skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Once a year, Evergreen State University (located just outside of Seattle), allows the students of colour to take a day of absence, so that their importance and contribution is felt at the University. Bret Weinstein, as a progressive, was and has been on board for this for a long time.

There is a jarring and confusing change in character between the paragraph above and below this comment. You went from a "this is optional" clause to a "you should stay away." Your narration injected this, and did so clumsily. Is this because you're citing two sources?

> A year ago, they flipped the logic. Rather than telling people of colour to stay away for the day, they told white people that they are not welcome on campus for a day. Absence wasn’t compulsory, but highly recommended."

Firstly: nothing about this practice was compulsory and nothing about this practice was universal. Professors knew about the original walkout tradition and scheduled around it, but that was the extent of it. Not all students who were people of color participated. They were not "told to stay away."

Nor were white students told to "stay away." What actually happened was some white people asked how they could participate, and so a group of students set up a separate group of workshops. This was very small scale, but the folks involved liked it. So the next year, it was proposed that there was a possible track for this to be supported by the school. It was not a "not welcome" declaration, it was a proposal to change a tradition. Brett Weinstein took exception to it.

What followed subsequently was a series of predictable escalations by the usual extremist subjects, with non-students from alt-right groups showing up in "support" and antifa showing up to "counter" them. Because Evergreen is essentially a small non-traditional state university, they were just not prepared for this scale of action and national attention. Even with this, these were nothing like the Berkeley demonstrations. Injuries were limited, property damage was low, and actually all groups were moderated by the student body.

The attempt to tie this to "suppression" of Weinstein's academic work is absurd, because nothing about any of this relates to that body of work. He took a political and ethical position completely unrelated to his work and then got involved in a controversy about it. Being a scientist with political opinions doesn't mean your political opinions are necessarily right or immune to scrutiny. If he wants to stick to science, he should have (and could have) done that. He didn't like an optional white walkout day that was done in solidarity with PoC, and he said so, and that had consequences.
But how would you know Spotify Premium even exists if Spotify is prohibited by Apple to make any mention of it?
Dwarf Fortress launches on Steam with a brand new look
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I think a lot of people forget that Rivian has the backing of Amazon and GM though. I am not saying that Rivian is a proven car company but I would give them a much higher chance at success than I would have given Tesla 9 years ago. I fully believe that Rivian will deliver and that Tesla will also deliver so I think the comparison between the two is valid.
> Frankly I trust gorhill more than I trust whoever is behind any other random extension I never heard of before today. There is this little thing called "reputation".

That's such a strange attitude. Yes, reputation matters, but there was a time when gorhill was unknown and had none. As far as I can tell, you're just ignorant of this extension, and assuming it's untrustworthy because of your ignorance of its trustworthiness (and likely some preexisting bias).

> Why do they make you use their extension, instead of simply letting you enter URLs on their website?

Isn't it blindingly obvious? They want to put user-friendly reputation-indicators on the page, without making their users go though a lot of extra hassle. This is a fairly common use case services that provide reputation ratings (e.g. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fakespot-analyze-f... for another example).

If I had to guess, the main audience for this isn't people with good media literacy skills, it's people who tend to gullibly believe sketchy websites (and who have friends or relatives with good media literacy skills who want to help them).
>Should I be shamed for something that long ago? I don't personally think it's productive.

I see your point, but surely you see how this is a bit self-serving, that you'd give yourself a pass.

I'm not saying I necessarily agree with holding people to long-ago behavior, but the argument is that your actions had consequences on other people, often people who didn't have a voice at that time. It's easy for the white person who said/did racist things in their past to say it was a long time ago and they've changed so what's the big deal (note: not accusing you of this, just an example) whereas the black people on the receiving end might see it differently.

When I was growing up it was very common and acceptable to use f*g/other gay slurs as a normal part of conversation. I could say that it didn't mean anything and was just how we talked, but then again I'm not gay and didn't have to live with it.
Isn't that already in effect for height, a nearly purely genetic attribute that has been correlated with multiple traits such as IQ? Beside stupid manlet jokes, it seems no one really cares for or against such a correlation existing.
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Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
> perhaps just the internet has become so monetized

I think this is really the core issue.
It's more the idea that things can be reversed. How would they have such a "memory" of previous state? It presents such interesting questions. Imagine if we could coerce a human into the exact shape assumed 30 years earlier: that would effectively him backwards 30 years.
By that logic the 2020 Toyota Camry is also “vaporware.”
As noted in the article, apparently Google is presenting the top four search engines used in a given country. So presumably this means they're seeing a lot more DuckDuckGo searches in the data they're collecting from Chrome users.

