skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Algorithmic bias is a well-known and widely-studied phenomenon. At least as far back as the early 2000s, researchers were publishing about it. Perhaps something that should be required reading for programmers.

Picturing algorithmic surveillance: the politics of facial recognition systems https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/20067

The Hidden Biases in Big Data https://hbr.org/2013/04/the-hidden-biases-in-big-data

Police are using software to predict crime. Is it a ‘holy grail’ or biased against minorities? https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/police-ar...

Automating Judicial Discretion: How Algorithmic Risk Assessments in Pretrial Adjudications Violate Equal Protection Rights on the Basis of Race https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...

How We Analyzed the COMPAS Recidivism Algorithm https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-the-compa...
Right, and "root cause" only has meaning in the context of some goal being achieved. If you're a detective investigating the scene of the accident to determine culpability, your goal is very different than if you're a civil engineer investigating the accident for ways to improve traffic management. It'd be really strange for either of them to conclude their report with a recommendation to increase World Health Organization's budget for alcohol abuse treatment.

--

Therefore, Your Honor, my client is innocent. Why has this tragic accident occurred? I shall tell you to look no further than the root cause...

The Big Bang.
Google Chat isn't much better, so that's not saying much.

I do use Teams when a vender uses it, and it's just so so bad.
Oooh thanks, I had been looking to find that article again for a while and couldn't track it down for anything.

In a completely unrelated matter, Google search results quality has really declined in the last few years...
Because it isn't. 5 whys is for exploring the neighborhood of the problem without going deep down a rabbit hole. It's like timeboxing an activity or putting a bounds on a search algorithm. The objective is to find something near enough to act on and partially [0] address the systemic causes, but far enough to not just be the proximate cause. "Battery was dead" is a proximate cause, many people stop at proximate causes. 5 whys forces you beyond that.

It should also be combined with other techniques that elaborate, more properly, on the model of the system in which the problem occurred. There you will find the deeper systemic causes and can start addressing and mitigating the issues. But that will take a lot longer to explore and resolve than the 5 whys answer of "Get a proper tuneup every 5-10k miles".

[0] Ideally fully, but 5 whys is an expedient, non-thorough technique so that's a reach.
I've thought about this before but I think you have normalize the confidence over lots of examples for it to not lead to a degenerate solution. So if the confidence is divided by the sum of confidence for the whole minibatch the model would have an incentive to spread this out correctly rather than just always hedging.
macOS may be a bit behind iOS in terms of support for the latest stuff... but Apple is pretty clear that Swift and SwiftUI is the way to go for new apps (Mac and iOS). I hope this works out for you, but you may find yourself rewriting and relearning many things eventually.
It is going to take a long time, but Obj-C and AppKit are essentially deprecated.
I'd also be skeptical about using tools like Platypus long-term.
If I were you I would have jumped all-in to Swift/SwiftUI and Xcode for managing your project, and only use the old stuff when you have a very specific need to.
there is a certain correlation between blind people who are self-proclaimed echolocators and mobility and employment. The majority of blind people are caught up in this social construction whereby they are restricted and limited. All you have to do is look at the unemployment rates among blind people, and you have an unemployment rate of upwards of 70 percent. So that’s pretty dire. But unnecessary.

Somewhere, they reserve massage as a career for blind people so they will be employable. There are blind developers and I co-own a not active group for such that was begun because some of the tools developers need aren't very blind-friendly.

We absolutely could do a better job of helping people with various impairments make their lives work. Up to 60 percent of people have some degree of impairment but only about 15 or 20 percent self-identify as disabled. The people who are less impaired and are able to make their lives work without much accommodation tend to hide it or at least downplay it and don't call it a disability.

He is absolutely correct that impaired people are impaired at least as much by social climate shaping expectations as by the physical limitation itself. Many things can be accommodated fairly readily in logistical terms IF you can just get people on board with doing what's necessary.
grep is not gigo immune
For safety, the script does not provide any API that harms your environment. But you can use the Go plugin to write the API you need and provide it to the script.

