skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since computers are unbiased, the idea is that machine learning is also unbiased. However, that's not true and, if anything, it actually re-enforces a lot of bias.

I've never done any, but my understanding is that machine learning is just correlation. It's good at figuring out "what", but not "why". Consider training an algorithm to recognize horses by feeding it millions of pictures of horses. Eventually, the algorithm "learns" what a horse is, but it's definition of a horse is based on the inputs it was given by a human.

So now, consider the scenario where the millions of pictures of horses were all brown. If you give the algorithm a picture of a white horse, it'll tell you it's not a horse. If you give it a picture of a brown donkey, it might think it's a horse because it's learned to put too much emphasis on the color brown.

If that algorithm becomes relied on to define a horse, "the system" will insist there are no white horses even though you can walk outside and see them plain as day.

Now, apply the same kind of idea and feed an algorithm mugshots of all criminals. It's going to develop the same bias and tell you that a black person is more likely to be a criminal than a white person. There's no nuance. The inputs used to train the AI were tainted by decades of systematic discrimination, but the AI doesn't know that.

Of course you could try to take that input bias into account, but the whole sales pitch of machine learning is that you feed it tons of data and it gives you an objective result. As far as I know, no one is trying to quantify, and correct, the biases in the inputs.

The phrase "money laundering for bias" means the machine learning algorithms are used to re-enforce incorrect opinions and assumptions because it gives the excuse that an "objective" computer used cold hard data to draw the same conclusion.

Machine learning is one of the scariest parts of tech right now because it's the equivalent of an extremely stupid person that only understands correlation and not causality and the systems being built are going to be making a lot of decisions at scale.
This is quite far from being the whole truth IMO.

First: the problem isn't websites made by poor people. My biggest waste of time is ordinary quality but utterly irrelevant results.

Second: very often the problem isn't like before where websites included valuable search terms in white text on white background but rather that Google includes results that never included the search terms at all.

These are entirely Googles fault I think for over-optimizing for quantity instead of quality, not the fault of black hat SEO.
Did you expect an RPG to have better gunplay than an FPS?
Yup, sorry. Basically the public transport network. So underground and overground trains and buses (mostly - they also licence the cabs and water taxis as well).
> When people are getting 5-6% returns on investments (minimum)

The 99th percentile wealth vs 99th percentile taxable income suggests that many very wealthy people are making lower returns in fact.

If people are generating those returns, however, there is no need for a wealth tax: the returns are already taxed (and could be taxed at a higher rate without a whole new invasive tax regime).
Good, good! ;->
An example of the games beauty https://youtu.be/oVKl9e3gSAE
Yes but also any public transport in London, eg. Buses are also ‘TfL’. And a few Thames taxis.
In some places, following a person around and building up a dossier on them is considered stalking and is illegal.
Thanks! The goal was to make local-only translation usable. I think cloud translation is still pretty valuable in a lot of cases since the model for one single direction translation is ~100MB. In addition to having more language options without a large download cloud translations let you use more specialized models for example French to Spanish. I just have a model to and from English for each language and any other translations have to "pivot" through English. For cloud translations you can also use one model with multiple input and output languages which gives you better quality translation between languages that don't have as much data available and lets you support direct translation between a large number of languages. Here's a talk where Google explains how they do this for Google Translate: https://youtu.be/nR74lBO5M3s?t=1682. You could do this locally but it would have its own set of challanges for getting the right model for the languages you want to translate.

It would be possible, and probably not to hard to benchmark these translations (the standard method for automated testing is a BLEU score) but haven't bothered so far. I use Stanza for sentence boundary detection, SentencePiece for tokenization, and OpenNMT for translations which all seem to be about the best available open source. I think the most interesting thing about the underlying translation is that I use Stanza for sentence boundary detection which lets it deal with languages that don't use periods with one set of tools: https://forum.opennmt.net/t/sentence-boundary-detection-for-.... An OpenNMT demo script I based my training script on claims a 28.0 BLEU score, which is pretty good, so that would probably be a reasonable estimate at least for language pairs with lots of high quality data available: https://github.com/OpenNMT/OpenNMT-tf/tree/230118d72b8787605....
The real solution would have been to tell people to wear masks and invoke the Defense Production Act with 3M and other manufacturers so that medical-grade masks were directed to the right place. People were screaming at the administration to do this at the time (Jan/Feb).
I wonder how much of this was caused by natural selection brought on by changes in human behavior; masks wearing, social distancing, etc.
I think a lot of people are under the false impression that any of your "choices" in the game actually affect the outcome, and they think that during second or third playthroughs they will be able to unlock a different experience...

