skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If society has to rely on "defecating in a plastic bag and tossing it in the trash" for its health safety - it has much bigger problems than banning plastic bags imho.
I agree, but I guess there could be unintended bias in the product development process.

In particular, when using empirical testing to decide if the system is sufficiently reliable, accidentally using an unhelpful sample of faces.

Or even earlier, when selecting the camera and lighting technologies to use.
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Greenspun's tenth rule for the web?
Actually I'm not against UBI, but I don't think that the martians argument about the money system was a good one: the current system is just much civilized than anything that existed before as far as I can tell.

UBI may be part of the next evolutionary step of society, we'll see, but I'm slightly bothered that it relies on the comfort and the wealthiness of the "first world" built to the detriment of the "third world". I personally feel that "people should be allowed to live" would be more convincing to me if it was about worldwide inequality rather than UBI in westerner society.
At least in EU, that's much more complicated.

If you have a camera that has any publicly available (not just public, also private-but-unfenced) place in it's FoV, you must register with your local data protection office and fullfill all the requirements (you must prove, how you use, make available, securely store and dispose any recordings).

If you don't have any publicly available space in your FoV, you must have a written permission from all the co-owners (e.g. in an apartment house).

So basically it is only easy if you are sole owner of the property and only you (and your family) are using it. Anywhere with a shared space, it is an issue. For a landlord, that would get no-go quickly.
If nothing else: there's a market for fighting back against this. KeyMe kiosks (usually found at US supermarkets, pharmacies, etc.) have had RFID fob/card cloning capabilities for a while now. You scan the fob/card at the kiosk, then they clone it to a sticker and send it to you via mail.
Quote from this site: "Current Autopilot features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous."
Paper cups....
When did it stop being a thing?
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Since machine learning allows you to codify the bias of the system maybe the business to be built on top of judicial system is something that helps individual citizens instead of companies - use cases:

1. Tell you the chance you or members of your family will have a criminal case. Early warning system - do I want to leave this area?

2. Tell you what your chances are of conviction/time you will have to serve if convicted once you have a case.

Once it gets into tax law it might be really interesting.
If you could play God and place blobs of dark matter in the right places and moving at the right speeds, it seems plausible that such a dark matter Galaxy could physically exist and be stable.

But I don't think we know of a mechanism for such a structure to form naturally. Normal particles collide and transform some of their gravitational energy into heat. If dark matter only interacts gravitationally, blobs of it would pass right through each other without losing energy. I think(?) you need these sorts of collisional energy losses to get matter to coalesce into a galaxy.
I recently got a paper statement from my bank (I'm signed up for online statements only) because the bank claimed my gmail inbox rejected its notification email. (I checked spam, and it didn't land there either.)
> The incentives aren’t aligned properly

Then explain the success of schools outside of the US that have similar government based funding?
The time value of money (and thus interest) is in part by driven by the risk of the future payout not happening, so these aren't really separate phenomena.
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"Entrepreneurism" is the only way to make money in many industries. Things exist outside of the internet. For instance, restaurants, which are one of the nation's largest employers, which everyone spends money on, but where workers are often paid very poorly.

For example, I can take the $200k in the article, build a small restaurant, and expect it to do $500k-$1m in revenue per year over the next decade. Given good management and a reasonable lease, it'll net 10-20% per year, plus pay my salary and those of a few other people.

Hair dressers, landscapers, any construction really, and lots of other industries benefit from entrepreneurs. Yeah, moonshot tech companies usually fail, but that doesn't mean "entrepreneurism" is overrated.
ok - i mean it doesn't have to be one or the other. If I were subleasing a place I wouldn't want a tenant who had terrible credit either though. But could be both. I'm just hypothesizing like everyone else.
Makes sense, China uses investments and media to alter perception of its policies abroad. The US and other Western nations block Chinese investment into infrastructure and tech, why not media as well?
I am not a physicist, just someone with an armchair interest but...

If dark matter is theorized to explain more gravity than there would be without it, that implies dark matter has a gravitational effect, which means it too might coalesce into very dense things. Perhaps dark matter also forms star-like gravitational bodies, but whatever makes it "dark" hides those too.

It seems weird because I'm almost suggesting... Cloaked stars. Which on the face seems terribly unscientific, given what we know about EM radiation of things. But i think dark matter implies things that don't radiate in the EM spectrum.

Part of me wants to speculate that dark matter is a gravitational force echoing from 4th dimensional matter. Like if a cube affected a plane over which it hovered. But that's just me being an ignorant speculator.
I don't believe in the dark matter as they are currently selling it. I think we have small eyes on the universe and are missing information we'll probably never get at our scale.

