skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As in many things in life, the sweet spot is somewhere in the middle and not at the extreme ends.

People need enough risk of negative consequences to encourage them to make wise decisions. But they also need enough security (especially in things outside of their control) in order to be able to prioritize long-term goals over short-term ones.
I'm a huge fan of the idea of emergent music that occurs in the moment as a unique event. Aside from the Disintegration Loops being great music, they're an incredible record of a physical phenomenon that could only have happened that once in that particular manner.
Amazon could just start drop shipping like these sellers do.
> Those that have, will have more, better experiences due to involved parents (because they have flexible or even just able-to-be-completed remotely jobs).

There's a lot of us that are able to do our jobs remotely, but are still struggling to home school our children. Sure, it's better for us than it is for people that must go in to work, but please don't portray it as some sort of utopia. It's physically, emotionally, and mentally draining doing your normal, full time job AND home schooling your child.

Plus, I'm a horrible teacher.

> This will be an enrichment period for those students

It certainly isn't for my child. We're trying; we're trying really hard.
Does the equation change if you get the best teacher in the world via video vs just an average teacher live?
They might be, but they're so small-time that it's not worth pursuing.

If an Elvis impersonator started to become famous or successful and popular, you can bet the EP estate would be in touch.
such a stunner of a machine. i've cheapened out and got an AKAI deck in the meantime ))
Yes but with complexities in general, and a collision with non-copyright issues for deep fakes that starts to get into more unexplored societal/legal territory. First, parody is part of Fair Use, which means that it's an "affirmative defense": in a lawsuit, the burden is on the defendant to bring it up and prove it. That's in contrast to ordinary defenses or arguments around the facts asserted by the plaintiff, where it's up to the plaintiff to prove them to whatever the required standard of evidence is. In practice, that can mean a somewhat higher financial risk and higher chance of losing at the edges.

Second though, parody (and Fair Use) is about copyright and trademark, protecting use of such material for commentary and so on. But use of someone's likeness directly, particularly for someone famous, in order to produce new works is arguably something new that hasn't really been dealt with yet. Jay-Z making a copyright claim definitely seems dubious, and perhaps was done simply for convenience rather then legal strength, copyright disputes are the form in which most take down systems work. I can see arguments both ways for whether copyright would apply at all: in favor, the argument would be that the ML models are being trained via copyrighted works, which in turn makes them derivatives. On the other hand, facts are not copyrightable (in the USA) regardless of effort or source. A counter argument would be that the ML models are merely deriving facts about a person's vocal cord, facial structures and other physical natural characteristics, which then create a factual physical model which can be utilized to produce new works. In that case, all these new deep fakes would be their own brand new copyright (and potentially the ML models themselves not copyrightable). That'd be an interesting legal argument to see hashed out.

But even if they're new copyrights, right to voice & likeness are issues in some jurisdictions and certainly could be argued should be more so as technology makes this easier. I think factors around threat to reputation and so on also are raised in new ways with deep fakes vs remixing and adding commentary to real, existing works (which can in turn be referenced by anyone who sees the parody). Even if there is a disclaimer on the original deep fake, as a de novo work which itself might get spread around without context it's at least different then what we've had until now.
The right wing candidate (Fillon) was out of the race due to some financial scandal. The left wing candidate (Hamon) who won the primary wasn't supported by the "left establishement" (who rallied Macron) as he was too much on the left. Macron was also widely supported by the medias, and there was some enthusiasm to have a "fresh" candidate.

He doesn't appeal to conservatives, neither to the left but considering the circumstances it was an easy win for him. I'd say its voter-base are the educated, urban professionals.
Disclaimer: I work at AWS.

I use Chime and love it. Its lack of features is a feature in my opinion. I used Slack for years before using Chime and I’m happy with the switch. I don’t get nearly the chat fatigue I used to get from Slack. Chime reminds me of HipChat and Campfire in terms of UX but with the availability you’d expect an AWS service to have.
Typical city dwelling urbanite bugman attitude. There's never been a time when people weren't speeding at every chance, and there's never been a safer time to do it. Pretty sure if you continue to hide in your apartment you'll be safe from the bad people who are driving faster than the 1950s norm.

LICENSES REVOKED, he says, SHOULD NEVER DRIVE AGAIN. You sound like an old church lady waving an umbrella.
Booking.com will have no bookings in Hungary or most of the world for a while. Makes more sense to close shop in Hungary than payout that fine.

