skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Likely they're referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesusland_map
"These jobs had an average salary of more than $156,000. Yet out of 1,128 jobs posted between July 2018 and April 2019, 81 percent didn't receive a single applicant, while another 18 percent received just one applicant."

Hard to imagine Facebook wouldn't get offers for jobs at that salary...
It's pretty clear that Gebru criticized LeCun for being apathetic about an obviously biased model, not because he's a white male. And again, "There are difficulties on collecting data and historical reasons that leads to bias in the trained model" is accurate, but it's still a total cop-out! There's no way Facebook would let results like [0] slide if there were money at stake - they'd get more training data, or even throw out training images of white faces, if they had to - so why is LeCun defending someone else's failure to do so?

More importantly, how should that make us feel about the very real possibility of LeCun serving as an expert advisor on, say, police or other military applications of AI? Would he again just throw up his hands and say, "Well the training data consists disproportionately of black faces, so the model disproportionately implicates black people, nothing we can do about it"?

[0] https://twitter.com/Chicken3gg/status/1274314622447820801
I wrote a Python script to post Markdown files to Confluence but ran into similar problems with retrieving and editing existing documents.
I lost the assumption of good faith already in her first tweet, in particular

>You can’t just reduce harms caused by ML to dataset bias.

She's already attacking a strawman right there. Yann did not deny any harms caused by ML.
Of course - there will almost always be some amount of people that disagree with any position.

That doesn’t make all positions equally valid.

Stating that others disagree seems like a banality?

Obviously this is the case, just look at this thread and Twitter.

I just think they’re wrong.

I think attempting to explain why I think the way I do is kind of the point of the discussion. If I can’t justify it then I’d want to change my mind.
Playwright has always supported all platforms: Win, Linux and Mac. Is there something that didn’t work for you?
That only works for relatively small amounts of fossil fuels for a relatively short distance. Once you start to consume a lot of oil, you really need to start piping it around and only depending on trucks for last mile work. America[0] and Europe[1] are covered in pipelines to move both oil and natural gas. Trucks are only used to cover the distance between where the pipe stops and the gas station is.

0 - https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/n...

1 - https://theodora.com/pipelines/europe_oil_and_gas_pipelines_...
crypto is money. money can be invested, i.e. crypto can be invested. one does not invest in crypto. you are looking from the fiat=the_only_money prospective, which is limited. there are many types of money - fiat, crypto, gold. you can move between them, but those are not strictly investments in a sense of cash flow generation.

re intrinsic value - i think that intrinsic value is a fiction. there is always a market value. i don't know what the hell "intrinsic" value is and how useful can it be.
>"First, you would bring 200,000 families into a legal sphere where they would no longer be persecuted by the state."

The law might be stupid but if they're currently illegal they're rather prosecuted, not persecuted. At least technically.
I don't live in the US and I must politely ask you to see how the rest of the world lives.

The macbook I was given costs, after customs, taxes and everything, $4000. Not $1000. Are there cheaper macbooks? Sure. Why would I want them, though?
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UEFI can be just as closed as custom non-UEFI bootloaders. Windows Mobile devices were UEFI, but they had Secure Boot enabled making it almost impossible to boot non-OEM signed images. (Un)fortunately, their Golden Key was leaked allowing experimentation with some Windows Mobile devices [1].

[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/microsofts-debug-mode-flaw-an...
Well, this is always been the problem with graphics. The situation with Mesa is not perfect, but strictly better than it used to be.
Those are obviously unusual stories. Catastrophic fire is covered by insurance. It is not factored into rent and security.

Pets don’t make the news when they ruin dwelling places, as it is relatively common compared to that.
Only if Plaid weren't a company that has contracts in place with every single bank they offer to access their services without being sued (despite the fact that the antique tech stacks these banks have don't allow Plaid to use oauth in most cases).
I don't mean specifically with transactional consistency (I don't think I even mentioned eventual consistency), but just generally the level of engineering required to write a system as well tested as postgres inevitably will slow down its feature development. This means databases don't have the latest features typically enjoyed within application development environments.

However I believe you CAN tolerate some level of failure and defects in your app code, knowing the more battle hardened database will - for the most part - ensure your data is safe once committed. Yes, there will always probably be bugs and yes some of those bugs may cause data loss in extreme cases, but if you're saying you perform the same level of testing and validation on a product hunt style app as you would on a safety critical system, or as postgres do on their database, I find that extraordinary and very unrepresentative of most application development.

I'm not saying defects are good or tolerated when found, but from an economic perspective you have to weigh up the additional cost of testing and verification against the likely impact these unknown bugs could have. Obviously everyone expects any given service to work correctly - but when is that ever true outside of medical, automotive and aerospace which have notoriously slow development cycles?

Personally I'd pick rapid development over complete reliability in most cases.
I'd be very interested in getting vaccinated against the virus once it's been released.

