skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When this story first broke, I commented elsewhere on HN that Dr. Gebru's first mistake was expecting Google to be in any way actually interested in her worthwhile mission. Of course it doesn't care about her, or sexism in the workplace, or the ethics of AI. It cares about making money and doing things that help it make more.

Google doesn't care if Dr. Gebru starts arguments or is rude or is friendly or is right or is wrong. It only cares that she doesn't screw with their money, and instead does things which helps them make more - in her case, by being a diverse face for their "ethical AI" idea, which is a facially absurd thing to expect an ad company to actually care about.

If she'd wanted to keep her job, the best thing to do would have been to focus on papers that critique the competition, and leave the critique of Google to people who don't work at Google. I don't blame her or anyone for making the mistake of thinking Google was sincere in its desire for her to do the job she did - but I think the truth is that she was fired not because she was Black or a woman or anything else (not that those things helped) but because whether she realized it or not, she wasn't doing the job Google actually wanted her to do.
Then lets pay everyone well to dig holes in their backyard and fill them in.

Employing people is great gain only if they do something productive. If you can employ less people that is greater gain because those others can do something else useful.
Stomp over a WebSocket Client in Elixir
The infection fatality rate varies exponentially with age. A good rule-of-thumb is that for a given age group, the IFR of catching Covid is about the same as the all-cause mortality risk over one year of life. It just so happens that these two numbers are about the same, when looking at age groups.

Edit: nicely presented here: https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3259
Imagine if we discover most of the brain's functionality isn't in the brain or any other identifiable part of the body. Rather the brain just connects to something else, that's outside the known timespace.
Not all of the patterns are winners, but some of them are really out there. I still love it for how many hit the mark.
https://images.app.goo.gl/DNxvzybgtukyPAtLA
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This pricing strategy is as common for the auto industry as in any other: [1] "If one company bundles products, its competitors are always better off not bundling; the thing to avoid is a head-to-head competition wherein the only way to get an edge is by cutting prices"

If/when VW unbundles their pricing, another auto player will come up with a alternative version of that, and it is to consumers/gov. To decide if this is fair and advantageous.

[1] https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/bundling/
My initial reaction to the headline was something along the lines of “ugh, this is awful, I can never own anything anymore.”

Then I thought about it some more. I would be 100% okay with this if Volkswagon is taking responsibility for damage caused by accidents. It makes sense that way, because every additional hour on the road adds additional risk for VW.

Whereas if I owned the self-driving software (as part of the car), I would probably expect to still be culpable in an accident. It wasn’t my fault, sure, but it was my equipment.

Whether the real world will sort itself out so logically is another matter.
The physics of financial networks
Some of the co-authors / contributors of A Pattern Language distilled the original >200 patterns to what they though were the 10 most essential in the book Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design:

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/885970.Patterns_of_Home

* http://www.architectureweek.com/topics/patterns.html
They're not trying to make fun of smart people, they're trying to basically to Shyamalan the research, so every next paragraph wows you with its unexpected plot twists.
No, society already compensates for this with higher salaries for tall people.
Here are the numbers:

Total participants: 52238.

Previously infected: 2579, of whom 1220 vaccinated, 1359 not vaccinated. No subsequent infections in either of these groups.

Not previously infected: 49659, of whom 29461 vaccinated (15 subsequent infections), 20198 not vaccinated (2139 subsequent infections).

Comparing previous infection with vaccination, we have 0/1359 infections in the previously infected and 15/29461 infections otherwise. According to Fisher's exact test, the two-tailed P-value for this is 1.0, which is very much not significant. You're correct to say that the study doesn't show how vaccines compare to previous infection. The study is way underpowered to show that.

For the unvaccinated, it gets more interesting. We have 0/1359 infections versus 2139/20198. According to Fisher, that has a P-value of 2 * 10^-64, which is most definitely significant. The study is not underpowered to show this at all. A previous infection is definitely protective.

With the caveat that the participants didn't have asymptomatic screening, so there is quite possibly bias due to people with a previous infection getting a second milder case and not being tested.

Using the exact method, 95% confidence intervals for infection rate are:

Previously infected, not vaccinated: 0% to 0.3%

Previously infected, vaccinated: 0% to 0.3%

Not previously infected, not vaccinated: 10.1% to 11.0%

Not previously infected, vaccinated: 0.03% to 0.08%
> in order to focus on cyber crimes

That's the thing, I don't focus on cyber crimes, I focus on regular crime. There's always a digital aspect in crimes these days.

