skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oracle only has so many position to offer, if they're going to H1B applicants, they are not going to other people already looking for jobs here. The fairly settled economics of supply and demand say that having all those extra workers will drive wages down. 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.
> Claiming that racism can be evaluated only by the intent is simply moving the goal posts into an area where we can't clearly observe. It's a tactic.

Claiming racism is anything but intent is changing the definition of racism. Which is:

"prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior."

If you start changing the definition of words to suit a political goal, only the people who already agree with you will listen.
I've used https://www.glassesdirect.co.uk/ . The prescription was wrong, so they gave me a massive headache, but an optician measured the glasses and said they were made exactly to the incorrect prescription.

(The second optician was helpful, so I bought glasses from her. I'll use Glasses Direct for sunglasses and so on.)
Ah but then that dev comes across an insightful article, that changes how they think about programming, and becomes a better programmer.

What we should really be doing is spending all our time 'researching' on the internet. Increasing our value to our companies. That's what I tell my boss anyway.
Doublespeak is too real.
"It was people accepting some sacrifice and moving outside of cities into areas where previously there was nothing."

that sacrifice is getting bigger over time. when my neighbor moved into his house in the 70s people thought it's nuts that he was moving that far out and commuted from there. Now this is perfectly normal and maybe a double commute would be viewed as long.
I don't see how it is being misused. This sort of distinction is pretty basic e.g. philosophy. People simply disagree. More and more people not understanding the basics in favor of whatever they read on social media might be a problem though.
I was recently affected by my an aftermarket NVMe SSD: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1678184

tl;dr -- add
`nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0` to /etc/default/grub in the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT parameter, run `update-grub`, reboot. Verify with `sudo nvme get-feature -f 0x0c -H /dev/nvme0`.

Totally agreed that this shouldn't happen. I hope that's your issue.
But what if, due to historical happenstance, the data is already a proxy for groups split on genetics, biology, or birth? Using that data in a way that might create a feedback loop that propagates that happenstance is entirely likely.

Part of the problem is that, when dealing with humans as the data set, the data is really messy and there's lots of noise correlated to historical circumstance.
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They even have an essay about _cultish countercultishness_: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gBma88LH3CLQsqyfS/cultish-co...

I think some of the feeling of cultishness might stem from a homogeneity of expression, but it kinda makes sense for a community of people dedicated to being rational -- after all, two rational agents with identical priors cannot "agree to disagree" in the mathematical sense. The community would tend to converge on common "correct" things and would have similar rebuttals for "incorrect" things, right?
I think the core contention is that tech, maths and science do not live outside of politics - they're all political topics. Books have been written about the politics involved in science.

> those guys should get as much of a say as you do.

Absolutely agree. But the flagging mechanism means that a small number of users make the choice for the rest, who never see the story in question.

I'm not suggesting I have an easy fix, community moderation is one of the biggest problems out there. But I'm not sure the current approach is the best one, that's all.

EDIT: and you might notice it happening now. This story has slipped down to 23rd on the front page, despite having far more upvotes in a shorter space of time than the stories that surround it. Soon it won't be on the front page any more.
How does being in a discriminated class remove any of your "position" to negotiate? If the person interviewing you is objectively racist or sexist you're just not getting the job. But if you're talking about subconscious, systemic issues that's going to come up in initial offers but how is going to affect one's ability to negotiate?

And for what it's worth, while I am 100% on board with never discussing prior salary, I would advise against outright lying about it. On the chance that you're called out on it lying will most likely disqualify you immediately (and forever).
Observing the superior tech used by even standard military it's obvious that there is a fuckton of pure reserch going on, most of it will be top secret for many years though. NSA records this message and will apply some superhuman quantum algorithms to it and theres nothing I can do about it. Hail our petrodollar overlords!
Heroin hasn't been marketed as "virtually non-addicting" or actually non-addicting for quite some time, although that's pretty much the exact tagline it had when it first came out. It doesn't take a genius to see that marketing something so incredibly addictive as OxyContin as non-addictive will lead people to take it and get addicted unnecessarily, regardless of any other circumstances. It's simply impossible that this was a mistake. I can buy it may have been a mistake in the late 1800's when heroin first came to market, but in modern times, this was a calculated effort to make money off of people's misery and deaths. "People will die and their lives will be ruined, but we'll make a ton of money off them, so fuck them," is likely what was said before going ahead with this plan.

