skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AWS is running a nice screen here. I recall reading about Rekognition being documented as having accuracy problems when individuals in question had darker skin [2,3].

>> "The latest cause for concern is a study published this week by the MIT Media Lab, which found that Rekognition performed worse when identifying an individual’s gender if they were female or darker-skinned." [1]

I can't really comment. Just recalled this in the memory banks and thought they might address this directly [they may have].

1 - https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/25/18197137/amazon-rekogniti...

2- https://www.media.mit.edu/articles/amazon-is-pushing-facial-...

3- https://www.marketwatch.com/story/ai-experts-take-on-amazon-...
Share bandwidth on I2P? It's like TOR, but with no exit nodes. Many services run on it: IRC, bittorent, anonymous limewire clone, anonymous websites, etc.

Your function would be similar to a TOR relay and you could do that too of course.

Maybe even hosting a Jitsi or Matrix server could be interesting.
Helpful article. Thanks!
$250 for something you are going to use for 1000-5000 hrs seems worth scrimping for.
Are you immune?’ The new class system that could shape the Covid-19 world
Your suggestion is to tie everything to the ownership of alternative root KSK. Meaning that you are explicitly blocking the possibility of multiple CAs for the project.
Bottomless cynicism gets us nowhere. It's far from done, but unless there's some evidence that they are still selling Rekognition to the police, this is a positive development in the field of facial recognition.
This is an interesting dynamic that I only learned about when my current company expanded to the US.

Here in Germany you generally sign a contract. The contract for a full time job covers a lot of ground, I think mine is about 12 pages long. Some highlights of the top of my head:
- my title
- my salary
- my location of employment (can‘t change that without a new contract/my consent)
- IP assignment (I negotiated different terms)
- non-compete during employment (I don‘t have a post contractual non-compete but it would have to be covered here as well)
- vacation
- my willingness to travel

What‘s not covered:
- discretionary benefits
- anti-herassment policy
- the right to use my image (this is an optional thing I signed later)

First thing I did after I got the contract was the call up a lawyer focused on employment law and have him review it for me so I know what footguns to press back on. Fairly easy and no bad surprises.
Author of the post here.

I think Git upstream is trying to simplify configuration. They have a config option called `features.manyFiles` which enables most of the features we enabled for our developers (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config...).

We wanted to use this instead of deploying a wrapper, but it turns out that some of Git's features like fsmonitor do not interact well with repositories with submodules (there were Git crashes). And we have some developers that work on repositories with submodules. So we needed something more flexible, like enabling these features only on particular repositories.
They'd need evidence that a breach occurred. Right now they can instead imply that a breach might occur, without producing any solid or even circumstantial evidence.

Put otherwise: they are using the non-compete to try and achieve the ends of an NDA, without the hassle of proof.
Yes. The direct analogue is trying to pick your own lock, versus picking a lock in someone else's property just for kicks.
Isn’t that due to Windows (and NTFS (by default)) being case insensitive?
Haha! Well said.
Maybe I'm missing something, but (apart from Secure Boot) I used dd to create bootable Linux USBs and booted into UEFI just fine. At least on recent Ubuntu images.
I see this as an extension of the Facebook <moderating/censoring> discussion, which is really a broader question of what moral obligations do corporations have beyond following the law and trying to provide the optimal product to their consumers?

Also there seemed to be no substantive discussion prior this about the police using Rekognition until it became a hot button issue. What will the widespread effects be if corporations start allowing their decisions to be governed by <outrage of the mob/principled consumer pressure>?

Finally I wonder how they will implement this, I mean after all I can sign up and start using any AWS service with just a credit card what's to stop police departments from simply using a corporate card and signing up for a different account? Also does this apply to just local PDs or does it extend to the FBI, NSA, CIA, or other 3 letter government agencies?

Disclaimer: The purpose of these comments are intended to be observational not advocational.
Burden of proof is on the one who makes the claim. I'm just asking for some links and I explained why I doubted the claim.

I appreciate your effort with giving more background, although I think 2014 is a bit dated with Firefox Quantumn becoming more of a thing on Android. Can't remember if the Preview has it yet or not.
Migrate back to the little core if the thread hasn't used AVX in a while.

Linux already tracks how long ago a task used AVX-512. I assume the same mechanism could be used to track AVX as well.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/...
Ask HN: What do you think of working for a startup that helps arresting people?
Hi, I just got contacted by a startup developing anti-shoplifting software, for a developer job(I did not apply, they reached out to me), their product is working pretty well, it's used in a bunch of stores and already contributed to arrests...

On the technical side, I'm a perfect fit, I worked on extremely similar software(it was just a school project though), it seems like a great place to work(great incubator, founders from the best school in my country, lots of clients, modern stack...), but I'm not sure I'm ready to contribute to software that potentially sends poor people to jail, I've been on the "other side", so I'm biased ofc, and I'm not sure I could look myself in the mirror if people were jailed "because" of my work.

