skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Say you have an AI that predicts probability of re-offending for prospective parolees.

Already you've made one of the most common mistakes in this area: confusing the label for the latent truth. We don't measure "re-offending", we measure rearrest and re-incarceration, which as I've discussed elsewhere are biased (in the sense of "unjust").

> If we were to manually adjust the model to make it display equal risks for both men and women then that is not elimination of bias. It is deliberate introduction of bias to make the output fit our ideal worldview.

Again, you are using the word "bias" in a vague and meaningless way. In this context, our goals are constrained by the law - in the US we guarantee people certain rights, and prohibit certain kinds of discrimination. In this example, it would indeed be wrong (and illegal) to punish men more harshly just for being men, since gender is a protected class. In the same way, it would be wrong (and illegal) to punish black people more harshly just for being black. In my state, whites and blacks use cannabis at equivalent rates, and black people are arrested 8 times as often per capita - an algorithm looking at arrests will see that and make the problem worse.

You've staked out some sort of naiive and bizarre "AI Purity" stance which completely ignores how such models work, and which misunderstands how we use models to learn things and solve problems. You're also mixing up different definitions of "bias". Some facts which you might find interesting:

* Penalization/shrinkage, which is ubiquitous and incredibly useful in many predictive models, is the deliberate introduction of bias to improve prediction performance

* Adjusting for confounding in regression/classification type models is one way of accounting for or removing bias in a statistically rigorous way - as you (imprecisely and inaccurately) say, "modifying the model to make it display equal risks". This allows us to measure effects, conditional on known risks or existing patterns.

* All statistical and machine learning algorithms suffer from sampling bias, where the data we observe doesn't match the reality in important ways - a fact which you're completely ignoring. If a model reflects the bias in a bad sample, why on earth should we accept that?
Where is the city called Bali?
> Although I might be an unusual demographic as I touch type

This gave me a chuckle since nearly every person I know (90% at least) is a touch typer.
Let's say a customer wants Nike shoes, has Amazon Prime, and does most of their shopping through Amazon. Before:

1.) Search Amazon for Nike shoes

2.) Buy shoes

3.) Close Amazon

4.) Receive (possibly counterfeit) shoes. If low quality or fake, perhaps think less of Nike.

After:

1.) Search Amazon for Nike shoes

2.) Observe no Nike shoes in results

3.) Google 'buy nike shoes'

4.) Visit nike.com

5.) Nike promotes sweatpants/sweatshirts/is running a sale/etc on landing page

6.) Possible conversion (customer is drawn in by promotions; ends up buying more than just the shoes)

7.) Receive authentic Nike merchandise, think highly of brand

It's a couple extra steps and this is oversimplified for a generic case. There's also places it could go wrong, such as if Nike chooses to collect and sell customer/transaction data. But if executed correctly, the switch benefits both Nike and the consumer while only hurting Amazon. Seems like a win-win-win.
This is the Onion.

I got it from https://spectator.us/perfect-crime-podcast/.
I stopped reading once I saw it has a way to show advertisements
For shuffling VMs it's really helpful.
If you don't opt into seeing ads, then Brave is a browser with ad-blocking built in (and a donate-to-sites-you-use button).
I don't understand this:

> He told Railway Modeller he worked on the skyscrapers and other scenery while on tour, requesting an extra room for his constructions in his hotels.

> "We would tell them in advance and they were really accommodating, taking out the beds and providing fans to improve air circulation and ventilation," he said.

I can understand taking parts on a tour, but maybe I'm missing something? Assuming Rod's moving from hotel to hotel frequently, how is he going to have the time to do something so massive? And, wouldn't this kind of thing be well-known?
Few applications I have worked on lately involving FPGAs:
- RF and microwave, direct digital synthesis.
- Data acquisition and analysis (fast, very fast)
- Time of Flight imaging/video
- Timing critical process control
Software Heritage is building the universal software archive
Yes - the unchecked bad attitudes by some of their maintainers is awful. I can't believe there isn't a major fork to docker-compose because of it.
This comment sounds somewhat strange to me. If you don't mind me asking, where are/were you living in Florida where this is the case? I have lived in South Florida for 25 years, residing in areas around Martin County, Port St Lucie, West Palm Beach, and Tallahassee. Most of my vacations were spent at friends houses in Tampa, Sarasota, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, and even Marathon Key.

