skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having read extensively on that case, my opinion changed. I now consider the lawsuit baseless and the verdict primarily the result of a sympathetic plaintiff and an unsympathetic defendant (the stereotypical sweet old lady vs the stereotypical evil money-grubbing mega-corp).

Their coffee is just as hot nowadays and to lower the temperature to the degree to where the effect on Stella would have been meaningfully different would result in lukewarm, under-extracted coffee that fewer people would be interested in. Further, the sheer quantity of Mcdonalds coffee moved every year without incident implies user error, rather than product error.

Yes, I know what the jury said and how they divided up the blame. I disagree with their conclusion.
> Socialists and communists are becoming more and more irrelevant in the modern era.

Leninists and their descendants might be; socialists aren't any more than capitalists are, as pretty much every advanced economy is some hybrid of the two. Because of the Cold War (by which point that was already largely true), it's become fashionable to call those mixed economies “capitalist”, that is not particularly accurate (though it comports well with Leninist propaganda.)
Hey, thanks. I've done all those things but tbh the name predates all that. I was an op in a tech support irc channel in the 90s/00s and that was the name I'd picked at the time (I was not comfortable with tying my ID to myself IRL but perhaps even moreso, I was also very sensitive about being pretty much the only minority on all the user groups and mailing lists I frequented. The "guru" half of the moniker was somewhat an homage to being a minority, although I'm not Indian).

I messaged the HN mods many years ago (either pg or dang, can't remember) when things had changed and I had decided to just use my real name online but was told that it would not be possible to change it for posterity purposes.
GrubHub, JustEat and Takeway.com to Merge [pdf]
A Principle for Lifelong Meaningful Relationships
iPhones can run DNS blockers locally[1], and Apple has a good API for privacy-preserving content blocking[2].

[1] https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/dnscloak-secure-dns-client/id1...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/cre...
It's named after a permanent outdoor sculpture installation in Seattle.
This is reaching far beyond the context of the article, and the comments replying to it with this example.
Casio CM-100 computer math calculator, circa 1984. It has sat beside my keyboard as I learned BASIC on a Commodore 64... and earned a BS in CS on a NeXT workstation... and as I wrote my doctoral dissertation... and as I wrote inverse kinematics code for a space robot.
This is interesting. I haven't seen much in regard to comparing TCP+BBR to FASP other than a masters thesis which suggests FASP outperforms on transferring large files over long distances (which is exactly its intended purpose).
But, I wonder if splitting a file over multiple QUIC connections and re-assembling at the other side would come closer to the performance of FASP? Could be a fun experiment, I might try it!
I have to say though - this is not a windows or macos machine. Each of those operating systems run an enormous number of background processes (many not in your best interests)

Meanwhile with linux your memory needs are generally modest.
It's perfectly acceptable to cash in on using face recognition for profit but dubious when used to lock people behind bars sarcasm
In particular, the optimum solution for a steady supply of renewable power for Germany (from https://model.energy) for their current average grid power demand would involve about 0.1% of this as hydrogen storage.

And that's just salt caverns. Hydrogen can also be stored in aquifers and spent oil fields.
Here's the dirty little secret of app crashes on Android: many of these apps use some pretty horrid drm code that will only run on known versions of Android. So every new version of Android, you get a crash because it doesn't recognize the new version until the drm is updated.