The solution can be found in "Use api.*.so for more functionality" in [apidemo](https://apidemo.lockval.com/)

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The lights wink out in Asia
To my understanding, a huge portion of NYT works on algorithms. "Not enough hits on the news? Probably others don't either, so no need to put on front page" kinda scenario. Which, I kinda understand. The other news are more... engaging. Balloons, super bowl, thousands of people dying from another environmental catastrophe in Turkey and etc. are more engaging in daily discussions, so other stories simply get buried.
A Well Functioning economy is the last thing that the people proposing punitive rental taxes want.
Watching a live screening of Voices of Light[1] by Anonymous Four with Passion of Joan of Arc in college was one of the best cinematic experiences of my life. Absolute perfection.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voices_of_Light
IIRC there's a few articles on 538 that do some crude-but-objective analysis like this.
Contrarianism is actually not the same thing as skepticism.
https://quantian.substack.com/p/from-trinity-to-liquidity is an excellent example of applying this idea to the problem of inferring the yield of a nuclear explosion and price impact of a trade in an order book.
>I've heard about this, but it is surprising how little coverage it gets compared to other things.

Probably because the most current, most related story is about how Biden + Congress just recently killed a rail worker strike. And the complicit media isn't going anywhere near that: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/02/1140265413/rail-workers-biden...

They're covering it as "averting a strike" as if that's a good thing to make striking illegal.
I don't know how on the Mac it works for you, because I've tried using it for years and its terrible on audio and video calling, and that's if it opens (which most of the time it doesn't, requiring removing some obscure cache file).
Hell, India's democracy damn well should be; it had a chance to learn from the US and others mistakes. That said, Indian democracy is a pale imitation to post WW2 European democracies.
Where in the USA is that? What utility and rate plan are you on? That’s a pretty amazing rate to have year round
It is however unlikely that any competing headset will be laser focused on low weight/size like this one.
You could argue that GPT has a model of meaning somewhere inside of it, but that's besides the point. If that meaning is hiding latent inside GPT, then it's not accessible to any other system which might want to use GPT as an interface. GPT accepts English as input and produces English as output; that's it.

That said, no, I don't think GPT properly grasps meaning, and my reason for that is simple: It regularly contradicts itself. It can put together words in a meaningful-looking order, but if it actually understood what those words meant as an emergent property of its design, then you wouldn't be able to trick it into saying things that don't make sense or are contradictory. If someone actually understands a subject, they won't make obvious mistakes when they discuss it; since GPT makes obvious mistakes, it can't actually grasp meaning—only brush up against it.
And you have to scroll quite a few pages in that.
I think that's it. When you've used other better tools, you realize how bad Teams is.
> The key lesson is to never solve a problem on the same level it was created -- i.e., the symptoms. Take the time to think through the causality.

An example of how to illustrate the wrong behavior is -- for software devs -- something like a null pointer dereference. I've seen code reviews where the suggested fix is simply to guard the dereference to check if the pointer is non-null. Sure, sometimes that actually is the right fix. But a lot of time - maybe even most of the time - you need to to take a step back and ask yourself why it was null, whether it should have been and what else must change if it shouldn't have.
WTF, I wish my electric bill was $400

In a 900sqft house, the bill last month was $650

In San Diego! Not ass freeze New England...

It really amazes me how eager americans are to be fucked by the petro mafia

Oh Ukraine Ukraine!! We gonna need to need to fuck you just a little more...

Nationalize the whole fucking criminal organization...
Wouldn't prompt "injection" be more like modifying the original prompt with changes? I'm trying to understand if this is the best choice of words.
Sorry, not for development of anything close to sighted perception in normal adults but more an example of how some degree of non sighted perception is practically achivable. Fwiw my eyes work pretty well and I rely on them for everything, but also learned how to not break my toes in the dark etc. The shower thing is of course trivial though. Presumably people that rely on hearing exclusivelly for spatially oriented perception have a whole lot more nuance and detail on which to comment.
How does this affect book sales? Do average people know this site exists and depend on it, or mostly the tech savvy types frequent zlib? A site like this could be a godsend, but what about the authors? I can see the benefit of this if it would have a lead time of let's say T+1 years (assuming that the first year is most important for sales and not sales over time).
Archive.org had a large selection of silent films as well.

https://archive.org/details/silent_films?tab=collection
If the learning rate was scaled based on its own confidence output, then ideally the system should learn to have a low confidence in everything early in training, and only raise its confidence late in training as it gets increasingly confident in its own outputs.
Not a big fan of silents, but I think Lloyd probably is approachable to a wider audience --maybe I'm just partial due to more exposure.
Engineering reasons just don't seem convincing when MS has DX only policy on Xbox and a long history of anti competitive behavior, especially in the gaming segment.

