skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The privacy concerns here are huge, but the much more direct issue is from this quote from the article:

> the same programs failed to identify darker-skinned women up to one-third of the time.

A one-third failure rate means that on average, for every three times you try to return home, you are likely to have the system fail to identify you at least once. Being locked out, as a resident, one-third of the number of times you return home, will get very irritating very quickly.

And for the really unlucky, they may seldom have the system recognize them, so they end up locked out a majority of the time.

A 33% recognition failure rate is simply too high to consider door locks to ones home as a good use of facial recognition.
These guys will pay to enforce every little thing. They have lawyers ready and make a small fortune if the apartment goes for market rates.
NYC at least has tons of public bathrooms that are currently closed but could easily be reopened again.
When I had a small family, I reused most single-use bags for my trash cans, but nowadays I can't be switching the bag every two hours... now I buy larger bags and "recycle" most shopping bags (they probably burn them).
I know a guy who calls himself an "environmental consultant" subleasing three rooms in his rent-controlled four room Nob Hill apartment. Cycled through a second subtenant in one of the rooms while I was there and raised the rent $400.

I doubt he works.
You mean unintended?
This is awesome! Where can we purchase such stickers?
I also use a backpack, since forever. Especially good if you don't have a car and need to walk the stuff home. These things last years of daily use - much much more, than even a reusable plastic bag can.
Sure they do; in the short term, and when given the backing of a nuclear superpower with a media monopoly. Worked for Yushchenko for a while! Now he's the most universally hated former leader in Ukraine.

Saakashvili is presently not even a Ukraine citizen any more! Imagine that!
But weren’t you entitled to this?
Can FPGA-based, specialised hardware bulldoze through blockchain roadblocks?
Because this is where professional discussions on security usually happens.
In a healthy mind, there is a causal hierarchy: Reality > your perception of reality > emotions (strongly simplified!). You are suggesting that stoicism means manipulating emotions, at the bottom of the hierarchy. What (to me) it means is manipulating the perception of reality. I agree that shoving aside emotions won’t do you much good, except in the short term (e.g. not punching the boss in the face). Long term emotion suppression will make you depressed. Stoicism doesn’t tell you that you must not be angry. It tells you that your boss is actually not in control of the situation herself, and also does not control your own destiny - her bad decision is suddenly only an annoyance, and not a life-threatening event. And your emotions will adjust accordingly.

Vaping nicotine 20 times a day is obviously a bad idea and might lead to cancer. Vaping 2 draws of CBD (a non-addictive substance) 2-3 times per week might also have a negative long term effect, but I’ll take it. I don’t use propylene glycol, but only vegetable glycerine to minimize risk.
I noticed the Back to the Future link this morning and thought that Google had taken me to an outdated page, and the link would take me to the updated schema. So I ignored it since I found what I was looking for on the page I landed on.

Either really subtle, or my coffee hadn't kicked in yet.
The author maintained a calendar app and received this level of "appreciation".

Imagine if he was maintaining a core piece of software more people use, like: a web browser or SSH client...
Oh I think progress has been made, retrograde progress. Economists as less competent now than they were back then.
Based on the name, the tool likely makes it easy for others to figure out low-level details of processor implementations that Intel would prefer be trade secrets.
If anyone decides to start a company for this, please sign me up as your first paying customer.
Opinions of people I know and consider to be friends are of far more importance to me than that of anonymous randos on the internet.

I recently turned down a job offer at a company based upon friend's feedback and went to a lower paying job that had a lot of negative reviews on glass door. So far, at a month in, I havent seen anything backing the negative reviews. I'm happy at this point, and my commute is the best I've ever had. 15-20 minutes door to door.
Why undocumented? Because Intel is not RISC-V or even Arm. Do you expect other chip makers to document every internal detail of their chips? And yes, as chips grow in internal complexity, bugs like this one become inevitable - so perhaps we should be insisting on fully-documented designs.
A hairdresser or a gardener is an entrepreneur too. I dont know where this moronic idea that everyone wants to create some new Facebook or Google just because they want to be on their own.

What happened to growing a sustainable business around the craft you believe you are good at?
Entrepreneur Waited 7 Yrs for GreenCard Before Selling Business for $3.7B
I do not think it is that clear cut. Unless the bank assumes full responsibility for any kind of security breach, including social engineering, you need to be allowed to take care of protecting yourself (including the crucial step of testing the measures). It falls to the systems, both the banks and political/judicial, to have measures and rules in place to allow and account for that.

If they don't, I feel there's a rather lopsided situation.
Anecdotally, the SF 10¢ bag fee has 1) caused me to skip bags for small numbers of items I can carry, and 2) retain this behavior even outside SF where bags are free and given by default.

