skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no inherent problem with using an algorithm for these decisions. The growing problem seems to be the lack of algorithms!

If the specific rules for a decision are not understandable by humans, then we're not talking about an "algorithm" but rather an opaque model. An algorithm would be something like: Defendant gave address and phone number (1 point), Defendant has no prior convictions within past 3 years (3 points), and so on. With rules ultimately understandable by humans, who can debate and modify specific rules such as ones based on race, or ones that would have disparate impact like zip code. This is 1970's tech, not 2020's.

I don't know about NYC's system, and it's hard to tell specifics from the article which only makes references to a few input datums but never says how the inputs effect the output. If there are specific scoring rules that can be individually debated, then the article is trying to drum up worry by leaving them out. If NYC's system is based on inputting data to a proprietary tool that only outputs a score and citizens are unable to know how it works, then the article needs to drive home the black box unaccountability aspect of this (and stop using the word "algorithm"), rather than focusing on the imposition of requiring a phone number.
other than the leading title, interesting post.
Does razzle dazzle contain any easter eggs?

I can't spare mobile bandwidth to try this out, otherwise I would happily poke around myself.
Yeah that makes sense. Better to play by the rules even though they could so easily just push it through anonymously and there's nothing anyone could do about it. But its better for the image of Bitcoin and of course the known teams behind the updates.
Look, I love the Roman Empire just as much as anyone (and get more than a little miffed whenever someone denies that the Eastern Roman empire was legitimately Roman), but it was in no way a democracy.
It's not spelled out very well on the Giving What We Can website, but generally, effective altruism focuses on increasing disability-adjusted life-years for human beings.

There is some traction in the effective altruism movement though around animal welfare, generally following the philosophical lines of Peter Singer. https://concepts.effectivealtruism.org/concepts/animal-welfa...
This bit of history is especially interesting given the recent Citi Group report which "shows if four key racial gaps for Blacks — wages, education, housing, and investment — were closed 20 years ago, $16 trillion could have been added to the U.S. economy. And if the gaps are closed today, $5 trillion can be added to U.S. GDP over the next five years."[0] The fervent, continued maintenance of white supremacy has been and continues to be quite costly.

[0] https://www.citivelocity.com/citigps/closing-the-racial-ineq...
I'm surprised no one has commented on this.

First of all, I'm glad to have discovered this journal. What a fun name!

I have spent tons of time in libraries, particularly in Toronto's Innovation Hubs. 3D printing at the reference library was an almost daily joy for me, and I loved helping people - everyone showed up with an interesting story and mission of some kind.

The library system is underfunded for its mandate and the staff are underpaid, overworked, and overmanaged. Library 'leadership' constantly make insanely boneheaded decisions, like destroying Toronto's Maker Festival with bureaucratic bunk.

Despite these challenges, our libraries are one of the only public pure spaces. Where else can anyone access the internet for free? Access to information is foundational to our society and democracy.

Corrupt and anti-democratic forces are constantly working against the library. Like this ridiculous defunding of one of the most effective institutions in our society, cutting funding IN HALF: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/ontario-library-servi...

Without the mythology being railed against in this article, we wouldn't have the dedicated librarian staff that make the system work. I have tried to work with library management and leadership before, and it was so abrasive and painful that I gave up.

How can we keep libraries sustainable into the future?
We need them, our free society needs them. What can we do?

It's not just about funding, it's also about control.

Without fixing our political apparatus and dismantling our colonial infrastructure first (a looong project), how can we bolster and strengthen our library systems? How can we protect them against bad actors? I'm seriously asking, let's please talk about it.

Do we need a private citizen's direct funding initiative a la Benjamin Franklin? I'm ready to pay! I'm ready to work! What can we do to keep our most important institution?
>South Africa and Brazil are two of the most unequal countries in the world as measured by the Gini Coefficient.

maybe using hyperbole for rhetorical effect.
effective communication. and financial stability
Once a scam company always a scam company.
File a lawsuit.
It appears to be about prime age, full time workers. This could result in a higher number than mean household income because it excludes retired households, those with significant non work income, unemployed households, etc.

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/working_papers/WR...
>how unprepared we are to come together globally . . . to solve hard problems.

Ain't that the truth.
Do you mean https://git-scm.com/docs/gitworkflows ? It doesn't seem to say anything about the kernel. Maybe you mean something else.

Our workflow isn't in conflict with any of this, but some parts of our codebase evolve quickly, so topic branches regularly need to merge or rebase conflicting stuff.
Abandoned asphalt roads quickly return to nature. I remember some disused highways near me that were flaking and crumbling away after only 30 years. So bad that you'd have to walk your bike on them.

As for rebar, if any water were to get in there repeatedly it would all just rust away.

