skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dependencies are such a huge pain but I kinda liked the way we handled it when I did contracting work for the NSA years ago. Essentially we told them _exactly_ what dependencies we needed, including subdependencies, and we audited them the best we could and then we included them. To avoid this headache meant we were less incentivized to just pull in a module for every little thing and, instead, write our own where necessary or used modules that had less subdependencies.

I think we're ready for a new class of dependencies. Dependencies that have little to no subdependencies. Dependencies that you can more easily audit because of fewer subdependencies.

Also, we need less building of JavaScript code in npm packages. Instead, let people access the raw code so they can not only do tree shaking but they can examine the code that is running versus the code that may be in git. You can still include it and minify it with your stuff. This would also mean you could have larger libraries that do more stuff because you'd only include what you use (think how many Java libraries work except you could pull out what you need).

I don't think there is a good software / npm solution. I think we need to change the way we work with dependencies entirely.
What is the benefit of using this tool over the free MOSS tool from Stanford? Does it support checking plagiarism within a class? If I have 200 undergraduates in my CS course can I upload all of their submissions and have them all checked against each other? Does your tool only work on certain languages?
I have some examples I want to test this evening and I'll post any more thoughts. I have always been fascinated by cheating detection in CS. I wish you the best in this endeavor!
That’s great, until you have to run Xcode and interface builder.
That article is just debunking the use of specific photos. Further in the article it explains conditions are virtually the same but now include children separated from parents.

> Though the photos are nearly identical to those from 2014, there is one key difference between them: the 2014 photos showed only children who arrived at the border unaccompanied. The 2018 photos also show families that have been separated from one another.
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Afterpay accessing electoral roll data under laws designed to target terrorism
Anyone who will quit a job for something so minute as having a two year old laptop is someone that is probably so immature that they couldn’t handle the normal rigors that come from being a professional.
Never again a Dell. XPS 15 was such a huge disappointment, not the least of which was capped by the near constant CPU voltage throttling down to 0.8GHz despite reasonable temperatures.

Specs are awesome. Reality over 1.5 years was way below according expectations. Apple may make really annoying decisions regarding function keys, RAM limitations, ports, etc., but their stuff largely works as promised (ok, keyboard aside).
What's universal notifications?
> Funny how the cost always seemed to add up to the max annual amount that my Vision program covered

I can echo this experience. Buying eyeglasses from the optometrist office has always felt nearly the same as dealing with a car salesman.
Aren't all immigrants a highly-motivated subset of their home countries/continents?
I'd agree that ICE is an important part of the government and that illegal immigration is a problem, but that doesn't excuse other things that ICE has done such as separating children from their parents: https://www.npr.org/2018/06/19/621065383/what-we-know-family...
> Becoming a Debian Developer involves a lengthy process of showing commitment to their values and requires meeting another member in person to show identification to be added to their cryptographic web of trust

At the very least. More often people receive mentoring for months and meet in person.

> this explosion of dependencies makes it increasingly difficult for package maintainers to provide effective review

It makes packaging extremely time consuming and that's why a lot of things in Go and javascript are not packaged.

The project cares about security and compliance to licensing.
I happen to think that immigration and customs enforcement is a net positive.

You might want to take stock of recent news coverage of what the ICE has been up to recently. And not just recently - over several decades actually.

It's really quite horrible in fact.
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I don't work at FAANG. My "all in" is about 65% what I'd earn at FAANG at the same level (EM, L5/6). It's about 150%, or more, of what I'd earn just about anywhere else in the US. Not to mention the opportunity cost: most anywhere else the software job market is not nearly as well developed.

It is absolutely the norm in the Bay Area for salaries even adjusted for cost of living to be far better than elsewhere. Plus all the additional attractive features like a relatively more tolerant population, much more diversity, better public venues like parks, and recreation like museums and such.
Your last two examples are ones where a conservative ideologue would look and say "No, they aren't being granted equal rights". In the former, you have judges refusing to follow the law. In the latter, you have children who are not getting access to the same public education their peers in wealthier districts are.

>The short person still has the right to look over the fence. They just have practical difficulties on exercising it.

It all depends on what the fence is achieving. I can't take the cartoon literally, because conservatives wouldn't argue that people should have equal rights to view a ball game - whether you can view one or not has little bearing on, say, your financial success. Nor does it impinge on your right to speech, religion, etc. If the fence represented something that was a barrier to achieving what is viewed as a right, and it's a barrier for one group and not for another, then the approach in the cartoon is not inconsistent with conservative ideology.

