skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, but many of these studies were done in a medical context, which is close to a best-case scenario in terms of training for the use of an N95.
Clearly your understanding is wrong, or the new rules would not be required.
>would it be fair to say that a potentially biased algorithm cannot be considered ethical until there is a corresponding algorithm that can either filter out biased data or generate unbiased input data

Absolutely not, if the sample is large enough to be considered representative how can that data be ethically-biased? Raw data has no ethical implication whatsoever, human emotion must be considered when assessing ethical value. The existence of a second representative sample which produces a different ethical implication is proof that the algorithm would not be ethically biased.

>it seems a bit pedantic to differentiate between data bias and algorithm bias when both need to be so closely coupled together to produce any meaningful output at all

On the contrary, it seems disingenuous to argue that an algorithm, a set of computational steps, is ethically-biased when a counter example (in the form of a data set) exists. This is akin to blaming the process of eyesight for an observation of a ethically-repugnant phenomenon. It is not the process of seeing that causes observation of ethically negative phenomena, one can just as easily observe ethically positive phenomena through the process of eyesight. We do not need to have invented glasses that filter out ethically negative phenomena to prove that the use of ones eyes is a ethically-unbiased process, the fact that it's possible to observe both ethically positive and ethically negative phenomena is enough proof.

Bias could be introduced by seeking negative phenomena and avoiding positive phenomena, but that doesn't imply anything about eyesight itself - it remains an unbiased process. If we are going to come to any meaningful conclusion about how to change the results of unbiased algorithms (insert photons into pupil, decode electric signals into conceptual models, etc,) we need to stay as logically consistent with our conclusions as possible. Observations should inform conclusions, not the other way around.
Cameras all around. Safety systems are much improved since 2012 as well. Neither of these two mentioned has blind spot monitor for example.
It's for kids who haven't yet reached age 8 or a height of 4'9" (145 cm). That is the law. They could easily weight as much as their mother.
There was a joke that I hard from a friend at MS around the time of XP that people planning how many copies to produce for different regions would only produce one copy for China.
Well, it may be on everyone's machine (just type 'which emacs') but that hardly makes it the most commonly used IDE, which I think is what's hard to stomach.
Jesus, the ignorance and naivety of this comment lmao.

Have you ever left your home?
As others have said.... many jurisdictions in the US now require child seats well into the elementary school years.
The world is not a set of isolated systems. Your work directly contributes to some process, positive or negative. Just because you don't write code that tracks people doesn't mean your actions have a direct role in enabling people to do that on your behalf.
Reducing TypeScript type duplication with shared fields
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Well, you can fill out this form:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/concern/privacyrequest-msa

Or you could reach out to Microsoft's Data Protection Officer here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/concern/privacy

I'm not sure if that's the GDPR path, but it's what I came across.
Most likely these issues will get resolved the old fashioned way by violence. Climate change issues will get resolved the same way. Humanity has never made collective decisions for the whole planet and I don’t see that changing any time soon.
Protest this Friday:

https://www.eff.org/event/savedotorg-protest-icann
The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light.

https://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
There is a SaveDotOrg Protest at ICANN on Friday in Los Angeles.

Date: Friday, January 24, 2020
Time: 9 am – 11 am
Location: ICANN, 12025 Waterfront Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90094

https://savedotorg.org/index.php/savedotorg-protest-at-icann...
You're making the assumption that there's no maintenance costs involved with non self driving cars. The costs are a bit higher depending on the technology used but the cost is spread across 4x paying customers and a car thats able to service customers 24x7 which is about double the productivity of a non self driving car. Technology drives costs down, and once companies figure out best practices on self driving cars, many smaller companies will start copying the approach.
Please provide sources showing that Moro prosecuted Haddad a few weeks before the elections.

Also, do you really believe that could have changed the outcome of the elections?

It's interesting to note that Greenwald keeps playing the key that Moro did "politically motivated" actions (disregarding the fact the legal actions against the worker's party went through about a dozen judges beyond Moro), while Greenwald himself is doing "journalism" that is "politically motivated".
That's because it isn't, other than the badge.

Different platform, different engines...
The only difference I can see between them and businesses that have gotten people sent to prison [0] is a slight change in the marketing materials. Dehashed even advertises taking Cryptocurrency payments for "unlimited searches".

