skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, you could have an internal table that maps name to gender with a very high probability of being right.
Agreed, it is a false claim stated as fact.
Turns out I had some exceedingly out of date ideas of how sectors are laid out on the platters.

Now I understand some of the conversations about logical cylinder addressing when drives first started getting too big for the addressing scheme.
Yeah, it makes no sense. I wrote an article about the Shakespeare character "Hank" who saved Hamlet's life. It got deleted because Hank "isn't a real character." I pointed out that Hamlet "isn't real" either, but I just got IP banned. This is why Trump won.
>My assertion is that conceding this fact is not racist, it's just laying out contemporary political realities

Conceding the fact and still voting for them is. Yes, this is rampant on "both sides." It is still morally repugnant, and it continues because it doesn't cost them enough votes.

Political realities exist because people accept them.
I don't think DHH or his wife are a risk with respect to being able to pay off their loans. Any reasonably adept credit scoring algorithm should be able to pick up on that.
This is still valid though.
96% of the mass of nuclear "waste" is uranium 238. This can be fissioned when neutron are 1000 times faster. This occurs in fast reactors.

Uranium 238 is unused fuel.

Coal, oil, natural gas waste sit in the air you breath and in pools or dumps on land. Plus there is the CO2.

Solar and Wind use ten times the cement and steel to generate the same power as nuclear. Cement and steel generate pollution and CO2 in their production.
You don't need to expose the model to figure out how to game it. It's going to be gamed anyways.
> wouldn't it make perfect sense if they have dramatically different income?

The implication in citing their joint filing status is they submitted identical incomes. They have the same address, assets, and she had a better credit score. She is also a woman.
It strikes me that longer term, we're just going to end up playing a cat and mouse game with people continually inventing different categories that businesses aren't permitted to 'discriminate' on.

Today it might be gender and race. That makes a lot of sense, because the alternative is to further entrench what are basically inheritances.

But aren't we just going to rattle on through and have the algorithms discover (whether we actually realise it or not) that, say, someone diagnosed with X is less creditworthy than someone diagnosed with Y, or that someone bullied in school is less creditworthy, or whatever else?

The whole point of ML is to extract this sort of information from a dataset.

Is it even possible or meaningful to create an unbiased model? Doesn't a model's profit imply bias, whether we currently consider it morally correct or not?

I'd be interested in an argument to convince me otherwise. My view at the moment is basically 'we spend all of this time building models, and then we have to stop using them because they're socially negative/immoral, but for a brief period shareholder value was maximised'?
Because it’s extremely diverse between cultures and countries how names work. Here in Germany it’s typical to have several first names and it’s legal to use any of it, even though it might be just the name of your godfather/godmother.

FHIR has a relatively general definition for names, but multiple general and country-specific extensions exist for it: https://www.hl7.org/fhir/datatypes.html#HumanName
Credit card limits are usually based on household income.
Thanks for your thoughts. So there's a few parts, one being in a place where shared working space isn't available as Dmitri mentioned.

The main thing is that you can virtually CoWork with pairing and roundtables with other remote workers. This is when you're working remotely to have someone to chat with or bounce ideas off of.

The other part is space, for which you have access to several workspaces from coworking to coffee shops to restaurants.

Hope that makes sense :)
Ask HN: How should the future of online identity look like?
I've been thinking recently on the future of our online identities and how we will authenticate on websites in the future. I'm tired of creating multiple usernames and passwords. What are some of your concerns with such a service and what problems will anticipate to having a single online identity.
Amazing. I'm not a native speaker so I didn't follow the language's changelog... thanks for the info!
One of the world’s most advanced hacking groups debuts new Titanium backdoor
What's your argument for opposing full exposure, other than the potential impact on your personal livelihood?
Old-school IBM daisywheels actually have an exposed port for controlling them remotely. You can drive one with an Arduino and with sufficient lateral thinking you can draw graphics by microstepping and printing full stops. The protocol's funky, though, and the ribbons aren't cheap.

https://github.com/tofergregg/IBM-Wheelwriter-Hack
the Decommissioning of the Zion reactors.
https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1909/ML19092A270.pdf

About $650 million budget.

In 2016, They say it is on schedule and under budget.
https://www.energysolutions.com/zion-nuclear-power-plant-dec...

They are doing less sorting. They just get a bigger cave and put the entire facility into it. There is room in the large cave for all US nuclear plants.
I guess it worked for him to throw a hissy fit, but there's absolutely no reason to actually believe they're conditioning on gender.

It could be "it's a new product, we randomly assign credit limits to see how it affects behavior".

It could be "it's a community property state and we're overexposed to this household if we give the second card the same limit as the first".

It could, realistically, be almost anything except for evil bankers deciding to use illegal criteria to underwrite that has a side effect of limiting the amount that can be charged to the account each month (you know, how they actually make money).

