skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you get prosecuted for lying to the agent, again, you would have a chance to testify at trial, and for your counsel to try to impeach the agent in front of the jury."

Lol, your word against a federal agent's. How well did that work out for Martha Stewart and her literal army of top end lawyers?
Ring lets law enforcement know that potential video evidence exists, and with that knowledge, they can go to a judge and get a warrant for it. Law enforcement can do this without ever letting the user who recorded the video know.

For that reason, it's essentially a police camera. The police can ask nicely for the video footage, and if you don't cooperate, they can easily get a warrant to obtain the potential evidence from Ring.
Humans are amazing teachers. If we see someone fail, we can imagine the specific reasons why and try to overcome them. Other animals like chimps also see the mistakes, but they won‘t adapt, they will just show how it‘s supposed to be done over and over.
Medicine and Law have made serious efforts to counter sexism? Like what?

Law is essentially the definition of the "Old Boys Club" and as for Medicine... I used to work in the medical field for a while. Go ask any (female) surgical nurse about the supposed efforts to counter sexism in the OR.

I don't believe your claim is true.
My instinct tells me that it's probably a former employee who understand the layout and lax security.
I think we must have very different ideas of "some inconvenience" when your cellphone replacement is an entire laptop with additional plugin-in peripherals. Got one of those that will fit in my pocket?
Kind of OT, but the media outlet that published this article kind of gave me a weird vibe. Then I looked it up, and apparently it's a CCP-approved, strictly censored news organization[1], like most other news sources based in China.

Really don't want to get into details, but some articles[2] don't even acknowledge all viewpoints, which makes it clear that there's some censorship going on behind the scenes.

Despite that, I have to agree the OP is definitely interesting and relevant to HN.

[1]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/06/03/china-explained-sixth-t...

[2]: http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1004929/user-concerns-over-fac...
> I think any application of deep convolutional neural networks should be alongside a radiologist. If we speed up scans and make up for it with convnets it is very hard (practically speaking: impossible) to properly validate that they will not hallucinate away rare abnormalities. It will also be impossible for radiologists your spot errors like this in the wild because of the reduction in quality of the scan.

The benchmark for this technology is not perfection. The benchmark is human radiologists. Yes, this technology will miss things, so do humans. But if it's performing better than the humans we should prefer it, even if it's not perfect.
I would consider something like https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/375.pdf which shows why blockchains aren't relevant or useful for most of these use cases. In that case, it's probably, sadly, a matter of attracting investors through hype.
How could it not imply it? That's when women started entering those fields en masse and really increasing their numbers. Going by the "the problem is men being sexist" reasoning, that they were able to do this successfully implies that the lawyers and doctors in charge then were less sexist than engineers today.
Practically no one endorses "equality of outcome" in itself. It's a question of whether disparate outcomes evidence disparate opportunities (findings like those in question suggest that they may not).
What we can learn from a decade of dead Google projects
I still use both but lately Neovim just works better although I think it uses more memory. It could be the appimage though. Most of the extensions that I use in Neovim are written in VimL (Pathogen and Lightline and the Monokai Tasty color scheme). In some terminals (Xfce term) nvim messes up vim paste until you reset the term. It's very annoying.
If you steelman the argument, there’s actually several reasonable alternatives, and this is the benefit of having the discussion: it pathfinds the way for people to get off the bus, and changes the narrative over time.
Buybacks have only been legal for the last few years. There was/is a very good reason that they should be illegal.

Buyback hurt the company but enrich the CEO and other executives.
You are a bit too aggressive on your trimming: you have trimmed out the chart under the heading "The Right Way to Help Colleagues Excel".
I'm not sure of the state of Linux on Mac but my first guess would be install Linux and use them as normal.
Taplytics (YC W14) Is Hiring to Expand Our Cx Platform
If encryption is outlawed I'm burning all my credit cards and buying everything cash. I am not accessing my bank accounts without encryption. Even if "only police get access to decrypt."
It’s probably in the agreement. There might even be a price list in the unit somewhere too.
I can't even be mad at people blocking the intersections anymore. I know it's not a valid argument, but if they don't do it, other people will and they'll be stuck there not moving at all.

