skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a nice cherry-picking over the sources you're doing here.
From Scientific American, quoting USGS:

> According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the world’s volcanoes, both on land and undersea, generate about 200 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually, while our automotive and industrial activities cause some 24 billion tons of CO2 emissions every year worldwide

But I guess you're more knowledgeable on the subject than the US geological survey?

> On average, human activities put out in just three to five days, the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide that volcanoes produce globally each year

https://www.usgs.gov/news/human-activities-produce-more-carb...
I don't know; it sure seems like people understood the issues in 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1636198
AI learns from the training data it's given and copies any biases this data exhibits.
Pretty much all software today uses ML in some form to improve their services. I feel it's here to stay and not bad by default. We just have to make sure we are aware of its current limitations.

Facebook is already auto-flagging content this way but it's just a very hard problem (even for humans).
Virtual memory is different than resident / RSS ...
Thanks for the kind words, and it's fun to hear that you're local! I think I should have clarified more about my view of an assembly compiler:

A "bespoke backend, going to assembly directly" does not preclude the option of integrating with an Erlang/Elixir project. In fact, I think that you could do so via ports or NIFs in such a way that the caller wouldn't know the difference. I think of the Erlang JSON libarary, jiffy. It's largely implemented in C for performance, but the language it's written in doesn't seem to matter in practice. As long as there is an easy way to integrate it into your Erlang/Elixir project.

I think an "Elm on the server" solution would work much the same way. Focused on making a clean integration point—then choose whatever implementation leads to the most performant and reliable artifact.
Well, there is plenty of hydrogen in the water indeed. If there was any worry that we are going to run out of hydrogen, and willing to pay hundreds of dollars per kg (uranium fuel cost), we would totally get it from sea water.

In which case hydrogen supply would be technically infinite.

As for your second concern, could you elaborate, why centralisation such a critical barrier to achieving co2-free energy production? Never heard this argument before.
Thanks! We've updated the link from https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-open-sources-its-ent..., which points to this.
Exactly. They put people in charge of departments they either hate or don't understand like Ross at Commerce or Perry at Energy.
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I'm not sure they've really changed, but I judge them from an enterprise viewpoint. I think their strategy has certainly changed, but I think their core ideals have remained the same, and I think they are really just honing in on their primary market.

Their tech still doesn't play well with others, only in the areas where they absolutely have to.

I think Sharepoint in the cloud is a good example. It's really great if you let it handle most things, maybe you buy a theme or maybe something bigger to put on top, but generally you let Sharepoint handle most things on your intranet. You'll include a few non-Microsoft systems through Sharepoint apps or widgets, and that still works well enough. That's the great use case. The terrible use case, is using it alongside 500 other IT systems and trying to include those, the way you'd like a modern enterprise intranet to do.

We have a system to report our driving to get it refunded. Another system to get vacation time accepted and validated, and a third system for sick leave. All with their own web-interfaces, mobile apps and open APIs. They rely on AD and ADFS for authentication, but they're their own things. Sure you can build a Sharepoint specific plugin for each of them, but a modern intranet should really support stuff like VUE stand alone widgets/apps so that you can share those widgets between systems and you really can't do that with a Sharepoint plugin.

We use Azure a lot, like I said, and it I think it's great, but it's very clear that .NET is very first class in Azure. You can argue that stuff like Node.js is up there, and maybe the few python frameworks that Microsoft support with visual studio, but JAVA, Go, Flutter or whatever you can think of certainly isn't smooth in Azure.

And just try using non-outlook, libra office or something other than one drive for business in your Microsoft enterprise setup, you can, but it's not very nice.

I'm sounding negative, but I actually really like Microsoft. I think they're great at what they do, and I think they're one of the best partners you can have in enterprise, along as you embrace their tech. But that's the catch, and that's why I think they haven't really changed their core values. I do think it's perfectly reasonable, for them to want you to use their technologies, from a business point of view, but when I look at the options for stuff like cloud, I think it's very clear that Azure wants you to also build your backbone in .NET with maybe Node.js + a JS framework on the front, where as with AWS I feel like Amazon doesn't really care what your stack is.
Interesting... I don't know much about him.

Wikipedia mentions briefly that he worked at Sun. What did he do there, for how long, with whom, and how did that influence his time at Microsoft?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Nadella
And here I thought nobody replied because I was always right on this internets.
Probably being used for age bias as well...
Step 1: convince the populations of America, Canada, Western Europe, and 30% of South America that the Han Chinese can be accurately defined as "white."

Step 1a: Redefine Chinese history to include colonization as a volitional act (as opposed to an externally imposed act).

