skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if those results change, so will the algorithm's outputs! But asking the algorithm to make the change seems to be a bit much.

Honestly, my preferred method of solving this would be to train the algorithm on a data set with all of the forbidden values included along with anything else the creator feels relevant - zip code, income, familial status, favorite sport, education - and then when running in production, against real people, don't give it the restricted information. Yes, you could theoretically extract race, gender and other protected stats from the information the algorithm actually uses in prod - but it has no incentive to, since a less-noisy signal is already provided.

For instance, suppose the optimal algorithm for your data set is some linear function of X, Y and Z - let's say X+Y+Z to keep things simple. X,Y and Z are all normally distributed variables, mean of 0 and the same standard deviation. Y has a 0.5 correlation with X, and a -0.5 correlation with Z. If not provided Y, your algorithm might come up with 1.5X+0.5Z as an approximation - extracting a bit of the signal for Y from the things it does have access to. It's suboptimal, but better than just X+Z. Unfortunately, Y is verboten - we're not allowed to discriminate on it, and this approximation ends up with results that track Y. So instead we train with X, Y and Z as inputs, so the derived model is X+Y+Z - and we can drop Y from that model in production, leading to a model that (while less accurate) shouldn't unfairly track Y.
I'm aware of so-called stable coins. The risk with them is you must trust they have the backing & will make good on your claim. Now, since Brave is a company dealing with customers and content creators who actually have to get paid by them, they already must be trusted...so I do think this would have a been a better way to go.

I understand that crypto can be converted "easily". But how does that square with storing BAT in your wallet for long periods of time to frictionlessly use it to pay content-creators? Is "eaily converting" (presumably quickly with very small "hodl" periods) consistent with how the token is supposed to be used: stored on a wallet, collected by content creators periodically?
Can you elaborate on how European imperialism is related to whether or not we should take lead exposure into account during parole hearings in the United States?
I paid $4k for a 2017 Macbook Pro and if I want to trade-in this device to get a new one, I am getting only $1k. This is bullshit.
Volumetric display for visual/tactile/audio presentation using acoustic trapping
Like talking to yourself?
Measures of volatility greatly impact perceived value of whatever it is you are holding/investing in. Don't try to make the claim to me that high volatility will have no effect on both sides of this market demanding BAT. That's silly talk.

If you want to try to tell me risk and volatility don't enter into decisions on which assets the market values, then you expose yourself as being as naive as I presume many buying into this idea are.
If they say that, in that way, then they are being misleading.

Months ago, well before the current Stack Exchange pronoun policy was a thing, she said (yes, explicitly) that she wasn't willing to use singular "they" because it feels so wrong and confusing to her. This wasn't a "plan to ignore the policy" because at that time there was no policy.

(It also doesn't appear to have been motivated by sexism, transphobia, etc., although people who say such things sometimes are; she is explicitly willing to use neopronouns -- "xe" and the like -- for people who find that "he" and "she" don't fit them.)

Then, much more recently, the upcoming change to the Code of Conduct was announced in the moderators' chatroom. M.C. asked some questions about that, very definitely did not state any plan to ignore the policy, and promptly got de-moderator-ated.

It's possible that she isn't telling the truth about what has happened in private, away from the view of other moderators. Maybe she sent an email to SE management saying "I'm not going to abide by this; fire me if you dare" or something. But as far as externally-visible things are concerned, her account of things matches up better with reality than SE's statements do.

There are, indeed, moderators who think M.C. should have been canned long ago, but my impression is that there's something close to unanimity that SE should not have canned her the way they did, and that the majority of those with any opinion on the matter think that they shouldn't have canned her at all.

