skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a standard case of people applying the Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics[0]. That is: you've somehow associated yourself with a problem, so now you get to be blamed for it. Heaven forbid you tried to make money solving it - now you're a monster.

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[0] - https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...
Deconstructing Serverless Computing Part 1: A new layer of abstraction
Thanks for your extensive reply!

It's really cool how much work you do to smooth over the insane legalisms invented by politician lawyers. Do you know whether Stripe is planning to one day do the same with the EU VAT mess? Right now I can't use Stripe's autogenerated receipts, and I can't Stripe Checkout, merely because both lack VAT number field.
Great⸮ As a regular underground public transportation commuter (without a data connection, except at very specific stations), I might soon have to scroll through an entire page of lazy-loaded images to ensure the page will be accessible for consumption during my trip!

But it’s a good thing, textual content will be easier to consume.
it doesn't matter what you do, Apple controls and share your data.

My recommendation stay offline as much as you can.
Oh no, I'm not disparaging the effort. I'm disparaging the ignorance betrayed by the manner of the outrage.
What sort of symptoms are we talking here? There's rather a marked difference between "screaming loudly" and "bleeding" as an indicator of pain.
Where the hell is the source-code? Can't find it anywhere linked on the website..
BYD, the World’s Biggest Electric Car Maker
it doesn't matter what you do, Apple harvest and share your data..

My recommendation stay offline as much as you can.
This reminds me of the Japanese railway employees pointing at things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LmdUz3rOQU
What? It's already possible for the "computer literate" to sideload apps on Android. That's literally what this whole thread is about?
I know this isn't the most appropriate place to ask, but what are the main feature gaps between commercial computer algebra systems like Mathematica/Maple and systems like Axiom/Sympy?
I don't see how this not a flip phone with a screen on both ends?
good point. I lose sight of that.
What makes you say so? Can you give examples?
I believe it's not true for UWP Windows Store apps?
I quite often discuss AI with non technical fellows that just heard about it in the media, and I generally try to convince them that the 'AI' term is indeed conveying the wrong message.

I stress that we are currently dealing with highly sophisticated automated mechanisms, that are carefully designed to effectively carry super specific tasks.

The myth of skynet or HAL is still quite present, and I think most people fail to realize that many of the advancements in machine learning applications are quite not related to these.
Can someone use a throwaway e-mail address to sign up for Facebook?

Once the e-mail address is validated, is there any further need for a valid e-mail address to continue using FB?

Historical fact: Going back to the days when a university address was required, if the user created her Facebook account while at university and her e-mail address later expired when she graduated, FB did not disable the account.

Unless one wants to get notifications and other FB crud via email, AFAIK there is no need for a working e-mail address to use FB.
I cured mine with 10vol.% lavender oil + 10vol.% thyme oil in carrier oil (grapeseed oil). I couldn't be bothered by going to a doctor and it worked fine. Essential oils are non-selectively toxic so do be careful.
Interviewing has been solved a long time ago with the invention of FizzBuzz. If they can solve it, hire them. If they can't don't. If you're worried its too easy then turn up the difficulty and ask them write an implementation of fizzbuzz that makes use of specific features of a language or framework. If you are BigCo and need to crank the difficulty up really high you can ask the candidate to implement a solution to calculate which number contributes the most the letter z appearing in the output of fizzbuzz between the numbers 5 trillion and 143 trillion, preferably involving a Hadoop cluster.

If you're a SaaS company and you're hiring a sales person, instead of the typical "sell me this pen" you can even replace it with "sell me FizzBuzz".

I'm telling you, it's bullet proof.
> Google did not hire me because I'm a Black Man.

Can you elaborate on how you got to that conclusion? We don't have insights on how the interview went (not from your, nor the interviewers' perspective), so it's hard to get a picture of what happened.
Around the lab I work at we do a similar thing, always some variation on dolphins. Dolphin background, messaging a dolphin on slack, etc.