The specifics of the environment play huge here. Anything in a freeze-thaw cycle would get obliterated. Dry and cool areas would do better, but then only for so long. Maybe if things were intentionally buried in anoxic environments, like many fossils, you'd have a chance at retrieval.
Almost any multicentury period has dramatically changed human society.

Also people knew about and have already experienced pollution and other effects of industrilization. Read about London big stink.

Social aspects too, ludites, social disruption, leading to labor as a political / social force. Urbanizatiin. Communism. Labor laws. Etc.

Since ancient times "birth of civilization" we have deforested, over fished/hunted/farmed.

We have continously, dramatically changed our environment and ourselves. We've already genetically engineered ourselves (modern man and medical man are quite different) and numerous other species.

Everybody in every time period believes their time is different. Is frantic changes. Is etc.

Its only because they know more about recent events. Recent events are in memory.

The more you study human history, the more you realize it has always been a dramatic.
Abandoning a feature just because it enables a misuse is the wrong way to do it in my opinion. Yes, some inexperienced, stubborn, stupid, or hurried developers will pass around complex types when they really shouldn't. But no, this drawback does not nullify the massive advantages of (good) static typing.

Sure, interfaces should be kept small. Let's to just that, then! Recognise that we want our classes/functions/modules to be deep (small interface/implementation ratio), and frown upon shallow instances in code reviews.

No need to give up static typing.
Not enough information. It greatly depends on what money is required to live a reasonable life.

In one of these scenarios, is child poverty eliminated? People going bankrupt because of medical bills? Are there predatory lending practices and pervasive rent seeking monopolies?

In general people concerned with inequality are worried about people at the low end of the income spectrum not being able to survive and thrive, not abstract dollar amounts which don't equate into purchasing power for someone's next meal or monthly dose of prescriptions. Figure out how to expand the social safety net on the low end, and people will care far less about people on the high end making fairly obscene amounts of money, as long as they don't abuse that into extending their power and privilege.
The point is that it's not a real increase in wealth. It's like measuring unemployment rates from April to today and concluding that the pandemic created millions of jobs.
You should definitely hit me up. Google me my name is Vlad Mkrtumyan, we’re learning the opposite skill sets. currently I’m on my 3rd bootstrapped startup and I wanna learn programming to make my CTOs life easier.

I’ve sold everything from $500 a month CRMs (our 2nd venture) to 120k website projects, marketing campaigns, consulting, etc.

I’ve generated over 500k of revenue in my life, not a top 1% salesperson, but decent and on track. Next I’m trying to learn how to manage a sales team.

If you wanna get traction read: Traction by Gabriel Weinberg. If you wanna learn sales the easiest thing I would say to do is just start. Practice, go find something you believe in and do it. Get good at learning common problems on what you’re selling and showing people the Solutions as well as how to listen to them.

Make no mistake it’s definitely a skill like coding that anyone can learn if they tried it just takes a lot of patient and effort, but once you get past being emotional and caring so much on every detail it can be fun.

In terms of what to track it all depends on what you’re selling -but the basics would be: 1. Calls made 2. Where clients are in the pipeline 3. Revenue generated this month.

In terms of books you can google those, I think you should simply pick 5 and dive in, those 5 will help you find the next 5.
Joe Derisi is a really incredible scientist. A "founding father" of genomics.
It's easier this way for a beginner. Things are consistent; You put `(setq foo bar)` in your config. It's very intuitive. (I have also lost some settings to customize's bugs in Spacemacs.)
I have to stick up for XP because i have so many fond memories from my young adulthood of using it. I never had a problem with it's default theme but it also shipped with a few other themes that were better. like olive and then later the zune theme which was arguably the best one.
Properly maintained wood houses are good for 100 years. My house is 70 years old. It required insulation and electrical upgrades, mostly diy, but is otherwise fine. Also, the wood is a carbon sink, vs masonry being a carbon source.
Even with free electricity, the embodied energy of the computers used is basically wasted. A simple notary service that signed transactions with a timestamp and published a record to a public data storage bucket could handle worldwide bitcoin transaction volume running on a single machine, if you traded proof-of-waste for a simple root trust store.

(I mean, if I wrote it it would probably take several hundred machines but I'm sure Satoshi or some other brilliant programmer could fit it on a single machine. It only processes what, 5 transactions per second? My first dumb cellphone might be able to do that many signatures per second if someone could figure out how to compile the relevant libraries to run on it.)
Expecting Satoshi not to be libertarian is like expecting Karl Marx not to be socialist. Satoshi devoted his life to creating uncensorable money outside of government control!
CSV Boilerplate for Go
Which parts exactly? Because usually it is claimed (in popular and mainstream media) that ipcc reports are toned down for consensus and political support.
Audi station wagons are probably the single most common company car in Germany. Much more fun to drive than any SUV for sure.

