skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's supposed to be "you can't just..."

Honest question, why can't you? Is it disallowed by law?
I upvoted because this isn't the only bot, it's a big public example of a trend I've seen. We've had two different new hires try to set up Slack bots with autoresponse complaints whenever someone says "guys", and now I know it's not just some weird idea they both happened to have.
Random people on the internet have enslaved and/or killed far fewer people than governments have.
If this seems like too much configuration overhead for anybody else, check out amethyst[0]. It's UI driven and configured similarly to xmonad- which is more opinionated than some other tiling WMs

I liked i3 when I was a linux user, but since I've switched to Mac I've tried to use tools with UIs and opinionated configuration

[0] https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
The bot's dumbest mistake so far was when it replaced "mother" and "father" objects in a Rust struct with "person" and "person". That won't compile...
I want to know more about

> Present an invisible proof of work challenge to the browser.

Obviously they're not going to be mining bitcoin, but what could they possibly be doing for "proof of work" that proves you're human?
Ah, but you see it's something something Orwellian something something
>This is a hilarious April Fools joke, and so many people are falling for it.

Why would it be an obvious April Fools joke if the timestamps in the referenced github thread are March 30 and March 31 ?
Do you think this technique can be adapter for integration testing? So you wouldn't need a running PostgreSQL server to run tests that connect to a PostgreSQL database, or maybe it would make tests easier to run in parallel by using different SQLite files.
I wonder how America feels about Russia doing this, because we all know it’s Russia.

Viasat partners with the military, so this could be seen as a direct attack on America.
There seems to be serious talk about reimplementing the Torchscript core in Julia (i.e., reimplement the C++ part in Julia), something that makes sense to me given the excellent support there already is in Julia for autodiff. Cf. e.g., https://dev-discuss.pytorch.org/t/where-we-are-headed-and-wh...

If these suggestions are credible and don't come from the Facebook team, that might sidestep your concerns.
For Bloomberg Data License alone we went from $58,000 per month to $1,000 per month.
This is an interesting article. I would like to hear more information about how the therapy is actually done. This reminds me of techniques like Edmund Jacobson's "Progressive Relaxation". I'm also reading a book called, "A Headache in the Pelvis", which claims that essential to healing is this idea that we must learn to properly relax and accept the pain we feel. I've found it hard to collect actual instruction about how to do this though.
Someone mentioned this being an April fool's joke, to be honest nowadays it's hard to tell if it would be (I'm 40 years old so see-sawing as old).

I guess if code needs to be gender inclusive there's a few spoken languages in the world that need to get rid of their gender specific grammar. I say that as a monolingual Scot.
It's happened before; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor has a whole list of JVM hardware. I suppose lisp machines might also count.
> People still don't understand cryptocurrencies, and at this point it seems more like intentional obtuseness for political reasons.

Your assumption that the only reason to hate cryptocurrencies is ignorance is not reasonable.

> in order to make them decentralized

"Decentralized" and "blockchain" are not synonyms. Blockchain technology is a wildly, insanely expensive way to decentralize an application: https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/web3-fraud
SSH-MitM 2.0.0 – Licence change to GPLv3
I upvoted it as a curiosity. The idea of a cultural agenda-signalling bot loose on GitHub actively breaking code and documentation sparks quite a few feelings. Some questions arise, such as whether or not any of the projects receiving contributions from the bot are improved in any material (technical, inclusiveness) way. It's quite common that absolutely the wrong thing gets done in the name of some noble cause, seems this is a fine example of that.
I have done this in Ukraine when the host had other properties with many positive reviews, and offered a 70% discount for the first stays at the new property with zero reviews. The experience was great, and I even ended up extending my stay.
What about that site makes you think it's satire?
In what meaningful sense of the word is a third-party, anonymously-created (and apparently buggy) bot "authoritarian"?

This reeks of artificial engagement. HN should avoid buying into it.
He thinks conciseness is a physical property. It's not clear to me why he thinks only brains, or maybe only living things, can have this property.

