skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> which is simply to say, black people still get profiled by cops even if they own a factory

Certainly a meme I've heard a million times. I think Obama even said it while he was still president.

But so what? I don't see what it's supposed to imply.

You've got a black guy living in poverty working two part time jobs no benefits, obeying one abusive authoritarian after another over his whole life.

Maybe that guy really does feel more solidarity with a black factory owner whose life does not resemble his in any way. But why is this?

It's not because that any black people are actually more affected by "profiling" than by their class situation. It's because they're economically conservative in the "embarrassed millionaire" sense -- more likely to view the robber baron as a figure of aspirational emulation than an exploiter. These types of people (they're the majority of every race of course) aren't leftists turned off by class politics, they're just on the opposite side: they're the economic right-wing. They're quite simply on the side of the owning class, even though they're not owners.

> if you run that same materialist analysis today, the evidence for class's primary, let alone a sui generis status, is the weakest it has ever been.

Huh?? People's day to day lives are still regulated by wages. Children's upbringings are defined by the competition to conform to requirements of the wage-paying institutions. How can class not be primary? Black or white, the odds have to be 90%+ that the last "or else" order you obeyed was delivered under a wage-based threat.
Generics are wildly, WILDLY popular in functional programming - far more so than in imperative flavours of OOP, really. Basically every functional data structure is full of things like List[A].map(func: A => B): List[B]

Also, it’s really not “OOP or functional”, there are tonnes of languages mixing OOP and functional very effectively (Scala is both very functional and very object oriented, but honestly most languages are a mix to some degree). Functional vs. imperative is more of a divide.
What are you doing about it? It's a democracy - like open source software, if you don't like it, change it.
Generics have been used in functional programming before OOP and classes were but a twinkle in a researchervs eye
OP defined pizza as a sandwich. What definition could include pizza but not cheese on toast?
> For many real tests, getting a false positive once predicts a higher chance of getting another false positive in a repeated test.

Almost all of them, in fact. If improving accuracy was as easy as repeating the test, the doctors would just be told that the correct procedure for this test is to take three readings.

You can expect that this is untrue only if the tests are especially expensive or invasive.
Progress is much better now with trunk (clang 15).

Meta, Intel have replaced “Apple, Google” duo in terms of cpp frontend development.
> only improved the situation from 56% to 50%

But isn't that millions of fewer false positive results over 10 years?

Assumptions:

* US Women: ~150e6

* Fraction getting annual mamograms: ~1/3 (life expectancy of 80yrs, and mamograms during 30 of those years, minus some with poor access to health care)

* Reduction in cumulative FP rate over 10 year period: 6%

150e6 x 0.33 * 0.06 = ~3e6 fewer false positive results over a 10 year period. That seems like a significant effect size to me.
I was prepared to get my pitchfork out, but after reading I'm struggling to connect the dots. This article is scant on details of what illegal or favorable behavior Microsoft is expecting in exchange for money. The only concrete mention is a previous SEC filing that has nothing to do with this whistleblower. The first example about $40k doesn't seem to explain what Microsoft was actually thinking it would get for that money, let alone whether that money was illegal. At worst, it seemed to violate corporate policy, which I can understand if that got missed in an initial review. The other examples don't sound like bribery on Microsoft's part so much as resellers squeezing as much out of a deal as they can get away with. I call that a problem with the reseller model.

I imagine Microsoft looks the other way while resellers make lots of money because, realistically, being in some of the markets mentioned is impossible unless you're connected with the right person. While not necessarily efficient, I wouldn't call that illegal or even unethical without a lot more detail than this article provides.

But maybe I'm missing something. This article reads as poorly researched, and the whistleblower comes off as disgruntled more than ethical.

Edit: It's worth noting that the whistleblower's original words are a little more well-written than this article [1]. However, it makes the contrast clearer between what is factual vs what is only insinuated.

