skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes it exactly as difficult as the problem actually is. If you start with garbage data, such as arrest records (black people are WAY more likely to get arrested than white people in the same circumstance), then the bias in your sample is going to result in bias in your model.
What about existing tools, such as Synk, OSSIndex?
Historically, there have been plenty of companies that tried offering terms like "neither party can end employment without significant penalties without a year of notice" – for example, see non-competes in finance, which require the employer to keep paying the employee while they're on leave.

Employees in the US tend not to prefer such agreements. It seems like most people prefer job mobility to guaranteed tenure.
You guys seem really interested in this topic, so I thought I'd recommend the book The Economics of Discrimination by Becker.

A lot of seemingly intuitive things about wage discrimination fall apart upon closer inspection. It's a really complex problem that in some cases has counter intuitively gotten worse since the Jim Crow days.
The cost-to-benefit analysis of wheelchair ramps doesn't look great either (compared to not building one). Focusing on profit alone leads to some pretty terrible outcomes for people.
yeah, that's a bummer. 2019 notebooks with the same max memory of 3-4 years ago.
That depends on what those things are. As far as I'm aware, all nootropics are medicinal drugs. Except noopept which is specifically designed as a nootropic, but that works too.
I guess they are working at Palantir instead.
If anything, it hugely increases the risk of vulnerable libraries being built into the binary and forgotten.

Same with containers. Statistics clearly show the security impact.
> Also what is the point of 4K on a 13" laptop?

Nothing, that's pointless, I have the 1080 version and luckily no coil whine.
My guess would have been that by discussing it, you leave a trace in the networks allowing an eventual AI to prove that you knew about it. Since you knew about it, it can hold you accountable, and take revenge on all of your descendants if you didn't devote sufficient energy on bringing the AI into existence.
I got Lasiks done last April. It was a very scary procedure but it worked. It cost $3000. I have saved about $300 in glasses so far... assuming I wouldn't have lost/crushed a pair.

My vision is now so good people say "wow you can read that (chalkboard specials menu in restaurant etc.)?!"

Still when I was laying there with my corneas being sliced... I wasn't sure if it was such a good idea!
> Children under the age of 10 taking the trains by themselves or with friends, even in Tokyo.

that has a lot more to due with safe transit. I would NOT send a 10 year old kid to take BART or MUNI by themselves. In fact i literally know a couple who's 12 year old son basically got intimidated into giving away their iPod on MUNI.
I would recommend that anyone interested in Machine Learning, or "predictive modeling" etc. should read the book "Weapons of Math Destruction".

https://weaponsofmathdestructionbook.com/

I don't have my notes with me and I'm only 1/3 through, but the main theme is that the best predictive algorithms:

* work transparently for all parties (the creators, users, and "inputs", often people).

* Have no feedback loop (The use of data from the model should not further entrench the output of the model).

And a few others. It gets into discrimination and other major flaws of data modeling re: recidivism, school admissions, stock trading, and other things.

Not all algos are racist - but there are definite attributes to avoid, and this book (or a more rigorous version) should be mandatory reading for all "data scientists".
As consumers of a library?
Quick, what kind of object can I use this function with?

function computeAge(birthday: Date): int;
After wandering around in Germany, coming home late etc my kid was shocked when we put him in a US school 6 year ago (i.e. post smartphone). It wasn't just the unstructured time, but the range of things kids are allowed to do. Amusingly/sadly he said things like "people here haven't heard of freedom".

We had neighbors with a kid precisely the same age as him, but the kids were never around, instead being driven from place to place.

(BTW it's pretty common to complain about the quality of US education too but in this case it was actually OK, especially when compared to the notorious Berlin schools, and he decided on a US undergraduate education which I think was a good decision.)
As an aside, I think it’s interesting that we prioritize play time for children (or want to) but seem to think little of play time for adults. I think play should be a lifetime avocation, but where I grew up in California this isn’t much of a focus for adults.
As you are a theoretical physicist, have you tried to read:

Future Circular Collider Study, Volume 1 - Physics Opportunities, Conceptual Design Report, PREPRINT submitted to Eur. Phys. J. C, 20 December 2018

https://cds.cern.ch/record/2651294/files/CERN-ACC-2018-0056....

