skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Citing soft-data points like “the type of browser and hardware used to access the internet, the history of online searches and purchases” that could be incorporated into evaluating a borrower, the researchers believe that when a lender has a more intimate relationship with the potential client’s history, they might be more willing to cut them some slack.

So this

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/03/...

https://www.techlicious.com/blog/price-discrimination-by-ope...

But for your entire credit history?

Sounds pretty awful to me.
Might is right applies to those who aren’t at the top few percent of the bell curve; when you’re on the lower minority side measured by socioeconomic statistics, majority is always literally more correct than you or some complicated opinions from any minority groups relatable to you and you’ll used to biasing validity by size of backgrounds associated to a text than elements in it.

So the mass would believe the bullshit ad over this rant, for no reasons other than that Facebook is a multinational mega corporation and the author is an individual.
Mediocristan and Extremistan
Google also came about around the same time as the original candy-colored iMac. It was part of the general rebellion against "boring" technology.
Here: https://www.thestreet.com/video/dr-fauci-masks-changing-dire...
Property taxes in CA punish the newcomers and reward old money. When I bought in Mill Valley in 2001, I was literally paying 13X more taxes than my neighbor, a masseuse who inherited the property and kept the same tax rate her parents paid in the 70s. And as a very liberal town, every new tax initiative always passed, which again hit us harder.

If at least Prop 13 benefits could not be passed as inheritance, that would go a long way to balance things.

I'm happy I moved to WA now where my property taxes do get reassessed every year, but it balances out with no state income taxes.
It sounds like the administration wanted a scapegoat on which to hang any blame around vaccine allocation. Surely whichever allocation they came up with would have axes along which it could be criticized.

Enter some poor analyst working with a pile of messy data and “The Algorithm”.

If machine learning can be “money laundering for bias”, then “algorithms” can be money laundering for responsibility.
The TG-16/PC-Engine is a pretty cool mid-step between 8 and 16 bit consoles. It was super popular in japan but wasn't really in the west (Released too late maybe?)

I REALLY like it's wavetable synth sound. For whatever reason, wavetable and Yamaha synths were never too popular over here whereas they were super common in the east (Especially Yamaha synths. TONS of home computers had them)
Sticky CSS Grid Items
Right, it’s clear FB’s assumption is that a significant % of iPhone users will choose “Ask App not to Track.” Ie they know some significant % of people don’t want this. They just blow past that entirely.

I wonder if Apple’s App Store rules allow them to charge a subscription fee if users choose not to allow it, as an alternative revenue stream.
E-bikes and e-scooters should transform our cities in 2021
This looks like verilog, with extra steps
See also this humorous but nevertheless very telling dictionary from the same era (1990) compiled by the notable IBM programmer Mike Collishaw:

IBM Jargon and General Computing Dictionary Tenth Edition

http://www.comlay.net/ibmjarg.pdf
They also advertised it in The Daily, one of the most popular podcasts around, which is how I heard about it since I unsubbed from the Caliphate feed (as it was finished).

EDIT: Most charts put it at #2 in US [0].

[0] https://chartable.com/charts/itunes/us-all-podcasts-podcasts

EDIT2: They also wrote a full column in the NYT itself.
My German tutor has declined politely to meet me since March. Cost him a fortune. Every other service provider is still open. My barber just texted to say we're still on for Monday.
"Why the hell would that be relevant?"

Both subjects relate closely to the efficacy of operations.
Here's a Twitter feed (a Swiss virologist I think?) with decent info on the new strain.

Dr Emma Hodcroft (@firefoxx66): https://twitter.com/firefoxx66/status/1340327606303027201?s=...
-site:Pinterest.com
Very happy with Stripe. A customer for 3.7 years now

1) Their customer service has been good. However, I've never had to use it for anything serious

2) Their API is awesome

3) Their level of complexity is slowly increasing. This is something very dangerous for them and they need to look into it. Their biggest advantage is/was - super simple to set up everything

4) Like many others, not happy that costs are slowly increasing.

5) Perhaps I'm the only person who falls into the camp that Stripe doing things like Atlas and Stripe Capital is somewhat unnecessary and takes away from their focus on Payments

6) Don't really understand why they are doing the whole Platform of Platforms thing i.e. Stripe customers can now offer stuff like Bank Accounts to their customers

Seems like adding needless risks and complexity

7) Anyways, I miss having Stripe be really simple and really focused on one thing. Hope they can at least be like Apple and Microsoft where they keep laser sharp focus on their money makers/core competencies and have dedicated teams and the best people on it

and they don't shift over their best people to pie in the sky stuff like Platform of Platforms
In case the creators of this site are reading, there are some grammatical issues with the front page copy:

“on it's head” should be “on its head”.

“not only with” should be “with not only”.