It's recently escalated to sudolphin-ing (think a sudo alias involving cowsay and you're on the right track).
Weirdly, my sleep is way better with kids than without. I was always staying up too late (grad school), but now it's impossible -- I have to be in bed by 12. Their sleep schedule regulates mine. YMMV
The holocaust was in many ways enabled by mass surveillance. How about we start there. It was done mostly manually, but even something as trivial as census data from an occupied country likely killed an unimaginable amount of people. Then of course you had the eastern block where the authorities would've been wetting their pants at the surveillance capability of a modern private individual, let alone a corp or government. These are not theoretical questions, we've played this game before and now we have really big toys.
In short: yes.

Longer form:

Algorithms 'discriminate' (as in differentiate) because that is exactly the job they are tasked with. Is this a picture of a person on list A or not? Is this a picture of criminal activity X? They discriminate on a large number of, often hidden, unknown or not understood features in the data.

In many countries the laws dictate that some features such as race, religion, sexual orientation, ... are protected, as in not legally allowed to be used in differentiation. (Take note that in many countries certain national security/safety related organizations are exempt from certain regulations).

The models that are used in facial recognition rely (in part) on 'sub-symbolic' probabilistic feedback systems, that in many cases defy post rationalization: we do not have a convincing or specific 'story' about how 'the machine' decides in each cases. This means we can not deductively prove that the above mentioned 'illegal' forms of discrimination were not used (note that it is not sufficient to show that e.g. 'race' or 'gender' was not explicitly used as a feature in the input, as it could be strongly correlated with other inputs or derivations thereof (e.g. type of shampoo bought, zip-code, food preference, ...)

So we rely on things like testing post training deployed model to 'vet' the systems aren't biased in the ways we by law and regulation have deemed that they should not be. We test whether the output distribution shifts when we only feed in males vs a mixed gender test set etc.

In practice this means that in compliance testing we replace deductive reasoning with correlation. We accept that this will yield false positives, but this choice is partly due to technical limitations (apart from a few well published cases, understanding and explaining how e.g. a deep learning derived model actually 'works' in a rational synoptic way is still beyond us), and part due to ideological stances we have come to.

So, yes, we choose to accept false positives that are presented as evenly distributed across specific protected groups or features, while not 'making a fuzz' over others. These are inherently cultural, political, moral and empathic decisions, not 'logical' ones.
Talking about dismissive phrases, you mention hundreds of witnesses. Yet for a son of one and truly god, sorry God, to walk among common folks, not a single roman historian bothered to make even a fleeing mention in their records. The first one happen almost 100 years afterwards [1].

As we all know, many people are effin' properly weird. They make up stories, believe utter nonsense only because its convenient. But we're led to accept without any question records passed verbally for hundred(s) of years of magical supernatural acts. In fact, whole bible is full of them, somehow universe 2000-3000 years ago was much more magical place where simple laws of physics didn't work if you had the right god on your side.

Here we come full circle to the fact that most sane christians today don't have answer to this simple logical fallacy (and others). They will tell you that you can't take these things literally, just take the moral values etc. So we end up with some bastardized religion, call it a sect, which picks from Bible what they like, and conveniently ignore the rest.

With this logic we can turn to old greek/persian/hindu/pagan/etc myths which contain tons of moral lessons too. And being a good moral person doesn't need any fear-of-god pressure, most of us have this thing called moral compass. Those who don't have it can't be saved/turned good by any faith anyway.

Maybe some older folks from bible belt or some 3rd world country can be still fed this utter nonsense, but anybody with critical thinking has hard time with these topics. You can't be a good citizen and be critical to your government and overall bullshit around us, and in the same time turn this part of your personality off with faith.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus
This one actually made me laugh. Talk about going the extra mile with their efforts.
Install LineageOS? WhatsApp doesn't have access to my contacts.
I’ve just been reading an interesting book that touches on this, it seems we have a set point that we naturally head back to. It can be reset but it isn’t easy.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29243729-the-hungry-brai...
I was making an absurdist joke. I double-checked the style guidelines and you are allowed to make absurdist jokes.
You can have a screen that is twice the size of a non-foldable screen... (given a rest size constraint like fitting in your pocket).
Protip: cheap ultrasonic jewelry cleaner.

