skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good faith attempt and I appreciate that.

First, from your link:

>Our data also provide evidence for shared ancestry among geographically diverse hunter-gatherer populations (Khoesan speakers and Pygmies).

Would we say that pygmies, being considered black, would be likely to make it into the NBA?

Second, can we guarantee that people who self identify black, would agree that the definition of someone else's "blackness" is legitimate? Whose definition do we "choose" to then move ahead with "and these sorts of black people are more likely to get into the NBA?" Given that it's not well agreed upon (is Obama black? Steph Curry? Not as cut and dry as you might assume. Are they "black enough" to have NBA advantage?)

Third, based on your tallness: why draw the line as 6'2"? There are shorter players that were Great. So, how do you deal with (relatively frequent) exceptions? "Tall people are more likely to get into the NBA, except when theyre short but grew up next to a court" ? And the tall People that aren't good at basketball? "Tall People are good at basketball except when they're not" ? And when they're too tall to the point that it's detrimental to their health and can't even play basketball?

Fourth, arbitrary. Exactly. It is arbitrary, and thus I argue scientifically impossible to have a rational discussion about blackness and its influence on likelihood to enter the NBA. Or, rather, develop an effective predictor algorithm based on genes alone.

We could have interesting sociological conversations about basketball courts in predominantly black neighborhoods, black NBA stars inspiring black kids, self-propagating cultural memes about blackness and basketball skills, etc. But we won't get any really good information that allows us to say something like "black people are better at basketball" to where it will be true.
Sort of like Japanese train operators who point at everything. I guess it works well.
Wow I hope the stock markets won't crash with Trump having no ability to talk it up constantly.
Safari's JavaScriptCore has been available on WASM for some time:

https://wapm.io/package/jsc

Online demo of JSC.js

https://mbbill.github.io/JSC.js/demo/index.html
I find it funny that I often get defensive questions from Google and Facebook engineers about their technologies/organizations when I post initial pro-privacy comments on HN, but after being called out and explaining in more detail I never get a response. I guess there's no point for them to argue it further as they're aware of the negative impact, but have made a conscious decision to choose money over morals
Physics has been rewriting its ideas of what is real for centuries as well.

History came from memory and now evidence based measuring is also enabling insights to the physical world back then. Upending some of the hand me down stories in the process.

There’s been a lot of debate about old story of travelers across the ice bridge because geological models suggest it would have been impossible to migrate across the region now.

More data generally allows a more nuanced perspective and story.
Minneapolis Freed Itself from the Stranglehold of Single-Family Homes
> that was the difference I was pointing out to. Bitcoin allows unchecked transactions about the network [...] That is the significant difference.

that is a very arbitrary difference for you to ignore that there are orders of magnitude more illegal transactions happening in cash than in cryptocurrencies. also "let's ban cryptocurrencies because bad people do bad things" is the same argument as "let's ban cryptography because bad people communicate about bad things".

> it is actually deflatory, which is a bad thing for a currency. This basically bans all commercial use.

gold is strictly speaking deflationary - there is limited amount of it to be mined and bar some large deposit discoveries, "emission rate" will be going down. what gold lacks to be succesfull in economic activities is convenience of not having to transport it around along with transactions, which is something bitcoin has.

deflationary nature argument is not very convincing to me, because there is a feedback loop between valuation and liquidity. the less liquidity there is in an assets - less valuable it becomes, incentivizing hoarders to keep spending.

> Not only do Bitcoin exchanges have a horrible track record about keeping your coins secure

oh boy.. you're arguing about something you haven't spent any significant time researching. it's rule #1 and rule #2 of cryptocurrencies - if you don't own the private key - it's not your crypto!

you've picked literally the worst strawman to attack here. horrible track record of exchanges is exactly the kind of issues of existing financial system that bitcoin prevents, just under magnifying glass:

- when you send crypto to the exchange you trade something you own for a record in a database, but bitcoin can solve that problem with payment channels and multisignature wallets - something you cannot do with traditional currencies without trusting some third party

- there is little to no transparency about actual holdings of cryptocurreny - again, bitcoin solves that problem because you can cryptographically prove how much you have access to with digital signatures, something you again cannot do with traditional currencies without trusting a third party

- exchange's assets can be seized by government where it resides - something that bitcoin solves by design - nobody can take your bitcoins without knowing your private key, again not possible with traditional currencies - also by design