(Source: am a moderator on a Stack Exchange site, have read all the relevant transcripts from said chatroom. Note that discussions there are confidential, so the above is about as specific as I am prepared to be about who said what.)
Jim Woodring was such an odd, but wonderful, choice of artist for this project. I thought his surreal style worked so well as a visualization of what at the time was newly called “cyberspace”. This could have been a totally flavorless corporate thing instead.
> that would put truckers out of work

s/would/could/

It's still hypothetical at this point.
While technically true, why is this a useful argument?
Amount of guns and amount of cars are not linked in any way
Note that if trucking prices do go up, the amount of cargo that gets moved will go down.
holy shit a hacker on hn. i was not sure there were any of us left
‘Entry level’ at Google means someone who is already top of their field so it’s not surprising.
Imagine what a BSOD would do to you if it was running on your brain tissue--not sure I'd be brave enough to run win95 on my neurons.
You're right, I probably wasted my time. I should have guessed from your inflammatory rhetoric you had no interest in actually learning or discussing anything.

My mistake.
I must be doing a poor job at being a human, given that I have passed the opportunity to activate my opioid receptors several times in my life so far (leftovers from surgeries).
not every problem. Not expected to e.g. solve the halting problem.

If it can solve every problem that a human can solve, then it would be AGI. If it can solve every problem that a somewhat unintelligent human can solve, I think that would still count as AGI.
You can opt out here: https://cancel.fm/ripcord/
Think of Apple Pay like a virtual credit card.

And so you can't use it without being an account holder just like with Mastercard or Visa.
Yes, meant to mention that OS X is largely BSD derived, and certainly not Linix derived. Though, I am under the impression that OS X was derived from NetBSD, not FreeBSD.

An aside, I ported NetBSD's strptime to (modern at the time) C++ in internal code at a previous employer, because we needed a cross platform DateTime parsing routine. (And strptime is not posix and not generally available to posix systems). To the best of my knowledge, there's still a bug in handling timezone offset parsing. Its been too long for me to remember exactly, but circa 2008, the man page definitely did not match the actual source behavior.
I hadn't been aware he was mean. What are examples of this meanness?
Are ya'll using SwiftUI?
Ahh, that's one of the folks I met!
"Analoguing the Digital" title reminds me of Goodiepal's Radical Computer Music: https://vimeo.com/11152592
They're technically not linked to your Google account I believe, https://policies.google.com/technologies/anonymization?hl=en (although we've seen how anonymized data can still be de-anonymized https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20513521 )
“Do mad people get endo or does endo make you mad?” Doctors, women&endometriosis
> None of his other contributions will matter

I don't think anything can top Doom.
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/hyperbole
I use syncthing to sync photos and videos from my phone, and my wife's, to a home server. Then gmvault to backup my GMail account locally.

From there, I use restic to make a first copy to an external hard drive, and then a second copy goes to Backblaze's B2 service, so there's three copies on two different mediums, with one copy off-site.

It's been rock solid over the past year or two, and the cost is about $2.50/mo with B2, storing around 450GB. Restic has been bullet proof; when I thought it was failing, turned out that a stick of faulty RAM was the true culprit.
can i hear an amen? and a huh?
who did the research at wsj for this article?
But John is not most men.
You do have the right to delete it. And others have the right to make a copy before you do.
Make sure it has a license attached such that GH recognizes it.
This is really cool. I have been using Cypress recently for doing e2e tests. Cypress also takes screen shots and videos as the tests run which could come in handy if I ran it headless more often. It’s nice that you thought about cross platform image storage and the docker solution seems like a good fit for it. I also haven’t thought about committing images to git to watch for changes in the design. That seems like a great idea! At the same time I just don’t know enough about git large file storage at the moment.
The point is that the algorithm wasn't using skin color as an input, (directly, at least) and got those outputs anyways.

Would you prefer an outcome where half of the white men were also marked as high risk, but with 16 reoffending? (to give the low risk pools the same recidivism rate) Now instead of unjustly marking ten black men and two white men as high risk, you're doing so for thirty-four white men. Is that somehow less discriminatory?
It's not a hypothesis. It's hard to track money flows but not as hard as the anti-reparations crowd make it seem.

The majority of the $500k-1m baseline in white middle-upper class wealth is in homes and land handed down as inheritances, this is not debatable. That property allows a certain amount of leverage to invest in education, businesses etc...

