skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am guessing that the bigger concern here is that this is an 'enabler' tactic to expand facial recognition in other areas of our lives. And if this is the case, then there definitely needs to be some kind of ratification.

Maybe this is unrelated, but it's starting to feel like every bad accident in this world is affecting us in this very strange way. For example, I was very surprised to find that Sri Lanka cut everyone off from social media "just like that". To think there are people with this kind of power seems a little frightening to say the least.

But, what's even scarier is that these bombings and 'tragic' events tend to steer us in a very controlling direction. All of a sudden the government has an incentive to enforce more control over its citizens and society as a whole.
I have read Chris Voss's book, Never Split the Difference and it has really changed the way I see human interactions. The worst negotiation is one where you do not realize about it.
There are two very distinct statements which say entirely different things: "markets are probably not efficient" is a fine statement and I agree with it easily.

"Markets are provably not efficient because xyz" is much harder to agree with, especially given that paper, since it's the same as saying you've actually proven that P!=NP and thus requires an extraordinary proof.

You're claiming to have a solid proof. Just because someone agrees that your result is likely correct, that doesn't mean they agree with your proof.
It's not about making it "easier" to hire top quality people, but cheaper. Easier would imply that companies such as Google, Apple, and Intel are simply unable to hire enough top quality engineers. That's clearly false. It might also suggest that the engineers that they have are insufficiently skilled - again something I see no evidence for at all. But we are certainly at the equilibrium where supply and demand are in a nice balance. This is unlike most other fields where labor supply has greatly outpaced demand in part due to college becoming as typical as high school. And because of this engineers at these companies are in positions of unprecedented privilege. They can actively try to influence corporate policy, demand wages that in many cases are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, and so on.

The idea of increasing the supply is to bring the equilibrium in line with most other industries which is where labor supply generally greatly outpaces business demand. This not only helps drive wages down, but also enables companies greater control over their employee. For instance in tech there is massive turnover. Since employees are in high demand, they can and do job hop much to their own benefit. When employees are less in demand a job becomes more sacred which increases employee "loyalty" giving the company more power to do as they see fit. As but one example employees are going to be less inclined to object to dubious corporate behavior, which has become a running theme at Google, when said employees attach an extremely high value to their job.

What would happen however is that no-name shops who can't offer all that much would be able to hire top quality people. And while that's good for them, I see this no better than the current state of the job market where it's increasingly common to see that the guy serving your coffee has a college degree, and the mountain of debt that entails. Labor oversupply benefits companies and hurts employees. In a 'big picture' view, this is probably a good thing since marginalizing labor means more companies can grow and compete which benefits everybody in the longrun. But from the perspective of labor, it's obviously not a good thing.
I don't think there's any reason to learn R for anyone who is already proficient at programming. Despite being proficient with R, the only times I used it in the last two years were for ggplot. And even for data vis, I'm increasingly using Python and JS.

There's a bunch of comments below which can be summed up with 'use R because <package name> doesn't have a direct python equivalent' but they're all missing the point that the Python data science ecosystem is evolving at a much faster pace than R and will completely supersede it in a few years.

R, like SAS, is a tool for non-programmers. And there it shall remain. The only demographic where R makes sense long term are pure mathematicians/statisticians who are not proficient in programming. But that demographic is rapidly declining in size.
Global Entry is a TSA program you can apply for. The TSA charges a fee of 100 USD and runs an in person interview.

Edit: those under investigation, warrants, or charged with crimes are not elligible. Neither are those with passports from outside major US allies (India Colombia UK Germany Panama Singapore Korea Switzerland Taiwan Mexico Canada)
same here! i am toying with the idea of using darwin in supplement to gmail, maybe narrow down my mail to a todo list and then use darwin to work through it... will use it a bit more and get back to you with feedback
They are the forgotten and the number should be higher

Older people like my parents. There is the afraid of technology group.
Difference between classical flows and supefluid He in 3D counter-flow
It depends on each one naturally.

For me, coming from Turbo Pascal 3 - 6, it allowed me in 1993 to use a language with a similar level of safety and language features, instead of having to deal with PDP-11 constraints.

I was always the weird kid that asked the professors if I could deliver C projects written in C++ instead, which thankfully some of them did accept.

Specially given that at my degree, C was already out of fashion by the early 90's. First year students got to learn Pascal and C++, and were expected to learn C from their introduction to C++ programming.
Meanwhile in developing nation's captcha work from home schemes are becoming quite common. Where for a few pounds day/dollars/euros a worker at home will identify 1000's of captcha.
From my understanding it's popular work as mum's and those at home can do while caring for children.
Watch Lex Fridman's interview with Musk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEv99vxKjVI), where they discuss exactly this topic.

