skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Banks may not directly use race as a criteria, but the claim is that they use race as a criteria for property value, and then use property value as a criteria for loans ...

You have to do the leg-work to show that Banks have a policy that is in intent racist because every policy you can ever think of will have a differential impact on any group you create - because groups will never be perfectly uniform.

>Counting a building with active tenants paying rent as being valued at $0 is ridiculous.

Not necessarily.

This is why these articles are so terrible. They didn't do investigative journalism. They didn't do the legwork. I can tell you right now, there is a reason why it is valued at $0 - we just didn't get that reason because the journalist is lazy.
But Finder now has the syncing component for the iPhone, the Music app is only for playback and library management.
Find me one instance of the BBC directly calling Jeremy Corbyn an antisemite.
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Might want to read up on what happened with Strava:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42853072

And the military has already acknowledged that they have a problem with the rampant use of private devices. So any app that harvests a lot of real-time location data can be a problem.

Also if I was the Chinese government I absolutely would be analysing audio/video and capturing contacts for any phones at known military GPS locations.
What file formats? Text?

That is meaningless if they don't support the same language features, which is why other than Google's inhouse Android Linux fork, the Linux kernel is hardly compilable with anything else other than GCC C dialect.

GNU/GCC might have enabled and unleashed a movement, but thanks to the mass adoption of non-copyleft licenses, its time has come to pass, and in a couple of generations we will be back to shareware and public domain software packages.
It's not that I disagree with his use of statistics, but my own philosophical framework (particularly inspired by the ideas of J.E. Roemer, Gerry Cohen, Nitzan & Bichler, and more recently Roberto Veneziani) sees serious problems (I think exploitation, domination, alienation, and insufficient focus on capabilities qua equality of opportunity) with not only capital in general but the state too.

I can't easily recall the statistics or framework he used, though the disagreement between our frameworks of society (such as methodological individualism) was what stood out to me. I recall Pikkety making a more convincing case on the economic side, and Frederic Lordon making a more convincing case on the philosophical side. I also disagree with Sowell on his position on sweatshops (again, not rejecting the principle on which it is made, which is that the workers would not be employed otherwise, or have lower wages from domestic companies, but rather a disagreement on the reach and justification of that argument).
> If a specific statistical classification indicates more bankruptcy, then it becomes true.

Fortunately this isn't actually the chicken and egg problem you think it is.

Suppose that for defunct historical reasons the model is predicting a higher default rate for some population, so it says to approve 85% of their loan applications rather than 95%. Then half of those people get into trouble that getting a second loan would save them from, but because of the model, only 85% rather than 95% are given the other loan.

So then their repayment rate will be 90% rather than 95%, because not as many were saved by the loan, but wait -- 90% is more than 85%, because only half of them needed the second loan. So now the model starts predicting that it should expect a 90% repayment rate for that population, which then increases their actual repayment rate, and so on until it stabilizes at 95%.

If you could identify the exact degree to which the prediction is affecting itself then you could take it all out at once, but doing that is hard. If the evidence shows a lower repayment rate in a particular area, is that just the holdover, or is it because that area still has a present-day higher level of drug use and violent crime which negatively affects repayment? If it's the latter and you give them loans at scale under the assumption that it's just an artifact, the bank is going bust.

So unless you can disentangle it all, the data to do which is often not reasonably available, the only realistic option is waiting for it to filter through.
For the Netherlands, being a flight hub is (considered to be) a massive boost to the economy. Hence we want KLM to keep flying so that Amsterdam remains a flight-hub.
> It's one of the many reasons people stick with their 75% or 85% good enough present solution.

100% this. That's one thing many people don't realise until they run a business - there are so many things which MUST be done, all the time, just to keep the lights on. When you do get a rare gap in those, you're better off developing and improving your core product than indulging yourself by spending resources on some unrelated nice-to-have.
Apparently in the US there's a couple of companies that will hire an attractive woman to take you to a bar, get you drunk and attempt to get you to take them home in your car so you get a DUI and makes it easier for divorces not to go your way.

If you're getting divorced, wait until it finalizes no matter how hot she is.
Check out the buildings he owns and the neighbourhood he is in on Google Earth and Google Streetview.

One address is 608 19th street Ensley.

He is surrounded by buildings which are abandoned and the roofs have caved in. Half the windows in the area are smashed. Saw a few crumbling walls.

Those building aren’t worth anything.
At the sake of sounding naive, how does one who is new to the field find old tech to revisit?
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Oh I'm sure it's a hell of a lot more than 100 years of work! Especially if you count all the third party developers.

