skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The eye opening thing here is not that the AI failed, but why it failed.

At start the AI is like a baby, it doesn't know anything or have any opinions. By teaching it using a set of data, in this case a set of resumes and the outcome then it can form an opinion.

The AI becoming biased tells that the "teacher" was biased also. So actually Amazon's recruiting process seems to be a mess with the technical skills on the resume amounting to zilch, gender and the aggressiveness of the resume's language being the most important (because that's how the human recruiters actually hired people when someone put a resume).

The number of women and men in the data set shouldn't matter (algorithms learn that even if there was 1 woman, if she was hired then it will be positive about future woman candidates). What matters is the rejection rate which it learned from the data.. The hiring process is inherently biased against women.

Technically one could say that the AI was successful because it emulated the current Amazon hiring status.
The 30-20-10 intervals sound very much like the strides[1] many runners do at the end of an easy run or to warm up for a race/tempo run. It's interesting to me that the study found people enjoy them so much, because they are always the most tedious part of my easy runs which I often forget to do (whereas full interval sessions or tempo runs, while much more grueling, never feel boring).

1: https://strengthrunning.com/2012/10/what-are-strides/
reminds me of the first cars i'd ever seen with massaging seats at the north american international auto show.

Less of a massage, more so the sensation of sitting on some large, undulating, lovecraftian leather mass. There was the accountable whine of a team of motors, and once every few minutes a sharp audible pop could be heard. God bless Mercedes for trying to cover this all up by blasting classical through the car speakers though.
It doesn't help that it was rolled out as the default well before simple existing features like "rankings other than 'hot' on user pages" were implemented.

But destroying old CSS and then not displaying sidebar text in the new default view is what's going to have serious consequences. For all the talk about customization and moderator tools, they've made it so that new users won't see sidebars of rules, useful links, or related subs. Talk about undermining engagement and useful contributions...
They did in the medium past, they didn’t in the recent past, and maybe they will again in the near future.
Not necessarily, but generally (99%) yes. It's both an advantage and disadvantage of the framework. Use the right tool for the job :).
I suppose his broad point is: we should be wary of third party inspectors.
I use Firefox with ublock origin and didn't have any trouble with videos auto-playing.
But since the memory is never actually backed by anything, it doesn't have a real effect except in the accounting of the process. No additional memory is used by locking it.
Ah, the Damore argument. Besides the fact that his psuedo science has been summarily handled[0], to consider his argument you then have to equally consider the possibility of sexism in academia pressuring women to not study these subjects and societal pressure their whole lives pressuring them to not persue these career paths.

There's also the idea that lack of women scientist "heroes" can be limiting (lack of role models). Basically the idea that if you stack the cards against a population, you're gonna see population-wide effects.

Given these data points, a biased hiring AI contributes to the problem. Therefore, it should be fixed, along with the above points.

[0]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-40865261

[0]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/13/james-dam...
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Does anyone know (or have a speculation on) the annual profit loss coming out of this? Didn't they get a very significant portion of every Android sale?
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I wish there was a small logo beside a link indicating the presence of a paywall.
it extends the Scheme standard in incompatible ways

What does "incompatible" mean here? Incompatible with the Scheme language reports, or incompatible with other Schemes' extensions?
Why do they bother with autoplaying videos when browsers mute them?
Just keep moving. Worry about releasing your features and being a better solution not that they are looking at what you already have done.

I had a mentor that told me to tell everyone about what I am doing and not hide things. His point was that if you aren't moving fast enough and in the right direction competition isn't what will kill you, you will just die. The more time you worry about a competitor the more time they have to catch up, so the moral is always focus on product. That doesn't mean you don't do a competitive analysis at some points, just that you don't waste time worrying about what they are doing, you find the right path and execute on what the market needs/wants, not what others are doing.
I will add to this a little.

Because I disagree with how HN's downvotes work, I have `showdead` enabled, so I can see the comments/articles that have been downvoted simply because of disagreement.

But that also shows all the articles that are clearly just spam - so I can have the spam removed, or I can see the things the HN hive mind disagrees with, but not both.
appears based on https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/150207-chinese-physicist..., which also links to the paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.0614
Why not?

