skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't seem like it would be all that labor intensive. Just change a part on the line, from what it described. I think if they were specifically targeting Apple & Amazon there would have to be someone complicit in Supermicro making sure that motherboards with the special part went to the right destinations. That seems more labor intensive than actually swapping the modified part.
Right, so the "AI" is not finding the best candidates, but instead finding candidates that succeed in the old hiring process. What I'd like to see (though I'm sure this would get me laughed out of a manager's office) would be a certain fraction of random hires. Then we could train the model on success statistics based on 60,90,120 day performance (or longer!).

At the least, they should interview a certain subset of randomly chosen applicants or else the feedback loop from the interviewing process and the AI is going to grow tighter and tighter.
You can't have regulatory capture without regulations!

That is mostly tongue in cheek of course, but it does really bring up a point in that if there were stringent controls on regulation it could help minimize the issue. And if nothing else there's some beautiful irony in regulation being in need of regulation.
"Incredibly, the State of California, via Attorney General Kamala Harris, decided to appeal the case. The state's key argument: That putting a fake confession in the transcript wasn't "outrageous" because it didn't involve physical brutality, like chaining someone to a radiator and beating him with a hose."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/03/08/justice-ho...

This should have ended her career, as it is unforgivable. But she might be the epitome of the downside of "good ol boy" politics.
I know diversity in tech is a hot button issue but I think hidden underneath the politics of it all the most important reason to champion more diversity is AI.

I don't think we're anywhere close to general AI so any AI system out there is built on what we feed it. If your music suggestion algorithm has a biased AI that's one thing, but when you're using AI to make critical decisions in society like who gets hired/recurited, medical diagnoses and other things you need to be extremely careful.

When designing AI models the broadest set of viewpoints should be considered. Any piece of AI is simply a reflection of it's creators, we need to make sure that some sort of equitable consensus is reached before deploying AI to critical human scale issues.
Is it still Capitalism when the government prevents the "fair market" from operating by issuing all sorts of subsidies, and allows all sorts of exemptions to let specific employers avoid having to pay certain taxes, giving them a competitive advantage over companies that don't get those exemptions?

How Government Creates Inequality - David Cay Johnston

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VApBedmawnM
Globalism, essentially.
Web advertising, where your data is traded in the time it takes to click
What if we trained a bunch of robots with AIs embedded and they turned out to be racist misogynists? There has got to be a science fiction story about that...
This might be it. GE-EF is the ADHD with exercise group, GC-EF is the non-ADHD with exercise group.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7585/7b94628b425919efde51db...
It should be fairly easy to filter / replace all of that. The same logic can apply. Can we add some simple filters and re-train it?
People actually bought the iPod.
Did you miss the memo about kids in tents in the desert?
The author probably means that the unknown probability follows a beta distribution. Then you can construct confidence intervals for p the usual way.
Ok so am I reading this right? They’re introducing Feedback hub for more data siphoning of my system? I can’t help but get cynical with this company. Microsoft has lost every ounce of respect and credibility from me since they introduced data collection on Windows 10.

Also, I never understand why corporations send out statements “apologizing”. BP apologized after Deep Water Horizon incident. A billion dollar corporation apologizing has absolutely zero impact on consumers. It means zilch.
What I do in this case is to close the tree (-) when reaching a comment less indented, so I can continue the current responses and remember where I was.

Not ideal, but it helps me.
It's unfortunate because it's the "USB-C standard" not to do analog through the pins, but I think this a case where it's ok to break the standards. I'm not sure if there are any IEEE fines for that though.
Aggressively throttling comments. I think it's about five comments and then HN cuts you off from commenting. Not really conducive to discussions.
This is exactly what has been done. It appears that the majority of regulatory departments have been captured by the industries they are supposed to be regulating.

To see a historical example of the consequences of this at work, just take a look at the recent financial collapse and the SEC response. 1 person prosecuted, and a majority of the programs that led to the collapse are now back up and running. The collapse in 2008 was dollars and cents, imagine a similar collapse involving the environment and human health.
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The electoral college (EC) is a state system connected neither to Congress nor the Senate. Rather the EC is apportioned representatives based on the total number of Congressmen and Senators a state has. These representatives are chosen by (and vote at the behest of) the individual states according to how those states choose. All but two states require their EC representatives to vote for the Presidential candidate who won their state vote.
It seems that the only socially acceptable output for the AI would have been hiring women 50% or more and hiring minorities at a rate greater than or equal to their representation in the populations. Anything else is clear bias and discrimination.

The project was doomed from the start.
> "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all"

I think this is the wrong model for productive discussions, since being afraid that somebody will be upset about merely being contradicted can tend to chill people from refuting things at all (which, to me at least, seems like the purpose of having conversations in the first place).

