skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In comparisons of black and white individuals, there was a 4% difference from demographic parity in favor of white individuals.

It's hard to believe that the bias was only 4% - there were a lot of people testing with images that they sourced themselves, and the preference for white people seemed much closer to 80-20.

The paper authors mention that their training data is from Wikidata (pictures of celebrities). I wonder if the types of photos in that dataset are meaningfully representative of the kinds of photos that people usually post to Twitter.
actually the LHC is sub-$10B endeavor, and it is almost pocket money in the world of manipulative ads. Google's profit (not revenue) is $17B/quarter - i.e. Google can build 2 LHC per quarter.
Oof, at a glance some of the gestures and ideas look pretty similar to what Apple just launched. I wouldn't be surprised if this either fizzles out, or gets nerfed by Apple for competing with built-in OS features.

It's possible the extra hardware in the watch band makes it work much better, which would be cool! But it's hard to beat built-in. And I presume relying on those comm ports in the watch band connector and watchOS functionality is... risky.
Youtube shows ads on videos for a section of creators without paying them and also puts ads on creator's videos that do not want ads on them.
Waymo Eyes Second Raise up to $4B
It's not a coincidence, cultural Marxism has invaded the West. Partly this is because we don't have real struggles like war or famine to deal with, so some have become mesmerized with intersectionalism and wokeness.

To advance a Marxist society in Canada and the US, the playbook is that dissent, facts and history must be suppressed or rewritten. You can see that in statue toppling, the 1619 project, and the loyalty tests being applied to the US military currently.

Canada is a special case in North America in that they started down the road to censorship and Marxism over 20 years ago, and is home to many CCP princelings (Xi and Bo Xilai's children live in Canada, the latter working for Power Corp.) Trudeau and his close cronies abstain from votes criticising the CCP, despite what the rest of his party does.
What happens if I buy 100 dollars worth of weed and smoke it all. Where did the 100 dollars go?
Ask HN: Purchasing a Desktop for Computer Science Undergraduate Study
Hi friends, please allow me to talk about the background first.

My wife is starting to take computer science courses toward an undergraduate degree. Her laptop is slow and very likely going to retire itself at any moment (the audio jacket went out of business yesterday so she had to use my laptop for Zoom). I'm considering purchasing a desktop for her, with the following requirements:

- Software needed to open at same time:
- IntelliJ (For pretty much every introductory-intermediate course)
- Zoom (For online teaching until Fall or next year)
- Chrome (at least 20 tabs from what I glimpsed)
- A few other applications such as Wechat/Whatsapp/Word/Excel but not at same time.

- No gaming or other high-end activities, so display could be shit

- Must be Windows, at least at the beginning. Once she gets comfortable with introductory programming I'll install a Ubuntu VM for her.

- We already have screens/keyboard/mouse so we only need a box. Adapters for HDMI/VGA will be obtained from other places.

I'm not exactly familiar with boxes nowadays, but I do have some vague ideas. The reason we chose Desktop is...frankly it gives more bang for the bucks. Her requirement is pretty mundane and the only thing I think she needs is 16GB ram because some software would be a beast regarding devouring RAM. So my question is:

- Aside from official manufacturer websites (HP, Lenovo, Dell) and common e-commerce ones (Amazon, Newegg, etc.), any specific website you use to hunt for deals? We are in Canada so maybe US websites don't work.

- Aside from traditional desktop tower, is there any other option nowadays? How about NUC? I think you still have to purchase and install HD and memory right?

- What about purchasing parts and assemble by ourselves? Would that cut down the price significantly (like 15%+)? Neither of us has done that before so wondering is there any "kit" to work on? There are tons of guides for sure though.
From time to time I like to lake a look at the last efforts ms did to try to save ie: https://www.youtube.com/user/internetexplorer/videos as for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyl4ABlXzuM
Websockets over http over sockets is silly. There's no point in moving a socket based protocol to a websocket; if you're going to change it, make it just use HTTP and skip the terrible hack that is websockets in the first place.

I like oragono and also wrote an ircd in go, and was inspired a bit by some of the project's code.
Not sure if it's what you're looking for, but I have a non-tech story:

I bought a small B&M business--a bar--in 2010. I had 2 partners, which quickly became just one partner.

The existing business was using a small bar area, but the building had a much larger back room with a separate bar which we planned to move into after we got it ready. (The building was previously a VFW). The existing business was also poorly ran, dirty, and the customers frequenting it were not very--desirable? Lots of silly practices were occurring--for instance, if you did the math on the pitcher, it was more per ounce than the mug.

