skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be but the incident is odd the object was tracked by a surface vessel and 2 F-18s were sent to investigate they’ve seen it but they had no optical sensors then the object spirited away at about 2400 mp/h and tracking was lost then another pair of F-18s was sent when the object has been reacquired this time with the FLIR pod form which part of the footage in the video is from.

While it can be a sensor malfunction or even a viral marketing campaign 4 naval aviators as well as multiple radar operators have made sensor and visual contact with it and they had no fucking clue what it was.
Sources please?
Those are both public schools. Why isn’t proof of immunity required at registration?

It is likely I am just uniformed as to the California school system. Texas schools require immunization records.
Is this legal? Can a computer have standing to terminate a contract? Can a computer enter in to a legal contract?

Edit: High frequency trading would seem to suggest it is? Is there nominally supposed to be a human in the loop?
If you want contributors, it’s a zero-cost and stable solution.
The masses are probably going to want one once the tech matures a bit and Apple releases one. I wouldn’t be surprised based on the way it went with MP3 players, tablets, and even touchscreen phones in the first place.

If Apple doesn’t release one, it’s because the tech is too fragile, and that’s a huge signal worth waiting for if you’re on the fence.
i felt nothing until i read the comments saying it was unsettling, THEN i got a bit unsettled viewing it. i must be easily led!
Virtual reality with virtual cues about your real environment could be a solution to the keyboard problem.

Another solution to the keyboard problem would be to get rid of the keyboard altogether to be replaced by a non intrusive brain computer interface.
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Is the path to these awful decisions forged by human malice or is this just an organic byproduct of corporatism? Is it that nobody cares and are just hoping they don't get called out in the press, or is this stuff generally happening under the radar under the blanket of "efficiency?"

Also, what a pleasant mobile reading experience! https://imgur.com/GXiVkvE
Why is it ethical to terminate bad employees when a human determines said employee is bad, but unethical if software makes the determination?

Ethnic bias would be eliminated in the latter case.
You should always be required to a look a person in the eye when you fire them. There are way too many managers who will do anything to avoid uncomfortable situations (for them).

So we end up with things like this...

"Computer says you're fired" is the new "Computer says no."
Net labels are situation dependent. They can incerase or decrease readability depending on the signal flow. For example I would not like to see a complex board with a central microprocessor where each signal is wired up directly! OTOH having to chase a signal through 3 different sheets is a huge pain (this was especially bad when I had to read PDF exports from a (very expensive) tool where the net labels were not searchable nor linked in any form!).
I experienced this in my first job... A regulatory decision around approval of a new power line in California... where the consulting and regulatory costs of simply discussing whether the line should be built literally ran over $100 million. Paid for by all California power users in their rates.

The sad thing is the state of affairs can be used by any party that for any reason wants to fight anything it want (with money): just leverage environmental protection laws even when it's intellectually dishonest to do so, and win by miring the process in hundreds of millions of dollars of total waste.

Of course that's just the abuse of law/process side of things. Separately we've seen the loss of expertise in house within governments and the rise of consulting firms required to do everything.

There was a time when cities built their own transit! Now you have to hire expensive Consultants from Europe or Asia because the idea that people could figure this out on their own with their civil engineering degrees and experience in adjascent fields is simply verboten.

If anyone hasn't read The Power Broker about the rise of Robert Moses, it's a great read: You can disagree with much of his methodology/power hunger/abuse of people, and you can certainly disagree with what he built, but what he did demonstrate is that the people with the plans who can execute while everyone else is talking about grand dreams can GET STUFF DONE.

We need more people in government who actually have a plan, that are actually willing to take bets on people, to hire high-quality people, to see hard projects through, not to punt everything off to consulting firms.

Let's be honest, consulting firms never feel ownership. Their deliverable is that beautiful PDF. No PDF ever built any grand infrastructure.

And the Golden Gate Bridge, and the New York subway, never even had the glorious joy of benefiting from either PDF or PowerPoint.

Let's admit it, when it comes to building infrastructure we've completely failed and we need to have a serious wake-up call.