He makes the analogy that a weather simulation in a computer can't make anything wet so therefore a computer program can't have a thought. My take is that when we think about rain we don't get wet either. Human minds are the same sort of thing as the weather simulation, not the same sort of thing as the weather. For me thoughts are simulations, or models, or operations on models, and that those activities are tractable to computation.
I hope some day they apply it to Sponsored Ads, because their targeting is absolutely terrible.
This is fantastic, I can just imagine it now. Typing `person journalctl` instead of `man journalctl`, truly a step toward to a more gender inclusive society.
AI platform to advance stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for brain tumor patients
I wish this were an April Fools joke, but sadly, it's real.

Reminds me of when they changed the factory_girl gem to factory_bot.

Many, many, many hours wasted in service to the idea that women found factory_girl to be offensive, which had less than 0 evidence to it.
Now I'm thinking about the last time I saw a duck in a video game or in common culture. The only things I can think of is the game Duck Hunt, and the Oregon ducks. When I think of ducks being eaten, my mind goes to Chinese food or hunters but that's about it.
When you try to approximate your data with a mixture of distributions, say Gaussians for instance, you have to initialize their parameters with some values before running your EM loop.

Finding good ones can be very problematic. The k-means process is a reasonable method to get good enough starting values without having to think/compute too much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation%E2%80%93maximizati...
But which one is still readable ?
Power Politics suck and now it’s hard to distinguish genuine concern from authoritarian horseshit.
Change everything to y'all. Turns out the South has a perfect gender neutral pronoun.
64 cores, and it takes 5 minutes? That’s… not awesome. Most people do not have 64 (presumably high performance) cores lying around for the purpose of building dependencies.
What about the sovereign part? No one has total power over their money because its utility is always based in another's willingness to participate in the transaction.

If bitcoin existed before the Civil Rights movement in the US, it would not have helped people of color spend their money in "whites only" establishments or buy houses in white neighborhoods when (prior to 1948) a covenant could legally exclude a person of color from owning certain homes. And after 1948 the legal system could still be weaponized against such purchases, or if all else failed the buyer harassed or worse.

These are more extreme examples, but that sort of thing does still go on in places both in the US and elsewhere. Bitcoin or other crypto fall short of solving monetary censorship.

Separately, why does it matter where bitcoin was created? (especially given that we really don't know who created it anyway).
Right there with you!! We just completed our conversion of Oracle Java to Azul Zulu Java late last year. Taken off 7,000 desktops and I don’t even know how many servers.
Seems to me the intention is that if you quickly press command-tab to switch back to your previous window, you don't get the window popping up in front of that window you've brought to the front.

This is nice, as most of the time I'm command tabbing between two windows, so I quickly press it and no window pops up on my screen. If I need to press command-tab more than once, it appears and I'm able to select the window I'd like. Seems like decent UX to me
We are still using requests over the SFTP server, but I guess rather sooner than later that will change. However, when it comes to Refinitiv, I can't complain about the REST API for Datascope Select and TickHistory.

Would you know how good the quality of the options data at polygon.io is?
It's Terrible at its Job too. Theylps, personuel, and theirsestorical are not words
I'm not sure, I can't imagine feeling that way. The jump from $500k to $650k, or 1mil to 1.2mil, would still feel pretty significant, in terms of cash hitting your bank account.
Perhaps 'satire' is the wrong word, but it feels 'off' somehow. I can't quite put it into words

I will say that the repo that the bot is using is absolutely whack, https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/gender-inclusive-lang...

replaces 'mother' with 'parent', 'boyfriend' with 'consort', 'maiden voyage' with 'first voyage'. What a strange world.
No clue what a "big AI consultancy" is, but as someone who works in ML on a big feed-driven social networking site, what you are saying is just not true.
it's a never-ending rabbithole. 'Guardian' is probably more inclusive than 'parent', even...

