skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably the legal and PR teams' fault, but this surely could have been worded to sound less like potential corporate doublespeak:

"We’ve advocated that governments should put in place stronger regulations to govern the ethical use of facial recognition technology, and in recent days, Congress appears ready to take on this challenge. We hope this one-year moratorium might give Congress enough time to implement appropriate rules, and we stand ready to help if requested."

Dead giveaway is that Legal and PR teams relentlessly edit out self-agency.
Generally, you don't get hyperinflation when asset prices fall.

If interest rates were to rise to normal levels, asset prices could fall 45%. It's hard to imagine anything but deflation.

Unless interest rates go to extreme negatives, you will not see another effect like the one we have already seen from interest rate manipulation. There's just not enough room for a big rate of change.

It would be completely separate if you had outrageous fiscal spending to try to prop up asset prices. Given that fiscal stimulus is much harder to pass than monetary, hyperinflation doesn't seem like the thing to worry about.
Isn’t there already a long philosophical analysis of this phenomenon — know-how vs know-what?
If you step through the arithmetic, you see that a 5% haircut can take you to 20x leverage. It's a geometric series.

That means that investors' internal risk limits are the binding constraint, not repo haircuts.

It's another way of saying that the financial sector sets its own leverage. Historically, that has not turned out well. It's why Dodd-Frank included a leverage rule for large banks.
It's not hard to think of examples...

1. HTTPS everywhere has zero impact on the usability of a website, but makes visiting those sites much more secure.

2. Apple's App Store model for installing applications improves security and is also easier to use for the average user.

3. 1Password with Touch/Face ID can actually be easier these days than entering emails and passwords manually.

4. And more…

Security doesn't always have an immediate effect on usability, and even when it does it isn't always negative.
Educated Guesses on Software Transitioning to macOS on ARM
> China could technically spin off their censorship functions to a privately owned company that would wholly depend on the state-issued license to operate and would keep doing exactly the same thing.

I think that's exactly what's happening for certain online services eg iCloud[1], AWS China[2]

[1]https://money.cnn.com/2018/02/28/technology/apple-icloud-dat...
[2]https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/13/aws-exits-china/
>Companies have a right and a desire to run ads, and yet adblockers exist, and generally speaking the adblockers win for anyone who installs one.

I see this isn't going anywhere - you didn't acknowledge that if you work at Intel, you 100% have a web proxy on your campus despite saying otherwise, and now you're comparing adblocking by a private user on their computer on their time, and someone accessing the internet from their company's network on their company's time when and uploading arbitrary data across the Internet.

Again, you make some good points interlaced with bad ones: Yes, limit desktop access to corporate servers. Have strong IAM and auditing. But you think there is some right to have all the privacy in the world on their machine on their time. I fundamentally disagree.

And would you, or whoever is doing it, stop downvoting me? Despite our disagreements, this has been a substantive argument.
>If Zoom, an American company, really did intentionally close the account of someone living in the US, because the Chinese government asked them to for political reasons, that does sound outrageous.

Most of their devs are from china.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/26/zoom-key-profit-driver-ahead...

>Zoom disclosed in its IPO prospectus last week that most of its product development personnel are based in China

Presumably they don't want to lose their pool of cheap programmers.
What exactly are you concerned about?
Go all in then. Disallow the use of the technology without independent oversight. But don't do a half hearted measure because you're unwilling to commit, or you're going to grasp for some positive PR.

> Why not have a little positivity that AWS is finally restricting access to their technology beyond what is legally required?

Because it's not enough. "Please sir, may I have some more" is not how you address the weaponization of technology by a trillion dollar org.
I think that we're discussing different things, as these aren't pressing concerns when building barricades.
That was the desktop version. I think they changed that "feature" to be opt in after the outcry.
Is Google really any better? They may simply be better at hiding their surveillance apparatus. We need to decentralize, i.e. destroy large non-decentralized organizations.
So you don't know any successful projects in JavaScript, Clojure, Erlang, Elixir, Groovy, Julia, R, etc. etc. etc.? ;)

There are well-known advantages and repeating them here will incite another flame-war.

I can only speak from my 35 years of coding experience, spending most of that time in the confines of static typing:

Most problems I solve today are not good fits for static types. They cause major headaches along the road as your customer's needs change and as I get a better understanding of the problem domain.
What opportunities exist for use of facial recognition by protest groups and citizen watchdogs? Any products? Any success stories?
"We’ve advocated that governments should put in place stronger regulations to govern the ethical use of facial recognition technology"

Or you know... you could do it yourself. Ethics don't have to come from regulations.
A coronavirus mystery: How many people in L.A. have Covid-19?
Are you trying to do one-on-one of many-to-many calls? If you're doing just one-on-one there is very basic webrtc in web browser service[1]. I've also made my own for quickly connecting with people online[2], not sure if it's your use case though...

[1] https://peercalls.com/
[2] https://tedpiotrowski.svbtle.com/moonlite
You are confusing Ad Block Plus (ABP) and uBlock Origin. ABP has acceptable ads, while uBlock Origin does not.
And to specifically help users around you, you can then rehost the ZIM archives that you help scrape, and provide a local offline copy of Wikipedia, TED talks, etc to your community so that even if the originals go down, your peers will have access to that content.