It's also a solid choice for them to hedge against antitrust claims, if they can point to having just added them to their browser, regardless of the fact that Google is the default and they do not present a choice screen like Microsoft had to in the EU.
Thanks you so much for the feedback.
- It is free; and I know we should be more vocal about that.
- We will make money on the professional organisers at some point. Looking into different models with a bunch of different organisers.
Jeff Skilling probably thought the same.
Well Apple is one of the biggest companies in the world, Spotify may not be a white knight but they're definitely an underdog.
It does: reverse a human to the state assumed 30 years earlier. Fountain of youth?

Of course, memory would be a problem.
You mean that stress can play a factor in RSI? I don't think that's in any way controversial, but that doesn't make it in any way less real, or less physical. Although in the case of RSI, there are a lot more factors than that: bad posture, lack of exercise, and most importantly of course repetitive motions that very slowly build up strain on surrounding tissue, wrists, shoulders, back, etc.
I'm curious if the runtime flag to enable JITless mode could also be enabled at compile time, removing the JIT compiler from the binary entirely. That could be really useful for projects where memory comes at a premium (and performance is not a major concern), like micropython but for JavaScript.

I assume this also doesn't support WASM when the JIT is disabled (or rather, when you can't write to executable memory), but if it did it could be a neat way to write decently performant software for tiny systems with just some JavaScript "glue".
The only thing it seems we can guess is that ... yeah someone(s) high in the Haitian government wanted this hidden / involved.

Beyond that it's really really hard to know what is up here.
My wife if a US citizen and we are living abroad right now. Not sure what benefits you are talking about that warrants paying a tax while abroad.
Could you give some more details of what are you trying to build?

What kind of algorithm have you used for model building?

How frequently would you like to request the model for predictions?

Do you need scheduled model updates?
One plausible candidate is which continent a particular individual’s ancestors came from.

That’s something that can be tested for with relative ease.

> Ancestry informative marker sets for determining continental origin and admixture proportions in common populations in America

> ... A comprehensive set of 128 AIMs and subsets as small as 24 AIMs are shown to be useful tools for ascertaining the origin of subjects from particular continents, and to correct for population stratification in admixed population sample sets.

As population genetics becomes more advanced we will become able to distinguish ever smaller ancestry ancestry groups. For example if you don’t try to identify Continental population ancestry, just use k means clustering to divide humans into clusters based on similarity the continental groups arise naturally.

> Genetic Structure of Human Populations

> Genetic Structure
of Human Populations
Noah A. Rosenberg,1* Jonathan K. Pritchard,2 James L. Weber,3 Howard M. Cann,4 Kenneth K. Kidd,5 Lev A. Zhivotovsky,6 Marcus W. Feldman7
We studied human population structure using genotypes at 377 autosomal microsatellite loci in 1056 individuals from 52 populations. Within-population differences among individuals account for 93 to 95% of genetic variation; differences among major groups constitute only 3 to 5%. Nevertheless, without using prior information about the origins of individuals, we identified six main genetic clusters, five of which correspond to major geographic regions, and subclusters that often correspond to individual populations. General agreement of genetic and predefined populations suggests that self-reported ancestry can facilitate assessments of epidemiological risks but does not obviate the need to use genetic information in genetic association studies.

http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~huatang/gene244/readings/Sci...
1 week since Elizabeth Warren published this: https://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big...
Theoretical possibilities and minimal security impacts aside, I'm not seeing comments along the lines of the brown M&M clause [0]. Yeah, brown M&M's weren't going to ruin the day of David Lee Roth, but that wasn't the point: when dealing with heavy and high-amperage equipment of a stage show, what else did you forget or ignore?

64 bits, 63 bits, what's the difference? The difference is that we now have to go through everything you might have forgotten that will make a difference. In other words, we apparently can't trust you to follow instructions, and certificates are all about trust.

[0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/
This is new? I could have sworn I saw it in there as an option like 5+ years ago? Or was it taken out, and now they are re-adding it?
Have they said why they don't just use an upvoting system? Even github kind of has that with the emoji reactions.
There is no better predictor for future academic success than the SAT (or an equivalent IQ test - ACT/LSAT/GRE/GMAT).

The only other predictors that are good at predicting success are either undesirable (socioeconomic status of parents, for instance), or hard to standardize between applicants (school GPA).
It's a bit more for RF https://www.everythingrf.com/rf-calculators/line-of-sight-ca...
I used the Amazon system a lot and saying that "Apt and yum are not the right set of tools for this job" is incorrect.

APT and yum simply install packages assuming the dependencies resolve correctly. The [unnamed ;)] system could be modified to generate a set of .deb and .rpm files (with locked versions) to deploy a product.
The only organizations that i see consistently signing their emails are the large commodity traders [1], not sure what drives it (third world country operations, secrecy, etc.)

