skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unequal outcome is not indicative of racism, it is racism. That's the point: racism is an outcome, not an intent. An unknowing, unfeeling beurocratic system can be racist, even if there isn't a speck of racial bias in the hearts of the practitioners and designers, simply due to historical quirks as you point out, or design mistakes.
We also ran into issues with using the Okta OAuth/OIDC integration with Teleport and ended up using SAML [0]. Perhaps more painful, especially if you are more familiar OAuth/OIDC but it worked. This was when Okta OAuth/OIDC was still in beta so perhaps it has improved since then.

[0] https://developer.okta.com/authentication-guide/saml-login/ ; https://gravitational.com/teleport/docs/ssh_okta/
> If you've looked at the transitive dependency graphs of modern packages, it's hard to not feel we're doing the same thing.

Are there any tools to do this visually. I mean visualizing the graph and interacting with it.
Yes, I noticed this as well and the one that is under the insurance allowance is comically ugly.
Other possible explanations include at least culture and background (parental wealth, connections and education), possibly others.
It's interesting, I just checked it out (I'd never heard of it before) and a number of the usernames seem familiar, and are not who I'd think of as more political-oriented people. The topics are actually more technical and arguably interesting than what shows up on HN these days.

I think it may just be that beyond a certain size, online communities break, and you get crap. And laarc is effectively a splinter off HN of users who got fed up with the content here.
Algorithms CAN have racist bias. It's wrong to claim they will always be racist because they are based on math.

And the article is a mess, confusing and mixing up several things.
You're right. It's also because we live in 1st world conditions, and once your basic needs are met, we strive to address the higher ones, like fulfillment and meaning.

I live in the first world, in a city of about 100,000. According to numbeo it's a bit cheaper to live here than Seattle, but much more expensive than Dallas. I earn just under $60,000 USD as a developer, which is considered a good salary here.

I think you drastically over estimate the first world as a whole.
Correct, the guy on twitter doesn’t seem to know what he is talking about.

Random IVs in CBC mode are an easy way to be fairly sure that you wont accidentally repeat a key+IV without much effort, but there is no security dependency on it being random nor on it being secret.
No, but the law has a handwavy bit about "everything needed to get prescription lenses," which ostensibly would include the PD at plain reading since you can't make the lenses without it and it's based on medical information. Your stance vs. that one is the crux of the debate.

https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrieveECFR?gp=1&SID=797d7708f...

> (g) A prescription is the written specifications for lenses for eyeglasses which are derived from an eye examination, including all of the information specified by state law, if any, necessary to obtain lenses for eyeglasses.
I know, this is why all this algorithms should not be hidden/proprietary. At least we have a chance to spot why/how the computer decided my fate.
On top of what else has been said: you can call R from within Julia with almost negligible overhead via RCall.jl[0], so you can still use code you have already written.

https://github.com/JuliaInterop/RCall.jl
If you don't see the NRs in the rationalist community, you're not looking.

Ultimately I agree that they're not equal; I think many people involved in LW or SSC are good-faith rationalists. But there's also a strong segment that has adopted - post hoc - a crazy set of priors to support NR views.

What strikes me is how antithetical this post-hoc "pick your priors, any priors!" is to the rationalist ideal, but it doesn't get called out. It's given equal treatment, and it means that the community is categorically incapable of discussing culture-war issues.
Like I said, inefficient negotiation.
Thanks for drowning the remainder of my Wednesday in nostalgia. Caldera OpenLinux was my first distro. I got its first CD bundled with some random book about Linux in 1999. The book came from a store that sold used books, so I was surprised to find the CD still nestled in there.

The book turned out to be garbage, but the CD changed my life. I still keep it at my desk 20 years later.
If you wanted to use this for commuting, just add a front electric sustainer to it.

How about a solution for a VTOL craft, like the Boeing vehicle? How about an airship with high speed winches, with smaller drones managing the ends of the cables? The cables could attach to aircraft that want to take off, which would be pulled up to a height where their rotor noise wouldn't be so annoying.
There's a third option, though, removing barriers to permit equal access and opportunity. I think it's well illustrated by this comic:

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56d9cbd420c647c7373d4...
There are reasons why you are getting the recaptcha.
this usually has to do with user behaviour with respect to an HN algorithm
Currently people seeking the EITC and Mortgage Interest Deduction have to file. This wouldn't change that. Nor is there a prohibition against the IRS sending a nice note encouraging folks to file if they want to take advantage of these benefits. It doesn't have to look like a bill.

We may just disagree on the size of the burden or the ability to ameliorate risks/downsides, but I'm having a hard time imagining that they cannot be addressed with _implementation_ choices on a pre-filed return.

