skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was looking through the twitter replies last night, multiple people claimed the opposite happened (the female got the higher limit). It’s sad that the journalist either didn’t look into it or preferred not to stray from the implication that the algorithm is sexist rather than just buggy.
I suppose it comes down to whether the Homebrew maintainer who accepts the formula PR containing the hash is actually examining the upstream code in detail. I think that is unlikely; there's too much code for Homebrew maintainers to be experts on everything contained in homebrew-core and follow every single patch.

So yes, the hash prevents the upstream project from switching out the code at any time, but if they wanted to add some malicious code all they have to do is file a homebrew-core PR and hide it in a legitimate change.
> When I've visited, I've noticed that the fruit in particular look gorgeous in the shops, but taste like damp tissue paper. Weird

Thank the market: the food companies have prioritized durability, yield, and appearance over taste.

https://www.npr.org/2011/07/09/137623954/the-troubled-histor...

> On top of that, the tomatoes you see in those supermarkets have been bred for high yields and durability, not flavor. "As a farmer once said — an honest farmer — 'I don't get paid a cent for flavor,'" Estabrook says.
If you're married and you're filing jointly, it's really no different than the same individual applying twice in a row. They've already extended one credit line to a specific entity, so it makes perfect sense that the second line would either be denied or minimal. It baffles me that this has exploded so much
That link doesn't work for me (perhaps geo-IP gated?) - what issue are we talking about?

The highly reputable c't Magazine used it in one of their recommended PC builds recently. They tend to be very thorough and fussy about issues, so I suspect they didn't run into whatever issue you're talking about. I believe they did mention that you need to watch out for BIOS support for the 3000 series CPUs (and ask the seller to update it if necessary and you don't have an older AM4 APU handy), as with any motherboards that predate release of a particular CPU you're trying to use.
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I suppose that it depends upon what social group you're in. I'd say for people under 50 who life in modestly affluent parts of cities - yes, smart speakers are increasingly popular. Not sure if I'd use the word "most people", but it's a lot.
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So what are you gonna do about it?

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ― Edmund Burke
Ask HN: I built a pipeline for in-video search at a hackathon, what're the uses?
So I attended a hackathon recently and I wanted to play around with the GCP stack. I had a lot of fun with it, ended up using their Vision API and many other smaller things the build a pipeline where you could upload a video and, index a whole bunch of objects in it so that you could search. I even built a 'voice skill' where you could say something like 'find all occurrences of people' or 'Start playing when baboon appears'

It was really fun, but I suspect there might actually be a use for it somewhere out there.

I'm not a business or startup guy, but am willing to explore it as a side project. Any ideas where this might be useful?

The one thing that came to mind was analyzing security footage, but beyond that I'm blank
Let's all act shocked!

1- Uber is funded in part by Saudis.

2- They don't consider jaywalkers in their autonomous driving software showing that human life is ... not important.
Oh don't get me wrong, I'd love to understand the algorithm that determines who gets how much credit.

But we're assuming that it has to do with gender, and none of us actually know the difference between these two people historically. My wife has better credit than I do but I can borrow more because my income is much higher, for example.
>Edit: To anyone asking why we bought a car in Scotland with a sunroof, I do wonder and we'd never do it again!

Actually I really enjoy a sunroof especially in cloudy weather as it makes the interior a lot brighter and less claustrophobic even in dark days.
Explaining the sexism away does not make it less sexist or defensible. The point is the algorithm has a sexist bias, as multiple anecdotes show.
No problem with it otherwise, but it is a duplicate of the same post from a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21259175
he's using sh not bash. Grep, sh, and awk predate gnu by a long-time. It's not like they invented these tools, merely made their own implementations.
> Because after 5 years, Alexa still doesn't work well enough for most people except to set a kitchen timer, play music, or check the outdoor temperature.

Same with the others. Google's seems to be the best, but it's still not great. Given where we were with custom-trained (to your own voice) locally-processed speech-to-text almost 20 friggin' years ago, it's hard to imagine that wouldn't be at least as good as the spying cloud AI mumbo-jumbo by now, had those being available and "free" not taken all the money, interest, and talent away from that.
Interesting, this might explain why the YouTube app keeps resetting the view position when switching out of the app and back again after doing something else.
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I've seen these skills fire several times, but I'm not sure what the rules are.

Do they self-start any time they could complete an open task? Do they self-start only when there is new work available as soon as they finish?
> This would seem to contradict the premise of the article. The talented poor kids would by that argument have no problem breaking into the top echelons of society, irrespective of the resources available to rich kids to attend the best colleges. Reality is somewhere in between.

