skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the takeaway is clear enough: Just because something is expressed in numbers doesn’t make it right, or even rational. And rationality itself might not be quite what it’s cracked up to be.

I'll grant something the first half of the first statement: sure, the values encoded into algorithms are not necessarily the values we want them to have ('right'). We want and need to do better at modeling our values.

Even the 'or even rational' part has some merit, some of the time. Like when our models don't reflect reality accurately enough to make helpful predictions about what to expect. Sure, the models are still rational -- but flawed.

But the last sentence is self-comforting intellectual garbage. It's a way to say "don't bother with the hard work of knowing things". It's a gateway for denial. It's saying "if the facts don't line up with what you want, that's ok, sometimes logic doesn't work".

Rationality is precisely what it is cracked up to be: the work of aligning your expectations with reality. It is only as useful as its practitioners are good at it. If you want to summarily write it off as 'considered harmful' then that's your choice. You can deal with the consequences of running headlong into your misunderstandings when they happen, but those of us with work to do will continue to try and get to the bottom of things, even if the problems are complicated.
are you assuming the event to be inevitable? if so, you're really opening up a can of worms here, bc insurance doesn't really function with p(event) = 1.0

a better argument would be something like: suppose we detect a gene that indicates probability 1.0 of disease that causes the person's left arm to fall off.

it's then not a matter of "insurance" but a matter of "are we as the pool willing and able to pay for this?" recall company needs some profit as well as cost of coverage to maintain overhead so it's a different argument now.
What I thought you meant is that you need something that will straighten out the mangled whitespace. I didn't think that was possible, because the only thing that marks where blocks begin and end is whitespace. If the whitespace gets mangled, there's no other syntax you can use to straighten it out.

But I'm beginning to think you meant that you want a merge tool that doesn't mangle the whitespace in the first place. If the pre-merge whitespace is unmangled, and the merge tool understand Python whitespace, then at a minimum it should be able to flag ambiguous changes and ask for help.
You’re obvious not sophisticated enough. /s
The attack here is:

1) You encrypt two pieces of data within the same second in the same process (so probably using the library?)

2) or if you're using the command-line, the attack is you encrypt two pieces of data within the same second, and somehow wrap-around your pid within the second to get the same pid again.

That may be enough, or not enough -- but for those that claim that's not enough, one needs to recognize the cognitive dissonance with reusing the same password

A monotonically increasing integer as IV is perfectly fine, and this dude is a bit out of his depth thinking IVs need to be random.
> If bias increases accuracy/precision, it's not bias.

Yes it is. It's bias in your fitness function.

Accuracy and precision are not handed down by the gods. We write the functions that evaluate our models, and it's our job to make sure that the values they promote match up with the real-world outcomes we desire, and to constantly monitor and re-evaluate those outcomes.

Fancier machine learning techniques will never be able to avoid Goodheart's Law: "Any measurement, no matter how reliable, when regarded as a target, ceases to be a good measurement."
It's a mixed bag. There are projects in ICE that are necessary, and there are people administering programs where children are separated from their parents and thrown in cages. If you want nuance, fine. But ignoring the evil they're doing because other parts of the org aren't doing evil isn't really the standard of behavior we should have for our (my? I'm assuming about you) government.
You won't get a 6x performance improvement from replacing a two year old laptop. Laptop performance improvements have been tailing off for a while.
Making it someone else's responsibility to keep it in good working order is the value proposition behind (good) proprietary software: You give them money, they give you a support contract.

For a company with more money than development resources, or even just a company whose development resources can be more profitably focused elsewhere, this can be a quite reasonable trade to make.
Anyone know whether this model will work with USB-C phone chargers (or at least any chargers that provide less than 45 watts)?

And does anyone have first-hand knowledge whether the Killer wifi card is non-replaceable, as was the case with the 9370?
Are you saying that face recognition calling black people gorillas is a good thing that we should all be unconcerned about?
CEO newsletter high-lighted recent glassdoor reviews and "refuted" them internally, along with a soft recommendation to leave a good review.

Not necessarily under handed, but still gaming the system.
As an employee of Embarcadero I can tell you they do invest in new development. Delphi has received a number of new features and updates since Idera aquired us. Could they invest more? You can always invest more, but it is important for the long term that the company and products continue, which Idera seems good at.

* this is a comment from me personally and not an official company statement.
> I'm not sure whether I'm more offended being judged via hokey pseudo-IQ or hokey pseudo-Myers-Briggs.

Personally, I'm offended by the notion that they claim to be able to pigeonhole me, with all my education and experience, in less time than it takes to get a pizza baked and delivered to my door.