Seriously: let us take as given that the AI models are biased. Will you also admit that the existing processes are biased? If so, then what we need to ask is which is MORE biased. It might be complaining that we shouldn't release self-driving cars because on rare occasions they cause accidents.

There is, however, another criterion besides how biased it is: how biased it will be in the future. Human-driven processes have the opportunity to become less biased in the future (also the chance to become more biased, but overall things tend to improve). AI processes that are opaque might lock in bias in a fashion that is unreviewable. I believe that the solution is to build AI models that are more transparent -- that could be BETTER (in terms of avoiding bias) than the human-driven processes we use today.
Check out GHC 8.0+ where the same program will allocate a terabyte of virtual memory ;)

That said, I don't find it unreasonable at all. Just reserving some bits in the address space isn't unreasonable. It makes the real allocation code simpler.
I'm another non-streamer and I get most of my music from Bandcamp. The appeal to me is a lot of smaller labels and artists are on a more level playing field, I know more money goes to the artists, and the merch selection is great.

I'm of an era that I remember CD albums would cost 15-20GBP sometimes, and I'm still very album-oriented in my listening. My 'thing' these days is buying digital copies of releases I like, and buying a vinyl copy of releases I really like, so I have a memento. The shipping costs can be steep, especially trans-Atlantic, but the tangible collection of records in a flight case is the closest thing to a safe of valuables that I own.

Buy the vinyl, and typically there's an included copy of the digital version (either a code in the sleeve or a gratis copy in Bandcamp's case), so I can then download the FLAC and make whatever format I want from there. Total price typically ends up being more expensive than one of those 15-20GBP CDs from a bygone era, but I've got a digital copy I can play over and over, and a physical copy as a keepsake.

I've found a lot of new music from Bandcamp. Their articles are high quality, and have directed me toward all kinds of music I wouldn't usually listen to.

(Disclaimer: active customer of Bandcamp, not connected in any financial or professional sense, no other affiliation…though I do think about applying to work with them from time to time.)

Edit: I use the same username here as I do on Bandcamp if anyone wants to snoop on my collection and/or wantlist, or be internet friends etc.
> The ideal for me would be a function that marked some memory as "these addresses are taken, do not give them out to malloc, or anything else", but which still required me to actually "ask" for the memory before using it, so it didn't look like I was using 64gb of memory at startup. Is that possible?

So you want to reserve memory, basically the way malloc does, depriving any other process of that memory, but you then want to reserve it again, and also somehow hide that the memory has been reserved?

What exactly is the benefit except making it not look like you're using the memory? Actually, what's the benefit of that in itself?
Deployment is still mostly awful. The community is still tackling this issue as of 2018.

https://realpython.com/pipenv-guide/
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Could this be a direct indicator of a powerful
subconscious bias in Amazon's existing hiring
process?

Maybe - but maybe not.

Imagine a company with 2 men in HR, 2 women in HR, 40 men in engineering, and 10 women in engineering. That's with gender-blind hiring, reflecting only the 4:1 ratio of male to female CS graduates.

If you picked a random male hire, there's a 40/42=95% chance they're an engineer whereas if you picked a random female hire, there's a 10/12=83% chance they're an engineer.

Thus if you look over all hires' CVs, due to Bayes’ law the dataset says being male increases the conditional probability you meet engineering hiring requirements - and the ML system picks up on that.
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Will they make video lectures available as open courseware?
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I think that the whole human-changing-planet thing is huge fraud. There are legitimate concerns, like bad air in the cities because of cars, but global warming, if it exists at all (which I don't observe because winters are as cold as they always were), is because of planetary cycles, not because human affected anything significantly. Concentrating on green energy is stupid, humans should invest more money into nuclear stations and potentially thermonuclear technology.
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It's more like Apple comes to the court of public opinion for equitable relief, but has unclean hands.

Its history of hostility towards self-repair and independent professional repair basically precludes them from complaining about the grey markets and black markets in Apple device repair parts. Of course the black marketeers are in it to line their own pockets. They wouldn't be able to do that if Apple weren't artificially restricting the supply! It couldn't be a racket without Apple's help.

Apple elected to operate the Apple repair business as a monopoly, restricting supply to raise prices, and parasitic businesses are trying to siphon some of the monopoly profit off. It's illegal, but that's just one factor in the economic analysis of potential [criminal] entrepreneurs.

