skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's quite a claim. Prove it.

Why does it need to be proven before it is implemented? Did you ask for proof that use of Microsoft Office or electricity by police departments would make them more efficient?

It seems inherently obvious and frankly, common sense, that a network of cameras and facial recognition software are going to be more effective at identifying perps in the wild than a handful of officers patrolling the streets, needing to remember the faces of everyone they're on the lookout for, and scanning their surroundings constantly for matches.

> I don't understand. Are you saying that using a filter negates a false positive? I don't think that's accurate at all.

The concern often raised is that trusting an imprecise algorithm is risky. But in reality matches from facial recognition software are reviewed by humans as a second-pass filter prior to taking action (like dispatching officers). We already trust humans to perform policing inherently by the act of having police forces exist, so there is no elevated risk introduced by use of facial recognition that isn't proportionally offset by a higher degree of true positive matches, since any elevated false positive match raised by the algorithm is contained by the humans reviewing potential matches first.

> What about the rights of someone who's been falsely implicated?

They still have rights, and can fight those claims. Why would you expect this to be any different due to the use of facial recognition? If the suspect looks like whoever police are seeking, then they would be exposed to the risk of implication orthogonal to the existence of facial recognition. And there are ways (even if not perfect) to fight those claims. We retain policing as a necessary part of society despite its imperfections because it is necessary and hugely better than the alternative of not having police forces. And all this holds true even with police departments adopting technology - whether that is electricity, Microsoft Office, or facial recognition.
Talk about false advertising. I couldn't find the button that plays all of the samples at the same time.
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You must be fed very limited information to have such a warped viewpoint. I've traveled significant amounts of the world, I live in Texas, and I can say that my city is one of the most friendly, loving and accepting of people regardless of gender presentation, sexuality or appearance. To quote Eddie Izzard upon visiting, "a rather groovy outpost".
The other way around for me. I am left handed. This finger ratio thing is weird.
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With that said, before you start writing your state legislature about “Multi-member districts TODAY!” you should also know that they have a very difficult history of being shot down by the Supreme Court. This was pointed out to me by a number of good folks on Politics.StackExchange[1].

But yes, the route to avoiding a second US Civil War is only incidentally through the “eliminating gerrymandering” nodes of the graph—the 50/50 saturation of the vote into two spineless political parties happens in both the House (gerrymandered to hell) and the Senate (not gerrymandered at all) and is a consequence of something more fundamental. States do need to switch to the proportional system, but there is a decent chance that the Supreme Court might destroy this out-of-hand, in which case a Constitutional amendment may well be necessary.

[1] “Would Switching to a Proportionate House Require a Constitutional Amendment?” https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/42551/would-swi...
Here I was expecting silence, as each sound - including each sound's inverse - was played simultaneously.
Taking improv class, I got to meet a lot of people who - besides the acting part of improv - were basically interested in striking up conversation. I was a bit out of my comfort zone, but it was a good learning experience and it gave me a few skills to work with: now I go into conversations, and even small interactions, not just thinking about the business topic or whatever is on my mind, but about effortfully constructing an appropriate scene and being a character in that scene, in that momement. And that gives me more room to play with and to spot common "tactical conversation" methods.

Regardless, I'm still basically a quiet person and keep to myself in public - it's a thing I have to "turn on".
I don't have a good way to describe this post as anything but not-even-wrong. "Hint, it's a functional language"--types are orthogonal to whatever functional-versus-OO dichotomy you've invented in your head. Gradual and structural typing are components of type systems of either static or inferential basis and JavaScript is neither--so, definitionally, you can't achieve them in JavaScript. And given that TypeScript is a strict superset of JavaScript, it's absolutely bonkers to claim that JavaScript is "more powerful and expressive". Should one need to go outside those gradual type strictures, `any` is right there.

I knew JavaScript cold well before I was using TypeScript and I've shipped both mobile and web applications using JavaScript, as well as writing a solid amount of high-performance backend systems. And I ended up writing an eye-gouging number of tests that go away with TypeScript. It is literally, not figuratively, a way to dismiss entire classes of bugs. I may not understand JavaScript, but I'm not the one making factually inaccurate assertions about stuff up in here and that makes me really wonder how solid your conclusions can possibly be.