Over time we did move into the back, and after a few years of sticking it out, having good food, good service, and a good atmosphere, we had a nice steady business. It's doing quite well now, and I've mostly eliminated my own role there, whether via trustworthy staff, or automation (I'm a developer as well).

For numbers, I think our sales have scaled roughly 20x from the time of acquisition. Possibly a bit more, I am working off memory for the original sales. We also scaled from working it entirely ourselves, to having about 10 staff members--6 bartenders, 2 cooks, and 2 door people.
Shared B cell memory to coronaviruses varies in human age groups and tissues
Given how long these problems have been staring us in the face, it's truly hard not to be totally pessimistic about the future. If we haven't changed yet, do we even have the capacity to do so?
> how to represent fiat money in the crypto ecosystem when centralized banks refuse to play along with their own downfall.

It seems to me the crypto folks on one hand complain about the governance of USD, but then also "need" it to stabilize their own currency. I thought crypto was the currency of the future.
Check out voice programming with Talon[0], I've recently been playing around with it (to be less reliant on my hands), and it actually takes little work to get started and fairly productive.

The state of voice programming is much better than most people would imagine.

Here's a nice talk on strangeloop by a person who switched to it permanently: https://youtu.be/YKuRkGkf5HU

[0]: https://talonvoice.com/
I think you proved his point. ;) He's talking about the Mozilla browser, the precursor to Firefox. (Well actually, Firefox was named Phoenix before it became Firefox.)
I'm literate enough to read the entertainment section of a newspaper, and get a perfect score on the SAT 2 Chinese language test in the US. Technically, I wouldn't really be considered literate for an adult though.

When I came to the US at 4.5 years old, my mom brought with us some textbooks, enough for kindergarten through 3rd grade. I'm mostly self taught with help from my mom.

I more or less speak like an adult, but if I'm asked to read anything more complex (e.g., bank documents, geopolitics news), I'm completely lost.
Entropy usually boils down to "sum p * log(p) for all p (and possibly normalize)", assuming you have discrete probabilities p. It is not related to variance or mean.
And by "improve" everyone understands "get more complicated and bloated" :-P
If I'm gonna pay for a service it sure as shit isn't gonna be from a company with no customer support system
I've given this a decent bit of thought, and in the unlikely situation that you're living a life with no access to modern materials, you're probably living a pretty busy life. Things you've never thought of, like gathering dry wood, finding potable water, stockpiling food, determining what's edible, constructing shelter and protecting yourself from danger will probably take up almost all your time in your first year, if you make it that long. This is of course very dependent on where you are - in many climates you'll be 24/7 trying to survive, but if you're in a fertile area with good weather, maybe some access to fish, you'll probably have a handful of extra hours here and there for fun projects. Hunter-gatherers in a tropical climate with abundant food, thousands of years of experience and a stable societal structure have around 4 hours per day of free time [0] - you will probably not have those things, so count on much less.

What that means is that your time is the most valuable thing. (And materials, which take lots of time to obtain.) So if you begin to price out the time cost of acquiring all the materials to create a furnace and glass, it'll be enormous. The same goes for a steel axe, or books from wood pulp. In fact, anything from metal is an enormous amount of work, so I'd probably leave it aside.

But that doesn't mean you can't have an axe, or paper, or glass - you simply have to look at what people used to do. Stone axes work fine [1], paper from birch bark is great, and mica makes a decent glass replacement. (If you get lucky, you'll find large mica sheets, which are clear as glass - if you're not, you can attach small ones together, but it won't be clear.) If you're in a cold enough climate, and you survive the winter, ice can be a replacement for glass and a weapon.

As for the camera - no way you'll get a functioning "modern" camera with optics and an aperture and everything. I would simply build a camera obscura and use my birch bark - the biggest technical challenge there is getting a totally dark "room", which could probably be done the simplest by making a dirt hut with a wooden front and a pinhole made of birch bark coated in ash. (The thinner the hole material, the better.) If you had people to trade with, and plenty of time, I suppose it would be possible (if difficult) to make a photosensitive plate that you could use with your pinhole.

[0] https://sci-hub.do/10.1038/s41562-019-0614-6

[1] They only take about 3-4 times longer to cut wood than steel: https://sci-hub.do/https://doi.org/10.2307/3772981
Dactyl split keyboard has a fork/derivative called the Manuform[1].

