skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disproportionate impact is not the same thing as "selective enforcement". Selective enforcement means consciously choosing to enforce a law more commonly when a particular racial group breaks it. It does not members of a particular racial group disproportionately having the law enforced against them because they disproportionately exhibit a particular non-racial trait that is correlated with higher enforcement.
In another thread I ask about pyiodide ... is this an answer to use cuda in browser under python?
We have an example of a service similar to twitter that's effectively free to run due to it's distributed nature in Mastodon/ActivityPub. Being financially sustainable without having to resort to dark patterns could just be an engineering question.
The main reason to use R is the existing set of libraries and analyses pipelines some may already have in place. Redeveloping these in Python can be a hassle because there may not even be libraries that recreated certain functionality that one needs to recreate on-top of translating their pipeline. With that said, most common analyses needs are now handled in popular Python libraries.

Sometimes though, the knowledge encapsulated in an R package is not trivial to understand and reimplement. The concepts methods use may involve math you're unfamiliar with (and use as black boxes), so then you have to look at the package code and try translating R->Python, then attempt to refactor to something sane (and hope you don't skip any underlying logic). That or learn the theory of what was implemented so you can now implement it in Python (which may not be feasible with tight deadlines).
That's an opportunity. If someone would only figure out how to get th classics all in one place. Netflix is just a new HBO with a better interface.
it still exists....
Apple may release an iPhone SE successor this year as iPhone XE
Maybe you hate the idea of it becoming an interest-based network, and maybe I hate it, and maybe everybody on this site hates it, but we are a very very small speck of a subset of Twitter's active userbase.
I feel like all of your statements contain errors and all these errors happen to benefit the pro-owning view. So I primarily spent my time addressing the errors. I think you kept waiting for me to explain why housing is a bad investment but that was never my point of view. I think people are way too confident on their housing investment. Some FUD is good.

> If you have one and feel like it, I'd still love to see a detailed scenario that is easy for a normal person to achieve where renting exceeds buying over a 10 or 20 year term.

I recommend that you understand what that NYT calculator does exactly then punch in the numbers for your area and see if you can find rent for the given amount. It really seems to come down to how bullish you are on your local housing market vs your stock portfolio. Plus the premium you are willing to pay for mobility vs the premium for extra space and a yard.

As a side not, according to [1] only 37% of Americans live in their house for more than 10 years. The median is 8.7 years.

>> It makes no sense to compare renting + no investments to owning with lots of money in equity.

> So, just curious, why did you share and defend the calculator that does exactly this?

I think you are mistaken about the NYT calculator, it does exactly (1).

>> economies of scale keep rental unit maintenance fees lower.

> FWIW, that's not what the calculator claims - it states explicitly calculating house rentals comparable to purchases, where there is no economy of scale. I guess the whole point is to make the comparison as fair as possible by keeping everything equal except the method of payment.

The NYT calculator sets up a hypothetical situation where you are buying a property. Then as an alternative, it takes the down-payment money and invests it and calculates a monthly sunk-cost such that you still break-even during the given time period. As far as I know it makes no distinction as to how you spend that monthly budget. The question it poses is whether you can locally find rental units within that budget that are 'good enough' for you to live in. The extent to which you can come under-budget is the extent by which you are better off renting vs owning.

[1] https://www.financialsamurai.com/the-median-homeownership-du...
Which corner of the world are you're in?

Admittedly I'm not exactly in the center of the known world.
That's a smart way to do it. I used to put in ranges (basically contingency) of rate but I found myself consistently hitting a similar % of the higher estimate and just started quoting the higher estimate with the expectation that I'm not a God and there may be unknown factors which could add in more cost. Usually people are happy as you say if there's trust and you show progress.
Let me clarify: There are people out there that just should not go to college. It would be a waste of time and money for them. These are the people that need to take a look at alternate career paths, but those same people were in the room with me when the teacher was telling us about how poor you will be if you don't go do college.

I agree that the prestige of a college degree has been watered down, but that is simply a supply and demand thing. If there aren't enough workers with a college degree, then the employer will hire people who don't have one, especially if the job doesn't actually require a degree.
The first sale doctrine didn't survive the transition to the Internet era. If "buying" one copy of a film still allowed one to resell or rent it to someone else, despite it not being a physical object, Netflix would have all 250 titles tomorrow.
Their content is very hit or miss. A lot of copycat anime shows, low quality kids TV, middling sitcoms and drama series with only one season, and a very small pool of popular series.

Contrast with Amazon which has an incredibly deep library and is "free" to some extent with Prime.

