skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but what's that? Like a 0.03% chance of a black person being murdered. (And that assumes that EVERY murder in Chicago was by a black and of a black person. Which is likely not true, but I wanted to look at the numbers in a fashion as friendly to your view as possible.)

That's not "rampant". In fact, it's not overstating the case when I say that today the primary lethal threats for blacks or hispanics in Chicago are, far and away, heart disease and renal failure. In fact, household slip and falls off more people than cops and black people COMBINED.

Put it this way, heart disease and renal failure are the primary lethal threats to minorities. (And they strike earlier in minorities to boot.) Now, how often have you ever heard a right winger or left winger demand more primary care centers and access to better foods in black neighborhoods? Compare that to, say, the number of times right wingers ask for more cops in black neighborhoods. Ask yourself, are they really trying to help blacks?

Here's the thing, the left wingers get political power by playing up the threat of police. They don't really like police, which is why you see them off police in mass shootings from time to time. And the right wingers get political power by playing up the threat of black homicide. They don't really like blacks, which is why they do things like stabbing young black military officers, or offing little old black ladies in church for instance. They just want those guys dead.

Point is, neither are very interested in data. In fact, even doing that math to find the chances of cops or blacks being a problem only enrages them. Which brings us back to why you shouldn't really buy into right wing or left wing claims of "this is a problem". There is an extremely good likelihood that the only problem they are trying to solve is how to get power, how to get money, or how to cause pain to your fellow Americans.
So signing th autistic community pretending to be non-autistic is called masking and it is certainly possible for lots of autistic people. However, it is exhausting. It makes it hard to get work done and leaves you totally drained at the end of the day. It’s not a fun way to go about life.
> The lower certainty would in turn lead to lower rankings for women even without any bias in the data.

This is not true.

Probabilistic-ly speaking, if we are computing P(hiring | gender);
Lower certainty means there is a high variance in prior over women. However, over a large dataset, the "score" would almost certainly be equal to the mean of the distribution, and be independent of the variance.

In simpler words, if there was a frequency diagram of scores for each gender (most likely bell curves), then only the peak of the bell curve would matter. The flatness / thinness of the curve would be completely irrelevant to the final score. The peak is the mean, and the flatness is the uncertainty. Only the mean matters.
Huawei Leaps into AI; Announces Powerful Chips and ML Framework
Well, they wouldn’t be gender related because gender and biological sex are different ideas. To many people, anyway.
Oh no. I was expecting Mozilla to follow through and then use the fallout as a way to bring attention to the issue and use it as a marketing item for Firefox as a "more secure" browser.
I don't see it as a technical solution, but fixing a broken process.
California's housing situation is a mess. Proposition 10 isn't going to help
I mean, yeah you're not wrong. I try not to be too cynical about the whole thing even if I think the narrative is suspect. Yes women and minority representation in tech is a potential issue but I really want to know more about the AI recommendation system for potential hires. Especially if it was giving out spurious recommendations.

It's amazon, I can't imagine how many millions went into something like that. We'll almost certainly not get a postmortem but it's definitely intriguing.
> I think the Bose hate is mostly tribal nonsense - it's cool to signal audiophile virtue by hating a dominant brand that lay people like.

I think most of the Bose hate comes from their speakers which cost quite a bit for the sound quality. Much of that might be historical.

These days though I don't think anyone buys Bose products solely for their sound quality, they buy them for specific use cases like noise cancelling, or filling a room with a very small speaker (those Bose sound docks were pretty incredible when they came out). Bose has done a good job at doing something unique while offering sound quality that is mostly good enough.
There's a 95% accurate O(1) solution to determine if an ICO transaction has integrity.
My main problem with guix, and nix, and debs (the 3 i have tried is they are great for software wrapped using automake/autoconf, but I can never figure out how to package things using a custom build system.
Ubuntu 18.04, Miniconda 3.6 with Numpy etc. I tried Nuitka on my own project, it kept spinning for 20 minutes compiling Numpy dependencies. I eventually gave up and killed the process.
Consider yourself very lucky. They dragged me through a month worth of interviews and wasted so much of my time. I wish they would have rejected me aftet 30 seconds.
If I had to guess, they may have already been contemplating it. Google like to test things on the public before they make a commercial version of it. I could be way off base however.
We do have several solutions in place for that, though. SPF, DKIM, among others. If this University were running on gmail I suspect this email would have been flagged for phishing (the builder did publish an SPF record), or outright rejected. However they run their own email servers[1].

[1] - They could of course do the same checks and even more, but among self-hosted installs it is common to disregard those additional securities.
> They basically just taught us the recipe bag for solving equations in different shapes, but very little insight.