I'm a self-taught autodidact who grew up relatively poor (by first world standards) and attended a mid-tier Midwestern school-- so I do have a BS degree but not one of the top-brand ones that really open doors.

I've worked my way up to doing a lot of the things that top-tier college grads do: working with other top people, working on advanced leading-edge things, and raising angel and venture capital.

There's a catch though: I feel like I've had to work at least twice as hard to do these things vs. someone who graduated with a name brand degree from a top school. I'm also white and male, so if I were female or non-white I'd probably have to work 4-8X as hard.

So yeah, you can battering ram yourself past things like name brand university bias, classism, racism, etc., but it's nice if you don't have to. So my advice to today's young people would be to go to a top tier university if you can do so on reasonable terms. I'd also say it probably matters more if you have other things going against you like race, gender, or a stronger class divide. Having that name brand university will compensate a bit. It's somewhat disturbingly like leveling your character in some kind of MMO.
If only there was a way to avoid having an Amazon smart speaker in my home...
I grew up in Kerala in the 80s. When I go back I feel like we have walked backwards in many areas - religious conservatism and fundamentalism are out in the open. The internet had a huge role to play in that. Still better than many other states, but certainly not what it could have been.

There are certainly many good things the Communists did, but it has also been the most violent (by democratic standards, not on a North Korea scale). Now, that isn't surprising because that's been the case with communism throughout history. Back then Stalin posters were everywhere, and most of us were only exposed to one side of such people.
I worked at Datasaab, in New York, in 1977. We were building a system for tellers to use in interacting with customers. I don't remember the computer model names, but I do remember the language -- DIL 16. It was a weird language that looked like assembler, but was actually higher level, with lots of string operations. I remember that my coworker built a B-tree in DIL 16. That was a fairly new data structure at the time, and it was the first time I had encountered it. (I thought it was incredibly elegant, and perhaps that is why I went on to study databases in grad school.)

We deployed versions of software by loading up a 5(?) MB hard disk with our code, and walking it over from our development office downtown, to the bank branch that was testing it out.

I was working at Datasaab during the day, and going to grad school (NYU) in the evenings. After a year, I left Datasaab to concentrate on my studies (at a different school).
The Apple we love is the Apple which takes decades to line up the technologies, materials, and interfaces needed to polish a future vision down to the gem which will totally change how we interact with technology.

The wearables unit of Apple does seem like it’s where the big innovations are happening, even if a lot of that innovation is in materials and just perfecting the user experience of something basic like charging.
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It's a lot harder to focus on reading a book when you can just jump over to youtube instead.
That is like Trump's "You think our country's so innocent?" cubed.
I use Live Lite as I've been to cheap to upgrade my 9 Suite up. The plugin and synth limitations are easily offset by 3rd party plugs either free or sale snags. Lite will give you the feel of Live and have you creating at a very low cost, people give away Lite licenses and they follow the upgrade cycle lite 9 to live 10, etc.
> If the later they are absolutely right to point the blame

Good for them, but as a user I don't care whose fault it is. The only thing I see is that my (very expensive) iThingy is not working right after the update.
> YouTube may terminate your access, or your Google account’s access to all or part of the Service if YouTube believes, in its sole discretion, that provision of the Service to you is no longer commercially viable.
I was rounding 1.36lbs (raw) of grassfed ground beef (85 / 15)mixed with diced hatch chilis and 2 mashed sweet potatoes. That was just lunch. I lost 30lbs that year, my tryglycerides recovered from my soylent months as well.
I'm curious then; would Google list Firefox and other competing services before their own?
Went to the article to find all the other evidence, and no it pretty much boils down to your single quote. Some guy is not happy with his wife’s credit limit and went on a tweet-rant accusing sexism.

No idea how credit limits are calculated but maybe his credit limit is higher not because he’s a man but because he’s an entrepreneur?
The core of the pitch for the "The Information" is that they do reporting that moves markets; i.e. investors should subscribe to get access to information they can use to make decisions ahead of their competitors. A lot of their reporting, like this article, tries to look down the road on new products and markets.

The founder Jessica Lessin spent years at WSJ (as Jessica Vascellaro), but got into trouble for getting too close to her sources; for example traveling to private parties with them. The Information takes more of a utilitarian, service model to their work, where ethical concerns about source relationships are less important than the quality of the information you provide to subscribers (hence the name).
Not that I agree that an armed population is the BEST way to avoid tyranny, but saying A helps avoid B isn't contradicted by saying 'we don't have A or B so that can't be true'
Get rid of the authoritarian state and get authoritarian warlords competing in anarchy (using your body). I mean, give a word a meaning. Surely the difference between North Korea and Canada isn't merely in the stress.
> You admit you need only one study, that you dont even know the name of and obviously havent read.

