skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had mixed feelings about publishers in the past. There is probably still some cachet in a name brand publisher. And they do some things for you which would otherwise take time. On the other hand, for better or worse, editing was pretty lightweight and more errors crept through copy-editing than should have. I did go ahead with a v2 of one book but I probably wouldn't actively pursue a publisher if I do another book at some point.

The summary makes it sound as if the co-authors worked together pretty well although I'm sure it wasn't completely friction-free. It's very easy to end up with a co-author who likes the idea of having written a book more than they like the act of writing it.
Is the study continuously rolling / ongoing?
Alzheimer’s Research Looks at Hot Spots Across the U.S.
They mention it in the article but we should really be calling this what it really is, 21st century eugenics.

It's not "changing who gets born and who doesn’t", it's killing the weak, the unwanted, the vulnerable.

It's saying that our lives have meaning and worth and dignity only so long as we are wanted and not a burden to others.

Few minds and opinions change on HN but I encourage anyone viewing this as a positive development of society to meet someone with down syndrome in person and ask if that person would be better off killed.
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We already assign pronouns and gender to connectors. Seems like you've not actually worked in IT if you don't know that?

Pure algorithms have the capacity to change the world. Sometimes for the worse. An example of a pure algorithm with massive political and ethical considerations is crypto currency algorithms.

I think a lot of people here would've benefited taking a basic "ethics in CS" class.
How to make money with AI in 2030
https://archive.vn/SSHTk#selection-1973.9-1973.64
The alleged Ehrlichman quote is brought up often but it should be taken with some skepticism. The surviving members of his family don't believe he made the quote:

>...Multiple family members of Ehrlichman (who died in 1999) challenge the veracity of the quote: The 1994 alleged 'quote' we saw repeated in social media for the first time today does not square with what we know of our father...We do not subscribe to the alleged racist point of view that this writer now implies 22 years following the so-called interview of John and 16 years following our father's death, when dad can no longer respond.[22]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman

This is a very explosive quote - if Baum had included it in his book in 1996 I am sure it would have garnered a huge amount of attention for the book. Instead Baum did not include it in his book, but instead would wait for many years before making the claim when Ehrlichman was no longer around to dispute the quote.

At any rate, if the quote was actually said by Ehrlichman, it isn't a very accurate description of the overall drug polices of the Nixon administration. While Nixon is remembered for "war on drugs" rhetoric, the actual substance of his policies seem to be different than what people think it was:

>...I have been fortunate over the years to discuss the distorted memory of Nixon's drug policies with almost all of his key advisors as well as with historians. Their consensus is that because he was dramatically expanding the U.S. treatment system (by 350% in just 18 months!) and cutting criminal penalties, he had to reassure his right wing that he hadn’t gone soft. So he laid on some of the toughest anti-drug rhetoric in history, including making a White House speech declaring a “war on drugs” and calling drugs “public enemy number one”. It worked so well as cover that many people remember that “tough” press event and forget that what Nixon did at it was introduce not a general or a cop or a preacher to be his drug policy chief but…a medical doctor (Jerry Jaffe, a sweet, bookish man who had longish hair and sideburns and often wore the Mickey Mouse tie his kids had given him).

https://www.samefacts.com/who-started-the-war-on-drugs/

>..."Enforcement must be coupled with a rational approach to the reclamation of the drug user himself," Nixon told Congress in 1971. "We must rehabilitate the drug user if we are to eliminate drug abuse and all the antisocial activities that flow from drug abuse."

>The numbers back this up. According to the federal government's budget numbers for anti-drug programs, the "demand" side of the war on drugs (treatment, education, and prevention) consistently got more funding during Nixon's time in office (1969 to 1974) than the "supply" side (law enforcement and interdiction).

https://www.vox.com/2016/3/29/11325750/nixon-war-on-drugs
Yes, but with so much material out there to read, it is good to have at least some vague indication of the worth of a work.

Also writers of crime fiction often have themselves question ed the worth of much of the production, see Raymond Chandler's Essay "The Simple Art of Murder'.

Why should we read Christie when we could rather read Graham Greene sounds like an interesting question to me
I think part of it is if you want a genetic sample you have to puncture the amniotic sack, which can cause complications.
In what way? Top cards from both can easily hit 240 FPS in esports titles. Heck, even the midrange cards from both this generation will.
Damn, stop giving them ideas.

The top end cards already cost about 5x what they used to cost some years ago.

What do you want? GPUs at 5000 USD each?
There currently isn't any kind of useful virtualization available for Apple Silicon, and my hunch is that there won't be until ARM becomes more relevant in the Windows/Linux space.

