skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a lot of sympathy for the researchers in this case. The picture given in the article shows a skin tone that is certainly within the range of skin tones that you could reasonably expect from caucasians (I am darker than her, on account of being 5/8ths Sicilian), so differentiating her 'race' is a much more subtle matter than checking the tone of her skin. I expect to handle this case gracefully, the system needs to be specifically engineered to detect race, but that is a live wire for reasons that should be obvious.

Could they have done better? I'm sure. But I don't think bullying the researchers is a productive step towards better performance.
Something a lot of people will suggest is asking for 50% upfront. In my experience genuine clients won't have a problem with this.
The post states "Most other graph databases or layers are built as sidekicks."

What specifically falls into that? As someone new to the space, I'd like to understand if he is referring to things like Neo4j, ArangoDB, etc..
While there is significant overlap between driving lawfully and driving safely, they are not identical, so please do not use them interchangeably.

When a cop is doing that pace car thing, the safest thing to do is just get off that road, at least for a few minutes, because all of those drivers will be paying more attention to their legality than to their safety. For 20 miles, that example cop kept a dozen cars bunched up together, afraid to pass.

It is likely that a pace car cop will pull someone over eventually anyway, so don't even spin that wheel of chance.

There are different theories of what "safe driving" is, and the one you subscribe to will affect your opinion of pace car policing.
Trust funds?
So increase traffic now, to MAYBE build more public transit later? Sounds wonderful
At least someone at google is using Nix c:
Using floats to store monetary data is considered 'a very bad idea' in the financial world. Mostly due to how floating point numbers are rounded up/down based on the precision.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/3730040/5536001
I'm curious - could you give an exmample of how it framed your thinking?
Yeah, isn't this just link-time optimization?
How architecture neutral is llvm's intermediate representation?

It's interesting how not having the source code drove technology in the 90's.
I too have been wanting to make a split-flap display. I would be interested to hear more about your project if you have any posts or resources somewhere.
Cryptocurrency Data Analysis with Python
Patch submitter should use checkpatch, which will warn about many of these issues.
Knowledge is power. The more knowledge a government has about individuals, the more power it has over them.

I believe that the right to privacy is a prerequisite to protecting many of the other rights guaranteed by the bill of rights, and indeed to protecting many unalienable human rights.

This is not hypothetical. The US government seizes or freezes people's assets all the time through civil forfeiture[1], injunction[2], or prejudgment writ of attachment[3]. In other countries, asset freezing[4] can have even more severe scope. Not only can these tools be used to violate someone's right to freedom from unwarranted search and seizure (4th Amendment), but it can have implications for their right to due process and counsel (5th and 6th Amendment), as it impacts their ability to pay for their defense. And in a direct way, it may be construed as a violation of the right to freedom from excessive bail (8th Amendment) as it acts as a form of bail. Broadly interpreted, religion, speech and press (1st Amendment) and arms (2nd Amendment) all cost money, so seizing assets can affect these as well, and seizing assets can be used as an intimidation tactic to prevent free exercise of these rights.

Privacy with regards to personal finances is a fundamental protection against improper seizure of assets. The government can't seize assets they don't know you have.

[1] https://priceonomics.com/how-police-officers-seize-cash-from...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injunction

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejudgment_writ_of_attachment

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_freezing
Let's say that you are on social benefits. Let's say that this gives you 7 euros a day of budget (for most of Europe it's 2 or 3 times that or more). What prevents you from flying/hitch hiking somewhere (you can easily find Ryanair 3 to 10 euros promotion flights), and couch-surfing there? Bonus points: pick a place where life is less expensive than where you live, for actually saving money while traveling.
On the contrary, I think the feedback provided was excellent and far better than just saying “Doesn’t conform to our style guidelines, please try again”. Bravo Peter.

This may be someone’s first submission and they may consequently not be aware of style guides, tools which can help lint, etc?
What a "majority of web sites" are doing is also completely irrelevant. If the standard says that it's a thing that you can do, and the standard says which behaviour the other party has to implement, and you are the only person on the planet to do this thing, the other party is still at fault if they implemented something else.

The whole idea of writing standards is completely useless if you can not rely on what a standard says. If something conforms to a standard, that guarantees that if you also conform to the standard, you will be able to interoperate with it. That is the whole point of writing standards. If either party does not conform to the standard, there is no value to the standard in the first place. If you are supposed to know what some random people consider sane, or the implementation details of everything that you want to interoperate with, and build your stuff for that, then you don't need a standard. The whole reason for writing standards is to eliminate the gigantic overhead and friction of that approach and to enable everyone to instead read only one document to ensure interoperability. All of that becomes worthless when you implement what you think is sane over what the standard says.
When not in hospital, we suggest people need mental stimulation, exercise, good food and daylight to stay healthy and sane. None of these things are possible when you're convalescing.

