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Stop spreading lies about her.

Mary Cain was a teenager when she started running the NOP in 2012. Based on all available reporting, Salazar didn't begin trying to dope the NOP athletes until 2010 or 2011.

Her performance at the NOP demonstrates emphatically that she didn't dope--she was much slower under NOP coaching than she was in high school.
This isn’t really about Apple Card, or Goldman Sachs, or even credit reporting. It’s broader than sexism.

This is about ”the algorithm.” Not this specific algorithm, but the black boxes that we increasingly entrust with positions of power over our lives, to the point where the best anyone can do is throw their hands up and say “it’s the algorithm!”

Algorithms are just business logic and math. They can be very complicated instances of both, but they’re not magic. Humans are capable of explaining them and understanding them. But it takes investment to communicate these things, and until now, there’s been no motivation in the industry to invest in algorithmic transparency.

Maybe it’s time to create that motivation.
An advantage of having software devs that can't communicate with one another (for whatever reason) is that it encourages de-coupling of parts of the system/application which ultimately makes the whole thing easier to grow and maintain.
Should the user click on "Cancel" or "Move to trash" to tell Apple that they trust a developer?
> I’d be impressed if you could get anyone on the phone at any financial institution to explain the proprietary inputs to any calculation. Not only would they not have access to that information, it’d be so off-script to reveal it that there’s no flow chart of comments you could make to get it.

As blackbox machine learning algorithms are increasingly being used for these proprietary calculations, people are starting to realize that this sort of explanation probably does need to be made available.

It's okay to use machine learning to do real-time image segmentation that can't be done robustly any other way.

But it probably shouldn't be okay to use machine learning as "bias laundering" for business decisions that legally should be challengeable. You shouldn't be allowed to hide behind "it's not me, it's the algorithm!" if your algorithm is causing you to look like you're discriminating against a protected class.
That's true, but vacuum has one big advantage: You can generate it in flight, whereas with lifting gas if you have to vent it you're NEVER getting it back.

Besides, even at just 7%, if the Hindenburg had been "filled" with vacuum instead of hydrogen, that would have been an additional 37,000lbs of payload capacity, which would have almost tripled it's lift capability (21,000lbs as flown).

Additionally, helium, which is probably the only gas the public will accept, is almost double the density of hydrogen, and we have a limited supply of it.
If it's a "self-insured" plan[1], your employer potentially has access to all insurance claims because they are the insurer. That's not the same as access to complete healthcare records but it's pretty telling information.

[1] https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/self-insured-plan/
Did it, though? AFAIK Node still doesn't have OS threads, which are the expensive version. The "About" page still says that Node is "designed without threads": https://nodejs.org/en/about/
What are you trying to say. Won't that at least be a beneficial outcome of having all this data being mined?
I assume they pull income from a third party source to supplement the self-reported income. The third party income would be the source of the discrepancy.
Is this paragraph from Trump or an AI bot?
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Last time I used a MAC within 5 minutes it asked me for an F-ing credit card. Why would anyone expect a platform that can do that to be anything but a walled garden?
The conclusion there is that "People who talk about their intentions are less likely to make them happen." But that's not a claim about causality. It can be explained by there being two kinds of people in the world: doers and blowhards.
While it's not sure what Google is doing here, I can tell what most companies in the healthcare data space do when dealing with data like this - they use an external vendor to essentially encrypt the "personally identifiable data" (mame, exact dob, etc) into some hash tokens before the data hits their servers from the partners. This would mean the data is still tied to a patient but not easily identifiable (at least some orgs would run reidentification risk analyses based on the types of data available within the org). It would also mean that an org like Google can (assuming it chooses to) still work with healthcare data without explicitly tying it to all their other data in a legally compliant manner.

Maybe a HIPAA expert can chime in but I'm reasonably sure it will be a violation to show you ads on your devices based on your personal healthcare data that Google obtained without your explicit consent. It might however be legal if Google uses all the patients healthcare data to train a model that it can use on all users, though.
That is definitely not how China would enforce it.

You need a Starlink terminal in order to communicate with the satellite. China will most likely just block the sales of Starlink terminals in the country if they want to enforce a ban.
This sounds a lot like the last-person-standing format that is becoming more popular. The most well known is probably Big's Backyard Ultra: https://trailrunnermag.com/races/bigs-backyard-ultra-gets-bi...