Sadly most people have no idea how bad it has gotten because when they spend a hundred million dollars collectively deciding whether to build a power line in the San Diego desert, they barely notice that they're paying an incremental portion of a penny more for every kilowatt-hour of power.
Those are just datapoints, whats the big deal? It only becomes real when finally touching you directly, as some journalist learned recently #LearnToCode.
Sounds like the problems Hertz had with Accenture
I don't really bother about the vote count, but more the comments. A lot of stories I don't even read, I just go straight to the comments as I find them a lot more valuable (most stories you can get the basis just from the title).
The pilots could physically see it tho, the first pair didn’t had any EOS on board and could only track it visually and with their radar.
The real treat will be when they turn it on the managers.
that's why i don't want to buy on amazon...
Worked in a warehouse for a german online retailer as a picker a few years back - tracking everything you do is totally normal - people worked through breaks to reach their limit, too and the break is a joke because it's a huge hall and more than 50% of the time is spend reaching the break-area and to go back.

Someone at Amazon basically throught why does a human have to look at the statistics after a few months and replaced it with some code - but besides that, that tracking and pressure is probably common in almost all online retailer warehouses. Maybe some cynic asshole thought that not letting the team-lead to do firing prevents keeping employees that perform bad but have good reasons for it - like beeing older or having medical problems.
Amazon is basically building "Manna" for their warehouses: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
If break[employee] > 1 minute
employees[employee] = "bad employee"
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That’s a valid point. I’ve never actually tried it, because my editor always tells that it’s wrong. I suppose I could edit raw CSS with my editor in SCSS mode and just be careful to not use any incompatible features. :)
No, you could have said "at least it's not slavery".

I empathize with your outrage, but you're being hyperbolic. I think you should avoid this because it's a good way of discrediting your position.
It's a joke. CVS is a massive brand and OT has no affiliation.
I disagree.

A startup is all about risk and low return for employees. You get paid less, work more, and have less job security and benefits.

A big company will give you a noce salary, benefits, and better job security without the risk. It might also give you stock options that are worth something and can sold.
I'm not totally sure but I think that for Sass only you'd still need Ruby or Node.
I guess it depends on how great you are at guessing what to optimize for. If you make a machine that just rewards completing tasks, maybe you'll get poor quality. If you add quality to the mix, maybe you'll fire everyone who has experience and you'll be left with only those yet to make a mistake.
Algos tend to inherit the biases of their developers.

Let's say you're a woman on your period and that the bleeding, cramps and pain can get severe. You might need to visit the rest room or maybe take a few more pauses than the modeled average, that happens to be based on men, during certain days. The algorithm that is about to fire you doesn't factor in these issues when it decides to fire you for not meeting its performance quota.
I was a long time supporter of the Levitt & Dubner theory of abortion legalization, but leaded gasoline is more consistent and empirical.
Well it can always be a bug in the matrix ;)
What is the accuracy level you are seeing for your AI? What is the Data Review Service? Does it involve manual verification at your end?
Because DestroyBaghdad Inc. pays well and offers lovely working conditions. Judging the legality of its business actions is a job for the state, not for me.
*congratulations those who own stock.
oh so you don't understand humor and vote me down because of a funny comment - wow...
Do you believe this kind of thing should be/is detectable if you're looking for it hard enough? This is pretty realistic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSLJriaOumA&feature=youtu.be
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Wow I had no idea they were actually already constructing this rail line, and it's actually going to go all the way into central San Francisco, that's great! I thought it was all just a vague idea and people wanted a hyperloop instead.
https://outline.com/ABYcdE
This reminds me of 'Manna', by Marshall Brain, a sci-fi short story in which an automated, AI-driven management system (Manna) gradually takes on more and more responsibility and authority over the world of humans in the workplace, leading to dystopian consequences. There's a lot more to it than that (I'm bad at blurbs) but it's highly worth a read.

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Once again, fiction predicts reality..
I have read the Power Broker, and I don't think it really has anything to do with getting things build in spite of regulations. Sure he got things built, but the modern regulatory state wasn't really an issue in the 1950s.

Also part of the reason why foreign consultants are hired is because the US has so little experience building high speed rail, and when the domestic civil engineers do design things, you get over engineered concrete monstrosities, like the Millbrae Bart station.
There seems to be a real project afoot with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp but I'll give you that a) it hasn't released and b) they could probably do the same with MySQL https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2019/04/16/b...

It is hard finding legal and useful. There's a lot of legal but not that great like gambling.
Nitpick: I'm not sure corporatism means what you think it means.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism
> A warehouse job is a warehouse job. No education needed, why wouldn't a computer system should not fire people on simple productivity numbers?

Increasingly, this viewpoint bothers me. To be honest I don't know the ins and outs of working in an Amazon warehouse but I suspect it's not as brainless a job as you imply.

