skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an echo of the “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” argument that has been going around for ages.

Let’s say you’re only using the software to flag suspicious behavior, and bringing in humans to make the final decision. What happens when (inevitably) the software disproportionally flags people with dark skin because it is not trained to recognize dark-skinned faces? Or when the software disproportionally flags poor people, or people with families?

It means that those groups of people will be targeted by the (human) bureaucracy and tasked with defending themselves, when they’ve done nothing wrong. Humans will inevitably trust the algorithm, they will use the algorithm’s outputs to justify their own biases, and even investigations come with a cost.

There’s this meme going around that the “algorithm isn’t biased, it’s the data”, but that argument doesn’t really hold water—machine learning systems, by default, learn to recognize correlations, and correlations in the real world collected with real sensors contain biases. ML, by its nature, picks up and encodes those biases, and you must make an effort to remove them—you can’t just throw an ML algorithm at a pile of data.
Why does Brew have all of those dependencies?
fwiw, it works fine right now if you install two versions, one for rosetta and one for apple silicon and let the latter compile things from source.
It doesn't matter. The only meaningful change would be to go with fixed length instructions and maybe get rid of the memory ordering guarantees. If you do that you might as well switch to any other ISA that has these properties. But since Intel has an inferior manufacturing process the new ISA would still suffer from inferior CPUs. However, AMD has shown that x86_64 is still viable so the benefits of switching are miniscule anyway.
Here's a thought. Perhaps they were bad workers. I'll explain how affirmative action causes this problem.

You are forced to hire a certain percent of POC. Doesn't matter if they are a poor fit for the company. Doesn't matter if they are not even a good fit for the job. Doesn't matter if they are not even capable of doing the job. You can't wait to hire a POC that is a good fit or capable, or you are violating the law.

It is also difficult to fire the forced hires once you are forced to hire them. Instead of just saying "they sucked at their job" you have to play all kinds of games to fire someone that is a POC hire. All companies face this issue and until its addressed (By removing affirmative action) there will always be this dysfunctional divide.

This also causes a harmful feedback loop to POC that are simply not up to the task and always think they are being targeted (because they are) rather than upping their skill set or working on their professionalism.

And here come the downvotes.
Scholarships, internships and grad school spots are a scarce resource.

Students who cheat can secure a higher GPA with less effort. That effort can be redirected towards looking for internships and improving grad school applications.

So I fail to see how cheaters are only “hurting themselves”. Morality aside, if you pursue a cheating strategy your pay-off will be much higher when we consider the scarcity of resources available to students.
People are getting tired of banks and money printing
That’s a microcosm of how a real economy works, actually.
> Another problem is that with EV battery packs,

Clearly addressed in TFA.
Does anybody have a good link for a layman's overview of how mRNA vaccines work? Lot's of nervousness from people around this, and would love to be able to help quell some of that.
Does this count as grid-scale?

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a31350880/elon-musk...

For your other points, I believe you are correct, but the reason lithium gets used anyway is because it’s now really cheap compared to the alternatives.
Thats good but I would not be overly optimistic.

Two question since I dont know much about mRNA vaccines

1. The mRNA has to express the target Protein for the Anitbodies. If injected, how does this happen? It has to go somehow into the cell to be translated? Or is the delivery vehicle the magic sauce?

2. What makes mRNA vaccines so special? What is the difference of injecting the expressed protein sequence directly?
Yes, the symbolic functions can be made "retroactively". The various conventional functions are overloaded with the symbolic input.

>> syms x
>> f = @(x) log(sqrt(x)).^2

f = function_handle with value:

@(x)log(sqrt(x)).^2

>> f(x)

ans = log(x^(1/2))^2

>> finverse(f(x))

ans = exp(2*x^(1/2))

And to implement under:

function u = under(f, g)

syms x

g_inv = matlabFunction(finverse(g(x)));

u = @(x) g_inv(f(g(x)));

end
https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphafold-a-solution-to-a-...
Burn the universities to the ground.
There is something very weird with mayo from a Belgian "frituur". I love it, I usually order mine with mayo on top, wrap them with paper and let it soak in on the drive home. Makes the fries delicous. And I order an extra packet of mayo on the side because they usually don't put enough on top.

