skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the Starbucks incident neither man actually used the restroom, rather they were arrested for refusing to leave:

"Two black men walked into a Starbucks in downtown Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon and sat down. Officials said they had asked to use the restroom but because they had not bought anything, an employee refused the request. They were eventually asked to leave, and when they declined, an employee called the police" (1)

The charge of racism rests on the claim that they would not be asked to leave had they been white. But what is the evidence for that claim? Has no white person ever been asked to leave a Starbucks for sitting at a table without buying anything?

(1) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/15/us/starbucks-philadelphia...
“Solid-state batteries are exaggerated” says renowned battery researcher
If Mozilla will take steps to be more financially independent from Google, then their criticism of Google's competitors (like Facebook) will be more authoritative.

I understand that this is not something you can do in a short amount of time; at the same time many Mozilla users have been objecting about this issue for years now.

Edit: they pre-install the Facebook Container extension while the Google Container extension is not even in the list of suggested privacy-focused extensions. If money can't possibly come from other sources, maybe they could at least do some work on looking a bit more impartial.

Edit 2: Firefox was found "phoning home" to Google after every new install - at the end of the installation process it would automatically load a page that was using Google Analytics, before the user had the time to enable any content blocker. (This was circulated on Twitter and they later removed the Analytics code).
While F150 lighting isn't stainless steel, they are made from aluminum alloy, pretty good against rust.
Energize
You can do a lot of things to compel people to get vaccinated, short of going door to door with guns.

You can deny people entry to various places contingent on vaccination, which is what a lot of places are doing now. You may not be able to convince people to get vaccinated for their own sake or the sake of the health of their neighbors, but way more people will choose being able to go to work, school or the bar over staying unvaccinated.

I chose "getting a student loan" over "not registering for the draft" and I was both terrified of getting drafted and morally opposed to killing, as much as any 18 year old can be.

No guns, no goonsquads, just pile on the headaches and most people will find themselves to get vaccinated regardless of their own doubts, beliefs or prior declarations.
There were intimations of excesses and poor judgement in "Deer Hunter". The final parts are excessive imho.
Things that can be done remotely may already be there.

Radiology has experienced a bit of outsourcing... complete with its own set of challenges.
was having this exact conversation with my wife last night.

my nephew and his mother are being very hesitant because "the vaccine is so new and untested"...

They don't have any issue getting the flu vaccine every year...

I just don't understand their mindset.
He might, but I think if you ranked CEOs by the ratio of presentation skills to market cap, Elon Musk would be one of the worst ones out there. He definitely has room for improvement- some of the TSLA shareholder meetings are borderline painful.

Notwithstanding the cultural appropriation aspect[1], I think you can make an argument that Elon should say things like 'deadass' or 'litty-titty' because it's part of the irreverent personality that he tries to project. But I think it would be a huge stretch to say that suggesting he avoids those terms is racist.

[1]: Elon Musk is technically African-American, but obviously doesn't have the same cultural background as people whose ancestors were brought here in chains
It depends on whether you consider liberty, self ownership and free contracts between consenting adults to be basic human rights.

Eroding liberty by restricting free association would have certainly been considered a violation of rights by the folks that listed them in the Constitution.

In fact, they put it first.
Possibly dumb question, what about the people who have been told by their doctor to NOT get a covid vaccine because of specific pre-existing conditions or medical history?

My neighbor has been told by his doctor to not get any vaccine because of his medical history. Are those people just SOL, or am I missing something?

THX
Sure but when was the last time you pre-ordered something you never had intention of buying?
The fake voice is interesting - She read all the literature that people with deeper voices get more respect, more funding and are given the benefit of the doubt more often.

And she said 'Well, that seems easy. I'll just talk lower'

This is the kind of thing 'growth hacker' types would normally idolise, rather than ridicule.

I think the voice thing has been conflated with the fact that she was running a huge scam, which we've decided is generally ok when you're making a food delivery app, but is definitely not ok when you're testing people for HIV.
> A signing bonus is significantly less valuable than salary

That depends on their relative magnitudes. Nevertheless, signing bonuses means workers have negotiating power.

> labour income share

Let's say you and Bob work for Evil Corp. Bob gets replaced by a robot that is twice as productive as Bob was. Your job hasn't changed. The overall productivity of Evil Corp has gone up because of the robot.

The robot makers and investors get the income share from the increased productivity of the robot.
And the weird part is the courts wrote out "shall [not] abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States" but then wrote in "[substantive] due process of law" when they realized they stuffed up.