I'd prefer, however, to just get the vaccine so that if I catch it my immune system would destroy it before I become a source myself. I wish they'd make an option (perhaps at a significantly higher cost) so that you can get the vaccine injection without miscellaneous non-vaccine compounds injected in the solution as well.
Until now the line I have kept hearing is that there is no such thing as herd immunity except that which is realized through universal immunization.

Now that we're not sure the vaccine will actually work in this way, the new line of reasoning is "well it's just supposed to protect you individually from the disease, not stop it from spreading."
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Not only that, but all of the cheap electronics/computers that we have now are because of the money spent on Apollo.
I hate to be that person, but I'm personally more worried about the virus mutating under the increased selection pressure. We only defeated polio with a >99% effective vaccine, and the research for this vaccine isn't even available.
Are they talking about spreading it through breathing, or through touching?
Right. And I would hate to be looking forward to 2+ hours of being with someone after I figure out that I'm no longer interested in the person within the first 5 minutes of a first date.

Dinner following the movie gives you all sorts of opportunities to screw up and then you still have the task of finishing the meal. Bad table manners, getting messy food all over your face, making odd eating noises and the list goes on. Leave all that until after your date is already much into you.

Best date? Coffee. Explicitly tell your date that you're going to be out after one cup or 15 minutes, which ever comes first. If the date goes bad, then either party only needs to wait 15 minutes or drain the coffee and run. It's only 15 minutes of conversation to fill. Memorize a list of questions if you have to. Then try to improv on the questions and the following conversation. Don't have anything to say? Let the date answer the questions. Date is answering quickly? Then make sure you create lots of questions. Or maybe the conversation just isn't that interesting and you should drain your coffee.

Repeat for date #2

Then you can start getting more creative after that.

Date doesn't like that the meeting was so quick? There's plenty of fish in the sea.

Edit: Yeah, I'm not a dating advice guy. Sorry about that. I don't know where this came from. I guess the point is to make those first couple of dates quick and also easy to bail on.
But the M1 Mac mini is not a laptop. And in any case, if those are US prices, count about 4x in my country.
I think you would agree that the intrinsic value of dollars as backed by the metal in USD coins is negligible compared to how many USD exist, because nobody has them in substantial amounts (due to being impractical). The value of the paper that the dollars are printed on is also negligible compared to the value of the bills themselves, let alone all the USD that exist (as you probably know, the vast majority of which don't actually exist as bills or coins).

Besides, everything you said, including tax payment and keeping out of jail, also applies to the Venezuelan bolivar and quite a few other fiat currencies that completely crashed in value due to hyper-inflation.

So I don't think those are good arguments for the USD being valuable or having substantial intrinsic value.
Thank you. This is the perfect way to word this. My blood was kinda boiling reading the article because I've implemented a spell checker and it's sure as hell not trivial.

However, my experience is exactly what you described. I got it to identify / highlight misspelled words in an afternoon, but then I came to suggesting the correction and things got hairy quick.

Also, my spell checker wasn't even "smart" (aware of semantics, context, homophones, etc).
Nor did Timnit claim that he was. Her disagreement was about the causes of harms, not the existence of resulting harms.
> Yes M1 is great. But it's a closed system
...
> Apple did something truly revolutionary

While I don't deny they deserve a lot of credit for this, I think it's important to keep in mind that in many cases Apple does this by exploiting its lack of openness. ie: these things are not unlinked.

So where some people see Apple innovating and achieving breakthroughs, I also see them exploiting and leaching off an ecosystem in a toxic way. It's like a chemical plant that dumps its waste into the local river - they get a free ride (not complying with interoperable / openness) which is fine if they are a small part of the ecosystem. But if every company was like that we would be living in technology hell. There would be no internet, no ecosystem of reliable affordable server infrastructure, there wouldn't be a single phone you could write an app for if it wasn't in the corporate interest of a mammoth entity, etc etc.
I don't have an rpi4 to test, but NetBSD should run fine on them.

Now you can just use generic Aarch64 UEFI images, since the pi 4 has a standards compliant UEFI/ACPI stack aka is "ServerReady"[0], and NetBSD 9 and above supports this machine type [1].

Edit: And for the wifi (and bluetooth) chipset, the gist is "it's a weird proprietary Broadcom chipset behind a somewhat unusual bus (SDIO)". FreeBSD has recently gained nominal support for the bus, eventually a wifi driver will be ported. Another place I've seen a SDIO wifi chipset used like this is the Wii. https://wiki.freebsd.org/SDIO

[0] https://rpi4-uefi.dev/about/

[1] https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-9/NetBSD-9.0.html
I agree that it is a perfectly reasonable expectation to have, however there is no notion of a tenure in a private company. To me that is a pretty fundamental distinction (with far reaching consequences) that people often overlook.
Relative to most RDBMS it evolves quickly, but from a language perspective it's barely different to the SQL I was writing at the start of my career. Meanwhile Go didn't exist then and does now, and has better tooling for any normal development workflow.
any reason there are no screenshots of the Google Sheets, considering it's kind of the premise of the project
No but Arecibo was an icon and a valuable instrument in its time. A more dignified fate was deserved.
>"...Banning drug use by force is a US pipe dream. It's impossible."