It isn't that they deserve to be plundered by poor thieves because they are rich, but that they deserve to lose some of their repair revenues because their repair policies are unreasonable in the opinion of some consumers.

Aside from that, I'm glad that they're combating the fraud on their own, rather than pushing the problem onto national criminal justice systems as an externality of their business. But that's mainly because they believe Chinese cops would be uncooperative in prosecuting Chinese citizens on behalf of a foreign-owned company.
Do you have a sample link to such a downvoted comment? I generally find that downvotes make sense. When they don’t, the comment often bounces back via upvotes.
What about MakerDAO?
I honestly believe there are 1000 paths to safety, that there only a few to dangerous climate change, but that we will take a path to dangerous climate change. Because it is easier. It requires not making hard choices. It requires not working together. It requires less sacrifice. It will be the path of human nature and behavioral inertia.

“So what can we do so our children don't live in some ghastly hothouse world?”

We are going to have to explain to later generations why we thought the 6th great extinction was an appropriate price to pay for having elaborate, throw-away Halloween lawn decorations which were made by and the most costly to the most vulnerable citizens of the planet.

I don’t say any of that lightly.
About 4 years ago there was talk if 10 to 15 Dollars per phone. I do not know how that has changed since then.
Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT2EiLG4Mrg
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I picked up a pair of dumbbells recently. They take up almost no room, enable a ton of extra exercises, and can add resistance to bodyweight exercises you might already be doing. I highly recommend getting a pair to anyone looking to add a little extra to their routine.
This can also help with that (in part) - https://littlebirdie.io - if you plug your own username in there.
If you only want to enjoy the music, there’s https://hvsc.c64.org/ which is a project to collect and document every tune ever produced with the C64.

The C64’s SID chip was way ahead of its time, capable of 8-bit 48Khz sample playing - on a machine from 1981, with 64K ram, and 1Mhz CPU[0]

Some PCs gained comparable sound output capability about a decade or so later with the appearance of the original SoundBlaster; it wasn’t until 1996 or so before this became standard with PCs.

[0] The hardware was always capable; the way to get it was only discovered in the last decade by Mahoney, see the examples and comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16696246 ; Still, at every point in time until about 2000 or so, only Amigas produced better sounds among personal computers.
What if someone writes some free software code to intentionally use one of their patents so it can be liberated?
You absolutely do not need to prove anything in order to get past people's objections to whatever it is you're trying to talk them into doing. Not only do you not need to prove that your plan is right or that it works, you can get people to agree to things that provably will not work!

Humans are incredibly irrational. If you want to talk them into stuff, it's a lot more effective to appeal to their irrational feelings than to appeal to reason - even if you're trying to convince them to do the rational thing.

Believing that reason trumps emotion in human decision-making is itself demonstrably irrational. (And yes, this means the people who think they're being reasonable are probably wrong.)
That was definitely my gut instinct. I appreciate having someone back it up!
There seems to be justification though. If a "news" website is constantly publishing stories that are objectively false, or based on some factual event but distorted beyond any verifiable aspect, then Google has the right (and I'd argue the duty) to remove that content from its platform, especially if that content is targeted at individuals.
Yes, I am female, I am aware of the statistics. It's frustrating because my life literally gets impacted by automated reasoning such as this. It's not frustrating for anyone who says 'there just aren't enough of you'. That's something that is very easy to say by people who never have to experience that sort of discriminatory practice.

The painful stuff is when it's obvious and provable, because it highlights all the times it can be questionable as to whether it occurs.
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The article says: "The manipulation of the Ethernet connector appeared to be similar to a method also used by the U.S. National Security Agency, details of which were leaked in 2013."

So the US doesn't exactly have clean hands. Here's a theory:

1. The US wants to have more ability to spy

2. With most manufacturing in China, this is hard

3. Implicating Supermicro might cause their customers to switch suppliers. It has already caused Supermicro stock to go down 41% then 27% again.

4. The US / Sepio Systems / former Mossad / former CIA officials come to the rescue with a company manufacturing "secure servers" not made in China. Or more likely, still made in China, only under different control.

