skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the word bias seems to be overloaded with many meanings. I actually wonder if there is any philosophical difference between the word "knowledge" and the word "bias".

But about machine learning... a system can learn from a set of outcomes which are the result of a "biased" system, that is to say tainted with an incorrect Bayesian prior which is not properly corrected, such as let's say courts in a racist society or whatever. It would learn the same bias. Because its goal is to maximize compatibility with the outcomes that the humans did. So it perpetuates those weights.

The problem is that we don't know whether the human decisions matched the reality. "Did the person commit the crime" for example. We might have to wait until more unbiased estimators for such activity come along, and throw away old historical data.

It's sort of like when Black-Scholes became a self-fulfilling prophecy for valuing derivatives, but only after it became widespread. The market started using Black-Scholes to value derivatives, so it became the best model to predict the value of derivatives. But until then, other models might have fit the historical data better.
I believe the parent poster is saying that fake news isn't a new phenomena; I don't believe it was condemnation of any specific news outlet.

Any search of history can find fake news going way back; the difference today is the ease of producing it and how easy it is to spread rapidly.
>>Why Does This Food Pyramid Work?

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-...

"in June 2011 the USDA replaced MyPyramid with a new and simpler icon, MyPlate"
The Digital Irish events are a great way to pitch your business ideas to Irish-American investors in New York. Check out http://digital.irish - Good Luck!
Free version from 2001: https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-black-book
Basically everyone used to be a farmer. Now almost no one is (in the US at least). That's not scale?
I have a 24 inch "4k" monitor. (its actually Quad HD, but thats another issue for another time)

My machine is a shit salesdroid spec dell optiplex 990 (again another issue for another day)

But, why did I opt for a 4k monitor? because I can fit more text in.

Its really that simple. Right now I have a browser window, IRC window and four normal sized terminals.

The size of the text is pretty small, but not tiny. The average letter size is 2mm, which is the same size font as the financial time's article text.

to answer your other question, the effect on my eyes is the same as reading a newspaper all day.

edit: this is my monitor: ViewSonic VX2475SMHL-4K ($370 from new egg)
What is wrong with dressing up in old rubber tires, driving around in sand buggies with flame throwers?
Way to cherry pick.
I recently got the 25" Dell Ultrasharp U2515H which runs at 2560x1440 resolution, and really love it. Much better to do split screen on than my previous 24" 1080p monitor. It's just north of $300: https://www.amazon.com/Dell-UltraSharp-U2515H-25-Inch-LED-Li...
Actually had this conversation last week with some other devs at my job. This suggestion is coming from a coworker not myself but he likes using curved screens - here is an affordable one in your range (27")

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Curved-27-Inch-Monitor-C27F39...
How are the private keys handled in the extension?
That was because Tysons Corner was (and still is) a major hub of the Internet. Initially because of the DOD and military contractors, but a big chunk of Amazon's cloud is located in data centers there and nearby.
Which brings me to wonder... how does a New Brunswick boy get in the habit of using BC First Nations slang?
I'll just throw this here

I've tried to make a point of commenting more and more on news articles and discussion boards

not because the world really needs to hear my thoughts

but it seems like a useful way of capturing my still fairly rough thoughts about whatever I just read (with the nice bonus that sometimes the rest of the universe comes along and tells you what's wrong with your thought, or how to improve your thoughts)

its a way to ever so slightly embed my ideas in my head

(having typed that out, the thought occurs to me that maybe I should occasionally make anki flashcards out of comments that seem especially worth remembering)

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writing stuff down, it used to bother me that I'd have ideas, and then by the time I tried to turn them into writing, the elegance of the idea had seemed to evaporate

or that the mechanical process of writing it down had distracted me from improving my idea

I've come to think that that's not really good way to think about it

that if I can't satisfactorily write down my idea, it needed improving anyways
With respect to the kids, its worth looking at the demographics of actual viewers leading to interesting commercial choices where the ads are mostly old people pills and old people cars. Meanwhile the content is aimed, narrowcasting style, right back at the old people to steal old people from other news channels rather than to try and appeal generally, so there's lots of coverage of the 2010s antics (or deaths) of 1970s child TV stars, 60s musicians, and so forth that mean nothing culturally to a 2010s kid.

No 2010s kid is going to get "street cred" socially by walking into school talking about how sick Buicks are and Crestor is awesome and its almost but not quite the 15th anniversary of John Ritter's death.
Tribal instincts, competing for scarce resources?
It was an undefined talking point that has spread farther and faster than it was likely intended. I suspect it will disappear soon as the stupidity of it starts to affect the major news agencies and social media.
That metric strongly discourages asking questions - which is a critical part of a Senior Engineer's job.

