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If a significant portion of the population has a market value lower than the cost for them to have a reasonable quality of life isn't that some kind of fundamental failure conditio…

Is there a more rigorous explanation of why they count the probability space how they do? Watching that video I feel like the ordering of the kids and the striking of one of the "b…

The worry is that the training data has been affected by human bias, so that bias will bleed over into the ai.

> A world war in 2015 killed nearly three billion people. Too bad we already severed.

The article seems to address that in the second chart. When a woman publishes with only women they get the 9% bump they're supposed to. When they publish with a mixed-gender group …

The study from which the article draws is also posted on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10785107 I'm going to copy some of the comments I made over there. Hopefully this …

The title needs a colon or something. Right now it reads like only women involved in Gender Studies pay more for stuff. The article is pretty interesting. There are a few stark con…

It it ever actually faster than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothsort ?

Even if you're right (which I disagree) you need to be way more tactful with this type of thing or you stoke the "programming is misogynist" fire. Responding more directly: > "I tr…

I'm not sure there is much the conference can really do, especially without risking the same backlash against our author that she is trying to avoid by not exposing him. It’s possi…

It seems like in this case there is relatively objective evidence. I agree this is super tricky, but I don't think it has much to do with "he said she said". I believe the core iss…

I'm wondering if it's possible to turn this problem into a solution. I don't know the numbers, so I'm probably off by orders of magnitude, and maybe it's a losing energy propositio…

Disallowing BART on the peninsula and requiring a transfer to the overpriced Caltrain has been extremely effective at gentrifying and providing de facto segregation on the peninsul…

In general, if you seek help you will only be punished. My sister sought help for a sleeping disorder, and received nothing but a suspension of her driver's license. She then had t…

Until I read this thread I also saw a sumo or an angry onion, but I believe the picture is actually a person facing away from us undoing their kimono.

Is anyone weighing in on this in touch woth how california actually votes? It doesn't matter how bad DFi actuallu is, our party voters are too busy protecting you from republicans.…

Isn't this wildly illegal? I thought all web scraping violated CFAA... not to mention copyright...

Isn't using "them/they" in the singular to avoid gendered pronouns still considered grammatically incorrect? If gendered pronouns are such a big issue why is there no effort to mak…

I'd like to see "retarded" and "lame" added to the Disability list.

I can see the clients (and these are the same ones who get confused by Lorem Ipsum) complaining that the "font is unreadable".

Working on my chromium in 12.10. Also, I really like how I can jump off of the balls I'm shooting meaning I can basically fly.