Don't get me wrong, I'm _very_ thankful for the fact I still have both my legs, but staying sane is extremely difficult.

Half of the bays on my ward literally had no windows. There were people around me that hadn't seen daylight in over a month.
There wasn't any publicly accessible free WiFi, the TVs were costing over £40/week. There's no library, no social spaces and absolutely nothing to do. Even the staff are too busy to have a conversation with.
You had two meals served 6 hours apart. It wasn't awful but certainly wasn't great. Even buying and eating a lot of my own food left me loosing a tonne of weight.
And not a single accessible gym or swimming pool even close. Being able to get healthy and fit seems like a no-brainer.

Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of good, but I find it impossible to believe this isn't causing more problems and actually increasing recovery times costing them more money over-all.
And where do we send our resumes?
To make this anecdote into a data point the GP should post his whole financial history. E.g. how much they made and spent. What do they own and then we can also check what can they buy.

For example, can he buy a typical hip surgery, which over time is likely? CLL treatments? Medical transport should it be necessary?
Hire a nurse? Get a broken limb in a cast?

... Not lose a job because they cannot get to it for a month because of bum leg?

Cost of each of these can be actually checked ahead of time, for UK and for US. Including a split between in network vs out network in the US.

If people are dying, we can count deaths due to causes that would be preventable in UK and in the US, as well as cost in each case.
I recall reading about people in Italy who would pretend to go on vacation - closing up their houses - because they didn't actually have the cash to do so but were too embarrassed to admit it:

https://www.ilmessaggero.it/societu00e0/piaceri/le_ferie_bug...

Admittedly, during the last crisis, but I doubt things have changed that much given how bad the economy is there.
One of those is definitely on the cards for me, I have been meaning to get to that for a long time.
> “Also, the tool reflects the data it was trained on: a collection of 15,000 portraits, predominantly from the Western European Renaissance period,”

'nuff said

Just a waste of digital ink, hyperbolising one example while not saying anything about the places where it really counts, such as credit scoring.
Ideas for Apps/ Products
Every bike in Japan needs to registered with the police. Also, there are very specific rules governing abandoned property. Just saying “well no one else was using it” isn’t proof of the absence of a crime.

Edit: moreover, this is a well known thing that foreigners do: https://www.google.com/amp/s/soranews24.com/2017/08/16/pleas...
I got that. I intended to go for "actually useful".
I think this is the paper on the birth time.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003039921...
Story of Oribi, How they funded 50M
The goal is to increase the biomass. There is no reason it stays constant. More soil, more forest, higher trees.

I tried to find literature, but came back empty handed, on whether it is better to let tree grows on a parcel, or cut grass regularly and let it compost, adding biomass to it.
Probably because Epstein thought he was in the clear after his sweetheart non-prosecution agreement.

Let's be very clear here: anyone trying to distance themselves from him now isn't doing it out of principle, as numerous allegations against him have been rumored for many years. They're doing it for self-preservation.
The American reward credit card "game" has made it really easy to travel at near zero cost. Since 2012 I've applied for, on average, about 5-10 new cards/year that come with extremely generous hotel, airline point, and travel cash rewards. I've taken international first/business class many times for free and stayed in very nice hotels that can average $500/night+. I seriously can't remember the last time I paid for a flight or hotel unless it was a very good deal.

The US is different in a lot of ways, but the insane generosity of rewards credit cards over the past 8 years or so (post recession) is something to behold. I can't imagine it will last forever, but grateful I've caught it as a young adult.
I'm jealous of people who think that using money for themselves is synonymous with using it for good.
This app looks like Kite Compositor (https://kiteapp.co/) and Principal (https://principleformac.com/) melded into one (both native Mac apps). Nice work!
Hi there, I lead product at Dgraph and I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have.

We're very happy we're finally able to share our fundraise, and this is just the beginning of many more features and improvements!

PS: we're hiring ;) https://dgraph.io/careers
Yeah, parent's argument is one of the most interesting I've seen in a while: "I don't know any poor people, and no, I don't live in a bubble, so poverty doesn't exist!"
+1 to this. If 50% is untenable due to large project size or unknown scope, what also works really well is agreeing to big milestones for a project and attaching payment plans/due dates to those milestones. e.g. $5k due upon signing of contract, $10k due upon delivery of feature A, $7k upon delivery of feature B, etc.
FWIW before using Pkg.<something>, you usually need to do "using Pkg" first, that may have been the issue with the 'Pkg not defined' error.
Yes, let’s cram even more people into a drought prone desert region. /s
You do, you just haven't chosen to start using it yet. It's there waiting for you when you want to.
It's a pain in the butt, but I've realized integers are a good practice. Especially due with oddities of conversions and "maths" like Javascript perform.
Stabilizers on these fighter jets are heavily canted, aren't they?
There weren't rumors, there were convictions, a jail sentence, and numerous known victims.
It was trained on renaissance paintings. How many of those feature Asians or black people? It wasn't a portrait generator, it was a 'renaissance conditioned portrait generator'. If it were trained on Ukiyo E, it would have made everyone look Asian. GANs have nothing against specific races.
The heat signature of the engine, which in part is connected to the entire plane. Burning that much jet fuel produces a tremendous amount of energy. You literally have a glowing ball of energy streaking thru a vast void of no to low energy. Clouds have heat, but not at the huge concentration a fighter jet has.