Booking.com should be in survival mode like every player in the travel/transportation ecosystem
- martial arts class gives (non-parent) teacher-student setting w/ same-age peers

- play groups gives play time w/ mixed-age kids

- piano lesson gives (non-parent) teacher-student setting

- living every day life has child interact with adults for various things (e.g. ask the cashier if they have X for you to buy)

- tight knit parish community gives very diverse age range (babies, toddlers, teens, seniors, etc) for both play, service, hikes, etc

- siblings close in age

Full disclosure, I was very skeptical of homeschooling to start and am myself a product of one of the best Bay Area private schools. I only chose to give homeschooling a try as I had a flexible remote-work situation and thus a year of not being tied to a school schedule seemed worth a shot. It has been a success beyond my imagination and my son is not only ahead of where I expected scholastically, but also socially.
I have a six and nine year old. We are both working full time and even with a sitter the kids only get a couple hours of “school” in per day, tops. The six year old really not so much. If one of our jobs goes away we may actually be able to provide our kids an education but “remote learning” like we have now requires a dedicated parent educator or kids old enough and interested enough to be self directed. I don’t think it will ever be viable at scale.
the real GDPR problem is if the user has asked to delete data and you do this soft delete but keep all their old data as well, and then someone hacks your system and gets that data.

You're obligated by GDPR to disclose to affected parties that their data has been compromised, but you were also obligated to delete the data by GDPR.
I've thought a lot about this. I think there is actually a form of manipulation / abuse that makes a leader objectively GOOD at their job. They become successful, wealthy, etc. That said, that form of leadership has costs. I think there are other modes of leadership that can be even better (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teal_organisation) and that's what many company cultures are trying to cultivate.
Why trust the WHO when they are being defunded in the first place? After mismanaging and trying to cover things up?

Sounds like YouTube is blindly following the WHO. I am so sick of big tech and all the censorship, privacy invasion, etc. Wish there was more alternatives but everyone will flock to what’s popular...

Wish I had the resources to start alternatives, maybe headquarters in Texas where I bet they have a more freedom mindset compared to all the Californian tech companies that’s just a bunch of followers instead of leaders.

Seems all the stuff they preach about connecting the world, accessing all the worlds information and diversity is just some sort of double speak. Like censoring Alex Jones, sure people disagree with him maybe Just some things or even everything he says but if you don’t agree with him, don’t watch his channel, don’t follow him. This whole deplatformig thing is like something from 1984.

I enjoy using YouTube for tech talks, tutorials, following vloggers but a lot of stuff about YouTube is disappointment... and then don’t even get me started mentioning all the automated copyright stuff that doesn’t even consider fair use or is abused.
Yes as I understand the watermark is on the Zoom video stream you're viewing, so it doesn't need to detect when you take a local screenshot.
Yes, it's almost certain that people will be back in the office this year. Not everyone agrees that office jobs can be done remotely; even if they can in principle, many people don't in practice have a good enough home office setup to be truly productive.
> If frys hasn't gone out of business yet, they're not going to - last one I was in only sold gift bags and batteries in a massive retail space and yet somehow they were still there.

I really don't understand why Fry's isn't out of business.

Do they own the real estate they're sitting on or something? Are their online operations that profitable?

Sure, a private company can carry losses for as long as they have money. But, why would you?
Your argument assumes that coronavirus deaths will stop tomorrow, and also that mitigation measures used to reduce deaths from coronavirus via social distancing don’t affect the evaluation of whether it is “deadly”.

It feels like you didn’t engage with the data I presented at all. (Edit: removed sentences that would only apply if you had read my other post)

Edit 2: if your only argument is that COVID-19 is not worse than Spanish flu, that’s something that is reasonable. It’s worse than any pandemic flu since Spanish flu though, this is a once in a century occurrence.
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Nice resources! I've bookmarked them for later study.

That last one I like, especially where the author recommends to "forget everything about lifecycle methods" and think of hooks in the context of synchronization. It makes sense, as a declarative way to describe state and state transitions.

The aspect that's unsettling is that they're not idempotent pure functions, but rather deeply tied in with how React works internally. They can't be used outside of React, and require the programmer to understand the magic that makes them stateful.

The common issues that beginner users of hooks encounter, like the "captured scope" of variables, or that hooks must be run in the same order every time, never conditionally - I suppose these are some reasons that make me (and other hook skeptics) react to them as "code smell". If someone had designed a library totally unrelated to React this way, I wouldn't want to use it.

Looking at ReasonML, it's quite elegant and intuitive how React Hooks fit in. In fact, the code examples look very similar to how I structure my React projects, with state and actions (instead of a reducer or Redux, they use immer for immutable state changes).

I'm staying open-minded about hooks, and I think the more I learn of its roots, the more I'll come around to accepting them as part of idiomatic React.
I'm incredibly skeptical that successful people don't just marginalize those who struggle in school when suggesting what's best. Their brains can't help but perceive the issue based on their own experience.
Huh, interesting. Looks like I've got some more reading to do.

