skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for linking to studies on the systemic racism issue.

"Using rich data linking federal cases from arrest through to sentencing,
we find that initial case and defendant characteristics, including arrest
offense and criminal history, can explain most of the large raw racial
disparity in federal sentences, but significant gaps remain. Across the
distribution, blacks receive sentences that are almost 10 percent longer
than those of comparable whites arrested for the same crimes. Most of
this disparity can be explained by prosecutors’ initial charging decisions,
particularly the filing of charges carrying mandatory minimum sentences. Ceteris paribus, the odds of black arrestees facing such a charge
are 1.75 times higher than those of white arrestees."

It should also be noted that the vast majority of people talking about the sentencing disparity ascribe 100% of the sentencing difference to racism, when this paper states that it's actually a 10% delta, and the other 90% is due to previous criminal record, etc. It's not like activists ever cared about nuance.

The issue I have with the term "systemic racism" is that it is typically used in a purposefully nebulous fashion to capture and group a collection of specific, actionable issues that can be measured.
That deprecation is meaningless, since there is no standard body to revise the standard, and users are perfectly willing to continue to use those functions.
Regarding [5], where is the disagreement on the effectiveness of HCQ + Zinc + Azithromycin?

Overwhelmingly the news has been negative.

The above doesn’t appear to include all of the research.
I mean they have the money and a stock that's nearly doubled in a year, quadrupled in 5 years. A stock and cash deal for a chance at making the next $100B social network doesn't seem all that bad
Yes, robberies are down significantly.
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You can't rationalize or intellectualize everything. Trying just makes it harder later on when the things you cannot bargain with start piling up, despite all of your engineering attempts to prevent them. Essentially the author is asserting that thinking harder isn't going to fix some classes of problem, no matter how hard you think.

Fundamentally, there's a trap. It's a short trip from "I can avoid this if I'm good enough" to "I didn't avoid this, so I'm not good enough (bad)." That's toxic dialog. If this is the way you think about anyone, including yourself, you're not being a good friend, and there will be consequences.

And I realize the irony in this statement, but if you like to out-clever problems, you should think about whether you are failing to maintain a diversity of rich, long-term relationships with people. If so, this is probably not a coincidence.
Half the use case for siri is texting while you drive.
The Oneplus Nord is still a better phone for the same price. If you can wait for the 7T to drop in price when the new Oneplus is released this year you will get an incredible phone compared to the Pixel 4a at close to the same price. IMO Oneplus still makes the best Android phone at the best price/value point.

Disregard the prices at gsmarena, they can be found for much less.

https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=9816&idPhone2...
Why can't Google sort out its global distribution? The Pixel phones have only ever been (officially) available in a handful of countries and this one is no different: "Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India (coming soon), Ireland, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States".
You're confusing a lot of things. FICO score is one thing, Vantage Score is another thing and credit report is another thing that is used to calculate scores.

There are plenty of free options to get your real FICO score - discover gives it, Experian has a free plan. They give you your FICO score + summary of the report.

Creditors don't use that... First, shopping for a loan usually involves soft-pulls of your report and that gives you an interest rate and general idea if you get approved or not. Then you satisfied with rate and decide to proceed with loan - hard pull happens, this one gets recorded. Important thing - they pull your entire credit history, not just score, in fact there is no way to pull score. Then they either approve you or ask for more documentation like: bank statement, pay stubs, W2, etc. You can have 700s credit score while being deep in debt. Also, my FICO score was always higher than my Vantage score, not other way around.

Even paid Experian cost like 15$ a month and it shows you all your FICO scores: general, auto, house lending, banking etc. It's dumb to start shopping for a mortgage relying on just CK vantage score.
I've heard the difference is due to more stringent warranty requirements compared to the US. Also the US doesn't include sales taxes in the price.
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That video is so funny, no one is on their phone! Did they not have smartphones in 1989?

While command economies have numerous documented failures, including actual fucking famine during eg the Great Leap Forwards, crowd-sourcing is a very real phenomenon, enabled by the Internet, even under capitalism. Right now, however, we're witnessing the failure of a free-market economy to provide for their poorest citizens. At least the people that starved under Stalin didn't have a Safeway on their block that was filled with food.

