skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I pay with a credit card at every store and pharmacies have access to a ton of my personal health information. These aren't exactly places where you can remain anonymous. I wouldn't have an issue if these systems were near perfect, and had checks-and-balance built in such that false positives don't ruin innocent peoples' lives.

That's my primary issue, is that these point the finger at innocent people, and that innocent person suffers. We have so much evidence of how terribly inaccurate these systems are that it's appalling that they are given any credibility in the legal justice system. That article alone says that their old system misidentified ten people out of ten (!!).

My secondary issue is that these inaccurate systems are profoundly less accurate on PoC, a group of people already subjugated by our criminal justice system.

Taken in isolation, each of these issues should be enough to prohibit their deployment and use.

My suggestion for checks and balances is civil liabilities for those deploying said systems. Since I believe that Rite Aid is going to be pretty fucking diligent if they risk a $100MM lawsuit if they are wrong. I'm of the cynical mindset that the only way to get executives to consider the negative effects of their business strategies is to make it cost money, since that plays to their sociopathic tendency to make everything a dollar-cost optimization.

You can sit there and call me a sucker and a racist for pointing out racial bias in our society. But that's no enough to stop me from standing up for equal rights by calling out racial bias anywhere I see it.
India had 50,000 new cases yesterday. Virus has not died down in Asia.
Because the elderly experience it several regardless, and so would continue to experience a year round "cold and flu season". Or do you mean the viruses properties change?
Jiminy! That's an unforced error if I ever saw one! Thanks for the summary and context.
This grossly (and incorrectly) oversimplifies an enormous industry with a number of different approaches. Some PE firms absolutely strip the assets out of businesses and maximize their short term profits, while others buy and hold for the long term and others add value to companies they buy then sell them or take them public.

I hate the whole "PE is evil" attitude from people who don't understand it. Often there are headlines about how a PE firm has taken a firm over and fired hundreds or thousands of people, and the connotation is very much that they are evil and greedy for profit at the expense of people's livelihoods, while the reality is the business in its current form was going to fail and take everyone's job with it, and it was necessary to cut jobs in order to save the business (and thus save the jobs that remain).

I know the industry is an easy target because it's a bunch of rich guys and some of them are definitely greedy profiteers, but it's just unhelpful to label the whole industry based on those. If you go by that logic then the whole tech industry is very much evil because it exploits cheap labor (Uber, DoorDash, etc.).
SO is an amazing product. I learnt a lot from it. But in the last few years, I have been directed more towards Github, whenever I face issues with a particular library or tech stack. I see those questions already being asked/answered via github Issue.

I am not sure, what is the endgame for SO. But, Github could become a strong competitor in this space. Its become lot more easier to copy paste troublesome code/error and see resolution in github.
The App Store has an option where, in addition to uploading an ARM binary, you can upload LLVM bitcode (a binary representation of LLVM IR). This allows Apple to optimize the app differently for different devices[0], and is required to build apps for watchOS and maybe tvOS.

[0]: Not sure if Apple does this in practice, but I believe the purpose of bitcode is that they could do that if they wanted to.
Many (most?) places around the world have changed the way they do things so as to limit the spread of coronavirus.

These measures are currently seen as temporary. I wonder how long covid-19 needs to be a major threat before these "temporary" measures become permanent cultural / legal fixtures. E.g., updates to building codes, or conversion of executive emergency orders into permanent law.

For example, modifying building codes for retail/office space to reduce risk of person-to-person transmission via bio-aerosol.
A few weeks ago I started getting youtube video suggestions for religious Thai videos, which I have never shown any interest in. I ignored it. And it kept happening! I spend most of my time watching educational/tech review content, so I was worried my account got compromised. Changed passwords, and still the Thai videos kept getting recommended.

After a while I finally realized what happened: I would keep an ISS live-feed running in the background while I did housework. It was nice to just see where it was. Turns out that video was being hosted by a channel connected to several of these other Thai channels, and youtube assumed I would enjoy the content.

They still come up occasionally, but I've clicked "Not Interested" enough times that I think they got the idea.
This administration is ruining American hedgemony. We are weaker and stupider as a nation.
In this case, they were given the kiss of death. Cerberus Capital right as/after they were done striping Chrysler to the bones. They used the same executive to do it, although his name eludes me now. Paid obnoxious amounts of money for niche brands like AAC, then immediately ran them into the ground. Failed to miss every single opportunity to make money by creating a military-only section that ad functionally identical guns they were selling on the civilian side in configurations people actually wanted. Dropped the ball on quality in every plant - then refocused almost everything to an Alabama facility where they continued to drop the ball but all together now. And just generally did everything wrong.