The ben & jerry's founder talked about this in vivid detail on the campaign trail with Bernie Sanders. If he was black where he grew up, no GI bill = no cheap housing = no appreciation of property/land over his childhood = no financial leverage to build his company.

I can take risks and fail without going bankrupt thanks to familial wealth, that is a tremendous luxury not afforded to the group I'm mentioning.
Author fails to establish a solid correlation (let alone causal relationship) between "storytelling" and affinity. Furthermore, author fails to prove that Disney is better at storytelling than its competitors. He could have first defined "storytelling" and then provided data-driven proof that Disney focuses more on it than its competitors. This is simple enough to do by running such a definition on content (he could use conformity to a three act structure and run it on all movie scripts in the past 20 years, for example). Otherwise we are left with the tautology that Disney content performs better than others because people like it more ("affinity").
Early Streaming Glitches Highlight Disney’s Tech Challenges
By far the greatest sin
While sacrificing something else. Battery, speakers, thermal management, or aesthetics would have to traded off for USB A to be included. Not worth it for an outdated port whose function can be duplicated by an inexpensive adapter.
>Personally, I'm most excited about the possibility of robot backup dancers.

I think Chuck-E-Cheese already tried that. Results were... not promising.
Nothing. So long as it’s active, it will get archived.
Looks like he is a lot better at modeling than singing :)
> restore into another macbook

That's the problem. Instead of replacing a $200 SSD, you have to replace the entire $2000 machine.
OK, I was so completely wrong about that... It was 2003, and it was Rothenberg ob der Tauber, Germany, not Venice. We went both places on the same trip so it's easy to see how I got confused.
My club was so friendly I felt unworthy to be included so quickly. I felt like a pretender for the longest time. So I'm not familiar with this idea lol.

That said, I'm friendly at work, I've made many friends at work. Some jobs have been a lot friendlier than others. But the idea that you need a job to make friends or you'll lose your friends when you lose a job is alien to me. If they don't want to spend time with you outside of work, they're not your friend.
What? Why? It sounds like you convinced yourself to try it...
I think most reasonable people know about North Korea, etc. That's not a benchmark
I'm skeptical of the idea of static archives, especially when it comes to code. I think software is pretty much a living creature - with all of its environments and contexts and baggage. The only feasible way to survive it is to keep changing it. When it's no longer updated, we should pay a respect and bury them.

Plus, people are going to reinvent the wheel no matter what.
Totally agree. Much rather see giant robots fitted with construction, first responder, tree planting, wildfire fighting, etc. equipment.

I really love how the approach to solving the problem of 'how do we make it walk like a human' was to avoid solving the problem entirely and just use a human as realtime reference.
Unfortunately for that argument, the vast majority of white wealth is not in the hands of the middle-upper class, and I highly doubt that the wealth of the 1% (or .1%) is mostly in homes and land inheritance. And if you're counting "middle-upper" as 80-95%, I think the top 5% has ~70% of the total wealth in the US... (for reference, 95th percentile is ~2.5m, or comfortably above your 500k-1m baseline. 1m is 88th percentile, 500k is 80th)

(And in any case, my point was just that it wasn't shown as causation in the stats you cited)
Performance impact of Intel microcode update
Five More Reasons to Choose Apache Pulsar over Kafka
Ask HN: What's the greatest existential threat to humanity?
I'd guess "asteroids" because it's a common extinction-causing event in geological history.

Popular answers: Climate change, AI singularity, nuclear war, other environmental catastrophe.
Show HN: New Algorithms to Bioinformatics Library
You don’t live in a disaster zone until you do. I’m sure you think you would have had the foresight to see that this was coming a decade ago, but I sincerely doubt you did. Hindsight is 20/20.
I recently threw my 2010-2011 15" MacBook Pro out of the door, I actually couldn't believe how chunky and heavy it was, it was super weird to hold it. I actually still worked, although a bit slow, and the battery would only last for about 30 minutes, but still worked.
I have bought thousands of dollars worth of electronics and stuff from Amazon. Zero counterfeits so far.
Because `vi` pronounced as "vee eye" (/vi ai/) and I'm assuming `vy` pronounced as "vie" (/vai/) are extremely similar.
> These changes are required as part of a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and NY Attorney General, and will help you comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and/or other applicable laws.