Most houses I have lived in, and the houses my peers owned, were all one story houses. Those who lived in what insurances labels as "known flood zone" areas still had carpet, and the houses are decorated no differently than the houses I have seen in California when I lived there, as well as Michigan where I currently live.

We also were able to enroll in flood insurance without any issues. Granted, it's extra insurance on top of typical home owners insurance, but Allstate had no issues providing us with flood insurance for over two decades of living there.

Is this perhaps how the more wealthy people live, or is this maybe how a specific area lives? I have legitimately never heard of people purposely furnishing their first floor as if it were a basement. I have seen the trend of moving away from carpet, but that is a more general trend that I am observing here in MI, as well, so I am not entirely sure it is can be directly linked to home owners worrying about potential flooding.
I suspect it is related to them pushing a much thinner bezel to squeeze in a 16" screen in a 15" chassis. If true, I'd happily accept that tradeoff since screen realestate is far more important to me than a jump from 720p to 1080p for my webcam.
The comment I replied to said:

> Eg, I pay $5/m or $15/m, whatever, and that gets split up by the number of pages I view and content I consume.

That's 100% possible to do with Brave's system.
To not release the source is a a pretty bad distortion of research norms
What people get paid to work in journalism
Being in a technology focused site, there is nothing wrong in trying to give some credit to underlying technology and those who wrote it instead of just focusing on those who commercialized it.
Passenger rail is barely economical for routes that are used year-round. Like it barely works in the NY-DC corridor, and not at all for SF-LA. It seems unlikely that it'd make sense for something as seasonal as a ski area.
I thought all medicine used differential diagnosis, where you start with symptoms and gradually eliminate potential causes, until you're left with the most likely cause.
A brand new account praising a business.

This reeks of being an astroturfing account.
Same here! The level of investment and his work on it is staggering.

It also reminds me of a Canadian treasure (possibly NSFW/language)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAbZi14-i6s

It's surprisingly prescient being a rock star with that kind of ... smokey voice...
sorry but that 75k and that 5 are at least 2x too optimistic.

also, direct sales deals require direct sales people who then expect direct deposited bonuses. its kindof like the tyranny of the rocket equation, you can't afford sales people because they would have to take 95% of the revenue they generated just to pay their own (meager regional medium city ad sales) salary.
I appreciate the design and marketing effort, but the split between golang.org and go.dev, and godoc.org and pkg.go.dev, is confusing. Newcomers may wonder what is the official website.
Comments like this is what makes people not want to participate in your community.

I think that's a mistake; it's important to call out bad actions and bad actors.

Another person made an important point elsewhere. If someone had posted a similar manifesto for the Apache Software Foundation -- without doing any community work or collaboration -- then the ASF would respond quickly and definitively.
There’s no reason to believe they won’t have an online copy of the 2020 snapshot too. Isn’t that kind of the point? For future generations to be able to use it?
75% isn't great, but if solar continues its 70 year exponential trend of dropping by half every 3-4 years for another two decades, then round-trip efficiency may not much matter in the long run. Too, the 75% is at 100% Depth of Discharge - it may be better at lower total discharge. Lifetime 15 years / 5,000 cycles is almost perfectly balanced for one full cycle per day (5,475 days in 15 years). Doesn't give the price, though, so hard to calculate cost per cycle. https://eosenergystorage.com/products-technology/
Funny tangent, check out this company Lightbox Jewelry: https://lightboxjewelry.com/

They sell extremely cheap lab growns with a lot of funny marketing around how "artificial" diamonds are for "light" occasions.

