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« The post linked to for this story gives the example of searching for "CEO" only showing white men.

The reason for that is almost entirely the same as your example of biased training data ("taking the prevalence of news reports as a proxy for the prevalence of what's being reported on"). »

But the CEO essay / example isn't about making search results reflect whatever the real distribution is. It's about making them match arbitrarily chosen statistics explicitly in an attempt to influence how people respond to it.

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From the essay: "However, these datasets reflect the biases of the society in which they were created and the systems risk re-entrenching those biases.". That's not talking about trying to correct for systematic error a dataset that doesn't reflect what CEOs actually look like, that's talking about CEOs actually not looking like what they should look like; and about manipulating results in support of the social goal of changing what is to be closer to what they feel should be.

Which isn't even really about AI. It's about the proposed feedback loop (CEO demographics) -> (what people think of when they hear "CEO") -> (what kids want to be when they grow up) -> (CEO demographics) and deliberately manipulating that first step in pursuit of a specific social goal. The use of AI is incidental.
They could blacklist the entire country but they would miss on a good chunk of ad revenue.
While obviously I've got the advantage of hindsight here, it seems like it should not have taken three days of analysis to see why the wolves were committing suicide. It seems obvious once the point system is explained. Perhaps some rubber-duck debugging might have helped in this case.
Your livelihood depends on those with people skills. If products don't get marketed, you don't eat. If products don't get sold, you don't eat. If your leader doesn't make the hard and right decisions on where to take the company, you don't eat.
It was cheaper for private repositories (free for teams less than 5) for a long time. I think Gitlab is cheaper now.
Yes, my freedom over the course of almost 1.5 years was adversely affected because we couldn't handle a month without it.

And yes, the economy was adversely affected because most small businesses were shuttered for half a year and swaths of them went out of business since we could not bear closing everything down for a sixth of that time period.

Edit: Please explain to me how swallowing real estate, employee, and supply chain expenses for 30 days would have been more difficult or less preferable to the splintered schedule of mandated closings over a far longer time period.
> the same finger-waggers who want everyone vaccinated or quarantined

Ignoring the name-calling for a moment, what is it that you want for everyone?
My cubical has too much sun. The way it was set up when I came the monitor is in line with the arc the sun follows in the early spring.

Working from home I can just move my desk, I'm not sure what I'll do when I go back.
All of our existing JavaScript libraries were already typed, but with the awkward "types in comments" system: https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/wiki/Types-in-the...

Their team only (though it's a big "only") needed to do the work to make this existing type info available to TS
> “ Every couple of days I curl up on the couch at 10pm, scroll through Amazon Prime video, and pick something to see. It’s almost always a disappointment.”

... how can he use this the basis for his argument? Every day, I curl up in front of my PC, look through some Reddit threads about movies and find a handful of incredible movies that I'm thankful for that people pointed out. What should the title of my article be?
In an active inference approach you would have the agent minimise surprisal. Choose the action that is most likely to produce the outcome you predicted.
No restrictions on number of devices for one.

Everything else was the same and I didn't feel like I losing out, so it was easy to switch. They have an import tool that made it easier
The market has been given plenty of choices. What we’ve seen repeatedly is that the number of people who will actually do anything _more_ than speak loudly is extremely small.

More people think open source means “I can be VP of product without showing up to work” than “I can roll up my sleeves and help make the hard thing I want happen”.
Wasn’t there an article on HN last we re lab food obviating farming? I’ll go look...

Aha... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27723001
How does that encrypted text file put you less at risk than a password manager?

A password manager might have extra features such as browser plugins that provide a larger attack surface, but they can be switched off entirely. So, if you use more functionality than the encrypted text file, you might have more risk, fair enough, but when you use the same functionality, the risk seems comparable (or even: a password manager seems to offer somewhat more functionality for comparable risk).
> Is there a word for that? Dismissing empirical evidence by clinging to philosophical assertions?

Being in denial
Because it effects people's lives and mental health. I wouldn't want to live in a society or work for an organisation where a person's value is only measured by their output. If that means accepting (temporary) inefficiencies, so be it.
>Democracy is booming

It absolutely is not, there are many threats to democracy right here in the USA. Many Republican states are passing massive voter suppression bills.
or some parasite that makes us believe everything is a system, spot patterns everywhere, and approach all "problems" with systems thinking, when reality is just chaos.
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I think I see now what you mean.

