skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can management at Microsoft/GitHub be so clueless?

When I think about people I know who have been long-time users of GitHub and how this kind of censorship resonates with them... Oh my.

These early adopters could migrate away very quickly.
Ts doesn’t abstract away Js.

It’s a superset of Js, almost the “opposite” of an abstraction (at least in the common intent of an abstraction)
BTW what is the average time CJD or BSE sets in humans?

Do you have a study to point at that would show some sort of timeframe?
International Churchill society disputing that Churchill did not commit genocide. Color me surprised.
Also, not logistically possible to be addicted really. There's a big tolerance response almost instantly.
Clearly the US and the EU have different positions on Iran - the US considers it an enemy and imposed new sanctions, the EU haven't followed the suit.

So, no, even traditional clientele have left the US
Another curiosity is that it still shows up in the search results for anonymous users: https://github.com/search?q=faceswap

Hard to guess at the intention.
Okay, but consider that diet soda enables binging on more calories from other sources.
If context matters, we can't apply our modern standards to a time with different standards. In the context of the time when the image was originally promulgated, it was done without controversy. The act is only controversial outside of its original historical context.
And that's why this announcement should make people switch to alternatives with different engine like FF.

Saying we need multiple browsers, then using chrome or its clone actually makes the situation worse.

Also chrome is no longer snappy as it was initially.
Haha, I am not looking to find out but I'm sure it'll happen soon enough. Oh god.. just thinking about the exhaustion that comes with that, maybe I'll run off into the desert.
> Like any technology, it can be used for good or it can be abused.

Important to note that it is also possible for a technology to have more potential for abuse than good.

Sure, you can come to a philosophical place where nothing is good or bad, or the good is perfectly balanced by the bad, but if we're looking at increasing freedom, peace and trust, it's hard to see how the upside of this tech is equivalent to it's potential for abuse.

The best argument might be that eventually no one will trust video.
Are you surprised? It's too tempting.
“I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to create fake nudes of celebrities.”

— definitely Voltaire, for sure. /s
> Credit on the other hand runs out when you actually use it, so is much more likely to coincide with you being ready to pay for the service.

Most have an expiry on them. A credit is (typically) a liability on the balance sheet, so companies can't have unlimited exposure weighing down their book value.

If credits expire after a certain amount of time, or are time limited in their offer, such as discounts for 12 months, there isn't the same exposure to potentially unlimited liabilities in non-expiring credits.
Poor man's Pastebin/Gist, with censorship built into the platform.
Won't work.
AWS DeepRacer: Fully Autonomous RL Toy Car by AWS
Well reading the ITAR guidelines it is clearly covered under Category IV (Launch Vehicles, Guided Missiles, Ballistic Missiles, Rockets, Torpedoes, Bombs, and Mines).

Specifically:

(1) Flight control and guidance systems (including guidance sets) specially designed for articles enumerated in paragraph
(a) of this category (MT for those articles enumerated in paragraphs (a)(1) and (a)(2) of this category);

Note to paragraph (h)(1): A guidance set integrates the process of measuring and computing a vehicle's position and
velocity (i.e., navigation) with that of computing and sending commands to the vehicle's flight control systems
to correct the trajectory.
I would really appreciate a similar list for open-source projects
Basically, this is all possible using existing technologies, it's just labour intensive.

As such, tools like this just prove the conclusion: No one should trust video.
Every utopian dream must end in power grabs. True of communism in the 70s and true in tech now.
> But we also knew we had the corporate will to deal with it.

That's really the key. If you don't have that, it's not going to work out in the long term.
> If so, question of my own. The landlord worked and spent resources (time, money) to increase his assets (develop the property). You, at your job, worked and spent resources (time, etc.) to increase your assets (e.g. size of your bank account). Do you think you should have indefinite ownership of your bank account?

