skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To all the commenters: I was ready to agree, but after testing a second time, initially it behaves as it should, but somehow you can enter a state where the steering in reverse starts acting weird and doing the opposite of what you’d expect. Seems to be related to the camera angles.
They could create their own AMP-like tech to keep people on their website/application

EDIT: Actually they already did, it's called Facebook Instant Articles.
Yeah, I'm really interested to see how the noise issue plays out. Videos of the Wing drone in action sound horrid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqSfQxwqrZM
I don't recall negative SEO campaigns being a major mistake Alta Vista made that allowed Google to surpass it.
> The faith part comes from interpreting the economic results of capitalism

Interpreting results comes from evidence, not faith. One constructs a theory based on evidence. One tests the theory by seeing if future evidence behaves like the theory suggests.

Religion isn't like that, it does not predict things in a way that is testable. Creationism, for example, makes zero predictions and so is not at all testable, making it a faith, not science.

> Do you accept it as a useful economic system given all the problems you see with it?

Yes. Without question. Look around you - all the goodies you have were created by capitalism.

> Are you willing to entertain the possibility of alternatives? If not, why?

All the alternatives proposed have a historical record of being worse, often far worse.
It's typically considered the best approach to cast a broad net, then narrow down until a patent is granted. That being said, in the US, patents are given on a first to invent basis, so if you are awarded a patent that is overly vague, it's pretty likely it won't hold up if challenged. I find myself questioning the value of a patent office that awards patents that are vague enough that they wouldn't hold up in a dispute.
My mother is a perfect example of this. She is fascinated that my 6-year old nephew just gets the iPad, he's unafraid to use it and can do so much! At his age I edited the startup of MS-DOS to free up RAM for playing games. Times have changed indeed.
Reaction Engines
Yup, cleared everything with legal/HR.
Stallman’s experience with the online outrage mob is rather typical of the way they operate. The authors comments about the witch hunt were very on point. Defending the target does make you a target yourself. This sort of thing happens to people all the time, the only difference about this case is that RMS has enough supporters out there that some of them will actually speak in his defence.

The real problem we have as a society is that this sort of puritanical orthodoxy is becoming more common place. The way this intolerance shuts down a lot of inquiry and honest discussion seems obvious to me, and the way sinners are identified and publicly ruined is just another natural consequence of this system of values. A person is expected to have lived their whole life in perfect conformance to the orthodoxy. Any transgression, past or present, warrants complete exile from society, and any association with or defence of such a sinner warrants the same.
Are you also responsible for the deliberate misrepresentation of the things you say?
Am I the only one to notice the questions in the graph don't have a logical correlation? If you translate them, most older adults think most younger adults should be independant, while most younger adults aren't.

This is just the complicated version of "youths are lazy". I find it intellectually dishonest to put the two questions in the same graph, as if one generations expectations should logically influence or be informed by the other's actions.
The "Information" domain might sound modern, but this interesting newspaper is one of the newest one in Denmark. It started as an illegal underground newspaper during the Nazi Occupation (with the King being one of its 1000 subscribers).

On the night before Denmark was declared officially free on 5/5/1945, the editor of the illegal newspaper together with other freedom fighters stormed the offices of the nazi "Fatherland" newspaper, machine guns in hand (a Husqvuarna brand -- they mostly produce lawn mowers now; quite a pivot from their original product -- muskets).

The offices were empty, but the editors of the nazi newspaper left behind a note: "Please water the flowers; they have harmed no one".

The group went on to produce the first free copy of "Information", and used that office ever since. As some the Germans who were yet to surrender were still roaming the street and shooting into windows, occasionally the journalists had to hide under their desks.
This paper shows measured results of using "popular image recognition services" .. that include Azure, AWS, Google, IBM and other current commercial offerings.. (the implication right away is that the tested services are using some DeepLearning system on the server side). The paper specifically says "from the point of view of a software developer".. and spends quite a bit of effort to question the assumptions of a user of these services, and identify potential pitfalls from a mis-match of user assumptions, including consistency over time, consistency between services themselves, and employing a machine that produces deterministic outcomes versus probabilistic ones. The paper looks at the behavior of a Vision-as-Service use from a Software Quality Assurance (SQA) point of view - is the result -of commercial services on the web- reliable over time. Liability within safety-critical environments is questioned.

The comments here (so far) address "does DeepLearning image analysis work" .. which is a broader question than what is being addressed in the paper.. Importantly, other kinds of image analysis methods, including other ML approaches, are not being compared..

The authors seem to be raising a bit of an alarm about services like these, reflected in the paper title (weakly):

[RH1] Computer vision services do not respond with consistent outputs between services, given the same input image.