Oh, random CSRs don't get a pithy explanation of a multivariate nonlinear underwriting decision to poorly convey to customers? That's kind of precedented!
I agree in general and even said exactly this in my comment (comparing effect size in terms of X rush hours’ worth of mortality).

But in the specific case of policy adoption towards marathons, I don’t agree that comparison matters much for interpretation.

Banning marathons is totally different than taking action to reduce generic or rush hour traffic. Marathons are a purely recreational thing for society, nobody has any sincere need for them, certainly no needs to be colocated with dense urban areas.

Rush hour traffic is an emergent effect of necessary daily commuters and operations of a city.

Disentangling what part of it is needed, what can be reduced, and how to politically coordinate it is an entirely different situation.

In this sense, if banning marathons prevents even a tiny effect size on mortality, it’s obviously worth it, no matter if it is only saving 0.1 rush hours’ worth of mortality, or 0.01, or 0.001. Comparing with rush hour effect size adds virtually nothing to the process.
Parent comment said car insurer.
Tihange has to preheat their emergency cooling water to prevent the reactor vessel from rupturing in an emergency because of the large cracks in it.
What I don't see anywhere in that thread is how much his wife put in as her income when applying.
Maybe people will start sharing passwords, so others can log in and see how many likes they have.
I'm an emotional philosopher, not a psychologist. But here's my take:

There are two fundamental arguments of the self: additive and subtractive.

The additive argument is called love. It tells us to add to the self.

The subtractive argument is called disgust. It tells us to remove from the self.

Codependents are addicted to the chemical rewards of love, while narcissists are addicted to the chemical rewards of disgust.

Narcissists therefore have an overwhelming need to eject things as "not good enough" from their extended self. If I tell a stranger his haircut looks stupid, I don't get a disgust reward. If I tell my son that, I do get the reward because he is part of my extended self.

Basically, narcissists have extremely high standards for themselves. They want to become fast friends because they want (need, really) to share that terrible burden.
Dayta.

This is how every Text-to-speech software pronounced it, and every news/media from native English speaking countries pronounce it.

This is a quite common mispronounciation and we all understand what it means, so I wouldn't sweat much about it.

English is weird.
It's well known there are proxies are you can't use when building a credit risk model e.g. zip codes are off limits because it can be used to a proxy for ethnicity.

Intentional or not, it's possible they could have used something that proxied for gender.
The chances there is a line in the algorithm that says ‘women get less’ is basically 0%.

It’s got to be inferences like you said. And those are so much harder to spot.
The model is not your property. Do you plan on releasing all of your company’s code on Github gratis? Unlikely.

As long as the model doesn’t violate the law, you have no right to it, unless you’re a regulator. Regulators and oversight bodies get full (audited and logged) access.

And while it’s none of your business, I don’t need my job, or a job at all. I work for projects I enjoy.
Finding that 3 people out of 10,000 are using a set of tools to do something terrible does not equate to "consumption of any pornography, even mainstream, a probabilistic endorsement and generation of demand for trafficking." - any more than saying that because some restaurant owner in carolina had a mentally challenged slave working in his food place for 10 years is an underlying problem meaning anyone who eats at a diner is promoting slavery. imho.

the various rape allegations with some filmmakers are complex, and sadly I'd believe half of them. People should be aware of these types of things if considering porn as a profession and considering working with different groups of people as opposed to self or bf/gf only, or via contract with a studio like wicked.

Sadly these kinds of things happen in Hollywood and bum-nofk-nowhere usa and random no skin showing jobs in many places around the world. I read news about this kind of thing being rampant in some corps in India - but that does not mean it happens there more than other places.

education, and human rights (including women's rights and rights for sex workers) should continue to be a thing. Not fearmongering that industry A is terrible because some Harvard Wienstien was exposed coercing desperate people, so renting a movie endorses rape or coerced slavery.
You come off as self-entitled for believing that everyone should adhere to your system of values which includes the particular expectations for compensation of your work.

I grew up around musicians. Musicians steal and pirate themselves all the time. Nobody will bat an eye if you pirate their music. Being poor themselves most know that affording a concert or paying for legal music can be a hassle so they don't bust people's balls.

I've pirated tons of music myself. I've also spent thousands of dollars in vinyl, potentially tens of thousands in festivals with their associated costs and merch, and have spend more money in building a sound system for parties that I have no possibility of ever recovering.

Art doesn't entitle you to a livelihood. If you don't like the level of compensation, get a day job and do it for kicks like the vast majority of people do.
It’s not that you should deal with mean people regularly, but if a mean person tells you a useful piece of information you shouldn’t dismiss it just because they were mean. After that you’re free to avoid interacting with them in the future (to the extent possible — if you can’t avoid them then it’s a moot point anyway and you should still seek to get as much from them as possible)
Also: Belgium, Spain, Holland, Switzerland, Chehia, Sovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Sweden, Finland, Ukraine, and others: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Nuclear_...