The landlord earns rent from his property. I earn a salary from my job. The landlord and I are on equal footing as far as being able to keep the proceeds of our labor - nobody is threatening to take rent he has already collected, and nobody is threatening to take the cash from my bank account.

So far we are even, and our bank accounts are safe. However, my employment at my job depends on me continually adding value to society. The moment I quit working, I stop collecting salary.

The landlord here has an advantage that has no analogy in labor. He can quit improving the property and continue to collect rent. In fact, he can just rent out just the land with no improvements (for example if it's farmland) and collect rent forever with no labor.

So your analogy fails. Land and a job are nothing alike. In fact, I can lose my job at any time, due to employment at will, with no recourse. Yet if someone inherits a large quantity of land and rents it out (not directly using it themselves), I am supposed to think it is some grevious evil if their control of that land is limited? You'll forgive me if I don't see the outrage in saying that maybe society should look into whether that ownership should be perpetual.
Part of the purchase as defined by the contract, not common courtesy.
Pretty soon we’ll just dropping small meteors. Farming them might not be cheap, but we’re not going to run out of them.
> If context matters, we can't apply our modern standards to a time with different standards. In the context of the time when the image was originally promulgated, it was done without controversy. The act is only controversial outside of its original historical context.

You make it sound like this was 500 years ago! Anyway, no one is saying to retroactively condemn the people who did it. They are saying to stop using it now. The context is the use of the picture in the here and now contributing to non-inclusion of women in tech.
I have no issue with my 401k. It's tax deferred money, so fuckyah!
I worked with over 50 companies/clients before I was 20 doing software dev.

Not sure I'd write an article but open to questions!
We Lost Our Ability to Mend
Alas OpenAI is just centralized R&D for Musk's different companies. Case in point: they're holding back the code and datasets out of "concern for public safety", but do Musk's companies get access?
Better summary "if you can do a push-up sprint and complete 41 pushups in less than 33 seconds without pausing you're in pretty good shape and btw you're 96% less likely to get heart disease in the next 10 years than someone that can't keep that pace up for even 10 pushups."

The most important sentence.

"For push-ups, the firefighter was instructed to begin push-ups in time with a metronome set at 80 beats per minute. Clinic staff counted the number of push-ups completed until the participant reached 80, missed 3 or more beats of the metronome, or stopped owing to exhaustion or other symptoms (dizziness, lightheadedness, chest pain, or shortness of breath)."

This was a combined strength/cardiovascular test. You had to book it. Only the firefighters that
70s? Was it ever different?
Get rid of the Roth IRA income cap and raise the max annual contribution limit 4x. Not that hard.
Interesting. Formally-proving a classical processor circuit design (as opposed to the ISA and RTL) must be fun as sequential and bus logic aren't just 0 and 1, as there's high-impedance, time where a result isn't yet stable and uninitialized. Also, there are don't care states and values in the design which aim to reduce circuit complexity and latency.

If/when many qubits circuits can be fabricated, that also sounds like a mucho fun challenge for formal verification. It's an educated guess that people are already working/worked on it because the math usually precedes the hardware.
Asking for a login in incognito for me.
If you don't mind sharing:

1. What kind of meetups? I'm guessing developers are inclined to go to developer meetups, but it seems unlikely that potential clients would be there.

2. How have you managed to get hired by technology companies as a consultant? My clients are mostly folks that are non-technical and need someone to build them custom software. I'd love to work with tech-focused companies but am not sure how to find/pitch those opportunities.
> Where do 245 million American adults go next to make a living?

For any arbitrary company, its not their problem. They're there to make shareholders an extra buck for the quarter. Or at most, they hold a 5 year look at the far end. Further? 10 year? 20 year? Nope. Not at all.

For the individual, of course we care. But there's not much to be done about it. Id say voting works, but with regulatory capture and money in politics/legalized bribery where it is, I'm not seeing much difference.

