skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a question. Why are the justice system and media expected to act in good faith, but industry leaders are expected to be crooks?
Nowadays with all the statistics available it holds true for almost every country that politicians, lawyers and journalists are in fact the least trusted people. I think it is for a good reason and it is called inherent hypocrisy.

Also, how could two entities be counter-weights to each other if both aim for the same thing - wealth.

The only solution I see is to strip all the societal roles, who claim to be driven by good faith, of all property and relationships. But this is even more ridiculous than what we have right now.
I think it isn’t equality in numbers but in activity screening out women.

So there may still be a 8:1 ratio of men:women but according to the article, it would seem than even that 1 women would have been negatively impacted.

I am not arguing the validity of their conclusions, just saying that I don’t think that it’s about equal numbers: given a male and female applicant, according to the article, women would have had an unequal chance of passing the screening. (Now if that inequality was for valid reasons, that to me, is an open question, but the article indicates that there was unjustifiable bias.)
Not really, they are just another PR company at this point.
You'd also have to get past Apple, I believe.
Make a private IRC channel. It's a pretty hardcore technical filter, but such are the times.

> [...] employers of the 1960s regarded programmers as unmanageable, citing contemporary sources that branded programmers as "prima donnas" who were "arrogant," "egocentric," and devoid of social skills.

> [...] a manager at IBM and Diebold bemoaned the fact that programmers' labor-market power undermined "the normal employer-employee relationship, which, in part, depends on the fear of termination or disciplinary action."

> Weinberg, who managed large software projects at IBM [...], argued that software was produced most effectively in egalitarian teams that emphasized open communication among members. [... He] contrasted his approach with what he saw as the macho attitude of many managers: "Managers tend to select themselves from the 'aggressive' component of society... They are especially at a loss to understand the smooth functioning of a programming group based on mutual respect for individual talent and cooperation in the common cause."

Janet Abbate - Recoding Gender, p93-95
I do not understand what you are trying to say here. Gravitational waves are wave patterns existing inside the curvature of space-time. There is no separate medium that carries them. It is literally only space and time.
Genius would be devising a legal framework for your clients to do an ICO legally, not expose yourself to potential liability for legal malpractice and expose your client to potential civil/criminal liability.
I would expect the AI isn't fed names as an input, but rather things Amazon wants to weigh like experience, awards and education.
The overwhelming is especially prevalent on AWS - I get super confused every time I do work there. So many buttons, services, etc. It's for that reason primarily that I prefer using GCP as it is kept a bit more similar.
>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?

I'd expand this to "if those colleagues work for a company that uses sales techniques to the public" that's appalling too -- why constrain it to using them between colleagues? Because the public is the out-group, and it doesn't matter if they are sold-to?
It looks like it's accurate. https://www.businessinsider.com/migrant-children-in-cages-20...
While their current efforts seem genuine, the deep skepticism is not unwarranted given their behavior in the late 90s and should not be a surprise
Oh please. Are people not deprived of drug research that people around the world would do on the long tail if Big Pharma didn’t chill their activities? Is it good for the world that innovation is restricted by force to US Big Pharma?

“But if we didn’t have government, who would build the roads???”

“But if we didn’t have copyright, who would write all the software and encyclopedias?!? Oh wait...”

If you make a moral argument about a pirate in the system, prepare to get an opposing moral argument about the system itself.

How many people could have been cured of Malaria if we allowed open source drug research to flourish? In every OTHER science department eg physics people publish their ideas freely.

But how is that possible without patents???
There is no point at which options should be valued above $0 in terms of competitive job offers. By the time a company is that far along, you will get RSUs, not options.
> Emacs Lisp has lexical binding these days

sure, but you need to support legacy software, too. Which is most Emacs Lisp ever written.
> the features are just merely correlated with a subpopulation of a protected class

The article notes that Amazon's system rated down grads from two all-women's schools. But it immediately occurs to me to wonder what the algorithm did with candidates from heavily gender-imbalanced schools, which could be much harder to spot.

RPI's Computer Science department is about 85% male, while CMU's is just over 50% male. CMU's CS department is also considered one of the best in the world, and presumably any functional algorithm that cared about alma mater would respond to that. So if the bias ends up being "because of CMU's gender ratio, CMU grads with gender-unclear resumes are advantaged slightly less than otherwise would be", how on earth would someone spot that?

Once you're looking for it, you could potentially retrain with some data set like "RPI resumes, but we adjusted their gendered-words rate" and see if you get a different outcome on your test set. But that's both a labor intensive task, and one that's only approachable once you already know what you're looking for. And even if you do see a change, you'd still have to tease it out from a dozen other hypotheses like "certain schools have more organizations with gendered names, and the algorithm can't tell that those organizations are a proxy for school".

