skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And overall numbers are similar between white and African American.

Am I reading this wrong?

3,299 total murders committed by whites when they make up 76% of population, vs 2,906 by Black or AA when they make up 13.4% of population?

I'm getting the population estimates from here:
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219
Another solution might be repealing laws that are clearly not important enough to enforce uniformly across demographics.
I agree that event is concerning.

But it's also a small sample size and there could be many reasons why, in that group, the numbers came out the way they did, including natural clustering.

That would also explain the OPs anecdote as it's very possible an individual hospital is seeing more hospitalizations among the vaccinated just due to the vagaries of statistics. That's why large sample sizes and careful analysis are so important when coming to these conclusions.

But we have substantially more data from Canada and the UK and so far that data shows that the vaccines are effective versus Delta.
I bought the comma two about a month ago and really like it. Is there anything that comma three can do that the comma two can't do like lane changes without driver checking first, self navigation?
I know I’m stating the obvious here and please believe me when I say I mean no disrespect to the stories shared.

If you’re working for a small/unknown/“shady” etc business demand frequent payment for work done.

Ask to receive payment every week or every fortnight.

Default to “no” for any promises of future payments or “options/equity” etc. If it’s not cash in your bank account you are trading an immediate tangible good (your service) for an intangible promise.

Be aware of short (3-6 months) contracts with an acceptance criteria and payment at the end. Stipulate fortnightly milestones that accommodate some variability in what you deliver and that are met with payment.

No payment then no more work until payment resumes.
>And overall numbers are similar between white and African American.

But we're talking about percentages here, not absolute numbers, and African Americans are ~13% of the US population (and ~23% of Oakland).
Wouldn't the solution be to automatically repeal any laws that are not regularly enforced? A "use it lose it" rule. We could regularly commission studies to see which traffic laws are not being enforced.
Does anyone have an estimate for how many of these will actually convert to sales?

Ford I believe released numbers for one of their vehicles, something like 65%.
"sigh of relief" :)
I was going to post exactly this: the problem is "month" which is not a fixed value. "Year" also has the same problem due to leap years. I suppose that leap seconds could also pose problems too.

I've recommended that clients specify time periods in days or weeks and avoid "months" entirely (ie, 90 days or 26 weeks, but not 3 months) or to specify an end date explicitly.
Is it slander if the Daily Caller’s Wikipedia article has an entire section titled “Ties to White Supremacists”?

I don’t think the Daily Caller is a white supremacist organization, but they do have a curious amount of ties to white supremacists.
They're not stopping people on citi bikes going to work or central park (of any race). They're stopping younger men on trick bikes who can be dickheads and tend to be non-white in my observation (for whatever reason, cultural idk). Thats why theres a difference in the rates.
While I understand what you mean, I do think it's important to talk about this so that the ideology and business converge. If everyone is just fine with everything business will just keep pushing.

> maybe they are generating training data sets

And they aren't telling their users that they are which I disagree with.

> evidence of them selling data

I think there are many more cases of data being sold that we don't know about and that alarms are not raised about. They do say that they're allowed to if they wish though, which I disagree with.

> Admonishing

I genuinely did not mean to sound like I'm admonishing and if you have specific instances of where it sounds too harsh please let me know and I'll change them.
Boston Mayor Kim Janey explicitly rejected vaccine passports as being reminiscent of slavery.

https://www.wcvb.com/article/boston-mayor-janey-compares-vac...

Note that I'm not making the comparison with slavery myself, I'm just passing on the statement from another big city mayor with a different perspective.
I should have confirmed I was denying the claim and not making one, “we have not proved it goes away quietly eventually”.
Does this use hyperledger aries?

https://www.hyperledger.org/use/aries
I happened to check today at what Tesla is driving for "Full Self-Driving Capability" and it's now $10,000. I was originally very interested in the feature, especially since it was available on a car that starts in the low 30s, but that price point seems way out of whack.

I'm just glad there's some competition that's not tied to the car manufacturers. I can't trust modern cars to have an 2014 iPad quality touch screen, I have no faith in their ability to deliver self-driving.
I like it for good writing, and solid technical breakdown, with diagrams and obstacles explained.
Or maybe its because this article is full of nonsense like ".. more policing in those beats, they argue, because that’s where the crime’s happening. There’s a logical problem with this argument, because more crime will always be found where more policing is done."

You could put 1 million police in the Hamptons and theres zero chance they find more crime than 1000 police in Compton.
> 30 - 1 in terms of per capita likelihood of a suspect being black vs asian for example.

Well, that's exactly illustrating the problem.
Dancing Class in VRChat
> I prefer Aurora

Is this that VB game that got eventually rebooted(?) in C#, that's full of annoying little glitches[0] that would be trivial to fix if the author wasn't aggressively against any and all kinds of modding?

