skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what specific program he's talking about but some of these optional programs only save you money. That's part of the sales pitch for getting people to use them. If you're afraid it'll charge you more, you wouldn't sign up. If you can demonstrate that you are a safer driver to their model, they can save you money. Whether you value that money more than your privacy is ultimately up to you.

Some state they may charge you more, however. I just looked up a few:

State Farm: "Drive Safe & Save is always a discount and does not surcharge your policy. The Drive Safe & Save discount is based on your annual mileage and basic driving characteristics."

Nationwide: "Can SmartRide increase my premium? No. This is a discount program. SmartRide measures driving behavior to reward you with a discount, not raise your rates."

Allstate: "Customers will receive a policy discount for participating in Drivewise and those who sign up and avoid risky behaviors can save on their premium. If customers stay active in Drivewise (active participation means at least one driver takes 50 trips or drives prior to renewal processing), their participation discount will not decline, but overall premium savings from Drivewise will depend on the customer's driving behaviors. Drivers who have riskier driving behaviors are expected to see a higher price from participating in Drivewise."

GEICO: "DriveEasy is a new program that promotes safe driving by providing both GEICO and the customer valuable information about individual driving patterns. This is designed to help you become a safer driver. Most customers will be able to save based on their safe driving habits, however riskier drivers may see a higher rate – depending on the state you live in."
I've heard people make references to the Occupy Wall Street protests a decade+ back being the catalyst for corporations and governments to start using "diversity" as a wedge issue to distract and divide people into groups to keep people from organizing. (Further down the conspiracy rabbit-hole, the CIA has been known to work with entertainment and critical industries to push opinions and ideas to sway the populace)

It really does feel like people weren't at each others throats as much 10 years ago as they seem to be now. It's almost like it's being used as a wedge to divide and distract from more important issues.
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These by definition are not normal people. If you can afford a $250k ticket to the Titanic, you can afford to be properly informed about risk. Hell, you could literally hire your own engineer for a full year to evaluate that risk, go over things, and have money leftover to hire a lawyer to go through the CYA forms.

>I wouldn't know, I'd have to defer to the "experts" who I am entrusting my life to.

We shouldn't consider someone an expert just because they run a business. Stockton was clearly not an expert in any of this, except maybe marketing.

Shouldn't at the very least, rich people be expected to have some personal responsibility? They have no excuse.
I use chatgpt in the same way I use Google, it is just one more tab in the ocean anyways, it is like I have "interest" in it, it just a tool.
(speaking as someone who has just recently installed a solar installation): The panels are around 15% of the system cost (small-scale residential system, so things will likely be different for municipal/grid-scale systems -- I can't speak to those...)
I really hope this library continues to grow. Going through Dr. Botton’s documentation has been helpful in learning the in’s and out’s of CLOG.
It depends upon what you want your career to be focused upon? If you want to spend your time staying on top of things, AI-assisted centauring seems to be a win; if you want to spend it getting to the bottom of things, I haven't found it useful yet for even slightly-more-than-trivial tasks.
An alternative one: A culture which has a history of structural racism due to slavery which therefore still thinks about many topics through the lens of race despite it often not being the best suite lens.
Not every workplace and residential area, those are often too small to expect perfect statistical representation. But for every industry, yes I think that's the goal. "every group label that can be created" is quite broad, this obviously only applies to labels like gender, ethnicity, etc. that have no impact on ability.
I think the question is all about cost. How much would it cost to add such a system? And how much is hail damage insurance on those panels? How much does your insurance decrease if you had such a system?

So long as the system costs more than the insurance savings, it won't be common. However, if your insurer starts demanding it, then it will be installed everywhere quickly.
For this design that may not have been a bad choice.
In terms of reputation, name recognition, notable people who come out of them, publishers of leading research, and advancers of technology? If you looked at a list of the top 20 I would bet more than half are in the US.
Because we did harm to African Americans and Native Americans as groups, so the remedy has to be to them as groups.
The policy would exempt all except big companies from the fees. So if you set up your own, you don't pay. And the effect of the revenue threshold creating an advantage for small businesses is commonplace in policy across the board -- SMBs don't have many of the same costs and obligations as larger companies.

And this would not prevent you from explicitly licensing your code or writing to let people to train on it. But what it would do is say that if someone didn't explicitly license it then it is covered under the policy.
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I'm envious of the quality and coverage completeness of airline checklists, tech runbooks could take a page out of the airline book
AI-generated text is hard to spot. It could play a big role in the 2024 campaign
What's with them putting "a hold" on all of the passengers possessions?