This is why I just dropped off my DiffEq class. It was optional anyway, but when I go to a university level math class I expect insight, not rote memorization.
Note that Skaffold does local port forwarding.
‘Pulsar in a Box’ Reveals Surprising Picture of a Neutron Star’s Surroundings
There's another way to look at answering point (1). Israel could disappear tomorrow and it wouldn't change the lousy state of the Middle East significantly, in the sense that all those dysfunctional states run by corrupt dictators would carry on as before, they'd just have one less external issue with which to distract their subjects from their misery.
>We did eventually find a few great female applicants, but it took a lot of work and a lot of time dedicated specifically to that goal.

How is this not sexism? Replace female with male in the above quote and tell me it isnt sexist.
Show HN: Get GitHub and GitHub Enterprise notifications in MacOS
Which is why I said it's a process problem. But you definitely want email out of the process since it's not reliable.
The east coast mainline has been a mess for years. Virgin were the second franchise to collapse and the only one that seems to have worked was the nationalised franchise that came between them.
It doesn't need to be argued it's a perfectly valid reason (and has been reaffirmed by different DPAs), the GDPR does not define what a valid or a non valid legitimate interest is, it just has to be well defined and transparent.

I suggest you read the "legitimate Interests" part of the document you provided.

>It will be argued the marginal value of each additional exposure of the reader's private data does not outweigh the individual's right to privacy.

There is nothing in the GDPR that puts on legitimate interest over another including your so called right to privacy.
> only scammers did ICOs

This is absolutely incorrect. One of many examples - Tezos.
Build the wal—er, never mind.
This study shows that video games activate reward regions of brain in men more than women.

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2008/02/video-games-a...

"Reiss said this research also suggests that males have neural circuitry that makes them more liable than women to feel rewarded by a computer game with a territorial component and then more motivated to continue game-playing behavior. Based on this, he said, it makes sense that males are more prone to getting hooked on video games than females."

I don't think this is to say women don't get rewarded or hooked--I know quite a few women hooked on games--but I could see this giving men an advantage in terms of being more easily motivated.
The way you're ranking occupations has an implicit bias. Let's rank them for work/life balance. Nurses are busy and work long hours, but when the work day is over, they go home until the next shift. Doctors go home, and possibly get paged to come right back.

Is it possible men and women weight values differently when selecting occupations?
Yup, remember that the holocaust was "legal", Stalin's purges were legal, the confinement of japanese americans was "legal", ....
Broadcom says letter calling for security review of its $19B merger is fake
Oh, I probably overstated a little bit. But I'm confident that 90%+ of them were scams.

Re: Tezos - "Inside the Crypto World's Biggest Scandal"

https://www.wired.com/story/tezos-blockchain-love-story-horr...
Being intelligent is the most prized human trait, so being seen as "stupid" hurts our egos really bad.

Being contrarian in this manner is proof that you're smarter than everyone else, plus you get to take a jab at the pretend smarty-pantses. I bet this same effect is why political opinions are so difficult to change.
Just to help me clarify, the tariffs that are being levied between China and America, do or do not also apply to Taiwan? I’ve never fully understood how the separation of Taiwan and China is made since it seems to be such a touchy subject.
Those are all userland packages. OIN's site does not list any packages with supplemental kernel modules.
Took a car in two years ago and they did a good job. I get the feeling its been a bit of a slow decline depending on where you are.
> the kind of people who don't like shell scripts for init would likely flip completely out at packages using guile lisp rather than some obscure DSL

Do you mean people used to systemd specifically or does this also include runit, s6, etc.?

> parenthesis-ophobes are going to react very poorly to the libgit2 extended example ending in four closing parentheses

Though, of course, for humans reading Lisp, the trick is not to focus on the parentheses too much, but use the indentation. And then use the parentheses as a sort of double-sanity check as you move your editor's point/cursor across them and see the other member of the pair light up (assuming a sane lisp editor/editor configuration).

(And maybe: parenthephobes?)
That would seem to indicate that reducing civilian loss wouldn't be a likely result of targeting improvements. After all, we ended the war in Japan by intentionally inflicting civilian casualties to force surrender. Seems likely future leaders would make the same calculation. So, the strategy would likely involve destroying the opponent's ability to retaliate add then start massacring civilians until you get an unconventional surrender.
Having a grand total of 25% of the survey population being at all conservatives hardly seems representative of the overall population.
I wonder if another reason to prefer FLAC to MP3 is if you ever want to convert the MP3s to another lossy format (perhaps multiple times), is there a loss of quality associated with converting one lossy format to another multiple times?

It's nice to have a lossless format because you can always get lossy from it, but you can't do the opposite.
Access to parallel corpora is a limiting factor in general. A good way to train a language translator is to use an open source dataset (several here http://opus.nlpl.eu/) to train a base model, and then fine-tune it with a smaller dataset specific to your domain.