I guess you have flares, but now its an "AI" problem of choosing the right target.
I've (anecdotally) noticed that people and candidates tend to refer to insurance costs, vs costs of the underlying. My perception is that they want "medical insurance" to really be a subsidy, not classic insurance.
μPython is great - I am not complaining about it, but for someone who is tinkering with a project, it is different enough from Cpython to make things frustrating.

If this was a commercial project, I would agree completely (and from a BOM cost, the manufacturer would be a lot better off investing the time in the dev on a microcontroller)
This reminds me of a technique used by another language I read about in the early nineties, used by a language called (I think) 'C@T' (don't bother Googling that: I found nothing relevant, and the results seem to be mostly NSFW).

The technique was instruction interleaving. They supported several very different architectures from one platform-independent binary. I think they were x86, 68k, MIPS and SPARC. Each executable started with a boilerplate header: a bit of black magic which worked on all of the platforms (more on that below). When execution emerged at the end of the header, the instruction pointer was pointed at the entry point appropriate for the architecture it was executing on. Each entry point (one for each architecture) made sure that the instruction pointer would always jump over parts with the other architectures, to the next applicable instruction in the correct architecture.

The boilerplate header worked something like this: the first few bytes, when interpreted on one particular architecture, would jump to the address immediately following the header, which was the starting point for that architecture's thread-of-control. All other architectures interpreted that instruction as something that was effectively a no-op for the purpose of flow control (like maybe added two registers into another register). Consequently, the next instruction would only be seen by one of the remaining architectures, and a similar process would peel off the remaining architectures, one-by-one, directing each to the appropriate real entry point for that architecture. As I recall they did not do something simple like have monolithic blocks of code separated by architecture: if there was a loop, the body of the loop had interleaved instructions for all architectures. I'm sure this was in the days before instruction caches were a thing.

I think they were able to get some space savings with this, at least by sharing constant data segments (maybe). At the time I read it I did not appreciate some of what they did, and now I could but I can't find the article I read nor any papers about it. I probably read it in Computer Language or Dr. Dobbs or something like that, probably in the early nineties. If anyone else remembers this and can point me to a source, I'd love to revisit it. I think it might have been a project out of AT&T labs.
Would be nice to have a tl;Dr for us folks on mobile - I enjoy this kind of stuff very much but for some reason it felt like a drag getting to the point

Would be great to have seen some code examples of before/ after straight away perhaps

Product seems neat I will look into giving it a go on my side projects
Managing My Energy, Not My Time
>For example: What if the car is also abandoned?

Simple: you inform the police that you think that car has been abandoned, and you let them deal with it. You can't just jump-start it and drive away because you think it's abandoned.
Agreed. Always have an initiation fee, applicable to hours to be spent. By the time this ask has been made, the proposal conversation should've established your credibility.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-02/hong-kong-police-rega...

This is a pretty clear case of rioting or the equivalent. To your point, I'll admit it could be a "false flag" as it were.
Your first alarm warning to walk away is the first time payroll is missed. Unless you have some personal attachment to the founders or summat, no amount of "vision" and "passion" is going to make up for the fact that the company is doomed and/or you're being scammed.

If you're not on payroll, as another commentor mentions: get money up front. If that's a problem, walk away. Take a page from my patented School of Hard Knocks: if the relationship starts with money problems, you're not suave enough to salvage it. (Source: almost ten years running a consulting company.)
I am sorry to hear that statistics are not politically correct. For example, assume that the population is roughly 50% white, 25% hispanic, and 25% black.

If you sample this distribution without adding any bias, you will get a sample distribution that will have roughly the same distribution as the original population.

Now if you do machine learning on that, you will obviously give the algorithm twice as many of white faces to learn from as compared to the other two, and the error rate will be lower for the white faces.

Since people are upset that the error rate is lower (let's say 2% vs 2.6% - a 30% higher error rate), the solution here would seem to be to increase the error rate for whites by dropping their samples, as you can't really conjure data for the other two out of nowhere. So basically you have to make your system worse, so some people could be happy. Not nice.