I'd say it's more "If what you're saying is hostile to your interlocutor rather than the argument, then it does not belong in the thread.", however it seems some moderators do not feel that this is sufficient, hence I am hellbanned.
The beta dist is conjugate to the binomial, it is a natural prior for the proportion parameter. The mean of a bunch of 0s and 1s will be between [0,1], the support of the beta dist.
In my work with the HoloLens, I found that it's really best when you're augmenting the real world rather than displaying generic graphics. I know that sounds kind of like a tautology "use an augmented reality device to augment the real world?!? What a novel idea!" But if you look closely at the extant apps on HoloLens, you will realize they are mostly VR applications that happen to be rendered in your living room. To wit, the content is not connected to the space in any way other than proximity. You can move the content somewhere else and it's the same content.

Where I've found AR to really shine is in IoT settings. Take the real world with smart objects and add relevant data on top of them. That's the easiest thing to do, as the data is readily available and the UX is much more obvious than other potential use-cases. The real world becomes an anchor for the content and makes it much more believable, even when you lose the augmented graphics in the periphery as you move around.

There may be other ways to augment the real world other than IoT. GIS and routing might be one, though the tech isn't solid enough yet to put in a fast moving car, on roads with wide varieties of weather conditions. Medical assistance (though not training, again, that's VR). Logistics and shipping--previous experience working in a grocery warehouse, I saw that new pickers struggle the most with finding things, and the most successful pickers have memorized the locations of things.

ASIDE: I'm also very interested in augmented audio interfaces, spatialized audio through bone-conducting headphones, for a much better virtual assistant experience. I have two small kids and use Google Home a lot while I'm getting them ready to go somewhere or making them dinner. Having different reminders and features located in different parts of the house, with proper fall-off of volume, would be a huge improvement on our daily routine.

What does this have to do with Magic Leap? I would be very happy if all that Magic Leap had to offer was "slightly better HoloLens". The HoloLens has been underwhelming for a lot of people, but I think even today at basically 5 years old, it still has a lot of untapped potential. ML is slightly cheaper than HL, which is always nice, and it's running an Android-like OS, which might bring more developers along (though personally I very much enjoy UWP on both desktop and MR Windows). We are so close on so many different concepts that incremental improvements can't come fast enough.
Saying that regulatory captured capitalism has failed is like putting Michael Phelps in chains, throwing him into the sea and claiming that swimming has failed.
Two words: Regulatory capture.

I can't turn my hobby/side gig into a small business without navigating a bunch of bureaucracy to obtain 9001 permits, some of which are inevitable "may issue". Assuming I made it through that I'd be subject to all sorts of government oversight to the point where I either have to sink all the resources I would spend growing my business on compliance or just not think about it and hope that by the time anyone notices my business is big enough to afford the cost of compliance. For programmers, lawyers and other occupations that don't deal with physical things the issue isn't as big but for blue collar businesses this is a big deal. You literally cannot hope to comply with everything when you're in the boostrap phase and that dissuades a lot of people from striking out on their own.

The fundamental problem here is that laws and regulations written to deter some mega-corp from systemically being sleazy to make a buck apply equally to small businesses. turns out it's only the mega-corps that have the economics of scale to make compliance possible while still making a profit.
internet? or more than that?
Population wide effects MLK dreamed about too. Reality is a different story. I think the whole end goal is misguided and is going to lead to a whole lot of frustration and disappointment and divisiveness.

Helping individuals to overcome biology is much simpler than doing it at population scale.
That works. A bit different syntax, but it works:

-- create a table with data
CREATE TABLE arrs AS SELECT format('{ "arr": [{ "a": [{ "b": %s, "c": true }] }] }', g.i)::jsonb AS data FROM generate_series(1,1000) g(i);
-- index, this one only supports "rooted" paths, but you can create one that allows searches not starting from the root too
CREATE INDEX idx ON arrs USING gin (data jsonb_path_ops);

-- search
postgres[22708][1]=# SELECT data->'arr' FROM arrs WHERE data @> '{"arr": [{"a":[{"b":5}]}]}';
┌────────────────────────────────┐
│ ?column? │
├────────────────────────────────┤
│ [{"a": [{"b": 5, "c": true}]}] │
└────────────────────────────────┘
(1 row)

-- show index usage
postgres[22708][1]=# EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT data->'arr' FROM arrs WHERE data @> '{"arr": [{"a":[{"b":5}]}]}';
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ QUERY PLAN │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Bitmap Heap Scan on arrs (cost=20.01..24.02 rows=1 width=32) (actual time=0.131..0.132 rows=1 loops=1) │
│ Recheck Cond: (data @> '{"arr": [{"a": [{"b": 5}]}]}'::jsonb) │
│ Heap Blocks: exact=1 │
│ -> Bitmap Index Scan on idx (cost=0.00..20.01 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=0.107..0.108 rows=1 loops=1) │
│ Index Cond: (data @> '{"arr": [{"a": [{"b": 5}]}]}'::jsonb) │
│ Planning Time: 0.107 ms │
│ Execution Time: 0.186 ms │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
(7 rows)

You can make an argument that the mongo's path description is easier to write, but "you can’t even get close to that with what Postgres currently supports" doesn't seem accurate.