Took a little while to get used to but I think the program was successful in terms of behavior modification.
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The article mentions this is to replace a "key-fob". "Key-fob" implies some kind of RF read of the fob, and a potential computer behind the scenes checking if fob serial X is authorized entry at this time.

So the landlord likely already knows which fob's have entered the building at any given time. Presuming that most of the fobs are with their rightful owners, then the landlord knows mostly who is in the building at any given time.
I was confused when I learned linear regression is considered ML now.
A good amount of countries have already banned plastic bags without such issue. If this outbreak was really rrlated to plastic bag ban, there must be another factor that must be much more relevant than the plastic bags themselves.
Just look at the list of countries that already banned those:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_lightweight_pla...
There are plenty of products/services built by a single person that only hired more people once they were able to afford it and needed it. This is especially common when access to VC funding is pretty much non-existent and you can't just hire a bunch of people.
I think the real potential issue for self-driving cars is that they need to have an understanding of how people's minds work, to understand their gestures, intentions, and movements. This requires, not just visual processing, but something closer to AGI. (Not an expert, so feel free to correct me.)
Yoshinori Ohsumi Wins Nobel Prize for Study of ‘Self-Eating’ Cells (2016)
I would love that. Baidu's servers (which they list only for use as web crawlers; and yes, on a number of address ranges with completely different initial bytes, not just one network Baidu might have sold off to a consumer ISP) regularly try to impersonate my email addresses, I know because I get the DMARC reports. If U.S. mailservers didn't see Baidu's dishonest connections, it would be less trouble to secure my email with mail hosts who are less diligent to avoid spam.

When I try to send email to the administrators of these networks, it is blackholed at the great firewall.

Furthermore, my personal website which only displays my personal contact information is blocked in China.

I can't do anything productive with Baidu, they are a net cost to me, while surely to them I'm a nobody.
The real question:

Is this service available to public figures like:

* John Podesta (of the US Democratic National Committee, phishing target)

* John Brennan (former CIA director, whose AOL account was pwnd by teenagers while he held that job)

Of course it is. But these sorts of powerful people always think somebody else is the target.

Mr. Eden's proposal is a good one. Too bad such a business would need more lawyers than pentesters.
Oh I see. But then, handwriting taken appart, stroke order does matter and is a feature for more easy remembering. One actually only have to rote learn 500 characters to get a feeling of the system and then handwriting get optional. Anyway, how would you recommend to learn the characters instead?
How do you keep up with tech in your game?
The climate will do that.
LIGO Will Begin Searching for Gravitational Waves Again on April First
Exactly. Margaret Thatcher epitomized this with her famous catchphrase:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_is_no_alternative

The politburo in the Soviet Union probably employed a similar style of propaganda.
> In a healthy mind, there is a causal hierarchy: Reality > your perception of reality > emotions (strongly simplified!).

That's certainly the conceit of rationality, but realistically the last two have a complex two-way relationship where often, perhaps most often, the reverse order of those two elements dominates.
Humans have enough intelligence, though, to be able to figure out when the other lane is oncoming traffic and those spurious markings are in fact spurious (snow or a plastic bag).
I'm from the East coast and wonder the same thing. In one supermarket I go to, they double bag everything. I have to tell them not to do that and they get all confused and look at me weird. I would lift up the single bag with two half gallons in it to show them that one bag is enough.
I'm not "so sure", though I think gaming the system with a long term sublet would be pretty unlikely because how likely are you to find a legit tenant who would go through you as the landlord instead of the actual landlord for a luxury rental. It's more complicated than actually living in the unit and then staying with a partner or friend if you can rent it out a few days/week when you can command a good rate.
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I love the Australian one, the guys think that having a rental car means they can break any laws, and then when they're stopped they say "Am I under arrest?" as if it's the magic words that make the cops go away.
On the other hand, you might be able to profit from this, if these third parties are able to find vulnerabilities in your process. Free security audits.
I hope that in 25 years cars are no longer the primary mode of transportation. If frequent, daily transportation will be a thing at all.
If only smart and hardworking people from other countries were willing to come to the US for the opportunities it provides and help fuel another generation of growth....

Nah, that’s a crazy idea. It might “change the culture” of the country. We can’t have those evil brown people coming from the south committing crime and those evil Middle Easterners trying to spread “Sharia Law”. We were already barely rescued in time from a President who wasn’t an American citizen and who was a “secret Muslim”.
For various reasons I have to examine byzantine fault tolerant consensus mechanisms. One of the surprising things I noticed is something like Dunbar's number falls out of it naturally.
Huge tax, no, but making people pay for externalities is fair and a bit less extreme than an outright ban.
This is still not evidence of conspiracy (but has the structure of classic conspiracy theories). It just means the mainstream looked at it and disagreed.