OP is wrong, and wrong on every sub claim.
Maybe! Nobody knows!
That is not what the article claim. The argument is that Germany spend more money for a solution that results in 46% green energy and 56% dirty energy than France that get 92% green energy and 8% dirty energy.

If they are correct is up to debate, and one worthy to have considered the political aspect of the claims. It is also important to note that they are defining green energy based on green house emissions. Still, if we are to have any meaningful discussion it is important to discuss the claims they make.
Implying they don't.
I hate the new design so much I'll actually stop using reddit whenever they sunset the old layout. And I use reddit a lot.

And I really really hate v.reddit their embedded video player. I am getting irrationally angry just thinking about it and how it's making the internet a worse place.
I am not a native English speaker, first of all. My point is that SO is not a representative example of general internet culture, given its rules and gamified aspect(s).
A network shouldn't allow a $20 prepaid cell phone to spoof numbers. Give it one number, if it starts spamming it can easily be blocked.
I have this conversation at work. Team leads are Pollyanna types. Nobody wants to complain to an over-confidently happy person.

Meanwhile, if a tool we use or code I wrote is frustrating to use, I call a spade a spade. So then people open up about other stuff that bugs them. I hear everyone's fears and frustrations. I hear how bits of the code make people feel stupid. On other jobs I've gone out of my way to fix these problems. Often this doesn't impress your bosses (especially the bad ones) but it gets you plenty of respect from your peers and subordinates.

This particular system is such a Gordeon Knot that it's taken me years to see daylight. It's almost time for a new job and the code has just gotten to a place I wish it had been in on day 1.
Co-60 isn't the only side product though. A quick Google search yields me
https://mitnse.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/radiation_npp_07....
which lists:

Krypton-85 Beta/Gamma 10 years

Strontium-90 Beta 28 years

Iodine-131 Beta/Gamma 8 days

Cesium-137 Beta/Gamma 30 years

Carbon-14 Beta 5770 years

Zinc-65 Beta/Gamma 245 days

Cobalt-60 Beta/Gamma 5 years

Iron-59 Beta/Gamma 45 days

Tritium Beta 12 years

I'm also not sure where you got the idea that alpha emitters are the worst kind of radioactive substance; alpha radiation is easily shielded.

On the other hand, sure, just leaving the reactor there for 50 years may be part of a cost effective solution.
https://www.dndkm.org/DOEKMDocuments/BestPractices/26-EFCOG%... (linked from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_decommissioning) claims a 71% reduction in decomissioning costs. However, this includes neither fuel waste disposal costs nor future costs for full dismantling at some point.
FTA:

> What Ungar is suggesting here is that the “campus free speech” crisis is somewhat manufactured. Conservative student groups invite speakers famous for offensive and racially charged speech — all of the above speakers fit that bill — in a deliberate attempt to provoke the campus left. In other words, they’re trolling. When students react by protesting or disrupting the event, the conservatives use it as proof that there’s real intolerance for conservative ideas.

I don't understand their reasoning. Are they trying to downplay free speech incidents perpetrated by "the campus left" just because they systematically target a selection of high-profile speakers?
I find this whole getting upset over “ok boomer” thing hilarious!

Older people (including boomers) have been complaining for a long time about PC culture.

Now, they are upset because the younger generation isn’t being PC with them.

That is ironic!!!
So, "credit realism", to match "IQ realism"?

I see this a lot, and the background assumption seems to be "in the real world, minority group A is actually riskier, dumber, or objectively worse in some other way, so in order to comply with anti-discrimination, we have to introduce special cases."

Maybe instead we should start with the assumption that women are NOT riskier, dumber, or objectively worse, and fix the likely bug, instead?
Ask HN: How do you evaluate the reliability of an open source project
Was curious about this as I've recently had an issue where a project I was working on used a library which was chosen due to being regularly mentioned across various online sources as a good solution, and had a strong star rating on github. However, it ultimately appeared to have stalled in development over 2 years ago and the primary contributors were very vague about their roadmap beyond announcing that they had one and likely just don't have the time to work on the project themselves any more.

Are there any warning signs that put you off adopting an open source project beyond the quality of the code and documentation? (e.g. number of forks on the Github repo, number of issues, frequency of releases).
Congratulations! This may get more traction if you make a blog post with some lessons learned in this year. Let's suppose you meet a technical friend after a year, which is the most interesting anecdote you can tell?

Did you have problems with users that use non-ascii characters? [¡Hi from Argentina!] Did you add a $math$ mode? Card fraud? Any of the note modes got more popular than you expected? Food recipes? Calendar? Can you share some statistics? Storage problems?

