skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stop-and-frisk is ongoing in New York despite years of data on the fact that police almost exclusively target young Black and Latino men and that the policy has little to no discernible effect on crime prevention or criminal apprehension. The NY branch of the ACLU is a good place to find a summary of the data[1], such as: "in 2011, Black and Latino New Yorkers made up 24 percent of the population in Park Slope, but 79 percent of stops." If the NYPD were doing this to white people to the same extent it would have stopped by now. The policy is a direct violation of the fourth amendment.

1. https://www.nyclu.org/en/stop-and-frisk-facts
Looks to be working in the UK
The round trip is going to take 30 billion years (assuming no expansion). By the time you got back, Earth would be long gone.
Anyone using both AWS and GCP that can form an opinion on availability of both? As a GCP customer I am not very happy with theirs.
>Since then, he has repeatedly reiterated the guilty verdict of the men, even though their convictions were vacated. “They admitted they were guilty,” the then-candidate said in a CNN interview the month before the 2016 election. “The police doing the original investigation say they were guilty. The fact that that case was settled with so much evidence against them is outrageous. And the woman, so badly injured, will never be the same.”

http://time.com/5597843/central-park-five-trump-history/
Those are good points (and I said something similar in my cousin comment), but you're overstating it by saying they always end badly. Obviously, some percentage of such mortgages are paid back. (I'd agree if you meant they go bad at the macroeconomic level, but you specifically clarified that you were referring to the individual who can't make a down payment and saying they will also fail to pay it back.)
> It's been a reliable signal in the past, but perhaps this time is different.

Yes, we're in agreement :-)

> Interestingly, some economists postulate that such an inversion may be somewhat causative of recession...

That could be true... I don't know.
It's a sensitive subject but I appreciate you pointing to the reality of what attracts voters. It seems raitonal to consider that many qualities repelling to one set of voters is an attractant to another. Or at least what else could explain the success of such a polarizing figure as DT?
> This isn't what you said.

I can't repeat all the caveats every time I say something. I assume readers believe my comments are at least reasonable, even if they disagree with them. For convenience, I restated the current state of knowledge more precisely in my previous comment. If you're interested in what I have to say, assume I'm not an idiot, and perhaps we could have an interesting discussion, and if you think I'm an idiot, then there's no point in arguing at all.

> Show me the study that says that.

Show me the study that says otherwise. I don't need to provide evidence for the lack of an effect (although I did). The lack of an effect is, at the very least, the default hypothesis in this case (as in many others) as there is no theory suggesting we should believe otherwise (while a theory that explains why languages increasingly have smaller effects has made correct predictions).

> It can if done properly

That's your hypothesis. We've been trying to find evidence of that, or others like it, for a long time -- both in academia and in industry -- without success. We simply do not observe that the choice of language today (among reasonable ones etc.) has a big effect, either in studies or in industry practice. But if you've found a language that can drastically reduce software development costs and/or increase quality at scale, that discovery can be easily translated to billions of dollars. Go ahead and make them.
Not much different from AWS, from what I've heard.
u.s. west: all our cloud compute is inaccessible rn.... our API is down, can't ssh into the servers, and also can't see them on the dashboard.
To be fair, it has had several decades to decay, and the most dangerous radionuclides are the ones with short half-lives and thus high output. It's pretty amazing that it's still that dangerous given it's had over 30 years to decay.
Examples? I believe you, just wanna think about this more.
GCP is incredibly bad at communicating when there are problems with their systems. Just terrible. Its only when our apps start to break that we notice something is down, then look at the green dashboard which is even more infuriating.
We are unhappy with our wants, because we are being overpromised on how much happiness those wants will deliver. Advertising and politicians are probably the worst offenders here.
We desire and pursue certain wants (big house, luxurious car, tropical vacation) only to later get disappointed with their quality and utility once we have them. Then we report in the form that we are unhappy because we don’t use the two extra bedrooms that cost extra to heat, that luxurious car costs fortune in insurance and fuel, and the tropical vacation turned out to be a nightmare with roaches, bedbugs and salmonella outbreak.
Google Cloud is the number 4 most monitored status page on StatusGator and Google Apps is number 12. In addition, at least 20 other services we monitor seemingly depend on Google Cloud because they all posted issues as soon as Google went down.

It's always interesting to see these outages at large cloud providers spider out across the rest of the internet, a lot of the world depends on Google to stay up.
Lol, talk about a straw man with the awful opencl-source-in-c-array.

EDIT: props to the author for working on a language, but using that as an example of "confusing syntax" is comical.
As the article says, it diverts most of the flow during low-flow periods (i.e. summer) which means there would not be much left for fish passage. Might be fine, might not, I don't know enough about the ecosystem to say.