[1]: https://github.com/abstracthat/dactyl-manuform
The Federal government steps in as the lender of last resort to provide liquidity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lender_of_last_resort
This is super cool! Where do you irc?
Meh. Used to use Ansible a lot but once I get into Terraform/AWS and Docker/ECS, I've had little need for it. Just ship the whole docker image. Terraform really delivered on declarative configuration in a way that made imperative Ansible obsolete for me.
Whether you are in an enterprise, university, airport, internet cafe, restrictive country etc. HTTP traffic just works.

No one is going to open up non-standard ports especially not for IRC which most people aren't familiar with.
>the pockets of mass economic growth start in cities

It's varies over time. With SV-style tech that hasn't been the case until quite recently. And, in the Bay Area, arguably the nexus of jobs is still in the South Bay. And this sort of situation is true for many other areas as well.
> For example you said that FB can't be sued over this.

Are you sure? Where?

> The issue is that statements here about topics people don't understand are often outright wrong, but go unchallenged.

Are you sure you are responding to the correct commenter? Here’s something I did write:

> It’s pretty easy to question unverifiable claims…

Which is what I recommend when you see something that you think is outright wrong.

Moaning long windedly about the fact that people say things you think are wrong is pointless.

If you see something you think is wrong or unclear to you, you can contribute to the conversation by asking a clarifying question.
Terrible hacky custom extensions like this is precisely why I just want to talk to it via HTTP.
Too lazy to look but I believe someone in a vm went from windows 1.0 to windows 7 (with all upgrades in between) and some of their personalization options from 1.0 (or maybe 3.11) were still present in 7. Insane!
> If you aren't playing this kind of roulette, I don't understand why you would try to compete in the same job markets.

Ever since Blockbuster failed dramatically, large brick and mortar company execs are worried that SV will take their market. And, for good reasons too, I'd say. Software is eating the world etc.
14 years ago Google started a project to make renewables cheaper than coal.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2014/11/30/why-...

It feels like this slow train wreck will have to get worse before we do enough, giving us more time to advance technology.

The United States is no longer the biggest emitter. Now we need more global coordination.

Of course, the sooner we started addressing the problem, the longer we could have delayed the problem.

Fusion by 2050?
Or, summed up: https://xkcd.com/985/
> I want an infinitely thin desk so I can type basically on my lap without totally destroying any vertical space above my knees.

Keyboard trays come in in pretty thin, if your desk is high enough to attach an adjustable tray beneath it, it can work. Of course, you also need to have your monitor at a good height, if there's a conflict there, you have to do things like put the monitor at the edge of the desk and the tray out in front of the desk.
> but it isn’t a priority.

I would kill for this.
Synth is a tool for generating realistic data using a declarative data model
Are you certain? This looks like it's written by the author of the newer kitty terminal emulator, not the older KiTTY ssh/telnet client derived from PuTTY.
I have been continuously using the credits for years to host my blog (300+ technical posts) and podcast (80+ episodes).

In previous years certain articles were more popular than they are today so a majority of my credits were gained over a year ago.
I had to look up what a parking light is. It sounds totally unnecessary to me, but I'd say that about a lot of things put in cars after the 90s.

Probably not important in this case since it's just a light for parking, but lights for cars cost more due to having to meet exacting DOT standards/testing. I wouldn't do this with a brake light or real headlight.
> Entirely too often, they ignore distro convention

Can you clarify what you mean by this?

I have used both the flatpak and rpm (on Fedora) version of Firefox and don't really notice a difference. Perhaps Firefox is just one of the packages that does distro convention properly?
Because they pay a ton of money and hire some of the smartest people
A small community can still have a lot of value to it's members.
Not sure if you're editing your comment or I didn't read it entirely before.

And your last sentence is not some kind of proof of your belief. Without a dirty cheap producer then a cleaner producer who has paid for the environmental externalities they created might have made the product.
except gold has been valuable for thousands of years and retains value without electricity and internet, none of which are true for BTC.
Indeed! You could use the CDK to build the data integration pipelines that your ETL solution doesn't support.

Airbyte comes also with ~70 connectors. So if we already support the destination you want, you can only build the source connector that we might not support as well. Our goal is support 200 connectors by the end of the year and address the long tail of integrations in 2022 :).
Thanks that is actually helpful
I thought it retired 20 years ago, didn't it?
Interesting. Where are you located? Thanks!
Back when i was in highschool i wrote a few IRC clients just to learn socket programming in Delphi and later C and Java. I always appreciated how easy it is to get a simple client running.
There's two reasons for that.

1. Trillion-dollar fortunes are built on pumping CO2 into the atmosphere. We, as humans have committed genocide against entire cultures over less money.