Here's John Walker's history of Autodesk:

https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/

The Autodesk File: Bits of History, Words of Experience

The Autodesk File chronicles the history of Autodesk, Inc. and its principal product, AutoCAD, through contemporary documents edited and annotated by Autodesk founder and former CEO John Walker. The book traces the company from the first glimmer of an idea in the minds of the founders, through start-up, initial public stock offering, and growth from a loose confederation of moonlighting individuals to a leader in the industry of computer aided design. The book is available in several different editions, suited for on- or off-line reading with various tools. Click on the titles of the section describing the edition you prefer to view it or download to your computer.
Also JEDI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Enterprise_Defense_Infra...
I'm afraid to ask, but what "substantially new" genre do you suppose came into existence two decades ago?

I would bet the exact opposite of your entire comment is true. Instead of a new genre every decade or two, we now have new genres multiple times per decade. It is much easier to make it big as an independent artist thanks to a multitude of large open entry platforms, and there is more money flowing into the music industry than ever.

There are more talented artists in all genres, and thanks to music production hardware/software becoming essentially free a lot of that talent is being adequately produced.
Sadly, these buildings just aren’t good investments, and he’s not a good investor. Buildings that old are subject to all kinds of safety regulations, and Birmingham is not an easy town to work through that kind of thing. No one in the city is going to stick their neck out to cut through decades of regulations only to lose their job when there’s a fire or collapse. Any new owner will be tied up in red tape and rehab requirements that would dwarf the value of the buildings themselves. It’s likely that feasibility studies, inspections (and reinspections), and permits alone would cost more than the buildings. They also tend to take months and even years to get through.

I’m a successful real estate investor and while I absolutely love old downtown areas like that, and would love to revitalize them myself, I couldn’t even talk my wife into one of those properties, much less eight for which I had no budget. The numbers just don’t pencil out.

Racism has nothing to do with it. In fact, banks love to make loans to women and minority business owners. But there are some risks that would be irresponsible, and this is a textbook example of a loan that’s likely to default, leaving the banks with costs they couldn’t possibly recover.

Just to make sure this post gets flagged to extinction, I’d like to suggest to anyone sure that this is a case of racism and not pragmatism put together an investment group and help out.
If tourism + aviation is profitable combined, then why should we care? It's like Sony is not profitable by selling play station hardware. But game business unit is profitable because subscription income covers the hardware loss.
Reading these threads, it’s always frustrating to see people insist that it can’t be because of race. “There must be a logical, mathematical reason for this!”

As a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10KSB program, one of the most shocking things I found amongst my cohort was how many of the black small business owners were struggling with credit and financing. It didn’t make any sense when we discussed their business.

Often times, their companies were in better financial situations than my own, yet, whereas I was fairly easily able to secure low-interest LOCs and credit lines, they were stuck with high-interest consumer cards, or worse.

This made their businesses inherently more fragile than mine, as the interest payments alone were eating into what would have been otherwise healthy margins.

There is often no logical, mathematical reason.

There is just new racism justified by the lasting impact of old racism, and sometimes it’s not even that:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/business/paycheck-protect...
Stories like these suggest to me that genius level creativity equals intrinsic motivation plus time.

They also demonstrate that such motivation cannot be adjusted at will. It amounts to one's deepest understanding of where personal progress or best direction lies. Thus when Grothendieck or Swedenborg had religious experiences later in life their technical output ceased because their motivations had changed irrevocably.
>Banks kind of had to move their headquarters out of London.

Well, they didn't. If anything they're flying with joy on the prospect of not being as tied to EU regulations and making the UK more of a tax-haven...
>Testing didn't make those people sick;

I didn't say testing make people stick.

> It just revealed how many people are actually sick

Testing doesn't reveal how many people are actually sick. A lot of people tested positive but never get sick.

>That implies that tests are being used on people we're pretty sure have it

It was hard to get testing before but its relatively easier now. A lot of people get tested despite they never have a symptom. A lot of hospital test all patient coming to hospital get tested despite they come for different reason.
> Banks don't use race as criteria for loans, just as auto insurance companies don't use race as criteria for setting rates.

That's similar to saying a soap dispenser doesn't use race a criteria, that doesn't change the fact that the thing discriminated PoC.

The core problem is biased data in the model - in this case ethnic composition of neighborhoods, in the case of the soap dispenser a lack of testing staff with non-white skin leading to misadjusted sensitivity for the photosensor - not being adequately filtered out. Banks and auto insurances absolutely do take account the neighborhood in their calculations and models.
In South Africa right now alcohol sales have been banned as part of the regulations to deal with covid-19 pandemic. This has led to the rise in popularity of the pineapple as it is used to make home made booze.[0]

[0]https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/07/18/...
Britain likes to tout its common wealth status. Now having come out of the EU, the "common wealth" becomes even more important.

