skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Having served with the French Navy in the Algerian War, the ardently anti-communist Denard took part in the Katanga secession effort in the 1960s..."

who woulda guessed
It's important to note that none of these things are necessarily done deliberately (though "white supremacy" is perhaps a bad way to express "racism that benefits white people specifically"). Other than transphobia, either the linked article, or the letter linked in that article provide evidence for all of the accusations. Facial recognition software that doesn't handle dark skin well intrinsically treats different ethnicities differently, in this case disadvantaging non-white people. Many of the markers for "suspicious behaviour" that are used to detect cheating are also present in people with both mental and physical health conditions. Dealing poorly with headware has an outsized influence for non-white women (who are likeliest to wear headwear that obstructs the face).

Again, I wouldn't chalk any of this up to deliberate bias against any of these groups, but it's all bias anonetheless.
It would be fairly easy for students to overwhelm their overlords with their "AI" software and reduce any gathered information to meaninglessness.

My Phones dying, I'm crying and depressed, gonna end it all and throw it off a bridge, snatch a new one, don't be glum.

"AI" that.
A tightly regulated securities broker is not going to be able to comply with your request to just go ahead and delete your account and all related data.

Brokerages are required by law to retain a great deal of records about all of their clients and to keep it for a minimum of at least 5 years. You don't get to just tell a broker that you used to engage in tightly monitored financial transactions that you want all your info deleted as if you were dealing with some kind of social network.
Baleen whales eat much more than we thought
So if you have an NFT I can buy 5% of it from you without your consent? How does that even work?
Thank you for your comment.

The motivation for JSONiq and RumbleDB is discussed in this recent paper, the core argument is data independence:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.11582v3

JSONiq is a functional language and thus makes it easy to scale to collections that have billions of objects.

A notable difference with JavaScript is that JSONiq has the FLWOR expression, which is similar to, but more generic than, a SQL statement.
> "Beethoven’s chronic consumption of wine tainted with lead is a better explanation of his hearing loss than other causes." Further studies suggest he probably drank from a goblet containing lead.

So if that is the case, Many other heavy drinkers of that era and place would have had similar deafness issues, no?
Honestly, if this works reliably, I might plug my existing “AirPrint enabled” printer into it.
I’ve seen this used this as a teaching technique in outdoor education to good effect. For example when teaching boat safety, delivering a short class on “how to be great at drowning.” Or when in the backcountry: “How to make sure you get hypothermia today.”

Students usually think it’s funny, and it’s often not hard for them to invert the steps to avoid the outcome. For example, if step one of being great at drowning is “get drunk,” then students understand you’re telling them not to drink while boating.

It helps students acknowledge the reality that outdoor sports can be dangerous, but without getting too serious, and giving them clear steps to reduce the risk.
Julia Cheatsheets
Not that not having it makes either of them any less powerful. If you descend to an inner context, you can refer to the parent/ancestor via a variable you can set before-hand.
So, ah... is it just me or is "Maangchi" just entirely faking their reviews?

Toggle that slider up to 5k and it's just them sitting there at ridiculous numbers all pegged at 5 stars.
Consider flipping it into Loopring, which strives to (and seems to be succeeding in) serving a much wider market, with custody staying on ETH network in case Loopring network eats shit.
Indeed, this is not to say this will not disrupt artists or influence the art they create. I do know of developers that make a living via patrons (Tarn Adams of Dwarf Fortress) and plenty of legendary games that have been "commissioned" via Kickstarter (e.g. Undertale, Hollow Knight (neither of which had any prior fame to carry them)), but that's not to say that these models will necessarily work for whatever game you yourself are developing.
Backed by NYT, OpenWeb becomes a tech unicorn
Great job! I wish there was a way sort data by columns.
I'm not sure why you are being downvoted. Your argument is reasonable and clearly presented, and "do the simplest thing that can work" is a tried and true design philosophy.
But everyone knows that. No one is claiming that an NFT literally is a digital image.
I haven't been following NFTs closely, but it seems to me that it would be much more interesting to use them not to create artificial scarcity out of digital goods (which seems to be all of the effort), but rather to track ownership of physical goods.

Like, a company could issue a bearer-bond where the owner wasn't the person who physically possessed the bond, but rather the owner of token XYZ.

So, reverse the pointer. Rather than the token claiming to "own" a good, have the good claimed to be "owned" by a specific token.

The thing that largely seems nonsensical to me about NFTs is that the underlying ownership is...not valuable. You don't "own" anything other than the token itself. If you were granted the rights of ownership of the digital good (for example, if a worldwide exclusive copyright license were assigned to the bearer of an NFT, then it would "own" something).
Fair points, I'm not saying all of Wiki's policies need to apply. I'm just saying the format and ease of consuming content is good, and there's nothing popular for cooking with those qualities.
Relevant: Bill Gates posted (back in June) a book review about GE:

Lights Out, What happened to GE?
The fall of one of America’s great companies.