1: https://www.lioness.co/post/microsoft-is-using-illegal-bribe...
The Starbucks in collegetown only takes online orders. Inexplicably the nearest independent coffee shop (Collegetown Bagels) has notoriously worse coffee so I end up getting coffee at 7-11 but maybe one of the newer Asian-owned cafes is better.
that's true, but imagine that retort when speaking of the burning of the Library of Alexandria -- it is presumably true that people there suffered during their civil war, but the symbolic loss of human knowledge and progress that the burning of the library represents is what is remembered of the event.

Speaking about one thing being horrible doesn't somehow disqualify other things from being horrible, nor does it take away from the personal suffering of others by the mere mention of it.
Computer games, VR and AR could also be pretty amazing
uses for this technique too.
Did you lock your keys in your trunk and need your key to unlock the trunk release? No problem, just pull off the casing with your hand and poke the mechanism with a stick. Let's face it, car security is generally a game of rock, crowbar, towtruck.
> As a reminder, the Democrat's Child Tax Credit program cut child poverty nearly in half after decades of stagnation and regression. No tax cut ever did anything like that for America

As a reminder, the Democrat's themselves let that expire and threw all of those children back into poverty.
> Meanwhile, while the US promotes democracy and freedom

Didn't the US overthrow many democratically-elected governments (usually because they were leaning towards communism/the Soviets) and install undemocratic dictators in their place?
Yes correct!
you know, i think you're right. on reflection, a comparison to json schema[1] (rather than openapi) would be more appropriate, as mentioned be defanor in another comment.

1: https://json-schema.org/
Yeah, sounds like most folks agree this doesn't exist simply because it's very challenging to implement.
“And, in a way that Michelangelo failed to do, my images would grace team meetings and lunchtime commercial awareness talks.”

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And yet, FP remains less popular overall than OOP (personally, I love love FP :).

Many of the people targeting the most popular FP language of all time aren't writing the Javascripts because it's their first choice. Just look at the pretty WILD popularity of Typescript, an OOP bolt-on language which transpiles to Javascript.

The simpler (in some ways) imperative programming model still dominates developer mindset.
I once worked at a job where one of the owners of the company, when asked to send a pdf copy of a document, would print out the document on the shared office copier/printer, then scan it back in using the same copier/printer and have it email him the pdf. Every single time he ever made a pdf of any file, even hundreds of pages, he would do this way.
Pretty sure that even my garage door opener used rolling codes back in 1995...
That is the story of Windows NT after all :)
All Hail to the air gapped database - At least no one will be breaking into that one that easily.
> You go to the doctor and get a test.

Nitpick here. There's nothing wrong with the math of Bayesian probability, but the setup is usually something like an STD test, and in those cases the prior is wrong.

Our prior probability shouldn't be "0.01% (1 in 10,000) of the population is infected," we really want % of infection for the population that get tested.

This is really obvious with disease tests because people don't typically get tests without reasons (symptoms, contact with infected persons, etc.). The math as-is would only work if we're sampling people randomly.
I can't get these annoying people to stop sending me spam email, despite having unsubscribed probably 20 times at least. If they can't be trusted to not flood out email inboxes, they can't be trusted with anything else.
It remains to be seen how much.
This is how I work! I write my tasks on slips of paper and stab them on to the spike when done.

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0f3i7xv2QbOeofiM4atMtSCzA
Indeed. Originally it was "GAIM" (due to the original purpose being a GTK+ AOL Instant Messenger client), which AOL wasn't thrilled about. We changed it to "Gaim", which I think they had less of a problem with, or at least we had hoped they would.

Internally at least, we called it "Gaim's An Instant Messenger". I'm not sure if we formalized that or not. It's been too long.

And then to fully move away from that branding situation, it was renamed to Pidgin. This was mid-2000s, after I moved away from the project, so I don't have any insight into the name change beyond the history.

Good times for sure!
Still universal!
Did you have similar guidelines inside Microsoft?

