skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I wasn't sure whether to include this as a false positive in category 2 or it's own category but yes your point stands.
There is a very real danger of models being biased in a way that doesn't show up when you apply these crude hacks to inputs. It seems to me we have to be much more deliberate, much more analytical, and much more thorough in testing models if we want to substantially reduce or even eliminate discrimination.

Yes, you can A/B test the model if you can design reasonable experiments. You still don't have the general discrimination test because you have to define what a reasonable input distribution and what reasonable outputs are.

If an employer is looking to hire an engineer with a CS degree from a top-tier university, and they use an AI model to evaluate resumes and it returns a number of successes on black people very similar to the population distribution of graduates from those programs is the model discriminatory?

There are still hard problems here because any natural baseline you use for a model may in fact be wrong and designing a reasonable distribution of input data is almost impossibly hard as well.
This is the NY Post. Seems like time to consider the source.
This DNS likely participates in DoS attacks. Attackers craft queries with a maximum amplification factor and offer up the victim's IP as the query IP. This results in bandwidth from the attacker getting multiplied by amplification factor and the attackers IP is hidden from the victim.

Rate limiting, blocking abusive IPs, and blocking large transfers like zone transfers can help.
This.

For decades, Bloomberg development, and people so unfortunate as to follow them (because of silly book from the early '90s) adhered to an idiotic convention that wrapped every #include directive in an #ifdef block. Of course, all compilers, also for decades, recognized when they had already seen an include file that itself was wrapped in its own #ifdef block, and skipped it. Later this same behavior was simplified to #pragma once, obviating the need to invent unique preprocessor names for all headers, which on occasion collided or were misspelled, with amusing results.

There are no remaining C++ compilers in use, outside of sad pre-Standard backwaters, that do not implement #pragma once.

And anyway, the proper solution if you are worried about compilation time is to switch to C++20 modules.
No, you’re wrong here, it’s not a term of art.
Should be noticed these are not nanobots in the sense of a tiny mechanical machine, but instead are based on the proteins that form the inner workings of our own cells. Science fiction and pop science has made the former popular, while biology researchers use the term to popularize the latter.
The second article has the following subtitle:

> The mania over ride-sharing and delivery companies has at times been absurd

and closes with these words

> In the flywheel economy hope and hype spring eternal, at least as long as interest rates remain low and capital is essentially free.

Hardly an example of what you accused the newspaper of.
Can you explain to me why these two articles represent Economists being the big cheerleaders for creating bubbles? I read both articles and I'm not sure what I am missing.
Yes. It's astounding (to me, anyway) how many companies aren't even close to profitability.
I agree, especially if the color is "black". Similarly, I suppose you will find that people with traits of low social class or people that are physically large/muscular, especially if they're not good-looking will experience this.

So, a black guy on 190+cm, large and muscular with a hoodie + some gang-related tatoos and a lower-class behaviour may experience it more than a petite female white upper middle class lawyer in an expensive dress suit.

No surprises here.
Yes, my point is it will hold, but it won't hold 50M users, and if you take off you'll be scrambling to rewrite it from scratch. So a flexible architecture that is simple but can scale (as an architecture) might be a better choice than the simplest possible design you can make.
Surely you don't think I meant that you MUST split a pizza into 1 third dough, 1 third sauce, 1 third cheese. That would be hilarious, and yeah pretty close to maybe Chicago style (which is excellent), but not at all what the intent of my comment was.

And I've had pizza soup. It was a soup made with standard north american pizza ingredients. It was marvelous.
Kindof gives new meaning to the term "mining pool"
Oklch Color Picker and Converter
Since the migration of most employees to working from home I've run into this on a nearly weekly basis in IT where wireless works until it doesn't. Corporate networks can be challenging enough to tune in an environment where you have a lot more access and control than someone at their home. Often this is in a dense urban setting where their setup consists of connecting to the cheapest wireless equipment their ISP could buy.

Once the usual quick checklist items are exhausted,suggesting that maybe we ought to just run a cable before getting into troubleshooting buggy wireless drivers, old hardware that doesn't support modern 802.11 amendments, or conducting a full spectrum analysis are often dismissed, or even if they are open to it, no one seems to own an Ethernet cable these days or their gateway is in a closet, basement or some other inconvenient location.

Someday I hope that installing Ethernet jacks throughout the house becomes as commonplace as it once was to do the same for phone lines, but to many it is an afterthought as they are used to their crappy wireless.
https://flipperzero.one
That was my concern too. Governments already have WAY TOO MUCH power and the last thing we should be doing is to make governments richer.

Don't know about Germany but in my country government is corrupted and and tax paid is going straight into corruption.

While mine is one of the worse, it's definitely not the only one.

Do not support corruption.
I hate SV culture, so not one to WK or make excuses for it, but when you have as much money to throw around as he does, you don't have time to deal with requests for pocket change.

