skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe we just shoudln't have self driving cars. The bias of the HN crows seems to be that "oh, technology will advance and solve the problems; just give it time". No code is perfect; no system is 100% secure. This isn't just a malicious case; what of the situations where old lane lines are clearly visible? Can't test perfectly. I'd make a similar argument in things like nuclear centrifuges, namely that there are places where computers should be relegated to their absolute minimum involvement.
Yeah 1960-80's post modern literary criticism is just embarrassing and no cares. Modern architecture is merely ugly. But economics enabled real harm to people and communities.
Yet another main question, because ...
You can take a look at track records of predictions and policy interventions to compare those fields. Vaccine did in fact significantly reduce or even eradicate some diseases. The track record of predictions out of economics is a lot spottier.
Probably a consequence of being mostly developed by and tested on white people

Edit: Take a look at this video, it illustrates the problem quite well with a soap dispenser as an example: https://twitter.com/nke_ise/status/897756900753891328
A great CoC.

I cooked one up myself after too much wine and reading of other smarmy CoCs written by the kinds of church lady busy bodies who ruin everything.

https://github.com/locklin/iron-sheik-code-conduct

It's mostly a drunken walk through Sheiky's twitter, but I'm sorely tempted to include it in a few R packages I'll eventually release.
They can always quit. But nobody quits from guaranteed for-life employment with generous pensions, lots of paid leave and limited workload.
Not an expert in this area, but I believe it's harder for the software to pick out shadows/shades on a darker skin, and it relies heavily on those shadows/shades to recognize structure.
Makes sense for publicly subsidized housing (which is what rent control is, in essence). A lot of people sublet their price controlled housing under the table.

It's not like the facial recognition is resulting in any privacy loss for those that legally live there. The government already knows their permanent address.
> the advantage in terms of landfill or carbon emissions seem to be a wash at best and a net loss at worst

Is it even worth researching those two? Plastic shopping bags is so far down the list of landfill use and CO2 emissions that I feel there's better things to spend our time on.

Which I wish governments would get. Rather than ban plastic shopping bags, maybe work on funding MTA?
It doesn't care about color. Dark faces reflect less light, making them more challenging to photograph well. If you have less light illuminating a scene, you'll have more noise and less contrast/dynamic range in the image. You need these things to extract features reliably. It's physics, not racial bias.
Ask HN: How do I ask and publish testimonials for my SaaS product?
I run a profitable startup, and I want to add testimonials or a client-list to the pricing page.

I'm just not sure how to go about starting this process or how easy/difficult it will be.

1. Do I email a customer and ask? And will approval via email suffice to use their company's logo?

2. Is there some standard legal doc and procedure that most companies use?

3. Have any strategies worked for you? (i.e. how you phrase it to customers)

Any advice would be really appreciated.
Indeed. It becomes a self fulfilling prophecy when the most disadvantaged members of society have no other means to advance other than illicit activities and then those statistics are turned around and continued to be used against them. It's depressing that plenty of people fall for it, citing "the numbers" as evidence for thier hateful claims.
I am running a free job posting website (postjobfree.com).
Every day I receive about a hundred emails with various requests, questions and complaints (from recruiters, job seekers and operators of other job boards).

Some of these emails are negative or even rude.
But that negativity does not really bother me. I evaluate level of "Negativity" in the email to understand the nature of the request better (Is the request realistic? Is the request fair? Could our team realistically prevent that negativity in the first place?)

Requests like: “How dare you not (use your free time to) fix this ultra high priority bug that is affecting me?” -- I do not even consider negative. In fact, that is a positive comment to me, because it may indicate an opportunity (to make our job board better or to even add another revenue stream).

The complainer in such case already did some of the work for our job board: identified potential problem, described how to reproduce it, defined the use case explaining why fixing that problem is important.

If that is not helpful feedback, then what kind of feedback is more useful?
I understand science the way Popper wrote about it. Yes, my comment is unscientific. I've never claimed otherwise. Just because something is unscientific, doesn't mean it doesn't have value. E.g. I study mathematics and I do not consider mathematics a science (I know many other mathematicians who share this attitude) and yet I consider the study of mathematics to be one the best ways to spend my time.
I guess that, with darker skin, there's less accurate data.
Our Odyssey with Vulkan on Stadia (GDC 2019)
It doesn't know all their visitors names though.
Yes, but surely this if fair right? There is a real problem with people subletting rent stabilized apartments. This helps to keep the apartment for those that are supposed to benefit.
Unless i missed something, they don't demonstrate tricking the Tesla into driving into opposing traffic, but rather into a lane that could contain opposing traffic but doesn't. If there was opposing traffic in that lane, would the car still change into it?

