skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This hurts <race> in the short term but increases the equity of admission and also access to resources for other minorities in the long term.

Hey, same for slavery, does that make it OK?
There's an interesting copyright case where a court held that Seinfeld "facts" aren't real facts (which would otherwise be excluded from copyright protection).

Epistemological issues aside, the case unfortunately seems to come down pretty heavily in favour of the Seinfeld rightsholder.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Rock_Entertainment,_I....
I wish I could buy frozen airline food at the supermarket.
Perfect UX Is Impossible (2019)
>And it's not just from the patient perspective, a different sort of cultural understanding and empathy from the doctor also helps them practice, which their race or gender can provide.

this is the biggest factor i think personally (though i'm not a doctor) - i imagine it's very hard to treat people effectively if you're not intimately familiar with their circumstances.
It's the "cultural fit" of academic institutions.
Those specific examples are true, but pretty far from the realities that my black friends and family members are most concerned. The academy awards is not the concern, physical safety is.

- Want to be able to shop in stores without security guards literally following you around and intimidating you? Better to be Asian.

- Want your doctor to take your concerns seriously and prescribe the most appropriate medicine for your condition? Better to be Asian.

- Want to not get randomly stopped by police while driving? Better to be Asian.

It's not that your reality isn't unfair, but unless you've lived it or really studied the data - you can't underestimate how pervasive and dangerous the discrimination against black people really is. Black people are not just being paranoid when they say they're worried that they could lose their life over these things.
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Right, but I haven't seen anything to suggest our current testing plans will be universal or frequent enough to really solve this. So testing more is certainly better than not testing, but without constant testing of non-sick people it's not really going to help much.

"Quantity has a quality all it's own"
The Stanford study does not tell us 50-85x. The results they provided "have no known statistical provenance as of now". https://twitter.com/wfithian/status/1252692365967384576
> As a silver lining, if Apple/Google surrender location privacy on their platforms, it might finally give Purism and the other "libre" phones a chance in the marketplace. And those $1000 flagship "mobile" phones can be replaced by a $300 iPad without a GPS.

There has been speculation that if some European countries make a contact-tracing app obligatory for everyone or for some subset of people, saying “My phone doesn’t run Android apps” will be no excuse. If you don't have a smartphone that can run the required app, then you will be given a Bluetooth fob instead and told to carry that around.
Great! No more having to find/replace all the double-spacing in documents I review.
Find it hard to believe there's anything valuable to steal from Tesla. Most the hardware is proprietary so stealing source for main computer would be kinda pointless.

Stealing neural net would be even more pointless - it's mainly built for US roads, to run on specialised AI computer and control specialised hardware and can probably be extracted via firmware update anyway.

Plus Musk is always claiming to open source their patents and innovate so fast that their old software is irrelevant.

Disclaimer: I know nothing about self driving car industry.
That's pretty obnoxious. I do two spaces out of habit, and would prefer it just removed them quietly rather than forcing me to relearn. (which is what HTML does, effectively.... it displays it the same if you use two spaces)
But companies know that using credit cards anyway. So they haven't gained anything.
Cause data has never leaked from cloud server storage rented by individuals or companies before… oh, wait… (but trust him, it’s just him and a buddy who have access, what could possibly go wrong).
> the Guangzhou, China-based maker of Tesla look-alike electric cars

The car in at the top really doesn't look like any of Tesla's cars. Googling around for the model[1] and comparing it to Tesla's SUV[0] they really don't really have any similarities that any two random SUV's wouldn't have save for the glass roof. Just look at the entire back profile[0][1] and the fact that the G3 has a fairly prominent carbon fiber front grill[?] where as Tesla always made it a point to leave a blank spot where a grill would've gone in their cars.

[0] https://www.tesla.com/modelx

[1] https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/xpeng/g3/first-drives/x...
Wow can we see a picture of this Adonis please?
This assumes that people will proactively leave, instead of just not caring, until such a point in time when it may be too late for them personally. It also kinda assumes that even if people were to leave, that the state would realize the error of its ways. Which is quite optimistic, because there’s many cases where it’s rather easy to measure the negative impact of a policy, and then watch the policy makers use those negative impacts as a basis for further negative-impacting policy. It also seems this advice would really only help people who had the economic freedom to arbitrarily choose where they live and work.
"The solution (hint: there wasn't one until now)..." That's quite the bold statement. I actually thought of IUP/Lua when I saw this line, and it turns out you precisely used IUP for the UI portion of your framework! Except you didn't use the Lua binding, instead you created a Janet binding.

Using something like luastatic[1], with whatever Lua libraries you want (including IUP), you can get something pretty similar to this system, except of course you'd be using Lua instead of Janet. Janet is really interesting and that alone justifies this framework very well.

