skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it matter?

If I spoke no English, I'd rather have 1% of the equivalent English content in Portuguese than 0%. And having the site such as pt.SO is at least a sign that there is a significant number of people that prefer non-English to keep the discussion.

Also, there is a good amount of people that can read something from English SO, but would never contribute. Having a language-specific site is a chance for them to help more people in their situation. Again better than nothing.
For all the budding data scientists out there, can you describe your general methodology in more detail?

Here’s my summary:

1. Pick a complex issue.

“racial bias” in policing

2. Pick a (single) year. / Ignore history.

2017

3. Pick a metric, any metric.

“deaths by police”

4. Write conclusion to match your preconceived notions.

5. Congrats, you’re now “data-driven”.
I think it's "30%" (it's not). If p (pct population) is scaled to units of "people", and m as crimes/year and k as (deaths in custody) / (100k people), we want to compare the magnitudes of p * (k / m) for the two groups. Plugging the numbers in as cited, and putting the African American cohort over the White cohort, we get 1.3, i.e. "30%" increase in probability of dying during a police interaction if black.

But as has already been pointed out, it's way more than 30%. The numbers given in the original comment hide the real impact of the bias, since "arrest" was implicitly being treated as a fair event (which it isn't; as just one example, blacks in particular are many times more likely to be subject to a traffic stop than whites, while they tend to have contraband on their possession less often [1][2][3][4]).

Moreover, this isn't just about deaths in police custody. This is about inhumane and repressive policing practices that perpetuate a longstanding effort to deprive blacks of meaningful political power [5]. It is both foolish and cruel to see an entire population struggling and assume it's because they are bad people.

[1] https://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/Document/...
[2] https://chicagopatf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/PATF_Fina...
[3] https://www.aclu-il.org/en/press-releases/traffic-stop-data-...
[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/us/racial-disparity-traff...
[5] See Michelle Alexander's book, The New Jim Crow
Just spitballing but would those have problems in rain/fog/smoke?
Does Tesla use autopilot for emergency break assist as well? This seems much worse than what's in a lot of other cars in terms of automatic breaking.
> under the guises on Anonymous which really discredits the actual group.

This is impossible because Anonymous isn't an "actual group". It's any one who does anything and calls themselves Anonymous (a word that means "unknown name").
You say classism like it was extrinsic. But the classes (in smaller cities, not like NYC) are people who can afford a car and people who can't, or have some other reason they can't drive.

In the sort of place I'm used to, an urban area of about a million people, taking the bus is not logical if you have a car anyway. You don't get an economic benefit if you own and insure a car at all. And you pay a big penalty in time and flexibility.

That's what creates the class divide, not something arbitrary in peoples' heads. The people who ride the bus because it's economically rational are inherently the people who have no choice.

Talking about general social problems as the source of the issue is misguided, in my opinion.
shopify has a similar thing, a two stage login where you sign in with your email then choose your account.
Committe lieber in den Ast (I'm sure nobody use that for branch, right?)
Why do they think that?

It's unreasonable to assume that.
Autopilot is a term most people would he familiar from where? Commercial aviation, right?

I would argue most people know it's not a system that achieves that goal. Just ask yourself. Do you think airline passengers would feel comfortable if a cabin announcement told passengers: Both pilots are going to take a nap now for the next 10 hours.

I do think Tesla should do a better job making sure it's understood that there are limitations. I don't think they need to change the name of the feature because some people claim to have a certain expectation of it which at closer inspection is not justified.
This is the plan for the Cruise self driving car with LiDAR:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/technology/cruise-gm-self...

Doesn't look unsightly to me. Also given that every car company and self driving car uses LiDAR suggests that over time the costs will come due to economies of scale.

Also are people not forgetting that Tesla charges a massive premium for Autopilot ? People are willing to pay a lot for self driving more than enough to cover the cost of the LiDAR sensor.
Denver, Salt Lake, Boise, and Reno are pretty good. I'm not sure that they fit in your "without temperature extremes", though. The upside is, with the temperature extremes comes some pretty good skiing.