What I really want to know is how whoever is trying to force it deals with languages with grammatical genders.
Most people don’t have 64 cores available to them to compile LLVM in 5 minutes. Switching to ninja doesn’t really solve that problem.
The real question is, "is it good"? I don't like to merge PR's just because.
You know one of the reasons you see the "trend" is people keep upvoting tiny things like this.
4 years ago, I posted here to introduce some work I did using AI for breast tumor detection and classification:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/8rdpwy/pi_...

That post gain some traction on Reddit and I hope you would like the one I am gonna introduce here again.

In the recent years, I have been shifting my focus from cancer detection to the actual treatment.

One particular problem we really want to solve is to have more brain cancer patients to be accessible to stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) which has a lot better treatment outcome and much better quality of life (QoL) for the patient than whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) which is more common for patients with multiple brainiest (say more than 5 or 10).
The reason behind that is it takes a really lot of efforts for physician or neurosurgeon for the SRS procedures for multiple brain mets patients since each lesion needs to be correctly contoured / labeled / tracked and also a lot of efforts for medical physicists for treatment planning for these kinds of multiple lesion cases. With patients of more than 10 or 20 brain mets, there are just not enough resources out there to help them usually.

Therefore starting from 2019, we collaborated with UTSW and Stanford trying to tackle this problem. We have since developed models for auto contouring / labeling brain mets lesions, together with Organ-at-Risks (OAR), also we developed models for fast false positive reduction based on SVM-radiomics. In addition, we developed models for quickly splitting multiple mets into different treatment
sessions based on optimized radiation dose maps.

This work will be presented tomorrow at 2022 AAPM spring clinical meeting by our collaborator at Stanford

https://w4.aapm.org/meetings/2022SCM/programInfo/programAbs....

And we are accelerating to trying to have this technology and platform available to the whole SRS community very soon.
We really hope this platform could bring more patients to SRS procedures instead of the brutal whole brain RT. And we have seem patients keep coming back every a few months for SRS to extend the quality of their life (comparing with WBRT which is a once-in-a-life treatment which has not other treatment methods after it when the patients have reoccurrence occurred after 3 months).
Hope you like this work.

Hao
This isn't even remotely true. wav2vec alone is the most impactful model in speech recognition in a while and their subsequent work in low-resource languages makes it pretty obvious they're working with limited data...
I consider Kurzweil unreliable on this subject, as well as on the similarly kooky topic of immortality. He belongs to the "internet celebrity"/"guru" cadre rather than to the scientific community doing serious research on AI. In fact, his actual subject matter expertise isn't in AI. He is a "futurist", not a real researcher.

I was definitely thinking of Kurzweil, not only Yudkowsky, when mentioning internet cranks.

Working for Google is not enough. It's like when someone who's an accomplished physicist decides to give their opinions on life, biology, evolution, etc: not their area of expertise, so we don't need to hold their opinions in particularly high regard.
I’m sorry you felt that way. For most fellow Americans I know, displaying our flag is not intended to convey anti-immigrant or racist sentiment. It’s more often intended as an expression of support for the U.S. as our home and for freedom.

Canadians proudly do the same, FWIW.
Good satire is often indistinguishable from the real thing.
You missed the part where you upgrade your RAM to at least 128 GB and up the swap to 512 GB and use gold as your linker because the OOM killer will still raise it's head for ld under those extreme restrictions.
It's neutral. As per de Saussure, just like pretty much any feature of the language besides onomatopoeia, they're arbitrary. You could call a computer 'a spedhlurf" and it would be neither better nor worse.
> It sounds like you are approaching the roundabout too fast.

