skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I don't know how women can deal with these societies we've created. Between all the judging and ridiculous nuanced bullshit they've had to wade through simply to work, I'm disgusted with the whole situation.

Probably hits me harder now that my wife is done with grad school and is in the professional world (well government at the moment, so not really professional after her prior private industry work).

Just realized these were satirical. Living in a fervently Red State, these are probably closer to reality.
I think the phrase you're looking for is "exceptions that prove the rule". For every CEO that took a company from nothing to 10k employees, there are so many more examples of the opposite that you can't even begin to name them. You're able to name the exceptions because there are so few exceptions.
Why do you hope that? Are you a FB shareholder?
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But Google has agency to adapt to the content if needed. If black-hat SEO gets the upper hand and results in an Internet trending toward cheap/fake linkbait, Google (or any competitor) doesn't have to just shrug and give the excuse, "Our shitty search results only reflect the shitty Internet"
They can't change math because people don't like the results.

They can stop relying on algorithms because the underlying data reflects social bias, or use them and reflect society. But, they are always going to upset some group some of the time because social norms are not consistent across society.

IMO, attacking Google on this is pointless, deal with the actual problem.
Exposure therapy alongside CBT has been proven to eliminate social anxiety, which is what he is saying.
blog.docker.com runs Wordpress, and the domain points directly at an ELB. Unless they are running some caching layer (behind that ELB but in front of their wordpress processes), they may have to scale out a lot in order to handle traffic spikes, and they may be limited in their ability to do that by DB capacity.
Julian Assange has internet cut at Ecuadorian embassy in London
Sure, but if we have the technology to make it archeology-friendly it'd be very nice to future archaeologists.

Any current archaeologist would give an arm and a leg for a few good reddit/HN threads from ancient Rome.
that's Canonical, with a capital C
This is the first calculation of the gravitational forces for small objects that I can actually understand intuitively. Much better than trying to specify in newtons the actual force of gravity between me and said cow.
How much would it cost to have them refresh their models with still-consented data every 90 days (~4 times a year)?
I think it can only sail backwards...
Free+Website+-+Home+Business+Ideas+and+Opportunities
Show HN: Modern Fortran
Ahhh why is the scrolling messed up :/
For anyone who thought the panoramas were cool, there's a ton of unbelievably high resolution panoramas from the Apollo missions available online at https://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollopanoramas/
That module loader was declared "stable" today, even.

https://medium.com/web-on-the-edge/tomorrows-es-modules-toda...
Author of Modern Fortran here.

Modern Fortran: Building Efficient Parallel Applications teaches modern Fortran with a focus on parallel programming from the ground up.

This is the initial book release in the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP). You can purchase the book while I am still working on it, and give me feedback on how to improve it. You will receive new chapters as they come out.

Any questions welcome! :)
You can't host servers off a VPN. You don't have control or use of your own ports. You can consume and that's about it.
How do you guys handle eg CVEs?
Users of custom ROMs can register their devices per-user here:
https://www.google.com/android/uncertified/

It is limited to 100 devices per user, not a problem for real end users.
Tomorrow’s ES Modules Today
I think the demo is still really cool. I mean more to push back against the "programmers are lazy look what you can do with limited resources" ignoring the fact that the limited resources were only used for the playback part. Still awesome, just not possible in the 80s
Yep but a Chrome extension is not really a client. Especially when it has no offline support...
Google was always responsible. From day one. Google has always exercised editorial control of their platform when it was in their commercial interests. They delete spam, porn, malware, etc. They tweak the search results to benefit their own properties or demote competitors (see Foundem).
Machine learning systems are good at finding the unconscious biases of large populations. Any change to force notions of political correctness on top of that is very complicated, and makes the algorithm work worse for its intended purpose. Literally, failing to accept the discrimination inherent in the data loses you money directly or indirectly.

This is well-known, and not Google's fault. Getting offended at Google for a reality they didn't create and can't control seems silly to me. If you don't like the result, work to change the incentives. Or work to change people's biases.

This kind of problem is not new. For example insurance companies have long known that where you live affects how much they are likely to pay out. If they base insurance rates on the data, the result is that your zip code becomes a bigger determinant of insurance rates than your driving record. Which results in very large effective racial discrimination. There are laws limiting that, for example prop 109 in California. However it is an eternal struggle because, in fact, competing insurance companies have a good motivation to have the cost of insurance reflect their best estimate of the expected cost of insuring you, and their cost really is a lot higher if you're in a "black neighborhood".
I guess the story is more complicated than generalizations will allow. It is rarely obvious when decisions made in good faith will come back to haunt you, as with the decision to give the Apollo command module a sturdy hatch that could not be quickly jettisoned. For everyone saying the Shuttle booster 'O' rings were in danger of failing, there was someone saying that they had been fine so far.

In the case of MR-2, was the schedule to have an orbital flight before what turned out to be Gagarin's day of destiny? The response to Glenn's flight leaves little doubt that, in the popular view, it is orbital flight that counts as being 'in space', and the start of the Moon race might have hung on that perception.
Why are white men stockpiling guns?

Why are so many white men so angry?

White men must be stopped: The very future of mankind depends [...]
The future of life on the planet depends on bringing the 500-year rampage of the white man to a halt. For five centuries his ever more destructive weaponry ...

My first three DDG-results on searching 'white men'.

I shall now proceed to get over it. Suggest others do likewise.
It was never even a consideration. Social network are still a relatively new phenomenon for the world and few people thought seriously about their implications. In retrospect, more of use should have thought about how our data is bing used. Hopefully we can learn from our mistakes.
> 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.

But if you account for demographics within the industry do the numbers remain biased?

For example: men account for less than 10% of nurses so if you were to go to a hospital with 50% male nurses they would be way overrepresented. Statistically speaking of course, I'm in no way trying to give the impression we need to do something about the lack of diversity within the nursing profession.

--edit--

...or maybe we need to do something about the lack of diversity in the nursing profession? Don't actually know how this ball rolls?
> I've told people about FB and Google data collection for years and nobody cared, at least not until the talking heads told them to care.

> What FB does is innocuous compared to the CIA vault7 leaks, and yet the media shoved that down the memory hole.

But it's Facebook controlling your mind! They know what you like and can manipulate you with that! \s

> The real question is why is this being pushed now when literally of this has been public info for years?

I have a theory it's the recent shift in Newsfeed reducing news and increasing friend's posts. It was reported earlier that there were tensions between Zukerberg and Murdoch over ad revenue [1]. Wouldn't surprise me if other media magnates feel the same way.

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/12/facebook-rupert-murdoch-thre...
Honestly, this should never be allowed.

I wouldn't go that far, though I am generally sympathetic to your overarching argument.

I wouldn't go that far in part because I'm a woman and women seem to attract stalkers a lot more than men. I was a homemaker for a long time and had a very private life. Trying to figure out how to interact effectively in the public sphere has been a struggle for me.

Part of that is me. Part of that is other people. People react differently to a woman than to a man.

So, on the one hand, I needed to figure out what I was simply doing wrong. On the other hand, I needed to figure out how to effectively navigate a situation that can, at times, be actively hostile and dangerous, even if I am not doing anything wrong. Those two things confound each other and I don't know of any good sources of instruction.

This has helped make me very aware that sometimes people get into real trouble and need extraordinary measures to help extract them from the mess.

I think those extraordinary measures should be made available at times. But I also think it should not be the default solution.

I generally agree with you that there are other approaches that we need to be pursuing that are more nuanced and that try to balance different concerns. I think gutting the value of a forum so that people can remove all their content at will on a whim can readily go bad places. I am not crazy about it as a policy/law.
On the flipside, it introduces monstrous dependency (strongSwan) written in memory unsafe C, is nowhere near as flexible as OpenVPN and is blocked by many networks since it can't operate over arbitrary ports and forces you to manage/own the server-end.

1) If I wanted to do that, I'd use OpenVPN rather than strongSwan. They're both written in C, but I get extra flexibility by using OpenVPN. Their "TLS is suspect" stance doesn't hold water in my view.

2) When I don't want to set up my own server, OpenVPN allows me to use or even chain lots of third party servers and create my own nested VPN topologies. Installing an OpenVPN client on my phone or tablet takes a few minutes.

So, to summarize, Algo would be interesting if it didn't introduce dependency on memory unsafe code or minimized such dependency. But it doesn't. On the client, I do not see why I should trust Apple's IPSEC implementation (racoon?) more than OpenVPN client which is another point they tried to make. As it currently stands, it does not compare favorably to OpenVPN in any way.
To Tim’s credit, Apple did remove FB and Twitter integration from iOS 11.

I wrote a snarky post first suggesting they do that, but then discovered they already have. I just didn’t notice because I weaned myself off social cancer years ago.
Goodix Ships Optical In-Display Fingerprint Sensor for Smartphones
21 people is a very small sample size. This is a celebrity fluff article. It's hard to do larger psychological studies on successful people because successful people have very low participation in psychological surveys.

Please don't take away any conclusions from such a small sample size.
The gravitational pull of nearby, mundane objects is just as strong, if not stronger, than the pull of the stars and planets. If the gravitational pull of the stars and planets impacts human behavior, as astrology posists, then so should a cow several miles away.
> should search algorithms show

radical thought (and goes for social media as well) -

how about making the results tunable based on user preferences & filters?

oooh wow.. user control! what a concept..
I do not think the word "racism" is a good fit for this. There is no prejudice, or a belief that another race is superior.

This is not singling out black women. Any search for "blonde teens" during that time would yield porn-related results too. A search engine just tries to give the most relevant search. Likely, a large part of the population was in search of sex when searching for these type of queries. The "bias" is not with Google, the "bias" is in society, and Google merely reflects this.

I can also understand why "three black teenagers" would give mugshots over "three white teenagers". The term "thee black teenagers" just appears more in crime news stories. I think this is a legit societal problem, and changing perception does not change harsh reality.

I really am on the fence about the efforts to change this. For instance, the majority of people have a negative view of the "black lives matter" movement, and this is not reflected in the search engines right now. I still think people searching for "black girls" are looking for porn, not "black girls who code"-type stuff, but there is no porn in sight. So you cripple the search engines accuracy in favor of political correctness.

I feel a search for "professional" or "CEO" should reflect reality, no more, no less. I don't think a search engine index is the place to start change in society (I do think the number of female CEO's is too low, but this needs fundamental change, not a lick of paint).

I also think "cultural appropriation" is antithetical to more inclusion. If white people are restricted from wearing afro hair, dreadlocks, or hoop ear rings, these styles will always remain associated with people of color. The reverse is also true: If no black man dons a business suit, there will be no black men when searching for "professional business man", because there will be no data to support that.

I do not think anyone needs protection from search technology. I do not think it affects people's lives to a big degree, if a neural network makes a mistake and labels their partner as a gorilla. These are honest mistakes, due to not having enough training data, that nobody deliberately makes.
Gigabyte Releases New 1U 4 GPU Server
It's your closing parenthetical that's the important point here.
Indeed! This implementation was started by some people working on AV1 to test libaom's specification implementation correctness.
There was a presentation about it at VDD17, if I remember correctly.
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There isn't just a risk of picking up biases -- there is an absolute guarantee that biases exist and always will. In a sense that's the whole goal when giving _relevant_ results. The idea is to return information biased towards interesting and useful results.

I wish Google wasn't biased against the restaurant around the corner from me when I search for "The Trumpet", but it is. That's as it should be of course, since the audience for that result is so small.

All we're really talking about is a project that will never be completed of tailoring search results for the largest audience possible -- which is inherently a moving target.

Doing it manually as you suggest is likely hopeless and
more politically fraught.
Can Coherent Labs rise as the new standard for game UI?
Hate to break your heart...
Probably not fair to compare against the entire population, you would need to compare against the working age population. Additionally you might want to take into account local populations for where you're hiring into.
On day one, Spoke's ML and NLP algorithm can respond with the right answer that is relatively directly related (i.e. has a good amount of keyword overlap with the query) without any training. For complex queries, if Spoke does not find the right answer, you can "train" Spoke in a very simple way and very quickly (as a part of your normal ticketing/knowledge management flow without any extra effort) by responding with the right answer. And to answer your question, Spoke's algorithm learns from these responses in real-time and Spoke's performance for your organization will get better over time as more responses are accumulated.

For full transparency, Spoke will not deliver 100% accuracy for complex questions because "open domain" (unlike closed domain stuff like pizza ordering that Alexa or Google Home handle) natural language understanding is still far from being solved. However, it will augment your ticketing/knowledge management flow nicely by automatically resolving an increasingly large chunk of your questions.
This is a much harder problem that it looks to a casual observer. Just imagine what kind of people would type "black girls" to Google search. Not "black girls outfit", not "black girls social bias", just "black girls".

I'll bet at least 50% of the searchers are looking for porn.

So even if Google had infinite resources, its choices are: (1) act as a moral authority and deny pornographic contents to those who are looking for them, or (2) show pornographic results to people searching for innocent stuff.

...Or maybe (3) built a perfect profile of every user and just show them what they want. But do we want to go there?

(You might be thinking that "black girls" is such an innocent term that Google should be able to determine that it's non-porn, but then the question merely shifts to less popular queries.)
I think you're right, but there's still potential for iterating over the jigs until they are more efficient. The robot in the video of the article seems to me like the same sort of large crude machine that predated the compact sewing machine. It took quite a long time for them to improve on it, but it worked, and now very few industries sew by hand.
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"Today Facebook finally started to roll out a new set of privacy controls. These tools, many months in the making, are designed to help simplify the site's notoriously confusing privacy options. But alongside them Facebook is also rolling out a "Transition Tool" that promotes Everyone updates as the new default. In other words, Facebook is giving up its reputation as a `private' social network - where the default is to restrict access to everything that is shared - in favor of something that can challenge Twitter head on."

...

"If you delete "everyone" content that you posted on Facebook, we will remove it from your Facebook profile, but have no control over its use outside of Facebook."

Source:
https://beta.techcrunch.com/2009/12/09/facebook-privacy/
Interesting, but since I could conceivably be exposed to a malicious AV1 stream, I'd value a Rust AV1 decoder even more (which might exist, I don't know).
I want to add that the title "Tech Lead" doesn't always mean the person is a half-dev/half-manager, nor does the title "Manager" indicate the person has totally stopped coding. Often times, the "Manager" or even "CTO" title will be held by the principal developer. It's also possible to find "Tech Leads" whose duties are 100% management, but they cannot bear the title for reasons dictated by HR.
Apple Watch Series 4 Could Launch in 2018 with New Design
> (That said while most pilots started small not all Cessna pilots should go on to fly passengers or even cargo.)

Unless I’m mistaken, that was actually the point being made; you made it again for him.

Your argument was going the other direction.
Chill out there - you’re not banned from replying, but the HN site imposes a steady increasing delay on comment replies as the thread gets deeper, primarily to avoid rapid back-and-forth flamewars.

To your specific point: I don’t think it’s contradictory, and I tend to agree with Tim Cook. We should assume that markets are unregulated by default; the job of government is to step in when there is a problem or imbalance and use regulation to correct it.

I would argue that this is almost bound to happen by definition, purely because the emergence of any new market is into a society that doesn’t regulate it. You say that we “should have had regulation on social media from the beginning” - but what was the beginning? What is it that defines social media versus “traditional” media? Was Isenet social media? Web forums? MySpace?

It’s difficult, in most cases, to preemptively regulate a market. We’ve moved quite quickly with self-driving cars, but there the dangers are much more obvious and easily understood. The implications and danger of social media are harder to understand. What would regulation look like? Is the concern the treatment of personal data? The tracking of behaviour itself? The manipulation of users?

The point is, I think it’s more complex than “obviously it should have always been regulated”.
The appeal to marxist ideals is deliciously ironic in maerF0x0's comment.
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I'd like to see the actual data it gathered as well. Plus, I'd like to see the software system, ML models, etc - to run the data against.

The dash cam video is very suspicious. What I want to see is the actual computer vision camera footage; it's never been made clear whether the footage that has been publically made available is from a dashcam or CV camera; I suspect the former.

On the notion of the LIDAR - the device spits out 64 beams; it appeared in the video the woman who was hit was wearing a fuzzy and dark color jacket (was she? I don't know for certain). If this is so - it is possible that any reflections for the LIDAR returns only came from the bottom half and the bicycle at best. The top half would have been either absorbed, or possibly filtered as "noise" prior to the classification algorithm.

Which is why the ML algo's matter - how did the classifier classify the data? Did it think what was moving across the road was something other than a human? Without the data and the algorithm, there's no good way to know.

But now I hear it's possible the LIDAR was turned off to run a "vision only" driving system. Was it? Who knows; we may never get the truth of what happened here.

Form a personal standpoint, it saddens and perplexes me - and makes me upset to a degree - that this happened here in my city. I recently completed the Udacity Self-Driving Car Engineer nanodegree, and I tend to wonder if this incident will somehow potentially color any future employment opportunities in that field, should I pursue them...

The whole political angle of this thing - sigh.
There is a middle ground of delegating, and then refining approach as the team works. Of course, this must be done judiciously. Doing this for non-functional reasons like coding style will get quickly tiring to both the lead and the team.
Personal attacks like this are not OK on Hacker News and we ban accounts that make them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Most people on HN were wondering why the sensors didn't catch the pedestrian, now we have a possible reason:

"In scaling back to a single lidar on the Volvo, Uber introduced a blind zone around the perimeter of the SUV that cannot fully detect pedestrians, according to interviews with former employees and Raj Rajkumar, the head of Carnegie Mellon University’s transportation center who has been working on self-driving technology for over a decade."

It is very unfortunate that other programs will be tainted by this, but it's also a lesson.

I wonder what happened with the cheap LIDAR alternatives that showed up on HN some time ago.