But, in any other situation if mayo is involved I'm grossed out to the point of puking. Even when I just smell the mayo (from the same brand) someone is putting on their plate of vegetables or whatever.
>> What stopped people from having someone else do their take home tests before the pandemic?

Nothing except these tests were not take home prior to COVID.

>> On a more constructive note, it seems pretty simple to require some portion of responses to reference the lectures such that only someone who attended the class in this semester would be able to correctly answer, for example "use the method we discussed in the first half of lecture 3, use the third of the four numbers I told you to write down that day as variable y, if you weren't in class that day instead do X" If a test comes back and someone claims to not remember the material from any classes but still got everything right, that warrants scrutiny. If someone currently enrolled in the class is helping a person cheat, you can use standard anti-cheating techniques like comparing answers.

So you are expecting the student to remember 100% of what they heard in the online classes? Or more likely the student would write down these details and handle it to the cheater to use during the take home exam. Or the cheater would "do X". In most cases the one doing the helping is not a current student, so it doesn't help.

I've passed college classes not attending any classes. Doing assignments, exams, and mid-terms. So would I be penalized for not attending classes?
Then go for GrapheneOS but be prepared to have to dev your own apps like I'm doing right now.

And like the color of the Ford T, you will have the choice of your phone as long as it's a Pixel ;)
Prior to launching http://pictag.app/, I launched a newsletter interviewing desk setups on Reddit. We had over 500+ users with >50% open rate. Over 100+ redditors submitted their desk setups, some of which can be found here: http://setups.pictag.app/
I continue to be impressed by how quickly DeepMind has managed to progress in such a short time.
CASP13 was a shocker to all of us I think, but many were skeptical as to the longevity of the performance DeepMind was able to achieve. I believe with CASP14 rankings now released, it's safe to say that they've proven themselves.

Congratulations to the team! This work will have far reaching impacts, and I hope that you continue to invest heavily in this area of research.
That's pretty misleading. You can remove many instructions while keeping CPU x86 compatible.

You can e.g. remove all MMX instructions and signal this fact through CPUID. Very few apps require MMX (as in can't work without it).

Another option is to remove the instructions from hardware and emulate them in microcode.
(souce: work experience in mice/rat labs)

In short: yes, sacrifice is common at experiment completion. Though it's done pragmatically and as an \ethically appropriate measure.

A bit longer: most brain tissue studies require extraction, fixing, staining,... of brain. so are usually done _ex vivo_ .

Even longer: But even where animal could be kept alive, it raises questions of what exactly one should do:

- Do you keep paying for, up to, years to house an animal that can't be used for anything else? (consider, if you've applied treatments to it, you likely discredit it from inclusion in other studies).

- Did your study cause long-term effects that would lead the animal to suffering were you to keep it alive?

- You probably can't release the animal: most are raised from birth in facilities, they'd not likely survive long (not that mice live very long in the wild as it is).

- Or, if you _did_ release them would they spread anything into the wild?

\ ethically appropriate is decided by ethics boards. Please don't argue with me about what is or isn't ethical animal treatment.
Algorithms by Princeton University, taught by Dr. Robert Sedgewick. That was the most organized and well-taught course I have taken on Coursera. The visuals for explaining algorithms were beautiful, Dr. Sedgewick explained the material extremely well, and my favorite part, were the assignments.

The assignments are completed in Java and cover the lecture material from the week. For example, your 1st assignment is to use a union data structure to determine if a grid percolates, similar to a coffee filter percolating.

