skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with your general point, artificial neural networks and biological neural networks are sufficiently different that it's not really fair to compare them just because they happen to have the same name. A biological neuron does a lot more than computing some affine transformation of its inputs.

Also, humans draw from an absurdly complex pool of inputs, usually called "common knowledge", that so far has given us a hard time when trying to replicate it in computer systems. So while in principle there is, imho, nothing stopping a statistical method to produce decisions at least as good as a human could, in practice this might not be the case.
I just want to chime in and share that IE10 also supports flexbox (and thus this tool, I suppose)
Isn't that how super bowl works? Did try to see it once but was more ads than play. Not sure if all American "football" matches are like that or if it's only the final
The statements only refer to:

“When files are created in Data Protection classes that aren’t accessible when the device is locked”

So not photos, most data.
There is also the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, which is already thawing and releasing methane at an increasing pace.
If the classifier is being used for medical diagnosis, race, age and sex may be important factors. Ignoring them would amount to systematically ruining innocent hopeful life without any wrongdoing.

The problem usually isn't injustice caused by model errors, because humans make unjust errors all the time; using a model that's better than humans is still a win even if the model isn't perfect. Likewise for medical diagnosis, if a model is better than the average doctor, it should replace them.

The actual problem is that humans mistake the model prediction for something it is not. E.g. if you train a model on the data of people accused of a crime to predict whether they will be convicted, you're modeling P(convicted | accused). Even if you train this model to perfection (zero test errors), you would at best reproduce the existing legal system; which is a win if the model is cheaper. But people tend to mistake the model output for P(should be convicted | accused), which assumes that the legal system is perfect. Or worse, they think of it as P(should be convicted), without accusation.

The solution to your "go in the field and run your classifier on everyone" thought experiment is not to hide race, sex and age from the model. If the model had no access to any features at all, it would just predict the baseline conviction rate, much higher than the baseline crime rate. Using the model output as evidence of a crime would be just as silly, because that's not what the model was trained to do.

The solution is to not even try to predict something for which you don't have any data. Modeling can never make a process more accurate, it can only make an accurate process faster and cheaper (and slightly less accurate). Sometimes the accurate process is to wait for a few years and see what happens, e.g. for cancer mortality or recidivism rates. Sometimes the accurate process is to ask a lot of experts.

Once you have a model for the accurate process that is better than the cheaper process you'd otherwise use, then you can replace it by the model. Instead of a single human judge or a jury, have a model trained on the decisions of multiple judges and juries deliberating much longer than usual. Instead of a single doctor, have a model that has seen the medical histories of thousands of cancer patients and knows exactly which treatments worked.
If I’m going to be downvotes, could someone at least link to a document that shows how these statements are incorrect?
Perhaps drivers should be offered a discount if they're willing to drive slower or shorter distances.

These arguments presuppose that rates will go up, and maybe they will. But then that's the real argument: you'll pay more for what you're getting today.
> Define "race".

Well, if you don't take the authors' approach, you don't need to. You just continue assessing pre-trial detention on the basis of each individual's background.
Radeons compute units are in-order though, in the usual sense of the word, and I'd love to hear it if there really was an out-of-order GPU. It'd be rather surprising.

One thing that they do have to deal with data dependencies is that load (and texture fetch etc.) instructions don't block. Instead, there's a separate instruction for waiting on the result of a previous load.
To add to your point, there are many types of games that dont even let you get to all the features until pretty far in. Brutal legend basically changed genres mid game, thats not a 2 hour find
Well said. Programming is just simulating the world. If you don't understand problems well enough, we could teach you any language there is on earth and it wouldn't matter.

Accessible tools and laptops don't make programming any easier than cheap hammers, nail and glue make carpentry easy.

After a while its just you. And that's the biggest thing.
Yes you can, by pricing according to their needs and not according to your costs.

It's easy to forget that poor people are still people -- they have base needs like the rest of us: they need food, drink, clothes and of course shelter regardless of their financial situation. Some are currently able to meet those basic needs by holding multiple jobs, taking out loans or putting up with someone else (relative, friend) that is economically well-off. Regardless of how they do it, these basic needs translate into economic activities for whoever is able to fulfil them at a price they can afford.

Of course to break even, your business model needs to factor in the fact that it will take longer than the average to see any return on invested capital.
Free Cryptocurrency sign up 400 Coins for free could be hundreds of dollars
only extremely basic stuff, nearly done with Deutsch-Josza now.

