skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Race and low income are inextricably linked because of racist past policies

Not just racist past policies, but also racist present social dynamics. Racial biases affects income when people don't visit restaurants with black waitstaff [1,2], when businesses make up excuses to decline black job applicants [3,4], when doctors fail to recognize the suffering of black patients [5], when colleges provide less support to black students [6], when black people are given harsher sentences for the same crimes [7], and when in so many cases these biases (which people are usually aware of IMO, even if they say they aren't) affect people's behavior in the world of friendship and dating and ultimately percolate back into the trajectory of people's careers. For a particular example of the last point, my own programming career in San Francisco started partially because of a friendship that formed through an online video game community when I was in high school. Friendship-forming is an unassailable personal freedom, but that doesn't mean it can't mediate unfairness.

People nowadays love to talk about "subconscious" racism and "persistent inequality", but this may perpetuate the false belief that volitional racial prejudices have mostly gone away -- they have not.

[1] - http://moya.bus.miami.edu/~lgiuliano/customer_discrim_apr09....

[2] - https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/682332?jou...

[3] - https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/9/18/16307782/study-raci...

[4] - https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/minorities-who-whiten-job-resumes...

[5] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4843483/

[6] - https://phys.org/news/2018-09-universities-black-students.ht...

[7] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/11/16/black...
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The slippery slope from bullshit jobs to company failure
Even if they don't replace higher end gear, consumer devices will allow much better data to determine who needs to be hooked to a dedicated device. More people who need in depth can be brought in to do them, and less people who don't need it can avoid those tests.

Even if the amount of uses for high end devices (Holter monitor or whatever) stays the same, consumer wearables should lead to that usage being allocated in a more productive way, which will bring don't costs and improve outcomes.
Absolutely, it should be written to block all companies equally.

But in must be written
This is the technical term for what's left of the `=` sign. If you are from a JavaScript background, it is commonly called "destructuring assignment".

The interesting about Skip is that local mutations are explicit with a ! in front of it. And it works in the context of a lvalue.

We may want to rename this title if it's confusing.
I don't have access to it now. When I do I can put the package definitions and OS config up somewhere.

When you first boot GuixSD most of the core stuff should work fine. Wireless will not work but you should have ethernet. I created mainline linux kernel and firmware packages [1]. Then you need to get the broadcom b43 firmware to get wireless support. I think I made 2 packages. One for b43-fwcutter and one the broadcom-wl firmware which uses b43-fwcutter to cut and install it. I think just about everything on my MBP was working after that.

[1] example linux package https://github.com/wingo/guix-nonfree/blob/master/gnu/packag...
[2] http://linuxwireless.sipsolutions.net/en/users/Drivers/b43/
They had to make some very unlikely connections. Look for the jumps in their analysis where they suddenly know what to Google for. Because of what? A photo from somebody in Chechnya that looks not at all like the guy they want.

Could be they knew what they had to find... Anyway, they have some great sources for an open source analysis joint! ;-)
It amplifies censorship and creates and provides the tools for censorship, which tools will become available as a (hidden) switch everywhere else, including here.
Agreements and contracts can dictate otherwise.
This is a wild guess, but could be the case for you seeing as the page's name was "Rock Music Community":

Many years ago, when FB went through one of their conversions of "old data" to "new data" -- your old FB profile's data was probably converted. For example if you had a FB account from its college days say in 2005, and in the "hobbies/interests" section you put "Rock music", at one point when FB converted those fields into FB page likes for you automatically, it tried to search for the closest match to "Rock music" and ended up on some random "Rock Music Community" page. I know this was the case for me for a few things and I went and unliked them manually.

Check out https://www.facebook.com/[yourfbname]/likes and see if you find more similar pages being liked by you.
Why though? We draw lines about what is legally acceptable or not all the time, often with little more guidance than subjective morality filtered through elected representation.

There is a vast difference between Hugo Boss making Nazi uniforms and IBM selling them high tech machines designed to increase the efficiency of their extermination.
> Bringing this in would bring a lot of probably lower income people, and that would definitely bring down our median average household income.

Isn't that a mathematical truism? If you build lower priced housing, then people with less income would be able to afford it. If people with less income buy these houses, average income among house owners would necessarily decrease - that's what the average means!
You're saying it's idealism, I wouldn't call it that.

This to me is the social contract that binds our relationship as consumers with these companies.

If I cannot trust them, it means I can no longer recommend Google.
And I already stopped recommending Google's products a while ago. What changed now is that ... I'm actively recommending against them to everyone I know and that is using a Google product that I happen to notice.

Of course, I'm a single individual, I can only influence my friends and my Twitter followers maybe, and I'm sure most of the time I'm preaching to the choir.