It's almost 200 pages about the "Physics Opportunities" of the next collider.
> when old servers are running that software and no one has the source code anymore

If only there was some kind of "open" source, so that it could be included along with the binaries. :P

I think the bigger problem is all the bootstrapping issues where you need "living" build systems to build more build systems etc.
> 1-indexed ranges can still be composable

you could make them work, but improper abstraction leaks out in so many fugly ways. F.e. in Python you could compose functions, not only ranges. What do you pass in? Simple, [0, len(a)). What you get out? Simple, len(a). So you could operate on ranges composing function calls like in FP. Even works for unknown beforehand sequences/streams, just count along the sequence how many events you processed, and return it as length, and it could go into composition function. With Julia you have to think what is passed and what is returned. Shall I always return len(a)? Or maybe len(a)+1? What to return in case of streaming events? Sometimes len(a) and sometimes len(a)+1 with tons of comments and warnings? It is not a good way to deal with all that and not a good way to build API. Could be done and probably was already done, sure. BUt simplicity, elegance and composability is missing in the base design.
The multitude of world changing organizations, especially by market cap, that have come out of SV is some evidence. Not that that means “best of the best”, but if I were to bet on where something transformative will come from, SV would still be on my short list.

It’s all about playing the odds, not necessarily being absolute about statements like best of the best.
If you are deadset on actually programming the website I would say your best bet is to learn django for backend stuff. Postgresql for your database. Html, Css, and Vanilla js with no other frameworks besides jquery for frontend. Then just roll it out on a pythonanywhere, heroku, or aws server.
The LW community has decentralized and deformalized things to a huge extent. It's not just you - the logistics of participating are much less clear than it used to be, and the whole system is far less legible.

Honestly the best strategy is attend local meet-ups, come across as intelligent and interested to the people who hold gatekeeping power over the informal non-public groups, and get in the loop that way. This is significantly easier in Berkeley, where a lot of folks end up moving to. You can also skip some of these steps by attending a CFAR workshop, which will both introduce you to many members of the LW community and put you on an alumni-only mailing list which houses a chunk of the general discussion.
> The problem is the self-reinforcing, external factors that these algorithms don't take into account.

And changing the algorithms isn't the right way to fix those external factors. If you try, their self-reinforcing nature is going to cause exactly the opposite of what you want.

To stay with the crime vs. race example, assume that the ratio of black to white criminals is greater than you'd expect from the ratio of blacks to whites in the overall population, and that is due to self-reinforcing external factors. Your algorithm for deciding whether to parole a prisoner picks up on that statistical regularity and rates blacks riskier than whites. Because you want to achieve representational fairness, you make the algorithm race-blind to equalize the rates.

What happens? The black prison population shrinks. But your algorithm wasn't wrong when it predicted higher recidivism risk, so the black crime rate rises. Your algorithm now requires an even stronger correction to remain race-blind. Black criminals realize that they have an easier time getting paroled, so the black crime rate rises some more. Debiasing the algorithm has made the situation worse.

In general, when you find out that your machine-learning model has some undesirable bias, the correct response is not to blind the algorithm. Instead, you should fix the data-generation process (the real world) until your model no longer picks up on the bias.

Edit: For a mathematically precise description of how attempts to make an algorithm more fair cause worse results when you consider the feedback loop that it is embedded in, see "Delayed Impact of Fair Machine Learning" https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04383
> I guarantee those people would be as well if they were effected by it personally.

That argument goes both ways. If your family was impacted by violence, corruption, and poverty wouldn't you pack up and look for a better life?

Don't forget we caused many of these problems.

See: https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/index.html
I was trying to say they don't seem racist or discriminating to me. They just want to save as much as possible. But they seem rather oblivious to the fact the system is set in a bit demotivating way.
Broad statements about the left and right are divisive, ignoring the spectrum of beliefs, and this is not a good summary. Just as two examples, housing and education policies are frequently designed with the intent of segregation, though it is impossible to prove intent in most cases. And so, the actual outcomes need to be used in courts to demonstrate racist intent. No one will ever openly admit that they don't want the, for example (as this is common in these cases), poor, mostly black children in their school. But they will also actively ignore all of the research that shows a benefit to their own children with increased diversity. And so intent can be assumed. People will hurt their own families to defend their racist beliefs. Maybe we could use better language, but what is more important is using the language we have more clearly.
2019 State of Hardware Survey
I guess as with everything - context matters.

Their overall goal was to be as effective as they could be. The cost savings went along with operational improvements. It was also a non-profit, which has an entirely different dynamic compared to a for-profit customer relationship.

I'm totally on-board with there being region-specific niches where it simply works better to have support in that area.

Farmers from the Midwest get pretty annoyed when Congress passes laws which cannot, in any practical/economically feasible way, be followed. The laws may be perfectly reasonable when looking at factories, but make little sense applied to farmers
No, that's pseudo-social-science because it falsely assumes outcomes are solely determined by external variables and is completely ignorant of internal variables, such as differing cultural values.

Some cultures value family life over money, others value money over family life, for example.
Elon's tunnels are the worst 3D alternative. The hourly capacity of a single city bus exceeds the daily capacity of an Elontunnel.

For example: Elon has proposed a tunnel to Dodger stadium.

