skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "scapegoat" argument makes sense here too. Mrs. Sacoolas was seen as a personification of Trump's foreign policy. People were calling for her head, for an crime that generally doesn't even receive jail time (in the UK or USA).

People don't normally get incensed over non-DUI car accidents.

People were out for blood because her husband and allegedly she worked for US intelligence agencies. If she was just a tourist who forgot which side of the road she was supposed to drive on the case would just be in the local papers.

You can see it in this thread on hacker news. THEY WERE SPOOKS! STRING EM UP. Uh, no, they were working on a joint intelligence mission with the UK. The vast majority of intelligence workers are analysts and support staff not little green men.
Occam's Razor says yes.
Monopolies are efficient, that's why they exist and survive. The bad part is that they can capture all the economic profit from an activity. But there doesn't necessarily matter for leisure activities like space travel.
1. But can you put any numbers on that?

2. None of the situations you listed are that hard to solve.

3. "I lack skills" doesn't sound like a good reason to die.
>2. You can set conditions, such that delets can be ignored. Eg. I have a WhatsApp message+media backup going back almost 7 years now, ~65GiB. But I don't need all that on my phone. So I just disable syncing delets on my storage. Now my phone can get away with ~3 GiB of whatsapp data (only because I don't delete very often) and I still have complete backup in case I need it.

I would like to know, how are you using Syncthing to create local backups for WhatsApp database/msgstore (crypt14) and media files. You also mention 65GiB as your complete backup ─ have you tested it via a restore? If so, how?
If you want an alternative to the Play Store client, Aurora Store is quite excellent. It can be acquired on F-Droid.

I know you are most likely referring to Play services, but still worth noting for folks who may not know it exists as an option. I suppose for the latter, microG may offer a useful option.
An Overview of DoltHub Infrastructure
I think a big driver for adoption of AWS and the cloud in general is tech salaries in the US. You'll often hear people on HN talking about how useless it is to try to save $Xk because the engineer cost will be even higher than that.
My intuition is that it would be no different than human speech recognition. You'd need sufficient data, but the principle is the same. There arn't that many "words."

Humans understanding bird calls isn't new. We've probably forgotten more than we know. That's not unique to us either. Different species often recognize each others' calls, particularly danger calls.
How good is GPT-3 in practice?
Top reason Facebook won't succeed here: they're too greedy.

Say what you want about MS and Google, but they left a lot of money and opportunity on the table for others.

Facebook... notsomuch.

Which works fine when you start with a first mover platform. But doesn't work nearly as well when trying to grow a platform from nothing.

Here's hoping the effort crashes into the ground.
Path is hiring Engineers to automate Gen Z finance
I am also very excited about this, but the Verge review says the build quality isn't great. We'll see I guess.

I just hope that they release the next gen motherboard when it launches. Intel 12th gen, DDR5 RAM. I'm waiting for that big generational jump before making a purchase, and I really hope I can get a Framework.
How many domains will you be able to remove this way? There is probably some low limit like 50?
Isn't this because they're basically printing money with slightly disguised gambling?
My mom is a master naturalist and has listened to (hours of) frog field recordings to determine which types of frogs are at specific locations for our department of natural resources (IIRC). There is a paper that describes how to calculate minimum adult population from audial surveys. If you still need to scratch that itch, I'm sure there are still some interesting applications along these lines.
"The Hoover Institution, officially the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, is a conservative American public policy institution and research institution that promotes personal and economic liberty, free enterprise, and limited government."

Not surprisingly, Sowell's article is against affirmative action.

While I was reading it, I was also looking out for anything that might distinguish Sowell as one of "the top 5 intellectuals alive" and saw absolutely nothing. It just seemed like another random article with absolutely nothing special about it.

If there is some evidence that he's so brilliant, it'd be great if someone could point it out.
The title should probably be "Introducing Intrinsic" to match the source and be much more meaningful.
Edward Snowden on privacy and threats to democracy (2019) [video]
this is hacker news, where scorn is the major currency
Is anyone else weirded out by the fact that the Android app is published from something that that looks like a personal account, as opposed to some kind of organization? Not sure how publishing for Android works - is it possible to hand off an app to a different account when you're no longer affiliated with the organization?
Minimum Viable Governance
No. I am explicitly pointing out that even if you learn everything taught in class 100%, and get perfect grades in it, you may not be eligible for some advanced classes. It requires outside investment. And then the advanced classes give you a leg up in terms of college admissions if GPA is a guaranteed entry point.

