skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The industry is annoyingly conservative but whizzkids pretending to have a better opinion about how to cure insert desease from isolated, mechanistic, non-standard observations of few markers are dangerous.
I don't think that's up for debate. Both the WSJ and Google's own engineers came to the conclusion that they were. If the data wasn't leaking there wouldn't be anything for Google to cover up in their memo.

The only question left is who was affected, and Google doesn't know because they deleted the logs. The responsible thing to do would be notify everybody using that part of the service.
I was really impressed with the Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum. It is quite a well put together display. Allen contributed heavily to it; I think that it grew out of his personal collection.
> I don't see it. I could see the Democrats impeaching five Supreme Court justices, or the Republicans impeaching four. All nine being impeached? I really have a hard time seeing that happening.

More likely than impeachment would be expanding the court. The Constitution doesn't say anything about the size of the Court other than it must have a Chief Justice. The number of Justices is set by legislation.

A very good case can be made for such an expansion to slow down the amount the Court can change in the short term. 9 worked fine when both parties had strong moderate factions, and so the Court would move a little more conservative under Republicans and a little more Liberal under Democrats. Now the moderate factions have diminished, especially among Republicans, and 9 doesn't provide enough hysteresis.
Seems perfectly logical. Impeach everyone as cover to remove the Democratic majority in the court. The Republicans then get to replace all 9. You don't think the Republicans (oh sorry I mean pinks) aren't capable of such blatant political hackery?
Limiting to 100 is still a large exponential.
In just 5 'levels' of share, it can reach about 300 million people.
Wouldn't the destruction of the judiciary be akin to continuing the treatment of the political elites as more than citizens? As they're the ones who filed charges, lost in court, and now apparently are proceeding to disregard the courts ruling anyways?

I've not seen too many citizens who're able to disregard court rulings.
what!? no! DLBCL is treatable. 30% of patients recover 100%. he recovered once from the disease.
This is called pfof. Pay for order flow. It's very common practice to sell retail flow or exhaust flow to the likes of citadel and a dozen others.

The buyers make money by either taking the spread on an order, reducing risk in their own portfolio or using the order to create impact and internalizing the tail.
It's like my bird's vet said once: If you start measuring, you're gonna find stuff. The more you dig, the more you find. Does it mean your bird is sick? Eh look at him, does he look like a sick bird?

My girlfriend can be very ... concerned. We spent $1000 in vet bills before a real avian expert was like "Guys, he's fine. Look how happy he is. He just loves the attention."

Apparently one of his tests for vet interns is to tell them "This bird is sick. Figure it out". Then he gives them a perfectly healthy bird. Their bias always makes them find something. Caused by their tests half the time because they're stressing the bird.
Citizens in DC are allowed to vote in federal elections.

However, per the Constitution itself, as a non-state DC is not entitled to a Congressperson or Senator unless the Constitution is amended. (It took a federal amendment for DC residents to get the right to vote in presidential elections, which in the US actually means the right to vote for representatives of the electoral college that actually elect the president. The amendment just gave DC electors.)
Discrimination in the pejorative sense generally includes an aspect of intent to act in a biased manner against a group. In this case the "discrimination" is incidental to the zero-sum nature of college admissions. So it's reasonable to say you're not discriminating against Asian students even though the outcome is the same.
The heroes of the masses are often those in the spotlight.

My heroes have always been those in the background who were more concerned about getting work done than talking about it.

I can think of no better example than Paul Allen.

So sorry to hear this. R.I.P.
> They are a business, after all.

Just like a cigarette company that doesn't want to leave money on the table from not courting youth sales.

It's a twisted idea that the logic of business success can be used to justify all kinds of destructive and harmful decisions by businesses.
Ok well the problem from your statement above is clear. There no better way of telling you this, but

You don't have any idea what the statement "due process" means or it's purpose.

It's purposed is to protect your rights as a citizen against a tyrannical government. It has nothing to do with plea bargains or ultimatums. It's about always having a choice of a fair and public trial. If you punishment is 10 year thats what you fairly deserve for the crime the plea bargain is supposed to present a more than fair deal.

The problem here is that that choice as it looks as not given to this actress. Therefore justice was not served. She was victimized by her country. Justice is binary these is none with due process. This was not justice.
You're missing some important context then. "Hot" is not a compliment when an investor says this about you, because that's not a trait that matters as a startup founder, and because of the boys club atmosphere that pervades some parts of the VC world, it carries the strong implication that an irrelevant trait is getting in the way of your purpose for being there.

If you look at the example the parent poster gave, that's exactly the implication. "Oh, you're way too hot to be a startup founder, what are you doing here?"
> This is why it makes me nervous when people suggest we should be able to prosecute members of Congress for insider trading.