Look at your own investment portfolio. Are you investing $1 at a time in fractional shares of a million different stocks, or investing $1000 at a time on a smaller number of stocks/funds you expect to have solid returns? (You think his crypto bids are misguided. Maybe you're right. Not your money though.)

If you're certain about your product, you don't need an investor. You need a small business loan.
I think bureaucracies do tend to suck, but I also think there are often people who stand to gain from making a bureaucracy suck.

For that reason, I suspect it's good idea to leave interpretive space for the possibility that a given bureaucracy has been intentionally hamstrung, or is Kafkaesque by design.

I suspect calling Comcast is miserable because the process is designed to exhaust and manipulate you out of quitting, for example.

I suspect it's possible to build systems that enable you to ensure an ER visit will cost $500 instead of $10000--but our insurance companies may feel like the uncertainty deters people from seeking care.
It sure looks like it is.

> Disparate impact in United States labor law refers to ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact
Actually I was being sarcastic, always a bad idea on web forums, sorry. "Without brakes" meant that people don't slow down when they should. And to be charitable, I think it has to do with people learning what kind of situational awareness and reaction time are needed.

The US CPSC does regulate bike brakes. The latest generation of e-bikes actually have quite effective brakes, nearly entirely hydraulic discs.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-II/subchapter-...
You get that in any subreddit that's named too generically, because that's where newcomers to the subject will go by default. If you're just started programming and you're learning Python, you're probably going to r/python to ask any questions you might have. If you just bought your first bicycle you're going to r/bicycle. So you end up with basic questions and people showing off their first 10 mile trip. Trying to fight it is futile, the only solution is to let the beginners have the most obvious community name, and let the more advanced users have their own with some name you won't stumble upon with only basic knowledge. I learned long ago that trying to point new users to specific newbie groups doesn't work, you'll come off as cranky and bitter, and eventually the majority of users are siding with the newcomers because thats how they identify as well.
I don't think I am alone when I say I can't remotely fathom what the F Musk wants out of this whole "buy twitter" ordeal.

Do people really think this was all a game to snag a $1B fee, publicly cause havoc and possibly precipitate the sinking of Twitter? Is that really what the world's richest man wants to drop everything to work on?

Seems like A LOT to go through for someone who has several very absorbing day jobs: Tesla + SpaceX + the micronauts rocket-tube thing + neuralink + ???

Is this mania?
Ty Alan! It's great to be surrounded by smart technical people like you.
I have severe dry eyes from unfortunately taking accutane in my teens. Will LASIK cause more dryness? I already tried restasis which did not improve the ability of ‘rewetting’ my eyes when the optometrist was testing for this towards the end of treatment.

Worsened dryness as an outcome from LASIK is the only thing holding me back from it. Would love some feedback!
More of these type articles should be easily made available to the general public.
How I Hacked GitHub Actions
with Plankton from Spongebob as the slave driver
Headphones meant for audio production tend to come with a 3.5mm headphone jack with screw thread that allows you to securely fit an adapter to full size jack.

I find it very likely that people who are into audio production want to use their cabled headphones on their phone. I do. And the people who are into hi-fi too. It’s just that it’s too small of a part of the market.
No broker in their right mind is deliberately underpricing the homes they represent. Why would they? A homeowner talks to another broker and they say they can get 20% more than the first one. Who is the seller going to go with?

When we sold our house the broker put it at a fair price. Then along came a couple that’s been outbid a number of times and offered 30% over within 24 hours of listing.

Was the home underpriced? Maybe, but the housing market is such that it doesn’t have to appeal to hundreds of people. Just one.

Looking at the people going through the home most of them were using flyhomes.com (they operate as sort of a “we will pay cash for the house and then you pay us back”) and probably had no intention of living there.
Agree - absolute power corrupts absolutely. Everyone is accountable and no one is above reproach. He probably is living on a huge power surge right now which might make him feel invincible (as power does) - it would be a classic time to make a misstep.

Hope his ego comes back to earth and he can keep executing. Will keep watching.
It's all good at the end of the day, but it doesn't have to be thin to be good, nor does it have to (laughably) come from Naples.

And you should put fruit on it too! Right?
We've reached peak Musk on HN. Every nuance of this man's life on social media is scrutinized, when there's real, more pertinent work to be done. I'm putting this guy on snooze until he makes one actual change to Twitter that improves it.
My partner and I both have similar roles to yours, in non-tech companies. Sometimes we both feel like we’re not being ambitious enough… but we walk into town for two-hour lunches together 2-3 times per week, finish household errands on weekdays, and never have to worry about money. The initial transition from “working hard” to “hardly working” was difficult to settle into, but imo as long as we can keep up our skills with all this extra time, it’s a very enjoyable lifestyle.
Fossil Fuel Growth Doesn't Mean We're Not Making Progress
Just subscribe to Matt Levine's Money Stuff newsletter which I do. And am not a journalist but have been frequently called a pimp :-)
And, sorry that you are having a bad day, go punch a pillow or something..
Totally Agree. The endless interviews are the worst ones, and I've dropped out of cycles before because they were too long.