The missing energy could be giant elementary particles (in the standard model), and these "particles" go to bigger-than-black-holes energy, which we could never gauge in a lab, tho I'm pretty sure they can be "predicted" along an energy scale.
Not really, you don’t really gauge traffic by looking at the drivers firstly you can’t see most of them secondly it’s dangerous to assume their intention which is why we have things like right of way and road signs.

The big issue is still in terms of processing speed and sensor fusion and Tesla isn’t leading the pack in either.

As far as wide scale autonomous driving goes for it to be good enough there needs to be an agreeable and verifiable decision making model for all manufacturers to follow and for regulators to validate, this could be as simple as never to perform an action that would cause a collision but that’s not exactly an ideal model either because you might then get a silly decision such as you don’t engage the breaks to slow down because you’ll end up hitting the car in front of you in either case.

Sadly I’m seeing too many people that tend to complicate things and chase the red herrings when it comes to autonomous driving such as “ethics” while it’s an interesting philosophical exercise in the real world it’s not the important part as when it comes to accidents the vast majority of drivers act on basic instinct and don’t weight the orphan vs the disabled veteran simply because they don’t have that data nor the capacity to incorporate it into their decision making process.

First we need to get sensors that don’t get confused by oddly placed traffic cones, birds and shadows the rest is pretty much irrelevant at this point.
The real problem with any self-driving system is that a good one will breed complacency. After you spend enough time seeing how well it works in practice you’ll become more and more prone to do stuff like check your phone or watch a YouTube video. I mean the car can handle itself, right? You’ve gone thousands of miles watching this thing effortlessly drive itself, why not enjoy the promise of self-driving technology, which is to free you from the tedium of driving? It’s just human nature to do so,
2-3 years is an awfully long time to spend learning a language without being able to read, though. And if you plan to learn it later anyway, you might as well start with it from the beginning.
> When an organisation asks me to set a recovery question, I generate a 32 character passphrase

This is not actually the best way. For some services eventually you get to a person in a call center who can actually check those security questions to perform a password reset (when all else fails). Having a random string opens the door for someone to claim "oh I think I put something random in there, I really forgot what" and it's likely they'll pull it off. Especially if the hacker knows (somehow[0]) that you put a random string there and it's exactly 32 characters long.

Just go with a plausible name that's still not straightforward to guess.

[0] You may blog about it... Or discuss it loudly and is overheard.
Worth noting that the main reason Rubyists are disabling THP is memory consumption, which is something the author didn't measure.
Because it doesn’t reflect reality.
This is not accurate. Piketty has continued to refine the data and add more as it comes available. The main point was that capital flows are interesting and that is beyond contest at this point. The book Capital has some tentative analysis at the end but doesn't make any strong conclusions and avoids taking the focus away from measuring flows of capital.

Because it is possible to use this data about capital to come to conclusions that are politically unpopular among some subgroups people have piled on this false critical narrative emphasizing supposed errors and gaps in the data and keeping the focus on some brief remarks at the end of a very large work that has a range of applications.

I don't think critics of Piketty did this on purpose. They just pushed unreasonably hard on the data they wanted to find fault with.
First of all, it's the former. That is, it's an absurdly high price to pay for an idea and first customers given what is standard in the market.

Second of all, it doesn't matter. The biggest hurdle to being successful is getting started. "Getting started" necessarily entails finding an idea you're motivated to work on and a vision to achieve your goals. This guy has found one way to get started. If losing 20% of the upside is what it takes to get started, it's not a big deal.

Just remember you can't keep making decisions that give away 20% of your upside over and over, because you'll end up with nothing (barring extenuating circumstances).
Proper documentation link: https://docs.racket-lang.org/algebraic/index.html
> You're giving real money to real companies and you don't know what they're doing with it.

You're really not. You're more than likely buying some other investor's shares. Companies aren't constantly raising money on markets, if they did, shares would get incredibly diluted. Almost all volume is between investors.
I organise the yearly family Christmas gathering back in our village whenever I am in my home country. The deal is that every working adult is supposed to contribute a few dollars towards food and drinks. It really isn't much money. Everyone is supposed to chip in, in whatever way they are comfortable. No one is paid to attend and no one is forced to attend.