If MS would have allowed using Vulkan on Xbox for instance, I would have been more willing to give them the benefit of a doubt. But as it stands, I see them pushing DX as having lock-in motives.
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It means: it can achieve many functions that were previously impossible or not easy to achieve due to the limitations of the framework.
Ask HN: What were you doing wrong in the pursuit of love and how did you fix it?
I am not implying that you can "make" someone fall in love with you. But there may be reasons (on your side) that make someone doesn't quite love you. If you mend your ways and become a better human being yourself maybe others will notice that and fall for you.

Or maybe you were in a relationship that was going down the drain because of some shortcoming or wrongdoing. You understood that and fixed your part and then things became easier.

What were you doing wrong in either case or maybe countless other situations and how did you fix yourself?
Young upstarts refers to the proposed replacement technology, not the man.

SQL, the language, is the old man in a young man's game.
How many 10 year old M1s are on the secondhand market?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna70378
There is a big difference between Facebook having cameras inside your house and someone like Valve. We know that Valve makes money primarily from software sales, whereas Facebook's core business is collecting user data for targeted advertising, so you know they will taking advantage of every camera and microphone you give them. Facebook also has a terrible ethical history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook
A serial adder requires that it be given the bits least significant first.
Bay Area plan to ban natural gas
Ask HN: Article/Comment Showing rejected non-silicon transistor prototype
A few years back, sometime between 2015 and now, an article or comment to a similarly related article was posted on HN that showed a rejected transistor prototype. If memory serves me correctly someone commented that they new the man who built a non-silicon based transistor (ceramic I believe?) that was one of two finalists that the US Gov (or some dept) was testing as the "standard" for transistor production back in the very early days of silicon transistor research and development. The comment linked to a page with pictures and details about the "rejected" transistor. It was very neat and informative.

I should've saved it in my favorites, and have searched for many times over the years to no avail.

If anyone remembers this comment or article please share it with me.
This only affects HF radio. HF radio goes long distances cause bounce off ionosphere which is disrupted. HF radio isn't used for much these days, mainly amateurs. Most uses have switched to satellite which I don't think is disrupted. The one important use that might be affected is long-distance aviation radio.

Higher frequency line-of-sight radios should not be affected. I did see that the extra noise can affect GPS.
I'll preface my answer by saying that "world media" (as mentioned in the parent post) and US Media are different things. If the goal is internal political pressure and accountability then sure US Media attention has some value. World media maybe not so much.

1) alas, in the US context its not really "special". There seems to be an article every 5 minutes about some business prioritising profit over the environment. I agree that its terrible, but unfortunately not special.

2) probably not. But media attention won't change their danger status.

3) absolutely not. Environmentalism, climate change, the ills of profits before environment are well documented and we'll understood. Politically the nation seems divided on thus topic. In an absurd way this event adds very little to the conversation. I think that's bonkers, but I don't think this event will change too many minds.

4) working conditions are already regulated. There are people in favour of more regulation, and some in favour of less. The US has some of the weakest labour regulation in the world (in some respects.) So yes, I think better regulation would be a desirable outcome. Then again that fire is already burning well. This event does little to fan the flames.

5) short answer is, unfortunately no. The root cause of this is profit over environment, profit over people. That's a particular US condition and it is intrinsic to the American psyche. Media attention of this event won't change that, and there's certainly no shortage of upcoming preventable ecological or human disasters waiting to happen.

I'm not saying I'm happy with the status quo, but it's not like this is surprising, or frankly even newsworthy.

It's life-changing to those folk affected, but the rest of the country don't really care. Which is whacked.
> Microsoft faced an antitrust lawsuit (United States v. Microsoft Corp) for embedding IE with Windows

For a whole range of processes leveraging and protecting the existing Windows monopoly against the threat posed by browsers, Java, and other applications, not just (or even primarily) for “embedding IE with Windows.”

The findings of fact regarding the MS antitrust violations are here availabld [0], bundling IE with Windows is part of bullet E (of A-I) under “Microsoft’s Response to the Browser Threat”.

