skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the problem in all these discussions is that unless you engage with them on broader epistemological grounds, you’re just occluding the a priori biases.

Engineering, as a discipline, has an unfortunate history of not wanting to engage with the social and political conditions under which its work occurs, but that becomes entirely untenable for how a lot of ML is put to use (if you’re trying to be honest anyway).
There’s not many. I used it for several years on theoutline.com and it was great
Usually don’t come to HN for this type of comment but something about it in this context is just poetry.
So alcohol should be made illegal?
I was already considering cancelling but this is the nail in the coffin. We don’t care about the added channels. Also, the recordings are usually messed up. It will be a new show but think it’s already been watched. So we typically turn on the show in between its air time just to catch it. The iOS app makes it easier to choose which to watch. We mainly watch on Apple TV and the UI is not very good... good bye.
The problem here is that police are not infallible but everyone wants them to be. If there is violence in humanity you would be naive to think police would be exempted from it. That is why I don't like coverage like this: why not also catalog some of the good things police do? That wouldn't further your point, so why would you do it?
Mosh is so good if you commute and work via LTE
That is difficult to do because there are many things that correlate with race. So even if you remove race explicitly, things like neighborhoods, level of education and such end up being proxies. Removing race from the model is a very hard problem.
And I could use a pair that could display some data from AvPlan EFB while I am flying, but everyone wants to chase general purpose instead of starting with a niche and then growing it.
I do not support laws banning white supremacist speech, so I’m not sure what your point is here.
South African Edtech Startup Launches Free Online Interactive Python Course
With the following question, I'm not absolving VW from criticism. With that in mind:

Why are we not holding those doing the measurement accountable as well?

If you produce a test that can be gamed and your job is to test things to meet consumer expectations, you've failed at your job.

After all is said and done, what is a better outcome:
a) VW is punished for gaming the test
b) the test is significantly harder to game

With (a), we have only one less manufacturer gaming the tests, VW. With (b) we have tests that none of the manufacturers can game any longer or at least will take time to game. The testers should be expected to always be two steps ahead.

This is not unlike whitehat/blackhat security engineering. We should pay bug bounties to teams that successfully exploit the tests and we should be actively running red team drills.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_team
I managed to make this work today as described in the article, after installing and configuring the software dependencies.

Client-side hardware dependencies:

* USB token with U2F (FIDO) support. FIDO2 is optional. Any old YubiKey or similar will work.

* For the resident key feature only: USB token with FIDO2 support.

* To avoid confusion, only a single USB token should be connected when ssh-keygen is run. (When ssh is run, multiple USB tokens work, the user can touch the wrong one many times, and authentication succeeds after the user touches the right one.)

* ED25519 support in the token is optional. (`ssh-keygen -t ecdsa-sk ...' uses the NIST P-256 curve, which works with all U2F tokens.)

Client-side software dependencies:

* For communicating with the token over USB, OpenBSD or (Linux with udev).

* OpenSSH 8.2p1 or later.

* OpenSSH client (ssh) compiled with `configure --with-security-key-builtin'. Without this, eventually authentication will fail locally with `internal security key support not enabled'. It's possible to work around this by compiling an .so file and specifying it with `ssh -o SecurityKeyProvider=....so', but it's complicated.

Server-side software dependencies:

* OpenSSH 8.2p1 or later.

* Default OpenSSH server (sshd) settings (without PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes), or PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config containing sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@openssh.com and (optionally, for ed25519-sk keys) sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com .
I like the top comment chain there where there's a conversation like this:

User A: Tapes are OK, but I wish there was new tech. Probably optical.

User B: Impossible to get this density with optical given wavelength requirements.

User C: In 2D yes, but maybe with 3D disc storage. The technology isn't there though.

User B: Consider a tape on its side...
Wasn't he acknowledging exactly those limits, when he pointed out that a model trained on African faces would generate African upsamples?
There are plenty of people above the age of 40 on HN, though.
>Why are buses safer?

When was the last time you saw a bus get north of 60mph? Exactly.

And for crashes with other vehicles their mass makes them pretty safe for occupants (in the places buses tend to roam it's hard to find enough space to get a small car up to the speeds necessary to hurt the occupants)
If you're saying CS people need to read more humanities, I'm absolutely with you.

But I didn't say that science and technology are inherently ethical. I said that most people care about ethics. They might have different priorities or philosophy than you, but almost nobody commenting on a social issue is doing so because they want the immoral thing to happen. Right? So asking everyone to say "of course I care, of course" before everything they say is laborious.
I think vim became so popular because its only real competitor is Generally Not Used Except by Middle Aged Computer Scientists. ;)
I use YouTube TV and this comment confuses me. What exactly do you think is stopping you from changing channels?
This whole episode unfortunately reminds me of this Robin Hanson post.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2013/08/inequality-is-about-gr...