I'm definitely looking for a 4X equivalent of Dwarf Fortress. Stellaris ain't it - I like it, but it gets too repetitive after first longer game, because the mechanics is just rock-paper-scissors with a hundred thousand numerical modifiers that have little qualitative impact on gameplay.

--

Like some number handling within the game being locale-dependent, so that unless you set your system locale to en_GB, it might behave unpredictably.
Homicide stats are immune to discretionary bias and tell the same story: 56% of homicides were committed by black males.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
How does one even pull that off? What would be her explanation to friends and family? Or did she slowly lower her tone over the course of months or years, so they didn't even notice?
In the US maybe.

The Chinese will keep perfecting the system regardless.
In my opinion, the countdown bar (not sure until what it is counting down) is the anxiety inducing part. I’m trying to read, but my eyes keep skipping to the bar to see if I have enough time left.
I haven't thought about Mario Paint in years, but I absolutely adored it. Definitely one of the weirdest, most fun cartridges I ever owned.
Less cognitively demanding? That's debatable. The mouse is way less demanding for my brain when trying to point at or select something in my IDE. Almost frictionless.
I grew up in the Soviet Union until my family and I immigrated to the US. I have no particular loyalty to "the west", but I can say with absolute certainty that Western culture is objectively better than Soviet culture.

The general feelings that permeated Soviet society were apathy and misery. It was so pervasive that modern Russians fetishize it and even feel nostalgia for it.

There was an excellent little movie from the 80s called Moscow on the Hudson, with Robin Williams, which beautifully portrays the Soviet immigrant experience. Robin Williams' character says the following lines, which resonate with me completely:

"When I was in Russia, I did not love my life... but I loved my misery. You know why? Because it was my misery. I could hold it. I could caress it. I loved my misery."
The supreme court ruled that it's legal to mandate vaccinations in 1905. Boston fined people for not getting a smallpox vaccine. This seems like a better option to me.

Don't want to get vaccinated? Fine. Have a valid medical reason, pay a $2500 fee, or leave the city.

>90% of people will just get vaccinated.
Why is there so much hate on this thread? Is it hard to accept that blacks are discriminated against in US?

Part of being intellectually curious is that data should be able to change your mind or have the opinion be reasonably falsifiable.

If you want to find fault on the methodology in the OP, then comment/criticize the analysis. @athenot posted the stats for convicted crimes that shows blacks are not more likely than whites to do commit crimes.
I sometimes think this is intentional, in the sense that trivial laws like these are kept on the books long term simply because they provide such a convenient mechanism to justify stops and other police activities that would otherwise not meet the burden needed to make them legal. I wonder if a solution might be to have certain categories of laws require re-evaluation every so often, in order to stay relevant. Almost like an expiry date, if they aren't explicitly renewed, they are no longer enforceable, thereby necessitating at least some kind of discussion on their continued relevance at regular intervals.
Your entire post is an admonishment. I don’t think it’s a bad thing to post at all, but I also don’t agree with it.

Why not reach out to them directly and ask them?
When you rob Henry kissenger of millions of dollars and all his buddies who one being bill Clinton ex president, I'm very curious to see what happens next.
This is exactly what I think of when I hear "police being racist".

As a white person, I've never had a bad interaction with the police. At worst they are very authoritative, but never obnoxious.

Hearing about black people getting stopped for jaywalking, "loitering", and just generally yelled at, it's not right. Before the famous Starbucks case, I've never imagined someone could get arrested and handcuffed for using a restaurant's public bathroom (I guess technically for "customers only" but that's a dumb rule anyways).

I get the cops' side too, they deal with a lot of actual dangerous criminals (that maybe "look similar" because they're also black men) who have no morals and try to catch them off guard. That can drain empathy and make every situation tense. But that's no excuse for the blatant disregard of black people's humanity. If you can't approach someone both in control of the situation and respecting their humanity, then you're not qualified to be a cop.
As many people know, there is an optical monopoly concerning frames. About 80-90% of frames are made by one company under several brands. They market to optometrists. Ever wonder why one ounce of plastic is $200 or so?
Online people are cracking this monopoly. Many opticians do mot want you to measure your eyes and then buy online with the prescription - which is your right. So they hold back the pupillary distance measure to force you to buy the frames where you got measured. Modern plastic lenses cost under $10 as made. Many frames also cost under $10 as made - unless a designer like Pierre Cardin or Oakley adds a brand fee.
It had been found that a selfie against a scale makes this measure easy.
https://ca.zennioptical.com/printable-pd-ruler-download
and a youtube
https://ca.zennioptical.com/c/how-to#howto-measure-pd

and some FTC consumer rulings against this monopoly.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2016/05/...
There have been only two amendments to the U.S. Constitution over the past 50+ years (one of which is the subject of this story).