Basically, Musk's point is that if self-driving cars are statistically safer than humans, then allowing humans to drive will make cars less safe again.

Furthermore (regarding some other children here), the study that Lex and his team has done show that drivers are not less engaged while Autopilot is on (as many critics say).
https://codepen.io/anon/pen/MRqeaQ

The <label> was a workaround for some browser but is not needed (atleast in Chrome).
Yeah, I bet they suffer as much as Equifax did for leaking 100M American adults’ credit information, or Facebook has suffered for literally experimenting with human subjects by manipulating the home feed to see if users’ mood was influenced. I could go on.

There’s only one meaningful punishment a corporation can suffer, and it’s by design: the death penalty.
Is Your Startup a Cash or Equity Business? (2010)
But not all people in the world crave cow's meat.
Greed and corruption blew up South Korea’s nuclear industry
Those are fair critiques. I brought up his age as evidence that it was not simply the arrogance of youth; if it were, education and exposure to a wider world would be the proper prescription. But his blank stare after I gave him a keyword and gently nudged him towards reality, along with the subsequently quoted followup message, confirmed that this was not youthful inexperience and naivete.

As to Terry Davis, I debated whether to include the 'even' qualifier, and decided to include it. I don't know if he deserves it either. You should look him up and decide for yourself. He was a complicated figure (just passed away recently) and I'm sure people would argue both ways.
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Chrome is in an exceptionally hard place because of its JIT. Your language cannot tell you if it's safe for your JIT to omit a bounds check.
Could be that they didn’t use arsenic based pesticides as much or if they did environmental factors/farming techniques removed the ability for the plants to uptake the arsenic. They might also just have less naturally occurring arsenic in their soil.
What prerequisites, according to you, does a graduate from a good CS program need to understand P/NP enough to begin taking a stab at?
What are those well-established methods? The hyperloop was conceived by multiple SpaceX employees due to extreme disappointment with California's public transit proposal.

This is from the original Hyperloop paper:

> When the California “high speed” rail was approved, I was quite disappointed, as I know many others were too. How could it be that the home of Silicon Valley and JPL – doing incredible things like indexing all the world’s knowledge and putting rovers on Mars – would build a bullet train that is both one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world?

We can do better.
Only if we entertain the thought that some people just randomly seems to fail on a personal level, in some areas. That is, of course, a ridiculous notion.

But not half as ridiculous as confusing it with a moral issue.
It's not a high priesthood mentality. Law, by definition, requires a level of precision far beyond that with which most people will bother — just like scientific or academic fields, the terminology is often difficult for those who are unfamiliar with it, but it is precise and consistent.

We don't expect scientists to restrict their terminologies within their own fields to terms with which laypeople are familiar, equally so for those of us in computer science and engineering, so why expect it of another field?

The high priesthood preserved Latin, it's true, concealing the true nature of the religion from the tongue of its faithful parishioners in order to maintain unearned control; this is not the case for Law English as lawyers and judges have nothing to gain by maintaining their own manner of speaking since their pronouncements and judges do need to be explained, in plain English, to the involved parties and the public who have no need of the knowledge of legal minutiae. These 'translations' are relatively easily scrutinised even by non-professionals and a public that is increasingly literate in the law.
Not to say this isn't true... it sounds like there is more to the story with this guy's salary history. If $125k is the ballpark median for a programmer in Boston, then how did the guy not notice he was getting <50% salary for the same role?

Some people aren't good at negotiating; that's understandable. But not knowing he was settling for such a pay-cut is almost appalling. That company must have enjoyed him being there knowing they pulled a fast one on him. Maybe there is some shady backstory here or something else influencing the situation..?
Tried to use it, but even simple tasks were tricky to complete because of counter intuitive UX.
Thank you, it was very nice. Hope I can catch one of your shows one day, cheers!
Neither git nor github can automatically discern how the law applies in context in 195 nations without consulting a lawyer and honestly neither can you.

Unless you want to pay thousands of dollars per repo presumably everyone is going to continue not giving a damn.

If you don't want people to clone a repo don't upload it to a public github repo. If you are thinking of cloning realize that the ability to clone it gives you zero legal rights.

Anyway you cannot fix legal complexities with technology in this instance.
GitHub would obviously also have to make the repo private as well, and then get into the business of interpreting and potentially defending the compatibility of their service against various licenses before making it public. That's unsustainable.
This. I’ve contributed code to popular libraries in both languages, and while I (overall) have a preference for python (mostly due to it being general purpose), I find R code unparalleled when it comes to raw data manipulation/analysis.