Thank you!
Most of the laid-off positions, assuming these layoffs do take place, probably won't be developers. During temporary crises, companies prefer to lay off the workers whose positions will be easiest to hire back after the crisis has ended. Engineering positions tend to be hard to hire for, so engineers are usually hit less hard by these types of layoffs than other roles.

But your mileage may vary: companies also understand that one big cut is better for morale than lots of small ones. The current crisis is temporary but might last a long time, so a company that thinks they might have to fire engineers eventually, could plausibly pull forward that decision in an attempt to save the business.

Times are hard all around.
By "camera rig", I'm talking twenty cameras spaced at 3 foot intervals. Each camera a basic VGA camera at 30 fps, and all hooked up to a cheap computer with a low range GPU to find plants.

Cameras cost: $1 each ($20).
Wiring: $2 each ($40).
Computer cost: $120 (inc 24v PSU).
GPU cost: $60.

That sort of equipment isn't going to be worth stealing.
Or cover bands, for that matter.
I wonder why they decided to make it so dark... f/17.48 is really really dark. Actually reading Wikipedia numbers it seems even darker at f/18.91.
The focal length is impressive at 3/4 km, so probably they wanted to privilege the angular resolution going toward the diffraction limit.
The guys who can cover California with AVs will already become extremely wealthy. Maybe the north gets them ten years later, twenty years later, a hundred years later. The economic benefits to local public transit in California alone would be huge. Add in commercial intra-state trucking and you've got a nutty advantage already. Maybe it'll turbo up California's massive economy even more.
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Maybe lane marker tracking isn’t the way to go? I’ve always wondered if it would be possible (in the US; through a massive initiative) to just paint lines (or embed something in or on the road) in the center of the lanes and have the cars just follow the lines. How much would that cost?
Right and Tailscale is a fine product for a variety of cases but there are cases where TailScale may not be a fit for you either due to the gSuite Integration, different privacy constraints or just not wanting to trust someone else with your vpn.
Posts without URLs get penalized, so I made your link be the submission. If you want to say something else about the article, the place to do that is as a comment in the thread.
Another instance of Softbank investing in toxic management and people with past or current criminal behavior. Clearly management team due diligence isn't relevant to their investing strategy.
The ACLU wants to know why Facebook beat a 2018 wiretap case
Rebel without a cause, rebel without a clue.

Barking up the wrong tree is either virtue-signaling, divide-and-conquered tribalism, a failure of moral courage, and/or a failure of critical-thinking skills. It's easier for most people to make pointless gestures or scapegoat certain groups than attack the root causes of their misery... and there's no strategic thinking involved.

The obvious matter for everyone with a net balance sheet less than eight figures is that small segment of society whose greed and entitlement has greatly outpaced their respect and decency towards others and the planet. The vast majority of people are too afraid of the corporate state's militaristic violence potential or too complicit in relative comfort to rock the proverbial boat. In inverted totalitarian societies, you get deplatformed or harassed at airports; in totalitarian societies, 70-some students and teachers get delivered by the police to other criminal gangs for disposal in the hills.
To my taste buds and memories, the Costco / Kirkland Beef Dinner Franks make for a reasonable approximation of what I was accustomed to eating in Germany. I cut a cross-hatch pattern on top, warm up some ketchup, sprinkle on some curry powder. Geschmeckt!
Ask HN: Products that suck but you still use? (2020)
Fellow user albertgudl asked this question a year ago:[1]

"What are products you use frequently but still hate/they suck? What are products you use frequently but think they could be done better?"

Does anyone have something to add this year?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19715548
Show HN: Debug web apps by recording and replaying requests
YouTube video of 500 foot above ground level (AGL) approach of the runway shutdown to accommodate storage: https://youtu.be/zIbXai0l174

Airport details: https://www.airnav.com/airport/KVCV

Runway 3-21 is the temporarily
closed runway being used for storage
The narrative in this thread is that, not only will serving in the military make you un-racist, but that those who continue to be racist will be expelled. The fact that most respondents who are people of color have personally witnessed racism in recent months indicates otherwise.

The burden of proof is on you to show that it's only "one person in a hundred" who exposes people to their racist ideas--and to explain why they are permitted to stay in the military if they "are also the loudest."
In the subjective tech tree dance is a thick branch of emotion
What if, and this is crazy, tax payers don't want to invest in companies that didn't save for a rainy day and just let them go bankrupt?

Too big to fail was outrageous because it says big businesses rule the world, if you don't like it, suck it.
That's a problem with abstraction layers and hiding state, observability goes into the toilet.

Interesting thing I learned about designing production test equipment. If you show the operator all the nasty state information they quickly learn to associate trashy diagnostic output with corrective action. That janky message means, run it again, it'll pass. This other one means that row of pogo pins needs to be replaced.
Additionally, all of Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are pushing very heavily in the ML DevOps space. And if you are training/deploying ML models at such a frequency that you need to utilize DevOps, chances are you are already using their platforms for server compute.
bokeh is one of those terms that is often misused, as it does not describe a type of "blur" but the aesthetic characteristics of how out of focus elements look from a particular camera & lens.