This is a common problem with USA roundabouts. People think of them like a freeway on-ramp and traffic engineers do nothing to calm the traffic entering. So people go through them as fast as possible. Slowing down in a roundabout tends to piss off a lot of folks who think they should be doing highway speeds.
The thing is, sometimes specificity is required (and helpful). Nothing about gender neutrality is inherently more inclusive IMO. And it's annoying to correct colloquialisms like "guys" as if it's meant with ill intent instead of just being a part of our collective vernacular for DECADES.
Hi! "guy" is a gendered pronoun. We recommend alternatives such as...
The joys of classic car ownership.
It's no longer possible to tell satire from reality.
That describes exactly the neurological theories and approach of the physical therapy office I go to. The idea is that after traumatic events, the brain can recalibrate its pain registration threshold. Through the process of pushing to the edge of that boundary (and just barely beyond), over time it teaches your brain to reset back to a normal level. I have been to many physical therapists and this was very unique and compelling for me, and several months in I am on a good path.
The bot just does a naive string replace, which means it's generating a bunch of nonsensical PRs with completely broken code and silly substitutions like "manual" -> "personual".

It's also unclear if it's an April Fool's joke, or a glib protest at gender neutral language initiatives, or if it's just a well-intentioned bot with a poor implementation.
Probably one of those companies trying to sell SMBs a "data platform." ie. like C3.ai ...

It seems snake oil adjacent to me, at least at this point.
I think trying to replace "man" as in manual with "person" was stupider.
It seems that Vitalik decided to write the best defense he could of Bitcoin and publish it on April 1st. And that's the joke.
stock photos with stuff like 'love equals love'.

thrown together on a quick'n'dirty templating site (Wix)

their blog https://inclusivecoding.wixsite.com/home/blog
gives 5 tips, but then lists '4' twice
You will see a lot of "Shepard's Hook" roundabouts in the USA to prevent people from going around again. I personally don't know why.
Maybe, maybe not, but replacing "man page" to "person page" to submit a breaking PR probably is?

Note that "man page" is an abbreviation of "manual," which etymologically derives from 'manus' (Latin for "hand") and "al" (roughly, "pertaining to"). Arguendo, one could object to 'manual' being the de facto implementation as it is gendered male. Manumal could be a workable neuter representation, but "man page" avoids the Latin gender preference altogether.
In the meantime, we will be offering a live demo to our revolutionary SRS platform if you are interested. You could book a 20-min meeting with us using the link: https://lnkd.in/eSNg9vMK at your convenience.
Defense in depth, that’s all. Yes it’s a problem when people think fixes at the edge obviate the need for fundamental fixes, but that doesn’t mean fixes at the edge are bad.
system error: -127

WOW.. it's exactly as I remember it :)

Joke aside, that was a FUN walk down memory lane for me.
I was too shocked to ask. Now that I think about it, though, off-brand mesh APs hanging from wall warts situated on filing cabinets, cube walls, top the the refrigerator in the break room, etc, was probably the "enterprise" strategy they had in mind.
I don't think torch is maintained by Meta AI (which is LeCun's devision), but some other part of Meta.
> I upvoted it as a curiosity. The idea of a cultural agenda-signalling bot loose on GitHub actively breaking code and documentation sparks quite a few feelings.

How widespread and impactful is this problem?
Those PRs are open whether we upvote this submission or not. Putting your head in the sand and pretending something isn't happening has never really worked, better to at least try to have some discourse.
Reminds me when i had to work with a Unix illiterate tech writer who changed ever y use of "man page" in a document to "main page"
He could write pretty much the same article about owning an OG Chrysler minivan, which is arguably a more historically significant vehicle but built by a make that prompts sneers about reliability and credit scores from most here, and it would just be considered trashy or prompt pearl clutching by most of the readership.

Amazing the breadth of preconceived notions that can be leveraged with a badge on a grill. Having the presence of mind and ability to leverage readership demographics like this is what really separates good writers and editors from the mediocre.
This is what we do now, basically. We have a Nomad Device Plugin and create local LVMs. We also have plumbing to move these between hosts. It works pretty well, it's just very limiting.

What we need is to be able to target machines to specific volumes. And for things like database clusters, we need to control restart order during upgrades.
Hypothetically, we draw the line by refusing to continue to re-elect a Congress that refuses to do its job.
Yeah, agreed. The site is almost on the nose.