Obviously, you could pay extra to acquire those samples, but given the way the current data collection systems work (data is just collected en-masse from the data that was uploaded by the people), you can't really expect companies to double their machine learning budgets (or whatever it's gonna cost them to collect that data) to justify this.

Also, it could be that the author of the article has some secret obvious solution to this, but they are just not sharing that with the rest of us :).
this isn't re-inventing the wheel. This is how money is safely represented because floating point math is inexact. You end up with cases where the transaction is off ±1¢ (at least)
Already in some places in Hillcrest you can walk to restraunts/shops. In UTC you can get around on busses (well, because UCSD spurred more public transport density).

Right now San Diego feels like an overgrown suburbia. If we transform into a real urban city I welcome it. The increased housing density will also presumably decrease housing prices, further making a more equitable city.
They should probably qualify what kind of art seems to reduce anxiety. I could line a patient waiting room with H.R. Giger paintings, but that might not achieve the same result:

https://slowsoulburn.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/hr_giger_du...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lwoGruDK7ww/TWaPQYPMQ9I/AAAAAAAAAc...

https://slowsoulburn.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/hr-giger_00...

https://pickadolla.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/elp___h_r_gig...
Functional Programming Languages and the Pursuit of Laziness [audio]
Thank you.

My politics aside - which on healthcare include both socialism and free market capitalism, to different degrees in different contexts - I really was just trying to communicate the straight fact, and I’m very appreciative of your recognition of that. In these discussions, it often seems like people assume that healthcare and associated amenities are created from thin air, and when less than ideal, are so due strictly to malice or indifference. Which couldn’t be further from the truth.
One interesting case is the Pinball game that came with Windows. IIRC, it relied on 32-bit x86 features that failed on 64-bit machines.
Great article! I admire him for not giving up and even becoming a successful entrepreneur under these severe circumstances.

Yet, I'd like to post a warning here. Putting the metaphoric gun to your head, as the article suggests, may sometimes be the only feasible option, but it can also lead to psychological problems later on. Not everything works better with force. In fact, there are things that require the opposite. It's easy to unlearn that when you put yourself under constant force and pressure, and your success becomes based on that solely.
Thank you - this is a bizarrely bad question. Not only is "earn interest" a very different use than "eat dinner", but someone short on money is also more likely to have access to short-term, high-yield "investments" like avoiding fees.

Investing 100 Euro for a year might earn 5%, but if 100 Euro today lets me avoid taking a payday loan, I could 'earn' 30%+ in interest not incurred, and should take the money now in more cases. If I'm 100 Euro behind on my gas bill and know the fee for late payment is 80 Euro, I should obviously pass up 150 Euro in a year. If my car I use to get to work is broken, I need 80 Euro to repair it, and I'll make 150 Euro tomorrow by not missing work, then taking the money now is higher payoff (250 Euro total) than any return offered (max 200).

It's a constant frustration I have with econ experiments, even when they're less blatantly silly than this. The Allais paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allais_paradox) is interesting, but it ultimately shows that people's preferences change when you add an equal amount of expected value to every choice in a wager. When you look at the actual uses of money (e.g. the sub-linear correlation with happiness), it stops being surprising or irrational that people's appetite for risk varies with the dollar value being wagered.
PostgreSQL: Regular Expressions and Pattern Matching
“The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.”

~Utah Phillips

Inb4 pedant quibbles "the planet itself is not dying." Yeah, but we and our fellow creatures are dying. It should be understood that is what was meant.
Most graph databases are being used as secondary systems, often used as indexing for other databases, etc.
We believe this is due to a lack of features or performance at scale.

Our goal at Dgraph is to be used as main storage similarly to how people use Postgres or Mongo.

Happy to ask Manish (the author of the post and CEO of Dgraph) for more details!
You have better traffic lights then. Many US states have laws the specifically allow motorcycles to run red lights as long as they stop and wait a certain amount of time.
Anyone have tips on self imposing pressure? I perform extraordinary under pressure. Literally, I become unstoppable. However, I have a bad habit of rationalizing (almost in a Nietzsche way) that the pressure is artificial if self induced, and it won't work. I can't pscyhe myself out.
My wife already does this. She hates typing urls, even when she knows them (eg Amazon, Home Depot) and doesn't really see why they are necessary when she can just Google everything.
> could not afford a one-week annual holiday away from home

You get in Europe around one month of paid vacation time. What people can't afford is to travel. The title of the article misses that point, but, it's clear in the article itself.

I'm surprised that Italy, 44%, is in such a bad position. Worse than Poland (35%).
I think "upper" comes after millionaire. Someone in the middle class should be a millionaire by the time they retire.
Increase density now so people can live closer to their workplaces and thus decrease traffic NOW.
Kenya: Fighting Corruption with New Money
Is that the correct link? It starts out ok but switches to another page after a second or two.
Did they tag you that on 4chan?