The way Apple Silicon runs x86 apps through translation makes virtualising x86 systems either impossible or at least extremely difficult.
I'd try worrying less about possibly having to do some menial work or being perceived as an ist, and instead try to understand why some might be offended by such terms or what impact their prevalence might have on our profession and wider society.
I'm more interested in the evidence he says he has than his statement.

> I have extensive relevant records and communications and I intend to produce those items to both Committees in the immediate future.

Where is this?
I took your advice, dropped everything, and spent the last hour watching Patrick Winston's lecture. What a master class in public speaking! I'll be revisiting this lecture to take in-depth notes.
This is why I strongly suspect this is a self-correcting problem.

A company decides to pay based on COL. Their engineers in rural areas are much cheaper and they now have a strong incentive to hire more people in Des Moines than in SF. They do so, thus driving up the demand for (and thus, price of) engineers in Des Moines. Likewise, by hiring fewer SF engineers, they're driving down the demand for (and thus, price of) engineers in SF. Give it a while and the national price for a given engineer converges.

I don't know exactly what the timeline here is - probably longer than a couple years, but less than 20. As an SF engineer, this'll probably pull my salary down, but the salary of engineers throughout the country up.
I wouldn't describe the return to feudalism as innovation....
You can't implement background installation of apps, automatic upgrading, or batch installation or upgrades of apps on Android outside of the Play Store. The competition is intentionally hobbled.

If we look at market share for mobile app distribution, the vast, vast majority of it goes to the App Store and the Play Store. The competition isn't even a blip on the radar.
Are you against abortion in general, or just for people with Downs?
At least not in germany.

Are extreme religous people okay with any abortion? Then there is no tension for them either and as far as i know, those are the more/real prominent examples of groups who saying something about this topic at all
One thing missing, deeply missing is priced updates. This would enable developers to earn continuously by maintaining and improve their apps. It would also reduce the incentive to produce throw-away apps. Lately it would it make less needed to shoehorn subscriptions into apps.

I welcome the 15% change but it's more PR than actually helping. More helpful would also be better tools to increase visibility in the App Store.
Facebook’s CTO on Misinformation
TorchXRayVision: A library of chest X-ray datasets and deep learning models
One big reason why I buy AMD hardware is John Bridgman who actively participate in discussions about their hardware and drivers as well as long-term vision toward open source. So I believed in AMD and supported them for years (and actually made nice profit on their shares growth).

To be honest I don't really need compute all that much other than for my own hobby projects. And for gaming I only play few games what suite my taste as well as tons of older or indie games that would work on any GPU. So why not, AMD open source drivers are decent anyway.

Unfortunately it's hard to really recommend AMD GPUs when it's come to the real world experience. Modern gamers actually want all these lock-in features even if Nvidia gonna abandon them in couple of years. Then people who need compute for their work just want their software to work and it's simply too much of mess on non-Nvidia hardware.
Opensuse Is Down
And let's remember slavery is still a major part of our lives. Even to this day.

Not making the word trivial is important in creating disgust and outrage, which eventually leads to policy changes to stop slavery happening right now.
Sure, but it's limited to mobile numbers where an sms provides the same value as a proof of record. That's why it's limited to mobile phones.

And SMS operates with the same functional principle as email - I own the text after receiving it, and can use it as needed.
As the employer, it often works differently. You interview a number of people as final candidates you find good fits for different reasons. Each person presents some extra benefits and some shortcomings. You then balance it off against the costs of hiring each person, and you make a final decision on that basis. At that stage, someone who'd be an appropriate "right next step" for the company at $80K may not be the right next step if they were at $100K, so you may pass if the person isn't willing to accept $80K.

If you truly run into cases where the hiring decision has already been made, so you're sure you're hiring the person independent of where they live, and then decide you'll pay them less if they live elsewhere - then one of 2 things is happening. Reality #1 - you're being subjected to some kind of corporate level accommodation where the business has decided that "we'll just take the hit and up-adjust salaries based on cost of living". If they don't apply this approach universally, the only alternative would be to either pay everyone $100k and therefore not have the ability to hire as many people, or simply not hire from $100K markets and only hire from $80k. Reality #2 - there's some real corporate corruption happening at the company where they're doing this for the sake of some central policy, but it's not a real constraint. That'd be unfortunate.
>A company's goal is to "extract" from each employee more value than his/her/their salary. If a company manages to save on a salary because the employee doesn't have much negotiating power, good for the company.