So is this about my videos complying, or YouTube being compliant?
The overton window is slow, we've known about global warming for decades now and haven't done much. Galvanizing people around automation has got to be that difficult at least.
Pretty sure Google App Engine runs Docker under the hood. It has been a while since I logged into a GAE machine.
>Why do you think she's telling the truth?

Because she at least offered a very detailed breakdown of events that can be fact-checked, critiqued, etc. StackOverflow has offered basically nothing more than vague PR BS.

https://cellio.dreamwidth.org/2019/10/05/stack-overflow-fias...
In the Trenches of Eastern Ukraine
> isn't it a bit presumptious of the MyRAIIFile to make the decision to abort the entire program? I

No. Closing an invalid file descriptor is a logic bug. It's just as bad as an invalid pointer. When you notice one of these, you crash, because to continue means operating in some unknown and potentially dangerous state.
After Iraq, the Marines of 'Generation Kill' Regret Nothing (2016)
I’ll bite.

Who is legally required to do that? Are they not allowed to sleep or be otherwise indisposed?
Isaac Newton is considered by some to be the greatest mathematician of all time and is regarded as the "Father of Calculus".

"Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he has done is much the better part." - Gottfried Leibniz

http://www.fabpedigree.com/james/mathmen.htm
lost me at 'python'. if this is still fast in another year I will be amazed.
I don't recall a prediction of laws against this in The War on Normal People. He does mention the changing nature of jobs (most newly created jobs are gig or contract) in the past few years though, and what that means for worker stability (healthcare, etc).
The state of California[1] and USA[2] define (via both statue and other jurisprudence) required minimum pay, benefits, working conditions, etc.

[1] https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/dlse-faqs.htm

[2] https://www.dol.gov/general/aboutdol/majorlaws
More likely policy and reliance on the community being composed of like-minded people.
Common Lisp code begs to differ. It’s not perfect but code that’s half a century old (Lisp that’s not even Common Lisp!) can run nearly untouched. It’s a huge reason I write it.
How do you justify working on your phone as anything other than an invasion on your WLB?

What scenario do you anticipate people using this app? In the middle of meetings with other people? While driving? While sitting in the cafeteria on their lunch break?
Funny, I’ve always pronounced “vi” like “vai”
If you're making any decision with only 6% tolerances on one side and vague things like storms and tides on the other, you're in trouble.

I just don't see that as making the difference in a decision to buy or not buy. I don't even see it making the list of things to weigh.
> Some of the smartest linguists and philosophers would proudly declare they have no fucking clue.

“to worship a phenomenon because it seems so wonderfully mysterious, is to worship your own ignorance” - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x4dG4GhpZH2hgz59x/joy-in-the...

Having no clue is not something to be proud (or ashamed) of.

> I’m sorry to say a bunch of software engineers aren’t gonna crack this one.

Doesn’t sound like you’re at all sorry, it sounds like you’re thrilling in putting these uppity tryhards in their place for daring to attack something you hold sacred.
Who keeps Docker hub?
> But yeah lets continue to hate on facebook.

Yes, because they're voracious collectors people's personal information. We can hate on "bad actors" as well, we don't have to choose one or the other. But as long as Facebook is behaving creepily, whether deliberately or inadvertently, let's hate on them. There is no reason to tolerate their mistakes.
I agree with other points here, but I also think nobody wants to wake up 2 years from now and be the only company that was not investing in machine learning. It could turn into nothing, or it could be 100x the time and money put in now.