“analysis'” should not have an apostrophe and should possibly be “analyses”.
I'm so happy for him. It sounds like a life well-aligned, so far.
With you right until the end where formulas are made by people. In many NN setups, the “formula” is pretty much a self trained black box so in those cases people can only be blamed for the input data that went into training the system.
First, let's recognize that this is a completely made-up criteria for when to apply the tax, then: there's no "natural" ethical principle for why it's ok to tax at liquidation vs tax continuously.

The question, then, is whether one method is actually better than another under some set of criteria. The original comment's 'I don't feel like it' is insufficient in my mind.

The reality of the current system is that we have absolutely enormous wealth bubbles hidden away basically forever. Once you're a billionaire, there's no REAL need to liquidate things on a regular basis. You'll tend to store the vast majority of that wealth in things that appreciate (because you have the choice, and no one needs that many cars, even you), so the bubble grows continuously. Then conversions will mostly happen at carefully judged points in time+method to minimize tax owed. A wealth tax puts some small check on the runaway growth of assets, and provides a more steady+predictable income stream for governments.

Finally, I would like to reinforce that the 'you' used in all of these comments almost certainly include only "temporarily embarrassed" billionaires. Common sense household economics have near-zero relevance for thinking about wealth on the scales we should be concerned with here. Actual billionaires should have no trouble coming up with cash for a wealth tax: beyond some point, the wealth is a mostly undifferentiated mass of assets. If 'you' can project what 'you' owe for the tax, 'you' know how much you need to liquidate to pay it.
Crack cocaine and similar have a great marketing and business model:

1. It's always free to try, no string attached

2. Recruiting people in resale/distribution is easy: lots of money with no education/experience and street creed; most of the foot solders in the "trade" barely qualify for minimum wage work.
All you need is to be able to influence the behavior of the build system at runtime. If you have that, you do not need access to the source code, and you do not need to check anything in. This includes scenarios where the tool chain itself is checked into the source control system.

Ken Thompson described this a long time ago: https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html

At runtime, you alter the build system to notice if a new compiler binary is being built. If so, inject code that, from then on, invisibly "injects the injector". Once you've shifted to this new compiler, the compiler binary itself is the attacker.

Since you have an injector, you can put other types of detections and alterations in...like watching for the compilation of the initialization of a Solarwinds DLL. Then you inject in what you need. No source code is involved.

There are probably lots of ways of getting around this, but unless you're actually looking for it, you won't see it.
> Notice how you are attempting to dismiss my premise by categorizing me as a "right wing nitwit"

He didn't say that, he say your argument will be used by those people to justify anything.
Motor vehicles are usually banned on these sort of trails.
The analogy thing didn’t entirely hold up: the original demonstration was constrained not to return the same word in the prompt, so “man is to woman as doctor is to ____” had to return something that’s close to, but not the same as “doctor” in the embedding space. Hence, it returns nurse.

Ironically, this makes the original point nearly as well: we need to evaluate the hell out of machine learning systems to make sure that they’re doing what we think they are and that they’re not keying off something else instead, especially something biased. To date, the field has been...not great about this.
Saying it’s the most “immersive open world game” is just marketing speak. Unless they promised a specific feature, it’s hard to say much. I’m not arguing that it’s not a finished game, so don’t get me wrong. I’m just saying that people assumed this was going to be the perfect video game. It’s clearly not, and performance/glitches aside, I’m not convinced of why everyone seems so surprised it’s not.
Then why comment at all? There was no argument, I was literally trying to reason how it could not be better and you chose to be rude instead of providing a single technical detail
The only issue that I have, is that so many people (in my industry/nation/orbit) mistake kindness for weakness.

I live in New York, which has a basic culture of "hyper aggressiveness." It isn't "rudeness," as so many people like to think of New Yorkers. They can be aggressively kind and generous. They are just aggressive.

I'm also in the tech industry, which seems to have a very aggressive and competitive culture.

It doesn't stop me from being kind and courteous, but it gets grating.

My experience is that, when someone mistakes courtesy for weakness, they start trying to "game" me. I put up with it for a bit, until they push too far.

Then the till gets slammed on their fingers.

They get very, very upset. Far more upset than if I had just disabused them early on.

I'm learning to enforce my boundaries earlier. It doesn't make me as popular, but it also prevents those "psycho freakouts."
This happens in every American war. The perpetrators are often promoted and encouraged.

And the media often is involved in the “coverup”.

In Indonesia the CIA orchestrated rebels and then a coup that resulted in the killing of over 3 million locals. And mainstream American media were involved in the cover up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Indonesia

https://www.workers.org/indonesia/chap2.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/th...