And I like the experiment idea, although I don't think anyone will ever do it without a boatload of cash to risk for no reason.
I guess that applies to Linux and graphic design as well!
Recent events suggest that Turkey will be the major obstacle to Finlands NATO membership.

But with zero reasonable arguments for blocking the membership, Turkeys position doesn't seem to be sustainable.
I should have included "also".
Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of the Binance platform, deviated from his normal impartiality and did not hesitate to criticize Terra teams' disastrous management technique (LUNA).
Furthermore, spot trading in the UST/BUSD and LUNA/BUSD pairings was momentarily halted for a portion of the afternoon.
As someone's whose math(s) isn't up to scratch, I find the HTML sliders aspect of this the least interesting. But I love the demonstration of what you can do with a simple equation — it reminds me of some of the things I've seen people do with pico-8, for example. This demo right here absolutely destroys my cpu, tho...
maybe you shouldnt be interviewing people for specific terminology. People can learn. Experienced competent people can definitely learn. Maybe they know the concept, but not the term. Maybe they need a little guidance about what you want out of the question. Do you want them to know "cache line" the phrase? or do you want them to understand memory structure? etc...
Serious Security: Learning from curl’s latest bug update
I did this with a 2012 MBP at one point. It was basically a crude attempt at reflowing the solder on the board.

Got it running again, and I managed another ~year out of it, before my then-two-year old daughter poured a pint of milk into the keyboard.
Problem patched, more or less: you can easily forget or loose the dongle, and you’ve lost the ability to charge your phone at the same time. It still feels like a step back in functionality.
Something that's funny right now is there are a lot of bears gloating about what they think is going to happen in the market and cryptocurrencies the next 2 years without it even having happened yet. They've been waiting literally years for this moment and they think it's finally arrived and can't wait to dance.
Every C++ compiler still in use will not even try to open a header-guarded or #pragma once file it has already seen.

Anybody trying to optimize on top of that is engaged in foolish superstition.

(If you are still using Sun's pre-Standard compiler, you are not reading this. I think even Bloomberg has abandoned that.)
Is it really a bad thing? Unemployment is pretty low.
No definitely not. Your doctor has it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intraocular_pressure
Sounds like a technology practitioner from USDS embedding into agencies to teach their procurement folks how to procure tech, correct?
I turn down interviews that end up being >4 hours. When you get to a senior engineer level, these interviews cost hundreds to thousands of dollars of our time. Often times technical performance doesn't get you a job, it just keeps your from losing the job. The decision is heavily dependent on how well you got along with the hiring manager and what type of mood they're in when they meet you.

If you're unlucky, you'll flounder on one of the esoteric algorithm questions that have little to no correlation to your performance at the job. In this case, you've entirely wasted your time.
Yes, I'm aware of the legal fiction that they are not part of the government. But they are, as they are run by people appointed by the government, and therefore serve the government.
> as for point one, like me, he was in the right place at the right time.

Let me rephrase:

SpaceX was valued at less than one billion dollars when they launched the first Falcon 9 to orbit.

The total money raised in the investment rounds only exceeded $1 billion in 2015, after 13 launches.

Total raised from investors only exceeded $2 billion, enough to be called “billions” plural, in Jan 2019, which is just before SpaceX got Starhopper off the ground.

https://craft.co/spacex/funding-rounds

In comparison, the per-launch cost of the SLS is estimated to be “over $2 billion”, plus dev cost, and an Orion capsule would be extra.

SpaceX didn’t need billions to achieve impressive things, just for ridiculous things like “enable the colonisation of Mars”.
Martin Eberhard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhMsboqMMzs
Your link is evidence for my side. It uses the plain definition. The plain meaning of the words.
The title is "Cities with nice weather" but in the writeup they didn't even look at cities with nice weather.

FTA: "The area of this plot I’m most interested in is the vertical slice around Toronto"

They were investigating cities with "average temperatures" around Toronto's. Which is going to be very cold, as you mentioned.
They use ALE '51' instead of 57, so I assume not. (Because Montezuma's Revenge is pretty much purely about exploration, and given demonstrations of a successful agent wouldn't be hard, there's not much benefit to training on it here. Gato would probably get a good score, but no one would care. The hard exploration games in ALE are often left out for that reason.)
Neat device
Justifiable business reason is still a strong bar. For example, with no evidence in either direction for a claim there is no justifiable business reason even if the claim is somewhat intuitive. So if you want to require high-school diplomas because you think people who have them will do the job better you better track that data for years and be prepared to demonstrate it if sued. If you want to use IQ tests because you anticipate smarter people will do the job better you better have IQ tests done on your previous employee population demonstrating the correlation before imposing the requirement.
Nicely done! My OCD says things are back to normal now.
Glad you liked it. I've added Gato as a reference to the story, of course. :)
why is the housing market not budging. Its just lagging other assets?
Seems like a linked list (and set dressing) is circumstantial.

