skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's plenty of racism to go around in all major political parties. "Super-predators" anyone?

That was 30 years ago, and the history of that phrase was used against Hillary to great effect in 2016. What a fallacious claim to equate a statement made 30 years ago to multiple, repeated instances of racism on the right. Nobody on the left is defending the use of that term today.

> It seems totally rational and fair that people be asked about their citizenship on a census.

There's a very strong legal argument that the explicit goals for adding the citizenship question makes it unconstitutional.

Hofeller wrote in confidential memos that his daughter released stating that the explicit goal of adding the question was to scare members of the Latino community into not answering the question, given the current administration's crackdown on immigration. This directly contradicts the mandate laid out in the Constitution which clearly states that the Census is to be filled out by everyone living in the US, not just citizens.

By designing a question to explicitly suppress participation in certain communities, the motives to which were leaked by Hofeller's daughter, the administration could in no way argue that it had a legitimate legislative reason to add the question to the census, which is exactly why they stopped pursuing it.
It is mind blowing. Kimbal has zero relevant experience in this specific industry and he has a 6million take home comp for it. In comparison a company like GM I want to say their average is below 500k but don't quote me, it has been a while since I looked...I actually think it was closer to 300k. And this for people with very relevant industry experience.

I don't get it. Seems like a conflict of interest to me.
Bash Shortcuts for Maximum Productivity
A couple of reasons:

- some people are allergic

- some people were mauled by dogs in the past and a strange dog can trigger their PTSD

- some dogs are unpredictable and may shit/piss on the floor if they get scared

- some dogs bite

- some small kids/toddlers don't (and shouldn't) know how to handle strange dogs and may do something (like pull the dog's ears or something) to set the dog off

- some dogs bark for no reason and become a nuisance

Your freedom ends when other people's freedom starts. I'm sure your dog is the most well behaved (everyone's dog is, of course) but we live in a society and we should put people first. The whole dog thing is out of control in the US. Don't mention France, they don't even come close to the concentration of dogs in the US. If you let people bring dogs everywhere, you reach state in the Silicon Valley episode (search for it) when you realize you're living in a kennel. For example: https://i.redd.it/y180b44x5oi31.jpg.

The other problem IMO is that a large number of dog owners are irresponsible and thus ruining it for everyone. Stuff like not obeying leash laws, not picking up the poop, leaving their dogs alone in the apartment to bark all day long, etc.. Last year there was a case of someone who took their dog hiking in a national park nearby. No dogs allowed, of course but as you said, his dog was more well behaved than humans! The dog was unleashed and it was attacked by a mountain goat and thrown off a cliff. I guess the owner couldn't show the dog's `Emotional support animal certification` to the goat in time to save his life.
Prisoners’ Inventions (2016)
> you can do bayesian analyses in some cases thousands of times faster than Stan

What exactly does that mean? What sort of problem is taking 1e3x longer in Stan in C++ than a JVM language?
Instagram’s latest assault on Snapchat is a messaging app called Threads
The book Turtle Geometry [1] by Harold Abelson of SICP fame is a pretty cool exploration of mathematics all the way up to non-euclidean geometry using turtle graphics.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Turtle-Geometry-Mathematics-Artificia...
Last year they made over $81 billion in revenue and a net income of over $15 billion.

This is yet another case of "the cost of doing business" to them. Just over than 2% of their net income, which mind you, they can write that off in taxes if they pay any at all.

These fines are ridiculous. They need to be at a level that hurts the companies so they don't think twice before doing dumb shit.

I guess the lives of over 6000 deaths is worth just shy if $100 dollars per head.
Ask HN: What still sucks about remote work?
Hey HN. Working from home a fews days per month can be pretty great. Less distractions, more time to think deeply about stuff, more natural to take breaks and, let's not forget, better coffee.

But what about working remotely still sucks? Be it from home, from a beach on Bali, or from a WeWork in Amsterdam.

(Im trying to get my company to be more remote-friendly and would like a nuanced view before I make my case.)
Cop Diary (1997)
I don't think so... if he was really cranky he wouldn't have called it speculation, which is an extremely generous word for what can easily be interpreted as intentionally manipulative narrative.
Annoyingly, I can't find the study itself, even on the Internet Archive. I'm drawing on knowledge that I have about America and just used this to confirm that there's a similar bias in Europe. I can see how it would be less convincing if you don't have the same background info.
Ah, yes, I am an idiot. Oops.
What is this trash doing on the front page of hn?
Wait — you want people to stop “editing” history and then want to go back to a version of the symbol’s history before the holocaust?

Hint: if you change history by appending to it, it is not changing history it is writing it.
If you look back into history and check what happend, that is reading history.
If you want to delete lines that don’t fit your world view from the history, that is editing.

How would you go back to the original meaning of the swatsika without denying the existence of Nazi Germany and what it did?