Maybe we should just cash in on the momentary money while we have a chance.
It would be useful to add some parameters, for instance allowing to choose an age range.
Just to make sure, is the relevant behavior here that going to the URL shows its generic login form when not logged in? Definitely can't be unintentional.
Pleroma, the alternative ActivityPub server to Mastodon, has a built in Gopher service. :)
No idea what the article says because I don't have a WSJ subscription. It would help if op could at least post a brief summary of what the author is for or against.
That's all fine in principle but in practice Web Browsers just like Search Engines is zero sum. Sooner or later it'll just be one.
It's funny how no major CS curriculum at a major
University includes a legitimate ethics course. In the modern era, programmers are akin to lawyers or politicians; we wield immense, and often implicitly trusted power over hundreds of millions of opinions. It's long past due that programmers be required to adhere to ethical codes, maybe even to the extent of bad-style licensing.
And I think we need to ask, if the subject of the photograph is "proud of that picture" and feels that the photograph is "an immense accomplishment", then why are modern audiences perceiving it in a negative light?

If Lena came out saying she felt abused by the distribution of her photograph in this manner and that the practice needed to cease, I would agree with you. But her comments indicate to me that individuals ought to reconsider their reaction in light of the subject's perspective. If we respect what Lena believes, and sought her out to document her opinion, then we should seriously consider the weight of her opinion of her own life and own image versus ours.
Exactly.

Which is why it is crucial everyone realizes how easy it really is to create these fakes, before the masses are duped in favor of the next war or genocide by these techniques.
Technology is not inherently neutral, and it’s time our industry collectively grows up and stops treating it as such. I hope this is a harbinger of that.
Bar-style licensing* typo
Ask HN: Livestreaming Research and Projects
Hey HN,

I'm a graduate student working on some interesting ML work, and I was thinking about livestreaming my research and some of the interesting projects I build.

Some projects I'm working on include bioinspired ML algorithms and a biological compiler. Do you think this is the kind of thing folks would find interesting? Are there any people who've done this in the past?
>Why do you think you can trust people not to do illegal things just because they're illegal?

It depends on how sensitive the data is and how much I trust the company. I trust my bank to handle my money because if they do something shady I can rely on the justice system. But I would not trust random websites with data I wouldn't want them to have, GDPR or no GDPR.

There's nothing stopping a Chinese website from ignoring GDPR and taking your data and selling it. You don't even have legal recourse there.
"pink slime" is shorter than "ground beef" by one letter, so it's kinda hard to see using it as "over-labeling".
Ask HN: Go back to school to start working for fintach, oil or pharma?
This is a follow-up to my previous question (Ask HN: How do I earn more as a developer?
) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19161489

A lot of responses mentioned job-hopping, and that's what I intend to do every 2-3 years.

However, some of the most upvoted comments where about "learning business" or working for money making sectors, like banking, oil or pharma.

I'm very open to that idea, and would love your feedback if you made that move. Do I need to go do an MBA, or a part-time masters or night-school? Are there online programs that you followed?

PS: School in France is pretty cheap and subsidised by the state, so besides time and effort it would end up with minimal financial cost.
I have my doubts. You would have to stop it from orbiting first (8km/s). What kind of rocket would be needed to get 8km/s deceleration of 12 tons on LEO? And it would only gain 10km/s. Why not go directly from the ground then?
especially for an organization calling itself "Open"something.
Remember that Heinlein saw E. E. "Doc" Smith as a MacGuyver.

FWIW, I don't like the Wired piece. It's a second-hand description based on the views of Gregory Benford. I don't think that the descriptions given - building his own house with an unusual design, and being a good shot - are sufficient to qualify as being a MacGuyver.

Certainly there's more to Heinlein than those, like working out orbital mechanics on paper for part of a plot point.

But other than his SF writing, does his MacGuyver-ness really stand out from other mid-20th century tinkerers?
But it most definitely is not a NSFW image because it was cropped.
What's more scary than fake sex tapes is the potential for easy plausible deniability for real criminality.
Neural Quantum States
When people talk about "freedom" in this context, they don't mean freedom from meetings, paperwork or other boring aspects of corporate life. And being self-employed is definitely not hassle-free.