See https://www.kiwix.org/en/downloads/kiwix-serve/
I wish there were home appliances that could take advantage of this excess supply of electricity. Since 2003 I have been hearing about the concept of the smart grid and yet nothing seems to have particularly materialized.

It's 2020, I wish there was a way for me to somehow schedule my washing machines and dishwasher to run easily other the internet at times of negative energy. Heck why isn't this possibility grid controlled yet? Having a large surplus of consumer appliances controlled by the grid could be a greener easier solution than relying on batteries.

Alas, I still can't even control my washing machine over the internet. If I could, the appliance is expensive and using proprietary 'dumb' apps.
Idiotic article. First a CLO is essentially a portfolio of loans. You can call that gambling, and in a way, every financial risk is gambling, but it is the very job of a bank to take credit risk, and to lend.

Then, I don't know about Wells specifically, but it is possible that these CLOs may not even be external transactions, that the bank securitised its own loans so that it stands ready to post them to the central bank as collateral to get short term funding in exchange, if a liquidity crisis hits. If it is the case, it is actually a good thing.

The banking system is increadibly strong vs 2008, the amount of capital banks hold is a multiple of what they held in 2008, while having reduced the size of their balance sheets at the same time (ex Chinese banks). They hold huge amounts of liquid assets and have limits on how much short term funding they can rely on. In addition the introduction of bailin should protect tax payers in the case of a bank failure.

I would be much more worried about the financial impact of money printing. The amount of QE that the Fed has introduced is unprecedented, both in size and velocity, and they keep printing. And we are only at the begining of this downturn. This will massively distord the markets. And I don't believe it will not create inflation ultimately, which is a much bigger threat to savers than their bank credit risk.
Note that I never even claimed to deny climate change (I don't). The mere act of trying to understand where the skeptics are coming from is enough to bury one's comment. Major groupthink red flag IMO.
I think thats great. I know someone who uses YT as a genuine source of income. They are not the biggest YT out there but they have enough to make some money and they deserve to be compensated for their work providing all of us with content.
> you learn how people interact with one another and you can learn to model your own communication based off of that.

This strikes me a little like "By reading lots of good code, you can learn to model your own code based on that". It probably helps, but a lot is dependent on context.

The blog post goes into this with the long quote about choosing tools and techniques for an appendectomy. How do you capture that sort of context in an email thread? Annotations like "Based on X and Y factors, I chose to write Z", where X and Y are not explicit in the email text?

I haven't looked too closely, but it seems to me that the primary value of these email threads (in terms of learning communication) is to provide a body of real-world examples - but there also needs to be applied experience (with feedback) with written communication for the lessons to really sink in.
I think you had a fuzzy memory of adblock allowing "acceptable" ads and mis-associated it. Human brains are like that.
>A woman died in Ohio this week after exposure to teargas

This passive voice enrages me, it is more appropriate to say the police murdered a woman with tear gas. There were people with agency who actively made decisions which directly caused this woman's death.
Building Windows for the ARM processor architecture
This is nice, great idea for a chrome extension
Why do we need to demand all or nothing? AWS is never going to allow for independent oversight - not even Google does that. Demanding this just means that AWS would never make any improvements.
I really liked it, then they broke it on Safari. I still use it on Firefox, but it is annoying to switch just for using it
Because the USA is a highly corrupt country, in case this wasn't previously obvious.
Up here in NH it gets a little chilly in the barn loft where the server rack is hiding inside an old credenza. A chicken egg incubator on a heat switch keeps the spinny disks on the NAS above 35F and it turns off at 45F. It only turned on a few times during the coldest days last year. I dont know for a fact whether spinny disks like to be above freezing but anecdotally someone said yes and it was 12 bucks to set it up.
because there's generally much cynicism about piecemeal measures in regard to surveillance. Over the past, it's been exceedingly common that both private firms, as well as legislators, halt some program or legislation only to bring it back a year or two later.

Arguably we need a much more principled, stronger stance on opposition to mass surveillance period. Companies that understand the ethical obligations should get out of it completely.
>if you trust a third party CA they can just sign for anybody without limits

It is possible for a root certificate to have a name constraint making all certificates issued for other e.g. TLDs invalid. Like it is done in dn42 CA.
If the core has been powered off, then that shows how rare it is.
I am not sure if I'm ready for that. I've been working on installing gentoo onto a laptop, and I can't get it to boot, so I don't think I want something that difficult. I like using the command line, but that thing (source based distros), it scares me.
The ACLU is doing a lot of great work to hold government accountable when it comes to facial recognition tech.

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-challenges-fbi-face...

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-challenges-dhs-face...

Would be great to see Amazon's support.

The ACLU ran an experiment with Rekognition and these are their findings:

"Using Rekognition, we built a face database and search tool using 25,000 publicly available arrest photos. Then we searched that database against public photos of every current member of the House and Senate. We used the default match settings that Amazon sets for Rekognition.

... the software incorrectly matched 28 members of Congress, identifying them as other people who have been arrested for a crime.

