skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP here. We address this argument in detail in our paper, and we're deeply skeptical of it. See the sections titled "Challenges in addressing bias" and "Awareness is better than blindness".

Here's the short version:

We view the approach of "debiasing" word embeddings (Bolukbasi et al., 2016) with skepticism. If we view AI as perception followed by action, debiasing alters the AI’s perception (and model) of the world, rather than how it acts on
that perception. This gives the AI an incomplete understanding of the world. We see debiasing as "fairness through blindness". It has its place, but also important limits: prejudice can creep back in through proxies (although we should note that Bolukbasi et al. (2016) do consider "indirect bias" in their paper). Efforts to fight prejudice at the level of the initial representation will necessarily hurt meaning and accuracy, and will themselves be hard to adapt as societal understanding of fairness evolves

Direct link to our paper: http://randomwalker.info/publications/language-bias.pdf
$100M for a space mission seems inexpensive, let alone for our first interstellar one. Sending a few people to low Earth orbit costs $70M/person on Soyuz.
the question isn't when I last heard of lighttable. the question is what people, ideas, programs, and concepts has it inspired?

"have no interest" and "use the IDE" are not the only two possible reactions here.
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My power is out so I can't browse too much atm. I vaguely remember the Google beacon being a always-on notification that launched a website link pressed.
How well does that work in android and iOS?
Would it be feasible to make an "SOS help" beacon and expect every phone nearby to be notified or similarly spammed with an ad message?
Makes me wonder for AI and robotic "life" what would be the best "habitat" for growth.
Are there any overlaps or thoughts regarding Sapir Whorf here in your research?
From their website: "D-Wave’s flagship product, the 1000-qubit D-Wave 2X quantum computer, is the most advanced quantum computer in the world. It is based on a novel type of superconducting processor that uses quantum mechanics to massively accelerate computation."

How would you understand that, considering the current computation happens in silicon?
I put it off for a while but El Capitan was a painless and definitely sped things up and improved things so I wish I'd upgraded earlier.
But that means there may be an area between the label and the input element (depending on margins and so forth) which is not clickable. Having the label separate makes sense if it's all in a table-like structure, though.
Here's one plan... Start applying for jobs and do a college application for the fall. No jobs in a month? Try school.

It's a tough pickle. College helps so much for your first job. But 4 years of your life could very likely be used for not much.

Me personally I gained a lot from school. But you don't need it to code some apps.
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You wonder what the innovation curve looks like when people are interested then can't afford the 20k per year for unix4. Someone probably would have gotten there (GUN/hurd is only 20 years away, probably because of many people working on linux instead). A lot of the innovation in tech is a result of tinkering or being able to run on a low cost platform to make the margins pencil out. This wasn't much of an option under the commercial OSs that existed before Linus started.
I figured it'd be accurate, given that the subject of the song is a Yankee Doodle dandy.
I also doubt this. Certainly at best it's a old law on the books yet to be deleted and would never be enforced.

But I'd go as far as saying it's a misinterpretation of the law.

Like....perhaps.... Sharia law is an allowed part of the legal system for Muslims. Sharia law allows the death penalty for Atheism. Except Sharia Law within the system is not allowed to impose the death penalty.

Perhaps there is a legal interpretation that allows it but no one on the net has explained how it works.
Seriously, you can do this
Yes! We address this in the section "Implications for understanding human prejudice".

The simplicity and strength of our results suggests a new null hypothesis for explaining origins of prejudicial behavior in
humans, namely, the implicit transmission of ingroup/outgroup identity information through language. That is, before providing
an explicit or institutional explanation for why individuals make decisions that disadvantage one group with regards to another,
one must show that the unjust decision was not a simple outcome of unthinking reproduction of statistical regularities absorbed
with language. Similarly, before positing complex models for how prejudicial attitudes perpetuate from one generation to
the next or from one group to another, we must check whether simply learning language is sufficient to explain the observed
transmission of prejudice. These new null hypotheses are important not because we necessarily expect them to be true in
most cases, but because Occam’s razor now requires that we eliminate them, or at least quantify findings about prejudice in
comparison to what is explainable from language transmission alone

(The paper has more along these lines.)
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For advanced analytics and true sensemaking, much of this might be true. You need a human to really deeply understand data and find what it really means.

However, let's apply the pareto principle. 80% of the needs are served by 20% of the effort. I think for most (let's say 80%) of what most (about 80%) of companies really need, a computer can get at least most of the way there, with much less time and effort than a human.

For example, sure, you need a human to really understand your web analytics. However, to understand it at a basic level, pull out clusters of interesting patterns, and discover anomalies and outliers that you wouldn't have gone looking for otherwise, the computer can get the average intelligent person (not an analyst) most of the way there, and certainly can provide a great deal of value for generally much less cost than a human analyst on salary.