A lot of the arguments here read like people want an SUV that will fit all the stuff you'd normally just use a trailer for, like moving furniture or a bunch of lumber. This seems very odd to me.
Congrats on finding a larger audience than the pieces of shit that company was founded to protect.
Yes, I meant types systems like Java's.

I was thinking about unusable code, caused by the need to write way more down in brittle types than anything you save on coding. In fact there are problems with complex types.
Just opening wikipedia pages.
This is an old idea in the quality movement. Reducing unnecessary steps improves both speed and quality.
Watch out about this. When you leave an organization everyone else talks about you if you do it in a funny way.

Those stories go through the grapevine and to other organizations. I had a manager say he was a great fit except he didn't give his 2 week notice at company XYZ when he left the team that my brother was not working on.

Suffice to say an awesome candidate didn't get the role.

Edit: Also remember never to give more than the legal notice period. This is mentioned in other comments as well. Also prior to giving your 2 weeks notice make sure you pack all your belongings and having nothing personal left on your desk when you go to break the news. You may be walked straight out without the chance to get your items as it will be mailed to you.
Universities are in terrible shape. What has gone wrong?
Yeah I can live with accepting that my wording was too broad. I think ultimately we agree to some extent, I can admit some fault for not being clear in my wording. All I was arguing is that we shouldn't be arguing in support of ad blockers only to cry foul when publishers want to block the freeloaders. Although wanting the browser to do it on their behalf is a bit much, I can agree.
It’s a core requirement for return flights to Earth in the “Mars Direct” model that SpaceX has based its plan on.

But the SpaceX plan doesn’t require the astronaut return on the first Synod, or on any fixed schedule. The first to land will have ice mining and in situ fuel generation equipment, but we have no idea if they will work, or work at a level that will generate enough fuel for return flights in reasonable time periods.

Which is fine. Succeeding missions will bring equipment to address the shortcomings of the first, until they are producing fuel effectively for return missions.

The first astronauts are unlikely to be able to return in the first two years, it might take ten. But they will happily sign up for this plan because it gets them to Mars decades sooner.
They can't scale to replace fiat, but they can scale a lot more with off-chain (so called 2nd layer) solutions.

Not all PoW based coins have rewards going to zero; some have so called tail rewards and others even have constant reward like 1 coin per second forever.
The analytic approach is great, but the numbers are very out of date.
I have felt libraries and librarians becoming more and more relevant as time goes forward. This goes along with the job creep in the article, too - tending to 3D printers and administering drugs during overdoses isn't classical librarianship.

As long as democracy and free speech are relevant, libraries will be relevant.

How can we help them?
It wouldn't surprise me if an aging and extremely unhealthy population was a contributing factor. We have a 42% prevalence of obesity among adults (1), median age grew in the new millennium (2).

And ironically, smokers die so fast that they cost less money than non smokers to support in the healthcare system, so the decline in tobacco usage has probably contributed to rising insurance costs.

I guess my point is that there are tangible changes to our society that contribute to skyrocketing healthcare costs.

(1) https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html

(2) https://www.statista.com/statistics/241494/median-age-of-the...
But that doesn't mean hide everything from view just because it can be accessed via a keyboard short-cut or mouse movement - my eyes are faster and easier to move. Also, code isn't read exclusively in an IDE, nor the same IDE that I use.
Someone whimsical will grab it, and not be happy with the ground that you've laid. Consider that dot@dotat.at exists.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21369013
I think what you are "supposed" to think is less important than what you (and everyone) do think, as well as what the downstream consequences are due to your consumption of this type of article, a type which we've likely all read several several instances of every day for years on end.
You don't post I'll look into it internally multiple times and don't bother following up. I prefer no response or an honest one. No one benefits from a fake response.
You know what the science doesn't show? That we're "typically good at mitigating long term changes". The history of the earth is a story of alternating periods of relative stability and momentous upheaval. Even though we've gotten "smart enough" to become a thorn in nature's side, nature has a nasty habit of rearing its head suddenly and biting back with overwhelming force.

Don't make the mistake of thinking this is something you can safely ignore. If you do, your children will pay the price.
There is more to this case. And I’m just summarizing from the statement published by the resort:
- customer argued about corkage fee for beverages brought from outside.
- customer left and drank beverages outside without needing to pay corkage
- customer made inappropriate and defamatory comments on online platforms.
- Some of the comments were taken down by the platforms as they clearly violated terms
- resort management tried to contact him to resolve the matter
See more:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VZCwyULmkLpZ7y5nT5wsaX0mn8w...

