skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two algorithms.

Machine learning generates models based off of input data. Machine learning, principally, will not be [biased or] exhibit any direct bias. [It's math, on its own it's not the problem.]

The generated model is then incorporated into an algorithm for making decisions or categorizing objects. If the original data contains biases, the final model will be biased.

[EDIT: Forgot two words, added a sentence]
All of the photos in the paper, both "criminals" and "non-criminals" are from government ids. Though as the article mentions, in the pictured example all the "non-criminals" are wearing collared shirts.

This reeks real hard of overfitting. 2000 images for training a CNN feels so tiny. The paper should have included a learning curve.

The paper shouldn't have been written at all.
I didn't say anything about timeframe... but those kinds of conditions don't last forever.

Structural inequality is dangerous. All it takes is a little insurrection and the "faith and credit" gets depleted.

Hopefully we improve the stage of things.
Fantastic. Thanks to you and minimaxir for the guidance.
> Makes it to the front page pretty much every time

All 2 times?
Court allows case over violating open source license
Humans are a thousand times worse than algorithms. Unattractive defendants get prison sentences twice as long as attractive ones. Judges give significantly harsher sentences just before lunch, when they are hungry. And of course the classic biases against race and gender and other protected classes. I bet there are many other biases that we haven't even discovered yet. Some studies have shown that job interviews are worse than just looking at resumes.

Humans should never ever be in charge of sentencing decisions, or anything else you want to be "fair". There's nothing remotely fair about human judgement.

One particularly weird bias humans have, is we strongly distrust machines. Psychologists have studied this and named it "Algorithm Aversion": http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/risk/library/WPAF201410-Algort... Even when we know machines do better than humans, we are much more distrustful of them. We can watch humans make mistakes and an algorithm make many fewer mistakes, and still end up trusting the human far more.

And it's weird, because in almost every domain that's been studied, algorithms do vastly better than humans. For any statistical problem where there are a few features available to predict the outcome, even simple linear regression typically beats human experts. We suck at probabilistic and statistical problems. Often the predictions of experts are barely better than chance. And this has been known for a long time. The earliest reference I found was from 1928! Where an incredibly crude statistical model (hand trained!) beat a group of prison psychologists, at predicting recidivism of convicts.

Even the sources that inspired this game have been shown to be fraudulent. That is the propublica study they cite. See https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/propublica_is_lying.... Propublica claimed their results were "almost statistically significant." I.e., they not statistically significant. And why would it be so? Algorithms have no particular reason to hate a minority group. They try to make the most accurate predictions possible given the data.
I use layer 2 filtering on my home network in order to get direct internet access without going through my "mandatory" ISP-provided gateway that authenticates the port with 802.1x EAP-TLS.
To be clear, the article didn't connect those dots. I did.

It did say current indications are gut diversity is a good thing. That such things impact life expectancy. It also said partners / family effect gut diversity, as do pets.

I'm sure emotions also play a role (as - e.g., - depression is bad for the immune system). But, best I can extrapolate, the gut also plays a role. But the details science has been done. Yet.
Why are we to believe this is sex-assymetric? I'd be amazed if there weren't as many married men who were resentful because their wives have changed, whether that means becoming less thin, focused on career, children, less interested in sex, etc.
It's regularly observed by amateur astronomers.

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news...
Sure. If you want to take your pile of cash, and set it on fire, a non-growth company is free to do that.

That is basically what you are doing when you leave money on the table. Opportunity costs are still costs.
Hubble fixes?
Also it seems that quite a few shuttle missions were satellite servicing missions including relaunching sattlites that failed to get into the correct orbit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-49
This sort of super sprawl is enabled by Japanese employers' promises of lifetime employment. You buy near where you work, and your job lasts as long as a mortgage. No need to buy in Mountain View because 20 employers are nearby.
>Theoretically there's no reason why a quality broth can't be reduced to powder form and used with instant ramen.