Fixed wing airplanes are the worst flight alternative. The passenger capacity of a single hot air balloon far exceeds the passenger capacity of an airplane. For example: A Wright Flyer.

Sorry, but this is a bit strawmannish. You do realize it's a proof of concept project, right? It's not like the Falcon 1 disproves the capacity of all SpaceX rockets, ever.
This kind of thing happens on the Berlin or NYC systems and kids seem to survive. That's the city environment.
I wish we see some other ev succeed without Elon musk. Because till then it is very likely that only lies and hype makes mass market interested in EVs. Because without the lies about fsd, self driving and the futuristic hype, Tesla might not be interesting either
Setup spec share
Functional Rust – An Exploration (Lambda Days 2018)
To add to this, I think the critique in this article greatly underestimates how much data a child is exposed to by the point they can identify a cow. Yes, you can teach a two year old what a cow is without training them on 10k cow images — but they have developed deep neural connections by this point in their lives, generalizable on all sorts of problems.
Authentication at the Edge
To some extent. More specifically, if those become confounding variables, the result may be partially useless. That's why you have to make sure you control for race and sex if they're relevant. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confounding
On the other hand, using the system cryptographic RNG (/dev/urandom, CryptGenRandom) is probably less effort than it took to write this strange half-baked RNG.
> the accused would prefer to make the decision about whether it should be published or not

Interesting idea; that does seem like a reasonable compromise (subject to safeguards against coercion by prosecutors and similar abuse, of course).
Not that this doesn't happen in the US: Palo Alto pays to have human guards at each rail crossing to discourage high schoolers from jumping in front of trains.
I was on a business trip to Japan for over a month, and in that time I got to know a few of my associates on a pretty personal level. We talked a few times about this exact issue, and I wondered if in the younger generation there was any erosion of the language, or inability to write the language, particularly Kanji, with the mass adoption of technology. They said that many schools and parents prevent the use of computers and tablets until high school.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez(D-NY) Claims Algorithms Driven by Math, Are Racist
> Now imagine if that road (perhaps several) is above you! What previously might have been stopped by friction from the road now flies much farther....

I work near a small regional airport, which used to be "in the middle of nowhere" but is now surrounded on all sides by office parks, malls, etc. Much like many airports, I suppose.

A couple of years back we had an accident where a small plane pilot lost control (I never found out the cause) and his plane crashed just beyond the end of the runway as he was taking off.

His plane "landed" in a small tree next to the sidewalk of a busy road. Shut it down for hours.

Nobody was seriously injured or killed; pilot and passenger "walked away" with minor cuts and scrapes, and nobody on the road or sidewalk was involved. Had it been a few hours later when rush hour occurred it might've been a different situation...

My employer is right below one of the flight lines for takeoffs and landings (my boss is working on his pilot's license); I can hear planes flying over, taking off, etc every day. I sometimes wonder about the idea of a plane crashing into the building, but there's nothing I can do about it, so it isn't something I dwell on.

That's just from one small regional airport. I can only imagine accidents from so-called "flying cars". I can believe such vehicles overall could be made safe, and accidents rare - but they will happen occasionally, that I don't doubt.
Quitting is always an option (i.e. avoid the sunk-cost fallacy as much as possible).
If you compare VSP and non-VSP houses, you might find that places that don't take VSP tend to be cheaper, and the final prices tend to look a lot like post-discount VSP prices.

I've seen the theory float around that VSP works a lot like Kohls: start from inflated prices, discount to actual market, and claim you're doing the customer a solid with that "what you saved" report you get. Once you add the premium, not even sure you break even.
Does her tweet really imply any knowledge of it? Maybe she just read in the newspaper about the Google face recognition labeling a black woman as a gorilla?
I used to work for the Oracle Communications Business Unit for a few years. This is exactly true.
I've been using an x201 for programming and music production (and everything else) since 2014 and don't see myself making a change anytime soon. (Though I recently picked up an IBM server from around the same era for less than the cost of a new cellphone, and now I have what feels like a supercomputer to do offline audio renders and such that are possible on the x201 but take a long time...)

I do enjoy the peace of mind that if I drop my laptop in a lake, the cost of replacement is somewhere in the $100 range and dropping every year. But I agree with the author of this article that it's also a nice way to (without really having to think about it) keep the software I write reigned in and usable for people who don't have the latest multi-thousand-dollar hardware.
Another issue is that the battery can swell. And you'll have to go through the process of ordering a third-party battery and trying to replace it yourself.

At least with Apple, you can take it to the store for authorized service.
The short person still has the right to look over the fence. They just have practical difficulties on exercising it.