The state of AI fairness research is really poor, as in the focus is on politics and sincere effort to develop useful algorithmic notions of fairness aren’t even attempted.

It creates a way to take notoriety and clout within the AI field by doing work that is “about” fairness without actually solving fairness problems.

This article itself is a good example. Comparing Timnit Gebru’s body of work or authority in the field even remotely with Yann LeCun is preposterous, and Gebru happening to focus on the impacts of bias in the field doesn’t change that. Yet the article is totally loaded to highlight Gebru and undercut LeCun.

I think AI fairness is tremendously important for the world, but I don’t see anyone remotely tackling the problem in a rigorous way at all. Instead I see people trying to hype up fluff work about fairness as a hot topic into fame & clout so they can be de facto leaders in the overall field of AI despite not actually contributing to it (not even in fairness research).

The whole thing politicizes it in a really ugly way. It reminds me of the Feynman anecdote where people try to get him to settle a dispute about the physics of electricity having an implication for observers of the Sabbath.

“ It really was a disappointment. Here they are, slowly coming to life, only to better interpret the Talmud. Imagine! In modern times like this, guys are studying to go into society and do something--to be a rabbi--and the only way they think that science might be interesting is because their ancient, provincial, medieval problems are being confounded slightly by some new phenomena.”
You’re talking about investment schemes operating several layers deep inside government bureaucracies. We should absolutely have legislation that mandates that public investment in drugs is returned to the public in kind, but it’s hand-waiving to pretend that the people on the receiving end of high drug prices should’ve negotiated better prices for themselves, or that drug companies wouldn’t throw everything they have to stop such measures being put in place.
The CDC is part of the executive branch and ultimately has no authority to go against the president's wishes or do anything he doesn't want. Just recently, they said they're not pushing for mandatory mask regulations to not embarrass the president. An agency like this, with no power to do what is right, is completely useless. Still, while I don't trust them one bit now, they don't deserve to be blamed for something they are not in control of. Proper blame lies with the leadership of the executive branch, the white house and ultimately the president. That's where the buck stops and no amount of wishing on their part will ever change that.
According to wiki CNBC has the highest income audience of any cable station and made $300+mm on $600mm+ in revenue. I’d watch it but I don’t have cable, I bet they are missing a bunch of Ad revenue from people who cut the cord.
One example: Credit card issuers have been known to take into account places that you have made purchases in assessing risk. If you shop at businesses that are primarily frequented by minorities, odds are you'll get a lower credit limit than if you didn't.
My dreams are very spatial, contain movement, indistinct dialogue, and sometimes an "emphatic" sensation of feelings of the characters present.

There's pretty much no color, no exact shape, clothing detail etc. No surface has any pattern, really. But I know extremely clearly how 3 people in my dream were positioned relative to each other and the room.
https://jqterm.com is also a good one :)
Funny, that actually is my approach for difficult code projects. I generally just try to hammer something out, even if I have to brute force the result. Then I spend time editing that code down and optimizing it so it isn't a mess and actually works well.
Same, I have been really excited for smart glasses tech, but it only leads to disappointment as no company is interested in making smart glasses for people who wear glasses. They all just want to make glasses for people who don't wear glasses.
I really need to show that picture to my in-laws. They met while working at MITRE during that era, and there's an excellent chance they knew that woman.
Right, anyone on American soil, including foreign-owned corporations, are protected by the First Amendment.

How else are they going to disseminate media in the United States? They certainly could disseminate it via the Internet, but then the US would have no ability to block the information except via a Great Firewall, which the US does not have.

It's a distinction without a difference. RT is a Russian Government-owned propaganda network, with an American subsidiary, which operates in the US and broadcasts soft propaganda all day long.
Interesting. There's a stereotype that after a certain age people become obsessed with the quality of their stools. Remnants of an adaptive behaviour maybe?
If the language uses curly braces to define blocks, it's easier: ciB. Parentheses are easy as well: cib.
Otherwise, I'm not sure there's a good solution currently. You can substitute by indentation with a plugin (https://github.com/kana/vim-textobj-indent/blob/master/doc/t...). For Lua, I usually do c/end<enter>.

I believe this is an area where treesitter can help, so I'm looking forward to Neovim's integration.
I don't get how they're purported work in the first place. You pay by sending money to bitcoin wallet. How do you communicate? How do they communicate with you?

Say I get a popup right now that says I have to send n BTC to wallet x. And say I do. What then? How do they find me to deliver a key?