[0]https://www.zdnet.com/article/company-behind-leakedsource-pl...
no, .org is reserved for organizations that aren't dedicated to making money. size isn't relevant.

let me turn the question around: why should Ethos get .org? make them drum up support for some new TLD. This is purely, purely a cash grab, allowed by regulatory capture, and it should be stopped.
Home ownership or mortgage ownership? Last time a lot of people were under water.
Probably being downvoted because it's just anecdote, but I've had at least two friends who shamelessly did the same thing with their dogs. I doubt this is uncommon given how easy the loophole is to exploit.
plenty of fun stories like this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/02/28/an-emotiona...
How is it not? Someone said something about fighter jets being written in Fortran. Someone corrected them saying they aren't, but they are modeled using Fortran. I tried to add to the conversation by saying what they were written in assuming that would also be of interest to the person who made the original comment. I'm sorry this has perturbed you.
I certainly should have qualified with "GNU tar". This raises the question; does TLDR exist simply because of GNU's dysfunction? Would TLDR exist if one could simply 'man tar' on a GNU tar system and pop down to the Examples section as one apparently can in just about every other *nix?

(and one currently can't, given the unmodified man page from the most recent 1.32 release)
The same internal or custom CRUD app done with 90's tech was much quicker and much less code than current web stacks. Is it too much distraction with fads and JavaScript UI gizmos, CRUD-unfriendly web standards, a combo, or something else? Something is wrong. It's good for IT worker employment, but customers are paying an ARM chip and a leg (bad pun intended).

We de-evolved. Ooga Booga. We had Jetsons-like drag-and-drop IDE's and code that closely matched the screen and business logic, but then replaced them with Flintstone stone tablets, saying "It Must Be This Way" in case we go "mobile" in 2080 or whatnot. Now it's layers talking to layers talking to layers and we spend all our time wiring and rewiring the layers to layers. The buzzword is "separation of concerns", but I see separation of productivity and separation of money from wallets. "Enterprise" apps were always a bloated e-bureaucracy, but the bloat trickled down to smaller apps in a big buzzword chase to be "just like the big dogs". Maximalism rules IT.

(In well-run shops, such stacks can be done effectively, but most orgs are semi-dysfunctional. The tall stacks are not riff-raff proof. One duck moves out of alignment, and the results are quacked.)
https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a9096/why-high-speed-p...

Policies are shifting away from chases for the reasons you state.
I love using tldr, it is great to have some nice succinct examples at the tip of your fingers. And I love that the whole database is downloaded rather than making a network request.
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It's actually not all that weird. The link I posted above is from a group that was funded by the NIH in a program called MIDAS (Modeling Infectious Disease Agent Study). The express goal was to produce modeling platforms usable by the government.

Imperial's MRC group has a very similar mandate, IIRC. Where these numbers are coming from, and the range of uncertainty around them, is very much characteristic of an emerging infectious disease (bad early data, stochasticity, etc.).
And it's a part of their culture as well. They probably use these markets to socialize, these are primitive social networks and strengthen ties between neighbors and visitors alike.
Because they pay a lot of money and offer absurd perks. Three meals a day, onsite laundry and haircuts, etc. People like money and free stuff.
Generating an SQL string with any input from the user is not accepted best practice, even if that were a sufficient way to achieve it (I suspect it would disallow a parameter string to contain a legitimate, escaped ' character).

Generally, it is recommended that you create a prepared statement entirely from static SQL string(s) (no user input) and then bind parameters into it, such that there is no possibility for any user input to be parsed as SQL:

https://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/stmt.html
Looks nice, although a benefit of tldr is that it can download the database so all when you look up a command it's not making a network request (which is good for both privacy and speed/reliability)
I agree overall but that's a weird comparison with the tag connect. It's not meant to be small, it's meant to avoid soldering a header down to the target board for programming. It's useful for Z-height or cost savings, not for XY savings.
Say you’ve asked an I2C ROM for a block read. After the first byte something, also on the bus, asserts an interrupt via a side band GPIO. I can’t read the something until the block read finishes.
Generally speaking in the U.S., quick isolation and contact tracing once cases do arise works well enough when combined with good infection control at the point of treatment.
Yep. I still have a Windows machine for banking and gov websites in SK. Things got much better lately thanks to mobile apps and relaxed regulations, but I see Windows-dependency is still strong on some websites.
I was referring to the comment above which was microsoft's description, saying there was no evidence of any data being stolen - because there couldn't be any because there was no logging. So I was saying microsoft's claim was not the whole truth, the truth is that they just don't know, not that there was no evidence, because there could not be any evidence.
Besides the working conditions at contracted factories?

One could make the argument that advertising at and subsequently locking someone into the walled-garden ecosystem is unethical because you are artificially inflating the consumers' opportunity costs. Some would look at that and call it a milder form of price-gouging.

It's a really weak argument compared to literal human rights abuses, but we're talking about ethics here, which is necessarily broad.
How U.S. Firms Helped Africa's Richest Woman Exploit Her Country's Wealth
If they've haven't got that right I would be sceptical what other insecurities are present.
Colonizing Mars doesn't really make the problem go away even temporarily.