That means the grade inflation of AP classes just serves as an indirect proxy for money, rather than a reasonable consideration for class performance, knowledge, aptitude, or any such thing.
Non-Speculative Problem Solving
I haven't checked, but I assume that the FCC required that prior to the complaint... just because the FCC usually requires that...
Time to once again post my favorite TED talk "the ghastly tragedy of the Suburbs": https://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_the_ghastly_...
Blackmail requires a quid pro quo. Otherwise, journalists would be outlawed from "doxxing" persons of interest just like what's now being pursued in England.
Sowell doesn't advocate for "right-wing" ideas. He's a moderate classical liberal, which is generally described as a centrist position.
Very interesting discussion about exactly that misconception in this interesting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxykI30fS54
Yeah I just read stuff like that and tune out because it so resolutely silly. It takes a huge amount of energy to get into orbit. Other than satellites and a space station, we have nothing in space. But we're gonna move heavy industry into space on any sort of foreseeable timeline? Sure, if we figure out anti-gravity or cold fusion or something.

Meanwhile, it is actually achievable to reduce the environmental impact of heavy industry and agriculture on Earth, reduce consumption, etc. It would also be a lot more impactful to invest billions into stuff like that instead of space access.
I mean, people disagree with their employers all the time.
Yes. It’s not what’s in the article but what it lacks; real criticism.

It does nothing to constructively challenge why we should let Bezos be in charge of saving the planet.

His billionaire adventures are doing quite a bit of damage to begin with, perpetuating shallow consumerism.

It neither denigrates nor deifies him. It’s a flaccid “both sides” emotional piece, leaving conclusions up to the reader.

Mine were that he’s part of the problem he’s trying to solve so why expect him to be anything else?

Bezos can’t escape being human and humans are destroying the planet.
Well luckily we have markets that can quickly turn equity in Amazon into cash. Bezos has in fact been doing that to the tune of billions of dollars a year to fund Blue Origin. I don't see him stopping any time soon.
Yeah... sadly CPUs in laptops have been soldered for a while now.

The same CPUs that have a socket equivalent for desktops. It's a travesty.
Several of the .it spam results are provisioned by 'Hosting Concepts B.V.'

A company perhaps also involved in some shady prescription med domains:

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/hosting-concepts-bv-dba-openpr...

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/health-fraud-scams/hosting-con...
My attempt at this is now hosted here.

http://www.kylheku.com/~kaz/gayabōkin.html

Enjoy!
The MGT would give a much better image.
Amending my "crap HW" comment: PCI was a massive step forward and PCIe even more so. PCIe to me marked a turning point where PC IO could be considered enterprise-class. Obviously the CPUs had improved a lot by then with the Pentium Pro marking a milestone and the beginning of Really Good implementations. (The ISA of course remained garbage).
Lessons Learned Replicating a PostgreSQL Cluster to Redshift with AWS DMS
Please provide some proof that he reported lies. Just merely reporting about matters - even matters you don't like exposed and want swept under the carpet - is not a reason for character assassination.
If the labels are all incorrect, you would want to start with the one labelled with the drink you don't want. This would give you an initial chance of 75% of getting the drink you do want (.5 + .25). If you don't get it on the first press, then you would press the one labelled "random", as this would 100% be the drink that you do want.
There are a few larger houses left with character in my town. Left, because starting in the 60's people left the city for the suburbs, and the houses fell into disrepair, burned down, etc.

I thought about buying one. Twice as big of a house that I have now, for half the price. However, you have a boiler system, no central AC, basically non-existant insulation, more wallpaper than you would ever want to remove, ancient electrical systems, and 125 years of shadetree repairs to every part of the house.

You'd spend a quarter million dollars upgrading the house to today's standards, like you see on an episode of This Old House. And then what? You have to deal with the crime and nuisances of the city, alley or a horse stall to park in, you get to pay city income tax, city water and trash which are 3X what I pay in my township, and then you have to figure out where you're going to send your kids to school. The city public schools are bottom 5% in the state so you have to go private or drive them to another district.
yes, there is always the option to return to violence, for anyone who’d prefer to be nasty, brutish, and short.
Ready or Not: Quantum Computing in JavaScript
Good points! We've thought a lot about this and how to make the 1 hour as meaningful as possible. Three things that may help with this:

1) we do breakout rooms so members have more time to talk with one another.
2) groups are capped at the 8 person mark.
3) depending on the week, not everyone is always hoping to chat/share, sometimes members just wish to listen that day.
I wonder if their ears are physically more resistant to hearing damage than ours, or if they're just guaranteed to go deaf as they age.
To be fair, given that FB are the 4th biggest company in the S&P 500, almost everyone on this site is probably a shareholder through their retirement plan.
Looking forward to logging in once and drawing as many dicks as possible in zucks metaverse before I'm banned.
Something I learned recently is that evolution is less like a program than I thought; to take an example, if during development you move a proto-eye in a frog to the end of their arm, the eye will still connect to the nervous system, get blood vessels, etc. connected to it. Why in the world does that work? Because morphology is a system that dynamically takes in information and adjusts to it; not a system like "grow a blood vessel exactly here for 2cm".