So, according to you, companies should have kept exploiting women and kept discriminating against under-represented groups by paying them less, because they didn't have "much negotiating power" and because it was "good for the company"? Equal pay shouldn't just work in an ideal, utopian world. It should work in all worlds because that is what is fair!
I have not heard this before. Do all businesses pay yelp $100 per month?
if it helps, all you need to do is add this listener to support the cmd key:

`document.addEventListener('keydown', (e) => (e.metaKey && e.code === 'Enter' && evaluate() && e.preventDefault()));`

The metaKey[1] is only accessible for keydown.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3902635/how-does-one-cap...
You’re referring to a different definition of “portables than the concept TFA appears to be describing. Within the scope of TFA’s definition, a language (or more precisely, an implementation) absolutely can be portable. Any implementation that can bundle all dependencies (including the runtime) into a single artifact can said to be portable per TFA’s definition of the term. Python could even be portable in this sense if it could zip up the interpreter, libraries, and all so files (however, these bundles would be hundreds of megabytes compressed in practice).
Hey, great idea.

Just one thing: the two-level horizontal scroll doesn't work consistently for me, and just seems a bit weird. I feel like the top level navigation should be left to the obvious top links. I don't really see the point of visualising all the sections as a continuous whole, whereas the individual lists make sense to be scrollable.
I didn't see anything in the article that attempted to refute his claim that

"Poll watchers [were] not allowed into polling locations"
I recently began using Nix as such on my current MBP - I'm a big fan!
Minimalism and empowerment: new scenarios in the digital economy
60% of us do not trust tech companies to keep our data safe.
Hey, that's simply not true this generation. Have a look at https://www.computerbase.de/2020-11/amd-radeon-rx-6800-xt-te..., https://www.computerbase.de/2020-11/amd-radeon-rx-6800-xt-te... shows individual gaming results. AMD does not reach higher FPS on lower resolutions, so they are not a better fit for 240Hz gaming.

Which does not mean that the cards are bad or worse! They are just not better in that category than in other categories, like 4K gaming.
I know at least the Ecobee can run the HVAC fan for a fixed period of time per hour.

Not an expert on this but from what I know, I wouldn't approach it this way. Even with a leaky house, the fan is mostly going to be blowing the air around the house, not pushing it out and sucking in fresh air which is what you want, and it will consume a lot of power doing it while shortening the life of an expensive part. Might help dilute a hot spot, but it's not creating a "stream" of air from the inside to out, it's just blasting the particles all over the place.

You really do need to have a lower power fan that's actually able to push air directly outside, such as a bathroom fan or a stove vent. If you were going for a "quick hack", I would just use the bathroom fan for this purpose, but as mentioned above they're not designed for continuous operation and usually haven't been cleaned out in ages, so I would clean it out and try not to have it running when I'm not around in case it fails.

For just filtering air vs ventilation, I read some stuff on filtering using a furnace filter, but in order to filter virus particles you need a very good filter (MERV-13), and almost no older furnace fans are designed for this, so this is a really good way to wreck your fan by making it work too hard. If you went this way, I would just buy a cheap fan from the hardware store and duct tape a MERV-13 filter onto it. Going to be a lot cheaper to replace that fan.
This implies - of course - that they will allow other app marketplaces to begin with.
Google Pay’s relaunch makes it an all-encompassing money app
Acquired by Tencent for $2M dollars at age 18
Tuple is great at this. It's for pair programming (which requires low latency desktop streaming) but turns out it's just a good experience for video calls too.

My favorite part is how low-effort the video calls themselves are. It makes me far more likely to end the conversation instead of waffling around looking for other things to shove into a meeting
Only if you assume its relevant.

Its not relevant when your society defines abortion before 3 month okay, which plenty do and i agree with.

If we would see it different, than it would be murder.
I think this quote really hits the nail on the head and confirms what a lot of people may have intuitively known about the value of cloud providers:

But once certain startups turn into big companies with hundreds of millions of users, with computing needs that they’ve come to intimately understand, it can be far more efficient to set up computing infrastructure designed exactly with those needs in mind.

I think the main advantage of cloud providers is to offset the risk of purchasing equipment that eventually is no longer needed, which is ideal for younger companies that are still trying to reach their market capacity or unsure about whether they'll still be around in a year. Of all the things on a startup's todo list, I can't imagine setting up their own infrastructure is the best way to improve profits or revenue.

But once the constraints of a userbase are more established, it should be easier to migrate off these platforms, since their pricing is optimized for users of all business sizes and use cases, whereas your specific hardware can be optimized for your specific users.

My biggest question is whether cloud providers could achieve a scale where they are able to offer the most optimal infrastructure costs for specific businesses. Maybe this is the case for smaller or mid-size companies, but I'd be interested to see where the inflection point lies.
Consider the parent that you are forcing to raise a child that requires a significant amount of work. It's better to have wanted children. Unwanted children will suffer in different ways.
Thanks for the follow up. I wasn’t doubting your claim, just genuinely interested in how one goes about obtaining such information in a legal way.