Additionally, there are some definite issues with sedimentation during construction. They excavated the channel to the intake and put all the dirt from the excavation into the stream for it to "carry away"[1]. This would not be allowed in most areas I know of - essentially, fish can't breathe if there's too much dirt in the water. Then several times it overflowed and eroded the channel - more sedimentation. The author even admitted using concrete liner would be the better choice, but opted not to because it was expensive - essentially, this externalized the cost of sedimentation to the ecosystem.

[1] https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/intake.html
China already has an (uncompetitive) alternative stack, covering silicon to operating system.

The problem is with building a competitive stack, Huawei can't get access to a 7nm fab in China, nor is their talent skilled in working with the limitations of said newer process, which kneecaps their ability to build chips competitive with Qualcomm and Apple.

Huawei can build 7nm chips at TSMC, but due to their ARM license revocation and Qualcomm's inability to license them cellular patents under FRAND during this dispute, TSMC is unlikely to fab IP infringing chips.

If TSMC were to fab these chips, their other 7nm clients (primarily Apple, followed by ARM licensees Qualcomm & AMD (which uses ARM TrustZone)) would all be in an uproar as ARM would likely prohibit the use of their designs at TSMC fabs.

Wrt China building their own 7nm fab, it is very unlikely they will get it off the ground in the next few years. Only TSMC & Samsung have succeeded in this, Intel, Global Foundries (formerly AMD) and many others have spent tens of billions and half a decade trying to build better than 14nm processes to no avail.
RedLeaf: Towards an Operating System for Safe and Verified Firmware [pdf]
And here I thought I was having a bad day with Google Play not loading
David Letterman 2.0, the Non-Ironic Version
I am not defending it. Just that, he did not said it to gain votes back then. He said it because that is what he believed and who he is, nothing to do with politicians as a group.

Being genuine racist is not better then playing up racism for votes. Maybe even worst in impact (as pretender will be less zealous in pushing for such policies). Don't understand why people think otherwise.
DataStax's Path from Cassandra
But the people in the room will create more humidity that you have to constantly remove again.

Humans burning calories to stay alive creates heat, and thermodynamics that you spend energy to remove it or see the temperature rise. Whether that heat is hot air or bound as humidity shouldn't make a large difference.
> Well, yes, the down payment does reduce the bank's loss in some cases, but it does also functional as a "moral test" in the sense the parent meant.

> Every mortgage application asks if someone else is contributing to the down payment. That wouldn't matter unless there were a difference in risk classes between the two groups of people, so it's not purely a matter of a better loan-to-(initial-)value ratio.

Don't they ask if someone is contributing to the down payment because it could be categorized as a loan that would factor into your income to debt ratio?
related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077421
Inductive Consensus Tree Protocol: A Scalable Blockchain [pdf]
wasnt there a 'startup' in most recent YC batch that was all about flipping houses in Bay area?
Slow is understatement... some pages on gitlab.com take minutes to load, and jobs take tens of minutes to start.

EDIT: It's been like that since at least 12h ago though. Not sure if it's connected to Google Cloud?
Now you tell me! What are you going to tell me next, that yellowcake isn't made from flour?
Did the US government just test the internet kill switch?
So that's why I can't login to YouTube this morning...
I was playing around this afternoon with appengine, and thought I broke one my projects when I started getting 502 back.

There appears to be some irregularities on consumer services as well that are of course certainly related, youtube was behaving a bit oddly for me.

The impact seems to be cascading down from just GCE to other services as well - that status page certainly does not reflect the reality of the situation. You can't even sign into GCP right now, and things that run on GCE, like appengine seem impacted.
Are economists obsessed with job creation? Government economists tend to focus on it because that's literally their job, but my sense of academic economists has always been that they're pretty good at not eliding distinctions like between employment and economic value.
I see this as well.
Eta is a better choice, if you care about Haskell compatibility in the strictest sense. Frege doesn't really pursue this, but the flip side is that it optimizes for working as smoothly as possible with the JVM ecosystem.
Obviously we don't know what the extent of the issue is yet, but afaik there has never been an AWS incident that has affected multiple regions where an application had been designed to use them (like using region specific S3 endpoints). GCP and Azure have had issues in multiple regions that would have affected applications designed for multi-region.
Nope:

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1257/aer.97.5.1583

Scientific research consistently finds that kids are consistently a lot worse of in foster care, and a LOT worse of in institutions compared to at home.

EVEN when those kids get abused at home the results of foster care and youth services are negative for the children involved.

This is the largest study on the subject by far. And the results are very clear, very thorough and damning for the idea of foster care. It just does not work.

And, frankly, if you look at "attachment theory", the very basis of behavioral theory for children, and then take into account that most kids get placed into foster care again and again (average 4.7 times in 6 years of foster care) you certainly understand why foster care is worse than ongoing trauma by biological parents.

