skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Say “feature” is education level and then suppose education level is correlated with race or gender. Then you implicitly are writing a query to filter by race or gender.

You aren't though. Because the predictive attribute is correlated with the irrelevant attributes, not determined by them. So you will find people with multiple values of your irrelevant attributes (race, gender) for the positive value of your predictive attribute (education). Thus, it is not implicitly filtering for the irrelevant attributes. It if is truly education that is predictive, using only that would be avoiding biasing your decision on the irrelevant attributes.

Perhaps the risk comes when it is not really "education" that is causative, but some hidden personality trait, say conscientiousness, for which "education" is a possible proxy. In this case, trying to correct for some measure of race/gender access to education is still not going to work. For example, it is generally reported that females score higher on both measures of conscientiousness and educational achievement. Would you lower the value of your "education" score for females and raise them for males on this basis to correct for the bias in educational achievement against those with low conscientiousness? It would only seem to make the predictive value of the feature worse.
I don’t know about the collection part, but folks can take virtual classes these days (this was true even before the pandemic.)
Any simple solution regarding gender or race will be discriminatory, because one forget to treat people as human individuals.

There's no box to "tick", done, but you might try to get to know different kinds of people. Yes, they come in different kinds, even different personalities (did you think in colour again?).
Where "in a particular way" is highly accurate genomic sequencing rather than a PCR test with a long list of known problems, such that the CDC is discontinuing usage at the end of 2021, https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert...

i.e., the questionable number is orders of magnitude larger than the reliable number.

> as antibody levels in survivors drop

Recovered survivors have multiple mechanisms of defense, including antibodies against components of SARS-CoV-2 (not just spike protein) and T-cells, which have been proven effective against SARS1 after 17 years. They also have both nasal/mucous and blood/serum antibodies, unlike the vaccinated which have primarily blood/serum antibodies against one spike protein variant for symptom reduction.

Survivors don't need boosters. Those who take non-sterilizing intramuscular vaccines may need boosters.
Mēh

So long as you only use money to loose, never use margin...

Trading stocks is not a way to make money. Want to make money? Invest in yourself and work for it.

Stocks can be a part of your portfolio - but do not take investment advice from Hacker News commenters!
All of the legal and compliance requirements make it extremely expensive to build new healthcare software. Vendors have to meet a long and growing list of mandatory requirements before they can even start writing new business or clinical functionality. Customers have been burned so many times by new vendors which failed to deliver that they're hesitant to take a risk on start-ups.

But I think there is a growing opportunity for innovation in the new SMART on FHIR app stores run by several major EHR vendors. They're copying the Apple / Google app store model by allowing ISVs to use their platform in exchange for a cut of the revenue. In theory you can write an app once, then deploy to any standards compliant EHR (reality is a little more complex). So the platform handles all the compliance stuff and you can focus on innovation. I expect we'll see a wave of start-ups targeting that platform over the next few years.
Feels awkward. Piped commands already fork out and run independently. Just... Most folks go out of their way not to launch from a shell.
Yeah these guys have been emailing be a couple of times. I'm not that passionate about kitchens
> Wouldn't it be nice to write shell scripts with objects and data structures?

That's PowerShell - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...
The goals of the X16 are actually at a crossroads right now https://www.commanderx16.com/forum/index.php?/topic/1657-cha...
Imagine having to pay for healthcare in the richest country in the world
As hilariously as the comment is worded - it's honestly the truth and the fact that this blog post is focused on "creating conversations longer than 30 seconds" and not on reducing conversations quicker than 5 seconds (because that's obviously a dong I'm looking at) feels to me like they've really missed the mark.

As uh, depressing as this may sound to the AI that needs to learn it, a hotdog focused neural network (let's just assume we'd call it "DongMind" because obviously we would) would probably greatly increase Chatroulette's value proposition.
You're repeating what you've said already. Seemingly without even noticing what I've said. Where are you heading?

I try one more time:

Your definition of conspiracy theory is simply wrong. You're not talking about conspiracy theories, you're talking about the cliché of a "conspiracy theory". You're repeating the made up framing.

Please look up the definition in Wikipedia. Any language version besides the English one supports what I've written a few comments above, and disagrees with what you're saying.
Freelancer for over a decade here.

You will have paperwork and meetings with clients as a freelancer. In general clients are not "technical" so you will have to engage more with their business and requirements, and learn how to fill in the blanks. I juggle a few long-term clients now, and probably half of my time is spent with emails, Slack, phone/Zoom calls, GitHub issues, etc. I have to fill in the project manager, tech lead, and programmer roles. I don't mind that, I like getting involved with the business, but not everyone wants to deal with that.

