skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really is a crass and inflammatory statement, though. The 13% number may be supported by data, but the actual meaning and phrasing of the statement is actually highly opinionated.

First, it's a fact that black Americans are over-policed and over-prosecuted compared to white Americans. It is reasonable to believe that the conviction rates are skewed.

Second, there is the nasty business of the phrasing "...responsible for...". It is a reasonable perspective to have that if black Americans engage in more violence, it is because they have been subjected to more violence and deprived of opportunity. And that, ultimately, is in many cases, the responsibility of white Americans.

And then, sometimes people just commit murder, regardless of race.

Without the context of a fully-rendered explicit argument, the implied argument in that statement seems to be one of some kind of innate racial disposition. Which people should rightly reject, if not censor. As noted, the "I'm simply running a test" comment was not censored. So perhaps it isn't the data point that is censored, but the implied argument that you seem to be making.

I understand that it can be frustrating to have a 'fact' censored, especially if your intent is to have a productive discussion about a difficult topic. However, as laid out above, that 'fact' is not as simple as your test makes it out to be. It is a statement derived from statistical data that was collected by a government agency. If you cited it as such, and left out the language connecting moral responsibility with a racial group, it would be a more truthful and objective representation of fact, and might not be censored the same way. The test seems to loosely support this, and actually indicates the censorship being applied on reddit is actually quite effective.

Edit: On a related note, it is interesting how guarded I feel even replying to something like this. It's as if I want not to even be part of such a conversation publicly for fear of algorithmic misinterpretation of my meaning. I assume others feel this way, too, based on the OP. That's not the world any of us want to live in. It's not so much I mind publicly published information being collected and analyzed, but that I fear it being utilized in some grand corporate conspiracy. Perhaps we should legislate not against information collection and analysis, but antisocial behavior analysis conspiracies.
> Uranium itself is much cheaper than coal / any fuel per unit energy.

well, that's silly: sunlight is cheaper than uranium.
I will miss dearly the good old days of Cocoa GUIs that adhered to Apple's Human Interface Guidelines (and when HIG itself was about usability, not looks). They all supported all the little things of Cocoa (like click-hold-drag on popup menus activating items on mouseup, or proxy icons that gave quick access to files of documents in any window, or search pasteboard).

Nowadays native apps on Mac are dead. Even Apple is giving up. There are still native-code-running .app bundles, but they're Qt, Electron, or Catalyst that are like knock-off brands of Mac apps. Even if they bother to have vaguely Mac-like skin, they lack all of the nice little details that made Cocoa apps great.
70% from 1990, when Denmark was in the middle of an oil boom and got almost all its energy from fossil fuels. Emissions are down tremendously already by 2020, so this isn't as dramatic as the headline suggests.
An upstart would have 0 chance of winning the auction.

It's tantamount to a wireless spectrum option - enormous costs involved.
Is there a reasonable server side way to see when you're doing something wrong with fonts and fallbacks?
Fair sorry to paint too broad a stroke. Should have made the fact that I was implying "everything" there...

Especially after NLL landed on 2015 ><
The CPU/GPU usage for streaming depends mostly on the encoder that you're using. Programs like OBS allow you to use different encoders with different settings. This will place a very different load on your system. Eg x264 slow at 1080p would use a lot of CPU resources on most CPUs. On the other hand, if you have an nvidia GPU capable of nvenc and use that then you get next to no CPU usage. Same goes if you have an Intel CPU with an iGPU and use QuickSync or AMD's GPU encoder.

I'll say that even most modern desktop CPUs would use about a CPU core when encoding x264 even on fast preset at 1080p. It's pretty CPU intensive. That's why hardware encoders such as nvenc are popular. You most likely want to check what kind of encoder you're using. Maybe there are no other options than x264. In that case you might want to drop encoder settings and perhaps the resolution.
Epic Games Is an Unreliable Narrator
Would psychedelic microdosing be considered a "smart drug"? The article doesn't mention it, but it seemed to be (still is?) a pretty popular practice, especially amongst West Coast techies.
I think the commodities market is by far used for speculation. Same with options, supposed to be an insurance policy for portfolios, it's now a vehicle for speculation. Thinking that at its core it's for hedging is a very naive position. All you have to do is look at the volume of transactions and you'll realize that most activity is purely speculative.
> He claimed to have “never seen any person dying in agony.”

Now where have I seen this line of reasoning recently...

Edit: Downvote me. Thanks.
Well, we do replicate. Maybe not as much as rabbits.

And, recently, we die less in childbirth and infant-hood. So - even with falling childbirth rates, we still tend to multiply a bit.

But given that absolute and relative global poverty rates and starvation rates and disease mortality rates have plummeted and population grows dramatically - it becomes a resource allocation problem.