Plus, this frees analysts up for work that truly needs their expertise. As many data folks will tell you, it'd be great if everything they did was using their full skill set to the fullest; but often they spend half their day pulling reports that a computer truly could have done for the requester without any intervention, if designed correctly (not easy, mind).

So, it's not about computers replacing humans entirely. It's about reducing waste, finding ways to cover common cases and repeated work easily, and freeing up human minds for what they're really good at and needed for.
Actually, I didn't know there had been a surge to VS Code. I haven't noticed anybody at my work using it except for me. Lots of Atom around, but maybe the winds are changing.
Yes, because if we make it out there, I don't want to deal with having to get rid of the life there just so we can use the space. I am sure humanity will advance to use at least 50% of the space before our sun goes nova, if Moore's law is any indicator of technological advancement.
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>>They are a very secretive company for a lot of historical reasons.

It's true, they saw what happened to Xerox PARC's ground-breaking UI work...
I remember when I was researchig motion detection systems a few years ago for controlling software by natural movements, I found various technologies including the Myo and infrared tracking. And then I saw this:

http://news.mit.edu/2013/new-system-allows-for-high-accuracy...
Coauthor here. The blog post is written in relatively non-technical language for a general audience, but our paper has tons of technical details that HN readers might enjoy. Give it a read!

http://randomwalker.info/publications/language-bias.pdf
What is your business model, how will you make money?

What is the need that it meets or problem that it solves?

Who are the first champion users who will feel compelled to use this?
Out variables seem like a mis-feature, especially when they are adding a better alternative (Tuples) in the same release.

It's great to finally have tuples, but the c/java style syntax is showing it's age compared to something like scala which has return type declarations at the end, which I find much more readable.

Literal improvements will be a godsend for writing database migrations.

Ref returns and locals look like a source of constant headaches. It's much harder to reason with code when the data can be modified by random others bits of code. Currently I can look for all references to an array to find everywhere that modifies it now I can't.
That was my initial plan, but I don't see it working out. My hands will be full with school and I'll have to commit to my tuition costs early on and sign a rental lease, and most importantly I won't have time to build a good portfolio while in school.
"We have an Achronix Speedster"

My favorite!

"Both use multiple Xilinx FPGAs linked together and easily integrate with the Synopsys EDA flow. Cadence also has the Palladium emulation platform, but those boxes approach the cost of a house in the Bay Area."

Sounds like a business opportunity for someone. I know it could be cheaper and still profitable.
> Requires no installation or setup

This is not something I want; if a product I use is available only via a web site and the company goes under, the product goes away with it. If it's installed on my hard drive, I can keep using the product.
> [...] but the bandwidth requirements to do HDR 4K at 120hz seems massive, [...]

Should be too bad? The extra frames that 120Hz squeezes in between the 30Hz frames should not contain too much more information? (Ie 120Hz should use less than 4 times as much bandwidth as 30Hz.) I expect similar sublinear scaling for resolution in space.
He was told that when approached the light would swiftly ascend to scorch him. Like the others, he was told to stay in the narrows, where both the light and the cold darkness were at a safe distance, but he set out on foot anyway. When he first encountered the Anteriorkies, Perimetus knew his defiance had paid off, and the Anteriorky leader gave Perimetus shelter from the angry light above...
What do you have under your belt so far?
100 billion stars in our galaxy, not the observable universe.
What happened to filing counter-claims? Someone can just file a DMCA against you and get you permabanned from twitter? I don't think the IOC would have any serious standing to claim copyright infringement.

Why don't we retweet that banned image and see how far Twitter is willing to take things?

Also, this just shows how Twitter's platform is unstable and can't be relied upon, if someone with money can just have accounts nuked from orbit. I know I would be better off self-hosting a blog, where I don't have to worry about fraudulent DMCA takedowns.
This planet is "Nemesis". If you are an Asimov fan, you know why. Damn he was eerily prescient about this one.
Is it only a notebook style environment? Or can it be used as a modern IDE for real programming?
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>Out variables seem like a mis-feature, especially when they are adding a better alternative (Tuples) in the same release.

You can't retro-fit multiple-returns (via Tuples) onto existing library functions, so for places where you're forced into using out parameters, this is a slight improvement.
Yankee Doodle went to town

Without his shaving razor

Ate so much his pants got tight

And called himself a hipster
Or that the universe is so diverse and complex that assuming that this same rather random event occurs in the exact same way multiple times in many places is also quite arrogant.
Works fine from London.
"Good for playing around with and exploring the idea."

my point, for the most part. :)
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Who is the pixel artist?
I'm interested to see how 'We pay your sales tax' works out.