But I felt that way when I was recommending against Microsoft, since 2005. And guess what, enough people started to do it and it started eroding on their influence and market share, coupled with their own blunders of course, the classic "inovator's dilemma".

And as a datapoint, I think one of the primary reasons for why Windows Phone was a failure was because developers rejected it, due to it coming from Microsoft. Now you can talk all you want about market share, monetization and tell people that developers go where the money is, but I remember people hacking for Android phones ever since they hit the market and it took a really long time for Android to become barely profitable for app developers (it still isn't actually), not to mention a worse experience compared with Apple's APIs, yet developers embraced Android. Thus that lost sex appeal and trust that Microsoft had back in the days of Windows 95 was lost and they still haven't recovered, which prevented them from getting a foothold in a market that really matters for their future.

Nowadays Microsoft is doing fine, but they had to make some drastic changes to regain the lost trust, as they were going downhill, even if it wasn't necessaril and please notice that in spite of their best efforts, they still haven't regained that trust. Notice what happened when they acquired GitHub. Not the kind of reaction you expect when you buy something for 7.5 billion. Although I'm sure people will get over it soon, if they don't screw it, like they screwed Skype that is.

So you know ... I might be idealistic, my colleagues too, but judging by HN's reaction and the reaction of people I follow on Twitter, to me it's clear Google's image has changed and it does matter because we can influence their future.

Companies can choose to not care. But that's how they eventually become irrelevant.
It's extremely easy for Americans to gloss over the fact that until significant work reforms culminating in the Sherman anti-trust act, it was not unheard of (or, crazily enough, illegal) for super-companies like Standard Oil to enlist the US army in literal massacres with body counts over 100 when unions lead strikes.

Being a union leader in the so-called "Gilded Age" of Rockafeller put you in alliance with other anti-government actors of varying quality as a matter of survival. As the government subsequently became more receptive to guaranteeing some degree of workers rights and benefits and limiting the power of super-billionaires, the necessity of allying with these elements fell apart in messy way.
> These startups progress slowly and at great expense, earning them the moniker “tough tech” because they work on difficult problems that require fundamental breakthroughs.

I am genuinely curious if for-profit startups is the right setting for "fundamental breakthroughs". Could the current nuclear power technology have been invented by a startup for example?
To the founders and employees of all the other less "powerful" companies - well done too ... making the world better, however you are doing it, is powerful work. keep it up :-)
Most likely if the company is 500-1m revenue then it is basically a tiny company that won't be on anyone's radar. Decent sized sellers on ebay/amazon can easily generate 500k-1m revenue and the vast majority of people never heard of those stores before.

Even if you are running a decent sized business, just don't be the face of the company. The purpose of business is to make money, not become "famous".
Wow, this is brilliant. So simple yet so useful. How do you plan to deal with competition? It seems like barriers to entry are low.
I think a bit skepticism is due here. Their "proof" that Chepiga and Boshirov are the same person rests almost solely on a supposed strong resemblance between a photo of Chepiga taken in 2003 and photos of Boshirov from 2009 and 2018. I have stared at the photos for a long time and I am not sure they are the same person. Chepiga's eyebrows and bottoms of ears look different. I am not saying that they are not the same person but neither am I convinced they are.
Great information! Thanks!
You didn't ask me personally but feel free to email me, I've helped with the open sourcing effort: vjeux@fb.com
AKA Micro-Transactions...
There's a huge amount of difference between the apparent demand for housing and the availability of housing; there's also a lot of hidden demand -- people living with roommates who would prefer to live alone if it were more affordable. I wouldn't look for new construction to make things affordable, but to reduce the rate of price increases.

If well-off people are moving into SF, they're most likely making their old units available too. I would predict that SF would remain unaffordable even if it added 10% more units, but surrounding areas might become affordable. Also, other municipalities will likely take queues from SF, if for no other reason than to avoid being in the news for being 'more restrictive than San Francisco', certain restrictive communities excluded.
This is the only way:

https://www.thevenusproject.com/resource-based-economy/

This utopian idea from Jacque Fresco is practically impossible to implement unless an all-powerful benevolant dictator type AI is in charge of everything.
Future of financial world may be within Stablecoins like Kowala / kUSD
Google reCaptacha 'impossible' to solve on Firefox, not so on Chrome
I use an ISP that apparently has has IPs blacklisted as fishy. Nothing I can do about that. But I have noticed that using Firefox I am greeted with many screens of reCaptcha even if i solve them correctly. When I give up and use Chrome, not logged and all cookies cleared, it works many times without having to fill in reCatcha at all. It's not scientific but it has happened to me almost hundreds of times.

Anyone else noticing that using Chrome saves you from filling less reCaptcha ?
How does this package compare with https://www.npmjs.com/package/hyperdht ? Both seem to depend on https://www.npmjs.com/package/dht-rpc for most of the work.
(I work at FB, not on Skip.) The project was originally started with the hopes of converting Facebook's entire (Hack) web codebase to use Skip and support reactivity. It seemed like the Skip team hoped that it would be possible to convert incrementally while reaping performance wins incrementally too.

