skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "impossibility of fairness" is to support the argument that it is fair to discriminate against races if it means that we can get the racial distribution we want.

That is not at all what it means. That paper is purely talking the tradeoffs between individual and group fairness. The discussions on how to balance different group fairness measures is still an active topic of research and not something I commented on at all.

In general: What AI ethics papers on algorithmic fairness have a predetermined racial distribution to reach or suggest so?

> Why not just admit that you support discriminating against races to improve diversity numbers, because that is exactly what the statement is about?

Have you read that paper? Seems like you are driving these ideas to a political lens that I or that paper didn't suggest at all (and a completely invalid one I might add).

edit: I can't reply to the response, but that person must be referring to a different paper. And I have never read an algorithmic fairness paper that dictates which fairness tradeoffs are correct or that it is fair to always upend group fairness over individual fairness (or any other definitions).

> Fairness is possible if you don't care about diversity distributions, or at least the paper gives no argument why fairness doesn't work then.

in particular, this statement completely discards the idea of different definitions of fairness and how they relate.
Glad to be able to represent @ WaPo. Let's connect on Twitter y'all >> [link redacted] :)
Time will tell. I suspect banks will be more reckless because of this. There’s less incentive to protect deposits if they are all guaranteed, and more incentive to make risky bets.

But it’s also a principled point. If you believe that rules don’t matter as long as you like the outcome, that’s a bad way to run a society.
Although it looks like they haven't really refreshed that product line since 2016. Seems like they're trying to pivot to wireless now that Alt Mode USB ports are mainstream.
GitHub container registries are free for open source projects. For now...
> Twenty years later, a turkey sandwich contained about 820 calories.

Not sure where they got those numbers from. Just for comparison - in England, where many people eat sandwiches every day, the range is more like 300-500 for a supermarket sandwich. The meat is processed, but chicken is a fairly popular option, and the bread is thinner and less sweet.

Really the main takeaway is to reduce your bread. Carbs are terrible for diets, don't satiate you and most people eat too many. I treat baguettes and large subs as a treat the same way I'd treat a large slice of chocolate cake or ice cream - the bread part of a large sub can be as much as 500 calories by itself. As I got older I usually eat Warburtons 'Danish' bread which is 62 calories a slice, or buy a wrap or something. You could even skip the bread and just eat it with some veg as a salad. It will be just as satiating. And use half-fat mayo if you don't mind the taste.
Nothing tortillas can't fix.
I think NFTs only make sense if your trying to create some kind of Badge or Proof of ownership across organizations(digital may/may not be legal ownership).
> Everything had worked fine in his testing

I sure hope that startup learned that dev testing is not sufficient!
There is a massive conflation of insolvency and illiquidity going on here, because the distinction requires more mathematical finesse than most people have.

A bank is illiquid if its holdings require time to sell at "market price". Selling things like mortgages requires time because the buyer has to perform due diligence. If i have to sell mortgages right now, I'm going to be getting an awful price for them.

OTOH, i can sell treasuries in a fraction of a second at the ask price minus epsilon. It's not a liquidity problem, its an assets < liabilities problem, (as you clearly state, I'm just frustrated by the discussion here).
I think you're precisely correct, and I can't emphasize this point enough.

People talk about their various breaking points with Google, and several threads on the recent Google Reader shutdown 10-year anniversary post discusses these. For me, the turning point was Gmail.

BG, Before Gmail, Google Web Search (GWS) was a utility you used without identifying who you were. Yes, there were IP tracking and cookies, but those were reasonably loose fits.

AG, After Gmail, GWS for many people was something that was fully personalised. Not only were your searches associated with your email address, but often with a Real Names identity. This seemed a dark turn for me, and I resisted getting a Gmail address for years on account of that.

(I've since acquired ... several, though I use them exceedingly infrequently now, and have cleared out most associated information.)

But even in the AG era, you could use GWS without authenticating. Or through proxies such as StartPage. Around 2013 I'd switched to DuckDuckGo (DDG), which is (mostly) a Bing proxy, based on its privacy assurances.

I'm now wondering what impacts Microsoft's Sydney / GPT-Bing transition will have for DDG moving forward. And what opportunities for anonymous and/or pseudonymous use of GPT / AI chatbot (is there a more graceful term for these yet?) might be.

I was an extreme early adopter of Google. I've yet to use ChatGPT or similar tools given that they all appear to require authentication.

That's not the future I'd been working for.

Yonatan Zunger, an ex-Googler who was chief architect of that company's social and identity platform, Google+, recently landed at Microsoft as "corporate vice president and chief technology officer of identity and network access".

<https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/microsoft-recruits-top-twitte...>

He's made cogent observations on forced disclosure in the past. I'm hoping he'd be highly sensitive to the concerns you and I are raising here. (I've contacted him concerning your comment.)
Wage theft is ~$15B annually: https://www.denver7.com/news/national-politics/the-race/wage...
What is this talk about "rescuing" Python performance?