I agree that this should not be allowed. A sitting member of Congress can be expelled by a two-thirds vote of the members of his house of Congress, or can be voted out of office at the next election. Those are the only remedies, and should be.
I'm in love with this project. It touches a bunch of things that I love in computer science: cryptography (quantum safe cryptography in particular), distributed systems (blockchain, PoS), [Pure] Functional Programming (Haskell, Rust to some extent), OSI and TCP/IP new-age alternative (RINA), a peer-reviewed research oriented development cycle etc etc.

It certainly has its flaws though. The roadmap moves really, really slowly (blame the peer-reviews I guess). I'm not saying it doesn't move at all, but we're 1 year into the project and it still didn't bootstrap out of the 3-party centralized consensus that it runs currently, i.e., we still haven't seen the Ouroboros consensus protocol in action at scale. Also, the most recent Cardano Foundation fiasco does not help, and it shows some mismanagement or miscalculation happened in the conception of the whole development/support ecosystem.

Nonetheless, it is a very exciting project and it is one of the few crypto-craze related projects that I think will prevail after all the dust settles.
Yeah, most of the time it was very solid, only barely perceptible lag. Fairly impressive when it was working smoothly :)

Issues I had were mostly when it failed and started sliding around while I stood still, or jumped a bit and stayed wrong for a couple seconds.
> The USA is one of the few countries in the world that doesn't require an ID to vote.

It's also one of the few that doesn't have compulsory universal uniform national (or even state) ID. Oddly, the same faction that is up in arms about voter ID is also dedicated to avoiding compulsory national/state ID.

If we had compulsory universal ID with the supportive policies necessary to avoid that becoming an unreasonable burden on the poor, or selected political groups or racial minorities, voter ID would be a non-problem. As it is, it's a problematic mechanism which is publicly sold as solving something which is a non-problem to all evidence, and has on multiple occasions been privately admitted by it's backers (and subsequentlt revealed) to be actually motivated by partisan interest and racial animus, in both cases being about keeping disfavored eligible voters from voting.
Was never a fan of allen or microsoft as I felt that Microsoft's monopoly has held back computing by a generation, but it's still sad to see cancer finally get this guy after a lifetime of struggle. He left microsoft because of cancer in the 80s. Hopefully he left much of his wealth for cancer research and lots of good can come from that.
If a company makes it to where they are collapsing under technical debt, they have already made it much farther than most startups.
Depends on your connection to their datacenter. They have a West Coast and an East Coast. I live near NYC so I connect to their NJ datacenter. With my fiber optic, I get about 4-6ms.
You can do all of this with an already-existing cryptocurrency, though. The only reason to create your own is to cash in on the hype.
It seems that there is stronger evidence that model architecture is more important than sheer number of parameters/computational complexity. Compare VGG-16 with something like MobileNet or ResNet-18.
That's what affirmative action basically is. The ideology behind it is that we, as a society, need to compensate for systemic racism that existed in the past. I'm also against the idea of discriminating based on skin color, regardless of intention, but it is what it is.
I reach for these any time a client asks for SMS and transactional email.

Their UX is miles better than any AWS offering so I am very excited.
The argument must be considered within the legal context.
In this lawsuit, Harvard is accused of directly discriminating against Asians, not just indirectly harming them by giving a boost to black or hispanic applicants. Under no interpretation of equal protection is that acceptable. The indirect effects of affirmative action that you point to are, by contrast, permissible under at least some formulations of equal protection.

Harvard's strategy thus, and that's what's reflected in the argument you quote, must be to (1) defeat the allegation that it is affirmatively trying to keep Asians out; (2) explain that any knock-on effects to Asians from affirmative action benefiting other groups is within the bounds of what the Supreme Court has found acceptable in cases like Bakke and Grutter.
Your reasoning depends on false assumptions. For example you assume that we are currently at the maximum number of available slots. If we aren't, then it may well be true that adding more people is possible without disadvantaging existing people.

For a concrete example, consider how Dartmouth College went about admitting women back in 1972. The campus was already full. Yet they committed to not reducing how many men were admitted, with no new construction, and without increasing class size. In short they said that the new women would come at no cost to men trying to apply, and little cost to the university itself (certainly less than the benefit of the tuition.)

They succeeded. How? They moved from a semester to a quarter system. Then arranged to have required second year courses that were only available during the summer to get rid of any stigma about "summer school". These changes let them go from the usual part time academic calendar that most schools follow to operating at capacity year round.

The result? They met their apparently impossible commitment. And the new slots opened for women indeed came at no cost to the existing population of men.
I don't have a problem with this. It's the reason there is an emoluments clause in the first place. You take political office and you divest from stocks that could be considered a conflict. And if someone wants to make a claim they'll need to back it up, same as it ever was.