Why? Partly because the Supreme Court has been very willing to discover hidden rights within the existing amendments, decreasing the need for states to go through the very arduous process of getting a new amendment over the finish line.

That might seem like a fine way to handle things ... if the court is discovering constitutional rights that are in line with your views.

But this workaround puts a LOT of power into the hands of the nine justices who control the judicial branch. Amending the constitution was purposefully designed to be harder to do than passing normal legislation, which requires a majority of Congress plus the president's signature. But in many pivotal cases over the past five decades, just five justices decided the outcome.
> Homicide stats are immune to discretionary bias

How exactly are homicide stats immune to discretionary bias?

If anything your example proves my point as the amount of homicides being successfully solved has been decreasing. The "solve" rate is also very disparate depending on the demographics of the victim. It's all here: http://www.murderdata.org/
Two options, each configurable by the developer implementing the SDK:

(1) When a user sets up their new phone using an iCloud / Google Drive backup of their old phone, the private keys will be already embedded in the relevant apps when they first open the app on the new phone. The developer can ask the user to decrypt the private key for the first session with a user-defined passcode

(2) The SDK provides a QR backup system - users can export their private key in a QR code, print it out or save it on a USB drive, and then scan that code using their new phone. Alternatively, they can just open that QR backup screen on their old phone and scan that with the same app on their new phone. Google Authenticator recently released a key export feature like this (we had it before Google, but it's inspired by blockchain.com's wallet backup system from 2012).
Aye that was some broken stuff. Thx for pointing it out.

Will work on static / visual messaging further too.
I use the expiration date in KeepassXC and here's my thought on it in particular: I want the KP date-time field to err on the side of simplicity (implementation and interface).

Seems to me best practice of renewing accounts is to always apply padding (TODO: renew Foo today because it expires in roughly n days); if you make as a minimum n >= 2 (or how about >=3 as a safety factor) then you don't have to consider how the account provider administers their cut-off (expires at 00:00 vs 23:59, is timezone a factor?, etc).

With this approach the difference between 'instantaneous time' and 'calendar time' are, for practical purposes, a moot point.

So the date I enter into the KeepassXC field has the padding included. The expiry date as described by the provider I can put in the note field for additional reference.
For government statistics it should be noted that 'white' often includes hispanics and arabs.
How is that related to stopping pedestrians or bicyclists? Do you stop random people on the road to check for murder suspects?
The mass surveillance is already underway. Police have body cameras and dash cams in many jurisdictions. But good luck getting enough of that footage through an FOIA request -- so it's up to the police to decide whether or not this is an issue worthy of investigation.
Having done a Seattle > SF > LA and back roadtrip with a Comma 2 back in March/April, this looks really cool.

Even with the very modest hardware of the Comma 2, it effectively takes all the stress out of highway / stay-in-lane driving. In my Audi A3, the car's ACC handles the accelerator and brakes, and openpilot handles the steering. It made the trip a whole lot more relaxing. It was also just a whole lot of fun to set up and tinker with, the community is great!

I haven't been able to observe anything close to the same quality of assistance system in any other car. Autopilot in a Model Y I drove just a few weeks ago felt plain erratic compared to openpilot, and the way it disengages completely when you make even just a small correction is really annoying. Audi's latest assistance systems silently give up as soon as the lane lines aren't 100% clear or things get a little too curvy.

If they can effectively make use of the additional camera data the Comma 3 offers in future openpilot releases, this will be well worth the price tag.
Glad to see some genuine tech startup trying to tackle hard problems.

But I think Geohot should not try to mimic some of the silicon valley tropes.

The communication is OK but sometimes borderline cringy…
I have no doubt there’s racial bias, because the police are trying to catch gang members or other serial troublemakers with a weapon, drugs, or some other pretext to put them away. So they don’t just police a space more, they police it with the intent of creating stops. I am pretty sure that bias targets men. What would be interesting is to see how big the racial disparity is looking only at women.
I agree with you but I think it can get expensive compared to regular architecture
Yes, because no one ever breaks the rules of the road right? I mean, you've never driven over the speed limit? Parked in a non-parking space? Driven through a red light? Yes, what a great example lol.
> Public health resources are limited. Unnecessary Covid hospitalizations cause immense opportunity cost in the form of crowding out care and driving costs. Which in many cases other sick people and the public will have to carry.