Like, that's leaving people without their wallets (aka id, money) and so on. Sounds like they may not get it back for an unknown period of time (weeks, months?) either.
This idea of a "matrix" often occurs to me when such topics are discussed. What attributes would you add to the matrix? You've suggested race, family wealth, zip code, whether a parent was an addict. You could also have height, physical beauty, IQ, degree of disability, sporting aptitude. Perhaps even degree of neuroticism or autism. The problem is, the matrix quickly gets bigger and bigger. The number of unique matrices starts to increase exponentially. What you end up with is a unique matrix for each individual. So why not do away with the matrix altogether, and just treat people as individuals, without fetishizing one or a couple of the attributes?

Also the weight you assign each attribute is a subjective judgement. Who do you trust to make such a judgement? For example, what bestows more "privilege", having a pretty face, or being from the middle class? And by how much? I don't know.
No. You're being either being willfully disingenuous or completely lacking knowledge of the variety in this world.

Plenty of nation that are not lawless but are effectively unregulated in the matters being discussed.

And they do not fit your supposition.

Really...
Your blood and fluids redistribute in zero g, which tends to cause swelling in the sinuses and loss of smell, which in turn diminishes taste. Apparently this makes hot sauce and other flavorful condiments very popular. I hope they take that into account for this contest. Now that a significant portion of the country/world has experienced covid induced anosmia, we should have better insight into how to design foods for people with reduced olfactory senses. I could see ideal foods be nearly unpalatable to people on the ground.
> You've got to try to make things right.

The issue is this has nothing to do with the goal of educating someone in a certain subject based on their academic proficiencies.

Go ahead and give poor people money, but no reason to make other processes and institutions less meritocratic. I know legacy/bribed via donation admissions exist, and those are obviously also a problem too.
because they raised a SAFE
Your reply can be summarized as "even the biggest players are successfully abusing this to greenwash, but it's good"
The supply of physicians is artificially limited by Medicare funding for residency programs at teaching hospitals. This shortage will only get worse as the population ages.

https://www.ama-assn.org/education/gme-funding/save-graduate...
If it were absolute, then affirmative action would never have been necessary in the first place.
What is ACH? What are "payment rails"? What can't we all just use EFT? Why are they satisfied and complacent with what we have?

Why do we have such a slow, fragmented, unsecured system(s) for banking and finance?

What are the solutions; how do we unify and eliminate waste?
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."
No, the work has not been. The impression that the work leaves on a neural network has been though.

AIs are not massive repositories of harvested data. The models are relatively small (<20GB).
One of the issues with the US is not just that certain races are more likely to be poor but they are segregated as well, meaning that there are counties, neighborhoods, and school districts where minorities are concentrated, at levels sometimes approaching 90% or more. And as a result of that, historically the residents of those neighborhoods weren't just economically deprived, but cut off from power, and influence. People lived in dilapidated housing. They couldn't afford to repair because banks wouldn't issue loans. They couldn't afford good schools because schools are funded by county or district in the US and so a poor local population means underfunded schools. They couldn't get good jobs because they had a poor education. All of their friends, family and neighbors were similarly dirt poor. In other words there was a cycle of pervasive generational poverty which didn't exist in the mainstream culture. Even if they scrimped and saved to try to move to a better neighborhood, they were often either entirely excluded on the basis of race, or faced rampant and sometimes dangerous discrimination upon settling in the new neighborhood.

Anyway, so the goal of affirmative action was to try to break that cycle, by essentially awarding the best and brightest from those segregated communities opportunities they could never achieve otherwise.

There was also maybe a sense of society thinking (at least in the case of blacks and maybe indigenous americans) "We owe them because we put them in this situation by kidnapping/enslaving or massacring their ancestors." Whereas with just generic poor people, to say that we owe them anything (as in "we owe them because our economy requires a pool of desparate labor") would be an indictment of capitalism, which is not an acceptable thought pattern in the USA.
I thought those supposed "anti-trans remarks" were actually quite astute. Many of the men who decide to trans themselves are doing so to try to become a sex object, a fulfillment of their lonely desires. They'll dress it up in the language of civil rights and identity, but underneath all that is the impulse of sexual desire and belonging.

Conversely, women tend to trans themselves for the opposite sort of reason, to escape the sexual objectification pushed onto them by society.
Hmm. My phone runs LineageOS for microG, and both Netflix and my banking apps work fine. The bootloader remains unlocked. microG settings say that Google SafetyNet is on.
AI can make you more productive, but it does not make you a better programmer. I am still skeptical about the quality of Copilot, but it has given me good suggestions about how to complete a line, instead of me having to type it all out. But Copilot will also give plenty of wrong or sub-optimal suggestions. You are still required to know what you are doing.

