skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how you think my list would bifurcate into multiple lists.

> It's obviously caused by studying the people who present, and then demographics changing. Nobody made a decision here with any ill intent. Both the hospital and the insurance company share the patient's interest in them getting better and are already looking for better data.

Not a single example I gave was the result of ill intent. That's literally the point of my list. There's a difference between systemic bias and intentional bias. These are examples of systemic bias.

> A higher chance of any offense, or of being a burden to society?

I provided the link which answers your question. In this case, it predicted a higher likelihood of future crime for a kid who attempted to steal someone's bike and scooter, than for an adult who had shoplifted, been previously convicted of armed robbery, and served 5 years in prison already.

> Kids are more likely to commit smaller crimes, and those are a gateway to larger crimes that then put you away until you're a hardened repeat felon.

Your logic seems to acknowledge that one of the large drivers of crime is being "put away" in prison. In this case, the algorithm predicted a higher likelihood of committing future crimes for a kid than for someone who had already served 5 years in prison for armed robbery. Even worse is that the algorithm was being used to determine the severity of their respective punishments. So, the act of predicting a higher likelihood of future crime for the kid becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, giving her a harsher sentence, which in turn is more likely to drive her toward future crime. This is systemic bias in action.
The Mathematics of How Connections Become Global
May I ask, how is it possible the previous code was in the code base at all when it was of so poor quality?

Btw. thank you (and all the people that probably help you here and there) for Wireguard. I put a lot of trust into You/ Wireguard and I am hardly the only one. So I am all for quality and security even if it takes as long as it takes. It is really a huge progress we have a useable and _simple_ VPN protocol and widespread implementations of it.
It doesn’t take long for government to own everything if they take 2.5% every year.
I wouldn't give them 10x, but certainly 2-3x for junior developers compared to predecessors and 1.2x for others. Which is still incredibly significant and nothing to sneeze at.
Ah yes, a secure platform is the same as an aftermarket graphics card. Boy I wish I could disable SIP on my mac and then boot whatever I want or install whatever kernel extensions I want... oh wait. I can!
> Oddly enough, your scenario of high expert adding their expertise to the system is much more like the original Gofai model where a few experts would hypothetically program in their expertise. That scenario fell with difficulty of expertise programming. The present systems can't work that way.

Taking a generalized approach will fail. Taking a tailored, domain-specific one that incrementally carves out use cases will be the basis of future success in these spaces.
> Experts Exchange also used to do that awful thing where they let Google index the solution but would hide it from visitors until they'd signed in.

This might make someone here angry that they weren't aware of it (or make them smile):

This is how they did it:

The answers were always visible if you just scrolled far enough down the page.

At least that is how I experienced it - and I thought every oldtimer knew! :-)
Keep plugging. If this stuff was easy, everyone would do it.
if i work with outcasts that fit my personality i get positive points and get back to the top. No? (btw. is there a formula how that score works. maybe older votes expire)
Why in the world would you own bonds?
Compromising a third-party to inject code into your public & private repositories is going to be a future supply-chain compromise similar to Solarwinds
Yeah! And Warlords for the Atari 800 (or "Castle Crisis," which is a homebrew / arcade-perfect port of the arcade version of Warlords) with some friends and real paddle controllers is a lot of fun.
Newer generations of DRAM (both GDDRx and the DDRx used in desktops and servers) are dense enough that they need on-die ECC. But that only offers some protection for data at rest, while the traditional kind of ECC involves also transmitting extra bits in order to also protect against transmission errors, providing end-to-end data protection. I don't think Nvidia has started allowing the latter kind of ECC to be enabled on consumer products.
Show HN: A mobile app to keep monthly bills organized similar to spreadsheets
Carl Sagan Describing Books
Right, states have (and should) have absolute libery to block foreign connections. I feel uneasy about the idea that the internet should be completely open and global. First because if we think about most organisms and states and houses, they all form walls in order to protect themselves, open is synonymous with infections or intruders. Second because in the end it will never be global, it will just answer to those who have the most power, which happens to be those who created it (US of A).
Then dont do business with that developer/company.

You cant force a seller/company to accept every form of payment or payment processor. Especially one that takes 30% cut, and says they cant sell their goods themself to people (aka sideload).

Not only does such system seem insane for a normal payment processor. It also effects you the purchaser in multiple ways. Since to use this payment system you cant make the choice to buy anything but through them. It also prevents in you from fully owning your own hardware.

