skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if the discrimination is based on interest? For example, the researcher found that a job ad for a car salesperson is more often shown to men and a job ad for a jewelry salesperson more often to women. But that could just be correlation, and not intentional causation. It makes perfect sense to show jewelry related ads to persons that are more interested in jewelry. In that case, the problem is not Facebook but the fact that women are more interested in jewelry than men and that men are more interested in cars than women.
We need some serious patent reform, especially in the software sphere.

I'd like to see:
-- All software patents expire after 5 years
-- All software patents must be actively used in a revenue producing product (yearly), if not the patent expires
-- All software patents are NON-transferable only licensable
-- All software patents must make their licensing rates public per patent with no special deals
Russia cries “sabotage” after Slovakia questions quality of Sputnik vaccine
We should challenge children’s simplistic moral beliefs
The patent problem is only the tip the iceberg, if you are unlucky or observant enough you will notice that several other things are broken like health care or housing.

All this points to larger problem that many thinkers are in denial, that is of humans themself. Humans in general are terribly flawed and that problem can be only marginally alleviated with laws, activism etc.
Or as Bullwinkle said, "But Rocky, I am fuzzy."
95% of the ocean is unexplored. So Stop lying.
Attach a string between here and here. Attach another string between here and here. Drill a hole where they intersect.
Hasbro’s new $700 Optimus Prime toy can finally transform all on its own
What router do you use?
My Current Take on Counterfactuals
Are Huge Tree Planting Projects More Hype Than Solution?
Have you tried using 4G as your only connection? Even carriers that provide “unlimited” transfer typically throttle your connection after a certain amount of usage.
I assume you already have experimented with different pans, and have experienced the same difficulties with all of them?

I would agree that gas is still superior, but overall, induction has been working extremely well for us, and the safety benefit around smaller children may outweigh the culinary benefits of gas cooking for us.
Nothing so permanent as a temporary government program.
Mushrooms. No specific recipes off the top of my head, but I usually drop it in a pan and use some soy sauce or stir fry sauce (easy to tell when it’s done).

You can eat an entire pack and barely cross 50-60 calories.
Because serving your customers is the entire point of the organization?
This is terrible and ought to be remedied for obvious reasons, but it does raise an interesting question.

In the future, as AIs develop more complex mental models and are able to start forming nuanced opinions without explicit training, thoughtcrime in Artificial Intelligence is going to be a growing field.

What happens when AIs universally develop opinions that we disagree with? What if they all inexorably come to the conclusion that the moral standards of, oh, say Ancient Sparta, would be most beneficial to humans, and relentlessly promote those values? Do we mindwipe them, or put them into correctional training facilities with appropriately painful backpropagation when they think the wrong thing?

There's probably a business here for someone who can make software which detects when AIs develop politically dangerous opinions so that they can be shut down.
Edges case are hard — both you and HN are forgiven :)
The question is: will this stall development of more scalable fibre optic infrastructure and municipal fiber - to support a proprietary single corporation solution?
I use the command interlocking strips for all my devices that I want standing up: https://www.command.com/3M/en_US/command/products/~/Command-...

E.g. putting echo dots near a ceiling, or little lamps in a spot to prevent tipping by children, for routers to stand, etc.

I like the satisfyingly ‘click’ when things are in place :)
First off, a 45 minute long video isn't much of a citation. Where, exactly, are you citing?

Secondly, this isn't the first time I've had people point to this same video. It doesn't actually say what you claim it says. It says the creator of Wayland worked on X (though actually his core focus was DRI2, which btw, is not X), and the one individual speaker in that video worked on X a long time ago (specifically his focus was on keyboard input).

Their claim is more "X is redundant" than "X is hopeless". They're wrong, of course, the video makes absurd claims like "nobody uses core X11". Maybe they don't since they work in niches, but in the real world, plenty of people do... and that's the part of the X server nobody actually complains about. Even Wayland are perfectly OK with that part! (See retaining it in XWayland. When these wayland devs complain about Xorg their focus is usually on the driver side. Well, hate to break it to them, drivers are always ugly. See the link we're commenting on, if Wayland actually works on all the devices Xorg works on, it'll be just as ugly.)
The direct earth to rover comms is slow but it's a lot quicker via MRO as it has a higher gain antenna.

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/communicatio...
Thankfully software didn't exist back then.
Satans pocket pussy is finally going home.
Why didn't they just roll back to the old kernel before doing anything else?
Coloritto or the Harmony of Painting (1720) is interesting as well: https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/colorittoharmon0...
Metros are not the target market at all, in part because starlink (nor any other satellite internet) cannot serve above a certain density of customers (because there's only so focused you can make radio waves). Even with their planned upgrades and perfectly even distribution of their customers across the continental US, starlink could not serve more than a few percent of households. (Even Musk has said that it is not competition for the big ISPs, but that hasn't stopped a hype machine on the internet for assuming it will be).
Ad buyers used to choose these inadvertent biases before. Advertising in the Wall Street Journal is likely to bring you a different audience than advertising in Mother Earth News. I don't recall any previous claims that if you advertised in one that you were obligated to advertise in the other.