[1]: https://github.com/ers35/luastatic
> just a symptom of having too many nonprogrammers around. Will resolve itself.

Parkinson's Law doesn't get enough of the blame for bad dev environments. It's so easy to feel like you're doing 40 hours of difficult, important work a week, while actually accomplishing fuck all at best (or generating more work overall at worst).

I bet a big chunk of the problems raised in this thread don't exist if everyone experiencing them cuts their team size in half.
I won't bet on that for more than a few people. What if they live in a country mandating an app like that to be able to get out of home? And even if that's going to be voluntary, I don't expect many people to move to another state or country or be jobless for more time because of privacy concerns. I mean, they'll be concerned but they'll still install the app when they have to.
Thank you so much for all of your work on ClojureScript, @swannodette!

I love the work that's been done on shadow-cljs (and the maintainer is amazing) -- I've had a vastly easier and more stable time than with JS bundlers.

That said, in building a business on top of Clojure(Script), it's incredibly reassuring to know that shadow isn't a single point of failure.

This feature will make integrating/selling ClojureScript into existing projects easier too -- I only wish that I'd had this when moving from company to company a few years ago -- I'd have brought ClojureScript to a number of places. :)
Can HEPA Air Purifiers Capture the Coronavirus?
It’s absolutely crazy to say ML has better tech. They have more experimental technology that proves to be nothing more than a cheap gimmick, based on descriptions of everyone who managed to test it for an extensive period of time.

Rony Abovitz is closer to Adam Neumann than Steve Jobs.
You're replying to someone with the user name "corporateslave5" who is asking why everybody is so negative about tech corporations.
> I'm interested in functional programming, programming language theory, and type theory. These interests caused me to discover pure math (such as category theory)...I applied as a CS major to several colleges where PL theory had an academic presence

It's awesome that you know what you're interested and exploring it, but I'd caution against committing so heavily into one specific part of CS when you applying as an undergrad--that almost read like someone applying to grad school. Most of your courses will be pretty generic (as opposed to specialized). Between those, humanities, other science classes, etc., I'd actually suggest trying to expose yourself to as much as possible. If you still have that passion in four years, by all means go for the master's, but also:

http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

I don't mean any of this as discouragement, just that there's so much out there, and so many rich, unexpected connections to make, there will be time to focus later. But don't be undeclared, either.
On it's surface, I would interpret #12 as an exercise in empathy too. And patience. :)
Have you seen "Turn" on Netflix? There was a similar civil-war dynamic in that series as social pressure was mobilized, dividing friends and families. If this keeps up, it could trigger economic migration.

Sweden shows a very similar curve to places that shutdown. Some of their rates are higher as expected, since they are time-shifting contagion. But neither their healthcare nor economy has been devastated to the extent of neighbors.

The volume and velocity of opportunism in this crisis has been a sight to behold. It will take years to catalog what happened and develop a societal immune system to the large-scale manipulation of entire populations with dubious models and data.
I think automatic updates on all platforms are probably an immense net benefit to the world given the huge degree of security vulnerabilities it avoids.

Ubuntu users may be more tech proficient than average users but even for developer machines, I think it takes a lot of concern out of the equation if the software is up-to-date.

As far as I'm concerned this doesn't deserve an '/s'.
I am hoping for my own sanity this is sarcasm :)
Here's some feedback: under Dang's eye, HN has become a paragon of online discussion. I say this as someone who has occasionally been called out.
I am not sure why this is the highest-voted comment. The OP has shared a tool which performs a calculation for a pricing estimation. This comment does not address the metrics, or the accuracy, of the calculator. It makes a complaint about AWS pricing, but does not attempt to evaluate or comment on the post, or even provide evidence for the unrelated claim about AWS.
However, the elephant in the room (which I also like to ignore as a Clojure enthusiast) is that the start up time of a Java based GUI app is too slow (this is exacerbated even moreso when Clojure is involved)

I'm expecting a GraalVM rejoinder from someone. For anyone who's used GraalVM (particularly with Clojure) - what are the downsides and limitations?
Not GP, but the Oculus Quest is an excellent consumer device in my opinion. That is, if you can find it in stock.
Not that I know of. I learned through years of practice and reading hundreds of varied blog posts. If you find a book or resource like that please ping me.
The problem isn’t “Agile”. The problem is organizations which are not good at software development. Teams which fail with Agile will also fail with Waterfall or any other development methodology. Teams which generally succeed with one methodology may find a different methodology a bit more efficient, but they’re gonna be successful either way.
I think there's more to it than just working from a coffee shop.

Without going into people who are often on the road, many folks I know like working on the same computer at the office and at home.