As one there before, during, after that little DoJ/IE kurfluffle, I recall the guidelines to be simple: there are things you don't talk about in email[0]. Which is why this Google thing mystifies me: why are you talking about it in email at all? And then to rely on what sounds like some crackpot legal theory? (I mean, maybe it's not, and IANAL, but it reeks of "sovereign citizens don't have to pay taxes".)

[0] Yes, that is a vast oversimplification (though accurate) to make a point.
Love it.
I at first wrote that it should be fixed width at 800 or 640; though I guess that depends on whether you want to be accurate to the actual code of the 90's or the way it looked to users.
Relay attacks seem to be in use in the wild by sophisticated car thiefs, although I'm not sure how commonly. Given general trends, it's probably more common in Europe than in the US. More to your question though, the issue is that proximity key systems rely on the limited radio transmission range. If a thief uses something like an SDR to "amplify" or repeat the transmissions, they can get the car to think the key is much closer than it is... and potentially unlock the car in your driveway by "using" your key fob inside your house. A faraday pouch makes this very difficult by significantly attenuating the signal from the key fob.
They've also been in procedural languages for over 40 years. Ada started with generics and the first spec was published in 1983.
I pointed out times the US has done 'right' and when they have done 'wrong'. Promoting democracy and freedom in some times and places is not incompatible with overthrowing it in others. Right isn't incompatible with wrong; you can't find a single individual who doesn't contain both, much less an entire government. We can't wait for purity to start doing right, or we might as well withdraw to a monestary and pray.
Access to capital? This site is literally funded by doing that!
I don't believe we should present it as a statistics. Most people would not understand or feel comforted by that explanation. 'you currently have breast cancer' is all the person will see and the numbers and implications of will be lost on them.

I feel like this is where bedside manor comes into play and the human component of being a physician. Any doctor ordering a 3D mammogram, then receiving a positive result, should communicate to their patient that imaging is just a screening tool and not diagnostic. Many doctors will not even use the word "Positive" in the test result conversation. They'll use vague wording like, "we did happen to see something we'd like to investigate further to be sure, it's really hard to see exactly what's going on in your body on a camera so while I was hoping to avoid it I do believe a biopsy should be the next step". Yes, a biopsy is now warranted, but the patient should try to keep up their spirits high and not stress to much at this point. The biopsy will tell more information about what is going on inside the body and we can come up with a plan for whatever that is once we know more.

It's natural/unavoidable for the patient to be worried/anxious but should not yet be scared and that is best conveyed in a human interaction with a caring physician.
C++ needs a major reboot. Remove old school annoying guys which hold all progress. Allow ABI break. Pick top 3 priorities and adress them in 2-3 years.
This is kind of what they've done with the Ethereum 2.0, "The Merge," change that they're working on now. They're splitting the consensus and the execution layers, in part to reduce complexity. I think the crux of the issue is that new fundamental components that are tightly coupled are added without putting in additional work to decouple and simplify the whole project.
> Transgenderism is the treatment to dysphoria.

It's not a "treatment" at all. By definition a treatment (in this context) is:

`The use of an agent, procedure, or regimen, such as a drug, surgery, or exercise, in an attempt to cure or mitigate a disease, condition, or injury.`

Transgenderism is the rejection of any treatments, and an insistence there is no disease, condition, or injury.

> On the contrary, it's narcissistic and selfish to think everyone has to be you

I never claimed this. That said, if you want to have any useful discussions and dialog there has to be an agreement on things like definitions and facts. Otherwise communication is completely a useless endeavor.

> That you are somehow the arbiter of what gender is.

Again, never claimed I am somehow solely the arbiter or what gender is.

>From what source is your knowledge based?