> Vista Equity Partners

There's a name that's seemingly inseparable from the whole test administration industry. My experience with Vista involves me getting fired from a job I had for a year and a half after they spun off my division into an LLC and I refused to take one of their tests. I know I'm already a victim of this industry. I've heard the stories of people who submitted to the tests, and it sounds like Vista managed several people out once they had everyone profiled.

> There should be a public list of employers who require these

I've been checking Glassdoor ratings, but was surprised when Certent sprung one of these on my yesterday. I'll definitely give this some thought over the next few days.
The flying Jeep and the flying Pinto (the latter had disastrous results).

I currently own a Jeep. My dad once owned a Pinto.

Who in their right mind would think "You know, this is the perfect car to strap some wings to!" for either of these vehicles?

That's just giving the middle finger to the god's of flight begging for a quick death.

Again, in the the flying Pinto's case - that's what happened.
> Additionally, the Vedic scripts would be much much older than what is depicted - circa 7,000 BC

That can’t be correct. The proto-Indo-European language has an upper bound at somewhere near 4,500BC if I recall correctly [0]

[0] https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8488.html
The breakeven point looks the same until you factor in inflation (assuming no relief for that) as a benchmark and realise that at 70% tax you need ~9% annualised gross returns instead of ~3% to beat it (but with writeoffs for bad years, that's still achievable). Even with the superrich already being risk tolerant and willing and able to pursue high yields, that's going to see some rebalancing of portfolios

Obviously this doesn't apply to regular public companies and financial institutions not paying 70% tax rates, but we could expect to see corporate vehicles entirely controlled by people paying 70% tax on dividends and capital gains from them behaving a little differently too.
Absolutely.

People are super confused about this. The reporting wasn't very good and you have to look beyond it. The original idea is

- little 16 person passenger pods with bikes, wheelchairs, and luggage. $1 fare.

- possibly sleds for cars

- you can stack tunnels (think of them as car lanes in 3D), so you can have 20, 50 or 100 lane highways

- you make lane changes autonomously, so the subway pods can have different destinations

- it's all electric so there isn't poisonous engine exhaust

This is just people boarding a bus, the throughput is super high.

Even sled loading can be pretty fast, imagine replacing 20 street parking spots with sled elevators. Then accelerated to 100 mph, that too is a lot of throughput.

Here's the pod part of the Boring company talk. It's worth watching to see what they are proposing.
https://youtu.be/AwX9G38vdCE?t=1372

Elon and company got excited that they built a tunnel, which is a real achievement. So they drove a Tesla through it. The media knows what you want, which is max outrage, so they reported that the 1% will get tunnels with their Teslas. You will be stuck in gridlock behind a diesel truck.

They should not have driven a Tesla through it, it was a PR blunder.

Here is a Heathrow pod experiment: http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20140910-hands-off-with-heath...
In this same vein, I've also found it interesting which names Autocorrect sees as a correct, and which are "spelling errors."
There are already screens like that, and I like the idea in principle.

I'm more hesitant in practice because the USB3 hub in my current Dell display didn't get along with my computer and would cause blue screens when used. Easy to avoid, I just don't have the USB hub plugged in.

As things get more and more integrated, a problem anywhere in the system means the whole thing doesn't work and you can't avoid the busted parts.
Classrooms often use interactive whiteboards driven by PCs that can be quite slow to log in to the teacher's active directory profile as this involves pulling data over a network of variable speed. There can also be issues with software upgrades deciding to start at random times. The PC will need to be logged off and logged on 8 times a day...

Teachers don't talk to themselves in classrooms so time loss can affect a small percentage of up to 180 student-hours per day or 900 student-hours per teaching week per teacher. A typical '8 form entry' secondary school in UK will have around 100 teachers plus admin / head of subject / 'leadership'. School year is around 38 weeks.

I sometimes think something like ChromeOS but that can run IW software and just stay booted would be better. An appliance.
Take heart, you're in the silent majority.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majo...
DSA-4371-1 apt
These economists can't even predict the past, and you're throwing around these slogans like they're laws of nature.
And slowing down H1B visas will not "wreck the system", that's just hyperbole; it can be restarted any time. Anyway, the resolution of this Oracle case will be revealing. It will be interesting to see how it affects H1B policy.
FWIW, as a driver/firmware engineer, I haven't ever needed a good reference from my former employer

I've just been giving out former coworkers' contact info instead, and usually they don't even get called. I'm guessing they call the former employer just to verify I actually worked there, but that's it
Informed people understand scale. Going from 2D to 3D is like going from O(n^2) to O(n^3). It's quite a big difference at scale. Going up in dimensionality is like going from one order of magnitude to another, only more so. (Actually, it often makes an additional two or more orders of magnitude accessible.)
I wonder if this type of collaboration is easy to achieve in other languages? Of course not many have an awesome ODE ecosystem like Julia's. But it feels like an unique strengths of Julia where it's easy to integrate heavy duty libraries and have them work together!

