Eyas

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by Eyas 10y ago
But then the humans can't be "color blind". They must explicitly go out of their way to undo the effects of the rest of the system by, E.g. Displaying extra care when dealing with a black suspect.
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by Eyas 10y ago
No disease is. No algorithm is. No specific policy is. Systems can exhibit systemic racism. Other than hateful extremism coming from an individual, most forms of injustices are emergent properties.
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by Eyas 10y ago
I'm pointing out a statistical fact from the article that black people are more hurt by this technology. I'm not arguing for racist intent, but against accepting unfairness towards one group as acceptable. Dynamic range is of a ph
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by Eyas 10y ago
I don't see why being in a minority means accepting a higher chance of being confused by a criminal. This is how cycles of oppression propagate.
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by Eyas 10y ago
This is the thing about "systemic" racism. No one thing is racist. No need for racist intent. Just a combination of systems producing an outcome unfair to a particular group.
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by Eyas 10y ago
> Database contains photos of half of US adults without consent, and algorithm is wrong nearly 15% of time and is more likely to misidentify black people I think technology is often a very effective way to describe what "systemic ra
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by Eyas 10y ago
Growth in volume/demand. They probably did hire more people over time, but needed to hire more since January to meet current deadlines. Since the freeze has been in effect for a few months now, that probably had a detrimental effect on
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by Eyas 10y ago
A reference fits perfectly in a word-sized chunk. A pointer/reference is typically 32 or 64-bits wide, since it is simply pointing to a location in memory.
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by Eyas 10y ago
My take on this: I'm glad that the "right thing" to do is the popular thing to do. In the past, there have been trends of conspicuous consumption, bigger as better, etc., to convey social status and desirability. Mainstream c
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by Eyas 10y ago
Exchange interns are J1, student interns in the US use their current F1 Visa with a CPT (Curricular Practical Training) permit for summer internship, or sometimes an OPT (Optional Practical Training) permit.
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by Eyas 10y ago
I understand why that is a concern for the security conscious. But for the 90% use case, e.g.: I lost my phone and got a new one. Or my phone isn't turning on and I get a new one. I install WhatsApp. How do I roll over my identity? The
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by Eyas 10y ago
In addition to the other comment-- As far as I understand most London trains are not 24/7. See the other HN post about this, but building 24/7 tracks is significantly more expensive because you need to build multiple independent t
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by Eyas 10y ago
To be fair, RMS ideology is expressly against demanding any restrictions like this. So ideological purity can't be demanded by RMS without being a hypocrite.
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by Eyas 10y ago
My two cents: Be affirmative rather than negative. Say what values you stand for, what movements and groups you wish to support and empower, and not which groups you oppose and wish to exclude. By the FSF definition of "free", thi
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by Eyas 10y ago
The expression o is int i is effectively: int i; // in the nearest enclosing scope (o is int && (i = (int)o)) // in place of an expression The "fresh" variable `i` is available for
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by Eyas 10y ago
This was a concern of mine as well, as you can see in the discussion of scope changes for pattern variables [1], the C# checks for definite assignments handle this. So: if (o is int i) { f(i); } use_int(i); // <-- err
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by Eyas 10y ago
That's not the problem MS was trying to fix with the Linux aliases -- the problem they were trying to fix was ergonomics. A lot of us are used to Linux commands and are turned off by Windows shells when we have to learn a new set of co
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by Eyas 10y ago
To clarify, this is why no graph has been published for Node.js on Linux and MacOS, or chakraCore on Linux and MacOS. But as a sibling post to the parent mentions, they have published performance statistics for Node.js on ChakraCore on Wi
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by Eyas 10y ago
This hurts quite a bit because of the correlation it seems to be making between international students and cheating. I do agree that degrees should mean something, which means anyone benefiting from such 'cheating cartel' should n
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by Eyas 10y ago
It is kind of difficult with Trump because he has actually said everything. In a complete system of logic, you will find an argument made in support of every good idea out there (but also, every bad idea out there). In the case of Trump and
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by Eyas 10y ago
I don't think so. It means that the tooling is broken, which is not at 1.0 yet (still in `preview2` I believe).
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by Eyas 10y ago
So happy .NET Core was delayed-- a very cool idea, but trying to write a library that targeted a few platforms was an absolute nightmare. Just knowing the difference between dnxcore50, netcore50, netcoreapp was confusing. Need ASP.Net to ru
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by Eyas 10y ago
The danger here is that you are assuming that the main dominatedness of a field does not alter conditions around it in a way that is potentially self-fulfilling. What I am suggesting is that while I agree that these disparities were likely
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by Eyas 11y ago
It has more to do with the Monaco editor (the web-based editor that you see in typescriptlang.org as well as VSCode). Monaco as an initiative has been around for longer than Atom, I think (?)
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by Eyas 11y ago
And, even setting aside the traffic issues in major US cities, traffic is always unpredictable and public transit aims to provide some sort of dependable, predictable schedule.
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by Eyas 11y ago
The Linux kernel is most certainly open source but their criteria to accept contributions is no more open than this or many other projects. The maintainer(s) get(s) PR approval. Big features that change the direction of the tool are welcome
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by Eyas 11y ago
gp uses 'app' the way you did, presumably to mean UWP application. Win32 apps are "programs"/"applications" written using the Win32 api. I don't think there's anything post-hoc in the explanation
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by Eyas 11y ago
In addition to what doikor said, you get sandboxing aka "trust".
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by Eyas 11y ago
It seems like the real complaint is that Windows Store lock-in is bad (which might be the case for distributers, jury is out for me whether its bad for gamers). Universal Windows Platform, however, is an API that is strictly better and safe
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by Eyas 11y ago
Well, machine learning might not enlighten us to understand actual intelligence. There is no reason why actual intelligence can't simply be modeled by (and function like) a giant neural network. Many of us hope there is some form of sy

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