But as a gentle observation: people don't usually go on about "tribal" developers when the facts are on their side.
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I posted that one before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20549610

He has hyperlinks to further articles.
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Let's not forget all the senior citizens who rely on income from investments in fossil fuel companies, this includes most of the parents of the under 45 who like to say, "screw the oil companies"
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In college, one of my computer science professors was giving a lecture in which he explained all the low level things (like setting up the stack) that go into calling a function. Then he compared it to the context switches that occur during multitasking. That comparison has stuck with me ever since. It made me very aware that there's a cost to switching tasks each time you do it.
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Intelligent design anyone?
Repeating something from a previous Hacker News thread...

Children's publisher Usborne have made available for free some classic computer books from the 1980s aimed at kids that use text and illustrations to clearly explain computer concepts.

These books have been discussed a few times before here on Hacker News. Scroll down to the bottom of the link below to the section 'Usborne 1980s computer books' for the free PDFs.

https://usborne.com/browse-books/features/computer-and-codin...

You might be thinking, why would I read books aimed at kids? Not only are these books well written with clear, concise explanations, they are also more readable and enjoyable than many programming books published for adults today.

Anyone writing a technical guide (of any kind) would benefit from reading these as a source of ideas and inspiration.
I really like the rolls of hook and loop where you cut the tie to length. You can make massive bundles or just small ones and never waste it. Bonus is that they are reusable. I've used reusable zip-ties before, they are a massive pain to remove when breaking down equipment.
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There are certainly forms or degrees of autism which are totally disabling.
> My feeling now is that Python and similar tools are the equivalent of my Excel 20+ years ago, and Excel is the 'desk calculator'.

I'll second this sentiment, having built a crude automated trading system using Python and the Interactive Brokers API, for use in trading commodities, futures, and derivatives.
San Francisco has the #1 highest property crime rate in the country. Can hardly compliment their policing policies. https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/The-Scanner-San-Fr...
They last longer because innovation has slowed. My old Motorola Droid still works but I moved away from it because of missing features, not wear and tear. I can say this about almost every phone I've had.
Your study doesn't support your summary:

> Maternal obesity (BMI ≥30) was only weakly associated with ASD risk, whereas paternal obesity was associated with an increased risk of autistic disorder and Asperger disorder.

Paternal obesity couldn't impact womb estrogen levels. There's a weak connection between maternal obesity and ASD risk in the study you linked.
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We've asked you numerous times to avoid this topic on HN, since you've inundated threads with it in the past. That request stands, and if you keep breaking it, we're going to have to ban you again. I don't want to do that, so please refrain from going there here.
Yeah. This is the code of a very smart person who didn't take the time to make abstractions, either through laziness or naivete. I've seen much more deeply-wrong code that would be much harder to refactor into something maintainable than this would be.
It is a valid template specialization declaration if you add template<> in front, like this:

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void lol<A, <B, C<D>>, E>()
Terrible headline. iPhone is still by far Apple’s most important product. Just because it doesn’t account for the majority of the company’s revenue doesn’t demote it. Some other product would have to be more important. But what is that? The article never says.
I think the disturbing question that this brings up is: Given that so many judges are willing to abuse stun belts and turn them into a morbid torture device, how can we trust these people to adequately decide important criminal cases. In my opinion, the answer in an alarmingly many number of cases is we can't.

This could be solved quickly if we require the prosecutor and criminal lawyer or self represented defendant to agree on a judge before going to trial. If there are judges out there that very few of one side or the other is willing to agree to, those judges should be reviewed for making biased decisions and be at risk of losing their judgeship. Or we could pay judges by the number of cases they get and hope the ones who don't get many agreements will go away on their own.