But again the alternatives are basically just representing your qubits as huge vectors and gates as huge matrices and just doing lots of multiplication, which is an extremely cumbersome and frustrating way to program and precludes any kind of abstraction, even for toy learning problems.
DACA was created by Obama as an end run around the legislative process. It was recently removed by another executive order. And Trump was not shy about expressing his opinions about immigration, and was voted in.

If people don't care enough to campaign/have their votes influenced for this issue, it means their preference isn't strong enough.

The fewer executive orders the better. Any executive order changing the laws as they are in the books should be immediately reversed, as it subverts all separation of powers in our government.
If they're marketing their own drug (as implied by other comments - I don't know), you might also ask what stops them from running the studio on a 100 groups of 40 patients, and picking the "best" for publication... (other than ethics, obviously)...
> But the major factor that killed SGML and DSSSL was the emergence of HTML, XML and XSLT, which were orders of magnitude simpler.

That interview is wonderful, but in 2018, while XML has been successful in lots of fields, it has failed on the Web. SGML remains the only standardized and broadly applicable technique to parse HTML (short of ad-hoc HTML parser libraries) [1]. HTML isn't really simple; it requires full SGML tag inference (as in, you can leave out many tags, and HTML or SGML will infer their presence), SGML attribute minimization (as in `<option selected>`) and other forms of minimization only possible in the presence of a DTD (eg. declarations for the markup to parse).

> JC: [...] But because it's so much work to write an SGML parser, you end up having one SGML parser that supports everything needed for a huge variety of applications.*

Well, I've got news: there's a new implementation of SGML (mine) at [2].

> But after you got used to manipulating the DOM in JavaScript with XPath, you being to wonder what you ever needed XSLT for in the first place, and why you don't just write a nice flexible XML transformation library in JavaScript, and forget about XSLT

My thoughts exactly. Though I've done pretty complicated XSLTs (and occasionally am doing still), JavaScript was designed for DOM manipulation, and given XSLT is Turing-complete anyway, there's not that much benefit in using it over JavaScript except for XML literals and if we're being generous, maybe as a target language for code generation, it being itself based on XML. Ironically, the newest Web frameworks all have invented their own HTML-in-JavaScript notation, eg. react's JSX to drive virtual DOM creation, even though JavaScript started from day one with the principle design goal of a DOM manipulation language.

> My (completely imaginary) impression of the XSLT committee is that there must have been representatives of several different programming languages (Lisp, Prolog, C++, RPG, Brainfuck, etc) sitting around the conference table facing off with each other, and each managed to get a caricature of their language's cliche cool programming technique hammered into XSLT

+1. Though to be fair, XSLT has worked well for the things I did with it, and version 1 at least is very portable. These days XSLT at W3C seems more like a one man show where Michael Kay is both the language specification lead, as well as providing the only implementation (I'm wondering what has happened to W3C's stance on at least two interoperable implementations). The user audience (publishing houses, mostly), however, seem ok with it, as I witnessed at a conference last year; and there's no doubt Michael really provides tons of benefit to the community.

[1]: http://sgmljs.net/blog/blog1701.html

[2]: http://sgmljs.net/docs/sgmlrefman.html
I have already added a mini description of each service. Might be helpful for you.
Can you comment on the practical improvements reported in this study?

For example, How meaningful is the 20.3 point difference in Buschke SRT test? Is it noticeable in daily life, or just something detected in testing.
Would you care to link to the section of the security white paper that says that? There’s a small subset of data that is encrypted end-to-end. Your photos, notes, most and most other information is not include in that.

It’s pretty obvious really, they need to know the key for encrypted at rest data in order to be able to reset your password if you desire. They absolutely do don’t currently offset end-to-end encryption on the majority of data in iCloud backups.
It is pretty much sure, the women was just trying to be friendly and compliment. Innocent joke/friendly remark of sort with zero serious meaning and should be treated as such.
My understanding is that Super Bowl adverts are more interesting than rugby-with-helmets

We don't watch adverts - Netflix, amazon, IPlayer. However each year we do make an effort to hunt out the Christmas adverts on YouTube -- John Lewis, Sainsbury's, Tesco etc.

Adverts cost a fortune. If 10 million people watch a half hour program, that's 1.5m hours of wasted time - costing something like $20m. Then you end up paying through increased prices of the goods being advertised (there's obviously a return on investment)
Turmeric is an Indian old wives' tale apparently.
1. This article doesn't mention neural networks.

2. "Your brain isn't doing anything a neural network can't do." Really, now?

3. The paper mentions "over 100 factors" the algorithm uses. Ad agencies have way more than 100 factors on me, and I still get irrelevant ads every day.