Seattle is a good example of how bad design can create incredibly bad traffic despite the fact that number of cars are actually not that high. Assign a cop to certain intersections would relief most of the traffic I presume.
I'm not talking about hospitals today. I'm talking about potential gatekeepers in the 60's and 70's.
I'm sorry I just thought it would be a nice ironic twist -- recruiters hiring other recruiters has to be like a matter meeting anti-matter. In all seriousness, it all comes back to the client. Having been a hiring manager, one of the things that frustrates me is that HR departments have so little bandwidth to do the one thing that's truly important (hiring) that they have no choice but to treat it like a retail shopping experience: hiring 3-5 recruiters, post it to the job boards and hope a qualified candidate shows up. And then by contrast you see the companies that work at it - they host meetups, they sponsor conferences and they go out of their way to create conversations between hiring managers and people who aren't even looking.
If you're not driving the car it's not your personal data, is it? It can't be used to identify you or anything about you, and so your data rights do not apply.
Verizon lays off more Yahoo/AOL employees after another drop in revenue
Wow, it turns out that much to the protestations of the left, women are in fact not men, and given more equality of opportunity and freedom to choose will gravitate more towards fields suited to their natures, on average. This was common sense a generation or two ago, but now feels like heresy to speak out loud. Certainly a fireable offense (just ask James Damore!)
> I'm not looking for candidates to show that they care

I'm sure gut-punching you also doesn't change the fact that they can think about algorithms and code. But it does say something about them as people and their character. Showing they put effort in preparing for the interview suggests they put effort in preparing [period]. I've seen plenty of exceptionally qualified people that were a net loss for any team due their attitude. I imagined that as an interviewer you already saw that interviews consist of more than just technical skills (there were probably other people in that panel looking at those other things specifically).

In life, and interviews, it's not just what you say but also how you say it. ;)
Are there any current generation gaming platforms that don’t collect extremely detailed usage information? Never mind the thousand other middlemen also collecting data.
Classes are not verboten :) I typically create an error boundary that wraps my app/feature/etc. with a fallback component and call it a day.
I am very sorry this happened to you, this kind of behaviour would not be tolerated in Europe. Could this be related to the fact POTUS literally said to "grab women by the pussy"?
The lesson I learned is "avoid depending on Google for anything," and as soon as the PinePhone is a viable option I'm ditching my Android phone so I can nuke my Google account and finally be free of these union-busting scumbags.
Just heard about this on the radio eating breakfast. The DJ said "so I guess you should be changing your passwords often if you want to protect your self. And also turn on uh... what was that thing starts with a 2? 2-something? Uhhh... yeah 2-fac-tor authentication... yeah. Do that."

The radio crew doesnt talk about computers very often so I thought the way they spoke was interesting.
Picking random products from the list:

- Microsoft Chart: now just a feature of Excel
- Microsoft Works: seems like you can just replace it with MS Office?
- Windows Photo Viewer: virtually identical to "Photos" on Windows 10, apart from the new UI framework.
- Microsoft Cobol: superseded by Visual Studio which apparently also supports Cobol?
- Microsoft Frontpage: apparently replaced by Microsoft Expression Web, which is itself discontinued
- Microsoft Encarta: I have good memories, but in the age of Wikipedia probably not very profitable
- Microsoft DVD Maker: Kind of sad, but I don't remember the last time I burned a Video DVD

I guess this helps explain why nobody really feels like Microsoft is deprecating a lot of products. Most things on this list are either replaced by something better, not relevant anymore or never really found a market.
Nginx office under police raid due to Rambler's copyright claim on source
Assume a general ban on private encryption. This is de facto equivalent to a ban on transmitting random numbers also, since the two are indistinguishable to the government. Messages can be obfuscated steganographically of course so any kind of noisy data could potentially be an illegal message. Such a ban would amount to a mandate that all speech be thoroughly comprehensible to the government and without error.

The implications to liberty of such a policy are shocking. It is designed to be useless enough so as not to actually solve the problems that supposedly demand it, yet broad enough to be enforced against anybody selectively. A perpetual lever of fear.

Barr's proposals applying to social media are merely a restricted case of this scenario. Just like every other policy that purports to prevent crime/pedophilia/mass shootings/terror by criminalizing possession or use of tools, it is pure security theater which only binds people who are cooperative enough in the first place not to evade it. We must cultivate a common cultural recognition that these are tactics of control and not of protection.
Also keep in mind that while X could be a good hiring signal, that doesn’t mean that “lack of X” is necessarily a bad hiring signal.

I’d be ok with using public projects / GitHub as a boost to get someone into the hiring funnel, but I’d never use “no GitHub profile” as a reason to filter a candidate out.
In my experience "without getting run over" is very context oriented with the context being "what city are you in".
What? It's just a simple fact that Node, Chrome and Chromium all use V8 - which is an open source BSD licensed project.
It's implied by saying that those other fields made serious efforts to combat sexism back then, but CS hasn't made an equivalent effort now. What other reason would there be for such a discrepancy, other than being motivated by sexism?
Strictly, daemon is Latin; a better transliteration of the Greek into English is "daimon".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B4%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%BC%CF%8...
The formatting and UX of this article were jawdropping. good job!
Hey, thanks for your input!

What I'm trying to better understand, is whether women who are not applying for programming jobs at the same rate as men, are due to lack of interest, or are they somehow being actively discouraged from the field?

