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I did not at all get from the article "amazon knew about and accounted for the gender bias".

"Amazon edited the programs to make them neutral to these particular terms. But that was no guarantee that the machines would not devise other ways of sorting candidates that could prove discriminatory." I read that as a very different statement - as written, Amazon corrected two specific instances of keyword gender bias by hand, but couldn't reliably prevent further bias (including gender bias) from arising. That's where tricks like "ask the system to classify gender, and then un-train via that data" come in.

(I don't mean you're wrong, just that if gender bias was accounted for more generally, the article should have said so.)

That said, I think our disagreement might just be a miscommunication on what went wrong in the first place. If you know some people involved, maybe you can help clarify the situation?

The article totally fails to explain why "most engineering resumes are from men" led to an algorithm that downrated female resumes. "Most applicants had brown hair" does not produce a system that downrates blondes if you tell it hair color. So the question is - was the training data biased against female applicants (in which case why wasn't it caught before specific outputs needed modification?), or did something else altogether cause this issue (in which case what?)
Yeah, but not over the network. It specifically disallows UNC paths.
They mention another Soyuz accident in the article.
I don't think anyone would disagree that the vast majority of content in any medium is tripe. And that doesn't assert that it fails to make "a positive contribution to knowledge". IMO "tripe" implies only: 1) it fails to achieve its intended end, usually through incompetence, or 2) it achieves its intended end, but it's aesthetically or ethically vile (like hate speech or child porn), or 3) it's a time filler, a mindless distraction, usually a palatable cliché.

I think it's fair to say the vast majority of popular media belongs in classes 1 or 3. To deride such fare as "tripe" isn't unfair. Tripe has utility too. It's just bowel meat.
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Crewed rockets are Soyuz-FG, other rockets used to be Soyuz-U, then Soyuz-2, variations Soyuz-2.1a and Soyuz-2.1b . Those are slightly different rockets - mainly engines of first stage (four booster parts) are different (if I'm not mistaken) and 3rd stage is different.
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That's why the system is called L4Re nowadays, and the microkernel specifically "L4Re microkernel". Fiasco however remains the nerd version, let alone to have discussions as those here.
Most of the ones in the Bay Area are, to my knowledge relatively small "retail" colo spaces.

200 Paul, 528 Bryant is PAIX, 11 Great Oaks is Equinix. SV2 got shut down years ago. I don't remember AWS ever being in 3000 Corvin, which is a tiny, poorly powered data center.

As an example of how old this data is, I reported to someone in 2014 time frame that led data center operations for some AWS regions including North America. He told stories of vacating 200 Paul, I'm guessing in the pre-2010 timeframe.

In any case, none of this information is that big of a secret. It's all in the public record. It's pretty hard to build something that size and with that degree of power consumption without others noticing. There's generally plenty of news media about such things:

http://www.eastoregonian.com/eo/local-news/20170317/amazon-k...
Is there a plan to create a version that generate the graphs and manage all the filtering on the server side instead of having all the data in the browser?

This will be very helpful for cases that uses large datasets...

I built visualization using dc.js, and working with large datasets was the biggest pain point for me.

http://adilmoujahid.com/posts/2016/08/interactive-data-visua...
Soyuz MS-10 makes emergency landing after a launch failure
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Yes, R has the now-RStudio-supported plumber package (https://github.com/trestletech/plumber), roughly flask for R.

There's also opencpu (https://github.com/opencpu/opencpu), though the pros/cons of one vs the other has never been clear to me.
Presumably this will push up the schedule for the live abort tests for the SpaceX and Boeing systems. That would appear to be the "nut" in the schedule before those systems become operational.

Of course there is still a Soyuz attached to the Space Station and it can return the crew, but that that would leave the station unmanned. Not something it is really designed for as I understand it. And even before that drastic call is made we can still send supplies up so it isn't like they would be in danger of running out of stuff.

Personally I'm very impressed with the reliability of the Soyuz system. Still I would love to have Boeing and SpaceX get certified sooner rather than later.
It's the only one there. The current crew will be using it to return to earth at some point. The manufacturing defect is in a portion of the spacecraft that is jettisoned before reentry anyway.
Yes. It happened right after they ejected the escape rocket (which is probably terrifying to use), so they used the stage separation mechanism.

That's a much gentler experience, provided the booster doesn't explode.
Anyone answering that question would be including bonuses. Or maybe you use a question like that to determine who the suckers are? How does one’s compensation at their previous company have any bearing whatsoever on how much value they can provide to a new employer, other than trying to low-ball them?
He meant "centralised in the serialisation library". I don't see how that conflicts with versioned evolution, especially because protobufs historically did verify the presence of fields.