Back to your sentiments, the amount of nonsense I have to put up with from some family members is unbelievable. Luckily there are some good family members who usually step in and put them in their place. So yes people are a problem, even our own family members give us problems. I still organise get together and ignore the naysayers.
In short: GTFO. Longer: They're unethical and eventually it will be discovered and it will tarnish the work in your career. Do not stay and be their accomplice.
Well said, particularly:

> I really wish you would have used your talents for "good rather than evil", looking at ways to prevent surveillance rather than increase it.

It just takes a little more thought on the problem to understand that removing all privacy is an instant and irreversible one way ticket to a dystopian outcome.

OP suggests privacy is dead? Lol. I bet there are curtains on their house. I bet they goes to work wearing clothes. I bet they have sex behind closed doors... All of these are basic indicators that we have parts of ourselves and our lives that we like to keep private.

Ask any woman whose private parts have been published on the internet without their consent and they'll mention the shame and the violation they feel.
Facebook: move fast and break things

Tesla: drive fast and break people.
It's less fast than direct lookups, but if the compiler supports it properly, it shouldn't be any slower than a associative array lookup.

echo $FOO[$BAR];
echo $$BAZ;
>>>

push FOO.ptr
push BAR.ptr
call hash_get
push ax
call print

push local_table // static per compiled scope
push BAZ.ptr
call hash_get
push [ax+24] // entry->value
call print

You'd probably want to add error handling (to both cases) and accessing a global variable that didn't exist when the code was compiled will likely be slow, but if becomes a preformance bottleneck you can always rewrite it to something easier to compile.
[Tesla would need to].. and install a dedicated TPU which should be at least 10x or probably more faster than the nVidia chip they have installed on their cars

That is literally what Tesla have announced they are doing next. I've got no opinion on your other points, but if you've missed that news, you're not really following Tesla very closely. It's a drop in replacement chip set designed by Jim Keller.
> We know how it ends though.

I realize this is a tangent, but I feel like it ends with Tesla going bankrupt before they ever come close to building a self-driving car, or even for the narrative to wear off for the general public. I believe a criminal investigation should be brought against Tesla for negligent manslaughter due to the fraudulent advertising and consequential deaths, but I have no expectation of that ever happening.

I just get really angry when people lie, then people die, and nobody does anything about it. As another commenter pointed out, Elon Musk himself is still demonstrating the technology as being completely autonomous just a few months ago.
And also get rid of the Visa hardware debugging block, apparently.
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Based on the moves they've been making recently, I don't think that's true. Investments into Reddit, Hollywood and gaming companies show China is attempting to buy influence and soft power. China knows that if it gets sanctioned because of its actions, such as Uighur concentration camps, it faces internal unrest and possible revolt.
A per bag charge is an incentive, and it has exactly the effect you propose: you get a discount by bringing your own reusable bags.

Stores are already promoting with print advertising on their reusable bags.

Moreover, some communities are starting to recognize that they simply don’t want people to have the option to take single use plastic bags. It’s so crazy wasteful for the 100 feet of walking, why should it even be offered?
> If you have a defined vacation policy, then by law the company is obligated to pay you out for the unused vacation days in case of termination/resignation

I think this is only the case if vacation is accrued. If it's a single yearly lump, it doesn't appear they have that obligation (at least, not in NYC)
The thing about dark matter is that because it doesn't seem to interact in any way other than gravitationally, there is no way for it to lose energy and clump together. So, collections of dark matter tend to stay rather diffuse. The way you could notice such a collection without any visible matter is through gravitational lensing.
You are frighteningly naive about the world, and creating the tools of oppression as a result. Stop. And seek help.
They are called "Dark Galaxies", there are a few candidates, but IIUC they are not confirmed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_galaxy
> 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.

But it's arbitrage. The market rate is $4000 but the current tenant is paying $1000 and subletting for $3500. The inconvenience is worth $500/month, and you can't just go directly to the landlord to cut a better deal because the apartment is already "occupied" by the tenant paying $1000 who the landlord can't remove.
Which locks the building down? I've lived in two buildings with a key fob entry system and a loss of power means the doors are locked until someone exits and props them open. Management didn't care since you could get out in case of a fire.
Sure, but a self driving car might know it should stop at an intersection even if the stop sign is missing because it is a database of stops. Computer and humans are going to have different weaknesses, but if you are intentionally trying to fool them you are going to be able to find a way to do it.
In every apartment I've lived in with such difficult-to-duplicate keys (such as magnetic locks and what not), I've been ask whether I want a second set; and/or the owner told me to ask them should that ever be the case.