Python does not need to be rescued. Its fast enough. For 90% of applications, you are kidding yourself if you need more speed.

These are enhancements on Python, where you want to run stuff even faster on par with other languages.
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I use it daily. Now what?
The flatpak CLI will tell you which permissions a program wants. GUI installers usually also show this information, just worse most of the time. If you want to revoke permissions, you can use Flatseal or the KDE settings module.
> Since a soggy PB&J is unappealing, Dr. Roberto says it’s pretty easy to rein in the amount of sweet jam. “There’s a built-in mechanism against overjellying,” she says. “It’s a really nice type of sandwich.”

The trick is to put peanut butter on both pieces of bread so it can't absorb the jam. Then you can put as much as you like :-).
The scammers are getting better data now too. I ended my AT&T service and sent back my modem, with a penalty if you fail to do so. Somehow, a separate entity is now calling me about it, in the exact time frame AT&T would if I had not returned it. If I hadn't checked the phone number they ask you to call (other people reported the same thing) then I would not have known it was a scam
This.

I somehow forgot to pay a bill for daycare, and it went to their payment recovery contractor (it went automatically, without nobody telling me anything despite me going there every day). So the company called, said I had missed a bill and I needed to pay then over the phone with my credit card. Obviously they went mad when I told them I won't pay this way without receiving any king of paper by the mail or something to at least give me the slightest confidence that this wasn't a scam attempt. They ended up mailing me two weeks later, and charged me a fee for late payment…

Seriously, how do you want people not to fall for scammers if legit companies act the same way and charge you for being cautious…
until you get to the one actually tricky part and you need to pause it for sec so your brain can catch back up.
I seem to recall that there's a Defcon talk to this extent—one of the many that talk about locks and keys—that shares that (some) police cruisers across the US use the exact same keys, proven by showing the showing a monroney label on a still new police car which listed a barrel type had an already publicly-known key pattern.
Humans need not act on every bit of knowledge or information they generate. Our brains often generate scenarios for us and let us play through them, eg shower thoughts and shower arguments. These are all arguments and ideas that can and will never play out in reality but allow us to refine and process our thoughts.

We also generate knowledge that is utterly irrelevant to our capacity to survive, such as when we create art, play games, read books for pleasure and so on.

We also generate knowledge that has no application until one is found, eg Riemannian geometry, abstract algebra and so on.

Mathematics in particular allows a system (be it machine or human) to iteratively improve its knowledge to all computable proofs by simple application of inference rules, up to undecidability and everything incompleteness entails.

The assertion that you are making regarding a model’s capacity to understand is rather naive. A system with a forward predictive model and sufficient knowledge will figure out that consuming tidepods is bad.

I don’t need to eat tidepodes or somebody to tell me not to, exactly because I am advanced and I can dog food my own knowledge.

Your view of what an AI might be capable of is very limited.

A system with a sufficiently good inference system and some kind of curiosity will generate knowledge and evaluate it, be it logically or based on its model. That’s not unique to humans and humans are not logical either.
Typical rule of thumb is 3 months OpEx for a small business’ checking account balance.

A tiny $400k run-rate company should have $100k in the bank. Keep in mind we’re talking about expense run-rate not profit.

The guy who owns 14 car dealerships might not have $10 mil in their checking account, but they absolutely have payroll and rent obligations at a level where they’re holding at least a couple million. To say nothing of cash requirements for all that inventory…
Ugh, bad time to read that as I’m about to go to an office lunch where Italian sandwiches are being served.
Well, I lost confidence in the NYT quite a while ago but I read this article anyway.

I disagree about Apple: Siri on my Apple Watch does everything I want it to: using the on-board Apple Silicon neural cores, it accurately processes my speech input to set times, open email or messages, and many other things that I want to do even with no real keyboard input.

I think that Google also effectively uses hardware tensor support for the same kind of thing, at least on their phones.

I also think that the AI assistant requirements are different between watch vs. phone vs. tablet vs. laptop vs. smart car.

I would hope that even though they use some common code and deep learning models, that each platform is treated individually.

Now, on my laptop, absolutely Bing/ChatGPT search, the ChatGPT Plus web app, and custom applications written with LLMs + LangChain + Llama-Index, etc. are relevant to developing AI assistants for laptops.

EDIT: and a few years ago Apple did a fantastic job integrating deep learning (and other ML) into CoreML making it easy for developers to integrate this tech into their apps.
if it's only within an organization or platform than you could use an icon. and hope they don't change the TOS.
US federal agency hacked using old Telerik bug to steal data
Chance that this is just part of a campaign to short CS? What makes CS different from other major global banks?
When I roast a chicken I save the breast for sandwiches, but there's a reason people don't make their sandwiches that way: processed meats are much cheaper. You might as well write an article that the American sandwich has a cost problem.