Also, should there be an epilepsy warning for the header?
I remember when they showed commercials during the Super Bowl about Linux. My 12-year-old geek self couldn't believe it! I had a bunch of older people at my parent's party asking me about Linux. Felt cool to be able to show off my home built computer running slackware to a bunch of adults who often chastised me for being in the basement too much :)
Did you research focus on English or does the nearly the same biases hold for all modern languages? I would love to see a competently trained person try this with the Asian and Native American languages.

I dearly hope we will let the bias "humanity is good, don't kill us" stay in.
I think you're mixing up some details of that episode. The closest episode I can think of that matches that is "The Ensigns of Command", which involves a colony of humans that were isolated and underdeveloped due to interference from the planet's radiation. The colony was on a planet that technically belonged to the "Sheliak", a mysterious race the Federation had limited contact with, but who had decided to begin colonizing the planet and gave the Federation a short time span to remove the humans before they would eradicate them.
It shouldn't be an issue given that HLL is approximate and that relatively few votes are undone. You could also debounce the vote before recording it in the counter, at the cost of a small delay.
I'm embarrassed to say that I've been making a living playing online poker for the past 5 years. I have never had a typical job before. I took web development courses at a community college for one year, while self-learning through sites like codecademy. I learned html, css, javascript, jquery and a little bit of php and sql. I know enough to build a front-end web dev portfolio with practice projects.
I think the holiday pay example is more glaring. Seen in isolation, I would be confused as to what on earth it was getting at. Furthermore, the summary is no good. The abstract isn't either. My summary would be: British Gas continues to fight eu court's decision that commission be included in holiday pay. Continue is used here to emphasize that the case is not yet over.

On the other hand, the football summary is exemplary; better than the provided abstract.
There's some good advice in this post[0] by Sam Altman as well as the two extensive discussions[1][2] it has sparked on HN so far :-)

[0] http://blog.samaltman.com/advice-for-ambitious-19-year-olds

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5934698

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7696844
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If the planet is tidally locked I say that may be good can you imagine an 11 day "year" but also rotating? It would be like living on the Scrambler carnival ride.
As an Australian living in NYC, I often repeat the phrases of my distant Darwin youth and discover that I've dropped another unexpected Australianism or Commonwealthism into a conversation that was ill-prepared to receive exotic visitors.

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"How'd you handle the interview?"

"I played a straight bat, mostly".

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"I like your briefcase".

"Yeah, it's a bloody ripper".

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"I'm having relationship trouble". (paraphrased)

"That's awful, I hope it comes good".

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On the other hand, I don't know yet how to respond when, on mentioning I have an upcoming date, someone says "well, I'm rooting for you!"

My employers, Pivotal, are pretty proactive in hiring Australians. There are usually between 5 and 10 of us in the NYC office at any given time. I'm never far from a familiar accent, a laconic quip and a charmingly familiar turn of phrase.
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"This is a response to Marco Arment, Ben Thompson, and other pundits (largely spurred by the PR efforts of Google and to a lesser extent Facebook and Microsoft)"

It may not be self-congratulation, but this sentence is definitely unsubstantiated slander.
This seems like an interesting service, but I want too toss out a suggestion for those looking to disseminate info about a product or service:

Tell me a story.

More specifically, use a hypothetical story to provide context and an example of why the hell I'm reading your page. This is the explanatory copy on this page:

Our mission is to help you sell and ship stuff directly to your fans for a
fraction of the cost and effort of doing it yourself. Blackbox works like a
co-op: if we all go in together, we get the cheapest pricing, the fastest
shipping, and the best service. The shipping is fast. We pay your sales tax.
You can customize the packaging and the inserts. It’s pretty great.

At the end of this, I still am confused about what you do. What would help is a hypothetical use case and narative, and to demonstrate that, I'll invent one:

Let's say you're running a Kickstarter. You're a domain expert who's built
something awesome, and you've even successfully kickstarted a project to
build what you love. Now though, after having built all these gizmos you
need to ship those to your backers, and this is something you're NOT an
expert in. Looking in to shipping, you see it's going to involve
complicated contracts and procedures to ship your gizmo at any scale, and
at a cost that FAR exceeds your back of the envelope calculation of price
and effort. You wish there where some simple shipping service where you only worry about the packaging, and they handle picking up from the manufacturer, storage, and shipping; a service with
straightforward pricing, and customer service oriented at helping someone
with your needs and your scale.

That's where BlackBox comes in. Our mission is to help you sell and ship
stuff directly to your fans for a fraction of the cost and effort of doing
it yourself. Blackbox works like a co-op: if we all go in together, we get
the cheapest pricing, the fastest shipping, and the best service. The
shipping is fast. We pay your sales tax. You can customize the packaging
and the inserts. It’s pretty great.