What entices people is that - for both better and worse - you are your own boss. You dictate what projects you say yes or no to, what hours you work, when you go on vacation and lots more.
Europe is large and educated. The EU has 50% more population than the US and the EU is just as highly educated and almost as rich. Yet how much everyday software do you use that's from the EU compared to the US?

Something has kept EU companies down. I assume that it's the combination of the various regulations we have in the EU that make it less welcoming of an environment to run an online business. GDPR is just one additional brick in that wall.
I'm disqualified from contributing to a Roth IRA. My uninformed speculation on why Roth IRA income caps and max annual contribution limits exist is that it's the sake of tax revenue.
This behavior was around since before the acquisition [3].

[3] https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap/issues/392
That's roughly 10% of the population (23M). At its peak, the Stasi in the DDR had files on about 30% of the East German population.
I wonder if some AI technologies will need a non proliferation pact similar to nuclear weapons. Similar to how centrifuge technology was a guarded secret, perhaps we should consider something for the most damaging of AI patterns.

While I agree technology isn't inherently good or evil, this feels more harmful than helpful.
"metronome set at 80 beats per minute ... until the participant reached 80, missed 3 or more beats of the metronome, or stopped"

This is literally a push-up sprint.

For comparison the US Army requires 42 pushups over 2 minutes (120 seconds) with any amount of pauses (to meet minimum standards) and maxes out at 71 push ups in 2 minutes.

The people I knew who were maxing out their PT tests weren't hitting anywhere near this pace and I suspect only a handful of them could.
So how does it work with the law of conservation of energy? [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_energy
China fears the extreme ideology of the religion specially with neighbours like Pakistan who feed terrorism it seems only logical.
`git clone https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap.git` still works without login...
There's an economic incentive for the moon base! Since it's so expensive to bring heavy payloads up by rocket we can just mine them on the moon. It surely won't be too long until the US needs to mass-produce the godrods anyway.
So this is what I do on project-based projects -- I write up spec sheets, attach them to the contract/work-order, and define some amount up front payment, and break down the rest in terms of 25%/50%/100% completion, as determined by items in the spec sheets.

As far as collecting receivables, I've been either incredibly lucky or smart -- it's never been a problem for me (I am also no longer in the US -- I'm in Tokyo for now) -- clients have been big enough that this wasn't a huge problem, and whenever I sense it might be I demand a certain amount up front.

I agree with what you've said, but how do you combat the estimation problem & scope creep? Discrete milestones are great but it's very rare that requirements don't change half way through a project -- what is the best way to handle that? The problem is that you often have to make the estimate with absolutely no idea what the existing conditions will look like, there's the never ending stream of "little fixes".
Would be cool if this can be integrated with mpv, I tried SVP but integration is a bit awkward when you just want to chill.

That said SVP is nice for 30 fps youtube videos on slower connections or just videos without a high-quality 60hz source... even without svp videos look significantly nicer in mpv than in chrome on youtube.
It doesn't even take 1km/s to deorbit.

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/12011/how-could-a-...
"Tax breaks for the rich"?
Presumably the electricity would be used to provide some of the energy requirements of the computer - in effect, the tower would produce less "waste" heat
I think the implication was that MS directed someone in the GitHub org to do this, rather than someone in the org making that decision independently.

As a Microsoft employee, it would be even more enormously disappointing if this were a top down rather than internal org decision.
The cost thing, they need to do inflation-adjusted dollars. They wrote this bit really badly. The cost of launch as dropped, kg for $, over time. But, also inflation happens so a million $ isn't the big deal it was.
That thread is 5 months old, so apparently the censoring is 5 months old.
The back button is broken due to double submission problem.
Saying employers don't want it is kind of stating the obvious. Of cause the employer tries to extract as much value as possible, while most discussion in this thread seems centered around improving quality of live of employees. So looking at only one side of the labor market doesn't really help. The more interesting question is employees make deals without it.