Converting a multi-million-line codebase takes many years, and in practice, it turned out that huge swaths of the code would need to be converted before any wins were had. (To fully leverage reactivity, all your dependencies also need to be reactive.) Our codebase is intertwined and doesn't have many self-contained parts that could be fully converted in isolation so this wasn't possible.

Essentially, Skip is still very promising as a language for new projects but it feels like Facebook management couldn't justify staffing a permanent team given that we don't have a path to move huge chunks of development to it except in projects being developed more from scratch, which we tend to have few of.

I wouldn't see any of this as an indictment of Skip's potential generally.
A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years
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Use go for what? DNS resolution? The default behavior is to use the system DNS resolver. The Go resolver will be used if the system is resolver is not avaialble (e.g. if the binary is compiled as pure go) or if the net.Resolver has the PreferGo flag set (which is false by default).

https://github.com/golang/go/blob/541f9c0345d4ec52d9f4be5913...
Sounds like they made a good product
Because government making decision based on morality is slippery slope as morality is very subjective and varies with people, race and religion. Also is not Republican the party which advocates small government?
Attempts at lock-in just seem to delay the inevitable and make software worse in the meantime.

For companies like Microsoft and Apple those delays have been enormously profitable, but long term there may be a hefty cost from their avoidance of truly great crossplatform software development tools.
No, they are not easier to not do business with, and it is also harder to find out when we should attempt to not do business with them.

Try telling people who have only Comcast to not get off the Internet, or people with only one nearby grocery store to boycott it.

Both require strenuous oversight, and without a govt capable and willing to constrain that oversight, you wind up wint an economy like the 1890s robber barons, which needed to be broken up by Teddy Roosevelt
It cannot be emphasized strongly enough that non-technical people see these things completely differently than technical people do. Seen through the eyes of technical people like your average HN reader, Markdown is simple and lightweight. Seen through the eyes of a non-technical person, marking up text in any format (not just Markdown) looks indistinguishable from writing code, which is something they believe deep down is way over their heads. The pushback you will get from them if you try to force them to do it anyway is typically epic. They will fight against it every step of the way.

It's not impossible to get regular people to mark up text; WordPerfect did so very effectively for many years. But it's worth remembering that (1) that was in the 1980s, when people put up with having to learn things they didn't want to because the technology wasn't advanced enough to offer them an alternative, and (2) eventually the technology did advance, and Microsoft Word came along with its WYSIWYG interface and promptly put WordPerfect into a hole in the desert.

It's also not impossible to write a static CMS that provides a normie-friendly WYSIWYG interface, rather than having everything revolve around editing text files. That's what Movable Type (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_Type) was, for instance, a set of Perl scripts that provided a friendly WYSIWYG interface over content stored in a database, and then ground out static pages from that content whenever it changed. But modern SSGs are pitched to developers first and foremost, so they all revolve around stuff like Markdown and Git that are about as approachable to non-technical people as garlic is to Dracula.
And the patriot act, and prohibition, and on and on. Not sure why pointing out unrelated positive or negative legislation affects the issue at hand. It's disingenuous to debate that way. Back to the issue at hand, I am specifically talking about heavy-handed oversight of the internet. The not-as-heavy-handed internet oversight we either already have or has been attempted is problematic and we should not double down on it. In the absence of a good solution to a problem that exists, we should not make a second problem. We might want it to work, but existing examples have shown us that what we want to work is not enough to make it so.
It might be annoying if you're really trying to get a good look at something, but I think it is kind of a neat aesthetic. Some of the old PC-Engine/whatever dithered art looks great.
No, LTE devices will happily connect to any random DIY base station, without any visual indication that this is taking place...
Excellent information!
Unfortunately there is no "never" setting. The HTTP spec recommends 1 year.
While it can't compete with 2.5MB, python:3.6-alpine (which includes points 1 and 2) weighs less than 100MB. You need a lot of Python code to get to 1GB.
I am guessing they will replace it by the following feature :

Support your favorite sites with Brave’s blockchain-based tokens called Basic Attention Tokens. (coming soon to mobile)

https://brave.com/features/
That sounds like a hard line to draw. A tool that makes it easier to look at lots of footage, which happens to get used for garment enforcement, is that a "garment related tool"? How do we factor in the French government's intention to build its own garment related tools on top of a camera's general purpose interfaces? What if the camera company itself is in France, but it's _suppliers_ are in the US?