There have been so many chances to sell. The Navajo Nation offered almost a billion in 2014 or so, couple years later a friend of mine in that industry was on a team that looked into buying with another capital company that everyone here would know, and the books showed that the 250 million they were asking was extremely optimistic for their sales and debt.

I have no doubt someone will pick it up now, but at dirt cheap, for name and maybe 20 IP designs that will keep getting made. The 870 and some Marlins will stay, all of DPMS is probably gone, dumb things like the R51 will finally see the garbage pale. The military contracts are worth something, but they largely weren’t suppling much to US mil, except some precision rifle components, and suppressors, their M4 carbines were going overseas.

So... IDK. Left and right and all over just the wrong way to run a gun company.
A funny tweet :)
I prefer using forums. They feel more personal, inviting, and calm. My bookmarks include top forums for every language I use. I would rather wait a few hours for an answer than bother with SO when I have questions that don't seem to have been asked before. SO is hostile even after years, and years of use I still always feel as though I am walking on eggshells when I post questions to SO. That's not okay.
Depends on so many things - principally the distance you ride, but also the riding conditions, how you store it, whether you keep it clean, whether you can do minor/moderate service yourself.

Personally I budget about €200/year for my €1200 road bike for 2000 km/year. I store it indoors, ride it 20% in the rain, don't take great care of it otherwise, and take it to the shop for anything more than changing tubes/tyres.
...your logic is faulty.

Google doesn't compete in every market (yet).
Then it's a good thing that I'm not making the claim "progressives are hypocrites" here and instead giving an example of how the toxoplasma of rage is misused for propaganda to start wars.

There's a long history of parties manufacturing casus belli and it benefits the world to be aware of this so as not to support more wars.
Well, even many mid-tier phones already have 4 GB RAM now.

The demise of 32-bit was/is inevitable for personal computing.
We don't know, we won't guess, but we have to have a policy, and that policy is based on what we do know. If what we do know changes, we change the policy.

The problem with that is that policy changing every week is not something that western populations can deal with, so policy changes have to be dampened somewhat.
To be fair that Mac was one of the greatest ever made, haha – I blame most of my issues with all of this on stability issues with the 2019 MBP I'm forced to use for work.
The dollar index is 50% or more Euro and there’s been a big shift there, probably driven by the fact that the EU appears to be making progress towards a fiscal union - in the mean time supporting (hopefully) a rescue package that transfers funding from the wealthier to less wealthy states. (Something we don’t think about much but happens in the US as normal course, think CA taxes going to AL.)

Combine that with the absolutely incompetent response to the pandemic and economic situation, whereas Europe has handled it well and managed to keep everyone on payrolls the US went down the massive unemployment and potential evictions route and is now squabbling over what’s the least amount of money we can give all these people. Even Wall St knows we need to give these people more money, the extra unemployment benefits have been keeping retail sales up, and keeping evictions down.

In the longer term the USD not being a reserve currency is probably good for everyone including the US.
The scary consequences of overbearing "Classified" status assigned to information that human beings are embarrassed by is likely the single biggest omission to the public record thus denying the public the ability to form political opinions fairly.
Credit cards are harder, because people switch those. I have had the same phone number for over a decade. This way, they keep historical data in the same profile.
I used to read these until every app stopped providing any useful information in there. Now I wait a while to install updates so I can read the new reviews. Apps updates are so risky, especially on iOS where you can't downgrade an app. More often than not an app upgrade will redesign the UI so I have to relearn it all, or remove free features and make them paid. "Bug fixes and performance improvements", yeah right :-(
You think the global supply chain is what prevented outright war between the US and Russia during the cold war?
1) In the near future: JavaScript/TypeScript (via Web Assembly), Go, Rust. Longer term, many more!

2) Absolutely! You could use it to extend your existing authorization code or slowly replace the existing code piece-by-piece or use oso for all authZ on a greenfield project.
"Sovereign" means they have sufficient force and technical ability, not a moral right.
It's amazing how well brainwashing works
GOOGLE FORTH HATE IF HONK THEN
Well, precisely because the states re-opened and people got closer to each other.
The difference between this moment and 2018 or 2014 is that we are in the middle of a bona fide crisis, and we went into it with rates already near rock bottom.

That leaves few options if dollar continues to weaken and inflation becomes concerning.
Eh, I suggested talking about "... the immoral and unethical (and probably illegal) behavior of the current President of the United States ..".

But look man. A part of me wants to back you into a corner, rhetorically. But honestly this conversation really isn't helping anyone. We're both probably rage-posting at this point.

I think all this started with someone saying that "racism is objectively bad."

To circle back to that, it's my own belief that the killing of George Floyd was a terrible reminder of how white supremacy subtly functions in our society, and, of our responsibility as citizens to work to improve our Union and make a more just society.