This was pushed by doctors at the behest of the companies, doctors who the patients trusted had their best intentions in mind. The drug companies knew from history that the US government would not do anything to stop them, but instead would help to promote their drugs over the illicit substances sold on the street that had the exact same effect. To claim that all the advertising, pushing, and money spent on promoting OxyContin had no effect on anyone and that people would have taken heroin regardless without being pushed by the drug companies' machine into first taking something they claimed was benign is fucking absurd and flies in the face of both logic and current research in psychology, advertising, and marketing.
> ICF, also quite calculable).

It doesn't seem to be working, so it's reasonable to expect it's wrong.

>Second, proton capture for heavy nuclei is endothermic (so you cool down)

No, it isn't. Whoever calculated that Iron is where it ends forgot to add the binding energy of the added proton. The binding energy per nucleon decreases, but there is one nucleon more, so it's still a net gain.

> there is no way "cycling" can produce energy since that would be a perpetual energy source.

It wouldn't you're using up hydrogen.

>We have A LOT of astro observations to back this up.

There are also observations of lead rich stars.
What tech literacy? If by 'tech literacy' you mean 'social-media literacy', or 'millennial-culture literacy', then I agree. Otherwise, I've never heard anything from AOC that demonstrates any kind of tech literacy.
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Given the ease with which the parser and AST are made available to developers, we should be able to implement tools which can detect naughty packages. Also, given the speed at which projects can be compiled, the impetus to keep the source code should remain strong.
I don't fuck with LW, but SCC definitely has that culty vibe.

Overall I think Scott has some interesting articles and the general idea of rationalism is .. fine. But that's not at all what the communities around it are like. You just get tons of 'rational racism' with HBD (human biodiversity for those not in the know, which is basically just race realism with a nerdy veneer), IQ worship, and a group that collectively abandons anything like the rationalist ideal and becomes a post-hoc clusterfuck.

The community can almost be thought of like these racist AIs: garbage in, garbage out. They cling to any bit of rational-sounding data that supports their preconceptions, and have to adopt severe anti-academic stances to reject the mountains of data that contradict their views.

I suppose the deeper rot is that these rationalists fancy themselves like scientists, able to interact with primary data and draw conclusions, but any actual expert (i.e. someone that has performed research and published it in a community of peers, not whacko journals) is just confused how anyone could be so wrong. You regularly see posts where someone comes in who actually knows what they're talking about, authoritatively shows that all the nonsense they've been talking about makes no sense, and at best they get a 'huh, interesting' before the nonsense picks back up.

The idea of a rationalist community is to organize around questioning your own assumptions, confronting diverse views, and engaging in good-faith debate. But the reality is that basically none of that happens for anything controversial to the community, so it's just a veneer of legitimacy for in-group circle-jerking. And it just so happens that the in-group tends to be pretty damn racist.
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More to the point, “procedural fairness” or “equality of opportunity” (if I understand it correctly) is directly opposed to “representative fairness” or “equality of outcome”. In many situations, prioritising one will compromise the other. As an example, Harvard admission of Asian students.

Perspectives differ on which one is more important. Personally, I’m absolutely for the former, but it increasingly seems I’m a part of the minority (or the silent majority).
Just built a NAS from an Asus m3a78-MC, Phenom 2 x4 920, 8gb of ddr2800 and an old case. my Desktop pc is only one gen newer on the motherboard from Gigabyte (990FX-UD3) and 2 gens newer on Processor (8350) with a 560ti, and 16gb of DDR3. the NAS cost $75 for all the parts listed in the last month ($17 cpu, $38 mobo, $20 memory). The desktop was probably $400 for the parts when they were new ($135 mobo, $230 CPU, $50 memory). Right now going just a few years back gets you gobs of processing power for very little. But of course its all relative, in another 10 years these DDR2 based systems might seem quite slow.
At least in Germany, it wasn't a transparency thing (even if easy, listening to responders comms is illegal), but a tech/admin thing.

The switch to digital and adding encryption both add complexity that you need to be sure your people understand and can handle, even in crisis situations: analogue gear has it's own failure modes, but is more forgiving in other aspects. Add the general organizational issues of introducing large tech projects, coordination across many different organizations that all need to switch and be able work together at all times, and it's not too surprising it took long...
Where I think the non-racists have failed us (meaning those whose attention lies mostly elsewhere) is in providing a description of a non-racist system. It may prove impossible, and I think if someone had described one, we'd all have heard about it.

Right now, the only system I can imagine as non-racist is closed and all of its elements belong to the same race.

Mathematicians would probably call this a trivial description. Comedians might call it a country club.

That moves the question not to whether we can build a system that isn't racist, but what racist qualities need the most suppression and which ones (where we have to choose) can be ignored.

Keep in mind this discussion has been ongoing for centuries and was simpler (e.g. slave vs. free) in the past than today (health, education, economics, psychology, religion.)