One slight drawback with the course was that it was originally published several years ago, so the forums are not well moderates much more and some of the previous quizzes are no longer available. Also Princeton does not issue certifications of completion.

Still it’s the best online course I have taken in a MOOC.
Unfortunately you cannot run Docker on the M1 yet, even with Rosetta 2. There are some hacky workarounds for manually launching single images, but I don’t think that’s what you’re looking for.

Docker is working on it, and the latest blog I’ve seen is here: https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/11/29/early-docker-buil...
do you remove them from oil when raising temperature? What kind of oil do you use?
“Why is it that when we see nothing but progress behind, we see nothing but disaster ahead?”
Potatoes are pretty much pure carbs.

You can get calories from protein, fats and carbs, so choose a balance diet.

“Life ain’t worth a dime without a little colesterol” Leah Chase

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Chase
> You don’t know you passed the peak until you clearly passed the peak.

What manner of logic is this? Look at the plot: the daily case numbers are in decline. I don’t know what will happen three weeks from now, but I know that it’s factually incorrect to claim that cases are still increasing.

By the same logic you’re using, the very article this is attached to is nonsense: you don’t know if cases in the UK will go up again tomorrow.
People have to write that code ya know?
How Do Proteins Fold? (DeepMind)
Isn't CyanogenMod just AftermarketOS before rebranding?
Second paragraph in the article, it says there were 30 severe COVID cases in the placebo group; unless there trial was ridiculously botched the age profiles of the intervention and trial branch are going to be identical. With the reasonable caveat that definitive answer can only be given once we have read the full trial report.
Many tasks such as "cook an egg" has a well defined physics meaning. If you're trying to:

"Move egg insides into oiled pan on heated surface, move egg shell into trash" it can be purely physics based.

You'll have to find the egg- it's inside the carton inside the fridge behind the milk.

The fridge door, the milk, and the carton are all blocking the desired trajectory of shell and interior.

From a physics perspective you can minimise the energy expenditure required to apply the forces and motions of all objects in the immediate environment to accomplish the objective.

Such as: The door needs to rotate about the hinge, not be ripped out of the way. The milk could be pushed gently to the side rather than removed and set on the counter to expose the carton.

We still haven't programmed proper gripping technique for an egg, but if the chef robot only has a single spatula for a manipulator, a physics based robot would just have to generate teppanyaki techniques and balance the egg on the spatula rather than fail.
Following through to the logical conclusion, you would want some way to switch between simple logs and context-rich logs. We've reinvented the verbose flag!
I'm not familiar with erlang/elixir so I assumed that processes were similar to goroutines:

> In other languages they are also known as green threads and goroutines, but I will call them processes to stay close to Elixir's naming convention.
‘The game has changed.’ AI triumphs at solving protein structures
My custom builds of MySQL and PHP back in the day did exactly that.
It has made me think more clearly about ownership than other languages have. I work primarily in GC'ed languages (Go), so I never really had to worry about it. But now, I find myself writing better code everywhere because I now think about lifetimes and ownership of values. Granted, this only works because I took the time to understand Go's GC.
Why are people downvoting this? It's a reasonable question. And it has some very helpful answers.
What Happened This Month? – Web Developer Industry
That's not how the Norwegian broadcasts have been, at all. Three different producers have been trying different stuff, and made it really approachable. First it was NRK (the national channel, like BBC for norway) and VG (the biggest newspaper) that both made their own live coverage. And now lately TV2 (biggest paid channel) is also in the game.

The coverages usually consist of a panel with a chess expert and a professional commentator/host, and then various other guests swapped each day. Mostly one celebrity and one other chess player. Then when a move is made it's discussed for some time and variants shown (not just computer analysis read out loud....), mostly by the professionals not looking at a computer. And then the guests can ask noob questions that's also what we viewers are wondering about ("why not just do X") and the chess experts show why.

