skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> African Americans commit about half the murders in the US

not disagreeing, but you've also committed the statistical cardinal sin of survivorship bias here as well. It's not half the murders, it's half the _prosecuted_ murders. You don't know how many are not caught or known.
previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36183683
Politics of software authors are usually irrelevant. I disagree with Eric S. Raymond on a bunch of things, but that doesn't mean his software should be boycotted by association. I draw the line at the author being a literal murderer, which is why I don't use ReiserFS.
Hey, I wrote this!

I’m very excited about the second book we’ll be publishing next month!

Side note: should I create a mailing list to send updates or is a blog RSS enough?
Better to charge for the vehicle. You don't want to incentivize running on bald tires.
I injured my ACL by riding a bicycle over a slippery manhole cover, no car involved. ;)
Have you taken a look at the road fatalities in the US recently. People are quite literally being killed at an increasing rate. And these oversized cars are directly more deadly.

You might not care about putting lives over appearances. But others do.
> Not sure how much of this is because of the ADnD vs DnD5 rules or whether Larian has added some tweaks to the DnD5 rules.

That's entirely on D&D 5e rules. Combat with chars under lvl 5 is essentially 1 mechanic per class, and really boring.

Tabletop suffers from exactly the same issue, even if you use all the extra/optional subclasses and backstories. So does Solasta (the other 5e PC game)
They are driven by even crazier people. They are a mix of the same disregard for society, but with the added bonus of gigantic ego.
> Walmart and Amazon are both huge but it seems just wrong to say a brick-and-mortar store as equivalent to an online market place

Walmart is also an online market place. Walmart.com includes third party reseller products with many significant similarities to Amazon. They've got fulfilled by Walmart, free shipping, and if you join Walmart+ it includes Paramount+ video streaming (also free grocery delivery).
> The list of things the commenter you're replying to brought up, in addition to "be attractive", is table stakes for receiving an iota of romantic attention from women.

that's not true though. I'd say it's not great to be "ugly" (for some definition of the word) but you don't have to attractive. Heck, you can even be pretty poor, but as long as you you're a decent person to be around, it's not that hard.
But the Turnpike upgrades are awesome.
Not to be confused with the other optics library: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/optics
Historically the Chinese diaspora in San Francisco came from the southeast, which is why Cantonese was such a common language. The food largely followed that. If memory serves, NYC Chinese takeout tends to skew more towards Hunan because that's where folks were from.

Off the top of my head, the whole stretch of Taraval has a variety of Chinese restaurants focused on things other than dumplings. There's the Macau cafe, the HK bakery, the pancake place, the noodle place, the ice cream place, the Shandong place that does the pancakes. Old Mandarin (ex-Bib Gourmand) focuses on Islamic food, and their alum spawned a bunch of other restaurants including Beijing. But these are all more homey, neighborhood restaurants than you'd find in the Mission.

Honestly for something easy like mapo tofu I just make it at home. You can get all of the ingredients readily.

If you are willing to go outside the city and go with Chinese adjacent, there are a ton of options. Lion Dance Cafe (Malaysian) and Red Hot Chili Pepper (Indo-Chinese) come to mind.
> if the hammer isn't mechanically coupled to the keys, it's hard to imagine it will have proper control and feedback from the touch

Electronic keyboards have weighted keys and similar tactile feedback to regular acoustic pianos, so this is a solved problem.
From the last page:

> Conclusions

> ...

> To win, Java has to surpass Microsoft's J++ in in attractiveness to software developers. This means better design better thought through, less prone to error, easier to debug, ... and many other things.

This document is a bit dated.
I was mostly venting into the void (sorry). I admittedly don't know the first thing about antitrust.

But to your earlier point:
> On the other hand, the case that Google is going to make (and which I think is going to be really hard for the government to overcome) is this: we (google) give our product away for free and so do our competitors. What’s more, the cost of switching search engines is literally zero: just type Bing instead of Google.

Don't you think the counter argument to this, is, "No it's not that easy to just go to bing when you buy out the default search on rivals' browsers and operating systems and have the browser and mobile os with the world's largest market shares"? I get that the attack here is directly on search but it would be surprising to me if this wasn't part of the case. It seems insane to bring this case if there isn't a component focused on the browser and OS conflict of interest in search.
Engineers can be held accountable for a failure in a system they said would work, and it happens when something goes wrong with a bridge or building. I do not agree with the point. It is like saying, "A condominium in Florida cannot be held accountable." :-)
There was a post many years back in a similar vein entitled something like "Abject Oriented Programming". Instead of a language, it was just a set of rules/recommendations to ensure your code was "Abject Oriented". Of course, all of the suggestions were essentially anti-patterns.

The best part was the comments. Most folks were hip, but every fifth comment or so was something like "I agree with #1, #3 and #4, but #2 is wrong..."