I think the biggest issue is that dried animal fats will significantly reduce the shelf life.

I've tried a bunch of Nongshim stuff (including that one). I think it's the best instant ramen I've tried (although I've heard there's better stuff available in Asia), but it doesn't compare to the real stuff, even if you add things to it.
On top of each vdev (tank) you can make datasets (tank/logs) and mount those wherever

Each of these datasets can have their own options set. So yeah it's basically the same thing as btrfs?
What would be the point?
No adblock - could read it fine - stop being a whiney little bitch.
A lot of people seem to have that reaction. And that's why WMF is swimming in cash.
Now that you mention it, Henry Ford also started two car companies (both failures) before he started the Ford company.
Can confirm. I'm Brazilian and my first job out of college was for IBM supporting a US company systems. I was not even an employee of IBM, I was officially a contractor serving IBM serving a US company. Engineering was all in India and support in Brazil because we had timezone overlap and better English accent.

It's a solid business plan if you ask me. There's a lot of money to be made on outsourcing operations that don't need to be in the US.
Yes, you can eat cheap ramen. But do you want to eat cheap ramen every day? Most supermarkets in Tokyo are expensive. Want some Zucchini? Pay 200 yen for a tiny one. Want an apple? Pay up to 350 yen for one. Want a beer? Pay 300 yen for 0.3l. Restaurants? Want pizza? Pay 20$. Maybe that's normal in the US, I don't know but in my experience, a pizza is 6$ tops.

Of course, there are things that are cheaper. If you live as Japanese as you can, you can save some money.
But rent prices are very high for a normal Japanese worker. As some people here already said salaries are very low.

Average income per age range[1]:
20s：348万円 (~34k)
30s：458万円 (~45k)
40s：586万円 (~58k)
50s：721万円 (~71k)

My ~55m2 room costs about ~1800$ without electricity etc. Since the owner recently changed for new people the price went up to ~2000$
Given it's a modern 'mansion' (apartment) with nice extras, in a very good location it's still cheap (wondering why every day.)
I heard SF is crazy expensive, but that's a different problem. Most people here, even in IT jobs get about 2000 dollar per month. So where can they live? They can live in some 30 years old very tiny apartment or live outside of Tokyo and drive in 1 hour or more every day.
Even if you live 30 minutes away by train, most trains coming from affordable areas are packed and you have to queue up to get into one, which can extend the commute time to an hour or more[2].
If you want to go to work by car be ready to pay around 300$ per month for a parking space.

Then, say you start a family. 55m2 won't cut it anymore. 80-100m2? Very few places. Very expensive. Most rooms here are between 20-35m2 made for singles.

Anyway, this maybe sounded negative but I love this city. All things considered, it's awesome and comfortable to live here.

[1] https://doda.jp/guide/heikin/2014/syokusyu/it/
[2] Source: co-worker
To achieve what you're describing you should cap market capitalization. No point in trying to grow past a point if you'll have to just give away all that growth in the form of dividends.
Interesting. I'd imagine that you could make a killing off of the personal hygiene market and use that as a source of funding for the medical applications.
How many people that give to charities look at their balance sheets before hand?
I prefer AmaGooFaceSoft, rolls off the tongue better.
Quick question for anyone who actually studied Baumol's theories:

Did he bring into consideration how some services, such as education and health care, exist in an awkward limbo between services we pay for (right/libertarian view) and services we're entitled to (left view), resulting in a smash up of public subsidies and political quicksand?

At face value, his theory is totally reasonable. BUT it seems totally reductionist to claim his drivers of cost are the only drivers (even calling them primary drivers seems foolish to me).
I've made the mistakes of reading more scientifically inclined books on Audible, but I've recently realized there are three strong categories (1) history books, (2) history-of-science/scientist type books, and (3) self-help/philosophy books.