Other massacre examples that had coverups and denials:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Gun_Ri_massacre

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mỹ_Lai_massacre
With anonymous kindness you relinquish any external reward. Only the most fortunate or humble can afford that.
I don't know, Melbourne is A-Okay. They'd have been that way much earlier if it wasn't for one major super spreader event.
Thank you. I was confused. I was like “I could have sworn there weren’t any good actors in the new Blade Runner”. ;)
Being kind doesn't mean being a chump. Be slightly more kind to others than they are to you, but when they don't reciprocate, draw strict boundaries.

Honestly learning to set boundaries was game-changing for my emotional health and my relationships.
that's a surprising complaint. "generate" has a strong etymological connection to birth and creation more generally, particularly by/of humans.
> “ I should be able to go live in the woods alone and not have the government take some percent of my net worth just because I exist.”

Reminds me of stories about people losing their homes for unpaid property taxes. I recall a story about some paultry amount of unpaid tax (<$100), but because the debt was neglected, the (a few) state's laws permitted the home to be siezed and sold to pay the unpaid amount, and the state gets to keep the balance.

Even owning a home in the woods isn’t safe.
> How can the game be acceptable or fun when cars run on tracks and NPC’s don’t have a problem being attacked?

This is a minor problem, NPCs are a background, so it is nice to see that they have a brain, but it is more like "cute" not "OMG".

E.g. notice that in Witcher 3 you couldn't attack non-enemy NPC (e.g. you couldn't kill everyone in a village).

Big problems are bugs in quests that don't allow finishing them or a story that doesn't allow choice in most cases.
I would chip in to the OPs feedback by repeating some advice that's somewhat commonplace but is very practical: for anyone in the shoes the OP has described, practice your speech, especially if you haven't found yourself in this situation before. Instead of feeling like you have to defend yourself, come up with a short spiel about your layoff situation that explains why you're back on the market.

Example: [John/Jane Smith] was a software engineer at Big Bill's Railroad working on a content management system. When Covid-19 hit, people suddenly stopped riding the trains on Bill's railroad, and Bill had no other recourse but to reduce his workforce: less ridership, less revenue. Unfortunately, [John/Jane Smith] was part of this RIF and [John/Jane Smith is] now back on the market.

If it comes up in a HR screen, substitute [John/Jane Smith] with the appropriate "I" during conversation and it's a Covid-themed template that everyone will get. The above is a crude example, but you should try to turn your experiences into paragraphs. Not everyone has the "leisure" of being in an impacted industry and it's more difficult to do if you've been fired rather than laid off, but it's important to package yourself for various audiences. Put your experiences into singular paragraphs, trim out all the cruft and fat, and you have good blurbs about yourself that are quick and informative.
I've tried to give the benefit of the doubt in my higher comments about how difficult the situation was/is.

What I don't think is excusable is lying to the public as a public health official. The PPE part seems to show "We can't trust the public, so we should lie to them." It's an ends-justify-the-means position, which is a dangerous mindset in someone who influences public policy.

If it were just "a few missteps" that's one thing. Making the wrong call under uncertainty in a dynamically changing situation is excusable. Having the (lack of) ethics to think the appropriate response is to lie to the public is much less so.
Unfortunately for my argument, my claim isn't founded on much beyond my gut feelings at the time. It would be easier to find articles that invalidate it. Certainly the ancient magazine article I mentioned (was it Discover? SciAm?) was a breathless story about boy genius graduate students and their breath-through page rank algorithm etc.

The people around me (maybe bloggers, too?) seemed as, or more, interested in Google's simple 'noncommercial' design and use of the word 'googol', than in the accuracy of Google's results.

On the plus side for my take, there's likely evidence that search users didn't consciously value search algorithms like they do now. In the 90s, people were mostly after 'total number of pages indexed'
Drug and vaccine trials also carry some risk, but are allowed by ethics committees.

Placebo surgery trials would also benefit humanity a lot in better focused efforts, money and saving future patients from having to undergo useless surgery and take risks.

Somehow you imply it's ethical to try and fix a patient with a potentially sham surgery and risk complications, but it's unethical to do it with placebo thereby gaining knowledge that can save lots of lives down the line.

I guess it's a kind of trolley problem but have those been "solved"? Who decides if it's ethical or not? Why are they qualified to make such a decision?
My recollection from the time (I didn't work at either place but was in the general area) was that everyone assumed Google were delivering their performance by use of massive hardware resources (I heard 70K machines at the time). So perhaps AV folks just couldn't imagine getting the hardware budget to complete effectively?

It's also worthwhile I think to point out that at that time, it wasn't settled that "search engines" as we know them today (like Google) were _the_ way to use the Internet. There were alternatives such as Yahoo (curated directory), and browser-side catalogs (netscape.com home page) that were much more popular. So it is possible also that AV folks weren't exactly thinking "We have to light the afterburners to go after Google in this immensely important internet search space". They might have been thinking "odd, someone spent $xxxM on hardware to run a search engine, that'll never work out".
That sounds less like justice and more like fear tactics
On the flip side, I've been reading other's claim that we're entering into a new era of growth and productivity, perhaps fueled by competition with China. A cold war space race. Or maybe hitting the correct technological salients.