And more variables appear regularly.

That said, could algos help judges make more consistent rulings/sentences? Probably already are.

Judge: I'm gonna throw the book at this defendant!

LAL 9001: I can't let you do that.
While a low probability to fine someone who did, I did grow-up on island in Alaska (Kodiak) with endless (well up to the ocean) of forests, mountains, and rivers to explore right outside my backyard.
Can blue lights prevent suicide at train stations?
I'm sorry, I still don't understand and if you can provide me with further material to research I would appreciate it. From my point of view, for there to be 0 time and 0 distance is equivalent to saying the speed of light is infinite, ie. the point of emission is equivalent to its annihilation, but that is traversed at the limited quantity of c.
> A few years ago I found a technique on youtube to help myopia by wearing slightly lower prescription glasses.

That is not physically possible.

Maybe (and that's a big concession, I'm very skeptical) it could work with kids, with still-developing eyes. No amount of glasses trickery will reshape your cornea in adulthood.

Other than the physical world constraints, if this hypothesis was true, people's myopia would never progress, as you would, by definition, be wearing lower prescription glasses if this happened, so it would self-correct.

The only thing this will get you is a headache.
> Open-source "many eyes have looked at it for years so it must be secure" crypto code.

Nobody claims this. Open source code is just easier to audit than non-open code.
The consequences of a poorly designed algorithm are far less visible than those of a poorly designed airplane. Oftentimes they are deliberately kept secret. How many banks do you know that publish their loan qualification source code?

Mechanical engineers are taught from the beginning of their careers to think carefully about the consequences of their decisions.

Computer engineers, not so much. We're taught how to optimize, and make machines that optimize, and make optimizers that optimize our optimizing machines, but it's pretty rare to encounter a data ethics course, and they're almost never program requirements.

Facebook got in trouble for algorithmic redlining in 2013, serving loan sharky ads to black people (which its algorithms learned via proxy features, like zip code). Does Facebook hire third-rate engineers who would point the engine on a plane the wrong way? No! Facebook has some of the best people in the industry! But even the best people in the industry were and in many cases still are not fully considering the consequences of our designs, because we weren't trained to.
> Good luck with your full autopilot.

While it doesn't completely negate your argument...

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/zero-hab-glider/

http://izzybrand.com/
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>You're right about Less Wrong feeling like a cult, though. It gives me the heebie-jeebies.

They even have a succession plan similar to finding the next Dalai Lama:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9_2qhkWHN8
About what? She is a far left progressive with a very shallow understanding of issues (she literally just learned what a marginal tax rate is). I understand you may share her political beliefs, shallow that they may be, but that doesn't make her 'right'.
It's always now for any object.
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If it weren't for musk pulling tesla forward, there probably wouldn't be any mass market interest in evs. The leafs are just not nearly as interesting. There wouldn't be a porsche ev without tesla taking some of their market.
The decline in playtime for all is a major concern. It is difficult to find a group to play any pick-up sports e.g., basketball. Even adult leagues are difficult, as no one really commits, just shows up when they can, if they have nothing else better going on.
This applies to all medical everything.
Sorry for the tangent, but from the outside I've also felt very "outside" the LW community. I'm not exactly sure how to "join" it. I know that I'm supposed to read the various required readings first, but then what? How do I see what LW is "talking about" or "fighting about" at a point in time? I mean this in a serious, logistical sense. Thanks!
Well, yes, few things are entirely immutable. Cities do grow and (rarely) shrink or disappear. But this is rare enough that it's useful to hang other data off of their names.

For example, take the locations used in time zone databases, where an official way to name a location is something like America/Los_Angeles. The assumption is that major cities don't get split across time zones and users know which cities they are nearby that they share a time zone with. Country names aren't used.

A lat/long pair would be more precise, but sometimes precision isn't needed.
I co-founded Sonalytic and served as CTO until we got acquired. We developed AI for music information retrieval. Clearly an area where every developer needs the newest hardware. Or do they?

The entire time I worked from a 2010 Macbook Pro. For really resource hungry stuff, we had a few dedicated servers with 64 cores, 512Gb of RAM and Nvidia GPUs. I.e., nothing you’d ever get in a laptop.

Because my Macbook wasn’t particularly fast, we ended up avoiding all kinds of bloat. We kept things simple, which actually helped us move really fast, and used the resources on the big machines for scientific computing.

Worked out well for us :-).
On dependencies:

There aren't a lot of tools out there to keep you 100% up to date and to keep moving.

There is maven-dependencies that can auto upgrade, however, that's just a simple version upgrade and may have issues with non-standard versioning. Also it doesn't help with transitive dependency conflicts.