Markets are so efficient that even socialist food banks[0] use a "market" on the backend. That doesn't mean that an infinitely free market is infinitely efficient.

[0] https://www.chicagobooth.edu/magazine/food-bank-economics
We could talk about the social version of this. In my job nobody really works, it's an adversarial environment where everybody is hurting so wants to help nobody. A colleague and I did a thing together, the flow of shared tasks when done in friendly spirit helps immensely. Passing stuff between each others. Things happening while you're doing something else. Joining back together.. This should be mandatory in work and what leaders should be doing, ensuring people work in synergy.
You can very well make the argument that all the cameras in Tesla's cars can be used for surveillance and hence, pose a threat to national security. No evidence needed - the precedence has been set.
Verifying localisation in iOS apps with GitHub Actions: the reinvented wheel
Nice to hear Stripe actually caring for their customers.

Besides that, I think your product serves a wonderful niche. Had the exact problem of hosting a static site for a customer and actually needed to host a full Python backend eventually to receive form submissions. In the future I'll just use formcake.
BasicBlocker: Redesigning ISAs to Eliminate Speculative-Execution Attacks
I think until they get into the mass production market, risc-v will be fairly expensive compared to the Rpi. Take a look at the full stack Hifive Unleashed ($1000) or the cheaper Hifive1 (revb): https://www.sifive.com/boards
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https://youtu.be/a6iW-8xPw3k
For sure! H1B as a whole tends to be abused, and your points are completely valid ones in general.

And my comment was about TVA's direct use of the H1B program - not use of an IT contractor that is likely to be (ab)using the H1B program to staff the roles. That said, the IT contractors TVA is using for their IT outsourcing are used all over the federal government, even if through layers of subcontracting. So it's a bit frustrating that a TV ad triggered such a reactionary response from Trump in this isolated case but not in any other.
Recession yes, though it was at the end of that period when Volcker moved to quash inflation.

CDs didn't arrive in large numbers until the mid 80s.
Most people are self-serve! We’ve tried really hard to make this super easy to use – and we’re definitely standing on the shoulders of GSheets and Airtable
Is SEO even worth it in 2020 considering how saturated markets are and the number of ads displayed? I remember going after long tail searches in the early 2010s with some success. Not sure if cost-benefit still adds up.
That kind of proves the point though even at 24 a month if you have the phone for 2 years then the plan was $576 while the phone was only 350. The phone would come out to $14 a month. Do you value your phone as worth less to you than Netflix?
The elevators I encounter daily have a working close button, are there ones that don't work?
Sounds perfect, but I've yet to hear of any company using this plug-in!

Personally I also have hope for the interesting hybrids that are continually coming out that are trying to create a seamless pipeline between Revit and Rhino: Google's Flux (which failed), Speckle, RhinoInside.

I also hacked up my own crude solution, which was to continually run a flask server in the background, and then pass json strings between Rhino, Revit, and Jupyter. I do a lot of analysis work (building energy and environmental simulation/optimization), so wanted a solution that gave me access to the scientific python ecosystem.
(googler, opinions are my own)

I honestly like bradfitz's youtube video the best to show the Nest Protect (the smoke alarm) issues[0]. They have since fixed these issues, as this was the gen one protect.

For your #2 (no insider knowledge), that looks like people's accounts getting hacked and then the hackers talking through them. All home camera cloud based cameras have had these cases. I think Nest moving to Google account login system for Nest is probably the best protection against this kind of thing happening. Account takeovers happen, and guarding against them at scale is hard (especially when people reuse passwords).

For #1, I think the culture has changed a lot as it's been absorbed into Google's hardware division. Hopefully it's better, but I couldn't say anything of value there.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpsMkLaEiOY (warning, loud video)
All good, I don’t have any issue with attaching or implanting tracking devices for research purposes in what looks like a wholly harmless way.

From what they were saying, it emitted a ping every ten minutes, wasn’t entirely clear if it was acoustic or radio. Shark didn’t seem to mind.
Finally, a Google Pixel phone with a competitive price. All previous Pixel phones were seriously overpriced.
The databases are separate web applications. Your username (and password) is your library ID card number, generally. When inside this site, you can search for publications (e.g., NY Times), and then filter by publication date (e.g., today), and view all of today's articles. It isn't access to NYTimes.com, but it's the same article contents accessed in a different way.

