skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
70% of African-American children are born outside wedlock:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Nonmarit...

Which is driven by a welfare system that punishes married couples with lower payments (witness the huge rise in out-of-wedlock births since the welfare schemes of the 60s/70s).

35% of African-American children live in poverty:

https://www.nccp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/wpc10-fig3.j...

Creating a subsect of society which is endlessly reliant on transfer payments to avoid poverty is not a good outcome for society. It would be better to encourage family planning and marriage.

http://marripedia.org/effects_of_out-of-wedlock_births_on_so...

"The evidence is clear and disturbing, being born outside of marriage lowers the health of newborns and increases their chances of dying; it delays children’s cognitive (especially their verbal) development; it lowers their educational achievement; it lowers their job attainment; it increases their behavior problems; it lowers their impulse control; it warps their social development; it helps change their community from being a support to being a danger to their development; and it increases the crime rate in their community.

To make the situation worse, the government has instilled powerful incentives in the welfare system which makes illegitimacy a community way of life, particularly in very poor communities. The widespread incidence of illegitimacy in turn passes on all these effects to the next generation in an even more malignant form.

While the government cannot instill virtue, it does not need to subsidize this rejection. Government policies have subsidized illegitimacy, and the evidence of its serious effects are steadily growing. Congress must adopt policies friendly to children. But to do that Congress must first become more friendly to married fathers and mothers."
> they want some sort of support plan ...

Unless this is at a high hourly rate, with a cap on number of hours, I'd be worried.

> ... and an SLA

A Service Level Agreement -- with penalties for non-performance? Sounds like a path for demanding whatever they want from you, under threat of litigation.

From your earlier comment: "there's actually another almost equally as large company". Consider approaching again that company, see if they're still interested. If so, work up a plan to sell to both. Tell both you have another (large, unnamed) potential customer, and ask for advice.

Then, both will want to make sure that the other cannot get into a position to "own" you, because it would damage your ability to respond to their own needs.

I would also evaluate both companies for risk of replacing your product with some "clean-room" re-implementation of their own.

Bona fides of my own: None, except that I'm building a SaaS with a similar business profile.
You’re either intentionally avoiding the point or you’ve missed it yet again so I’m going to side step and say this: the amount of army won’t change regardless of which currency is used. There’s no path to reducing the size by changing the currency. It’s a separate, unrelated social policy decision. Either way I don’t think you’re arguing in good faith so I’m gonna cut this off here. Have a great evening!
> As a side note flaky tests is such an idiotic concept. There are tests that pass and ones that don't. How good is button which works 35% of time? It's not a good button, period

Or more like the test runner succumbs to non deterministic flaky behaviour.

If something failed 65% of the time, it would be one of the easiest thing in the world to fix.

If it fails .001% of the time, that's what the industry refers to as flaky.

> Forbit flakiness, there is no such thing as passed flaky test - those are just shitty tests.

Have you ever written and monitored e2e tests over a year?
It's industry wide.

Selenium/selenium grid always works great until it doesn't.
Ditto with the new kids on the block.
e2e outside of a browser is 100% fine unless there's an actual bug somewhere.
When you invent the internet but forget to register your own domain... oops.
Hard to overstate the benefit of not having to rewrite your tests when you refactor. That's a concrete and difficult to ignore benefit of using higher level APIs. I find that the cost of writing a test is often not less than the cost of writing the code. If that is correct, it means that the system lifetime cost of authorship is much higher with unit tests. If all tests are unit tests the cost is almost 100% higher.
I chuckled. About 5 years ago I remember listening to an interview and there was an interesting collage of various students' responses as to why they are smoking marijuana if they know it will limit their chances in the work market. One surprisingly direct answer was, and I am paraphrasing: 'heh, if they don't want to have anyone to work, that is their choice'.
Yeah, that’s the most frustrating thing, the prior models don’t seem to have this issue. It’s a shame because the laptop is so expensive, and it’s otherwise a beautiful device.
>A FOIA response of this nature indicates there's some level of investigation occurring

How is that possible when it says "the Commission does not disclose the existence or non-existence of an investigation"?
Lying by omission is the nastiest, dirtiest, disgusting-est (lol) type of lying and misdirection.

It's the worst because the people that do it know they're doing it and they know they're doing it to hide the truth in a weaselly-worded way.
A stock buy-back increases the stock's value through scarcity. It does not actually "return cash" in any immediate sense. Any value increase is completely on paper. The holder of the stock is still taxed when they sell their shares.

This is the same concept as you owning a home and someone builds a nicer home next to you. Your home value just went up. But you don't have a cent of that money until you sell your home, and then you are taxed on the gains (unless you roll it into another home, but that's a separate discussion).
No, fact checkers gives data and hopefully sources and explain why a statement is believed to be true or false. The original statement can still be seen.