Face it: the sandwich is a luxury food. Healthier things are often cheaper, too. The vegetable street taco at my nearest taco truck is almost a complete diet by itself, and it's the cheapest thing on the menu.
For those who prefer reading in a unrolled manner, here you go.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1636006090927390720.html
> Amazon lost a ton of money with the Alexa effort.

As did everyone else! I got both my Google Nest devices for basically free. My point was that they laid the groundwork, they have a customer base and while unprofitable this might be the "silver lining" if they can figure out how to charge for it.
Silicon Valley Bank Fallout Nudges Credit Suisse Closer to Edge
I call these "car cheat codes". Even modern vehicles often have some of these, hiding options (like turning off the "BUCKLE YOUR SEATBELT!!!" alarm) that the manufacturer may not want readily available. They can be kind of fun to enter correctly.
Additional thought: The problem space of how to break a specific text depending on the size of a window is sort of limited as well. So if someone had the idea to solve this using machine learning, the best idea would be to run these calculations once (per page, serverside), and then just use a lookup table or something of the sorts after. Just store the line break positions for each text on the page for all possible widths that make sense and check that table when rendering.

This has the advantage that a human typesetter could output to this format as well or they could correct the machine generated output.

As there is a limited number of ways to break text the table wouldn't even have to store all pixel widths, just those at which the words break differently.
So.. for science sake we must smash more and more.. one of each kind!? Awesome!!
A book that I really want to recommend to anybody in the process of validating product and business ideas:
“The right it” by Alberto Savoia
Any bank that tries that would have to charge a fee to cover costs and will quickly lose business to the other “banks” that don’t do that.

The fundamental lie here is allowing banks to tell you you have “cash” deposited and “available” with them. If the online app showed the truth - how your $10k you deposited turned into some shares in mortgage backed securities or whatnot, the alternative “just pay to park some cash” might be able to survive.

I have the same pet peeve about Amazon being able to tell you that you “buy” a Kindle book instead of buying a revocable license to read it temporarily.

It’s all false advertising really and it’s eroding competition and consumer trust.
I recently, unintentionally, stopped eating mostly sandwiches for lunch and started eating pre-prepped meals from a company that delivers them weekly. I'm down from ~195lbs to ~180lbs in a couple of months pretty much on accident
A lot of people (including me) use ChatGPT daily.
1. Uncertainty in the speed, direction, position.

2. Uncertainty in the model (e.g. influence of external bodies besides the sun and earth).

Kinematic motion models are exact but our knowledge of all the variables involved is not.
> Sandwiches are the number one source of sodium and saturated fat in Americans’ diets, making up about one-fifth of our daily sodium intake and 19% of our daily saturated fat calories

20% of sodium and saturated fat calories for a single meal doesn't really sound very alarming.
> I suspect banks will be more reckless because of this.

Could you outline under what mechanism other banks will look at what happened to Signature and SVB, and conclude that they should engage in behavior that's likely to get them seized, and their equity zeroed out?

> If you believe that rules don’t matter as long as you like the outcome, that’s a bad way to run a society.

There was no rule that capped recoupable deposits at $250,000. There was simply a rule that guaranteed them up to $250,000.

Also, if your rules result in puppies being regularly pushed into the puppy-shredder, and depositors routinely losing their money through no fault of their own, that's also a bad way to run a society.

You know what's a good way to run a society? Retail banks being a boring, dumb, stable, reliable service.
I guess I just find myself disagreeing. I don't find lowercase numerals any different from extending a Latin font to Cyrillic or Greek. In my view, they're just extra characters, rather than an aesthetic choice of the font. Ideally, good body text fonts will have both types of numerals to choose from.
Can you give some example use cases for this? For context I own some investment properties and have a property manager who manages them, so I have some familiarity with tools like Appfolio (but probably not as much as you'd expect your target customer to have).

I'm just curious what this would be used for. Maybe user story style - as <who> I would be able to <what>.
Hard disagree. Soggy PB&J is excellent. Soggy PB and honey is even better.
Try using Flatseal [1] which is a Flatpak app that helps manage permissions for other Flatpak apps. You can see exactly what permissions are enabled in each app's sandbox and expand/override everything from env vars to filesystem locations you want to enable access to.

[1] https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal
> Only time I hear about those teams is when they get fired.

It is a risk mitigation measure. The company is accused of bad things, and the higher ups want to be able to say that they are doing something about it. They create a team who will investigate such things and make recommendations.

For example before elon times twitter had a problem. They had a feature which picked the "most important" part of an image so they can display the images automatically on mobile. The problem they had is that someone found an image where there were two politicians side by side and the algorithm was focusing only on the white one, ignoring the black one. It was quite literally "marginalising" the black politician. Not a good look. Not the end of the world. The walls were not crumbling yet. The advertisers haven't whitdrawn their budgets yet but you know, you don't want to be known as "that racist social network".