Oh, that's not what our politicians did. They just wrote the law that made them exempt from insider trading instead.
> This will be an easy way to finally dissolve these mass delusions and make it obvious that societal change is real.

How so? If the democrats win, the republicans will be able to claim that Silicon Valley is manipulating the voters by deplatforming conservatives. If the republicans win, the democrats will be able to claim more Russian bot/fake news manipulation.
> Do you understand how repugnant you sound implying that some men need to use businesswomen as captive audience for their sex drives or they won't get sex?

No, I'm implying there is a very high background rate of men asking women for sex, and I havn't compared this instance to the background but I assume women get propositioned at a very high rate _wherever_ they are.

> Let me remind you that a work setting is nothing like Tinder, nothing like a bar, nothing like any place where trying to get laid is considered OK.

My parents met in the workplace. I have a friends who have too. I havn't looked up the statistics but I assume it is double-digit percentages of marriages start as workplace relations. It is unfortunate if you think that isn't acceptable, because it clearly is.

> You wouldn't ask someone if they wanted to shag at a funeral, would you?

I wouldn't, but I don't see why it would be unacceptable. There are a lot of people at funerals who are't particularly committed to grieving but making a statement of social support, and they'd just be there doing what they do at any social event.
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> I could see the Democrats impeaching five Supreme Court justices, or the Republicans impeaching four.

I don't think either party is going to have enough of a majority in the Senate (two thirds) to get a conviction on an impeachment any time soon.
Discussion of Paul Allen's death at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18224227
SpaceShipOne, owned the Seahawks and the Blazers, sunk $500m in brain research, $100m into cell research another $100m into AI, started the -Rock & Roll Hall of Fame- Museum of Pop

He made a dent.
I think the issue of affirmative action really comes down to whether people think this is OK or not. The real question is, "is it more right to give privileges to the underprivileged than it is wrong to take away privileges from the privileged?". It'd be nice to just have the former without the latter, but with a limited number of "privileges" available, there just hasn't been a good solution yet (and there may not be one).
I don't know if there's an HN policy re: plugging charities, but speaking of lymphoma, last I heard this one is legit: http://lls.org
You are reading this too literally.

It doesn't need to be all 9 justices impeached; the point is justices being impeached en masse for largely partisan reasons. That would/could destroy the courts legitimacy and undermine the rule of law.
For nine years of extra life, it sounds like a pretty good trade.
The issue with Facebook is that it's too easy for someone from Russia for example to place ads. I believe the established media doesn't run thousands of ads paid by thousands of unknown individuals.
That might be why they take my temperature whenever I go for a regular checkup, or non-cold/flu/fever related concerns?

Procedures aren't the same between clinics, though.
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> ﻿﻿Just now: https://twitter.com/PaulGAllen/status/1051958128885940226

If my death is noteworthy, I really hope I'm not eulogized with a bunch of animated gifs of sad faces.
If they were we wouldn't be debating this.

Sorry you are wrong.
The Allen Institutes are incredible organizations. They do these enormous Big Science projects that no single lab could ever do, generating beautiful datasets that the entire scientific community can use freely. All of their data is publicly available. Paul Allen's contributions to accelerating science are immense and cannot be understated.
I love the Sonoff series of smart switches/plugs. They're super cheap, well-made and flashable with open source firmware (ESPurna, for example) that's secure and very featureful.
Harvard attracts people worldwide. Shouldn't it be a combination of race + country of origin?

Hispanics are not discriminated against in mexico, for instance.
A function whose growth is proportional to its size is growing at an exponential rate. 30% per year might not be a doubling every 18 months, but is nothing to sneeze at.
From the article:
This lawsuit is notable because the Federal Court of Australia has signed off on several broad enforcement actions. Not only are the defendants restrained from any cheating related activity, they are also the subject of a search and assets freezing order.

This feels severely heavy-handed for computer game cheating. The escalating aggression with which copyright infringement is being pursued is worrying in the context of other trends towards increasing corporate power with decreasing oversight.

I feel like saying 'aren't there other crimes the Australian Federal Police should be prioritising about a thousand cases higher than this?', but then that sounds like the whinging of someone pulled over for speeding. But a country's Federal Police force cracking down on computer game cheating? Is it not farcical?
"Your tax deficits at work"

Reference: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/your-tax-dollars-at-work.h...
.NET Core runs happily on Linux and macOS - that's kinda why it was such a big deal.

Ditto Visual Studio Code.

