skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Define please what is racist at an instant T. 10 years from here (hell even 2 years) what is not racist today will be totally racist. even Ocasion Cortez will probably rank as a racist by then. If the algorithm should predict what is racist or not a good model would say "at the end everything is racist even the bit as he is not inclusive enough with his two genders"
Are people really making new accounts on the spot here to comment in these kinds of threads to avoid having disagreeable ideas traced back to their main accounts?
My optometrists have all used color-coded stickers that represent the price tiers of frames. Only one of them ever seems to be under my insurance allowance. They don't really have an incentive to make them any cheaper than the average allowance otherwise they would be leaving money on the table.
It's actually you that is out of touch. I could reiterate the arguments already well expressed but perhaps I should just suggest you read the entire rest of the thread.

A teacher spends presumably most hours actually interacting with students and use the computer for preparation and paperwork something your 10 year old dell is probably well suited for during the minority of the time they spend on it.

Your dev spends most of their time on their machine and even if they don't have to build software in a compiled language may still be running a heavy development environment, several browsers to test the result, virtual machines, etc etc etc.

To drive the point home lets consider the cost of a 5% decrease in productivity due to using an inferior machine.

If a teacher is contracted to work 185 days or 37 work weeks in a year and earns 60k the teacher earns $32 at 50 hours.

If the teacher spends 10 hours per week on the computer the cost is no more than $32 * 37 * 10 * 0.05 = $592

If your software developer is earning 100k x 50 weeks and spends 50 hours per week almost all of which is spent using the computer then the cost is $40 per hour x 40 hours on the computer x 50 weeks x 0.05 = $4000

This doesn't account for actual costs incurred by having to hire more developers because management is too incompetent to retain them buy buying them nice tools.
Bose just recently got FDA approval for their first non-prescription/self fitting hearing aids.
What I get from people on the left is that an unequal outcome is indicative of racism, however subtle that racism is. The only other explanations for an unequal outcome are biological differences between races (do not want to get into that) and races haves advantages over others from past history.
I'm still blaming him the EV market becoming mainstream..
It’s even worse with Prime as it’s getting harder and harder to find what is free and what isn’t as Amazon decided that it’s a good idea to intermingle pay per view/rental, buy to own and subscription based content.
You have to wonder if the key ingredient in this is the fact that tech jobs are booming. There's so much written about the job market, you tend to feel confident that you're in high demand.

I know a lady who was working for a startup that folded. She got told, then walked down the hallway in the same building, got hired by another startup. Boot camp grad.

There's even a person mentioned in the article who refused to work at Amazon, which I guess pays over $200k. Some people would do it out of principle regardless, but many more would find it easier to protest if they had high confidence they could find another job in that bracket.

I've seen sexual harassment suits happen in finance, and it hasn't led to any form of mass movement. People just get paid off and let out the back door.

In addition you have to ask about the effect of that hiring cartel being broken.
Somewhat.

Privoxy can disable host requests, but for HTTPS traffic will no longer disable specific page elements.
> We could benefit from better language around these concepts

I believe this is a very under-rated problem today's public is facing. Not just these concepts, but many political terms are misused in today's climate, making for a conversationally ignorant population.
This seems a good time to point out that a few of us been organizing a revolt against HN. I wish it wasn't so, and the drama is mostly uninteresting. Suffice to say, expressing concerns about HN on HN is a quick way to end up beheaded.

If you're looking for an alternative: https://www.laarc.io/

You may find the site a welcome change of pace. We just had our first Show post today.

There is a good chance that this account will be quickly banned, this post killed, and this account marked as "uncommentable", meaning this is the last comment I am likely able to post under this handle. But you may also know me as sillysaurus.

I've missed you guys.
But to be "morally" right you have to have an ample understanding of what is and is not explicitly fact that's actually based in reality. Otherwise, the consensus of what fact is becomes irrelevant and the guise of morality simply becomes little more than barbed wire or nails wrapped around the baseball bat of which ever narrative or ideology our leaders intend to pursue...

Even as a very progressive young person, AOC's lack of composure and basic logic is deeply troubling.
I think this is why Bose entered the market with “hearphones” to help hear people in crowded bars. So they could try to market them without spending the money to be a medical device.
Really interesting article. Whats fascinating is the way embeddings can be used for many NLP tasks such as translations and word embeddings like word2vec but can be also applied to image tasks like this.