My goal here isn't just to be annoying and nitpicky. It's to try to make it clear that there are a million different questions interacting here.
> The main challenge was to reduce page size without making the website less attractive. Because images take up most of the bandwidth, it would be easy to obtain very small page sizes and lower energy use by eliminating images, reducing their number, or making them much smaller. However, visuals are an important part of Low-tech Magazine’s appeal, and the website would not be the same without them.
> my girlfriend is always shocked (and a bit annoyed) when I tell her.

Is this is a 50 First Dates type of situation?
I recall thinking it sounded like BS at the time, but the "misogynist" link seems prescient in hindsight.
It makes me wonder if the same dynamic is at work with cryptocurrencies now. Fraudsters found and adopted them early, because if your goal is to commit fraud, having a currency not under the control of the banking system is a pretty critical attribute. But now that the mainstream world is aware of them and people are actively researching what they might be good for, that may not hold true forever.
But what if they’re driven to concentration camps in automobiles manufactured by US companies? Should we regulate Ford?
> what do you call an accountant who sings up to perpetuate the status quo of a criminal enterprise by updating their books?

The difference is that the accountant is necessary for the criminal enterprise. Google isn't necessary for a censorship state, since China more than capable of handling that on their own. A closer analogy is that Google is the line cook of the restaurant the mafia hangs out in.
Been a partner for about a year now, which pays you an undisclosed cut of the members fee from those that engage with your content (meaning claps).

Mine is about, uhm, me being a disillusioned 30 year old developer hating how things are done now? Rants like this https://medium.com/commitlog/how-to-design-for-the-modern-we... tend to alright.

Throwing in an amazon link when its appropriate, or funny in the above case doesn't hurt either. Kinda got an on-going thing with always pushing K&R books.
> I think demonizing the guys behind WhatsApp is entirely warranted. They built up a large userbase around promises of privacy and encryption

WhatsApp end-to-end encryption didn't actually begin until after the acquisition to Facebook had already gone through[0].

I am certain that, as of 2012-2013, WhatsApp wasn't even consistently using TLS to encrypt traffic. That's what made it so shocking when they suddenly leapt from some of the worst security practices of all messaging apps on the market to the best[1]. They built a massive userbase long before any efforts were made towards privacy and encryption.

[0] https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2472340,00.asp

[1] Signal didn't exist at the time, and yes, TextSecure existed, but almost nobody was using it compared to WhatsApp or any other chat app on the market today.
Smaller Web pages would be nice on my phone in Massachusetts when I've got spotty service, honestly.
Well, it's either this or "Other". It's not like a lot of Jews identify as Black, American Indian, Hispanic or Pacific Islander. Technically, Israel is in Asia so they could choose Asian, but I think they understand that's not what is meant here.
Do you have more detail/instructions on running Nix on GuixSD?
These are awesome. I’m a proposal manager, and I sketch out storyboards with pen and paper during the planning stage. Something like this with pages divided into 1/4ths and 1/8ths would be very helpful.
Anyone who has had to face the brutal Dutch rental market has no sympathy for Airbnb or their users.
That's the point though: imagine if you can just drive a Leaf off the lot and really enjoy it maintenance free from day 1 onwards, but you need to assemble the Tesla and do a bunch of minor maintenance every time you want to drive it.

I'll take the Leaf, or better yet, do what I've done with VR so far: wait.
I looked in the mirror and lifted my t-shirt, noticed my belly was starting to get fat.

Then I quit sugar and carbs and never went back - but it was hard, after 2-3 months I got crazy cravings for carbs but I pushed through it, I compare the pain of changing something important to the most "extreme alternative" - which in this case and in many cases around bad habits is death.

Break the habit or die early?
Form factor makes a big difference. When you need to cram things down into a small size it can get very expensive.
Its not dangerous to ignore if it results in your entire IP portfolio getting expropriated and used to crush you.

Its a siren song that is enabled by increased quarterly profits, even knowing full well the risks, it will be another CEO and board before they come home to roost.
> Companies are easier to not do business with.

Some companies, however at a certain point, it becomes extremely difficult to not doing business with specific companies.

For example: describe how you would stop doing business with Equifax.

Also, how would you stop doing business with Google. You cannot simply stop using the search engine or Gmail. You would have to block (or stop using) websites using Google Analytics, stop using sites/services that use Google's Cloud, etc.
What specific skills/training do you have that make you more qualified than a trained government analyst to make such a determination?
Persisting data in React Native
Agreed. Doctors are very conservative and would insist on verifying the data with a cardiac event monitor.

However it's also true that the more comprehensive tests he had previously undergone didn't spot the problem.

Since we're trying to spot an intermittent issue, the quantity of data was more important than the quality of the data.
UHC's Motion program is an incentive program for higher value employees.

It's more of a perk for the c-suite or law partners than a serious attempt to improve health.
The very first thing I thought of upon reading your comment "The list of things tried so far to resolve the issue..." was "What about a big lighted 'x'?" then I clicked the link.