> it is grotesque that you fear the monetary policy for your "moneys value", when Bitcoin can collapse to 0 any time enough people lose interest in it for speculation

guess what, USD can go to 0 for all the same reasons Bitcoin can, plus one more - printing trillions of it. can't print trillions of Bitcoin by design, which is exactly why i and plenty others value it.

hopefully i gave you something new to consider.
Cold water hits China’s AI industry
What’s the fallback for twitter if twitter is down, or worse: stops
The Google, Cloudflare, and Stripe outages all affected Shopify. So Shopify has had several meaningful outages over the past few weeks.
Steam Labs
I first noticed the outage about 10 mins ago in Safari (Mac). It repeatedly gave me errors, even though Brave (Mac) was working fine. My iPhone app also worked fine (and appears to still be working).

Why would one browser work but another not work, on the same computer at the same IP? The only difference is the account I'm logged in through (personal/work).
Reminds me of

Lao Tzu: “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
On the status posts in particular I really miss the ability to sort comments by new on this site.
It has been a long time since I've seen the equivalent of the fail whale on Twitter. It was a weekly occurrence back in the days.
Is there a good example of someone being successful doing both?

Seems like if Shopify is a way to create your own venue, and Amazon is a venue in-and-of itself, there might be a case for doing both.
It's in another continent. You have to cross a sea to get to it from France, and in fact an armada was used to invade it. The natives were not culturally related to the French. It was taken by direct force at the whim of the ruling monarch. French culture and language was imposed after colonization. It is listed as a former French colony in mainstream references. Africa in particular was a target of colonialism by European powers.

What's your definition of "colony"?
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I work for Outbrain, and I'll say upfront that, yeah, we can do better. Advertising is advertising, and it's not the ideal way to monetize content, but until the world finds a successful way for people to pay up for what they enjoy it's what the industry has to work with.

That out of the way I have a few issues with this piece.

1. Ranjan did an interesting thing that chum purveyors like us do all the time. He lead the article with a disturbing screenshot of the lowest piece of crap chum he could find. That draws you in to read more because who wouldn't stare at a train wreck right? What he didn't say is that the screenshot he showed isn't an Outbrain widget. In fact almost every recommendation in that widget breaks Outbrain's content guidelines (https://www.outbrain.com/amplify/guidelines/) and would be removed from our network. Tying those ads to Outbrain is not accurate.

2. The block of chum below the first one, with the 5G and such? Yeah totally Outbrain. Ranjan went through all the ads there and found none of them are harmful. Yeah some are vapid entertainment, one is a nonsensical link to a dying search engine, but a few of them gasp are actually useful. Somehow though the fact that people make money off of advertising is bad.

3. None of either example are worse than what you would find in the back pages of Psychology Today or Popular Science back in the day. Those publishers were as responsible for those ads back then as WaPo is for the chum at the bottom of its articles today. If you read our content guidelines you'll see that Outbrain takes that responsibility seriously. We're guests on our publishers' pages and we never forget that.

I think this article could have gone a whole lot deeper into the terrifying world of ad arbitrage, programmatic buying, behavioral tracking, GDPR skirting, etc. and it would have been more meaningful, but the fact that it is complaining that these chum buckets are as bad as display advertising in the magazine era isn't really saying anything new.
The problem is that the Snowden leaks taught us that they completely ignore their legal boundaries on a regular basis.
You probably just hit different load balancers with your different browser sessions.
Well, you could get your test data from paid participants who consent to constant whole-home recording. Like the "Nielsen Families" of old.

This would be worse data than just using all available inputs to train your model, but it's an alternative. There are alternatives to storing all input data for later training; they likely produce worse models and cost more, but they are available.
Wonderful talk on engineering failures from Pete Cheslock on the Vasa:

https://pete.wtf/vasa/

https://vimeo.com/221068308 - direct video link.

Engineering fails on seafaring vessels is a very old thing.
There is no cap on the total no. of Stacks. There is a set inflation rate per year (described in the forum post).

Yep, you're right, volatility reduction is certainly one of our goals. Making yearly supply linked to network growth (even if we can only measure a subset of growth metrics) is the basic idea.
It's super annoying that this person is pushing for the elimination of including the currency in the job posting. There are more than one country which use "dollars" or the $ symbol you know.

It reminds me of "Falsehoods programmers believe about names" https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
My theory: The internet in fact IS a big truck, and it got a flat tire.
Talent is a myth.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/07/22/the-talent-myt...