Edit: formatting
I kind of like that on HN I read through without necessarily paying attention to who is who. I focus on the comment or discussion rather than the personalities, and if I want to argue with a person rather than a point I have to go back & look at which comments are theirs.
That is very interesting. What are the stats for unemployed female engineers? Is there a shortage of female representation because female engineers aren’t being hired or is there a shortage because there are actually fewer female engineers?

There is a shortage of male therapists and kindergarten teachers: is that because males aren’t being hired or because there are fewer of them in existence?
There is a german proverb a have often heard as a kid but now that I searched for I could not find any sources.
It goes like "Wenn ein dummer einen Stein ins Wasser wirft, braucht es 10 kluge, um ihn wieder raus zu bekommen." which translates as "If a dumb person throws a stone into the water it takes 10 smart people to get it back out."
Well while I mostly agree, I think it is important to note that it seems they are going for more of a SAAS approach. With Office and Azure, etc.

They are more into the service industry now than they've ever been in the past. This move was them realizing that OSS is just a really good way to improve software for cheap.

I doubt this will have lasting effects as I have yet to see them actually open source anything that I would consider special.
And extending the copyright on works whose creators are long dead doesn't do anything for the creators.

If copyright law wasn't serving the interests of Disney, Sony, and other big corporations, they'd be pressuring politicians to change it, rather than expand it to other countries.
> author-blind reviews

Should I ever be in a position to hire a colleague, I wouldn't ever do so without having a chat with them.

I spend 8hrs a day in an office with my colleagues (sometimes more than with my wife & kid) and the ones I can't stand is about the only thing wrong with my job.

If we can't even see the person's face over some gender bias hysteria then I wonder how the hell we got here.

People should just get over the fact that men and women are different.
I blame freakonomics. It's a great podcast (and book) but it occasionally pushes some shoddy science.

Also, TED and TEDx for popularizing pseudo intellectual garbage.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/9/19/17879102/br...

http://nautil.us/blog/impossibly-hungry-judges
Not always but often. My two cents: a few years ago we were building a cryptographic extension to support ECC and since ECC and protocols using it are relatively new comparing to RSA or Diffie-Hellman it is more difficult to answer questions quickly. Someone on the customer side asked a question combining acronyms like ECDH, ECIES, etc in a way that you cannot make a clear connection between all the concepts. We spend a few days just trying to make sense of the question to finally realized it was no sense.
What year were the first extant photos of kids in cages taken?
I usually use these kind of links instead:

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-earns-2-billion-pe...

https://www.wired.com/2014/01/huawei/

Microsoft stay's draining billions out of the Android market in particular with patent trolling for products they didn't support one bit. Their own products were big losers. Thanks to corrupt patent law, they can still suck money out of the winners. I don't trust anything Microsoft says about open-source and patents. If there's money to be made, they might weasel into something good for them and bad for others.
Comments beginning with "This".

The comments when all comments seem to be concentrated in a couple of threads rehashing the same issues.

All stories concerning the housing problem in SF. Nobody cares, move on, it's just a city. Yes I know there must be a disproportional amount of SF residents in this forum, but nobody still cares about your housing problems :)
What is with this ever present desire to blame concentration on regulatory capture?

When Adam Smith wrote about competition he was writing about pre-industrial business, small shops with apprentices and journeyman, mostly horizontal and small organizations. With the industrial revolution that was all turned on it's head as economics of scale began swamping other factors. So we went from lots and lots of small competitors to (just) lots of medium competitors. And as technology has advanced economies of scale just get better and better so now we're down to a few large competitors. Concentration and the diminishment of competition is a totally expected result of giant technology gains.
Want to take this opportunity to describe my positive experience with the Open Invention Network (OIN):

I called the OIN many years ago to talk about what they do and how it works. I ended up speaking with Tom Tyson for a good 15-30 minutes and he was very helpful in answering my questions.

My questions were around open sourcing inventions so that other companies could not claim IP on them and prevent others from using them. I am fine with companies taking the idea and making money from them, just not okay with them taking the idea, claiming it is theirs, and creating a proprietary product.

So, I spoke with Tom and the gist of it that I remember is that OIN will work to create a "defensive patent" for your invention. Now, the idea doesn't actually have to be software, they may be software based but are open to all inventions (this may have changed since then). So if we have ideas (we all do right!) that we know we won't have time to implement/execute but just want the product made so we and society can use it, while having multiple companies offering it to compete and improve the idea, then OIN passes the smell test!