The overall api of tidyverse packages is such a joy, and recent improvements in purrr/tidyr allow me to construct nested data analysis workflows I couldn’t even dream of in python.
I like how this negative publicity reminded me of Apple News and now I’m thinking of trying it out!
I recently became interested about P=NP, the reason was learning. And I became crankish, in the sense of trying to understand the problem myself.

My advice is - learn about naturalness. Monotone circuit bound in CLIQUE in particular is an interesting result, which knocks out many straightforward approaches to show that P=NP. The Wigderson recent book gives a very good overview.

However, I wish in some sense this was better explained, that there was more examples of algorithms that cannot work because they can be, in some sense, represented as monotone circuits.
I think the best way to interview is still the old school way [0].

Just find people who are smart and get things done.

We've had phases after phases of interview "wisdom". At one point people were just hiring for "passion" and picked any girl who has a Github account and was active on it. But this led to lots of people setting up Github account, not to build things, but to make themselves look good on the interview.

Now we have this whole CTCI trend, because big companies do it. And so developers with 10 years of experience spend 3 months memorizing every algorithm in the book, 80% of which they'll never use throughout their career. Does it make for better programmers? Sure. But in past quarters I've had two major speedbumps - CSS animation and setting up mail adapters, and no amount of HackerRank will make me good at that.

The article [0] also mentions "pointer and recursion". I think this is about as far as you have to technically test people. If you needed to code prime numbers from scratch a smart enough person can learn to do sieve in half a day. But pointers and recursion take a little more effort than a day. You might say that nobody uses C anymore, but we still use pointers - there's plenty of variations of binary search, and that's about as deep as it needs to go IMO.

[0] : https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid...
I did some small-time editing, I gave up on Openshot because of its stability and the lack of all the effects that Kdenlive provides over it. Mind that it was a good few years ago, so if openshot has massively improved since then it may not be applicable anymore.

There's also [this](https://github.com/jliljebl/flowblade), which I stumbled upon a while back but have yet to try it.
Here is a guy, who did not know LaTeX, but written in MS word:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/statistician-proves-gaussian-...
Remove Zh_HK Chinese Traditional (Hong Kong) Translation in Gitlab
That is great,
Coincidence they choose the same English language ? I think not
For many years, I remember needed a piece of photo id with my ticket to get through TSA security checkpoints. What were you able to do instead? Just give a ticket?
Link with summary: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275933493_Suppressi...

Interesting info at: (PDF) http://archive.wilsonquarterly.com/sites/default/files/artic...

Complementary big quote in a footnote at: http://www.historyofcomputercommunications.info/supporting-d...

There might be better links.
This is actually the reason why I do not buy any lifetime membership. Because of the risks involved it seems to me that buying lifetime memberships run the risk for the customer of overspending when the service closes shop. Or in some way getting screwed.

An obviously bad monetization strategy is more of a warning sign than no monetization strategy at all.
> A mathematics paper caused an uproar because somebody tried to show that it's mathematically possible for sex differences to appear

That sounds indeed like a motivated actor. I'm not familiar with such a case, so lets keep it at that joke response.

> The problem is that many of these motivated actors are in academia.

Science and academia are part of society and thus will always have to some degree follow norms. To think the process of gaining knowledge can be perfectly separated is naive. Resources are limited, so we don't want to support crap science. Attention is limited, so the same is true for magazines. As such, it cannot be avoided to reflect the highly divided political sphere to some degree in science. Trying to minimize this seems good. But the author seems quite fine with getting the outside involved, since he expect it to help him for now.
Bug bounties and penetration testing.
I recommend watching What The Health (https://www.whatthehealthfilm.com/) - a great doc by the same guys who did Cowspiracy, this time focusing on the health and lobyy aspects of the meat and diary industry.

Negative lobbying is something that fills me with anger unlike any other and not eating meat and diary JUST to stop giving those fuckers my money is reason enough. Of course, there are many other great reasons to do so (animal welfare, environment, health) - and no objectively good reason to eat meat and diary.

And no, reasons such as:

- "We need meat to be healthy"

- "Humans meant to be eat meat historically"

- "I love the taste and this is a free country"

Are either scientifically wrong or not objectively good reasons.
RIP Nils J Nilsson
There was just a story today about NPM employees trying that and getting fired. Tech companies are in this strange place where on the surface they are seemingly going above and beyond to be tolerant, and diverse. But it's mostly talk and gestures that doesn't involve making any hard decisions or spending much money. Try to mention "unionization" and that thin veneer drops and the ugliness come out immediately.
You are commenting on different things. She pointed out the political oriented people on the ai committee who knew absolutely nothing about technology or ai. They were just prominent conservatives, who had no apparent reason to be there. Pointing out something like that is vastly different than saying you killed your own project. Pointing out what appear to be politically connected but otherwise useless people on leadership groups is a good thing I think.
IIRC Agriya was much popular compared to Rocket Internet in this business
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Got this full-screen popup with no close button not 5 seconds in. This is not acceptable. It’s obnoxious and disrespectful.

