skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case, it appears to instead be a matter of journalists focusing on totally the wrong aspect of a story for more drama. Buried deep in the original Reuters piece is this offhand mention:

> Gender bias was not the only issue. Problems with the data that underpinned the models’ judgments meant that unqualified candidates were often recommended for all manner of jobs, the people said. With the technology returning results almost at random, Amazon shut down the project, they said.

Apparently the recommendation system really did create gender bias, neither inherited from real differences nor from replicated human biases. (It looks like an issue with mismatched training data and task.) But that initial bias was found and corrected (2015) more than a year before the project was cancelled (2017) for providing "random" results. I think this is the most extreme case of algorithmic bias I've ever seen, but also the least commonly relevant; Amazon appears to have built a model which contained almost no rules except sexism, and scrapped it for not knowing anything worthwhile.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automatio...
As other people have already said, it's where the grant money is. That's why many of the top "statistics" programs in the United States are really biostatistics programs - They get more funding and research opportunities and all of the benefits that come with those.
Re: 1, selling below cost isn't always illegal. Loss leaders, for example.
"Cheap homeowner taxes doesn't really change anything" is absolutely false.

Economic rents, unearned income, asset appreciation, constrained supply.
After skimming the docs, I'm not sure why you'd want to choose Checkout over Elements in a lot of situations, other than getting some great design work for free with Checkout. The dev time to implement Elements doesn't look that different from the new Checkout, and Elements doesn't require you to redirect your customers away from your site or force a multi-page checkout experience, which is generally associated with lower conversion rates. This also feels really ecommerce oriented, and less friendly to SaaS MVPs, etc.

The old version of Checkout was so dead simple to implement that it had a clear value prop over Elements, but at first blush this seems like a tossup. Braintree's js embed also came to mind after seeing this, since it's a bit less refined than the old version of Checkout, but it's simpler than this solution, and keeps users on your site.

EDIT: After looking closer at the docs, it does indeed look like you'd want to use Elements for SaaS or similar digital products. Unless I'm misunderstanding something, after the user completes their payment on Checkout, Stripe sends you the payment via a webhook, or you have to poll for the transaction. That's a big step back from the old version of Checkout, where you would send a token through to your server from the checkout form, and find out immediately if the payment went through or not so that you could proceed accordingly. This looks nice for ecommerce sites where delayed fulfillment is expected, but not for user subscriptions or account upgrades.
There are a bunch of brokerages available, but you can also find sites that will pay you to park your domain with them.
I used estibot to get an appraisal, it was a bit low but reasonable for a free service.
FWIW the domain is fairly specific to your business so you might hold onto it till you sell all the IP.
Troubleshooting what caused it to get F'd up.
"Solaris for SPARC"

Link?
Euro PayPal is a real bank and can't get away with the shenanigans that US PayPal does.
The depressurization metaphor is spot on. Here’s an 80m continuous mix I made a while back based on a similar philosophy, transitioning from sad/bittersweet to hopeful/energetic to peaceful: https://m.soundcloud.com/mindgam3/palosanto-tears-of-the-sha...

There is one mood transition halfway through that I’m not too sure about, but otherwise I’m happy with how the mix came out from a technical perspective.

I have playtested it over the years during dark times and it seems to help. Perhaps others will find it cathartic as well.
Apache Iceberg is probably the closest product to what databricks is open sourcing, but none of these products are everything that's needed for datalake management.

What these products do is make it as easy to use decoupled storage and compute as your analytics system as it would be to use a fully managed analytics DBMS system.
You’re a nobody on the internet criticizing someone who has managed to do what NASA couldn’t. Seriously pathetic.
My thesis is that food price instability (say, a doubling of prices) in a short time would lead to massive social unrest, possibly revolution.

China expends enormous resources to maintain its country (arguably, it's more efficient as 3 or 4 separate countries), and a jump in the cost of food would disrupt that delicate balance.
The California Economy Isn’t Just a U.S. Powerhouse
Your statement: 'standard white collar slap on the wrist' is so self evidently disconnected from an objective reality... that all I can state is I wish you well in your subjective reality.

I truly wonder though what leads a person to believe that corporate employees getting caught in bribery and kick backs leads to them 'getting demoted'. It's a 'standard' story of a 'slap on the wrist'. Yeah, because courts order that all the time: this executive bribed the government? He will now be a junior executive. So has the court commanded... I don't even know how this could be a thing someone could imagine... to me it's hilarious. It's so evidently false.

I'm also totally shocked at how some people will deny something, and when proven wrong, they pick at the proof by trying to diminish it without challenging it or acknowledging that they had the oposite view just a minute ago.