So, of the 4 outcomes:

(1) buy in now + worthless

(2) buy in now + 100x

(3) don't buy in + worthless

(4) don't buy in + 100x

(4) is a terrible position to be in, (2) is a good position to be in, and (1) only costs a little, and (3) is even. So when you are deciding to buy in or don't, you are deciding between good + little loss or terrible + even.
> as modifying the CPU context registers and stack frame directly is not permitted by most sane programming languages

My point was, if C++ had a global variable named "stack_pointer" you could assign to, that would indeed be rather insane.
for peasants still using USB-A flash drives, yes (not if you buy USB-C flash drives). You will pay the peasant fee. My mac is sitting in a docking station with USB-peasant ports 70% of the time so that's that.. I also don't really do flash drives anymore because of this whole internet thing. Also, the laptop costs more than 2 grand. Is $100 too much for you?
> especially given ML tech shares many base maths with graphics

I don't put learning state of the art ML past Carmack, at all. However, does ML tech of today lead to general AI? It's a strong assumption.
Some extra money? You’re talking about a nearly $6k configuration.

It almost never makes sense to overbuy storage and memory, which tends to be a cyclical market that drops in cost over time. Doubly true with Apple that marks up both commodities dramatically.
Seems like part of the compensation these days is influence - on Twitter, especially.

That can be turned into additional income through book deals, which in turn can be turned into movie deals, etc.
And the trend of goods that serve a master other than their owner continues.
I am curious about what federal law they are referring to and what it says? I am not an expert nor a US citizen.
Actually this looks great.
So no companies with viable products. Drone trucks that follow a real driver are more realistic than fully automated trucks. Everything I’ve seen from Tesla to GM’s cruise to the German luxury brands is just driver assist tech not self driving.

Im asking about any company since 2000 or mid 1990s that has put people out of jobs. Netflix nope, Alphabet nope, Facebook never.

Salesforce maybe some jobs.

Here’s the SV 150 list.[1] Intel and HP killed paper pushing jobs that could be automated by computers. Adobe probably killed a lot of art departments.

[1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/01/sv150-2017-ranking-of...
It looks pretty nice. What's the issue exactly?

Reference: https://slackhq.com/new-slack-features-invites-message-forma...
I think this looks very neat. I think you have exactly the right idea about offloading the physical storage to object stores like S3 -- I had the same idea some time ago, and using a version of it for an internal analytics streaming system.

Thanks for making this open source. I'm considering an application where I might be able to use this.
Used to love MS comic chat back in the day. A lot of fun times on there.

MMOs kind of took over from it, Ragnarok Online being the main one.
I'm not sure how people read my comment as an implication that journalism is the same thing as writing blog entries.

Part of what I'm getting at is that I don't believe that it's that complex for someone to learn about proper story structure, investigation, and the various techniques in effectively getting a reader both interested and informed about the right things. Textbooks on the subject aren't particularly long for a reason. Competent writing may not be all that journalism is about, but it's a large part of it, and you even used it as your first example(a writing structure).

Just because I don't believe that journalism is as rigorous a profession as others doesn't mean that I believe that it's worthless, takes no talent, etc.
Millions*- A cursory Google search suggests that he has a net worth of 50MM.
Introducing Datadog Network Performance Monitoring
Yes ten years ago is about when I first sensed a change and I figured others had pointed it out. I’ve been a lurker from almost the beginning. I still really appreciate this community even if it has changed. Change is normal.
Quay supports Podman & rkt, not just Docker images.
The phrase comes from the article, and I think it is silly.
Technology Invention Timeline 2,600,000 BC – Present
Are you a freelancer? What if someone told you can no longer the way you want because someone thinks they know better than you?

Protecting people from themselves to the point of eliminating personal freedom and choice isn't going to help anyone.
Agreed, and if anyone could make that claim it'd be Eric Veach (who then went on to develop Google Adwords).
Some older UAs / OSs seem to be lacking certs being used in recent days.

I ran into this accessing Wikipedia from Chrome / Android 5.0.2 a few days ago (posted on HN). Wikipedia chained in an older cert to address this.

Android's failure to update older clients is catching up with it. Devices remain usable, but are not supported. Mine was obsolete at purchase, and never had an OS upgrade, fuck you very much, Samsung.

(Unlike free software, this was a bought-and-paid-for device. I still got screwed.)