For image tasks I read that adding more layers to the model helps find more complicated features of the images, i.e. first layer identifies edges, next layer finer outlines and so on. Would adding more layers in this model mean you need less epochs to make it more accurate or would there be any trade off like that?
The reason it (OAuth) was built was for user convenience one-click signing in for the most part and frankly that is more important than most considerations or tradeoffs if it's accomplishing the job. I do feel like this is always a bear to put in apps and I've even gone to the lengths of making a highly reusable microservice to handle this for my apps because it is just annoying in general to keep setting up. I don't like igcognito or firebase as they are too limiting on providers. I just took the approach of using an already rich ecosystem of Node.js and Passport compatible plugins for providers and having config lookup based on both signed requests coming in and where they originate. Was definitely worth the time doing this.
we need a video netcat.. netcast
This is reasonable, but now you've given up the game entirely. Oracle and similar firms receive massive benefits from society. First, they are allowed to exist in the first place, which is not obviously a just decision. Also, so many aspects of society are tweaked to make it easier for gigantic inefficient firms to profit consistently. Because of this, Oracle and firms like it owe us something more than merely responding to market conditions. At the very least, not discriminating against employees in illegal ways is part of what they owe.
DUPI – Deep Universal Protocol Inspection
Why is representatively fair the gold standard? What if in 10 or 20 years we view one of the other methods of optimizing as a more "fair" way (i.e. what if our current consensus on what is best is not absolute truth, but a social and cultural bubble)? Then all our algorithms will be sub-optimal (at that time).

Just as different cultures value these differently, it makes sense that one culture that changes over time might as well.
Bose recently got FDA approval for their "self-fitting hearing aid"

https://www.hearingtracker.com/bose-hearing-aid
Thinking of racism in terms of the intent is a way to take the issue less seriously, to force the issue into the realm of opinions and beliefs. If the intent of the perpetrator is the deciding factor, then it is always arguable that perpetrator's intent was not specifically racist; perhaps it was driven by a misunderstanding, etc. Since it was informed by misunderstanding, it isn't racist. And so on.

It's an old tactic, I don't think changing the terms will make much difference.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle%27s_algorithm
No, they're not the same as your beloved RAII, but this isn't an object-oriented language so it doesn't have destructors. For the third time, what better solution do you propose for a non-OO language?
This would be a technical nightmare given how police radios work. However, you can submit a FOIA request for radio recordings, which basically does what you suggest but with a longer delay.

The radios do support over-the-air keying, but it is rarely used. Having physical radios come back to the shop for key refreshes provides positive control over radios, and prevents a stolen radio (which happens more often than you'd think) from listening in on a SWAT or drug operation.
Can you please share a screenshot, and information on what you edited in userChrome.css ?
This reminds me of Facebook's "2G Tuesdays" (https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/28/9625062/facebook-2g-tues...), where they emulate their internet speed to that of emerging countries. If you are frustrated while waiting for a page to load, then your users are going to be as well.

This is a really nice way of working and you can see the results when browsing https://mbasic.facebook.com: even at 2G speeds, even with photos, pages load fast. No unnecessary background process trying to do something, all buttons are there to be clicked on already. A really smooth experience.
I don't recall meeting a developer honest/confident enough to admit to copy/pasting off of Stack Overflow. That takes one heck of a lot of courage.

I don't actually know you, but I like you. That was really great to read!
It's also somewhat of a bias that tech = "whatever Silicon Valley does." While there is a fair amount of that tech in e.g. Boston/Cambridge as well, you also have way more biotech/pharma than exists in SV.
Index finger, or first finger, right next to the zeroeth finger, the thumb... ;)
> I think that being late to a rally against charter schools because you were busy trying to get your kid into a charter school is quite a bit more specific and powerful form of hypocrisy than the above meme.

I don't think it's hypocrisy at all; thinking that it is essential for your child under the present time policy regime because that regime harms all public school students, but particularly those who remain in traditional schools, in order to reward charter operators is not even slightly inconsistent with thinking the system should be reformed to eliminate that problem.

It's not hypocrisy any more than it is to be late for a protest against marijuana being criminalized because you are trying to negotiate a deal to get probation instead of jail time for marijuana possession.
Call me jaded, but these still sound like a wealthy person's toy. They are low occupancy, like cars, and also like cars, would be hard to have a significant number of these operating in an area without major safety issues, but worse because, given a flying vehicle accident, the chance of fatality or severe injury is far higher.
I’m pretty sure that’s a feature you can disable.
It gets even more interesting when you consider proxies for protected characteristics as well. It's obviously wrong for an algorithm to preferentially discriminate for white people and against black people. It's less clear whether or not discriminating for baseball players and against basketball players is acceptable. Using sport choice in your model will necessarily have downstream effects on the distribution of outcomes on the axis of race. Any racially-correlated source of information will. And the trickiest bit is that explicitly correcting for this will often use race as an explicit algorithmic ingredient.
development, testing and evaluation in a military context does not sound like fundamental science at all...

sure there will be research, and some of it will be open, but all the research behind closed doors does not enjoy the scrutiny of normal research, so there is plenty of opportunity to waste money on nonsense "research" ...
I find it kind of odd that there are all these comments claiming the article glosses over nuance and therefore its conclusion is baseless when the counterpoints have even less data.