Things have... changed in the Microsoft ecosystem since 2008, let me put it this way.
For what it's worth, something like 75% of the US is phenotypically white (including white Americans with Hispanic or Latin heritage), so perhaps that one metric is tracking more favorably than you're giving it credit for.
Developers are not interchangeable, especially on open-source projects. The group of people who contribute their time to work on core multimedia features (like audio mixing or OpenGL shaders) has almost no overlap with the group of people who will work on UI/UX.
I have similar sentiments towards the health of humans.
Clojure from the ground up: welcome
> if men don't make a first sexual overture there aren't going to be a lot of men who end up having sex

This line of thinking makes it more difficult for actually decent guys to get a first date. By the way, women like sex too and will make those overtures.

If you haven't had a first date with a person, keep the overtures off.
But that's irrelevant if you're not giving this defunct historical market value to the transfers. The only thing taxable is the difference between what they charge and the market value. The rate they charge is available to the general public -- it should be the new market value.
Once again: if the product is free it usually means you are the product.
Thanks, that depressed me even more!

You are quite right. I am afraid the usual charade is in full motion already. Nobody wants to work together and standardize stuff. There's profit in not cooperating -- vendor lock-in and patent fees come to mind -- so people will continue gravitating outwards from the altruistic vision of us the technologists.
Oh yes that's true. My Aussie Super (retirement scheme) was started in my 30s (that's when I migrated down under) and now I need to pay voluntary contributions besides the standard 9.5% or I won't get a decent retirement.
Flying insects are generally attracted to light. Our cities and vehicles generate light particularly during the night drawing them away from more-ideal habitat and often to their death on windshields. Now it is a fair point that this wouldn’t matter if there were thousands or even a few million vehicles but consider there are over 1.015B vehicles active on the road today and billions of us living in brightly lit cities.

Why does it come as a surprise that we are bleeding this planet dry?

Stop having kids and consider dying early.
Yep I have used Postmark for years and I'd recommend them over anyone else. Fantastic service that does exactly what I need and no farting about with tacked-on features.
This is an early release right? I'm expecting it to become more stable as they work on it and build out the infrastructure.
Expats are entitled to Social Security and Medicare (once they meet the qualifying thresholds like age). Therefore, they are also required to pay in to Social Security.
How Does Ripple Use XRP to Leverage Instant Liquidity?
I'm curious as to why any asian american would support affirmative action.
I'm sure most of us were envious of his life, but almost no one would trade places with him today. It goes to show that health really is more valuable than money.
The proposed solution doesn't address the real problem in my opinion. Geography is one thing that matters to people. People would be much better served if they could vote for a representative that was better aligned with ALL of their interests. Or at least the best available match in their own judgement.

When 51% of the people in an area pick a representative, because they can only pick from the available two party candidates (if they wish to have any representation at all), they have to pick a less than ideal representative. And those who don't vote for that winning candidate get even poorer representation.

Proportional representation gives people a much better chance of getting represented.

Perhaps geography made more sense when people in an area were more likely to have a lot in common. But people move around so much now. Should it really have so much influence on things?
I am guessing that most people here have apparently forgotten about the patent troll aspect of Paul Allen:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100827/12001710802.shtml

Now I am sure there are those that will think it's in bad taste to bring this up. However I am not saying this to family or friends at a funeral. I am merely raising it so people can stop lionizing him because he was a co-founder of Microsoft.

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-woz-slams-paul-allen-as-...

Allen was with Microsoft for a short period of time and left pretty soon after they struck the deal with IBM for the OS. 1982. Edit: As such he contributed a nominal amount to Microsoft's success (and after all it was Bill Gates connections and hustle that got that deal).

Also interesting that the wikipedia page has no mention of the patent trolling it obviously appears to be cleaned of this info (as of this moment at least):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen
Holy shit, the "Juliabrot" slices were just unreal. Hadn't seen that trick before.
After a year of MeToo, survey respondents have become more sceptical
I'm concerned that the many RISC-V projects seem to be stalling, I'd love to be convinced otherwise?

* It's been almost 2 years since SiFive released their arduino-ish dev board and it hasn't been updated, surely there are huge gains in 2 years in such a fledgling ecosystem? I feel this is important because this board seems the obvious entry point into the RISC-V ecosystem for enthusiasts.

* The 'BOOM' processor which showed many efficiency gains doesn't seem to be getting anywhere further than last time i checked on it which was perhaps a year or more ago. -edit- looking on their github releases, 2.1 was 6mo ago, and 2.1.1 was recent but shows minor changes, the project unfortunately looks stalled to me.

* LowRISC which has one or two of the RaspberryPi co-founders on board, which seems to be a good sign as far as 'getting something out the door' - i can't seem to see any output from their project?

Please prove me wrong, i'd like to get involved somehow but i have to be careful where I invest my time :)