skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Improving the training set is the way to go. Like others have said, maybe we should attempt to improve contrast of darker faces before training (which won't be easy as well).

That said, a non-diverse facial dataset in a diverse society like the US is simply useless. It doesn't help saying the AI is suffering from a human bias, and dropping these projects entirely, unless they are being used for a malign purpose like what China does.
This got me reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, which is so far a fantastic fan-fiction.
Survey questions can be incredibly misleading. There's a huge difference between do you support "cut funding for police departments" (with no broader context, so sounds scary -- all risk and no benefit) vs. "move excess police funding to social services which reduce crime" or even just "remove funding for militarized vehicles and equipment in police departments".

Intelligent policy decisions very, very, very rarely can be reduced to just five words. In fact, it's a well-known phenomenon that as survey questions become more nuanced and in-depth, the percentages of "extreme" views decrease dramatically, and most Americans turn out to hold largely centrist, reasonable views, totally different from what the media portrays.

It's the simplistic survey questions that force binary extreme answers without context or compromise that get all the press.
Hard agree. It's also a great way to teach resource management and trade-offs with immediate consequences.
A picture with a white college kid in the frame would get the output of "human". Put an African borrower in the frame and you got at best a failure to recognize a human, and at worst a reference to an animal.

I wouldn't call that bias, but instead the pure and unadulterated innocent honesty of a machine doing what it does best: finding a closest match. A (white or otherwise non-African) human with zero knowledge of race and racism would probably give exactly the same result.
And I looked at your service, looks a lot like kubeapps i.e a marketplace for Helm charts.
O’Reilly books. Lots of them.
The spike in the timeframe of the link I put is in mid March and the decreasing rapidly. Plus I think it's also cool at least intuitively the 'trending' states make sense - though I have no idea if they are weighted by population or not.
Never let a crisis go to waste. Why just cancel a program that's losing money when you can cancel the program and tell everyone it's because of your new found belief in social justice.
I would agree, except for DDG's privacy stance, and the advantages Apple would have if they wanted to make that a marketing point as opposed to integrating with a third party.
To me it looks like they saved quite a lot of engineering effort, and the price was lockin. Seems like it was probably a fair trade for them.

At least if it's sane and well thought out it can be taken back apart and repurposed for something different. There will be cost. Consider it paying back the loan. That's why it's called technical debt. The terms of the debt looks good to me.
Look. I know this is a very unpopular opinion, but it absolutely needs to be said. If we continue down this path of conflating equality of opportunity with equality of outcome, society is going to have a very bad time.

The only way to progress is to acknowledge this inconvenient truth, that there is literally nothing that guarantees that all peoples would see identical outcomes given identical opportunities - and in fact everything we know about culture and human nature says otherwise. This entire protest movement is based on a fundamentally unscientific premise.

You simply cannot expect anything good to come from handwaving any unequal outcomes away with "racism" or "bias". It's a disservice to everyone, especially minorities. The facial recognition software is correctly conditioning on a valid prior, because statistically speaking, blacks in the US commit more crime. By ignoring this fact and deliberately biasing your software in the opposite direction, you're only going to be hurting everyone non-black and negatively impacting society overall.
Anti-Monopoly Thinking
People aren’t “working it out.”

Seen elsewhere on HN:

“Every school day my kid misses is a day he and I will be protesting in front of the state house or mayor’s office”

Count me in!

Kid’s school and socializing is suffering. Work at home worker productivity tanks, and working parents are rapidly burning out.

People that can’t work at home are simply refusing to go back to work and often (fraudulently?) continue to claim unemployment benefits.
Wow.

This response (and how you responded to it) really illustrates, to me, the problem with hiring in the first place when placing those hiring choices in the hands of engineers that don't have hiring skills.

> What's the painful part?

The parts that I outlined.

> That it could have been much more terse but you ended up having to read the whole thing?

Nope.

> I'm not even sure I'm correctly interpreting your comment

Yup.

> but I definitely think your comment is lacking enough information to convey your point accurately

Right, so if it was an issue for YOU, one good choice in the future would be to engage me in a discussion. Ask a simple follow up question.

"Hey, I didn't understand your comment, what did you mean by that? I'm interested in finding out more..."

This illustrates the state of hiring in our industry. Snap, terse, misunderstandings without exploring the idea that maybe the burden is on you to get some clairity if YOU don't understand something.

"Hey, I didn't understand those lines of code, what did you indend to with that? I'm interested in finding out more..."