If this is a game that's crashing on start-up, I would guess 90% of the time the app is the problem.
The John Boyd example is super interesting. My understanding is that he essentially built a framework for thinking about dogfighting, the OODA loop. Very similar to how the author put kids on tiny bicycles. You can't tell someone what to think, but you can _design a system_ that makes it so that they think about the right thing at the right time.
A12's spec results are close to Intel's single-thread performance at comparable clock speeds in SPEC, yes, but that wasn't the claim. The claim was that A12 was faster and that is what doesn't really have much evidence to support. Particularly since at comparable clock speeds is great and all, but not if your competitor can just outclock you by a landslide. The A12 can almost certainly go higher than 2.5ghz when actively cooled. But can it hit 4ghz? That's a different story.
What shelf is that? And what are those foamy things for? Vibration dampening?
Yes, we ran it against our borrower image set and the results were atrocious, those this was now a couple years past. Never tried again after that.
It’s more disturbingly the case under whatever economy China runs. https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/03/life-inside-chinas-soci...
Navigation is very important too for large graphs. Go with yEd instead and graphml, networkx is great too
https://networkx.github.io/documentation/stable/reference/re...
Agree with you. I have a three 24” (or is it 26?) monitors setup back in the office. Being stuck at home for a while, I bought an ultrawide 32” 4K for my home. Even with my ageing laptop being able to only drive it at 30hz, I vastly prefer the single 4k to the three monitor setup (I think the actual pixel real estate is larger even if the physical surface is smaller).
A 1958 Hermes Rocket. Are use it all the time to type letters and thank you notes
As someone with a tendency to accidentally work 60 hour weeks sometimes because I genuinely enjoy the work, I think you have to balance any praise with very clear expectations for the rest of the team. Something like "40 hour weeks are meant to be the norm and while heroism is appreciated, it is not sustainable".
Reification (fallacy): “the map is not the territory”
Exactly this Marquardt Mini Ergo

[1] http://xahlee.info/kbd/marquardt_mini_ergo_keyboard.html

meanwhile modded with a ridiculously overpowered microcontroller, different switches and layout to get rid of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_connector to PS/2 to USB Adaptecmessness

[2] https://i.postimg.cc/tCCM3L3N/ZOMG-Adaptecmessness.jpg

Assorted T6o/61Ps with LED-Backlight mods and no panels under 1600x1200, and various firmware-mods, used as terminals, mostly :-)

Lamy Unic telescopic tip ballpoint pen from ca. 1990, steel [3] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lamy+unic+ballpoint+pen&t=ffsb&iax...

USAF Flight Jacket MA-2/CWU-45 from 1984, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MA-2_bomber_jacket, has actually been flown by me under an Atlas-16 in 1989 somewhere in Austria, and later survived me catapulting about a dozen meters over a Citroen 2CV while entering a roundabout at about 60kph on a bicycle, the lame duck unexpectedly braking, my frontwheel touching its rubbered rear bumper just so slightly...

Landing on the asphalt on my back, sliding, without a scratch, unkaputtbar.

VICTORY!
Maybe poverty and the stress of living in poverty has an effect on with drive and initiative.
Moral obligations, almost by definition, do not exist. That goes for anyone, not just corporations. They are the things you should do even though there is no reason to do them.

Arguing corporations have no morals is being pedantic. The question is clearly, what moral obligations _should_ they have?
> Either don’t support stuff like avx and avx2 in the big core by disconnecting those blocks

That's partly what they did. From the article: "One thing we can confirm in advance – the Sunny Cove does not appear to be AVX-512 enabled."

Maybe they also fused off AVX & AVX2 support in the Sunny Cove core as well, we'll see.

And disabling AVX in cores that otherwise support it is already a common thing - see the Pentium & Celeron lineups that Intel currently sells. They don't have AVX/AVX2, even though the cores inside them definitely could offer it.
Where did you get that?

Page 8 says the contrary https://www.tesla.com/ns_videos/2019-tesla-impact-report.pdf
I believe deliberate practice can work in the same direction if the practitioner is aware of the fact that there will be huge gaps in the knowledge acquired through practice.

I like the idea of discarding the results of exploratory processes that GeePaw Hill elaborates very well. It removes the incentive of trying to reuse artifacts that were created "while learning" and just bring back the lessons learned.
Only like 10% of the prisons in America are private, no?
It's always a slippery slope when companies morally compel themselves to block use cases from their service.