Of course, the counterpoint is that human decisions can't be scrutinized any better, and it's not entirely clear they're less arbitrary or more ethical. At a certain point algorithmic approaches are being scrutinized because they're slightly transparent and testable, so running them on a range of counterfactuals or breaking down their choices is hard rather than impossible. I suspect that's true, but it doesn't really comfort me - humans at least tend to misbehave along certain predictable axes we can try to mitigate, while ML systems can blindside us with all sorts of new and unexpected forms of badness.
I think that is something people take for granted and misunderstand. The manufacturing process & transporting takes a large amount of energy and resources. It's far more eco friendly for an appliance to last years vs some small savings on less water usage or energy bills. I think we'd all like both, but if I had to pick I'd rather it last longer so I don't have to worry about it.

I just had to buy a new fridge a few months back and this is another thing that makes me angry. Why is it that the standard sizes always seem to change as well? My house was made in the 1980s and most kitchen appliances we've replaced had to be 'custom orders' because the standard sizes have changed. Do they expect us to also upgrade our cabinets every time these appliances break and they decide to add an inch to the height or width.
I noticed dreamcompiler! And apparently there is a limit to the nesting of replies (which is why i’m replying to the parent comment) ?!
By my count, it's more like six comments, so you missed a few, possibly including this one where I make it clear I'm not policing anyone:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18182668

You, on the other hand, appear to be trying to police my behavior, though you aren't a moderator on the forum.
>Everyone. Everyone wants to be sold something.

Well, count me off that list.
Why should it be illegal? If Sears has more value being shut down than kept running, why shouldn't it be shut down?
It does feel like a sort of loophole for something very similar to insider trading. And, he gets to work both sides of the deal.
There is absolutely zero chance that he was rejected in 30s based on ethnicity. No matter how unethical you might think a corporation might be, none would be stupid enough to implement a policy so obviously illegal.
> Pre-requisites

>You'll need a 6.033-level understanding of the web, SSL, security, public key cryptography, and _Bitcoin_

Interesting.
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Agreed - I'm confused by this op-ed. A professor of marketing is upset that marketing is not getting enough credit for the ideas that are also present in behavioral economics ('fame of behavioral econ is a triumph of marketing' har har).

The main purpose seems to be to crap on Thaler for dismissing his critique of loss aversion instead of embracing his hypothesis on the buy-side. This neither discredits behavioral economics, nor makes a clear case for how academe related to marketing would better humanity or its understanding.
Thanks for calling out FOSS. Microsoft's open source contributions absolutely do not enhance our freedom to compute how we wish. Nothing they are doing will help you compute ethically, or prevent someone else from imposing their ethics on you. They are just trying to capture a market of developers that happen to code in the open.
Doesn't them joining OIN change that?
top of front page already, please check for dupes before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18184830
I don't follow topics, I follow people. I'll read anything by Thierry Etienne Joseph Rotty, Dima Vorobiev, Franklin Veaux, Jenny Hawkins, Alex Cooper, among others. Following topics just gravitates you towards the cesspool that any large internet community has.

I'm really careful about getting into discussions with people, particularly because I'm often operating in the atheism-theism debate. My default response, like you, is to not engage. When I do, I try to pick my words carefully. The second the interaction turns hostile, I'll report if warranted but in any case immediately disengage.
Other similar devices (Hololens, Oculus Rift, Google Glass, etc.) have had similar costs. Remember that not all of the costs are hardware design or even production, they need to build a developer ecosystem, software, do marketing, etc. The costs involved in bringing a new hardware device in a new category to market are much higher than a CRUD web app... CastAR raised "only" $15M, which is enough for some software startups to operate for years, and crashed and burned.
Static is nice but next step would be inclusion of CG physics to realistically simulate hair motion while head is being rotated quickly (meaning lots of fun affine transform minutiae incorporating inertia). There's probably a market for that in anime.
What do they usually do with all the assets of these companies when they go bankrupt? Would stuff like all their appliance stock get put up in a fire-sale for cheap? I need a new washing machine...
> Cargo + RLS are the best ecosystem tools I've seen in any language.

In my experience the java profilers and debuggers are still better than anything that's available for rust.

