struct as an opaque type....

I can't anticipate those requirements---maybe our date class has to bomb out if you pass in, say, 1800 or -5 as a year because someone on my team insists they're invalid.
People work around these classes when they have to do date arithmetic because they're too slow, or they depend on the machine's locale and the locale isn't under control, or they take timezones into account in fundamentally broken ways, or any number of other reasons.

And then you use a better class. In Java you use something like JodaTime in .Net you use NodaTime - a .Net library written and maintained by Jon Skeet (the person with the highest ranking on Stack OverFlow). If that’s not good enough you write a custom extension or mixin to handle your special snowflake handling and still let all of the consumers treat it as an opaque type.

I don't want to convert your boxed int to a string and then parse it as an integer just to do math on it. That creates a ton of syntactic noise, not to mention being slow.

We were talking about an accountId that just happens to be represented as an int. You’re not going to be doing math on an account id. Also neither .Net with generics or even C++ templates have the boxing and unboxing issue.

Yes, and the solution is a pain in the ass! So don't create new interfaces to version and deprecate for no good reason.

If there was a business case to change the underlying structure - by definition there was a “good reason”.

And I'd just send an integral id over the wire, probably documenting that it's the id of an account using something like the field's name in the message. No extra tooling needed, and I don't have to make a fuss about how the id() function (that I had to add to the Account object anyway) is for the big boys and should be avoided whenever possible.

Even so, you should still not send your internal representation that may change across the wire and do some type of mapping. Are you going to send the same model that came from your ORM that’s tied directly to your database across as the representation to the outside world?
I've been doing it for a few months too. It was scary at the beginning. The steps at work are pretty high and the first few times I actually had pain in my quads afterwards. It's best to practice on empty stairs with a rail at first.
Make a zero-carbohydrate meat substitute, and I'm interested. Otherwise, no.
Meta point, what's the opposite of betteridge's law of headlines for security?

Is X insecure? -> yes
That might be phrased stridently but it's not 'putting words into someone's mouth'. It's a question.