(Greets from Germany btw)
If your're on Windows 10 you could've used LSW (Linux Subsystem for Windows), on older Windows something like Cygwin. When I have to use Windows for work, Cygwin is amongs the first things I install (actually I found a Cygwin derivative called babun pretty good, unfortunately I think it's now no longer maintained). I use Vim rather than emacs, but emacs works well too.
> it's because it's fast

Is it? We have to ask a few questions:

1. Is it actually faster on today's CPUs? (Any linear memory access pattern is going to be detected by the prefetcher)

2. Would the compiler do the same or better? eg, could it be auto-vectorizing the loop if we didn't play tricks?

3. If we really care about trading complexity for speed, wouldn't a hand-written SSE/SSE2/AVX implementation be even faster? Why not spend our complexity budget there?
The World of Investigators Who Know You’ve Faked Your Death
Skeptoid with Brian Dunning is excellent!

"Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena is an award-winning weekly science podcast."

https://skeptoid.com

Each episode includes complete transcript, references, and further reading. It's pretty addicting.

Episode guide: https://skeptoid.com/episode_guide.php
WINE is not emulating/translating instructions to a diffrent ISA. It rather has a win32 loader and inserts some shims to map some calls to windows library functions and others to native(as in host ex. Linux). That's how I understand it. You can however theoretically run x86 WINE to run a x86 windows binary on ARM with Qemu user emulation.
MS Opens NLP GH Repo with Examples for Getting Started with Bert/Xlnet/BiDAF
Java: Finality
@Taniwha - I can't reply to you directly because we're so deep, thread-wise.

I appreciate and understand the discussion around IPC and how BOOM is a significant improvement on the state of the craft. I cut my early programming teeth by developing PPC and SPARC versions of my business' embedded software products. I'm a longtime fan of alternative architectures and keep up with the industry through attendance at events such as Hot Chips. I am familiar with the terminology here and am not disputing it or the findings of the benchmark.

My point was that using IPC in this way obfuscates how far these architectures have yet to go to be competitive in certain markets. Said market competitiveness was the original discussion topic up-thread.
You'd need to emulate/simulate/shim all the graphics calls and state changes, but that shouldn't have any bearing on the actual code architecture. In fact, given that Dolphin uses a JIT, you could argue that this already happens to some degree when you're playing Gamecube games, having the source just allows ahead-of-time compilation.
Françoise Sagan, the Great Interrogator of Morality
Amazing, amazing work. Thank you.
You can always click on the timestamp of a comment to got the comment permalink and reply from there.
Earlier the year the wife interviewed for a learning support position at an Ivy, and her hosts for lunch were two students who grew up and went to school in an Hispanic ghetto in LA.

I do not know how school outreach works, but she said they do manage to enculturate people quickly once they are on campus, and the summer programs are grueling for the participants. They include the social parts about fitting in.
> The irony is their sales pitch was so good it caused an international incident.

As a non American, I find the "it's not so bad, it wasn't very effective" arguments I'm seeing in these comments a bit strange.

I personally don't really care about the effectiveness of their analysis versus them (and others) having access to and collecting all that data in the first place. Once all the data is out there and the lack of privacy is normalised/accepted there will be all kinds of other attempts to use it in the future.

Americans on the whole seem quite nonchalant about their privacy.
I guess the stuff you're talking about totally falls under my "only block ads on those websites which clearly have no consideration for usability [...] or for privacy"

I didn't say that ads are great. I said that NOT ALL ads are bad, and without them some great content couldn't exist, because most people need funds for their work and selling stuff or services sometimes isn't an option.

So if you're talking about tracking ads, I'm totally with you. But if you're talking about ALL ads, then your idea may be an utopia.
> when cynicism breeds obedience

Is this meant to mean that persistent cynicism becomes closed-mindedness and a disengagement from the root issues? Would you mind expanding?

I believe (to first order) all judgments are based on calculations, but with the caveat of sample bias. So to that end, I have reached this conclusion based on my personal experience with what I've lived and observed. I recognize my limited perspective but cannot comprehend its limits or what lies beyond, but my emotional charge remains fixed to what my experience has shown me so far.
I think you missed the part about “plain salad”. As soon as you add dressing, you’ve shot yourself in the foot.
Pretty sure the abuse is what happens to the victims, not the perpetrators.

(Not any sort of implication about whoever Mr Rogers is [I'm not an American], but man the phrasing of this sentence stuck at me.)
Also the attack described by the research could actually be a good thing. Decrypting votes would allow to discover fraud, in case if it happens.
Super-predators is the most obvious and famous example that comes to mind (one you're quick to dismiss), but do you really think there isn't racism on the left? Many would say that the objectification, tokenization and gamification the left does with minorities is racist. In fact, as non-white minority that's exactly how I feel.