Everyone seems to agree successful companies have started in SV and outside of SV, and that there’s a lopsided distribution. No one has spent much time on whether the location is the cause of or just correlated with success. I get that this is hard to determine, but maybe people should speak in less absolutes? The article is one persons decision making process, explained for the benefit of others. I don’t think it’s claiming to be The One Truth.

Disclaimer: I worked for the author in Philly previously.
I had an eye exam today, and I need new lenses. The exam is vouchered on the NHS. I'm keeping the existing frames. The lenses will have an anti-reflective and anti-glare coating. I've never had a scratch, that I can see anyway. Total cost: £39.
Can anyone recommend a comparable notebook that supports more than 16GB of RAM?

As great as this computer looks, I find myself doing doing more and more data crunching work that would benefit hugely from having more memory. But I also travel enough that a desktop (or desktop replacement laptop) just won't cut the mustard.
Man, we used to play outside from morning (dawn is really early in the summer) till lunch, then from after lunch till 9:30pm.

We lived in the country so we rode bikes, built tree forts, explored the woods.

We shot bows and arrows and ran around with pellet guns, took apart old lawnmowers that never got put back together, sorry... :-(

From thirteen on, I had little joe jobs pumping gas, washing cars watering plants at a nursery.

Later on I worked at a farm. I can still back up a forty foot trailer on a dime. I also learned to jury rig almost any mechanical thing, because equipment was always breaking down.
I tried this. They wouldn't take the return of empty frames. In any case, the cost was cheap enough to try. The frame quality is good enough for the price.
Most of these seem to be for public catch-up providers. Getting Netflix to run with the whole DRM situation seems to be a whole other challenge I'd say?
Worse than package dependency is platform dependency. My code runs on top of 10 million lines of Kubernetes insanity that no one really understands, including the thousands of authors who wrote it. In theory, that means at the drop of a hat I can switch to a different cloud, kubectl apply, and presto! Platform independence. In reality, every cloud is slightly different, and we now depend on and work around a lot of weird quirks of Kubernetes itself. We're stuck with what we've got.
Not many folks use the macros that those macro-trait packages define, but the technique itself is in widespread use throughout the core language and standard library. That's where it was first posited and implemented, in fact: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/8432 (and see the link to the "trait trick")
I took a networking course in college and I didn't learn much, if anything. We used textbooks like Kurose and Ross that went deep into details like the header format of each packet of each layer. Ultimately, these were useless details that had no place in a textbook. It made me hate the subject.

I eventually learned the subject properly through High Performance Browser Networking. This is the one book I would recommend to any software developer. Available for free here - https://hpbn.co
I don't as much need to care what the US government thinks, because the US government doesn't fund any of its best known media companies. As you can pretty clearly see, most of the US news media market works in opposition to the current US administration.
The problem is the self-reinforcing, external factors that these algorithms don't take into account.

If you feed a ML algorithm crime stats, it will conclude crime is directly correlated to being black, or being a former criminal. But this correlation only exists because of how we've chosen to conduct the policing of black communities and treatment of ex-cons upon release that produced the the training data in the first place.

Most people here are male, were once (or are) under 25 and likely drive. How'd you like paying more for insurance than your parents because some system decided men are bad drivers, and doubly so when they're young? Triply so when they happen to be driving a red car? Quadruply so if there are prior citations/accidents?

Shit, with a spotless driving record, my own insurance went up when someone t-boned me. Other driver was at-fault and I subrogated their insurance; didn't claim with mine. But I'm being lumped into a higher-risk pool with my own insurer for factors completely beyond my control-- because to some algorithm, being in an accident means I'm more likely to be in accidents, and all drivers who are involved in collisions are higher risks than drivers who aren't. Note how the fact that I wasn't at fault isn't factored in. This makes sense to you?

The social training data in much of Europe is skewed towards hating Gypsies and anyone perceived to be one. But it's the same as the ex-con problem-- deny them jobs, beat them, chase them away, and of course an ex-con or young Romani will commit future crimes. You're shaping behavior to validate your training data instead of making unbiased ("fair") predictions. It's the equivalent of betting on a horse, injuring its competition, then patting yourself on the back for being so goddamn good at this game.

You can't look at the world in terms of sheer numbers. The numbers themselves are dishonest.
Wouldn't it be easier to just use Jupyter and not use the Python-supporting stuff?

Just because Visual Studio supports Visual Basic doesn't mean I can't use it when I'm only interested in writing things in C#.
Cults don't write about how to avoid being a cult, while the LW crowd has reams of texts and blog posts about how they are purposefully avoiding trying to become a cult.
> Why does a "developer edition" notebook come with a glossy screen?