It's still the case that at the local teashop I frequented, I see endless row of empty parking lot and empty storefronts not being used by anybody. We have a sedentary lifestyle because we built our urban area around not walking.
I tried Inverness, but strangely it only found those in the new world, not the original in Scotland.
Many large orgs would require $100's of millions to rewrite all of them.

My org loaded Chrome on all of the machines for our internal web sites, but according to my logs, almost nobody uses it. They're just too used to clicking on the (e), I guess.
The government of Wuhan is asking people not to travel there unless necessary (in traditional Chinese [1] and Google translated [2]), as they announce travel ban.

I am not sure if news reporting counts as hyperbole, given that I tried hard not to paint too broad a stroke already.

[1]: https://news.mingpao.com/pns/要聞/article/20200122/s00001/1579...

[2]: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
> I doubt this is uncommon

I've never seen any animal in an aircraft cabin, and I fly a fair bit. How does it work even when it is completely legitimate? Do you just ask the animal politely not to go to the toilet for 12 hours or however long? What if they have an accident? How on earth do you clean that up and deal the smell in a cramped space?
His understanding is mostly correct:

> Service animals are defined as dogs and miniature horses that are individually trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities. [0]

The headline refers to service animals, but the article refers to barring emotional support animals and removing mini-horses as service animals that can fly:

> The U.S. Transportation Department on Wednesday proposed giving airlines the power to bar emotional support animals from cabins and limit the definition of a service animal to a trained dog.

[0] https://www.esaregistration.org/faq/#top
160k breaches reported in just a year and a half
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I just want to learn.
10x underreporting -> 1 in 8 million

Fast mutation due to hundreds of million travelers + possiblity of being stuck in a city with a new order of unable to travel out for 30/60 days = no good reason to travel to china
It's become a hobby of mine to spot instances where template-based frameworks have to invent an API to add a new feature that comes for free with a JavaScript-based framework (i.e. React or Vue+JSX). Adding this to the list.
But I use oil, gas and pharmaceutical products as well as relying on the army to defend me. So why shouldn't I work for them? I find it unethical to benefit from their work but not wanting to contribute.
I'm re-thinking RSS now
Which legislation in particular is preventing the development of a “commercial off-the-shelf” nuclear power solution at prices comparable to wind and solar on an available capacity basis?
https://www.keyvalues.com/
There are some optimizations Fortran compilers can make which C compilers cannot, though we can use the "restrict" keyword to allow C to make the same assumptions Fortran makes for aliasing pointers (ie. there are none).

However, in order to support all existing C programs I believe they still can't make the same level of optimization as Fortran does. It'd be nice to see this gap merged, in fact.

C++ can actually do better with some numeric code since commonly used libraries perform expression optimization at compile-time using Eigen for example.
That’s slightly different given that individuals are innocent until proven guilty. I chose to single out large companies because they can pay their lawyers large amounts of money. It’s about harm reduction across the board
Seems like maybe that legendary backwards compatibility isn't always 100% a good thing. Dang.
Horses? On a plane? I'm curious as to the... logistics.
I can't imagine it's uncommon at all. It runs from people just buying harnesses/vests for their animal that says "Service Animal", to people who have a friend who is a doctor (not even a psychologist or related field) who will write them a doctor's note proclaiming their animal a service animal. I know both of these types of people, and I know they've brought their dogs on planes based on this.

It's disgusting and makes me uncomfortable whenever I'm at an establishment with them that usually doesn't allow pets.
Yeah I'm fine with this. People have been abusing ESA and IMO only actual service animals, those trained to perform a specific set of functions, should be allowed in the cabin.
There are no ethics in any of them, there's only P&L statements,so not sure how it'd work anyway.
Ayurveda and TCM are actually extremely similar in theory.
Hasn't land and property been the defining assets of the wealthy going back as far as the Romans?
There's a common complaint that "Business Ethics" courses degenerate into a HowTo for getting away with stuff on a technicality or by feigning ignorance.

We're in good company... bad company... we are not the only ones experiencing this problem.
> These books/things taught me nothing (nil) about ethics - they are about questions that were relevant centuries ago. / On the other hand: good hard science-fiction literature...

When I read these books, I learn nothing (nil) about ethics, they are about questions that are relevant centuries from now.

I kid.

More seriously though... the debate about whether a democracy should invade a country in order to ensure it's security while it's main enemy is a completely different country isn't a 21st century concern: the Athenians debated the same thing before invading Syracuse. What should the role of rich people be in a republic with vast wealth inequality and a rapidly urbanizing population during a time of increasing demagoguery and populism isn't just a concern in the 21st century US election for the office of President, it was also a concern in the 2nd century BC Roman election for the office of Tribune. We could come up with a new analysis about the trade-offs between a government of elected officials coming from the people and one consisting of specialized elites trained for the task, but Plato summarized the main arguments already in the Republic.

