skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I see. Thanks! Cool technology you guys have.
I like to bring Then Now up everytime precrime comes up. Until it goes off the rails in the end, its one of my favorite articles of all time. The paragraphs I yanked below, dont do its craziness justice.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7...

"But the oddest is STATIC-99. It's a way of predicting whether sex offenders are likely to commit crimes again after they have been released. In America this is being used to decide whether to keep them in jail even after they have served their full sentence.

STATIC-99 works by scoring individuals on criteria such as age, number of sex-crimes and sex of the victim. These are then fed into a database that shows recidivism rates of groups of sex-offenders in the past with similar characteristics. The judge is then told how likely it is - in percentage terms - that the offender will do it again.

The problem is that it is not true. What the judge is really being told is the likely percentage of people in the group who will re-offend. There is no way the system can predict what an individual will do. A recent very critical report of such systems said that the margin of error for individuals could be as great as between 5% and 95%

In other words completely useless. Yet people are being kept in prison on the basis that such a system predicts they might do something bad in the future."
Ask HN: Did you buy a HEY email?
Unilever pauses Advertising on Facebook and Twitter till year end
> Is that global statistics or statistics for "over policed" neighbourhoods the article and discussion is about?

Neither, it is US statistics.

Getting specifically the "over policed neighborhoods" statistics is a little trickier but when you do some location of arrest lookups you do see a higher percentage of arrests coming from those neighborhoods, so it would make for a reasonable assumption that those neighborhoods are a representative demographic of this dataset (if you're drawing from two jars and you draw 80% from one jar and 20% from the second jar, the marbles you have is a better representation of the contents of the first jar than they are of the second jar).
Where does the moral obligation to be morally consistent come from? I think few people question that, and we end up with apologist articles like OP’s link. The “moral consistency” of an individual has no influence on the veracity of a statement or moral truth.
They did that when they failed/gave up the phone business. Affected MS retail in the long term. Pulled out one leg from the stool, metaphorically.
I meant demeaning the independent variables. My understanding is that the beta_0 will have the meaning the
curiousgal attach it only if you demean your independent variables.
Are you suggesting Minneapolis is a…success story? I honestly can't tell, but if so, BLM would like a word…
The private session feature is a double-edged sword as well, as I describe here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655005
Prestige as a product. Which, is increasingly the function of the university.
And here I was thinking you might have something of merit, but it turns out it's still the old 2007 arguments about === and array functions.
I can see our definitions about what we spend our time on differ, as I could barely bring myself to reply to these tired FUD arguments that you and all of your predecessors have argued are fatal flaws of the language. Apparently, it's some sort of quest for you to get people off PHP. GLWT, but I will not be seeking your input on PHP flaws in the future as it's always the same on HN, reddit, etc. Some of us have moved on.
The USSR’s Siberian 'Democracy'
I don't know what's up with their website. The link redirect to a page about covid-19 as of now (https://www.mobilewalla.com/blog/fighting-covid-19-with-loca...)
Drug criminalization causes some but certainly not all violent crime.
Uber, Lyft Charge More for Riders Going to Non-White Neighborhoods, Study Shows
I'm really interested in that video. I assume that the women's bike was a steel model, since steel is supposed to be the most flexible common frame material.

Also curious about all the people who say "no surprise considering the bike".
Creating an unregulated black market for which there is high demand always increases violent crime.
I am just slowly switching to my hey email.

The only problem is that I chose a rather funny hey email addrsss so I still have to use my gmail for job applications. Maybe when hey support custom domains, I will exclusively use it.
Ethylene glycol is a deadly poison too, and people get close to it on a regular basis.
That's interesting to hear. Do you have inside knowledge on that? A former colleague in the HR space worked for Apple retail said that many of them were actually not profitable on the whole. They served lots of purposes but most of the value was intangible and not revenue driven. She/I may be wrong but it's counter to what I was told.
That’s sort of the way things are done in industry.

One strong example is in mixed-signal electronic simulation. Your digital portion of the system describes digital outputs in terms of digital inputs and gate delays, more or less. Changing the digital inputs results in a queue of events.

So you run the analog portion of the system until the pending digital event, process the digital event, and then continue the analog simulation.
Care to suggest a wording for it?
Based on other accounts, this might be the common outcome of publishing on Spotify. While this article sums up the artist's experience very well, it could feed into aspiring artists' survivorship bias.

On a lighter note, I think The Onion captured the reality of incomes on Spotify very well by this captioned picture: https://local.theonion.com/band-blows-entire-spotify-royalty...
Of course poor neighborhoods are going to have higher crime. Unless you have been truly poor you won’t understand the sense of desperation that can lead to bad decisions.