> This directly contradicts the mandate laid out in the Constitution which clearly states that the Census is to be filled out by everyone living in the US, not just citizens.

It's absolutely absurd to suggest counting the number of citizens is racist. Not everyone has to answer yes to that question, thus sticking with the constitutional goal of accurately surveying the populace. Do you really not see any value in a country knowing how many citizens it has?
> a complicated manufacturing process requiring energy ends up having a similar environmental impact to simple animal farming.

"Simple animal farming" is slightly disingenuous. It's not like the animal is slaughtered on the farm, cut up into steaks and sent directly to supermarkets. There's tons of complicated processing and handling going on after the animal is finished growing. And that's on top of the energy losses from feeding and raising the animal.
I think, fundamentally, that we're all capable of good and evil, and it doesn't make sense, in a lot of cases, to paint a single person as wholly evil. It's a combination of inherent personality traits combined with an environment that incentivizes and motivates certain kinds of behaviours and ways of thinking. In the right kind of system, evil is just the natural consequence and it's something we see every day, all over the world.
Infringement is detected by display of patented features or potentially reverse engineering relevant portions of an IC. There is no practical way to police infringement using the disparate array of design inputs mapped onto proprietary gate libraries.
Even if Esperanto were widely adopted, there would be nothing to keep it from developing edge cases and funky grammar exceptions over time just like every other language.

Esperanto only works for scholarly types that adhere strictly to the rules, not lazy uneducated people who just want to communicate something with as little effort as possible and don't care if they aren't adhering to the grammar. Also, you'd get localized variants depending on the region.
> as bit manipulation, memory and runtime performance, code compilation techniques, etc. for a CS course.

That sounds too all-over-the-place to guess what the course is about. You should find out more or less exactly what is the content for this course and get tutoring for that, if necessary.

Some points:

* what textbook does it use, if any?

* any chance of obtaining past assignments? exams?

* any online materials from past lectures or handouts whatever?

* do you know anyone who took this course? Or someone who knows someone?
That'll soon be a thing of the past.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/people-and-culture/food/t...
Sort of.

Wine impersonates OS calls, (including syscalls) but does not perform emulation on the binary itself. Wine can only run windows applications written for x86, but not windows applications written for itanium.

This appears to be running both hardware emulation on the supplied binary, (which is what VMware/KVM/virtualbox etc do) as well as wine-like OS impersonation.

I made up the word "impersonates" for what wine does just to avoid confusion. It's not a word that's used in the literature afaik, although perhaps it (or a word like it) should be.
“When I was on the jury,” Bouattour said, “it was easy to pick the 10 or 20 baguettes that stood out. But after that, when you’re comparing number three and number eight, the differences are so small.”

IMHO, any of the top 20 make for an excellent butter delivery vehicle.
These barely appeared on my laptop's screen. I went back and checked twice because of comments before actually seeing it.
Yes, the phone system is still backward-compatible where I live.
I came here for the waters.
Fourble: Build a Podcast from a List of MP3s
Huh! Doesn't have vowel harmony. Not gonna work for me.
Even a cursory look at the photographs in https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2019/04/the-latest-on-... makes it clear that CetainTeed's shingles are nothing like Tesla's Solar Roof.

Tesla's Solar Roof is a roof and has a single look. It looks like a roof, not a solar panel installation.

CertainTeed is clearly an add-on. Maybe less ugly than regular solar panels but you can see that solar tiles are different than the rest of the roof.

DeSol is less obvious but also have the "solar panel" look.

The innovation in Tesla's product is that you can't tell it from a regular roof.

Maybe the reason such product didn't take off yet is because no-one did it well enough.

It remains to be seen if Tesla's product will be successful but it's clearly a unique offering at the moment.
And here I was hoping for a good repeatable solid recipe
Techies really like to knock down financial innovation as if technological development was the only thing that mattered. Must explain why Betamax and HDDVD won the home media wars.

SolarCity's innovation was the financing model. It was adopted by the rest of the solar panel industry. The problem was that they fucked up the investment side and paid for this business model with expensive debt instead of cheap capital.

They are also working on Solar Roof - another huge innovation with great potential.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/five-solar-roof-shin...

Tesla/SolarCity was never the first, or even the frontrunner, when it comes to developing solar shingles. Just the ones who spoke the loudest and retroactively declared themselves the inventors of a product they haven't yet successfully made and that has been in development by the rest of the solar panel industry for a few decades.
You want to adapt the recipe for the weather outside of the bakery / factory not only for what happens in the bakery, i.e. cook it a bit more when it's supposed to rain so the baguette doesn't become soft / stays crunchy. That can be done at small scale, but is difficult at industrial levels.
Well, economic factors play a role. At least on paper, ~100k$/year in SF/Silicon Valley fresh out of college seems like a sweet deal from other countries (personally I started at 36ke/year aka 40k$/year in France) and the complete salary grid looks like that.