You may have used these databases in school to write research papers. Public libraries grant more or less the same access to similar/same databases, if you no longer are a member of an academic institution.
Sex-biased brain anatomy in humans and mice is much the same
Someone else's phone?
Agree, water resistance would have been nice but it's not mutually exclusive to the headphone jack. Samsung was doing both for awhile.
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From the abstract:

""Sex differences in brain organization are theoretically important for our understanding of sex differences in human cognition and behavior. However, neurobiological sex differences have been easier to characterize in mice than in humans. Recent murine work has revealed a highly reproducible spatial patterning of gray matter volume (GMV) sex differences that is centered on systems for socioreproductive behavior and correlated with regional expression of sex chromosome genes. We integrate neuroimaging and transcriptomic data to establish that these same characteristics also apply to GMV sex differences in humans. These findings establish conserved aspects of sex-biased brain development in humans and mice, and update our understanding of the consistency, candidate causes, and potential functional corollaries of sex-biased brain anatomy in humans."
If your scanner drivers hook into SANE, I think saned supports sharing a local scanner over the network, so you could set that up in a container, similar to setting up CUPS in a container for printer drivers. Here's the document for setting that up: https://wiki.debian.org/SaneOverNetwork

A container is nice because you can also be sure that the scanner container only exposes the saned socket, and has no other network access.
Let's also consider whether lies should be made more expensive.

Whether lies should be more expensive or not, lies cannot be made expensive. Even in a totalitarian state, false rumors spread easily. The cost of production of lies is close to zero, the cost of distribution of lies also close to zero.

It's like all of HN is eager to apply an argument that makes sense for cheap, knock-off auto parts ("Cheap is too expensive", etc) to decent public journalism. It doesn't work.
> Would you please stop posting generic ideological comments to HN?

If you explain to me how the comment I replied to isn't just as generic, and what you mean by "ideological" that is present in my comment and not in the parent, sure.

You allow a claim, coated in "wondering", an old chestnut trotted out time and time again -- and don't the clear refuting of it, by one of the greats in the field? There are no principles here you are applying fairly, it's utterly arbitrary. My point stands. Graying it out just adds the data that some people would rather bury and smear it, than learn. That's on them.

And no, it doesn't lead to any conversation of any kind, because agreement is expressed in upvotes, and I doubt anyone can muster a coherent rebuttal. I don't see you trying either, you just say what would have happened, if you hadn't made replying impossible. Weizenbaum is correct, and apparently, some people cannot let that stand.

> It's against the site guidelines because it leads to repetitive threads which are tedious at best and nasty at worst.

Which part of them?

> This site is supposed to be for curious conversation and those things are not compatible.

Saying "it" and "those things" doesn't make up for a clear definition of them.
A little offtopic, but am I the only person that is driven absolutely batty by stuff like google maps talking over conversations out of nowhere and without warning (usually telling me about something of no value)?

I really wish these text-to-speech interfaces would begin notivation with a unobtrusive ding, wait a moment so you can stop talking... or even better, listen and slightly delay their notice so they're not talking over you if at all possible.
It takes time to get a new restaurant off the ground. It's not an overnight fix.
Pico-8. I recently discovered fantasy consoles and have been blown away by what people are making with them. If she is interested in making games but Scratch is too easy and boring, but full on game engines are too complicated then Pico-8 is perfect.

Based on Lua, with built in sprite and music editors makes things super easy and the community is awesome.

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It's not only economic cost. To get results like in china you have to be (like) china. It's easy to sell drastic measures to the population if the infection (and death) numbers look scary. But if the numbers stagnate at low values nobody is going to accept drastic measures. You would need to fight against your own population to stop the virus altogether. And even if you achive this, the virus will return (tourist/travelers).
Nothing stopping you from such investments.