You grow up in a food scarce household with a parent addicted to painkillers with no guidance on what a path to a successful future is and crime becomes a lot more palatable. Getting in the game starts to look like the only possible way to “make it”.
This is something we deal with in game development regularly, tracking spikes as fixing them.

I’m not sure how much sense it makes to measure them in the context of video card reviews as the article alludes to.

In my experience frame time spikes are more often a result of software rather than hardware. It would make more sense in the context of game reviews I think.
You might be interested in reading about the "virus as cause" theories of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

http://simmaronresearch.com/simmaron-rising/

Also note that you're not lost, there are herbs/supplements that can work as antiviral (Echinacea, Cistus, ...)
An iPhone like no other
It varied episode to episode. I'd usually end up putting 10-15 hours into research and writing but with some topics I couldn't tackle in 7 days, I'd have to slap a roman numeral after it and try to finish it next week. Or, come up with some sort of cop-out for the week entirely.

In one case [1] I ended up with a teaser + 3 parter that wasn't super congruent because research for part 3 sort of changed how I would have approached the script for the previous two.

[1] Killdozer
Teaser - https://www.podcastdotcom.net/early-bird-news/2019/2/16/s2e4...
I - https://www.podcastdotcom.net/early-bird-news/2019/2/24/s2e5...
II - https://www.podcastdotcom.net/early-bird-news/2019/3/3/s2e61...
III - https://www.podcastdotcom.net/early-bird-news/2019/3/10/s2e6...
Neither the NYT nor academic journals are a legitimately useful source of COVID-19 information for a layperson. The NYT's coverage has been full of scaremongering and speculation and the world would probably have been better off without it. And a layperson doesn't have the time and training to understand journal articles in context.

The best sources are public health authorities like the WHO and CDC. They have consistently made careful and measured statements, been fairly accurate, minimized scaremongering and speculation without understating the seriousness of the situation, and issued useful recommendations. Most people would be better off following these authorities directly and ignoring other coverage.
Because now you can do something like

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8024417

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15457335
Lustral got 'appropriated' for the name of a British trance music production duo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi3vOcrTQ44

A mate did the lighting on a Lustral conference, they were giving out 'square smiley' mugs (maybe a round smiley had all the 'wrong' connotations.) :D

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6f/c4/74/6fc474f206a45e7df576...
With the military, it ses to depend on the scale.

If it's one bad actor, they'll get court marshalled. If it's several (e.g. Abu Graib; possibly misspelled), or if it's systemic (e.g. no care whatsoever for collateral damage, such as shooting civilians or bombing schools and hospitals), then the powers that be will stop at nothing to cover it up or play it down.
Banks, and in the last decade private lenders.

The simple answer is "because they're generally good for it." No one would invest if these companies immediately went bankrupt.

First.. lenders generally get a premium if it's a risky deal. Low risk rates are exceptionally low. There's always some demand for higher yield bonds. Supply and demand are generally unresponsive to eachother. In the current market,

Second, think "bondholders" moreso than lenders. The people who structure the deal are the initial financiers, including the PE firm. They just borrow/invest enough to ensure solvency in the first few years. Long term, bonds trade. They trade at market rates.

Also note that all these bankruptcies happened during the dotcom bust, regardless of when Bain got involved. At that point, demand for risky bonds is terrible. Business is hard, and a highly leveraged company is at risk. Highly leveraged companies tend to stay highly leveraged, so even if Bain did this to them 15 year prior... it's hard to survive bad times.

People who understand business from a purely SV/tech perspective forget that software is not normal. Outside of software, large companies usually owe money. They don't have billions of dollars lying around like FB or Google.
> its entirely unconvincing to say society must reduce our standard of living by force when you won't do it voluntarily.

I think that "reducing standards of living by force" is an extremist position and it's unhelpful to even bring it up.

Switching electricity generation and transport towards renewables can have large impacts on CO2 emissions with very low impact on standards of living. Carbon taxes would raise some bills but the effect is much less than (for example) stopping air conditioning.
I don't think a university's primary purpose is teaching; I believe it's for research.

For example, a PhD prepares you for a life of research, not one of teaching. At my institution, advisors strongly prefer their PhD students are RAs and not TAs (research assistants who do no teaching, vs teaching assistants who might be responsible for an entire class).

If you look at a professor's job description, it's often 16 hours teaching duties per week, with the rest for research. Most professors I know rarely work less than 60 hours a week, so the majority of that time is on research related work.
4 in 10 arrests are marijuana related of those
"As has long been the case, around nine-in-ten U.S. marijuana arrests are for possessing the drug, rather than selling or manufacturing it."

How many of those that graduated to crack/meth etc. started out with simple marijuana arrests?