Germany (for example) needs more laborers because of plummeting domestic birth rates. The retired community's social net requires young tax-payers to pick up the burden. Demographics are screwing with this math. Somalia or Syria (for example) have a lot of folks that need to escape. Problem: Once Turks or Arabs or Persians or Somalians or Syrians or Northern Africans get to Germany - they may or may not want to learn the language - but as refugees, they get full public benefit. And are not willing to learn or work to support retired Germans (this is an isolated example).

Maybe we have an exploding population in all the wrong places? (I am not recommending genocide - just: It is a wicked problem)
Are you so sure ITER is obsolete? For instance, what prevents ITER to be upgraded with better magnets, like the ones used here, and to achieve higher power?
I think the limit's 15 minutes per track now and as far as I know, they haven't killed cakewalk they own it now and have been releasing it as part of bandlab I think.

I don't know too much about Bandlab, I just found it the other day and it seemed pretty cool so I thought I'd post it here.

Actually, I have to be say, i'm mainly curious as to how the hell they make money and had the money to buy Cakewalk.

I know HN tends to get into that stuff, so I was hoping it might come up in the comments.
I know. Still applies.

I would likely use repl.it or scrimba (one I linked).

For hardware stuff, there are guides and kits targetted at kids with graphics and stuff.

If you check raspberry Pi magazine or site, you will find many of them.

https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/

Example: https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/voice/

Which I think is easier to follow than purchasing individual items yourself.
And it has been capable of doing this for several years. People just didn't know about it. It's truly a nice piece of software!
>From what little I’ve read about Russia, people seem to be pretty pro-Putin

Presiding over steadily improving living standards tends to give leaders staying power in every country. Putin was there for Russia's bounceback from the 90s.
What if a competing app store was "Grandma's App Store" and it had extreme moderation plus a huge cash bond that developers had to put up before being allowed on the store so you could install it as the exclusive store on your grandparents' phones and never have to worry about malware or semi-legit data exfiltration like contacts mining?

Or how about a highly moderated local store for my city where you need to be a resident and provide proof of owning a local business before being allowed on the store? That could be highly moderated and provide a ton of local business discovery with almost no risk of bad actors because being kicked off that store would mean a loss of local patrons.

Why is it automatically assumed competing app stores are going to be trash and why does everyone think Apple / Google are doing such an amazing job right now? Neither seem to be the case IMO.

I think your viewpoint focuses a lot on "what's good for me right now today" rather than "what's good for the long term health of these platforms?" Demand aggregation platforms, especially in industries with only a handful of huge players, are going to be bad for both suppliers and consumers.

You can already see it on every huge platform. The platform (aka distributor / allocator) doesn't care at all about either side. They only care about their share of the market as a distributor. Suppliers become a commodity because losing a supplier is minor churn with no real impact. It doesn't matter which 1 million developers you're dealing with as long as you have 1 million developers, so you might as well optimize for the developers that will accept the smallest profits and the most abuse.

On the consumer side it's the same thing. It doesn't matter which 100 million users you have as long as you have 100 million users. Banning 1 million users isn't a big deal because the platform isn't going to suffer as long as new users are coming in. It might be 1 million users that a specific supplier (aka developer, creator, etc.) relied on for their livelihood, but who cares, right? There's another supplier in line to take their place anyway. And so what if 1000 of those users banned were false positives right? That's only .001% of your user base. Tough luck for them if they lose access to an account they might depend on.

It really worries me to see the number of people that can't see beyond their own convenience to recognize the only winners in the current system are the platform owners. They don't care about you, developers, creators, gig-workers, etc. beyond how many of each they have.
Along with this, I've taken to making the video chat window very small and putting it at the top edge of my screen underneath my webcam. Reasonably good eye contact and lots of screen space for notes or whatever.
A scientist spilled two drops of organic mercury on her gloves. This is what happened to her brain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ7M01jV058
Yes, we could have wasted much more money back then (those crash budgets would not have worked, since they assumed tokamaks work better than it turned out they did.)
Japan and US are members of the project. You should at least read basic info before speculating.
https://www.iter.org/proj/Countries
It's illegal because the exchanges are the victims. If this was being done to retail traders there would be no crime. The message here is that it's illegal to mess with the algos but not illegal for algos to mess with your order.
Liberals aren't out here forcing each other at gunpoint to protest every cause that exists. If you don't want to engage on an issue, don't engage. The person being discussed above (Rowling) is being called out for making repeated, harmful public statements. Don't do that. Smile and nod and you'll be fine.

Maybe avoid characterizing your would-be allies in terms of dumb right-wing tropes like "how many genders an English department can create" while you're at it.
> because they get penalized by email service companies for sending emails that people don't open

... as measured by the exact same totally flawed technique the article at the top of this thread links too.