Unfortunately they're wrong... the game very cleverly designs some of the dialog or mission choices in a way that makes it seem like your choices affect the outcome, but in the end there is only one single choice in the entire game that affects the ending. And even for the side missions and other dialog, it turns out that almost every single choice will direct you to the exact same path/outcome anyway. They might give you very slightly different dialog responses from the NPCs, but that's about it.

All of the "choice" in this game can be summed as:

Character asks you to do something. Your responses are:

1) Sure, I'll do that

2) Sure, I'll do that but my response is going to be snarky

3) Sure, I'll do that but you need to give me more information first

4) No, I don't want to do that, but you're going to tell me that I can't refuse you so I'll end up doing it anyway

5) No, I don't want to do that right now but you'll message me later and I'll find out that I can't progress any further without calling you back and saying yes

It's very shallow "choice", and I personally don't get any entertainment from that level of "replayability".
That was only ~500 years ago. The artifacts being discussed here are allegedly an order of magnitude older.
Where is he threatening to kill anyone?

He's just highlighting a fact of life.

You can't have people starving next to people having 7 course meals.

I can't complain about my financial situation and this is precisely why I would support a fairer redistribution. I'm willing to sacrifice a bit so that others have a decent life, too. Because otherwise you can step on others only for so much, and at some point losing your possessions is the least of your concerns.

If you're a true conservative (not in the US sense of the term), you should understand this. Heck, Bismark, the grandfather of conservatives understood this.
lol, I can’t even imagine the frustration. At that point, just let Jackie drive.
This is a great resource: http://bikewashington.org/canal/
The console versions not being reviewed was a matter of no review codes being sent. Media were able to request review codes for all platforms, but they only sent PC review codes. The part that was covered by an embargo was that you were not allowed to use your own video footage - only the publisher-provided B-roll was allowed.

VentureBeat had a good article about the whole thing.

https://venturebeat.com/2020/12/16/cd-projekt-red-risked-the...
The uk always has this 2 levels of laws: laws that are passed and laws that are enforced. When a new law is passed people watch to see whether its enforced. This law is not enforced, so it goes in the same category as speed limits.

I remember the 2011 riots, courts were run 24h a day, sentences were extreme and people were tired and convicted the same day as the offense. That's very heavy handed. But that shows you the priority here.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-14487636
> Being helpful and kind to others also requires that you be kind to yourself. You can only give when it is healthy to do so.

Agreed. We all deserve the same fundamental measure of respect. It’s equally important to be kind to myself and to others. The two are the same thing in disguise.

It can take reflection to parse out each situation, but if a “helping” act of mine is actually damaging to me in a way I resent or would prefer to avoid, then am I really being kind to the other person? I’d argue that often I’m actually acting out of an unhealthy impulse of guilt, some sense of social-obligation, self-identity, etc, which is really just about myself.

Sometimes helping another person - even if they want said help - actually doesn’t help them at all, and that’s not really kindness in my opinion. It requires judgement.

True kindness includes more than the “soft and mushy” feelings a lot of us look on with suspicion. Authentic kindness and care can be hard as fuck because it means saying no or not helping someone when your natural impulse is to do so.

See: parenting, family members/friends with addictions, letting go an employee who’s well-intentioned, breaking up with someone who’s nice, etc.

IMHO Buddhist thought is a great tool for thinking about this kind of stuff.
A fellow consultant at a customer somehow managed to fudge up his connection strings and spent a whole day developing a batch ordering function _in production_. At 4:58 he noticed and then the whole team had to stay and fix it before midnight.

After that, the orders would be processed and inventory worth ~€500k would be ordered for our customer customers customers (yes, three levels deep).

Thankfully we managed to salvage it but the other guy never returned.
It doesn't look like it.

No contact information. No authors listed for the articles. The only links in the article go to the biography of a small town TV reporter, and Wikipedia. No links to the original source material.

Looks like a content farm to me.
If you visit this page with an ad blocker enabled, nothing renders. If you disable your ad blocker on the page, well, god help you:

https://ibb.co/PskWz4d

A couple alternative links for reading:

- https://outline.com/udkxSE

- https://pastebin.com/5MQE91k3
I don't really intend to continue the discussion as most things have been said.

Just wanna point you to the context. The topmost comment was referring to his own comment and discussion about the original issue 3 days ago. You can find this here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25438169

The topmost commenter also replied to you that there was that previous discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25473468

So while you didn't have the context, he and probably many others (like myself) did have that context. Again, this is not to blame you, because as I said it wasn't repeated in this thread and you couldn't have known.

> In the context of the RFC, mailing list software should be viewed the same as a 'human being'. Of course it's fine to it to re-send, if the software wishes. [...]

> Then, the mailing list software, the end user, can do as they wish. Including trying a resend. I don't see the conflict here,[...]

A lot of people were arguing 3 days ago that the end user (e.g. the mailing list software) should never try a resend and removing the email immediately (after the first 550 response) is correct behavior and mandaotry by the RFC.