You can apply the same thing to algorithms. Like many lenses though, so far they all have really bad bokeh.

You are quite right that the optical effects are far more complex than a single gaussian blur applied on a background mask. They are also much more complex than the modeling currently being done with limited depth information, or even worse, faked depth information.
And I'm sure I do that in some ways (although I struggled in school out of a mixture of boredom at a younger age and not knowing how to study by the time I got to college), but how does option #1 not improve the experience by providing more direct support for those struggling? Can't keep up with the lecture? Ask your group teacher to breakout and support you.
I think you forgot what thread you're in.

Uber is discussing laying off 20% of employees. 100 - 20 = 80.

It's completely reasonable to assume the OP was trying to figure out how they have so many employees, even after the layoffs.
> They’ll just stop and start playing Minecraft, but you can’t take the computer or Minecraft away because that’s where the assignments are, and so you have pretty much watch them constantly

The zoom classes don't sound very valuable.

In contrast, playing Minecraft and chatting with friends are both valuable forms of self-directed education that should probably be encouraged.

> So none of this actually matters!

More Minecraft, less Zoom. :D
Videos on YouTube are selling advertisements so wouldn't this apply here?
They are certainly trying to vertically integrate all of their businesses. Prime video is hosted by AWS. Amazon is getting into the delivery business. Won't be surprised if Amazon buys a few cheap factories overseas after real estate crashes, or a container vessel.
Yes, that’s exactly true. The “stack machine” here can be seen as nothing more than a way of encoding the expression tree.
Ah the “give up before we even try” approach. Did you actually read the post before commenting?

Sure you can develop a putative attenuated strain in the lab, but how are you going to collect human data on it quickly? The spread of a natural attenuated strain gives us something that no lab-generated strain can - human data right now.
Weird Al is trying to save himself trouble, because going to court can be expensive even when you win. He can legally do parodies without consent, but since so many people are happy to give him permission, that's the easier route for him.
I see this as more of an organizational challenge than a technology challenge.

Getting ML models into production isn't particularly hard... if you put an engineering team on it that know how to write automated release procedures, design architecture that can scale and build robust APIs to surface the data.

But in many companies the engineers with those operations-level skills and the researchers who work on machine learning live completely separate lives. And then the researchers are expected to deploy and scale their models to production!

That's not to say that this organizational problem cannot be solved with technology/entrepreneurship. If a company can afford it it's likely much cheaper to pay an external company to solve your "ML in production" problems than to re-design your organization such that you equip your internal ML teams with the skills they need to go to prod.
I agree. At the same time I wonder if you would extend the same empathy towards a reformed jihadist? Or if you would, if it would receive the same up-votes here and elsewhere. It's certainly not an easy task, being the harbinger of universal forgiveness and second chances.
My interpretation of this message is that Google spends $20 billions/quarter and as the ad revenue has dried up, Google will have to spend its $100 billions of savings or consider other options. As far as employees are concerned, $6 billions goes to engineers, $4 to sales & marketing, $2 to administration.
If the amount of revenue you are going to give is a rounding error for AWS, you are not going to move the needle on the funding of their other projects. This should be a non-factor in your decision-making process.
This is a joke though: "The reinstatement of funding to the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope Project" (april 1st) https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0526
Bandwidth is one of their main costs presumably, and most cloud providers charge inflated egress prices (though for something the size of Zoom I'm sure they'd negotiate).
At "basic" levels, yes, to all of those.

Here's a way to think of it: A society succeeds to the degree that it harnesses the maximum of each individual's potential.

The goal then is for a society to remove impediments that prevent someone from reaching their potential. Imagine a potential Einstein born to unfortunately poor parents. One measure of the how well these services are calibrated is the degree that that Einstein is able to reach their potential despite the misfortune of their parents.

Lack of early child care, eduction, transportation and certainly (non-cosmetic) dental care can certainly stifle someone's potential, so those seem like reasonable problems for a just society to aim to address.
I'm fine with saying it's unknowable. Likewise with the existence of God, it's hard to falsify but very easy to point out that the certain interpretations sounds extraordinarily silly and the proponents who claim to be certain aren't providing enough evidence.
Mummies discovered in burial shaft in Egypt
I would add one more thing (and that are two things), they are really sleezy with the results. You already pick a seller when you figure out that they dont ship to your country. The second one is not seeing the final price untill you go trough all the hassle of ordering. I hate shopping at amazon and typically I do it only when I exhaust all other options.
When saying that "functions do not have state" without mentioning monads and encoding effects in type systems, it doesn't sound like you have enough experience with functional programming to assert your second claim.