skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole article is offensive to my personal sensibilities. I suspect this is because (not that I'm as fancy as the author) I have at least a smidgen or shadow of taste, so not being able to ostentatiously display how dignified and fancy I am with a useless tome I would never reference isn't a terrifying prospect. I'll just have to develop other empty, meaningless ways to impress people, like having my think piece inexplicably hosted at neh.gov.
There was a study that came out in August noting that Uber & Lyft are infact causing congestion: http://www.schallerconsult.com/rideservices/automobility.pdf

Summary via NPR: https://www.npr.org/2018/08/01/634506179/ride-hailing-servic...
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The code seems clean. I'm not sure this is a great idea in practice, though. Generally the only good reason for mapping stuff out of the filesystem is performance, and VM behavior with mmap() varies wildly across systems (and filesystem backends, and drivers if it's a hardware device, and hardware if it's a framebuffer, and...). Frankly on windows this is AFAIK a mostly-unheard-of technique. No one does mapping.

This just isn't really something that can be cleanly abstracted to do what you want it to do, even if you can make the code "look" the same.

But again, it looks like a nice, clean, modern C++ library. Just IMHO misapplied.
Trust journalists with a good track record, which is the way we as a society decide whether whistle blowers are to be believed. I get that we tech people dislike relying on humans, and the libertarian among us feel particularly uncomfortable trusting the media, but there are professional investigative journalists that have dedicated their lives to making the world a better place by uncovering the truth. And they have had to deal with similar issues since forever (other types of forgeries have existed for a while).

We fight this by having less partisanship and stronger free press.
There isn't a debate about whether it's possible since it's already been done...
Your comment is either lacking context to explain what you really mean or simple fabrication. Neither is acceptable
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At least we have TS.
Beliefs don't need a basis, that's what separates them from facts!
No, actually just shitty. There were criminal charges. The two people mainly responsible got prison time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Oakland_warehouse_fire#Cr...

Also that's crazy about that smart door... Pretty sure that's against fire code if it's one of the only exits. Ignorance isn't an excuse when other people's lives are concerned, either.
Support-wise, Intel makes excellent GPUs! (Unless the recent generations stopped having great open-source drivers? I admit I don't always keep up to speed with the latest hardware.)
In my experience:

You say, "I already know this stuff, can I just take the final?"

Uni says, "this is a required course for graduation, you must take it."

If you don't comply or push hard enough to make Uni comply with you, you don't graduate.

This is how I ended up learning all about System.out.println my final semester of university.
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An online comment system will not provide a valid statistical survey.
I like this answer the best but your comment about the government setting up Bloomberg does make me wonder. Bloomberg (the man) may very well be preparing to challenge Trump for the presidency and this could all be the Trump administration playing games.
"charge a premium over Starbucks"

$15 lattes, anyone?
That's a very good point. However I think we need a replacement for some core components in play services at least.

For example it just makes a lot of sense from a technical point of view that multiple apps share the same connection for push notifications.
I wish we could start putting more ideas and investment into the physical world of roads, trains and bridges now that we have the information part doing well. Sadly it won't happen for decades with the current political situation poisoned by the extreme right.
Has anyone confirmed its really NK and not some proxy.
Combat Deepfakes by doing original things regularly on your paid and/or public mediums that you incorporate randomly into new content. The fakes gotta play catch up due to training process. The more complex, subtle, and human, the better since they'll likely screw it up somehow. Just be an original, spontaneous (or more so) human from a source that people can verify.

The fakes will stand out. We'll all get more interesting celebrities. The celebrities will have more fun. Everybody wins... for a while. :)
> Trust journalists with a good track record

Really wish we could find a solution that didn't involve trust... rather, cryptographic proof.
There was a recent detailed study [1] by SFCTA that partly blames the traffic woes on the likes of Uber/Lyfts.

They also released an interesting interactive map [2] that is worth exploring

[1] https://www.sfcta.org/sites/default/files/content/Planning/T...

[2] http://tncsandcongestion.sfcta.org
Do you have an example of that in the context of administrative procedure?
There seems to be big confusion on what is bias and fairness and this course doesn’t seem to help. Fairness is ensuring that peaple are not deliberately punished for things that they have no control over. Typically this translates to making sure that decisions made by governments and employers do not depend on race, color and gender. US constitution adds religion in to the mix and some EU countries may also want to include sexual orientation, disability, age, political orientation but the minimal thing required by US laws in most states are those 4 attributes.

