skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If all hair had that problem then we'd say the machine doesn't work.

They launched this new tech knowing a "certain type of hair" (specifically black women's) triggers the machine (and triggers degrading searches). I'm saying this machine shouldn't be launched if that's the consequences, I'm saying that it's discriminatory.
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Thats not what this means.
Why? Every word of it is true. Christians treated Jews with brutality and contempt for nearly 2000 years, and there's a longstanding tradition of minimizing or disparaging Muslim thought and accomplishments that is only very recently being changed.
That's what happens when faculty give up administrative decision making power to a professional bureaucrat class.
The nerves that feed the brain are severed, that might feel a lot like total pain. The parent's comment wasn't about manifesting pain through thought.
Seems to carry and foment a deeply anti-christian sentiment.
As the article was worded, it was not a system to predict whose face it was, but rather to predict, baseline, if a person were a criminal (as a descriptor, not a specific one)
Is it really that easy to get tenure all over again, after a failed project/startup?
I think so. Still better than being dead.

(If they're explicitly trying to cause me pain, that would be a no.)
Can Christianity Stop at Good Friday?
I bought a MacIvory from David Schmidt about a decade ago. He's a little hard to get ahold of and based near Washington DC: http://www.symbolics-dks.com/

My memory is fuzzy, but I seem to remember paying about $2k for the MacIvory.
I think this is a sad reminder that as a developer just because you add value, doesnt mean you will be able to capture it. There is a tragedy of commons at play for tools, most of us (including companies) are unwilling to pay good money for good tools.
I'm skeptical that when disasters strike that any private/civilian organization has the capacity to actually mount an effective relief operation. (Excess capacity is unprofitable and would be trimmed out before the disaster happened.) The military, on the other hand - by definition, in times of peace - has plenty of excess capacity to execute an effective relief operation.
This paper gives pretty interesting breakdown of how private companies are increasingly bad at paying for it.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/sites/public-p...

One quote from the paper: In the last ten years, Pizer has spent US$139 billion on share buybacks and dividends compared to US$82 billion on R&D.

Edit: It shouldn't require massive profit margins to make the drug industry work for a basic human need like healthcare. Other sectors for human basics like the grocery industry, run on margins of 1-5%.
LSTMs for Human Activity Recognition – Guillaume Chevalier's Blog
I think the working title of the film even was 1984½
Your sensory inputs remained connected at all times. That absence is unprecedented in its whole, but we do know that amputated members can hurt, and not just the stump.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_limb
Who is it racist against? Surely it's white people primarily who suffer as they're more likely to be caught by the facial recognition?

Following the simplest case, because lighter skin gives greater contrast is _not_ racism.

It's not 'unnecessary discrimination' either, as it arises out of the facts of how light works.

It's like saying that products with a weight limit that arises out of the materials used are "fattist".
If I'm reading the article right, he's only done work for UW for one out of the last 5 years. That seems to me to be an enormous amount of flexibility on their part.
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What would the growing tech dystopia be without recourse to some sort of 'zombie pig' threshold at the hardware level?
Employer sponsored health insurance is an outpost of neofeudalism. Swear your fealty to a lord or go without.
Tab will still foobar your history though, wouldn't it?
Imagine donating your body to science and then waking up in a lab as a brain in a vat.

"A Living Soul" by P. C. Jersild is amazing sci-fi book exploring this. https://www.amazon.com/Living-Norvik-Press-English-Swedish/d...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._C._Jersild
Bryan Caplan's book[1] has a chapter where he specifically aims to control for this, and to separately calculate the ROI of different levels of education for "Excellent", "Good", "Fair", and "Poor" students. The main result was that college is a good deal for Excellent/Good students, a terrible choice for Poor students, and only makes sense for Fair students in special cases (e.g. they got a scholarship, or plan to study engineering).

The bad ROI for Fair and Poor students is mostly driven by their lower probability of actually graduating and getting the degree.

I highly recommend the book if you're interested.

[1] https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11225.html
It's not clear to me that we shouldn't still have the same fear, perhaps slightly diminished.
I don't mean this to be snarky, but if what you are saying is true (Congress can't do anything), why do you think the governmental disfunction will not carry over to an expanded medicare-for-all program? Medicare is not without issue and is wrought with fraud that needs decisive congressional action to help fix, yet they have shown inability there as well.
A show on PBS.
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The Colossus is "Fireproof" according to the marketing website [1]. It appears to contain Lithium batteries, so how hot do you think it can get before it stops working?

1. https://www.shark-robotics.com/en/robot/colossus/
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Many, many schools would hire him with tenure if he decided to go back to academia. Or he could choose to go to industry and make plenty of money.