As an example, you can see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13284879 , but beware that the guy is very good writing, so you may need to write something shorter to avoid making the reader bored.
That points to the core of the issue. "Fairness" in ML algorithms can be hard to define and assess.

It's easy to say "omit gender from the model", but the real issue here has to do with the _causal_ pathways between your input variables and the output variable.

Since ML mostly works by exploiting correlations between the input and output variables, omitting gender doesn't mean gender's influence is removed. You'll have to omit all the causal pathways from gender -> the output, effectively "d-separating" [1] gender from the output. Whether that's practical or not depends on how well we understand the data generating process.

[1] http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/BOOK-2K/d-sep.html
Parkinsons law was originally about an observation from the British navy. The number of ships used by the British navy decreased but the number of administration of the ships increased. Parkinson law can be applied to almost any public administration. "He notes that the number employed in a bureaucracy rose by 5–7% per year "irrespective of any variation in the amount of work (if any) to be done""

Parkinsons law can also be applied to agile software engineering.
The response to codinghorror's "then don't use the Apple Card? Solution seems obvious" is on point:

> This is such a shallow, disappointing take. If we relegate all responsibility for discrimination to the individuals discriminated against, nothing is going to change! Individual action against structural problems is INSUFFICIENT.
How can you take this seriously when the person who has written this article already moves gates into enemy territory because he didn't say who he would vote for.

Absolute lunacy.
Speaking out about what? The guy appears to be claiming that a company is discriminating against women with no evidence aside from a single anecdote. Seems like he's some sort of rich 1%er founder, probably not approved under any sort of standard model the typical applicant will fit into, and thus has a crazy high limit.

Is there anything more to this than typical twitter mock indignation and outrage?

Now, if his wife was enormously wealthy before they met and this is the outcome, I suppose that would raise some eyebrows!
Assuming this all took place in the US, the American justice system is pretty horrific. I wouldn't want to call the cops on anyone unless it was absolutely necessary. It's not an action to take lightly.
i don't think that income is better then historical data of you paying on time.

i have 3x the pay of my wife but she pays always on time and i get overdue notices because i forget or don't care.
I think that people call ‘communicating efficiently’ is full of phrases the message would actually be better off without.

In this case, leaving out ‘This is factually wrong’, makes the message a whole lot nicer and doesn’t change anything about the content.
I think primarily it’s the ffi I would be missing. This would get me a turing complete language but set up as an executable it’s wrong for me.
Income is generally supplied by the applicant at the time of application, and they presumably both used the same household income number.
Saying you're going to launch an internal investigation is often a way of calming a PR fire. For a question like this, people can often get an answer with a phone call or email.
So older people having being using millennials as a derogatory term for years. If someone complained they were a millennial PC baby. Now boomers are being PC babies? That is hilarious!
There's another dimension you can work on that I find seems to work much better.

Put your complaints in the form of a question. People will use whatever internal dialog they are comfortable with to unpack it in their own heads.

Doesn't work on everyone. There's a couple engineers at every job who will happily answer questions about their Rube Goldberg machines as if they were innocent questions instead of an invitation to be introspective.
Sokol – Simple STB-style cross-platform libraries for C and C++
Laravel is popular because it allows you to setup your project very quickly.

And then the trouble starts. Remember what properties your models had? No? Well so doesn't your IDE.
There is just too much magic going on to keep things maintainable.

If you like a framework like Laravel you should go with Symfony instead. But don't use annotations. Keeps things separated so you and your colleagues can find routing and database information at logical places instead of all over the place in classes.
I mean, don't you think it's kind of a strawman to assume anyone thinks machines are explicitly sexist? It seems much more likely that whatever method they use to do feature selection on this obviously high-dimensional data just happens to end up picking something that was a proxy for gender.

You can be implicitly biased without being aware of it. This is true for both humans and algorithms.
The difference between a solution and a workaround. "Not using the product" is a workaround. A solution addresses the root of the problem, and the root of the product's problem is seldom "The consumer bought the product".
Just a nit on the JIT... JavaScript is almost always compiled, regardless of whether there is a JIT or not.

A typical JavaScript system first compiles the JS source code into bytecode. Then it starts executing (interpreting) the bytecode.

If there is a JIT, that is a second compiler. It monitors the execution of the bytecode to find hot spots where it compiles the bytecode into machine language.
Exactly, and even if they do not want to spend billions to manage all the content, they should spend at least a few millions and implement per site blocking + warnings, so that a small error in youtube spam filter results in a small issue of youtube account not being able to post comments.

This is just a common sense, because with their current approach of nuking everything and then sending explanations to the blocked email account they are eventually going to upset either enough people or someone wrong, and that will cost them way more.
I've taken Beijing to Shanghai on a train. It was a few years ago and in a shared compartment. It was fine for me but wouldn't have been for everyone.