Netflix is in trouble.
Too many people never leave college, afraid of the "real world." These people stay in academia as long as possible, accepting a low wage with the trade-off of putting off interviewing in the private sector / acquiring marketable skills. It's a sad state of affairs. I personally don't know anybody who left college with skills they could not have better received on the job (in less time).

This problem can be remedied by the removal of price subsidization, such as student loans. Removing the idea that _everyone_ (especially an 18 year old) needs to go to institutions of higher education will incentivize colleges to improve their education, refocusing on important, productive topics, while at the same time reducing costs.

Not to mention the fact that colleges have fierce competition from all of the "free" information online nowadays. The plethora of tutorials on YouTube alone are enough to learn any skill for which an employer will be willing to pay a decent wage.

Viewing college as a fundamental right and the inclusion of government interference has led to this sad state of affairs. Introducing market principles back into the situation is the only way forward if institutions of higher learning expect to survive.
The comments here are full of people saying what they want out of Twitter, and confidently asserting that what they want is what everyone wants. Except, there’s basically no agreement between them.
In my view it's not just connections. The children of wealthy people are also, for the most part, children of educated people. As a result, they know how to navigate the college system and to get the most out of it. There are things about college that I've explicitly told my kids. Someone who doesn't know, or is predisposed to believe that college is worthless, won't ever know what they missed out on.

Also, by the time they hit college, kids are already highly differentiated, and this affects their access to the more fructifying opportunities in college. There's this giant Sorting Hat, and it's called Math.

So I don't deny the wealth effect, but I don't think it's fully explained by connections.
Sounds like government bureaucracy is the problem there.
Chicago first city to publish data on ride-hailing trips, drivers, and vehicles
Most practical python programs do not use CUDA, even scientific ones.
What Should I Read to Understand Zoning?
Apologies for being unclear; I'm referring to the broader real-estate market. I can't speak to Canada, but I seem to see this in America (increased volatility) in real estate and the broader economy over all.
It's obviously debatable - but we know that there was a huge flood at the end of the Ice age that would have raised the sea level considerably in a relatively short period. This is about 12,500 years ago. There is also evidence in India, and in the Indian ocean, for civilisation there at that time. And finally that particular myth of a huge flood is found in pretty much every culture.

So maybe there was a guy called Noah, maybe there wasn't. But I strongly suspect there was an actual world wide flood within the mythic memory of our species.
Realtors and condo marketers were for years spreading misinformation and downplaying the role that foreign capital was playing in rising land values, in hopes of keeping the good times rolling.

No one can credibly discount those impacts now.
Are they squandering it by making such claims?

How many people do you really think are going to read their claims, then read that their claims are not fully backed up, and then decide to boycott the company?

Versus how many people read their claims, and have been reading their previous claims, and are already sucked into Tesla's "Saving the world" narrative.

For those people, stuff like this "Impact Report" aren't deciding factors, but are a part of a larger effort at Tesla to imbue a sense of 'higher purpose' or something along those lines.

There's little downside to this kind of fluff.
This is how PhDs work and the opportunities they have at least in Europe, Australia, Japan, North America.
Exactly. I'm a fairly sophisticated user and I know how to use VPNs, etc. I also make a comfortable tech wage. TBH, piracy is an absolute last resort. Even if it comes down to buying a $20 DVD off Amazon, that's probably what I will do if it's something I want to watch enough that I've gone to the trouble of even thinking about searching the torrents for.

Do I wish there was a video equivalent of premium music services for video? (i.e. had most content) Sure. There isn't. So I'll pick some streaming services and I'll buy a la carte in various formats and just accept there's no single bundle that gives me everything for a monthly subscription.
If you want to collect personal data on upcoming new movers, at least pretend to care and provide a little information up front, a little SEO content, anything other than just a signup form.
Here's a good start on what Fascism is, the definition of the doctrine as declared by its originator, Benito Mussolini.

http://www.historyguide.org/europe/duce.html

More can be found in Brittanica's article on the subject:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism

In short - and mostly from Britannica's definition, supported by Mussolini's words Fascism is characterised by an extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the rule of elites, and the desire to create a Volksgemeinschaft (German: “people’s community”), in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation.

Even shorter would be 'a militaristic nationalist dictatorial ideology which subjugates the individual for the (perceived) good of the nation'. It is such a close cousin to Communism and Islamism (and other similarly structured doctrines) that this short characterisation also applies to those ideologies. An AI set to the task of filtering out Fascists will also trigger on Communists and Islamists and probably on a host of similar ideologies. This is not a problem as I assume the idea is to reduce the influence these types of ideologies have on society.
Would be curious to see if a version of Cython could be made to work with this. Much of my data analysis is me passing numpy arrays into C functions which Cython helps a lot with. So I would be looking for a version of Cython that would convert that to webassembly.
I said this in a sibling comment, so I risk belaboring the point here, but I don't think piracy is all that competitive for the lay person.