When someone is at the level of SE, they have proven they have skills beyond slinging well-formed code - that's entry stakes for second-tier. They demonstrate a wider understanding of how their work fits into the overall product development, an understanding of customer perspective, and many other attributes. Most if not all of these derive from knowing the right questions to ask, the right people to ask them of, and the right time to do so.

The biggest differentiator is that the Senior developer should know when she needs to ask questions to proceed.
Cost of a slide deck
Is it? You can sell your old one so it probably works out to a fairly small premium to always get the latest than to say upgrade every 3-4 years and for that premium you always have a new machine
If I remove Thumb support, is my design clean? Is the ARM v4 still protected by patents or is free to implement.
I HIGHLY recommend reading this book. I've had it since ~2004, and read it 6 or 7 times. It's such an enjoyable experience, and if you develop software and/or software companies...still very relevant.
One Adds and the Other Subtracts: Gerhard Behles and Robert Henke on Ableton
For perspective, 3dfx had stellar drivers for their cards, and never had issues with linux kernel maintainers refusing merges of their code for lack of quality.
(Serious)

I really want to learn either Vim or Emacs but I've never been able to decide which one to learn. Every time I've tried to search about this topic I end up in petty wars. Help?
Maybe the only larger swaths of lands not carpet bombed with nuclear payloads are arid areas, devoid of any current human population.

After the nuclear fallout these would be the only areas where sustained human life would be possible.

Even a recovering climate wouldn't change much about that.
Something could be corrupted and then that corrupted data could be synced to the cloud, trashing what you had there.
I think that that criteria heavily leans on an assumption of the quality of the other engineers on the team though. If there is a team composed of 4 engineers who are in the bottom 10% of performers in the company, it won't be hard for them to see a very mediocre engineer as a "senior" because that person does so much more than they can; yet to the other 89% of the company, it's absurd that that person would be considered a senior.

Granted, many would say it's equally absurd to have so many members of the bottom of your engineering talent on one team, but I've seen it happen over and over again in real life.
This is an interesting subject. I first heard of Telomeres from Dr. Rhonda Patrick[1]. She has her own podcast and actively visits podcasts of other hosts to talk about health and longevity. For anyone interested, link below.

I've gotten flack for mentioning Joe Rogan podcast here before, but I discovered Dr. Patrick through Joe's podcast and her visits are some of my favorites.

[1] https://www.foundmyfitness.com/
0. someone who stands up to management.
Sadly that bar is rarely met. One vendor answers support emails within 24 hours... usually closer to 24 hours. That's a problem when one of our contractors is waiting. If our contractor walks it's $10K to replace him or her.
The one vimwiki line I have in my vimrc is to set the path to my Dropbox.

let g:vimwiki_list = [{'path': '~/Dropbox/Public/briefcase/vimwiki'}]

All of the default commands are pretty nice. Here's a nice cheatsheet:

http://thedarnedestthing.com/vimwiki%20cheatsheet
Probably just evolved to be resistant to penicillin, either it never evolved to be susceptible or it evolved to not be susceptible.

In either case, the cave environment had something to do with it. I wouldn't suspect this is too news worthy.
Probably being a Uighur or Tibetan in their respective regions regions. Also faces might correspond to certain disadvantaged ethnicities or groups. Or they might even correspond to a genotype that is expressed as a phenotype, so a genetic basis. We have identified a certain gene that makes aggression much more likely. And apparently it's more prevalent in African Americans in the US than others. But even that has context. In certain countries beating someone up, i.e. physical assault, is glossed over. Crime is highly subjective in terms of what people are willing to put up with... anything more than thou shalt not kill is highly subjective, and even that's ignored by military all around the world all the time.

Good quote:

Indeed, that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride, "What do you mean by seizing the whole earth; because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, while you who does it with a great fleet are styled emperor".
Totally agreed. I know a few people who (financially) don't need to work for a living but still do, a couple of them regularly putting in 12 hour days 6 days per week. Of course, that's how they got "rich" in the first place.

In their case, making a lot of money was a pleasant side effect of their preexisting strong work ethic, not the driving force.

(...and don't get me wrong, these guys also play hard when they're not working)
Well they sensitive to man-made antibiotics which by definition are modern antibotic drugs, and substances they've had no exposure to. But it has resistance to many naturally occurring anti-biotics, which would suggest some exposure to develop resistance. And there's probably some telltale differences between acquired resistance and natural immunity because your structure is such that you're not vulnerable.

I think if you had more knowledge about the subject you'd understand how your idea isn't as plausible as it sounds.
> With Trump elected, Europe is turning to itself for its defence

Are you really trying to say that Trump, and not Putin, is the primary reason for this?