LOL
It is all about speed. Motorcycles are aerodynamic pigs. At low speeds they are very efficient, but at highway speeds they are horrible. Bikes are also not generally tuned for efficiency but horsepower. Find a modern california-spec bike witha modern engine like honda's VFR series. Even being much heavier, they use about 50% of the gas compared to the likes of the R1/6 which are tuned for horsepower.
For your information, it actually is being made by the DOJ, just not on this lawsuit.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-googl...

The press release doesn't mention it, but the actual court document asks the court to:

"Order the divestiture of, at minimum, the Google Ad Manager suite, including both Google’s publisher ad server, DFP, and Google’s ad exchange, AdX, along with any additional structural relief as needed to cure any anticompetitive harm"
Their population doesn't seem to be in decline yet? The population growth may be in decline (I didn't check) but the population isn't.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_China
I don't have the specific numbers, but I remember putting like 5L of petrol in the tank and riding for a full day when I was in Vietnam. That'd get you maybe 100km in a car.
So it could very well be more than half.
Unknown would be its own category, which means some of those unknown might actually make the African American stats even worse if they were attributed.
Floats are such an embarrassment to have to explain to new developers. Then you have to explain that there is no intention to fix it. And then there are all these developers who make the field look like a cult by endlessly chanting how it works the way it should work. Who seem not to know the difference between correct and incorrect, the difference between right and wrong.
I think this is more code archeology than architecture, no?

I can see the utility of it for onboarding new team members - instead of chasing down stale docs, one gets a look at the state of the codebase as it is today.

It probably helps to spot problematic / unintended dependencies and the like as well.
> Even if not on paper, humans now have an excuse to lay responsibility on the software.

This, right here, is the real key and I hope people really fully appreciate this.

We can now have machines that can be biased for us, and when that bias becomes apparent, people can shrug their shoulders and say "what can you do, it's the machine's fault".

That is a very dangerous road, and we're already well on our way down that path.
Its about bringing externalaties to account, ie if you cost someone else money be it through particulate pollution, noise pollution, road maintenance, road provision you should pay that. So you can choose, but you must pay the full cost of your decision. If you get this right then everyone will choose optimally and the overall costs will diminish. Gas tax is roughly correlated but not great and a weight tax is better but still not exact.
The law doesn't protect it. HIPAA doesn't apply in that setting.

Attorney client privilege is an interesting case.

"Privacy issues" is a meaningless phrase to me when divorced from the law. Do you mean, like, ethically concerning? This term in the contract is neither uncommon nor illegal.
The advanced pianists I know are the snobbiest of peoples when it comes to their instrument. A boogie woogie player wouldn’t care but a classical purist would have a heart attack and refuse to play it. I find it interesting and if they can reproduce the feel (as some higher end clavinovas have) then they might have something. The design is definitely striking. The tone and action is what is going to make it last.
This looks very similar to RRDTool's query language. Is this a fork, or was it just inspired by RRDTool?
It isn't an exception for weight, but rather the misguided footprint regulation that incentivizes larger vehicles that are allowed to have lower fuel economy. That coupled with the silliness of hatchback cars being classified as trucks has distorted the market and ruined the options for small vehicles that are truly trucks.
Oh I more meant the simple good, rather than simple evil. "wolf in sheep's clothing" is, or should be, a well known concept.

But yeah I just meant simple good morality is not a bad thing.
> Wired has really fallen

I mean maybe, but TFA is from Slate. Moreover, the article argues in favour of taxing the thing we want less of: weight. Weight means more power required to start, more mass to change direction and stop, more materials required for the larger batteries, and more of a literal impact on pedestrians.
And you left out another major issue. It's half of the homicides convicted as murders. People pleading guilty to negligent homicide or claiming self defense (or simply winning their case) aren't included. Which are outcomes associated with good lawyers, which is associated with wealth, which is highly correlated to race.
Ask HN: How is Llama-2 optimized so much?
Just ran Llama-2 (without a GPU) and it gave me coherent responses in 3 minutes (which is extremely fast for no GPU). How does this work?
I don't know if this is just me being a negative grouchy old fart, but I have started deeply disliking such articles. I get so excited about something, only to learn it's somebody's random CAD sketch, probably without much in the way of practical engineering considerations, and will never ever see the light of day.