The story behind "required considered harmful" at Google is really quite shameful. I was there at the time and couldn't quite believe people were making that argument. Beyond all the logical problems with it, they were basically saying Jeff Dean didn't know what he was doing when he made that decision (except they never actually said it explicitly because the notion itself would have been subjected to ridicule).

I used to like protobufs but I wouldn't use proto3. It seems to have regressed over time instead of getting better. Partly this is because the wire format is not evolvable. Protobufs do not have a "this is protobufs v1" header in them. This also explains the type system issues: Google cannot/will not evolve the wire format so each new version of protobufs is just different tooling and APIs over it.
I'm pretty sure SBCL compiles everything too. From "Compiler-only Implementation," section 2.3.3 (page 14) of the user manual (http://sbcl.org/manual/sbcl.pdf):

SBCL is essentially a compiler-only implementation of Common Lisp. That is, for all but a few special cases,
eval creates a lambda expression, calls compile on the lambda expression to create a compiled function, and then calls funcall on the resulting function object. A more traditional interpreter is also available on default builds; it is usually only called internally. This is explicitly allowed by the ANSI standard, but leads to some oddities; e.g. at default settings, functionp and compiled-function-p are equivalent, and they collapse into the same function when SBCL is built without the interpreter.
Wikileaks desires whatever putin tells them to desire.
Escape on BFR will likely be similar to escape with Falcon 9/Crew Dragon: that is, BFS itself has more than enough thrust to very quickly distance itself from a failing BFB, and it would probably be able to land itself on a nearby but safely distant emergency landing pad.

Now an argument can be made that BFS needs an escape pod or two, but those would mostly be useful in circumstances other than failure during launch.

(For those unfamiliar, BFB = Big Falcon Booster, BFS = Big Falcon Ship. BFR is both working in unison)
I kind of think Amazon botched this from a PR perspective. It could have been a total win for them. Instead, it looks like a scam. Even if it isn't a scam, and employees will truly be better off (which is probably true), it at the very least failed to capitalize on the opportunity to look like a progressive company that cares about its employees.
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The cash bonuses were monthly. I used to work in those warehouses. They definitely helped. Amazon and Bezos could definitely afford to keep all those programs and still give those employees a raise they deserve. The working conditions there are terrible.
Those have been vacated by AWS for quite a while.
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They could allocate on the stack; we just don't implement that optimization yet. That's because, as kibwen said, it would almost never kick in in practice.
Thanks, I never bothered with MESA/Cedar.. because mesa reminds me of opengl linux libs .. enjoy the wat.
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This is a problem with Amazon PR misrepresenting a salary increase that isn't actually what they protrayed it as originally.
To me the scary part is the regime's unpredictability combined with the proximity to Seoul. Even without nuclear weapons, someone waking up in a bad mood could result in hundreds of thousands of casualties.
What part of this is 'fake'?

Why should the media be cutting Amazon slack?
> Because they're not the same HN users?

This; people keep confusing conflicting vocal minorities with a minority with shared but incoherent preferences.
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Possibly! I don't think I'd qualify until 2020 because my 2018 income is over the limit because of my earnings at Google in the beginning of the year. My understanding is that it's based on the previous year's income, so I'd have to earn nothing in 2019.

I'm not sure if I'd apply in any case. I feel like it's questionable ethically to take public assistance when I could earn a high income if I chose to work for an employer.
So sick of this. Trump wins an election and now reddit and all of social media made the world a worse place?

Was this guy a PR guy for reddit like the former google PR woman lambasting google?

What's with the childishness of these former tech people? Just because things haven't gone your way, you whine all day?

Reddit and social has made the world a lot better place. LGBT people are better accepted in society because of reddit and social media. People from religions like mormons are better able to separate themselves from the tyranny of their religion. Atheists are more accepted. A black president, something almost unthinkable, was elected partly because of reddit and social media.

I'd rather a world without nymag and journalists than a world without HN, reddit, etc.

Ever since trump's election, we've had nonstop propaganda from the useless agenda pushing journalists and their media organizations.

I wish these children would grow up already. The point of elections and life is that you win some and you lose some.

Instead of giving preference to useless news and magazines, social media companies should simply ban then just to give them a taste of their own medicine.

And what made reddit, twitter and much of social media so toxic isn't social media, it's journalists and media companies pushing their way into social media.