It's like there is a percentage of the population incapable of admitting being in the wrong.
I could see Apple buying Stripe.
Yeah, that was definitely part of it. It was a mix of ego and desire to be helpful. I was going to finish the thing anyway, and I knew my feedback would be taken more seriously if I finished it first versus complained up front.

One of the cofounders called and tried to get me to interview, but I explained that between this and the call I’d had with the other cofounder (“What is the lowest possible salary you’d be willing to accept?”) I wasn’t interested.
Yeah, this is what I don't get. Amazon has been steadily growing without injections of investor cash for a long time now. If they were constantly selling stuff at a loss, that would be impossible.
This would be a big deal. Even Shopify haven't got this to work
Must try that ASAP !
Ask HN: Does Anyone Work at Amazon MWS?
I applied for developer credentials to work with the Amazon MWS APIs (Marketplace Web Services). Unfortunately I haven't received a response back and I've followed up a few times already. The Case log ID is: 5987893401

Can anyone over at Amazon MWS spare the bandwidth to look into my case? I can also be reached at james [at] trunkinventory [dot] com

Thanks!
I saw the article in the NYT. It mentions that the system is capable of 150 wpm, compared to older systems that could only do 8 wpm.

“Previous implant-based communication systems have produced about eight words a minute. The new program generates about 150 a minute, the pace of natural speech.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/health/artificial-speech-...
From a democratic perspective the doctor can in theory earn much more as long as that doesn't grant them more influence or rights. Someone having a sports car isn't in isolation a democratic problem. Access to education, communities and security is.

I guess there in theory there could be libertarians that have very high criteria for what an informed choice would be. To a point where it would be democratic. But that is probably closer to social liberalism.

One can of course question whether most authoritarians care much about their own ideology. But as an ideology they do care that the system is fair, just not society overall. People do believe that it is fair to have a "strong leader". They might not care much if the leader is enriching themselves as they aren't equals. They would care if the leader loses face and don't seem as "strong" as thought. Because then their position would be unwarranted.
I agree — race and culture are very different things.

That’s why it’s only meaningful to draw these conclusions once you control for cultural variation.

No one has shown that they drew conclusions based on race: they drew conclusions based on written words, which correlated with race. The claim is that this demonstrates racial discrimination.

However, an equally valid explanation is culture as a confounding variable correlated with both race and hiring, and which is the actual causative factor.

My point is that no one has shown this is hiring based on race, because the only things being judged are cultural artifacts. It’s merely presumed that anything correlated with race is inherently racist, when that’s not true.

No one has even remotely tried to address that, including yourself, preferring to merely assume it’s racism or special pleading like “well, there is some correlation — but without doing the math, I know that can’t be it!”

(All these same point apply to sexism.)
Our 2006 Honda Civic (1.8L engine, which at least in the US counts as a very small engine) just rolled over 200k miles a month or two ago.

We've had the car for 7 years and probably 80k of those miles. We had to get the brakes and tires replaced very early on, and have just done a second round of replacing both within the past 6 months. We needed a new muffler and starter last summer. A week ago, we replaced the front struts. I put in new spark plugs and O2 sensors this past month, mainly because they seemed like easy things to swap out and cheap insurance against them going bad down the line. We get the tires rotated and oil changed every 6k miles. Have replaced the transmission fluid once.

So yes, more than nothing, but doing maintenance two or three times a year for a total of maybe $3k over the time we've had the vehicle seems quite reasonable.

I was talking with the sales guy when I picked the car up on our most recent visit, and he commented that he had a Civic that he sold a couple years ago when it had 350k miles, and the guy he sold it to is still using it as his daily driver.

Modern cars, particularly the ones out of Asia, have extremely reliable engines and drivetrains. Worry about a car with 100k miles being near the end of its life is outdated. I would trust a well maintained car from the past 15 years to 250k miles and probably beyond.
I am not sure I agree with all of what the author states here.

The "self-learning" is what I do myself when I train in martial arts, with computer programming, and with any number of skills. I had my start with a martial art teacher for a few years, and now, I am going through a long stint of solo practice, as I completely rebuild how my body moves. My programming skills were self-taught.

However, wu-wei is not simply "just do it". There is a kind of natural, effortless, spontaneity that meditators, psychonauts, and others who have peak experiences might tap into from time to time. Even "just do it" has a subtle kind of interfering.

The thing is, it's the "self-learning" that eventually bears fruit when someone enters wu-wei, as it pertains to skill. The deliberate effort at self-learning and cultivation greatly expands the possible actions one can take when one stops interfering with themselves.
Writing style is a matter of taste. The blunt "as spoken" style is just as much an affect as some of its more flowery alternatives.
You can find them although they tend to be out of date and/or piecemeal. I think they're still useful.