Plenty of lucrative and fulfilling options.
That's literally not true.

It looks like you were trying to make some deeper philosophical point, but you'll have to be clearer because your statement makes no sense.
For sure. I'm suggesting moral absolutism at a very high level, which some may disagree with. Still, I believe the parent commenter was making some leaps to "wild claims" and "outdated morals" that I never had in mind to bring into discussion.
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My organization recently considered buying more licenses for photoscan/metashape (https://www.agisoft.com/) but it was too expensive. I'm curious as to how it compares (I'm not a user myself so can't judge), and I couldn't find wether this can run on a distributed GPU cluster. If that's the case I would love to push for replacing photoscan by this.
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What really strikes me as absurd about the insistence on "Judeo-Christian" roots (apart from the obvious historical enmity between the two religions and the difference in basic values), is the complete obliteration of the Greek and Latin roots of the Western world.

Greeks invented western philosophy, the Romans invented western jurisprudence. Insisting on Judaic roots (which are certainly in part conveyed, and transformed, by Christianity) and disregarding the cultural importance of Greece and Rome seems preposterous.
All response experience exists within the brain, yes, but it is only ever made possible through external stimulus. The brain itself doesn't feel anything, but generates those feelings as a response to events outside of itself.

"If it seems strange that nerve signals coming from the back can represent vision, bear in mind that your own sense of vision is carried by nothing but millions of nerve signals that just happen to travel along different cables. Your brain is encased in absolute blackness in the vault of your skull. It doesn’t see anything. All it knows are these little signals and nothing else. And yet you perceive the world in shades of brightness and colors. Your brain is in the dark but your mind constructs the light." — David Eagleman in his book Incognito.

Without the nerves connecting your toe to your brain, you are unlikely to feel the otherwise agonizing pain of having had stubbed it against a coffee table.
> I confess to not usually using a checklist when I travel because most times are a bit different.

Don't you find that most trips have a ton of stuff in common though? Pajamas, contact case/solution, loofah, spare phone battery, ear plugs, phone charger & battery charger, reusable water bottle, etc. always go with me on every trip.

IMO the stuff that always goes is the stuff that I tend to forget, exactly because there's nothing unique about this trip that would make me remember it. If I'm going to the beach I know I need my swimsuit and beach shirts because I can walk through my activities and think about what I need for each one. But I'm likely to forget pajamas because I'm not thinking about "go to bed every night" as an activity to plan for.
Speaking of revisionist history, the gothic style was influenced by Muslims from Andalusia
Facebook designs its dark patterns to have the subtlety of a sledgehammer to the face.

On some level it's actually a minor blessing because they're all so grating and obvious. If they had any sense of tact they'd probably do a better of job of lulling people into indifference about them the way Amazon and Google do.
I doubt your data. Just one counter example, in Orange County CA, Katie Porter, a democrat, won a competitive seat in a district that has been Republican for a long time (maybe 30+ years?).
I'm not entirely sold on keybase.

Why would I want my online presence 100% identifiable and traceable back to me?

What is the appeal of this service exactly?
A bit more on this... there are a LOT of secondary bots out there, either searching for security holes to exploit or otherwise slurping content for reasons other than search.

JS based analytics (google or otherwise) is generally a better option for detecting actual usage. Yeah, you lose maybe 2% of actual users. You also lose 99% of the various bots. You still have to filter google's and bing's bots that execute JS though.
Is the implication that pigs don’t experience pain, or that we shouldn’t care?
> I built an app that's used on thousands of Android devices in an industrial setting

If its that important to you or if its a commercial offering in an 'industrial setting', you should have no problems acquiring a cheap SSL certificate from another source. You can literally get them as low as $6 a year right now.

LE provides a great service and continues to do so. If you want to nitpick, then jump to a 'competitor'.
Isn't it pretty cost-effective and efficient to keep you on the phone for three hours in the hopes that you just give up and don't undergo a medical procedure?
I lived in Scotland for a decade or so. On the surface, the provision of healthcare seemed good, and the media constantly tells you it is, but it tended to fall apart once you needed it for anything serious.

I heard of the experiences from countless others and, sadly, encountered it myself. As the patient, even though you are paying for the service through high taxes, you are not seen as the customer. This leads to a certain sense, when you do need a medical service, that they are doing you a favor, that you are somehow the recipient of charity and should be grateful for what you get.

Decisions about what medicines or treatments are available are often political, with certain high-profile conditions sucking up scarce resources at the expense of others. The focus is very much on managing public opinion.