This can be a workable system: Just require that the parties keep going if their first choice is not available. For example: we could have 6 judges at random and give each party 3 vetoes to get rid of judges they don't want. We could even just let the parties choose a judge and only have the court intervene when they are unable to select a judge who is available in a reasonable amount of time. I can almost guarantee that the fear of random choice will make most litigants cooperate to pick a good judge.

In any case, the current system of having old lawyers with almost no accountability be judges is wanting.
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Or doing away with districts entirely, which amounts to the same thing. Right now we elect people as if geography were the only concern that could link voters. That makes it prone to ignoring voters whose concerns differ from that of their immediate neighbors. And very susceptible to manipulation by those who get to define "neighbors".

Geography will always play into it, especially in our odd hybrid system where we insist on devolving many laws to the states (such that even obvious crimes like murder, and apparently-unrelated notions like real estate or health care, end up with 50 separate laws with small but crucial differences). But there are lots of ways to change the system so that you're not solely linked by geography and hoping that, if you're in a local minority, somebody else will elect somebody to represent your view.
I appreciate your point, but surely both are problems? One is bad math while the other is a sort of a prisoners dilemma where everyone has already defected. I don't think changing the incentives would necessarily lead to better math or even that we have to change the incentives before changing the math.
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Every county would send a delegate to the global governance, which would be the World Unity Council. So we would maximize democratic engagement locally (county), and have direct and equal influence in the global body.

As long as democracy is healthy in both places, it won't ever be perfect, but it'll be as good as it gets. Unless we unleash AI to run the world before that, and I think that's more likely to happen.

Half the population views direct democracy as some sort of distrustful evil. Just the way people seem to be, especially when democracy doesn't go their way. Conspiracy theories.
It's all about good management, with anything. It's never perfect or suits everyone all the time. That's just the human condition.

So as a result we're most likely going to be dominated by AI at some point in the near future. It's probably what humanity overall deserves since people don't want to be sensible and engage in democracy. Even though it's immensely fulfilling to become connected to your own destiny and relevant community- it's work, and people don't like that. I do think more people would do it, if they saw direct, near-immediate results from their engagement, which does not really exist as much today.

So after a couple billionaires have a nuclear war, we'll end up putting the robots in charge, unless the robots simply takeover first- and we'll be done with it.
Buy either a larger multi bedroom house or a multi family home with 5% down payment and get roommates.

Charge roommates for rent who mostly cover either all or 50%+ of your mortgage.

Live in it for a year (you have to reside for a year because 5% down gets you owner occupied financing), then buy a 2nd place, move out of the first place, and backfill your bedroom with another tenant.

Repeat every year for 3-5 years, and you'll have 3-5 properties with tenants. if you do it right, you'll cash flow right away.
I will bite : what's the point of upgrading at each release cycle ?

I am a mobile dev looking at my phone a lot .. and even in that case I am now changing phones every 2 to 3 years.

The ecological waste is one of my main motivations, but tbh I don't really get much from a new phone. It goes so slightly faster and that's pretty much it.
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I'm using it (build from source), and it's really nice. Definitely rough around the edge with cut and paste problems and some weird control character glitches if TERM ends up set to the wrong thing (eg inside a gnu screen session). But overall a huge step forward from the old conhost.
Interesting about the digit ratio. As a counter example my ring and index are approximately the same length on both hands, left hand index is only slightly smaller. I've never been diagnosed with autism though (my friend who used to work very closely with autistic kids has suggested that I might be slightly in the spectrum because some characteristics but that's about it).

Could be a pattern. Could be a pattern that doesn't actually exist. I think we need more samples (I'd imagine some selection bias on HN)
"rockets should be reusable" is a trivial idea.

Most ideas are trivial, or very hard to protect, even while building a business.

But what about patentable ideas ?

What about fully formed ideas coming from professors, backed by deep research ?

What about an idea(deeply researched) that with relatively easy implementation could get a lot of press, high SEO and some defensibility ?
I really like this - https://gobyexample.com/

It's very practical. Simple examples on most aspects of the language / common tasks together with commentary.

I still refer to it quite often when I can't remember how exactly to do something from the top of my head.
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