You will still have to deal with other contractors and f/t employees working for the client.

I freelanced for my last f/t employer for several years (just fired them in February), I think that's fairly typical. It's easy for the employer/client since you're a known value/risk to them, but may cause hard feelings depending on how you handle it. Anecdotally I knew other freelancers who quit as fte and contracted back to their former employer, sometimes it worked out, sometimes not.

Programmers who think freelancing will free them up from annoying human contact and non-technical stuff will probably not like freelancing. It requires some marketing, self-promotion, talking to customers, making decisions with incomplete information, constant communication.

You will give up all the perks and have to pay for insurance and deal with self-employment taxes. On the other hand you have more freedom and can (usually) charge more than a f/t salary.
I'd love international comparisons. I believe it's north of 95%+ in most developed economies worldwide.

The USA is more like Iran and other theocracies in the extent to which it allows religion to dictate to education and the state. Considering the constitutional bars on church-state it's bizarre how much it leaks out.

Abortion rights probably track too. FWIW
Yeah but it’s almost a trope of the 4 hour week beach laptop business decimated by the big tech company, be it SEO changes, AdWords changes, being banned from Twitter, relying on a Facebook page, yadda yadda.

They are in business and need to adapt. If they can’t hack it take my route: employment in a demand industry.
Depending on where you work parking is a factor in your salary though. I was paying $200 a month, that's a pretty significant dent.
nice to see some data but a little more qualitative analysis seems called for. like, i don't know what the current userbase of chatroulette is like, but from the reputation 10 years ago i would guess that a significant proportion of users are looking for someone they find attractive. if this is the case, and given that people are on-average heterosexual, then it would not be at all surprising that a 2-chain-based system would perform much worse than random. again, i'm not sure that this theory is well-founded, but it would be nice to see some demographically-informed discussion.

also, saying that 2-chains didn't work doesn't seem to justify the title. collaborative filtering is broader than a single technique.
I think talking about 'bias' in ML algorithms is a fundamentally incorrect anthropomorphic attribution. The only thing that ML does is mapping a set of inputs to an output according to a prior statistical distribution.
A classic quote that everyone should keep in mind.
If the question is how do I get more reliable benchmarking results in the presence of Hyper-Threading, then the answer (on linux at least) might be to use cpusets.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/cgroup-v1...
What does “need” mean? I think it would be pretty messed up for browsers to ship a way to legally embed GPL code within closed-source binaries.

In a sense, though, that feature does exist — it’s called an HTTP request.
Absolutely agree that it's wise to reward and give special attention to the most skilled people.

I agree with with your perception of the problem. It makes good sense, and this framing could be used to guide reforms you might compare to antitrust law. Do you have anything in mind that could be done from a policy perspective? Because I don't think that asking people to turn inward for validation is going to work.

Let's say we find some policy that works and we can enact. I'm not sure that's enough to fix the problem. Just as policy encouraging a competitive market hasn't fixed the problem there, either. It will keep pooping up and finding new ways to subvert the policy.

I think that just as capital creates capital, hierarchy creates hierarchy. Whether it's human nature or the structure of our societies, the outcome appears always to be consolidation. If the efficiency gains of consolidation cannot counter the social/civil instability, and I don't think they can at a certain level of development, then we should tackle the root cause. But I'm repeating myself.

I appreciate your perspective, thank you for letting me see it.
The 'ideology' is that the Democrats will oppose any form of better federal id for citizens because a big part of the party strategy is simping for illegal immigrants to cash in on their children's votes. This isn't some mysterious both sides issue, the Republicans have discussed the idea before.
By this logic you can justify almost any risk. The question is why bother taking totally unnecessary risks with children?

There are plenty of ways to take children into the outdoors without going places that are remote enough to not have other people relatively nearby and not have cell service.

A baby is not learning anything about handling pressure, regardless of what happens. They're entirely passive. And there's nothing wrong with turning off your phone while you're hiking (or using airplane mode), because you can always turn it back on, so the "text messages" excuse is pretty ridiculous.
Consider the possibility that you are wrong. It seems to me I'm arguing with people that have relatively little experience outdoors, while I have significant experience, and have seen first-hand how quickly things can go wrong.
That's because most of these things have no real cost or a very low real cost to the company.

Free college at Walmart lets you pick from one of a few online educational factories.

10% off stuff in a store means they are still probably making a profit on it.

