skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you explain how that quote was arrived at, specifically the "do not misbehave more than their White peers" part?

The article attributes it to https://web.archive.org/web/20200202151016/https://csgjustic..., but the closest I was able to find in that report was:

To address any suggestions that children of color in Texas simply are more likely to break school rules than their white counterparts, researchers included in their analyses a comparison between profiles for students whose behavior prompted a discretionary action and students who received a mandatory removal from school.

The "comparison between profiles" part is rather vague, so I can't figure out what exactly it is they did. As for the results of that comparison, I could only find the following:

While refuting some potential explanations why African-American students were particularly likely to be disciplined for lower-level violations of a school code of conduct, this analysis does not pinpoint the reasons for it.

And it might be more apt to compare vs. Hispanic students, since they are the largest demographic in Texas, as the report notes: the student population, which is 49 percent Hispanic, 33 percent white, and 14 percent African American, reflects a diversity that increasingly typifies many school systems in the United States.
That's the crazy thing actually, virtually the entire company is BYOD with Citrix access to a Windows VM hosted in a datacenter. Only software developers need a specific machine.

I spent the whole time watching compliance training videos, no joke.
The lack of full data is because tournaments keep Hawk-Eye (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawk-Eye) data to themselves right?
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Bad timing. Option Alpha is coming out with a product that will let you do this AND automate your trades [1]

[1] https://beta.optionalpha.com
The USSC has ruled that binding arbitration clauses in shrink-wrap consumer contracts are legal and enforceable.

For the usual reasons, congress has refused to change the law to vacate the ruling.
I would assume the primary customers would be purchasers of carbon credits, and possibly governments. However, there is likely a large future market for synthetic fuels, and carbon dioxide is an important building block for synthetic hydrocarbons.
What about it's implications for things like ballet in a world where people can't go to live venues and there is no money to support real dancers.. Or music videos that already have auto-tune singers.. why not generated backup dancers..
- Being tethered to a physical location means limited options for where you can live. You live where you have to, not necessarily where you want to.

- Commuting sucks, unless you live in a nice neighborhood and can walk to work or take a leisurely ride. This doesn't exist for most people. It's especially bad in the bay area if you need to take BART. Who wants to be packed inside a train like sardines with people smoking crack. Seriously, have you ever seen a train station during commuting hours? They're 10 rows deep of people waiting to get on. That's assuming it isn't shut down for some random reasons. I should also mention wasting around 2 hours a day that you could spend on more sleep or hobbies.

- Open offices suck and are a poor excuse that they increase collaboration. Constant disruptions (both sound and visual noise), can't have any personal conversations and need to find a meeting room or hide in the hallways. Not to mention, I don't need/want to see my coworkers on facebook all day while they complain that they don't have enough time to finish their tasks.

- WFH can contribute to a more flexible schedule. Most people cannot focus non-stop for hours on end. It's healthy to take breaks but you can't do much beyond walking around your office (if it's in a safe location) if you're tied to the office.

- many more but I got tired of typing.
I suspect you haven't replaced CV joints using a Chilton's Manual. Bicycles are easy. They don't require force or working overhead in a tight space next to a hot shop light, and don't leak fluids into puddles with your face in between. They're not scary except in the sense that someone doesn't have expertise. There's nothing there that can't be done right by trial and error and mechanical reasoning. It just takes putting it together wrong and taking it apart a few times until its right. Anyone can overhaul a bike in four days.
I think the player modeling is way more interesting than the visual representation and could probably be competitively useful.

I wonder if you could use some of the recent advances in pose estimation to rig a 3D model of each player rather than the rotoscope look of clipped frames in the demo.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/seattle-bike...

In Seattle, if you are "homeless" you won't be prosecuted for crimes, and guess who most of the bike thieves are?
Corporate users.
So what happens in the future when the world collectively admits that our fears of (and reactions to) the virus are far overblown and airlines longer require masks?