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Lights-Out
Or sell the NFT and then put the painting through a grinder, like Banksy!
I worked with ProctorU in a university setting. Refreshingly, our (very large, public) school did not really want to use the platform, cautioned strongly against it, and were well aware of how invasive it was. They were worried about the potential for student outrage via media channels as a result of the race-based inaccuracies and biases and other issues that were coming up in the media. Oh and ProctorU had a data breach, which students happily reminded the institution of. A very small minority of instructors insisted on using it, and that's what I was helping with.

Seeing the backend of this tool was much more worrying than being subjected to it. Simply put, the platform is SO bad, that it could not be used as evidence even in the most blatant cheating cases - for example, the screen capture feed and the webcam feed were two separate files, neither of which was time stamped. If a student had a poor or marginal connection, these two recordings would get out of sync and could never be reconciled. It was so primitive it was laughable. That's on top of the issues you'll find documented elsewhere.
Only if they consent though, many people do not want to be technical
I scan my paper documents then give them a meaningful name and drop them into a folder. I just give them a name that I can search for later and maybe create a folder for related items (car, job).

You can organize it better, but the truth is that search works well enough and you are probably not going to need it.
Anything subjectively graded like a project is a big vector for introducing evaluator bias.
I worked as phone rep for a major Canadian telecom provider and the pay was around 15 bucks an hour. That was 5 years ago so maybe they hiked the rate a bit. But overall 15$/hour is barely enough for anyone to start saving.
The HN headline says "Affecting US" but the article and all comments I've read suggest this is happening only in San Francisco.

Y'all must have some excellent broadband in California on average, wide-area Comcast outages are pretty common where I live, they certainly don't make the news.

Edit: Guess I spoke too soon, people are indeed reporting outages across the country.
Much of today was spend closing an account and deleting data about a client who terminated their account with us. Looking over their design documents before deleting makes me think that they had the idea: “Suppose I want a system with a high likelyhood of failure and which is impossible to debug and maintain” and then just decide to implement it for some reason.
Whoa sounds interesting! I always wondered what happened to him after giving up on YOLO because he felt it was against his morals. I honestly give him props because he probably could of capitalized on his work if he wanted to and play his cards right.
This happened to me once... we were suffering with a broken system for a while. Then it dawned on me that no one on the team understood it was fundamentally a poor-man's broken finite-state-machine.
That's insane. MSDOS Batch used the same syntax for comments!
No, the ID is not unique. It might be unique in a particular database, where the software enforces such uniqueness, but that doesn't mean the ID unique. Anyone can make an exact copy of the ID, which will be undistinguishable from the original, or they can copy the entire database, any number of times, at a negligible cost. You can't do that with a physical object.
As climate talks put focus on water crisis, the Colorado River is stark example
Nothing in the video is particularly egregious other than having to use your own hardware to do it. All those precautions are followed if you’re in a controlled test environment; Since they can’t control your home and computer, they must ensure you’re not cheating.

I don’t see a problem with that, you’re taking a test.

That said, I would not like to install this on my computer and would 100% use a separate user to do so. As long as it runs in the home directory I will trash it afterwards. I even use Zoom from my phone rather than installing it on my computer, but if I had to I’d do the same.
I'm pretty sure it would be illegal for RobinHood to actually delete information about you after you are a customer. They are required to keep a history of your activity and transactions in case they get sued, audited or come under investigation. I do not know what the actual retention period would be but it's certainly longer than just a few years.
> Is there some legal mechanism to compel companies to delete your data rather than this "soft-delete" garbage?

Yes. GDPR (and other legislations basing themselves on this). The US has CCPA if you're in california for example.

Unfortunately, and this applies more or less worldwide, you can't count on this for anything financial. Expect financial institutions to have to legally keep your data for 7-10 years (sometimes even 20). This is one of those cases where soft delete might be the best they can do for you.
Thank you for your comment.

There exist indeed recent extensions of SQL that add support for denormalized data (arrays, objects), for example in Spark SQL and PostgreSQL, however SQL was originally designed for tables and it remains cumbersome to write complex queries on denormalized data (lateral views, etc).

A deeper and more detailed analysis of query languages for nested data can be found in our recent paper with a concrete use case in high energy physics, to be presented at VLDB 2022:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12615
Some would group biology into a soft science because the margins for error must be relaxed or softened; one cannot eliminate potentially confounding factors from a biological experiment because each organism is unique and fractally complex.