Every ML model can have different bias on different features. That’s what makes model a model. The fairness means you should make sure that your model is not biased towards above specific attributes and explicitly test for it. This is not some liberal propaganda by tech but required by law in many instances even if ML was not involved. This only applies to models used for certain classes of decision making, for example, loan eligibility or hiring or FaceID login. It doesn’t apply to things like breast cancer predictions or shopping recommendation system.
Nitpicking on your nitpick: you mean NP-complete, not NP (for instance, any P problem is an NP problem, but NP-complete problems are probably not P)
The original specification was extremely expensive to create, from the POV of a Lisp vendor. Today, there are few vendors left.

In the early 00's, a bunch of users got together to create the next version of the specification, and only Franz and Lispworks were there (because they were the only ones left standing). It was a complete shitshow. The users were very enthusiastic about piling work on the two remaining vendors, and the vendors walked away from the table. I was there as a vendor, and it was frustrating.

At the time, the users wanted to standardize multiprocessing APIs, yet no vendor had an SMP version of their API! For the decade after this aborted attempt, at least one vendor had to make lots of changes to their API. It would have been horrible to standardize the APIs of the time. None of the users wanted to hear this.

This leads me to two main points:

* Users not are the right crowd to standardize a language, because they do not have to implement the things they dream up. This is an important point.

* Standardizing a multiple-source language when most of the sources are OSS, and the non-OSS sources are vendors do not derive much revenue from the language, is doomed to fail. It's economics.

The best thing for Common Lisp: users make and support packages that work across many CLs, and users get the package via quicklisp.
>>> there are still huge differences in how people deal in messy situations in terms of morale and ethics.

so true. Problem is that in my small business experience, those in power are there because they have very flexible views on morale and ethics (i.e. they think they have morale/ethics, but they actually forget it when their company is at stakes). Being the ethical guy I'm of course totally biased. But the parent post is so right : having ethics/morale can be extremely damaging for you because you'll have to work with people who absolutely don't get how you think and that'll be super exhausting. Know yourself before going into that game.
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Good, an older friend of mine that barely knows how to access the appstore got charged 70€ a month without having any idea why.
It is trivial to ensure a non-cryptographic hash to be collision-free on inputs the same size as its output.

I.e. you can easily create a hash that maps 512 bit numbers to 512 bit numbers without collisions.

Just design an invertible hash function.
> I feel like we must have done enough twin studies over the years at this point to conclusively say that genetic heritage is the most significant factor for a whole host of ourcomes.

I feel like there wouldn't be so much discussion still if we had. I'm no expert, but as far as I'm aware the debate is still ongoing for a lot of areas. Epigenetics are also a big factor for consideration.

> Environmental factors are alluring, because they offer the potential that something can be done, through toil and good works, to achieve improvements, rather than the more Calvinist tyranny of genetics.

I think it's also we've just learned from history. People believing they're intrinsically better than others has led to genocide, the mass destruction of cultures, regression and problems that are still felt all over the world today.
Yeah — there were a few wars, revolutions, and such in Spain in the 20th century.
> they could be alienating users with large repurchase fees

You’re under no obligation to repurchase the new version.
I think they're reading the wrong things or overestimating the "inpredictable" nature of emotions in modern lit. Oedipus is filled with emotions, and certainly not all of any more or less "predictable" than something modern. Actually it might be less predictable-- modern sensibilities woild not have us respond the same way, leaving a baby to die, lillimg a stranger on the road etc.
If it's strictly distance/price, then you make all of your coffee at home and work, right? You would never even think about going to Starbucks if that is all you cared about. Now you may pick coffee shops based on atmosphere, which I think many people do.
I can't really make out the text. Could you follow the instructions below to take a screenshot on your computer?
Ah, I think I understand. I remember hearing the term, "shooting skip", which I understand as slang CB users used for talking to people past the horizon using the ionosphere to bounce the radio waves.

So if I understand correctly this is a game hams play where you try to skip your signal as far as possible and see if you get a ping?

If I am understand this properly, this successful exchange earns you a point and the old timers used post cards as score keeping, as once the ping was established they could each mail each other.

I assume FT8 is text only?
The problem is the comment box is easily stuffed. If you really want to turn this around why do you think quantity of anonymous comments is worthy of consideration?
As someone who is definitely layman in the area, can somebody break it down to me why would people choose an RPi, ODroid, OrangePi or any other small and fanless computers for this or that scenario?

I am very interested in making a home NAS, a Pi-Hole, an OpenVPN server and possibly a VM host -- what are my options if I want a few servers in my bedroom with zero fan noise (even during the summer when the room temperature can be at 35-40 Celsius)? Or should I just sacrifice one floor of shelf space in my small storage room and make sure the machines have good fan cooling?