If you put up a sign saying "change into opposite lane" and it looked safe to do so, i'd probably obey the sign while driving my car too.
>capital exposure

Really, what type of companies are those? I've always seen the comment of, "there are so many more ways of making money than X" without the actual proposition of said companies. Hell, even Sam Altman said it in the Stanford Start-up class, but didn't give any examples.
The mildly ironic fact is that those effects are created using modern CSS/JS resources and not just <table>s in true 90s way
I wonder if Amazon Aurora is what you’re looking for: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/

Does anyone have any real world experience with this, in comparison to these more traditional DBaaS offerings? Not sure if it’s a practical contender at a smaller scale.
We know how it ends though.

We'll see them roll out an error-prone stop-sign+traffic-light detection as fsd beta, and everyone will act like that was what was promised. Just like Lane keeping assist is "autopilot".
Bill Gates: We should discuss soil as much as we talk about coal
It is exceptionally difficult to prove economic theories because experiments cannot be repeated. The variables are always changing, and there is far from complete control over them.
Ask HN: Call for HW IoT Startups
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Show HN: Online Drum Machine
One problem with lifelong learning via formal institutions is that the less well off are “tapped out” already with debt and expenses while those with good careers (enough to save for an n-year break) face an enormous opportunity cost, hundreds of thousands of dollars.

There are lots of people who would love to go back to college already and learn something new but the financial treadmill is running too fast to get off.

More flexible learning options can help with this.
Project 44 – Mapping the Battle of Normandy
Yeah. A more nuanced approach would probably have just as much positive outcome without the collateral damage of a straight up ban. However, the politicians are not incentivized to do this because it does not come with the virtue points that you get by taking a hardliner stance (e.g. a ban) so it never happens.
In the end everyone making choices about what kind of relations they want to have is called discretion.
My advice to other OSS project maintainers - unless you are paid to do so in a 9 to 5 job, just walk away. It's not worth the aggravation. I just woke up to the fact that the majority of my self-entitled users were working for multi-billion dollar firms and they were not contributing a line of code or stitch of documentation. With a handful of exceptions, you can't make a living off of open source alone. Patreon and OpenCollective is a great way to make coffee money.
Nobody is owed anything, but since publications are the currency of research and the measure by which academics are evaluated, publishing a critique of something as widely and publicly discussed as Piketty's books should be very tempting for academic economists (assuming that economics is a normal academic discipline).

So in front of that background, the silence is suspicious, and the most plausible explanation is that the majority of participants would like to disagree but find themselves unable to put forward such a critique.
Criminal histories, eviction records, poor credit....lots of reasons to sublet instead of going to the landlord.
How is a CPU core fused out?
FiveThirtyEight: Americans Are Smart About Science
My example conflates (or does not clearly distinguish between) partnerships (taxed as passthrough) and companies (taxed twice possibly). In the place I referenced taxed twice (only possible as a company), assume the federal rate on everything is 40% [to make the math forum-calculation-friendly].

Company starts with $200K, held 50:50 by two shareholders, losslessly buys two house for that, those go to $300K, company losslessly sells one of them for $150K, company pays $20K tax on $50K gain, and then owns a $150K house and $130K in cash. Shareholder B sells their 50% share in the company to shareholder A for $140K cash, realizing a $40K capital gain on their original shares investment [incurring $16K in taxes on the gain in their shares]. Shareholder A now owns all the shares with a basis of $240K for a company value of $280K.

I argue that Shareholder B’s economic interest in a single gain has been taxed twice.
I've been staying off Google's postgres offering for this reason; am I missing something about Postgres replication methods, or is this a massive hole in their offering?
The next sentence in the article,

> The researchers however disagreed with Intel's comments and reportedly said in an online discussion that the patched Intel firmware can be downgraded using Intel ME, making the chipset vulnerable and opening the door for accessing Intel VISA.

I agree that "physical access" is a threat that I'm not too concerned about¹. But the researchers don't seem to agree that that's the extent of the issue.

¹If physical access means "disassemble the case and do X". If physical access is "two seconds with an exposed USB port", then that's a different matter.
I was thinking more of physical stores in general, obviously chains are just as good for trying on stuff.