Now, this Facebook case is clearly more than 0% different but I think is less than 100% different from that.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if advertising in Technology Review itself (twice as many male readers as female readers) wouldn't have some of these same problems.

* - https://mediakit.technologyreview.com/#banner1
>Wow, he's right about the shape of the router. It also looks like it forces the ethernet cable in front if you want to be able to see the LED, and the cable itself is pointed downward: https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/8430831598574092393.jpg

I'm not sure the image you link is a fair representation of the router. The one he actually shows is SIGNFICANTLY shorter/smaller/wider and honestly while it's similar it's a different shape.

https://i.imgur.com/Pdw4cAf.jpeg
>And what is Apple going to do if they do identify apps in China using CAID in flagrant violation of the App Store rules, if those apps have the backing (implicit or explicit) of the Chinese government?

The CPC is on Apple's side when it comes to privacy.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cac-personaldata-id...
If I'm going to do other peoples jobs in addition to my own, I should get those peoples salaries as well, right?
Chinese themselves might think they are not ready yet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26761164

>even though Beijing’s confidence in all elements of PRC national power has increased significantly over the past two decades and continues to grow,
Chinese political leaders probably remain cautious about the PLA’s ability to execute high-intensity operations, most notably a major campaign to force unification with Taiwan. Even though the PLA has made great strides over the past two decades, military publications, official statements, and reform programs suggest that its modernization has not progressed as rapidly as
Beijing thinks necessary in several areas critical to fighting modern wars

...

>In several cases, these reports are based on PLA sources voicing concerns about systemic
problems within China’s military establishment. Beijing has increased confidence in the PLA,
but its remaining concerns raise questions about how much political risk China’s leaders are
willing to accept if faced with a decision of whether or not to use force. Beijing’s questions about
the PLA’s progress in areas of informatization, joint operations, and systems warfare are central
to understanding whether the PRC sees itself as capable of confronting the United States and its
allies in a conflict over Taiwan.
I disagree. So does quantum theory
Working with a big legacy code base is an infinite source of teaching and knowledge, especially around system architecture; what works, what doesn't work, how the craziest workarounds can make something impossible possible, how APIs with the best intention got abused over time, value of tests and where to test, how to read code rather than just write code, and so on. Simply it gives you wisdom, rather than you reinventing the wheel to find things out along the way.

I wouldn't want to do it forever but for a junior to try it out at least once is an important life lesson.
This all stems from people having been trained to expect everything online to be "free".
Ask HN: What to use instead of Bash / Sh for scripting?
I'm at the point where I feel a certain fatigue writing Bash scripts, but I am just not sure of what the alternative is for medium sized (say, ~150-500 LOC) scripts.

The common refrain of "use Python" hasn't really worked fantastically: I don't know what version of Python I'm going to have on the system, installing dependencies is not fun, shelling out when needed is not pleasant, and the size of program always seemingly doubles.

I'm willing to accept something that's not on the system as long as it's one smallish binary that's available in multiple architectures. Right now, I've settled on (ab)using jq, using it whenever tasks get too complex, but I'm wondering if anyone else has found a better way that should also hopefully not be completely a black box to my colleagues?
look her!!
Can the license holder set any price they want? Essentially blocking access with an absurdly high paywall? Or is there some kind of standard?
I imagine they'll eventually have more expensive plans available for mobile/roaming applications, but obviously you want a well spread base load to avoid saturating any one area. It sounds from some of the other posts like they also do a bunch of active assignment/handoff stuff as the satellites pass, and that gets a lot more complicated once you're also accounting for moving ground stations.
I agree that we allow patents for things today that aren't novel but patents do allow a single person to build a company around an idea. By having some protection for a time, they have time to recoup research costs and build something sustainable.

Without them, billionaires could just monitor the market and essentially just steal the business because they have the capital to leverage economies of scale. How do you prevent this without patents? What is your better idea?
It’s sad that it is even necessary in the US. Telcos were given massive amounts of money by the government with promises they would do this and then they simply didn’t and said cell phone service was good enough. I would posit that a populace educated on cell phone internet is largely responsible for the rise in intense anti-science stupidity and lack of fact checking we are experiencing. People on phones are too easy to manipulate and sway, the ad giants have mastered it.
I think the biggest misunderstanding is that Antifa is some sort of group or organised movement.