Also, I thought that political threads were banned on HN now; aren't they?
Good point. After seeing the picture, I think I have had this. It's pretty good.
Agreed. But this doesn't mean you won't feel compelled to intervene and add value in difficult situations. I chose to cash out instead of continuing with the heavy burden of risking my net worth every day due to this. How is my old company doing? Fantastic, exactly because I focused on building a company and not a job. This is just to say that these two comments aren't mutually exclusive.
SUGAR IS KILLING US. FTFY
> Apple seems to consider macOS purely a client OS from which one ssh's to the outside world but not the other way round.

I'm not knowledgeable enough, but this seems a pretty reasonable assumption for 90% of use cases. And if this assumption holds, is it fair to say. I think what you're trying to say is "First of all, macOS power manages devices too aggressively for me"

> It looks like macOS suspends the BCM 57765 Ethernet controller and doesn't resume it upon reception of packets from the LAN.

What are the trade-offs of this decision? Could apple not do this and not change the battery life for anyone? Or would it benefit this case and adversely affect other cases?
Thanks, they seem to have strong pre-sales support.
I would be fine with the USB-C if it wasn't for the Lightning port and the drive to headphones on a proprietary connector or wireless. USB-C is a great standard and useful, it's the interaction with the Lightning port that making things difficult.

On a side note, does Apple have a use case for Lighting / wireless headphones and ATMs with headphones jacks for the visually impaired?
Not yet, unfortunately. It might be a while before I get a chance to address it, so if anyone out there is looking for a project, it should be fairly straightforward. At least compared to tools like the subject of this post that engage in some non-trivial semantic reasoning. :)
It seems that the recent price development is due to higher taxes on second homes (and expensive purchases) which deter capital investors. This could be a good thing as it means that a higher share of houses will be owned by people living only in London, instead of second homes.

And even though it only directly effects the most expensive property, it ultimately lowers prices for a lot of houses due to the inelastic nature of housing demand.
If you use a database for storing your apps data like sqlite, which you should, then you're doing an fsync on virtually every insert/update operation. One of the main reasons for using a database is that it takes away the headache of deciding when and how to fsync.

If you manage application state yourself, and the phone does power off or kill your app at an unfortunate time, you might up with a corrupted application state. If you're a big company like Facebook or Google with millions of users this will be happening multiple times per day, and produce a slew of complaints about your app.

Depending on the exact mechanism and implementation, making fsync a no-op is not necessarily bad. As long as it can (with highest priority) fsync all of its buffers upon notification of loss of power and be done before all capacitance is lost then there should be no trouble at all. Of course, this requires some coordination between the hardware, the OS and the filesystem which might be non-trivial even for a fully integrated company like Samsung so it could be it simply doesn't work at all like that.
I'm going to print that on a tile: "The freelancer gives me less work, not more."
I picked up the 32" QHD HP Omen monitor that was on sale during black Friday and so far it's been really nice. I have two 23" Dell something or other monitors in portrait mode on either side.
They were wrong about the telomeres? What hasn't been proven wrong at sometime, anything?
And if you have the technology to subscribe to video RSS feeds there's news such as:

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/twan_index.html

Only two things to not like about TWAN, coverage of politicians photo ops, and for a weekly show its simply too short.
Responsive Video Resizing
If you could find a way though, the world would owe you a great debt of gratitude!
That disappearing NY Times article is from Associated Press. It's not unusual for AP articles to disappear from sites, because I think news organisations often only have a license to publish them from a limited time. Obnoxious, but not uncommon.
the LTSB versions of Windows 10 do not have this.. "browser".. Hmmm
Bad Microservice patterns in .NET
... Bitch?
I have two of these at work hooked up to a docked surface pro 2. Probably the best monitor I've used at work. Liked it so much I picked up the 1440p version for my desktop at home.
Get Ready for DevOps: Remove Code and Architectural Bottlenecks
The Chrome team is always working on power improvements. Recent example: https://blog.google/products/chrome/chrome-faster-and-more-b...
I'm celiac, so my body has some crazy responses to food. I get withdrawal symptoms from a couple of foods and have cut them out because of it. Sugar was the most recent. When I stop eating it I get a sinus headache, I get the shakes (like drinking too much caffeine), and if it's bad, I throw up. What blew my mind in giving up sugar was that I lost 5 lbs. I'm was lean at 155 lbs and 6'1, I dropped below 150 now. It really opened my eyes to how much sugar is converted to fat.

I gave up gluten (withdrawal symptoms), high fructose foods (digestive issues, celiacs wrecks your small intestine lining), caffeine (withdrawal symptoms), sodium nitrites (withdrawal symptoms, but I don't know much about this one, it's in bacon and deli meats as a preservative / cure), and now sugar (withdrawal symptoms). I feel so good. My nose used to be stuffy all the time, I used to have awful digestion, cutting out these foods totally changed my life.

I'm honestly really grateful that I'm celiac, I think it magnifies all the shittiness that these foods bring. It got me to realize all the garbage I was sustaining myself on. I'm now incredibly healthy despite being 'sick'. One of the stranger realizations was that I now only drink water, and that I used to live mostly off of soda.