That's because Lightbox is run by De Beers and it's a PR campaign to flood the market with cheap lab grown diamonds with accompanying marketing to push the message that "real" diamonds are more valuable.

Funny thing is, I don't think millenials care about whether the diamond is lab grown. To them it's just a cheaper diamond that is literally the same as one from the ground and doesn't have any conflict diamond associations. De Beers think they're doing something clever but really are just shooting themselves in the foot by not understanding the younger market and giving us access to cheaper diamonds.

I'm a big fan of lab grown. Science is science, I don't need a poor teenager clawing a rock out of the dirt to make it real.
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Temporarily disregarding the issue at hand to talk about something unrelated is still off topic even if you disclaim it.
My processor speed is 2.53, so based on your [1], I must have bought the $2,500 model. But I remember getting some kind of Black Friday deal on it; that's how I know it's about 11 years old.
So I don't use Brave, but it certainly sounds as though by purchasing BAT (or you can receive them through enabling ads) those are then allocated to the content creators whose stuff you're choosing to consume. Which supposedly--this is the part of the scheme I am most skeptical about, because crypto markets are mostly just hilarioujs--allows them to turn BAT into actual money.

Can you explain what exactly in this conversation you don't care about? Follow-up question, can you explain why you felt the need to air that don't-care-about-it without moving the conversation anywhere?
> GDPR the other hand is entirely opt-in.

As an European I don't feel like it's opt-in.

Last I've heard Google is still tracking me left and right.
Microparticles could help fight malnutrition
I don't blame anyone. I just find you amusing.
I did not know Intel stayed in the desktop motherboard business as long as they did. I had an AL440LX motherboard-based system that I'm sure still works, after a few battery and power supply replacements, if it hasn't been disposed of. (I'm sure it has been disposed of)

The author fails to understand some things:

Not so for the owners of Intel boards. To show just much Intel values its customers, they were informed that BIOS updates were not forthcoming and the newer, faster processors were not supported on Intel boards. That was no doubt particularly galling to the owners of the DZ87KLT boards, which sold for around $300 when new and are worth $150 or more even today (2019).

...

After all the hoopla in 2018 about Meltdown and Spectre, guess what happened: Intel somehow magically managed to update the BIOS for those boards after akl. For the DZ87KLT-75K, nothing really changed because the ME firmware did not get updated. But for the DQ87PG board, the 2018 BIOS updates did update the ME firmware as well.

It's precisely because Intel "values its customers," or more precisely because Intel understands its value add for customers versus the other motherboard manufacturers, that they would not just slide support for a few extra CPUs into the firmware. To do the job to their own standards they would need to fully retest everything with those new CPUs before officially supporting them. The economics of the Meltdown and Spectre fixes is an entirely separate matter.

(it'd be fair to point out that home power users who want to upgrade the CPU on a motherboard after purchase were never a large proportion of the Intel motherboard buying public and, in recent years... there cannot be that many)
If people actually started using electronics for 100 years instead of throwing them out every few years, that would be fantastic. It would also be a very radical departure from the status quo and I don't think it a likely scenario, so rest easy I guess..
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Here's a study that shows some evidence for this:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2501480
My little boy has been crazy about cars ever since he was the littlest boy.

So when he was 2 years old I made him a little city, the size of a large coffee table, using all the stuff from model railroads. Grass, roads, houses, people. I drilled holes and pushed led lights through the bottom and into the insides of the buildings. I even put little monkeys in the trees and playing on the roofs of the buildings. The only thing it didn't have was railroads or trains.

Most toys, kids play with them for a while and stop and move on to something else.

He played on that little city non stop for at least 4 years if not 5. Every morning he got up and sat down next to it and started pushing his cars around it and parking them and lining them up and making vehicle noises.

I have to admit I had a huge amount of fun choosing all the parts and designing and making that little model city.