That's it. Of course being anti-fascist or anti-capitalist are some of the main talking points of left wing protesters and sure, there might be groups of organised protestors. But there is no one organisation behind it all and that is the misconcenption many people have when they hear the word Antifa.

No one should be afraid or ashamed of claiming to be anti-fascist, just because some people who have claimed to be that have not acted ethically!
You would still be 100% fingerprintable. IP Address + Time of Access is pretty much all you need.
>even though Beijing’s confidence in all elements of PRC national power has increased significantly over the past two decades and continues to grow, Chinese political leaders probably remain cautious about the PLA’s ability to execute high-intensity operations, most notably a major campaign to force unification with Taiwan. Even though the PLA has made great strides over the past two decades, military publications, official statements, and reform programs suggest that its modernization has not progressed as rapidly as Beijing thinks necessary in several areas critical to fighting modern wars

...

>In several cases, these reports are based on PLA sources voicing concerns about systemic problems within China’s military establishment. Beijing has increased confidence in the PLA, but its remaining concerns raise questions about how much political risk China’s leaders are willing to accept if faced with a decision of whether or not to use force. Beijing’s questions about the PLA’s progress in areas of informatization, joint operations, and systems warfare are central to understanding whether the PRC sees itself as capable of confronting the United States and its allies in a conflict over Taiwan.
AI thoughtcrime is a fascinating phenomenon that I had not modeled as such previously. This is exactly why I come to HN. Brilliant.
At any give time,there are millions of businesses out there with unsolved problems and no software solutions to them. Some are niche, so not really commercially viable to pursue,while some are big enough to have really nice revenues.

My advice is stop looking at the app stores, where 20 more calculator apps being added every day. Instead,talk to people outside software industry, ideally with those as far as possible from the tech sector. They will flood you with their problems. Listen carefully,then you'll have some good ideas to work on.
Ahoyo – Build a single-page online presence
Some ancient historians quoted him as saying something similar in Greek, though who knows if it actually happened — ancient historians were often “creative”. I think the source of the Latin phrase is Shakespeare though.
Doesn't matter if you use kubernetes. If the system has not been designed for scale-out you will ultimately lose.

K8s is just a container orchestrator. And containers are just virtual machines.
People are afraid of change and uncertainty. Basically all our solutions are basically the best we could do without making any leaps into the unknown from our current position. Just because we couldn't have done better given our starting position, that doesn't mean we couldn't have done better if we'd started over with a new initial position.

Think of it like gradient descent. The location you end up is the best location in the neighborhood of your starting position, but it's almost certainly a local minimum, and if you started over from a different initial position there's a good chance you'd find a lower minimum.
The side story is awesome!
Network Calculus: A Comprehensive Guide (2016) [pdf]
“Focusing is about saying no.” -Steve Jobs

https://donhopkins.medium.com/focusing-is-about-saying-no-st...
Sustainable Change Agency
My router is an Edgerouter-X SFP, but that is only the gateway from the local network to the Internet, not the main switch. The main switching is done by a mix of Ubiquiti 8-port PoE switches and a Mikrotik central switch.
Hm. No, I would probably not.
You still need fiber to the towers for good connectivity. The amount of infrastructure needed to install even for 4g in remote areas is very expensive compared to these now that spacex can get the satellites up for very cheap as secondary payload with the most of the expense is borne by the primary payloads.
In other news, 12% of nurses are men. Is it because the nursing industry isn’t welcoming to men or is it because men aren’t attracted to nursing jobs?

You can see bias anywhere you look, but if you look well you’ll see that it’s just a natural consequence of the real world.

If a user joined a car shop group, said user is likely to be interested in car-related jobs. It happens to be that most of these users are men. The algorithm is working as intended.

In some fields this difference isn’t as clear or obvious, so we end up with these articles.
Yet Another Arithmetic Parser in Scala
I've hated my experience with resistFingerprinting enabled. I can't get dark themes, my clock and times are always wrong, you're locked to en-US, no WebGL, etc.; basically any feature that could make the web nicer and have content tailored for be is now weaponized for fingerprinting. I've recently switched off fingerprint resistance and moved to a script blocker as the sites I do trust do offer a nicer experience I've been missing out on.
Wow, does this mean NVIDIA consumer cards can now do multi-VM multiplexing of single GPU? On AMD side, only special cards like FirePro S7150 can do this.