Without temperature extremes... maybe San Diego or Seattle. I'm not sure that either of those are great for affordability, though. San Diego might be better than Seattle, but I'm not sure.

My experience: I live in Salt Lake. World-class skiing is 45 minutes from my door. I can literally wake up, look at the weather report, decide to go that day, email my boss, and go. I don't waste half the day getting to or from the slopes.

In the summer, there's a lot fewer mountains than in Colorado, but they're closer. There's a couple of good trout rivers an hour away.

Moab is four hours away. Yellowstone is 6 1/2 hours away. The Grand Canyon (North Rim) is 6 1/2 hours away.

If you want to get away (like, really away), in two hours you can be the only person in the surrounding square mile.

Salt Lake is pretty affordable, at least compared to NYC or the Bay area.

The weather, though... it gets up to 100 in the summer. It can get down well below 30 in the winter. And it's dry. 20% humidity is a regular thing in the summer. 12-16 inches of water in a year, and some of that comes in the form of snow.

Also, Salt Lake sits in a valley. That valley has a nasty tendency to trap air pollution. It's not as bad as Los Angeles, but it's still an issue.

Oh, yeah, and the valley floor is at 4200 feet elevation. The mountains go up to 11000 feet outside of town. You may be in good aerobic shape in New York, but expect to take a little bit to get adjusted if you come here.
Why are they only animals?
There was a similar project posted here just earlier today.

Show HN: Citizen Police Data Project – Police allegation data made accessible - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23374345
I disagree. Without protections on intellectual property, innovation is harmed.

There is no incentive to invest substantial resources in development if there is no ability to profit.
Here's the first 3x chapters, which I presume was for some course:

https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf

I've heard amazing things about it and it hasn't yet disappointed (the little I've read). Worth the $60 I spent on Abebooks for it (used) but the full copy is also on ThePirateBay if you want to see a longer preview.
We had this with fire departments for thousands of years. It didn’t go well.
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How is that version of FizzBuzz shooting oneself in the foot?
We have had the ability to just reproduce books by printing them for literally centuries, and even more so since the commodification of printer technology. At even small scales, simply printing a book costs close to nothing. Yet libraries aren't just allowed to make copies of their most borrowed books and lend them away.

Libraries are allowed to only lend the number of books they have bought because it's a good compromise between public interest and copyright protection. It has nothing to do with scarcity.
> Falcon Heavy can lift 54 tonnes to low earth orbit. I think that means it could get a mission to the moon as long as it weighed 38% of what Apollo did

You can launch the lander first, park it in lunar orbit, then launch the crew on a second Falcon Heavy, each having 38% of an Apollo worth of mass. With a little more creativity, you can launch the ascent vehicle on another Falcon Heavy and land it before the other two so that astronauts can rest assured that, unless they kill themselves during the landing, there is a ride back up waiting for them.

With that you can have 3 separate chronograms and each mission is simplified in relation to a single Apollo.

If you are unhappy with the mass budget, you can launch yet another series of missions with supplies and equipment to be landed before the ascent vehicles are landed. And, since in this case whatever lands doesn't even need to be pressurized, or delicate, landing it should be much easier too.

Now we are at 1.52 Apollo masses per mission. It took 4 launches to get there but, still, it's a lot of stuff for our astronauts to work with. Also, if any one launch fails, you can always try again.
Heck yeah, I like it. I always associate that with C&C: Red Alert.
End it: NYC protests have exposed a truth Cuomo missed; the lockdown is over
> when I visited I took several and they were consistently good, and were never empty, just the frequency could be a lot better. They were a lot noisier than the buses in Europe, though.

If "noisy and infrequent" doesn't mean "not good" to you, what does?

Taking a bus would add anywhere from 15-45 minutes to my ~5mi commute, with the uncertainty mainly due to the infrequency. That's not good.
So we can censor Democrats that post hate about Republicans?

It fits your guidelines.
Denver is so far from any other major city outside of their state. Do they expect us to believe that there are hordes of people from Colby, Kansas that drove for hours just to riot?