Step 2: make as many parallels as possible (from accurate to completely spurious) between the Uighurs and Armenians, Tutsis, Jews, Cherokee, and any other minority group with an accepted history of genocidal suffering.

Step 3: Make two lists: one will be countries, organizations, and powerful people who stand to gain from Chinese failure; the other will be the same kind of actors who stand to gain from Chinese success. Tally the GDP, net worth, and gross total population of the lists. If list one is bigger than list two, proceed to Step 4. If it is not, SoL.

Step 4: Using the actors from list one, introduce a number of motions, initiatives, and resolutions in the UN, using as many different subcommittees as possible, on any topic relating to China. It doesn't matter what they are about.

Step 4a: Begin developing a war chest via private funding. The ostensible reasons of collection are irrelevant; funnel a static percentage of each initiative into index funds, core commodities, and urban renewal programs that enjoy strong government support.

Step 5: Wait.

Step 5a: Hire as many independent investigators, spies for higher, etc., to document the "genocide" (their documentation can be real or fabricated; accuracy is not the goal, preponderance of evidence is).

Step 6: Sit back in abject horror with your legion of supporters, billions of dollars, and massive effort while the Han perpetrate a massive cull of "undesirables."

Step 7: Take power in the aftermath of WWIII on the basis that you did everything you could to forestall the inevitable, making a particular effort to demonstrate that you will make sure it never happens again.
So it depends how you set up the experiment right? I would assume the question you are posing to AI is not how much the resume in question resembles the set of resumes of hired engineers, but rather: given a resume, what is the probability that candidate will eventually be hired?

So the classification function should take into account the resumes of rejected engineers, rather than the pool of resumes of hired employees at Amazon. If someone is seeking a position as an engineer, it is not relevant how much their resume resembles that of HR people, but it is very relevant how much it resembles that of rejected engineering candidates.

If that's the case, then something like having the phrase "women's chess club" in one's resume should not be a meaningful factor for the classifier unless it disproportionately leads to rejection in the current process.
No, he wants to separate virtual address space allocation from physical memory backing allocation, with both still happening manually. It's a very reasonable request, and the benefit is that you can be guaranteed to have the address space while still only using a smaller max amount of physical memory.
Given that Amazon is so far unable to successfully recommend any product which I actually want, even given the vast dataset of my Amazon purchase history, I am not remotely surprised that their engineers can't successfully develop a people recommendation engine either.
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There was a US project to produce a fission powered plane, starting in 1946: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Nuclear_Propulsion

There were recently some rumours about the Russians producing a nuclear powered cruise missile.

I'm not sure a fusion powered plane would be any less crazy. At least with D-T fusion you have a MUCH higher neutron radiation requiring more shielding. OTOH if the plane crashes there's less worry about nuclear waste spreading over the landscape.
What would happen if you removed gender from all HR and recruiting systems and then retrain the AI? Or for that matter, remove ethnicity, age, creed, etc... Is there any reason we need to be more specific?

Race: Human

Gender: Yes

Age of legal contractual consent: Yes
What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe? Start an economical catastrophe.

We need to immediately, and meaningfully, move away from oil, gas, and other carbon heavy industries in any way that we presently have the means to do so.

If everyone who is presently in the market for a new vehicle could afford to buy an electric one, we'd probably be in better shape. If every household could put solar panels and take a load off of the grid, we would be moving in the right direction.

The problem is these technologies are new, and expensive, and they can't be effective at solving the problem they set out to solve without mass adoption.

Mass adoption won't even _begin_ to happen until the average person can pick up a used Model 3 for around $10k. Where populations heavily use mopeds and motorcycles we need a flood of affordable electric alternatives. Both of those scenarios are at least a decade out.

If we need to solve this in 12 years we're screwed. Best bet is to move somewhere cold and inland. Then at least you can be somewhat comfortable while the whole thing goes down. Although the process of moving the world's economy away from oil (to whatever extent that can be achieved while still producing plastics etc.) is going to make life miserable no matter where you are.
This is not very surprising - Machine Learning algorithms trained on biased datasets tend to pick up the hidden biases in the training data. It’s important that we be transparent about the training data that we are using, and are looking for hidden biases in it, otherwise we are building biased systems. Fortunately, there are open source tools out there that help audit machine learning models for bias, such as Audit AI, released by pymetrics - https://github.com/pymetrics/audit-ai
Here's the original press release on the OIN website: https://www.openinventionnetwork.com/pressrelease_details/?i...
> you become dizzy with too much O2 in your blood

I've never heard of this, can you elaborate?
> There's also the idea that lack of women scientist "heroes" can be limiting (lack of role models)

This one is a bit weird, computer guys were always "nerds" and "geeks" to stay away from.
That's not what I am talking about. Bulk collectors for a single home are ~500$. Flat plates run $1,000 - $2,500 per home. Evacuated tubes cost more and collect less energy, but produce hotter water. https://modernize.com/home-ideas/34541/solar-water-heater-co...