It's usually easier to carry a laptop than a desktop. Even though there are many very small desktops nowadays (see HP's elitedesk mini - though it looks like a laptop without an screen, so I'm not sure it's that much more powerful) the laptop has usually fewer cables to unplug so it's generally less of a pain.

Another angle is that for many people a laptop has enough power for the activities they do and being portable is a real plus. I'm typing this on a 2013 MBP in my bed. This laptop might be slow compared to a modern mid-range desktop, but it's not tethered to a fixed spot. When I need to do serious work, I can plug a 4K screen and external keyboard and have the desktop experience.

On the rare occasion when I need a lot of power for some task, I'll usually fire up some outrageous ec2 instance for an hour or two. It will also have better network connectivity, which allows me to work comfortable over my parents' DSL line too.

I guess it all comes down to usage patterns. If you always use your computer on the same desk and never have the need to move it, I guess a desktop is a more effective use of funds. But many people seem to enjoy being able to carry the computer on a sofa, in the kitchen, etc.
Goodbye, IT Conference
So you're ignoring that the [-function by design works differently for tibbles than for data frames. This isn't really a problem with tibble but with sloppiness in programming allowed by dynamic languages.

I personally think it's a good thing that the drop-argument defaults to FALSE for tibbles, since data frame's default drop = TRUE is a source of frequent bugs. The change of the default for this parameter is the source of your observation.
You can't just ignore an injunction against importing or selling your products in the U.S. The feds will sieze your goods.
Since this is about maintenance, it's ultimately craftsmanship (IMHO) amd I don't think I can give a great answer without knowing real context. Here's one possibility that comes to mind:

Places where I would _expect_ to see something like this are C APIs where void pointers are used to provide "userdata context", such as pthread_create. Using the reinterpret-cast-to-pointer-sized-thingie(void* or intptr_t or uintptr_t) makes it clear that we're discarding all type safety and probably doing something similar. The C style cast does not express that as clearly.

Is the impact substantial? Not really. But in maintenance of long lived code bases, small impacts accumulate.
The practice originally came from typesetting. If anything, it's more relevant and appropriate now than it was in the days when your font choices were limited to 12-point Pica and Elite.
Those who enjoy this sort of thing might also enjoy reading Donald Knuth's “The Concept of a Meta-Font” (from 1982): http://visiblelanguagejournal.com/issue/61/article/748 — although the technology used is very different (it was designed for print after all), he plays a lot of lovely tricks with the font on the page (changing x-height, “e-height”, etc), including gradually transitioning from a serif to a sans-serif typeface. Note that even the “production” Computer Modern family available by default with TeX distributions itself has all its typefaces (including sans-serif, monospaced, bold, italic, etc. variants) by varying parameters in a single font.
Direct link to PDF: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/visiblelanguage/pdf/V16N1...

Also, look at Metaflop modulator: https://www.metaflop.com/modulator
There's also a relatively straightforward guide to usage with Webpack here:

https://clojurescript.org/guides/webpack
The dating part is a complex situation that is a minefield which can almost never be discussed without spiraling out of control.

But comparing black and Asian in the US is laughable. On life expectancy, earnings, education etc is completely one-sided.
The Scramble for Delivery Robots Is on and Startups Can Barely Keep Up
I don't have industry insight, so this is just my view as an opinionated consumer on specifically new car sales:

Everyday consumer cars haven't offered anything interesting to the consumer for nearly 20 years, and I'm not sure what they could possibly offer. For the longest time the branding drive for cars has been about new technology, signaling success and personal branding. But I see a few shifts in society that make these less important:

1. New Technology is fun, but it's reached a peak of usefulness to the consumer in cars. For the vast majority of people, a car is a utility, and their basic usefulness isn't improving anymore. If you find your near new car isn't meeting your needs, it's a different model, not a new version that you want.

2. I wonder if the personal image of car ownership isn't being diminished. An awful lot of money to spend on something you don't do much with. For many it's just been assumed that you need a car and that it'll be expensive, so you'll get it financed, which hides the real cost of the car inside weekly expenses. I see that changing, not least because the middle class has less money than they used to.

Just like inflated housing costs, the only reason we've been stomaching the cost of new cars is thanks to easy finance. When you live paycheck to paycheck, it's easy to mask the costs. But when people are getting squeezed, not even that works.
I solve this by keeping a running log of the important things I worked on that day and any questions I'm researching and sending it to my whole team.

A lot of people like it, learn from it, and also provide me with advice when they happen to know something I do not.
Americans have the option of filing lawsuits. The US attorney general said that the federal government may join lawsuits filed by businesses against states, for constitutional issues.

It's not about "privacy" or an "app". It's about core principles upon which countries and states were founded. These principles and laws are not optional. History has many lessons for those who surrender principles. People lost their jobs and much much more.
Modelling Covid-19 exit strategies
I think Affirmative Action made sense when it was instituted, but it was never intended to be implemented indefinitely. There is so much to talk about in this subject, but since it revolves around race people feel uncomfortable talking about it.