Nobody is owed attention from any discipline of study. Absence of attention is not conclusive evidence of anything.
I remember the naysayers of the time said that the existing $70,000 employees, and even some of those who were paid less than $70,000, would feel jealous that the lowest paid employee now was making the same as them. These people would presumably cause a fuss and then leave, and Gravity would lose their good employees and the institutional knowledge. One journalist managed to find someone to anonymously say that.

They said customers would know that the employees were "overpaid" and switch to another processor, although why this would work without those processors also being cheaper I never understood.

In this sense, the experiment is a success. At this point, it seems there will need to be a sudden change in the market to put them out of business, such as a very efficient provider with better customer service.

Nonetheless, most of what we pay in payments processing goes to parties like card issuers for their rewards programs and to the networks for their oligopoly rents. This means that the cost of the processor is relatively small. If they are making the kind of revenue that allowed this change in the first place, they will probably be able to keep making it until there is a real change in our processing system. That change would probably be regulation.
They do tend to disrupt profits, which in turn does disrupt the board. Since board members tend to be large shareholders or representatives of large shareholders, they would personally feel the effects of their net worth decreasing.
You can change that at https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings/labels by clicking show in System labels > Spam (it becomes bold when it's activated.)
Spam filtering already relies on throttling. If you're a domain with unknown reputation, you're generally forbidden [by the recipient] from sending a lot of email until a reputation is established.
Why does the system even care about color in the first place? Can't it measure other facial characteristics, measurements?
It's extremely difficult to find those around me with similar interests who actually have anything approaching 'spare time'.

Additionally, it's very difficult to be interesting without a diverse set of different friends and experiences to be the bridge between. As a 'natural leaf node' I find that I've been the first to get culled when others contract or otherwise shift their time allocations for higher priority slots in their lives.

The transaction cost of visiting friends is also affected by the size of metro areas, traffic/lack of good transit meshes, and the insane cost of housing. It often isn't worth leaving a small, opportunity isolated, corner of suburbia to meet someone else if it's going to take an hour or more one way for each trip; particularly if that's during 'rush hour' traffic hell.

Today's war for attention is insanity fueled by ad revenue and I feel like everyone's a looser in this war.
Nothing to prevent owner of a building (landlord or other person/entity) from installing a camera and taking a picture
of everyone entering the building (outside the door). [1] Inside (legally) maybe the same no expectation or privacy in the lobby of a public building.

The end result of the landlord knowing when you are in your home does not change that.

[1] Same principle that allows you to photograph the police out in public or really anyone else.
> The main thing is "Why undocumented?", not threat model and physical or remote exploit.

No, the main thing is if VISA is for qualifying chips on the production line, why don’t they burn a fuse permanently disabling it on chips that pass QA?
I now view this outcome as inevitable. Such systems are already being trialled on the streets of london. However our privacy is not just about face recog - we leave myriad digital traces thousands of times a day (payments, phone, search, maps, likes, car plates, emails, phone calls, store cameras) which can already be used to trace out our lives in excruciating detail. Just one of these factors gives a lot of colour; together they deliver a very detailed profile of every facet of our lives.

Who has this power? At the moment only lawless spy agencies and politicians who control them.

It may be better to legislate for all this data to be open to all rather than trying to legislate it out of existence. Laws likely won't work due to power imbalances meaning it is used by the state with impunity anyway, as is the case at least to a limited extent now - the limits on the likes of GCHQ are technical, not legal, as they have demonstrated recently.

Perhaps a truly private life is now impossible, but if it is we should make sure that is the case for those in power as well as the little people who scurry about beneath their gaze.
What do you mean specifically by "should not have the right to strike"? As in, they should have their right to free association limited? They should be forced to work under penalty of jail time?
I agree. Its hard to decide when to let the market and efficiencies deal with a problem or regulations. I don't have the answer but I always appreciate the discussion and appreciate someone making a decision and finding out what happens next.
This is not a meaningful sample. The mass media is not "Economists", as an academic discipline.
Its much easier to get distracted or fall asleep when you're not engaged with driving the vehicle at all.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14332159.
Check out the current Stack overflow:)
Difference between annoyed/amused/slight despondency and narcissistic rage.

It's kinda of like this, a mechanical engineer doesn't feel threatened by some guy selling a magnetic doohickey you put in series with your cars fuel line to increase MPG. He just thinks it's stupid. He's not mad though.