Typically it falls inline with that the author of this article posted, he passes out an "open-ended" coding task as a pre-interview, get's something back, most likely "replied with well wishes" and moved on. They didn't have the time, desire, skillsets, etc... to identify and engage.
McRib
A group of hospital researchers in Europe published a preprint with similar findings.[1] It has received recent coverage in the New York Times.[2]

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.31.20114991v...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/health/coronavirus-blood-...
Maskless EUV Lithography Emerges
Is this worth watching?
That's definitely a thing. I usually try to avoid games where trying to win is frowned upon in favor of games that are enjoyable when everyone tries to win.
Right, which is why as the numbers get larger and the primes get more sparse, 30 eventually takes over from 6 as the sieve (2x3x5).
If you’re working on something truely secret, you don’t need a non-compete. Corporate secrets are a thing.
You keep repeating black faces have lower variance, but you never back this up. Personally I find it a preposterous thesis, I find the opposite to be true. I know for a fact genetic diversity is highest among Africans.

By being so convinced of this without showing any proof you are running to risk of proving the point at the root of this issue: we are not addressing our bias in building the system. Not only in our data, but in your case perhaps even not in our thinking.
Yes, IFR is not a fixed value. But a range (0.1-0.6%) was provided by the person I was responding to. Even assuming NYC hit the top of the range of IFRs (which seems questionable given that NYC isn't a particularly old city), one would need an infection rate of 50%, which contradicts serology studies that turned out to be half that.

IFR in other locations (e.g. small towns in Europe where blood tests show widespread exposure) has also consistently come in at roughly 1%.
The evidence indicates that parents are unlikely to be infected by young children.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...
Software engineers are hard as heck to replace.
I have to wonder what the best in class teaching systems are for computers these days. Not "edutainment", but real educational approaches.
> we get absurd value per money out of bare metal servers, which is very much a tradeoff that is sometimes painful

What do you find most painful about your use of bare-metal servers? The thing that I like most about a hyperscale cloud provider is the level of redundancy, including even multiple data centers per region, and their built-in health checks and recovery (e.g. through auto-scaling groups) based on that redundancy. With bare-metal servers, I'd have to cobble together my own failover system for the occasional time when one of those servers goes down or becomes unreachable due to a network issue. And of course, I'd probably find out that my home-made failover system doesn't actually work at the worst possible time.
> I think many companies through the hiring process completely lose sight of what they are actually looking for

I think you're right about that. But I've also seen (from both sides of the table) that many companies also have no idea of what they are actually looking for.
> Kubernetes is designed to be cloud and vendor agnostic.

But it’s not. Connecting to EKS is completely different from connecting to GCP. Setting up worker nodes is completely different too, oh and load balancers.

It’s only the last mile that’s similar.
Definitely, I feel like my life just has been in this cacoon lacking externalities and realities of struggles many others experience. I express my empathy towards them and protest for a just, fair and accountable system of law enforcement.
Manufacturers pay chain supermarkets "slotting fees" for prime shelf space so while isle layout may be meticulously planned, the actual product placement per category is often up to how much suppliers are willing to pay. That's one of the reasons why branded products continue to do well against their generic equivalents.
AI – The No Bullshit Approach
You are talking about two of the most powerful sentiment analysis engines ever built.

Facebook try’s to tie sentiments to a reasonably verified identity while reddit adopted a less sophisticated wild Wild West approach.

Facebook is winning that war. Knowing people so you can sell ads at an auction to them is what makes you rich.
I think writing a little code is reasonable as PART of a balanced interview process.

As to the coding part, I have interviewed some people who seemed very together, but they could not write a simple program. I do mean simple, not some brain-cracking gauntlet of a test. Something you let them work on, in front of you, for maybe 10-15 minutes max.
I get that sales would have lots of relationships with customers, but why marketing? Doesn’t marketing’s relationship end once the lead becomes a customer? Are marketing executives an exception?
This question is asked on HN all the time, every week it seems. Here's one search that brings up hundreds of answers from the last year alone.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I'm not saying we need a cure. I'm just saying we can all stop pretending that those reviews are "double blind" to the extent currently assumed by many.
Apparently it was settled before discovery started [0], so no further details ever came out.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/29/6868945/the-worlds-bigges...
I was in a severe traffic collision in October 2019 spent most of the time in the hospital until about Apri After one of my right hand surgerys I woke up and I was in quarantine. Which was completely different than every other procedure that I had up until then. everyone was talking about some new virus and new rules to follow. the hospital emptied out the next few weeks nobody was allowed to congregate I saw maybe three nurses the entire time. My previous surgery was a manipulation and I was supposed to start physical therapy immediately after but it shut down the hospital and most services including PT OT so I had surgery pretty much for no reason I'll have to have it again.
That’s because “white” and “black” are loose, shifting, ideological constructions with little basis in the scientific reality of human genetic variation. Many “white people” weren’t considered “white” until fairly recently and Africa actually has more human genetic variation than anywhere else.
I completely agree with you regarding Interstellar. I think it’s all about expectations. It was advertised to be this hard sci-fi with plausible physics and it wasn’t, as you say.