Put on your non-tech-savvy hat and google "watch <movie> online" or "torrent <movie>" and try to navigate a streaming website. You need to be somewhat tech savvy just to navigate the minefield. For example: https://pelispedia.tv -- it's confusing, frustrating, and full of popups/ads.

The layperson depends on someone more tech savvy to give them instruction. But even then, I once showed my sister how to download torrents and she got a scary letter from Comcast in Austin. My guess is that Comcast simply participates in the seeding process of the top 10k torrents and waits for its customers to connect. She hasn't tried since.
Gatsby is an amazing developer experience, definitely not something I would use as an example of an "issue".
SiteMinder Pay is hiring a Product Manager for its new payments platform
Renter laws in Canada sound very different than Texas. The tenant acts tend to favor the renter I've the landlord in almost all cases. You can debate if this is good or bad, but being a residential landlord is not the same as commercial property
And now it's a PR. By a GitHub engineer even.

https://github.com/github/linguist/pull/4497
The accident rate should be decreased in the most efficient way possible, to save as many lives as possible. That might not mean targeting R&D resources at reducing the accident rate for one minority group that experiences a higher-than-average malfunction rate.

Here's a thought experiment to illustrate the principle I'm trying to get across: if we find out that members of a very small ethnic group suffer disproportionately from some deficiency in software that does a poor job at recognizing features common to them, and this leads to an extra 50 people dying each year, and that the resources it would take to fix this deficiency would allow the software to be improved to reduce the accident rate by 5%, leading to 5,000 fewer people dying each year, but only 5 fewer members of that ethnic group dying each year, should we target the resources at reducing the accident rate for the ethnic group, just because the group they find themselves in happens to be ethnic?
FilmStruck tried. R.I.P.
Let me quote the full paragraph:

>> In his view, that means rethinking how Twitter incentivizes user behavior. He suggested that the service works best as an “interest-based network,” where you log in and see content relevant to your interests, no matter who posted it — rather than a network where everyone feels like they need to follow a bunch of other accounts, and then grow their follower numbers in turn.

What he is describing sounds a lot closer to reddit than it does to Twitter today. I am not usually a Twitter user, and I’ve been giving it another go. The same basic design flaw is still present though: when I follow people, I’m following people, and I might be following an individual for a particular topic they are typically insightful on, but I’m also getting their sports and politics at the same time.

Contrast with reddit where the communities are topic centric and moderated according to their own rules, and /r/all can be safely disregarded if you’re just browsing.

That isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I don’t think Jack Dorsey is planning to ape reddit’s design anytime soon, but I think a move in the direction to interest—based networks would be an improvement on their current design and think we should see what it this actually entails before we cast judgement.

That said, as largely a Twitter-outsider, I respect if you disagree. Personally, I think this move would make the service more valuable to someone like me, but I could also see why such changes wouldn’t be for long time users who are used to the way things are.
afaik data is for new cars with ICE.
> Entertainment doesn't count.
My kid was starting make his 'final exam' project in Godot but the importing functionality from Blender 2.8 is all jacked up. Watching these reels, maybe he should give it another shot.
Yes please! Let's drop this electron crap once and for all.
They haven't bought the requisite Trump condo yet.
Yep! When someone hacks into your computer - it's one thing; but if somebody "hacks" into your home - it's a completely different issue!
No he said double or (200) then add 20 (220). Unless there's ambiguity I'm not seeing.
Woah wait a minute, Craigslist is definitely commercial, they charge to make posts about certain subjects like employment and housing in certain cities. Now granted it's not super high growth but consider this:

> Last year, Craigslist took in upwards of $690 million in revenue, most of which is net profit, according to an estimate by the AIM Group, an Altamonte Springs, Florida-based research firm. Based on valuations of comparable publicly traded companies including eBay EBAY +0%, Forbes conservatively estimates that Craigslist is worth at least $3 billion. That makes Newmark, 64, who owns at least 42% of the company, worth at least $1.3 billion.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2017/05/03/how-does-cra...
So you beat the market for a total of... Two and a half months?

Your arrogance is pretty typical of people investing for the first time. It's like buying a scratch off and saying, "Only an idiot doesn't know where to scratch!"