So the end results they force both developers and users through them. I find the effect of not allowing side-loading even more egregious because once apple sells the phone they no longer own it.
REST/modern interface specs and DX tooling is probably a 2x over SOAP for me. Not 10x, but the reduction in interface and validation issues has led to a vast improvement in consuming APIs from other organisations.
> How many people would click through on "Let ACME corp act on your behalf on your Citibank Account"

Banking is a terrible example because it's literally how it works. Try to link a bank account to PayPal or TransferWise, they'll ask you your username and password for your online account to that bank, and the next screen asks for the verification text you got as they literally log in as you. And ACH, the system your employer uses to direct deposit your salary also allows for withdrawals.

Hopefully security is better where the author is writing from...
> Cars are out in the sun

Are they? Cars spend a fair amount of time under things that would block sunlight; there are garages in all sorts of buildings from your bare-bones detached house garage to multistory affairs, and even if they're outside they're often parked under trees, or in streets and lots shaded by buildings. So it makes already intermittent solar even more situational.

In fact, in hot climates, people take care to park their cars in shade, because the last thing people want is for their car to be baking in the sun.
The worst reactor idea: The OhioVR mantis reactor
Whoa, mind blown thanks for the tip
Would you like to own Exist?
Origins of Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua May Finally Be Explained
I have taken the Moderna vaccine. So I'm obviously not an anti-vaxxer.

However, it does concern me to a great deal about all of this, and it reflects my previous worries. My biggest concern is that from the article, these mRNA strands appear to have not only degraded but formed into new "species". What if the mRNA causes the body to produce prions that leads to something like Mad Cow Disease? The fact that Moderna isn't saying anything is very disconcerting.
> From memory it wasn't too hard of a read.

When considered among others in its genre, neither did it stand out. With rare exception, all of the "science for the public" books seem to be written at a 12 year old reading level (exceptions I know of are The Tao of Physics (requiring a slighting higher reading level) and especially Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (does anyone understand this!?))
"lo-res is old"

This is exactly what the product people who are building blazing fast, high spec laptops with top-of-the-line circa 2006 displays need to hear.
> But it was driven by fear of the other and I'm not sure that ultimately that's a good motivation.

That’s already here again. We may as well do something good with it.
It looks like none of the data was actually altered. What actual difference does an additional screenshot make, or the renaming of a file, or the reshuffling of user files? If the data was valid before those changes, those kinds of changes aren't going to invalidate it.
Not all scientific papers become public. The OP wants to make them so. So in cases where the resulting papers would be classified or in proprietary publications these could no longer touch public money, no matter how small.

This affects every part of the research process. Buy an electron microscope with $1 of govt money and 1m of private, then can this be used for any research that is not 100% freely given to the public?

The cross contamination problems would be a nightmare.

It's a terrible proposal.
I get the same thing. My last name isn't that common though so I've messaged the culprits specifically (especially if they use their phone number when signing up for whatever it is) to ask them to please stop using it.

Someone will have the idea and sign up for 5-6 things all in one burst, which usually inspires my outreach.
You could claim you meant to send it to someone else. It might lead them to doable those notifications.
I also have <last name>@gmail.com. It’s not a super common last name, but common enough that I get emails almost daily from people accidentally omitting a first initial.
Foreign Meddling Flooded the 2020 Election–But Not by Hackers
Is that true? Do you have a source for that?
One thing that surprised me recently was the electricity released by tearing and pulling off tape. I was trying to make some direct exposures onto photographic paper inside a camera obscura. Inside the very dark room I could see bursts static electricity every time I tore off a bit of tape. And when I went to remove some double sided tape from the back of photo paper, it also lit up, hopefully not leaving some strips on my exposure.
Not really related to fungi, but maybe about as curiously surprising.
I would hardly call it being able to run the app on a device for only 7 days before the app no longer runs not having to pay for apple. You still need a developer account to sign your app with a digital signature blessed by apple otherwise after 7 days it no longer will run.
How do we know that your comment is not a misinformation campaign?

Shoo.
Our Civic had some premium Michelin tires on it when we got it. They had zero traction in the winter. Slid through far too many intersections and was all too happy to see them go.
Open standards, sort of. People could in theory take a game license they bought through some other service supporting NFT game licenses, and move it to Steam, or vice-versa. Steam et al would essentially be crypto wallets that let you download+play the games corresponding to the licenses they held. (Better yet if they’re non-custodial, actually. Decouple the responsibilities of originating licenses [i.e. buying games] from fulfilling game installs given licenses.)

Also, presuming Steam was coerced by industry/government pressure into supporting NFTs, it would also mean that you could resell the games even if Valve didn’t want to support that. As long as the game-license NFT was a regular ERC722 token, its owner would always be able to move it around—such as to someone else in exchange for payment.
That is not-git, storing files this way will not increase your repo size. Same with git-annex, same with commiting .txt files with a URL to a file on S3.
"pumping his book..."??! Strange images move to the foreground of my imagination of things I thought could (or should) never be done...
>If Apple would be environmentally friendly and allow people to repair and upgrade their computers, we wouldn’t even be having this discussion, because I’d have a 1TB SSD in my MacBook Air, and it would have cost me $100.