But the whole thing should have been scrapped after the civil war anyways. So much of the document, and the drawing up of states themselves, was done to balance slave-power -- something remarkably unimportant after 1865.
I don't think that is for any other reason than math. Autopilot has driven multiple orders of magnitude more miles than Comma.
The FAA rule you're referring to, 14 CFR 91.21, has no relation to the FCC rule. The FAA cannot authorize the use of cell phones aboard aircraft as long as the FCC forbids it. It's not the FAA's jurisdiction.
Strictly for artwork purposes, in case anyone has a Nintendo DS handy and a homebrew cart (or willing to buy the official release): Colors! is fairly impressive and had an active community producing a ton of artwork for a while https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors%21 . It's particularly good on the original DS and DS Lite, which have a pressure sensitive screen, not just touch/no-touch.
My understanding is the manufacturers of the “great vaccine” are still immune from liability, at least in the US.

https://www.phe.gov/emergency/events/COVID19/COVIDvaccinator...

“Following the money”, it would seem neither the industry nor the Government share your sanguine view on the vaccines. It would be easy enough to revoke the legal immunity now…it’s been nearly a year and a half since COVID was introduced into US, it’s not the emergency it was in the beginning. Yet I think it is still in place.

If the COVID vaccines are so good, why the failure to accept the typical financial liability that comes with every other medical intervention? There’s a difference between being an anti-vaxxer and an anti-inject-stuff-in-my-arm-without-professional-liability-er. Those who “follow the money” in such things would have reason to be skeptical.
That I could rationalize away: women CEOs facing sexism might benefit from acting more ‘corporate’ and dominant, and having a deeper voice is one tool in that arsenal. Good posture, firm handshakes and eye contact, etc.
But yea, going to such lengths all the time would require insane amounts of masking that a neurotypical probably couldn’t manage.
You do if they are open to the public. We once lived in a country where people were banned from entering buildings based on the color of their skin.

If I run a private public space I shouldn’t (and can’t) discriminate arbitrarily on who can enter.
This is somewhat hilarious. They ranked the U.S. #1 and we promptly had ~650,000 COVID-19 deaths (so far). China ranks #51 and has less than 5,000 deaths.
It’s hard to tell how far they’re at. No screenshots? No progress bar?
I once got a recruiting e-mail from comma.ai and the tone was very much acting like obviously I want to work for George Hotz and I'm so lucky he's willing to chat with me so what time should we schedule the meeting? I'd never heard of him nor the company and it all seemed very pretentious. They also sent it to my work address, which is not exactly classy.

To be fair, it was probably a bad recruiter, not George's fault, but that's now the memory that comes to mind whenever I heard comma.ai or George Hotz mentioned. Be warned, founders.
Well, the Moderna and Pfizer ones for emergency use, and now that the data is in, they're looking for full and complete approval around Labor Day.

I trust you will stop just-asking-questions at that time?
My cousin and I stayed up almost all night as kids recreating the ESPN SportsCenter opening on this game on a hot summer night in Staten Island. Da da da, da da da - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyBbi7tnL5w
Delta variant: Estimating the impact of vaccines, masks, etc. on R_0
1) Replace "children" with "immunocompromised people". It is the exact same argument. Don't be pedantic. And yes, I do believe COVID is overblown in how it is presented. The risk factors are very clear now and nowhere near as bad as they were originally presented, or as bad as people still seem to think they are.

2) You just did it again - stating other people's opinions are "dumb" because they don't adhere to your personal mantra is exactly how you make other people completely disengage. Just like I'm going to do now.
This is literally not at all what happened.
If you don't trust the car manufacturers, I'm not sure why you would trust a bolt-on system from a startup that may or may not have tested the system extensively with your specific car model. If anything, the car manufacturers at least have some legal liability.
the chassis is aluminum? im pretty sure its steel

edit: https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2021...

steel frame.
> And sure, I'd be curious to hear how your Monte Carlo implementation might differ.

Excel is just too slow/not the right tool for MC (or most serious statistics). From my experience with mcmc, compiled languages come in pretty handy to speed up any loop that just can't be vectorized with some linear algebra. So I'd use any tool I'm comfortable with to set up the simulation but delegate the hardcore simulation loops to something like c++.
Irrelevant so long as vaccination levels are as low as they are: there's no population where infection starts in a vaccinated person and spreads amongst the vaccinated only that we can reasonably track.

What we do know is that vaccinated people seem to be getting COVID Delta and spreading it to close contacts: but that's a self-selecting the sample too - people who are getting vaccinated are also vastly more likely to take adequate precautions if they get infected.
Well on the one hand it sounds like what you're saying is that there's a high degree of uncertainty, but on the other we can be certain that there's not a severe long-term problem.

