skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are 100% correct about the world looking at Sweden through a lens to validate their own opinions (and enacted strategies) about how best to deal with the virus.

I've watched over the last few months as people in the US flip flopped:

Center-left folks who cite Sweden as an economic model but trashed the way they handled the virus due to their support of lockdowns.

Center-right folks who normally claim Sweden is nothing like the US and therefore we can't emulate their economic policies, but then point to them as a model for reopening.

Similarly, every single mention of antibody tests on here results in a similar collection of highly-intelligent people not recognizing their own drive to validate their preconceived beliefs.
The intent of the blur is to hide the identity of the individual face that has been blurred. Average human sees a blurry face and assumes the person’s identity is safe. Research has repeatedly should this is false, especially when combined with other data.

Here’s another example of such research:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/facial-recognition-systems-c...

>> “researchers said only 10 fully-visible examples of a person's face were needed to identify a blurred image with 91.5 per cent accuracy.“
> To get an idea what kind of problems they're dealing with, I started by working two weeks in the restaurant.

LOVE this.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-move...
If you resign in protest and don't tell anyone, have you really resigned in protest?
Police and government have something very important in common with you. They are all just people. Regular people without superior morals, intellectual capability, resolve, etc. In this case a government is just a group of people getting together and saying, "Okay Bob, a few of us in the community have pooled our money together to hire some mercenaries and we'd like you to do the hiring." And then Bob just does it.
It’s a bit different, but languages like Idris have type systems that can prevent out of bounds array access. I’d be interested in seeing what the exception handling equivalent is.
We have to start avoiding latin names in things now? Fuck that. Are you sure you're not generalizing a bit too much?
So your argument is that this isn't a big deal because POTUS has other communication media available, but then proceed to immediately contradict yourself by saying that those media also censor POTUS.

Whether this should be a legal requirement, I can't say. But it does seem pretty clear that if POTUS is speaking to the public, the public should be able to hear the message if they choose, regardless of whether you personally dislike the message or POTUS.
The difficulty of the situation in general is why limitations should be placed on the system and a conservative approach taken in practice. Trying to circumvent difficulty with complexity is not an option for the first roll-out of a product.

Deploy self-driving on marked single-lane AI-only highways. Maybe let self-driving cars use bus lanes. But that's it for now, until we can certify and understand limitations of a system. It's only fair to the public to have slow rollouts that require mostly-attentive driving.
This is pretty close to my background. The article is fairly dramatically written. It’s not as if nobody has been looking at reliability and discriminability until now. It’s a big topic in the field with both task and rest fMRI.
It's too bad that articles as good as these don't say on the front page for more than a day.
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I actually think just changing the content of the message could make this so much better. Change:

> Liked "XXX"

to

> (John Smith Liked "XXX")

Including the parenthesis. Make it clear that it's not a real, typed message from the person.
> The technology moved faster than our monkey brains could keep up.

I think it’s important to remember the ways in which the internet has evolved that got us here. It’s not just a question of speed, but of incentives.

The internet has long been a tool for huge tech companies to build businesses that can only exist as long as they remain largely unchecked and unregulated, and the stock market has cheered these efforts on.

Now, we’re seeing the cost of giving everyone the ability to post whatever they want without having sustainable solutions to combat weaponized speech without compromising legitimate dissenting speech. This mistake largely falls on the market for rewarding this shortsightedness for so long.

Social media companies have also known for years now that controversy drives incredible amounts of traffic to their platforms, which in turn drives revenue.
Because otherwise it becomes impossible to truly engage in politics. If everyone sorts themselves into liberal companies that only allow liberal values and conservative companies that only allow conservative values, how are we supposed to have an honest debate on anything?
> they want FB to censor so that other people CAN'T read that stuff

I'm having a hard time believing that they want to stop with Facebook, either. I suspect this will move on to hosting providers next.
DNT has been abandoned, so we don't support it by default, but you can honor it by adding honor-dnt="true" to your script.
ProTip: don't link or click jwz-dot-org directly from HN. It's ugly.

Copy/paste link, or intermediate through archive.org or similar.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200602191338/https://www.jwz.o...
Yes, my experience is unfortunately the same. But I certainly won't fault someone for thinking they could make a difference. I don't have any nice things to say about Facebook but I'm certain that I could find plenty of nice things to say about the people who work there.
If I could waive a magic wand I'd rework TCP/IP as follows:

- reduce routing table sizes by using explicit AS routing

- have src and dst AS numbers in IP packet headers
and route based on explicit AS numbers

- that would require a decent network prefix to AS
number lookup service

- maybe reduce IPv6 address sizes to 64 bits

- complete deployment of rpsec

- make TCP a bit more dynamic (e.g., change window
scaling after handshake)

- fix IPsec -- specifically get RFC5660 implemented
everywhere, add channel binding support
He's trading practically 0 money (actually might be paid more in his next job if he selects one with a bit less growth potential) for a lot of virtue signaling value. I mean nothing evil, but not that admirable and altruistic.