I put my money where my mouth is.
This is something that afflicts a lot of younger, talented students. I was able to breeze through K-8 without studying, then attended a challenging high school where I went from a straight A student to a B/C student. It took me at least two years to realize that I could no longer succeed by simply showing up. Fortunately, this was great preparation for college. I saw many straight-A high school devastated after their first round of college engineering exams.

I think this is an unfortunate consequence of our education system at-scale. It's difficult for advanced students to be properly challenged until they reach a certain reckoning point, which for Terence was impressively during his grad school exams.
Lazarus (a Delphi compatible cross-platform IDE)
With respect, if you need pain to justify fixing the issue, why not just shut off pagination?

This middle-state is frustrating even for me as a long-time user who knows about the more button.
I think Microsoft has a lot of products that can be complimentary to and tie into a broad social media product like TikTok. Some thoughts:

* Bing / Ads / AI: Microsoft used to power FB ads after they invested in 2007. GPT-3 has shown that there's a lot that is probably happening within the AI division of these large tech companies. Adding a consumer social media product like TikTok will probably help them test models + gather information to train their models.

* LinkedIn / GitHub: Microsoft has two social websites targeted toward the professional crowd. Adding a consumer product may allow them a higher % of coverage of social activity that starts to rival FB and even surpass Google.

* Xbox / Minecraft: Consumer brands that have been reasonably successful under Microsoft. Some good tie-ins with TikTok could help boost all three brands.
Using virtio to demonstrate how set a pixel looks unjustifiably complicated. Queues, requests, responses!.. By contrast, using the framebuffer in Linux is a breeze. (Doing this in DOS was easier still.)
You're combining their two statements. They said that somebody who wants in your house is 100% going to get in if they want to badly enough.

They also said that saying that you have guns definitely increases the attractiveness to burglars. Guns are one of the things that would be easily (not legally) sold to somebody or kept to use in another crime. It wouldn't take long to figure out how many people live in a house and if all of them were gone.
It's an optimization for usability. Many more symbols occur as the heads of list forms than appear after #'. So, the common case is optimized for clarity and the relatively uncommon case requires two extra characters.

I completely disagree that it sucks. What sucks is having to remember not to have your variable names collide with your function names (or indeed any of the other namespaces in CL). Things that are usually used in different ways benefit from having separate namespaces.
You know, I thought briefly about rephrasing the "colored" part because the accidental "pun". But nothing came to mind.

I mostly agree with you about "liberal racism". Apology accepted.
So your theory is that because most people are wearing masks where before men in their 30s and 40s were not, that seems to be the best option?
It came with my 11 pro! Although I did immediately lose it...
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A Customer of mine is installing an "AI-based temperature screening system"[1]. It's retailing for over $3K. Based on the manual it looks like a facial recognition access control security product (it can interface with the industry standard Wiegand protocol) with an infrared thermometer bolted on and a bunch of gross profit thrown in for good measure. The manual has the look of being a product rushed to market.

https://www.richtech-ai.com/product-page/aatss-v2-pro-enterp...
Ironically, those sneakers aren't made to last, and disintegrate after 10 or 20 years.
Sorry, I’m not following?
I used to have swimming stuff in bag all the time when not wet, so getting ready meant just picking it up.
This isn't really true in every language. Not every use of inheritance is a case of OOP. Inheritance is a mechanism used for multiple purposes (especially in C++) and OOP is merely one of them. It's also just a way to do mixins, and it's frequently used for that in C++.
You could require (or just request, if wanted) a "From" header in the HTTP request, perhaps, if you want to contact the user via email.
Better in what way? I buy Pixels for their camera (and LineageOS support).
What Is Alien Hand Syndrome? Or when your hand acts on its own
That’s great to hear! Glad to be hitting those needs now, and hopefully you’re gonna like what we’ve got in store for the next few months!
I case all my phones anyhow so other than bend strength the material of the body is largely irrelevant to me.
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Lack of matrix headlights is a glaring omission on Teslas sold in Europe, too. Pretty much any other high-end car in Europe has them, at least as an option.
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yeah, that's fair. the system really needs investing in by big G.
That seems to apply to foreign investment in the US. It is not obvious that it would apply to a foreign company selling its US operations to a US company. Maybe it depends on the form of payment--if the payment includes stock in the US company than maybe it counts as in investment?