(Or whether what they’re doing is borderline legal to begin with)
Well a lot of that business went online to the consolidated mega players. Additionally, equities are high because the Fed is buying anything and everything to trick people into believing everything is fine. We'll see what happens when they unwind their $7T position.
"Google Search at this point is a joke".. Really?
Is there any better alternative?
> choosing who gets to live and who doesn't

It's worth noting that, to many people, someone that isn't born yet isn't a "who" at all yet. That is, in my opinion, why we see such a large gap in opinion between "pro life" and "pro choice"; (many of) the former think of it as killing, (many of) the later don't see the unborn as a distinct life, just another part of the mother. That disconnect leads to a lot of talking past each other.
-Search within Gmail is atrocious lately. The simplest phrases or words aren't being found, but instead offers up emails that do NOT contain the words!

-Android 11 is the buggiest and least stable version since the early days, with hangs and UI glitches constantly.

-Youtube doesn't let me submit feedback, I actually get a 403 everytime for almost two years, and recommendations have been broken for over 3 years

-Google news only will show 20 articles from the US, and not offer more, despite there being hundreds a day.

Pick a product and there are major issues they just don't seem to care about.
Isn’t the obsession with professionalism a hallmark of “anti-Blackness”?

/s I say this in jest but only because it’s incredibly easy to reproduce the absurdity of all this discussion, it’s all discordant and trivial
Submissions about YC companies don't inherently get an algorithmic boost on HN. (although the high ranking of this submission is IMO unexpected)
I myself am a minority as well.

I'm genuinely worried that all of this talk and social shaming related to "systemic racism" is actually going to create more of the monster it purports to try to defeat.

I mean, seriously. How do you think right wing people feel when they see left wing people on TV chanting that we should abolish the police? They clutch their guns even harder, that's what happens. By making an immense deal out of race issues, I think we might be making the problem worse.

In the 1990s, people generally had an attitude of "race doesn't matter", and now, it's become the opposite, "race is the only thing that matters". It's splitting us into factions and helping nobody.
> "as always, don't pay us until they get a job making over $50,000"

Can you elaborate on this? How do these students pay Lambda School after they've reached > $50,000 (is that $50,000 annual, cumulative, something else?). Once the indentured student reaches this income threshold, what does the compensation to Lambda School look like? Is it a percentage of the student's annual wages? How long does the student remain indebted to Lambda School? Are they required to sign a contract for a minimum term?
I even turned off the visual notifications on my email, facebook, linkedin, everything else that would normally give people the impression that my device is there for their benefit and not mine. The only audible notifications I get are from my girlfriend on WhatsApp and phone calls... which reminds me, I've put my phone down somewhere and I should probably go find it... after my cup of tea.
> What does it mean to publish if what's recorded is never read? The old WORN drive joke (write once, read never) has fangs.

The mere act of publishing itself is a form of capital and political and social exercise regardless of who reads it.

This is a deep rabbit hole and I don't have time to go into here (there's 2 chapters in this mythical book I speak of on it) but I'll point you in two directions, both centered on xerox

1. As a brief premiere look up the scholarly work 'Xerox Project: Photocopy Machines as a Metaphor for an “Open Society”' - or look into how the open society foundation supposedly helped defeat apartheid south africa and bring down the soviets via copy machines and cottage publications.

2. As a cornerstone of the first step of the modern LGBT rights movement in the 1950s. "ONE magazine", one of the first LGBT magazines using a specific Xerox machine as best I can determine either in Mar Vista or Venice california. Shortly there after, the Mattachine society, a second LGBT rights group, used the same copy machine to do their publication as well. The machine was also used to fight anti-mccarthyist blacklisting publications for the film industry as well. A similar effort happened for civil rights in Jim Crow south (I live in LA so I can do better research on the LGBT stuff since I can drive to the physical archives)

Even if nobody ever read any of these and the publications went into the garbage can, the maturation of thought and the coalition building as a function of the geographic space necessitated by the access to the machines had meaningful political ramifications.

You can also read the book 'Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture' for a decent deep dive on this.

It's all fascinating stuff.
Maybe a better link: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/941030?src=soc_tw_20111...
If they're buying iPhones for their kids like the original author's post they're also wealthy. So your point is moot.
You're pushing all the "angry minority" stereotype in your language in your comment.

Like, if I as a brown person am uncomfortable something it's me being an irrationally offended minority.

If it's a white person it's just Mike having a bad day.

I'm glad you're not my coworker.
> This logic horrifies me because it applies equally well to wage disparities based on protected classes.

I dunno if GP meant to imply that, but this is kinda the key flaw with the "equal pay for equal work" thing. most engineers earn way more than the median income. this is a direct result of existing in a market-based economy where wages are determined by supply and demand rather than some abstract notion of fairness. you can't complain that the payscale is different for atlanta vs sf while maintaining that it's totally fine for you to make 5x as much as the cashier at 7-Eleven.