I think the biggest benefit of small stores is specialisation. For example, we have a jeans store in our town -- they sell nothing but jeans, and they have a huge selection. Much better than any of the chains we have here. They are also the only store that stocks my size. I really like that I can buy a pair of jeans there and don't have to shorten them.

Another thing that's really nice with small stores is that they can offer services that the chains cannot. Very often when I go to a store they just don't have my size any more. If it's a chain, they can sometimes check in their inventory system and see if a different store still has it in stock. But more often then not, it's the end of the season or something, and they're out, and there's no way to order it anymore. When the same thing happened to me in a local store, I was totally surprised when the sales guy just told me he'd call the seamstress and ask her to make another one in my size. A few days later I picked up my newly made shirt.

Obviously, not all small mom-and-pop shops are like that -- but some are really great.
It surely wouldn't be a galaxy then? I think a galaxy has to have stars in order to be a galaxy.
Fundamentals of Air Logic (2012)
Yes the establishment economists have vested interests. But, Vested interests are what allowed Silicon Valley to flourish. The east coast financial center largely ignored the pc space until Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Bill Joy and numerous others built the pc hardware and networking stack to allow everyone to have a'voice' and to hear all those voices. Although Piketty's arguments hold water, he has not shown a synthesis that will allow us to unwind smoothly from the concentration of wealth.

I once had a heated discussion with an economist about this very topic. Financial wealth grows now largely through speculation. Although stocks and options were once based in fundamentals, their prices now fluctuate wildly based on their own supply and demand which is often decoupled from reality.

I suggested having two currencies, one money derived from human labor and another derived from the work that financial instruments generate.

One could establish an exchange rate between one and the other based on wealth disparity. Or another way to deal with these currencies would be to restrict income and capital gains from financial money to only be spent on non-financial products (goods, services, upgrade factories, upgrade roads, etc.) As this economist was working in the financial sector in NY, he thought the idea was ludicrous.

He felt that money from the financial sector was equally valued as money from human labor. Or even more valued ! He wanted to control his money and not have to invest in the messy world of humanity directly.
Like Prof Victor Mair says, if someone is a beginner, I don't recommend learning characters at all for the first 2-3 years.

(If you are a Japanese learner, learning kana wouldn't hurt, it takes a few weeks at most anyways vs years for kanji - and it's not like you "master" kanji after those years, as any native speaker would be able to demonstrate).
I don't see a problem: any given author / contributor has their own reasons for providing something... and you and I are most likely not one of them. We can choose to tag along for the ride or not. If it is of value and we have issues or need missing features, we can contribute to the project to make it better. For many people, that is often one of the reasons they even bothered to open source it to begin with: to get help.

If one lacks the skills to or time & interest in helping, the two most productive courses of action are either to move along or throw money at the problem. Now maybe your issue is the developer/maintainer themselves. i.e. the project has value but you don't want to deal with the author(s)/maintainer(s). That's fine: fork the project. If enough people feel like you do, the original project will likely die due to these open source 'market' forces. That's a risk any author takes making the project open source to begin with.

I have absolutely no problem with a developer saying 'this is my project' or 'I'm not interested in your problem' as a default answer. It is their project/time and my problem after all. Assuming I don't have the time/skills and really want their help, I can offer to throw money at them and many will develop an interest in solving my problem. If that doesn't work, I can offer to throw money at someone who will.

Note that none of these issues are unique to open source: try to get Apple/Microsoft/Google to fix a longstanding bug or add a feature that you really want or need. Odds are, you don't have the order of magnitude of money to get them to care. And you usually don't have the source either, so you're out of luck.
>ML can recommend a movie to watch or a restaurant nearby, and when it fails terribly and reinforces biases and misunderstandings like it always does, the cost to society is minimal

I'd go further and say we should pay a lot of attention to this too. The subtle ways in which recommendation engines change what cultural goods we consume, including journalism, might very well have some pretty significant effects.

But yes, to essentially beta test rudimentary statistical models in actual court rooms or police stations were people's legal rights are at stake is pretty much insane.
I dunno. Germany has the same kind of thing. Search for "Reichsbürger". Essentially these people reject the modern German nation, and say they belong to one reich or another - either the Kaiserreich or the Nazi one.

What these conspiracy people don't get is that a nation exists as a consequence of its subjects and warriors loyalty to it and obedience of it. It's just a power structure. All the legalities and voting and bureaucracy around it are just there because it's much easier for everyone to live with a power structure that behaves predictably, justly and generally nicely. But the legalities are not actually necessary. At the core the answer to "Why?" is "Because we can".