I used to work for a parking agency. Companies might only have paid 50 cents on the dollar and even less for large buyers for that parking.
I think a better index is the price-to-rent ratio [0]. In that sense we are in ~2003 levels of housing bubble.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=l0bW
It's the installation of a work specific app that would be the concern. We already know apps track behaviour, but your company knows exactly who you are and can track behaviour without aggregating it, thus getting a very clear view of what you do outside of work.
I am not as cynical as you but I see your point. I think many in the "Ethics in AI" community are terrible in communicating their ideas. They also have the tendency to claim moral superiority (supremacy?) whenever mere mortals like Yann Lecun make sensible observations.
For me there's a lot of thought that follows, for the right "it"s. It's become a cliche for others though
GM expands recall to ALL 2017-2022 Chevy Bolt EVs including EUV, blames LG
The first result of a Google for this program tells you that the criteria for McDonalds is:

"""Courses must be taken at a degree or certificate granting college or university, accredited by the U.S. Department of Education."""
Yeah, let's throw some dBc/Hz @ 10kHz offset too for good measure, just to confound the editor :} Aren't stability units grand?

Hey, I'm just glad we heard from them before they got body snatched.

(Context: since you can drop a low-phase-noise clock into a radar and improve the performance, this area of research is one that the spooky defense types pay active attention to. Many physics departments have legends about projects like this suddenly vanishing into classified status.)
Colour me surprised: I can't read this article over Chick-fil-A wifi.
The Lion and the Porcupine
Incredibly rare. Huge numbers of people hike the PCT in the desert every year, and some years 1 or 2 people die of heat exhaustion. It's never big groups of people at the same time. Same with heat-related deaths at Grand Canyon, Death Valley etc.
Something kind of similar I've wondered about is whether, with sufficiently accurate time and distance measurements and a dense-enough network of satellites scattered around Earth and the solar system in general, could one detect the perturbations in the paths of the satellites caused by the transit of massive objects like large-ish asteroids? (One could think of it in science-fiction terms as a detector to counter a cloaking device.)
Don't forget Atlantic Council's Senior Fellow Dmitry Alperovitch, the co-founder and former CTO of CrowdStrike - the outfit that made up the story of Russia hacking the DNC, only to admit in a congressional testimony that they had no actual proof for any of their red-scare stories.
The Dictionary Project
I think it is great that someone is trying, if no one tries it will never happen.
Please report about your experienced demonisation.
> Some epidemiological research on the subject has shown that there is a small but statistically significant positive correlation between height and intelligence after controlling for socioeconomic class and parental education

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height_and_intelligence
If I was a copyright lawyer, I would probably take a dim view of a defense that amounts to "it's not using your client's code, it's using code that directly uses your client's code."
There's not really an "abuse" reason to stop people from playing single player games though. What malicious thing would they do with them?
Any system that wants to identify a pattern will have false positives and negatives.

In this case we can’t accurately identify cases where a user has legitimate cause for refund without false positives letting through a few abusive users.

The decision to be made is whether we skew the system to be in favor of the corporation or the consumer.

In this age where we no longer own the software we run I find it strange when people advocate for less protection of the digital goods they use.
Actually this might be closer to the first real application to humanoid robots than thought: We might use them for telepresence, so as a sort of "suit" (just remotely controlled, not directly on your skin).

Right now AI is pretty limited when it comes to doing chores. E.g. this is from the world robot summit 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx3QdaPD8bw

So I doubt they will be useful in the pure AI form in the foreseeable future. However, for telepresence these would be ideal. Just imagine being able to fold the laundry while you are on the commuter train, coming home to folded laundry. Or you could delegate those chores entirely to people in a country with lower wages. Right now many foreign workers in that industry live away from their families. With such robots, they could be in their home countries.
An easy way out would be to ban the account from everything except accessing the purchases.
Is there any pre-draft conversation between owners or is it all an arms-length thing where each owner just starts seeing dates disappear on the calendar in Ancana?

Seems like with a good group of co-owners who understand each other’s intentions, they might plan around each other somewhat for mutually agreeable outcomes. E.g. if Owner 1 just wants a lot of time in the place in shoulder seasons for mild weather but Owner 2 specifically wants certain fall dates for an anniversary, the first owner could (inadvertently) screw the second owner if that wasn’t communicated.
I use a Mammut Barryvox avy beacon and a Garmin Inreach. Each for a different purpose, of course. They both cost hundreds of dollars.
Is `ruby` any closer?

or eshell?
I believe that "asymptomatic" refers to an infected individual who will never get symptoms. "Presymptomatic" means the individual has no symptoms, but will develop them later.

As far as presymptomatic transmission, this is a good case study from Germany: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/4/20-4576_article. A 59 case cluster in which little/no asymptomatic transmission was observed, but 75% of transmission was presymptomatic.