My answer is: "No". You are not hurting your career, but it is still something that could be fun to use.
The socioeconomic class of the family is the highest indicator of socioeconomic class of the children in that family.

In America, the socioeconomic class of people of non-white races has been systematically kept as low as possible, through racist systems. Affirmative action (race based admissions quotas) is one tool to breach that ceiling.

In an already racist system, doing something like economic class based support (example: 20% of college admissions need to come from poor households) would just mostly go to the privileged race and perpetuate the systemic racism.

Your post is also an illustration of what white privilege can look like. I know you said you’re not American, but the tone matches to a T. White people don’t realize the negative effects of racism on others and others family history and can’t even conceive of it. From having cab drivers not willing to pick you up, to not getting a job or being passed over for promotions, let alone going to schools that are under funded. And as a side effect of that racism towards non-whites, white people benefit by getting the can, the job, the promotion, the good schools that the non-whites, but equally qualified did not.

And as the head paragraph states, that gets embedded into society in the socioeconomic trajectory of the family.
Not really -- it's the same as selling any service into the US. Yes people cheat on, say, sales tax, just like Amazon did in the early years, but eventually once big enough companies end up having to adhere to the policy.
Just make sure that it ends in the bin and is not shipped. I often write the PoC as a Kotlin script, with dependencies declared inline with @file, no tests, Just the bare minimum. No one would ask to ship this.
yeah, I have a zakir hussein track where he does konnakol and it's quite impressive.
Humans are terrible at judging risk though. I don't think I could accurately judge the risk of driving to the grocery store, let alone a trip to the Titanic.
A white legacy applicant at Harvard is 5 times as likely to be admitted as a non-legacy white applicant. "Our model of admissions shows that roughly three-quarters of white ALDC admits would have been rejected if they had been treated as typical white applicants."

All of you writing that if a Black kid gets admitted then some white or Asian kid gets bumped off are scrapping for the little bits the rich have left to you, while misunderstanding the fundamental mathematics at work. You're pawns. This is the genius of racism -- sow manufactured division among the "little people" so that those on top (of whatever color) can continue comfortably while no one else can rise.

http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf
if I were a non-white adversarial nation with plenty of high-achieving youth, I would take maximal advantage of this decision and the US's student visa programs by doing everything I could to send as many students from my country to US colleges as absolutely possible, so as to deprive American youth of college education as much as possible.
Hey dang! There are a ton of these threads showing up right now. Any chance we could get them merged or pinned in a comment?
Plenty of other identity groups have suffered heavy discrimination across US history (Irish, Italians, Japanese, Jews, to name a few). They don't seem to require a policy like affirmative action to ensure they obtain a fair proportion of seats at top universities. Plenty of highly impoverished immigrants arrive in the US and have children that academically outperform the kids of very privileged parents.

What's needed is not affirmative action but a more honest appraisal about what the real obstacles are for Black and Hispanic students. And perhaps we'll discover that those obstacles cannot in fact be legislated out of existence.
D seemed quite cool when Andrei Alexandrescu's book about The D Programming Language came out.

Since then, the language evolved, kept chasing the next big feature that would bring people in, never quite finishing the previous big feature.

Meanwhile C++, Java and C# kept improving, Go, Rust, Swift, Nim, Odin, Zig came along, some of them took away possible scenarios for D's adoption.

Remedy Games played with D, but it was C# with Unity that earned indie developers hearts.

Andrei Alexandrescu also returned to C++, now doing CUDA research.

Nice language, unless a big corporation makes it relevant, it will stay on the sidelines.
Yep the only one I've found myself importing as of late is Any.
Why would you go with something like that rather than a 20L jerrycan?
They never run these experiments right and this one looks to be no different. What they choose as "Black" names are those associated with lower class blacks but they do not do the same with "White" names. In this case, they use names like Latonya for blacks and Heather for whites. You never see them use names like Cletus or Billy Bob or other names associated with lower class whites.
I didn't notice that it is kind of called out in the post... It's the very last line and left as an exercise to the reader to infer which is almost worse since I would call this a flaw in the implementation of the functions and is being shown off as a sterling example of the capabilities of the language.

The conversion between `[]` and `0` is the flaw that is hard to reason about here and propagates through any code that interacts with it in a way that violates a programmers expectations.
> I assume the intent is to help disadvantaged people have opportunities that more priviledged people have already. Right?