Maybe not though and you and I are just that "unwoke" lol
My statement had nothing to do with intent. Conversely, once a vulnerability is introduced (intentionally or not), you don't want every developer to update their deps to the newly insecure version.
Well, yes, that's what I meant by "life sucks and a substance/behavior provides a great escape" in the previous comment.
I’ve never experienced a good sofa mattress. Have you?
Why does the sticker in the photo say "GOV.UK Design System — Live 19 November 2021"?
Those are the ones with wikipedia articles about them that I found in ~5 minutes of searching. Many things can be greatly minimized if we pretend the only instances that exist are those so widely publicized to earn themselves a wikipedia article.

Grooming ‘epidemic’ as almost 19,000 children identified as sexual exploitation victims in England [1] implies it is widespread, but it's not clear from the article how that number is split between grooming gangs and other perpetrators, so it remains a mere implication, not fact.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/grooming-chi...
When these sort of highly sought after researcher and ML/AI talent begin to leave a company in large groups even if it's just a small number of people at first it's a sign that something is profoundly wrong at that company. These people work on the long term big roadmap items and can typically see the the future initiatives clearly. Essentially means that innovation at Meta has slowed to a trickle or has completely dried up.
Given that we are only talking about it today, it seems it was timed perfectly. If we didn't notice until the 2nd or 3rd, the joke would be ruined.
This situation is causing real people real hardship. Fooling with numbers does not relieve any.
Well it depends on whether or not subscribe to the belief that gender exclusive language introduces bias.
> My question, as someone not familiar, is what are the plans to resolve this perpetual backlog?

Plea deals are the current tool attempting to address that. They take drastically less time and resources. Scholars estimate 90 to 95 percent of cases are resolved via plea deals at this point. It's been going on long enough that I think we've actually adjusted prison sentences to entice it; we have incredibly long prison sentences relative to the rest of the world, to scare people into taking a deal where they serve a more normal numbers of years.

It's not unheard of for innocent people to take a plea to serve 30 days in jail instead of risking trial and serving 4 years or something like that.

If a majority of defendants actually exercised their right to a trial, our judicial system would fall apart. We don't have nearly enough judges, lawyers, or courthouses for that to happen, and it would start triggering 6th Amendment "right to a speedy trial" issues.

I'm of the opinion that the current system of plea deals is unconstitutional, because it establishes a penalty for exercising 6th Amendment rights to a trial. If the plea deal is 60 days in jail, or they're going to go to trial and recommend the maximum, we are coercing people into not exercising their rights. If the court believes that 60 days is a reasonable sentence for the crime, it shouldn't matter whether guilt is established via a plea deal or trial.

> And, are these massive backlogs concentrated in certain areas (bigger cities?) or are they pretty evenly dispersed?

I can't seem to find any readily available data on that, it's an interesting question. I did read that basically everyone had issues during COVID because courts were closed, and a lot of charges were dropped because they couldn't be handled quickly enough to satisfy the right to a speedy trial.

I'd love to see data if anyone knows where to get it online.
Good satire is also often funny. This is just stupid.
Please don't say that too loudly.
In that case, maybe manpages -> yellowpages? Come to think of it, I'm not sure many people would appreciate that joke either...
Zero trust isn't zero trust. It's assigning all trust to a third party, unless you self-host your OpenID service.

Is there a rule somewhere that says that tech buzzwords in the networking sector have to be maximally wrong?
Singular "they" is pretty widely accepted today. Nothing wrong about it. "You" can also be singular or plural.

> Is “they” singular or plural? The answer is both. As of 2019, most big style guides—including the Associated Press, the Chicago Manual of Style, the MLA style manual, and the APA style manual—accept the usage of the singular they. [0]

[0] https://www.grammarly.com/blog/use-the-singular-they/
True, and the concerning thing is that it’s indistinguishable from the normal PR and marketing pieces. The Matt Damon commercials are ridiculous.