Listening to Marcus Aurelius before bed while brushing my teeth turns out to be a good meditation.
I agree they shouldn't be factors, and my example is a bit contrived, but many do include socioeconomic and location based factors, like this reply by the authors of a paper on one recidivism calculator (who argue here why socioeconomic factors are included) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5047350/
From the name, I thought it would be a MediaTek product...

The 8051 is a very unusual architecture by contemporary standards, but is found in a surprisingly large amount of products and by some statistics, outsells ARM by a wide margin.
I use a basic phone. Not charging it all the time is very convenient. But best of all, me and my friend don't know each other's numbers; and if we do, it gets invalid fast since we change SIM cards fast.

I think the best way is to get rich via trading Cryptocurrency and then be free from wage-slavery. Read physical books and eventually do something worthwhile like teaching in remote areas.
I don't think I've ever read about an engineering culture that I agree with more than this one. It sounds shockingly humane and practical.

From the somewhat... wistful tone in places, I gather things have taken a bit of a downward turn there. I wonder what pressures caused that? The acquisition, perhaps?
That sounds like an excuse for not doing proper intellisence in a text editor.

Intellisence never gets in the way in my experience. Rather the lack of it gets in the way.
The inspection system would also seem to encourage more manufacturing, as a sort of legally enforced planned obsolescence.
It's been happening more in Bloomberg and the Financial Times too (although, in the case of the latter, I think it's partially attributable to the fact they were bought). It's almost more annoying when the tripe is mixed in with really good work vs. having entire periodicals dedicated to that garbage. At least in that case it's easier to filter.
If you want a 1K ~ 2DK [1] for 1 ~ 3 people I think you are right.

For larger families? I dunno. We're a family of 5 (1 in jr high, 2 in elementary) and really struggling to find a place to move up into from our current 2LDK. :(

I admit, we have a bunch of constraints, but I don't think they are too unusual. (want to be reasonably near to work, school, and in-laws)

[1] For those that don't know, apartments here are typically listed by number of rooms, plus if the space includes an "L" living room, "D" dining area, "K" kitchen. So "1K" would be a single room with a place to cook. 2DK would be 2 rooms, with an eating area and a kitchen.
"I have never seen any evidence that the WMF has been following standard software engineering principles [...]. If they had, we would be seeing things like requirements documents and schedules with measurable milestones. This failure is almost certainly a systemic problem directly caused by top management, not by the developers doing the actual work."
We can solve this problem simply by only allowing people to sleep in cars plumbed into the sewerage system.
Lunar orbit isn't earth reentry tho, even the SuperDraco doesn't seem to carry enough fuel nor have the specific impulse for an earth landing when you remove the aerobreaking.
> As with all IP, once created the value of a copy is pretty much zero. It's a simple case of supply and demand, the supply is infinite so logically the price is zero.

That's why I believe everyone should print their own counterfeit money:

• printing money for yourself does not deprive anyone else of their money, just like "stealing" a copy of a book, film, or piece of software does not deprive anyone else of their copy

• money (which is just pretty looking paper) has essentially no intrinsic value, just like a copy of a book, film, or piece of software (which are just bits)

The OP is exactly right: the only reason money has "value" today is because the supply is being artificially restricted: the value of a copy is pretty much zero. It's a simple case of supply and demand, because with counterfeiting, the supply is infinite so logically the price should be zero.

> The IP industry is trying to sell toilets on a pay-per-flush basis and then acts all surprised when people don't accept this and see no ethical problems with piracy.

Same with the banking industry.
Double Alphamagic Squares
More examples at [1]

[1] Doubly letterwise solutions [ https://github.com/tuzz/letterwise_magic_squares/blob/master... ]
I pay 50%, used to be 35% before I went full time and shifted part of my salary to an end-of-year bonus.

It will move up to close to 70% if my roommate moves out in August. It's a little shocking to consider that I would actually consider paying that much to stay here. I seem to really like Midtown Atlanta that much.

