skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>For myriad of reasons, we know clearly that controlling for no other factors, crime is higher among black populations. So to extrapolate that any one person is more likely to commit a crime because they are black is the definition of racism.

What about controlling for poverty? That seems to be largely ignored in this discussion, even though it was a central tenent of Dr. Kings mission before he was assassinated.

"We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered"
> There are no hidden local variables

But there could be non-local ones. The Bohm theory, which is perfectly consistent with standard QM, is fully deterministic.
Facebook adds labels as Unilever joins boycott
In most of Europe too.
Thanks! It’s a small world on HN haha. What was the issue? If you don’t mind me asking
Can I switch with you? I pay $88/mo for what is rate as "25 Mbps" high speed service. Reality? 20-22 Mbps down and 6-8 Mbps up in the local area, falling off significantly with distance (10.5 down just now to SF).

This is asymmetric with no disclaimer on their advertising page from an entrenched local monopoly in the north east (a small one)
Good point. This is good then, we don't have to give up anonymity to be decent and we, the HN community, are a living example of that.

What if any social media platform is required, by law, to put up a banner and 20 minute delay before their voices are broadcasted. The banner indicates, just like Cigarette box warnings, "Please be courteous, introspect and assess your comments before posting it. Be be a decent human, talk about issues and not other people, and have a productive objective conversation." and allow people to edit their posts for 20 mins. This would be opposed by the shareholders so it needs to be a law and cannot be left up to the companies to do it as it reduces engagement and consequently ad-revenue.

It also would be nice to have @dang x 1,000,000 to do moderation on the internet scale. Honest, decent and positive "internet social workers". It would be a well paid job.
I believe they can lower your risk.
> It is ... way beyond.. loud.

Um, I don't know how often this happens but any chance of that damaging your hearing? Because I wouldn't know of any sound I'd even describe like that.

The part about it frying motherboards in your house makes me wonder how the cell tower copes with it. I assume it has a lightning rod but so close to that rod as the tower's equipment is, compared to how close your house is, it must fry everything on the tower? Do they come and replace all electronics on it every time?
Seems like national stats maybe lagged NYC a little, but from a slightly different range of 1994-2000 on this chart the drop was (eyballing) 35% for homicides.

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2020/police-budget-spe...
Me too! I went deep into that rabbit hole and ended up with a presentation on things webdev can learn from gamedev:

https://youtu.be/avwDj3KRuLc
If that is what you're saying, then I think it's supportable and also that "decolonization" is an unfortunate choice of terminology because it is loaded with connotation and non-neutrality. Language matters, and choosing non-alienating language makes it more inclusive to more participants (including western civ folks).

More rigor, better scholarship, incorporation of more diverse views are all things people can get behind. If the system is open to disputation, feedback, analysis, etc. while pursuing the widest possible range of views out there from under-represented voices, then great. I also want to add that this is also the default mode in academia especially at freer places like the University of Chicago.

If it means preventing disputation on the basis of a person's identity/affiliations, disavowing empiricism and heavily favoring narrative untethered to basic standards of evidence, inserting overt agenda into what ought to be neutral arms-length investigations, then I find myself opposing the approach in the strongest possible terms and will actively work to decenter and dismantle such efforts. This latter approach debases scholarship and amplifies poorly-defended ideas as the norm.

I've seen both approaches but in the academy right now, I see the latter approach being centered, to the detriment of the mission of academia.
It's a call for violence in the face of violence, which is exactly what used to be the obvious role of police up until this marvellous new age bestowed on us by 2020.
Ask HN: Anyone know an open source option similar to roadster.com?
Roadster is a platform that enables car dealerships the ability to add online purchasing/leasing/trade-ins for their current inventory. It's surprising there seems to not be that many alternatives out there, anyone know any open source solutions that are along these lines?
The Arab Spring lead to possibly one democracy (Tunisia), otherwise it lead to minor reforms, horrific civil war (Syria, Yemen, Libya), or a theocratic dictatorship and then a military coup (Egypt).
Sounds like you'd get what you want via a large round from an angel investor.
Well, many government agencies offer funding for research. That seems like a good system.
If Facebook and Twitter wanted to make good on the mantra of "making the world a better place", they could do it today simply by disabling things that are reinforcing echo chambers, rewarding anger and generating outrage.

e.g., Disable algorithmic feeds, remove sharing/RTing and stuff like Trending.