> The format is simple: Runners must complete a 4.16667-mile loop every hour until only one hardy soul is left. Whatever time they bank before the next hour begins is theirs. So it’s not a race of speed but rather a war of attrition where all but the winner DNF. Last year, a duel between Guillaume Calmettes and Harvey Lewis ended with Calmettes running 245.835 miles in 59 hours. The feat drew considerable attention for the race and attracted a highly competitive field for 2018.
I personally suspect the Fitbit acquisition has more to do with making a reliable wearable personal assistant than "ads over Fitbit." Larry and Sergei are still into the idea that we're on the cusp of getting the "everybody has a wearable personal-area-network" part of dystopia cyberpunk futures real soon now, and they want that wearable PAN to be able to track biometrics (for all kinds of reasons; it's just one more signal a personal assistant can tie into).
Thank you for this "workaround", I'm definitely going to look at doing this when, inevitably, all devices I replace when they fail will come with IoT nonsense.

Also, I'd argue that the "Alexa is so dumb, it doesn't understand half of what I tell it" crowd here are missing the point, and the point is what you said
Laziness isn't seen as a weakness?
Yes, twitter threads are horrible. But please read another twitter thread to understand why @foone uses them:

https://twitter.com/foone/status/1066547670477488128?s=21
They definitely do if they’re self insured. That doesn’t mean your boss can just pull it up willy-nilly, but I promise someone in HR can. I’ve sat in on conversations at my company where we’ve been pitched on claims analysis tools for our own HR department to use.
I lived in tokyo for a bit and i always wondered if these theme cafes get repeat customers. I enjoyed going to like a Feudal Japan era cafe, but animal cafes aside, i never really had a desire for a repeat visit especially since the lines can be SUPER long.
If it helps, no additional cows are killed for leather. There is enough skin as a by-product to go around - in fact, lots of cow skin is thrown out since the demand for leather is not nearly as high as the demand for meat.
You’ve assumed JHH made a mistake but missed that Goldman is probably using a third party data source to verify the self-reported income figure.
The article addresses your first item directly and doesn't actually say what what your second one claims it says. It's not clear to me how three and four are responsive to the article. You might be able to clarify your clarifications if you give it a closer re-read.
just one more reason i continue to recommend that youtube is greatly improved by signing out. none of the signin-walled "features" are worth it anyway. comments are a banal wasteland, votes mean nothing for creator visibility, subscribing doesn't mean you'll see new videos when they're released, algorithm-driven recommendations actively harm diverse content discoverability...
"It is also extremely right-wing"

I know a number of extreme right wing people, some of them relatives to actual fascist militants during WWII, not kids playing as such because it makes them look cool, and I assure you we have nothing in common except sharing the same charcoal at barbecues:)

My views about a single homeland have nothing to do with forcing others to share my culture but rather consider the earth as a close system where if we piss towards East soon or later it will rain from West, and the other way around.
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really well-made game for vanilla javascript. I sunk an embarrassing 2 HOURS this morning planning this. Not a particularly productive morning. But the game was quite fun! It made me think about the actual workflow in our own office.
Where's the line of liability, though?

I could make a video and state that Sandy Hook was a false flag and these parents are crisis actors. I don't have followers and influence, so my video wouldn't get many views and likely wouldn't instigate a call to harassment or violence.

But someone like Jones with a following did do that, and those families have gone through extended hell because of it.

The same is true with trying to spread lies about Omar marrying her brother. This is still commonly repeated across all mediums. Is it not an issue because she's a public figure? She receives death threats due to these types of veiled racism.

Should I be allowed to host a video openly slandering and lying about someone simply because I don't have enough people who follow me or because I'm not directly saying "attack this person"?

I feel like there's a lot to consider with their position. What do they gain by platforming hate speech and conspiracy theories? It affects their reputation (to some degree), but they still make some money off of the advertising.

For the record, I don't think Google should be policing content. But there are slippery ways to get around TOS. The "I'm just asking questions" defense muddies things, and people like Jones know that.
For those treating youtube as a business - you are right that you trade upfront risk ( the only thing you lose is your time ), a promotion platform and the ability to scale, for reduced slice of any revenue and loss of control.

However people making money on youtube are a significant minority.
Most uses are not that use.

So in terms of non-commercial sharing - I already pay for my internet connection and fibre 'upload' speeds ( from home-out ) are very under-utilized.

Also usage isn't metered - the limit is maxbandwidth X time.

So the only risk here is being too popular - which is frankly unlikely!

If you wanted to scale - p2p is an option - the issues around illegal content etc - that can be fixed if you have identity and permissions built in - the people who share are identifiable and you only choose to peer people/content you approve.

Imagine it being like a retweet - with just the same legal consequences, but with just the same potential to reach millions - but without a single company in control...
Is https://ryf.fsf.org/products meant to eventually replace https://h-node.org/hardware/catalogue/ ? The latter appears to have way more devices on it.
This is not always a bad thing, as "content discovery" is inherently, well, contentious.