Not all glossy screens are bad, just the ones released relatively recently are.

Sony was making near perfect high end LCDs with glossy screen, glass surface, AND real AR coating.

In comparison, later design panels simply had glossy polycarbonate with poor still poor surface finish.

Laminated and "one glass" screen also do come in varying quality levels. One glass screens with AR coatings are very, very good, but ones with poor lamination, and mismatched refraction indexes are horrid.
The article is wrong on multiple angles. First it explains why the algorithm reached its conclusions... the data. So the algorithm wasn't at fault, but the data was, which was supplied by a human. Second, algorithms are inanimate and cannot hold beliefs like racial superiority. It could be used by someone who does, in which case you would want to prove it with other means than just the algorithm. Either way what this really proves is that the new definition of "racist" is whether or not you are the first to bring it up.
Both Wal-Mart and Costco have fully independent optometrists: they lease the space and equipment and are not employees. (sometimes state laws don't allow this in which case they are employees)
How do you customize nose fit? Sounds interesting but I don't know how a picture would be enough to determine the nose contour?
Just moving across the street then? It's probably the fastest data transfer ever by physically moving all the hard drives!
That’s called a win-win in negotiations.

Btw, all (well, most profitable) are always exploiting you - paying you less than you produce for the company. You’re also always exploiting the company - you’re making more money collaborating with pther employees than you would by yourself!
> I was waiting for inexpensive ones to become available.

Huge batteries are really expensive. Just the Model 3's battery by itself is something on the order of $10,000 worth at retail costs.
Street Light Interference (SLIders)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_light_interference_phen...
Holy 150-point font Batman!
FLOPS (19.6B to 0.72B) of Machine Learning models
Really cool idea. I hope you manage to get into a sustainable cycle of people you've helped with bankruptcy getting back on their feet and donating to help others in the same position.
Bullied teen with ADHD, social anxiety is eloquent as Kermit the Frog in VRChat
90s and 2000s was a pretty different story. These days a 5 year old i7 with 16g of ram is pretty damn fast. Maybe it's a different story if you're running windows with a big IDE.
I never paid.
US Tech Lobbying
Maybe this is just a Canadian thing, but it seems like the 8gb RAM does not offer any upgrade options:

https://i.imgur.com/oI81Gt7.png
Aren't the DOL classifications nationwide with no COL adjustment? $65k is entirely reasonable for entry level work if you're averaging across the entire country, as is $135k for senior level work.

If a company is following a bad law doesn't it make more sense to make the law better than lambaste the company for hand-wavy "abuse?"
Racism is discrimination based on race, everything else is not racism.
Ubuntu seems fine on my older laptops, but Windows 10 is a different animal. I had an otherwise fast laptop that was almost unusable because Windows was always thrashing the slow spinning HDD. It could take 10 minutes or more after waking up from a sleep before the HDD light turned off (and even then off means a constant flicker). Apparently it's related to telemetry data Windows was constantly collecting for some reason. I eventually replaced the HDD with a SSD and the difference is night and day.
Which German company are you using for your glasses? My wifes' glasses cost 750€ about 12 months ago. Nothing special in her prescriptions, except perhaps that she needed prisms.

The German glasses shop also have a bad habit of keeping the perscriptions after they have tested your eyes and not giving you a copy. Very frustrating!
A thought is a program: teaching concepts to robots
Here's my problem with OIDC and I don't know where to bring this up to find out if my hopes are widely off or I've missed something big and it already exists...

There's nothing specified anywhere that allows an application to interrogate an RP about the available scopes. I just don't see how fine-grained resource access can be done with OIDC without requiring the user to grant much coarser access first. I found a draft spec once but it was abandoned and the author didn't reply to an email I sent...
If this laptop has SO-DIMM slots then it supports more than 16GB RAM. 32GB RAM sticks are available and compatible even if Intel doesn't claim they are. Campuspoint tested them with the Lenovo ThinkPad T480, for example.
Preston Tucker didn't get to sell everyone a car with disc brakes and fuel injection. However, he did help move the industry towards that. Arguably, Elon Musk has already accomplished the same role.
"I was a part of a company early in my career where certain people were being paid less than others, only the thing was that the big, BIG, bosses didn't know about it. "

That's pretty weird. Usually the bosses know what everyone is making or can find out. Looking at cost is one of the main duties of a boss.
From my point of view, numeric arrays are barebones, and strings and dictionaries are fancy data structures that I never need, but they are nevertheless elevated as features of the language itself. It would seem much more natural if it was the other way round. In my everyday life I solve linear systems in octave by doing "x=A\b", but in python it becomes very cumbersome.
I wonder at which point the power efficiency of these old machines outweighs the environmental impact of tossing them and buying a modern machine.
We're already aware you're enthusiastic about your business. Kindly leave the self-endorsement out of every comment.