The ongoing trauma by biological parents is a fixed, constant factor that the kids adapt to. Foster parents only last for a year at a time. Being in foster care means having serious doubts that you're still going to the same house tomorrow, the same school. It means being told that both your natural parents, an institution, and foster parents reject you as a person, and this happens when you're like 12-14 year old. It means knowing that you (or your foster parents for that matter) have zero control and re-placement. It's even realistic that they'll be collected by the police TONIGHT and have to sleep in a jail cell, if people they don't know make this decision.

Under this stress, and that's stress that you as a foster parent cannot take away and have zero control over the continued trauma (so any promises you make are VERY dangerous: if they get taken away (60-80% of those kids), you are actually making a VERY bad trauma worse). Under such stress normal development is not possible.

Attachment theory is the basis of behavioral theory and it says 2 factors are more important than any other in child development:

1) constancy: same environment, same people, SAME RULES tomorrow

2) ability to affect their environment: they must systematically get more control over their environment. What they DO must influence their life.

You will immediately realize that the whole POINT of foster care and child services is to take away BOTH of these. The problem is that these factors matter MORE than whether the child is abused. They matter MORE than whether violence (real or psychological) is used against the child.
It does meet common dictionary definitions though - https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/refugee
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get".
Blog posts aren’t Show HN material:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

You might consider reposting as a normal submission.
To prevent your pipes from exploding or other equipment breaking. To have your home at a suitable temperature when you get back from an extended stay away.
It’s a little scary that the same guy who makes these statements also can make decisions that may lead to war. Lets hope his other decisions are a little more fact based but I have my doubts.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20076509
All they have to do is bundle these mortgages together with safer ones and sell the resulting bundle as a security. The market will accurately assess the risk of the combined product and set prices accordingly. Because of the way this spreads out risk and incentivizes smart, objective analysis of the products, this is guaranteed to work well.
NSA does not hack Google; it gets direct access through a series of secret laws and courts. American citizens may have some protection against surveillance but the rest of the world does not.
A. There is no such thing as "chemical imbalance".
B. Medicine is as much of an art as it is science (if not more of an art).
C. Only some anti-depressants are the way you describe. The most promising anti-depressant, I.V. ketamine - acts rapidly, breaks through the most resistant depression is gone from your bloodstream within minutes/hours after infusion and there are zero withdrawal effects.
I apologize for not being more specific, but that was deliberate. Please trust that there are very real phenomena that can be monetized.

One example of a calendar effect that is likely not easily monetized is the 'Christmas effect' for VIX [0] due to decreases in trading activity.

[0] https://jai.iijournals.com/content/20/2/65
Sometimes I think that decades of spending all our productive time in a 'work' setting make people feel like they like it, might be a basic psychological adaptation mechanism. In fact, being an able human and having months of time at my disposal is scary :)
Couple naive questions:

1. How does a piece of spent fuel end up in a "grassy bit of ground" outside the reactor? Thought it would have all melted in one big clump in the same spot?

2. Why is Chernobyl still so dangerous if literally ingesting the spent fuel isn't super bad? Or is Chernobyl no longer dangerous?
> We will provide more information by Sunday, 2019-06-02 12:45 US/Pacific.

I'm not seeing anything at 12:47.
If a doctor prescribes medication without any further advice they are not even trying to find a real solution. It is quite hard to know if a person wouldn't try if never given advice from a trusted source.
Huawei has no 7nm fab available that will turn a blind eye to pirate ARM chips (since their ARM license was revoked), and it is unlikely any new 7nm fabs will be built in China soon. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077587
My antidepressant is a generic, so drug companies are making hardly anything off me. That narrative doesn’t seem to fit.
This is how you know it was written by an engineer. The executive summary is at the bottom.
Probably anything else.

GMX, web.de, T-Online are the biggest that come to my mind. They offer free mailboxes just like Gmail does, but are here since the early day. I think I registered with GMX in something like 2000 or so.

If Telekom/T-Mobile/T-Online is your internet provider, you'll automatically have a mailbox with them, too. Some people use it, some don't, I think it's most often ease of use and installation so it's popular with older people or small companies.
There has been a lot of progress in computer chess software since 1997, the current version of Stockfish is very probably superhuman on a low-end smartphone

I can't find any recent experiment, but here https://en.chessbase.com/post/komodo-8-the-smartphone-vs-des... is a test done in 2014 that shows that smartphones were already clearly superhuman then

In 2019 I estimate we would need less than half of the computing power of that 2014 smartphone to achieve the same playing strength
gmail also down/super slow atm for me (East Coast, USA)
I've been using it everyday for ~6 months and find that it's fantastic for full time usage.