Is it because linked lists can be slow and can sometimes pocket arbitrary data?

I feel like strong typing and limiting pointers in favor of runners combats this.
Chewing bubblegum isn't a taxable event so I don't tell the IRS when I do it. Or giving my friend a drone for his birthday, if you prefer something closer to the topic.

If selling ETH after holding it for a year isn't a taxable event in Germany, and it sounds very much like it isn't, on what basis should this be reported to the tax authorities?
> At that point, I'd bail, because the appraiser is raising a red flag.

The point is, in a lot of markets, if you bailed on offers over this in the last couple years, you wouldn't be winning any bids in the first place, and wouldn't have been able to buy a house at all. The winning bids include guarantees that the buyer will cover the difference. If you won't do that, you'll lose to an all-cash offer from someone who will. If you're lucky, you won't be competing against superior offers that also waive all contingencies.

I have no idea where all these people are coming from with hundreds of thousands in cash and the ability to cover several thousand more on top of the appraisal value, but they seem to be involved in damn near every sale the last 2ish years. Given how many are OK waiving inspections and such, I have to assume they're institutional buyers who can spread that risk around, not individuals who could be ruined by that kind of thing.
Seems a bit strange in the gender dynamics sense. Can they somehow discern someone who is not a man when it is say, someone who they think looks like one?

And would they also choose to bully everyone who's tall, in an anti-bullying campaign?
What you want to look at is "Temperature Fingerprints" https://weatherspark.com/map
This might not work out as intended. A lot of men are so unused to being seen as sexual beings, so unused to not being desired or seen as desirable, that some of them might regard being catcalled by women as an improvement. Negative attention is still better than being ignored, and social invisibility can hurt people who haven't learned to weaponize it to their own benefit.
People are, the usual suspects from the same states that practiced this brutality are trying to suppress that. Just like the information was suppressed in the 1800s.

As the article states, these images were needed as proof, to help otherwise apathetic people be abolitionists. Many analogies to the current day.

Just American things.
I may have been unclear. He wouldn't have to buy Twitter if the government prevented it, but he would be required to pay $1b. Outside of those circumstances, he is contractually forced to buy Twitter.

The government issue and the money issue are basically the two scenarios in which Musk would be unable (not just unwilling) to complete the transaction. So that's where he has to pay the fee. Otherwise, he can't change his mind.
If your capital cost is low, you can buy growth (sell below cost) and use that to distract investors for a long time. Capital costs are not going to be low anymore. A lot of investors are going to blow up and be more skeptical/disciplined.
K-9 Rocket Thrust Vector Control Gimbal
One thing I'd love to do with this, but which I don't think is possible - clone my car key. My family has two cars and I just wish I could have one device that is able to unlock & start both of them so that I don't have to carry two bulky dongles on my keychain.
ATT had to pay T-Mobile when their deal fell through due to the government. Look at this way Twitter just made a whole bunch of business decisions based somewhat/mostly on Musk's takeover. If he pulls out, Twitter will be hurt financially. Or suppose it was a hostile takeover by a competitor - they could fein a takeover - hurt their competitor - then walk away.
Let's clarify a bit here.

- There is no "TV tax". There is a fee that most households (not people) must pay. It's always the same, no matter what your personal marginal tax rate is.

- pension premiums are not a tax. For employees they get deducted from your gross income and effectively lower your tax - and gains from ETF are not considered.

- For care and health insurance it's the same as for pension.

- Yes, there's still a tax for western Germany to help eastern Germany

- Yes, there's church tax (if you are already e.g. catholic) and yes you have to be a fee to get out of it.

In addition, for employees (and some others) there are:

- Mandatory unemployment premiums

- Additional premiums for care insurance if you are single

- Mandatory accident insurance (paid by the employer though)
There would need to be some tight regs to make that work, or else large companies would buy up all the housing supply and force everyone to pay them rent.

I think individual home ownership is important, and thats not where I'd want to start cutting.

Credit for second homes being less cheap - totally onboard.
> My personal preference is definitely for colder temperatures than most other people would like.

You should really check out San Francisco...
Users’ emails are exfiltrated before form submission, with out giving consent [pdf]
Of course I'm not serious. If the board accepted payout equivalents for themselves and not the remaining stock holders, they would not be upholding their fiduciary duties. Oh, and then you know, accepting of bribes and what not.
This is interesting. It doesn't capture humidity / heat index, which would drop at least five cities (FL, SC) out of the top ten.