skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no mandate that I'm aware of (not that I know everything about everything), but it's definitely the case that projects with "externalization potential" (making up a phrase out of thin air) will generally be more likely to get funded and prioritized (of course, why wouldn't they be preferred?).

So, even without a mandate, the market forces at play in terms of proposing roadmap projects and choosing what to invest in, will naturally tend to favor those solutions with can pull double-duty (solve an immediate problem/pain-point that Amazon already has, and with a clear path/potential to be converted into or evolve into an external sell-able service too).
Couldn't you just subscribe for one month for $9 and see what's ready now?
Facebook Gaming Platform Wont Be Displayed on the Xbox Dashboard, Mixer?
To put a number on it, Apple books between 65-80% of ALL profits generated in the smartphone industry by selling phones.

Like you said....others are not even on the same planet. I think people really fail to understand the scale of Apple's success.
> Used by police across the United States for almost a decade, predictive policing relies on algorithms to interpret police records, analyzing arrest or parole data to send officers to target chronic offenders, or identifying places where crime may occur.

The promise of the software made in a sales pitch or on the website, is a far cry from the reality of what such software delivers. That's fine when it's business, the cost of a mistake is a p&l hit. But here we are talking about people's lives, far stricter processes should be in place, more similar to getting approval for a new airplane or medicine. To be clear, predictive policing is replacing detectives/experts with software, like a kind of robo-policing, where decisions to investigate are generated by a system and handed to cheaper uniformed police who lack the context behind the decision support system they are now serving, because software becomes a black box.

Any consumer who has ever dealt with even state-of-the-art call centers, knows that humans do a far better job at real-world operations.

This is a premature application of software.
I call BS. The link you supply

https://www.mobilewalla.com/about/press/new-report-reveals-d...

has no data and no clarification.
There are a few things going on. One is that police can choose what crimes to enforce, and city police tend to enforce crimes committed by lower income people. For example lower income people are more likely to be street level drug dealers, other crimes are more likely to be committed by higher income people.

Then in looking for dealers, police go to lower income neighborhoods. If you look for something you will end up finding it, if you don't look you won't find it. This leads to things like pretext traffic stops, where someone is stopped for a minor violation that wouldn't normally get someone stopped. The police can then detect something else, like the smell of drugs or drug paraphernalia in the car, which they use as cause to search the car. In searching the car they find something that can lead to criminal charges.

This leads to lower income people receiving fines for minor traffic violations, and minor drug violations, at a higher rate the higher income people. The same lower income people struggle to pay those fines more, which puts them in a worse place, possibly leading to more desperate crimes.

Policing is punitive, and doesn't help solve underlying problems. Imprisoning and fining poor people doesn't help them or society.

I don't think this is as much of a racial issue as people make it out to be, it just happens that in the US the low income urban housing projects are predominantly non-white. Low income people in rural areas are less likely to be over policed because there are physically less police per squeal mile in rural areas. And with less people in rural areas, things are more likely to go unnoticed.

If you look at somewhere like the UK, where low income urban council estates (housing projects) are often predominantly white, you see the same over policing, profiling, and pretext stops. But instead of profiling young black males in hoodies driving around a lower income neighborhood, they profile young white males in hoodies driving around a lower income neighborhood.
You took one piece from my comment and ran with it.Yes, apple has more than 5 products but my point is that the core products are: iphone,mcbook, watch,and airpods. All of them, including those you mentioned form a rich ecosystem. What I meant is that Apple users are huge fans of the whole thing: they are more likely to have multiple products and are very passionate about it. They go to the stores, including hordes of others,who are yet to buy it, because it's the thing they love and really want. Now look across the entire MS product range,and excluding probably X-box, which product would make people go crazy.The surface, a new windows version? MS is the work car most of us have to use,while Apple is that shiny sports car your neighbour bought and you really want it.
There are some proposals in this direction (serious proposals that might actually happen. Not just wishful thinking proposals)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancem...
What you call misconstruing I call reading between the lines.

Edit: and I think remorse is a healthy and useful check on the excess of police violence we've been seeing. I suppose if you think it's all just fine, we're not going to have much common ground for understanding.
In one weekend, over a hundred people were shot in Chicago by criminals. I'm not sure you appreciate how many extremely violent, dangerous criminals there are in the US.
Avoiding Fallback in Distributed Systems (2020)
Three great project ideas for LCC:

1. Apply LCC to rear channel speakers to get it running on 4.0 channel systems. The rear channel speaker distance can be digitally positioned with an integrated millisecond delay control, which allows a user’s rear channels to be digitally placed at various perceived physical distances if there is no way to move rear speakers back physically (the speed of sound is roughly 1100 ft./second (depending on temperature and elevation); so, for example, if a user has a rear head to speaker (H2S) distance of 2’0", when the frontal H2S is 6’0", it may be desirable to delay the rear speakers by say 5’0" to avoid erroneous localization to the rear). The system calculates this optimizing distance, e.g., 5'0"/1100 = ~.0045 seconds or ~4.5 milliseconds, and thus allows the user to experience the rear channel speakers optimally as if they were at ~7’0" and not where they are physically located at 2’0".
Could also use a 4.0 Bluetooth speaker setup for your VR system. Better than headphones, as you now use your own natural HRTFs in a free field space. Also, headphones cause fatigue and contribute to disorientation. If that is of interest to you, taking it one step further with head tracking would require additional access to LCC's parameters.

2. Rearrange car speakers (see white papers for guidance on placement requirements) and apply LCC to the driver and each passenger. Not only a great idea from an entertainment point of view but also as an auditory safety function as well.

3. Get LCC into a https://www.hifiberry.com and purify your home theater's sound system with the most effective spatial audio solution available.
Where my parents live in the countryside, some people -- like kids visiting their parents for the month -- will bring their dogs and let them roam around. Dogs will form up in a pack of 2 or more and kill things on your property, like chickens. Or they'll instigate larger animals like the emus and end up biting/breaking the animal's ankle.

You can scare them away easily (dogs are generally skittish) but they'll come back.

I've also learned that some people are completely unreasonable when it comes to their pets, basically believing that "it's just a dog" and you're the asshole if you can't handle it being on your property.
> I'm starting to wonder if this is on purpose

People click on it, thus metrics tell that users like it, when they changed user interaction went down, so they kept it ... almost sounds plausible.
Any email address? Surely there's still unpopular email services out there that don't require a phone number. There's even websites that provide instant temporary email addresses.
A helpdesk that helps you well and doesn’t have queues provides lots of goodwill, even when you don’t use it often.

Such a helpdesk is expensive, though, the more so if you put it in a building in a premium location.

In Apple’s case, that’s paid for by sales. I imagine Microsoft didn’t manage to do that, if only because they have less hardware to sell.
Facebook's TransCoder AI converts code from 1 programming language into another
I don't think the cost of the MacBook is the point. Pay us more money because of artificial restrictions we put in place is the point.
I remember this very fondly. I actually spent a long time trying to perform the superbouces as a teen, I pulled it off maybe twice. I was on NTSC and did not know there was a difference.
> Is it the technology or how the technology is used that is the problem?

Both, and they aren't perfectly separable.

> Use it to catch a child kidnapper, the technology is great. Mistakenly identify the wrong person then not so great.

This "ends justify the means" calculus has not, historically, been the disposition of the US justice system. We have many constitutionally enshrined rights that indisputably make it more difficult to catch child kidnappers.
A large thread about this from 11 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23528182
Interesting, but is it possible that it’s bad data? What app gave them permission to have this data —- is it possible that the app’s users are a similar demographic?
Leaning Technologies (www.leaningtech.com), we make compilers that target WebAssembly and JavaScript.

I am CTO of the company.
One of the things I recently started thinking about is how most of the "wacky hijinks" in TV Shows and Movies would almost definitely result in your arrest today.

Many of the "innocent pranks" and "fun times" that my grandparents and parents would tell me about from their youth, also have components that have been made illegal now.

Almost every Senior Prank has some component of B&E / vandalism.

I've just found it odd how the media we consume seems to exist in this completely different world, where baristas live in massive apartments they could never afford and most of the fun and excitement of the story comes from situations that in real life would most likely end in your arrest.

It seems like decades of being "tough on crime" and having a "war on drugs" has created a society where everyone is always breaking some law. That means that we are all at the mercy of Law Enforcement officers as they use their "professional discretion" to decide who is breaking it enough.

This is an older article but still relevant as ever
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/08/03/how-the-suprem...

Do you have an air freshener in your car, the police can pull you over for it.
Then claim they smell alcohol or marijuana and search your person and vehicle. As long as they stopped you "in good faith" because they thought, even incorrectly, that they could stop you for obstructed view, then it's cool with the courts.

It seems like we are overdue for a correction. While every crime statistic has pointed to the fact that we live in the safest time in history, we continue with zero-tolerance tough-on-crime policy making that does nothing to make us safer.
My impression was that the Microsoft Stores existed primarily for Windows Phone, and this is just lag/momentum catching up to them.
What about a local deli or grocery?
Photographing a Dumb Paper Bag Led to Writing a Novel
The new GitHub UI demonstrates this perfectly.
I agree up until you say "few good people living in those neighbourhoods" it's the other way around .. you'd be amazed at how few people are generally responsible for crime in any given area.
When was the last time a political decree lead to change in who gets to be leader in what ?