The examples these proponents cite are GPU explosion, deep learning, M1, Tesla, SpaceX, vast improvements to protein folding, CRISPR, etc.

It's a different perspective, and I'm not sure which one is a better predictor of the future.

I get the sense that we're in broad return to normal growth rates, as you say, but with isolated peaks of innovation that aren't enough to carry the entire economy.
Yeah, I also want filters, refinement, user preferences. etc.

And I want it to be social - I want to search using the same filters that Tim Bray uses.

Or I want to use the filters that the people use who in aggregate tend to click through to the same results pages that I visit.

So much amazing stuff could be done, but here we are controlled by algorithms that treat us all as brain dead sheep who only want to know about what the Kardashians are up to.

I suspect that Google knows about these desires, but would prefer the world where everyone is a sheep.
It seems like this is yet another problem caused by Facebook's dominance. You should be able to target ads without using ubiquitous tracking, by looking for forums, newsletters, podcasts, shows, meetups, etc. related to your target audience or product area. But if everybody uses Facebook for everything, you can't do any targeting, you have to just describe your audience to Facebook and ask them to please find people for you.

The internet should have made targeted marketing easier, because people would effectively target themselves by visiting sites devoted to topics and communities they care about, instead of everyone watching the same four TV channels. But Facebook wants to become the only "internet channel", monopolizing the ability to target and forcing you to go through them.
Sorry, but I don't believe it. Either you're astronomically lucky or you just don't pay attention to the detail of whats going on in the game around you. And that's fine, but it doesn't mean the bugs aren't there - it just means you didn't notice them. And hell, maybe that's to your benefit - I wish I could just not notice the bugs, it sure would make the game a lot funner.

>That's in 80h so far in the game.

FYI it was just discovered that if you play the game for too long, your save file becomes too big and will be corrupted. A moderator on the CDPR forums just said that "the game is intended to be finished within 30-50 hours" and playing longer than that is liable to break your game, and specifically you should avoid using the "Crafting" function at all because it will corrupt your save even faster.

https://old.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/comments/kg47yz/psa_y...
They said search was free. It could cost you dearly.
They’ve started with throwing 2 million into a concentration camp and are currently in the process of working them to death. Their families are being genetically wiped out with Han men literally taking the place of the previous Uyghur male. No, this is a literal holocaust/genocide.
Thanks. This is a common pattern:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
It’s not about caring but what survives. Viruses variants that regularly kills hosts are less likely to spread than ones that don’t.
I’m surprised the unavoidable progression breaking bugs are not the talking point. That isn’t acceptable in a fan creation from 2002, why is it acceptable for a AAA game in 2020? It isn’t. That’s why I returned the game. Animation bugs and unpolished gameplay are disappointing, but not over the invisible, constantly moving line of “what is acceptable behavior for game publishers”.
Wait until you hear about what the Times did with their reporting on the Iraq War...
Also (as mentioned in n1969) Microsoft’s “safe” functions do not conform to Annex K.
I agree not in all cases.

What if you are barely using that GPU though? Wouldn’t most the GPU RAM just be wasted while you did CPU intensive tasks?

Likewise in your example you might be using the GPU more so less RAM could now be allocated to the CPU to improve GPU performance by more efficiently using the available RAM
obviously it wasnt meant for the parent then.

i dont understand what you mean. can you expand?
Poll: Male or Female or Other
7 years since last poll [1]. Lets see where we are at now.

I cannot get Algolia to search polls [2], so some similar poll may have been asked in the last 7 years.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5520342

[2] - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=poll%3A%20male%20female&sort=byPopularity&type=story
> The attitude here is rapidly becoming "why should I bother if no one else is?". And frankly, I think the government know and encourage this. Its all but policy. Time and again we see them decline scientific advice, then act surprised when infection rates spike.

They always believed in "herd immunity", so they're going to run with the minimum restrictions that achieve an ""acceptable"" death rate.

We still don't have a great picture of what's driving the infections, due to the failure of track&trace. I suspect it's schools, universities, workplaces, and (unfortunately) hospitals, but I don't have handy evidence for that.

Having Folkestone jammed with containers of undistributed PPE while the clock runs down to the Brexit logistics crisis isn't helping either.

Anyway, the Tory public have been inexplicably satisfied with the performance so far, and are probably going to widely ignore the last-minute changes to Christmas rules.
This would be my main complaint about DDG: when there are no results for quoted search terms (but not when it's a single quoted term) it will just ignore the quotes and give results which most of the time are completely not what I need without even saying it is doing that, yet often it takes me a while to realize I made a typo and it's now giving me things I cannot use. IIRC it was not always like that though.