1 square meter evacuated solar tubing is used for hot water systems not home heating. It's a question of output temperature, the warmer the water the less cost efficient and more costly the system. High end systems include a backup water heater which means you directly save 1k on a hot water heater.

Anyway, for home heating you don't need 'hot' water, a heat pump operating on even 60f water vs 0f or below air is very efficient. You can also pre heat cold water with a flat plate feed that into your normal water heater and again save a lot of energy.

PS: Also, many people pay 1,000-2000$ / year on home heating even with a well insulated house. These systems generally have payback period under 10 years, assuming you actually need significant amounts of heat.
Unfortunately using open source work, even if only for programming, introduces all sorts of biases as well. A lot of very competent programmers work at jobs that do not have open source contributions and also have families which limit the time they can spend coding after work.
Thanks for sharing. This is how I interact with HN. I typically sort by top 20 of the day.
Do you really need to serve ads on your demo site?

Maybe you do, but that doesn't seem very OSS.
I dont quite understand your point. You dont have to be on Oracle Java -- you could be on OpenJDK which is supported by RedHat among others.
You can already do all of your examples. URLs are autolinked, bullet points just require \n\n, and there's a 4-space prefix for preformatted text.

I think extraneous formatting would just create more incentives to write long, pretentious, streams of consciousness comments where someone just screams from their soap box instead of actually engaging anyone.
Or maybe it recognised that women were consistently the worst candidates.
Until one of us shows some kind of proof, we are both just guessing.

Now companies might do dumb stuff, but they don't just continue to grow and dominate by making exclusively bad decisions. Google is built on targeted advertising, and it's paid off for them very well, so it can't be a complete boondoggle.

The wikipedia article on targeted advertising says that targeted ads make about 2.7 more money than the alternative.

I don't have any numbers on material costs, but I can't imagine it costing users that much in electricity. Still, it is just a guess so if you have anything that shows otherwise I'd love to read it!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted_advertising
Wouldn't an easy way to eliminate bias be to remove any algorithms that use name recognition and gender? If the Ai doesn't have this data to "reason" from wouldn't it level the playing field?
Step into your engineering or computer science department and walk into any upper division class and count the females and count the males. That some companies have upwards of 20% females is more likely indicative of extreme bias in hiring as you're not going to find even remotely close to 20% females there. Enter in most measures of competence and you'll find the division is no different. E.g. - if females were being disproportionately hired because of disproportionately positive performance then this might not be an issue, but there seems to be no evidence for that whatsoever.

This view that the only thing holding people back is some sort of social or systemic bias seems to be based on nothing except ideology. Incidentally, it's an ideology I also used to hold. Like a good egalitarian I pushed my wife away from sociology and into majoring in CS. She did perfectly well, as did I. More than a decade later she works with people and I work with code. I've no regrets there, but it's not so clear that my persuasion was really the best idea.

Norway is another interesting example here. It is considered by many to be the most gender equal location in the world. Yet you'll still find that nurses are primarily female, doctors are primarily male, and all other 'stereotypical' divisions present in most all developed nations. They tried to change these divisions and with extensive effort were able to effect a roughly constant change in some fields. But again, once that push was relinquished things went just about identically to as they were in very short order. Ultimately we're flexible enough that you can manage to fit a square peg into a round hole at times, but once you stop squeezing that peg goes back to what it wants to be.
I use Dark Reader for Chrome. The dark mode on HN makes the comments easy to read.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-reader/eimadp...
> July 2014 Malaysia Airlines attack, who knew Putin had flown over the area in a near identical near looking aircraft before hand?

"near identical looking"? Because, you know, either AA missiles are based on visual recognition AI or they're manned by special breed of operators who can distinguish fine details on planes 10 kilometers up in the sky.
Great advice and also don’t sleep on wfmu.org for music discovery and all around refreshingly non-corporate experience
> Still, at every point in time until about 2000 or so, only Amigas produced better sounds among personal computers.

Gravis Ultrasound was released in 1992. It was probably best known in the demo scene, but got some game support too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravis_Ultrasound
What? If you've had your favorite app on your phone for the past 5 years and refused to update in that time, then it'll still work? And in that case you're clearly not bothered by using old software.

People always demand new features, but want them on their old devices. Apple at least offers you the option.