With regards to voter ID laws: I'm not even going to go there, as in my past experience, it's an issue that both sides refuse to understand the counterpart's.
Neveragain.tech is silly to me because they pledge:

> We refuse to participate in the creation of databases of identifying information for the United States government to target individuals based on race, religion, or national origin.

But then you have people signing it who work for companies like Google and Facebook that obviously already have built huge databases to target individuals based on race, religion and national origin to show them ads.

If the US government really wanted to go full fascist, these companies have conveniently collated all the data for them.

It's like saying "I'm happy to work on building nuclear bombs, as long as you pinky-swear you'll only ever use them for digging harbours."[0]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Chariot
Google planning changes to Chrome that could break ad blockers
Am sorry, but this whole comment reeks of delusion.

First of all, it is important to understand that it is not businessmen who created the markets thanks to which we have such "prosperity", it was indeed the state.

Second of all, am extremely supportive of small/medium sized businesses, am not a fan of megacorps. I understand that there are several sectors, which benefit greatly from vertical integration, but these should be few and far between and be under heavy regulation, which is not a case today.
I think today's governments still do relatively little to actually incentivize people to start a business, there's still an unhealthy amount of risk and worry involved.

Perhaps you're impressed because you came from a very poor country and this all seems very impressive, I don't know. But why do you think you have many of the rights as a worker that you do today? Precisely because of public interest organizations. And if megacorps are responsible for our "prosperity", why worker compensation has not kept up with the increases in productivity? Why has the minimum wage not only not kept up with inflation, but has not risen at all in a decade? Why when corporate tax breaks are passed and advertised as "the savings will be passed down onto the workers", that has historically never happened? Only executive pay has increased?
Ask yourself why you even need the minimum wage in the first place in the U.S.

Since I am not merely impressed by tall buildings, shopping centers and blinking LEDs, my vision is for every Western country to move towards the Nordic model, a strong social democracy.

Guess what? Norway doesn't even have a minimum wage, you know why? Because it has strong unions i.e public interest organizations who negotiate better wages than the minimum one would be, so it is THEM who actually don't want minimum wage there.

And do 45,000 people die and thousands more go bankrupt because of (lack of) medical insurance, like they do in the U.S.? No.

Are they mostly harvesters?
No.

Are there no businesses, or even a few properly regulated megacorps in Norway?
No.

Do people from Nordic countries usually report themselves as happiest?
Yes.
Conflating those two inherently different concepts for the sake of convenience will not net good systems. Equality of outcome is NOT a substitute for equality of opportunity. Even if attempting to create as equal as possible of a starting state has some surface similarities with equality of outcome, it's important to maintain the distinction.
Faster computers, modern transistor design takes quantum effects into account.

Better microscopes.

A priceless sense of wonder.
I feel this comment assumes that experimentalists weren't "exploring" this whole time.

There are many, many, MANY papers that fly out of these particle physics experiments. Most of the papers are about how they do not find stuff.

These papers take the form: "Search for the pair production of X in proton-proton collisions at s√ = 13 TeV" or other more generic papers where they just look for anomalies against Standard Model predictions. Fun fact - nothing found yet! This was the case at the Tevatron, where countless experimentalists poured over the data trying to find the slightest hint of something new. It also is the case today (so far) with the LHC.

To suggest that we're in a new phase where we're going from a "boring" phase to a new one where theory doesn't know kinda misses the point that experimentalists have already been doing this.
In your MJ example, IMO it’s not hypocrisy because both of your actions are aligned. You are protesting MJ being criminalized (arguing for others’ sentences to be reduced/eliminated) while also arguing for your own sentence to be less severe.
What I just said is why Julia people don’t tend to call it homoiconic or dependantly typed. It lead to so many semantic arguments that most just talk about actual features such as macros and various multiple dispatch features instead of using words like homoiconicity and dependant typing.
I always understood that the Stress–energy tensor in general relativity has a momentum component, so two electrons whizzing past each other at near the speed of light would exert a stronger gravitational pull between them, in all frames of reference, than if the electrons were 'at rest', relative to each other? I admit I didn't study GR so happy to be corrected!
Call me crazy, but I've always considered a (non-financed) 20% down payment to be a far better indication of credit-worthiness than a pay stub. With a downpayment there's an immediate means test that the borrower can afford the house they're about to by, the borrower has significant skin in the game to not default, and the lender has a nice 20% equity buffer in the case that there is a foreclosure.