The topmost comment here restated that this is in fact wrong. Based on what I quoted from you here, you're actually agreeing with the topmost comment you were initially disagreeing with.

Here is the relevant part from the topmost comment:

> When this event happened, I said senders need to avoid taking "invalid address" at face value when they've recently succeeded delivering to the same addresses. But despite the RFC saying senders "should not" repeat requests (rather than "must not"), many people had a lot of resistance to this idea, and instead just blamed Google for messing up implementing the RFC.
Glad you asked!

https://robertrich.bandcamp.com/album/neurogenesis

Slow abstract soundscaping like this would not generally be my kind of jam, but my ear welcomes the lack of typical equal temperament inharmonies. I reckon this album is among the more accessible examples of just intonation and microtonality (title track puts JI on show especially).

I wouldn’t classify Robert Rich as someone who desperately needed my financial support, but I really liked the music and know a couple of people who could possibly appreciate it.
> think this can be generalised as "more power to users."

I agree, we need more power to control. There should be more than one recipe for ranking and filtering, and we should have more to say about what information is being hidden from us. Society is diverse, a single formula automatically discriminates some groups. Let people make the choice.
https://archive.is/v9pLw
Money laundering is a crime in which one takes money or goods taken through criminal activities (e.g., theft) and sends it through some process, usually a cover, like a business or something, to make it appear legitimate. More generally, it refers to the process by which money or resources obtained through ethically questionable means is passed through layers of other activities so as to obscure its original source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering

So the idea is, you have some bias in some process (racial, religious, whatever). You set up some algorithm that relies on the bias to make predictions or classifications. Now you can say it's not you that's biased, it's just the algorithm. The algorithm is some process by which your bias is "made legitimate".
So Zuckerberg pressured people to 'do something about this'.
Cell-cultured hamburger meat selling for $23 instead of previous 300k 2013 price
Ah I see what you meant. Yeah agreed let's see how it plays out. The second generation is having some inner fight letst see how it plays out.
This was also a bad solution. A high number of false positives.

Sensible legislation never rushed but forward thinking is the only option, not running kangaroo legal system suddenly.
>> much smaller impact than me pushing for everyone to give.

The problem here is the fact you are not pushing for everyone to "give", giving is a voluntary act, taxation is compulsory done under the explicit threat of violence. It is not an act of "giving" it is an act of taking.

>"don't the bottom 95% know they'll experience a steady decline of income and purchasing power if we don't tax the wealthy more?"

History does not show this to be the case at all, The World is becoming a better place for everyone [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J5s6aZCPSg
Ah ok - sorry I misinterpreted.
There's an event every year called the "whiting" of Lake Michigan.

Then the Spring sun warms the water, it reacts with the limestone at the bottom and causes large white swirls through the water. I've seen pictures on it on local TV newscasts taken from helicopters.
Then where do ad-blockers fall? Am I violating copyright/rights-management by altering how content is viewed?

If a content provider can dictate the terms by which their content is consumed, why not dictate linking rights too?
This bill died in August of last year. Never made it out of committee.. is it being brought back? Unlikely to pass constitutional review.
> It's a brand built on the product, not a product built on the brand.

But pets.com is such a catchy domain!
The CDC is not the man on the street. The man on the street can distrust an institution that suggests something unscientific when they are requesting trust from the public.

Doesn't matter if said man on the street thinks the earth is flat, has a mental disorder or likes tennis more than soccer.

An institution should not be judged on the merits of the people judging them.

Also, people not wanting the government to force them what to do with their bodies is not quite the same as them not believing that there is a health risk when not wearing masks. Stop conflating the two. Engage the argument instead of the strawmen (or don't, but be honest about it.)
We do allow it in certain states/countries. But when it comes to dementia, it's a difficult question. A person's mind is shattered by the disease. 2 years before death, they might say "I want to die when I can't remember my childrens' names". Then 6 months later, they turn into a completely different person, forgetting everyone and refusing to see a doctor, let alone give the necessary consent to allow someone to administer the final drug.
How do you "drive" people out someplace they have no desire to live? I feel like the Kansas experiment[1] is a good example of the limits of tax policy as it relates to growth in employment and innovation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_experiment#Jobs_and_gro...
> If it’s so small as to not be meaningful, why collect it

You're mixing up to whom it's meaningful. Rich individuals will be unaffected, but it will benefit the state as the tax is collected from more than one person.
US politics are irrelevant. As I've said, this was happening universally outside of Asia.
Easy 1min Laravel setup on local with HTTPS
Boston Dynamics Will Continue to Be Boston Dynamics
I don’t think people necessarily love narratives that blame engineers. Why would they?

Some specific people in positions of responsibility that screw up badly see blaming engineers/tech as an easy way out of their responsibilities.