Engagement metrics would plummet, yes, but they would literally make the world a better place.
> The idea that quantum mechanics stops working at macroscopic scales is totally unnecessary

Except to explain our everyday experience of a single classical world. Then something in QM has to give.
Hadn't come across 802.11ad, but Wikipedia seems to think it's range is "just a few meters"[0]?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ad
> if a particularity defined demographic group engages in disproportionate amount of criminal activity (less or more), then wouldn't you expect that that would filter down to the individual interactions?

What you're asking is "is it legitimate to discriminate against individuals because of the demographic group to which they belong".

I realize that it's not obvious that that's the question you're asking. But when reframed in that way, my answer is obviously no. You should engage with an individual if you have evidence of a crime or suspicious activity. Existing while black is neither.
> It will be simple as humanly possible to use. No classes, no javascript.

But README.MD start to ask me to install NPM which not beginner friendly...
Probably because Unilever thinks Twitter is a source of divisiveness and hate speech.
Because only a subset of a subset of founders would tolerate living like that?

I wouldn't. Even if I wanted to live like that, this starts seeming... a bit offputting. 'Come live and work at nerd camp..."
My guess is better management of cytokine explosion with steroids to prevent viral pneumonia.
The technology stack was exponentially smaller and more stable. For me, everything I needed to know were in three 300 page books. One was in JCL. The other two were about the SAS modules that were installed on the mainframe, the base SAS procedures and the book on how to write macros. The mainframe predated the internet and was limited in how many characters you could input per line. And you inputted one line at a time. But with it I could conduct transactions around the world in real-time as long as the transaction was limited to alphanumeric with very few special characters.
magic wormhole is a command line tool.
I don't follow. What part of my post described SF, and what is the analogy with that South park clip?

What I said was that if small communities spring up around places where remote workers converge, that is a good thing. It doesn't defeat the purpose of remote work.
> I've been in a couple industries and never seen the same. People hate their job/occupation field/company, and stay in it for a million reasons. The military is nicely set up to spit out those who won't buy into the institution.

That's an interesting point. Some companies, like Netflix, are famous for doing something like this. Offering new hires a lump sum at the end of their probation if they wish to leave.

I know the CEO of a company I once worked for was kinda enchanted with that idea. The company went so far to offer at one point a severance for anyone who wanted to leave within the next month. Small company but I'd guess based on what I heard 4-5% of company in the end took her up on it. And not necessarily the people she (or maybe just I) would have wanted to see leave.

I still thought it was an interesting experiment and not a bad idea. Your comment here reinforces that inclination.
This would be a really good explanation as to why the blue wall is as pervasive as it is regardless of thr geographical location in US. I always wondered about and could not find a good reason ( after all, cities have their own PDs - you would think there would be maasive differences between them ).
That won't work. There is a high false negative rate with those tests, and it's likely that false negatives are more common in those who have only mild infections. A study of patients with only positive tests would be a skewed sample.
Ask HN: Would you consider using AWS Lambda for your API?
I've seen many posts and comments about serverless not being right for real-time API responses, but it seems like there are many articles both on AWS and on third-party recommending that Lambda can be used for pretty much anything. Does the answer lie somewhere in the middle? Or is the anti-Lambda more a general anti-microservices sentiment?

Thanks!
Those are immune to the sampling rate bias, but they are lagging indicators. Based on the recent widespread failures to socially distance (e.g. George Floyd protests, campaign rallys, etc), I suspect those lagging charts will start trending upwards.

You can also correct for the sampling rate bias by looking at the number of cases per 100,000 tests (or similar). Does anyone have a link tracking that? EDIT: percentage positive tests: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states
T-Mobile's Joshua McClintock shared his MAAS experience recently https://youtu.be/dSZqax12Q7A
This explains it: https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1276172320965636099/...

Jokes aside, I'm afraid this is truly the administration and leadership that will take down the US for good. We somehow made it through Bush Jr and Clinton but by golly, this administration cannot do anything constructive.
I don't know of any mainstream distribution that doesn't make full-static-from-scratch builds gratuitously painful and difficult. Personally I gave up after trying to blunt-force-trauma glibc into linking correctly, though, so someone with more internals knowledge might have better success at it.
Doubtful. Adoption of honest liberalism requires some baseline intelligence to understand the parameters. The internet has shown that most people are very very stupid.