Humans aren't perfect, but they can catch things that stats won't, and vice versa.
This is my thought: once true AI is achieved, everything we know can be automated, because true AI will be able to do all things humans can do. I believe true AI will be achieved this century. These claims are my personal thoughts and due to the unpredictable nature inventions occurn these thoughts are not based on any research.
If you are into JavaScript, checkout this article for ML in JS [0]. JavaScript is not suited for AI, but if you happen to know it already and just want to do ML for yourself, you can try it out in the browser.

- [0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/machine-learning-javascript-web-...
Don’t think I’m supposed to share that, sorry.
Grumpy Cat is a world-wide phenomenon. I seriously doubt that 1% of the people who know Grumpy Cat have ever come across Grenade Beverage.
You have to be given one day off a week by law. Theoretically most companies could also work Saturdays but don't.
Have any suggestions on the best sources to avoid this type of contamination?
> I do think SV strip mines tech itself.

You're talking out of both sides of your mouth now. Strip mining usually means something that destroys a natural resource.

You were originally talking about how Silicon Valley "strip mines a particular domain." That implies that it's strip mining other industries, such as hire for ride, etc etc. You could almost argue that they strip mined animation and movie special effects because they took profits from manual animators and movie prop creators.

I fail to see how Silicon Valley is "strip mining" tech. (Btw, something different from what you previously implied) They're grabbing low hanging fruit, but they're not ruining the resource for everybody else.

Also, to address your last point, the economies of scale are such that at this point, if you don't dominate a market, at least locally, you're dogmeat.
It common among men with low testosterone to have aching joints. Have you checked your levels?

Also funny that some men on TRT take turmeric(with some black pepper) to lessen the amount of estrogen converted from testosterone.
You're also welcomed to join the hntokoy slack channel. There was a thread just last week asking exactly the same question.

https://hntokyo.io
Actually LNG is 30% less CO2 per unit of energy which isn't revolutionary but it's not a tiny difference either. If a lot of things that currently burn other hydrocarbons (such as ships) would instead burn LNG we could cut emissions quite a bit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquefied_natural_gas#Environm...
I think there's a connection between mental ability, and physical exercise.

After I exercise, my problems aren't as difficult as I thought. Don't know if it's getting the blood flowing, or endorphins.

Just know it's a good natural drug.
A lot of websites have poor design but plenty of customers. It sounds like they would source most of their customers offline rather than online, and that the website is just an official presence or pamphlet.
Python Event Hub processing at scale
Thank you for your bulls* antidote. I especially liked the part about western science vs global science.
https://i.imgur.com/cxLFux5.png
She only slept 1 minute actually.
> It is not fair to discriminate based on factors that are merely correlated with the risk, but it is fair to discriminate based on factors that can be shown to be causally related to the insurance risk.

Why should an actuary care about cause? The correlation is what matters for that purpose.
> It's a self selected sample

Yeah, the majority of the people I know who use HackerRank are college-aged looking for jobs. It's hard to place any confidence in this study.
The Superbowl has sort of grown to become a traition where big companies fight to pay exorbitant amounts to play ads that are generally mildly more entertaining than the usual garbage. Its pretty specific to only the Superbowl, as its the most televised event in total viewership (at over 100 million). It is a lot of ads, but since football has a lot of ads anyway (more than normal TV) it isnt too abnormal. Football has a lot of ads because there is a lot of stopping during the game for time outs and such.
If your desire for more money degrades the quality of life of everyone else in the workforce - you should absolutely be prohibited.

Let us suppose, what is at least supposable, whether it be the fact or not—that a general reduction of the hours of factory labour, say from ten to nine, would be for the advantage of the workpeople: that they would receive as high wages, or nearly as high, for nine hours’ labour as they receive for ten. If this would be the result, and if the operatives generally are convinced that it would, the limitation, some may say, will be adopted spontaneously. I answer, that it will not be adopted unless the body of operatives bind themselves to one another to abide by it. A workman who refused to work more than nine hours while there were others who worked ten, would either not be employed at all, or if employed, must submit to lose one-tenth of his wages. However convinced, therefore, he may be that it is the interest of the class to work short time, it is contrary to his own interest to set the example, unless he is well assured that all or most others will follow it. But suppose a general agreement of the whole class: might not this be effectual without the sanction of law? Not unless enforced by opinion with a rigour practically equal to that of law. For however beneficial the observance of the regulation might be to the class collectively, the immediate interest of every individual would lie in violating it: and the more numerous those were who adhered to the rule, the more would individuals gain by departing from it.
Beyond holograms: Star Wars-inspired 3D images float in free space
The thing with placebo is that it is an effect. As you say, if it actually helps (and does no harm, or replaces something that helps much more...) - then placebo can be useful and beneficial. It can be difficult to prescribe however...
I am sitting on the other side of the table. If I am actively looking for a gig, which rarely happens, I have a look into all the remote job boards. Then it depends on the job description and how the company presents itself. Otherwise the HN Freelancer/Job Threads each month are valuable too.