I don't think the fear is about 10% ending up with anosmia. The fear is that the 10% of detectable problems might be indicative of much more severe and/or much more prevalent problems going undetected. You're right that the problem is lack of very good data, but the folks who live and breathe this domain appear to be very concerned by the data we do have.

For what it's worth, I don't think many (any?) people are arguing for a permanent restructuring of our society. They're merely asking that we don't consider death to be the only endpoint that's relevant to the conversation.
Note that the research was conducted before 1989. "People who don't know how to use a computer" was approximately everyone.
How to Sell Anything by Tony Robbins
This is not medical advice.

Your attitude is good, you care for your partner and are trying to help! You know you're not perfect, and honestly admit your own struggles. Therefore I feel like you'd be the best person to speak into their life, rather than some counsellor.

For me, music helps. Here's a playlist, if punk rock is their style.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfNF8TQij08rRJMIp0i5k...

Chocolate, words of encouragement ("you're not alone"), and opportunities to talk to total strangers (who will not gossip to friends) have all been helpful to me.

Personally I think the word "depression" is rather vague: does it mean feeling bad? feeling nothing? wanting to die? All of those are different in my opinion, but are often lumped all together as a "problem" to be solved.

Detachment from life can be freeing. I can say "I'll love you to death". The worst that the world can threaten is the death penalty, but I'm not afraid any more (V for Vendetta). This doesn't mean I feel bad! If my life is still useful for serving others (fixing computers, writing code, having the right adaptors) then it's better for us all that I stay here. But I have a greater hope for what's on the other side.
Ads are intended to make you to need something new, or to like something that you don’t need.

Ads showing you something you cannot afford can increase your desire of it, thus envying who can afford it, etc.

An ad appearing over and over is not necessarily intended to make you buy something. There are lot of sociological and psychological implications behind.
So do you believe this article should be disregarded, because it uses data that differs from California's and Chicago's?

Or would you instead prefer to only use the parts of this article that support your position, and replace those that don't with data from California and Chicago that does?
Cool! Screenshots?
How would that work? You would have to track all of the times it should have been enforced but wasn't. And what about laws that do not have to be enforced because their existence prevented infractions?
They have the same regulatory problem “dietary supplements” do. You can’t say something falsifiable like “makes you fall asleep in an hour” you have to say “improves sleep function.”
More information and motivation in the git repo[0], the link to which I didn't spot easily in the site header.

The main design goals are:

* source compatibility with macOS applications (i.e. you could compile a Mac application on Airyx and run it)

* similar GUI metaphors and familiar UX (file manager, application launcher, top menu bar that reflects the open application, etc)

* compatible with macOS filesystems (HFS+ and APFS) and folder layouts (/Library, /System, /Users, /Volumes, etc)

* self-contained applications in folders or a single file and a (mostly) installer-less experience for /Applications

* mostly maintain compatibility with the FreeBSD base system and X11 - a standard Unix environment under the hood

* compatible with Linux binaries via FreeBSD's Linux support

* eventual compatibility with x86-64 macOS binaries (Mach-O) and libraries

* pleasant to use, secure, stable, and performant

[0] https://github.com/mszoek/airyx
This has worrying privacy implications. I hope Apple makes a public announcement about this but wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t. I also would expect EFF will get on this shortly.
Better link if you don't like Twitter's threading format:

https://medium.com/@EpiEllie/what-does-the-delta-variant-mea...
I have been using Lunch Money[0] after it was mentioned here and am pretty happy with it. It took a while for the API[1] to launch but it's in beta at the moment and they're pretty responsive to user feedback.

[0] https://lunchmoney.app
[1] https://lunchmoney.dev
> With that systems, she said, they never had anyone fail. Every child that passed through learnt reading. She said it was like a miracle.

From someone familiar with the trenches of teaching: claims of 100% success need to be met with skepticism. There could be other classes where the lower performing children go (and fail).

There is actually a lot of research on how to teach reading. I'm not saying every school district uses research-supported materials, but I am saying nostalgia for decades-gone-by methods of teaching should be looked at with a (very) critical eye. Who is successful? Who is not? Are there alternative approaches for students for whom the main approach does not work?

On this specific claim: VPK = voluntary pre-kindergarten. Presumably this teacher is not claiming that 100% of children are learning to read before kindergarten? To critically evaluate this claim, one would have to know the grade level being taught. If they were teaching introductory reading to 7-8 year olds (instead of typical US kindergarten ~5 years old), then success rates would be higher... And in fact one of the trends in education has been pushing the skills to lower grade levels, where they (of course?) become more difficult to master - which makes these claims plausible but again, you need to know if you are comparing the performance of 2nd graders from decades ago with kindergarteners now.
> And face it, nobody is out there paying to assassinate farmers.