And of course the focus on video downloads and away from typical VOD streaming might also be described as making the website "not very easy to use", at least compared to YT. But it also functions to align user behavior, e.g. by heavily discouraging the pointless filler and "high production values" (HD, 4K, HDR etc.) that are rampant on YT itself.
True. For a lot of these things, my threat model is very different from the average HN user's. I don't care in the same ways.

I personally fear privacy-related issues stemming from random people I may encounter online far more than I fear privacy-related issues related to NSA dragnet snooping or Google and Amazon monopolies. I have issues with them, and I'm aware of the risks, but in general I don't care much in a personal sense. I do care in a larger societal sense (these are all slippery slopes that are harmful to society), and I care about other people caring and believe their privacy wishes should be respected, but that doesn't change my personal behavior.
Thanks for exposing me to a (for me) new word.
We're all very smart here for considering justifications as too why this happened, but please don't get lost in the weeds. The financial calculation here was ridiculously broken, and it needs to be fixed at almost all costs. As folks who use algorithms as tools, we should use this story as a reason to be more accountable. It's tone deaf to publicly postulate a lack of sexist intention for the sake of women reading this. We should solely be exploring how to fix this massive error.
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Londons' airports have been kind of a mess for ages now because they've gotten hemmed in by developments on all sides. Heathrow really really wishes it could have more runways but it'd require bulldozing loads of housing developments and even more noise for the existing houses.
by "health care interaction" you would mean every billed / paid charged interaction, even so not usually identified down to a single member.

However, the employer would not have your medical records without consent of the employee, this works for self funded or fully insured.
It's not even really a loophole.

The letters in HIPAA stand for "portability" and "accountability." Privacy doesn't show up anywhere in the acronym. While privacy's importance in healthcare is important and is codified in other laws, HIPAA's whole deal is to try and standardize a system by which those other laws can be followed, not "guarantee consumer privacy" as an end of HIPAA law itself.
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The other funds have not had $110B in AUM for most of the time period in question. Probably less than half that. RIEF shrunk to ~$7B at one point, during the post 2009 period.

Next step is to look up RIEF, RIFF, & RIDA's dollar returns to see if you can match the figures.
We really need a second Bill of Rights.
This is cool, will give it a try.

Just FYI, in "typewriter" mode, you can still delete if you use Ctrl + Delete or Option + Delete on a Mac. And then if you delete everything in "typewriter" mode using either of those key modifiers, using the other modifier on the empty text input crashes the app.
> there's a time and place for the brilliant IC, and that's usually the very very early stages of a business

I definitely agree with this with a slight alteration....early stages of a project
You're blind if you think this is for "healthcare innovation". It's for bolstering what they know about users for advertising, and to combine with their recent Fitbit purchase. How could you possibly still view Google as an innocent company with everyone's best interests at heart?
Don't more recent versions of Oracle support CTEs?
Look the point stands: it’s a non-free as in speech & beer platform

Go work with Purism if you want to ship whatever

What a shock Apple is also nickle & diming for services as hardware sales atrophy. This is business 101.

If we don’t like how businesses work we should stop working for them.

Paying for beer & leaving speech free never works. We end up talking about supporting paid beer. Free speech becomes all about what we buy & sell.

If you want a free society that doesn’t end up in a nickle & dime system of inequality a test should be is life free as in speech & beer? Organized around resource distribution sure, but free of coercion to support paid speech all day (where to be viable in the eyes of society work must earn money).

That’s the DNA of our culture. These are not random things. This is what we and Apple talk about all day: financial justification for behavior.

That’s a complete corruption of free speech.
I ran into something like this (very simplified):

MyRAIIFile temp_file = ...;
AddSomeStuffToFile(&temp_file); // threw something

where MyRAIIFile has a destructor:

~MyRAIIFile() {
underlying_file.close(); // also threw something
}

So, AddSomeStuffToFile threw an exception, and the destructor also threw an exception, meaning I had two exceptions in flight which was undefined behavior and caused some weirdness. It took many hours to track down this particular problem...

I can see that one correct answer would be to put a try-catch around the .close() call, but that's the wrong place for that logic in my case; I want the caller of the destructor to decide what to do to recover. Even Java's checked exceptions would cause chaos here. Only returning an error in the destructor's return type (with a must-use annotation of course) would force me to handle this situation at compile time... but C++ can't do that.

Any advice for this situation?
Is there an equivalent for the PHP world?
Ironic, here I am thinking that GT is TopGear with the boring stuffy old parts removed. No, I don't care about Star in a Reasonably priced car or the Cool Wall.