I feel like this is important because it seems like we agree on the fundamentals: that the tax code should advantage the vulnerable, that filing should be as easy as possible, and that taxpayers should be able to discover and utilize all breaks available to them. The status quo does not seem _nearly_ good enough at these things to be worth preserving.
No. If you leave and come back within 2 years (I think), you get the same as you had before you had left.
Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay have all recognized Guaidó as president.
In fairness, there are literally an infinite number of laptops out there (if you take into account the never ending cycle of new laptops being released). Cataloguing every make and model for a hobby project is simply not going to be possible.
It is not clear if anything is actually wrong here. It would be nice if someone who has spent more than "30 minutes" looking at this code could verify these claims and publish an article explaining the implications of these design choices.

The twitter thread that this is aggregated from has replies that seem to indicate that there is no practical exploit here.

https://twitter.com/3lbios/status/1087848040583626753
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I hear she had something smart to say about machine learning and algorithmic racism. Can’t find the article right now, but I think I even saw it on HN (where it attracted some very strange comments, including some asking for examples of AOC showing any non-twitter tech literacy).
Yes, and the article itself is an example of this.
Weighting red hair color could be a proxy for the Irish, targeting hair texture could be a proxy for african americans, targeting zip codes has always been a proxy for race, etc.

Off-topic-ish, but only about 10% of Irish people have red hair.
> And these are the cases that we know about publicly.

Well, we know about all the cases publicly because case records are public.
>I thought about reporting this at 7zip Sourceforge forums but then I vomited again when I saw a long thread of largely incoherent exchanges on how 7z should be using Twofish instead of AES-256 because...

Just because a bunch of tinfoils are arguing over whatever doesn't mean you shouldn't still report it! Just be sure to word the report more generic than usual so the hordes don't find the issue and turn it into a battleground before a serious maintainer can get to it
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Factual, fully-sourced examples of impact Brexit is already having on the UK
Thanks for taking the time to create this detailed and helpful answer. I appreciate your work.
So your argument is that Harvard is racist if it doesn’t discriminate against Asian applicants? So that they are not overrepresented among the student population?!
no, my point was that the justification for conquering them “they were living like neolithic people” is nonsense.
C# .NET Core versus Java Fastest Programs
Yes they can, because that's what "discrimination" means: differences in outcome due to uncontrollable irrelevant factors like race. Discrimination is an effect, not an intent. Racist intent is called "prejudice". Discrimination can be caused by prejudice, or it can be caused by something else, like a poorly considered algorithm.
Equality of outcome seems like a mechanistic concept of the industrial age of standardized mass production.

Equality of opportunity seems much more organic/humanistic because it allows for the natural variation in people's values and personality
> Nowhere did I say that all public interest organizations are positive. Just that in the specific example of OP of air quality they are vs a corp would most likely want to pollute if anything.

Yes, and in a lot of cases, pollution serves the public interest more than whatever the public interest organization wants. Making cell phones and microchips is an enormously polluting process, for example.

> "Nearly 80 percent of American workers (78 percent) say they're living paycheck to paycheck".

And prior to the raise of mega-corps, Americans were living harvest-to-harvest. In countries without mega-corps (I come from one), people are subsistence farmers, living at the knife edge of starvation at every moment.

> P.S. Why do you think there's lack of will among politicians to implement single payer, despite it being majority popular and implemented by practically every developed and developing country in some form?

> Could it be that corporate players don't want these things? Hmm...

They have mega-corps in other developed countries too, so no, I don't think that's the reason. I suspect the answer is that the public mood has only shifted in favor of single payer in the last 10 years: https://www.kff.org/slideshow/public-opinion-on-single-payer.... And of course, that: (1) is for the public as a whole, not actual voters who are more conservative on average than the general populace; and (2) does not account for the fact that voters in smaller states, which lean more conservative, have more representation in Congress. You can see these effects from Slide 4. 62% of Republicans polled strongly oppose a national health plan today. Pretty much the entire time that public opinion overall has favored single payer (since 2010), there has been a republican majority in the house. The last time there was a Democrat majority in both chambers (2008-2009), we got the ACA. At that time, a majority of Americans opposed single payer.

Public opinion (adjusted to account for the fact that polls do not directly map onto votes in the House and Senate), directly explains why we don't have single payer.
Because you're lenses are coming from the same place. Depending on the contract year, your lenses are probably coming from Essilor, which at that point you should be probably be going to a private practice and getting better customer service and deals (in terms of warranties, and actually getting the most from the manufacturer). Though that really only extends to a two year period, if it is longer than than, it is pretty much considered a completely new order.