Is it actually true to say there is an market equilibrium at 40 hours? I'm no expert, but 40h seems heavily reinforced by regulation (FLSA comes up on search). Without government intervention, I'd not see much stopping a race to the bottom, at least for a significant part of the job market.

I wonder if less wealth inequality would give more leverage to the average citizen, enough so that this additional bargaining power would make a significant difference on the job market. Influences like that might explain the systems trends over longer time periods...
Or framing people.
Show HN: Pregit.io – prediction markets for GitHub repos
How accurate can it be - or does it only work when there is almost no wind? Also, isn't there a maximum velocity based on air drag - if so, can something similar not be dropped from a plane?
Or false incrimination, false flag operations and so on. You can start a war with a video. That might change to some degree as trust in video decreases, but what trust will take its place?
Considering how the test was actually run I feel like it's a nearly meaningless test. The bar they set was extremely high once you read the details.

I used to be able to do 40+ push ups, but at no where near the pace that the researchers required.
I’m a nudist (meaning I have no problem being naked or seeing people without clothes on when it is comfortable, publicly or privately). What on earth is wrong with a nude photograph? What does it say about humankind that we deny our baseline state?
My Canadian software engineering degree included a substantial engineering ethics course shared with the rest of the engineering flavors (including mechanical and aerospace). At the time, I thought it was a waste, but the further down my career I go the more valuable it was in retrospect. I also can't call myself an engineer in Canada without joining a provincial engineering organization (like the PEO in Ontario).
It's good. I found it way more readable and engaging than other CS textbooks.
Privacy, both in reading and publishing.
> 20 feet long, 1 foot in diameter tungsten rods

I was curious about the price of this so I did some monster math (FYI complete arms layman, serious errors are likely).

Raw materials: Volume is 15.7 cu ft = 444,574.5 cm3. Density is 19.3g/cm3 = 8,580 kg. Estimated price of $30.3k per metric ton [1] = $260k in tungsten. Cheap.

Now for launch price. SpaceX advertises $90 million for 8 metric tons launched into low-earth orbit [2]. Yowza.

A single Trident submarine based missile is in the order of $65-$100 million depending on various sources. So cost-wise these seem within the same order of magnitude as nukes.

1: https://www.metalary.com/tungsten-price/
2: https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/spacex-pric...
OpenAI doing this was just to get attention. Any funded entity could trivially reproduce their work. There is no way this was done out of any serious, principled fear of bad actors getting their hands on it.
Yes it is. The basic definition of technology is applied science. It's as neutral as it gets.

The morality and behavior come from the humans that use it.
Wim Hof Breathing and Method: Are They Legit? A Scientific Critical Review
Well on her (the researcher), her (Lena), and him (Fabio). Well on all of them.
I guess most people using it have no idea it's a picture from Playboy, nor a nude picture, nor a controversial picture. I used it a lot myself when I was working on content based image retrieval simply because all the literature was using it. It never even occurred to me I was being controversial or sexist.

Now that I'm aware of the picture's history, I agree that it was a poor choice back then but I disagree that using it today is somehow an endorsement of sexism. Using it today only means you are using the standard image processing image.
There is certainly an interesting conversation to be had on this topic, but you've chosen to present it as a justification, which I personally think is pretty highly immoral, to put it as politely as possible.
It's white, right?
OpenID provides federated login and is already widely used. It's not frictionless however and didn't really take off as much as people first expected due to usability problems with login-urls as user ids and anonymity to website owners.
"metronome set at 80 beats per minute ... until the participant reached 80, missed 3 or more beats of the metronome, or stopped"

To hit this top group that gives you less than 33 seconds to hit 41. You're not gonna hit those numbers just by exercising in general.