:sigh:

I guess for companies like, say, Mailchimp or Campaign Monitor or newsletter services like Tiny Letter - there's a big difference between a "maybe 70% accurate open rate of 50%" compared to a "maybe 70% accurate open rate of 0.1%", and the second should quite certainly be grounds for firing you as a customer. Sadly the "marketing automation" industry mostly likely think 0.1% open rates are acceptable and instead of firing that client instead recommend sending their email to 10 or 100 times as many email addresses is a great idea.
I have a 2015 mbp and just setup obs on it a few days ago. Cpu encoding is the only option.
> Anyone could have said similar things about computers in 1953, and been just as correct.

Many people could say similar things about software in 2020 and be just as correct. :) The good Admiral may be describing some timeless aspects of engineering, possibly related to the recently discussed observation that reality has a surprising amount of detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16184255 .

Though, as you say, over time engineering can grind out some of the practical into practice.
If they survived the crash, it probably was something necessitated an auto rotation, rather than the main rotor departing the helicopter. If that happened they would almost certainly be dead. If the nut on the top of the rotor mast detached - called the Jesus nut - they would also be dead. Mast bumping probably wasn't the cause either since that is a problem mostly constrained to a type of rotor system that wouldn't typically be used in an air ambulance setting. I'm not sure if I know of any helicopters with an underslung rotor system that are used by EMS operators.
This could have been hidden in some of the paperwork you signed. Unfortunately this kind of thing is all too common with certain stores attaching free trials that turn paid automatically. Additionally it might be out of the hands of Best Buy at this point too. Often times the point of sale just acts as a broker to pass along your information to another company that's offering the service.

My suggestion would be to contact your credit card company and report the charges as fraudulent or not authorized. Follow the credit card company dispute process. Get a new card number issued to you and your problem is fixed. Additionally the credit card company will pursue this with whoever is issuing the charges and may possibly trace it back to a broader case is fraud.
Instead of spending hundreds of dollars on developing an optimal immersive video call setup just for yourself, we need to get effective designers to work on video chat interfaces to solve the basic problems that still plague us.

* Why can't I quickly and immediately flag my intent to speak? Once you introduce lag into a conversation (and _every_ video chat conversation includes lag), you can't get away with "let's just be unmuted and hope for the best".

* Why can't everyone in a chat see participants in the same order? How can we truly feel like we are speaking in a virtual space together when we do not share the same view? This one is the most frustrating since it has the greatest impact compared to how easy it is to implement. It is hard to overstate the benefit of having a consistent shared experience.

* Why can't I tell at a glance whether I'm muted or not? Why do I have to find the mute button every time? Everyone has a keyboard, why are we avoiding it like the plague?

* Choosing the correct input/output sources is one of the most common source of issues. And yet, we continue to hide it behind confusing settings. I've only noticed Discord get the memo and let you adjust sources straight from the main screen.
The King of the Hill user side story: https://youtu.be/tRhO9sDezVk

(Ignore the politics at the end)
If Julian Assange were a Chinese citizen blowing the lid on Chinese war crimes in Xinjiang while they accused him of not feeding his cat we wouldn't bat an eyelid at denouncing their crackdown on journalism in their country.
While I worked with robotic manipulators back in 2006 this was called the grasping problem (apparently still unsolved).
They're useful for finding out who the main providers are for a given thing.
Fusion's primary accomplishment will be to make fission look economical in comparison. The fundamental reasons for this have been known for decades.
Of course it is.

It doesn’t have to be a durable good, it can be a service.

I live in NYC. A monthly unlimited subway pass is 120 dollars. If you can’t afford that lump sum all at one, you can 2.75 pay per trip. If you use the subway 2 times a day (to and from work) for 30 days, that’s 165 dollars... more than the upfront of an unlimited pass.
I can go to the grocery store, pick up incandescent bulbs for a few dollars each, they last 8 months to a year, my hydro bill is really not impacted by them, I get 40W bulbs for most of my lamps and 60W ones where I need light, the power drain's not horrendous. I get clear bulbs so there's no hazardous chemicals or waste. The light's not too bright or glaring.

What incentive do I really have to use other bulbs?
http://ketorecipes.cooking
It's the amount/level of subsidized education that is up for debate, not education in general.
Is styling communications from a government in that fashion really surprising to you?

Strikes me as fairly normal, though I'm not motivated to go searching for examples.

Does read a bit as a holdover from the monarchical custom of referring to the sovereign by the name of the country.
That's exactly what I've said and done for years. I now even double-flush old toilets out of habit.

The older style toilets I remember as a kid just worked. One flush would properly and fully clear out anything that didn't clog the darned thing.