The only feature that it doesn't have out-of-the-box is an "always on top" option for floating windows (but can be implemented by running a separate AHK script).
> In fact, retiring early increases mortality[1].

I suspect that has a lot to do with the structure of our society, and our relationship with work.

From TFA:

> In fact, quantitative studies revealed that the average adult hunter-gatherer spent about 20 hours a week at hunting and gathering, and a few hours more at other subsistence-related tasks such as making tools and preparing meals (for references, see Gray, 2009). Some of the rest of their waking time was spent resting, but most of it was spent at playful, enjoyable activities, such as making music, creating art, dancing, playing games, telling stories, chatting and joking with friends, and visiting friends and relatives in neighboring bands. Even hunting and gathering were not regarded as work; they were done enthusiastically, not begrudgingly. Because these activities were fun and were carried out with groups of friends, there were always plenty of people who wanted to hunt and gather, and because food was shared among the whole band, anyone who didn’t feel like hunting or gathering on any given day (or week or more) was not pressured to do so.

It's quite possible to like work. But that isn't really true in a lot of jobs. People who are overworked and underpaid; low-level bureaucrats; middle managers... there's a lot of thankless, unrewarding jobs out there, where people can't see a benefit to their work, where people see a negative impact of their work on society.
Ask HN: New Neural Network Primitives?
Hey Hackernews,

I’m completing my ms in cs and also am doing some ml research, and somebody recently told me an investigation into neural network primitives, I.e different cell types like LSTM cells, would be an interesting PhD dissertation.

What are some seminal papers and work done in examining different neural network primitives and cell types? Also has there been any work in treating neural networks as hypergraphs?
https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/19...

404 - Impressive
I am curious too about what's popular in Germany. I hope it's something better than ISP-provided emails.
It seems like some people are in denial about the benefits of using an internet connected device to control things. Here are a couple use cases that I find useful:

1. Automatically set the temperature cooler when you're home

2. Turn off your AC remotely if you forget (or automatically because of 1)

3. Change the temperature from your bed

Of course there are drawbacks: multiple points of failure. This is early tech, but it makes sense. For a really funny satire of how early these things are, follow [1].

I personally like to be in control so I disable the "learning" features.

[1]: https://twitter.com/internetofshit
Lazyness or not knowing better and probably because Google will make it very easy to set this address up when activating your phone.

But most people will then install the mailbox app from their provider and just use that.
I'm assuming it would involve a blender.
Praying isn't working. Now, I'll try sobbing :(
Still not correct. Materials and labor costs dwarf regulatory costs, even in hot markets.

The market does not inflate price, the market assigns value. In a hot real estate market, prices are value-driven, not cost-driven. In quieter markets, where supply of land is high, and builders are not booked out 1-2 years in advance, prices are cost-driven.
There was an explosion.
Improving the Developer Experience for Cloudflare Serverless Workers
Credit ratings are an attempt to turn weird moral tests into a concrete number, and they have a massive effect on one’s ability to get a mortgage. It wouldn’t be at all surprising for a bank to try to account for factors the credit score misses.
" If a business can't be both done right and profitable, it simply shouldn't exist."

Which is my point.

If they can't provide the level of security necessary (which might be excessively expensive) they should not exist.

Sharing of one's personal, intimate moments at home may very well rise above the level of privacy related to banking and medical records.

If my banking records or medical records were somehow leaked, I could care less really. I know nobody else will care. But if private photos of myself or my girlfriend leaked, I'd hope that the offenders went to prison. Certainly if an individual did that, it would be criminal.
Other google services are also affected:

https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status

https://i.imgur.com/pcqwwA4.png
> They'll run out of ammunition at the zero lower bound.

QE showed that the Fed has more options than lowering interest rates.
Definitely the case. Neither are super great at this. One issue is that issues that may 100% impact individual clients may only impact a vanishingly small amount of their overall service load. That mismatch between customer and provider experience is one of the ugly aspects of public cloud providers.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077421
I assume the answer to #2 is that there is quite a lot of waste around. Gamma and beta sources are dangerous just being near you — you don’t need to eat them to have a problem.
> There is no such thing as "chemical imbalance".

Why do many, many doctors say there is? It seems they, of all people, should know what they are talking about.
Exodus Orbitals: Introducing the first crowd-flyable satellite
On the other hand, sometimes there are significant differences between generic and brand name formulations. For example: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/postmarket-drug-safety-information...

I wonder how many patients had their complaints written off for the six years the generic was on the market?
> At some point, you just accept that it's more important to get a new warm body than to continue pursuing some idealized programming perfection.

Describes my dating life pretty well.
> How does a piece of spent fuel end up in a "grassy bit of ground" outside the reactor?

There was a pretty huge steam-based explosion, blowing the top off the reactor building and scattering fuel and various debris quite far & wide.