I can't tell you what you can join in the US, however, since that's not where I'm located. But it could be useful to check vacancies at local police forces, since they might also have positions for people with digital skill sets, just not cyber crime related, per se.
Nowhere, that's kind of the definition of God (for a Christian at least): it always was, and is the ultimate origin. It is different than a direct influence in the world.
300 byte Blink for Arduino: https://github.com/vlisivka/rust-arduino-blink

Primitive pin tester for Arduino in 1kb: https://github.com/vlisivka/rapt
My home has a nominally dynamic ip (from Comcast), but I've only ever seen it change when the modem gets power cycled
I had same thoughts.
Uppercasing the first "character" is a wrong way of achieving titlecase.

'dz' digraph may be expressed in few ways:

dz - \u0064\u007a, 2 basic latin block codepoints
DZ - \u0044\u005a
Dz - \u0044\u007a

ǳ - \u01f3, lowercase, single codepoint
Ǳ - \u01f1, uppercase
ǲ - \u01f2, TITLECASE!

Uppercasing the first character works only if the original text used 'dz' in decomposed two-characters form.

Similar thing happens with transliteration. You cannot just transliterate Þ -> TH because then transliterating something like Þorlákshöfn would yield THorlakshofn.
It does suggest that people with 2 shots are unlikely to end up in hospital. I haven't seen enough data about the hospitalisations when adjusted for age+vaccines to draw any more conclusions.

There are still many over 70s who haven't had any shots though. My (estranged) uncle and his mother-in-law haven't left the house for 18 months, he disinfects his food deliveries and leaves the post in a box for 3 days. He refuses to get the vaccine because he's worried about catching it. Chances are he won't end up in hospital either, but people like that could skew the cases as more data comes out to allow spurious claims from anti-vaxers (They might claim that 'before 2 in every 100 over 80s were going into hospital) , now it's only 1 in every 100 unvaccinated over 80s going in to hospital), because the chance of catching covid from the population still unvaccinated dwindles because of continued isolation
One argument in favor of subscriptions is that they align the interest of the consumer and the company. With an up-front payment model, the company has no particular interest, besides customer loyalty/reputation/etc., in providing continued updates/support for older models. (Which is sometimes enough--as with Apple in many cases, but often is not as with many IoT devices.) With a subscription model they do so long as subscription revenue exceeds costs.
Didn't they nerf old reddit interface? I ditched my account not too long ago after seeing a sudden increase in blank posts on old reddit which when viewed on new reddit would feature images or video.
You edited a comment to change your reply from being an attack based on something I did not say to including an actual argument, and I have not edited a comment beside grammatical changes/minor clarifications and my argument is consistent. Just stop commenting if you can't address my points or hold a discussion.
i am going to echo a lot of the comments here and say that this is an eye-opening essay. it got me to thinking things that i would not have otherwise. that is a very high bar to clear, which very rarely happens. for any random bit of text on the internet you might choose to read, you can't expect much more than that. in that respect, it is a wild success.

on the other hand ... i believe kragen has deep knowledge of this concept he's brought up, but he has failed to convey its specifics to people who don't already understand it. i acknowledge i may well be too stupid to grasp all this, but it would have been a nice bonus if i could have.

i often wonder: why does any reasonably worthwhile program, the type other people will pay for, always require at least 50,000 lines of code? is that really necessary? surely we can do better than that. but if there's a way, apparently nobody has found it yet. i hope people like kragen help push the state of the art forward, so we might someday find a way around that.
I know it is, my point is that two spouses getting re-infected isn't two independent things.

It's not like bringing your bomb onto a plane decreases the odds of an attack, because what are the odds of two bombs.

The devil is in the details here. If natural immunity wears off after 6-9 months (as some studies suggest), and one spouse got infected again after that period, then the odds of the other one of getting re-infected too are pretty high.
Apple also abuses push notifications to sell their services so I don’t see this ending any time soon :(
>AWS just doesn't make sense at the scale most companies operate
You are delusional if you think "most companies" operate at a scale at which they can support their own datacentres
Just use "Huang's Law": AI capability more than doubles roughly every two years due to advances in both software and hardware. Translating that capability to real world autonomy and drug design and cosmological simulation and not just ImageNet will be the actual measure ;)

The larger story today is Azalia Mirhoseini's paper in Nature: Deep RL for next gen chip floorplanning in AI accelerators. Future doubling rates of two hours rather than two years on the horizon

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01515-9
If you're on Windows, press the [Alt] key to get the ordinary Windows menu bar. Can't recall, might work on other OSes too.
> This just adds a lot of stress for your employees.