In this case, the author claims pretty good accuracy, almost on par with Google Brain's!

On my test set of 3,000 sentences, the translator obtained a BLEU score of 0.39. This score is the benchmark scoring system used in machine translation, and the current best I could find in English to French is around 0.42 (set by some smart folks as Google Brain). So, not bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and_video_games#Genre_pr...

Unless someone starts a professional Candy Crush or Farmville league, women aren't going be dominating any kind of esport, motion perception or not. 90% of moba players are male, for example.
> Is that actually true? Or is there another nuance to the formula that determines what ends up on the front page?

I doubt it. I've noticed that China stories similar to this one are pretty consistently down-weighted once they hit the front page. They'll get knocked to the very bottom of the first page, or more usually the second page, regardless of how many votes they get.

It's a very subtle form of censorship. The post still exists, just with drastically reduced visibility.
Can this move (WRT patents) be revoked if MS decides that it is not in their best interest to share freely?

At present it looks like they really have changed. Could they change again?
So… does that mean the linux kernel will blow a gasket if I mmap actually large files to play with them but have almost no resident memory? That doesn't seem reasonable.
One can always go to about:config and set security.pki.distrust_ca_policy to "2" to distrust Symantec TLS certificates. Reference: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/07/30/update-on-the-d...
The explicit design decision here is that most of the logic that in Ethereum would be executed in the EVM, can instead be computed off-chain, with the results encoded in the Stellar ledger. This precludes some of the loftier use-cases that have been proposed for Ethereum like DAOs and trustless prediction markets, but makes it much easier and faster to move money around.

(Put differently, Ethereum is a distributed computer, not a payment rail; Stellar is a payment rail, not a distributed computer).

If you want to implement a gambling site in a jurisdiction where that is illegal, Stellar won't help you, and Ethereum might. However if you're an existing business that is incorporated in the US, then you are probably fine with asking customers to trust you; this is what all companies currently do, under perjury of prosecution.

Another key benefit to Stellar is that if you just want a token / ICO, then this is built into the protocol; Stellar has the concept of an Asset, which you can issue with a couple of API calls. This replaces the need for implementing and testing your own ERC20, which is a major headache, particularly for existing non-crypto oriented enterprises.

There are obviously some open questions on exactly which use-cases Stellar would be useful for, but an example would be in-app purchase tokens like Kin; there's no reason to implement that as an ERC20 and incur the risk involved with the EVM when you're just moving tokens around.
Clearly the tunnel goes all the way to China.

Be on the lookout for a ~5 foot grey rabbit eating a carrot saying “what’s up doc”
Ask HN: Encrypted cloud storage?
I'm running out of space on my laptop and would like to move some old files to the cloud. I also have old files on a couple of USB sticks and external HDs that I'm a bit paranoid about losing so I'd like to move this data to the cloud as well. What's a good solution for that type of problem? Since some of that data is sensitive, I would require a solution that supports encryption.
Paleontologists and archaeologists can do research by looking at old things and comparing them to other old things and also to current things. They can be very precise. "This process of this bone was so many millimeters wider, probably indicating a stronger attached muscle." "The clay in these pots comes from this particular remote river valley, indicating a trade network between these locations." Etc.

How does a psychologist do anything like this? Mental processes of living things and how those respond to environment can be observed. How can mental processes of millennia ago be observed?
First, The energy of a head on collision is twice that of a perpendicular collision. (+-, depends on mass and such). This also applies to car -> stationary car.

Second, one of the basic rules of the road is that you have to be able to stop within your sight distance.

Driver side offsets were a bad type of collision, and they were particularly bad in older body on frame cars before that sort of testing, and when there were a lot of 2 and three lane roads.
I'm aware with situation with Tezos (btw, which had been resolved) because I'm with them from very beginning.

That's my whole point. The government tries to protect me because it thinks I'm too stupid. And you tell me that such opportunities for small investors doesn't exist anyway.

But opportunities do exist, I just showed.

Another example. I watched interview of Revolut founder. He said they sold some of their equity to limited number of small investors for marketing purposes. He said that these early-stage small investors are best advertisers of their products because they are enthusiastic.

P.S. Every single time I'm talking about this I swiftly get downvoted. I'm so disappointed by the fact that vast majority of hacker news readers are far-left socialists.
That this valuable feedback-to-the-site post has been pushed off the first Ask-HN page >:-(
Is that with or without a carbine? (a-la movie: Gran Torino)
I don't believe there is a heavy bias in favor of female doctors, I believe it is a field still majority male, although becoming almost equal. Nurses were traditionally the only actual healthcare profession open to women so it makes sense they would be overrepresented there.

Male nurses now actually can find they have an advantage in hiring because they often have an easier time with the lifting and physical labor being a nurse often requires.