I welcome this move from Amazon, but I hope it doesn't foreshadow more moral bans in future e.g. spurred on by the next angry mobs who will try to limit free speech in society.
I didn’t explain myself fully. For the US, I think a weaker executive would be good too. I don’t know much about Brazil’s political system. I know enough about Bolsonaro to dislike his positions and actions, but it seems like the coordinated conspiracy against Lula was a huge factor, https://theintercept.com/2019/06/17/brazil-sergio-moro-lula-.... Haven’t heard anything about first-past-the-post being an issue.
In my workplace and from my perspective, I don't know how Zoom became trustworthy in the first place except through growth hacking and selling iPads with their software on it under the 'Zoom Rooms' name.

Besides that, why defend a company or a corporation in the first place? It's a damn shame that people are more enervated by corporate strife than by the suffering of our fellow beings.
Sign in with apple in iOS – a design pattern approach
But the accepted answer on SO that I copied the code that I have no idea what it does should work, right? There's no bogus accepted answers. The community would have fixed that, so it's trust worthy for me to use as is.
Sorry, i don't understand. So you are attending meeting which require your focus and valuable time and input while still intend to do something else ?

When I'm on meeting, I'm on meeting.

Actually, like the couch setup from article a lot.

Is this new Slack hell ?
I suppose you could run the horses on a treadmill connected to a water wheel... but I’d probably stick with tow ropes.
Casio scientific calculator from the 80s that (the last time I checked, I stumble on it once a year or so) still turns on and works with the original battery.
A counter argument to this would be to acknowledge that in actuality a free market is regulated. It has to be regulated in order to be free. That's because there are bad-actors who lie, manipulate the market, deceit the public, with no discrepancy and with complete impunity.
> we ran it against our borrower image set

Why?
I agree with you on this point.
These are normal apps, unfortunately, crashing at or near startup. I believe that Google made some changes to JNI in Android 11 and most of the crashes are in native code.
I think derivative is a bit generous. This is just a reimplementation of v4 with a different framework.
Police have been spying on black reporters and activists for years
this technique also works for paywalls, which I don't think ublock can get around
I second this. The tech team at my company has become increasingly more reliant on Teams, but I don't always see the notifications. Having a dedicated Teams monitor helps he me catch things in my peripheral that might otherwise go unnoticed. It also means I can shift my point of focus throughout the day, by looking over at the secondary monitor to catch up on anything I've missed in the last 10-15 minutes. I know the idea of changing focus to help eyestrain is more geared towards looking at things much further away, but every little bit helps.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/gyyv6y/temporary_c...

This might be a better link.
Is there a faster way beyond the first three steps? Surely there is a more nuanced "meta" (for lack of a better term) in making money in software?
This is EXACTLY what people are trying to raise awareness of. This is implicit bias. It doesn't matter if people have "good intentions" or made "honest mistakes" if the tool is implicitly biased. This is why having a diverse team working on a project is important, because it will help call out these issues early rather than after they have been put in production.

It's also not purely a technical problem, if you feed the model only pictures of white and asian male college students then it's no surprise when you get a model that biases towards recognizing white and asian male college students (which is exactly how several prominent models were trained).
I have a 6-monitor stand at home filled with 24" monitors in a 2x3 grid. It's amazing, and yet I still don't have enough room for everything. I want 8.
> had configured the recognition level against Amazon's recommendations.

Citations?

My understanding was that the ACLU used the default settings.

July 26, 2018 — Amazon states that it guides law enforcement customers to set a threshold of 95% for face recognition. Amazon also notes that, if its face recognition product is used with the default settings, it won’t “identify[] individuals with a reasonable level of certainty.”

July 27, 2018 — Amazon writes that even 95% is an unacceptably low threshold, and states that 99% is the appropriate threshold for law enforcement.

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-comment-new-amazon-...

Either way, the defaults are the problem if the application is law enforcement.

