skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And how do the people you do this to feel about it? The idea of enthusiastically applying sales techniques to interactions with one’s coworkers feels appalling. A group of colleagues is ideally a marketplace of ideas and, yes, one needs to sell ideas from time to time, but who wants to be sold to?

People often oppose something but raise (being uncharitable here) spurious objections, either because they don’t want to share their true feelings — or don’t even know what their true feelings are. It’s worth getting to the bottom of these issues, and worth doing with a great deal of respect for other people’s feelings.

If you’re dealing with an issue that is not emotionally contentious, if you’re trying together with a group to achieve a common goal, using this “objections are goals” approach can help bring a team together and encourage positivity in the face of obstacles. When applied where there is disagreement about the goal, people will feel bulldozed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18184830
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> Unroll.me, an inbox management firm, announced it was completely withdrawing services for EU companies due to an inability to offer its product – which is monetised by selling insights gleaned from reading users’ emails

Dodged a bullet here.

- history.com forwards to their german page history.de as it always did

- Ragnarok Online is working: https://www.ragnarokeurope.com/?lang=de

- Klout sounds just as dirty as unroll

- Super Monday Night Combat is working https://www.uberent.com/smnc/

Sooo what's the problem again?
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You're sentiment is more charitable than mine.

If anybody ever tries to control some other person's activity in this way, and it happens to be my music that's at issue, that will certainly not be an appropriate position to take vis a vis my creation. (Not that my music is really worth anything to anyone, except maybe my song at DjangoCon 2012 :-) ).

I just don't understand how these ideas have even become so pervasive. The idea that I can own a song (or any data) to the exclusion of preventing someone from copying bytes from one drive to another... it's just so strange.
I understand your frustration, but in my experience recruiting, the primary reason behind there being less women getting hired into engineering roles is almost never raw sexism. Maybe in the 90s, but in the early 10s there was tons of policy around it, bosses were setting the culture, we were doing everything "right." But we were still not hiring that many women, simply because hardly any women ever applied. For chem e, Mech e, EE roles with 100 applicants, usually I'd see at most one female applicant. It was rare to getm but when we did we'd push for the interview and they'd get through with an average success rate (compared to make applicants).

I'm hoping industries that hire young are seeing different numbers than I did, because that should signal a shift in older ones that hire senior discipline engineers after a decade or so.

Edit: that said, companies should continue to do what they can to remediate this, but I am furious that the government has done almost nothing about the issue. The underrepresented remain exactly that.
Emacs Lisp has lexical binding these days.

I’d like to see an Emacs with a Common Lisp core, and an elisp execution engine to run all the legacy elisp code. https://github.com/blindglobe/clocc/blob/master/src/cllib/el... looks like a decent first start, although it supports an older version of elisp.

Someday if I have the free time I’d love to spend time working on such a thing. Maybe when I’m retired!
> what does locking memory mean in this context?

I think the person is referring to the mlock() and mlockall() functions (or equivalents on other OS), which keep pages resident / prevents pages from being paged out. Forces them to remain in RAM.

It can be used to, e.g., prevent an encryption key or password from being swapped out to disk, where it might then be recoverable. (Personally, this is why I encrypt swap.)

> what is the performance degradation that happens with low-spec computers?

Locking a larger portion of RAM means less room for the OS to page out unused pages and free up the space for other programs.

While one can try to selectively lock buffers with sensitive data with mlock(), you have to be sure they aren't copied into other buffers that aren't locked (and could thus be subsequently paged out). If you're writing a UI program that displays or receives those in a widget, this might be harder (you might not have access to the internal buffer of the widget, as it is an "implementation detail" of your library), and locking the entire process might be a simpler solution (albeit being a bigger hammer).
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Not that I hate something, but it would be interesting to know why this "Ask HN" is now listed # 27 in the "ask" list, with 22 points, 41 comments and 1 hour of age, right after # 26 with 15 points, 12 comments and 1 day of age ...
As an avid redditor, I wish they preserved the crocodile concept. I can't bring myself to like their "new reddit" and always keep going back to "old.reddit.com/...".
14 month falls under a reasonable warranty period, so you could've claimed that. In the EU at least you'd have a very good case and they wouldn't cause trouble.