5. Result: profit, increase US ability to spy, "bring manufacturing back to US companies"

IMO, governments - all governments - have no ethics and will do whatever they want to further their agenda.
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Forensic science doesn't need to be good science. It just needs to impress juries.
Well then it is even more inappropriate because most music 'pirates' are pretty much indistinguishable from the general population and certainly do not live outside the law or ignore most authorities.
I don't plan to do much more with this particular project. At the end of the article I mention what I believe to be a nicer direction for Elm.
Google already do abandon .com for localised search in individual countries, and most people aren't actually typing "google.com" to find the search engine (it's probably a browser setting).

Also, I don't understand how you can pick Google as an example with a straight face. The most commercially important websites in the western world are all run by companies that are controlled by Five Eyes governments.
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I'm generally in favor of it. Whether to include your manager or not is up to the team dynamic. On our team, absolutely (she used to be a dev on the team, then the team lead, then the team manager).

What I've seen in our own "private" room is that the list of invitees has grown and now some folks with power but not context have gotten into the room. I feel that their confidence in our team has dropped due to them seeing "dumb" questions (things like, "hey, does anyone know how such-n-such-critical-component work?" with responses like, "doesn't it do blah?" "no, it does blah blah ... I think. Don't recall."

We previously had a public room and a private room for chat. But with the private room having some important folks now, I'm not sure we can just kick them out. We might need a private-private room.

Thanks for the question, it reminded me to have this conversation with my manager (as we would want her in the private-private room, but want her blessing and input - maybe she is fine telling the others to leave).
How did you come to the conclusion that gender was being the most important, rather than skills or aggressiveness?
Pasting "SELECT 1,2," then clicking [FORMAT MY CODE] on their online demo[1] seems to break something. It renders the site header, but nothing else.

[1] http://sqlformat.darold.net/

Also, a similar tool was recently discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18087514
The problem is, its much easier to support one language package manager, then it is to support 10 different OS package managers, not to mention, some, like debian, are near impossible to push things too.
China is not pushing countries to become 'communist' states.
Solar water heaters are not cheap. 1 square meter of evacuated solar tubing with a storage tank is > 4k, before installation. That 1 m^2 will give you at most 500w of solar gain for 2-3 hours... in total maybe 5k BTU. That's a factor of 20 off relative to existing systems.
Copyright wasn't created to protect the fruits of the creators labor, though.

The origin of copyright was providing monopoly rights to the Stationers Guild in Britain to control printing of works under the Licensing of the Press Act 1662. So a right vested in the printers who wanted to be able to sell for much higher prices than the duplication itself justified, not the authors.

Of course this would also allow them to pay more to authors, because they would be able to amortise it over more copies, but the guild had a monopoly on printing, so it was not in any of their interests to substantially increase the proportion paid to authors - the main benefit of this monopoly was to themselves.

When parliament refused to renew it after protests because of the censorship it authorised, the Stationers Guild kept trying to push for it to be reintroduced, and first then started pushing the "authors rights" angle, leading to the Statue of Anne (Copyright Act 1710), which was the first "modern" copyright act in that it vested rights in authors.

But the idea of restricting the ability to copy to favour the creators of a work was something the printers first started pushing for their own interest because their abuse of the copyrights previously granted to them directly made it unpalatable to re-authorise those rights.
What's a CPU to do when it has nothing to do?
Of course CL is more advanced than Emacs Lisp, it's a very interesting platform! I have grown tired of some of its aspects though, like those endless lists of possible keyword arguments.

But this is just me nitpicking about elegance.
They are extending open source to extinguish it, somehow.
This. I do 8 sets of 15 pull ups/chin ups and dips in the office on alternating days. It was weird at first. Now it's my thing. Other people mention it in interviews sometimes.
We could cutpaste a snippet like this for almost every major tech company on the planet, what's your point?
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Would I? If we consider that practically everything available for sale right now is also available illegally, for less, why don't people do all their shopping on the black market?

Western society is pretty conformist. Give us a legitimate way to purchase something and most of us will feel more comfortable using it. Even if that means paying more.

The people selling these boards had the market to themselves.
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After a certain amount of time, the same link can be posted by a different user. I'm not sure if there is a point or point vs time qualification on that. You can post old, popular stories again for example.

Your submission was made 11 hours ago. If they merely applied an upvote to that existing story after 10 hours, the point time value rot would be such that it would have greatly reduced impact at ranking the story to the front page (ie it would be nearly useless for discovery purposes).