RLS is great on a fundamental level (decoupling IDE from compiler), but it still has to catch up in functionality with the total compiler integration that for example eclipse has with ecj.
Embedded/Platform engineering, working on a new OS based around a microkernel.
For now we don't play to integrate other blockchain networks. But I think we can add the ability to set up payments in another crypto (by using exchange rates).
We actually have slowly begun having less and less nuclear weapons, you just don't hear about it

https://fas.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Stockpile-History...
> How much conflict has been spawned due to the UN Partition plan which created Israel?

Why would you brame a UN agreement from 20 years earlier instead of blaming the countries which violated the peace treaties they signed only 8 years earlier?
Well, tokens sold on ICO mean nothing and does not represent share of the company, or anything at all. They are just vapour.

Personally i don't think that ICOs should be banned or regulated - if anything, they are frequently done by anonymous or fake identity people and cashed out using monero, anyway.

Just explain people that they are a scam, and a crime if (unlikely) caught, just like they explained about nigerian prince scam.
When you switched was it a unanimous decision to write rust? And is this a small team where you all have the same opinion? Or did you have to drag any one along? From what I have seen people who aren't motivated to learn rust struggle. I'm curious how that worked out
I'm sure Palantir wasn't explicitly doing this - the blowback would be far too severe.

Although, I am hugely cynical and always "decline to identify" whenever I'm asked.
Right, but this isn't protected anywhere. It's a fragile practicality. If you inherit that shared password do you inherit the right to recover it if you lose it again? Movies Anywhere is locked to a certain number of devices, do you have the right to unlock/remove old devices of the original account holder?

At one point I debated trying to build a system to help escrow digital asset things like passwords in Trust for the purposes of wills/digital estate planning/inheritance, but quickly realized the first major flaw of that is that as soon as you try to systematize it you immediately get into a fight over how much it violates various terms of service agreements forbidding account and password sharing entirely.
> In order to truly help OSS, joining some initiative, group or foundation is the easy thing to do. Opening the patent portfolio, is the difficult thing to do.

What's the difference between the two? In order to join OIN, MS had to agree to let other members of OIN freely use their patents.
We have to take God out of the equation. It's just impossible to deal with people when they are doing it for $Deity.
Reminds me a lot of the introduction of the Iridium phone.

"Worldwide coverage! No more dead zones! This will change communications globally!"

Then they saw the phone. And its antenna. And learned it only worked outdoors. And cost $2,000.

~$6B in satellite costs.

It wasn't a failure (I still use mine once in a while), but it sure wasn't what people were expecting.
It's even stronger than that: the model you derive by assuming a room full of perfectly rational agents may well be accurate, even though in reality the agents are not rational. Or at least, it may do an excellent job of describing the aggregate behaviour, even if it does terribly at describing individual's behaviour.

Physics does this all the time, too. You can, indeed must, be wrong about all the microscopic details... but despite that, you can often get the correct macroscopic model.
It's not an SV thing. While in SV the exclusionary tendencies are as strong as anywhere else, they are not the leaders but the followers in this. They didn't invent it, just enthusiastically embraced it, because their peer bubble ensures pretty much everyone thinks the same (or is hounded out). But other places - like certain academic disciplines, or certain entertainment industry branches - has gone much further on this road. And, of course, official mainstream politicians are now openly pushing it, something I would be surprised to hear in America a decade ago.
> - They're now, or soon will be, the largest supporter of free infrastructure for open source projects on the planet (GitHub)

They bought GitHub, a profitable proprietary product, that also hosts open source code as a marketing project.

By that logic you could say that MS supports open source because some other people develop OSS on Windows. (And MS has tried to do this!)

> - They've open sourced a massive chunk of their (IMHO) best-in-class language runtimes and language implementations (C#, F#, VB.net) and design and develop new features in the open

Is .NET Framework (the real thing, not the vapourware rewrite) open? Didn't think so.

> - They've contributed more than 1700 changes to the Linux kernel that can easily be identified with a quick 'git log --grep'

And how many of those are just about Hyper-V/Azure? When is Windows going to support Ext4 and KVM VirtIO?

> - They're the first company to make a real attempt at an industrial strength alternative implementation of the Linux kernel. Linux was supposed to be about choice, remember?

So that they can execute another round of EEE. No thanks.

Then again, I guess we're fairly safe from that this time, since they haven't even managed to get SQLite to run properly.

> - They've open sourced the core chunks of the evaluation engine used in Bing (BitFunnel)

From the top of their README: "It doesn't work (yet)."

> - They're a platinum member of the Linux Foundation. In other words, they pay Torvalds salary

So when are they going to start acting like it?

> - They support Linux as a first class OS on Azure and make it cheaper than Windows

Just like all the other cloud providers? Meh.