I don't know if the above story accurately represents what it is that BlackBox provides, but I hope you can see that having a story helps a reader answer the question of "is this helpful or relevant to my situation or goals?".
I am to code as Kim Jong-Un is to process improvement. Always Be Refactoring.
That intro. Seems like they are selling headaches not shipping.
Agreed with cmrdporcupine. The anthropocentric view is actually the idea that because life exists for us, it therefore isn't that special and is likely to have arisen somewhere else - we are anthropocentrically biased to think that life is more likely than it actually is because we ourselves experience it.
Here is slides and video for a talk "Adaptive Optics Imaging of Extosolar Planets" from 2015.

Especially the review of history of the study of exoplanets is amusing. When only our solar system was known, everyone believed in the theory of "inner rocky planet region, outer gas giant planet region". When astronomers finally started to have instruments to actually detect planets in other solar systems in the mid-1990s, almost none of the detected exoplanets fit the theory (slides 5-8).

http://www.pppl.gov/events/colloquium-adaptive-optics-imagin...
Two things which make me see it as something other than a currency:

1) The 'coin' will not be the unit of account. The underlying currency (e.g. US$) will be the unit of account.

2) If the underlying currency (e.g. US$) ceased to exist, the 'coin' would have zero value.

Consider how the above two points compare with:

A) Bitcoin (which I say _is_ a currency)

B) Zero-coupon government bonds (which I say are _not_ currency)
I've seen some p/invoke examples where out variables are used as a c pointer.
Nice job HN, I had a cool song to sing with the grand daughter as she ate her artesian Kraft Mac and Cheese about our founding fathers, but now it's about hipsters? Are hipsters the reason we can't have nice pasta based songs?

Next you'll be telling me the Oscar Meyer song isn't about baloney but some hipster tofu loaf infused with sirachi sauce.
You suggested ECC over RSA, implying that ECC offers greater security than RSA in the context of easy prime factorization. ECC's security relies on the hardness of the discrete logarithm. Yet, both prime factorization and the discrete logarithm are both special cases of the hidden subgroup problem over an Abelian group. In short, cracking RSA means cracking ECC, too.

Am I wrong? Were you just joking?
I agree its a bit in your face but it does a good job of getting your attention instead of making it look like another garden variety slap-stick startup web template.
It looks like they've added a lot of rope to hang ourselves with typos.

int myvar, I;
foo(out int mvar); // oops, not myvar; maybe caused by a refactor?
bar(out *); // oops, not I; was up too late coding

And so on. Things like this would be easily missed when reading code at-a-glance, and it's this sort of bug that arises often in languages that allow implicit declaration of variants.
The South Bay (Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, Hermosa, parts of Torrance) is a great place to live. It's relatively close to Downtown LA (8-12 miles). Driving from South Bay to west LA is only 30 mins so the drive isn't horrible. Driving from the valley to West LA is horrible. South Bay and Valley are great for families. Having lived in NY for a few decades, then to NC, LA traffic is not that bad considering. It's more about how to navigate and that's where Waze is really helpful.
I bet there is a letter from Roman times that calls out some hipster analogue.
> It is likely that Patanjali's sutras were largely general knowledge in ancient India as ways to stay fit and limber

You must be referring to the Hatha Yoga Pradipika or Gheranda Samhita since PYS doesnt deal with individual asanas/gymnastic yoga whatsoever?

PYS is split into 4 parts: 1. Details regarding superconscious states (samadhi), 2. The means of practice by which samadhi can be attained, 3. the supernatural powers associated with and attained via samadhi including their dangers and pitfalls, 4. how to transcend all the lower samadhis and attain final and complete liberation.

Asanas are only mentioned in the 2nd part and in that context only really mean how to sit properly to attain deep meditation. Gymnastic yoga is nowhere to be found in the book.
I disagree that it's a good idea to think of types as a "collection" (loosely) of values. It may be the case that you do not distinguish computation and value (here, I'm thinking of CBPV) but types only classify values as interpreted via their embedding into expressions.
The BCD instructions, despite originally conceived for BCD, actually have some other niche uses such as AAM/AAD for a small multiply/divide:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8477254

In that article I also further refute the common belief that they are significantly slower in this comment, by reasoning and then an actual benchmark: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8477585

And this is where I think a gap between compilers and humans exist --- would a compiler recognise, for example, that if your code, for whatever reason, happened to have this pattern of operations in it...

http://x86.renejeschke.de/html/file_module_x86_id_3.html

...it should emit a single AAS instruction? Or perhaps a simpler example, would it know to emit an AAM for an 8-bit division or modulus with a constant divisor? Maybe it could --- see the other discussion here about LEA --- but the developers just didn't bother to. I wish they would though, because despite how slow these instructions may be (which might not be the case), they are still valuable for size optimisation (-Os), and after all, it is a gap.
> it's age compared to something like scala which has return type declarations at the end, which I find much more readable.

Scala or .... VB.net!