It reminds me of this post http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/why-numba-and-cython-are-...

I think Numba and the Cythan ecosystem will struggle to achieve this with this level of (relative) ease, although I see the original implementation was done in PyTorch. The ODE and ML experts probably made it look easy!

Now I wonder about the relative performance of DiffEqFlux vs the original implementation
It is racist if the data is built on 100s of years of racism and the ML is trained on a dataset poisoned by racism.
A.) True.

B.) News outlets are sensational. This is an aircraft, but people equate the future to flying "cars." Also, pedantically speaking, car doesn't have to mean automobile. Car comes from carriage, which was drawn by a horse. By your logic a car should require a horse too, right? :o)

C.) This is a vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) fixed-wing aircraft. The outboard rotors provide vertical lift during takeoff and landing (so yes they are designed to just _lift_ it), but in flight the rear rotor provides forward thrust while the wings provide vertical lift. I assume the outboard rotors will be seized during cruising speeds, or spinning to provide extra lift assuming the fixed wings are not designed to carry the weight of the aircraft themselves during cruise.

D.) If this were to be flown today, it would likely not meet existing civil regulations. Experimental registration and certification aside, there isn't anything like it that isn't military (i.e. the V-22 Osprey) and I don't know of anything that has both VTOL and fixed wing certification. But as you'd expect, part of this effort is to work with the FAA/ICAO to define regulation. It will probably require a single pilot license with perhaps a "VTOL fixed wing" endorsement, exhaustive training will be required, and will probably be allowed to land and anywhere a helicopter can land but be vectored as if it were a fixed wing.
Strawman

Sex is easy to incorporate. Race is more difficult because vanishingly little work has been done with a concept of race based on anything resembling real population genetics, but it's not impossible in theory. Hint: if you really care about human biodiversity, you'll spend most of your time in Africa and some isolated islands, not looking at brown people in the west.

The issue is GxE, where we see loads of racists and sexists just patently forget about 'E' and conclude that women or brown people are genetically inferior. Some will try to gussy that up as 'different' rather than inferior, but the dog-whistles may as well be air-raid sirens.

'Data science' is fine if you're AB testing websites. When you try to do real science, you'll find that the utter lack of research experience is .. a bit of a problem. Caring about PhDs isn't credentialism, it's wanting a plumber that has worked with pipes before. You have to actually perform research to get decent at it. It usually takes about a decade before you can honestly do it independently. If you can look back at what you did a year ago without cringing, you're not making that progress.

Some schmuck with PANDAS and a Bio101 class 8 years ago isn't a scientist.
"Feeling tired" is a bit subjective. There are numerous studies indicating that caffeine enhances cognitive function, improves test scores, reaction times, etc.

Personally, yes, I feel less tired after drinking coffee, but seem to get diminished returns after the first half cup.
It sounds like not everything works out of the box.
Term limits for congresspeople are a bad idea. They work for the presidency, because the president holds immense power and can use that power to build an unassailable base for themselves. Term limits for individual congresspeople, whose power is pretty small in the grand scheme, amounts to arbitrary over-ruling of the people with little to no tangible benefit.
No screen time: Tonga faces weeks of internet disruption
This is also done in the toy industry--a sound effect may sound fine through good studio monitors, but will be screech and unpleasant when played through a 10 cent speaker with the crappies amplifier money can buy, so it is important to listen on the actual hardware.
Not the person you're responding to but I took their meaning to be social engineering in the sense of someone's purposeful planning and intercession in areas where there is a social output, fiddling with whatever knobs are available to shape the desired output.

For example, Harvard admitting less Asians because they are over-represented compared to other races. If you take your view that racism is an emergent phenomenon that you can spot based purely on the outcome, then Harvard was exactly correct to deny more Asians admission than other races, yes? If Harvard didn't do that, then the outcome of their admission process would've been "racist."

Many would disagree with that interpretation of racism.
>But all of the citations 6-10 are from papers that integrate new approaches into a deep neural model.