This is why mutations can often not cause immediate "compilation failure" since they just alter a parameter of the environment a specific morphological system is growing in, and the change is usually just noise which the system already has a large buffer of variability it can use to adjust.
The one about direct measurement wouldn't require anything else. You're just climbing the stairs and counting. Doing it the "right" way would also require the stairs (well, and elevator would work for that too, but I would count the elevator as an additional item which itself uses complex mechanics and cables to get you to the top.)
It's all a hack job to try and work around the fact that we haven't yet figured out a good objective measurement. Things like SAT do the same in reverse, aid the wealthy students at the expense of the poor ones. It's not an easy problem.
Instagram has already peaked and is on the down-trend.

TikTok is what the kids are using now - and they're valued at about half of what FB is valued at, so unlikely that FB will be able to buy them.

Maybe FB will buy whatever replaces TikTok.
thank you <333
Viable biz model, ability to execute is all I care about wrt Blue Origin.

Competition, good.

Living in space, colonizing Mars, mining asteroids, neurotic billionaires... Whatever. Just infotainment.
I'd say I'm in a qualitatively similar position as you. If I'm going to interact with a candidate in any capacity, I always spend at least 30 seconds to skim their resume if I have the means to.

When I'm acting as a hiring manager for a role, I read through applicant's materials in detail before deciding whether to advance them in the process. It's at least 50% of my work time, and my technical work suffers. I communicate that to the relevant managers and stake holders, and they can help decide whether it's the best use of my time.

I also regularly receive followup emails from rejected candidates saying that they thought the interview was the most fair and thorough of anywhere they applied, they understood why they didn't get the job, and in the process they learned where they need to focus on to be a better fit for the same type of role in the future.
I have heard of it in the context of domestic violence when a person locks themselves in a room without a phone and is trying to signal to the outside world that they are in trouble.
Wow, that story about doing more in the same time instead of the same with less time, that sounds straight out of this villain origin story the New Yorker wrote about Robert Mercer [1]:

“While in college, he had worked on a military base in Albuquerque, and he had showed his superiors how to run certain computer programs a hundred times faster; instead of saving time and money, the bureaucrats ran a hundred times more equations. He concluded that the goal of government officials was “not so much to get answers as to consume the computer budget.”’

This as some justification for becoming a libertarian-activist billionaire, but it seems more likely this is a universal experience than Mercer plagiarizing von Neumann.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-reclusive-...
There is a chance; but more than likely they're quietly mixing what they count in the denominator; especially since with the rest of the URM group and whites it seems they are very careful to call out that its comparisons between the high school pipeline and the in-state collegiate pipeline, but aren't as careful when discussing the AAPI pipeline.

Also, it looks like the study is following federal guidelines (IPEDS/NCES) on student groups; so Asian in this context for international students includes everyone from Korea, China, and Japan, down to the Malaysian Peninsula, through India, all the way west to the Arabian Peninsula (you know, like about 50% of the world population, no biggie there); so there may be some weird mixing of what's included in the denominator for AAPI students.
It's also how India got their insane case rate two months ago under control.
In other words, use subjective criteria that allow them to slip discrimination in under the radar.
Canyon Gate, among others, in Barker Reservoir's flood zone. Typically excellent interactive NY Times article on it here https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/22/us/houston-ha...
I'd like to see a citation for those income numbers, they're much lower than the figures from e.g. Eurostat:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
It's possible that dropping standardized tests will have the demographic effects that TFA fears, but it isn't certain. Standardized tests aren't the only reason that Asian-Americans are "over"-represented and other groups are "under"-represented. Another reason is that Asian-Americans are good students. Standardized test scores are not the only indicator of that.

Of course, the people who have decided to drop these tests claim to want some sort of demographic change. As long as California public universities have a limited number of open seats, that will hurt some groups if it helps others. Personally I hope that this doesn't just turn into helping whites at the expense of Asians, but that isn't impossible.
Awww thanks! I'm glad your friend had the support she needed at the time <3.
Hi, I just wanted to show my latest project to you fine folks. It's an emulator / simulator (I'm never quite sure which one is correct) for the MOS KIM-1 microcomputer [1]

It runs on iOS devices (from version 9.0 up) and on macOS (from version 10.15 only unfortunately)

You can have the basic interface of a hexadecimal keypad and 6 led digits, but I have also added a serial terminal to it.

From the serial interface, you can load paper tapes (one of the media the KIM-1 used to save data). It's a fairly easy format to work with and is detailed in the original KIM-1 manual. Basically you just type L when in serial mode, and choose a file to import with the button just below the "screen"

I have also added some help which hopefully will get you going if you don't have experience with the KIM-1. I basically reproduced the start of the original manual, modified in a similar style where necessary.