Feel free to give Tom a call if you are curious, he was very patient with my questions.
After some experimenting it will fault all the mapped pages, causing the VM subsystem to try to back them. In Linux 4.4+ there is an a flag to `mlockall(2)` called "MCL_ONFAULT" which does not do that and instead locks the pages as they become backed.

$ cat wheres-the-ram.c
#! /home/rkeene/bin/c
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
unsigned char *buffer;
int mla_ret;

mla_ret = mlockall(MCL_CURRENT | MCL_FUTURE | MCL_ONFAULT);
if (mla_ret != 0) {
perror("mlockall");

return(1);
}

buffer = malloc(1024LLU * 1024LLU * 1024LLU * 32LLU);
if (!buffer) {
perror("malloc");

return(1);
}

buffer[0] = 1;
buffer[1] = buffer[0];
buffer[2] = buffer[3];

puts("Success !");

return(0);
}
$ sudo ./wheres-the-ram.c
Success !
$ free -g
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 14 1 5 0 7 13
Swap: 0 0 0
$
One thing that people seem to skip in Capitalism is the idea that you can't have a tone of regulations. It appears the U.S. version of capitalism is continuously granting the "winners" in sectors with such strong regulations that it's limiting newcomers -- making it less competitive.

The current fashionable thing seems to be claiming that we need to become more socialistic. Which IMO is just an attempt to fix over regulation with more regulation... so down the rabbit hole we go.
The liquid stickers changing color didn't mean that the customer spilled liquid on it, just that the sticker changed color. It can be caused by something as normal as a humid day (as Louis said).
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*college

Also, it isn't entirely clear what you are trying to say. If you are suggesting that school-based screening is also problematic, then you are probably on the right track.
> if there were stringent controls on regulation it could help minimize the issue

It would just shift attention to the organs of government controlling said regulation. The insight of democracy is it seeks to balance, not suppress, human nature. Capitalism and democracy healthily co-exist because the former produces the private property rights that keep state power in check. Keeping that checking function itself balanced is the crisis–and opportunity–of our modern era.
Thanks for your effort. I am tackling the first project right now!
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Analyzing data for illegal downloads has notoriously being very hard to do. Where are they getting those numbers?
That's the strange thing about governments - no matter what you do, you find there's always a government somewhere.
There is a highly distributed plan.

https://www.drawdown.org
Automatic, mandatory scheduled review for regulations and mandatory sunset provisions for laws would be a damn good start. It would solve a lot of social issue too.
Do FAANG companies train software developers? I think they are big enough and opinionated enough organizations that they might be better at training a "FAANG quality developer" in a year or so than current University system can in four years.

I wish companies were more willing to train willing applicants instead of trying to interview for capabilities.
This is all irrelevant to your original point about why certain wars are remembered over others.

Cost, length, and American death toll are the obvious reasons you seem to completely ignore.
And that card was sent from less than 20 years after we learned how to put anything into space. Think about how much more

"Think about how much faster CPUs will be in 2018!" -- late 1990s

Laser propulsion, anti matter drives, fusion drives

All of which require significant breakthroughs in physics or materials engineering that may not come. There is no fundamental law of the universe that says we can have these things, or that they will ever be of practical use. You can't extrapolate from 50 years of modest success with chemical rockets.
Brian Goetz has been a role model on how to lead [0] a language for a long time now for me. Thanks for all the great work Brian.

[0] "Brian Goetz - Stewardship: the Sobering Parts", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y5Pv4yN0b0
There is a plan already in action...

https://www.drawdown.org
Aren't the "previous outcomes" past hiring decisions though?
If they did normalize the data across gender, then you’re correct it may indicate bias on Amazon’s part. But I don’t know about that. The article doesn’t provide enough information. I think it should be obvious, to Amazon as well, that if you want to repair inequality in a trait (gender) you can’t use an unequal dataset to train a machine to select people. I just don’t think it follows that machine bias must mirror human bias.
There isn't a ton of detailed public information on this kind of stuff. My talk focused on the general principles of our approach, rather than the myriad of features and optimizations necessary at such a large scale.

A good next step would be reading the 2016 ACM paper "Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository" [1] then reading a recent HN discussion [2]. That has a ton of good links.

[1] https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17605371
True, but convincing people to believe things that you know are false or do things that you know don't work by tricking them with reason or emotion is wrong. Bad people do that. Societies full of such people suck. Don't do it and call people out that behave that way.
But the costs are different across the US as well. Of course it costs a lot in San Francisco, just like it would cost a lot in a major EU city - and it costs less in a rural area.
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