[0] https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f...
The surprise here is that they are not using teams already.
If someone is using ChatGPT to determine which mushrooms are deadly and which are edible, they may not be cut out for living.
I mean the site hasn’t collapsed like everyone thought it would 2 months ago. But besides that, I would be astounded if they have actually lost 50%+ of revenue. Keep in mind that few people would actually know those financials, and they would be reluctant to share. Also, I’m no musk fanboy, but the level of hatred and doom mongering in the press right now is…weird, to say the least.
The Internet Archive has a section devoted to silent films:

https://archive.org/details/silent_films

And a Silent Hall Of Fame:

https://archive.org/details/silenthalloffame

And a Georges Méliès collection:

https://archive.org/details/georgesmelies

Specific films:

Battleship Potemkin:

https://archive.org/details/BattleshipPotemkin

The General starring Buster Keaton:

https://archive.org/details/TheGeneral_201312

Le Voyage dans la Lune

https://archive.org/details/LeVoyageDansLaLun
I thought I was remembering a single specific event, but maybe not. Plenty of sources none the less.

https://www.independent.co.uk/space/russia-china-attack-us-s...

This one might have been the one I misremembered, but it doesn't seem like quite the right one: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

I think more likely I just upgraded "jammed" to destroyed - its not like I was imagining an explosion, just overwhelming its optical sensors. Problem is I remember some diplomatic back and forth, too.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/china-uses-laser-to-jam-us-sate...

Unrelated, but it looks like can also take out satellites with just regular missiles.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/200...

So maybe I was misremembering, but I really wouldn't be surprised if a sattelite was put out of comission before, but was just not disclosed or admitted to.
btw if someone ever stumble upon this, regenerating initramfs solved the problem
Where I work it's basically a perk I suppose, plus an investment in green energy. There are 20 Charge Point hookups (10 stations, 2 outlets) and we are free for the first 4 hours.

I look forward to the day when it's "Where is a gas station?" and not "Where is a charging station?"

PS
Was deemed worthy by pugs some years ago - ergo the name
How dare they extend the functionality of an open source project beyond it's existing capabilities /s
with more and more tech being put next to the brain i wonder if we'll see an increase of brain cancer cases this decade..
Did they mention the president's recent strikebreaking? https://www.npr.org/2022/12/02/1140265413/rail-workers-biden...

I'm guessing they didn't.
Interesting how the lava field version imprinted my mind.

When going back to the original image I now see it as ambiguous - in the same way as a duck/rabbit multistable illusion - and can see a mountain range and sand instead of clouds.
Probably easier just to decompile tiktok and insert some code which checks for a video at a certain known location controlled by you and plays it if it is present. And then surreptitiously install that app on her phone.
I've been picking from a different list (the huge meta-list project from They Shoot Pictures Don't They, which I think does factor in the 1001-films book as one of a whole bunch of things they feed to their Algorithm) but yeah, a lot of the pre-1930 films were a real slog, at least in part. I only bounced off a very few but I was pretty damn bored for long stretches of some others, I think justifiably so.

Big misses for me were anything horror (Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari—hell, maybe I just don't like German Expressionism?).

Surprise hits were some of the more arthouse films. A Propos de Nice and Man with a Movie Camera were two I loved and are both definitely not conventionally-entertaining. They don't even feature narratives, in any normal sense (but they kinda do?). I also dug some of the Big Damn Movies like Intolerance and Gance's Napoléon—but that wasn't universal, because I found Birth of a Nation unwatchable (I gave it like 90 minutes then bounced—I'd enjoyed none of it, and not just because of the terrible message). Nanook of the North was another surprise hit for me—OK, it's kinda faked or whatever, but they fucking hunted a walrus, for-real, using traditional methods. That they were doing it when they did might have been "fake" because they didn't really do it anymore, but they did it, for-actual-real, which was just nuts to watch, among other things that were "fake" but more-real than a lot of what you might be able to see today.
No. One cup of coffee at around 9:30 AM after I wake up, except on very rare occasions.

That being said, when I used to be on aderall for my ADHD I would often take my second dose of the day right before going to bed, as it would help me calm my brain down and fall asleep.

Caffeine does not affect me or my sleep cycles, it does help me focus though by quieting my mind down, and on the weekends I enjoy drinking a cup of coffee and going back to sleep for 30 - 90 minutes of deep relaxing sleep.
Another nice example from mechanics is Kepler’s third law.
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