We have already decided as a society that individual choice outranks the cost to the health system. See obesity, smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, workaholic culture with very limited vacation days, etc
Facebook’s claims about the Ad Observer are wrong
This is effectively a "think of the children argument". People with health complications will always be at higher risk of bad disease outcomes than the rest of the population. That includes the regular flu, too, and is pretty much guaranteed to include some form of COVID forever at this point. You don't get to use that as some kind of moral high ground to force your personal stance on everyone else.

Educate people about the low risk and high benefit of getting vaccinated. Encourage them to do so as a generally good thing for society. But framing it the way you are right now is not just unhelpful, it actively makes unvaccinated people think you hate freedom and don't give a damn about anyone's personal opinions.
How do you know this is what they’re doing, and that it accounts for the numbers? And would they be stopping them merely for riding a certain type of bike, or for doing...what exactly? I mean if it were illegal to be “kind of” a “dickhead” I would have been busted a long time ago.
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The article seems to not considering delta variant.
> Am I reading this wrong?

It should be noted that table counts Hispanics as white (as does the 76% of population you cite). It has separate columns for if the offender is Hispanic.
I couldn't find the data on what the stops were "for."

Tbh, I don't even know what kind of things you can get stopped on a bike for except swerving around traffic, so it seems like a good thing to know about.

Is there any data on what the "reasons" were for stopping these different bike riders?
There needs to be a corollary to Godwin’s law for moments like these.
Sounds similar in concept to the Sunset Commission in Texas, which automatically abolishes any state agency unless the legislature passes a bill to continue its existence after review every 12 years.

https://www.sunset.texas.gov/how-sunset-works

Surely an equivalent for automatically abolishing laws/regulations has been tried somewhere?
I've never heard the willingness to host and incubate a virus to develop further and possibly more infectious variants described as a "freedom".

Just because you're the one smoking, doesn't mean that second hand smoke is harmless.
Fair enough. I considered emailing them, but it would have just been this post in email form.

What do you think I should have asked them?
Before watching the video, I was wondering what a "Comma Three" even is (you know, to decide if I should spend time watching the video).

So I went to their website first, to find out - and I think I still don't know. Doesn't describe the product on either the top page, nor the FAQ. Looks like a GPS/Nav device with AR features - but surely that's not worth more than two grand?

I have absolutely no idea if this is a good product or not (hell, I don't even need to drive where I live), but at least their website should tell me what is the selling point.
Makes you wonder just how many versions he went backwards through before he found the one that it rendered correctly on.
Hmm. My takeaway from Amdahl's Law is that if one has a parallelizable problem, one can keep throwing processors at it, but eventually there is a slice of overall work that cannot be parallelized. Stepping back and refreshing myself on Amdahl's Law, I can see how this relates to Amdahl's Law. I like it.

Anyway, I agree with your general sentiment, and it tickles my mind. Thank you!
My building has a very safe package delivery location: The roof.

If we could get our packages delivered there, fewer would be stolen, and there wouldn't be drivers trying to get in the front door and failing all day.

If only 10-20% of delivery addresses have such a location, it's enough to start meaningful delivery to those places in cities.
I’ve used vi for 25 years now. Every shortcut and key combination is burned into unconscious memory. This holds true for all other applications used on a regular basis.
All issues are political. However, this article is not an opinion piece, but a nice set of analysis based on public data. You can comment/criticize the analysis, bring out counterfactuals, point to other analysis etc.
Discover hidden rights is quite the euphemism for legislating from the bench. But credit is due for the correct answer, which is returning the balance back to the legislative branch.
I don't know anything about Holmes.

But if she was a psychopath, then this would track perfectly. Completely unphased and unstressed about the world of chaos she's created around herself.
Potentially underrated commentary.

Strongly held beliefs (if delusional) really can paint a much prettier façade over reality. And the worse that reality may become, the more strongly held those beliefs become.

Until the, what was thought to be, unstoppable force of delusion meets the immovable object of reality.
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He was fighting the last war. The practice of killing everyone was a successful strategy that won WW2 in the Pacific.

Vietnam wasn’t the type of war that was supposed to happen — the real action was in Europe before we nuked each other.
This IS NOTHING OTHER THAN WHAT THE BIBLE STATES AS "THE LAST DAYS!!!!"- Where satan's people MAKE THEIR MOVE TO MAKE THIS WORLD SUBSERVIENT TO LUCIFUR, THROUGH COMMUNISM, FORCE EVERYONE TO "ACCEPT THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST" (THROUGH THESE VACCINES)... THEN TAKE OVER ALL OF THE FOOD, WATER, TRANSPORTATION, AMMUNITION.... THEN STARVE AND DESTROY US!!!!!!
*WAKE UP YOU ALL!!!!!!!*- "BEFORE" YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES ARE SLAVES (OR DEAD) TO THEM!!!!!!!!