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/01/22/four-in-ten...
I used to check out the Surfaces as I walked by the windows of that store and for a while considered buying one. I didn't but it did have a (mildly) positive on my perception of MS while I lived in SF.
Two reactions to this blog:

1. What does it feel like to work a job that's pretty morally unambiguously doing good? (Making people laugh)

2. Their interview process sounds a bit like tech take home assignment. If they reject the interviewee, do they get to keep all their ideas? At least they don't make them do improv in front of an interviewer in real time... (equivalent of a white board leet code interview?)
If you want to do research, you don't have too much alternatives. Often, teaching is considered as a necessary evil, or a distraction.

That's indeed unfortunate. Maybe the two should not be as tightly coupled as they are.

That being said, even if James loved teaching, that wouldn't really change his thesis in the least.
So you're blaming the semblance of market reforms for the overproduction of PhDs?

The reason we have too many PhDs, and too many students is the same: our dumb parents generation thought that "education" was important and demanded government support for all their children.

Without the state artificially funding this no one in their right mind would do it. Our parents demanded it, and we got it. Turns out its a scam.

Hardly anything to "McKinsey"ificaiton
> By upgrading the firmware ...

... to include atomic operations.
Was it though?
This may be a silly question but do you know of any high profile incidents where not having https has been an issue?

I understand the risks but am curious if there have been some cases that are pushing https forward after they got publicity.
I believe that the poster means that the University system (in the US at least) has been overtaken by "management theory" over the past four decades or so. This is the same theory prominent in business schools / MBA programs. As a consequence we see the vast expansion of academic bureaucracy, completely different metrics for "success," and an attitude towards students that treats them as customers rather than pupils.

It's worth noting that the core aspects of academia have been either pushed out or dramatically altered. Universities might be flush with cash, but they do not pay their teachers (it's no coincidence that adjunctification of the system begins with the management theory era). Professors are left to fight for resources that are being spent elsewhere: on sustaining a much larger bureaucracy (this or that "provost"), or on ancillary services like college sports or other customer-focussed amenities.
> This is a mix of people not wanting politics to be controlled by external state actors and people not wanting acts of violence to be pushed for.

Democrats in the US is actively calling for violence and endorsing riots and insurrection. Nobody cares about violence. It is a lie.
> The Onion is Baby's First Satire.

ITYM MAD Magazine, at least after the 80s.

It was hilarious when I was 12; these days, not so much.
It's important to be correct about the particular nature of the injustice: the police aren't profiling people who are probably doing something illegal. To the extent that police do profile (I don't think it's a question that they do, only to what extent), their profiling is based on who they perceive to be the most likely of committing the worst offenses, not simply "who is likely to be doing anything illegal at all".

That said, even if black Americans are more likely to commit these worst of offenses (as reported by victims), it's still unjust because any given black individual may not be guilty and doesn't deserve increased scrutiny based on the color of their skin--justice ought to be colorblind and individualistic.

That said, not everything that appears to be profiling is actually profiling. Police are deployed more densely to areas with high violent crime, and these areas tend to skew black. That means they're more likely to witness more minor offenses as well. The racial disparity here isn't due to profiling, its due to the high incidence of violent crime in certain predominately-minority communities. This is an important distinction because it determines the best course of action to solve the disparity problem--if the problem is mostly attributable to police profiling, then fixing profiling is the most urgent problem. If it's due to high incidence of violence in communities, then the best solutions will be various anti-violence programs and keeping violent offenders off of the streets (and ideally rehabilitating them).
They used five assays. All of these were from the WHO in-house assays list.

In theory, their primers shouldn't have specificity issues. In practice, it's more complicated than that.

The CDC 2019-nCoV rRT-PCR assays have a particularly sketchy history. The WHO in-house assays compendium[4] explicitly states that no false positives are expected for these. But there are huge, annoying caveats to this.

(Tedium warning)

Caveat A: Information chaos. This information has become substantially harder to find on CDC's end than it was originally, having been reorganized, replaced, and removed repeatedly at this point.[1] We can expect this confusion to have forced downstream errors on the part of at least some labs attempting to use the protocols.

Caveat B: The CDC's initial primers[3] were widely criticized for having been badly selected. Example.[5]

Caveat C: The CDC's primers have changed. Without the preprint authors providing more specific information, it's impossible to say what they were testing against for this reason. The preprint authors cite the fda.gov replacement pdf[6], which in turn links out to the CDC primers and probes page[3] via [7] > More Resources on the CDC Diagnostic Panel > Research Use Only RT-PCR Primers and Probes. So all we know is that they used CDC primers, but not which revision.

[1]: CDC replaced its original instructions file, which was located at[2], with a "redirect" pdf containing a link to a replacement fda.gov page. You may find the original document by searching "Tobacco Specific Nitrosamines in Smoke". The reason for this is that the title metadata of CDC's PDFs is often wrong, since they borrow from other files while compiling them.