Labor costs are high and growing in the SF Bay Area but there are many other areas that would work just fine for a tech company HQ.
Facebook already pays its median employee $240k (https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/networth/article/Yes-me...). You can assume that at those salaries, they've already hired a large percentage of the Bay Area software engineers who meet their bar and are willing to work at Facebook.

So if they want to hire another, say, 5k engineers, they either have to somehow convince 5k people to move to the Bay Area or expand in satellite offices. Word on the street from local recruiters is that you can still get new grads to move to the Bay Area (for a few years at least), but it has become nearly impossible to get senior talent to move in because of cost of living and quality of life issues. So depending on the type of engineer they're looking for, yes, they may be effectively forced to expand in other locations.
Being surprised about things you've forgotten you did on a service, and reading a product's own marketing (and core functionality) aren't really comparable.

I just asked a non-tech person behind me if they thought that when you asked Google Assistant a question it was sent to Google to answer, and they shrugged and said yes like it was a stupid question.

What ordinary person doesn't understand that when you asked Google a question that Google knows the question you asked? It doesn't make sense.
The internet is held together with pixie dust and prayers (sometimes duct tape and occasionally spit and rust).
Replaceable batteries apparently make water resistance a lot harder. I always preferred having an easily replaceable battery but I don't mind the tradeoff on my S10+.
A lot of high-profile outages recently. Can't actually remember the last time Twitter went fully down. Have to confess I immediately assumed an issue with my own connection, even though every other site is working.

Unrelated, but for some reason the phrase "I have no mouth and I must scream" just popped into my head
With respect, you do not understand the logic behind taxes, much less the logic behind taxing international businesses.

> The idea behind taxes is that you use some public resource and you pay for that service

You are framing taxes as if the government is a business selling people health care, fire protection, security, and infrastructure.

I benefit from infrastructure I don't personally use. For example, even if I am a healthy individual, I benefit from healthcare! Healthy people get and keep their jobs, get paid, and spend their money on Netflix, Uber, Lyft, and/or Disney. Lemme look... Yup, Netflix, Uber, Lyft, and Disney are all customers of my employer, who pays me, so I benefit indirectly from Healthcare.

That is one tiny example, but the actual principle behind taxation works this way: Everyone benefits indirectly from a functioning society.

(We sometimes tax people just for the things they use, but generally we do this to limit undesirable "tragedy of the commons" problems. Consumption taxes, vice taxes, and the issue of regressive taxation is outside the scope of this reply.)

The idea behind taxation is that everyone benefits, therefore everyone pays. Now we are talking about a company located outside of a country, benefitting from that country being a functioning economy.

Just as I benefit from infrastructure I don't use because I benefit from my country having a thriving, healthy populace with disposable income, so does the company selling things to the exact same populace.

Now just move this such that we are discussing France instead of Canada, and there is the actual logic: These internet companies benefit from France having a functioning economy with a populace that has disposable income to spend, so they should support that by paying taxes.

In sum, the flaw in your explanation begins with your model for why people and corporations pay taxes in the first place, and how they benefit from those taxes.
We cannot kill half of the population but we can consume half. We could avoid replacing phones every two years. We could eat less meat. We could avoid having so many cars.
yup, What's worse than releasing a product on twitter and found it down a few minutes later...
I've seen more than a few posts at here where candidate for jobs in Silicon Valley is given an offer but turns it down because they don't want to move to Silicon Valley/San Francisco for various reasons.
Applied and got a response that Away does not do Visa, even transfers. <redacted quip about no travel visa>
>If you type anything into Google's search box, your search will be recorded and preserved forever so that Google's engineers can analyze usage patterns. How else would they improve their search algorithm?

Or only retain the data for a set period of time. You can refine indexes with 6-12 months of data. You'd only want to keep unaggregated data for more than that if you were building profiles of individual people.
With Upwork, since they're an intermediary and marketplace and hirers are the ones who are paying and providing supply, it's in their interest to offer services that cater to them like time logging and charging connection fees, even if it's unfriendly for freelancers.

Your best best is to take matters in your own hands, and proactively email people you know you can help with your services. This way, there's no intermediary controlling your relationship with your client and you don't have to play the waiting game either (waiting for referrals or networking to pay off, waiting for people to find your website, etc.)

This may seem hard at first glance but let's the take the example of data science work. You can reach out to startups who recently raised a sizable investment round (sign they have the budget and bigger growth goals) and share a few interesting ways you can help them uncover user behavior patterns that would them hit their next milestones.