In a situation like this one possible solution is to start a small team, give them a bit of budget and task them figuring out if the machine is racist and what can be done about it. Preferably you fill the team with well-spoken academic types to give the effort more credence. (without actually, you know, cutting into the profit)

This is obviously the cynical view. The less cynical view is that you want a team who prevents issues like that from getting into production. Same way you have legal to tell you what is and isn't legal, you have AI ethics to tell you what is and isn't consistent with the ethics of your organisation. Someone who doesn't do the work itself, but helps other teams by reviewing their proposals for potential issues.

For example in the "picking the important part of an image" if they were in the room during the design phase they could have asked why someone thinks this task should be done by the machine? Couldn't we ask a user what they feel is the right cropping of their image for mobile? And only if it must be done at all would they ask if the developers have tested their solution on representative test datasets.
>Under the FTC’s order, Epic must pay $245 million, which will be used to provide refunds to consumers. The order also prohibits Epic from charging consumers through the use of dark patterns or from otherwise charging consumers without obtaining their affirmative consent. Additionally, the order bars Epic from blocking consumers from accessing their accounts for disputing unauthorized charges.

Too bad there aren’t punitive damages. Hopefully this action by the FTC chills other businesses that use dark patterns or ban users for charge backs. Not offering competent customer service is a liability not a cost savings.
> Additionally, the order bars Epic from blocking consumers from accessing their accounts for disputing unauthorized charges.

I really wish more companies were required to still allow account access after disputing a credit card charge.
Of course it is. What in the parent's post is different from that? The parent post's first sentence is, "People suffering from psychosis can create 'facts' supporting their ideas and believe in them."
Does anyone here know exactly what these patterns are?
Make ChatGPT Stop Chatting and Start Writing SQL
I’ve seen a lot of appfolio usage in the rental application process in the last two years. https://www.appfolio.com/

I’m wondering if that tooling is more customer facing and the Propify solution is more I don’t know business to business oriented for the folks that serve property managers? It’s interesting to see this space take off into tech, better than mailing a check and doing email tag.
Good luck with the rest of your afternoon …
Out of curiosity, what are popular lunch alternatives from other countries that are similarly quick and easy to sandwiches, but healthier? Would selfishly love some ideas to eat better lunches.
So... move assets to Bitcoin or not?
How do you plan to use chatgpt if you have no phone and no computer?!
Most programming jobs neither require nor actually need a CS degree. I don't have one and I'm doing pretty ok. Gluing frameworks together is not exactly difficult and has nothing to do with lambda calculus or compiler internals
> Have you read that paper?

Yes. They say that you can't get the diversity distribution you want without discriminating against races. Fairness is possible if you don't care about diversity distributions, or at least the paper gives no argument why fairness doesn't work then.

> That paper is purely talking the tradeoffs between individual and group fairness

Exactly, we must discriminate against individual Asians in order to get the distributions we want. Too many Asians on campus? Discriminate against Asian individuals to get more "group fairness", yes that is what it means! I just clarified the point, but we are saying the same thing.
OpenAI sold its soul for $1B (2021)
Can't tell if this is sarcastic. Hispanic communities suffer from large amounts of obesity, some due to genetic issues, but diet is an overwhelming factor. A proper tortilla has three ingredients: flour, lard and salt. Not exactly a staple in a slimming diet.
Whatever the number, relatively speaking, it's basically peanuts compared to the number and value of the wafers and chips they are spitting out.

It's advanced machines doing most of it, and there is an operator handling each machine. The machines are extremely expensive, the building is extremely expensive, the ventilation/filtration/air control system is expensive etc.

These are not smartphone factories.

What is expensive is running these fabs/lines at half the capacity.
This is roughly the Senior (5-10 YOE) salary range at Bay Area startups post-Series A.

Staff-level or higher starts at around $230K and occasionally reaches $275K.

The salary data comes from researching roughly 250 Bay Area startups. I'm personally defining startups as some combination of: Series A - D, founded post-2015, less than 100 Engineers.
What do we do when Microsoft/Github pulls a similar trick?
This article references salt consumption multiple times. I thought that was a myth of the past. Salt consumption has almost zero to do with blood pressure. IIRC, it's primarily based on eating more calories than one burns.

As always, eat less, move more.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-t...
In defense of bailouts, we need to acknowledge the systemic risks that a failing bank can pose to the broader economy. If we let a major bank collapse without intervention, the consequences could be far-reaching and have negative ripple effects throughout the financial system. By stepping in and providing a bailout, the government helps to maintain confidence and stability, ensuring that the entire system doesn't collapse under the weight of panic and mistrust.