Not to mention neither the right or the left which have the biggest voices seem to actually care about true liberalism. They both have very narrow world views that they want to force everyone else to behave by.
That means they messed up, not that they don't lean left.
> I'm now paying $60 for 250MB/s down

LOL. My mom lives in an older house in a formerly-rural area where she's now surrounded by suburb-style new development. She wanted cable internet, and it cost her about $8000 and endless hours of haranguing Cox and chasing down service vans just to get a hook up. Literally she would see a Cox van at a construction site and stop and ask the person, because no one would talk to her on the phone. She eventually found one guy who gave her his business card and cell number, and knew a few people in the construction department who would help. The woman who took her credit card number over the phone to charge for the service told her she knew absolutely nothing about the process, and could make no guarantees about when it would happen. My mom was so desperate, she gave her her credit card number anyway. It took nearly a year to run maybe 100 yards of cable down her driveway from the street to her house, but she finally does have broadband now.
I've used a reactive model on the front-end for several years now (MobX at one job and then RxJS at another) and haven't encountered anything I would call "Observable Hell". I will admit that cascading side-effects can be hard to debug, but they're also a code smell. The whole point of the reactive pattern, IMO, is allowing you to have as few open-ended side-effects as possible. i.e., reactions that change state (instead of re-computing a pure function) should be scrutinized heavily and kept to a minimum. If they're kept to a minimum, then in my experience they remain manageable and fairly easy to reason about.
It's completely unbearable without one. I have thousands of manually added domains as malicious ad providers and invasive, abusive scripts try to bypass adblock too.
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While discontent with policing has bubbled up in the form of outrage over racist policing, I don’t see any obliviousness to gender at all—I mean I saw a sign just yesterday that read “bring our black men home”. It’s just very difficult, apparently, to express the nuances of systemic bigotry as expressed through policing in even something as short as a modern speech.
This is huge because Unilever is a conglomerate of B2C brands. Online presence is a big budget item for them.
iOS at least defaults to updating in the middle of the night when the device is plugged in and locked. It also gives you a warning hours before it happens.

If you're able to walk them through it, automatic updates can be disabled.
You mean like incognito mode on Chrome? Unfortunately I like most of the bubble I've built for myself of Youtube. It sucks when my recommendation stream of mostly educational videos from smart, quality-driven DIYers and educators gets overwhelmed with 5 Minute Crafts type garbage because I put on one "oddly satisfying compilation" to run in the background while playing boardgames with friends or something.
This is just going to cause technically-inclined people to configure their networks to MITM all calls to the Windows update servers and block updates network-wide.
At WWDC Apple revealed that their “Car Keys” feature would work 5 hours after the phone has died, so you don’t lose the ability to access your car.

They didn’t announce new hardware that could do this. It’s available in every new iPhone. This is proof that this capability (to run software even when the phone is “off”) has been around at least for a number of years. It’s not a huge leap to imagine that some malware could rewrite the firmware and enable e.g. microphone listening when the phone is off.
Which state/city is that?
Am I wrong or they have completely missed the point, or perhaps are just making noise to pretend they're somehow assessing the problem?
The point shouldn't be sending more cops here and less cops there but stripping racist fascist drugged psychopaths of their uniform, their badge, their weapons and their immunity - all of them and for good - then leave real cops who deserve them do their job.
All it takes is one criminal cop to kill an innocent, so playing with numbers won't achieve nothing. As of today, the Police has no quality control, or its parameters are messed up to a point most of them became worse than the criminals they should fight against.
> But where was the cure, or the better protective gear, and why hadn’t venture capital—the financial engine of innovation—funded those ideas?

> the cure

Doing anything medical is very risky because of the enormous cost of FDA approval.

> protective gear

The surge in demand for masks is likely to be temporary, meaning if you build a huge factory to crank them out, the demand is likely to dry up before the factory is completed.
In both cases it doesn’t actually work. In the case of the data-backed nonsense it’s been used to justify holding people past their prison sentence. In this case it’s demonstrably worse. In the general case anything that’s “sciency” but doesn’t actually work leads to bad outcomes because people are far more likely to buy into it or at least less likely to call out obvious BS.
Sonic in SF is a better deal, no?
300 pounds for 66k subscribers seems low by the standards of the yesterday. Presumably this income is solely through Youtube ads nothings else.

By the old media standards (newspaper/TV/radio) reach of 66k would be good for a medium sized city.
Given a choice between two neighbourhoods, would I want to move to one that has grow ops or a high rate of social services checkups? Some of that data is already easily available and I know it is being used by real estate agents already. The people that can avoid these neighbourhoods will, which leaves only those that can't. Gentrification.

The neighbourhood I grew up in was heavily mixed (along social strata) which prevented these problems from arising in the first place.
It's tempting to be sarcastic here, so I'll just play it straight. The Arab spring turned out terribly for almost everyone.
I love how this post is about the US elections, but fails to mention anything until the fourth paragraph ("...largest voting information campaign in American history..."). Facebook is one of the largest worldwide platforms, yet this announcement just assumes that we all know that it's about the USA (I say this as US citizen). It's so provincial.
Absolutely.