The worst is when full-cycle developers (and less often, the managers) jump ship to another team, org, or company after it is clear what they've built is a big ball of unmanageable, painful mud.
> When you want to use a language that gets compiled and runs at high speed, the best language to use is C. C++ is ok too, but please don’t make heavy use of templates. So is Java, if you compile it.

Back in the early days, this sentence was more like "When you want to use a language that gets compiled and runs at high speed, the best language to use is C.".

So we switched from a path where all major desktop environments (OS/2, Mac, Windows, UNIX) were adopting C++ to a surge in C programming, as FOSS adoption started to gain steam.

So here we are now, about 30 years later, trying to fix the security inconveniences caused by this manifesto.
That is a good question. If I think about it, I have no idea :). Somehow I got the impression that Bezos as the founder still holds a controlling amount of shares, but if he owned 50% of all Amazon shares, he would be the richest person by a large margin. Anyway, it seems that Bezos basically did not have anyone to answer to while leading Amazon - amazon reportet losses for many years for the sake of growth. That means he had a free hand to implement strategies, which are long term profitable. And I attribute the success of Amazon to no small amount to this.
The majority of my apps are set to deliver quietly on iOS so they just go into my notification drawer without an alert.
No-one could have predicted this, he said with his eyes rolling back in his sockets.
FLoC has a well defined API like (all) standards: https://wicg.github.io/floc/

There's no reason why the website would not be reliable at detecting whether FLoC is enabled on your browser.

You can also used https://floc.glitch.me/ which was linked in one of the blog posts from google.
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It's actually not that hard to completely ban Hollywood from your watching for a while. Especially now with netflix and co. Honestly, from a German speaking pov, I don't see this being true anymore today.
Thereby all relevant information has been conveyed.
Maybe the problem is that legally, you can't just bust open a door if someone says: "my phone was stolen and is now in this location". Because especially in buildings, the location isn't always accurate, for example. Also, who says the phone was stolen and wasn't planted by the person filing the report? Who says it wasn't found by this person after the person who stole it threw it in some bushes?

Before you can bust down a door, you often need to do a lot of work. People tend to underestimate this greatly. And any hours spent on this one iPhone isn't spent catching rapists (for example). If only the issues were as simple to solve as people commenting here make it seem.
NeRF in detail: Learning to sample for view synthesis
I don't feel bad for the guy. The last thing a recovering addict needs is a source for drugs and that's what he is.

Addicts can't just stop and never do drugs again like a normal person. If it's there, they'll take it. It's not about strength and being able to walk away. It never goes away for an addict and the best they can do is avoid situations where drugs will be presented. Isolation from users is the best course of action.

Also, many people abuse drugs and even become addicted, but are not addicts. An addict is wired differently.
There are big differences.

Private relay is secure as long as Apple and the third party do not cooperate, but end to end flow correlation is much easier because streams are not isolated.

Onion routing is much more sophisticated than private relay: even end to end correlation is more difficult because of how virtual circuits are made.
The language is Dutch, the collection of dialects spoken in the Flanders region is Flemish. If you're feeling charitable, you can refer to it as a language variant.

Here is the constitution of Belgium: https://www.senate.be/doc/const_nl.html
Articles 2 and 3 define the Flemish (Vlaamse) community and region. Article 4 defines the language areas and specifically mentions Dutch (Nederlands), not Flemish.

See also: the Dutch Language Union (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Language_Union) being founded on a treaty between the Netherlands and Belgium.

For a language that's derived from Dutch but now its own proper language, try Afrikaans.
> For instance, there’s no official Jupyter notebook support for Perl

Not sure how official support would work in the Jupyter Project since anybody can write a kernel. I wrote the Perl one (IPerl) and that has existed since 2014 (when Jupyter was spun off from IPython). It supports graphics and has APIs for working with all other output types.

Now I do need to help make it work with Binder, but it does work.

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The other point about MCMC samplers is valid. This is why I wrote a binding to R to access everything available in R and why I use Inline::Python sometimes. I should create a binding for Stan --- should not be hard --- at least for CmdStan at first, then Stan C++ next.
It won't be long after self driving arrives and you won't get that option. Humans are terrible drivers, even in the best cases. Once self driving is better survival than humans it won't be legal to drive on public roads.
Perhaps because that affects swaths of the population?
It certainly helps if one begins with experienced engineers. I am not talking about personal projects, I am discussing funded startups. If your team has not run servers on their own in the past, get a different team. It is not as if there is not a giant population of grey beards with this knowledge seeking work...