From my own experience with complaints and the legal system
a) lots of people write realistic, truthful and harsh negative reviews but don’t get sued for defamation
b) one doesn’t just get dragged to court
c) no matter if direct contact was attempted, if a filing is made at police station, the police call the defendant and he has to appear to get the charges read and to make a statement.
d) there are usually several negotiations at police station to settle matters without having to go to court or even starting a civil or criminal proceeding
e) if no agreement is reached then it becomes a real case. Also there is arbitration in civil cases
f) general legal experience, not related to the case: foreigners not obeying local laws and regulations does result in a rude awakening. This is the case in any country.
g) western countries specially USA have very strict local police and court rules. Try to miss a court appointment there and compare.
h) technically the defendant may be charged with not just defamation but also with violating cybercrime laws (more serious)
i) Not sure why this clickbait populist article is given so much attention. It’s badly researched, badly written. Classic “blogger - wannabe journalist” piece. A new low for Yahoo News.
Yeah.

ML syntax is very pleasant, and roughly, sexprs w/o all the punctuation noise.

I don't believe it has a macro capability like lisps though, but you gain a sophisticated type helper.

Definitely worth looking into!
Literally no one uses lightning network.
To expand on that, the options also have trade-offs. They can both be just as right or wrong, and the trade-offs be the deciding factor.
How dare you call one of the most influential novels of my life "a cult"! :)

No, it wasn't the explicit sex and violence that was influential (though who knows!). It was the notion that the concept of "the real you" is broken, and that we all contain multitudes.
My teenage son have this discussion every day.
Now THERE's a rabbit-hole if ever I saw one. Here's an 8-part (!) article [0] on why a physical button is in reality... nowhere near that simple.

[0]: https://www.eejournal.com/article/ultimate-guide-to-switch-d...
Pattern matching and immutability help a lot in practice, even with dynamic types.
The last two are more of disadvantages; The remote setup eats a lot of memory from the remote machine, and needs an excellent internet connection, and can't integrate with local editing (You have to use two separate windows, and it's in general nowhere as neat as tramp). The saved prefs are synced without version control, which means you can't really count on them.
Yes?
http://postfix.1071664.n5.nabble.com/MX-lookup-fallback-to-A...

Note that odds are probably low today of anything listening on port 25 if no mx record is set up, I'm guessing (I'm guessing most people that setup an smtp server also sets up mx and a handful of records in dns).
https://www.amazon.com/Progress-Debunked-Creation-Destructio...
"where signatures can be added even years after the fact when needed"

Why would you need this to be the case? In my mind (im not an expert) I just imagine schnorrs batching signatures into one tx on the chain. And then its done. Why would you need to add years after?
I feel like I shower much more when I am not in the hot, humid, sweaty tropics. You're just gonna be covered in sweat again five minutes after going outside, why bother? Everyone smells a little sweaty. In colder places, nobody has any natural scent, and you stick out if you do.
> avoiding injury

The average life expectancy for a girl born in the UK today is ~90 years. The bodies of our children are nearly century long projects. Health is a real concern for them.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
A million deaths from coronavirus and so many unanswered questions
See the report (p. 14) and look at the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

ADRA has spent decades building, and continues to build, a flywheel.

https://adra.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Annual-Report-20...

// Disclosure: I lived in Africa for a decade, observed and participated in work by multiple humanitarian organizations “on the ground”.
Is it? Maybe our company is doing something stupid then.

I'm not mainly a Java person, but I do sometimes pitch in here and there. We're using maven, and it's definitely not doing incremental compilation. I mentioned this was crazy to the Java guys and they said it was normal for maven...

(They're also in an IDE most of the time, so maybe they don't care so much.)
I think the same. This is especially true for games where you're absolutely running the game again for everything you change, and in case anything is wrong it's generally very obvious visually.
> The fact that an air intake borders our brain is a massive security weakness in our "intelligent" design

That, and you can be choked to death while eating always reminds me it's more a cruel joke than an intelligent design.
> However, the CL type system is very much lacking compared to Rust or Haskell. I'm hoping one day someone will make a statically, strongly typed Lisp that still doesn't sacrifice its flexibility and expressive power. I'd jump to that in an instant.

https://github.com/stylewarning/coalton looks promising, and stylewarning has recently said he's still working on it.
My framework is:

1) Identify hard problems — they are pivotal in unlocking the next level of progress. If unresolved, they all but ensure the status quo.

2) Their solution requires System 2 thinking, autopilot interruption, lack of distraction and imposition of both physical and time constraints.
India needs an industry where games like Raji can thrive
Is it time to kill calculus?
AMD Radeon RX 6000 GPUs revealed in macOS Big Sur code: up to 5120 cores, 2.5GHz