Real good deeds aren't announced.
Equal protection is one of the founding principles of the US. So is freedom of speech.

Facebook is not the government, but they are the de facto public square. They shouldn’t have one set of rules for leaders and another, stricter, set for their critics.
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Overcoming the challenges of IPv6 support in BIND
I like Elixir and tried it out a few years ago. I would learn Erlang if going back now. The trouble with both for me is that if you are not developing to a fault-tolerant specification and need number crunching, the Erlang family of PLs are not performant. Yes, you could use NIFs written in Zig, but that's like using Python and calling all those C libs and functions. Elixir is great in that it is being used for full stack development with the likes of Phoenix and the BEAM/OTP, this is a good thing. I was interested in Nerves back then too, and I had read most of the book "The Handbook of Neuroevolution Through Erlang", and while greatly informative and fun, I am now back with C, Zig, J, extempore's xtlang, and F#. I am looking into HPC with UNUMS and Elixir and Erlang just don't fit my personal projects. I do like them though, but I would probably choose LFE for personal fun and Elixir for employment.
Yeah it's pretty common, for example the TAs at Stanford taught a few of the engineering lectures sometimes. I think maybe it was to help them internalize the material and also practice teaching.
> The cloud industry as a whole might have that conflict of interest.

IaaS providers (and maybe PaaS providers) have that conflict of interest. SaaS providers certainly don't. If the customer only pays for actions performed, you have an incentive to do it with as little resources as possible.

Disclosure: I work in the internal cloud unit of a company offering SaaS.
Here's a good PyCon presentation from someone who switched to voice input for programming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpv-Qb-dB6g

I hadn't thought about it until this thread, but one of the biggest barriers for me using it was that we have a really quiet open office, but now that we are WFH...
> It is precisely when your values are on the "wrong side of History" that you should be defending them the most strongly.

Not sure what you mean, people who supported slavery were on the wrong side of history, are you saying they should have defended it strongly because they were "right" according to them?
In Germany, you have two envelopes, outer and inner. The inner envelope contains your anonymous voting slip. I think it’s basically the same one you get when voting in person. (Haven’t been there for a long time.) It’s what goes into the voting box.

The outer envelope contains the sealed (invalid otherwise) inner envelope and an affidavit where you declare that the vote was your own blah blah. This also doubles as your voting registration (dunno how to precisely translate it, it’s a paper your receive that allows you to vote wherever or via mail).

So the security is that it’s perjury if you’re not voting properly. The anonymity is because the inner envelope is only opened when counting. The outer envelope is gone by then.
Very simply, the biggest threat to Facebook and other tech companies is the legacy media they're replacing. Censorship is a complex issue. So any solution will get them eaten alive for not suiting literally everyone. Then you'll be pilloried for failing to appease the one nano-segment of society that thinks you went too far or not far enough.

For your solution, the NY Times will run stories about Facebook censoring us on Monday then stories about Facebook letting Nazis eat babies on Tuesday.

That's the issue Facebook faces here: not minimising social damage or maximising freedom, it's protecting share price and avoiding legislation due to economically motivated attacks.

Fyi, I actually really like your answer.
We simultaneously hate and fear Mark Zuckerberg and we want him to be the ultimate censor on everything we see and read. Somehow, we've decided that we want to demand that he take even more power.
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Ask HN: Note-taking app that can attach to calendar events?
Does anyone know of any note-taking app that can attach the notes to a calendar event?

I take a lot of notes, some digital, some physical, some transient, some persistent.

Sometimes, I wish to take a quick note tied to an event in my (Google) calendar, such as "remember to ask about...", or "Bring up X, Y, Z".

