skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oak Park is very urban and not at all a typical suburb, though the property taxes are astronomical! You already know that though...
So Google now gives her different results when she makes the same queries. Makes me wonder if this is when she is a logged in user, and what differences there exist between logged in users one to another and non logged in users.

When I try it in both logged in and non-logged in mode I get reasonably similar results, the differences are mostly in the ordering. When I do the same on Bing I get about 20% or so pornographic images for both 'black girls' and 'white girls'.
Am I the only one reading a K8S concession into every Docker headline lately?

I made a big bet on Docker a few years ago, so I know personally that's been the case.
Introducing the Memory Process File System for PCILeech
It seems like the main crux of the argument is that being reflective of the culture is also reinforcing it - the fact that say there aren’t as many stock photos of 3 black teens while there is a lot more “mug shot” style photos is probably reflective of the usual portrayal in media, but most people generally agree that the culture shouldn’t be that way.

The question is, should search algorithms show what currently is (and therefore reinforce what is), or what the culture aspires to (which in fact more accurately matches the culture in terms of desire and movement)? I think this is a pretty smart example of how the technology we use every day can be passively malevolent - creating hurdles for change rather than enabling better information transfer.
>"And a character on a 2-D screen is completely different from one that’s your height and looks you in the eye."

I've been waiting for this. I expect claims like this to fuel anti-VR hysteria if it catches on in a significant way, especially if adolescents seem to like it. It's a poorly thought out intuitive 'understanding' that has nothing of substance behind it. If you want to compare VR to something, compare it to acting in a play.

Consider the experience of acting in a play, say one with a violent scene. You experience it bodily. With full fidelity and total realism. Your victim is a living, breathing human being who has a family, hopes, dreams, can feel pain, etc. And yet you raise the pistol, one which retorts loud enough to give your ear-drums a good hit but which you know is loaded with a blank, and you fire. You see the victim recoil in 'pain', with them exerting every effort to make it look as real as possible, and a squib explodes, causing 'blood' to fly. You have to be totally immersed in the situation and believe it entirely to be able to sell the scene to the audience.

Literally the only thing that differs, from the point of view of the person firing the gun, is that they know its not real. There are no other glaring indications. It's just knowledge that its not real, the memory of the context of walking onto a stage, etc. Now... can anyone explain why the experience wearing a VR helmet, even postulating 100% accurate visual reproduction, will somehow cause negative consequences that acting in a play never has?

Most who speak of the consequences of media do little more than rapidly display their own willingness (or inability) to ignore the difference between reality and fiction.
> Facebook changed everything by encouraging people to match their online accounts to real names

Recent revelations shed a whole new light on this 'encouragement'.
I really appreciate the point: as much as the content of what's on google has nothing to do with google, the prioritization of search results is on them. Whether it's hard or not to avoid perpetuating stereotypes doesn't seem to obviate their responsibility to not perpetuate stereotypes, any more than the fact that Facebook's having so much content flow through their feeds could remove Facebook's responsibility to not help the spread of fake news.

Google's search results is really the oldest analog we have for the "machine learning learns racism" quandary, too. This question is just going to get bigger, and its effects much more pernicious.
They also get tenure (even in grade school). That sort of job security is worth a lot.

And they get 2 months of summer off.

Those aren't salary, but they are benefits that should be considered.
Ever heard of the Streisand Effect?

If you are genuinely concerned about your privacy, publicly complaining that you have been doxxed is one of the worst things you can do. It encourages other people to go looking for that info, check how easy it is to find, etc.

This inclines me to think your reason for complaining is probably something else. And that makes me wonder if the mods declined to do as you asked because the situation is more complicated than you are stating and their decision was more nuanced.

And I am posting my speculation because the mods are unlikely to say something like that. It would be a dick move and just make them look bad. I think they are reasonably up on when to just keep your mouth shut.
Thank you for staying this. (again)

I've always really hated exercise, and I still do. I've never been able to get into the 'exercise zen' that some people talk about. No matter what approach I take, even going back to when I was young, exercise was unpleasant.

Not surprisingly, nothing I tried over the years for exercise stuck very long.

Until I arranged my life that I had to ride my bicycle to get to work.

I absolutely do not look forward to riding each day. I will subconsciously look for excuses to not ride. (We do have a car, but my wife is the primary user of it. So sometimes if I know she won't need the car that day, I'll cheat and drive that to work.)