The day will come.
I guess I don’t see the appeal either, mostly because an 800x480 display seems painful.

Getting either a Pine phone or Pine tablet sounds better. Do the Pine phones make sense just as Linux devices, not using them as a phone?

I always travel with a small iPad Pro, and with Mosh, tmux, and a really powerful VPS from hetzner (which is so cheap I always leave it running), I feel I always have a Linux system with me that makes a practical writing and programming platform.

Can the Pine phones be plugged into a large monitor?
Right. I call it the Hacker News Right-Side Effect (or should that be Rule, like the Off Side one ... :):

In many HN threads with lots of comments, at some point in the thread (and very often starting at or near the top), the comments successively veer off to the right, sometimes to a ridiculous extent, forcing rightmost comments into a thin vertical column that is a pain to read.
And worse, the main topic of the OP is often not discussed much at all, since the majority of comments are about these minute inconsequential details, as you say above - and since these trivia subthreads tend to get upvoted the most.
They're fun, too, in that the ultimate authority for setting the recipient name is on the sender but the ultimate authority for accepting a transfer is the bank of the recipient, which can result in that failure-to-sync causing someone to input a name which cannot be reconciled with the account's owner. (This is particularly common in consumer-to-business payments because even with great attention to detail if you're not doing this frequently the error rate will be a few percent.)

The pull system works in a different but similar fashion, and will (notably) fail if the information submitted with an incremental pull fails to match the name which was handwritten onto the document which sets up the pull (which is circulated at both financial institutions). A gym once received, and I was (in the literal sense) CCed, an icily polite letter from my local bank saying that the bank had no knowledge of a Mr. (close misspelling of McKenzie) and that if the gym had business with customer of the bank it should due him the common courtesy of getting his name right.
You might be surprised how few users agree with you on this point - or rather, care enough to engage in the conversation at all. Blocking non-muted video is something most people are happy about. Blocking mute animations, I don't think many people are gonna waste much energy caring about it.
Posts like these make me wonder if lizard people actually exist and have a conspiracy to use monkeys to return the world to a state they can thrive in without minions. An /s but barely.

The last time CO2 levels were at levels we see today humans had not evolved yet. The last time 1000ppm CO2 was in the atmosphere the apex predators were giant carnivorous birds.

We are looking at billions of deaths from climate change if we stopped producing CO2 tomorrow and tens of thousands of years until the climate returns to pre-industrial levels.
Thank you, I just updated the blog post with more detailed clarification of where the data comes from.

One thing that I am quite sure of for the A100 is its transformer performance. It turns out, large transformers are so strongly bottlenecked by memory bandwidth that you can just use memory bandwidth alone to measure performance — even across GPU architectures. The error between Volta and Turning with a pure bandwidth model is less than 5%. The NVIDIA transformer A100 benchmark data shows similar scaling. So I am pretty confident on the transformer numbers.

The computer vision numbers are more dependent on the network and it is difficult to generalize across all CNNs. For example, group convolution or depth-wise separable convolution based CNNs do not scale well with better GPUs and speedups will be small (1.2 - 1.5x) whereas some other networks like ResNet get pretty straightforward improvements (1.6x-1.7x). So CNN values are less straightforward because there is more diversity between CNNs compared to transformers.
The solution I've found is just to disable javascript altogether, then manually whitelist a small number of sites that don't work without js. Sure, a lot of the web stops working for me, but it's also probably the part of the web I don't want to see anymore anyway.
> Second, it's not clear that the teacher understood or believed it was a toy. And if it wasn't a toy, then their actions don't seem 100% unreasonable.