Further, why does that attribute make this ok? Why wouldn't it similarly be ok if the computer could fire people automatically if a threshold of unit tests failed or if a developer failed to meet LOC quotas?
Every month, Amazon’s warehouse system gets closer and closer to the one depicted in Manna [1].

1: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
very well Thanks for the information !
Depending on what information you’re using, you can easily accidentally code ethnic or other biases into the system.
>"After about 5 minutes the employee came back with the news that the registration of the domain had triggered the ransomware meaning we’d encrypted everyone’s files (don’t worry, this was later proven to not be the case), but it still caused quite a bit of panic."

this is insane, why not try localhost/local dns server first?
Nice, so we're only 60 years behind the best timeline
Suppose Trump gets re-elected in 2020 on the basis of the success of protectionism. Given that semiconductors are arguably essential to national security for any sufficiently large economy, Trump's Dept of Commerce should make semiconductors a very high tariff item.

I, for one, believe that Intel should spend that capital in the USA and hire USA workers at high wages for stuff it sells in the USA.
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Can't program in the parent realm (yet?)
That’s how I almost talked myself into working for Palintir.
Depends on the amount. If you suddenly have 1 billion $ worth of BTC to liquidate, then yes. It might not be so easy, but this is the same with any asset, stocks, bonds or commodities. If you want to liquidate less, why not use established exchanges? Last time I checked their limits were quite high.
I didn't read the article because by the time I'd clicked 4 different popovers of one sort or another I figured it wasn't worth it. Then I follow your link to Imgur, and get another quantcast modal. Aargh!
Vaccination is one of those things that's presented as a choice, and so some people will think about whether to do it. And out of those, some will decide it's not for them. With all the misinformation on the internet it's probably quite easy to get the wrong impression of how it works.

I really hope this anti-vaxx thing is a passing fad. We're at a point where we can't live without it. People aren't spread out on farms anymore, we all jam together on public transport every day now.
Sadly, Newson actually cut off the ends so now that it's going to be only in the Central Valley.

Of course I think it's a political stunt on his part where he probably figures if we build the Central Valley bit it'll be politically nuts not to complete the ends where all the population state lives later.

But basically it's a fiasco.

And by the way, liberal blue Peninsula residents from Palo Alto etc have been the primary blocker for this entire project from the very beginning using environmental impact statements to try and kill high speed rail line going through their environments, something that would increase the value of their cities. It's really sad. Basically another version of we don't want to see housing built NIMBYism at its worst.
So, Manna is finally becoming a reality:
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Yes perhaps we are seeing the Streisand effect in this situation?
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Because a human would at least consider if a termination is warranted. Humans make mistakes but by my experience, software tends to produce wrong results more often than humans. Therefore, for all important decisions it makes sense to always have human making the ultimate decision and consider if there is no prospect of performance improving.

And even if the human doesn't do a better job, it's still the nicer way to be told by a person rather than a machine that you lost your job.
I don't think many people assume it to be this binary: if Tether doesn't have have dollars behind every USDT. Buying USDT below $1 is simply buying debt. If you believe they will at some point in the future be able to give you a dollar for every tether, buying under $1 is very smart.
That is the problem the grandparent is getting at. We don't have a widely accepted definition, and therefore we should tread lightly, without assuming that we're not even close to crossing that boundary.
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I get your point, but I’m going to do a “well actually” anyway....

The majority of people who buy rap are White.

https://genius.com/discussions/281920-The-majority-of-hip-ho...
It's also a trailing indicator.
Is this a 4chan joke? Is creating another bullshit site a good way to fight bullshit?
It's basically a giant game of bullshit - just the latest iteration of "Never give a sucker an even break."

When you have nothing to trade but trust and hope, people who take advantage of trust and hope are always massively rewarded.

Occasionally someone crosses the wrong people and jail time ensues, but if you're politically adept enough to avoid that - at least until you die and/or disappear - no career pays as well as financial fraud.
This sounds like it would be illegal in Europe because it falls foul of "automated decision making".

Article 22 of the GDPR:

> The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her.
Its not like data aka algorithms has not been used for decades to decide this sort of thing.

I suspect IBM punch card systems have been used for this predating the First IBM computers.

Having the computer decide is new and could well cause more problems than having a low level manger do it..
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I'm not sure IPFS uses blockchain? It seems to work like bittorent.