For example:

https://github.com/drujensen/fib

https://gist.github.com/sdwfrost/7c660322c6c33961297a826df4c...

https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks

My general sense is that Nim is most competitive as an alternative to Python and/or things like Julia, in that it's as expressive and easy to understand as those, but has performance closer to C or Rust than something like Python. Julia is similar to Nim but I think Nim seems cleaner in its implementation overall, and targets much more general use scenarios.

I've been really impressed by Nim. There are some little things that have irritated me, like case insensitivity, but I wish it got more traction in the community. Right now the only thing that it doesn't seem to have going for it is library support. For the numerical applications I do I'd prefer it over everything else, except everything else has huge resource bases, so something that's already packaged in those languages would have to be done from scratch in Nim, which isn't feasible.
Yes, but it's unlikely that they have fast, free/cheap shipping. And Amazon's customer service/return policy/overall UX is top notch compared to smaller retailers.
Good point. Historically AMD/ATI didn't provide official support for hardware for anywhere near as long as Nvidia and the open source gpu driver didn't provide near the same performance. For example devices could be available as new retail units one year and unsupported less than 3 years later.

To contrast that nvidia generally provided support for a decade. For example the latest release only days ago supports hardware as old as 2012 legacy drivers support hardware as old as 2003.

This is why I have bought nvidia hardware despite other issues however it looks like AMD open source support will be better going forward. This doesn't help anyone with old hardware.
If this is the Google Photos folder system, I suspect the problem was that the IDs and the bucketing were de-linked.

Photos creates folders for you based on identified themes, and then adds new photos to them as they're taken. I haven't checked, but I'm guessing it doesn't relabel existing buckets to avoid causing confusion. And I'm not sure whether bucketing is done by assessing theme or similarity to other photos in a folder. If it's the latter, the system could have hit the confidence threshold to make a Dog folder out of a few images, then ceaselessly dumped similar-looking photos (i.e. cats) into that bucket.
> people smoked in public EVERYWHERE

There are people smoking in Italy as there are everywhere. They were probably smoking down the street and that's fine. But I have never seen anyone smoking in hospitals, restaurants, cafe, buses, etc .. it is illegal and people wouldn't tolerate that.

That being said, of course, there are always people that do not respect the laws as everywhere else in the world.
I think the parent poster has unreasonable expectations for what linux/bsds can do as far as laptop battery life and is talking about an entirely different use case than the parent I was originally responding to.

I also think they're vastly underestimating the amount of stuff that needs to be configured on a new mac host.

My office workstation (Arch Linux) and home desktops/servers (all OpenBSD) can be installed and configured repeatably in ~5 minutes flat.

I literally have an ansible playbook that pulls in my dotfiles and installs a list of the packages that I want. That's a hundred times simpler than setting up my work laptop (Mac) for development, where not only do I have to install xcode dev tools and homebrew and the packages that I want, but most of the packages that I install need additional configuration applied to work correctly.
The quoted text isn't at all unclear (especially taking into consideration the fact that it's a translation).
Big news! Very exciting to see Caddy push forwards.
Now I'm SURE you're forum-sliding.
Wirecard was investigated, and as far as I remember the press coverage, there were irregularities, but no real fraud.

Why are HN commenters on the top of this submission somehow claim there's big misconduct, even some conspiracy?
I believe it happens for any guest OS (search for "amd reset bug"). Some people are using a workaround that involves removing the device (in the sysfs), suspending the host, and then rescanning, but for me, that's not much better than a host reboot, so when the AMD GPU occasionally does get stuck in D3 (preventing starting the VM after a VM reboot), I just reboot the host. It doesn't happen very often, and when it does, it's only when I'm in the process of rebooting the VM anyway.

Previously, I also attempted using a kernel patch that's been floating around (DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER ... quirk_no_bus_reset), but it just gives me corrupt graphics when rebooting the VM.
Late antiquity generally refers to the period around and after the emperor Constantine when the Roman empire started to fray around the edges. It includes writers like St. Augustine who IMHO was as good as any thinker before or after. Not to mention artistic creations like the churches of Ravenna and the laws of Justinian. It's quite different from the period that set in after the invasion of the Lombards (568 AD) and more particularly the Moslem invasions of Africa (630s AD), which severely disrupted communications in the Mediterranean.
I was thinking about placing a screen on the wall that displays pleasant face.

The system would observe you so the face can follow you with eyes and head turn.

It would also read your mood from your face and behaviour and match it, but not exactly. Face on the wall would be slightly happier and calmer than you are.

I think this could improve your mood through multiple mechanisms. It also might be very creepy which might be another reason to hack together something like this. Mood appropriate music might be nice touch as well.
I'm curious, what more are you looking for? From the nim manual:

"Each thread has its own (garbage collected) heap and sharing of memory is restricted to global variables. This helps to prevent race conditions. GC efficiency is improved quite a lot, because the GC never has to stop other threads and see what they reference. Memory allocation requires no lock at all! This design easily scales to massive multicore processors that are becoming the norm."