He's older now so the table lies in a corner much loved and worn and now unused but here it is:

https://imgur.com/a/hNOSGrq
Then turn notifications off. Depends on your workplace culture, but I receive no work-related notifications or emails after work hours and it's fine.
I used a 2011 MacBook Pro for about 6 years, carrying it in a backpack on a bike every day.
That's opt-in. Maybe they should make that more obvious on that page.
I like it. It helps me control my music, volume and VMs all at once without having to bother with windows or holding down key modifiers
Microsoft Sends a New Kind of AI Processor into the Cloud
It definitely will. I've been waiting on Helm v3 to consider really using Kubernetes for things. Helm v2 had it's own authentication scheme and now that's baked into Kubernetes, so Helm can leverage that. Basically, old Helm was trying to own too many things (which, at the time, made contextual sense to do).
CCPA has enough common elements with GDPR that companies are likely to look for a set of practices that meets both in as many cases as possible. I'm hopeful that while the CCPA may lack the full width of GDPR's effect, it will push companies that were special-casing the EU to apply GDPR practices to the US as a whole as well or the entire world.

Very few companies are going to want to maintain a separate GDPR strategy, a separate CCPA strategy, and an unregulated strategy, and then selectively apply each to various users. As more jurisdictions jump on board with privacy requirements, hopefully globally consumers will get the benefits of the strongest passed regulation in each category.
Mario Benedetti wrote some very sad stories.

Eduardo Galeano I can't explain; he was just too colourful for the River Plate.
As always, it depends entirely on what you're doing with the (predictions/estimates/inferences). This is an entirely false dilemma.
I once got a call while I was lecturing some students. It was repeated three times in three minutes - I assumed it was an emergency and stepped out.

I was greeted by someone explaining that my father had caused a car accident, and they were calling on his behalf. That someone would need to send over some money for repairs or they’d call the police.

Sure.

They added that their cousin, the driver, is a parolee now holding my father at gunpoint. That if I don’t send them money to make them whole, they’ll kill my father.

This was super fishy, you know? But still, with things like “life of a loved one” at stake, it’s hard to call a bluff.

I can only imagine what I’d have done if I’d heard my fathers voice pleading for help. They might have been able to get any amount of money out of me.

Well, if my father hadn’t passed away nine months prior. They were not delighted to hear that.
That's pretty nice - but people who need to interface with a wide variety of devices in their line of work, or don't know upfront what the situation in the field will require don't have that luxury. So instead using a laptop with minimal 3 standard ports (USB-A, USB-C, HDMI), they have to carry dongles that get lost, bent, stop working etc...MBP is simply not a "pro" machine - it's a mainstream consumer machine that looks fancy on the desk instead of being functional. And that would be totally great if it was called "Macbook" and there was a "Macbook Pro", with ports, battery life, cooling, keyboard etc...
There is some grousing[1] that a cross platform technology, including Microsoft's own Xamarin, wasn't used and that fully platform native development is a waste. Was it mentioned somewhere specifically (maybe during GH the keynote that I didn't watch) that SwiftUI was used? That would be the only way to square the tweeter's statement that only 20% of mobile users would be able to use it, he must mean only those on iOS 13, but not totally sure. Hightlighting Dark Mode and a good iPad version would play into SwiftUI's narrative but the framework still seems a bit new for an app of this caliber.

[1] https://twitter.com/ThomasBurkhartB/status/11946837811956736...
If you can talk your way past two factor auth, it is useless.

I can see the argument for being forceful about prompting you to write down backup codes or whatever, but fixing that after-the-fact is something they should absolutely not been doing.

I do think that sites should offer better options for recovery. NearlyFreeSpeech do a really good job of this, offering seven methods of recovery and letting you decide how many you need to fulfil to be given access and which you want to configure. However, things like checking photo ID and more "offline" options are expensive to support, so I get why that is rare.
Then price is almost same ($2870). Thank you, didn't know that about the US price. Now I feel stupid. Meh.
Guessing because it's like a programming workout (exercise)
Unfortunately having cars everywhere (and a car-centric culture and urban landscape) will probably kill more people in the long run via CO2 emissions than gun domestic deaths. The collapse of the entire ecosystem and the corresponding mass extinction is undeniably the most important problem of this century.
Would you be upset if you did so in, say, June, then proceeded to lose double-digit percent of $ value placed in the wallet?