You wouldn't believe some of the gunk i've gotten out of pens that sat in a drawer for 20 years....
Personality transfer by transfer of parts of the body other than the brain, even if it was clear from h evidence, isn't scientific affirmation of the soul, it's scientific reinforcement that the “self” is contained in the body not some separate soul. It contradicts the understanding that the seat of the self in the body is solely and exclusively the brain, but that doesn't support the idea of the soul.
Maybe you can go a little more direct:

Don’t buy a 5G smartphone—at least, not for a while

We dive into the many ways first-gen 5G hardware will (temporarily?) ruin phone design.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/dont-buy-a-5g-smartp...
They get pants with deep enough pockets or have them enlarged by a tailor.
It's terrible advice to five year olds though. Most people are decent, nothing bad will come of talking to strangers in the overwhelming majority of cases (particularly if it's someone you approach rather than someone who approaches you). Whereas we've had children e.g. come close to dying of exposure because they'd been taught not to talk to strangers.
State of Software Development 2019
Former student destroys 59 university computers using USB Killer device
> Isn't not being controlled by the whim of a single corporation/government everyone's thing?

That's a very exaggerated and polarised way to look at the question of decentralised social media.

> I argue that inability to destroy abhorrent stuff is likewise not universally viewed as the ultimate evil, though.

Clearly, you're here making the argument.
> It's only gimmicky as phablets that many had denounced years ago.

I still want a compact flagship phone.
I absolutely think you made the right decision!

I look up to you because you are not just another random math professor producing papers that no one ever reads. Instead you take a risk and try to succeed at what you are most passionate about. In my opinion this is both more noble and more exciting than being a pure math professor. I sincerely hope CoCalc works out well for you, good luck!
Fantastic Faults and What to Call Them
Monty Python's Life of Brian – 40 Years
Sony and Samsung tried a few years ago. It seems no one bought them.
Just use a throwaway email account AND keep it? At some point they might decide to lock you out if you log in from a different place, I think it's better if you keep the email account safe.
It's a position that will attract knee-jerk downvotes on HN, I can understand wanting to use a throwaway for it.
Definitely not unique to Donki though. Loft do it too (FWIW I love their theme song, it's ridiculously catchy).
Facebook says it uploaded email contacts of up to 1.5M users
The interview process changed once they saw me on the video camera! As a black ninja! with all the certs required for the role and over 8+ year of experience, I doubt me not getting the position had anything to do with being able to do the job.
Nice!

> I think better lighting would help.

That also demonstrates the difference between having the possibility to optimize input until the output matches the known values and having to process "real life" images made under different conditions.

The later is certainly more interesting: e.g. I dream of having an OCR that is "always right" no matter how bad the image is.
Friday Filosofical Finking: Import Protections
Ah yes indeed, I thought that hyperopt was actually the name for the TPE algorithm. TPE should outperform random search in all cases, right?
Very funny :)

I guess it'd be the same reason why you created this account 57 minutes ago to ask about it ;)

Which is (I guess) that many here aren't anonymous, so they create throwaways whenever they post.
Vertus were always intended as ostentatious, bling products, rather than fantastic phones. They were mid-range models covered in gold and diamonds etc.

A Ferrari is meant to be ostentatious _and_ a great car (not withstanding pratcicality or cost).
>They don't care about their data privacy. I've heard this claim many times, but the people saying it often change their minds when they read more news stories.

"People don't care about a problem initially, then when it becomes graver they start to care"

So normal, expected behaviour?
What do you propose for hospitals who can afford only crowded wards and shared toilets?
> I don't know how people who buy the oversized phones don't hurt themselves.