Minneapolis is reasonable considering its the epicenter of the current issue and reasonable driving distance from Wisconsin.
I’m a millennial (late thirties), but I’ve worked in offices where there’s an internal mail system in which you write someone’s name on an envelope and then when it gets delivered, the name is scratched off to make it available for reuse for the next internal mailing.
There would still be that Musk person dictating no LIDARs, so, no.
What on earth are you talking about?

No one is censoring him for his skin color, his religion, his beliefs, his political view point.

He isn't being censored for being POTUS, or Republican, or anything else.

His false statements are being linked to "here are the actual facts" documents. Those posts are still completely visible, there is no censoring, he just not being given carte blanche permission to provide objectively false information.

His threats of violence, and encouragement to that end are the only things being hidden by default - you can still see them.

The latter is still not equivalent to your argument. Not even remotely.

I don't get to reject to serve someone because of their religion, gender, orientation, or race. But if someone comes to my store and starts shouting that we should harm other people, then yeah I do get to kick them out. There is no debate here.

Racists and the like always love to compare suppression of threats and calls to harm others to denying service to others on the basis of who they are.

Twitter doesn't kick nazis or homophobes off the platform. Unless they start calling for harms to others or actively state that other people don't have the right to exist.
I feel safe now. People are living their lives in the free states.
Agreed. Also Christof Paar's book [1] and 25-episode YouTube series[2] do an excellent job of explaining not only elliptic curve cryptography, but also RSA and a lot of other cryptography, including symmetric ciphers and cryptographic hash functions.

The blog post seems to be essentially, "I read these good posts on Ars [3] and F5 [4] [5] and here is my summary of my understanding of them". Nothing wrong with that, but the post has some issues and doesn't add anything to the sources cited IMO.

[1] http://www.crypto-textbook.com/ (ironic that https isn't available?!?!)

[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1usFRN4LCMcfIV7UjHNuQg

[3] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/a-rel...

[4] https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/real-cryptography-has-c...

[5] https://youtu.be/dCvB-mhkT0w
Web-designers and web-developers design and build the things that the people with the money ask them to. It's that simple.
RBG has always been a fan of abortion rights via incorporating the privileges and immunities clause of the 14th Amendment to the states, a path blocked after the 19th century Slaughterhouse cases. Reva Siegel at Yale Law School is good to read about this.
It seems a lot of people are missing the true concern here because they only read the first half of the article.

Going to paraphrase the article a bit here but yes, the website is capturing the filled-in data even if the user hasn't hit the submit button. However, they're also running a tracking script from an advertisement network in the background that attempts to capture your e-mail. If you visit Site A as a result of one of the ads from that network, but leave without putting down your e-mail address, and then go to Site B and do leave your e-mail address, the ad network will send your e-mail address to Site A in an attempt to "re-capture" that lost impression for Site A even if you never even hit submit on Site B. They're marketing it as a way of reducing ad-spend because you don't have to keep trying to target potential customers who've already shown interest through more ads.

I'm not a lawyer so I'm very curious to know how this doesn't easily violate COPPA for Site A, Site B, and the ad network, among other privacy laws. The wording from the ad network shown in the article is a bit vague around enabling a "triggered email sequence", so I'm wondering if they get around some legal issues by sending emails for Site A on their behalf rather than sharing the email address itself.

* Edited for minor typos I noticed after hitting submit.
Its supposed to have a forward facing RADAR so I don't understand what happened here. Can anyone chime in on the technical aspects?
I ran out of characters in my OP, but this was something I wanted to mention.

1) I’m not saying we replace HTML altogether. So if you’re talking about writing an article, sure use HTML (and things like section tags).

2) You can make SVG and HTML equally accessible now with WAI-ARIA roles (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A...).
I believe the point is nobody expects planes, where a layperson would know the term autopilot from, to be left unattended by the pilots. So why should this be assumed on the road?
"once you've already paid for a car and taxes and insurance, it costs more to take the bus than the incremental cost of driving everywhere"

I agree and mentioned this in my other comment, but I'd also add that in my experience there are arbitrary* gaps in what routes are available.