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commodity_traders#Mode...
ICE has a license plate database targeting immigrants, documents reveal
"verified a signature"

How do you know that's your bank's signature and not from "h-s-b-c.com"

How does granny know?
I would argue that neither Tesla nor SpaceX will disappear if Elon Musk goes to jail. In fact, the argument could be made both companies would perform more reliably without him.
By those definitions, a refinery whose control systems ensure it can never explode, but allow anyone with internet access to override anything, is insecure but perfectly safe. Yet the result is explosions and dead people. That doesn't make sense.
I never thought of actually putting it on the lean canvas grid for people to view that way.
I always assumed it would be more tedious to read the lean canvas on a screen.
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Yes. Technology should be used to suppress anyone who says to vote for Trump in much the same way we should reject anyone who says vaccines cause autism. In fact, both views should be censored because of how dangerous they are.
Charitable giving: Immediate need vs. bigger long-term impact
That's all it is.
"they" is a historic and accepted gender neutral pronoun.
Saying "there is nothing to rebut" is not a response.

You are claiming that the consensus view of climate change has literally nothing to say in response to your points? I find that very hard to believe. Have you done your due diligence and actually searched for any rebuttals?
I don’t understand what the story here is supposed to be. By Tripp’s own account, he did gather private information, the information did not itself prove wrongdoing, and he did leak it to the press because he wanted to make Tesla look bad.
I disagree with having to effectively pay twice. I've lived overseas for a total of 8 years and the tax rules suck. I'm back in the US now, but when I did work overseas, taxes were fairly complex. My UK family and friends didn't pay taxes to the crown when they worked here. My South African friends don't pay to SA and they work here. It's really not fair if you think about it. People from other countries still enjoy the benefits of their respective citizenships while in other places, yet don't suffer the indignity of the double dip.
Oded Goldreich, Stephen Wolfram, Leonid A. Levin and Gil Kalai are skeptics I know about.
> Apple has an absolute monopoly on its own platform.

It doesn't work that way. Otherwise I could also say that any company has a monopoly on "products with the company's name on it".

> the reality is that anti-competition laws need to change to deal with companies of this scale and reach.

Hm ... I really think that Facebook and Google are the bigger problems today. And a lot is happening there already (not so much in the US though).
In general, yes, but I think you will be very disappointed with this particular work: quantum gates are "linear", so they are readily inversible. All of the "memory" is explicitly baked in in the method proposed here.
I've not seen any mention of 2 serious Google Cloud outages in the last week. Which seems unusual, considering the typical relevance to the HN crowd.

Additionally, it seriously affected 37 signals, who are the creators of Basecamp and Ruby on Rails, and are one of the more high profile tech successes.

In the blogpost DHH (the creator of Rails) calls into question their approach to moving to the Cloud, their sudden decline from 5 nines to 2 nines of availability, and the failure of their risk management in terms of cloud operations.

I find it quite surprising and concerning, that Google Cloud has had 2 such major outages so close together.

https://status.cloud.google.com/
For anyone wondering "would that actually work" there are helper tools for PoGo that actually work like this:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cjin.pokeg...
Close enough for a popsci article!
> How can something that important be an option?

Based on other comments here and in other discussions, it seems like adding that feature would increase the training requirements for the pilots since it is an additional instrument in the cockpit. I don't know whether it was Boeing, Boeing's customers, or both who pushed for the instrument to be an option. Any combination is plausible, and I'm not going to rush to judgement like a couple of my sibling commenters just because it's the fun and popular thing to do.
The change was committed in December, according to the article and the PR: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/98b2af784450beb2...
Stop the Bots: Practical Lessons in Machine Learning
Transparency is important to choose any service and care is one of them. The vast majority of healthcare services are not urgent. There's a case for price insensitivity for emergency care, but that is also resolved by choosing insurance before hand: the same way there is price sensitivity to life insurance.

A bigger problem to me than transparency is distortion: the value of the service being public means little if the patient is not paying for it. A patient that has 20% co-insurance or 20$ copay have completely different price sensititivities. They are also price-insensitive when they select insurance because they get it through the employer that picked it and payed it for them.

As a patient, the price tag on a service is relevant to you depending on insurance: validating insurance is much more important than seeing the price.

A socialized medicine scheme will have the same problem: if a patient is shielded from the actual cost of the visit, then he is more likely to use it and thus over-use it.
The reason I made the statement was because the article said

'"This is one in a series of papers on the possibility of violating the second law of thermodynamics. That law is closely related to the notion of the arrow of time that posits the one-way direction of time from the past to the future," said the study's lead author Gordey Lesovik, who heads the Laboratory of the Physics of Quantum Information Technology at MIPT.'