Gandhi whether you like it or not was a British citizen. Gandhi was a proper Englishman except his skin colour, highly educated, loyal to the British. Without him the British could have faced a very violent uprising in India.

He was instrumental in planting Nehru, who in turn was very loyal to the British, who continued to be the decision makers post independence. Britain couldn't have had a better man in their citizenery.

For those commenting about Gandhi's past or early life. Gandhi is an idea of non-violence, it is no longer about the person but what he is known for. Just like we do not discus Hitler's art prowess, oratory skills, love of dogs or fidelity, he is associated with violence and evil.

Even as an Indian I do not like Gandhi for all the mess he created and all the credits he takes for India's independence. However, with all things said and done he is an asset for any nation associated with his image. And we can use it positively.

Britain will benefit from using his image as part of its history.
Microsoft and TikTok talks continue after Trump call
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Black Swan, the first official video from the new Diesanera's album GRUDGE.
Padded cell. A young woman is proceeding with electroconvulsive therapy, a necessary step to reset what has become a poor, sad existence.
In this way she begin an hallucinatory journey, involving both exteriority and interiority… is this an 'electrical dance' on the final stage? Like for other women who have suffered the same situation we can't see how much unsustainable this inner pain has become for them, until its outward manifestation.
In bed at 2130, usually asleep within 10 minutes. Wake up around 5:30 +/- 20min. No alarm
This is almost the plot of The Bad Sleep Well by Akira Kurosawa. I won't spoil the film, but your comment made me think of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Sleep_Well
Version management for more structured data is hard. In a previous job we did extensive work on it in the GIS domain, and even having everything backed by a long transaction version controlled data store, resolving conflicts was not always easy. We did a lot of work on ways to automatically resolve conflicts, and it was only worthwhile for large customers who could set up good rules for their workflows (e.g. if you moved a pole in as part of a resurveying workflow then that position should take preference even if other changes happened to the pole).

We can handle this sort of thing in software because we can try compiling something, see it has errors, and fix the obvious syntax problems that have been introduced by a merge or rebase. We have tools that make it easy view and copy data from a previous version, and all of this makes things easier. For more structured data those low level conflicts need to be handled much better so that the user can concentrate on the higher level aspects. If they need to restore sub structures deleted in a merge then they need to be able to see those, so our version control starts to bleed right through the tool chain.
> .. understand what data does TikTok regularly send back to its servers. I decrypted the content of the requests and analysed it. As far as we can see, in its current state, TikTok doesn’t have a suspicious behavior and is not exfiltrating unusual data. Getting data about the user device is quite common in the mobile world and we would obtain similar results with Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram and others.
Some context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
> He does take a conservative approach to a lot of topics...

Sowell's book A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles [1] is, ironically, a very good starting point in understanding what makes Sowell "conservative" (the Constrained Vision) vs "progressive" (the Unconstrained Vision). I think this is the work that impressed Steven Pinker.

The categories get really messy, for example when he describes Marxism as a hybrid ideology, but the core idea is that people tend to believe either: 1. we are made of crooked timber and are made better by social structure, or 2. our potential is being held back by selfish oppressors/exploiters.

Regardless of which vision drives you, I imagine Thomas Sowell would do very well in Bryan Caplan's Ideological Turing Test [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Conflict_of_Visions

[2] https://www.econlib.org/archives/2011/06/the_ideological.htm...
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There's also the plugin ecosystem to consider - ranging from small things you might have self-written or exchanged with other users over the years for your workflows or to add missing functionality [1], to complete commercial add-on packages adding big chunks of domain-specific functionality.

[1] Some of which frankly should just be built-in, but either way it wouldn't make creating a replacement any easier.
Similar services exist even in Europe. I remember reading about it some time ago and managed to find it. https://www.alibinamieru.sk/ They provide multiple of services including: fake alibi for cheaters, testing fidelity of your partner, breaking up relationship by seducing someone (either lover of cheating partner when you want to end their relationship or directly the partner when for instance parents of the second partner want to prove that the chosen one is no good etc.) It's hard to say how popular the service really is though.
What you’re suggesting is illegal and has been illegal for quite some time. Credit policies have to be neutral in outcome. You can’t just cook up a clever way to be racist and hide it in some zip code algorithm. If your algorithm turns out to weigh against a certain people, it’s illegal. Even if it happened by accident, it’s illegal.
How the false economy of low-cost contractors can hurt your bottom line
They're free for the consumers of lies. They're paid for by the consumers of whatever product is buying the adverts.
If you have an unsafe function---that is, a function that is unsafe to call---then it is common practice to document the precise preconditions that the caller must uphold in order to ensure safety. This may indeed include passing a correct parameter. For example, the preconditions of the slice method `get_unchecked` require the caller to verify that the index provided is in bounds, otherwise the behavior is UB.