The list goes on. I would sum up saying there's nothing new under the sun, but someone already beat me to it[1].

[1] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1%...
The author obviously holds a grudge because of Banksy's sympathy with Palestinians. Poor style.
It's amazing to me that Trevor Milton (of Nikola) is a billionaire when his company hasn't even built a factory yet. What a time to be alive.
> I think more than 10% of SWE with experience in the US are making that much or more when you account for compensation that is not pure salary.

I live in a big US city. We have one large tech employer which pays engineers ~125-150k (they max out at 200k for principals in specialized areas). At almost every other company in town, the going salary for a developer is 80-100k.

The latter type of job is far more representative of engineering jobs in the country. We told everyone "go do STEM and make bank at Google!" Meanwhile there aren't enough of those top-end jobs to go around, and a lot of folks who didn't go to a name-brand university or have friends in the right places work for (comparatively) little money.
Sigh, I am flabbergasted at my own lack of outrage. Not to long ago something like this would have me all up in arms, now it seems like just another nail in the coffin of democracy..
In case you’re like me and didn’t believe that “miniature horses” are a real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature_horse

Man those things are cute! No idea how you’d travel with one in a cattle class US economy seat though.
I am aware. I’ve sold this gear, have owned a spectrum of different types, and use it regularly. Humidity differentials are real. I stand by what I said.
One of my displays is a 4K portrait monitor. It's the single most productivity-enhancing piece of gear I have, especially for web sites.

That said, sometimes printed code is still better.
These seem like the kind of top-level links in a large organisation that will lead to nowhere, but I'll at least give them a try, thanks!
NaN seems to be the result of a typo in the JS. They tried to concatenate two strings, but added an extra / character, which causes the strings to be coerced to NaN.

'<table><tr><td width="40" height="40"><img src="images/35x35_information_icon.gif" /></td>' /

+ '<td width="415" height="40"> Microsoft License Advisor is optimized for Internet Explorer 7'
Maybe I'm missing something super-recent, but for second graders, a "cat seat" is basically a piece of plastic for them to sit on so that the seat belt passes on their chest, instead of neck, which would be disastrous in case of accident.

Unlike toddler car seat, these seats don't look huge by any means, compared to the kids sitting on them. (Well I guess it's still problematic to sit three of them in a row in most cars, but that's a separate discussion...)
> And can I just say as a sysadmin calling your chat rooms "servers" is a huge slap in the face to my profession?

The "chat room" equivalent is called a channel just like in most other chat applications. A Discord "server" is more akin to a Slack "workspace" and hosts many channels.

At least get your terminology right if you're going to whine about word choice like a spoiled child.
What does "reserved" mean? Anyone can buy a .org. There isn't any actual restriction.

Well, let's say that a mission driven for profit corporation could ensure that .org owners aren't for-profit -- and do a better job than the current committee. Should they be allowed a .org? In my world, I'd say no, since I'd prefer that .orgs are actually restricted to non corporates.
I'm reminded of a recent flight I took where I was in the last seat of first class (yay upgrade!) and, right behind me, in the bulkhead economy seat, there was a not-small, long-haired dog (40-50 lbs maybe?) just lying on the floor in front of the owner's seat, not restrained in any way.

It wasn't an excessively long flight (~5 hours), but still, not sure how they could ensure the dog wouldn't need to go to the bathroom in that time.

I'm mildly allergic... it was not a pleasant flight for me at all.
We would love to, but I'm sure you, like me, has a SaaS Vendor that still needs IE for a portion of their website that they just can't seem to re-write.
Also in the extracting-structured-data-from-PDFs solution space, there is Parsr which was recently posted on HN: https://github.com/axa-group/Parsr see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22035258
It's based on a pipeline of various js modules and pluggable backends (e.g. tesseract, GCP cloud vision, Abbyy API, etc.)

For tables with numbers in them, it worked pretty well, but I'm yet to find a tool that can parse/understand documents where the entire page is a table layout with lots of merged cells. I think even for humans it's hard to understand the structure in those cases...
Edit: OK, I'm wrong about the article. It's about Gabriel Matzneff "seducing" young girls:

> It is only a shocking new #MeToo memoir by one of his victims, Vanessa Springora–seduced by Matzneff when she was 13, and he almost 50–that has prodded French conscience on the question of sexual consent to a point of no return.

But about the term generally:[1]

> As the issue of sexual predation in the workplace has become increasingly prominent, there are calls to provide employees with special training to minimize this behavior in the future.

0) https://www.forbes.com/sites/tamarathiessen/2020/01/21/gabri...

1) https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/inside-the-criminal-...