From 1,000's of years of human history and language of people classifying biological sex. Also, just having common sense and the ability to do basic reasoning.
What general purposes do game consoles serve, other than being multimedia centers? Do users use the browser and other internet features on consoles extensively? Can you make payments, hail a ride, order food with them? Can you contact emergency services with them? Can they save your literal life?
Maybe I'm overghinking the term ... but why would you ask for a "career"? How about "starting to work as programmer at 61"? Sounds much more doable and less over-enthuisiastic.
Half of all women getting a 2d mammogram too. So.. the problem is not 3d vs 2d, from my reading of the axios story.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this (i.e. taking a video and creating a 3D scene) and I don't think that it is feasible in most cases to have good accuracy. If you need to infer the angle, you need make a lot of biased assumptions about things like velocity, position, etc., of the camera and even if you were 99.9% accurate, that 0.1% inaccuracy is compounded over time. Now I'm not saying it's not possible, but I'd believe that if you want an accurate 3D scene, you'd rather be spending your computation budget on things other than determining those angles when it can be simply be provided by hardware.
Always good to see more official subscriptions beside Viz/Crunchyroll in North America.

I see that you share some overlap with Crunchyroll's licenses but not all of them e.g. Attack on Titan but not Orange (is this a cost/popularity/publisher decision?). I also see that some series don't start at ch1 e.g. Grand Blue (I assume different publishers pre ch50?).

It's a shame the catalog is not that big yet. Here's hoping future seed rounds can raise more capital for licenses.

Hopefully you guys can pick up licenses for source material of currently airing anime too.
I enjoyed your comment because it describes in detail what is really meant by the phrase "ahead of its time" and shows how that phrase may as well mean "useless" (for now).
The entrance to a small personal site
> 27.6 minutes

Something’s wrong with this stat. Almost nobody can get from chair at home to chair at work in that time.

My present office is 1.6 miles of which ~1 mile is Interstate, yet it’s at best 22 minutes house door to office door (not chair to chair) if I hit traffic lights, as low as 14 minutes if all greens. Google Maps and Apple Maps say it’s 6 - 8 minutes in off hours. Once car is on street, only greens, and before turning into parking, maybe that’s right.

This suggests two things: (a) maybe they mean time in vehicle in motion not chair-to-chair, (b) maybe they are computing address to address absent traffic.

I’m also suspicious of the word “average”. For instance, I can picture bi-modal commute times: a set that are 0 minutes (like Amazon support answering calls from ‘virtual call center’ at home), and a set that are long tail, as alluded to in this quote:

> The average American is traveling 26 minutes to their jobs — the longest commute time since the Census started tracking it in 1980, up 20 percent. Commutes longer than 45 minutes are up 12 percent in that time span, and 90-minute one-way commutes are 64 percent more common than in 1990.

With 90 minute one way commutes going on, maybe the average data is asking people who are in denial.

But the simplest explanation is also in that quote: travel time. It’s certainly not start stopwatch, get ready to commute, get to your transit, wait for your transit (e.g. warm up car or wait for bus), get in motion, travel, stop, dispense with transit (park car, lock bike), get from your transit to workplace, get situated, stop stopwatch.

// I’ve prioritized “least traffic lights” and ideally “walkability” since university. From 2017 to 2021 I paid a massive premium to be able to get chair-to-chair (including both elevator waits) in ~8 minutes on foot w/ no transit in midtown Manhattan. Commute times matter to me, I use tools to heatmap them when choosing work and residences, so just not buying average possibility of 26 mins.

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Yes, it was just travel time.

I found the US Census source, it’s a question Census said was asking people for ‘travel time’ and respondents probably in optimistic denial:

Question on Travel Time to Work from the American Community Survey 2019

Q.35: How many minutes did it usually take this person to get from home to work LAST WEEK?

The Census writeup includes distributions:

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

Yes, it’s a touch bi-modal, with a valley in the 5 minute period that’s also the “average”. No, bicycle isn’t helping much, only shaves 6 mins on ‘average’. Ten percent are in the car over an hour.

Insofar as their data is travel time not total time chair-to-chair (time between being able to be doing something else at each end), and it’s self surveyed not measured, I buy it.

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If you want someone to understand crypto, have them mine a little and then have them purchase something physical.
Special Olympics British Columbia was the best my Google-fu could find. I am assuming some TV series but ...
Yeh I get the author’s point about choosing a tight niche. In my years I’ve seen many vapid, generic product fails.