I should add that I'm days/weeks away from being completely broke, after that I'll either have to borrow money, or go back to my parents in a city with virtually no tech jobs, so I'm still tempted.

I just went through an interview with another great startup(without any ethical issues), it went OK, and I have another interview with them next week, but it's far from certain that I'll get hired.

Those are the only 2 companies that offered me interviews recently(but I didn't apply to a lots of jobs, since most of the good ones are gone since the pandemic)

What would you do in my position?Do you think that a job like this should be considered unethical?
No it is not. I'm planning on switching to jitsi for my personal and non-profit projects, and I guess I'll advocate for it at work. Switching from Zoom to Google/Microsoft/Cisco anything is like switching from Evian to Aquafina.
Am I the only one who finds Zoom more difficult to use than Google Meet? I am not a regular user of Zoom, and do not want to install the app on my computer, but Zoom apparently requires the meeting organizer to go into their settings and enable a "Join from your browser" link for participants [0]. This is quite user unfriendly, and if I have to watch some seminar on Zoom I can't be asking the organizer to enable this option.

Note this is coming from someone who uses Firefox and Duck Duck Go to resist Google's monopoly (i.e., I'm not a Google fanboy.)

[0]: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115005666383
How to Find a Wildly Profitable Online Course Topic
Remove all the references to blacklist/whitelist from the docs and the code
Microsoft's ION – Decentralized Identifier network moving to Bitcoin mainnet
ION - the open, public, permissionless, Decentralized Identifier (DID) network Microsoft has been building has moved to Bitcoin mainnet for beta testing.

> The core promise of DID technology is to empower all individuals and entities with ownership and control over their identities
Pinot is built to answer OLAP queries at high throughput while maintaining low latency. It powers many customer-facing analytics apps such as LinkedIn's who viewed my profile, Publisher Analytics, etc (50+).

At LinkedIn, it serves 100k+ queries per sec with 10-1000 ms latency while ingesting millions of events/sec from Kafka.

This is achieved by various indexing techniques - sorted index, bitmap index, range index, star-tree index, bloom filter, partitioning, etc and a flexible query execution planner that can dynamically pick the right plan based on the query and data profile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luMLCDANxiU should give you more info on why we built Pinot at LinkedIn.

Disclaimer: pinot committer
No one is saying that someone is saying that the terms are interchangeable :). The issue is that it’s not clear why “birds are dinosaurs” is correct but “birds evolved from dinosaurs” is not.
> "We are outraged by this act from Zoom, a U.S company," Zhou and other organizers told Axios in a statement. "As the most commercially popular meeting software worldwide, Zoom is essential as an unbanned outreach to Chinese audiences remembering and commemorating Tiananmen Massacre during the coronavirus pandemic."

I understand the sentiment, but I don't agree that Zoom is essential. Jitsi is a fine alternative. It's perhaps not as polished Zoom, but that's a fair tradeoff here, I think!
No, you'd see jobs like Business Coach, Growth Strategist, and variations on such becoming more prominent and numerous - jobs the purpose of which is to take what the software does and explain it to people, as many times and in as many ways as it takes.

You'd need to automate Early Childhood teaching through to post-grad university student supervision to eliminate those jobs. Humans trust (make decisions based on) stories.

And in fact the most important part of what an accountant does is to convey stories. Software does all the rule-based stuff.
Is having a mentor necessary ?
Can't it be gained in other ways ?
Again, thanks for your clarity

> [objectivity] doesn't have inherent moral usefulness

Agreed. But I take it as a required pre-cursor, and that was implicit, so you are right to check definitions. I go something like

Nihilism: an absence. A zero
Objective: a difference beyond zero. A value

These are simplifications, but useful to me

So "physical state", and "facts not depending on what anyone thinks" both have value -- they are objective realities. Yes some people say physical state and facts are meaningless and so nihilistically ascribe them zero value. But you have not done that

I think you are saying the universe definitively exists -- it has value. Morality does not exist (in that it has no predefined value, it is a zero). And from there, you take emergent properties of life, the mind, and psychology, to create a new morality -- one which does have value, but as defined in an emergent property of humanity

> even if no such objective truth exists

Now I understand you (I think). You are after a different objectivity

By my personal definition, your second morality must be objective -- you've given it a value, and said it is different to the previous morality -- a fact

As far as I understand things, to have any meaning, there must be objectivity -- otherwise everything is an effective zero, and there is no valid way to say any one thing is better than another. For instance to say something is good rather than bad

So what you have done... Please correct me... is say there is no morality, but there is humanity, psychology, physics, desires, etc. You are saying these are objective facts people agree on, and from there you will build an objective morality that people can also agree on

If so, three comments:

1) Emergent properties and psychology are fascinating, you can build an objectively interesting morality on these. I appreciate your work and your clarity so far. Sorry, your link didn't open for me

2) How would this morality differ from the current morality -- or, to what extent is the current morality not based on emergent properties of psychology and human behavior?