It could've been something trivial though, lint tends to pile up in the back of the lightning port, eventually causing the problem you described. Poking the back of the port with a needle or something often helps.
Should we also stop using cars given that walking exists, or stop using computers when we could use a pencil and paper? Is there an amount of energy that the traditional banking system could use beyond which you would recommend people stop using banks?

You may not think that cryptocurrencies provide any benefit to the world (and I admit that I don't own any either), but their energy usage should be evaluated like any other technology or asset: Does the energy they require cost more than the amount of value they create in the market? If it did, then no one would mine cryptocurrencies.

The market value for cryptocurrencies may seem irrational to you, but there are probably lots of things that people value that seems irrational or unnecessary to outside observers. I personally think that a global, low-cost, uncensored means of transacting between strangers is revolutionary, and I look forward to future innovations that will make it more energy efficient (for the same level of usefulness and security).
From the manpage of mlockall

> All pages that contain a part of the specified address range are guaranteed to be resident in RAM when the call returns successfully; the pages are guaranteed to stay in RAM until later unlocked.

So it doesn't matter if the memory is dirty, as long as it's marked as locked.
I suggest using an RSS reader that supports advanced filters. There are many other benefits to RSS even without that, for example not having to rescan over links you've already read or, worse, never going to click.

As far as I know, there isn't a great solution for filtering out links on all pages. You could add sites to uBlock Origin, but you still have to click the link before you figure out it's a blacklisted site. I made a FF plugin for myself that hides links to sites I don't care to ever visit. Technically, it applies css to elements matching regular expressions. So far I've only used it to apply "visibility: hidden" to elements containing a small, but growing, list of domains. It's not perfect, it's not even really good, but I've been happy with it for a few years. If you're interested in trying it, I had to publish it to Add-on page to make it usable (I hate that Mozilla doesn't let us conveniently run any add-on from a local code base), it's called "ssure". It recently started working on FF mobile too, but it's a bit of a pain to configure there.
All the more reason to move from Oracle's Java to MS's .NET Core. They're not the big bad evil company they once were (they can't afford to be today.)
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Please ping me if you do find it :).
> you can't peek under the hood to see why something happened

That's myth. There are approaches to analyze and debug NNs, deep dream basically fell out from one of those.
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Buried, yes, I'm sure.

This should be obvious when testing. Whether the algorithm discriminates should be a top priority for designing these algorithms. That's half the damn math of machine learning. If you can construct an AI, you should know how to test it for flaw in reasoning. It's just another layer of ML to do that. Outliers. It's short sighted to push these things out assuming their output is correct just because it looks 'normal'.
It would scale to your screen, and tapping anywhere on the message body would take you to an app store. The 'close' button would be a fixed 10px square, grey on a black background. It would take at least 2 seconds to load in, and would jump around several times during that process with the button already active.
I used to bike everywhere. It cost me personally. I showed up late sometimes. Wet. Disheveled. Sometimes didn’t go because the distance or weather.

While I’m all behind the “be the change you want to see” method, I sincerely believe that it can actually take you out of the fight.

While I’m bicycling on the way to a meeting someone is there a few mins early / or gets two meeting in, and they are able to lobby more. Or do more. And have more of an impact.

Or said allegorically, we need more sheep in wolve’s clothing to take on the wolves in sheep’s clothing.
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It may not be popular to bring it up here, but the Drudge Report remains very similar to how it has looked for over 20 years.

Here's a look at the site on a random(ish) day in 2001:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010119181300/http://www.drudge...
Those aren't mutually exclusive. Technically speaking, the model can return results "almost at random" and still demonstrate a bias against any particular attribute if that bias is evident in the underlying training dataset.

If there are strictly fewer women in the underlying training set, the model can still return something resembling a uniform distribution of candidates while exacerbating the diminished representation of women.