I do care about the new car reviews, The News, 'what would happen if we made a car...out of spaghetti noodles', on-location shoots etc. GT has its own take on each of those.
Step 1: publish the algorithm
Step 2: listen to feedback
I don't even visit the YouTube site that often anymore. I've set up a script to use youtube-dl to download new videos from channels I like on a daily basis.
Not the one I have. It just kinda bumps all over the place like it has no memory but it does clean the floors so it’s not a total loss!
Or "all the rumours could be true at once", through a simple misinterpretation of how Apple's internal politics work.

Like, say, Apple could have an AR department with several parallel hardware R&D efforts, where they're constantly cancelling projects when they realize they're dead-end concepts, and putting the staff from them onto new projects.
That really leaves out that both left and right wing ideologies have found a way to use the technology effectively for their own means. The platform itself isn't some niche platform.
In what universe is it ridiculous to think an advertising company would use user data for ads? You google fanboys are delusional
Janayugom Online is the webversion It is done in wordpress. you can see the printed version in epaper.
>it looks like ( I may be wrong ) that she only gets like $50 of credit limit.

She actually got a higher limit than that but spent the majority of it. The complaint was that she had paid off the entire balance that she had spent already but the limit wasn't reset and wouldn't reset upon payment but would reset at the end of the billing cycle so she only had a $50 limit until that point.
This has not been my experience. While it's true that some topics do seem to draw contrarian viewpoints immediately, not all do; and while reflexive reactions are most likely to be found immediately on almost all topics, they need not be negative. For non-controversial topics, the reflexive reactions tend to be memes (less common but not unheard of on HN) or affirmative standard talking points - suportive statements generated from common associations. For example, an HN post about a new organizational technique will often fill up with replies explaining how users implement those practices themselves, what tools they use, etc. Because these topics are generally uncontroversial, the defensiveness that is the impetus for contrarian reactionism doesn't arise.

The answer to the issue is fairly simple but relies entirely on the humility of HN's userbase, particularly in regard to topics that seem easy to expound upon "logically" but for which they generally are lacking in knowledge of or experience with.

Therefore, I have little hope.

I'll keep pointing out the fallacy when I see it, though.
No -- that's my point -- there are no third party data sources on income, as far as I'm aware.

This is why credit cards ask your income in the first place, and why landlords will often ask for a copy of your tax return from last year as proof, along with your last two pay stubs. Because there's nowhere else for them to get it or verify it, certainly not at scale.
The headline is not alarming enough. This is being done without proper consent from patients and the healthcare "innovation" is likely to be inaccessible to many of those same patients due to how unaffordable health care (including preventative care) is in the US.

Edit: It basically doesn't matter what procedure Google's algorithm says you should get. If your insurance doesn't want to cover it, you're not getting it.
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A public service? Sure.

A paid service? No.
Did you read what she wrote? She literally calls out as ridiculous the fact that she's able to get her problem fixed by virtue of who she is while countless others have no recourse. It is the opposite of tone deaf.
As an investor, won't you pull this move just to get better conditions? The founders are fixated on closing the deal so they will put up with almost any condition that you throw at them?
Claims are a pretty solid proxy for health care interactions. That’s what I mean.
A few Cockroach Labs engineers are hanging out on this thread - happy to answer any questions you might have about how we made Go go faster.
Wow that is very nice to see. I am member of dev team in Janayugom
You can be naturally strong, but if you don't train, those who do train will beat you anyway. So you need to both train and have good genetics. Sports is not fair, but training usually pays off.
She put "0" in the income field, didn't she?

Doesn't take a complicated algorithm to explain that.
That's the way....
HIPAA has lots of loopholes. For example "Covered entities must implement reasonable safeguards to limit incidental, and avoid prohibited, uses and disclosures." There is no requirements to have sound proof walls. If your neighbor in the shared room overhears a conversation with a doctor, too bad.
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GDPR has given some good thought to automated decision making and has guidance that I think all companies should follow even if they don’t need to follow the GDPR regulations.

“We regularly check our systems for accuracy and bias and feed any changes back into the design process.

As a model of best practice...

We have signed up to [standard] a set of ethical principles to build trust with our customers. This is available on our website and on paper.” [1]

[1] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
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While general fitness is healthy, competing at the peak level (and sometimws far below the peak level, too) in very many (probably most) sports rewards optimizing short-term performance (which aspects vary by sport) over long term health.
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Apple has a bit more credibility than Google, too.
yea right. same thing with facebook asking for phone numbers for two factor. they would NEVER use that for ads, right?
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I mean claims data, which is arguably a good record of your present health care intersections while employed at that company. They definitely have access to it.
limited querying capabilities though.
The ones in fuel pumps are the worst. In my town I make a point of avoiding any gas station that has sunk to that level, but they seem to be harder and harder to avoid especially when traveling.
lol. Not buying it.