"Defaults have such powerful and pervasive effects on consumer behavior that they could be considered “hidden persuaders” in some settings. Ignoring defaults is not a sound option for marketers or consumer policy makers. The authors identify three theoretical causes of default effects—implied endorsement, cognitive biases, and effort..."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1509/jppm.10.114
Which ideas did Swift take from Dart?
I purchased directly from their web store, not via a forum group buy or other means. They have my contact information, and I have not received a single peep to inform me on the status of my purchase. Just radio silence.

If I'm expected to go root out some forum thread to monitor progress on things I purchase from the pine64 store, that's worth noting here to inform everyone's expectations.
Why is it that reading news from 2 decades ago feels productive?
Has everyone forgotten about Skype?

My D&D group switched from Zoom to Skype and the performance/quality is noticeably better. There's 5 of us and it's great. Free, no time limits, etc.
Plenty of companies elsewhere seem perfectly happy to do likewise. Offered as neither a defense of Zoom nor the CCP, but as calling out a tired strawman argument.
If they have a workforce in China, there are 100% spies working there. Putting it another way, China would be foolish not to have spies working at Zoom, just like it would be foolish to not have spies working at Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. You should assume all of those companies have been infiltrated by the major countries of the world, or they are working with them. To believe otherwise would be extremely naive.
In the ACLU's posts, they say that they used the "default match settings". In their response [0] to Amazon's response, the ACLU links to a guide published by Amazon [1] intended to "Identify Persons of Interest for Law Enforcement" that does use `searchFaceRequest?.faceMatchThreshold = 0.85;` (this is still the case today).

Fast Company [2] writes about this as well: "The ACLU in both tests used an 80% match confidence threshold, which is Amazon’s default setting, but Amazon says it encourages law enforcement to use a 99% threshold for spotting a match." That bit of the article links to the CompareFaces API documentation [3] which (still) states "By default, only faces with a similarity score of greater than or equal to 80% are returned in the response".

Have you seen/read something else about this?

[0] https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-comment-new-amazon-...

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/using-amazon-r...

[2] https://www.fastcompany.com/90389905/aclu-amazon-face-recogn...

[3] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/rekognition/latest/dg/API_Compar...
I agree, only bad thing is that this is pretty new and with no users
Some input -

1. Grammarly can check that
2. Occasionally, I don't send emails as soon as I finish writing them. I come back, give it a read again, and most of the time, end up making it more polite along with few corrections.
That's because a bug in hardware becomes a feature after MP and generates a number of issues or bugs or features in software. Those will eventually bubble up to web-design problems if there's a webpage involved.
I also recommend using this :^)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21234753
You don’t need to install it to join a zoom meeting, that’s one of the reasons it’s so popular.
Aw man, I didn’t know those iPads were a Zoom product. For some stupid reason I was under the illusion that my company made a home-grown Zoom meeting room solution.
One other thing. You will be thinking functions first if you get into data science, say with Python/Pandas. In general, Pandas functions are vectorized, meaning that they operate on members of a collection in parallel. You really don't want to write a loop that iterates over some 5,000,000 member collection and applies some expensive function serially.
Why just two? I have two 1080p 23's stacked on top of each other with a mount specifically for that.

The first screen is 27" away from my eyes with the top of the screen bezel being level with my eyes. This works great.

The second screen is the 23" above the first and is generally used in terminal sessions or when I'm presenting something in a meeting.

The screen on the right is portrait mode. It's only 20" or so, but that doesn't matter. Slack works SO WELL in portrait mode.

The 4th screen on the left is 22" and is 1680x1050. It works fine for email, stuff I need but not immediately.

My total investment in monitors? About $50. I do need two video cards though, but since it's for work, not gaming, that was cheap too.

The monitor on the right is no longer there, it was for my ham radio shack computer, which I now just teamviewer into.

https://imgur.com/lJFITgX
This is great! Now let's just hope nobody who works on YouTube reads HN.
I supported them for a long time as well, but they've waded very far from their original waters. These days the ACLU is incredibly politically biased, and the issues they focus on are often non-issues or low-priority ones. I am disappointed to see them, for example, file lawsuits against schools that are trying to ensure that only biological women participate in sports divisions for women, so that those sports are competitive and fair.