Why should I? The survey authors are professional econometricians who know what they're doing referring to peer-reviewed research. Meanwhile, you don't have any studies at all to back your side. You're like a creationist who wants to see specific papers, not understanding that the proper venue for correcting papers is through the journals. Just like a creationist, you discard the scientific process when its conclusions don't fit your worldview.

> Link please.

I linked to the survey paper. As I said, it has a bibliography. Do you need me to explain how to use it?
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Yes, that’s accurate. It is not prescriptive at all, but it does contain broad data security requirements. These are really the only legally mandated security requirements in healthcare. That said, HIPAA is more about establishing a legal and contractual framework for sharing data between providers and insurers and different providers.
What all large companies does SA have a huge stake in?

Twitter, Uber...
Oof that header image. Good indicator that the article doesn't have much going on - other than the author cooking up yet another dystopian future where robots steal our medicine, or whatever.
I think you're mixing and matching political sub groups to find a contradiction that mostly doesn't exist.

One of the places that gun control is popular is affluent suburbs. This is also where regressive zoning is popular. The major exception I can think of is the Southeast where gun control really isn't very popular at all outside the inner city but many affluent neighborhoods are HOA'd to hell and back.

I assure you, the hardcore libertarian "my tactical nukes are none of the government's business" types have no love for zoning.
> If it's 3 to 4 years away from being real, would they really hold a presentation in the theatre?

Just a few weeks ago both Kuo [1] and Gurman [2] predicted early 2020 for the AR glasses. Tim Cook's public statements, ARKit and all the rumors have suggested that AR is Apple's focus so I would be very surprised if an Apple VR headset came out first. Curious reporting by The Information

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/9/20906113/apple-2020-predi...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-21/why-2020-...
If HN is going to cover business articles then yes.
Having read this entire exchange I can say with absolute certainty that I did not understand it at all. I did however enjoy it very much.
Gawker is not "far left".
...when it first came about...
> management doesn't count engineering time the same way as parts cost

because the IRS doesn’t either
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This ignores the fact that the current system is completely rigged to favor the rich and those with access to wealth.

1. The IRS has admitted that its to hard to audit the rich so it goes after poor people instead.

2. Its much easier to take risk if you have a safety cushion. If a rich kid takes a risk and starts a company, often with his parents capital, the worst that happens is he may have to move back in with his parents. If a less wealthy / poor person takes a risk and fails, there is a very real chance of becoming homeless or so entrenched in debt that escape is close to impossible without bankruptcy.

3. For people with no family support and who's parents did not guide them towards college, if they work 2 jobs and each of those jobs pays $15 and somehow work 40 hours a week at both, that's still only 60k a year, completely upending the argument that those who succeed do so only because they work hard. People are not going to be able to start a business, save for retirement and raise a family with that.

4. The rich can use campaign donations and lobbyists to further rig the system in their favor.

This list can go on forever.

I am not saying its impossible to come from nothing and gain great wealth but the odds are very much stacked against you, regardless of the amount of effort you put in.
I still stand by my previous statements.

Mozilla certainly improved on overall performance with Quantum, but to say Firefox was unusuable is actually not even an exaggeration - I stand corrected on this - but plain wrong.

AFAIK, Chrome did introduce the multi-process approach but that touched tabs only peripherally. Tab management itself has not improved.
In the past, Apple's entrance with improved design has bolstered a market quite a bit; iPod and iPhone are examples. I feel like if Apple does release something, the market response will inform us whether AR itself has a viable market at all.

I mean, if Apple can't bolster the market for such a thing, perhaps no one really wanted it after all.
The better you get at writing code, the more the code documents itself, and the less comment writing you will need to do.

Think of writing a comment as a failure of your ability to write good code - we all fail from time to time but we asipre to do better over time.
I would argue that channels like Jim Sterling are a bigger problem. He's a pundent who criticizes the AAA gaming industry, and whose content is unmonetizable from Google's perspective.

Yet his videos get tens and hundreds of thousands of views (occasionally even millions), and are 15-20 minutes each (even Jim Sterling must play to the algorithm). 3-4 of such videos every week have to represent the very definition of commercially not viable for Google.
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This is one of the most insane things I have ever read here.
"Right now I'm looking for a C/Shader-like language for x86_64/Linux"

You seem like the ideal candidate for writing such a language. And the book about it.
Why is every link redirected via some national google site nowadays?
No, far, far from most. Most people in certain tech-heavy cities, maybe.