Golem I'll give you might be a legit use.
The example you describe inherits the bias of the sample group, not the developer. A woman comparing individual performance with averages might notice monthly fluctuations rather than a man, but it doesn't mean they'd always recognize it or even look for it.
How about workers who need more toilet breaks one week in four?
>> blamed

But it’s the CEOs who get the golden parachute. I don’t hear anyone here saying “I would prefer to have a mediocre wage because I am so afraid of being blamed for my mistakes”.
Lightsail instances have terrible bandwidth throughput. It has high limits because it's all overbooked low-priority traffic shunted off their network as soon as possible.
Everyone sleeps at some point.

> But I can sleep away from my neighbors

Then you're no longer their neighbor.
What sours MS for me these days how messed up Win10 is. Utter disregard of what users want, utter disregard of privacy is intolerable in 2019.

I don't care about the rest, they can be stellar. Its the same company, same top management making these decisions. If somebody makes 8 nice and 2 evil decisions, these don't cancel out.
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Toast and dripping (with plenty of salt sprinkled on it) - a fantastic tasty memory from my childhood in the North of England.

I'm going to have to get/make some. (I suspect my wife won't be happy).
Hertz sued Accenture for failing a $32M “digital transformation” project
Relativity hasn’t replaced Newtonian Mechanics for 99.9% of the current use cases it combined with Kepler’s Law of Motion is still used even in astrophysics and astronomy at large the only points at which Newtonian physics really breaks down is in the presence of strong fields and we are talking about black holes type of strong fields or when you try to calculate things on the scale of the observable universe.

Newtonian mechanics is still very accurate and very useful if it wasn’t it wouldn’t be thought on an undergraduate and even graduate levels, ironically it’s also what we’ve used to figure out things like oh shit were missing a lot of matter in the universe.

If it wasn’t so darn close to being accurate in pretty much every scenario things like MOND wouldn’t have a reason to exist either because for quite a while in fact until the confirmation of gravitational waves there was enough wrong with general relativity to cast doubt on it too, however even with gravitational waves killing most of the modified Newtonian candidates Newtonian mechanics is a darn useful tool still and it’s usefulness would likely never go away.
I don't think there is a huge ethical problem with automatically terminating employees based on metrics. Quite the opposite, it could make this process more fair.

The problem is in how the metrics are used and there is no real difference between an ill-meaning profit-hungry manager and an ill-meaning profit-hungry algorithm.

Laying off employees for bathroom breaks or short (days, few weeks) fluctuations in productivity is wrong. But it's wrong if an algorithm does it or a human does it. Algorithms could be used to prevent firing an employee in such a situation.
In UK archaeology, a popular term is "Migration Period"
Its probably some brought in HR system
As a front-end developer it sounds just like the perfect job for me. I'm so tired of fighting the infrastructure and tooling instead of doing real work that I wish I could go back in time to work in simple MVC project. I don't really care if it's Rails, Django, PHP, .NET or Java. On my previous 4 jobs I wrote SPAs for products that weren't supposed to be a SPA. I wonder if there are still interesting products being built with these 'old' tech. Where I live certainly there isn't.
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> There was a time when cities built their own transit!

I think working for a government used to be an attractive option. No it'd be extremely hard to justify accepting a government salary for the same job you could be doing for the contractor for literally 3x the money and far better working conditions.
>These aren't contractors, they are scientists.

If you are paid to perform a service based on the terms of a contract you are, by definition, a contractor.

It doesn't matter if you are cleaning toilets or hosting a conference on quantum computing.
The manger that decided to fire people was let go first.
Nobody got time to read your link. Summarize.
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> The Shanghai metro system, with its 12 lines, is now the most extensive in the world, yet its first line opened only in 1993. Four new lines are under construction and five existing lines are being extended.

Meanwhile, New York is letting their metro system crumble to the ground.
Very nice piece of information it would help all those studying out electronics there.
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You can definitely use Kraken's market to arb:

- buy BTC with your USD on Coinbase Pro.

- sell your BTC into USDT on Binance.

- Sell your USDT back into USD on Kraken.

It really doesn't matter if the last step is 1:1 or another rate. If the price between Coinbase and Binance is big enough you can profitably arb this.
As I understand things, the Cartesian product (AKA the cross join) cannot be nicely depicted using Venn diagrams, you're right. However, Venn diagrams are a great way to depict the set logic that applies to the join keys of left, right, inner, and outer joins.