Disclosure, I work for Essilor.
https://www.dronethusiast.com/what-are-the-best-silent-drone...
Ask HN: What is best career advice you ever received or you can give?
I'm not sure if the professional designation changes country to country, but here in Canada an ophthalmologist would not be the person to give a comprehensive eye exam. That would be an optometrist. (source: optometrist parent)
> If you wanted for example to write a microservice or script in Ruby

Not FAANG per se, but at Uber, you wouldn't be allowed to use Ruby for a new microservice. The only exception to language blacklists is if you're fixing issues in a fork of a 3rd party tool that is already written in an non-official language (e.g. homebrew or phabricator). Official languages get support from platform/infra teams (in terms of libraries, greenkeeping, etc) and are setup for things like security guideline compliance.

Our official stacks are Java (backend), Go (backend), Swift (ios), Java (android) and JS/Node (web).

Of course, there will always be unofficial languages, such as the odd library written in C++ or the odd project written w/ react native or legacy code written in python, but those are minorities, in terms of number of projects.
Well, in the past it was one of the main arguments in favor of open source. There is even a related article on the WP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_Law (it has nothing to do with Linus though)
most people filing for BK aren't really "people that don't have any money." It's a middle class problem: the truly poor have virtually no access to credit and are unlikely to have debt problems, while the well-off can save their way out of it. It's nearly always people with some income and employment who find themselves suddenly without enough to pay their debts.

Wiping out tens of thousands of dollars in debt (usually credit cards, but sometimes medical and lawsuit debt too) is a huge help.

Something as simple as a standard line at the bottom of every notice email sent to the debtor, to the effect of "We're a non-profit supported in large part by donations from satisfied users just like you. Please consider a small donation to pay it forward so we can continue to help people get a fresh start." With a link to your donation page.
The other big limit to DL is its inability to learn a new concept from a single training example, AKA one-shot learning.

Given that humans do most of their supervised learning this way underscores that, even though DL nets intriguingly resemble the architecture of the brain, in fact, DL's current learning process clearly departs from the one used by the brain. (Unless the way a baby fiddles with each new object is in fact a form of data augmentation, increasing the visual sample space by changing the object's angles. But I digress...)

Better to drop the "Neural Net as Brain" metaphor before we Procrustes it to death.
I agree, but I wanted to clearly under estimate because three or four days is already enough cost wise and it's hard to argue. I think two weeks is on the optimistic side, but I think real proficiency would be a slow process and likely end up not paying off for about a quarter, though you'd be productive in other ways during that time.
I have 9370 (the 2018 model) and I only have these two:

- that 'spidey-fingers' webcam;

lol, that's a weird one, but solved with the external keyboard

- that 'Content Adaptive Brightness Control' when gamma-level goes off every time you switch from black to white image on the screen;

that's a weird one, how to turn that off? (win 10)
That's not a third option - it is the conservative option. If you build a fence that is tall such that some person is disadvantaged, then he doesn't really have the same rights.
I'm sure there are very few manufacturers of quality lens-making equipment.

On the other hand my latest glasses where neither lenses nor frame come from E-L cost an arm and a leg, too.
You can pick the matte one if that's what you want. I agree that glossy screens are very annoying.
Another ditto -- I now have one pair of regular glasses and four pairs of computer/reading glasses, all prescription (one for each computer I sit at!). The last 3 computer glasses cost $27 for all three. At those prices, I can trivially "just get" spares for vacations and hiking.
Fascinating stuff. I found this bit particularly interesting:

Preprint websites also help researchers to communicate ideas that might not be picked up by peer-reviewed journals, says Marina Picciotto, a neuroscientist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and editor-in-chief of The Journal of Neuroscience, one of the top 20 journals in terms of the number of preprints published. These include baseline but otherwise uninteresting data, she says, and negative results, which are rarely published in journals. “Preprint servers have a complementary role to play with traditional journals,” she says.

It would be interesting to see similar analyses for https://chemrxiv.org/ and https://psyarxiv.com/ as well.
I see your point. Just giving a share option somewhere near is better. I’ll ruminate on it a bit and try to think of a better way to motivate people.
Are 1000-line methods OK?
> to my knowledge, legal stuff should in most cases be a nonissue as well.

Why? I'm confused at how that could be the case; it's a big issue for most businesses.

> They could put everything behind the oldest age bracket (18/21 yrs old), which would probably be their biggest customerbase anyway.

You simply can't do this when the entire film is banned. This is also bad from a purely business perspective. Even if it's the biggest customerbase, it's a limiting factor which lowers the number of customers that can see it (this is mostly implicit, not legally enforced in the USA). Sadly, many films are being re-cut or re-written, so that they won't receive an R rating (definitely not the dreaded NC-17). That's why we have things like John McClain saying "dagg nabbit" and "gollie gee", instead of swearing.

> They do want to milk all brands to their maximum after all...

You put this far better than I did. Very succinct and descriptive.