I am all for changing the law. This particular argument is however weak. Bunning murders is just as impossible. We are not going to legalize murder however, are we? The law should be changed because of other reasons, not because of inability to enforce it 100%.
> while a member of Gebru's team

I have a hard time taking someone who looks like that seriously. Says a lot about her and her team.
Apple always gets people riled up on here, it's one of the few areas on HN that discussions just get rather poor quickly.

> If Apple's formula was easy to copy or as obvious as everyone seems to claim, then we wouldn't be in the position where Apple has the best mobile CPU, the best wearable CPU, the best tablet CPU, and the best ultrabook CPU.

Exactly. It isn't easy to do. Apple is in a unique position to push their platform to the absolute limit because of their vertical integration. And while that sacrifices openness, most people buying laptops just don't care.
To be honest, I've never ever resold a laptop. Ever. I end up giving old laptops to friends or family who can't afford a new one. So resale price is a non-issue to me.
This is great! Do the transcripts come with timing information? Would love to be able to ctrl+f text and then jump to that part of the video.
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I think it has less to do with everyone switching to Apple silicon and more to do with the clarification of viable business models: you either become an IP company and outsource production (AMD) or you go completely vertical and design and produce custom-designed SoCs to be used exclusively in your consumer products (Apple). The Intel model of designing and producing all-purpose commodity CPUs seems to have hit a wall due to both lack of demand and unanticipated manufacturing problems.
I wish I was a more knowledgeable developer because I see an enormous opportunity to fill those gaps.
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How? What are the best ways to fight back?
People seem to be missing the "data" portion of this move. This will boost subscriptions to hbo max which will increase revenue but also bring in data - capturing what,where,when,etc you and your children watch. AMC tried to capture this with their A-list movie pass, but I'm guessing the studios decide to step in front of the movie theater chains with this move. Disney and everyone else with a streaming services are bound to follow warner.

I'm going to bet this will lead to people upgrading their home theater setup and I'm going to bet TV manufacturers are going to implement more data capturing features. Cameras to watch you watching TV. Where the eyeballs go. Mic to record what people say. Etc.

The studios are all in trying to be netflix now. And netflix will try to be a studio. And the fracturing of the streaming continues. Until disney buys up everyone...
That sounds like a horrible use of human hours, especially at Google salary level.

Paper writing is painstaking and mentally tiring. It would be much more efficient if they reviewed results and an abstract and then decided based on that "Go ahead and write the paper and publish it" or "Don't waste time writing it up".
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I use dwm, you get keybinding support inside the config file and then you can use scripts or commands to manage everything else.

Dwm isn't for everybody, you modify the c source and compile to get the changes you want. The best part is that the source is small enough to understand for when you want to do something to it.
Hmmm, when why someone would pay +1k$ for a camera like dynavox's one ... https://us.tobiidynavox.com/collections/devices/products/pce...
Approximation for the ASKAP images with help from Wolfram Alpha, .83 spheres is 10.4 steradians, so 903*70 billion is 63.21 trillion pixels, at ~1.65e-13 steradians/pixel, though there may be overlap in the images, unsure.

Approximation for HUDF is 38.44 million pixels, covering 11 square arcminutes (from Wikipedia) which is 9.308e-7 steradians at ~2.75e-14 steradians/pixels, so the HUDF is about an order of magnitude higher resolution.
Exactly my thoughts. We as a society went from having dress codes in companies to hiring people that look like freaks.
I'd love that too! It doesn't right now, I just import it into Otter.ai if I decide that video has something I want to quote and link to or excerpt from.

Nonetheless, it's still a great tool to help me preview or "skim" through a video.
I certainly intend to stay masked up post-jab(s). I think a month or so after the final dose it will be at the point where any viral load i might be spreading would be pretty much trustable to be at trivial levels, so that's my minimum duration. After that, I'll continue to follow public guidance from local health folks.

I don't mind masking up for flights/travel for a bit, or whatever, either, if it shakes out that way. If i could trade "wear a mask because it works and lots of people died" for "take off your shoes to fly because it's theater, one guy tried it 15 years ago and it didn't work", I'd do it in a heartbeat.
The Pro in MacBookPro is a brand name, not a product category.

It means "it's intented/speced/priced for above the casual home user / casual student".

It doesn't mean "it's for cpu/gpu hungry IT/video/rendering/data crunching/etc work".