My point is the comparison between nursing and programming is not strong.
mono has had debugging tools (including a graphical debugger in monodevelop) for like... a decade? more?
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For me, the ebook version on my laptop in Calibre has been great; no regrets buying that, instead of the dead tree version.

It's a nice complement to the open-source Rust book too, which may as well be read in digital form.
Do you mean 'female brain' as in physiologically female? Or chemically? Or psychologically?
For the past 40 years we've viewed climate change as a political problem (see "Losing Earth" from the NY Times for a history of this [1].) Like you, I no longer have any faith that politicians will be able to solve the problem. As the NYT research revealed, politicians generally only take on a cause when there is a viable solution... and frankly there isn't a great solution yet. Solar and wind help a good bit. Nuclear would be a fine option but as a society we are apparently uncomfortable with it... Our politicians don't really have a good enough, complete enough option.

At Charm Industrial [2] we started with a different question that at first seems silly: is it possible to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a profit? We assumed the answer would be no, but to our surprise we couldn't convince ourselves of that. We found a pathway (purpose-grown biomass --> gasification --> hydrocarbons + geological CO2 sequestration) that seems to have high-scale profit potential. And if you can be profitable, then effectively unlimited amounts of private capital are available.

If you're interested in following our progress, you can subscribe to our newsletter here: https://charmindustrial.us18.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=aaf...

And we'd love to see others tackle the problem from the perspective of high-scale, viable economics. Is it possible to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a profit?

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/clim...
[2]: https://www.charmindustrial.com/
> "Placebo" describes the audio scene people pretty well in my experience.

Agreed. See also: relative cable quality (for electric instrumentalists).
I believe one unnamed person in China was caught with $5 million or so; but $960,000 CAD was still missing; so maybe not? Even if they only walked away with 8% of the total originally 'stolen', that's still pretty damn good.

Plus, it would probably bring the heat off of you. The investigators and the university get to say 'we successfully recovered 92% of it!' because that makes a great headline where 'justice was served' and have the case take a lower priority.
Creating custom brains from the ground up
I consider HN being too corporate already. But I think there is an easy solution, where voting power just needs to be adjusted for at least those corporate domains and maybe in general to give more weight to diverse domains.
I would be very surprised if anyone not engaged in fraud or tax evasion or money laundering saw jail time. Of course, that leaves like 2 ICOs.
Most of the world considers Taiwan (a.k.a. "Republic of China") to be a distinct country.

The mainland Chinese government disagrees.

I don't know about these particular tariffs, but I believe the U.S. would not consider tariffs aimed at (mainland) China to apply to Taiwan.
OpenBazaar's straightforward Terms of Service
In general, the US maintains unofficial diplomatic relations with Taiwan, which means that although the US does not officially recognize the government of Taiwan, it is subject to different tariffs than those imposed on China. Similarly, tariffs imposed by Taiwan are set by the ROC, not the PRC, and therefore are totally distinct from this trade war.

More information can be found in this position statement from the Department of State:

https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35855.htm
Since gender and biological sex are extremely strongly correlated, stating that there are no gender-related neurological differences it's substantially equivalent to saying that there are no biological sex-related neurological differences.
Tens of thousands of Jews were displaced during and after WWII and no country would take most of them, period.

Before you dial that snark knob up much higher, consider that WWII was not the starting point of what would eventually become the U. N. Partition. Soooo, about that "get educated" part of your post...
> Proof of work is to establish that money is being spent

nope. it's a proof that energy was consumed. money is human concept, energy is universal absolute.

> Just because a process is wasteful doesn't mean it isn't valuable

energy consumption is inherently wasteful activity (as in there is some amount of "waste" in the world produced for the energy to become consumable). by this definition literally everything is wasteful and the label loses it's meaning.

but labels are useful and i (and the official definition) prefer using the term wasteful for something that is intentionally or unnecessarily inefficient.

bitcoin is neither - every joule spent mining bitcoins is necessary to provide the level of security demanded by the market. you can't spend less energy to provide same level of security, because in bitcoin they are pretty much the same.
This author suggests the lesson is that a leader’s time always runs out. What I took out of this history (as a student of it) was that if something crazy comes across the wire, be patient. Sometimes ignoring the cable / letter that doesn’t fit is the right call.
Cool stuff. It’s a shame honestly how bad we let retail trading get before Robinhood came along, especially when the true amortized cost of a trade is something like 0.000000001 cents in reality.

I’ll be glad to see these outdated bloated price gouging companies like Schwab, E-trade, and Ameritrade finally go bankrupt soon. Such poorly managed businesses wholly dependent on entrenched regulation and being existing incumbents shouldn’t succeed, and I’m glad to see somebody is finally taking them down.
Duh, brain on. Yes, the Xbox One.