I think that doing that would ultimately be to everyone's benefit, because I believe that an injustice done to one person is, eventually and ultimately, an injustice done to everyone. We're all from the same (human) family, at the end of the day.

My arguing with you probably didn't help either of us. That's my bad.
This has been an issue since the very beginning. There was a "discussion" and you can guess which side won.
Because it's not a feature or legitimate bug report. Its a political statement and should be removed.
> birth control women can apply comes with sometimes severe side effects

Condoms exist.

> and even for that my wife needs my consent here in the Maghreb

Time to fix it.

> Having an abortion just got a lot harder in parts of the US, is even more limited in most parts of south america, requires consent of a male guardian in lots of islamic countries or is just illegal

Time to fix that as well.

> I still fail to see where the actual choices are.

How about not having sex in addition with birth control and abortion? Anyway, I am pretty sure that most women who take maternity leave actually wanted to have a child.
Am I wrong for presuming that the people who would most care about GitHub's public roadmap probably aren't even GitHub users?

Free tier users, maybe not.

But paying users care very much about what they can expect for their outlay of money in the years to come. Roadmap presentations for paid software are _de rigueur_; they help keep your paying customers on your platform.. They're just not often shared openly like this.

Github has a vested interest in attracting more and more free-tier customers though. Then they go to companies and influence tool purchasing decisions and help feed the paying customer funnel. So this seems like a risk with some postive calculus behind it. It could be that free-tier users didn't know they wanted to know the roadmap, and now that they do they'll be happy they know about it.
The problem is he needs Twitter as much as Twitter needs him. Lots of people have talked about getting his base over to some other app that will allow him to say whatever, but it just hasn't worked.
Honest question - how many people being restrained by the police claim they are being injured in some way as a way to avoid/delay arrest?
The fact that restrictions are effective or cause rate changes has nothing to do with the seasonal behavior of virus. The fact that restrictions don't cause immediate drops is pretty obvious A) there is time lag and B) no restrictions are 100% effective. It takes time for a change in the rate of spread to compound into reductions.

"many smaller waves" does not seem relevant to understanding the virus and in fact is what they are warning against. Where I live, if you dig down, "waves" appear to be simple thing, super spreader events at essential businesses and churches.

> WHO officials have been at pains to avoid describing a resurgence of COVID-19 cases like those in Hong Kong as “waves” as this suggests the virus is behaving in ways beyond human control, when in fact concerted action can slow its spread.
Called it. Decades of neoliberalism have rendered the United States government unable to take care of its own population and infrastructure, and this is the end result. Hope those tax cuts were worth it!

This explains why the stock market is up so much too. It’s not that they are expecting profits- they are pricing in inflation.
if it ain't broke, don't fix it
I noticed there is "Clustering" mentioned under enterprise features, but I can't seem to find any references to it in the documentation. Is this something that will be strictly closed source?
Pessimists Are Welcome to Apply
Same here. I honestly thought they were talking about Linux, not Windows. Windows 4K/HiDPI support is just great with many different compatibility options.
I love this and will use it.

I also love one of the lines of text in the slider image:

"The burrito cannons blared at noon"
Obviously impressive and good timing. Congratulations.

But, I'm afraid this is what popped into my head. It must be me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqKmb7SSpTE
I'd prefer it if they had no chance in hell anyway: https://www.termlimits.com/
MacPorts also mostly supports Apple silicon. It's pretty cool!
I-Open Group Partners with TerrAvion for Analytics/Farm Mngmnt Platform Agrilyze
When I run the search on mobile I see six screens of information scraped from Wikipedia and NIH before it starts showing organic links.

This is good user experience, but it's the same "problem" that the original article is objecting to.
> You seem to have a misconception that fiduciary duty must be to shareholders.

Fiduciary duty for a public company is to the shareholders, by definition. The board and officers of the corporation serve as the agents of its owners, their principals, without whose investment the corporation would not exist. Of course there is usually some overlap between the shareholders and the employees, and the company has other kinds of duties toward its employees in the form of contracts as well as a less formal stake in employee retention and goodwill. If you want a co-op structure where the shareholders and the employees are one and the same, that sort of thing does exist and can sometimes work out reasonably well but there are some obvious trade-offs when it comes to raising capital. In particular you can't fund growth by selling equity, only by going into debt, which means the co-op and its shareholder-employees are taking on the lion's share of the risk if the venture should fail.
Not sure that's the best example: Uber is profitable in mature markets, but has high fixed costs from legal battles and SDC adventures.