[RH2] The responses from computer vision services are non-deterministic and evolving, and the same service can change its top-most response over time given the same input image.

[RH3] Computer vision services do not effectively communicate this evolution and instability, introducing risk into engineering these systems

To a non-specialist, this seems like detailed description of a useful real-world investigation, like a lab. The authors' skepticism is healthy, and the paper overall looks good. On the negative side, the discussion of labels in Computer Vision seems to be insufficiently distinguishing between fundamental problems in taxonomy and classification, problems with data grouping in general, and then specifically problems associated with this kind of DeepLearning image identification.
Nazi == National Socialist German Workers' Party

So... why would a socialist party first target socialists? The people who started the thing are the ones getting targeted.
Middle-class parents are desperately trying to obtain a middle-class life for their kids, in the face of a shrinking middle class. Many of them will fail. They'll blame themselves, or their kids.

Some of the kids are on the track from career to job to gig to homelessness. Or jail.
When did it change to first to file?
They recruit everybody even if you don't work for a faang company. If you have software engineer as a title I think a google recruiter will reach out to you. Same with Facebook and amazon.
Regardless, it’s problematic when you also have to be responsible for things you didn’t actually say.
There is a Mathoverflow thread [0] about this. Discussion in the comments expresses skepticism because olympiad questions usually involve questions about choosing specific real roots of polynomials, not just arbitrary roots. The discussion there mostly suggests using some principles in real algebraic geometry, but these seem to be too slow and complicated to use in practice at this time.

[0] https://mathoverflow.net/questions/337558/automatically-solv...
I live in Southeast Florida and worked for Florida Power and Light for over 20 years. They called the 3pm to 11pm shift the peak shift for a reason.
If they're too independent as children, they aren't taught how to be successful people, and then as young adults they end up relying on their parents as life becomes more difficult.
Related:

SABRE Engine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABRE_(rocket_engine)

Skylon Spacecraft

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)
I think we agree, all Im saying in addition is, "total cost to humanity" is extremely hard to model, far harder than a physical climate model, so hard its near meaningless.
The 3-body problem is far from solved from what I understand. There's plenty of scope for original research.
May be they are better informed than you, as you clearly are not
Capitalism solves things with a good enough neural net. Socialism says that it can solve problems analytically, but it just uses a smaller inferior neural net of centralized bureaucracy with access to less data, and a slower learning rate.
People follow celebrities on Facebook? Don't they use Twitter for that?
+1 having software engineering experience for 2+ years, recruiters will probably reach out. If you have a referral, then that pretty much guarantees the interview.
Browser extension restores removed YouTube videos
Isn't the important thing about KeyKOS and EROS capabilities, and L4 variants aren't all capability-based, are they?
So are you saying that you cannot lay off sales people if they have data scientists on H1 ? Got it
I recently watched a YouTube video about some guy who worked as an engineer at FB, Google, etc and was recently fired by FB because of his YouTube channel. Anyway, YouTube’s algorithm thought I was trying to learn CS and blasted my landing screen with these kinds of videos.

This is when I discovered there’s a micro genre of content creators on YouTube that say they can teach you how to work through big tech company interviews, and some have spun off separate personal websites where you can get access to premium videos or tutorials.

I mean - there’s an industry around how to do well in programming interviews. I had no idea.
There hasn't been any prominent litigation as far as I'm aware, but federal aviation law seems to indicate that shooting down a drone in some circumstances is a federal crime. [1]

[1] https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/88696-before-you-p...
It might be that the skills involved in being independent (e.g. good habits around money / food / exercise / socialising / working) don't just come naturally but need to be inculcated from an early age at the cost of significant parental investment.
> Our child only just turned one. I'm pretty sure the grandma who insists on investing in Bitcoin despite its environmental impact to further her own wealth is projecting a lot of nonsense.

How does this relate to your point about parenting?
As opposed to say the prior generations who lived through the Great Depression, WW2, the decade long stagflation of the 70’s.

We like to think we do, but we don’t live in unique times.
Yes, of course. Trespass doesn't mean you can just damage their property.
Don’t you think it’s silly that Google’s interviews are so ineffective that candidates need to learn how to “game” them? Asking as someone who’s been on both sides of Google’s interview process.
It's generally the thing to do, whether governement or lone programmer —security is a collective matter, bigger than us.