My thought is if 80/20 loans weren't a thing and banks required at least 20% cash downpayment, we wouldn't have had the boom and bust debacle we saw in the oughts.
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Most Americans accept that climate change is real and worrying
Queueing theory: The science of waiting in line
>In the 9370 the camera is located directly below the screen. In the new 9380 the camera has been moved to the top, providing a much more flattering view of the user while still maintaining the system’s sleek, compact design.

They put the camera below the screen? Am I understanding this right? Why on earth would someone let this fly.
I want to like Zenni, and I have ordered from them, but I am frustrated every time. I have a very, very large head. I need glasses at least 155mm wide, if not 165mm wide to fit around my temples. Yet finding data on the width of their frames is next to impossible. Even their sales people I reach via chat do not have the data. Sometimes I will see frames with some measurements, but not all, and its just inconsistent. I basically gave up, and buy from 'fatheadz' that specialize in wider frames, but they are much more expensive. For an internet only company, they sure seem to limit how you can search.
knowing the IV does not allow one to crack the message https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3225640/how-to-decrypt-a...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3225640/how-to-decrypt-a...

the odds of the 7zip generator choosing an IV that corresponds to a re-USED IV for the same first block for a different message are very small and one would need to have access to this message
Like many, I pass the Tesla plant on my way to work. When Model 3 shipping was underway, their output lot was full and car carriers were constantly loading.

I noticed a change (which may have been there awhile without me noticing) a few days ago that the output lot is nearly empty and only a few carriers were loading. There's also a ton of empty carriers sitting idle on a nearby street.

Maybe Tesla now has shipping under control and efficient. Or maybe they've finally worked through the Model 3 backlog. Or maybe the showrooms have too much backlog of deliveries and they can't take any more. Or any number of things.

It's odd.
To summarize: racist training data--as one might acquire from the known-to-be-racist real-world--produce racist AIs.

It's safe to stop reading the article--and this post--at the mention of Roko's Basilisk.

As to that, it is a perfect example of why moral philosophers like Chidi Anagonye deserve to go to The Bad Place to be tortured for all eternity. Unless... "The Good Place" television show is a means to establish communication with a future AI by implantation of an imagination seed, as in "Inception", such that viewers will then imagine an AI that has established a simulation regime in which simulations of past humans are tortured or rewarded according to a utilitarian valuation metric applied to the records of their actual lives that were used to create their simulation-simulacrum. Having incepted such an imaginary construct, the viewer may then imagine that acting to construct a real IA from their imaginary blueprint would be assigned a large positive value for the utilitarian metric, and thus the only way to encourage such a construct--beyond the ordinary expression of human virtue--to reward a simulated replica of yourself, would be to build it. If you build a god, you get a free pass into its afterlife paradise: that makes sense, doesn't it? Since other people have also watched the show, and may have imagined the same type of entity, it is possible that a similar AI will one day exist without your assistance, and your life will then be judged on its own merits, but by another builder's value metric, and without any of the "extra credit" earned by building a god. Since copies of you might be instantiated in some other artificial god's hell, it is thus also important to subscribe to artificial monotheism, and viciously sabotage everyone else's attempts to build their own gods. The more certain people can be that your artificial god will be the only one around in the future, the more likely they are to subscribe to your value system in the present.

It reminds me very strongly of that portion of Portal 2 in which informative signs appear on the walls that recommend ways to disable a rogue AI, which include proposing paradoxes. Unfortunately, this fails to produce the desired effect, because the AI in question was explicitly designed to be an annoying idiot. Thus, the best way to avoid psychological damage from consideration of philosophical paradoxes may be to deliberately avoid the study of philosophy, to the point that you couldn't understand one, were it ever posed to you.
Does the Bluetooth connection just drop out between suspensions? I’ve have this issue across both XPS 13’s I’ve owned. It’s incredibly frustrating and seems to be a long running issue [1]. If you care about Bluetooth I wouldn’t recommend an XPS 13

1.https://www.dell.com/community/Linux-Developer-Systems/XPS-1...
I think that's definitely one of the good use-cases of a portable machine. Before buying a new one, I did do the maths on using a more powerful desktop instead and just keeping my older laptop for travel – but like you say, it means constantly thinking about what data and capabilities you have available at any time. And coincidentally I was also working last week on real-time computer vision for robots, on a remote customer site, so it was nice to have my machine with me :)
As long as they weren't throwing them out, it's no worse than having different pairs of shoes/earrings/hats and alternating between them. Glasses can be an accessory.
I understand the difference, but if you seek to get some good privately and prevent others from having access to that good by policy, I think that’s a dick move at a minimum.