Reddit became toxic when it succumb to media pressure to give journalists and media companies special preference. And when major default subs like politics, news, worldnews, etc got handed over to the media and the democratic party.
What do they actually plan to do with the SLS? I only hear that it's really needed but they are pretty vague about what for.
use firefox. And the bonus is that you won't have all the privacy consern chrome pose.
The hole is drilled in the orbital compartment of the Soyuz, not in the landing capsule. If you don't forget your spacesuit - which you shouldn't forget anyway - you're reasonably safe.
You can use dplyr syntax on data tables, usually with data table speed, especially if you load dtplyr.
Sigh.

Amazon's move probably represents the needs of a highly competitive labor market in the face of important holiday business, not "political pressure" or the media.

Fake news indeed.
This is true. The USSR, at one point, had (by far) the best education system in the world. Now it's nowhere near being in the top 5.
Your argument is valid, the QuickStart example isn’t wrong though. Webpack is somewhat the bundling standard in front end. What they showed, I can easily get it working in a large project without a lot of kungfu.

If you want the walt->wasm function, it’s usually the loader.

And yes, you can invoke the loader standalone.

Perhaps they should give a much simpler example and then later a webpack example.

It’s open source, open a PR may be?
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Ask HN: How does this man have access to every DNS query worldwide?
In the article linked below, a man named "Max" is reputed to be able to view worldwide DNS requests in realtime. How is this possible?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/15/was-there-a-connection-between-a-russian-bank-and-the-trump-campaign
I think some mastodon[0] servers are run this way: users pay a small portion to cover hosting costs and there is usually some topic that brings that server/community together. However, you are not limited to a single mastodon community because they are federated (similar to email where gmail users can communicate with hotmail users).

[0]: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon
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One advantage is that you avoid having to jettison the escape tower which would add some complexity and risk.

Also, the engines are designed for use in space during a normal mission and to be recovered. So in that configuration the crew would still need to be located close to a hydrazine thruster as a part of a normal flight.
Reading Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman is a great start.

There is a whole track on design at Coursera, but I only watched one course from it, so can't say anything about its quality.

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/interaction-design

It seems the term "design thinking" has been hijacked by consultants. What I mean by it: being aware of how tools/artifacts drives people's actions/behaviors and changing the former to proactively make people's lives better. Sounds simple, but in practice today's world is obsessed with needs, wants and features, not the actual process of living with technology and other human artifacts.
Keep in mind that at many companies the promotion isn't to manager but to the next class of engineering ie engineer I to engineer II. This is how you increase your pay. Also if you don't get promoted within a certain amount of time, some companies will manage you out
Yes, but a bot like this can help you dry rehearse and check out different outcomes

Then you can use a lawyer MUCH more effectively and use less hours, or WASTE less hours.

Right now lawyers are a black box of costs, efficacy and process. They get so many frantic people that they'll just say "it depends" for everything and collectively they have never bothered with having flow charts for any issue no matter how common.

There isn't even as much as a SCATTERPLOT of law firm:issues:to cost, just "it depends"

so, an app like this can help people with one of those prongs, and doesn't need to be relied on for the whole process. But can be.
This is amazing. Yes! I’ve always wanted something like this.

I wonder if we could make a boiled down typescript language server that would give excellent code completion and squiggles for Walt.
I wonder what % of people you lose right there because you're trying to be smart/clean/whatever with "the email" link.
Is the "robot lawyer" licensed to practice law? It's one thing to publish a parking ticket script. It's another to actually file lawsuits on someone's behalf. Once he clears the regulatory hurdles, there might be a place for more legal automation on the client side.
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In answer to your question -- my sense is that you can spin up super nice dashboards using shiny, and those will be opinionated HTTP interfaces. If you want to combine the flexibility of a bonafide web framework, and R shiny dashboards, you're going to have a rough time. R shiny itself has a pretty rough HTTP implementation built in.

So I'd say the answer is yes, and you'll have a good time as long you only need the HTTP interface to do certain things (responsive dashboards; and do them well!).