If you have a safe function that uses unsafe internally, then all possible invocations of that function should be safe. If this isn't true, then we call those sorts of APIs unsound and they are strongly discouraged. David Tolnay wrote a great blog post about it: https://docs.rs/dtolnay/0.0.7/dtolnay/macro._03__soundness_b...
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Every policy you can create will have differential impact on any group you create. The question is, was the policy created with the intent of racism.

And this is for policies in the abstract. Debt is an incredibly dangerous tool. It is not charity to give someone a loan they cannot afford - I've personally experienced it and I've personally seen it destroy lives. When I see someone get denied for a loan or a mortgage in my circle of friends - in every case, that was a good thing. It would have killed them.
Most resumes say more than that, though: they'll tell you where the person worked for those 4 years, and give some indication of both the type and level of work they did.

If I were hiring for a position that required X years of Java experience, and saw a resume that said "X years of Java experience" (or even "4X years") without any further elaboration—no section of actual work experience—I'd be, at best, deeply skeptical.
Tridos Bank APIs
Hey, author here! I definitely think the communication protocol is the special sauce here :).

I am to focus on this in a couple different ways, largely based on either a pub/sub style format for smaller periodic messages, or on a mailbox style format for larger messages (display frames, etc).

I'm still pretty early in the brainstorming process, and this is intended as a hobby/teaching project, but I'd love to have things be useful for everyone using it, and having compatibility APIs are a big way of achieving that.
He doesn't want them to invest, he wants a collateralized loan.
If you hate US and like CCP, why don’t you just move to China? Then you can happy with tiktok everyday.
At my company, we interview a lot of intern / newgrad candidates who are also considering careers in finance. The less these people know about what "real work" in the tech industry actually consists of, the better our chance of closing them. The main goal of the interview is to present a fun puzzle that will make them like us.
First of all, you didn’t mention anything about the military in your first post. So maybe you should read up on how to make a point comprehensively before telling somebody else to read up on something. The information that you mentioned, by itself, does not affect national security. And obviously, any sort of information that one can gather on the military is helpful to the enemy. That’s why they don’t do all sorts of things that civilians commonly do.

Anyway, maybe ban the military from installing apps or using civilian phones if it’s a problem??

That article you linked to was not even about TikTock it was about some other app. So removing TikTock is not going to fix the problem.
All media is propaganda. I like consuming the American and CCP kool aid at the same time tho... am I a sinner?
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I can't help but see a slight resemblance to the induced scarcity of certain Instagram famous houseplants such as a monstera albo variegata, for which buyers will regularly spend several hundred dollars for a tiny cutting in hopes of propagating one for themselves.
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You do not get it : this is your own country. Check your own borders by yourself. You Brexited to restore your sovereignty that was stolen by the EUSSR (Copyright Daily Mail)... Well exercise this sovereignty now.
And I do not think that there is a bargaining strategy anymore in the EU negociation team : the no-deal is on going. And the main reason is that your government has not the required level to manage the divorce. From the outside it seems that they could not manage anything anyway.
Statute of limitations. At some point, the clock really does run out. Varies widely from state to state, and I would assume, country to country.
Paywalled. Anyone have a bypass?

Edit: Got one! https://outline.com/HX3MA7
But we are positively drowning in music, video and written words. We don't need more incentives for people to create copyrighted work. We need more effective markets for consumers to judge it.
The HN "hug of death"?

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> The world trusts US companies because unlike China the US is not a dictatorship, has a functioning, independent judiciary and generally abides by international law.

I feel like this always get short shrift in whataboutism discussions.

In China, everything is by law in service and subordinate to the Party.

In the US, not.

That seems like a pretty big difference.
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This isn't history, it's current affairs.
Yes I read the quote, but my understanding of the Palestinians in Gaza is based on reality and not ideology. Gaza is a separate territority. The Palestinians there are more of less free to leave, especially if they want to go somewhere other than Israel. The plight of an impoverished people held hostage by a terrorist government does not a concentration camp make.

The Chinese government is literally putting Uighurs in box cars and shipping them to camps.