I guess it just comes down to semantics then. I would say that, by definition (but I'm not sure if this is the most common definition), anything that can act upon the universe is part of it. Your God/simulator/... might be alien to us, but by definition it is part of our universe, and it's just us that do not entirely understand the capabilities of the universe.
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Well, the post I was responding to actually said that they thought these OSS products were at least as good as comparable commercial offerings which, in the case of LibreOffice, is entirely untrue.

I stand corrected, I did misread that.
In my case, remaining symptoms started disappearing after 2 weeks. By week 9 I could nolonger identify a single symptom.

However the vaccine itself had weird and strong side effects on me for a month and a half.
Formal education and certification are definitely not decoupled. You learn at the same university that gives you the degree.

While I agree with the above that having them under the same roof can cause a conflict of interest. But we also know for a fact that having them decoupled can cause serious problems as well. For one you end up with brain dumps that study for the cert and not for the subject matter. We see this for MCSE as much as the SAT.

While that can happen with a university as well, it doesn't always and is a useful measure of the institution's quality.
No, it's a cock up with the source of the wolves. If you could respawn endlessly after death would you fear it? You'd just want the stupid game to end before you lose points from the timer.
I think we have to see this in context:

Muse group, a russian for-profit company that seems to have a shell-headquarters in Cyprus (see https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/muse-group), recently acquired Audacity as part of their expansion into the broader audio-production world.

As a first action, they changed their contributor License Agreement making a future change from a GPL license to a closed-source License possible. (it also allows for dual-licensing a paid version) https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/932

They currently say they're not going to do that, but if they wanted to (and Muse-group is for-profit) they could without the contributor having any recourse. (They have already confirmed a cloud-service for Audacity, which for me already reeks like "we want to have closed-source tools that use our open-source contributors code").

Having a CLA isn't a problem in and off itself, for example, as they correctly state: the FSF requires a CLA because they want to license all their stuff as "GPL 3 or above", which is only possible using some CLA-mechanism. (it's also easier for them to defend GPL related lawsuits if they are the copyright holders)

What MuseGroup forgets to mention, is that they are a for-profit company (https://opencorporates.com/companies/cy/HE411908) while the FSF is a foundation (specifically a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization), which shifts their incentives a lot.

Now, barely a month later, they add the option of collecting data from users and people aren't happy. It is, at the very least, very tone-deaf/stupid from them to add telemetrie only one month after (IMO) showing their hand for what we can expect for the future.
I have a lot of trouble with it too, though Parasite was very watchable (thankfully, as it is a fantastic movie).
> I mean compare the unordered and ordered list examples. Markdown chose right, AsciiDoc chose wrong. Objectively speaking, you'd choose the Markdown way naturally.

In a trivial example, Markdown's syntax looks more natural. It might well be the more appropriate syntax for a short README, which expects to be read as plain text at least as often as rendered to HTML.

In real use, i.e. when editing a non-trivial example, AsciiDoctor's multiple-star/dot syntax makes it easier to keep track of things.

You can also use the Markdown-style indentation instead anyway: https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/lists/ordered/#...
> the new Borat was actually a lot more politically correct

No it wasn't PC (IMHO). It went out of its way to offend and pushed the envelope. I couldn't watch it to the end because of this. It brought up tired old stereotypes which I thought were long gone.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27742279
The 22 Jump Street movie kiss/fight scene could never be done today, nor could the other kissing scenes, but the kiss/fight scene was a pivotal part of the movie.

Borat is racist, it's not 'satirical' and that's ok, the world's complicated. It's also ok to hide behind 'satirical' as everyone does, except when you get picky on movies you personally don't think are 'satirical'

Hollywood's inability to deal with kissing is academically interesting. Currently combining sarcasm with the 'correct' actions they are told to follow. It's a dangerous path towards the religious moralism we left behind in the 60's, but perhaps I fear change.

The idea nothing is happening is incorrect.
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Lots of people who were perfectly healthy can't even get out of bed now.

It's not a small problem. And neither is having 1% of your population sick and dying in such a short time.
Had no idea such complete records are available. Cool dataset and a neat viewer. Have you seen any any outlier days that are not obviously linked to some big (known) events?
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Ethos: Is it right to leave that pointer un-checked?
Pathos: It makes me angry that code reviewers let this through.
Logos: The code has bugs, don't act surprised, if you can, fix this one, otherwise put it in the team to-do list and move on.
The way I'm reading it, that's exactly what's happening here
What conspiracy theory? This was an official county government statement.
So it's not KGB anymore right? And not a KGB School right? And your Picture has nothing todo with kaspersky right?
I was pretty excited to come across this over the weekend.