I've worked with many women programmers, some of them better than me, so I know it's not the case women are inherently worse at programming than men. But I don't know the reason there are fewer women in the field.

Obviously you can't speak for all women, but maybe you have some insights as a woman that I don't as a man?
Do you really believe what you believe?
> Police do not have access to the cameras, only the server stored footage, which is both optional to share

Ring lets police know that potential video evidence exists, and with that knowledge, they can then get a warrant to obtain the potential evidence from Ring if you choose not to share it.
Many, many people believe that the hands-off approach has, in the fullness of the history that brings us here today, demonstrably failed.

The argument is that we have more violent extremists, not less, and they've been quite successful in using large public platforms to recruit and radicalize new members. The "organic zeitgeist" has had plenty of time to do its thing, and it really hasn't.

You're offering a straw man argument, by way of false dichotomy: kafkaesque hellscape vs total freedom happyland. It's not helpful to the conversation, imo, and doesn't actually engage with the issues at hand. It's polemics, not a solution.
So, you only have single point of failure (parking brake) holding your car back from rolling down the road? No, leave it in gear when you park. I mean, why wouldn't you leave it in gear? If you think you're saving wear on something, you're probably wrong.
humans are able to take concepts and and predict with 100% accuracy what will happen next without trial and error. We also have arithmetic which also is not trial and error.
Unfortunately, your stance is deceptive:

Assuming a resolution period of ~120 years (full cycle) or halfcycle (assuming an effective sample every ~120 years, hence a full cycle period of ~240 years), then the recent excursion can be roughly approximated as a step function. If one lowpasses a step function, you get visible ringing. In the low resolution part of the record there is no ~120 year nor ~240 year ringing at all, so the probability of a similar Heaviside step function theta in temperature having been present but filtered out is nearly zero...
I think it's safe to say that board games are kinda STEM-related? I go to a local fantasy/SF club that's dominated by board gaming. There are lots of STEM students in there due to location, also plenty of programmers. And very few girls, and the only woman over 30 is mentally <inoffensive word>.

No, there's no beer, no cigarettes, no posters with elves in g-strings, that sort of thing. It's almost as if girls and young women weren't really interested in that. The few that do occasionally show up gravitate towards LARPs, pen&paper RPG games, and RPG-ish board games like Arkham Horror. If anything, I think those activities are more associated with toxic and sexist behavior and subtexts. I mean those are the people that spend lots of time in the same company, often in pubs or cellars, as opposed to board games where there are always people coming and going.

I don't know why, but very few young women come to us to play heavier or more competitive board games and we have several games going at any given time. And because board game renaissance is pretty recent in my country, there's absolutely no possibility it's traditionally male.

I'm for equal opportunities, but I think differences between sexes are not limited to physical. It's hard to pinpoint the tendencies, but they seem to be there. I mean look at smaller guys - they often have confidence issues and the ones I know are gym rats. They are also more afraid to go out after dark. Would it be crazy to think that people who evolved having about 20% less muscle mass also got some related mental differences?
The law of diminishing returns applies just as much to programming skill as anything else. Most programming work is not that hard; for the vast majority of jobs, the point of diminishing returns occurs well before "works 12 hours a day writing code for fun on GitHub". After that point, other skills start to matter more than sheer amount of code churned out. This is true even for e.g. senior R&D roles, where for those with the necessary programming skill the ability to come up with new techniques is more important than a few more hours spent writing code.
Well, Federal government is acting in unaccountable ways.

I would suggest that State powers that be can be used in large enough numbers to leverage the Federal to do the right thing. That is assuming you have greater trust in state power.
or PLAY "CDEFCCDEFCDEGDFG"
If you have data, or have any way to collect data, you can be compelled to hand it over.

The only real way to address #2 is by finding a way for companies to get all the value that comes from having this data without having to store or even process it.
Why is that ironic? A standard NYT subscription is generally intended for people making a professional wage. The standard academic rate for students is $1 a week (and many institutions have it subsidized entirely):

https://www.nytimes.com/subscription/education/student
They can do mobile for sure, but even then the chips that they use are not really ahead in performance intrinsically, they are just bigger (and generally more expensive) which naturally gives them better performance. And a lot of the speed improvements comes from just better direct compilation rather than JIT like Android does.

For server architecture, Apple has never been competitive. The only reason to get Mac workstations in the past before was that they were more stable than the Windows counterparts, but those days are long gone.
They are dedicating 5 people to this project... I mean... full 5 people... this is not a project, this is a charade.
I really can't overstate how skeptical I am of all the supposed benefits of gender-segregated schooling when attendance of a gender-segregated school is so strongly correlated with socioeconomic class.

I agree that all of your explanations fall well on my metaphorical ears. They seem right, and I can nod along while I read them.