I've been meaning to inform myself on the subject but real life and job changes have been very annoying and I was recently shocked by the memory that "I've been meaning to do it" for like 2 years now.

So can somebody give a layman a few pros and cons of our options?

(I will definitely use Ethernet on all my home servers. Not interested in how good -- or existent -- their WiFi adapters are. It would even be a bonus for me if I can physically turn off the WiFi on them.)
Ask HN: Shouldn't privacy policy and Terms of service be universal?
Is it the time to make universal standards for Privacy Policy and terms of use. Why I as a user have to make a one-sided personal negotiation with websites and apps. When internet has come together to decide on SSL and licenses like GNU, GPL & Open Source. Should it come together to make open TOS & PP as well?

We as a user would have an agreement with that open standard, not the company. And may be at the time of breaches and if it's not personal and universal. The company at fault will have to pay per incident. Bugs to be on the lower side and ignored issues on the higher side.

Thoughts?
It could well be lower than a scalar approach. SIMD units like AVX are power hungry, but a greater fraction of that power is relevant computation rather than power for control, schedule, etc. Ideally, the constant instruction overhead to get it executing on a functional unit is amortized over the width of the vector.
Cyberpunk is key to our survival
A theoretical ML paper came out recently that directly ties the notion of bias/fairness in machine learning to the tuning of the bias parameter in deep neural network architectures. The authors used stochastic backpropagation to classify an unbalanced dataset (85% class 0, 15% class 1) and show, through a series of topological cross-validation techniques, that very small amounts of perturbation in the bias parameter results in significant increase in the overall bias of the model towards the minority class (class 1).
It's not open source from the looks of it. It's a freemium game, they have in-app purchases on mobile where you can unlock all levels without completing the previous ones. Some of those levels are insanely difficult, so you have to either lookup the solutions online or pay for unlocking, otherwise it's pretty much impossible to advance.
Did you respond to the wrong comment?

No one much cares about the framerate in civ6. It's about AI turn calculations in the end of the game, which is what the benchmarks people were linking are.
Llbuild: low-level build system/set of libraries for building build systems
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Great, then ensure that communication is valid from an actual person and never anonymous. If you aren’t willing to take communication seriously then it certainly shouldn’t have any weight.
I double-dog-dare you to find a library that will rent out space for that guy who is welding a 27 foot tall phallus.
How the Correspondent protects itself from profit maximization
You can click "allow" to let you track them in obscure and unknowable ways. I gave up and let my adblock get them, but I should just have closed the tab.
There was a time when tech companies were driven by data, inspired by the scientific method. There was a time when the scientific method was about uncovering the 'what is' truth, as opposed to 'what ought be' decrees, which are by definition political. Today it seems that we are more than happy to interject arbitrary political biases in the equation, in the name of elusive fairness. Food for thought, Harrison Bergeron [0]. Teaser:

> THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

Residential segregation is a good example of the difficulty of quantifying the causality of fairness. On one hand, residential segregation is a human universal. From the Papuan jungle to the London asphalt jungle, humans tend to stick with their own kin, for some definition of own kin. People have built simulators demonstrating that even a weak preference for own kin leads to significant residential segregation [1]. On the other hand, there is a history of forced segregation, well documented in many places [2][3] etc.

Furthermore there are more than one forms of segregation, read literally as 'separation from others'. There is the well studied economic and racial residential segregation, the lack of easy access to more economically desirable living quarters. On the flip side, USA is already a very atomised and isolating society. Some would point to the addiction and homelesness crises as direct consequences of social isolation [4]. Living isolated from one's own kin is yet another factor increasing social isolation, and a different kind of segregation.

At what point does enforced fairness morph from an attempt to fix the past ills into the tyranny of today, steering people toward actions that are contrary to their natural preferences and well being? Or is there no such point and we're willing to bludgeon our way into an all out harrisonbergeronian future?

[0] http://tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
[1] https://ncase.me/polygons
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residential_segregation_in_the...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws
[4] https://www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_everything_you_think_y...
Sorry, I don't have those numbers on-hand.

What I do have on-hand is that NH has a higher median income than any other nation in the world (incl Luxembourg), despite being a net-payer of federal taxes.

(Source: https://mises.org/wire/if-sweden-and-germany-became-us-state...)
And you have not yet encountered the backlash you get from users as on Open Source developer when you try to implement said useful, user-friendly things?

I have been at that spot various times and users almost always start unleashing hell if your next commit / PR is not that fix etc. they wait for but some general improvement for everyone.