But there is also the technical and professional factors, most of the big tech firms are US based, and even if these are international companies, a large chunk of their man power and all key decision making is US based.

That being said, working for a (formerly) French company that was acquired by a large US tech company, I saw very few people taking the opportunity to relocate in the US when we were acquired, maybe 3 or 4 at most on a work force of ~100. And personally I don't see myself migrating to the US.
I will give you the issues I have encountered during the brief times I've worked remote. I absolutely loved being remote and found work arounds for most of the issues. I would be eager to have another remote contract but my very large employer definitely isn't coughing one up anytime soon.

1) Stable, fast internet for endless video-chats

2) Visa/bank account issues.

3) Company politics.

These 3 things can make working remote a challenge. Video chats are needed to simulate "in person conversations" which company executives believe improves efficiency and morale. Companies are also worried about "how do we legally pay our employees if they claim to be in the USA but are really on a tourist visa somewhere". And third, companies will often has gossip and politics and power struggles where those who are in office have more face time and promotion potential than those who are remote.

All of these things can be easily fixed but it requires the employee and the employer to not be incompetent.
It's only sneaky if you assume bad intentions. Otherwise they're discreet.
As would many other assembly instructions on many other architectures.... and thereby proving my point. :-)
What’s cool about this is could it save the cost of making expansion joints?

Edit. What I mean is you could do really big pours instead of sections. Think a mile long sidewalk with no sections.
> If they don't think x86/Linux or ARM/Linux laptops are a good idea

They didn't until now, but the US government just told them commercial OSes with a connection to the US can not be trusted, so they might very well be rethinking that.
> Higher education costs has zero to do with property taxes

In California they are linked, in that property tax rollback and the procedural impediments to raising other taxes at either state or local levels were part of the same initiative constitutional amendment.
By moving away from ARM, mostly designed in the UK and with Japanese owners? Sounds like they're really just seeking general independence.
Insiders are selling stock like it's 2007
Not a native english speaker, but this seems like a nitpicky non-issue to me. How is it not the same as "could you please pass me a glass of water" vs. "would you please pass me a glass of water"? Both indicate a request rather than talking about actual physical ability to perform the action.

Also, I would agree more with your point if the parent said "It could be great if this could be done..." instead of "It would be great if this could be done". The first "would" seems to indicate to me pretty clearly that the parent was talking about a request rather than ability.
SolarCity paid SpaceX 4.4% on those bonds, when they couldn't find any non-insider takers for a 6.5% yield.

4.4% on a junk bond is not 'above market rates'. It's a sweetheart deal.

> And SpaceX made money off of that.

1. In finance, ignore counterparty and default risk at your own peril.
2. Only because Elon then took the money of Tesla shareholders to buy SolarCity. If the purchase didn't go through, those bonds would have been about as valuable as toilet paper.

> in the hope that SpaceX would get technology that they want down the road

These were bonds, not tech licenses. It was propping up a business that may at some point in the future, license tech that hasn't been invented yet at better terms than any competitors in the solar space, who are not bogged down with a financial rock, and an entirely irrelevant residential-panel-financing business about their neck.

> Tesla is the company that really sank money in.

Yes, they ended up eating the worst of his self-serving trades. Despite a happy outcome of SpaceX, it was still not responsible of him to have invested SpaceX money into his own failed side venture.

> Their synergy made more sense, Tesla has a lot of expertise in batteries and solar panels + batteries is a great combination.

Ford has a lot of expertise with ICE engines, yet for some reason, it's not been trying to become a gasoline company... But sure, as much as I think there's no synergy between a failing firm that is specializing in financial engineering, and an auto manufacturer (And hindsight confirms this - SolarCity is, years later, nothing but a drain on Tesla's balance sheets), I do agree that, bad as it is, it's still a better case that SpaceX / SolarCity.
[EconTalk](http://www.econtalk.org/) is among my favorites.

> EconTalk is a weekly economics podcast hosted by Russ Roberts. Roberts, formerly an economics professor at George Mason University, is a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. On the podcast, Roberts typically interviews a single guest—often professional economists—on topics in economics.
The criticism doesn't appear to merely come from some "opposing side" but also from disinterested observers without a particular dog in the fight.

Her only stated expertise outside of a high school education is that she spent multiple decades unhealthy because she decided to adopt a lifestyle choice and didn't bother to simultaneously read about how to eat a healthy diet without eating meat. Instead of figuring out how to eat vegetarian without being unhealthy or simply returning to a balanced diet she has decided that we ought to somehow get rid of almost all people and go back to being hunter gathers.

The problem is that she is a writer who writes about a broad range of topics she has no understanding of. Knowing how to put words together effectively can grant one an audience but it doesn't grant one any sort of expertise. She is a crank.