But overall, it's been a pretty revolutionary change. I'm getting a reasonable amount of cardio nearly every work day.
I don’t think watching TV sitcoms is going to cut it. If you look at the density of ideas, richness of references, complexity of sentences, etc., pretty much any written material (novels, nonfiction aimed at teenagers, magazines, newspapers, ...) blows those out of the water. The teacher would do better to just read to the students for 30m every day, instead of having them watch a show for that time.
The Ready Player One Backlash, Explained
Did you check 1Password X?
We have indexed your genome for all known markers. Of course we can now destroy your blood sample!
Updated, thank you!
I think the real problem here is that Google, for all of its algorithmic might, is somehow powerless to create algorithms that don't have this problem in the first place. It signals to me that there aren't people thinking about this kind of stuff, both down in the trenches and in the upper echelons. Maybe it's as the author contends, a bigger issue with ethics in tech in general.
I used Pr0gramm to kill time in university ~4 years ago and I'd definitely say that it has become more right-wing. Sure there are still discussions and people from all over the spectrum around, but right populism does seem to dominate.
> So you don't care if a small number of party leaders influence primaries for the good of "democracy" or "the party"?

Even having primaries be anything other than overtly symbolic is a relatively recent feature of the system, for both parties.

The norm has long been that you vote with your membership: you join the party whose leaders you trust most to serve your interests, and then (notionally) those leaders make decisions that they expect will retain and attract members.
Node.js v9.10.0
He starts off with a straw man. The argument "It isn't a hack" requires people arguing that it was a hack. But actually the reporting is fairly clear that they didn't hack the data.

The whole thing reeks of obfuscation and deliberate misinterpretation. Capped off with "sure it's bad but..." just isn't worthwhile if the arguments above were fallacious to begin with.
A decent emergency medical response service is never profitable.

It requires a vast amount of hospitals to ensure that there is one local enough to wherever you get ill or injured and they all have to be staffed by lots of different highly qualified specialists who are in as regular practice as possible.

If you were going to require that they be profitable, there simply are not enough rich people for the doctors to work on in order to stay in good practice, or to pay for enough suitably equipped hospitals to ensure a short travel time in an emergency.
We do, yes.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/06/30/google-d...

> Women made up 31% of Google employees in 2015, up one percentage point since 2014, according to statistics released by the Internet giant on Thursday. One in five technical hires were women in 2015, raising the number of women in technical roles to 19% from 18% in 2014 and 17% in 2013. In 2015, women held nearly a quarter of leadership posts at Google, up from 22% in 2014 and 21% in 2013.

> Google says it's also hiring more black and Hispanic workers: 4% of hires in 2015 were black and 5% were Hispanic. Hispanic employees in technical roles increased to 3% from 2%. But the increased hiring did not budge the overall percentage of underrepresented minorities in the Google workforce as total hiring rose, with Hispanics making up 3% of the work force and African Americans 2%.

Given that women are half the population, and African Americans and Hispanics each make up about 12%, we can state categorically that Google's hiring doesn't match the general US population.
This article feels like bait for smart people to ruin their careers with honest responses.
Entry level data analyst
Google contributes to the feedback loop and they are certainly aware of it (the feedback). So "Google is biased" has some validity.
Conan 1.2.0 released
According to Reuters, Uber had changed from a network of 7 LIDAR sensors on their vehicles to just one: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-selfdriving-sensors-...
> Cynically, or conspiratorially, I think everyone is making a huge deal about this because it's manipulation that's not happening through the officially-controlled and sanctioned channels.

Cynically, it is cynism to devaluate all democratic values because democracies are not perfect. You say, and I agree, that democracies are not perfect because there are groups of interest that manipulate the results. Your conclusion is that we should stop caring and we should accept any level of manipulation, as it is impossible to reach zero manipulation. With that same logic, we should allow any crime as it is proven that we cannot stop all of them.

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...
Museums are the best place to find innovation in AR
Yeah, we also get dinged for putting extra effort into release notes :)
> I'm not aware of anywhere that it's legal to tint your windshield below the top 4-5 inches.

In my country, you can put a tinted film on the whole windshield, as long as it allows at least 75% of the light to pass (the side and rear windows can be much darker: the film must allow at least 28% of the light). They're a common sight.
We tend to prefer the word "role" over "position," these days. I think this hints at a quasi-idealistic blindspot we tend to assume, when it comes to questions like these.

Ultimately, you can't reason about this (IMO) without accounting for the hierarchical aspect. Saying "dev with super powers is similar to saying ""dev with one foot in management" because it captures roles and hierarchy. That's all you really need to know. There are mundane aspects to this: "engineers ... find their own powers magnified 10-fold..." Managers impact the work of multiple people, therefore... multiplication.

The less mundane aspects of this are sociological. Cultural distinctions, I guess you could call it. For example, in a not-so-long-dead culture, "X with superpowers" was how most professions worked. The called it masters & apprentices. A brilliant master, aided in his productivity by apprentices and journeymen was a rhetorical ideal.

The modern ideal feels a little confused. Our ideal seems to be (eg, our vocabulary) non-hierarchical. Leading is a role, not a position. OTOH, I think this makes us avoid some questions.
>How about political funding? Does that not qualify as foreign interference in elections when politicians get foreign funds?

In most countries this is illegal. Foreigners generally can't make campaign donations.
They're not powerless. They just didn't bother.
What's a data science platform (2016)
The base was VP10 + tools from Thor (Cisco) and Daala (Xiph.Org/Mozilla), and it evolved from there to AV1 through a process of "experiments", test, IP checks and then its enablement.

Assuming that VP10 shares a significant base design with VP9 it would not be surprising if some part of VP9 sillicons decoders could be leveraged on customer hardware, while awaiting for more dedicated circuits.

But on the software end, libaom (AOM reference implementation) is indeed a fork of libvpx. But this library is not broadly considered a good implementation, even for VP9.
Pehaps the guys behind EVE for VP9 [1] will produce an AV1 implementation based of their codebase.

[1] https://www.twoorioles.com/eve-for-vp9/
Congrats. Now you just live next door to the nightmare.
To the best of my knowledge, there is no such thing as single node production ready k8s cluster.

> I don't have anything that needs to autoscale or fail over or do high availability

You should not be using Kubernetes.
Also, how hard is it really to get a sense for the quality of a search and the irrelevance of its results for the vast majority of people? Given how much demographic data Google pulls in from your history, it seems to be not super hard to notice that actual black girls are repulsed by what was shown to them. It also seems easy to post a notice saying: "Hey, searchers like you have found this query to contain many irrelevant or inappropriate results. Beware!"
> Ever heard of the Streisand Effect

Of course.

I am not religious about it, just pointing out even when someone partially doxes you, HN won't remove the comment.
The real question is whether or not they hire proportional to the number of black women that are looking for work in a specific role.
Yet another Node release... seems like every time you blink there's another one!

This time it's mostly CVE fixes via an OpenSSL upgrade and a new set of CA roots (5 added, 30 removed).

Also paired with three LTS releases - v8.11.0, v6.14.0 and v4.9.0
I can see deleting some of this data is probably non-trivial too, given that if you want to keep the data consistent you have to recursively follow all the relationships between objects and delete related objects too. For example, delete a post, and you have to recursively fetch all comments and delete those, and then all replies to comments, etc.

It's definitely doable and if they're not currently doing that because they choose not to for sure, though deletion of highly-relational data like this is an interesting problem, idk I wanted to bring it up (:
This is a powerful piece. Definitely Cal have a point when he says "If you’re serious about making an impact in the world, power down your smartphone, close your browser tabs, roll up your sleeves and get to work.
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I only get wholesome results for "black girls", so maybe Google already puts us in our own echo chambers regardless of the SafeSearch settings.
If you mean meaningful as in you want to do good meaningful work, I'd suggest taking a look at Ruby for Good. Offhand I know of a couple projects that could use some assistance:

1) Diaperbase - This is an inventory management program for
diaper banks. The software is currently being beta tested by 6 diaper banks before opening to all diaper banks. (https://github.com/rubyforgood/diaper)

2) Playtime Project Wishlist - This is an app for the Homeless Children's Playtime Project to facilitate the donation of toys for homeless kids. (https://github.com/rubyforgood/playtime)

Or just jump in our slack and offer to help, we have a lot of meaningful projects to work on! Grab an invite to our slack here: https://rubyforgood.herokuapp.com
Original Title: "NASA WANTS TO PROBE URANUS IN SEARCH OF GAS"

All jokes aside, these missions are still pretty far off and article doesn't really go into depth of what this research can help accomplish for future generations. Thoughts?
I’m always amazed how often the “surprise” that digital technology is in fact not unbiased and robotic in nature keeps getting written about. Algorithms that optimize for click through rate for ads and search relevancy will inevitably be a reflection of ourselves and all of the shitty things various people believe.

>> What we know about Google’s responses to racial stereotyping in its products is that it typically denies responsibility or intent to harm, but then it is able to “tweak” or “fix” these aberrations or “glitches” in its systems.

Only Google knows the fate of the code base that has workarounds for all of these edge cases. I think the author is wrong that all of these edge cases could’ve been caught beforehand. Some sure, but I think others would always slip through.
Not single-threaded, single-process. It would be really hard to use a single-threaded app :)

The 1Password mini used to be a separate process and it was using XPC to communicate with the main app.
> Google search results reflect what's in use on the web via PageRank and modern PageRank-like approximations.

PageRank is only a fraction of the total inputs to Google search. Once PageRank was described it was subject to being gamed at such a scale that it essentially destroyed the web, ironically making Google that much more a necessity.

> Google and its human staff does not apply human intellect to the problem of sorting, picking, and ranking each search result.

Yes they do. By tweaking the weights of certain output categories (such as evidenced in the article, a clear drop in the number of pornographic or semi pornographic results as a result of such a tweak) there is a large amount of influence exerted on the results.

> Moreover, Google has included "Safe Search" features for several years that would remove these types of results from search.

Safe search always was a weird one: You'd expect the opposite, a 'smut search' (Tom Lehrer would have a field day with that one).

> Before we condemn Google for the collective actions of the broader Internet community of websites (and the author's step of disabling Safe Search), we should take a moment to understand this point.

Before we invalidate the authors point by handwaving and purposefully injecting chaff into the conversation let's try to understand the actual point they are trying to make: That a query for an innocent term such as 'black girls' even with 'safe search off' should not result in a bunch of porn.

> Now, it is possible to create a search engine curated by humans or filters that remove objectionable content, and perhaps that approach might be desirable to some - a "MyGoogle" experience with search results customized based on Google's interpretation (or explicit settings) of the author's demographics, political beliefs, trigger words, and purchase history.

That's nothing to do with the authors point.
I guess I can understand interpreting 'just' in that way... but why would a person choose that interpretation? How about "This is the only thing you need to do, there is not additional steps after these"?
I think the point is that the translation service logs will sell you out.
I started such a crowdsourcing effort some time ago :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/MusicEventsHackers/comments/87ui5l/...
As twk3 has said, we have examined multiple other options.

One big reason we've chosen to implement with Kubernetes is community adoption. You can now run Kubernetes on AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM cloud, as well as a slew of other platforms both on-premise and as a PaaS. With the expanding ecosystem, our decision has only been further confirmed, as the list of available solutions and providers continues to grow rapidly (https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/pick-right-solution/)

Another big reason is far simpler: ease of use and configuration. A permanent fixture in our work for Cloud Native GitLab has been that this method must be as easy, if not easier to provide a scalable, resilient, highly-available deployment of GitLab at scale.

We can’t say, “This is our new suggested method. By the way, it’s harder.”

What we have found is that many other solutions require a much larger initial investment of time to understand and configure GitLab as a whole solution, as compared to the combination of Kubernetes with Helm. Helm provides us templating, default value handling, component enable/disable logic, and many other extremely useful features. These allow us to provide our users with a practical, streamlined method of installation and configuration, without the need to spend countless hours reding documentation, deciding on the architecture, and making edits to YAML.
Random untested people without driver's licenses and people who no longer possess the faculties to drive safely are on the road all the time. You're being hyperbolic.
So close... Help a brother out! ;-)
Our kids have a corgi that eats corn cobs (leftovers when we have corn on the cob.) I guess he sees the horses eating them and is convinced they must be good. Perhaps it is an acquired taste.

He once got into serious trouble by eating some medicated grain intended for the horses.

He still eats regular dog food too.

I think the elephant is just picking up something dusty. Maybe there's salt in it.
I think most people would enjoy that. The problem to solve first though: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal–agent_problem
Gatsby + Netlify + Netlify CMS is super.
I don't have a need for this high level of security, but if I did, here's what I'd do:

1. Run VPN software on host.

2. Download a widely used, generic VM image.

3. Route VM's entire network connection through host's VPN.

4. Do whatever you need to do, in the VM only.

5. Reset VM to initial settings after each use.

Am I missing anything?
This sounds mostly like the first chapter, which was the bit I enjoyed the most. That was about automated testing, and a whole book about that might've been quite useful.
Your beef is with the entire auto industry then. No one gives you access to the flash memory in the airbag module storing these last values prior to an incident.
> Cynically, or conspiratorially, I think everyone is making a huge deal about this because it's manipulation that's not happening through the officially-controlled and sanctioned channels.

The fact that it was false-flag manipulation by illegal means and in part by actors prohibited from lawful participation because they are foreign to the jurisdiction is the overt reason people are upset about these manipulations.

Other than the emotional charge of the word choice, your “cynical" description of why people are secretly making a big deal is simply the exact open reason people are upset.
Terrain Rendering in Far Cry 5 [pdf]
Have you ever even met a 5 year old before?
https://www.privacytools.io/#webrtc