Once you get used to it, it's not that bad. Out of all the things you could spend your money on, having an utterly sweet pad in the dead middle of town isn't the worst thing.
On the other hand,

Michael Poole, Member of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly said:

"Falkland Islanders are grateful for the mine clearance work carried out by the UK Government in recent years. This work has opened up historically and valuable tracts of land which has been out of bounds since 1982."

This further commitment by the UK to clearing more of the Falkland Islands of mines is a welcome move and we remain willing to assist practically and logistically where we can."
Once you've gzipped to achieve that 3MB storage, binary deltas are useless. Perhaps it the data could be (almost certainly is) transferred gzipped, then expanded to the full 33MB size so binary diffs could be applied to it later, but setting up a system to do binary diffs is a lot of incidental complexity: xdelta is a surprisingly complex format, and bsdiff is really tuned for executables, not arbitrary content (and is pretty complex too).

It sounds like the biggest win would be for cargo to keep using git, but clone the crates.io index as a bare repository rather than checking out the plaintext content. Then it would only take 47MB by your count, which is pretty close to 33MB, and you could still get out the plain content with `git cat-file` and friends.
> If hosting cost per hit has increased, something is wrong. Computer costs have gone down since 2005.

Images are dramatically larger, both in the raw size out of cameras and the resolutions people are willing to put on pages (including higher-DPI screens).

Video's likely a lot more prevalent now, too.

I dunno what they're paying for bandwidth, but AWS S3 has barely dropped per-GB bandwidth costs since its release in 2006.
My first argument was that, in a hypothetical future world which had solved aging, it would be likely they would have also solved cancer, dementia, etc.

My second argument was that our current moment in time is not likely to be near the end of the possible tech tree, that large advances in technical knowledge and ability are very likely still in front of us, and that therefore it doesn't make sense to argue that if by now we haven't already solved [x,y] then we probably never will.

Your argument seems to be that we don't fully understand the unintended consequences of our inventions, and that there's a distinct possibility that some of those unintended consequences may cause us to go extinct before we get smart enough to stop making those kinds of errors.

I agree with that argument. I don't see any conflict between your point and my point - just between your point and some claim I didn't make about techno-utopia being just around the corner.

Some kind of "techno-utopia" does seem like a possible future, but not necessarily a probable one. I don't know if we'll make it there. We're not reasonable enough, maybe. And one of the ways in which we're unreasonable is that we tend to read into our opponents' arguments things they didn't say and impute to them beliefs we don't have evidence that they hold. That isn't helpful, and on the large scale it's distinctly harmful - it's a major part of the political polarization and divisiveness that is dragging down our collective ability to cooperate and come to reasonable compromises.
This guy has several other similar microcontroller/microprocessor training kits available as well - http://www.kswichit.com

Neat stuff!
The big problem with the E310 is that after you've prototyped something and want to design a custom board, you've got a much more difficult task ahead of you. The AVR needs a significantly fewer number of support chips, as it has onboard flash, has pretty large voltage tolerances, has adcs, etc. It gets even murkier when you start considering boards from other companies like STMicro, which have Cortex-M7s, are competitive in performance and have boards that go for half the cost of a hifive1. It's interesting if you want to poke around with Risc-V for the purpose of poking around, but i wouldn't want to start a serious project based on it at the current time.
I like this article style a lot. A very cool result, presented clearly and step-by-step, in less than a full screen of text.
Lol. Comparing incisors to ability to rape. What a fucking douchebag.
> Compare that to a modern AWS, Google, or Azure data center where a system fails, a tech can skate out to it with a new motherboard, pull the old one, put the new one in, and poof you're back on line in under 30 minutes.

Modularity is better now than it was then. I could very much see the possibility of having pressure-sealed internally-cryo-maintained enclosures (like the pressure-sealed internally-helium WD hard drives), as hot-swappable modules with e.g. Thunderbolt 3.1 connectivity to connect the enclosure-module to your other components. This approach would work fine for, say, enclosing NVMe. And, conveniently, repair would be facilitated by the inside of the enclosure staying cold even after you yank it out of the machine. A daughterboard in a thermos!