> - They have one of the largest and most active GitHub organizations

How many of those projects are useful outside of Azure/Windows?

> - They've joined OIN and, ignoring the actual patents involved, have thus in the process made an implicit promise never to attack any core part of the Linux infrastructure in the future

Too little, too late.
Ok, my mistake. My only excuse is I just heard the other day about how hard it was. Shouldn't have listened :-/
Two wrongs don't make a right?
I think one of the problems "we" have is that bias confirmation is a hell of a drug. By "we" I mean individuals, researchers, companies, corporations, governments, everybody. When we see something that intuitively makes sense to us, especially one that confirms our biases - we tend to want to believe it, because we all believe what we think is true and so things that support what we believe must therefore be true, according to what we believe. Some word salad there, but I think that's reasonably clear.

Like you mention the replication crisis should be really leaving most of all psychology results, not only past but also present, in serious doubt -- let alone anything contingent on those past results. But again the problem is that when new research comes out that confirms our biases, we don't expend the energy to challenge it.

And it seems that many in science are more concerned with themselves than their science - something that the replication crisis provides a great deal of evidence for. People aren't putting out trash science by accident. They need to publish, and trash science is what gets published. And the replication crisis hasn't changed this. There seems to have been, at best, token efforts to try to more fully ensure the truthfulness of what's being published. So we continue to believe what we want to believe, with science increasingly falling victim to the act of starting at a conclusion and working your way backwards.
Ya, I just mean to say that uncorrelation with fitness is an important qualifier.
How about instead of "without the numbers being published from Amazon", we have "without the numbers being published"?
Malta have very well defined laws about ICO's on the books from November 1st, the UK and USA have been disasterously vague about guidance for what constitutes a security so far, which doesn't help anyone except the bankers.
Thanks for the read.

I'm most interested in doing herb tinctures (for cocktail additions) in dropper bottles. It's surprising to see that only 3 to 4 days are needed for said infusions. In your experience has this been the case? Keep in mind this would not be drank neat, but rather 3-4 drops used mostly for aroma.

I've only tried one infusion, ginger. It was grated directly into the vodka, left for ~2 weeks, and still turned out relatively flavorless. My ginger beer used about the same mount and was extremely sharp. Maybe I'll give it another go.
Their motivations don't make their work bad. OP is pointing out that MS is much less an enemy of OSS than they used to be, not that you should use their software and services.

I hate MS, but please, don't make the case that no progress is better than some progress. They aren't perfect, and of course they are motivated to make money, but none of that means their work isn't good for OSS.
> The aim of the AI is to “mechanize the search for talent”. It doesn’t care to, nor have any means to, make decisions “like the recruiters did”.

This is why AI is so confusing. All "AI" does is rapidly accelerate human decisions by not involving them, so that speed and consistency are guaranteed. They are not replacements for human decision making, they are replacements for human decision making at scale.

If we can't figure out how to do unbiased interviews at the individual level, then AI will never solve this problem. Anyone that tells you otherwise is selling you snake oil.
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https://www.erowid.org doesn't seem to have changed much in the past 2 decades
I don't know - is it? What is the difference between bias and inferring information from skewed data?
On my team we have a “dev” Slack channel which is public and a “dev_private” channel which is private. The former includes managers/stakeholders and is almost exclusively for providing status updates and raising critical issues that need manager input.

The latter is fairly locked down and limited to only the dev team, and it’s where we troubleshoot together, ask dumb questions, and chat about work in general. Having it definitely makes working through certain issues feel much “safer” without risking looking like we don’t know what we are doing to management (though whether or not I know what I’m doing is debatable).
That's the main thing, for me. Somewhere in here I feel like he's going to get burned by self-dealing. I don't know enough about these things but if the behavior seems obvious enough to boobs like you and me with no knowledge of finance, I'm pretty sure some of the other investors who stand to lose out are giving him the side-eye and scheduling lunch with their attorneys. OTOH, anyone who's still invested in Sears at this point, I feel like has to be a vulture. There can't possibly be value investors left in this turd.
I think it is mostly a marketing challenge, once most people realize the risk, it will gain momentum and solutions will follow.
The price has changed though if you're including the cost of the longevity. Also comparing low end fridge to what was high end or standard at the time I don't think is a fair comparison. Granted price wise its the 'same' but if modern stuff lasts half to a 1/3 as long then the new appliances are far more expansive.
i would also recommend his interview with freakonomics podcast http://freakonomics.com/podcast/satya-nadella/
The difference between prison and concentration camp is that you have to commit an actual crime to get in prison.
Where was it disproven? The article says that the research was controversial, not that it's false.