Similar outcome different thing.
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25478503)
Wow, thank you very much for the link. Now I see what's gone wrong with all the ISPs in America.

> “I don’t want to be anyone’s dumb pipes,” says Hindery. “If all you do is racks and servers, that’s dumb. What we’re doing is melding the network and the content.

This is a fancy way of saying, "I'm not content to just create a huge, high-speed network that services as many customers as possible, I want to extract yet more revenue out of a business I probably don't understand and can't be expected to competently manage."

Trying to explain to these idiots that the only thing an ISP - be it Comcast, AT&T, Charter, Spectrum, Frontier, whoever, can offer me, is a great big fat dumb fucking pipe, is like trying to explain the finer points of Shakespeare to a mollusk.
> If it’s so small as to not be meaningful, why collect it?

Well they aren't collecting it from just one person, so the number's really big on one side (in aggregate) and it's really small on the other side.
We should be praising the Times for having the courage and integrity for calling out their own errors, which many publications wouldn't do

It's always fun to watch the tech bubble jump ugly on traditional media when it falters. Meanwhile, the front page of HN is full of Microsoft getting hacked by the Russians and Facebook pretending it exists to benefit society and democracy.
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station....

Sea level rise is not a big problem at all. Above is the tide gauge for Key West (very close to Miami), and it shows a 0.3m or about a 1 foot rise since 1910. That is consistent with millenia long trends, as sea levels have been rising since the beginning of the Holocene ~12K years ago.

The parts of Miami Beach (the island near Miami), are caused by the fact that parts of the island are sinking.

Houston was built at the meeting point of two bayous in the early 1800s and flooded shortly after it's founding. It has experience frequent floods since then. Here's photos of them: https://www.dtn.com/houstons-history-of-floods/

We don't have records on Houston going back 500 years so I don't know where you got the 500 year figure from. Needless to say, the above is proof that floods are very common in former bayous.
It's easier to destroy the Valley than to create a timeline where a new Valley evolves. It really isn't an inevitability that anything like SV exist, and in fact, there are tons of reasons why it's unlikely a new one would evolve, chief among them the hostility to individual entrepreneurs* like regulatory capture, enforceable non-competes, and so on, as well a lot of the margin and efficiencies have been driven out of the business in favor of defensible moats and network effects.

The most likely thing isn't five more valleys, it's that the valley gets { Texas, Boston, Utah, Minnesota, DC Metro, ..}-ized and there is nothing like it again.

* (I _hate_ "entrepreneur"; I've founded and exited a company but as a term it is not in-line at all with the freewheeling, let's-do-this, let's-do-it-better-than-anyone way people who drove the valley in the 70s and 80s thought of themselves. The rise of "entrepreneur" as the way of thinking about founders correlates well, imho, with the decline of the valley as the center of technology.)
He means as it is more transmissible (but yes, apparently by the same routes and mechanisms) we need to tighten restrictions.

A rhetorician would call these different "methods" of attack but you're right that in fact they're merely different degrees of the same method.
Yes! Get a copy of the book Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment: A Guide for Lawyers and Policymakers [1] co-authored by Paul Brest [2] and Linda Hamilton Krieger [3]. This is an outstanding book for anyone who will be in a leadership, governance, or position where decisions matter. Good luck with your degree.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Problem-Solving-Decision-Professional...

2. https://law.stanford.edu/directory/paul-brest/

3. https://www.law.hawaii.edu/personnel/krieger/linda
> “If allowed to go unchecked, the new variant of the virus could increase the country’s R rate, which is estimated to be between 1.1 and 1.2, by 0.4 per cent.”

I wonder if the author actually meant 40%.
The one that makes me laugh is the people who get on the bus and then put their mask on.

And the people outside the supermarket who grab the dirty spray bottle handled by 500 people already, clean their trolley handle but not their hands, then put the mask on their face handling it, then rub their eye and go shopping.

Humans stupid.
Right, but with this change there is no default. iOS asks you, for every app, whether or not you want to allow tracking, as opposed to just silently defaulting to "allow".
We have immense testing capacity in the U.S. where's the lack?
Headline is right. Nothing can substitute quant ability. Both in terms of what it gives you professionally, but also in terms of the depth of the world you can explore. Go and talk to someone who isn't on the mathy side of nerdness. It is as if an entire world is missing, and not just missing. I don't know much about the history some particular country, but I can catch a curiosity and read a book about it just from wondering. Most people will not have heard of complex numbers, and will not think to look it up.

About the football, I think CTE issue is going to balloon in the coming years. In the UK there's a Rugby World Cup winner who can't remember winning it. Parents are wise to observe the decisions of a guy who would have been paid millions a year but chose not to, in order to preserve his mind. It's unfortunate because gridiron is a fascinating sport.