Censoring usually completely removes the statement with usually no justification (perhaps national security or whatever).

Not saying this is the case here, but in general these days (mostly?) right wingers completely mistake what censorship means. It seems like someone ignored my opinion is the new standard on censorship.
This is way OT but I would highly recommend that anyone travelling to Japan should step into a Pachinko parlour for a few minutes just for the absolute sensory overload. I’m not sure if it’s still as smoky inside them now but back in 2009 it was An Experience.

I played for a few minutes, maybe 100 yen worth of balls. The whole time I couldn’t really even tell if I was winning or losing but eventually my basket was empty!
>. They are more tax-efficient (read 0 tax).

It's not 0 tax... it's cap gains (short or long) whenever the shareholder sells.
> Flaky tests are an indication of non-determinism either in your test or your system

Or in the system that runs your tests. That can itself be non-trivial.
> If Stossel never said "Not by climate change"

Masson v. New Yorker Magazine

Libel in the US requires more than just inaccuracy, it looks at the substantial truth. So "not by climate change" vs "not only by climate change" is irrelevant for establishing libel
Is there data to suggest any of this?
I wish I had known about this.

That said, the tablet felt so infuriating to me that I was honestly happy when it was gone again, despite the financial loss.
And possibly more raw intelligence as we have mainly been selecting for "smarter than grass" since beginning this experiment in agriculture 10k - 20k years ago.
Right, but the key word here being “usually” - if I can’t just run the test three times and assume 2/3rds of the time it’s good, how can I know it usually works in production?

Is the right solution really to throw up your hands and not test end to end ever? I guess the argument is more convincing if it’s not that it’s impractical, it’s just too expensive relative to the returns.
Pre-tax income is not gross.

But this is ignoring a lot of stuff like tax loss carry forwards.
> They just go sign up and drop in just like they would with Signal or WhatsApp or any other messenger.

Are they actually verifying each of their devices and getting full end-to-end encryption across all their devices with each of their one-to-one conversants? I will grant you that if you don't care about encryption at all there aren't that many issues to worry about.

If not, well, to each their own? I can't deny that you personally and a bunch of people you know use Matrix without any problems. You can't deny that I (and many, many other people) have encountered these problems. So the bugs are out there, but may not affect everyone.

I'd be rather shocked if no one you know has encountered problems with the emoji-based verification thing. I have experimentally used Matrix on and off for maybe five years now. It has never (no not even once) simply worked for me when setting up a new device / reverifying an old device. I click the button and nothing happens. I click it a few more times, nothing happens. Sometimes, 15 minutes later, I'll get a popup about it on another device, but by then I will have given up and clicked out of the modal on the original device. It's just been insanely broken in my experience.
I'm guessing you mean the about section of your profile. I'm just saying that it's nice to make that more visible when you have that sort of involvement in the topic and it is not obvious.
Amazon probably doesn't actually want national legalization. That would mean their perk of no drug testing isn't worth as much. The whole point of this stance is that it helps their recruitment machine, not because they actually care about marijuana usage.
How about we just pay smaller regional companies? I'm like 100% certain the people of the Arkansas delta don't want some company from seattle in their area. Can't we just leave people alone?

For example, this wireless technology is not difficult to deploy and maintain. By allying with large companies, we're just contributing to wealth inequality.

Instead, develop community college programs in these areas to encourage technological development. Recruit microsoft et al as training partners, not owners, and let people start their own ISPs.

Why is it that the moment government subsidizes big business in the name of social welfare, everyone fawns over it?

EDIT: All this is is a wealth transfer from government to companies (that conveniently tend to support the party currently in charge!... how nice) to own yet more infrastructure in a place that predominantly votes against the incumbency. No wonder no one likes the federal government.
I'll be frank, the MacBooks are overpriced, and do have some of their own issues, but they're actually still the best choice.

At the very least based on my own experience you should avoid HP Elitebooks, and Microsoft Surfaces, also Asus Zenbooks, and Dell Inspirons.

...As you can tell from that list I've tried very hard to avoid paying the premium for a MacBook before giving in. They're still not perfect, but they're good enough that I am never going back to a Windows laptop.
Those are good questions and I don't know that I can give you good answers. I think the answer would be yes about the butcher.

I just moved out to the "country" and might raise some chickens myself. If so, I'll be doing some research into the breeds that have the best flavor.
You started a hellish flamewar with this comment. Obviously the topics are serious but internet flamewars about these things are profoundly unserious and not what this site is for. Please take more care in the future, and please use HN in the intended spirit of thoughtful, curious conversation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We've detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28644625.
"The average age of Californians dying of COVID-19 is increasingly younger in what officials say is another example of the state’s vaccination gap."