It all seems rather nonsensical. They may as well fill your files with noise for all the difference it makes.
Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
Something tells me there’s a XKCD for that, or at least it should be.
Yes, I too assume that despite being a 600 billion USD/yr business, advertising doesn't really work.
Will it turn into a case of universities laundering money under false pretenses.
BeWelcome.org is trying hard to get that "critical mass". I won't explain the whole history of CouchSurfing demanding membership fees and locking people out of accounts, because I don't want to complain. The focus within the community is about volunteering and building a new future together. It's primarily about letting people stay in each others' houses for free, yet there's more to the community that just hosting and being a guest.

It's a very international group, with real-life weekly meetups in several cities. The management structure is like Wikipedia/Wikimedia. The website itself needs a lot of work though.

If BeWelcome gets the network effect it needs, I'm very hopeful that BeVolunteer could start more projects. (BeBook? BeMail? BeChat?)
Indeed! She was the bully in that all debate. I also thought about narcissism when reading her tweets. It looked like tweets that someone like Trump could write.

He's right. Twitter is pretty toxic. I'm not sure if FB is better for such conversations and debates. But he's active there in case you want to continue following him.
Richard Wright, Masaoka Shiki, and the Haiku of Confinement
Thank you for that example!

Just thinking out loud how to do that in vscode for comparison:

- I don’t think repeating actions a specific number of times makes sense in most use cases. Counting 10 lines would take longer than doing shift up/down n times (which would be exact with feedback) to select the desired lines.

- Multiple Copy Paste buffers sounds interesting, I might look up a vscode extension for that. (Had a copy paste queue in Visual Studio but it would break sometimes and would lose something important).

- go to start of function jnk, there are many ways to do that in vscode. Ctrl+f jnk enter would be one.

- Goto start of document is Ctrl+Home

- Indent 20 lines by 10 spaces, could do Alt+PageDown, then up/down to get to the right place (without counting or caring that it is exactly 20 lines), then with multi-line insertions could space,tab, etc.

That operation would probably justify mouse usage though, in which you simply hold alt, drag ~20 columns/~10 cells and hit space - which itself would be faster than counting 20 lines.

- find junk: ctrl+f junk enter

- select 15 lines (shift+page down,up/down to adjust) I can preview I have selected the correct area, other possibilities to select current function, etc.

- Ctrl+h to replace, a1 tab A1 Alt+L Enter

- of course in most cases, I am renaming a symbol, so “F2 A 1 Enter“ would do

I think the reality is that counts are not known before hand, so being able to increment/decrement with visual feedback is perhaps faster than a miscount, but I’d have to see it to know.

Anyway, thanks for the detailed examples! I can certainly see how it would be powerful if committed to muscle memory, but even with vscode there are many shortcuts I don’t use because of formed habits.
It's incredibly easy to "typical mind" and expect that the normal inner experience of being human is the same for everyone else as it is for you.

There's a wide variance in visual imagery. I know people who can vividly imagine things with their eyes open, find it easy, almost automatic, others who have to try, and some who can't at all.

Similarly there are wide variances in how people think: some think very visually, some have an internal monologue (or multiple), some have an inner experience with neither.

I used to be nearly aphantasic - having only brief flashes of vision except on the edge of sleep - but have been slowly training the skill after finding out it's possible, and normal, to do more.
He didn’t quit his day job. He just quit a social media app. He will survive.
Comcast? Viacom recently merged with CBS and is effectively its own company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViacomCBS.
Likely they were referring to the "Spectrum is offering more channels for $45/month" bit.
Agreed, it bothers me that this tactic is so successful. I could not find an instance in this "discussion" where Gebru outlined any concrete steps to solve for, or lessen bias, in ML. It seems she mainly wants to complain, rather than fix the problem. I have been googling about ideas to lessen ML bias, and the best I've found is "diverse training datasets" which Gebru herself says "is not enough".

Well what is then? Outrage without a solution is useless.
In aggregate sure, but individuals only care about optimizing their own purchase.

Ie more choice more better.

Personally I was pissed when my reward for early evangelization of YoutubeTV was a Hike from $35 to $50. But now that it’s $65, I’m donzo.

This will take people back to the days of torrents and piracy.
>less than 5% being from a sudden unexpected mechanical failure

Less than that. There have been many studies done about the efficacy of vehicle "safety" inspections on making roads safer and they range from "no effect" to "positive effect about as big as the noise threshold". There was some Danish meta-study I thought I had bookmarked but can't seem to find that spells it all out.

That said, I 200% disagree with the overall opinion of your comment. Typical human behavior is not negligence. Systems should take into account normal, error making, humans and not expect perfect "behave like a computer humans". Behaving normally, even if that means not checking your blind spot as well as you should 1/100 times is not negligence. Furthermore there's only so much situational awareness a person with two eyes facing the same way can have. As another commenter points out you're gonna be in for a near miss at best if the time you're checking your blind spot is the same time traffic in front of you starts coming to an emergency stop.
Yeah, I think that's what's missing for me too. Like, what do they expect LeCun to be doing instead?