You do that a few times, then the emails arrive, trying to coerce you into doing exactly what a very specific user wants and later threats of DDoS arrive.

Also... those nice tools are usually developed by the same open source people. They pay their salary.
Is this spam, clickbait, or both?
i also can’t think of a case where a forgery has caused a serious problem in the public sphere.

however, there are tons of gullible and/or wilfully stupid people who respond to photoshopped pictures on social media as if they are real.

especially when these images are politically charged, some of them probably believe it and some “believe” because it fits their world view and makes them feel righteous.
Landlords of such spaces are not oblivious; they want all the money for the rent and none of the responsibility of being a real landlord. This is often what artists themselves are looking for since they are under capitalized and want to do questionably legal build outs and events and are willing to take on extra responsibility to be able to so (e.g. fixing pipes, patching holes, doing pest control). But that doesn't absolve the landlord.
The article is less ambitious - find a couple more identities so you can get by when one crumbles. Buddhist thing is more radical - stop relying on identities and stop having them.
Obsolete editions of "Java: A Beginner's Guide"
> Frankly on windows this is AFAIK a mostly-unheard-of technique. No one does mapping.

Just a data point, but we use memory mapping (both with and without names) in our product that runs on Windows.
Gullible people online aren’t the decision makers. Only the 5 FCC chairs are.
heh. Do we really need a study to know that having cheaper taxis causes congestion?
I forgot to point out that this is tongue in cheek, lingua in maxillam as it were...
You can literally sign up for D-Wave Leap and submit problems to their quantum annealer for free. How much more real does QC need to be before people believe it?

Sure, it's not a gate model, but they have a pile of working, useful applications already. Significantly more useful than anything MS is doing on the topic, that's for sure.
Unless you can find a way to weave cryptography into light, it will always be possible to trick a video camera into recording something that is "fake". Trust is what society is built upon, we're not going to get away from it now.
Worse yet, Culvers uses plastic ketchup cups. Not only can't you dip your burger in them, you can't get the ketchup out and onto your burger. It just sits in there, a gelatinous blob clinging to the sides of the cup. Useless.

I mentioned this to our local Culvers owner the day the place opened. No change in years. Sigh.

At least with the paper ones, you can crush them and squeeze the ketchup out like toothpaste onto your bun or whatever.
110k in France is a lot. And I reckon you can buy a house (well, depending on your standards) with that salary and some discipline…
Microsoft’s problem isn’t how often it updates Windows, it’s how it develops it
Well considering the claims by Lyft & Uber that they'd reduce congestion, I'd say yes a study would be warranted to highlight if it's true or not.
How long until we get a deepfake filter option when shooting video, that then gives you plausible deniability should your sex tape leak..
I was formerly confused by Google's compensation packages as well. I was focused on first year base salary and not aware of how raises, bonuses and stock packages play out.

My base salary has been higher than my classmates who joined FAANG since graduating ugrad. I jumped between non FAANG companies, they have been quite loyal. However,they are now clearly in a better financial position than myself.

1. FAANG compensates for institutional knowledge; engineers are rewarded for sticking around. my classmates that started at 100k USD 5 years ago, are now making ~175 base. They have gotten a 10% raise each year.
2. Performance bonuses. Not as common, for those who have a perf bonus the target is 15% of salary.
3. FAANG will give aggressive stock packages to engineers (which has real value from the get-go, unlike startup stock options) My classmates receive an annual stock package of 65-100% their salary.

This effectively bumps their 2018 compensation to between 225-300k USD. They are 5-6 years out of undergrad.
Hy – a Lisp embedded in Python
My librarians, a tremendous open-minded free-thinking group, might have a problem with the fire hazard but not the other part!
It's more than this, though. For instance, is the presence of the word "captured" (e.g. in a dataset of performance reviews) correlated with gender? This was certainly the case for Amazon: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/10/amazon-hi... . If so, even if you don't include gender as a feature itself, your outputs may end up being biased (in the technical sense) by gender. If you want to correct for this, then you might want to include gender in your analysis in a structured way in order to determine: are there better features that apply relatively equally to indicate a superstar of either gender? Personally, I don't know what the battle-tested approaches in the ML literature are to do this type of thing, so this course would be helpful to people like me!

At the end of the day, it all boils down to this: you can't be "blind" to race, color, religion, and gender if information is leaked to your evaluator (human or otherwise) via a side channel. You might get away with this legally (especially if there's not intent to discriminate), but if you really want to do it right, you have to engineer systems that minimize those side channels.