Maybe. But even pre-Covid general health of American children was suboptimal. It's hard to fight a virus such as Covid 19 when you're healthy.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2021/09/21/theres...
Going the other way, unit tests prevent devs from writing systems that behave correctly.

It doesn't help to prove that a module does what you expect, if your expectations are wrong.
Exactly, there are many other explanations. Being stuck at home is also a situation where domestic violence could erupt for the first time. Another one is that a burglar in 2020 would be almost guaranteed to find someone at home.
Wages are part of expenses that are subtracted from revenue that determines profit.
Far be it for me to defend Microsoft here, but I feel like if you leave unsaved documents open overnight, you are asking for trouble. Why a person would ever walk away from a computer without saving is beyond me.

This whole post is actually pretty confusing to me. I don't use Windows that frequently myself, but my work laptop, my wife's laptop, my child's laptop, and my Surface Pro 1 all have Windows 10 on them, and this sort of thing has never happened to me. But I do my updates in a timely manner, shut down my PCs regularly, and only use sleep for temporary moments when I'm away from my PC.

I just feel like a lot of the problems people have with Windows 10 aren't really in the software, but are between the keyboard and chair.
As of 1995 more than 50% of people who identified as Indigenous preferred the term "American Indian".[0]

It's interesting how people outside of a group can erase that group's identity just by taking away the name that they use to define themselves. Any politically correct American has to say "Native American" or use the even more generic term "Indigenous People" while the majority of the people being referred to understand themselves to be "Indians" or "American Indians". Hundreds of years being known as Indians and having that taken away by scholars and academics. It's a sad final twist on an exceptionally sad story.

0.https://www.census.gov/prod/2/gen/96arc/ivatuck.pdf
Same reason Trump filed so many pointless libel suits. So that we would talk about them.
I think the big red "Misleading" is the libel.
Find a good CrossFit gym. Nothing compares as a metabolic workout. CrossFit is constantly varied functional movements performed at high intensity.

You workout alongside others, which is an incredible hack to keep you going. Typically there is a focus on weight lifting and then some kind of Workout of the Day (WOD). As a result, you will get stronger than any runner and you will have greater endurance than any weightlifter. Like all fitness, consistency is key. I found the more I worked out, the more I wanted to eat healthier. I also got better sleep.

Crossfit has a reputation as unsafe, but I find that as long as you know your limits and learn the fundamentals, you'll be find. All gyms worth their salt have coaches that should enforce good technique. Half the battle is just getting to a gym.
Macs do this. They hibernate to RAM and after about 1 hour (configurable with pmset I think) they wake up momentarily to hibernate to SSD.

The reason they don't write the hibernate image straight away and just power down after an hour is to eliminate writes to the SSD but I believe you can set that wait to 0.
This statement is actually quite similar to what I used to hear people say at a stock technical analysis class. In speculative financial markets, one person's loss is another person's gain. So almost no one is going to give you any advice that will help you.. more likely they're helping themselves by misdirecting you.
These do not encode data directly as a QR code does. They only encoded an index into a database that Microsoft ran.
Putting aside energy costs, Object detection is still crappy and has stalled. YOLO/SSDMN were impressive as all get-out, but they stink for general purpose use. It's been 3 years (?) and general object detection, even with 100 classes, is still unusable off the shelf. Yes, I understand incremental training of pre-trained nets is a thing, but that's not where we all hoped it would go.
My company is U.S. based, but has operations in Hyderabad. Here are openings https://www.vertafore.com/about/join-our-team
Another big one are R&D tax credits, passed under the Obama administration. The government told companies that they can save on tax if they pour money into research, so companies poured money into research and then (certain extremely vocal members of) the government got mad that they saved on tax.
Why two years? Why do the people interacting with the system on a daily basis not get to make observations on a major change in the system in "just" months?
That's a great suggestion but it doesn't cover all the bases. It won't cover areas of unconscious bias. Plus some people just don't want to be convinced no matter what you do. This can be evident when a biased culture is pushing them harder in the opposite direction than you're able to push back. When that happens there's not much you can do besides avoid them. This stuff is a discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen.

Again, maybe you're trying to be forgiving when you say "we can't just deny people access to jobs and public life" but we absolutely can do that when they become a detriment to everybody else involved in those jobs and public life. It's sad but it's true. For people who are particularly detrimental to the point where they commit hate crimes, we send them to prison.
This I do not understand... why do we not build a nuclear reactor out in the middle of no-where - easily accessible via shipping - that has the job of taking CO2 out of the atmosphere, and converting into liquid methane?

It can run 24/7.

Little running costs?

No one complaining about NIMBYISM.
> I got a software engineering job which I would've gotten anyway even if I never went to America

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Not all investments are positive sum - metals are zero sum, proof of work coins are negative sum.