I guess it's possible to suggest that, given the lack of diversity in training sets, different training techniques should be adopted to account for it. Is that actually a viable approach that people are suggesting, and LeCun is ignoring/downplaying?
The police don't acknowledge that these were mistake[1][2][3]. They think this is the system working. They act in bad faith and so please don't run around grant them good faith in arguments.

We want the systems that enable this brutality changed.

This is like saying "Facebook does some good things so let's ignore the systematic problems it causes" or "Facebook is staffed by people so we have to accept an amount of them stalking their exes with internal tools"

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/us/buffalo-police-shove-p... "Fifty-seven officers resigned from the department’s Emergency Response Team in solidarity with the two who were suspended."
[2] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8436929/Atlanta-cop...
[3] https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/13/us/why-police-rally-around-ea...
If you look at these things and see the inevitable result of fallible humans, not the willful abuse of power, I'd argue you're not really paying attention.
Another link related to racial wealth gap:
https://socialequity.duke.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/wha...
The limiting factor of tape is in access times and bandwidth relative to size. If the data is written and read too slowly, and your seek times go too high, you start to lose your ability to usefully test, verify and recover the archive, and looking at that chart in the article, the time to fill has exploded recently, from under two hours in the 2000s to over nine now. Can you guarantee operation for nine hours without interruption or power loss?

Of course, that doesn't make huge tape storage useless, just less useful as a format for accessing a single giant archive. One answer would have it that not using the whole capacity is OK, and the goal should be to archive a smaller dataset more often. But it's definitely something that demands real engineering work, while a lot of organizations can barely manage to plan for any backup.
Because I can give people a CVE and they can find it easily rather than "oh it's actually a blog post I wrote, oh you didn't find it by search, here is the link" and absolves me of coming up with a descriptive name, reduces confusion if I ever find another sandbox escape, and centralizes the bug so that future researchers can do things like look up all the bugs for the component or build on it by seeing what's been done in the past. Same reason you might want your book to have an ISBN and show up in a library catalogue, for example.
> Voicing these opinions would probably label me as racist in their book ironically.

Don't worry, Twitter isn't real life. People have become experts at shouting down people who disagree with them on that platform, they aren't seeking proper arguments and make disingenuous attempts to present them as honest debates.

But fortunately what's popular on Twitter doesn't translate to the average population. Plenty of completely fringe ideas get 50-100k likes/retweets. It mostly just represents the voices of various super-niches living in bubbles.
An interesting aspect of Aereo's model is that they attempted to circumvent these regulations by leasing each customer an individual antenna which they could access remotely. They maintained "antenna farms" full of tiny antennas.
> Simply don't follow people who make it miserable.

The main issue is that other people follow you or people who retweet you. If they take offense to something you say, they'll try to ruin your career.
Unfortunately, pandemic insurance is unlikely to work in the real world.
A pandemic by definition affects the entire globe, meaning that if pandemic insurance needs to pay out, it will have to pay out for all policy holders, all at once.
Given that the business model of insurance companies is to spread risk across all policy holders, it is impossible for insurance companies to payout all policies all at once.
4 Important Pieces of Investing Advice from Peter Lynch
We can’t prove no bias, but we also can’t prove bias...

BTW, what exactly is bias in this context?
> (And, as a minor point, his idea that Senegal is representative of "Africa" as a whole is also... let's say "unfortunate")

Senegal was just an example he gave in a tweet. No need to be so petty on every word.
GShard: Scaling Giant Models with Conditional Computation and Automatic Sharding
I created the Occupy Wall Street website nine years ago. Believe me when I say the lengths people will go, to try and control community projects, is downright traumatizing. I never could have imagined that same kind of nastiness would impact open source.

If you don't feel comfortable engaging with the new toxic culture, you can use my underground liferaft. My liferaft isn't an operating system, but rather an attempt to help us not depend on them as much. I have no idea who's controlling GNU/Linux these days and Occupy was enough drama for one lifetime. My code has the same focus on clarity that Antirez put into his Redis codebase. My liferaft also empowers you to build and distribute tiny native portable programs (like Kilo!) using hermetically sealed tools. See https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan
I'll stop blanket recommending credit cards now.

Amex it is.
Cool. Maybe come back and tell us her name, if they know it.
The sandbox-exec command is DEPRECATED. Developers who wish to sandbox an app should instead adopt the App Sandbox feature described in the App Sandbox Design Guide. The sandbox-exec command enters a sandbox
It promotes the type of communication people wouldn't generally have in person. Its discourse is pure childish vitriol masquerading a some just cause.
That’s exactly right. I can’t talk numbers, but a consumer is more likely to stick with a channel/app by X% (where X is a significant number) if s/he watches Y shows. Y increases as X increases.