The closest I've come is Todoist, which allows me to show tasks in the calendar, but I've yet to see something that lets me peg it to a particular event, or time.
Does anyone have any experience using this to access recruiting assignments? Or any other such tools you could recommend for an org that is already in the Github ecosystem?
Heil Honey I'm Home! did make it all the way to broadcasting one episode.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heil_Honey_I%27m_Home%21
Even in 2020, sharing a file is still an unsolved problem
A big chunk of any protest is getting your voice heard. So yeah, he's trying to grab attention. That is entirely the point here.
do we get a better outcome if morally upstanding quit the platform, or stay to make things better?
They should do an electric version of the Ford chassis in the USA that often gets converted into buses. E450 and so on. Could easily be flexible enough to work for buses, vanlife conversions, minivans, etc.
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It's just a boring sit-in for hours before the clip starts. There is literally no context. The next night there isn't even an umbrella pretext, they just start spraying around 11:40pm after peaceful sit-in from 5pm.

Here's video of the incident from 13 minutes prior (June 1): https://www.facebook.com/jessica.bundy.79/videos/36571421876...

And earlier recording of the hours beforehand (June 1, earlier): https://www.facebook.com/jessica.bundy.79/videos/36570100309...

You're not missing any violent context; just the bigger picture.
> My first guess would be a slew of defamation cases, probably by touchy celebrities, just as with other publishers like tabloid newspapers.

Ok but clearly that is an impossible standard for a website where users are able to post content. In effect, it seems you're suggesting Twitter must choose between moderating their platform and being shut down. Would you say that fairly describes your position or am I misinterpreting you?
So, I may be missing something, but...

You can get imessage for windows with way less effort and full functionality. Just have a VNC window to a mac with imessage on it. There you go, every functionality of imessage on windows. All it requires is a mac mini.
I'm picking up some equivocation between BLM protestors and white supremacists...
How is this different than all the others that fail to deliver?
Elon has discussed using the sabatier process on earth to create methane from CO2 to fuel it. Presumably the motivation would be a mix of PR and practicing for mars.
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If you're against a monopoly Netlify is actually a good option for static hosting, since it's a competitor to GitHub Pages. They also support Gitlab and Bitbucket. I'd assume the reason they don't integrate with arbitrary git repositories is that a lot of their automation features rely on workflow messages from the repository hosts beyond what a normal Git server would provide.
And asking about your GPA? With 10+ years experience? For a head of engineering?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23417060
More people taking up website building and creation, it is nice to see that it can be done easily with a service like this. I think it adds to the accessibility, not everyone understands the tricky part of building a website and most want to do it fast, so o I think this feature is pretty cool
There aren't any. The way cryo-EM works is it images hundreds of thousands of copies of the molecule and uses those to construct a 3D model, in this case, with atomic resolution. However, a single micrograph doesn't necessarily contain atomic resolution.
A good example is the space cadet shift. If I tap left shift, I get an open parenthesis. If I hold it and use any other key, I get a capital letter. It's a lot nicer than hitting shift+9/0 and I got used to it in about 10 minutes.

Any keyboard using the QMK keyboard firmware can do this.
I imagine the large majority of people throwing stones never really gave up any of their own life comforts for a principle

("oh, but I can't give X, Y or Z up, because I absolutely need those things")
Only if the janitor was clearing 250k at Facebook. OP’s idea is sacrificing a high paying job that isn’t easy for you to replace.
instead of bluring faces we should be replacing them with computer generated faces, double up on fuzzyness and destroying the possibility of easily detecting "its been blurred, i must then take out my best guessing tools then"
It's not really a huge stretch, his post on LinkedIn [0] has 200K+ reactions, and it's an understatement to say he'll have no trouble _at all_ getting a job within a few weeks.

[0]: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timothy-j-aveni_blacklivesmat...
Why would you hire this guy? What tech companies wants employees that are just going to walk off whenever some crisis of the year erupts? Why not take a stand and continue to work to make Facebook better from within?

I know, because he doesn't actually give a shit about Facebook and this is a convenient way for him to gain some social exposure while also quitting a job he wanted to quit for a while anyway. He happily took home the $250k loot for years. Is he donating a good portion of that excess cash to relevant organizations? Probably not.
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Should we tell them about the electric vans that we have in Europe for years? Like the Nissan e-ev200 and the Renault Kangoo ZE. Or the PSA vans planned for this year?
> speech censorship, even by a private company