To me, that sounds perfect for writing typical apps.
> Article 7 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child asserts that everyone has a right to know their genetic origin.

No, it doesn't. The child has a right to "know his or her parents". It does not specifically state "biological" parents. Parents are the people who raise you and are legally responsible for you.

> I believe that taking an action that causes no harm to oneself but causes harm upon another person is unethical.

I agree with that statement in general, but don't see how this applies. If someone donates sperm anonymously, that anonymity does not cause harm to any child conceived with that sperm. That child may later really want to know where their genes come from, but that's not harm. If the offspring feels some sort of anguish over this, that's a self-inflicted harm.

Having said all that, I would really prefer that couples with severe fertility issues would instead adopt. Arguably the planet is already overpopulated, and there are plenty of unwanted kids who need parents. But I'm also one of those people who doesn't understand how people feel the need that they must reproduce, so clearly I'm missing something that the mainstream believes.
There's also Kata containers, also originally an Intel project https://katacontainers.io/
Universal healthcare doesn’t have anything to do with progressive taxation.

Half of the EU doesn’t have single payer and use a public private mix, many of them allow you to not pay for the public system at all above a certain gross pay.

All health insurance schemes are based on the fact that young and healthy individuals pay more than they get, it has nothing to do with universal healthcare or a single payer system.
Academy Leaves Door Open to Netflix After Tussle over Oscars Eligibility Rules
Upvoted for even more social effect!
An emerging black market offers Amazon sellers ways to cheat the marketplace
> There is nothing "mechanistic" about this. It depends on how you select sample resumes and how you split them between "good" and "bad" labels.

Isn't that what the article is trying to say, though? That your model can only be as accurate as your data set… and that even then, you have to be very careful to make sure it's not inferring patterns from entirely unrelated information?
I had to read that sentence a dozen times to figure out what they were saying. It's probably the first time I've ever seen the phrase "Cabin Pressure Altitude" - Might make sense in a technical aviation document, but I'm guessing 99% of readers would have had an easier time with "A lower flight level to increase cabin pressure."
Do you really think they're ever going to be the only online retail company in the country?
>Maybe this is a complaint about Ubuntu, or gnome, or systemd.

In the 90's Linux was pretty well aimed at the techy crowd. you were expected to know or learn administration (including the location of and editing of etc files) and not be afraid of './configure && make && make install'

Then the focus changed and while your Gentoos and Arches never went away, a larger portion of the focus was on either being user friendly and/or providing an enterprise desktop experience.

This is something the BSDs (with the exception of TrueOS) never did -and certainly not OpenBSD.

It's worth pointing out (and folks in this thread already have) that if you want the hacker's experience, it's still out there. It just has almost nothing to do with mainstream Linux (which is a shame).
Mirror: https://www.gwern.net/docs/ai/2019-anumanchipalli.pdf
Unless of course it's for journalism, then it's completely allowed.
* vs many languages: https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks

* vs many languages: https://github.com/frol/completely-unscientific-benchmarks

* vs Julia and Python: https://github.com/SimonDanisch/julia-challenge/issues/1

* web frameworks vs many: https://github.com/the-benchmarker/web-frameworks
> I don’t see how Amazon employees can troubleshoot the Alexa application without both reviewing the audio files and the contextual information provided.

From my point of view, the issue isn't really that Amazon does this. The issue is that Alexa users are surprised that Amazon does this. Their surprise indicates that no real consent was obtained.

If Amazon had done something like, when a user flags an incorrect response, asking the user for permission to use that data, I would not have any issue with it.
I see your point to not trust companies but even I after over 10 years in this industry sometimes get fooled.

For me personally, I cannot live a skeptical nor cynical life and I usually deal with people not companies. When I start the interview, I get the sense of their people, and if I find them to be decent I move on with the process. Most of the time my expectations are met fortunately. So, I can’t really blame the victim here.
As long as we're nitpicking terminology, hot air balloons aren't airships either, they're aerostats. And they certainly don't use their variable bouyancy to propel themselves in directed flight. Saying this thing is just a hot air balloon is like saying an airplane is just a glider.
VFIO! I play videogames and use Lightroom. It's rock solid (at least, with my usage pattern), however, v4.0.0 hangs on boot, so I use v3.1.0.
Do you think robots will replace pets anytime soon?
Network Virtualization Research Challenges
I have a library that needs to target, among other platforms, big endian MIPS. It does a lot of endianness sensitive stuff but all the CI workers are naturally little endian, so I run the testsuite through qemu-user simulating a MIPS system.
Everybody that reads about conspiracies, or discusses conspiracy theory, must be just like those people.

...wow.
Exception Without Backtrace in Ruby