[2]: URL: https://cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/rt-pcr-panel...

Contents: Real-Time RT-PCR Panel for Detection 2019-Novel Coronavirus - Instructions for Use

PDF Title: Tobacco Specific Nitrosamines in Smoke

[3]: URL: https://cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/rt-pcr-panel...

Contents: 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-time rRT-PCR Panel Primers and Probes

PDF Title: Avian H7 (Eurasian Lineage) Influenza Real-time RT-PCR Panel Primer Probes

[4]: The compendium document that compiles protocols is a PDF.

URL (landing page): https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/molecular-assays-to-...

Section: "2019-nCoV rRT-PCR Diagnostic Panel Results Interpretation Guide"

[5]: https://tomeraltman.net/2020/03/03/technical-problems-COVID-...

[6]: https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download

[7]: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/lab/virus-requests...
Hype comes from a promise to increase subjective well-being, while ultimately failing to do so, at least in the short term. But this definition should not discount the long term potential.

What is needed is an actual increase in subjective well-being, which is frustratingly diverse, subjective, and what you touched on in your last sentence. Hype does the opposite, it works to decouple capital from labor.

Unfortunately, until western society can find a better balance between capital, democracy, and global relations, entropy will outpace innovation, always.
> This is why "they are just trying to scare people!" is not a valid criticism in this context.

It absolutely is.

Fear is not conducive to prudent decision-making. Fear is what brought us the inane toilet paper shortage a few months ago. No news outlet is being level-headed with its reporting -- whether on the left or on the right. This, combined with zero accountability for needless flame-fanning by pieces like the one linked, creates an environment where it's hard to discern what's true and what's not.
So if at a given time it's impossible to investigate all burglaries where the amount stolen is less than $200, should we make them all legal?

Discretion in deciding which crimes to investigate is always necessary. Discretion on charging and guilty pleas seem much more problematic to me.
A Java framework which tries to do at compile-time what other frameworks usually do at run-time (dependency injection, SQL query generation, etc.)

(Yours is a lost cause.)
> No. You have no clue.

> It's because they are mourning their lost years, their failing health, their dead friends, their dead parents, their dead cousins and brothers and sisters. Oh, and their dead wives, girlfriends, and children. And probably more often than anything else, their fear that they will just go straight back to doing it all again when they get out, just like the last time they got out.

For a lot of drugs, it's not the drug that killed all those people and tore apart those connections, it's the illegal nature that causes violent black markets and heavy policing.
Split them in different playlists - only the playlist with the rain sound will suggest those if you use the playlist suggestions.

I have a playlist for each genre and regularly discover new songs withing those.
I know a few old dudes who did a lot of swimming around Coronado. They've been out of the service since before the turn of the century, all with more than 20 years in.

They've said that someone like Gallagher wouldn't have had the career path in the 80s that he had 20 years later. The SEALs were smaller, tasked less often, and tighter knit. Someone would have had a private talk with him, the culture would have helped him direct some tendencies differently.

Now that SOC gets all the funds and glory, the talent pool has slipped. The institution has lowered its standards, and the old hands have retired, to be replaced with young guns.

This isn't unique to the SEALs and other groups, the entire military has been experiencing a degradation in leadership. Whether it's the USN that can't buy a decent ship, nor sail without colliding with other vessels, to an Army that has has wasted so much money on trying to buy new helicopters (Comanche), new artillery (Crusader), or even radios. The ChairForce can't buy a new tanker properly, and has burned through so many airframes flying donuts in the mideast.

When the leadership of institutions fail, the results are ugly. We're seeing that across many police departments in the US, but it's not limited to just law enforcement.
This effect is similar with racing games, and generally enything requiring good reflexes. When exhaustion kicks in after 20-30min of trying, accuracy and lap times/scores plummet.

I would attribute it more to being focused rather than being relaxed, but those two states are connected.
You know an organization is corrupt AF when someone can use it to make the US military look like a bastion of accountability.
Fascinating. Thank you for doing the leg work here! I never would've thought to check patents.
> Whether it's suburban coyotes killing off family pets (a big problem in my suburb at the moment) or rural clashes between ranchers and wolves, you cannot just let the situation unfurl without official intervention.

This is completely backwards. The solution to cats not being at the top of the local food chain is not to kill anything that would eat them, but to end their participation in the food chain. That cats aren't an apex predator is a good thing, because the destruction of native species they accomplish isn't enough to motivate their owners to keep them inside.
Not sure why it still stakes hours to days to upload a video from my iPhone.
No they aren't. They are not mercenaries. They are supposed to arrest every suspected criminal and prevent those suspects from committing acts of violence. They are allowed to use violence to prevent loss of life, but they are not supposed to kill anyone.
Atmos (YC S20) wants to make building a house a one-click effort