But I can't help but have a nagging suspicion that you'd get extremely similar results if you just tossed a random sample of kids into a school after filtering for household income > $XXX,XXX/yr.

I'd also argue that even if you compared gender segregated schools vs a mixed-gender private school of the same price, you'd still be left with a confounding variable of "whose parents clearly valued education enough that they either specifically picked, or tolerated (depending on their views on this matter) a gender segregated school.

Remember that parental involvement is a very powerful predictor of academic success (though I'll admit I don't know if it trumps the predictive power of just socioeconomic class).
It seems like a sort of "power vacuum" [1] situation. If the government doesn't opt to take the power to read everyone's communications, FB & co will take that power by layering on encryption to shut the government out, while maintaining endpoint control such that they alone can extract message plaintext. The "debate" is just whatever these two sides have come up with to try and sell their preference to the public.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_vacuum
>I acknowledge there is data they can attempt to extract value from, but that data just doesn't concern me

This feels like a weird non computer person answer of "I don't understand why I should be worried about metadata it doesn't concern me"
I don't disagree but I think that in the average case nurture has a much larger affect on our lives that nature.
As someone who tends to fall on the side of privacy more often than not, I'm actually not sure how I feel about facial recog+home security cameras.

I'm completely against any fully automated system where the police can have access to the camera's data.

But on the other hand, what if the system was implemented completely locally, and all with the owner's control and permission?

So your Ring app pops up and says "Hey, your local police department is looking for a suspect and your camera spotted them. Would you like to share the footage?".

So many petty crimes (e.g. home burglaries, car breakins, etc) go unsolved because the police just don't have the tools and resources to go after all those crimes. I have neighbors who've had their homes and cars broken into. It's a violating experience, and I think it's justified to want the perpetrators of those crimes caught and sentenced appropriately; at the very least to dissuade others.

Within the context of a well built, local, permissioned system, I'm not sure I'm against it.

Of course A) The likes of Amazon would never build such a system responsibly; they'd rather gobble up and abuse the data themselves. B) There are serious security concerns, as evidenced by TFA. C) Civil disobedience and similar acts are an important part of democratic society, and mass surveillance, responsible or not, threatens that. And finally, D) something which I think everyone misses when it comes to facial recognition systems ... they're still not very good. SOTA published recog systems make a mistake on 1 in 1000 faces (http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/results.html), and that's on LFW which is fairly high quality. I'm sure FAANG does better, and SOTA will continue to improve quickly, but is that good enough for this kind of application?

So I'm torn.
Although password security makes no difference to how these devices were hacked, by password leaks.
You clearly did not read any of the article. If the manufacturer installs a button that turns the car on but also turns off the parking brake, there can be no safe operation of that button. The manufacturer is clearly fully liable.
There was a story on HN a while ago about municipal workers putting their phones in potato chip bags so they couldn't be tracked. Apparently it worked.
Refinitiv deployed filter to block Reuters reports as Hong Kong protests raged
Dont be a bigot! Of course its B!
Creating a new universe inside our own would not prove that universes other than our own and the newly created one exist. Sure, it proves that it is possible, but that would not be surprising. The argument is that we have no physical argument that can either prove or disprove the existence of extremely distant other universes, and simply creating one would not move that debate in any direction at all.

This goes even more for the many - worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

On the last point, I do agree. I realize how it sounded, but I didn't mean to imply that string theory is as plausible as Aristotle's physics. Still, it is somewhat intellectually dangerous to believe in a theory that does not make testable predictions.
Ah, of course. The use of dependency lists in React is something I keep forgetting exist. Thanks.
I've seen pretty much both sexes being equally abrasive at work, it's a pretty co-equal trait of the two (plus) sexes.
I graduated 22 years ago. I did my last non work related side project as a sophomore in high school.

I will do “side projects” at work - low or no priority projects using new to me technology or voluntary to work on feature that would take me extra time because the underlying technology is new for me.

That has the advantage of getting feedback from coworkers, being able to work with a large infrastructure, and of course its “real world experience”.

I’m nowhere near SV, the last time I did anything approaching a LeetCode interview was my second job out of college and they really were doing some low level C coding so it was relevant for them.

Lastly, if I do jump through hoops, it won’t be for a job that just pays the median market salary that I could get anywhere. Now that I am moving toward working for consulting companies, yeah I will have to do the leetCode equivalent.
I don't know about the indoor cameras, but the ring doorbell can send a notification live to your phone with live video, without saving it on the server. I would imagine this is the same case for indoor cameras.
Kudos to Reuters for calling out Refinitiv, which pays Reuters $325m a year for its news.
Completely beside the point, but how is a Discord live stream a "podcast"?

Have media folks just started calling any streaming audio a "podcast" now?