A banker, a VC, an accountant, a small shop owner, a graphic designer, a web UI developer, a dentist, and so on and so forth, are also professionals.
Pimps basically play the same role as unions.
Are those American or Canadian dollars? Or like HK dollars? Although concession prices are high, I've definitely never seen them that high. Or was $20 the price of ticket and popcorn+drink?
I work for a chartered bank, I can tell you that nobody in upper management is nervous. Questions about this often come up during town halls or department wide meetings, the justification is always that they already have the clients, and that clients are sceptical of financial startups.

As a regular employee I just laugh it up, and watch startups launch similar products 10 times faster than we ever could. A startup could build an entire product, while my team is trying to get approval to even get considered for a launch.
This came up in a recent thread on this topic. I was surprised to learn that NSF funding has actually increased basically continuously since 1951. 2020 is the second highest funding level ever.

The loss of Arecibo is painful and we have certainly lost capability but it isn't as bad as it looks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25273623

https://dellweb.bfa.nsf.gov/NSFRqstAppropHist/NSFRequestsand...
The short answer: we don't know.

The longer answer: contagion is caused by the emission of viral particles, which have been mass-produced by infected cells in your body. The question is if your immune system will suppress the viral infection before there is enough viral matter produced to cause further infection. Whether or not this happen is heavily influenced by specific details of how your immune system has kicked into gear, and immune systems are unfortunately one of the biological systems that varies most from individual to individual.
This is really interesting, this may be useful for long videos im unsure if I want to watch. I can probably "read a video" in 1/4th the time to watch it.
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I use terminal exclusively and my vim config is basically 10 lines. Looking at peoples really complex init scripts is like looking at olympic athletes, cool for relaxation, maybe getting one or two things out of them, but if you're a removalist you really don't need glistening six packs.
Not all physicians are good philosophers, physicists, or psychologists. In this example, we have an opinion piece outside of one’s area of expertise, nothing more. I, on equal grounding, assert that the author is wrong. The burden of proof remains with the author. If we use our rational side to discuss such matters, let’s avoid these subjective and rhetorical appeals, and resume the conversations others began long ago. There is nothing new under the sun.
CapitalOne has (not even just for banking standards) an amazing developer platform. https://developer.capitalone.com
There is a way to approach all this professionally.

From what I know about timnit from Twitter she is an emotional, unreasonable and maybe an sjw type character.
Periods have always been discarded by Gmail when routing mail, as well as signing in. If you own firstlast@gmail.com, you've owned first.last@gmail.com all along, as well as fi.r.s.t.la.s.t@gmail.com for that matter.

You're getting that other person's email because someone has the wrong address for them.
I honestly don't know about the M1's, but I've never liked the price/specs ratio of Intel macbooks. While it's true their build is solid and they look good, they always seemed overpriced to me regarding specs.

And even the build quality... a friend who's an Apple fan used to tell me "they are better quality, they have less problems" yet his macbooks seem to break down at about the same rate as my Dell, HP or Lenovo laptops, so...

I've decided macbooks look good, have good quality screens and the best touchpads. I'm unwilling to pay a premium for that, and I don't even like OS X/macOS...

> I'm afraid that when/if fast ARM alternatives arrive, they will probably cost 80-100 % of what the MacBooks cost.

Possibly! I wouldn't buy them when they are the latest new thing, either.
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This is a perfectly reasonable statement that is being blown out of proportion. He is speaking in a scientifically accurate and narrow way - they don't know that yet, those studies have not been completed. That doesn't mean you can, or that it is even likely or probable that you can, just that they don't have results saying you can't yet. That is because those results inherently take longer than studying the effecicacy of the vaccine...because people have to get the vaccine, get exposed, and then the difficult task of tracking any potential infections that they transmit. That science is even harder than what has happened through the vaccine trials. They are studying and will know the answer to it.

The headline is click bait and I'm disappointed in HN here...'we don't know' is a statement that we should laud and appreciate scientists for making, not use as a form of propaganda.
Cool idea, I just tried it and it doesn't look like it would work for that though.

It spits out a wall of text, without any special formatting or speaker metadata, though it does seem to make an exception for distinguishing music sections.
The 2020 NSF budget is the second highest since 1951, inflation adjusted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25273623

https://dellweb.bfa.nsf.gov/NSFRqstAppropHist/NSFRequestsand...
This needs to stop being sensationalized. Vaccine studies target something simple and easy to measure... whether it prevents Covid symptoms. That’s the hypothesis being tested. It is very likely that it also builds up your immune system to fight the virus such that you don’t spread it. But testing that hypothesis is very hard and not practical. He’s not saying you will spread it, just that strictly speaking, the trials didn’t test for that. We’ll have a better sense of it once the vaccine is widely used though.
next week: Amazon announces "forever" email addresses
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