You can’t build a building on top of nothing so if land has a building on it you can apportion some of the productivity of the building to the land itself.

Agreed land without improvements is zero sum.
Of course it's completely unrelated. All lawyers are interested in DNS sniffing, haven't you heard? It's going to be more popular with that crowd than golf soon! /s
> A stock buy-back increases the stock's value through scarcity. It does not actually "return cash" in any immediate sense.

Who do you think they are buying the shares from? It literally directly puts money in the pockets of investors.
The problem is how people engage with Facebook.
It's not just Microsoft's fault.

Intel have completely removed S3 sleep from the latest Tigerlake chips so even if you run Linux you end up with the same problem.
Spending does not prevent stacking… The more you spend sats, the less you need Fiat…

Also velocity will get rid of volatility !
so if i understand this correctly through the dark veil of my millennial cynicism:

the 35 year grass-roots collaborative effort between medical professionals, scientists, and civically minded enthusiasts to modernize and legalize recreational cannabis was a complete and total pointless waste, when one of the five largest corporations in the world can bring legislation that has stalled, failed or never even made it out of committee, to vote in under 72 hours to the house of congress because it cant find enough people willing to drive a truck for poverty wages.
Update Faker: Prank Friends, Family, or Colleagues
Why are you correlating population size with party when you can literally look up the voting records of cities?

What's more likely?

1. High population size implies Democratic party policies implies less police funding implies higher murder rate

OR 2. High population size implies higher murder rate (potentially because of higher poor populations or more population density or many other reasons that aren't because of party).
Stossel complains that we should not have rated his post using a claim review of a quote that does not appear in his video. This is a misunderstanding of how fact-checking partners operate on Facebook. Given that many pieces of content posted on Facebook can separately make the same claim, it is not necessary to create a separate claim review article for each post we rate. It is, of course, necessary that the claim we reviewed is representative of the claim in each post we rate, which is true in this case.

https://climatefeedback.org/responding-to-stossel-tv-video-o...
> Why a person would ever walk away from a computer without saving is beyond me.

Because on other computers it just works. And if the computer stops it will re-open your unsaved documents.
iirc curveprotect is effectively a replacement for TCP which uses EC crypto to encrypt each packet individually, and protects against DoS by each packet being cryptographically authenticated. Ultra low bandwidth Matrix does the same thing but using Noise instead.
> > The first part is true of all statistical models: To improve performance by a factor of k, at least k^2 more data points must be used to train the model. The second part of the computational cost comes explicitly from overparameterization. Once accounted for, this yields a total computational cost for improvement of at least k4.

Those claims are entirely new to me, and I've been a researcher in the field for almost 10 years. Where do they come from/what theorems are they based on? It's unfortunate this article doesn't have any citations.
One of the worst things about MJ ban was the legal explanation given in Gonzales vs Raich: growing MJ plants in your own home for your personal use does somehow influence interstate commerce and thus Congress can ban it under the Interstate Commerce Clause.

This explanation, endorsed by the SCOTUS, is so expansive that it is hard to imagine any activity that would still not be covered by the Interstate Commerce Clause.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich

This is a legal abomination.
It seems like there would be evidence of willful blindness, which is more or less equivalent to malice.
LH2 tanks on aircraft, insulated with aerogel, can be very light. But the extra volume will mean a need for new airframes.

Trains and ships, and maybe trucks, will do better with ammonia. The tanks are bigger, but those have room, and existing engines can burn ammonia with just changes to plumbing.
Honestly, I think you could do worse than the Wikipedia summary. That is maybe a bit too long (I can't remember the Wikipedia guidelines for books) it looks longer than 700 words. But from there I think you could fashion a solid 700 word summary of the book without too much trouble.
I should clarify that by “intelligible” I meant that a human can make out the symbols being said (words or numbers) and write them down for later decryption, not that their meaning is readily obvious to people without special knowledge. It sounds like UVB-76's broadcasts (when it's not just buzzing) would be “intelligible” in the sense I was thinking. The Japanese Slot Machine seems like something only machines could work with.
Maybe from an employment perspective, but I'd expect Amazon's sales, distribution, and delivery systems to make boatloads of money selling cannabis online. Maybe not immediately, but 5 years after legalization, Prime Weed (tm) will be a huge moneymaker.
The University of California schools think of themselves as independent entities, independent entities that just happened to all pick the same school colors.

berkeley.edu (where "University of CA" is a subtitle), ucla.edu, ucdavis.edu, etc.
yep, so the extra cash goes to dividends (that are taxed as income to the investor) and buy backs that appear as capital gains taxes.
Title is misleading... The original title is "55 Corporations paid $0 tax..." and who cares... sounds like a garbage report by a think tank to bolsters the policies they care about. Why is this on HN?