Good on people for playing, imagining, considering, wondering, but I wish there were a tag or some way for me to avoid them, or just a more upfront admission of what it is. They always start so serious, full of world problem solving proclamations in present tense ("this solves / this will replace / enabling " etc) and only by mid way do you realize there's nothing there there :-/
No disrespect, but I am not sure if casinos are in the business of helping mankind. Therefore, it is not only the casino clients that behave badly. The fact that money changes hands means nothing.
I remember when this happened. I was selling Macs at the time at a local Apple dealership in Milwaukee. After the initial hoopla, I didn’t hear of Dylan again!
You know what I would love to see is metadata attributes surrounding a paper such as [retracted], [reproduced], [rejected], etc. We already have the preprint thing down. Some of these would be implied by being published, ie not a preprint. Maybe even a quick symbol for what method of proof was relied upon—-video evidence, randomized control trial, observational study, Sample count of n>1000 (predefined inequality brackets), etc. I think having this quick digest of information would help an individual wade through a lot of studies quickly.
My own personal convenience so I don't have to maintain a third party api subscription and the user's privacy–maybe someone wants to ask it a personal question that they don't want transmitted to a 3rd party, used to train other llms, etc.
That's true but when you do that it's not really lisp anymore it's another language you just created and implemented as a lisp macro.
One of the nice things about Canada is a requirement to be honest within reason, and to always fact check - and handle if things don't match later.

For the news source I go to, this means they're pretty reliable and honest - and not so prone to lying or deception. I mean at the end of the day people are people, and different agencies will have some bias, so I check across a bunch. And I avoid anything owned by Rupert Murdoch, as that drives down the quality by a lot.
APTN for instance is good, and honestly so is Al Jazeera USA. I've liked CBC, and between the different programs they're pretty good at calling out political bias - especially about their own.
(the actual news news on CBC has some center-right bias towards either Liberal or Conservative parties - and will occasionally even air "official lies". Their long form shows on the other hand are much better and will catch out those "official lies". Canada is complicated in its own way).
The health benifits can be gotten from a stationary bike at the gym. There is a reason we have helmet laws for bikes on the street.
You are entirely missing the point.

We're talking about systems, algorithms, black box models that we don't understand or have the ability to reason about, that are being used to make decisions for us.

Those systems are already proven to have embedded biases.

But now instead of a human we can question, we only have inscrutable machines that no one, not even the people who built them, understand.

If condominiums in Florida were making the decision about who could get a mortgage and live in them, then your analogy would make sense.

But they don't.

There are, on the other hand, computer systems that absolutely do, and it's very possible (I would predict probable) that they will end up effectively re-creating redlining.

Furthermore, going back to your broken analogy, unlike the case with building codes and engineering professional organizations, there are no laws or regulations that could be used to hold accountable those who build or use those systems.
Last year, I traveled from DC to NY overnight, and it was 2.5x surge pricing. When i got to my destination, I stuck around in the car to see what the driver app was saying. I paid close to $900, driver took ~$250, the entire surge pricing difference went to Uber. I was thinking, that's an crazy markup over their AWS bill but really it's just a robbery.
No, it’s because they don’t pay for another HL7 interface. I am network admin for hospitals and see it daily. We use Meditech anyways, not even close to everyone uses Epic.
Why make the fuss about taking government ads off of Facebook if you're not going to take your party ads off of it, too?

The answer is obvious: Government awareness campaigns might be less effective, hiring and recruitment might be more difficult, but neither poses a risk to the government for staying in government. There's no principle here, just politics.
The second paper suggests that Mars-sized or larger free planets are ~600 times more abundant than stars. This would mean we'd expect one such planet within about half a light year of the Sun. Much more data is needed to narrow down these inferences, though.
In my experience, they only inform you if you need to pick up your luggage in between. Otherwise, you can assume you pick up at the final destination. You can ask for additional confirmation if you want, but the onus to double check shouldn’t be on the customer.
Doubtful. Whites have more wealth and better lawyers.
I know that Etymotics must violate the ear canal to work, but for me the right monitor (and only the right monitor) gets some sort of incorrect seal that muffles the driver after some seconds regardless of the tips used and after cleaning the ears thoroughly, that disappears if I press lightly on the outside, so I suspect a problem with the ear canal shape. I tried swapping the monitors as the cables are detachable, and tried different output devices, didn't work either, so it's not an electronic problem. It's just weird and frustrating.
I'm thinking of simply buying a pair of reasonably priced over-ear muffs, maybe with active noise cancelling, and wearing IEMs under them. It would look strange, but comfort is more important.
> If you consider 100-250 years old historic, spend some time in Europe, Asia, or even the eastern US.

Lame, judgy gatekeeping. When someone in CA calls something historic, you might, as not actually a robot, assume that there’s some context behind it, and not just sneeringly judge them because you have something slightly older at home in Europe.

But why argue with someone who’s so terrified to put their opinion on their actual username, and had to create a throw away just to rag on SF, right? It can’t be that you plan to say anything insightful.
My sister completed a 3 year dentist technician education, only to decide that she doesn't want to work in the field. Why? Because of what you just described. Immoral dentists proposing the most expensive procedure regardless of the aesthetics or outcome, to milk insurance money. Rough framing of situation: same story you told, but imagine it's a young girl, that will be insecure for life because of a dentist's greed. He removed two front teeth and installed a bridge, which he orders from dentist technicians - that immediately observe from the order details how deeply immoral the procedure is.

