skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congratulations Katie! It's beautiful to see something that I hoped would be real, especially after seeing Interstellar's gorgeous rendition. And may you inspire hundreds of thousands of girls to enter the fields of science and technology.
I've got a brand.

Chair and desk. Clean. Good connection. Preferrably nice view with moderate sunshine. Furnished by someone with a good eye. Some lounge space where you can chill.
Perhaps bitcoin will follow this pattern. (Or well, Blockchain finance more generally).
Well, I like the percentages and the direction that the graph is heading.
I've started studying ML (as someone who's hoping to transition at 47 to a different career from teaching and music), and some concepts I've found easy to get, others not so much (I'm old, so give me a break!). Often I need to have a concept explained in a different manner before I'll have a 'Oh, I see!' moment, and because I don't have a great grasp on the maths needed (which I'm working on, but it's s-l-o-w), as soon as equations I can't get appear, I tend to lose focus and think I can't do it.

This post covers things that I've seen in the past, and seems to sum up my internal understanding of the concept, which is good for me as reading through it I had a number of 'see, I do get it' moments. The only criticism I have of it is that it seems to gloss over what differences the trees within the random forest have - as I understand it, they are all slightly different, and this gives them greater accuracy?

Anyway, thanks for posting it - I'll read the other posts when I get a chance.
Yeah. I can't find anyway to save the text either. Looks like the app is targeted towards deaf/mute people when looking at accessibility features it includes (e.g. phonecall texting).

It would be cool if they added a way to save text (and audio) though.
Mozilla Policy Requirements for DNS over HTTPS Partners
This assumes that investors look only at programme costs and perceive absolutely no possible upside to a self driving car programme when evaluating the long term value of a company. Which seems pretty unlikely...
Zircon Fair Scheduler
Anonymity Trilemma: Anonymity, Low Bandwidth Overhead, Low Latency – Choose Two
The 6 most important announcements from Google Cloud Next 2019
Why would that be? Stackoverflow is pretty broad forum and have BSD questions and answers as well. In opinion it's that BSD is very rarely used by people. Linux is doing majority of work better than BSD so it's required only by very small part of the market.
Well, you don't know that do you? Or do you have insight into why people are ignoring your recruiting messages? Could be very well about compensation but could be other reasons, too.
Hackers Ninja Cat
Can you change the font color to have better contrast? It is difficult to read in Firefox.

In the 10th question, I don't understand what do you mean acquisition activity. Can you rephrase that?
We see articles about 'the man behind' stuff all the time. Just go to Google News and search for 'the man behind', you'll see pages and pages of them just for the last few weeks. In fact, check out articles with 'the man behind' in the title on HN[0]. It's a common shorthand which I think most of us recognise as not necessarily disrespectful to a team they might have lead.

[0]https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%27the%20man%20behind%27&sort=...

But uh oh, now there's a woman behind something all of a sudden it's a huge problem and the thread is packed with complaints about it. I wonder why that is?
No I am not, in order to create the image they observed the black hole for years, which is coming from the work of the people I linked to in my source, 200 people from 40 countries and all the other astronomers, being the team who just produced the image from the data is relatively smaller effort comparing to the overall work of all the people involved for years. I am not blaming her, I didn't say she's the one pushing this thing, I am blaming this BBC article. She never said "I am the one".

Yes she was in charge of the team responsible of producing the image from the data, it doesn't mean in anyway that she's "behind the first image of the black hole". Everybody involved is behind the image.

This is not about celebrating those people, it's giving the main chunk of the credit to this person alone. I have no idea why is it such a hard thing to understand or why is this even an issue. Claiming that this person is the only "crucial" person involved is a straightforward lie. If that's how the media has been doing it for 30 years, then the media needs to change and fix their lies.
Congratulations. You didn't even bother to read one sentence beyond the headline.

"A 29-year-old computer scientist has earned plaudits worldwide for helping develop the algorithm"

Or even a few sentences in:

"There, she led the project, assisted by a team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory .."

But hey who needs to read articles when you can jump to conclusions and surface your clear biases.
Can you point to some of those threads (men getting credit)?
Did you enable 2FA from https://admin.google.com/ for your account ?

Dashboard -> select Security -> Basic Settings -> Two-Step Verification setting
What's the purpose of that? You can still reset it
I understood this statement (“whoops, probably on a list now”) to mean that the government is always listening for key words, and using one would assign someone to listen to every word.
The comment was not meant to be taken all that seriously, of course, but an OS is more than just the kernel, and I do tend to disapprove of brushing a crash under the carpet.

System runs out of memory, various processes get terminated, and the easiest way to get it back into a good state is a restart: not that worrying, but do you have a memory leak? Some process segfaults with 54584554454d4f53 in the PC: should be investigated, not glossed over.
And they pollute much more and take more space.
I think those comments try to react to the fact that this news got overblown because the researcher is a very talented woman.