It seems to me that Facebook (or at least Mark Zuckerberg) actually agrees with you and wants FB to be an open platform, but are being pressured by activists to censor against their wishes. This kind of goes beyond "they're a private company, they can do what they want": it would appear that they can't do what they want.
Voting by party line should be removed from ballots. This actually encourages partisanship versus having voters lookup and understand the candidates they are voting for.
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Fair enough I suppose. He would like to work in a place that is willing to suppress the speech of the POTUS so as to avoid exciting the violent ignoramus. I am glad that isn't Facebook and I hope he finds a nice job as long as he is never, ever, put in a position where he gets to decide what information others have access to.
How much kinetic energy is your Leaf dissipating compared to a loaded delivery truck?
This is a terrible idea. Taxpayers pay for the fuel in that bus, the maintenance of that bus, and the roads it rides on. We’re not funding that so Jeff Bezos can add another hundred million to his pocket tax free. This is bullshit. If delivery companies want to profit off the public transportation system, they should be paying into said system. Especially if their new plan to deliver their goods is designed to undermine and circumvent the US Postal Service, another taxpayer funded delivery system.
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John Oliver summed this up pretty well.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l-nEHkgm_Gk

It looks like the age of Independent candidates is upon US. The existing burdens/obligations prevent the existing parties from seeing the future.
I remember the "driving shop" visiting our house in like 1980, it was an electric vehicle.

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV-wagen
Also they need to invest in installing a decent charging network, like Tesla has.

Often in the UK you'll see 10 or more Tesla rapid chargers with 200+kw charging rates at key locations, then for everyone else there are perhaps just two 50kw chargers which are either ice'd or broken or both.

Until people see rapid chargers they can actually use in most supermarket and shopping mall's car parks etc it is going to be a hard-sell. We're getting there slowly with things like Ionity, but it is still a rarity to see decent rapid chargers in convenient & plentiful locations.

Of course, for commercial operators this wont be a concern. but for the average joe who doesn't have off-street parking at home then they need a reliable place to refuel.
> Defaults are important because, fundamentally, misinformation and superstition spread faster, farther and stronger than the truth, with much more staying power.

The amount of effort involved in telling a lie is pretty low. Going out to do good research to tell the truth is often much more expensive in terms of effort.

Or, said another way:

"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
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The other people back in your country of origin who didn’t make it because of physical or mental illness, lack of opportunities you may have had, bad turns of fate, etc —- would you not think of them as even less privileged than yourself?
Mis-spelt Latin, at that!
As the ability to coallese around an idea instead of an organization increases due to the cost of communication continuing to drop I think we'll continue to see more and more actual movements that can not really be thought of as an organized movement. Occupy wall street was an actual movement, BLM has no centralized leadership, 2011 london riots were actually reasonably well coordinated, but lacked any centralized leadership.
There is no bug in sqlite. That's the reason this blog post was written. And that's why it was interesting. Not because anyone claimed clang has a major fuckup.
This scene from The Sopranos addresses this idea beautifully: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFDq985HvPk

"Everything is everything."
To mention my experience, for some reason whenever I try to open an account with them, they lock it without telling me why. They've put me on some sort of blacklist without any explanation, and all I ever tried to do with them is send $100 from one of my accounts to another.
I look at it a little differently. The point is not to make some noble sacrifice, but to actually try and create actual substantive change. I would imagine that Facebook, like all tech companies, cares A LOT about their ability to recruit and retain talent. So if their employees start resigning and talented engineers are averse to work at Facebook then that will absolutely be something that FB tries to solve.
A Guassian blur is not reversable, information is lost. No research shows otherwise, because it's a mathematical property of the Gaussian transform.

Some methods can be used to find one of many solutions to the blur, where certain high frequency information is preferred over others because we know the end results looks like a human face, and not just any solution. But that only means you can get out many possible faces; if your reconstruction tool only gives you want it was simply over-trained.

[edit] You just updated your post. If you have tagged, unblurred photos of the face in your blurred photo, you can (as expected) constrain the end solutions further. WHat's not clear to me from the paper is whether or not the blurred face was tagged as well. Scenario S3 seems most likely the type of scenario encountered in surveillance programs, where the results are nowhere near 91% accurate.
Focus on impact. Do you have more leverage as an ongoing employee, or as a soon-to-be outsider who literally called the CEO a liar?

If it’s personal morality then so be it, but if that’s the case then keep it personal, otherwise you are really just virtue signaling.

I suspect June 12 being their last day is wishful thinking. If I treated my employer with this much contempt I would expect to be a walked out.
HN is a forum, but very different from places like Facebook and Reddit.
Likely, yes. But we know nothing about his background so it's also quite unfair to assume anything.
We're more susceptible to god complex because we're highly skilled at one thing already. We also don't want to admit to ourselves that we're living through a confusing time that we can't make sense of in them moment.
While there's no proof of life on other planets, there's equally no proof there's not, and it might be suffering terribly and frankly I don't see this guy doing anything about that either.

Until he does it's just virtue signalling.

(yeah, I don't get some people either)