3) Ah, you are cutting God out of the loop. I don't think this objectively (pun) succeeds...

But would love to hear more and any corrections
I keep planning to write this script, but never get around to it. One of those messy autogenerated ID spans is "aria-labeledby" a span that clearly contains the text "sponsored". And it would be hard (legally) for Facebook to stop doing that.
Cool. A couple of questions:

1. I can see you offer polls and chat, but those are fairly common. What are the teaching specific stuff you think is most interesting?

2. I had a look at the code. I see you're using Meteor. How is your experience with this (I'm a contributor)?
They are certainly better than synthetic benchmarks however. If you know of anything better let us know.
Trump campaign demands CNN retract poll showing big Biden lead
That sounds tedious. You should at least be able to skip that last step with one of the various browser extensions to redirect to old.reddit.com automatically, e.g. this thing for Chrome:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...
It's a moral argument against the inherent exploitation involved in usury. No one denies the time value of money, it's about how to extract that value morally and ethically, and not at the expense of the needy.
US citizens have a significant better chance at fighting a warrant. Personally, we've been using Jitsi for video. It's not amazing, but it is free in many senses of the word.
One interesting thing about the federal government's debt is that it behaves very little like an individual's debt.

A pretty decent 10-year student loan right now is at 4% interest. And you generally have to pay it back with actual money that you earn.

A 10-year treasury note is at more like 1%, and nobody bats an eye at the government covering payments by issuing more notes. Meaning that, in effect, the US government is getting an indefinite interest-only loan at a pretty low rate.

Actual humans don't get to do that because of a sticky problem: eventually we age out of our money-earning years, and (hopefully some time later) we die. Lenders, understandably, have an interest in getting their money back before that happens. Or at least in getting to the point where the loan is collateralized by assets that are worth more than the loan's balance by the time that happens. And that's the ultimate reason why revolving debt gets worrisome: It's running down the clock.

The US government, on the other hand, is theoretically immortal. There's a risk that it might become insolvent at some point in the future, but there's not the same reason to worry about handling debt by endlessly revolving it, because there's no proverbial clock for it to run out.
It is not necessarily "don't invest" but do it with eyes open.

The problem is stocks are valued based on macro factors (interest rates, money supply and demand, lack of anything else good to invest in) and sentiment as much as the intrinsic value of the company itself. So a great company could drop in value if money stops being cheap. Let alone will corona virus cause a depression? People say stock market is not the economy, but who will be spending money on Google Ads in a depression, and if they are, what are they selling and who is buying it?

OTOH this could be a cheap time to buys stocks looking back from 2030.

I think if you can hold for a long time and ride it out it's a good time to buy (is that always the case though?). But a better time than January!
I still doubt that's going to help if they don't get opportunities to make an honest living. And it might not be necessary if they can rehabilitate sooner than that.
Yes, I have posted that exact title but haven't noticed the cut until now. I hope the mods will be able to fix this.
So... cloud service providers now have the right to determine what services they want to allow and what they want to shut off? HAL 9000: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
"ready to take on" sounds more like the beginning of the funnel.

"hasn't passed a thing" sounds like the end of a Congressional funnel.

edit: this just purely a retort about the specific complaint of the parent. I don't deny that Congress hasn't actually done much useful to forward the policy changes I would deem desirable here.
"We are waiting until the current news cycle has blown over"
It is interesting that the speed of lstat on macOS is the driver behind this problem. According to the article it is 10x slower than Linux.

I wonder if anyone has tried attacking that end of the problem? Faster lstat on macOS would benefit all applications not just git.
Can someone ELI5 why PiHole is preferable to an in-browser blocker like AdBlock Plus?
> At least this only has to be done once, and frankly these AVX instructions are slow initially anyway.

FWIW I believe only some of them, and those are just some (or all?) AVX-512 instructions. I think AVX2 is implemented on the main die and doesn't have to be powered up first.
'President Trump's reelection campaign has sent a cease and desist letter to CNN President Jeff Zucker demanding that the network retract its recent poll showing Trump trailing Democratic presidential rival Joe Biden by 14 points.

'The demand from the campaign was quickly rejected by CNN spokesman Matt Dornic and the network's general counsel David Vigilante on Wednesday.

'"We stand by our poll," Dornic said in a story from CNN reporting on the Trump campaign's demand.

'Trump and his campaign have lashed out over the CNN poll, which was conducted by SSRS and released earlier this week. The survey showed Trump trailing the former vice president by a 55 percent to 41 percent margin among registered voters.