But it's really hard to tell when it is and isn't reasonable, when it comes to UX.

I find that the only thing you can do is try to have peopel who aren't developers and don't even know what's "easy to build incrementally on top of the existing stack" determining the appropriate UX for the customer/market/business need.

Then the developers can say "OK, but if we did it like THIS, it would be a lot cheaper to implement because we can incrementally add to what we've got", and the product manager/owner can push back "Eh, that's not going to meet the market need", "OK, but we can't afford it" -- it's a negotiation. But in my experience you really have to have someone who isn't a developer at all standing up for the user need, for anyone who will be involved in the implementation, no matter how smart and user-centered, it's just too tempting to decide that the thing that can be met with the incremental change to existing stack is "nearly as good" no matter what, when it's so much easier and more elegant under the hood.
> There's a spec for putting a device tree in an ARM chip's rom, the problem being that it's often wrong in some way, requiring device-specific corrections.

I was aware of being able to have ex. u-boot pass a device tree file to the kernel at boot time; are you talking about that, or something more generic?
Not sure what I'm doing differently but the search suggestions go below the history suggestions for me.
Once I was on a plane that got hit by lightning, and the sound was quite frightening - an extremely loud, but short, bang. There were a few screams and many very worried glances around until the captain casually told everyone what had happened, and that everything was fine.
There is no free speech on private platforms.
That was a good and very moving article. I don't understand though: why was the officer reprimanded for his actions?
To be clear, I’m not suggesting someone write for some other audience or site first and then share the results on Twitter. I’m suggesting that someone write for Twitter, starting off by writing essentially the tweets they were going to write, but offline in a text editor; then edit the resulting paragraphs for readability/flow; then slap that prose into a Gist and take the https://gist.io/ view of it (or do any other equivalent "pastebin to clean, unlisted-but-linkable HTML page" flow); and then publish the first of those tweets, as a link to that HTML page.

In other words: maintain a blog on Twitter, where the tweets serve as the blog’s chronological index / human-readable RSS-feed and interactive comments section; and floating text pages hosted in arbitrary other places serve as the blog’s content. This idea is what “microblogging” was supposed to mean, before the media re-interpreted it as being equivalent to “really enjoying this poop I’m taking”-style life-logging.

I’ve always been surprised that Twitter itself doesn’t have a built-in first-party workflow for this. Tumblr, the other 20-year-old microblogging platform, does: you can publish a post with an embedded “Read More” break, that will hide everything below it in your feed but show it when the static-HTML version of the page is viewed, with the “Read More” link at the bottom of the post in the feed, linked to said static-HTML page. It would make a ton of sense to me for Twitter to have something that’s half this, and half Reddit’s approach to text posts: giving you the ability to create a tweet that, instead of having a linked URL to go with the tweet, has a longform text body to go with the tweet.

Think about the fact that you can “attach” a multi-minute-long video to a tweet as a first-party workflow, and Twitter will host the video for you — but you can’t “attach” a multi-minute-long blob of rich prose text, where Twitter will host the text for you. Seems silly when I say it that way, doesn’t it?
My personal opinion is that HN community voting and active moderators are a solid, definite net negative for me. I would indeed be happier if neither of those elements were present. Voting pulls conversation strongly to the mediocre center of the bell curve, and moderators only work if they're willing to strongly profess their own biases.

But it's what's here, so it's what I read. Though I rarely read the comments any more, it's mostly a link site for me at this point.
Thanks, Sylvain, much appreciated. It's working for me now.

I must say I expected this post to kind of go into the ether, not for Algolia's VP of Engineering to reply with a solution within an hour :)

Have a nice weekend!
I guess the difference is whether you're staying inside a hut or a modern building with a grounding system
You're fighting against a lifetime of upbringing, indoctrination, redefinition of meanings and conditioning. It allows us humans to exist in a state where something as simple as "do not take from others" can be made so very different to "pay up or go to jail" just because.

The brain gets wired to accept and try make some sense of the contradictions , where there are none. That is why we argue about every single little thing in the public sphere: Because there is no base set of morals or axioms that we can use to derive more complex ones to address complex situations.
Last I check itching cream worked on most parts of your body. Like UBI, being given any amount of itching cream can cure many itches at once.
@dang does a pretty damn good job, and I'm surprised I don't see a lot more negatives about him 'censoring' things. Yet people even on hackernews blow a gasket at any censorship on fb, reddit, or twitter... I guess maybe because here is more topical and censoring is to keep things on-topic so they 'allow' that kind of censoring?
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