From the OP:

>> The Problem Solvers obtained the sheriff’s report and it confirms the teacher “said she assumed it was a toy gun but was not certain.”
Muse stores the users data on the ipad, not in the cloud, so v2 of Muse wouldn't be able to get at the data created by Muse v1 since every ipad app is sandboxed.
Mortal Kombat 3 (and previous ones) was just digitized sprites with no logic in between animations, certainly nothing comparable to that.
I just did a small fix to address this. Thanks again.
Yes, I enjoy this blog as well
The only tech people that matter much to Google are the ones who work for them, and considering that there will always be one person saying "I work for Google and here's why I think this is A-ok" on every thread like this, suggests that demographic is still in their pocket. See the top comment on this post.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/wtos-first-ruling-national-sec...
Both are made by Google so this feels like one of the easier things Google can fix. Twitter and FB are essentially aGIF-less and they don't even make popular browsers!
My summary from the article: take down the fence — the middleman criminal who provides a market where thieves can sell their stolen bicycles — and be especially ruthless about it.

This is an option only really available to the police. Perhaps there’s a reason for law enforcement to tolerate fencing though? Maybe there are nuances downsides to society if we eliminate the black markets?

Do fences act as some kind of lubricant to the underclasses? Do we allow fences to exist because, if we didn’t, the desperate / evil thieves would resort to violently extorting cash instead of non-violently stealing bicycles?

Imagine a future, for example, where the black market for stolen goods is quashed. It is much safer to lock bicycles up outside, but ATM knife extortions go up tenfold.
Is it still the same company? The new team seems pretty great but they’re still a different team with different strengths.
Hmm from the look of it, it's not clear Hawk eye does everything.

Certainly it does pace. But from the article it's hard to say if it would track spin - it's not clear to me that with the natural markings on the ball (seam lines + ballmaker logo) and the lighting that exists in the stadium, that would be enough fidelity for some algorithm to calculate the spin.

I think Hawkeye could be updated to easily do it though, and maybe if they would be willing to draw 1 or 2 black dot markers on the ball in addition to the natural markings.
Maybe WeWork will make a comeback. People that need to have others around or need a commute so they can listen to pod casts can go to a shared workspace.
>Also, it's a jobs/pork barrel program. Congress keeps ordering tanks that the Army puts into storage because the M1 is a beast of a machine that keeps a lot of people employed. The US manufacturing base is pretty depleted, and ordering tanks you don't necessarily need is a good way to keep the skills and tool chains you could need in the future around.

Sure, that's nothing new to anyone who's familiar with Cold War economics. The Soviet Union was able to keep its economy crawling along without sanctioning free enterprise by making enormous investments into collectively-owned (i.e. state-owned) products like nuclear submarines and combat aircraft. Turns out you can achieve much the same goal but also benefit the people if you put that effort into state-funded infrastructure. Whether the US body politic will support reducing M1 Abrams production in favour of fixing the USA's crumbling infrastructure is again a separate discussion.
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Also https://missing.csail.mit.edu.
I'm on spectrum in a high-tier US city and can regularly achieve a number very close to my cap (400mbs) throughout the day.

Granted, before my current router I was only hitting just over 50% of the rated speed. But that turned out to be the router I was using, its CPU was not fast enough or something. With a new router and all wired connections between me and the 'net, I get the speeds I pay for.
> If a HTTP request has unexpected and unsupported query parameters, such a GET request will normally fail. When I made this decision it seemed the cautious and conservative approach, but this caution has turned out to be a mistake on the modern web.

For a web page it might be a mistake. For an API it's often not a mistake, depending on the utility of the API. eg analytics reporting.
They bought SanDisk in 2016, and that part of the business is now probably seen as having more strategic importance (their "President, Technology and Strategy" is a SanDisk guy).

They got a new CEO this year, but the previous CEO had been HGST's CEO until WDC bought HGST and put him in charge. (He was also previously HGST's CFO, and before that, WDC's CFO.)

But I don't think a management change is particularly important here. Their competitors were caught doing the same BS with SMR drives. I think we're just seeing what happens when a lucrative duopoly gets sidelined by replacement technology. The consumer hard drive market has become a market for lemons, and only the datacenter customers get treated seriously anymore.
I wonder if players will be able to use this to prepare for opponents. For example, knowing where to hit and "seeing how they typically react" and then predicting where they'll most likely to return the ball.