> but if thats the reason, they don't really have any grounds to complain about piracy

You lost me here. These brands aren't cheap; lots of money goes into them. Businesses want as much money as possible, especially given the high cost and risk. I'm not a big IP fan, but it is their property. Saying I stole from you, because I don't like the way you sell things, and you have no grounds to complain isn't completely reasonable (DRM is the most legitimate gripe I have, but it's still not a perfect excuse). I appreciate your commitment to doing the right thing. Sorry for the dissection, I didn't intend for this to be rebuttal, but it kinda got away from me.
> Around here the store has some cheap frames they use for advertizing. The problem is they look like something a crazy old aunt would wear, with wild coloring.

That would make you all the rage in a hipster circles.
Mhm. Same USB 3 is the protocol while USB C is the connector. You can totally have USB 2.0 only USB C ports.
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This should be flagged. Just read the second video description:
"Get it you retard?! Hurry up and die. I will make sure everyone knows what a scumbag you are."

This isn't a valid "critical perspective"
Have you heard of outsourcing? Or the term Offshoring? Or Tech Companies using H1B Visas?

I mean it is already happening, perhaps you just missed it.
> Take an 18-year old with a red Mustang and a 58-year old with a midlife crisis and a 3-series. Both drive like assholes. Both will inevitably cause an accident.

this is not a fair example; by assumption we have much more information about the 58yo than the 18yo. remove the bit about the midlife crisis and there's no reason to think the 58yo is anywhere near the same risk to insure. as a group, young people are less experienced drivers, have less facility for judgement, and the males probably drive more aggressively.

unless you disagree that the goal of insurance is to spread risk among a bucket of people who have relatively similar risk factors, I'm not really sure where you're going with this.

and by the way, I'm a young male who drives a fast car.
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> even if easy, listening to responders comms is illegal

Yeah but it was difficult to prosecute - the only way to get into trouble was if police directly caught you in the act of listening in. Possession of scanners and frequency tables itself was made basically legal in 1998 by a court in Wuppertal, so unless you turned up to a crime scene with a scanner in your hand or got caught streaming the feed into the Internet, you couldn't get prosecuted (even if you admitted doing so on the Internet).

> coordination across many different organizations that all need to switch and be able work together at all times

Indeed, but now there are a number of success stories worldwide from which the US could learn on how to implement a switch to digital encrypted EMS communication. In the US however people still want to have the ability to snoop, or to distribute arrest records to the permanent Internet record, and I just ask myself why.
Podcast: Is Netflix a tech company or a media company?
This is very timely for me as I have an optometrist's appointment this afternoon. My 3 year old prescription needs an update unfortunately. Three years ago these glasses cost me $NZ1500 ($US1000). I do have"off the charts" astigmatism and they're progressives as well. Does anyone here know if the online options extend to extreme corner cases like this ?
> That said, could algos help judges make more consistent rulings/sentences? Probably already are.

More consistent, probably, but the risk is they'll be consistently worse. ProPublica did a big investigation into COMPAS.

https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...

> Prater was the more seasoned criminal. He had already been convicted of armed robbery and attempted armed robbery, for which he served five years in prison, in addition to another armed robbery charge. Borden had a record, too, but it was for misdemeanors committed when she was a juvenile.

> Yet something odd happened when Borden and Prater were booked into jail: A computer program spat out a score predicting the likelihood of each committing a future crime. Borden — who is black — was rated a high risk. Prater — who is white — was rated a low risk.
Well theres no disagreement from me that what you describe is how it plays out.

My caution is that we have found the equivalent of cheap, fast, microwavable meals and we are now consuming them almost exclusively and in 15 ~ 20 years it's going to become painfully obvious what deleterious side-effects arise as a result of that. We can't see it now, so we don't feel the need not to do it, and that simply is what it is, but in time it will act as a control signal that nudges us to modify our behavior.

This is both a great and terrifying time to be alive. The 20th century was full of some pretty hefty social experiments and the thing with those were they were obvious and in your face. The 21st century versions are much less obvious and reveal themselves very slowly.
This is so true! I was struggling with a paper yesterday and I was hoping it gave more examples. The paper felt terse but i think this could be a space constraint issue with physical journals. In the internet age, papers should be longer form with more examples and clear explanations. Heck, they shouldn't even be called papers!
> At the very least, let's shut it down for a while and see how things go. It's not like it's a decision fixed in stone.

Sure, let's also let some of the passengers fly the plane because hey, they did it in a video game.

Learn about it before you go and try and wreck the system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-06-16/immigr...
You inspired me to update my post:

>However, as a lot of pop psychology has taught us: People are fundamentally lazy in applying analytical thought, and will look for simple proxies.

I would not recommend judging books based on a random Internet comment, even my one.