Further reading:

[1] https://artofemails.com/get-new-clients

[2] https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/best-guest-post-pitch-exa...
I'd rather fly in a plane made by an Airbus monopoly than a Boeing run by its current management. Modern American management has proven itself completely untrustworthy for doing anything where human lives are at stake. Airbus is an European company, so they're inherently more trustworthy. They've also proven themselves far more competent at modern aircraft design (they're not sticking with a circa-1967 design) and electronics (they've been doing fly-by-wire for a long time now, and haven't done anything as blatantly stupid as using a single sensor for controlling flight surfaces).
If you read further down the thread you linked to, the cause of vehicle fires in older ICE vehicles is due to neglected maintenance (maintenance not required in an EV).

EVs have no ignitable fluids, nor hot surfaces to ignite those fluids. Ergo, their risk of spontaneous combustion during operating goes down drastically. I concede they may still catch fire after an accident severe enough to breech the battery; this is not preventable due to the energy storage requirements of a light vehicle, combustion-based or otherwise.
I recently rebuilt my personal website on a Racket project:

https://gitlab.com/JoelMcCracken/joelmccracken.com/

My post about why I chose it: https://joelmccracken.com/entries/pollen-writing-semantic-ma...

A really good resource for understanding the motivation behind racket: https://felleisen.org/matthias/manifesto/

For a taste of the build code I wrote: https://gitlab.com/JoelMcCracken/joelmccracken.com/blob/mast... and https://gitlab.com/JoelMcCracken/joelmccracken.com/blob/mast...
What makes you think that rich people are less likely to drive drunk?
Mastodon

I started a thread for sharing instances: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20414359
Just threatening to rape random women in the street from the safety of a moving car?
Call me a conspiracy theorist but seems odd the timing of this at the same time Trump is having his "Twitter Summit".

Then again things have been going down over the past two weeks so it's probably just coincidence.
Hold ‘Em or Fold ‘Em? This A.I. Bluffs with the Best
Given that today was the White House's "Social Media Summit", no doubt there will be a few conspiracies floated. I'm betting "Twitter wanted to block out all the criticism coming form the summit!" will be a popular one.
Stuff like this makes me wonder if the Internet really is super vulnerable, and the only reason there isn't a mass disruption of communication all the time is because some script kiddies's Pizza Rolls were perfect today so he held off on attacking a backbone.
i use "search for it".

i've completely removed said word from my vocabulary. it can be done. break yo' mind free!
nah, the internet is fine.

Only the self-entitled "gatekeepers" are failing, and I'm glad they do.
Reread that law - it applies to downgrades (which makes sense - engine braking to limit speed going downhill).

On the flat, going into neutral - while if it happens unexpectedly can be cause for concern (as you'll be rapidly slowing down due to wind resistance), it shouldn't harm drivability, braking, or steering.

Any issue with safety at that point would be on the driver in control of the vehicle, imho.
It occurs to me that maybe you are referring to unums? The "unum" format discussed in "End of Error" is variable sized. However they since dropped that design and switched to fixed-sized number formats (16-, 32-, or 64-bit) with adjustable division between exponent and fraction bits, the "posit."

So "posit" numbers get you the ability to tradeoff precision and range, but they're not anymore highly compressed than regular old IEEE floats. Unless, as Gustafson argues, you didn't need a double in the first place and the added features of posits let you switch to a float.
And here I am thinking I got suspended again because right-wingers report every comment they don't like.
I am Shopify app developer and I earn my living from 3 published apps in the Shopify marketplace.

I can answer any question you may have.
> Are you sure it's "an unfair advantage" and not just "an advantage"?

Having the option to not comply with laws, is an unfair advantage.

>reduce or remove corporate tax and raise sales tax or similar

VAT is a sales tax, effectively, but even that is managed away fairly easy. It's an efficient tax, but when it comes to B2B activity it's effectively unpaid. Amazon, though is a retailer, has a very large amount of B2B business.
I had the exact same thought!
Pray for the team that has to handle this ticket.
> Those large tech companies can make money in France because the french government provides all that is necessary for a free, fair and functioning market. How could Google make money in France if there was no french police force, education system, market regulation, court system, contract enforcement?

Also, those large tech companies can sell to French customers because French customers have money to buy from them. And the reason they have that money is largely due to the country/society/legal system/welfare/medical/etc. This is a "access to market" tax and it makes perfect sense.
Maybe we all got suspended