She definitely did something amazing and unfortunately it turned political because it fits the narrative that some people love to push currently.

I'm not a fan of the liberal agenda of positive//negative discrimination. I really believe that it is making everyone worse off, especially women that are being treated like little kids that need to be shown the correct path.
she could have written 0 lines and be "the woman behind the picture".

Writing code is easy, figuring out complex algorithms is something very different, and does not require coding knowledge
disclaimer, own a TM3 with full autopilot and purchased full self driving.

I have never believed they will deliver much more than level 3. I did buy the FSD package recently when it was discounted mostly for resale value; it was 2k; and not faith in the technology.

Too many companies want to label it a safety feature yet for the most part it doesn't operate like most safety features. almost all demos we see are fair weather events on simple roads or in some cases systems which can operate on specific roads. so I think they focus too much of the navigation part.

I am more interested in full self driving technology if it leads to more passive safety features like the forward emergency braking. as in an always on system which watches "over your back". that to me is the real value of all this research.

(personal usage stuff is below)

now don't get me wrong, Tesla's system is amazing for what it does do. It certainly isn't full self driving but it offers many of the features people could use to augment their driving. I used it for the majority of a six hundred mile drive both directions. It was useful in rush hour traffic, the stop and go variety, as well as the long haul.

two reasons I found it valuable. first being on long drives I engage it but still maintain the presence of mind to take over when I need to. In this mode I am using it to handle situations when I am distracted. The old issue of looking in your rear view mirror and seeing a bridge you went under but don't remember. I also used it on a typical mid Western two lane road at night in the pouring rain. It helped alleviate fears caused by the constant issue of people with poorly aimed lights or not dimming high beams. The car never lost track of the lanes whereas a few times I was having to hard focus on the white line to avoid being blinded by one of those hibeam drivers.
I like how you manage to turn this around so skillfully.

The US sucks because you never see the actual price of something you buy: you just notice it at the counter. When you ask why they don't just label the product with the final price, they say: we can't, it's too complicated. I doubt that.
There is SERIOUS money to be made in the beauty market. I do not succumb, but the majority of my girlfriends purchase a large variety of face products at the cost of hundreds per year. Many of the products are unscientific (and fortunately don't do any harm) but abound with rejuvenation property claims. A product that might actually work? Wow.
I read weekly-magazines mostly and listen to podcasts. Locally, mostly Respekt, a czech magazine, often cooperating with the Economist. It is decent. I like it.
Julian Assange arrested in London
"Elon Musk single handedly saves the world with electric cars and revolutionises spaces travel"

The media have highlighted the lead, she credits the team, and the article outlines the numbers who worked on it.
It is very poor practice to use CNAME for things like this. In the example above, mat-sts.his-domain will inherit any records of his-domain: A, AAAA, MX, and what not.

Don't use CNAME for this.
Of course not. She can be a great role model irrespective of gender. Bringing gender into the picture and promoting it as such, transfers group affiliations on divisive lines. Her achievement and work can be inspiring to all children, that should be the ideal political stance and message ethos
This could be hacked and burn you.
Nobody is aiming to treat women like little kids.

We just want to show that you if you accomplish something in tech you aren't going to be diminished or dismissed simply because you're a woman.
> Stories like this help bring more women into STEM fields

How do you know?
Julian Assange has been arrested by MPS
Search for Elon Musk.
All security of everything on the internet relies on DNS.

If the problem is that DNS isn’t secure, nothing is, and DNS should be fixed first instead of fucking up every other internet protocol instead with crappy bandaids. That’s just obvious engineering.

The people behind this spec are obviously incompetent or have ulterior motives.
> There have been countless threads over the years where a man gets the credit for something a team has worked on and there is practically never any comments about this. For once a woman gets credit

This is whataboutism at its best. The fact is that teams are all too often denied appropriate credit in the popular press for group projects, something which surely impacts many women working in science and STEM more generally. There's no reason why we should be expected to be happy about it this time around, merely because the one person who is getting all the attention happens to be female. I mean, you just need to look at that title: the computer scientist behind the picture? Isn't that ridiculous on its face?
Autonomous service vehicles for mining industries and ports are being developed by the big truck manufacturers and are far more likely to succeed in the near term (less for the AI to handle, private land so fewer regulatory hurdles), but they just don't get as much hype (positive and negative) as the idea of revolutionising our commute.
From Bare-Metal to Kubernetes
> Ecuadorian embassy withdrew his asylum and UK police were invited in to arrest him.

According to a journalist at Sky news https://twitter.com/NewsTMac/status/1116274082922803200
Isn’t it crazy how worked up people get about Alexa, etc., conviently forgetting about the always on microphone they’re carrying around with them every day.
This article is full of mentions about the fact that there was a team behind the work. Please stop being so obviously ridiculous.