I ask 2 questions to anyone I know who comes out in support of affirmative action:

1) Is the policy actually effective? If so, what has been the effect?

2) When is the policy no longer needed?

I see far too many people who seem to think its just the way it is and is meant to be in place indefinitely. I think its absurd that the children of Beyonce can have their race considered, but we don't consider the adversity of the children of a poor, white, laid-off coal miner or the poor, hard-working asian immigrant from NYC. Rising above adversity itself is impressive and is definitely a qualifier to consider for admissions.

Think of the rich discussion we can get into about how we determine how someone truly stands out because of rising above the circumstances they grew up in. We could consider things such as average income, percent of households with a single parent, percentage of food secure households and a wealth of other data instead of Race.

I hope we can get beyond Race in the not too distant future, it's definitely a subject we can talk about, but in the context of college admissions I think adversity is far more appropriate to consider.
> Asian discrimination in the US includes the Chinese Exclusion Act, the 1917 Immigration Act, bans on the ownership of property (leading to the development of Chinatown ghettos), and internment camps.

> Furthermore, many Asian immigrant groups came to the US quite poor, such as early Chinese, and in more modern times, Vietnamese.

Compared to slavery, the holocaust, having your land stolen away from you, and a fleeing refuge from war and poverty, these are small potatoes.

> I think this comment speaks more to personal ignorance than the actual truth of the matter.

I never said that Asians didn't have their own hardships, and in general, I don't think it's fair to lump people in categories such as race or sex and say your group of people suffered in such a way, therefore you personally are more deserving than others. What I'm saying is there lacks a simple visual story for Asians of suffering and this has a societal psychological effect on how they are being treated.

Don't confuse what I'm saying as what should be vs what is. I don't pay much attention to what should be, because as an individual I can have little effect. I do like to understand what is and why it is (and like to comment about my theories about it)
Not the OP but I remember reading a blog post from a Chinese (IIRC) man who went to work for an American investment firm and he commented on the fact that the corporate culture dominant in American firms favoured promotion of people who tended to be bold, and who took risky bets that paid off, even if the investments were the results of unsound judgement.

He found this to be characteristic of American business culture, and I think this is intuitively right. People in the US that make bold bets and get lucky even if their reasoning was wrong tend to be showered with fame (just take a look at all the celebrity founders), while people who just silently and methodologically work tend to be rather unknown. And that's a business culture definitely more dominant in East-Asian countries in particular.
Can someone explain to me why affirmative action is necessary? Why not just send in your GPA and let a computer check which school you can go to based on your preference? Why resort to low-key racism?

Low-income junior high-schools of course needs more money from the government than the high-income schools to combat equality issues. Because let's face it, it's the low-income people that struggle and always will, money IS power.
There are many that are. Don't people get rewards for reporting malfeasance to the SEC, or ADA violations? I'm sure I've read about that, as well as about how some people think it's a questionable system. But privatization of enforcement of some regulations is a thing.
A colleague once had a paper taped to the outside wall of their cubicle which read “Why do we never have time to build it right, but we always have time to build it over again?”

Management was not a huge fan of this piece of paper.
Before monetization through bitcoin was easy, viruses were usually made and released just because you could. To experiment and see how far it could spread. And maybe just to wreak havoc and troll people.

https://techgaming.pk/2015/09/07/the-most-dangerous-mac-viru...

> This virus first appeared in 1988 on earlier versions of Mac OS. Initially, the program displayed a message about Michael Dukakis (Democratic presidential candidate):

> I was created by mischievous 14 year old, and am completely harmless. Dukakis for president in ’88.
why would china care about the long term value of tesla when tencent has a 5% stake????????????????? gotdang optimiz3
Thank you for the advice. Other people have told me this as well. I chose a school where PL theory has a presence so I can pursue my specific interests, but I expect that the undergraduate CS curriculum will also give me a well-rounded CS education.
Earlier today, on the subject of why I made a particular design choice, I went straight for tier 6. I absolutely could have promoted my response to tier 5, or even 4, but I was too focused on prevailing as correct to see that one can affirm the reasons why someone is asking a question without necessarily seizing on the more absurd aspects of the question. I think I'll be more mindful of this in the future.

Terrific article.
That's incredibly dystopic. Do you have a link?
Regardless of what your hobbies are, nothing will change the fact that your Asian American, and that's huge disadvantage. I don't know if getting another citizenship of another country will help much: if you can change your application race legally, that should help.

I would suggest a different major other than CS, or at least go in as undeclared: that should help a little bit. Or try a major that's not typically associated with Asian-american.
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio