skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment is irrelevant to the US. You can fire people for any reason, or no reason at all. Incompetent programmers can and do get fired for performance reasons all the time.

It's simply not an issue, and in reality if you're a "bad programmer" you'd have trouble getting hired, let alone staying anywhere for more than a couple of months.
A selective pressure going away is as strong as a selective pressure appearing.

Eg. 100 years ago, 20% of children would die as infants. Imagine all of those children died of a mutation which causes half the usual sperm count, together with a lack of resistance to polio/cholora.

Now that polio/cholora don't exist, all those people survive, and within 3 generations, nearly everyone has at least a grandparent with that 'low sperm count' mutation.
It's more complex than that.

Many of the wackier conservatives felt that Obama had done a terrible wrong to Russia in the 2010/2011 timeframe after Putin's election. I recall hearing a similar message for a period of time on radio shows. They felt that the US/NATO had benefited from Russia's gracious offer to use Russian controlled railways to supply Afghanistan instead of the expensive and problematic road routes through Pakistan.

It sounded really strange at the time; in retrospect it was probably the early phases of the Russian influence campaign that peaked in 2016.
OP again, we're way overloaded. We got 200 profile requests already in an hour and we didn't see it coming. We're extremely thankful and sorry to disappoint you at the same time. We're closing the "Get your profile" feature for now. Spinning up many EC2 instances to process the 200 profile requests faster in parallel as we speak. And we'll come back soon with a system that can handle this load.

Many many thanks!
No offense, but as a user I cannot grok k8s because they did a poor job making things. Honestly, what is a pod? The word makes me think of an 80's Sci-Fi film where aliens are born on a pool. Am I alone here?
You've misread the article. It never said such procedures must come before everything else. What it says is entirely compatible with what you want.
I don't think it's really about computers. These 20th Century artists were deeply involved with systems, rationality, the rise of machines, futurism, the jarring new perceptions that technology was hurling everybody into.

The quaint criticisms people are voicing today about generative art (as if this was new) are the exact same ones everybody was having in the early part of the 20th century.

Authorship lol: https://d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net/?resize_to=width&src=ht...
Any idea where I can find a binary of the mentioned "Azz" program? I'd like to try an alternative to Gzz, because I find Gzz to have a horrible user-experience, the terminal might be easier.
There's this growing trend of... "Well look, this person in a lab coat with a clipboard did some complicated things with a computer, using all the trendy words like 'algorithms', 'machine learning', and 'big data'! Their results must be very accurate and unbiased, and much better than a human looking at things."

I'm more and more convinced that most of these cases are just stuffing an excel spreadsheet into a black box, and shaking it. Hearing that we're using "algorithms" in criminal justice doesn't give me warm and fuzzy.
>I'm rooting for you, and like you, I had every ounce of skin in the game. My retirement, my daughters college. Everything.

>Understand that things don't always work out the way you intend. Starting over when you are my age is very hard. Consider me as a cautionary tale.

I'm pulling for him too, but I have the awful feeling that I'm reading the story of a guy blowing his savings, ruining his credit, and maybe taking mom down with him.
The redesign is terrible for usability, but it does one thing very, very well: punish you for using an adblocker (sorry, "software blocker," lol).

There are a few other dark patterns hidden in there too, all coincidentally pushing in a direction that's good for reddit.

I suspect that's the real purpose of the redesign and that all complaints will fall on deaf ears until someone actually manages to disrupt reddit.
You think it's a good idea to publish an off-topic paper in a serious scientific journal to make a point about mob rule? Aren't you then the one arguing to muck with the scientific record on behalf of a political agenda?
Not a physicist but isn't it the case that any two observers can still compute at what time the other person perceived any given event, if they know each other's history of travel and the history of travel of the event?

So you would just have to agree that one observer's clock is the "master clock", and then everyone translates their local clock time into the corresponding master clock time (and all timestamps are written with respect to the 'time zone' of the master clock).
I think there are valid reasons to not trust an algorithm to determine
whether someone is a flight risk or danger to the community.

But there was already an algorithm that came up with the cash bail amount for a defendant, which was purportedly based on the defendant's flight risk and likelihood of endangering the communoty.

I don't pretend to be an expert so I may be wrong but I think the algorithm boiled down to something like "let the judge decide".

I think transparency around the algorithm is incredibly important, so anything that explicitly makes the properties of the algorithm part of the debate I think is good.
Just because you think people are "done" with "social media" doesn't mean Reddit execs do. They are definitely changing look and feel to be more like instagram and facebook hoping to poach users or at least widen their userbase by lowering the barrier of entry. One of the primary goals of the redesign was changing look and feel to make the site more approachable to a wider audience. They claimed after extensive testing that the old site scared off many potential users because it was "hard to use" (IMO it just looked old, and therefor bad/lame).
You'd be surprised at what "a few sick individuals" can do to civilized society.
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Making the paper disappear after having published it, replacing it with a different paper without any explanation at all of what did happen, should also be embarrassing for everyone involved.
> That kind of work was very poor methodologically and its results are best explained as the Clever Hans effect

I think you might be overreaching here! Roger Fouts was (and still is) an expert and I fear you may just be regurgitating information from a study that is nearly forty years old.

The book I mentioned earlier was written twenty years after the linked article and explicitly mentions the bias he experienced in an entire chapter alone. It counters and logically explains away a lot of the conclusions that they falsely arrived at. If I remember correctly one of the main reasons that studies in the 70s and 80s liked to play down the intelligence of chimps is that it allowed the "for profit" chimp research centers to continue operating. A lot of these studies were published and financed by people who would lose out if they had to provide better (and therefore more costly) conditions for their "dumb testing subjects".

As for the clever hans effect, Roger was extremely careful to not to selectively extract words and interpret them during his research. He even invited officials from the ASL institute to verify his findings first hand.

The clever hans effect also cannot explain away why chimps started signing to each other (when no humans were present and the chimps were being monitored by video) or why sometimes the chimps would sign to themselves (much in the same way that humans occasionally mumble to themselves).

I implore you (if you have the time) to read Roger's book. It really is an eye opener and very well written!
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This is the QA process that yields us precocious-looking stock photo 'MIT grads' trying to sell me a wine subscription on every other pageload?
Were those crimes all one incident? If not I would seriously have considered moving.
As governments start to implement more algorithms in public policy decisions, it becomes increasingly important that ALL algorithms be open sourced for public review unless there is a national security risk.

Having a summary of how the algorithm works is necessary but not sufficient.
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Trump called the EU a "foe". He may have meant only in a trade sense, but he didn't say that.

Trump introduced tariffs against Canada under the rubric of "national security". He may not have meant that Canada was a security threat, but he didn't do that.

Diplomacy is a requirement of any nation-state. Trump has hollowed out the State department and has issued proclamations that overturn 70 years of US policy on international norms of relations with allies in NATO, regard for WTO rules, and opposition to autocrats and criminal nation-states.

It's not "hysteria", it's a practical reaction by nations to the perceived and actual changes in US foreign policy.
That didn't work for me and many others. I had to install an extension.
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> The really scary thing? The 'adults in the room', 'real experts', etc have no theoretical model that explains this. They're people with 40 years experience in saying this is impossible.

Paul Krugman has actually written about that for many years now. First for Japan in the 80s, then applying the model to the more recent events. His blog is a good source for short snippets explaining it. The keyword of interest here is "liquidity trap", see e.g. https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/monetary-policy...
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Thanks for the mention, I appreciate the feedback!
Very interesting pieces he has produced. I wonder how much is generated via rules vs simply coded. Cool find.
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It very much is embarrassing to everyone involved; there's no denying that. It's less clear to me that the outcome is bad. Hill's paper really doesn't make sense in NYJM. It's so out of place I think it's actually pretty embarrassing to Hill as well.
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as a child of the 90's and a computer engineering student, CuriousMarc's channel has been actually really influential in helping me to better understand how "using a computer" has evolved since the 70's and 80's. It's one thing seeing a slide mention IBM mainframes in passing in a class, another to see someone actually using it. Really love his content.
...the man who wrote the CBA for the NHL owners now works for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

How is this at all relevant? He used to work for a business association, now he works for one of its members. Get back to us when the NHL causes the economy to collapse, and then gets bailed out so that it is guaranteed to do the same thing again...

Also, Leafs suck.
This is a different type of forum: you're experiencing kind of a "hug of death". Be proud and move fast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect
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if this happens to me i'm fucked. i haven't used a phone in years and use my chromebook for email, my main mode of communication. what do you if you don't have a number?
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I imagine many are doing both.
The pref setting regularly breaks for me and many others. I had to install an extension to reliably get old reddit. Most won't bother.
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One has to remember that "generative art" only characterizes techniques for generating pictures. Art itself is about what the picture makes people feel, or what they have to say. Just making pictures for the only purpose of being "beautiful" is fine, just not very artful...
Several of this bill's original co-sponsors ended up opposing it due to the lack of accountability in the risk assessment system and the fact that it gives police even more power over the justice process: https://siliconvalleydebug.org/stories/silicon-valley-de-bug...
ghuser.io contributor here.

We talked with GitHub already. They think that what we are doing is cool and we agreed to tell them our roadmap and they tell us theirs.

We would be glad if GitHub copies us.
If I am not mistaken the roadster is not orbiting the earth it is in solar orbit near or past Mars. It's not endangering earth's access to space in anyway.
All one incident, while on vacation.
SPOILER!

It's also a rather minor plot point in The Expanse series' 4th Novel, Cibola Burn. Some of the life on a new planet is bi-chiral, meaning it integrates both handednesses of proteins, amino acids, RNA bases and backbones, etc.
It's very slow and very unreliable.
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> The other possibility is that only those businesses that could afford to pay more are left now.

What's wrong with that?

I can't afford to hire a butler, so I don't get one. The government doesn't owe me one. Nor does it issue a special visa so someone can come and be my butler for the $50/week I can afford...
It is not "hysteria" to take the actions of the US head of state seriously. The man has the power of the world's largest military and nuclear force at his disposal.

He has the power of the US dollar and the US banking system to force other countries to his will.

He has abandoned allies of 70+ years standing, has abandoned positions regarding the US influence in Asia, the Pacific and Europe.

He does not appear constrained by diplomacy and is engaging in a zero-sum game of bullying.

Any nation that doesn't take this seriously is in danger.

I agree with your assessment of his approach, but it's not up to us to "understand" how Trump operates. It should be up to your Congress to rein him in and enforce checks and balances on his behavior. They have abdicated that responsibility completely.
The ISS is primarily an engineering experiment, not a scientific experiment. This is lost on most of its critics. The objective was to build and operate a large space station for a prolonged period of time in order to study prolonged human space flight, closed circuit life support, in-space assembly and maintenance, etc., in order to practice for longer and further missions.

There's only so much you can do on the ground. At some point you have to "ship it" (pun intended?) and get real contact with the problem domain. That's when you find out about the unknown unknowns. (This is true for any engineering effort of any kind.)

This was done after the Apollo era because while we did make it to the moon the technology stack was far too immature for a robust space industry. It was horribly expensive, dangerous, and not suited for longer term missions. I've heard many Apollo engineers and astronauts remark that it's amazing we didn't lose anyone on those missions. We needed to develop and harden our space flight experience.

During the same period we also worked hard on reusable launch vehicles. The Shuttle was the first serious attempt and was lacking in many ways, but it demonstrated that you could use an orbiter repeatedly. The Falcon/Dragon stack is more practical and represents a re-framing of the problem. It builds on Shuttle experience and also on the Delta Clipper project:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X

I'm not sure how much direct engineering transfer occurred, but some indirect transfer certainly occurred as I'm sure people in SpaceX studied this and other related projects extensively before beginning their own work.

We now have the technology to send prolonged missions with better safety margins and very nearly have a reusable (and thus more economical) launch stack to launch them.
Staging terrorist operations against the standing President's policy and employing an influential figure on the left for fourty years isn't interference?

Spying on all the candidates serves what purpose that doesn't involve interference? To maintain a nice database of their positions? At best, they didn't interfere as things were already going their way.
> Now you have to choose

No, you don't _have_ to. It's perfectly fine to write a markdown file and render it into html with Pandoc.
>Their results must be very accurate and unbiased

That is the assumption that scares me. The algorithm encodes the bias and applies it in every case.

This feature will only save you from a shifting bias.
I was going to mention this...I've been using this setup for over a year with 6,000 domains...me thinks someone at autotrader needs to get better at Google :<
> Whether you agree or not with them, you have to respect them.

A trivial comparison: would you respect laws of Nazi Germany in 1930s if Internet existed then?
I get scroll lag on the redesign with my desktop computer. But that seems to have been resolved as I just checked.

Still, the interface is much clearer on old Reddit, new Reddit really shows the optimization of watching pictures and videos instead of articles and comments.
I started out in the ISP industry, back in the mid-90's. This was back in the dialup / T1 days. I can't imagine doing it now...
I think he was talking more about the gold-hawking, "hyperinflation is coming" types -- the ones who were flat out, obviously wrong, in that their predictions from 2008-2012ish were 100% the opposite of what actually unfolded.

Nobody cares that they were wrong because they're not trying to get it right. They're propagandists. You never heard a peep from them during Bush, then the sky was imminently going to fall as soon as Obama was elected. Now they're quiet again. If they were actually deficit hawks, they'd have loved Bill Clinton and Obama, and hated Bush and Trump.

I was talking more about Brooking Institute types who are supposed to be trying to get it right.
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Additionally, it doesn't seem that there's anything in the bill that would prevent any of the information gained by a TCN/TAN from being shared with Five Eyes or other governments. While this might seem reasonable in the face of an international criminal/terrorist adversary, it is fundamentally security-breaking if private root signing keys that are requested as part of a TCN/TAN can just be shared with every Five Eyes government.

That means that the Australian government could just order a company to hand over their PKI/signing infrastructure (which is generally a global system) and then forward all of this information to the US or whoever else, completely outside of any judicial oversight.

I'm sure that the governments in question will deny this, and likely state that this is not their policy, but it doesn't seem to be specifically prohibited by the law and the intelligence community doesn't have a great reputation when it comes to respecting traditional legal values and due process (e.g. the FISA court in the US)
What would the data you want on this look like? Are you looking for a survey of hiring methodology across professions, or something else?
Sure, if you're ready to build your spaceship inside the sun.
No. It's an example of why it is important to have parents devote time to helping their children study. This used to be much more common in the past.
100k salary is equivalent to minimum wage jobs elsewhere. So people have high salaries, and there must be enough people that are getting paid enough disposable income to sustain 2-3k a month rent.

Meanwhile, the average software salary across us is 105k
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Honestly, I’m not sure. I think the power of property holders in local zoning is part of it, along with foreign investment properties taking up available units. The middle class using their property to bolster stagnant wages is probably a part too. I have no clue if any or all of those is sufficient to explain it.

Particularly worrying is that suburban homes should be falling in price, since most American municipalities have unfunded obligations to maintain infrastructure like roads and pipes, which are insanely expensive per person in low density suburbs. The expectation of future tax raises or infrastructure decline should be priced in by the market, but it isn’t.
>1-2 orders of magnitude less attenuation

Currently most of the cost of operating and deploying transatlantic fibre cables are the repeaters to boost the signal in between. If it is 1-2 orders of magnitude less attenuation, does that mean we could do away with the repeater?
From this perspective, bond-based pretrial detention is actually better -- communities can organize bail funds to reduce its impact. You can't really fight algorithmic detention in the same way.
Nothing prevents that now, other than corporations having a backbone and or China thinking it's outside of their influence to demand (for now).

China is already getting pretty busy at exerting its influence on foreign entities to do things like that. Things that relate to its perceived national interest and identity, censorship, etc. Such as the demands placed on airlines as it relates to Taiwan (which isn't a Chinese territory and is a free nation).

You won't see any Winnie the Pooh baby blimps floating over London on Xi's next visit. Iran isn't going to refuse to sell oil to China over Xinjiang. Germany isn't going to refuse a natural gas pipeline with Putin's Russia. All countries, and most corporations, compromise their supposed morals on a routine basis when it suits them. Nike, they of vast sweatshop labor, feel free to simultaneously run ads promoting moral enlightenment.
I stumbled upon this book early in my career, somehow managed to lose track of it, bought an old copy on Half.com, still haven't done much with it but glad to have it.

Really glad people feel strongly enough to recover this treasure. Will be interested to see a revised edition.
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401k’s are only about $5 trillion total. Even if half of them were in US stocks (it’s less than that), that would be less than 10% of the stock market.
My guess is we'll just have local datacenters on mars for the big services (google, netflix, etc). And then more websites will use services like cloudflare so they can get their website cached on mars. AWS will eventually have a mars datacenter. No need for IPFS.
Yeah but why not just ask if people were interested? Instead of saying something that wasn't true..
Our awareness that machine learning algorithms have the potential to make racist decisions gives us something to watch out for as these systems roll out. Hopefully addressing any flaws will be a matter of ordinary debugging.

Regardless, the cash bail system is terrible and I'm anticipating big improvements as we move away from it.
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I love Pelican. It was relatively easy for me to migrate from Octopress (which seems pretty much dead at this point). With pelican it was pretty easy for me to write by own extremely lightweight theme: https://brashear.me/blog/2017/07/30/migration-from-octopress...
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