The ACLU's social media accounts are a mess as well. Their postings come off as unhinged and sue-happy, and the fan base of commenters has become so one-sided, that I think the ACLU simply caters to that vocal audience now. Maybe the change is not solely attributable to that - there might also be a new generational wave of inside actors that simply operate the ACLU in a more ideological manner.

I agree that some of their work is still great. But unfortunately it's been enough of a change that upon weighing the good and bad, I had to finally pull the plug on my recurring donations too.
To be fair, Zoom is the best video conference software I've ever used. It's so much better than Skype or anything created by Google, Facebook, etc. When I first started using it at work 5 years ago, I was blown away at how stable it was, and how many people could connect at the same time. It just worked.
I already said that if you want to redefine socialism as to be capitalism with a slightly bigger safety net, and some government funding of education/healthcare you can do that.

But I am not going to call that socialism.

That's just capitalism, with a slightly larger safety net.
The first use of “retaliation” should be “retaliation and/or self-defense”, like the other. I was staying a broader principle which applies to but extends beyond the immediate case.

I will agree that the proposed device might (if targeted appropriately) be more defensive than retaliatory, though the fact that it only causes harm to the focussed-on target if someone attacks it doesn't make it purely defensive or non-retaliatory, in fact, if not carefully targeted it makes it quite indiscriminate retaliation.
Probably that everybody is using masks so the system lacks of essential parts and does not work anymore until is rebuilt and fixed. There could be also a risk of database being tainted by masks with something print over it, like lips, wrinkles in the mask, or even the face of somebody.

And of course you can not require citizens to show the face and to cover the face at the same time, so to try to publicly denounce people with the face covered as delinquent wannabe is not possible at this moment.

But I'm just speculating.
A lot of things are background tasks until suddenly, without warning, the user ends up waiting for them to happen. Take your example of handling network connections, for example: this can definitely be a background thing! Your computer might want to keep an IMAP connection open, periodically poll a CalDAV server, sync photos with your phone, etc., and all of these would be very reasonable things to run on low-power CPU cores. Kick them over to a wimpy core, throttle down the frequency to its most power-efficient setting, insert big scheduler delays to coalesce timer wake-ups, whatever. Good stuff.

But what happens when the user opens up a photo viewer app and suddenly wants those photos to be synced right now?

If your code is running on a recent iPhone -- the heterogeneous-core platform I'm most familiar with -- then the answer is that the kernel will immediately detect the priority inversion when a foreground process does an IPC syscall, bump up the priority of the no-longer-background process, probably migrate it to the fastest core available, and make it run ASAP. Then, once the process no longer has foreground work to do, it can go back to more power-efficient scheduling.

This kind of pattern is super common, and it would be way more annoying and perilous to try to split tasks into always-foreground and always-background.
> Do you consciously try to remind yourself of these points?
reply

try to make it a habit
> Is there any reason not to assume that the Chinese government is surveilling Zoom calls en masse?

It makes perfect sense to boycott Zoom based on their security issues, but does the presumption of innocence mean nothing anymore? It shouldn't be difficult to prove that Zoom is actively trying to block Chinese activists.

China banned Zoom during the trade war. Are you going to treat that as evidence that Zoom isn't colluding with the CCP? Why is Zoom not embracing end-to-end encryption to free users evidence that they are beholden to China, but Zoom committing to end-to-end encryption for paid users not evidence of the contrary? This type of circumstantial cherry picking is how conspiracy theories sprout.
It seems realistic other users would ignore Amazon's recommendations for proper configuration.
> Would be great to see Amazon's support.

From one of the links on the left of the article: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/policy/amazon-donates-10-millio...

> Update, June 9: Since announcing our $10 million donation, we’ve heard many employees are making their own contributions—and we’ve decided to match their donations 100% up to $10,000 per employee to these 12 organizations until July 6, 2020.