Would like a few more specific data-backed examples.
And British type 45 destroyers [0]

[0] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/windows_for_w...
Firms that handle lemon law cases in my state operate this way, too -- no fee for the client assuming the case is actually worth a damn because the law includes a provision that the automaker pays the legal fees if they win a buyback/replacement/remedy.
This is one of the biggest problems with streaming. Without actually owning media, anything even slightly controversial may become inaccessible.

This is a disservice to future generations as we're rewriting history.
How? A creator earns $1k-10k per million views (US - depending on video length)
TypeScript bringing a half decent type system to JavaScript is orthogonal to OOP

JavaScript is OOP already. TypeScript just provides better typing like what you would find in Haskell, Ocaml or other functional languages
Japanese language learner here. Would pay a subscription to read original Japanese versions.
"Devil's chewing gum" describing 304/316 stainless for machining is pure poetry.
No type definitions for methods :(
Nice, I just would have liked to get all these different verification tools combined under the same interface, just being different backends as drafted by the rust verification tools work of project oak: have "cargo verify" as common command and use common test annotations, allowing the same test to be verified with different backends or just fuzzed/proptested (see https://project-oak.github.io/rust-verification-tools/using-... and https://project-oak.github.io/rust-verification-tools/using-...).

The model checking approach seems to be a bit limited regarding loops. There are also abstract interpreters, such as https://github.com/facebookexperimental/MIRAI, and symbolic executers, such as https://github.com/dwrensha/seer or https://github.com/GaloisInc/crucible.

Overall I believe this space would benefit from more coordination and focus on developing something that has the theoretical foundations to cover as many needs as possible and then make a user-friendly tool out of it that is endorsed by the Rust project similar to how Rust analyzer is the one language server to come.
What I like about GraphQL is how quickly one can start fetching data without considering the API endpoint. Especially for nested data structures where the alternative is using json_build_object queries with PostgreSQL. I use it extensively in admin backends and only switch to a rest endpoint when I have to get too creative with custom functions (PostGraphile). PostGraphile doesn't require much configuration, it introspecting your db and you're good to go. The moment the tradeoffs start to show you add a custom rest endpoint.
Nothing is “free”
Wikipedia is probably a good place to learn a handful of examples and go further down the rabbit hole from there if interested, starting with these sections:

7 Libel lawsuits

7.1 Successful lawsuits against the Mail
7.2 Unsuccessful lawsuits
7.3 Legal action by the Daily Mail

8 Criticism

8.1 Racism accusations
8.2 Homophobia accusations
8.3 Sexism accusations
8.4 Paying for footage under investigation
8.5 Byline removal
8.6 Sensationalism
8.7 Reliability

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail

Although of course the wikipedia page just has a small number of examples, I'd say that the first words of those 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.6 subheaders above, and lack of 8.7, do a decent job of surmising the Daily Mail.
Generics has nothing to do with OOP
As an Indian millennial, my journey was a bit different:

1. Yahoo messenger (2001/2 - First internet experience)

2. Yahoo messenger + Text (2003/4)

3. Text + Skype (2006/7)

4. Whatsapp + FB Messenger + Skype (2010)

5. Whatsapp/iMessage + Instagram (2016/17)
It's not a perfect solution, but nothing is. The training shifts the equation significantly relative to no training (as described in the GP). Our alternative to perfect solutions, if that's what we require, is to do nothing.

> What good does it do ... the shareholders?

Note that we commonly talk as if people will naturally care about the interests of one group of humans they don't know, the shareholders, but not another group, the public. Various rules say you should care about both (and there are many more rules regarding the latter).
https://github.com/NVLabs/instant-ngp has a script that converts a video into frames and then uses COLMAP ([1]) to compute camera poses. You can then train a NeRF model within a few seconds.

It all works pretty well. Trying it on your own video is pretty straightforward.

1. https://colmap.github.io/