Just like we notify people when there's a fire hazard, we don't just stand idle when many people are at risk of something.
Possibly unrelated, but did anyone ever attempt to accelerate the solution of linear systems of different kinds using neural networks?
H1B is the first step towards a permanent visa because it is dual intent
Correct, but first-to-file is not as friendly to entrepreneurs. In first-to-invent prior art was at least a line of defense for a company defending themselves against a spurious patent troll. (One that STILL would cost money to defend in court most of the time.)

With the change in the system, my understanding is now it is 6 months after publication to challenge a patent with prior art. And thanks to the way they are worded... good luck actually finding one when it happens.

No, I've not at all done this but it would be interesting to see the percentage of patents in the US filed by individuals versus companies over the last 20-30 years.
I agree... And perhaps put college off until after this phase passes.
Yes the tech lead
Utilities generally use what is called spinning reserve. That is a plant, or a few plants, that are sitting at idle power with the turbine generator up to speed but may or may not be connected to the grid. The old coal and oil plants were good at this and could quickly meet peak demand. Gas is much better at it though. Nuclear is always base loaded as it's usually the cheapest kilowatt maker in the system. It's never taken me 72 hours to start the nuclear plant I worked at except after an outage where a valve lineup check of the entire plant is performed and mountains of paper work to do.
Nothing on imgur's homepage will display without executing javascript. And no webm inside of a .gifv name will run in a loop without javascript. In fact getting it to run the first time requires user interaction or javascript execution too.
That question was asked by Kevin Buzzard, who is on the IMO Grand Challenge committee. So we are really going over old ground here.
So you what do you want do? Run around and poll everyone on their feelings and make decisions based on anecdote points?

You fail to present a better alternative.
Indeed. For me the distinction is primarily between Scotch whisky (which is peated and smoky, particularly Islay), and Irish whiskey (not peated (except Connemara), but smooth). American whiskeys (bourbon, rye, etc) are not really my cup of tea, though I’m sure there’s some good stuff out there.
I used to build negative SEO campaigns for clients a few years back and they were fairly effective, though I don’t know if that’s still the case today. I’m sure it probably is.
I’m sorry but how is “site xyz supports 2FA” noise, given that you essentially need to search, regardless of what site you want to check?

Are you saying only the top 200K sites are important enough to warrant 2FA at all?
This comment is deeply insulting to everybody in history who has lived in a society that has in fact completely failed. Respect your relative paradise.

I guarantee you won't discover anything superior to "the west" unless you acknowledge the many things it has gotten right.
There has been a surge in stupid patents because Obama changed the rules to allow patents to be granted to the first person to file for patent, even if the device of process has been in use for 100 years.
I don't know if that's the idea, but Genode works over a few microkernels.
> It takes a lot of faith to overlook the many impending environmental disasters.

Capitalism is the only hope of fending off environmental disaster, because it is the only system capable of producing the surplus needed to deal with it. When people are starving, they lose all interest in anything but their next meal, regardless of how they get it.

For example, the US was the first to clean up its waterways, and this is because the surplus generated by capitalism made it fairly easy.
I am very confused about your post. Are you saying that an engineer receiving $150k in base pay today, will suddenly work for $75k tomorrow? Are you also suggesting that there will be two class of engineers, one getting paid 75k and another 150k in the same location ?
Then your browser should have an option to mute-embedded-video-by-default. Problem solved.

Don't blame a web video format/standard for UI failures.
sounds like you did a good job with yours. I'm 26 now and had a very similar path to independence.

provided the family can afford it, I think it's perfectly reasonable to help your offspring with stuff like food, clothing, and housing until they start making enough money that they can reasonably handle it themselves. my parents supported me enough that I never had to worry about making ends meet for essentials on top of my coursework, but it was modest enough that I was able to increase my standard of living quite a bit when I got my first full-time job and became independent.

I knew a couple people at college that would get $1000+ deposited in their account at the beginning of every month. they had a meal plan and a dorm on campus so this was just straight disposable cash. those kids had a really hard time adjusting to life after graduation. I honestly doubt they're actually independent (financially) even now.
This does not /restore/ videos. It looks for equivalents substitutes. This does not not seem like a secret pathway to find a link to the original content (which Youtube likely still hangs to even if it claims it is delete...). Instead, it claims to look for another copy and swap that on the page.
> but we don't usually call that "knowing what it will do", unless you can actually predict the state, or in the case of a program, the output.

Who is 'we'? And yes, we can predict exactly what the output of a given program for a given input is, for the vast majority of cases. All you have to do is run the program.

> The mere fact that compilers exist is a meaningless form of "knowing what the program will do", only superficially relevant.

You think static analysis, type checking, intermediate representation, optimization, the translation of the program with exact semantics into another language, etc. - is 'superficially relevant' to understanding a program?