Also, I don't see how that is different from an Android device that did not receive updates for 3 years and "your favorite app" that surely will be maintained for all eternity on an outdated system ...
>That basic logic doesn’t change as the marginal cost goes to zero.

Actually, I think it does change precisely when it reaches zero. It's only because of the marketing language of the industry that we are enticed to believe that something that can be copied billions and trillions of times at no cost is some kind of valuable finite artifact.
Oracle's not the biggest fish either, but that hasn't improved their behavior.

If Microsoft is a lawnmower that will chop your arm off if you put it in the wrong place, Oracle is a self-driving lawnmower that will hunt you down.
Ah, I see--it's all mapped pages, not all pages as
irishsultan's comment says. That makes a lot more sense, thanks!
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It entirely depends on your goals. If you want to be a productive engineer, then most of that stuff is not going to be useful in your job.

OTOH, if you study physics at an advanced level, it's rather shocking how effectively all that analysis models the world, despite throwing away a lot of information. Try studying solid state physics. It's crazy the number of assumptions they make, and yet the theory still produces very accurate results.

There's a reason Eugene Wigner penned an essay with the title "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics".
Note I didn't claim debit cards don't exist here, just that they are not very common, especially for online payments.

I personally live in Germany, in the middle of my live, with kids and a big household etc. and have never used a credit card, nor have I undergone a single situation where I needed one.
They died years ago. This is just the funeral.
The more I think about it, the less I believe the whole "I am responsible for my emotions". It is true in some situations and not in others. As a strategy, it makes it impossible to adress abusive or manipulative people while it makes it easier for abusive people to get their way. You are responsible for reaction, but certain emotions are perfectly natural and normal.

0.) There are many people who purposely insult others and then brag about it. When I go out of my way to make you pissed off for own pleasure, then blaming you for being angry is unfair. Then there are people who push and see how you react. If you are doormat, you get more abuse. Here insult have purpose.

1.) This ideology is more focused on pretending emotions don't exist or framing you as bad/weak if you have then. But, it allows you to "retaliate" against third parties.

2.) It is asymetric. Insulted person is expected to have perfect emotional control while the lack of such control on the side of the one who insulted you is ignored or seen as strength.

3.) It leaves you with two options - leaving or bending over to abusive people. There is little space for standing for yourself without becoming abusive yourself.

Imagine a group of respectful people competing with each other. Then the abuser comes in and intentionally causes stress and discomfort to competitors. If you don't allow the respectful people to address his behavior or openly talk about its consequences without sounding "weak", then the abuser is in advantage. They spend effort to manage those negative emotions while he does not have to. He is less in advantage where "stop insulting me" or "stop constantly undermine me" are legitimate things to say.
Did you read the article?

(Serious question. Not intended as snark. Genuinely wondering if I'm missing some deeper current in your post?)
When does the timer start? Microsoft started open sourcing a lot of its core technology over four years ago (.NET Core being one example).
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Just the reminder - most (if not all) Bellingcat investigations about MH-17 proved to be true.

So 'armchair' investigators apparently beat thousands of 'professional' Russian FSB/DoD investigators.
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Capitalism is becoming less competitive
Aha -- that makes practical sense.

(and a reply from the person in whose perspective I was most interested!)
Took longer than I expected, but unsurprising otherwise.
Twice. It doesn’t support OP’s conclusions.
I share the desire to permanently own media. Amazon have been selling music as DRM-free mp3 files since 2008, though, so that option is already available from a legal, mainstream online shop.
Thanks! Pi-hole is a great project. We have been looking at how to incorporate filtering. Current challenge is making DOH more accessible through a reverse proxy. Coming soon: https://github.com/commonshost/dohnut
That certainly was true. The war was already lost when they were still deeply into Russia. the last 2 years of WW2 were just trying to fight off the inevitable.
Moldova’s startup scene: Taking off to global hubs
Why do you feel a strong desire for ownership?

I enjoy going to art museums and experiencing visual art, but I never experienced the inclination to purchase any of it. Music to me is a lot like that.
I trust paypal. Recently eBay has been trying to force people to use visa directly and some functionality when using paypal (could not set delivery address for a gift) has been missing. I tell you one thing. I will stop using eBay before I stop using Paypal.
One Year of #MeToo: How the Movement Eludes Government Surveillance in China
To clarify, he said that he couldn't repair the iPhone (with you paying for it)?
My understanding was that mlock doesn't really keep the page from being paged out, since it can't even begin to do that in the hibernation case, or if you're running as a VM who's guest RAM wasn't mlocked.

What it does is keep a canonical version of the page in memory. That's useful being able to deterministically touch a piece of memory, but it doesn't really help you as far as making sure the page never touches disk.