2. The wealth of industrialized societies is not built on money, or labour. It is built on energy. All of their wealth is derived from energy. Fossil fuels are an incredible source of energy. Cost-effective competitors to them had limited potential to replace them, for a large number of technical and political reasons.
My car was broken into multiple times, stolen a few times (I used tickets to find it because the cops wouldn't take even the basic step of matching parking tickets with stolen car reports).

I worked in the tenderloin - so plenty of open air drug dealing (not a huge problem) as well as random attacks on people (a problem). My roommate was jumped and beaten near our place - very disruptive to his life in general.

I actually caught folks who had stolen my car, good response by police, got them in the car too driving it. I asked, if I pressed charges, what's the consequence. A few days in jail if I was lucky and wanted to spend years pursuing the case - these would be guys who I'd then have a beef with in my neighborhood.

I didn't carry a gun or knife and just didn't want to beef with the dudes hanging out. At some point you are like, is this worth it? As you get older, have kids - you just want to let you kid play. Where I am now the kids can play on their own with neighbors on the street - no worries. Much nicer in my view.
Over the next few years, is it likely that she will study machine learning? My default answer would be yes, and if so, that could affect the answer. I will let others comment on recommended hardware for machine learning.
Defcon, being in Nevada (a state owned 95%+ by the US federal government and the home of the Nevada Test Site and Area 51) has always been super friendly to the US military (including its spying apparatus) and adjacent industries.

It's super gross.
Contextual Concurrency Control [pdf]
Femtostar: Satellite Communications, Done Differently
Problems are solved by optimists. Dont be pessimistic, we will solve problems as they arise. If you are truly worries about your future the best way is to get into the trenches.
It also enables tracking of what I watch by the company I trust the least in the world with tracking me.
> if miner will spand the same energy whether it's for 1 or 1 trillion transactions -- then energy per transaction metric is zero signal.

So? A running car consumes gas even when it's idle. My parents used to measure MPG at every tank refill, which was a combination of miles, idle, braking, etc.

We can certainly take an average of transactions to get a reasonable number for watts/transaction.

> no, actually, it's an opinion.

... which was stated as fact.
Between all my bike thefts, car thefts, window break ins etc- I reported only car theft. Crime is widely understated in SF. People will step over a dying person in SF.
While I wait for my employer to finally decide the "full remote" question, we have been low-key looking for homes out there, from Sac to Folsom all the way to Placerville. I think we missed the boat and should have gambled on remote by pulling the trigger earlier. Prices have just shot up since the beginning of the pandemic, and our Bay Area house hasn't risen in value comparatively. Also, inventory is way down. He who hesitates...
Just as a random tangent from a great story, the Data General Eclipse was the machine designed and built in Tracy Kidder's excellent book The Soul of a New Machine.

Really fantastic book for anyone interested in the history of computers, captures its moment in time perfectly and won a Pulitzer for it. If you liked Halt and Catch Fire you'll love it.
> When freenode announced that it was joining with Private Internet Access, staff were uncertain but assured that PIA was to have no operational influence

I mean, promises like that sound like obvious bullshit to me. ‘EA promises that Codemasters will continue to operate on their own like they did’. Yeah sure buds, who are you taking me for. Unless the company is a cash cow startup, why would anyone buy it with other aims than to try making it bring a bit more profit than the previous owners could manage? (Buying the team/the technology is pretty much the same, as it means the workings of the business will be thrown away.)
IRCv3 is written to be backwards compatible so it makes sense to have a ton of optional stuff - considering it is backwards compatible, everything is optional :-P.

And it makes sense, IRC is already out there and has a ton of servers and clients working, you can't split that community based on the client they're using otherwise you're just creating yet another isolated chat protocol like a ton others before it.
>The line of thinking that starts with COVID19 and ends with violence against grandmothers seems so preposterous that it should be tested objectively to see if it exists.

Okay

>There are reports of huge increases in hate crimes during a year full of brazen violence and media-fueled racial tensions.

You don't think #ChineseVirus had anything to do with those racial tensions?

>This is most easily explained by a trend in classification rather than victimization. That is, law enforcement is now documenting something that has been going on for a long time. This is certainly true of the national crime victimization survey, which listed Asians for the first time in the 2018 report, released at the end of 2019.

Here's the report from 2010: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/ascii/cv10.txt

It lists Asians.

>I do expect to see increases in Asian victimization in the 2020 report, but the motivations are most likely under the banner of social justice.

What?

Specifically, what the fuck?

>Nobody was looting and burning down cities in protest of the coronavirus.

No, but they're torching Chinese restaurants because they are Chinese. Here's one example among many:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/officials-look-into-chi...