Similar cases: Voter ID laws with disproportionate impact on minorities, gay people having "equal" right to marry someone of the opposite gender, people in impoverished school districts having "equal" rights to an education, etc.
I went from a 1/4 lot in a city to a 12 acre lot in the country when I was around 8. My dad gave my brother and I a compass, taught us how to use it and encouraged us to roam the woods as a form of play/exploration. If we got lost, we ended up at the neighbors house a good 25 acres away and they would just call our parents to pick us up.

It was a bit of culture shock when I went to college and found out how restrictive other peers youth were.
I miss the days when I could mostly read news that played on awesome, not outrage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
How Elon Musk Could Get You More Donors
EDIT: ignore everything below. Here's the link that parent is referring to: https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebo...

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I hope you're right, because I've tried and failed to create such a configuration on the website. Would you mind providing a link to a RAM-configurable 1080 model?

For example, this one allows an i5/i7 choice as well as a 1080/2160 choice, but that's it -- no RAM/storage modifications: https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebo...

EDIT: Found it, and you're right! You have to start with the i7 rather than the i5 on the product home page, but yes, it's there! This is awesome -- never really used the 4K or touch, and could definitely use the extra battery life. https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebo...
Spinning propellers are knee level doesn't seem like a great or safe design.
“Racist” algorithm is a total non-sequitur. This article hilights a disturbing gap in basic math literacy between the normal population and specialized knowledge workers.

Training a neural network on a training set that has primarily “white” faces is no more racist than training a neural network to recognize an orange with a training set primarily made up of blood oranges. I don’t understand the main critique of this article.
I just Googled "ryzen temperature monitoring linux".

I've had a Ryzen 1700 since they first came out so I was following the Linux support for that fairly closely at the time, mostly by browsing Phoronix fairly frequently. Thankfully after a few months I didn't need to because things were working pretty well by then, other than the thermal monitoring that took quite a while to land. Linux and brand new hardware rarely seem to get along well regardless of the vendor unfortunately.
Data calculator: data structure design and cost synthesis from first principles
P(A|B) != P(B|A)
Given that AI has no "intent" for the foreseeable future, we can only judge AI in terms of outcomes.

Is a robot arm that kills anyone who stands near it a murderer?
Npm Convos: the native web
Surely their high SAT scores and over-representation at Harvard compared to the general population are both caused by some heretofore unidentified analogue of white-privilege - what other explanation is there?
Even if you don’t think of it as selling, it is. The way you speak, the actions you do, the interests you have, the way you look are all being interpreted by others, and everyone is consciously or subconsciously determining whether or not someone is worth more of their time.
There are neoreactionaries, but they aren't anywhere near as important or central as the article implies. A huge chunk of this is the fault of the discourse norms, which allow for a lot of discussions that would be prohibited or highly discouraged elsewhere.
> We do this because it’s easy, because it seems to work, because everyone else is doing it too, and, most importantly, because it seems like a natural continuation of age-old established practice.

And because we literally could not be creating software with the capabilities we are at the costs it is being produced without shared open source dependencies.

I guess this is the same thing as "it's easy", but it's actually quite a different thing when you say it like this.
I've been developing in go/node/python on a headless 1cpu 512mb 20gb vultr instance. Tmux, vim, w3m and weechat. I use mosh and firefox from a laptop/desktop/phone/tablet and never had any issues. It does prevent me from writing rust though.
ActiveState has had this business model for quite a while. Even though you can download everything from PyPI, ActiveState has customers who are happy to pay someone else to take responsibility for dependencies.
The analogy with the US fails unless you are claiming the Venezuelan election was fair. Sure, Maduro could have obtained a landslide victory against all odds, but he didn't, he eliminated his adversaries and rigged the results. Sure, the people who poll against him could have staid home, but they were actually forbidden to vote for their desired candidate or in some cases physically prevented to vote at all.

I'm not saying that this isn't a coup, but the idea that Maduro is a legitimate and democratically elected ruler is purely fantastical. It's a coup against an autocrat - the only way to get rid of one. The size of his loyalist kernel is irrelevant here - just the fact that he can't, hasn't and won't win in a free election.
Reductio ad "sufficiently smart compiler".

http://wiki.c2.com/?SufficientlySmartCompiler
Ask HN: What makes you not want to work with a developer?
A big one for me is otherwise smart people who immediately start bashing/complaining about a language/framework that they just learned or aren't familiar with. A lot of times they make mistakes due to not knowing it well and end up putting the blame on the language/framework.

I once worked for a small startup doing React development. One day we hired a new developer who came from an Angular shop. Literally on day one he was questioning why we weren't using Angular and suggesting that it might be easier to just rewrite from scratch. This guy complained for the next couple weeks and was super bitter towards using React despite the fact that most of his problems were caused by not understanding React well enough.

I guess it boils down to: just because you're used to something doesn't mean its better.