Having read citation 8, "Building Machines that Learn and Think like People", a number of times over, I don't see where that paper includes a neural network architecture.
FAANG would hire same or more, my previous employer who treated H1B as slaves would hire fewer. I'd say both of those things are positive developments.
High-resolution screen printing demystified [video]
You can do that from the BIOS and disable Dynamic Brightness Control in the display options
Now Flight Attendants Have to Hustle for Tips
A Systemd-Journald Exploit – Qualys Security Advisory
there was some tampering here and there

Systematically and violently suppressing any political opposition is a lot more than 'some tampering here and there'.
I had XPS-13 9350 with a glossy screen. The reflection of ambient light sources was terrible. Plus, as the screen max opening angle was small, I often could not just tilt the screen sufficiently to direct the reflection away. I ended up getting a filter cover. With that the experience was like on MacBook Air 2013. The screen still reflected, but not strongly enough to bother.

Now I have Thinkpad X280 with the mate screen and I really like it. Reflections are just not there and I can tilt the screen 180 degrees.
AI Thinks Rachel Maddow Is a Man (and this is a problem for all of us)
I don't throw away my old glasses. I keep them in various places as backups, such as in car gloveboxes, in the home emergency kit, in a bag while traveling and so on.
You are right, that's is illogical. Needs to be called out, as you did.
True, and has ad-blocking built in, so presumably this is an area of focus for them.
Don't. I got both, and while the xps 13 is good gear, the 15 has been nothing but pain. The name is the only thing they got in common, and dell stayed silent on numerous issues about it.
"We developed an exploit for CVE-2018-16865 and CVE-2018-16866 that
obtains a local root shell in 10 minutes on i386 and 70 minutes on
amd64, on average. We will publish our exploit in the near future."
Curious how so? The Leaf beat the Model S to market by 2 years. And through 2018, has sold 126,000+ units in the US (worldwide production blows away Tesla). Tesla has sold 140,000+ Model S's in the US during the same period.

The Leaf is actually affordable for regular people. The Leaf is the mainstream EV.

Also, what other EVs are out there in mass quantities? The Bolt only just came out, same with the i3? That's not a huge mainstream market at all.
I am reminded of this gem: https://www.mikeperham.com/2016/02/09/kill-your-dependencies...
when I went to school a poor black kid stole a portion of my lunch every single day in 2nd grade (stupid policy that you had to leave your lunch on an unattended desk, he knew which bag was mine and took the granola bar.) my parents moved me to a catholic school which had basically no black kids. the bullying was still there but nobody ever stole from me or really anyone else. no fights basically ever.

we move, I go back to a more diverse school. fights, my graphing calculator stolen... what’s the possible benefit of having poor people in your school? until social programs make it so my lunch doesn’t need to be stolen to feed a kid, I fail to see how the non poor students are better off.
You just go out and buy the information. It's not really available to individuals.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-02/equifax-h...
sorry, this is off topic, but it's impossible to add a comment to the discussion in which you participated at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18364148

where you discuss with one of the authors of the excellent paper "Towards Understanding Linear Analogies"

you are discussing ELMo and specifically word senses i.e. "leaves" which has multiple senses (departs, foliage, ...)

I recently stumbled on a paper from 2016 (modified 2018) which IMHO gives a lot of insight, but I had to read both the old and the new version (I recommend reading v1 first and then the newest)

They illustrate how for example the word "leave" in word embeddings, is in fact simply a linear combination (with coefficients on the order of 1) of the true positions of each individual sense i.e. "leave" = A"leave.1"+B"leave.2"+... with A,B, ... constants close to 1. Theres typically less than 10 for a single word.

These reside in the same vector space as the word embeddings, and they illustrate how these sense vectors can be retrieved from the shallow word embedding vectors by sparse coding!

The paper is at https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.03764

Again I recommend reading first v1 then v6
I don't think I'd call "getting paid less than my colleagues doing the same work because I'm more desperate" a "win-win"
I'm sorry, this reply doesn't make sense to me. What does "different cultures are different" have to do with whether computer systems can be discriminatory or not?
I'm interested in seeing whether we begin to see more unionizing among tech workers and therefore more collective action. It'd be like the incidents detailed here but to the Nth degree.
I've switched to a Pixelbook and like it for many tasks. The Pixelbook is lighter and has a taller 3:2 screen, both positives. The Chrome OS security model seems stronger than Ubuntu out of the box. My development environment now runs in the safety of a VM.

I had the XPS 13 9333 and later replaced it with the XPS 13 9730. It's about a year old now and is currently back with Dell to repair two USB-C ports that stopped working about the same time-- around the time I got the Pixelbook.

The Crostini software and integration on the Pixelbook still needs polish, but overall I'm happy with the Pixelbook as an XPS 13 alternative for a Linux development environment.
I'm looking forward to Beanie Babies, backed by innumerable GPUs, being the way I'll buy a coffee in the morning.
Zenni's glasses start at $6 (lenses and frames included).

I usually splurge and spend around $15 a pair.

Glasses are cheap. Many consumers are hoodwinked by vendors.