In my first year of engineering (UBC), some 2nd years advised me to get an HP48 calculator. It was expensive, but worth the investment they said. I bought the 48GX, a 128KB memory card and some books... and glad I did. This calculator has served me well... but today some of the keys don't work as well as they used to. And I can't get a suitable replacement. I have and use an emulator on my phone and desktop - but its not the same. And the newer HP calculator keys don't feel great to me. In the meantime, I rely on the more reliable vintage HP15c (one built in the 80s with silicon on saphire and amazing keys).

I really appreciate SwissMicros building high quality clones of the best HP calculators. And I am super excited about what the hint of upcoming products based on Saturn Emulation. That must mean a DM48 is on the horizon!
> I seriously doubt marketing and advertising departments will care about standards, if they would even notice.

The _vast_ majority of applications this relates to are not going to have marketing and advertising departments. They're unlikely to have more than a handful of maintainers. Most are likely just someone's side project.

> The industry can't even manage with web standards, imagine trying to get scummy tracking companies to comply.

We're not talking about a new standard that's even remotely in the same league as web standards in terms of complexity and nor are we talking about getting every scummy company to comply. A lot of command line applications already have an opt out so all this is proposing is making that opt out option the same.

This isn't any different to other common environmental variables like http_proxy -- not every application supports it but enough does that it is still useful.

> IMO it's not even an imperfect solution. I'd say performative, and past DNT efforts have failed, so why are trying this again?

As of yet, no effort has been made with regards to DNT in this field. You're conflating running untrusted web applications, with running trusted (and often open source) applications locally on the command line. They're two very different fields and as said already DNT options already exist for the latter but with every application having their own preferred variable name. All this proposal is seeking to do is standardise that name.

> Maybe a tool that lets one easily report software for GDPR violations? That would have more teeth.

To reiterate my original comment: the existence of one doesn't prevent the existence of the other. Why pick when we can have both?
Negative punishment will not work for this, you would be going after the symptom instead of the problem. Don't make it harder for people that write these changes, make it harder for people to force others to. There will always be another developer, and there's no guarantee you'll know their identities. If you're looking to bring attention and make a statement at the potential expense of others that's one thing, but practically speaking this approach can't work.
Linus Torvalds has similar conversations with gpl advocates regularly. “no, i am happy for companies to use linux this way”. And the people just can’t handle this idea. Like suggesting that god doesn’t exist to someone devout.
While I understand some of what the author is expressing, they give a strong impression of American cultural homogeny and would do well to give themselves a dose of "World Cinema", that is, cinema outside their own narrow cultural sphere.
Dev: it’s a bug

Manager to boss: It’s a crazy new AI behaviour that is going viral around the world!
Eliezer Yudkowsky tells a long story about an Outcome Pump. Aesop tells a short story about an eagle and a tortoise. The point made is the same, as far as I can see.
A user who is not also a developer has no ability to meaningfully view and modify the code, and thus doesn't care.
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This has nothing to do with the variants.

They've changed the testing policy for the vaccinated, so more of the vaccinated are getting tested.

The efficacy was artificially high before because the vaccinated were rarely tested and therefore rarely reported as infected.
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> You can either use Thunderbird and miss updates

Not true; maybe I wasn't clear enough in my last comment.

As an example, for platforms like WordPress that support pagination, if you miss some updates that were posted to alice.example.net/feed/, then you can add alice.example.net/feed/?paged=2 (and ?paged=3 and so on) to Thunderbird until it bridges the gap between items you had before going dark and what you have now.

It works for accessing a blog's backlog of content, too; it's possible to discover a blog today with regular (let's say weekly) updates stretching back e.g. 8 months and still get at the old ones. In fact, I've done this to go back and ingest years of posts after first discovering a feed only recently and then realizing that I've been missing out by not having it on my radar since the beginning.
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its often not at all exactly as said... also you might miss a lot of the performance if you are not able to see how things are expressed...
> Base64 isn't numeric it's alphanumeric.

They meant that a number written in hex (base16) is still a number, even though you use some letters. Similarly, a number written in base64 is still a number.
I can't comment on whether or not this will definitely be the future of programming, though I do think it's interesting.