Nearly all the buses in the city where I live go west to east, from a certain midpoint to down town. But I live about 10 minutes south of a point on the western side and there are really no routes that go north-south here. And I work for a major employer.

*Seemingly arbitrary to me, but of course they might rationally determine there's not enough riders.
Running out of autoincrement primary keys. Happened at two companies I was at. Can't say I was responsible for the first one. The second one caught me off guard, I didn't notice we were incrementing by 2's because all the id's were odd. If they were all even I would have picked up on it. Because of it we ran out in half the expected time so the plan we had got thrown out and we just winged it, in-place on prod machines. Luckily it was only for 'like's on a photo sharing platform, so we just black-holed the clicks, doing a local increment in the view for the person clicking until all the migrations completed many hours later.
Are you saying that Assange would just volunteer this information to the FBI? Even if they offered some sort of deal involving immunity from US prosecution, it's unlikely that Assange would have had any proof that the source of the emails was the Russian government. (Also, incriminating the Russian government in a crime can have negative effects on your life expectancy).

As for your statistics, it's worth noting that Mueller's investigation probably made a profit by uncovering millions of dollars worth of tax fraud[0], and it lead to indictments of or guilty pleas from 34 people and 3 companies.[1] That doesn't seem like it was a complete waste of time or money.

[0] https://www.inquisitr.com/5213408/robert-mueller-investigati...

[1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/20/17031772/m...
I don’t know if this is still true, but it was sometimes the case that toner would retain images of what had been printed on it and could be recovered by forensic specialists.
"Underserved"? The US President retweets anonymous fake account misinformation. Almost anyone can be incited by convenient disinformation.
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> But in response to the subject of your comment: don't they already do this regardless? Isn't inaction a moral response in itself?

I agree, but I think interfering with the communication channel is the wrong response. To me it feels like, "We don't like what Trump is saying, so we should stop letting people see it." Realistically that isn't going to make Trump go away or change his policies or teach him a lesson because he can just as easily give a press release, give a live speech, hold a rally, call into the news, etc. It won't change the message, just the medium.

Looking at it another way, Facebook employees should have the same responses available to them as everybody else. If they don't like what Trump said, they should reply to his post and tell him, go out and protest, or whatever. But what they shouldn't do is force their opinion on everybody else.
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China, Russia, and also the US President.
> I believe that the justice system in the US is inextricably tied to systematic, institutionalized racism...

Yeah, I disagree. And yet...

> Minorities in this country are arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced differently from their white counterparts because of that institutionalized racism.

I'm not sure I can disagree with that. I wish I could...
You might be Facebook friends with someone linked to terrorism, or you might have Liked posts from terrorism-linked groups. Or maybe there's a specific person who the government suspects has recently joined on with some terrorist cell, and if you're their Facebook friend, that is likely fairly interesting to some investigators.

I don't expect that this sort of question catches a lot of serious terrorists, but if they don't ask, you come blow something up, and you did have such immediately discoverable information on social media, it'd be really bad press for the folks who are supposed to stop that sort of thing.

I don't think it's a particularly controversial statement that lots of extra information about who you know and what your interests are would be at least a mildly useful signal for determining if you're a threat, but I doubt it's worth the intrusion and the risk of more nefarious uses.
> to make it one-log better you need 100x the data and 100x the NN dimensionality.

I'm not sure why you think so. At some point the dimensions will get diminishing returns. Maybe you need only 100x the data at this point (or maybe not). But assuming it's both without knowing the current configuration / limits is just a random guess.
This utterly tautological, which part of the problem with QI. QI applies precisely when there's no precedent that explicitly declares an action to be illegal (c.f the case of cops that used pepper spray, which was deemed sufficiently different from tasing that the rules established for tasing did not apply, there was therefore no precedent for the precise case of unnecessarily pepper spraying a person and thus QI applied.

QI completely sidesteps the question "is it illegal" by replacing it with "has a suitable court ever established a precedent of suitable specificity saying that this is illegal when carried out by a government official/employee"?

Which is likely how Gauvin will walk, since despite killing person being illegal, there are no suitable court precedents ruling with sufficient specificity that a government agent killing a person is illegal.
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