Another categorization is the "natural sciences" and the "social sciences". Natural science is often split into "life science" and "physical science", again because biology is difficult.
The charts in this paper are hilarious: https://pjreddie.com/media/files/papers/YOLOv3.pdf

Previous authors didn’t start their axes at 0, so he kept their axes and just put the timing for YOLO outside the original chart area.
This isn't the feedback we get from most customers, so I guess there was something unusual going on. Sorry we weren't able to dig into this while it was still relevant to you.
What's the best CV course nowadays that comes with videos, assignments, hws, etc.?

It used to be the one taught by Justin Johnson at UMich [0].

But the publicly available videos have been last updated in 2019.

[0]: https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~justincj/teaching/eecs498/FA2020...
yes - I remember reading that years ago. Thought that was quite cool.
PageRank's patent status expired in 2019 so perhaps some Google alternatives in the search space will appear. Helping that process out with government antitrust regulation seems like a good idea. According to wikipedia:

> "The word is a trademark of Google, and the PageRank process has been patented (U.S. Patent 6,285,999). However, the patent is assigned to Stanford University and not to Google. Google has exclusive license rights on the patent from Stanford University. The university received 1.8 million shares of Google in exchange for use of the patent; it sold the shares in 2005 for $336 million."

> "As of September 24, 2019, PageRank and all associated patents are expired."

Another option is to require Google to expose their algorithm to their clients and in particular publicly describe the bias weight system they apply to their page rank scores, which they might very well be deliberately modifying as a mechanism for social manipulation and political influence.
If you're using MacOS, this API already exists: https://eclecticlight.co/2020/10/27/xprotect-what-do-we-know...
What is stopping someone from having a separate machine right next to the infested one?
> The problem with being relentlessly negative is that it doesn't work.

This tends to be a problem with most poorly channeled abilities.

>Not unless the people you're explaining the problem to are receptive to your approach, and they don't think you're just a naysayer. You must explain what you are doing and, if possible, show good results you obtained through this method.

These are skills. They can be tough to develop in a vacuum; it may be impossible when push-back is the only feedback.
Yes, I see that now. Thanks. There seems to be a lot of confusion about what parts of Carbon are and are not going away or did not make the 64 bit transition. I haven't tried to build a Carbon app in a while. When you look in the frameworks, the ones that are present now seem to have arm64 bridge support, which I assume means arm native code for running Intel apps in Rosetta. Perhaps some very large user base app vendors like Microsoft and Adobe have not quite let go. Probably some old Apple code also. Apple keeps announcing it is disappearing but it can't seem to be killed.
I much prefer the actual default browser styles. However, I believe that they should be customizable by the user without too much difficulty; I am not too concerned if the default setting is different than what I want it if the browser is designed well enough that the user can easily change the default CSS codes. I agree what they say about "reading length"; it should come down to preference. Fortunately, in Firefox (at least the old version I have) it is easy enough to disable CSS (ALT+V Y N); however, some things don't work very well with this, so maybe it might be better to use a mixture of ARIA and HTML to set up the default styles, although to get any reasonable working might need meta-CSS (which is my own idea; note that only the end-user has permission to apply meta-CSS code and the document author cannot).

The "XHTML Club" (linked from Ugly Duck) uses the following CSS code:

img{max-width:100%;}
pre{overflow:auto;}

This rather minimal CSS is what seems to me reasonable additions to the default CSS (although the user should still be allowed to customize them, and there should still be a command to display a picture by itself and be able to zoom it to full size in that case).
Deere Strike Delays Delivery of Parts to Farmers Scrambling to Finish Harvest
A JavaScript animation library with a GUI
I would have things like pointer math, programmer responsibility for memory and other resource management.

Rust seems to be working exactly along this line of thinking -- at least their obsession with "safety".
How Numworks (calculator) killed third-party development – a technical approach
Munger Hall at Stanford is actually pretty nice - I was stunned by how nice the apartments were actually. However if I remember correctly they are totally opposite in concept to the UCSB proposed dorm - Stanford ones have two rooms to an apartment, a decent living area between the two rooms, not much of a big building common area, and definitely windows in each apartment.

So yes, I agree that the UCSB dorm design sounds terrible in comparison.
> The top wealthiest companies in the U.S. will shove money into offshore bank accounts and refuse to spend it on the U.S.

"Shove money into offshore bank accounts" makes it sound like they're moving money from inside the U.S. to offshore in order to hide it. I don't think they're exporting money from the U.S. As I understand it, they're stockpiling foreign-earned money outside the U.S. and not importing it.
>little is sent back.

The rest of the world gets US stocks and other assets. The US as been better than average at producing them. It's true that this might not continue forever and there might be corrections at some points but this does not mean a crash.

I'll give it to you that it's probably not an optimal time for more government debt right now but the monetary stimulation and slightly above average inflation had been desperately needed for a long time. Undershooting inflation was causing gridlocks in private markets everywhere.
This is cool and nerdy and all, but how this can possibly appeal broadly enough to hit HN front page is beyond my understanding - as is 99% of the article. Sorry, had to say it, feel free to downvote.
I qualified it by saying "if you're building an OLTP app" though.