Ah, but in small towns essential services are often performed by volunteers. You've got your volunteer fire department, volunteer EMTs, volunteer assassin's guild, the usual.
Yeah, it's absolutely wild. Even the main contributors don't really know what they're talking about, they just regurgitate the party line.

http://imgur.com/a/hUXR6s3

For instance, when asked how the memory management system works, here you see a team member give the standard response: the compiler inserts calls to free when it detects the variable is no longer used. This seems reasonable to anyone who hasn't thought much about PL/compilers before. But when pressed further, you see Alex admit "most stuff is simply cloned ATM" which is in stark contrast to the "autofree handles 90-100% of objects for you" on their homepage.

Or this where Alex shows he has no idea what UB is?

http://imgur.com/a/mbLtASH

UB is a property of the language's abstract machine. Common C UB like dereferencing a null pointer or signed integer overflow has well defined semantics on basically any commodity hardware manufactured in three decades and yet it is still UB not because of the runtime properties but because the C abstract machine says it can't happen and compilers are free to optimize based on that assumption. For a language that compiles to C and claims no UB, the author should have a much better understanding of this.
Yes, unfortunately "states rights" has become a rallying cry for racism and hatred, but the original framing of this country is that the state's are basically supposed to be much stronger than the Federal government.

I don't really know whether we can unwind the federal governments grasp on things without basically destabilizing the whole thing though at this point (and admittedly, I'm not sure the majority would want to).
It's a collection of sophistry from Typhoid Marys.

And yes, she was a real person. Those who ignore the humanities are doomed to repeat humanity's worst mistakes.
The many kinds of data professionals
Emily Short's games tend to elicit positive responses.
I got to meet him for about 10 minutes at cmu while he was waiting for his photo shoot with wired magazine. He was a nice guy but also kind of a weirdo.
Who thinks Nancy Pelosi can solve this problem?
It gets the #3 spot in SQLite's FAQ: https://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q3
I'm surprised at how little regressions there were in the tests they run, given they completely disabled JIT. This could be very useful as a default 'mode' for websites, with JIT able to be turned on for trusted websites if the user would like more performance.
A real bitlicker
Maybe it's better to just spend 5 minutes looking into that question instead of coming up with random reasons.

The paper was originally graded by a TA who gave the "C"
grade. Watson appealed the grade to the professor. The professor reviewed it and upheld the "C" grade, stating that he had not sufficiently convinced her that the amendment was still alive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_th...
The states really screwed this up when certain ones decided their love for cotton and hatred for brown people was more important than their sovereignty.
Respectfully, this is one of those questions that sounds reasonable until you dig a little. No mRNA treatment has ever shown long-term negative effects. mRNA therapy isn't used because its effects aren't long-term enough. What these vaccines do is use the mRNA mechanism to cause proteins used in the coronavirus to be generated by somatic cells (i.e., not germ cells, which can reproduce), at which point they're indistinguishable in effect from a viral subunit vaccine (which directly injects those proteins into the body and are recognized from there).

mRNA isn't new and we do know how it works. There is no mRNA left after the process. It breaks down and is evicted. If what you describe was going to happen, it would have happened already.

If you can find anyone who has studied mRNA academically (let's draw a line of "has contributed to or reviewed a paper on the topic", I can't think of a better one?) willing to put their credentials on the line to buttress this concern I'd be honestly amazed, because I can't find one and I have looked.
> people who start in bad jobs tend to thrive when they’re hired into a normal, well-run company and realize just how much better it is.

There is something to be said for the amount of skills you get by running 12 hours a day.
Going back? My current employer never left…
This was Scalia's position basically.. he always held that there is a process for changing the Constitution.
> In 1995, he realized Mississippi had never ratified the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery. So he pushed that state's Legislature to do it — and it worked.

Just think about that for a second: Someone had to push the state legislature to abolish slavery in 1995. Just sickening
Near as I can tell from Googling around, they make up 2-6% if the US housing stock.
I was out flying with some friends in a spot on an abandoned golf course. Being super respectful of the houses around the edges, flying pretty much in the middle of the course. Some dumbass decided our drones were good skeet targets. The police were very unkind to him and slightly peeved with us... it was a number of years ago.
Try https://amazingmarvin.com/. I don't use it, but I remember they have developed something similar to your ideas.
> CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said recent studies had shown that those vaccinated individuals who do become infected with Covid have just as much viral load as the unvaccinated, making it possible for them to spread the virus to others.

This is why the CDC started recommending masks again.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-administr...