How about if you're a content creator who got paid in these ever-volatile digital currency units...instead of dollars? If those same creators instantly traded out for $, what was their trading fees? Is all of this something to consider when singing the praises of saving a few pennies on transaction costs?
This is very troubling. I can't imagine why this would be done if they had good intentions.
Makes me want to check their financials.

Here's their most recent public tax forms which includes revenue, executive pay, board member info, and more

PIR: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/331...

ICANN: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/fy18-irs-tax-for...

Looks like they're paid quite generously.
I was recently looking at a library in F# that does something similar: https://diffsharp.github.io/DiffSharp/

Also related: https://github.com/fsprojects/fsharp-ai-tools
His layout was featured in Model Railroader back in 2007:

http://mrr.trains.com/magazine/press-releases/2007/10/rod-st...
You don't always need physical pointy implements to achieve this, as a lot of religious buildings in different points in time show. Sometimes the threat of eternal damnation is enough. Remember that the pharaos in ancient Egypt did have a religious significance.
Curious why you created an account just to make two comments, both of which are entirely incorrect.

What's your agenda? Who's paying you to slander Brave?
I have restored access to a lost 2FA github account by presenting support with an artifact signed by my SSH keys I had linked to the account.

If you still have the keys, try:

ssh -i ~/.ssh/your_linked_privkey -T git@github.com verify

Edit: I previously wrote to pass your public key to the ssh client rather than your private key. Of course, that was incorrect.
>There is no easy way to set up an own advertising network for every website

Huh? This is trivially easy with DFP or if you're smaller AdGlare/AdZerk/etc

> You will find that everyone except google has terrible CPMs.

This is objectively false. OpenX, Amazon, Rubicon, AppNexus, Pubmatic, etc all pay better than Google for large pockets of inventory. Google has the largest distribution, but their CPMs are awful for a very large percentage of that inventory, even in typically high-CPM markets.
> Less inventory. Advertisers bid for spots on the platform, which means that if there're fewer users accepting advertisers, the remaining spots will require more BAT, which requires purchasing more BAT on the open market.

Doesn't this assume that advertisers would be willing to pay more for fewer eyeballs? That seems like a pretty big assumption.
What the heck is that thing above the number keys? It looks like a strip of a touchscreen.
The only thing that would collapse are the parasitical entities that feed off of tracking data from ads. I think this is a good thing.
Okay, different way to explain it:

Person A says "Let's kill all of Group B"

Person B says "I won't tolerate Person A"

Person C says "I won't tolerate Person B"

Person A is being intolerant. They are breaking the terms of the notional peace treaty; the consequence of that is losing the right to be tolerated.

Person B is OK because Person A has lost the right to be tolerated. They are not breaking the notional treaty.

Person B is not OK because Person B has not lost the right to be tolerated. They are breaking the notional treaty.

As for the rest of what you're saying...

Yeah, I can see how that bat picture is off-putting. I don't always notice those kinds of undercurrents. Thanks for pointing it out!

> discourage people from expressing themselves in ways you do not agree with

You can, if your differentiator is along different axis. See the Person A/B/C example above.

> Furthermore

Thanks for expressing that you're picking this up. That's not something I'm putting down, so I'm not sure where that's coming from.

> perceived as intolerance

Yep. I don't yet have a way to address this en masse, although talking to individuals seems to work.

> Setting subjective feelings as a measure

...That seems appropriate? But you're right about the failure mode. I'd then say the issue isn't using this sensor we've all got, but in directly reacting to the results of that sensor. If your box is showing high CPU usage, and all you do is up the CPU...

> I stand by my original comment.

You do you, and I value that you're expressing what you're picking up. It's not what I'm putting down.