The problem is that if dentis technicians speak up against a dentist, it usually means they lose a customer. Dentists will find someone else to fill their order. It's basically a mafia.

This happens in other fields as well, such as: shoving expensive pills down depressed teens throats to milk insurance money, then gain power of attorney over said kid to feed him 16 pills instead of one (true story, friend's son, named Bobby, would have otherwise recovered naturally, but is simply not himself anymore).

Here are a few problems:

* Money inventivizes immortal practices. Bigger (albeit unnecessary) procedure with lifetime consequences, but more insurance money. Or just money if you don't have insurance.

* The craft is polluted by bad role models. Normalizing said practices, effectively absolving young professionals from accountability.

* Flawed definition of good mentorship. Young Professionals need mentors that are a figurative handrail to honesty, and acceptance of feedback from peers. i.e. when dentists get remarks from dentist technicians that said procedure is unnecessary.
I'll toss in that floss has done practically nothing for me for decades. Getting a waterpik immediately made a huge improvement in just about everything.

(I can't speak to plaque because I can't really measure it myself. But dentists seem to think I'm flossing quite well now. ha.)

I get so much more food junk out of my teeth with the waterpik. Floss never has and still never does remove much of it - even flossing, mouthwashing, and waiting until morning to try the waterpik consistently finds junk that isn't there if I waterpik. I still keep floss handy for getting truly wedged stuff out (it can provide much more force), but it's worthless for me otherwise.

Start out with a cheap one, and start both gentle and pointed across your teeth, not into your gums. It can be much too harsh when you start out. And very clearly mouths vary a lot, so if it doesn't work, it doesn't work - hence, start cheap.
Claiming self defense doesn't change the charge from murder unless you are found not to have murdered the person.
It's unknown, so the OP's original argument of maths:

> you could argue racism... Or math.

is not supported by the purported statistic of "half the murders are by blacks".
Thanks! Sorry to be that guy, but is there a text write-up of the conclusion you’d recommend? I searched and came across some local news articles and Reddit posts but nothing as detailed as the blog you mentioned (which surprised me that it didn’t have an update including the discovery).
> film was designed for optimal rendering of light skin

Utter nonsense. Shadow contrast is lower with darker skin. It’s physics, no matter how much you want to see racism.
This guy puts MacGyver to shame.
This is the final stage of capitalism, where market success is conflated with scientific rigor.
Let’s say frogs are proven to be room temperature superconductors. How do we turn them into maglev trains?
Tell that to the Netherlands
Claiming self defense doesn't. Successfully claiming self defense means that you did not murder the person.
There doesn't seem to be a HN post that got traction.

But the original (archived) has comments, which is what scott-smith_us may be referring to https://web.archive.org/web/20140529003713/https://typicalpr...
It could be water, under different pressure and gravity. (or not).
Instead of encouraging developer to optimize beyond what their programming language expose, shouldn't we change our software model to include space?

A simple example would be cellular automata (not necessarily "automata") which make clear use of space. But for this to happen, we would need new CPU design that doesn't only attempt to become a C interpreter.
Successfully making that claim is associated with expensive lawyers rather than overworked public defenders.
The website hasn't had any updates in years, but Timo's YouTube channel is still alive and kicking:

https://youtube.com/@TimoNoko
No, it isn't. Most people pay about that much for their cable. For the bottom 20 percent, yes, it is a budget-buster.

However, that is beside the point. Believe me, I hate explaining simple, simple things--but the person I was responding to is probably comfortably middle or upper-middle class and could afford a miserable 2000/year on a doctor. He doesn't have to become "rich enough", and almost 100 percent of the people in this thread don't have to either.
What interactive debugger IDE are you using that lets you enter “interact”?
The AASHO test comes up frequently, but there’s an easier way to evaluate this: What’s the internal pressure required to inflate the tires? The higher it is, the smaller the contact patch and the more damage it will inflict on the road. Large trucks are between 80 and 100 PSI, while your typical passenger vehicle is going to be 35 PSI or under.
We have drastically different life experiences.

In general I appreciate things a lot more in the moment than in retrospect. And I'm much happier now than I was as a child or a university student--the thing I appreciate most about those times is that they're over.

And look, it's fine we have different experiences--I'm not here to invalidate your experience. But when people say stuff like "You cannot fully appreciate your moments without kids until you have kids though" you're invalidating my experiences. That's total bullshit--you don't know anything about my life and whether or not I truly appreciate it.

If you want to talk about your experiences, that's cool, and I'm actually even interested to hear them. But don't pretend like your experience is some universal truth. It's not.