I mean, yeah. This is the one thing that's basically inarguable. Their computers increasingly do not contain serviceable parts, except for the Mac Pro, which is absurdly expensive. I suspect they just prefer compactness and longer battery life to repairable devices. I have to admit this isn't something I care about very much because I don't upgrade my machines and I use them until they break, which is often around a decade with Macs. Because you have different preferences I can see how you'd find these changes upsetting.
I came to the comments as soon as I read that part. It's funny they probably don't realize that's what FI aggregation at their bank is doing. Screen scraping is a necessary evil until we can get banks in America with APIs.
There are plenty of union Jack’s in England, and Tricolores in France.
I think this is my favorite comment in the whole thread. The reasons you outline are exactly how I feel when it comes to priorities here, and how I feel his conduct was -- Despite everything maintaining friendliness while being attacked for making technical criticisms was incredibly commendable.
That surprises me because memory corruption in something like texture-memory for game world rendering is far-less important than memory corruption in shader program memory. GPU memory needs to be fast, and ECC can slow it down - and add cost. So if they were going to use ECC in gaming GPUs I’d expect it to be limited to areas reserved for shader programs and “program state” rather than output texture memory. If all of VRAM is ECC backed then I’m wowed and kudos to NVIDIA for doing that.
I remember this topic coming up at work and I said something along the lines of why would anyone provide their online bank account credentials to another service in order for them to verify your account and other members of my team (all software developers and operations) didn't see a problem with it.

It seems like there's a significant disconnect between what people believe is good security practice.
I tried to learn Delphi on an existing Delphi project.

My experience was one of hunting dependencies in bookshelves, file serves, (defunct) vendor web sites and also source forge.

That was the point were I grokked the immense value of Maven.
In general it is right to assume that free capital will be used as productively as possible.
IMO thickness isn't a much problem but weight and footprint is.
> How do you isolate things when there's shared memory?

That's precisely what actors aim to solve. Actors pass messages, not memory.

> Akka

If you look at an actor framework built in a feature-rich language (Orleans), that problem isn't apparent at all. Even Rust, with all the ownership complexity, manages to do elegantly handle actors, without an explicit plan to do so. Your critique is more relevant to Java than actor libraries.
Alternatively, where it _would_ be a good idea to produce spores if you want to hitch a ride on some passing foot traffic.
7 days longer than you should own an idevice.
So DoD wants more money for a war it will never fight.

All those ships and planes won’t stop the Chunnel.
> It included only two other people, both young graduate students in his lab at the university. It made no products. It had no plans to make a product. And its website offered nothing but a name, DNN-research, which was even less inviting than the sparse page.

Were the students or Hinton under any obligation to stay at DNN-research?
Your analysis above is a prime example of how dangerous statistics can be when not properly considered. Even if we took your numbers above as truth, it actually does not indicate that the system isn't biased. In order to determine that you'd need to know what percentage of each group _not_ labeled as high risk never re-offended. You're only analyzing the true positive rate without taking into account the false negative rate. You'd need to know how many people in each group that weren't labeled went on to re-offend.

Thankfully, the article I linked to looked at both:

White African American
Labeled Higher Risk, But Didn’t Re-Offend 23.5% 44.9%
Labeled Lower Risk, Yet Did Re-Offend 47.7% 28.0%
I guess newbies don't read the FAQ and look at the types of posts inherent to the site before posting anymore. You'll be hard pressed to find giggly "Let's make this fun!!!" posts here (thankfully).

Jokes aside - I'm really not that much of a grump, and I appreciate that you did start the title with Ask HN:, so there's no expectation of the question itself being particularly informative. So I'll bite and try to provide an informative response:

What is addictive to me is that HN posts don't tend to devolve into nonsense, and you can learn something from people who expand on the topic at hand without hitting the dead ends that cynicism and lack of general etiquette from random bad actors derailing otherwise perfectly good and interesting threads tend to cause.

Your comparison with FB threads needs a re-think. I read the comment section in HN, but not FB, not Reddit, not CNN, definitely not Fox, etc., for exactly that reason. It's refreshing to see intelligent conversation that isn't polluted and killed off with goofiness or pseudo-anonymous one-upmanship. When I want that, I just go to Twitter (which I do). Twitter has "twit" in the name for a reason. Tell all the jokes and get it out of your system there. There is no written or unwritten law that says the entire Internet has to be memes and silliness.

Hacker News is awesome and different because it is News for Hackers. Right there in the name, and accentuated by the lack of all the trappings one typically finds at a goofy-positive posting site.
This has been bothering me for a while too.