Webserver implementations exist in R, but don't have near the time / attention put into them as with Python.
Very pleased to see such a debate going on over wind propulsion in commerial shipping. I am the secretary of the International windship Association (IWSA), www.wind-ship.org, we are a not-for-profit that represents over 50 technology and project members developing these systems, and Norsepower, the manufacturer of these rotorsails is one of those. There are currently 6 commercial vessels in operation using variants of the flettner rotor, E-ship 1, a new build vessel that was launch in 2009 and has operated around the world, The M/V Estraden in operation since 2014 on a regular ferry route from Rotterdam to Hull, and then 4 new vessel installations this year, the MV Afros, 64,000dwt bulker with 4 rotors, the Maersk Pelican tanker with 2, the MV Fehn Pollux and the Viking Grace ferry/crusie with single rotors. If you are interested to engage with the sector, please visit the website, join our linkedin group or request a newsletter - we will have a large number of announcments coming from the 5 wind propulsion technology solutions in the coming months too. All the best Gavin Allwright, IWSA Secretary www.wind-ship.org
You need to address the question of federation.

If you have a thousand unconnected small networks, you're going to be unable to compete with worldwide networks.
Nobody is asking for generational indices to be added to the core language. There would be zero benefit. We have a package manager for a reason.

Maybe we could uplift them to the nursery, but again, generational indices are nowhere near the top 10 crates on crates.io.
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It only requires one black swan to counter the proposition that all swans are white. Bathing is my swan. Surely it's clear that a direct contradiction is not "innuendo." Nor pedantic - hardly, since everyone is familiar with bathing. (They didn't have to be familiar with the philosopher of science Hempel's writings - the origin of the black swan remark, here - to understand the contradiction.)
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Before anything, just after waking up. 7min is not enough to deplete the body of energy.
"We cannot have a society in which, if two people wish to communicate, the only way that can happen is if it's financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them" - From another article about Jaron Lanier
How large are we talking? I haven't had any problems with dplyr performance as long as my data fits in main memory. (I have 16GB, so that means single digit GB data frames at most - I realize that doesn't qualify as "very large".) It does slow down considerably for larger data sets, but I assumed that that was because it was hitting the pagefile.
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I mention pharo below, there's a mooc published there https://siemenbaader.github.io/PharoMooc-website/

I did the first version of that, it was easy to get pharo image and program to try it. I highly suggest playing with it.

- feeling of a single language and semantics at all layers
- very different OO feel than java/cpp, much more human, much more thoughtful
I can confidently predict that the lifetime profile for C++ will get almost no real-world use.
The outrage machine climbing ever higher toward peak nuttery. We already seem to be a point where the majority of the media output is focused on spurring outrage in a given story, talking about something we're all supposed to be outraged about, or trying to spark outrage where there shouldn't be any. Then it hands off to social media, where the consumers compete to see who can be the most outraged, for social tribe points.
It sounds like you're very happy with your career decisions. How long did you work on the startup before it was acquired?
But when I search for coffee maker without sort they show coffee filters. Just sort that list by price and let me figure out how to deal with coffee filters. In my opinion a sort should not change the content of the list.
Eventually we will learn, and practice, that growing a single crop in gigantic monocultures like this is a bad idea.

At what point do we run out of other varieties of crops to take genes from?

I think the sustainable end point are genetically engineered yeasts grown in sterile indoor pools that takes in sunlight, growth medium and minerals to product some kind of nutritionally complete Soylent for humans to eat.
I didn't even know there was a new Mary Poppins!
Several years at Google, but got bored/frustrated like every Googler, and left to do a startup. That started off great but eventually fizzled, we got acquihired into a lame-ass company that I rode out for a couple of years, and then tried to do another startup never got off the ground. Now several years later, I'm at another FAANG. Fairly certain that my savings, salary and stock, career development, and overall confidence would be an order of magnitude higher had I stayed put and used the leverage I had at Google, to find a better project instead of leaving.

I don't actively regret all this -- I took the risk and did not come out on top. But the warning I'd give to others is that since 10 year ago, FAANGs probably give you the best possible deal, despite what VCs and entrepreneur bloggers want to tell you.
I hate the "Then you must believe/support X" pattern (as a response to someone stating some position that is only faintly related to X). It puts words in the previous poster's mouth. It also hijacks the conversation, because X wasn't the topic, nor even near the topic.

I hate the number of people who want to argue but not listen.
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> I think Rust on its current state, is more indicated for GC free scenarios with either CLI or headless execution.

That's funny, because the largest deployment of Rust is in Firefox, which has a UI.
I disagree. Many people doing startups for the first time have no experience running a business and no idea what the actual building blocks are. I think YC's library of advice are a goldmine for them, because of the simple lessons like "validate the market" or "get feedback from people who are not friends or family". It doesn't seem like they're hearing that anywhere else.
Yes, I recall that they were using Clozure for dev and SBCL for production because of that at some point.
Venture capital investment is growing faster outside the US