The new toilets barely flush properly with two flushes, and I still wonder how much is left behind in the backwash.
If a TV doesn't work without internet, I'll just return it and let them know it's not working.
Which qualifiers make it unsupportive of the point? Given it was already specifically talking about customer reviews, I think it's plenty meaningful.
I'd have to write on it where the bulb is installed, but good idea. For the amount spent though, it'd only be for curiosity.
It's not just the power and water use, but the quite harsh and caustic nature of the dishwasher detergent that is a concern in some areas
Send an actual error page rather than a 204. It's not perfect, but in cases where the server returning an error is very rare, it's fine. Since there is no state anyway, the user hitting back is fine.

Most JS apps in my experiences fail to handle server errors with any sort of user feedback at all.
Yeah, hence why this is an oversimplification, not false. Yes weight loss/gain is by definition the difference between calories in vs calories out, yet this simple definition makes it seem like losing weight should be as simple as a) reducing calories in, or b) increasing calories out, when in actuality reducing calories in may reduce calories out by the same or even greater amounts. It turns out these two variables are not independent, but instead connected by an extremely complex network of factors.

So yes, for many people, framing weight-loss as calories in vs calories out is a dramatic oversimplification.
I think while flang (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/master/flang) is getting more stable. It would be a lot easier to compile Fortran into WASM with LLVM's WASM backend
Because whacking even 5% of moles looking for ways around government[0] censorship is a unconscionable travesty.

0: eg, China, Iran, etc; if you don't think people getting caught is a problem then I question your basic human decency; if you don't think 5% of people getting caught is a problem then I question your sense of scale and/or ability to multiply numbers by other numbers.
Ask HN: Do you care about the carbon footprint of your software or ML workload?
Hey everyone!

As a ML/Dev Ops engineer, everyday increasingly I am seeing a large number power hungry workloads, different models being trained at the same time. That coupled the current issues of climate change: it got me thinking about the impact of these types of workloads on the environment.

For example, I have seen CV models that have to be trained slowly for 2+ weeks on multiple GPUs and rinse and repeat during a full year.

I was wondering if anyone else feels like the tradeoff of model accuracy/performance against impact on the environment is not being talked about too much.

I'd love to validate the value of knowing and offsetting one's cloud CO2 footprint.

Thanks for your time!
DDR5 standard has on-die ECC, it's not optional.
Also, they realized how to take advantage of potential energy. Give groups a nudge, and they will write their own propaganda and circulate it, and it snowballs from there. I read a recent interview from someone working in the Internet Research Agency, and they said they don't even bother making content themselves anymore, they just try to push and amplify what's already there at the bottom of the fish tank and it works just as well.
I'm on ubuntu and see tofus a lot. Is there some way to make it use the same fallbacks mac/windows use?

For example stuff in this article doesn't render well for me (see the caption of the image): https://imgur.com/a/aFDSKyG
NVIDIA nerfs FP64 performance on consumer GeForce for recent years. It's critical for scientific calculations but not needed for ML. Alternatively they banned to run GeForce on datacenter.
You get well into the point of diminishing returns fairly quickly with cars. A poor person might not even be able to scrape one or two thousand together for a car, let alone the cost of maintenance, fuel etc.
It's open source, just read it and use the source-code release https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl
While OBS doesn't have a built in equalizer you can use plugins quite successfully. Reaper's plugins [0] work seamlessly with OBS.

[0] https://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/
It came out as programmer's favorite language for the past few years so it shouldn't be a surprise. You should be posting articles for your favorite language and let it float to the top.
"we can charge people exactly what they're willing to pay instead of creating an average that is a discount for the people willing to spend more and locking out people not able to pay it."

The term is 'price discrimination'. [1]

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/price_discrimination.as...
> By now, just about everyone has hadone of their previously normal-seeming friends or relatives go on an insane political rant on Facebook, or had a Twitter troll show up in their replies, or read just about any comment on YouTube. People act in these horrible ways because they can, because real or effective anonymity lets them do so

Your friends aren't anonymous on facebook. Yes, anonymous facebook accounts are possible, but the damage is done by verified users. Anonymity is NOT the problem people think it is.
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At Discourse we generate a default avatar that is a circle with the first letter of the username in a colored background[^1].

When we wanted to add support for Unicode usernames, we had to include support for generating avatar images with those extra possible characters. It was quite fun creating the fallback system this blog post talks about and trying to support as many real languages as possible. The Noto project was really helpful, not only the fonts but also the pythons scripts they provide for dumping the codepoints covered by a font[^2].

You can check the fallback logic at https://github.com/discourse/letter-avatars/blob/master/lib/...

1. https://meta.discourse.org/t/switch-from-gravatar-to-html-cs...

2. https://github.com/googlei18n/nototools/blob/master/nototool...
Two sets? There is no source that Wikileaks or Assange ever been in posession of any RNC leaks. This is disinformation.