If so, this could be expanded to other sports, maybe even team sports, where you can test set plays against the simulated defense.
This is a fantastic game, but I wish it were a native app or ran in WebAssembly or something.

spoiler alert

I took my time on Stage 1, and running in the browser it began to stutter a lot toward the end when lots of activity was going on at once (2B paperclips, price $400ea, 290K clips/sec, WireBuyer, AutoTourney, stock market, full quantum chips, etc). I assume it's due to garbage collection or some kind of Chrome constraints (but that's just a guess).
Shucking isn't necessarily possible anymore.

Some WD external drives will hang the boot process if the host computer probes the drive for bootability. These drives will even stop the host computer from booting if they're connected via USB, much less if they're directly connected.

Some USB external drives have the USB controller embedded on the drive PCB and don't provide an accessible SATA interface.
What is lacking is payback.

Having developed Haskell skills, what can one then do with them? Who in the world wants to have any Haskell code written badly enough to offer to pay to have it done?

If Rust dies, it will die just exactly the way almost every language did: its adoption rate was two or more orders of magnitude too slow, and the world moved on.

This is not inevitable: there are many other ways languages have died. Ada had a formal spec, billions of dollars in development contracts backing it, many industrial-grade compilers, thousands employed coding in it. It died because, ultimately, it wasn't enough better than C.

PL/I died. Algol died. All the various Pascals died. Ruby is in sharp decline. Death is the natural course for languages. Overcoming death requires a near-miracle.

COBOL, Fortran, C, C++, Python, Java, and Javascript managed it. It is too early to tell about Go or Rust, but it is not looking good for Rust, just based on the numbers. Rust's originators hoped to displace C, but very few move from C. Most who might have moved on from C did before there was a Rust, and the rest like it for its flaws, the way rock climbers like cliffs.

Rust will take few from C++ because Rust is less expressive, by design. The gap widens with each Standard release.

The languages Rust can practically steal users from do not suffer from the memory-safety problems Rust is promoted as solving. They have other problems it could help with. Go and Java are pathologically weak languages, and Python is pathologically slow and un-parallel.

There are things Rust adherents could do to increase its adoption rate, but they seem, by all indications, supremely and aggressively uninterested in even trying any of them. HN buzz, which Rust fans have run up to stratospheric heights, is very far from enough to sustain a language. So, Rust's prospects are dimming even as its apparent popularity peaks.
Yeah I find this frustrating as well. Many people conflating WFH and WFH during a pandemic.
Ask HN: Recommendations for a ergonomic setup after Covid related work-from-home
I have been working from home for the last six months or so, since the COVID related shutdowns began. I have been having terrible hand, shoulder and upper-back pain since then. It has increased to an extent that my productivity is getting affected.

The right thumb (used for the mouse), the right wrist, the shoulders are the one that pain the most. Sometime I feel like I cannot even use the spacebar with my thumb because of the pain and use my index finger.

I am a touch typist and sit straight in an ergonomic chair. I use a thinkpad. My monitor elevated and is at eyelevel. I do not have any problems in my lower back. It is the upper back and the right hand that gives problem.

This could possibly be because, I have a small frame and can only rest my left elbow in the hand-rest but not my right elbow as the chair is wide. I do not have narrower sized ergonomic chairs where I live (Some small town in India). We get standard one-size-fits-all chairs. I sit either cross legged or at the 90 degree angle with the help of a foot rest. I sit in front of the computer for about 10 hours a day. I take frequent walks and breaks too (thanks pomodoro).