When I don't see how violating the second law could even be a possibility.
Unfortunately Textual is MacOS only?
They've been using the top 4 search engines in any given country for some number of months. Sometimes it's duckduckgo
You can trace an ’80s hip-hop beat back to 1910 – Recode
Not self-hosted, but less annoying than MailChimp - TinyLetter. It is a MailChimp company, but TinyLetter has fewer features, I found it more friendly for simply emails sending.
That wording is kinda fuzzy about the distinction between the old UIWebView and the new WKWebView, which are very different.

Note that you can use either UIWebView and JavaScriptCore in your own app, which doesn't JIT, --OR-- WKWebView and its JavaScript interpreter, which does have JIT enabled, but runs in a separate process (not unlike Microsoft OLE out-of-process servers). Apple allows their own trusted apps to JIT (i.e. Safari, which is the same as the WKWebView engine that runs in a separate process). But UIWebView with JavaScriptCode that runs in your app are not allowed to JIT.

You can extend the JavaScriptCore interpreter used by UIWebView (which you can also use standalone without a UIWebView) with your own native Objective C code, that it can call directly via a JavaScript/Objective C bridge. (See NativeScript for example.) But that's impossible to do with WKWebView, whose JavaScriptCore (or whatever it is -- I'm not sure it's the same framework but it might be), because it runs in a different process. All you can do is to send messages (like JSON events or whatever) via IPC over Mach ports, not call your own code directly.

https://www.nativescript.org/
Making matters worse, America’s low tax-to-GDP ratio – just 27.1% even before the Trump tax cut – means a dearth of money for investment in the infrastructure, education, health care, and basic research needed to ensure future growth.

In comparison to our peers the U.S. is under taxed. The OECD average is 34.2%. What makes the average person feel overtaxed is the combination of federal income tax, state income tax (where it occurs), along with stagnant wages and high medical care costs. The U.S. spends far more per capita on healthcare than any other OECD nation.

It is easy to convince a significant portion of average Americans that taxes are too high. So they vote for politicians that promise to lower taxes. Except they don’t lower taxes for average people. In a properly functioning political system this disconnect between promise and actuality would be taken care of at election time. In my lifetime I’ve not seen this happen and my political memory starts with the Reagan administration.

Due to globalization and the ability of the top 0.1% to easily move money from country to country and to easily move citizenship from country to country one can no longer reasonably make the case that what is good for the top 0.1% is necessarily good for the country. The intersts of the nation as a whole and the interests of the top 0.1% are badly misaligned.

The U.S. is politically unhealthy and until this changes I see no hope for improvement. I think only a shock to the system will really change things.
You could always add whatever search engine you wanted in the settings. Maybe it wasn't one that was already setup as one of the drop down menus.
Using Arts Education to Help Other Lessons Stick
Indeed, no 2nd law violation. And this work does not have anything to do with the 2nd law. OP summary is great: they are just doing an operation and then doing it in reverse (albeit in a technically interesting way).
They dropped it for video, but not audio?
Ex-spotifier here. It's most likely that they wanted to use functionality available to Apple Music, but not any other app.
At that time Microsoft completely dominated desktop operating systems to the extent that it was an effective monopoly. It them attempted to leverage that position to try and squash other browser makers.

I agree that Apple is trying to squash Spotify, but I don't believe it doesn't have an effective monopoly on mobile phones.
It doesnt change the math to charge 5000U$S in advance through a payroll tax, than to have a 5000U$S deductible afterwards. The key metric is if the healthcare services are better utilized and are cheaper.
For those that don't know 'quietly' is newspeak for something that happened that no press release was issued. [1]

[1] Because in the world of the press everything should be announced so they can broadcast it and sell advertising by running stories. And not have to find it out by other more laborious methods.
Telling programmers what to do as a non-programmer can be like herding cats. Your first step should be to hire in a technical manager who can build the rest of the team for you. If you believe this is the future of the company, you should consider hiring someone at the director level who speaks your language and also the language of developers.

This person doesn't even necessarily need to be a programmer or a good one but they do need to know how to run a software development team. You will have to use your experience and intuition to tell if they are a good fit.

You can find this individual at networking events perhaps but if you have the money to spend then you might consider hiring an executive recruitment agency. You also might consider employing a management consultancy company to interview this person to check their technical knowledge and management style but I have no way of knowing what that costs.

This person can then answer all the other questions you have with full knowledge of the context of your company and your local area.
> Advertising is the excuse, not the reason.

I think you have a solid point here, but even so, that doesn't make anything better. Collecting data on people without their informed consent is wrong regardless of what you want to use that data for.
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