Belt clips. Cargo pockets. Purses. Bras. Sufficiently deep front pants pockets. Jacket pockets. Etc.
Angular 7 Models
Why is there a need for changing software? What are all the FB devs doing all day really except ads tuning.

I want a feed of freinds writing everyday bullshit and that just got worse by time untill I no longer use Facebook. It's like chat apps like MSN Messenger that stayed the same for years with no problems what so ever.
University of Minnesota Student Sues JD.com's CEO Richard Liu for Alleged Rape
No, the "problem" is that it's not even an issue. If the average person wanted to avoid being recorded in public, then we would find ways to. But there's no point "spreading awareness" if you don't have a convincing explanation for what exactly the actual problem is.
Innovative Investments for the Future
I think it's simple science, no multi-layer material can withstand that stress, but the current technological optimism made too many people believe nothing human can't do. Like this one trader dude I tried to reason with, he was basically "I've got money."
A flip phone with a screen on both ends doesn't open up to one continuous touchscreen.
Heliotrope: A Lisp Written in Clojure
Not enough qualifiers for you? Putting souls in quotation marks and adding or something we might describe with that word wasn't adequate?
The Origins of Anti-Litter Campaigns
That's the cost of being the first and trying to be a pioneer.

At least they don't explode...
Right, but it _is_ removable. Easily. Removing it does cause damage sure, but then shouldn't it be very difficult to remove?
Unpopular opinion here:

I followed the outrage about Datacamp loosely on Twitter. At first I thought it was about an actual assault, but so far afaik the only thing publicly known is "uninvited contact", on a dancefloor and the victim reported that several months later.

Sexual assualt or abuse is a crime and should be punished and prosecuted. However, if we treat every situation where two people interact physically and have a different understanding of their relationship as sexual assault, there won't be any sexuality without a written consent form in the future anymore and real victims get marginalized at the same time. I don't know if that is really what we should be aiming for.

I don't see Datacamps reaction as inappropriate in this case,at least if there is nothing more to the story behind the curtain. Humans do errors and in most cases everybody should get a second chance.
One moment of misjudgment can be enough today to get fired, you name gets burned forever in the Internet and your life can get turned upside down. And I don't know if that helps the victim in any way.

Probably I will be downvoted for that, but I want to make clear again that I don't tolerate this behaviour in any way and I think the industry needs to be more inclusive and diverse. I just think that you have to differentiate and that public shaming is not on all cases a good solution.
Some stuff that comes into mind:

* COLMAP and Meshroom are able to create a mesh from the pointcloud whereas VisualSFM is not. If you wish to create a mesh out of VisualSFM end result, you could use OpenMVS[1]

* COLMAP does not create a texture file for the resulting mesh - instead it uses vertex color for "texturing"

* COLMAP and Meshroom licenses permit commercial usage - VisualSFM does not (you need to license it)

From these three I've found that COLMAP works the best and VisualSFM comes second. Meshroom has a nice feature that allows you to add images into your model incrementally (I think without complete recompute) but it didn't work that well yet.

What comes to open source photogrammetry in general, my opinion is that COLMAP + OpenMVS or OpenMVG[2] + OpenMVS are the tools to go albeit the command line interface with huge amount of possible options can be a bit tricky at first.

1. https://github.com/cdcseacave/openMVS

2. https://github.com/openMVG/openMVG
>Their places data, reviews, photos, navigation, and street view are all adding a massive amount of value.

This is where OSM should move.
There was a big warning label on the screen, but reviewers didn't read it. Or, as I am starting to suspect, read it but wanted to break the screen to get retweets.

https://twitter.com/iloveqatar/status/1118621965596745728
"We can do better. Our freedom from unlawful public surveillance is worth fighting for."

Is it though? the talk about privacy often ignores what lack of privacy could potentially mean. A fully covered surveillance state with proper AI and fast respondent police can get rid of entire types of crimes entirely. Burglary, Rubbery, Kidnapping, stranger rape, many types of violent outside crimes.