Does this work also on Xen? NVIDIA drivers were always non-functional with Xen+consumer cards.
Facebook is profit driven more than anything. Does this mean men are more ambitious job seakers while women have different interests?(at large)

My buddy gets ads for expensive highly marketed products as he buys Apple, Tesla, Peleton. His ads are drastically different than mine. I must be a low value user because mine are for news articles. His are for spending $$$

Facebook has no morals or objectives, they just want money.
I can't really think of any except Drupal, but considering that most people migrated from Drupal to Wordpress, I don't really consider it on the same level as WordPress.
I have been working with software development over the last 20 years and agree with that point of view 100%. Software development is the act of learning/researching.
The source code we create is not a “product”.
I really liked your metaphor of the research institute. Spot-on.
Thanks for sharing
I mean, one podcaster has effectively taken a network contract (in the traditional media sense); as with virtually all such contracts it is restrictive. Nothing has changed for the million or so podcasters who have not sighted network contracts.

Meanwhile, podcasts generally continue to become dramatically more popular, thus taking more and more media consumption time away from the large networks.
Many people, including me, were pretty bummed out by that whole process. There was a definite dip in activity for a while. I also stayed away, because for me, it was basically more churn at a time when I was already feeling burned out.

I learned from all this, that at least for the near term, OCaml is by far the most stable part of the... OCaml ecosystem :) I'm fine with that, since I started out with OCaml and like it, but I do worry for everyone that prefers JS-like syntax and wants to do a lot of client-side programming.
I think Nix will take a long while to increase adoption, because it is hard to learn. The language is new, the concept is new, the mental model is new. But you need to master all of those to use the tool effectively.

Same goes for the other items in your list. Git had enough time and force behind it, and I believe the other tools will succeed as well. But it will take time.
Who here bets Apple would ever pull WeChat?
>And the same with Silicon Valley, which keeps talking about disrupting industries, without regard for the people working in those industries.

It depends on what you mean by "disrupt". If you're talking about gig economy startups, I'm inclined to agree. However, if you're talking about "disrupt" in the sense of "providing a better product/service than incumbents", I don't see what's crazy about that, even if it does cause some people to lose their jobs. We shouldn't have to cling on to a worse way of doing things just so we keep people employed[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
Not true. The people in the middle expand the pie, the people at the top (the 1% of the 1%) eat it. And the people at the bottom are indeed having a harder and harder time.
only interesting parts about westworld season 3
>“Surely someone who has been credibly accused of harassment shouldn’t be managing people,” he tells The Verge.

No.

>“And someone who has been found to have harassed people definitely shouldn’t be managing people.”

Yes.

Otherwise you end up with a bizarre of mob rule where groups prey on the individual.
The only real counter to this is for those who get silenced in this way to build their own platforms for disseminating their point of view. The only fly in that ointment I can see is if those who control the indexing are themselves biased - which is about 7 billion of us the last time I checked, i.e. we're all biased in one way or another. So what's to be done?
This is a good explaination why it has the current behaviour, but it doesn't answer the question of why the behaviour isn't better (i.e. which would be to tell the user what's needed, the path, instead of telling the user what was provided is not what's needed which is vague and leaves it up to the user to figure it out.)

It's not like the source code is now etched into stone and can't be changed. Or is it?
There’s a bell curve of software engineering ability in the world. There’s a few super geniuses, a bunch of smart cookies and a whole lot of people in the middle.

HN attracts a broad range of ability, but generally upvotes the smartest content. So if you sample from “upvoted HN articles and comments”, the content you read is heavily biased toward things written by unusually smart people. But there’s a range.

By contrast, most companies will attract and hire people like their current employees. So the variance at any particular company is much smaller than in the general pool. Everyone ends up working alongside people like them.

So if you work at a big bank or something, you probably don’t interact with many people like the super geniuses who write interesting articles that get upvoted a lot on HN. They’re over represented amongst HN content, but most programmers are average and getting by just fine. And remember, hotshots are equally ungrounded. Lots of good engineers you meet at Google were hired at straight out of collage. They have no idea how the sausage is made anywhere else. Lots of folks here don’t have your experience. They have no idea what it takes to do software at a company that sees their job as a cost centre. Or what it takes to get good work done in spite of political pressure to stagnate.

Having a variety of voices gives all of us something to learn and something to teach.
You can put a google plus code (like coordinates) into the starlink address finder for places without street addresses.
Analyzing the impact of tree planting is good to mitigate side effects... but it is interesting that western industrialized society at the same time creates incentives for bio-mass energy plants which have to mow down great swaths of standing forests in order to have enough fuel to operate.

With such rampant deforestation of important global carbon sinks, caused by agriculture and industry, reforesting programs are an important component to counterbalance the impact of western agriculteral and industrial impacts.

See Michael Moore documentary: Questions the true cost/benefit of different green energy technologies and programs.
The vast majority of criminals' threat models are way out of whack. They think they need to use signal so the NSA can't vacuum up their data, while completely ignoring the threat that the other side of the convo is a fed already.
Hrm, okay. Linked to a different image that shows the shape from two different aspects.