There are many situations in which cost considerations have a horrific impact on lives. For instance, if there is a medicine which can prevent you losing your sight, but it is expensive, you will be offered it only for your second eye after you have lost sight in your first - the reasoning being that it is only worth spending that much money to prevent total blindness, but sight in one eye is enough.

If you think that your high taxes mean that your healthcare needs are covered, think again.

There is also a deep-rooted coverup culture that circles the wagons around bad doctors and poor processes. In my case, a ridiculous misdiagnosis had a real impact on my life for over a year. The other healthcare professional only came clean about it after the lead doctor had retired.

Again, you are not seen as the customer, as the one paying all their wages, so, you should just shut up and be grateful for what you get.

I often laugh when I hear inexperienced American talk about how much better the health system is in the UK. Sure, health insurance is expensive, but the actual healthcare is leagues ahead of anything available via any sort of national health service. Being recognized as the customer, with real rights, is of pivotal importance in receiving the care you need, when you need it.

In fact, you often come across UK citizens with a rose-tinted view of the National Health Service, but such opinions tend to change rapidly once you actually need something more than an occasional General Practitioners appointment. The whole thing is a cruel joke.
Here is a Hidden Brain episode on it: https://www.npr.org/2017/10/30/559996276/the-trick-to-surviv...
>a specially designed liquid round the brain, which contained a synthetic blood to carry oxygen and drugs to slow or reverse the death of brain cells.

I had no idea humanity achieved synthetic blood. This is from the study:

>a haemoglobin-based, acellular, non-coagulative, echogenic, and cytoprotective perfusate that promotes recovery from anoxia

Am I the only one excited by what viable synthetic blood might mean for blood banks?

Study is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1099-1
If the AMP version takes longer to load than the time between the search results loading and the user clicking on it, then the AMP version will still have a visible load time.

Obviously, this part is affected by the AMP js being in cache or not.

Still, often my own page can load faster than just this user-visible part of loading the AMP version.

AMP works best when the user visits almost only AMP pages (so the resources stay in cache), and the user has a high-latency high-bandwidth connection.

But that's almost nowhere in the world true, in reality most people have relatively low latency with low bandwidth.
“We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?”

- Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7

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and that makes it ok?
> He stopped answering my calls and moved around so much I have no idea where he is now, or if he's even still alive.

I'm sorry to hear this; I have a friend in a similar situation.

I met my friend thru work, as a fellow SWE. An absolutely brilliant person. He had his quirks, and freely shared his past interesting experiences that indicated there were some former issues, but overall very likeable and friendly to be around. We hung out, we started doing some interesting robotics projects.

Then things fell apart for him. He lost his girlfriend, he started having automobile accidents, we watched him literally walk into a wall at work. He started to sleep under his desk. He soon decided to quit his job.

I kept in touch with him still; all signs pointed to him being bipolar/schizophrenic - and likely had always been, but his medication either wasn't working, or he wasn't taking it correctly, or something.

One day he came over to my house in an old (but well kept) conversion van; extremely custom. He told me he was going to camp in the van, etc. He told me about hearing voices. He told me that he could "stop time". He ended up giving me a watch. Then after staying with my wife and I overnight, he left the next morning. I haven't seen him since, and that was over 5 years ago.

But the story has a happy - or maybe bittersweet? - ending; and I hope you are able to have such a resolution yourself.

My wife and I still noticed that someone updated my friend's facebook page; it was the only contact we had of his that still worked. Every now and then, I'd post a comment to his page, or send him a message, letting him know I was still out here for him. I didn't hear anything.

Late last year he got in contact with me again. I was so worried that he had died or was homeless or something, somewhere - wherever the van broke down or what - I didn't know. Then out of the blue, there he was again. Sorta. At least a contact.

I let him know both my wife and I were there for him if he needed anything. He said he had got his meds under control, and while the voices still spoke, they said nice things now. So I guess that's an improvement.

At least I know he's still alive, and making some progress, whatever that is.

I hope you're able to reconnect with your friend, too - or at least have some kind of closure, even if it isn't what you wanted to hear. Sometimes that better than not knowing at all.
Based on?

I am genuinely curious what is obscene here? Pogroms (massacres) against Jews by Christians occurred in the 20th century independently of Nazi germany, both before and after ww1 and 2.

The crusaders massacred Jews in France as well as Muslims. Most countries in Europe at some point expelled the jews repeatedly through out history. Most didn’t allow Jews to own land until the 1800s, most didn’t consider Jews citizens, and had taxes specifically for Jews (as a group, they weren’t considered individuals).

If you find that history is obscene then you should just try to not repeat it.