The modern Chinese supply chain can only be replicated in few other places in the world.

I don't see what the problem is to let China do what it does, and focus everybody else's goal on other more important things - like reducing global C02 emissions.

You could generate millions of jobs just by doing that.
I could have been a bit more clear in my summary. The article cites statistics that claim a higher rate of police stops of Black and Hispanic people are unfounded than those of white people. If true, this is evidence of police targeting practices that are disproportionate with actual underlying criminal activity rates.

Taking a step back to look at the historical context... The brutal wake of slavery and ingrained systemic racism are primary contributors to heightened criminal activity we see in some predominantly black neighborhoods. Black people didn’t collectively choose to live in worse conditions with high crime rates... After unlocking their literal chains, a savagely racist society pushed them in that direction.
> It depends on what you mean by causal.

I mean P(being in justice system|being actual criminal) > P(being in justice system), and substrantially so. Moreover, P(being criminal|being in justice system) > P(being criminal). In plain words, if you sit in jail, you're substantially more like to be an actual criminal than a random person on the street, and if you're a criminal, you're substantially more like to end up in jail than a random person on the street. That's what I see as causal relationship. Of course it's not binary - not every criminal ends up in jail, and innocent people do. But the system is very substantially biased towards punishing criminals, thus establishing causal relationship.

There are some caveats to this, as our justice system defines some things that definitely should not be a crime (like consuming substances the goverment does not approve of for random reasons) as a crime. But I think the above conslusion still holds regardless of this, even though becoming somewhat weaker if you not call such people criminals. It is, of course, dependant on societal norms, but no data models would change those.

> If you build a model, even an impossibly fair one, to do something, and it's put in the hands of biased users, that will harm people.

That is certainly possible. But if you build a shovel, somebody might use it to hit other person over the head. You can't prevent misuse of any technology. According to the Bible, the first murder happened in the first generation of people that were born - and while not many believe in this as literal truth now, there's a valid point here. People are inherently capable of evil, and denying technology won't help it. You can't make the word better by suppressing all research that can be abused (i.e. all research at all). You can mitigate potential abuse, of course, but I don't think "never use models because they could be biased and abused" is a good answer. "Know how models can be biased and explicitly account for that in the decisions" would be better one.

> his[0] read as incredibly condescending, which doesn't help.

Didn't read condescending to me. Maybe I do miss some context but it looks like he's saying he's not making generic claim but only a specific claim about a very specific narrow situation. Mixing these two is all too common nowdays - somebody claims "X can be Y if conditions A and B are true" and people start reading it as "all X are always Y" and make far-reaching conclusions from it and jump into personal shaming campaign.
I think Micron (Crucial) still has US fabs for NAND. They were in partnership with Intel but that agreement was dissolved a couple years ago.
Except we are [0]. Here's the breakdown of why people are in jail (numbers rounded)

- Drug offenses: 46%

- Weapons, Explosives, Arson: 20%

- Sex Offenses: 11%

- Extortion, Fraud, Bribery: 6%

- Immigration: 5%

- Burglary, Larceny, Property Offenses: 5%

- Robbery: 3%

- Homicide, Aggravated Assault, and Kidnapping Offenses: 3%

So drugs vs (WEA + BLPO + R + HAAKO) is 46% vs 39%. Last I checked 46 > 39, so yeah we are talking about things like pot.

[0] https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen...

__EDIT__: It appears that the parent has removed their comment, so let me add context. Here I'm responding to the parent's claim that you can outright dismiss drug related crimes because it is all about violent offenses. I'm just trying to show that drugs play a big role and thus dismissing them is naive.
Ask HN: What is the best bank for an early state startup?
So, I am the founder/CEO of a new B2B SaaS startup. We have about 250k in angel funding. about 2K in MRR (that we just signed) but nothing more and we will raise our first real round probably in fall.

What bank will you recommend for an early stage tech startup? Is SVB still a good deal?
and, in general, what things to watch for when selecting a bank?
Have you considered making a public REST API available?
I find it annoying with these articles with generic titles. And then when you dig into them it is about specific products. A better title would be "The Six Levels of Reusability in Vue".
Ash HN: Is it worth investing in paid email services hey/superhuman?
With a lot of hype around paid email services like hey.com and superhuman - Is it worth all the money or is it just a hype?
It isn't 33ms delay unless you can render and process gameplay in 0 time or scan out through hdmi in 0 time.
> We’re talking rape, burglary, murder, vandalism, and assault... Conversely, low-income neighborhoods have tons of hardcore crime like I’ve described.

Tons?