It's your prerogative if you want to believe that the market is stupid/predictable, or that you can invest better than people with billions of dollars in resources, but just ask yourself this: Why are you succeeding where others aren't?
It may reflect the observations in OP kind of well -- with one difference: it assumes we're good at estimating the mode, not the median. But other than that, within the range we're talking about (1 < alpha < beta) it has somewhat similar shape to the lognormal distribution.

The three things that still bother me about that idea are:

1. I haven't tried fitting it to the dataset in OP;

2. It's bounded to the right, which seems unrealistic;

3. I haven't come up with intuitive interpretations for the alpha and beta parameters in this context. If the beta distribution means something, then its parameters must have natural interpretations as well.
Wow, it seems to work really well. After giving it a small test drive, I'm impressed. Solid work from Mozilla, and a pretty informative article too!

That said, between this, iodide and ObservableHQ, I guess I give up. The browser is the new OS.

My question now is - how can we make browser environment to be more like Emacs (bear with me)? My main complaints are:

- Browser ergonomy absolutely sucks, and there's nothing you can do about it. You're at the mercy of each service's UI, which usually means you'll be clicking a lot and maybe sometimes get a keyboard shortcut here and there. Forget about advanced features, or consistency between sites.

- You have near-zero control over your computing environment. Between sandboxing and half the code being obfuscated blob of transpiled JS (the other half of the code is on the server), you can maybe automate the UI a little with userscripts and fix it up with userstyles.

- There's near-zero interoperability. Unless service authors agree on and implement some APIs, things can't talk to each other. Forget about making them talk. Whatever little wiring you can sometimes do (thanks to services like Zapier and IFTTT), you never have control over the process, and it always involves communication through third-party servers, even if all you'd like is to transfer some local data between browser tabs.

If the browser is the next OS, can we make it suck less than desktop OSes in terms of ergonomy / productivity? Desktop OSes already suck in this regard compared to the promise of old Smalltalk and Lisp systems (that's why I live in Emacs most of the time), so all I see is a downwards trend.

Current state of things is fine for casual use and casual users, but if I'm to spend 8+ hours a day doing serious work in a web browser, the browser needs to be better.
Figma has killed the whole 'native mac' benefit in my head. It runs faster than native competitor Sketch, and it does it on any platform, in a browser. Would be amazing to have that kind of portability in a dev environment. But I'm interested to see what they've come up with!
Resources are finite. The objective should be to maximize the number of lives that are saved with the resources available, not ensure that the number of people who die is equal across racial groups.

I have no problem with more resources being spent to "fix a problem", if that doesn't mean it comes at the expense of resources being spent to fix more serious problems. There is nothing inherently more unfair about members of a particular race suffering from a poorer experience with a particular software program than members of a particular psychological profile or height or distance between-the-eyes group facing a poorer-than-average experience with the software.
I have heard stories of groups of furries in Vancouver renting out these mansions and apparently it works really nicely. I guess the key part of sharing a house would be making sure to share with people you get along well with.
"getting to do the research you're passionate about. Do people just enjoy teaching so much?"

Yes! I look at research as a boring, stressful pain-in-the-butt, and I love teaching my students. I am contingent annually, but full-time with benefits, and I would not want to be on the publish-or-perish track. Teaching smart kids hard stuff is what I am passionate about.
"More engaging" does not automatically equal "better for users" or "what most users want".
yes, but hard to scale outside the US, and studios were hostile to it because it didn't pay them enough, so they pressured Netflix to stop promoting it and adopt streaming. It exists the same way AOL did EOL but it is not a factor in future growth.
Given the health risks, I'm not sure that's a good thing. Many pigments are made out of heavy metals [0], and while it might have immune benefits, it's for the same reason as bee stings (a minor irritant that keeps it on its toes). The difference is that bee stings don't contain heavy metals.

They've also struck me as a bit tacky (like most other fads), the difference of course being that they're permanent.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tattoo-ink-mercur...
Cool, I just can't wait to run out and spend more money on a device that provides the same basic services as the one I already have! I can't wait!
No, browsers only expose specific Web APIs and CUDA is not one. WebGL doesn't even provide access to compute shaders.
Difficult, yes, but solved [1]. There exist sound static analyzers for C and C++. "Sound" meaning no false-negatives.

[1] https://github.com/NASA-SW-VnV/ikos/blob/master/analyzer/REA...
The stadium has a monopoly on hot dogs and event streaming, so they can gouge you til their heart's content.
I mean what you're describing with trades is just as rampant in college educated jobs, minus the back breaking work but adding in other ergonomic nightmares of an office and more political and social stress. Not saying you're wrong but I think the problem is workers aren't getting their fair share for the progress of society. No matter their background.
PHP is simple and rocks!
The Art of Research – A History by Vi Hart