To give a concrete example: you have a bag of blue dice and red dice. There is a supermajority of blue dice in the bag. Your algorithm selects a single die out of the bag on every iteration. The output sequence of dice numbers appears uniform, but there are more blue dice than red dice in the output sequence.
Do you think he might post under another account?
> tech companies hire more men than women for technology-focused roles.
More men are hired because more men eventually end up taking that branch in the RPG of life.
Gender studies is not likely to land you a job at amazon, unless it is to feed bias into algorithms.
I don't have access to the PDF...how big a difference was there? 1% improvement? 50% improvement?
New bill to end the federal tax credit for electric cars and tax them more
Did you ever try to go directly to insurance companies and pitch to offer your service through them?
Is it possible to make inks that are tuned to very specific frequencies? Any UV lamp (that I expect has a pretty broad spectrum still) would be able to see it, but you need a special one tuned to an exact (secret, but probably easily backwards-engineered) frequency to authenticate the specific ink used.

And then they can print a bar or QR code with exact tracking information and history for the part.
This always fascinated me. What happened to foreign nationals who found themselves 'stuck' in Berlin when Hitler invaded Poland? Were they allowed to leave? Where they imprisoned?
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The whole pattern of ads that 'scale down' as you scroll is horrid. It's a jarring event, usually doesn't happen smoothly as intended, and it almost always heralds an object that's going to follow you down the page. Nothing except maybe tactful menu bars should follow a user scrolling down a page of static text.
According to numbers in the article, a minimum of 24% of music consumers pay for streaming services and also pirate music.
The family separation policy that led to children in cages was definitely a Trump administration policy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_family_se...

Waco was a law enforcement disaster, but one typical of US law enforcement rather than a partisan issue. The policy of distributing MRAP vehicles to police forces has resulted in other victims: https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/08/31/actor-steve...

The entire BLM movement is against state violence by US law enforcement. It's a longstanding problem.

The Oregon ranchers did not prevail in court, they were pardoned by Trump: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44775113
On Windows that's VirtualAlloc with MEM_RESERVE:

Reserves a range of the process's virtual address space without allocating any actual physical storage in memory or in the paging file on disk.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa366887(v=VS.85).a...

Perhaps mmap() can achieve the same on Unices?
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> I can't find any encouragement for downvoting things you simply disagree with

Paul Graham declared it "OK" 10 years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171) and despite realising that it caused problems 2 years later, the problem's never really been fixed.

> Interesting to see how far two subjective perceptions of the same thing

I think this is directly related to the problem.

Bob posts a comment that is not offensive, but 'goes against the grain' for a large part of HN readers, so his comment is downvoted quickly to the point that it doesn't even appear for most people (either literally because they have `showdead` turned off or figuratively because it's greyed out to be almost unreadable, and at the bottom of sometimes long comment threads).

John reads the comment thread and never sees Bob's comment.

John doesn't see the problem because the problem is things not being seen.
ADHD is Sometimes a mental construct that people have to try to explain lapses in motivation and general laziness. To be fair, there are legitimate cases but people will do anything to be diagnosed and find a way to hide behind prescriptions blaming ADHD. Seen it happen.
I'm curious why I don't see any projects applying new ML techniques to text recognition (OCR) in those "advertisements" popping up recently; is this because:

- too boring/mundane?

- "solved problem"/too easy? (then where are the [open source] solutions? is Tesseract-ocr advanced enough already? what's its status?)

- too hard? (is Tesseract-ocr using the state-of-the-art techniques?)
I like how you've qualified your demand, i.e., "show me ONE piece of real evidence or instance where a Democrat willingly sacrificed REAL economic gain to achieve a climate goal". My Magic 8 ball predicts you'll argue any cited examples don't show REAL sacrifice.

http://environment.law.harvard.edu/2018/06/california-cafe-s...

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/10/california-renewab...

I'll punt it back to you. Can you please show me ONE piece of real evidence or instance where the Republican Congress did _anything_ positive regarding climate change?

Also, I won't claim (and didn't) that electing a Democratic majority is sufficient to address climate change. It's just necessary, because only when Republicans realize that they'll continue to lose on climate change that we'll make real bipartisan progress.
I disagree completely. Exclusive content is not to protect against netflix becoming a monopoly. it is for the studio to try to be the monopoly!

if your content has a price in the open, streaming platforms can then compete on price/quality to end user. instead, today, they compete 100% on exclusives.
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We’re going to keep seeing stuff like this until people finally realize that AI isn’t some magic tool that solves every problem. It still reflects the biases and assumptions of its creators and its training data set.
Unreasonable according to you. :)

The nice thing about virtual memory is that it's, well, virtual. It costs you almost nothing until you've touched it. (Fun exercise for the reader: measure the kernel overhead for an unused 1 TiB VMA.) But creating huge spaces--that terabyte mmap wasn't theoretical--that stay untouched is hugely algorithmically useful, especially for things like malloc implementations.