Without repo-specicific permissions at least, it sort of requires me to have separate github accounts for personal stuff, work stuff, contract stuff (per client) etc, doesn't it?

Even if I'm willing to risk Some Serivce(tm) having write access to all my repos cause I want it for a personal project, I can't ethically give it access to work/client repos too.

And yet, I must. Or have a bunch of different accounts. Who can keep track of that? I think most people just end up, dangerously and arguably unethically, giving a service access to all their client/work projects, when they wanted it on only one of them.

In some cases github via Oauth or whatever is going on seems to give more granular access. I've seen it look entirely different (like entirely different screens) in different contexts I"m auth'ing some third party service. Maybe it's different historical APIs all still in use? I can't keep track of what's going on, it just all confuses me -- which makes it even harder to know if a service is asking for appropriate permissions or not, I'm not really sure what the possiblities are, they seem very inconsistent.
Only a few percent of papers submitted actually get published. There is some amount of work involved. Also, these top journals hire full time editors (former scientists in ther field).
> infinitely scalable writes

Scalable receive, but having to send hundred of thousands of objects one-by-one is very inefficient. The fact that there are hundreds of thousands of servers to receive them does not help you.

(and same problem when you pull)
I think you are trying to claim that Google goes further than DVD or netflix, but this analogy is really not working for you.

DVDs have technological protection as well -- the CSS[0] system. So yes, if you don't want your movie to be pirated you need to explicitly enable this. This was probably harder than creating robots.txt too, there were NDAs and stuff involved.

The netflix requires logging in to access the content. If you add the same requirement, then Google is not going to take your snippets.

Unlike the string "nosteal", the robots.txt file is not Google invention, it is as much part of the web standards as all other technologies.

If you want a website, you need a server which can support HTTP, HTML, CSS, links, robots.txt and so on. You can omit parts you don't need, but then you _may_ suffer the consequences -- without CSS your site will be ugly, and without robots.txt your site will be scraped by Google.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Scramble_System
Cars can be a great value, an expensive convenience, or a total burden depending on how these numbers actually work out and where you live and what you do. If you feel like a car is necessary, then the math probably makes sense. If you're at all hesitant, then the numbers would have to be very compelling to be at all compelling. Regardless, they only really work out if you actually have it for a very long time. If I wanted to purchase one for a year, and then resell, I'd lose a lot of money to taxes and depreciation, especially if it's new. Likewise, it's a huge liability that you just don't have if you don't have one.
I think you misunderstand what's happening with macOS resolution scaling. What you're describing is assets being rendered down and getting blurry; but this doesn't happen to text because text is vectorized. You're right that some assets like icons and such will be less sharp at 1.5x than 2x, because 2x will have an actual asset and 1.5x will have to be scaled down.

How does Windows fix this? I have used so many Win32 apps that are jus broken in one way or another on HiDPI displays, most shockingly Visual Studio, my experience of HiDPI on Windows is always worse.
When did we try socialism?
Now that I think of it, I've created something that has a minimum level of correlation...

http://prehistoric.tech/

Though this one is more about society simulation then evolution, it does come with a command line for control.
In other words, the problem is with describing secret information as "public".
> Try to link a bank account to PayPal or TransferWise, they'll ask you your username and password for your online account to that bank

I don't remember having to do that for paypal. I do remember them asking for the routing and account number and that they asked me to verify the cash amount of a deposit they made in order to confirm the account.

I went through a similar procedure when I added my bank account as an external account to my E-trade account. I never had to provide my online banking credentials (though it was an option, I opted to verify deposit amounts instead).
Even if they do some CA-side revoking crap you could just have your system not check, or revert to a previous state in which the signature was not revoked.
Strong disagree. It was slow, had barely any features compared to, say, the Nokia N95. Sure, it made leaps with certain key mobile features, e.g. voicemail and the chat-like SMS interface, but it was a big step down from the N95 overall in almost every other area.
The problem with the current climate change is the rate of change. Yes, the climate has been warmer at various times in the past and life survived (though it changed as a result). The problem is that the rate of change is too fast for ecosystems to adjust without collapsing. Plants can’t adapt and move quickly enough. The animals that depend on them cannot evolve fast enough to avoid starvation. Extinctions happen faster and greater as a result. That is bad for humans.

Even in those slower climate changes in the past, areas suitable for agriculture were often deserts or otherwise unsuitable for human needs.

Humans can adapt to some extent but we are dependent on the ecosystems around us. As we try to adapt, you see floods, fires, drought, disease, starvation. these lead to migration, conflict and war. Even if you survive the changes, it may not be a world that you want to live in.
Like you call the ground earth or you call ground earth? I fail to see how earth is less ambiguous.