Do any of you have any recommendations for eliminating this pain ? I am considering buying some kind of vertical / ergonomic mouse and keyboard. I am eyeing the kinesis split keyboard so that I can rest both my hands in the handrest. I am thinking if I should get a trackball instead of the mouse, as some people are recommending that. Youtube has contradictory recommendations (ex: should [not] rest wrists while typing). What do you HN readers do for improving ergonomics or steps you did to reduce/eliminate hand/wrist/shoulder pain ? Thanks.
LibreTorrent for Android.
gg man. Really enjoyed your posts since starting rust.
There is also something nice about it being bound to a physical space, ideally the person's dwelling.

This brings up nice memories of sitting around late at night at an eccentric, older friend's apartment, drink coffee and chat. Occasionally someone would notice an interesting sounding album wed then listen to or discuss or someone would notice a book that would become the topic of conversation.

All my recent favorites are digital now. The dynamic is so different when it's shifted from "what's this book?" to "Oh, let me tell you about the book I just read".
I feel it's also a pretty decent store of value. Now some people will probably want to tell me that it's a bad store of value, since the value can fluctuate quite a bit on a day-to-day basis. Sure that true, but in the long run I am confident the value will only go up, whereas many fiat currencies will only go down, especially now due to QE (basically printing money) that's happening in Eurozone, the US, and many other regions [0][1] in the world as well.

So in my view, it's pretty nice as an alternative to holding gold. Gold can be nice as well of course, but it's difficult to transport. If you keep gold in your home, at some point someone might break into your home and steal your gold. You could pay some company to store your gold, but perhaps in times of crises a government might step in and claim some of your gold.

Crypto currencies can be easily held in a digital wallet or people can even just memorise the keys to their wallet in their brain. It's hard for governments to control crypto currencies and I'm sure some of the wealthiest people in the world now keep a certain small percentage of their wealth in cryptos as well as a hedge against fiat currencies, stock market crashes, etc...

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[0]: https://news.bitcoin.com/venezuela-bitcoin-use-hyperinflatio...

[1]: https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/the-impact-of...
What do work do people at Netflix do anymore besides writing blank checks for D-tier Hollywood garbage that no real studio wanted? Their app has been stagnant for the past 5+ years and the delivery issues seem to have been solved some time ago.
Didn't NASA start using a radiation-hardened R3000 variant? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongoose-V
SSD prices have remained stubbornly high for some strange reason or other. Indeed, they've gone up since the pandemic started.

The small number of suppliers for flash memory might have something to do with this.
Thanks for those that got the word out. Looks like we have a "class" of about 1,300 for this month, and its humming along nicely. (There are 5,630 sub'd, but that includes all those from previous classes who've not unsub'd - its an imprecise art!)
My favorite story to tell in this area: many years ago in the early days of Chrome, there was some logic that followed HTTP redirects that had a cap on how many redirects to follow before giving up. (The rationale here is that if you hit too many in a row you probably had encountered a broken site , like one where /foo?q=1 redirects to /foo?q=2 redirects to q=3 and so on).

As I recall, the cap on redirects was 10, and then Darin (who had previously worked on Firefox) was like "no, you have to allow up to 30 or you break the New York Times". And so, it was upped to to 30. Intuitively I'd think a site that redirected you 10 times was broken, but I guess someone built one that needed more.

PS: Looking online now to confirm my facts, I see one claim that both Chrome and FF limit redirects to 20. So either my memory exaggerated it as 30 or they both managed to lower the limit at some point.
I'm confused, aren't "don't fall below your spec" and "hit your metric" synonyms? In what field are they not?
While I respect sticking to your guns, I don't think we're putting that genie back in its bottle. Maybe a reasonable middle ground, like a less-fraught version of the HTTPS redirect, would be to have any requests containing unknown query parameters redirect to the URLs with those parameters stripped. It does nothing to deter the people slapping them on there, but at least your visitors don't spread that plague by sharing your URL.

Of course, it all comes with the problem of needing to define up-front which query parameters your app accepts. Easy in a small app, wildly impractical in a large one with plenty of legacy code.
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