I speak from personal experience. If you know a good usecase for ACL in database for OLTP workflows, I'm all ears.
So then why did you qualify your sentence with "capitalist societies" if what you say applies to non capitalist societies also? And if it does not, give examples.
From the details on https://pypi.org/project/pyjion/

> Goal #1 is explicitly to add a C API to CPython to support JIT compilers.

Given the plural compilers, hopefully this means it's going to support multiple JITs, which would be interesting. Choose the right JIT for your particular workload.
ZFS on Object Storage
There is an alternative solution to this problem with far less privacy implications....

Examind.io
FYI: I didn't read the racial taint in the sentence.
> I'm actually struggling to articulate the concept simply because I lack the ability to cleanly categorize these things.

not sure if that categorization is possible.

> Despite this, the study benefits from all the clout established by the broader field.

here an example of AI and tech mumo-jumbo co-opted by psychologists and sold as "fact" to an audience of psychologists (I stumbled over this today while browsing the Psychology section of Springer):

"Chatbots to Support Mental Wellbeing of People Living in Rural Areas" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41347-021-00222-6

>> Gamification could be used within the chatbot to increase user engagement and retention. Content within the chatbot could include validated mental health scales and appropriate response triggers, such as signposting to external resources should the user disclose potentially harmful information or suicidal intent. Overall, the workshop participants identified user needs which can be transformed into chatbot requirements.

>> In addition to supporting those with mental ill health, digital technologies are also considered to have potential for preventing mental health problems and for improving the overall mental health of the population

>> Further research is necessary to try to equip chatbots with an understanding of emotion-based conversation and appropriate empathic responses, to adjust their personality and mimic emotions

a classic example because it even ignores that there is little to no research within psychology about the effects of when we condition vulnerable groups to pour emotions into these robotic "empathy sinks".
NFT art is to Art as masturbation is to porn.
Decided to post this because of the effects of DRM.

John Deere wouldn't be now so hard pressed to accept the strikers demands if they didn't had put themselves in the bad situation that only the official parts can be used to fix the tractors.
Exactly my point above -- oh, to fix this client issue I need a relaible system (Debian) -- but I can't run on their own hardware cause they like Windows (and turn machines off) -- so just spend $50-USD for the Pi, Power, SD and software and bing-bam-boom -- great success. Put a camera in their and now you've got a very smart security camera -- for such discount -- this commodity hardware is a game changing thing.
Yes. FTA:

> GE Healthcare will be spun off in 2023, with GE retaining a 19.9 per cent stake in the unit. GE Renewable Energy, GE Power and GE Digital will be combined into one energy-focused company that will be spun off in 2024. Once these transactions are completed, the original GE will focus on aviation.

So there will be a GE Healthcare (20% owned by GE, the rest owned by individual shareholders), GE Energy starting in 2024 (probably similar ownership structure) and GE. Shareholders of GE will be receiving shares of the other two, but the details of that aren't clear yet I think.
Counterpoint:

Databases often outlive applications. Database features usually do what they do very quickly and reliably. Used well, a full-featured database can make things like in-place refactors or re-writes of your application layer far easier, make everyday operation much safer, as well as making it much safe & useful to allow multiple applications access to the same database, which can be very handy for all kinds of reasons.

> While many of these are neat, good engineering practice is to make the simplest thing to get the job done.

That, or, use the right tool for the job.
I want to stress the importance of not using

id int SERIAL

If you are on a somewhat recent version of postgres, please do yourself a favor and use:

id int GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY

An "identity column", the part here:

https://hakibenita.com/postgresql-unknown-features#prevent-s...

You might think this is trivial -- but SERIAL creates an "owned" (by a certain user) sequence behind the scenes, and so you run into massive headaches if you try to move things around.

Identity columns don't, and avoid the issue altogether.

https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/postgresql-10-identity-c...
If I could take this week's lottery numbers back to 2010 I'd be rich as well.

The thing is, I saw a lot of this stuff happening back in the $400-$500 price range for bitcoin. A colleague ran an arbitrage bot and somehow managed to lose money. The value proposition has always been "you can sell this to others for more" and "you can evade all the existing financial rules", both of which are uncomfortable.

Where has all this crypto money come from?
It was pretty stable for hundreds of years. My understanding is that the collapse of the republic was pretty rapid.
Yeah I believe it's just human nature. Can't do much with it except that in my career I'll pay more respect to the maintenance people and others who are sweating for someone else's glory. The glorious guys already get glory and big buck so they don't need anything else.
There is also a docker version that should ease the process:

https://hub.docker.com/r/rumbledb/rumble
Cobol has way less market share than it did a few decades ago.