I accept your points, but far too many inexperienced devOps are given keys that should not have them. From your Docker story, it sounds like poor decision making on your behalf. Just because a developer knows Docker does not mean they know how to expose that securely to the public - far too many devs believe that's not their job.
Delay line memory.
Yeah but I wouldn't click on that.
Certainly none of the major bulks (iron ore, coal etc.), and most of the minor bulks (bauxite, alumina etc.) rarely do. But plenty of commoditised cargoes that trade most frequently in units of up to ~1,000kg (PVC granules, sugar) do/can use containers fitted with a liner.
Again, you're completely discounting the ops time involved in "operate some servers" - how many devops/SRE folks do you need to employ to do that? And 24/7 on-call?
We need to collectively switch to Firefox and Brave.
let alone reproduction, wonder if these organisms would even survive much longer if they are brought back to life some how, because they will be suddenly exposed to other organisms which have evolved during these last 24000 years. wonder if they are immune to the environment that has changed a lot in that time period.
> ...there's not a single reference to Intel SGX (the enclave they claim to use).

Unrelated, but amusingly, if they want to, they could use https://secret.network/ to host their workload in peer-to-peer serverless SGX enclaves, powered by the blockchain.
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Yeah I think different ISPs have different policies when it comes to that, I think Orange in France would cycle the address every couple of days regardless of power cycling, but here in Portugal it seems that my Vodafone public IP hasn't changed in months.
Its worse, people who don’t want to think of themselves as victims, and want to just move on should see a therapist as they are mentally ill.

This sums up the west nicely as of 2021.
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Does fanhouse also sell access to their “platform” to the users at $600 a pop minimum?

It’s a meaningless comparison because they are completely different kinds of platforms.

The vast majority of the world will never hear of Fanhouse and it’s competitors’ platforms. The vast majority of the world can literally not live their lives without Apple or Google’s platforms.

There is no comparison between the 2.
Lots of countries compete well - India, Nigeria, the UK, France, Germany, Italy ...

But you're not going to find them in the US [much] if they're not in English

Here's some data from several years ago (couldn't find anything more recent in a quick scan) - https://screenville.blogspot.com/2009/06/production-world-ci...

Here's a related Quora post: https://www.quora.com/What-makes-British-television-at-least...
Cool, so they would refund the full price of the car if people are no longer happy with it? Or would the 20K+ car just serve as strong vendor lock to be exploited in subscriptions?
Got less once I started using dom-testing-library :)
I use Android, which lets you enable/disable particular notification categories.

I've simply uninstalled all food delivery apps that send promotions using the "General" category (IIRC Grubhub was the work offender).

Uber Eats and DoorDash categorize their promotional notifications appropriately, so I never see them (and do get notifs about my deliveries).
And then you forget to click a "don't use autopilot" setting buried in three levels of settings, and will pay for a month-worth of driving.
Cheap for a capability that doesn't exist and can't be achieved in for foreseeable future.
Nice effort. Octal is my current fav HN app on iOS
I’m only about half way through, but I’m finding it extremely helpful, clear and well-written (some of the terminology/ideas I’m not familiar with/are over my head, but I plan on going back over it again later and looking stuff up :) - Thanks so much!
PhtantomJS was abandoned officially a long time ago because of all these new and better tools.

Selenium is a source of constant bugs and misery - it's truly a waste of time maintaining its usage in a codebase because randomly sometimes tests fail. The C# wrapper for it is even worse, as it does not follow the idioms of C# and is a straight 1:1 port from the Java version. Highlights include getting exceptions from properties when you hover over them during debug in Visual Studio.
> Hall was pleased that the card was solved through the collective efforts of online communities. It reinforced her fundamental belief that the internet can be a unifying force

Wisdom of the crowd, oh yes. However, this also trivializes games because you can simply look up a guide for a game. Which leads to games being primarily about dexterity, or leads to (for good or bad) RNG (which is also problematic in itself).

Sure, you can explore yourself on your own pace, but its less efficient, and today's world there's too little time, too much to do. Everything has to be efficient and min-maxed. Whereas back in the days you could freely explore and experiment in Space Quest, King's Quest, Police Quest, MUDs, or even sandbox MMOs. I feel like this is lost. You can also observe it in toys for children. There's toys which are limited in scope, and toys which allow for experimentation, exploration, improvising, and imagination. Some toys can be used for both purpose, such as Lego.

The way I played with Lego, was first following the manual, and then using my own imagination (trying to save the manuals nonetheless). Also, the most fulfilling was making your own. Sadly I never got into RPing with Lego until a friend of mine introduced me to it way later.

PS: Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
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