Not quite sure what's different with that situation from before, other than slightly cheaper keys.
I live in a building with plenty of shady-looking people coming and going and I wouldn’t mind something like this. I’m sure the tenants who have kids wouldn’t mind it either.

It would be a problem for food deliveries though.
Hello, fellow "former Waymo dev." What you said is one of the many reasons that I replaced my Model X with an I-PACE. While I support the movement-away-from-gas part of their mission, I can no longer support Tesla as a business. I'm now focusing my energy toward advocating sustainable migration to general EV technology.
> my most optimistic wild guess is 10-20 years

Woah, that's a long time! What are the problems in computer vision that need to be solved?
OK, I misunderstood you completely and was astounded at my interpretation, thank you for clarifying :) In Turkey they introduced a fee for plastic bags and many people were upset because of what you wrote. My mother would never buy garbage bags except the largest ones that could not be substituted by grocery bags.
No white man has ever been a black sex worker.

Robbing johns is heroic.

Edit: Upon re-reading your comment, I realize you give no account to such things as "circumstances," which means you're no empiricist. If circumstances count for nothing in your estimation, under what framework do you pass judgement?
With encrypted drives and TPM you can still raise the bar pretty high before physical access means you have control. You may have control of the hardware, but not of what’s running inside.
Going back full time always has a huge opertunity cost. But so does front loading education.

Adults often go back for masters degrees which are manageable as it’s less material.
Sure. But the point is it's not an issue that's in any way novel to this face recognition system.
I'm pretty sure that it's not only related to Europe ;)
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Speculative execution (Branch Prediction) is hardly flashy. It's been present in Intel chips (Pentium) (and just about everyone else) since the early 90s (a quarter of a century ago). This was back when die resolution was 600 nm.
And dont forget about preloading - an OPCache improvement, also available from 7.4.
Well, you can, but you can't trust the time. They could have the clock set a few months back to avoid silly certificate expiration errors. Though I suppose Summer Fools Day is fine too.
I'd love my demographic pre-crime report, somebody should get on this.
Obviously homelessness is the core issue, but unfortunately most countries let people live in those conditions. Nonetheless, there was no outbreaks like the one mentioned in the article in other places banning plastic bags. So assuming that there will be the same sad consequences in New York is just wrong.
It would be great that nobody had to leave in street, but in the current situation there must be something specific in San Diego that caused the outbreak, and it's obviously not just banning plastic bags.
> What's important is that the systems are not overall worse than humans alone and that they continuously improve.

I work in the industry. These systems are currently far worse than humans and the edge cases are numerous. We have so much brain power and years of experience that the heurustics that a L2+ system uses to make decisions are not really comparible and are far more simplistic and much worse. We can handle new situations, these cars cannot. The fact that you are making this comparison between human heurustics and the vehicle system just highlights that people don't understand the issues.

Mix that in with the amount of overpromising and overselling that Tesla is doing wrt the abilities of these systems people will be overconfident in them and end up getting complacent leading to accidents.

Tesla's approach to development, release and marketing is not a good way to build safety critical driving systems. Overhyping them to people who don't understand the nuance is my biggest concern.
I doubt Tesla has multiple (more like dozens of) major industry first sensor and AI breakthroughs, regardless of how closely OP follows them or not.
A discussion from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15962730
I think the pinnacle of human progress would be to recognize that while we are all different in the perceived value we create for the world, but also recognize we are all humans with all of the same needs. The value created by individuals should not be the measure by which we are forced to fulfill our basic needs. Everyone should get everything they need to survive regardless of how much value they create. Anything else is forcing those with low "value" to starve either directly or systematically.
Most likely the way he knows it doesn't use AI would be covered under the NDA that they signed.

Then they'd get sued for the potential revenue loss and damage to company image.

He might win, however corporations have much deeper pockets for lawyers than your average citizen.
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"Some ... speculate ... might have been..." I'd need a lot more convincing to say something as bold as "prepare for a hepatitis outbreak."
You called it a "wild conspiracy theory". You're using "conspiracy theory" as a thought terminating cliche, which is intellectual dishonesty.

> "absolutely nothing to back [..] up [the theory]"

More intellectual dishonesty. The Saudis had the means, the motive, the opportunity and the disposition, as demonstrated by their murderous tendencies. The House of Saud are a family of thugs who are known to conspire to murder journalists. It's entirely rational to consider the strong probability that they've also conspired to blackmail people.
You can't have unattended visitors. If you're there to let them in, they can visit as often as you like.

Basically, turning this from an apartment to more of a long term hotel. Is it a fair trade for a rent subsidy? Will it become standard in all rentals?