> You can't solve the halting problem with compilers

Now that's pretty irrelevant.

> Also, did you catch the part where the point is about how expensive it is?

Did you catch the part where I was only commenting on a specific part of the comment? But tell me, how expensive is it?
The studies I've seen failed to take into account that the difference between no penalty (not getting caught) and one year in prison is (usually much) greater than the difference between N and N+1 years, never mind more subtle issues.

Or, as biztos brings up, mostly looked at criminals who weren't making a considered decision in the first place.
They taxed on those barrels every year.
Scanning the Scanners: Sensing the Internet from a Distributed Network Telescope [pdf]
Why not simply ask the user then?
OK, so what Google should do about it?

From the outside view, you took your own website (and domain you own) and began low quality black hat SEO.

It's like expecting Microsoft to step in when somebody got into your Windows computer by putting in correct password.
Hobbes is also a very interesting framework. [0]

[0] https://github.com/Morgan-Stanley/hobbes
Won't this give an incorrect number of bytes for several consecutive whitespace characters? Why not using # to count the bytes instead?
That's an interesting viewpoint, so I'd be interested if you could do a critique of the following claim[1]:

> Hackerrank-style interviews suck and they aren't representative (not even remotely) of real working conditions. But they are good at something: evaluating the tenacity and the drive of a candidate. You need to work hard to ace these interviews, and companies are looking for candidates who are persistent and able to work hard—even on things they don't choose to work on.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21123588
Sometimes new code creates and persists state that the old code can't handle and rolling back would just make the old version blow up because of it.

Or worse, the new feature involved the tracking of something in the real world, such as inventory or money, and rolling back after the feature had been used by a real customer would lose that.

The number of times I’ve had to explain to webdevs that when a customer asks where their money is “in a temp table” is not an acceptable answer.
Conditions always change, and central planning has consistently shown a relative inability to adapt to change, meaning it just falls further behind.

This is also why corporations don't grow without limit - they become constricted by bureaucracy and unable to adapt, and smaller, nimbler outfits pick them off.
WebP should be replacing JPEG and PNG. I feel like JPEG/PNG is like the GIF of 1999, formats which can be completely replaced with no real drawbacks. The disk space and network savings alone could reduce energy consumption. Safari is the only browser without WebP support, and I don't think it makes sense to keep waiting on them. If Safari users start seeing websites with images that don't load, Apple will support WebP real quick.

One thing that would be nice would be a way to tell whether a WebP is lossy (in which case you should only edit/resize the original file, to prevent degradation), or lossless (edit as much as you please).
> Folks who say this assume they have a right to someone else's labor aka slavery

If you read the article I posted, you'd see that your cursory objection is thoroughly false:

> Proudhon was clear that his opposition to property did not extend to exclusive possession of labor-made wealth.
I would've loved to go to college and buy a home during those time periods. Please don't act like it's the same as nowadays. Sure, there were struggles but the dollar was simply worth much more, education was much cheaper, and a house cost way less than it does now.
No company will hire a person, even a Nobel laureate if they have to pay 50k in taxes for that person. Do you understand global mobility? That person will simply be hired in Canada or Europe. Then there will be a ripple effect as there will be no labor market for immigrants, naturally there won’t be a higher education market for international students, and the US won’t have a thriving labor market. Which means companies have to expand in countries with an accessible labor market
I would take the two hottest technologies right now --Blockchain and Haskell -- and do something with the combination of them. Like a new digital currency that's implemented in Haskell. Investors will surely jump on it!

Also, Rust is very hot. You will get investor confidence if you tell them your back-end is in Rust because then they'll know it can never crash or have bugs.
You could train a knzhou to do it.
Americans have a very weak sense of family. We think our children should be independent the moment they turn 18 and then put our parents in homes instead of taking care of them ourselves.
I really enjoyed reading this article as a way of reevaluating my approach to gender inequality, but I have a problem with the title and main premise.

Why do you need to have a daughter to support gender equality? Aren't these values equally as important to instill in your sons? Aren't they values we should embrace regardless of whether or not we have children?
Is it necessarily gaming? It seems to me that this a focused opportunity for self-aware and ambitious folks to carefully study what's actually really important to organizations.

Honestly, I think 80% of what keeps candidates from succeeding is an unwillingness to conform their character and personality to the needs of the institution that is recruiting them.

That said, I don't want to be a corporate drone either. There are more important things in my life. Like family, health, my hobbies, etc.

Yes, I know that if I lived the organizational values of my company I'd get ahead. But honest, I'd rather go play catch with my kids than obsess about customers[1]

[1] https://sellernexus.com/amazon-mission-statement