Then it may be twenty minutes to the next move, so the discussion becomes like a chess-focused talk-show for some time until the next move is made. Or if it's speed chess, that kind of talk is in the 15-20 minutes between each game.

I'm actually going to miss having the speed chess world championship this christmas. Almost become a tradition watching that with the family.
Containerizing Java Applications with Jib
Assume anyone who needs it has got it, and now it is the the chance for people in your cohort (people who are not high risk and can keep sheltering for the foreseeable future) to get it.
Should the title be updated to include “Homebrew”? As is, it lacks any context and requires looking at the link to know.
You are accidentally correct. You seem to think the Marshmallow Test is a test of willpower.

That interpretation is debunked. It is actually a test of poverty.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-research-marsh...
> The ones hurt by an investment failing are just the investors themselves, which is the whole point of investment. You take the risk and reap the rewards.

Counter-intuitively, investing in the Top 10 stocks has actually gotten you worse results than the market average.

If you took Top 10 stocks at the beginning of each decade (1920, '30, …, 2010), and followed how it did for that decade (e.g., 1920-1929) it would done worse than the market average (by 1.51% annually on average):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foqswJT3Spc
I have as well. I wish it would have been a little more challenging but in the end, I still learned a lot.
What Happened This Month? – Python
I mean the snarkiness just doesn't have any reflection of reality.

Debt is a killer. I used to have a lot of credit card and personal debt, and was paying over $1,500/mo in interest on less than $100k USD/year. If you get stuck in that trap it's damn near impossible to get out of if you overextend yourself.

A lot of folks grossly underestimate what they spend eating out and drinking. Probably less of a problem now than a few years ago, but coinciding with my credit card debt phase I would have told you I spent "$100, maybe $150" a month when it was closer to $400-500.

If you're not set up for retirement (see below) there's little to no reason to be leasing a brand new BMW. I was absolutely guilty of this and it's tens of thousands of dollars I essentially set on fire for three years. You don't even have to sacrifice the nice car, my 2016 5 series was less than $25k out the door and I got it right after someone turned it in off-lease. My payment is less than theirs was and it'll be paid off before the warranty runs out. I'll then have an "asset" (not really) worth $5-10k, and can get another $25k off-lease car which will cost me less and get paid off quicker, if not in cash.

If you max out your 401(k) you are saving about $20k/yr while only reducing your taxable income by ~$15k/yr depending on your marginal tax rate. A Roth adds another $6k to that if you're under the cap (something like $140k for 2020) and you can withdraw the contributions from that account at any time without penalty. Not helpful for someone making $40k/yr but if you're making $100k it's hard to make a good argument not to max out your retirement unless you live in one of the outlier cities as far as rent and expenses.

There are absolutely the /r/personalfinance types who act like if you go to a restaurant more than once every six months you're going to end up destitute and starving while homeless. And the FIRE community is a borderline cult. But nobody working in our industry, even in super high-COL areas, really has to worry about retirement, even if they've made dumb mistakes like I did that ended up costing hundreds of thousands in the long run.
Hyperbaric Hyperbole
Pace is what is relevant here. You can probably get more done faster by putting in more hours. However for the vast majority of companies shipping something sooner rather than later really will not intact the company bottom line.

Lot's of deadlines are meaningless and do little but add stress. If you can get comfortable, and build a culture around, a more relaxed or even livable pace you will be much happier and have happier engineers.
The BEAM scheduler is not quite preemptive as I understand it, but in practice it gets close because instead of yield points being defined manually with “await” they are inserted automatically when you return from a function or call a function or do some number of other fundamental operations, and the pure functional nature of the language means that functions are short and consist almost solely of other function calls.
We can actually. That is what sleep labs are for. I don't know if this exact setup has been done, but there is a lot of stuff like making people cram for an exam and then varying their sleep opportunity.