The more interesting thing to me is just the idea of separation logic. The functional programming community has this idea that functional programming is the only sound programming model from a logical perspective, because it is very historically rooted in math and logic. Turing machines, by contrast, are much more 'made-up' constructions - they have weird, non-mathematical sounding components like heads and tapes, etc.

But, for whatever reason, we can produce extremely fast and small processors that pretty closely resemble Turing machines, and C-style imperative, memory-based code flows naturally from that. And, with separation logic, it can also be firmly rooted in math and logic.

That was always my feeling with the functional programming zealots, like they were just ignoring other possible universes. The lambda calculus is one formally sound model of computation, sure, but surely it's not the only one.
> Coronavirus was never a big deal unless you were old, sick, or obese.

Or unless you happen to require hospitalisation at the same time than a lot of "old, sick or obese" people where saturating the available beds and ICUs of every hospital.

There are second order effects on the wave that we experienced. The most dramatic probably has been in India, where the lack of available oxygen produced a lot of deaths. And we will start to discover next year what other effects like undetected conditions, or worsened after a year of delaying treatment, will cause.

A 1% of a considerable chunk of the population is a lot of people.
It usually better to migrate git repositories with git clone --mirror than attempting to not forget refs with ad-hoc commands. For simple repositories their methods will probably work anyway, but it is still harder to do.
I've tried to find the proof but failed. Maybe I misremember something. Maybe it's my wishful thinking.

Although I'm pretty sure I've read something that impertinent pushing of current US values causes aversion and losses in the viewers. Such things are really hard to find, you won't ever find this on a first page of CNN or BBC because it is an inconvenient truth.

But I've found the confirmation that the first point (using big numbers and meta-script) is successful and increases revenue of Disney.
Having turned 30 and watched a lot of movies, I have a similar feeling. I still pay for Netflix (even if I only use it a couple times a month) and look forward to movies, like the upcoming Dune, and occasionally rewatch some of my favorites, like Blade Runner, but these days I'm much more into YouTube. There's so much good content out there, and a lot of time it's interesting, and I'll learn something useful.

As the author says, TV shows have really gained foothold, but I don't have time to watch several hours of content only to find out whether I might enjoy it. It's too big a time commitment for me.
I wonder if there's a Maslov pyramid hidden in there. That is, people are first optimizing for their own comfort, then for the comfort of their team, and only then, for company goals.

People will fight their own company, throw other people under the bus, to ensure they're not being overworked and scapegoated, that they have enough budget to operate, some autonomy and say in the things they're working on. Conversely, when they don't feel threatened and aren't in the "survival mode", they'll start helping other teams and talk more about organizational goals, become proactive - whether because they care about the higher goals, or want to earn more status, autonomy or power.

There are, of course, sociopaths everywhere, but my gut tells me that for most people, it may be as simple as the model described above.
Or working from home.
Some companies/teams will not recognize online courses, some will only consider from "good" universities, so worth checking before you enroll.

However in my experience such organizations are really a waste of time if they insist on a degree for people with a lot of experience, every internal promotion will have similar and sometimes unreachable barriers.
I'm about £6 up from crypto
yeah turning a blind eye to suffering IS easier, wow!
> I can stake coins, unstake them, and then spend the coins. Now I've got a free license to mine blocks without risk of slashing.

Lol, you're a genius! Bwahahaha!
With little endian, if you take a pointer to an integer of a large type (eg. uint64_t) where the value fits in a smaller type (eg. uint32_t), you will get same correct value accessing it as a uint64_t or uint32_t on a little endian system. This can make integer type conversion/casting slightly more efficient, and simplify code a bit.
Perhaps you weren't paying attention when you read what Carmack wrote. Or perhaps you didn't even read it, because you're suggesting something that has absolutely nothing to do with the tweet.

Carmack said he wishes the source had been released under the BSD license instead of the GPL.

You're saying that it's not easy to conclude that new versions of Doom would exist if the sources had never been released at all.

If you're trying to troll and suggest that it's not easy to conclude variants and updates would exist if the sources had been releases under the BSD license instead of the GPL, then we all know that's completely ridiculous, so I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and suggesting you either didn't read or understand the tweet.

If you want to suggest there'd be less variants and versions? That'd be reasonable, but you're not saying that.
> It would be interesting to know how much this movement comes from within the Linux kernel community or if it is driven more by the Rust community.

You make it sound as if those are two non-overlapping sets. I don't think they could pull off this project without intimate knowledge of the Linux kernel.
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>Why would Google even attempt to spy

What?