On the other hand, I remember enjoying watching the Core. It’s a stupid kind of sci-fi that allows you to suspend your disbelief and have fun. What else can you do with a movie that literally calls the metal the ship is made of unobtanium?
I do kind of like the manual aspect of cockatrice instead of the automated experience of arena. It feels more like an actual sit-down game IRL. But there are certainly cons, folks frequently miss triggers or debate rules. Still that's magic.
I poked around xmage and found it rather difficult. Cockatrice definitely has a learning curve too, but my first impression did not bode well.
You continue to bring this up without evidence. Sounds to me you're just stating your own prejudice see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-race_effect
This stuff all comes from China originally. I'm Chinese so I know.

It's because Chinese characters use to be written with brushes and with brushes the stroke order of the lines is very important for legibility and beauty. See the pictures in the link, you'll understand: https://www.google.com/search?q=chinese+calligraphy&rlz=1C5C...

Just imagine what those characters will look like if you did strokes out of order...

This stroke order carried over to pen and pencil and also to japan after they adopted Chinese characters as Kanji and invented their own unique scripts called hiragana and katakana.

Even with a pencil, stroke order is still very important to Chinese characters, it's kind of like an accent in your writing. People can sense something is off with your writing if you wrote strokes out of order. It's still legible and can even be neat but people can sense something off with stroke order.

Japanese people are just taking stroke order and applying it to English.
Lots of AI tech isn't making money now, but will in the future after tons of investment. IBM is over a century old, and they've invested in a lot of tech like that. I understand the impulse to be cynical about a company's motivations for any social action, but this is honestly a good thing and we should be happy about that.
Most people don't find it reasonable to sabotage yourself based on the belief that things could be and probably will be worse some day. If some people do, then they inherently tend to get marginalized.

My dad was an engineer who I was told tried to organize a vote to form a union at GE pre-Jack Welch. It failed, but was close. Probably over 30 years after he died it occurred to me that might have something to do with why he retired early.

I always figured any company that has a union deserves it - but that doesn't mean I want to be a part of a company where management and labor has that bad of a relationship. Now I belong to a public sector union - and everybody hates those - so I tend to take a nuanced perspective, but there are some mundane drawbacks. For instance, before covid, work-from-home was pretty restricted, and because the exact amount and rules were in the contract, it wasn't easy to change.
Why would the number of companies in a given space affect the possibility of job hopping without violating a non-compete? If you're a chef with a non-compete against working at any other restaurant, that's probably more limiting than a tech non-compete.
We have a labour problem. There aren’t many people who are willing to do repetitive manual labour for minimum wage. We need robots.

Plants grow without data. Farming needs manual labour and mechanization(that requires skilled labour). We need to automate farming.
No I am more than happy to take a significant pay cut to do more challenging work.
There's an excellent sub for usb-c hardware: https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/
The term 'democratic' has fundamentally different connotations in politics, and in media.

'Social Media' is not 'more democratic' it's just a free-for-all where small voices have massively disproportionate power, and there are no controls or integrity - it's just crude, unbridled, bloody populism. A more democratic 'social media' would weigh every plebe's opinion equally.

The 'Free Press' is a self-regulating institution, like a 5th estate, much like the Central Bank, you don't get a 'vote' to determine what interest rates will be, but there is an open system in place for that to happen. You can 'vote' by buying papers and whatnot, but there are other systematic controls.

Social Media is not something we have figured out how to properly use just yet.
> I hate to think how much it was costing both companies in terms of legal fees given how many made the jump.

A former professor of mine once said... If there's one laywer in town, they drive a Chevrolet. If there are two lawyers in town, they both drive Cadillacs.
> If parents must work and grandparents must become the primary caretakers of children, the risk significantly increases that these persons, who are per se at the greatest risk of serious illness, may become infected, and this is what happened in Italy in the first 2 weeks when school closure was decided but other work activities were not stopped.
How is a configuration.nix any different than a Dockerfile?
If you have concrete issues to report, I think it would be best to talk to your department head and probably look for a new advisor. If that's not working, the college.

Dealing with these problems is hard, switching advisors is difficult, but, I feel sticking with a bad advisor is much more difficult long term. Hopefully you can figure something out. I do not envy the position you are in.
faster in the algorithmic rather than the performance sense
Great advice which I’ve attempted with companies before. Twist - they don’t clarify expectations. Perhaps because it’s meant to be vague like in the linked article. What do you do then?
We do not have labour. Those who do not actively farm for their living do not understand how serious the labour issue is..