The mac version works, but it's only an automatic "translation' of the iOS versions, and as such it has a few quirks.

The mac version is available as a release in the github repo, but since I don't have an Apple developper account at the moment, you will have to build the iOS app yourselves with Xcode :( Also, I'm not sure if Apple would approve that sort of application.

Anyway, I hope someone likes it and I'm all ears for your feedback.

Thanks.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIM-1
WebOS? BB10? Meego?
Dropbox is able to back up the photo roll on an iOS device, isn't it? Not sure if it can do it without you manually opening the Dropbox app, though.
I love it but the main power a union wields is the collective action of the members to strike.

When the union says "Ok, Apple isn't cooperating, so everyone... " ...actually, what would you have the members do? Turn off icloud? Stop buying new airpods? You will never get all the "users union" members to give up one atom of convenience.
The practical interest might be close to zero because in the past memory upgrades a number of years down the road were one of the most common upgrades and added tremendous value and another few years of life. Similarly many older laptops got a second life by being upgraded to SSDs. Accidents like that, which prevent sales of new units, can't happen if storage and memory are soldered on.

I don't think this is the driver of these decisions per se, but it is undeniably a bonus for the manufacturer; non-upgradable devices become obsolete faster, necessitating new replacements.
The idea that the SAT is somehow racist is quite laughable. If you controlled for both family income and hours spent per day on academics you'd probably get an equal result. Culture differences mean that Asians are forced by their parents to study longer and harder. As people have pointed out in this thread, parental involvement is the biggest contributing factor to student success, even more than income and school funding. If white/black/whatever parents aren't getting as involved as Asian parents then obviously even if you control for income there will be disproportionate outcomes.

I will ask you this: why do you think black people are overrepresented in the NBA relative to their share of the population? Could it be because black culture highly values sports and black kids tend to spend more time than the average kid playing sports due to parental or cultural influence? That same logic applies to Asians and education.
It is a relic of slavery. As former slaves moved into the cities to find work in the reconstruction era and beyond the white residents fled to the suburbs and took their money with them. This lead to a decay of the inner cities which sets up a viscous cycle of poverty and neglect.

There's a second problem where people who might have good intentions and try to revitalize the inner city are instead considered to be gentrifiers. Basically in an attempt to break the cycle of poverty they cause the rents to increase and end up pushing out the poor people instead of uplifting them.
I can only wonder if in a few years some company will have an unspoken rule about scoring candidates, thanks to all the affirmative action and "holistic admissions". With these policies, an Asian male has to be extremely talented to land a spot at a good state school/ivy.
Still no Ryzen option? Pass.
The faq says they'll support main distros, but power management with Linux is always not great in my experience, hopefully it works out!
Heavily disagree Le Monde Diplomatique or Voltaire Network are just infinitely better for acquiring a better macro perspective of the world, if anything Economist is just renowned for bounding the scope of debate
There's a selection bias here; the parents willing to do that are those who care the most about education.
> the risk of crashing into the atmosphere is much reduced

This isn't really a risk, it's a feature. "Crashing" into the atmosphere means you slow down from orbital velocity and re-enter instead of polluting the orbital environment. It's much worse if you stay in orbit, occupying valuable space, and risking collisions that will create debris clouds occupying much more valuable space (and potentially resulting in chain reactions).

SpaceX has long since designed it's satellites to fully burn up as they re-enter the atmosphere to remove the risk that they'll hit someone on the ground, but even for satellites where that hasn't happened, it's generally preferred that they re-enter the atmosphere than hang out dead in valuable orbits.
Really wish they launched last year. Imagine all the Second Life proms
OK, I should have said "out there" instead of "up there" -- happy now? It doesn't change my point at all. What happens when you twist your ankle in those uneven woods and are unable to get out before nightfall?
This is awesome but Windows? Should ship with Linux option, it isn’t hard. Other nitpicks:

- USB C Module should have two ports at least.

- Ports in the back, who wants a monitor cable sticking out the side? No one does this anymore.

- Waiting for larger screen.

Props for 3:2 screen and modules.
I’ve heard of smart TVs scanning for a public access point regardless of user settings.
I know a lot of conservative folks. I think people on the left dramatically overestimate how much control and influence Fox News has on the average conservative. Do they have influence? Certainly. But Fox News has been the trendy go-to explanation on the left for why conservatives think or behave a certain way. I also think a lot of people on the left don't yet grasp just how many conservatives are enraged at Fox for 'betraying' Donald Trump. I don't want to ramble, but all-in-all, I don't think the change of tone at Fox will have a significant impact on vaccine hesitancy/intransigence.
I normally don't ever use it however I discovered in some areas I work it is necessary. Attempting to use the trackpad results in the cursor jumping around the screen and the only thing I can figure is that there is electrical interference messing with it.
Where I lived in Texas, no middle class family sent their kids to public schools.