It has been transformed into that through the twin attacks of "diversity" and "class, not race," but what it was meant to do was aid the problem that the US ran into after it released millions of slaves into the street with nothing, and they didn't manage to magically create something from nothing.

It transformed from that into an efficiency argument to stay "constitutional" in a country that largely doesn't feel any guilt over slavery. Instead of staying an excuse not to pay reparations to their discarded farm equipment, the justification was A) that everybody should get a fair shake, and some people couldn't because of who their parents were ("class, not race", "equality of opportunity"), and B) that "diversity" of background gave an creative and decisionmaking advantage to businesses.

The problem with these stupid justifications for affirmative action is that they don't support it at all. A) actually argues against race-based affirmative action, and B) paints it as a problem that should be naturally solved by the market with no intervention.

The problem that the US has is that it had brutal discrimination by laws at times so harsh that in 18th century Maryland (iirc) there was a law that would sentence a white person to death for teaching a black person how to read. The problem is that black people collectively have barely more per capita wealth than they had when they were freed (which was $0.)

That being said, black people have increased their proportion of national wealth since freedom, and white people's proportion of national wealth has been reduced, so that's sure libertarian evidence that black people are intrinsically superior to white people, though who can say if that's due to genetics or culture. If reparations were paid that brought the black share of national wealth to parity with the black proportion of the population, racism against black people would cease to be an issue that the government should be concerned with.
Ah, good point. That convenience is not terribly important to me, so I didn't consider it.
> Any good place to find RFC's you can recommend?

i use my search engine of choice. Searching for "rfc archive" has some promising results. i hesitate to link to any because i don't actively use any specific one. i typically just search fir "rfc-1234" and land at the specific RFC i'm looking for. i unfortunately wouldn't know where to go to for a catalog of RFCs with an easily-browsable listing with descriptions.

> When I search for them they often seem to be technical implementations of single parts of a system,

They typically are.

> instead of full system specifications.

i'm not clear what you mean by "full system," but any full-featured piece of software may well make use of any number of RFCs, perhaps via single-purpose libraries which implement them (which is what i had in mind in my initial response).
Timeline of a nocode solution:

>Sales person explains how for only 100k-10M/yr, you can eliminate all those expensive programmers and replace them with 50k/yr people who have no experience

>For 100k/yr, they will send their own expert to build the infrastructure

>Sucker Company proceeds to buy powerautomate/powerBI/etc...

>The sucker company hires people at 50k/yr, the software can't do everything they want, its slow to develop, a few programmers come over to help

>this continues for a few years, 100k programmers are using these no code solutions, doing things that take 60 seconds in python, in 4 hours. Sometimes there is no possible way, so they write some python to supplement it, rigging up a horror that works for now

>No Code Company basically discontinues service due to unpopularity

>Sucker Company hires legacy no-code enterprise devs at 100k/yr

>Sucker Company hires legacy no-code enterprise devs at 150k/yr

>Sucker Company hires legacy no-code enterprise devs at 200k/yr

>Sucker Company hires legacy no-code enterprise devs at 300k/yr

Continue that until someone pays the tech debt.
We're using what we can measure/see of distant stars for these measurements, so it is indeed zoomed way out.
Perhaps there are pro-slavery people still complaining about the 13th, 14th and 15th amendment?
You’re saying you want to encourage 85 year olds with arthritis and glaucoma to keep working until they keel over? Why put them through that?
Aspartame is set to be declared a possible carcinogen
Cash is also hackable (even more
so) so I dont think that is a blocker. And about the online thing, we are moving towards a always-online-world fairly quickly.
Yeah, the point should always have been explicitly to be reparations for slavery/Jim Crow and the Native American genocide. But that was never really explicit, and there was a lot of mission drift over the last fifty years.
Government regulates some parts of telecom business, a lot of it it doesn’t. I couldn’t find any regulations pertaining to yellow pages, that’s why I was asking. I doubt there are any.

Please provide some evidence of Google systematically violating its policy here https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/6020955?hl=en
https://github.com/treeform/fidget
If the distance between the earth and these stars can change, then we can change the distance between the earth and these stars.
There was hasn't been a "prior Democratic balance of SCOTUS" the SCOTUS has been firmly conservative since Rehnquist (1986) and probably before that. What is notable about this Robert's Court, is that they have overturned rulings affirmed by other conservative courts and even their own recent rulings!

Almost as if the Robert's court concluded there is no point in being powerful if you can't rule, even though ruling is beyond the scope of all courts.

As for Roe V. Wade being codified, this was a moot point at the time because you had a Constitutional right to an abortion -- your right to an abortion was codified in the Constitution, a law would have been redundant.