If you mean that you cannot literally make people sleep: No, but you can manipulate consistently by just setting sleep opportunity and then measure the actual sleep time on top of that to draw conclusions.
This is a really good interview by Michael Saylor who was an early investor in FANG companies on what his thinking was for investing his companies reserve cash of $400mil in Bitcoin https://youtu.be/Cg10yYZjK94

His conclusion is that Bitcoin is a disruptive currency. It is equivalent to how Facebook disrupted and captured social, Amazon disrupted retail, Google disrupted info. Bitcoin is disrupting centralized controlled currency. It is replacing central control with something democratized and decentralized.
The only successful VLIW architectures run JIT compilers on an existing ISA. Transmeta did this for x86 but Intel brought them to court them which gave Intel time to release superior chips (through superior manufacturing). The other example is Nvidia's Project Denver.
As soon as possible, while respecting the priority given to health-care workers and high-risk populations.

Vaccines aren't zero risk, but the risk is very low. The candidate Covid vaccines have been tested on 30-50k volunteers with 0 or maybe 1 adverse event, so the risk must be well below 1:10000. Given that the risk with Covid is much higher, like 1:100 of death and 1:20 of other nasty long-term effects, and (without vaccines) most people would get it, that seems like a fantastic deal.

People in areas with no virus, like New Zealand, could plausibly consider the risk not worth it yet.
You don't have to use Vanadium on GrapheneOS, I use Bromite (mostly for the ad blocking) and there's also an ungoogled chromium available in FDroid.
I know you are getting downvoted for it but that was my reaction as well.
That’s a bold claim, especially in context of running out of transport fuels starting from where we are now. What date range are you using for the period over which cars became pervasive?
What Happened This Month? – Machine Learning Industry
Social interaction is essential for humans, not optional.
What is this money spent on? Is it a real cost per dose, or just a made-up number for something made in a research lab?

Maybe another way to ask is: On the scale from 400k of white-shoe lawyer-hours, to 400k of custom 7nm silicon-etching, where should I mentally place this? The former isn't going to budge, the latter will cost pennies in a generation's time.
Why would an open platform running on their hardware impact service usage at all? Let’s be clear what an open platform on ARM Mac is: people (such as a lot of folks here) who already prefer an open platform and want M-series performance, not a significant proportion of the macOS user base developing a preference for Linux.
Thanks for the suggestion. I will check it out.
I try to cycle 3 or more days a week, and have recently become addicted to rowing on a rowing machine, mostly alternate days to cycling, if the environment suits, I will run, climb and walk on free days too.
Just download DRM-free movies from BitTorrent trackers or other sources, and ignore the DRM-encumbered streaming services.
Hurray for a vaccine that is > 90% effective on a disease that for those who get it have a > 99% survival rate.

Bring on the new overlords.
Hi, author here.

Meet Transcript lets you record Google Meet captions, chat messages, and screenshots to Google Docs.

In v3.0.0, I've added a new feature that lets Meet Transcript record chat messages as well, making it a comprehensive transcribing tool for Google Meet.

Link: https://thanesh.dev/meet-transcript

Feedback is appreciated!
This is a silly statement - there’s plenty of middle class people who hold mutual funds who are hit with capital gains taxes every year from distributions from the fund.
Kohub is the coliving on a thai island right? I've been really interested to check that out but never ended up making it there.

My email is in my profile. I'd be really interested to jump on a chat with you for a few minutes and hear about your experience if you are open to it. Get in touch if you are open to talking.
The GNU Octave interpreter and its dependencies are all in the matpower.wasm file. 19Mb is still quite large for a website, but it is loaded asynchronously and WASM get compiled as it streams in. The interpreter runs in a WebWorker using a Promise based interface so the UI doesn't get held up. Many of the dependencies (e.g. FFTW, CHOLMOD, ARPACK, Qt, HDF5) are disabled as they are not needed to run MATPOWER. There was no particular reason for using v4.4.1. The core functionality of GNU Octave doesn't change much and that version was stable and sufficient for my needs.