My question is, why can't SO make a profit? All the substantive content is given for free by the community, and it's a widely known, relied-upon site. How is it so hard to cover operating costs from ads and whatever related sources come from that?
So far everything points to him really taking time off to take care of family.
Isn't this what they are optimizing for though? I don't work at Google so I don't know and I block ads so I am not engaging with their revenue generation (at least in the most direct sense) but the idea seems to be if you are watching X content you then want to see more of X and it drives total engagement time. I think it sucks and is part of general trend of not being able to find diverse and cool content on the web..but hey Google
If the mods on SO were more lenient than they already are SO would be completely useless, as opposed to barely useful, as it stands today.

So many of the low-effort questions and answers belong in forums or IRC channels, or just ask your colleague, FFS. Or, you know, read official documentation? Get an understanding of the subject before you start making posts and just wait around for an answer. But I guess people could actually learn something, then.

Learning is not what many developers seem to use SO for, they just want a quick fix. Something to copy-paste. It leaves them with no understanding and increases the shittyness of code everywhere.

We need a higher bar for programming. If you can't get your work done without SO, you should be fired.
Oh boy, Series E.

If you raise Series E it means either you are doing extremely well or your business is drowning and you need a lifesaver. A business that is doing really well typically raises much more than 85M, so I'm going to go with the latter option. In which case, also, an 85M lifeline at this stage means you are not worth that much alive ...

IMO I can see in a very clear way the downfall of SO happened, they undermined the community that made them rise in the first place. Their most valuable asset IS the community, way more than the knowledge base they have accrued. People no longer feel comfortable going there. I wouldn't be surprised if their MAU is going down.

Too bad for Atwood which I think is responsible for the culture that SO initially had, and which lured many of us to contribute. Since he left, it's hard to put it in words but something changed. I don't think he's happy with how the site turned out to be down the road.

tl;dr; what this series E means is that SO will become the new experts-exchange sooner than later.
That feels a little unfair.

WebAssembly has been shipping in the majority of production browsers for over three years now. That's one of the most security-sensitive attack targets that exists. Those browsers would not have done so if it weren't reasonably safe.

Of course there are vulnerabilities that are discovered, just like in every part of the web platform. Nothing is perfect. But a huge amount of attention has been put on wasm's security and the major implementations are very robust.

It's true that wasm is reaching into other areas besides the web, which does raise new questions (like in that recent USENIX 2020 paper). Perhaps it's fair to say wasm is immature as a replacement for a native executable, or other new ideas that are coming out. But it's very mature as a sandboxing solution for pure computational code, and it's used successfully on the web all the time.
Hildebrand "Methods of Applied Mathematics" is the most approachable math text I've read. After hearing me express confusion about various topics that my dad thought were straightforward, he gave me his book from when he was in college, and yes, things were suddenly straightforward.
Ha, this started after the French convinced us to join with Vietnam.

Historians point to that moment as when Americans gave up on the government.
and sicker and poorer
You don't have to be walking. I recently met someone that I had not seen for a long time, recognized them by their pattern of small head movements.
If you have a gun owner in a household (a traditional family with kids) everyone that have voting rights will vote pro guns, that is 2-3-4 times that minority of owners translating in a majority of voters.

In my case if I would own a gun there would be 7 voters supporting it. Quite a multiplier.
See page 5 of daily WHO report for a nice graph of cases since inception: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...

COVID-19 is pretty clearly not subsiding in any meaningful way.

For US data and projection based on models for each state: https://cv19.report/
Tom Holland is great. Really applies a stylistic flare to historic records, with some liberties taken in pursuit of creative narrative, but still keeping grounded and acknowledging when something is mostly deduction due to insufficiently preserved materials.
Google has bought dejanews and has profited immensely from open source and open information.

So I do think they have an obligation either a) to make the whole archive available for anyone or b) maintain it properly.

Properly means restoring the fast UI from around 2004.
Decades of hard work and planning thrown out in less than a decade by complete and utter incompetence.
I'd appreciate something other than a GPIB connection in 2020, but you're right it's really a marvel of a design. Since getting it in the lab I've started reading more about how it works and there's a lot to learn. The widely lauded ADC in particular is really impressive.

https://doc.xdevs.com/doc/HP_Agilent_Keysight/HP%203458A%20C...
But do remember an unknown number of them were persecuted and probably killed. We don't how better the world would have been if all those lives curtailed made their fullest contribution.
Running Data Driven Meetings
If I have to disable something it's because of "anger", but I don't want "anger" about Mozilla. I want Mozilla to be the good ones.
The reason the Floyd killing has been such a powerful force is that there is a live video of a man being strangled, begging for his life, for minutes.

It is much easier to discredit a split second decision, mistaken identity, justify feeling threatened in so many other cases, but there it is, a man immobilized on the street with a knee on his neck, people standing around objecting to what’s happening, time, so much time to consider actions when there was no reasonable threat.