Note that I'm generally pro-government. I'd rather have one nice power structure to deal with than a world operating after the rules of school, where I have to protect my lunch money myself. This is just reality.
Free mind map editor (MVP), going to improve it every day
Many people don't realize that as much as we like to complain about big government and wasteful spending, the private sector is just as bad, or worse in some cases.
Single use plastic bags cannot be processed in a lot of recycling centers (obviously: varies by state, but my area can no longer process the thin plastic bags).

They get clogged in the conveyor belts, and China has stopped accepting them in single-stream recycling. There was a time, just a few years ago, when cities would gain money from the plastic bags that were recycled. That time has gone, it now costs cities money to separate plastic bags from recycling streams and put it into landfills instead.

Its basic economics: its no longer cost efficient to recycle, so it won't be recycled. And now its a net-negative to recycling programs.
I've been very reluctant to go 100% with the Dark Matter theories, preferring to think that Kepler's Law was somehow the root problem. Note, I had no real basis for these thoughts!

These findings do indicate that the Dark Matter theory is increasingly reliable, in that some galaxies are shown to have different densities (& thereby there's nothing wrong with Kepler's Law, and further proof that my "going with the gut" when compared with empirical science is just silly!)

These findings help reinforce that Kepler's Law are working well and seem to indicate that that dark matter is not necessarily tied with matter, but is hanging around in different densities in different galaxies.

> 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.

To me, it's a bit like how our planet is not uniformly the "same stuff", but we have deposits of Gold and Coal and Granite spread around the place in an uneven manner.
And this is how the CEO advertises it

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-breaks-tesla-autop...
It causes more parents to say "screw it" and put their kids in private schools. And now those parents have a lot less reason to support public school funding.
This is so good, and really takes me back to that time.

For some context, I've recently been particularly interested in listening to CDs (I even just bought a CD-ROM burner today, wtf...), learning programming languages from books, and trying not to stream things. So, maybe I'm stuck in the past, but I'm super grateful for this particular joke. It gives me a really warm feeling in my heart :)

Thanks to those developers who put this together, and I hope that we can all take the hint and slow the f* down, study the capabilities of the technologies we've built, and figure out how to save the planet (and the human civilizations it's grown) from itself.
'Common' in 'parts' is weasel-wordy with a tinge of orientalism.

Whether gutter oil exists in any capacity whatsoever, it'd be merely a brief encounter with rural Chinese principles and the commercialism of the developed world; therefore it won't stick around for long as China becomes more developed.
And that's why you see so much Chinese influence in Hollywood.
Less crass but I was actually wondering if they've found that cheese would have suffered a metalheads vs preppies style culture division in the 80's.

Brie is totally Pet Shop Boys. Old Fort Cheddar is Metallica all the way. Cheeze Whiz is probably R Kelly, come to think of it.
This is a huge problem with Gmail. They've been filtering legitimate receipts and things from Gumroad in the last couple of months, and I've heard similar things from founders of several other companies.

Please check your Spam folder, and mark the legitimate emails as such.

Hopefully it'll help the folks (or AI) over at Gmail get better!
Yes, I answered it - and in my experience, and I do have relevant experience, it’s not acceptable unless (a) blocking and (b) properly agreed and documented in the agreement that downtime waiting for client is billed at full rate. YMMV - either way, unless blocking is common, the day rate vs hourly rate is just a change of unit. Blocking is not common in well run projects I’ve been involved in, and not even in those that were badly run (though more than the well run)
Testing/debugging features are intended for internal use only and can expose proprietary information about their implementation, so only Intel and possibly some motherboard manufacturers are allowed the knowledge.

Speaking of documentation, while not fully open, Intel/AMD are already ahead of many others when it comes to documenting things. Look at the SoCs used in smartphones and tablets, or the infamous Raspberry Pi. AFAIK, Intel is not in the business of making secure cryptoprocessors like the ones used in payment cards and SIMs, but once again even with those you are very unlikely to find public documentation --- everything is NDA'd.

That said, don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating for leaving things undocumented; just explaining how it usually turns out that way.
Presumably this would fail the same way in a no power situation as the ubiquitous RFID fob systems.
Faces Places is truly an amazing documentary. There's something so effortlessly beautiful and humanistic in it that I love. Agnes manages to grapple with her mortality and entire life in a calm yet emotional manner that's just magnificent.