There, she led the project, assisted by a team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the MIT Haystack Observatory.

But Dr Bouman, now an assistant professor of computing and mathematical sciences at the California Institute of Technology, insisted the team that helped her deserves equal credit.

The effort to capture the image, using telescopes in locations ranging from Antarctica to Chile, involved a team of more than 200 scientists.

"No one of us could've done it alone," she told CNN. "It came together because of lots of different people from many different backgrounds."
Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange arrested
True, but that need not be of high importance when assigning credit. Especially in projects that involve a lot of implementation, the high level algorithms and techniques are developed by someone who might be far removed from actually writing code, and that aspect is outsourced to someone much more competent at programming. A lot of PhD students / professors do not have the talent or have not developed the thought process to write complex code, simply because their focus has been on other things.
> Realistically though don’t a lot of stores have cameras and mics lawfully recording for security purposes? Are they all legally obligated to post warnings?

Yes, at least here in the UK.
> What problem do you think a licensing tag would solve?

Crawlers could, with more granularity, decide what they may embed and how.

> Why does the content need credit at the search engine level?

It's not just about search engines though.

> The recommendation I follow is to use robots.txt to disable crawling of specific pages or paths.

Thay way you're just locking bots out. It's a completely different thing. This is not about protection; it's about communication.

> If I really want information protected I either (a) put it behind authentication or (b) don't put it on a public website.

If you want to avoid people stealing things they shouldn't, yeah, that's your only option. If all you want is to communicate whether or not they may take your content, you don't really have any tools to do so. Again: Communication; not protection.

> If the reader cares, the reader will navigate to the page and determine the author.

No. That's not how it works. You can't expect users to click through several links to find the author of a resource. Unless you link directly to the resource on the authors site, the author should in many cases be credited directly next to where the resource is embedded.
Since when was software development about who wrote the most code or did the most commits.

Do people like Linus deserve less credit now that he isn't the leader on the commit scoreboard ?
Exploration vs. Exploitation (In Multi-Armed Bandit Setting)
> URGENT: Ecuador has illegally terminated Assange political asylum in violation of international law. He was arrested by the British police inside the Ecuadorian embassy minutes ago.

Source: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1116273826621480960

Holy moly, this will be interesting!

EDIT:

If you're interested, here's a video of him being escorted out of the embassy --

https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1116281098747568128

EDIT2:

Comments from Snowden advising journalists to cover the story with authentic facts:

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1116285397284290560
Japanese F-35A Has Gone Missing over the Pacific Ocean
The keywords are "push" - as in, applying cultural pressure - and "require" - as in, "[work in academia] will pretty much require them to put off kids until their late 30s, if ever".

Presenting choices and opening avenues is a laudable thing. Pushing, via cultural means, is the opposite. Especially when certain inconvenient details are consistently glossed over.
If a non-programmer critisised some part of Blender or some other large scale open source software project it would be weird to call them hypocritical for not just enacting the change themselves wouldnt it?
Seems strange to pretend that there is no barrier to entry to contributing a page to an encyclopedia.
Hard to imagine how that would have ended any other way really. No benefit for the Ecuadorians in man-handling him, he wasn’t going to leave of his own accord, and the Brits (proooobably) weren’t going to storm the place.

Pity whomever has to fumigate the room.
I've gotten pretty far with Mithril and polyfills (mainly for JSON support) targetting IE7.

If you're worried about backwards compatibility, then jQuery is the right tool; however, if less than 2% of your users are using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer, I would spend more time flashing a message instructing these users to upgrade.
And nobody is saying that it was done by one person.

It specifically lists the teams in the article.
>The worst of the lies about nuclear is that it can somehow help create a carbon-neutral economy.

Of course it wouldn't

nope
>I do not see why you want to push women to a field that pays starvation wages, has worse work/life balance than programming and will pretty much require them to put off kids until their late 30s, if ever.

Do you notice I put starvation wages first? Probably not, it would require reading what you're replying to. You're welcome to play again of course.

Might I direct you to [0] where in I compare male CEOs to chimps and come to the startling conclusion that not only are chimps better but the lack of cocaine habit makes them more cost effective too?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19620218
I ran all links below with Google Chrome Tools enabled, no cache. Switched to mobile view to make sure that AMP pages are loaded. Cache disabled to see the actual weight of the page.

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USA Today AMP page: 45 requests. 755 KB transferred. 1.6 MB resource

USA Today EU Experience: 10 requests. 209 KB transferred. 251 KB resources.

AMP version is significantly worse for essentially the same content (AMP version and EU version are nearly identical)

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VOX AMP: 37 requests. 575 KB transferred. 1.4 MB resources.