Now, if you count voice assistants on phones, tablets, and laptops/desktops, most probably have access to at least one of those and maybe even most have tried it at least once. I doubt most (as in, over 50%) use them on a regular basis, though. Probably way under half.
> If the government seized 75% of it, the government would be left holding 80 billion dollars worth of stock, which they can't really do anything with.

You're thinking very narrowly on the current set of rules of the financial system. That system was created by people, capitalism is not some immutable truth that we've slowly learned over the years. It's a set of systems built by people, and so it can be changed.

That being said, I don't think we necessarily need asset seizure (at least, not yet.) I think just simple taxation would suffice. It seems insane to me that Amazon paid no taxes at all. And on the personal end for Bezos himself, I think a good first step would be capping the amount that can be deducted for philanthropy, not just for Bezos, but for all the wealthy of the country; charity is nice and all, but it's a little odd that we let you deduct it from taxes, no? It's not like 5 million to the Metropolitan Museum is going to benefit society the same as 5 million in tax revenue.
Sutton argues that algorithm development needs to be shaped by the assumption that compute power will continue growing exponentially into the future. At this point, it is commonly believed that this is not the case.

One thing that should be learned from the bitter lesson is the great power of general purpose methods, of methods that continue to scale with increased computation even as the available computation becomes very great. The two methods that seem to scale arbitrarily in this way are search and learning.
FWIW, we're exploring ways to make this better. We know it's a point of pain for customers. One of the challenges is that the "project owner" isn't always the right person to receive these kinds of alerts, since often that's someone in the finance department or central IT team. There are a few ideas being thrown around about more proactive notification right now.
Effectively nobody in the US is "far left".
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I feel this about language in general. Sometimes it takes way too many words or sentences to convey what I mean.

I think it's time we develop some cool telepathy tech.
Barstool is referenced more than once in the piece, but not directly by name. Deadspin did not fail, it was murdered.

And I know you aren't saying it directly, but this really shouldn't be about The Left and The Right. The problem is about punching up versus punching down.
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Facebook, sure, but what's Twitter up to? Muddling along until they get cheap enough that Microsoft decides to buy them?
I'll be more concerned about this when my Alexas can turn my lights off an on consistently, without issue, day over day for a period of weeks.
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There's also Angelou's "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
Just yesterday I was looking for ephemerides, and found JPL's Horizon, which you can access with telnet:

telnet horizons.jpl.nasa.gov 6775

You can type names, to get numbers (mercury is 1).
I got a free Google home mini last year for buying some other thing...I was blown away by how truly bad it is compared to what the marketing leads people to believe. It's honestly useless for most of the tasks they advertise it being able to do. Most of the calendar functions only work 50% of the time. It can set timers pretty consistently. Sometimes I can get it to change the thermostat. It usually plays the music I ask for. More often than not it takes 2-3 different tries before I can word my request in a way that it will understand.

Honestly if I had paid for it I would have probably wanted my money back. Maybe that's why they are giving them out for free.
Intelligence has dimensionality, but it seems intuitively obvious that there's also a general factor which SAT scores are correlated with. The common-sense concept of "smart" isn't just a made up thing.
No, the OP does not call out a double standard. The OP doesn't even mention any standard at all. The OP is just attempting bothsiderism.

Silicon Valley is in bed with the Saudis, no surprise here. Meanwhile, the shrieks coming from California about Trump are deafening.
Apple have always had a fairly consistent hit-to-miss ratio, so it’s easy to pick and choose products to find evidence for a set narrative.

As a counter-example to yours, the faux stitched leather of Find My Friends was all Steve Jobs, whereas the Apple Watch is all post-Jobs.
> But there is no super secret MakeFirefoxSlow.js in Google Docs. There never was.

https://fortune.com/2018/07/25/youtube-slow-mozilla-firefox-...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/18/google_monopoly_abu...
Sure. But an awful lot of folks don't have a hundred web servers. If you're running something simple, you can pretty much use whatever you want.
Surely tax filing status is not the only factor taken into account, nor is credit score. If I were a stay-at-home dad and my wife was a doctor, I’d expect her creditworthiness to be much more than mine, regardless of how we did our taxes. If both of us took out $100k in credit and then got divorced who is most likely to be able to pay it back?
Sure. Someone on Twitter pointed out that GS is accustomed to catering to business accounts. (The article here also says it is GS' first credit card.)

They, and presumably Apple moreso, should have considered this before using the biased algorithm for their first consumer credit card. They should have analyzed -who- would be affected by it.
That sentence struck me as odd too. Perhaps it's because most of my friends and I are all still broke-ish students, but I also only know one person who has an Alexa in their home.
In fairness, I don't think the article proves much for the system either. A single month of data, when there is pent up demand for people to return books and a publicity campaign, virtually guarantees this month will be very different from all the others.