Economists get angry.
I think that is a reasonable conclusion to make (assuming these findings are correct). The article says the same:

>Ironically, the lack of dark matter in these UDGs strengthens the case for dark matter, the researchers say. It proves that dark matter is a substance that is not coupled with normal matter, since they can be found separately.
Are pedestrians and cyclists going to have to be "digitally signed" too in order to avoid getting killed?
Lying about height is endemic on dating sites. OkCupid noted that on average, people add two inches to their height, both men and women; the irony of the latter being that shorter women tend to get more attention.

https://theblog.okcupid.com/the-big-lies-people-tell-in-onli...
Head ache inducing.
They'll eventually have to pump in inert (i.e. not oxygen) gas to keep the steel stand from rusting out if the experiment is ever going to run out of pitch.
Let’s get one thing straight: If your company is saying they use AI to solve their customer’s problems but they do not, that is lying. 100%. It’s fraud. You are absolutely right to be concerned.

I would argue that you have a moral obligation to do something about this while bearing in mind your own needs and obligations (e.g., as a breadwinner for your family).

Others have been in your situation before. Try seeking advice from Tyler Schultz, one of the first Theranos whistleblowers: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-shultz-450923126

There may be others, I’d love to see comments giving other suggestions.

You could also get in touch with the Wall Street Journal— tip line is here https://www.wsj.com/tips

You could send a message directly to reporter John Carreyrou, the WSJ reporter who worked on the first big Theranos story.

Going directly to the press has some serious risks — legal risks especially. That’s why you might first begin by merely seeking advice and input from people who have worked on this before.

Many people will tell you that the legal risks mean you shouldn’t do something. I understand that position. At the same time, I believe we human beings have an obligation to each other to deal fairly and honestly, and to help bend the world in that direction. It’s not an easy position for you to be in. Good luck.
Along the same lines, imagine someone allergic to bees getting stung on the face causing their face to swell, so the system doesn't recognize them and they can't get into their apartment to grab their epipen. This system could literally kill a person
I live in a fairly affluent town with a lot of competitive parents, so I've seen all sides of this. I'm not one of them, but there are definitely parents who see their kids' activities in terms of a progression towards an ultimate goal.

My own philosophy is that those activities can lead to a fulfilling life, even if they don't pay back in monetary or career terms. I'm an amateur musician today, and it's a vital part of my life, so I'm grateful for the years of music lessons that my parents paid for.
Those things do not matter to the kind of people targeting other people on this irrational basis. What matters is that they have a vague feeling that you are "around" and "a contributor" and "one of us" (feel free to be a bit sick in your mouth at this point).
I think you're interpreting this work too narrowly. Don't think of it as having found the one thing that can go wrong with autopilot. Think of it as one example piece of evidence for how (non) robust the autopilot is.
Hell, even a failure rate of one in a hundred would become unacceptable pretty quickly - going out multiple times a day is not unusual.

One in three is beyond ridiculous.
The fact that this works is so irrational. I just spent $40 on groceries (and got $1.20 cash back). What's 10 cents for a bag?
Your friend is not wrong but they were still being toolish about it. You mentioned your struggle, your problem; and instead of trying to commiserate they basically said "it could be worse". Know how you feel, most people can't relate with my life experiences either so in the past when trying to discuss them I received similar levels of dismissal. Something I realized though is that it goes both ways: in the moment they said " that's your privilege talking", you had a window to turn the conversation back to them, to ask about their experiences. Of course that direction for a convo isn't always appropriate, or it may be asked too awkwardly to get a thoughtful response, but I will mention those times I shut up and opened my ears were some that broadened my perspective the most.
I didn't mean to offend. My choice of words could use some improvement. Here's further explanation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19537047
> And whoever is doing the enrolling can ask for lots of further information about your visitor

Why are you jumping to the conclusion that is has to go this way? Very possible that a landlord would be happy to simply have someone log a face and then go back to that person if there was a particular and legal reason to know who the face was. Now sure if they wanted maybe they could google image search the face and find out who it was. But per my other comment there is nothing to prevent a building owner (landlord or otherwise) from installing a camera and filming everyone that enters a building and actually even posting that face on the internet for everyone to see. (Would not go down very well of course but it would be legal as it's a public place). If you want to hang out in front of Shake Shack (arbitrary) with your camera all day and take pictures of everyone who enters and buys a burger or a shake you can do that.
This leads to an interesting question the article didn't mention...

If a galaxy can exist without any dark matter and others with a balance of dark and normal matter, can one exist made entirely of dark matter?
Just give them a paper mask of your face! Much cheaper than a key anyway.
As I stated to the parent comment, I didn't mean to offend. My choice of words could use some improvement. Here's further explanation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19537047
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Probably from a cow milk and a bit of manual labor. Making butter is not a rocket science.
On the other hand, private workers don't typically vote for their leaders, but public unions can and do get to vote. So they have additional levers to pull