VOX AMP not served from Google [1]: 22 requests. 403 KB transferred. 935 KB resources.

VOX non-AMP [2]: 19 requests. 627 KB transferred. 1.3 MB resources

So, AMP is worse when served from Google. And on par with non-AMP version

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The New Yorker AMP: 129 requests (and they keep coming). 796 KB transferred. 1.9 MB resources

The New Yorker AMP not served from Google [3]: 70 requests (and they keep coming). 745 KB transferred. 1.5 MB resources

The New Yorker non-AMP page[4]: 245 requests (and they keep coming). 8.2 MB transferred. 13 MB resources.

So. The only example where the AMP page is significantly better than the non-AMP pages.

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But the page weight is already accounted for in Google Search algorithms, and The New Yorker page should have been deprioritised from search. It's not, it's in the carousel, it will redirect to the 13MB version on desktop. Meanwhile, as Vox, and USA Today and many many many others show, the regular properly made website will not differ significantly from AMP versions.

[1] https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2019/4/...

[2] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/10/18305175/t...

[3] https://www.newyorker.com/news/current/william-barr-goes-ful...

[4] https://www.newyorker.com/news/current/william-barr-goes-ful...
Japanese F-35 crashed into Pacific, rest of fleet grounded
I assume it's because they can afford lawyers that actually requested the information be sealed until they're found guilty.
“illegally terminated”

That’s not how that works
Yes, the same way that people credit elon musk for tesla, or credit elon musk for spaceX. He didnt build those rockets himself either.

> This is not about celebrating those people, it's giving the main chunk of the credit to this person alone.

Because leading a large team of researches working on highly complicated work is respectfull work as well. Another team leader might have botched it and we wouldnt have the picture.
> The article after turning off CSS: https://snag.gy/RmXpxl.jpg

I found it amusing after you mention turning off Javascript, and then that link doesn't work without it.

The actual image is at https://i.snag.gy/RmXpxl.jpg
Given US state linked organizations like Atlantic Council, ThinkProgress, Propornot manned by ex US security services personnel are working with Facebook, Google and other social media websites to 'takedown' dissent on US involvement in Yemen, Syria, Venezuela, black activism against police brutality, general anti-war activism and socialism leaning content it seems the time to be concerned about censorship is passed.

Who can explain these SV 'relationships' with state actors? Anyone who cares about censorship should be extremely concerned about state actors flagging content. Snowden is still in Russia, Assange is virtual imprisoned and Manning is back in prison. Isn't it curious that these basic actions of whistle blowing and dissent are not able to operate freely in the west?

Is it simply as transparent as when other countries take down dissent or imprison activists its censorship and totalitarianism and when we do its 'fake news', 'Russian propaganda' or 'some reason'. It's incredible people can ignore everything and talk of free speech, censorship, and democracy as if none of the above is happening.
Fumigate? Does he smoke or something?
I have been modelling parts of our systems in TLA+ for years now and it really helps a lot working out complex scenarios.
Why not? The US does it all the time.
World Leaders on Facebook 2019 - Indian president is the most liked president
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-refoulement
>That has little to do with the decommissioning itself,

yes they cut the main source of green energy
I wonder if the WikiLeaks "Dead Man's Switch" will be triggered this time?

I know there were some news articles in the last couple of years of this being the case...
> Yes, there was a team, but that doesn't matter.
from her paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01413

> Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a technique for imaging celestial radio emissions by simultaneously observing a source from telescopes distributed across Earth. The challenges in reconstructing images from fine angular resolution VLBI data are immense. The data is extremely sparse and noisy, thus requiring statistical image models such as those designed in the computer vision community. In this paper we present a novel Bayesian approach for VLBI image reconstruction. While other methods often require careful tuning and parameter selection for different types of data, our method (CHIRP) produces good results under different settings such as low SNR or extended emission. The success of our method is demonstrated on realistic synthetic experiments as well as publicly available real data. We present this problem in a way that is accessible to members of the community, and provide a dataset website (vlbiimaging.csail.mit.edu) that facilitates controlled comparisons across algorithms.

What strikes me as really amazing is the cross functional nature of these modern achievements. I did not realize that this image was created with statistical image models and a Bayesian approach.

Also, this link included -> http://vlbiimaging.csail.mit.edu/ introduces the field and offers a good explanation for those interested in learning more:

> Imaging distant celestial sources with high resolving power requires telescopes with prohibitively large diameters due to the inverse relationship between angular resolution and telescope diameter. However, by simultaneously collecting data from an array of telescopes located around the Earth, it is possible to emulate samples from a single telescope with a diameter equal to the maximum distance between telescopes in the array. Using multiple telescopes in this manner is referred to as very long baseline interferometry (VLBI).