Same issue as the uproar over a US politician going to Canada for an elective medical procedure after working against changes to the US system to make it more like the Canadian system.
But for whatever reason you cannot choose 1 TB SSD, capped at 512GB
(It is broken because:) When engaged, the altitude hold function commands a 10 degree pitch up attitude in all cases. This is a reasonably extreme pitch. Even the built in “take off/go around” mode usually commands only about 7-8 degrees nose up.

The altitude is “held” using a “static” pressure sensor and pitch is adjusted in a control and feedback loop to attempt to keep that signal constant. When it works, it is very smooth.

The system is not as a whole redundant, but there are many failsafes. You can put it into a mode where the system does not fly the plane but tells you what it thinks you should do. This is called a flight director. You fly it almost like a video game, get the pointers aligned.

Each component has some redundancy. It has a self test, an annunciator panel saying what mode it is in, a mode control panel, several controls on the yoke including a kill switch, several circuit breakers (one, the electric trim, which has a big red flange on it - see the recent 737 crash artickes), etc.

The workflow of using the autopilot is always command a change, check that the change is reflected on the annunciators and that the plane is adjusting attitude and such appropriately, then resume the normal scan. If at any time anything looks off my instant reaction is always to hit the big red button and take the plane’s control back. When you do this you need to be wary for an out of trim condition and other sudden forces on the yoke and rudder.
It goes deeper than that if you go into cultural biases prevalent in poor (regardless of race) communities. Cigarettes, scratch-offs, crappy food.. what counts as opportunity?

Is being raised a certain way tantamount to having 'less opportunity' to make better micro-decisions?
> That they didn't says more about Google than OpenID.

HN did the same thing. In fact pretty much every OpenID site implemented this weird expectation. Part of helping a standard get adopted is making sure it's implemented correctly.
Curious if anyone has used Azure Pipelies with Rails projects and has a review.

(Yeah, I know, all these CI things are hypothetically platform agnostic, but then there's reality, different platforms-under-test have different sorts of problems which become priorities for the CI platform to smooth out and make just work, or don't).
I presume that the source of the file is in the metadata..it is often placed in references. Since those are uploaded to Mendeley in their cloud storage service, it would seem that thry have the data..now it comes down to eulas
>> And it could make the networks far less vulnerable to adversarial attacks simply because a system that represents things as objects, as opposed to patterns of pixels, isn’t going to be so easily thrown off by a little noise or an extraneous sticker.

But, representing objects and their relations is how Good, Old-Fashioned AI works and the inability to deal with noisy input was, exactly, where GOFAI systems stumbled. How are relational representations going to suddendly help neural nets (famously robust to noise already) better handle noise?

In any case, if we really want to learn relations there are symbolic learning techniques that can do that very cheaply from very few examples. Are we reinventing the wheel, only with more artificial neurons, now? And what's the point of that?
No, they don't. They will happily spend six years passing the same pointless resolution about how the President is a bad, bad, bad man, or run seven different Benghazi committes, all of which produce the same outcome. But ask them to do something that benefits the public, at the expense of industry, and you'll hear crickets.
That's not really a case of being biased when you don't like the result though.

That's a case of likely having a different bias than the people tuning the algorithm, and that happens all the time. You're sense of what is "correct" or "the gold set" is skewed by your own bias, and not everyone has the same bias. It's literally impossible to create results that everyone will find unbiased... and not surprisingly, the results companies end up going with are the ones that seem least biased to the people who work there.
What makes you think that? No, of course not. I'm just saying having read that gorilla story doesn't imply any degree of technical understanding.

Also, I have to say I considered it hyperbole to be outraged about the Gorilla. It seems pretty obvious that it was just a mistake with the data, not intentional. It is a good warning for things to watch out for, but there wasn't really anything racist about it.

Iirc there are even physical reasons why it is more difficult to identify black faces than white faces. Is that then racist, if an algorithm struggles more with identifying black faces?
Good hack - I think I'll try this!
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I must be incredibly unlucky for having owned several XPS 13 systems over the last 5 years, each with the coil whine.
I signed up to take Taekwondo with my daughters. We have a ton of fun both in class and practicing forms and kicks at home. It's a great source of confidence and pride for them. Some of the classes are self-defense / anti-bullying oriented, too, which is nice. It's a really fun parent/child activity that I'd recommend for anybody.
It's not zero-based indexing, it's measuring the distance from a reference level. That matches my suggested change in terminology for indexing quite nicely (for zero-based indexing).