Rape seems an unnecessarily emotional grab here, since most rapes are perpetrated by someone the victim knows and aren't restricted by income.

Vandalism happens everywhere as well.

> It’s always the people in the white upper-class neighborhoods who think the police are the problem.

My mom grew up poor and told me to not trust the police and certainly not let them in the house without a warrant.

> ...because they celebrate...

Who is "they", in this context?

"Tons." "Always." "They." Your language suggests an agenda that you're presenting in absolutes.
> Scott's real name has been easily findable for at least a year, based on his own words. So I don't understand why he went full nuclear.

Findable in the opposite direction, and that is an important difference.

If you know about Scott's private life, you can find his job. But if you only know about his profession and full name, googling for his full name will show you his professional life, not his private life.

There are many Scotts, many Alexanders, even many Scott Alexanders, and some of them are relatively famous (there is a screenwriten, and a baseball player). Unless you already read Scott's blog, there is no reason to assume he would be the same person as the doctor you are looking for, and the blog will not be shown on the first page of results for his full name.

But if NYT publishes the article as originally planned, when Scott's potential patients enter his full name in search engine, the article about him and his blog can easily be the first result. This is exactly the outcome Scott wants to avoid.
Just to tack on, I cannot understand autocomplete results that do this:

Search: abc
Results: abcdef, abcxyz

Then I type d

Results: abcxyz

How did typing more of the top result make it less likely I wanted the top result?
I recommend a playlist centric approach as a workaround. Seed the playlist with some of your favorite songs, and start listening to things from that playlist. Recommendations for that playlist will be context local to that playlist rather than global. Here's the part I'm not sure about -- is the fact that you made a playlist with recommendations then a stronger signal for what the discovery playlist pulls? Is there a time decay involved (which I imagine there is) based on your listening history -- does it passively (so you'd just have to wait) or actively (so you'd have to actively listen to other songs to clear its presumptions) reset?
Perhaps the best way to do this right now may be renting a phone number online.

There are services you can pay in btc, which will receive a verification code for you, using a real phone number, rather than a voip number.

AFAIK they're often used by relatively unscrupulous people to bypass bans in games, etc, but could also be used here.
Socialyzer.com is a destination for local news and information posted from trusted local and state government social media sources.
Apple stores, on the other hands, are like popular night clubs these days.

I was at the mall the other day and saw a long line up of people looking to get in and a girl with an iPad looking through her list to see if she could admit people immediately (the people who made appointments), or make them wait (those who didn't).
Leading cause of death for peace corps volunteers is (was?) motorcycle accidents.
The paper is funded by a company with a vested interest in showing the value of wastewater analysis as well, it might not help their cause if they discuss the false positive as a potential problem instead of a great new finding
A question to ask is what are the demographics? Is the support a plurality, old people, young people, homeowners, a silent majority a vocal minority, do we know?
We have intel and amd here already. It’s not clear that R&D is the issue, it’s cost of manufacturing. This seems to be better solved with some kind of critical industry tax incentives.
"Everyone above me is looking the other way, why arent they held responsible? I'm not responsible, they are."

Can't you see how this attitude results in EVERYONE looking the other way unless we have 100% virtuous exec boards? So many people in this thread mad that Snowden is putting this at their feet. How much are your morals worth?
This seems like kind of a left-field question. I'm sure if this person sought care any kind of active infection was ruled out. What are you angling for, neurosyphillis?
I was under the impression that this is more likely related to the reduction in lead in the air. At first glance that seems plausible. See murders by year[1] and the presence of lead[2], the timelines seem to match.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_New_York_City#Murders...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/01/03/how-lead-c...
>the very talented lobbyists at OneWeb have convinced the government that we can completely redesign some of the satellites to piggyback a navigation payload on it.

I mean it's hard not to laugh.

All the major GNSS are herculean focused efforts over decades and the UK leadership reckons a ducktape solution will do.

They would be better off just negotiating (paying) access to military encryption on GPS and Galileo and calling it a day. Redundant encrypted is probably miles better than improvised something anyway
That's the fundamental problem. We are ruling out possible results in advance, based on arbitrary social conventions, not data.

This is fundamentally unscientific and will lead to stagnation at best, regression at worst, and progress only in the unlikely case. At some point we will have to reconcile the fact that the same mathematical and scientific techniques which we correctly apply to other sets of data produce unacceptable results any time models are conditioned on demographic data.

What then?
Google will start paying some publishers for news articles
Looks like some improvements to spread operators and tuples, which is welcome.

I'm most excited about: TypeScript 4.0 supports a promising proposal to add three new assignment operators: &&=, ||=, and ??=.

Which is a nice shortcut for operators I use often.

No huge changes here that I can see, just small steady improvements to an already excellent language.
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