Why does it bother people? Two reasons. First is mlock to avoid swap. This is solvable in much better ways--I'm a fan of disabling swap in many cases anyway. Second is that, absent cgroups, it's difficult to put hard limits on memory usage in Linux. So people, looking under the streetlight, put limits on virtual usage, even though that's not what they care about limiting! Then they get angry when you break it. My refrain here, as in many cases (see for example measuring process CPU time spent in kernel mode): "X is impossible" doesn't justify Y unless Y correctly solves the problem X does.

(I spent years in charge of a major memory allocator so this is a battle I've fought too many times.)
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How complex smart contracts are needed? I think we should keep them simple.
I miss Michael O. Church.

Not that I always agreed with him, but he was really interesting, and his comments consistently made me think about my own biases and opinions in ways few others ever have.
Linux cgroups and Solaris containers atleast also provide a way to avoid paging to disk, without modifying the program.
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"Just add a numeric field added to user account that means "you got N new replies" and show it in the top-right corner next to my username. "

I would like that too. I don't mind not having E-mail notifications but a simple indicator would be very useful.
That's always the excuse but an algorithm that shows bias against women has nothing to do with who has what interest unless that's a variable included in the data set initially. You are inferring that relation implicitly due to the result of the algorithm, but it doesn't mean that value is measured in the original set of data. If the algorithm is skewed to imply that, there is at least the possiblity that the algorithm has been trained to yield that result.

I wouldn't know unless I looked at all the data. But I'm not going to default to the popular opinion because that's literally half or more of the problem.
The lack of a native dark theme.
An excellent article.
> What about cases where the features just merely correlated with a subpopulation of a protected class?

This is just Simpson's paradox [1] which is notoriously hard to identify because you have to compare the overall with the breakdown. As you say, current-AI probably already has such biases.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
I am this exact way. I've come to the conclusion that I seem to be addicted to stress, and my mind purposefully avoids important tasks until almost no time is left, and then it is so much more easy for my brain to concentrate on the task and I achieve a level of focus that honestly produces much better work than when I've deliberately tried to work on a task in a timely manner. I have no idea what to do about this, and my family would be incredibly dismissive and judgmental if I ever tried to seriously see my doctor about this. Any time I have mentioned the potential for ADD I am scoffed at and called lazy. I am not lazy at all, I actually can't stand being unbusy and will find something to do to always be busy. I just have a huge problem focusing on what I actually should be focusing on until the last minute, and my brain is often somewhere else which causes me to forget where I put things all the time. Yet I am the person people seem to trust most if they need help with a critical decision

Does this sound like it could be an issue? I am on Kaiser and I hear they have a TERRIBLE program for psych stuff in general. I hear I would need family to be interviewed or asked if they feel I have issues which, again, they will just say Im lazy and have no problems. Is there a place I can identify a doctor in my area that is either reasonably priced or does not require visits frequently? Even a web based doctor that you visit infrequently?
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Is this not Amazon trying to not discriminate against women?
It's a bit unfair to measure by weight, because mobile phones are light. One television, monitor or desktop computer can weigh more than 10kg, but may not have the same impact on the environment as 10kg/125g = 80 mobile phones. And besides, why stop with mobile phones? We're doing the same with TVs, now they're smart, but 3 year old apps don't work anymore, so: next!
You'll be in the 84% who pay for music subscriptions and in the 38% who pirate.
GDPR to the rescue!
If I get a new device for $29 then why exactly should I care?
Amazing book. It's shocking how much of the forensic "science" that the media has conditioned us to see as infallible is actually mostly junk. Even fingerprint analysis has less than stellar experimental track record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprint#Criticism.
Hi, I decided not to use React when I learned about JSX and CSS in JS.

People (developers who use React) keep telling me it's not true that JSX and CSS in JS make you write the worst possible HTML.

I keep seeing them writing things like <span><h1><span>my title</span></h1></span>.
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