For actual DRAM DIMMs, though, you'd have to "enclose" the motherboard itself into such a module—at which point that "module" is the computer, and you're more just talking about the old blade-server paradigm of externalizing as many components as possible to live on the rack, so that the server blades could be treated as commodity parts and swapped out like any other.
Refuelling sats won't ever be a thing. There is no real need. Any refuelling vehicle will need it's own propulsion/rcs system and a docking scheme. Once docked and/or latched onto the target ... job done. The refuelling vessel becomes the new orbital manoeuvring system for the depleted sat. Cost wise, that makes more sense than having a large tanker bouncing around between clients. With the switch to ion propulsion total fuel may also not be the limiting factor. Ion thrusters can become very inefficient and/or useless after years in space. Flying up and bolting on a new rig is simpler than trying to actually service/replace such parts.
Researchers identify 6,500 genes that are expressed differently in men and women
I was going to cite stories about random walk simple robotics being used to clear mines in Afghanistan- think lawnmower powered beach balls. But apparently this isn't as effective as I'd thought:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4808061
Jrm Associates Inc
Hacker News API page is broken
https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

It never loads and just shows: "There was an error completing your request"

I have been checking the Hacker News API daily for a while now to see if this will start working, but it appears to be permanently be broken. Is there anything that Hacker News can do to get this to work (update in Firebase UI or setting fix)?

I want to be able to use the new Firebase API to access the Hacker News data, but I can't download the proper google-services.json to get it working when the Firebase API page is broken.

The API is awesome to have and hope that it can be fixed soon! :)
Startup Graveyard
Is it just me or does Sumathi Dot Kanthan (the poster) sound Indian?
I recently ate at a Chinese restaurant. My Korean roommate took me there with his family and told me that it was run by Korean people. I learned that Chinese food in Korea is fine dining, not the cheap shlock they dish out here.

Enough Korean people have come to Atlanta that there is a restaurant there aimed specifically at giving Koreans a taste of home, that taste involved a completely different cuisine from both American Chinese food and Chinese Chinese food.
If it had options to block ads, I would be very interested.
Spotify uses Snapchat QR feature
By the way, can't WebSockets be used to solve this? It would still use HTTP for initial connection, but essentially can work without relying on streaming and polling hacks. And it's not really limited to usage in browsers.
I think you've spent too much time focusing on tech companies. Many companies have a growth ceiling (utilities, etc) that investors are happy with as long as it pays a dividend.
Look at the payload capacity of the X37 it would do about as much damage as a bunker buster.
> but if being "better" was the only factor, Betamax would have beaten VHS

This is stupid: Betamax was significantly more expense at virtually every level than VHS, not to mention its production was (overly?) restricted by Sony.

It gets worse: Betamax did win, just not in the consumer space. Professionals used (and continue to use to this day) Sony's "Beta" format because they could afford to, and it was technically superior (if more expensive).

For most things in life, there is no way to define "better", because life (and products) are multi-dimensional, "better" in same areas and "worse" in others. Thus, it's impossible to say that the "best" product won (or didn't win), Betamax/VHS included.
There are articles claiming Wikipedia is actually backed by some investors and corporate who want to control it. Wikiscanner results gives a hint about how.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/20/cash_rich_wikipedia...
I'm sorry to hear of that experience, and it's certainly not intentional. We should (and I will) always try to be better (I know some will forever view Google as an antagonistic behemoth but usually the engineers on both sides are trying to do the right thing; it just takes time to come to consensus and understanding sometimes).

Regarding internal version: we built TensorFlow to support devices as modular plugins: the CPU and GPU devices are built this way (you can read the source code to see how device registration works), and the same registration mechanism is used for the TPU code, which can't be opensourced due to internal dependencies. Internal customers just link in an additional library to get TPU support, but it still uses the same core codebase that is available in the opensource world. I know this because I wrote a lot of the device modularity and TPU binding code :)