Flagged the whole thing.
https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse
I don’t know anything about SPARK or FramaC, but TLA+ isn’t a programming language, and you can use it to model distributed functional apps just fine (I still do).

Even if the Erlang/Ericsson stuff is the “only case” (It’s not) I do not see how that makes my point less valid; Erlang was specifically design for systems that cannot fail. Telephones are just a good example of that.
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Did you watch the video embedded in the blogpost? Rich Harris talks about both speed (including the Dodrio vdom in Rust/WASM experiment) and magicalness.
How to avoid security vulnerabilities from gems from compromised accounts
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If it keeps me safe, if it keeps the airplane from being flown into buildings, if it helps assure my safe passage to and from my destination and home to my family, then scan my face, and yours, as many times as needed. I have nothing to hide.

As far as our liberty...this isn't the 1700s, Ben Franklin might have a different opinion today. I'd rather have the liberty of flying safely than it taken away by some terrorist hijackers using my life to prove a misguided point.
Self taught is not really the problem, it’s not being able to think with a gun to your head.
Just a note; while there aren’t typeclasses in F#, you can use statically resolved generics with a member constraint, getting you pretty close.
If a private company says they'll take a picture of me at checkin and then verify that at boarding vs the same picture - then destroy the picture, I'm fine with that. It's a temporary storage of biometric data. I'm especially fine with it if I can opt to go for a paper passport instead.

BUT

If a private company uses some database, especially a centralized/government database, to do the same task - then it's absolutely dystopian.
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Those patents are directed towards "method[s] for processing requests for vehicular data", which at first glance appear unrelated to the descriptions of web APIs authenticated by OAuth that Smartcar is complaining about.
Do you deny that the Chinese government makes it extremely difficult for US companies to operate there?
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> There are lots of ways to make software besides companies.

I know you’re interpreting “what happens when there are no more companies to flee to” with respect to software engineers, but I have to ask: how would you make software if there were no companies making computers?
Kdenlive works. Openshot consistently produces shaky videos with video and audio out of sync.
I don't know, but the MIT license is given under conditions that can be violated.
> You're not going to "save the world from environmental destruction" by telling people to give up meat

No, but by convincing people to give up meat, to travel less, to stop using disposable everything, to institute a carbon tax, etc. etd. you just eventually might. As 'Pfhreak wrote elsewhere in the thread, this is not a problem of finding 60%-there solution; it's a problem of repeatedly applying 0.5% - 3% solutions. Every component of CO₂ footprint is a minor one.

Also, don't forget the US is extremely good at exporting its culture. It seems whatever fad happens there, very soon half of Europe does it too, and a lot of other places aspire to it. Doing something in the US is likely to have quite big impact outside it as well.
There was a forever hosting provider for a one-time fee in Holland.

They were very popular until they went out of business.

They weren't cheap either! I think €99 or even €199, but don't remember well. It was around 8 years ago.
And magic did stop Hector from leaving. He couldn't actually step on the flower petal bridge. So what was the point of the checkpoint?
The other day i accidentally broke a magnetron ceramic heatsink. I knew of the potential toxicity (disassembled a dozen so far) but this time i fucked up. Cue 3 days of ventilation and cm by cm wet cleaning.
Bilibili source code containing user names and passwords leaked on GitHub
Do men in poor countries still shave with a cutthroat razor? Reusable and repairable products take time but give certainty. I hope a happy medium will be reached between Chinese room products and simple skill based ones.
The only thing that makes sense is that Elon is a time traveler from the future. Nothing else makes sense. He knows what is going to happen. That's how he speaks so confidently about LIDAR's uselessness.
You didn't even need that, you just walked through some metal detectors and you could hang out near the gate and greet your loved ones coming off the plane. You didn't need a ticket. You didn't need ID. You didn't even need an intent to fly.
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Secret ‘dark web’ apps that are luring your children online
It's inconsistent tax rates which are crazy. Isn't toilet tissue 'essential' in the same way? Should that be exempt from sales tax? In many EU countries foodstuffs (difficult to 'make do' in its absence) and pharmaceutical products attract VAT albeit at a reduced rate.
Google told me the same when searched "quotes about cash"
Spam notifications are against App Store policy, and yet…
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> It is true, C++ has several warts some of them caused by the copy-paste compatibility with C.

I mean that's a bit of a cop-out given C++ has more non-C warts and UBs than it has C warts and UBs at this point. It's not just "copy-paste compatibility with C" which made std::unique_ptr or std::optional deref and UB.