Another interesting paper, also out of Germany covering 400k individuals, 25k infections: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/373/6551/eabi5273. I can't write a summary better than the one in the paper:
The role that individuals with asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 have in transmission of the virus is not well understood. Jones et al. investigated viral load in patients, comparing those showing few, if any, symptoms with hospitalized cases. Approximately 400,000 individuals, mostly from Berlin, were tested from February 2020 to March 2021 and about 6% tested positive. Of the 25,381 positive subjects, about 8% showed very high viral loads. People became infectious within 2 days of infection, and in hospitalized individuals, about 4 days elapsed from the start of virus shedding to the time of peak viral load, which occurred 1 to 3 days before the onset of symptoms. Overall, viral load was highly variable, but was about 10-fold higher in persons infected with the B.1.1.7 variant. Children had slightly lower viral loads than adults, although this difference may not be clinically significant.

The second paper is a bit dense, but there is a great discussion at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4AR7qPxz_Q, with discussion of this paper beginning maybe 47:00. 1:14:08 beings a discussion about how a large number of cases might be caused by a small number of individuals. Interestingly, these individuals are not necessarily the same as those who go on to be seriously ill, hospitalized, or die.

In practice, the difference between presymptomatic and asymptomatic makes little difference. The key is that we have ample evidence that an infected person can infect others while they do not have symptoms.
I disagree.

Having remote workers means needing less office space and its associated costs, and pushes costs onto the remote employees.

As such, remote employees should be paid more not less.
VAERS suffers from some serious data quality problems. It isn't a representative random sample. No one really validates reports to determine if adverse events were actually caused by vaccination. I suspect that some anti-vaxxers just straight up submit false reports to push their political viewpoint. At most VAERS provides some clues about where to focus real research.
Here is the YouTube channel for them, tons of content on there. Lectures of previous years classes, etc: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnBsf2rH-K7pn09rb3qvkA

Also have some awesome guest speakers, and the conversations they have are often quite insightful.
> I believe it's north of 95%+ in most developed economies worldwide.

It's not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_support_for_evolution...
Normally, in the SF summertime, the prevaling wind is east by mid-afternoon and continues strong well into the evening. Thus the city hardly ever heats up or experiences bad air until August, when the weather system changes and the winds calm down.

This also leads to a distinct pattern with wildfire smoke; so long as there isn't a buildup over the ocean, the city gets some relief until there's a day with no wind, at which point it gets as socked in as the rest of the Bay. Last year was particularly bad since the ocean air eventually did get polluted and it circulated until precipitation cleared it. So far things are holding up better this year, but we have a few months to go.
Roblox taking a 151/200 AKA 75.5% total cut matches what I've heard from friends in the games industry.
I think this is most likely. There are areas around Mammoth with CO2 warning signs.
Should China be much more obese?Or india? Aren’t they producing a lot of contaminants?
Earlier this year, I wrote a 6502 emulator and discovered that none of my coworkers even know what the 6502 was. Almost every conversation resulted in me saying: "You know the NES? It used a 6502 as a CPU".
Because McDonalds can take away all the auxiliaries without consequence.

However, lawyers will come after them if they try to reduce your wage later.
"I have no doubt that I am very stupid; but I must confess that I am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that this man was intellectual?"
For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a brain must have something in it."
A lot of words and reasoning in the article, but not much in the way of measurement so I went looking and found this: https://www.thebalance.com/unemployment-rate-by-year-3305506

If anything, the reverse looks to be true. High unemployment is generally accompanied by high inflation.
>If an employee made a big stink, that employee would be reminded that employment is at-will

This applies to the US only. I wonder if American employees understand that their employers exist/operate in the EU too and the employees there are treated very differently vis a vis employment rights.
Thank you for the polite response!
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White chess pieces are offensive, so we end up with black and brown chess pieces. /s

https://twitter.com/desiraethinking
Especially since certain places are actually paying people to get vaccinated[0].

This is just the stick part of the carrot/stick paradigm.

[0] https://www1.nyc.gov/site/coronavirus/vaccines/vaccine-incen...
There’s a question of preferences that too often gets buried in this debate. If Covid becomes endemic at around its current severity, what level of pandemic restrictions are you willing to accept forever?

For me personally, Covid would have to be at least 100 times worse before I’d support masking forever. But I get the sense that some people barely see any downside to it. I think these cross-views drive so much if the underlying debate. But because we’re not talking about the hard long-term questions we’re getting bogged down in largely short term spats about case spikes, vaccine boosters, etc.
Solar panels are still useful after "end of life". They may only output 80% of the power they used to, but that can still be of value to someone. Maybe the time when they actually need to be scrapped is more like 50-75 years, not sure we actually know yet.