We need good tools to alert and stop transitive dependency conflicts in their tracks. Versions helps with this, but it doesn't tell you much.

What we do need: Jenkins dependency triggers for the projects. We need something that will automatically work wtih SCM and CI to create commits based on new found dependencies. If there is something that changed your tests should confirm if it works or not.
Absolutely. Two other negative models are the music publishing industry and academic publishing. I was going to write "paywalled academic publishing," but some of the worst ethics are in the predatory open access space.

There's an opportunity. Paying an open source developer a living wage in return for taking some responsibility for security and updates is a reasonable thing, and would obviously benefit everyone all around. Whether we can actually get there is another question.
Google at least is pretty strict about it for server-side software. You're going to be writing in C++, Java, Python, or Go (IIRC even Node.js is forbidden, though they may've relaxed that since I left). For client-side software you use whatever the native language is for the platform - that's Java (and apparently now Kotlin) for Android, Objective-C for iOS/Mac (I'd heard there was an effort to get Swift approved, but it was well after my time), and C# for Windows. Google has a fair number of proprietary languages I won't go into too - the big public one is Sawzall, but that's now deprecated in favor of Go. Some special projects can get special dispensation to use other languages (eg. there was a team that used Haskell while I was there, and a lot of the data scientists use R for prototyping their models), and you can generally use whatever you want for throwaway prototypes that run only on your machine, but you won't get any support from Google tooling if you use something that isn't one of the official languages.

IIUC most Apple teams write code for one of their hardware platforms, so they use the native languages supported by it - Objective C and Swift, with a fair amount of system-level C and C++ code too.

Amazon I've heard is more open; teams can use whatever they want, because everything is exposed through a big SOA anyway.

No idea about Facebook. They hired a bunch of ex-Googlers, so I'm guessing they largely copied the Google model but with different starting languages (eg. they started with PHP then evolved it through HipHop and Hack). Thrift supports a lot more languages than gRPC though, so that may indicate they allow more languages internally.
Here's my reason for never wanting to use old hardware. Admittedly, I don't need the latest and greatest, but I want something that is reasonable. Several years ago I was optimizing a DB query that was a real hog in the development environment. Two days later, and after trying everything I can do, I essentially gave up and checked in the meager optimizations I squeezed out of it. The query gets moved to QA, and runs completely fine. Why? Because the company had a mindset that developers should program on slower hardware to "make it more efficient" and none of them thought through that the run time optimizers might actually perform differently when given enough memory and processor power to run effectively.

Older hardware within certain performance metrics are fine, but it's often a waste of everyone's time to do it to try and save a dollar here or there.
Not OP, but we are fully remote with a similar sized company and we just wire USD every month after they send us invoices. It’s pretty easy.
Interesting. In any case, bosses already have salary transparaceny if they care so giving transparency to employees wouldn't change this particular case.
How old were you? Up to a certain age, your refractive power may change(in either direction). Doctors will often not perform LASIK until you have proven that your prescription has stabilized for a while.
>If there was interesting work available at their job, the people with boring jobs would not have boring jobs. Nobody is going to do the boring work first and leave the interesting stuff sitting around just waiting for a new hire!

This assumes the work available for those with boring jobs to dispense to others is of the same kind those with boring jobs do. There's absolutely no reason that this should be the case.

There could be tons of "interesting work available" at a job people with boring jobs work, just not in their specialty. And they can still create boring tasks for others, even if those others work in departments that allow for interesting work available.

Second, some people like boring tasks and hate change, excitement, anything unpredictable, etc. So it's not even a rule that "nobody is going to do the boring work first".
Very cool project. And 11th grade!?! Wow....I definitely wasn't doing anything like this at that age.

Something that came to mind as a potential way to get clearer and more realistic results is to add GAN loss. You can reference this as an example (shows pretraining on L2/mse and after with GAN):

https://github.com/fastai/course-v3/blob/master/nbs/dl1/less...

I'm not 100% sure if it'd work but it seems like a potentially cool followup project.
But you are missing the Apple does not offer a matte. So if you decide you like the rest of the hardware and OS you have no choice.

If apple offered a matte MBP then you would have numbers that could mean something. You have many users using glossy displays because that is all that apple offers. It does not mean they actually prefer glossy screens.

I remember when apple stopped offering matte and TONS of people were outraged.
not a cryptographer: but from memory the main quality important in an IV for CBC is that it isn't reused for the same key (chosen plain-text attacks aside)

so that routine... while far from ideal would seem to mostly satisfy that property if you are making zip files of your own data to send to people (unless you use the same key rather a lot)
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