100 acres is not a ‘garden’. The denial of labour availability as a problem by non farmers and tech sector is why there is no labour automating innovation in Ag.

Why isn’t anyone listening to us?
Does Hierarchial RL Work Yet?
Black people can have blond hair and blue eyes also. Common in Melanesians but not unheard of in African Americans either. I had blonde hair when I was a baby and genetically I'm 83% African (average admixture across all Black Americans). An uncle of mine had blue eyes when he was born
Recently, a friend of mine was interviewed for a contract role at Walmart. The first question was some dynamic programming question off of leetcode. He got stuck trying to program it. After 20 mins, he gave up and told the interviewer that he was not the right fit for the role. Sure, if they are paying $250K per annum, yes go for mini programming olympiad. Walmart's staffing company was paying like $75 per hour on W2 in the bay area.
> In tabletop D&D, a +1 sword is a rarity, and +2 is super special; magic users focused more on creativity

There were some "low magic" NWN persistent worlds that followed a similar approach, some to the point of not just nerfing, but outright disabling many higher-level spells.

Generally speaking, this was dictated by the setting - e.g. a lore-faithful Middle Earth PW would necessarily be like that.
You’ve hit a lot of the important points. I’d add that there were very few alternatives so the ‘care bear’ players who preferred crafting were forced to be fodder for the more aggressive ‘wolf’ players.

It was an incredibly special time in video game history I’ll always cherish
This makes me generally curious about Deno’s architecture/design. Anyone known much about it? Would love to learn more!

I know the JS engine is V8 (C++), and the rest is Rust and TypeScript, but which parts are Rust, which parts TypeScript? Why 2 languages? Is it mostly Rust, mostly TypeScript, or a bit of both?

Also, what are the hardest problems that Deno solves internally? Like if you’re working on Deno, are you mostly working on ... the dependency resolution/package management? Automatic compilation of user TypeScript code? The standard library? Something else entirely?
And the WHO just said today that asymptomatic people are very unlikely to transmit the disease.

My big problem with schools making decisions now is there are too many unknowns, and the situation is too fluid. They really need to wait another month, month and a half.
I suspect memory indirection would clobber the theoretical perf, but I'd be happy to be proved wrong.

My inclination is that this would be slower than "standard" high perf radix sorting, but I'm not sure if the high level overview of this algorithm represents an equivalent level of implementation.
That is not a viable business model. High foot traffic and liability issues.

Would a person running a factory allow random people to enter and do part of the work for DIY inside their premises? Just because Ag happens under the open skies doesn’t mean that it’s a park with free entry to all. Working farms are professional spaces and are for profit.
Well, when you come realize the training data for a lot of this is often someone reading the Washington Post corpus or something similar, it kind of makes sense why accuracy kind of sucks.
Aw, the famous game design YouTube channel "Design doc" is nowhere to be found here. I thought he was pivoting to dev advice...
I think most of this can be solved by proptypes, although true proptypes is not as thorough as TypeScript.

I had some negative experiences with typescript in a large React project but in that case the most negative experience was that often the type definitions provided by React and common type libraries didn't match our needs, which made doing something that would normally be quick difficult and long.

The reason for types not matching was often that we needed to generate HTML emails as part of things, which means you need a lot of deprecated attributes, so probably you won't have this problem.
> I've read enough history to be convinced that democratic-anything is usually better.

How did you come to this conclusion? Legitimately asking because I'd draw the opposite conclusion.
Facial recognition is difficult to earn a profit for several key reasons: a) FR customers tend to already have large camera networks they want to add FR, meaning the profits of selling the customer cameras and the quality control over the camera image quality is gone; b) FR customers tend so already have video surveillance management software, and expect any added FR software to interoperate as a plugin or 2nd class application to their surveillance management software; c) most/all of the cameras were never intended for FR use, but this new potential client has existing relationships for their security cameras and networking, so the FR vendor will need to work with/for this 3rd party company that already has the video surveillance management contract... Their guys operating the FR system day to day need to be trained how to install FR appropriate view cameras, understand issues such as variances of illumination, indoor and outdoor lighting, and the necessity for timed outside lights and so on. Then after all that, specialists configuring the FR system to be tuned for accuracy across all indoor and outdoor environments across all time frames of monitoring. With the logistics of each FR customer being unique, add in these other existing infrastructure hurdles, and then mix in the uncertainty of the FR system's configuration and it working with light to no technical trained staff? FR is very difficult to do successfully, and that equates to very difficult to do profitably.
> Occam's razor says she had the flu and not Covid-19.

And, in most places, test positivity rates.

For months in my area covid-19 tests were only available for people with symptoms matching covid-19 - and those people were still testing 95%+ negative for covid-19.