However, I must admit that 90% of my professional opportunities are generated through my own website. Recruiters for remote jobs or people with project based opportunities are reaching out to me after reading a blog post of mine. So I guess that many people/companies looking for remote professionals are evaluating websites from individuals (blogger/open source maintainer/...) too.
> 2. "Your brain isn't doing anything a neural network can't do." Really, now?

They're both Turing machine approximators after all. Granted, ANNs aren't quite sophisticated enough to match the brain yet, but this capability gap is a difference of degree, not kind.

But I don't think the similarity of the brain to ANNs really matters to my argument, as interesting as this discussion might be --- so I've edited my original comment to make it more general and to focus on my higher-level point.
Thanks a lot for sharing those bits of knowledge! I'll look into that, have you ever considered writing a book? ;) I added your blog to my long must read!

I love HN for such moments, out of a blue a post on a superinteresting topic AND a knowledgeable person who doesn't mind answering some questions.
Makesense, renamed it to https://github.com/vasanthv/web-app-hunt
Downtime Alert – sends you an email if your site is down
I had issue with a game that crashed at launch but Steam continued clocking it as running.
Other issue is if you buy a game when it is on sale but you do not have time to play it in the 14 days.
>For every turmeric study claiming health benefits, I can also find a study finding none.

Which is why this should be filed under P for publication bias. If there are enough studies with 40 people, some of them will show positive results.
Hi, this script checks a list of URLs every 5 minutes and send you an email in case any of them don't deliver a 200 status code.
The motivation was to have a free (as in free beer) downtime alert that I could easily use against all my sites.

I still need to include a 1 sec delay between crawls to avoid server issues.

I would appreciate any feedback regarding how to extend the functionality without increasing complexity to the final user.
I saw that a few times in New Zealand, too. I think I've seen TV shows lose scenes and lines for more ads, as well.

What really got me was back when the Battlestar Galactica pilot screened on TV. I was very keen to see it, and heard the pilot was three hours three minutes long.

It was split up, on TV3 I think, into two 180 minute slots, which means there were almost as many minutes of ads as there were of the show. I had to turn it off after one scene was interrupted in the middle for an ad-break that was longer than the scene, then we came back for a single line (now out-of-context) and one camera change, then cut to another break. (For reference, it was a scene with the nuke hitting the Galactica, then six minutes of ads interrupted by about 25 seconds of show.)

I turned off my TV, found an email address, and explained to them just why I was going to buy the DVD and not watch another second of their broadcast.

TV advertising is so intrusive these days that I haven't watched broadcast TV in years.
> That will change one day: sex should be treated as potentially confidential medical data.

Why “should” it? Don’t hold your breath.
Thanks! Great tip!
I had an issue where the game crashed but Stream continued to think the game is running, maybe they fixed this bug I do not know for sure.
TODO: CURL_REFUSE_CLEARTEXT
20-30% Performance Hit from the Spectre Bug Fix on Ubuntu
To expand on your point to further strengthen your original argument, these models are trained on a smaller subset of observables and ideas we consider when we decide policy. Even then, the comparison between a matrix and a human brain is poor.

Another issue I have is that we don't know is whether statistical bias exists in the metrics they train on, something they discuss in the paper. We already know for example blacks are arrested and convicted harsher than whites for some of the similar crimes[0]. The paper just says that COMPAS predicts likelihood of violent crime, not whether that means they'll be arrested of crime. Moreover while Table 1 talks about a prediction regarding violent crime, Figure 2 talks about recidivism with regards to all crime, so which is it? It still seems nebulous to me what COMPAS actually is for.

I'd have to read it deeper than I have, but not sure how I feel about the paper.

[0] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/feb/...
James Smith
With the amount of asset flips and flat out shit on the market, I wouldn’t be surprised if the high refund rate is within reason to some degree.
Can someone who has enough karma flag this?
Anyone using zstd along with an incremental rsync approach?
Like gzip --rsyncable ?

Say I have 1000 files. I want to compress them and let the cron rsync do it's thing.
Next day, if only one file had changed, rsync should pickup only the differential instead of the whole archive.

Or is there a better way of doing it?
Thanks for sharing your experience. I have a close friend with type 1 who feels quite trapped in his profession because of dependence on insurance for supplies. It's difficult to see it from afar and not have any solution to offer. Is this a problem unique to the US health care system, or in every first world country?