Judeo-christian is a very modern term design specifically to try and claim that there has been a long standing positive relationship between Christianity and Judaism. It is almost exclusively used when comparing to Islam. Although historically Muslims have been treated slightly better than the Jews (who Christians blamed for the death of Christ)
The description suggests the syntax and type system are based on TypeScript. After looking through the docs I have to say I wish this were much more true. It seems like Microsoft Research has thrown out half the good ideas TypeScript has in favor of overly noisy, complex syntax.
This is my approach too. My time in the military got me into the habit of checklists for everything and I carried it over into my personal life for many years after I got out. I never forgot anything, but I was perpetually lugging around a ton of stuff the I never used.

It's been many years since I stopped worrying about it, and I've yet to have even a single instance come up where I forgot something important enough to be a real hassle.

Checklists are great for surgeons and pilots. The cost of missing something in those professions can literally be life or death. If I forget to pack something when I go on vacation, the most it could possibly cost me is money.
I think that AutoML will be a standard in ML. You don't want to run fit on a single algorithm, just call AutoML and specify how long you would like to wait for final model (you can also add constraints on model size and model prediction speed). Waht is more, I would like to have ML model always with explainer. I don't see disadvantages of using AutoML vs single model.
What.... why? Why must we insist upon piling so many features on top of browsers? It's a web browser, not an application platform...
Consider the Golden Mole
Do you seriously believe the generic PR-speak of "to give people the power to build a global community that works for all of us."?!
The big question is... What can replace fb groups. For any non-tech topic they seem to be the goto replacement for good old discussion boards.
I agree. That's why Azure runs it for you.
> a blog which generates substantial income

An SSL cert can be purchased for as low as $6 a year; if this is important to you, try buying one of those.
Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on human rights concerns
I reckon artificial blood is a lot easier in the absence of an immune system.
You can bundle the whole Python distribution with your application and it will still be smaller than Electron. Recent releases of Python have an embeddable distribution for this purpose: https://docs.python.org/3.7/using/windows.html#windows-embed...

This is also the way Java is supposed to be deployed on client machines nowadays, apparently - using the jlink tool to create a bundle of the Java runtime for your application.
Isn't that like saying "This page doesn't render without including this CSS or Font or XSL Stylesheet"?

If your objection is that the ampjs has to be loaded from Google's CDN, well, the whole point of Signed Exchanges/Web packaging is to move to a world where AMP caches are federated and you can host this stuff elsewhere.

The only real objection that has merit IMHO is that Google Search should rank these things based on performance, not on amp validation alone, so if you authored your own AMP-like framework, it could be similarly ranked.
If there where hacks, for the young to gather knowledge and aquire skills, without giving up there daily work to supply there lifelihood.

What is needed, is some mix of audiobook, show & tell device, to educate those generations outside the citys.
New zero-day vulnerability CVE-2019-0859 in win32k.sys
>They got Assange in a virtual prison for ~7 years at no cost to them (that cost was borne by the UK and the Metropolitan Police). You can't argue that being holed up in an embassy is that much better than prison.

He was "holed up" by choice. He was free to leave any time. Of course that would have been arrested and sent to Sweden for prosecution, but choosing to run and hide from an arrest warrant isn't the same as prison.
I'm not at a startup and have better than average insurance, however it's still a clown show.

For example, I recently got prescribed a medical device, but was then told that if I didn't have a follow up appointment between certain dates I'd be billed out of pocket for the device.

The prescribing physician, of course, has no open appointments until a couple months after the given follow up interval, despite knowing the potential issue and prescheduling the followup.

And of course the device provider, the physician, and the insurance company all tell me completely different things about the situation.

The current "solution" is "just see your primary care instead," not sure how it'll go.
> the same people that like to rage about government agency's being increasing intrusive and consuming more and more resources while doing nothing valuable have nothing bad to say about the poster child for that.

Don't they? The diehard libertarians I've been exposed to are the first and loudest to complain about the TSA. Is there some constituency I'm unaware of that's anti-government action but not anti-TSA?
I put the knife in and pulled it up. Once wasn't enough. Then I cut open my womb
Perhaps the fact the the brain was disconnected from the body was a major factor in why no signs of consciousness were recorded. Consciousness may be the byproduct of a living body sending signals to a living brain.
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Let's say the TSA used names more aggressively, for example checking everyone with the same name as anyone with a criminal record.

Now let's also assume African-Americans are disproportionately incarcerated, and therefore names associated with the ethnic group will be disproportionately represented in criminal records. I'm sure we can agree on that the system would then be biased towards a race.

The problem is that there isn't a single terrorist that caused this, in fact there's no good reason to believe that the hairstyles mentioned in the article are used to hide contraband.
Use Anki. Anki is a free and open-source spaced repetition flashcard program that uses SM2 algorithm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anki_(software)