There is obviously a problem with abuse of power and trust, but that exists with all types of government action, more so with enforcement, would you not give up your privacy so that you don't need to lock your door anymore? letting your kid go play without chaperones?

Not to mention such arguments as the immense convenience of everything being connected and knowing who you are.
Collapsing Towers of Interpreters (In Scheme)
Staying on topic: trigger your OpenFaaS functions with Apache Kafka
This really seems like a big deal IMO.
Decades of shady practices and cutthroat anti-competitive business decisions.

Microsoft is going to have to behave itself for an equal or greater period of time before I risk thinking it has changed for the better.
Why? Status symbol certainly - with hugely expensive iPhones rather common even amongst oiks, how can you show off how much disposable income you have at dinner parties and on the tube?

Me, I'll stick to a functional and somewhat disposable, £150 phones. Who needs more than a 5 1/2 inch screen and an octocore processor?
>This is not a very convincing argument

I wasn't making an argument, I was redressing the logical fallacy of the parent comment.

>the public will say that they will trust their own judgement

The public trusted it's own judgement before, during, and after the civil rights movement and that didn't really work-out too well in the public's favour, did it?

>...and that they are simply not susceptible to lies by politicians...

(Since this is an American board.) Do they believe that they weren't susceptible to the lies about the Iran-Contra Affair, Watergate, McCarthyism, surveillence by the government, MK Ultra, etc., either?

>...especially if they don't match with what is said in mainstream media.

See: the Leave Bus in the Brexit Referendum.

Clearly, billions of pounds are not going to the NHS, now, correct? Just because you see it and it's spread across social media, it doesn't mean it is implicitly true. All of your points were met for this example; yet, it was resultantly found to be a total fabrication. How would they account for that? Instead, will your argument now amended to be "some of it doesn't match it with social media"...?
Are you trolling?

Windows 10 and its heavy use of dark patterns for excessive data collection is reason enough for me to loathe the company.

Plus those decades of ruthless antitrust/monopoly abuse by MS under Bill Gates has left its mark on the culture.

They are going to need to behave quite spectacularly for at least 20 more years before I even consider viewing them as a customer friendly company with a social conscience.
Couldn't the victim simply call the police or notify the prosecutor (or whatever is the proper procedure to report a crime)? If DataCamp executive committed a crime, then this will be investigated and a person will be punished according to the rules of law.

Why the victim and other people who were witnessing what happened count on executives's partners and colleagues to "take proper action". In the civilized society courts should be engaged in such situation, we don't need to relay on some ad hoc, possibly bias committees to punish people. If this executive did something wrong, let him rot in prison or whatever is the proper punishment.
Some of it, yes :)

I have ~$30K in gold and silver, in plastic boxes hidden under my bed. But you'd need to remove floorboards to access it. I bought for cash at swap meets, years ago.
This is definitely not a "gimmick as 3D cameras". I can't wait to replace my phone, tablet and laptop with a single device and a Bluetooth keyboard for whenever I need one. A lot of people I know feel the same and honestly I think people who don't see the potential are being shortsighted.
Oral History of Steve Naroff Part 2 [video]
Unrelated: Haven't used compiler explorer in a while and just got the "new privacy policy" overlay.

What a delightfully clear, complete, and readable privacy policy.
It's never that simple unless you're buying something as simple as potatoes or a hammer.

With an iPhone I may find myself aligned on 5 points, and not aligned on 4, so perhaps I buy as being the least worst available. The iPhone, or other brand, with all 9 things I care about may never have been sold, even though technically and commercially feasible.

In the case of phones, no maker seems to care a jot about right to repair any more. So it's not deciding I'm OK being screwed over that way, but a choice of screwed that way or no phone.
I agree, we should be spending money with companies that have aligned their interests with ours, and refraining from spending money with companies that haven't aligned with our interests.

However, there's a problem with free services. Internet was largely free in the past and now it's still largely free - but now users are the product themselves. Interests are no longer aligned.