All these industries have huge interests in selling people addicting food (caffeine, sugar) and maintaining their market positions. They put out so much misinformation on what is healthy.
They don't need another datacenter. AWS has had more issues they NYI's datacenters have had in the past year. There are many companies that are based out of a single datacenter that haven't had any major issues.
I would talk to a lawyer. And then get my investments set up, and then spend the rest on whatever I wanted.
Microservices: When Micro Becomes Nano
"A stack" is an abstract type, but "The Stack" isn't.
The Opposite of War Room Isn’t Peace Room
I've used the Web Bluetooth API for three projects so far:

1) A friend had developed a custom LED-lighting device and written an iOS app to control it (to change colour, brightness etc) but I had an Android device. I wrote a single file "app" to control it from my Android device--much quicker than using Android Studio or even React Native (which I tried for a later project). At a minimum a great way to prototype interfaces for new devices.

2) A colleague and I implemented an alternative single file web app for controlling a Bluetooth LE adult toy device when we discovered the original mobile app for the device was sending real-time usage data to the manufacturer without notifying users. We presented on this work at DEF CON this year. Links to the presentation video and source here: http://www.privateplayaccord.com/

3) Based on the previous work, I wrote a hacky demo combining A-Frame VR and Web Bluetooth to create a Google Cardboard experience that involves following a robot around a scene and receiving..."positive feedback" when you catch it: https://github.com/privateplayaccord/robot-joy-factory-vr

The last project I think is the best example of why Web Bluetooth is an intriguing development--it makes adding interactions with external hardware much more accessible to developers and provides the potential for a much smoother on-boarding process with new hardware.

There are clearly security implications with exposing this functionality and the standard does provide feature restrictions (e.g. web pages must be local or HTTPS; block lists for certain device types/characteristics) in consideration of this. Will all implementations be foolproof? Probably not.

Some notes from my Web Bluetooth development experiences if you want more detail: http://www.labradoc.com/i/follower/p/notes-web-bluetooth

I found this a super nice tool for getting started as it handles a lot of boilerplate: https://beaufortfrancois.github.io/sandbox/web-bluetooth/gen...
Just use whichever your social group uses, as they'll likely be helping answer any questions about it.

Then, if your friends use emacs, use evil-mode because vim is the best.
Agreed on all of this, but magsafe for sure. I was disappointed that they removed that feature. It saved me many times, through things that weren't even my fault like someone at the coffee shop tripping over the cord or my dog running past and snagging it. I shudder to think of my macbook likely flying to the ground in those situations.
Ditto. I have been trying to stop eating sugar since I was a teenager. Tried many times. But this time (over summer) it was like a switch was flipped. Went from eating a couple of chocolate bars every week, plus assorted biscuits (cookies) to nothing.

The struggle goes on if you keep getting little triggers which wake up the green-eyed monster that always wants more sugar. If you avoid slightly sugary things it will help avoiding very sugary things.
Don't worry over it, your local school will gladly accept that responsibility for you and play the news of their choice directly to the class room.
The title of the article is "Why [the] Google Pixel lags 10x more than [the] Moto Z." The author showed that the Moto Z is using a no-op fsync while the Pixel is doing the real thing. I think the author appropriately explained and answered the title prompt.
How JavaScript Fatigue simplifies coding and increases revenue
Hi there—original tweeter here.

Some context for the picture—my father, Paul, was the business manager for the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon at the time, and is a fabulous record-keeper, so he kept all sorts of interesting things from that era.

He was also one of the founders of Three Rivers Computer as well as PERQ, which were tech transfer spin-outs from the CS dept in the seventies.
That was a (relatively speaking) slow change. Upcoming automation as I see it will displace large numbers of jobs in multiple sectors in a matter of years not decades.
>Of course you're going to find someone who wants to work. In those cases, the money is second to the actual stuff being done. It's most likely a hobby or something that they enjoy greatly, and probably would do for free.

Yes, that's the type of people the article is talking about. A good example is somebody like Apple's Jony Ive with a net worth of ~$130 million[1]. He doesn't have to work another day in his life, and yet he still does. And he's not just working every day remotely from home in some ceremonial role. He still goes to the Apple office and is actively engaged with leading the design teams.

His "hobby" seems to be designing materials into products millions of consumers will like. He happens to express that hobby at the Apple office instead of his hoe garage.

If you walked up to him and told him he's only continuing to work because he's brainwashed from Puritanical Stockholm Syndrome, I think'd he'd rightfully feel insulted.

We can acknowledge that you wouldn't do systems network engineering if you didn't have to work for money but that's not Jony Ive's situation. For him, hobby==work.

[1]http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/11/03/does-ap...