'"It's a stunt and a phony poll to cause voter suppression, stifle momentum and enthusiasm for the President, and present a false view generally of the actual support across America for the President," reads the letter signed by Trump 2020 senior legal adviser Jenna Ellis and the campaign's chief operating officer, Michael Glassner.

'The letter, which cites Trump pollster John McLaughlin, also demands a "full, fair, and conspicuous retraction, apology, and clarification to correct its misleading conclusions" while also claiming that the poll is "designed to mislead American voters through a biased questionnaire and skewed sampling."

'CNN's general counsel pushed back on the letter, calling it "factually and legally baseless" and "yet another bad faith attempt by the campaign to threaten litigation to muzzle speech it does not want voters to read or hear."

'"To my knowledge, this is the first time in its 40 year history that CNN had been threatened with legal action because an American politician or campaign did not like CNN's polling results," Vigilante wrote.'
I'm not angry at all. I'm just showing you the lack of respect that you have for others. You've earned it.

Your way of looking at the world is useless. How can you have any self-respect, working for all these "conmen"? How can you cope with not getting credit for being the great engineer you think you are? You can't. You're miserable.

Just change the way you think, or change your life situation, either approach will bring results.
A Whereby-developer here. It's awesome you recommend us. <3 But we'll also kill your CPU ^_^

You can turn on "mobile mode" in advanced device settings, and it should be a bit better. But we're a bit limited in how CPU-friendly we really can be, living in the browser. Not that we can't improve, there's certainly extra tricks we could try - but not easily without also lowering fps and resolution.

I don't think "low resource use" is a big selling-argument for our product. Video can be quite heavy.
> That means that investors' internal risk limits are the binding constraint, not repo haircuts.

While part of risk, expected return is a larger binding constraint in most cases over risk limits. I'm probably not going to lever up 20x for an tiny expected return. On the other hand, I may very well lever up 5-10x on something 50x more risky than treasuries if the 10yr is yielding 0.725%.
Ask HN: How do I parlay a significant project into interviews?
I recently created a web application that wasn't quite good enough to turn into a product, but was interesting enough to garner attention from the CEO of a major site in the space. I was close to being offered a contract position with that site, but the offer was ultimately rescinded. The CEO and the dev who spoke with me about my project seemed apologetic, but from the start of the interaction the vibe was that they hire people who are experienced and can jump right into their frameworks and go. Although I learned a lot from the project, I'm not an experienced dev and I'm not an expert in any frameworks.

Should I put the backend code for the project on GitHub? Should I link to the app in my LinkedIn profile? I'm partly just depressed that the contract position didn't work out, and I'm even a bit reluctant to create a portfolio website because I can only show off this and one other project (which I did earlier and is much less impressive). I know that I could apply to open junior dev positions and link to my projects, but to be honest I just don't believe that I'll get a response.

I suppose that I'll do all of those things, and I'm not sure what sort of response I'm expecting here; maybe I just needed to vent. Thanks for listening.
> but it is the very job of a bank to take credit risk, and to lend.

This used to be true, but isn't. The job of the bank to is play the spread. They take 0% interest loans from the Fed, loan the money to you, and then resell the loan into the market (aka, your 401k). This is why the subprime mortgage crisis was a crisis. Banks had almost 0 risk. Just let the credit rating agencies stamp AAA on the CLO, push it into the state of California's pension fund as AAA securities, profit.

If any bank is not selling the loan, they're taking a completely unnecessary risk.
They are probably comparing their product to classic TCP congestion controllers running on long fat pipes with high packet loss. If you swap in BBR that advantage will probably shrink or vanish.
Well, considering that corporations are people now, I would say they have all the same moral obligation as people.
Every moral issue is also black-and-white and requires no practical (or ethical) implementation plan.
> This last paragraph of yours is a mirror image of the same argument against manned space exploration...

Indeed it is the exact same argument and it has been made more eloquently by much greater men than I. Freeman Dyson made the argument in a talk he gave at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics titled "Living Through Four Revolutions"[1]. He discusses the International Space Station (ISS) starting at about the 7:15 mark and he adds the following quip:

> [The Russians] are very proud of the space station and for good reasons. They believe that human activities in space are an end in itself, essentially as an international sporting event. They don't sell it under false pretences as a scientific program.

[1] https://perimeterinstitute.ca/videos/living-through-four-rev...
Isn't it open to anyone with an AWS account? So how are they even trying to implement this and what would be stopping any third party from using this to submit reports to law enforcement?
Similarly, I would argue that we don't want to be reliant on corporations to determine what the lines are themselves, as they should not be de-facto moral authorities. Determining what is acceptable needs to come from our society as a whole, through reasoned debate and proper functioning of government.
The paper’s ideas are not yet implemented. Right now, it’s encrypted to whatever keys Zoom likes, including the PRC’s. Same system as Apple’s or Google’s
I had some issues with Jitsi on Brave but it worked fine on Chrome