... Academic research [0] has also already shown that face recognition is less accurate for darker-skinned faces and women. Our results validate this concern: Nearly 40 percent of Rekognition’s false matches in our test were of people of color, even though they make up only 20 percent of Congress."

https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-te...

[0]: http://proceedings.mlr.press/v81/buolamwini18a/buolamwini18a...
PHP is still dominant in CMS space. If you are writing webapps use something else. But if you are working on content then PHP CMS ecosystem is just way ahead of everything else. You almost can't afford to go around it. And I dont mean Wordpress. Modern CMSes like Craft, Kirby, Twill or even things like Bolt, Processwire or Grav... they are pretty great mature platforms for custom content websites and basic CRUD.

Hell with Wordpress (which i hate) and some plugins you get your own self hosted website builder ala Squarespace. PrestaShop and OpenCart are solid ecommerce solutions.

It's too dirty and DIY but it gets job done for most small to medium size businesses.
Sure, it's a good command to know, but completely apropos of nothing. A command line alias is not at all an alternative to typing "what's my IP" into google, something that even my mom could do.
pc86, so you'd accept all sorts of insane shenanigans potentially ruining lives or encouraging suicide, happening countless times across every industry and company, just to avoid a manager having to go through a reasonable process or provide proof for firing poor performers? That doesn't seem worth it to me.

I think it's merely fair that it's as difficult to be fired, as it is to get hired today.

Companies like unions, can have good or bad leadership. That's a human issue with all organizations. But leveling the playing field with collective bargaining is priceless. People are pretty unhappy because they bought into the idea that they should hand over all power in their lives to those with the money to get a job.

I'd also like collective bargaining so that the collective worth of the workforce can be used to leverage better cuts of the profit.

It's a false choice and it'd be a great advance for my coworkers in India, they deserve the power of my weight being added in collective bargaining for the betterment of their lives too. In all seriousness, I'd feel great about that.
The sci-fi fan in me would counter that this is roughly what you'd expect from what was a crew corridor in a landing pad for a Goa'uld starship.
I would say opaque rather than complex. The details of a CDS aren't complicated, nor is the Eurodollar system. But it can't be inspected from the outside, and even the Fed is reliant on running complex models in an attempt to model monetary policy impact.
Why do they say Congress is ready to take on this challenge? Congress hasn't passed a thing yet.
The further I get with computers the less I need. I’ve been teaching computer graphics using a 160 x 48 pixel display rendering Unicode Braille dots. It’s absolutely enough for:

- random colored text

- line drawing fun

- circles

- z buffers

- convex hulls

- ray tracing spheres

(Checkerboards are too noisy though, and no Newell teapots. Alas, if only my browser supported PBM, the graphics format of winners.)

So yeah, bring it on! Doing more with less feels like a journey worth traveling. I want one!
Reminds me of sites not accepting "+" in an email address, even though it's a completely valid character to use before the "@".
Native Apps have more permissions to your system, like running in the background, information about your device, storage and code execution. Running a 3rd party Native Application to get around Youtube ads requires a lot of trust that that application does not have malicious behaviors.
100,000 Souls
Climate and usage dependent.

And it's not even a matter of air vs water, is between being actively thermal managed or not.
Independent oversight? So .. like from a government? Cause that's the definition of independent, from the people for the people. And if the next answer is "that's not how government is in reality" neither is any other 'independent' oversight. Humans are easily corruptible. We better find a solution for this problem or all that will happen is an endless line of watchers watching other watchers.
I thought it was s/analog circuits/ an antenna/, but yours works too.
Don't waste your time reporting bugs to Apple. Having used GitHub Issues many times to report software bugs and engage in an open discussion about their causes and remedies, Apple's approach to this important activity seems archaic and arrogant.
FAQs about Engineering at Benchling (YC S12)
It's a fallacy to say that with a "slope" of states A B and C, with C implying B has been reached, that moving from A to B means you'll necessarily go to C next. The fallacy doesn't mean we can't go from B to C or that it isn't easier to get to C from B than A.
Masport push reel mower, would guess somewhere between 1930s and 1960s. It's the most pleasant mower to use, and all it cost was an evening cleaning it up plus an annual visit to the sharpeners.

If electricity is a prerequisite: 1966 Bulova Accutron 214 that I wear most days.
Tweetalysis about Apple bringing ARM chips to Mac from former Windows exec
Hydrogen can be stored underground in the form of salt caverns or domes. According to this: https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/201910.0187/v1

The storage capacity is 84.8 PWh-H2 in Europe across all known formations. This is a very large number and likely far exceeds demand. It's safe to say we will not struggle with hydrogen storage if or when we need it.
Exactly it helps creators generate more content
I somewhat agree on the naming issue. I don't think yolov5 is semantically very informative. But by the way, if you read the issues from a while back you'll see that AlexeyAB's fork basically scooped them, hence the version bump. Ultralytics probably would have called this Yolov4 otherwise. This repo has been in the works for a while.

For history, Ultralytics originally forked the core code from some other Pytorch implementation which was inference-only. Their claim to fame is that they were the first to get training to work in Pytorch. This took a while, probably because there is actually very little documentation for Yolov3 and there was confusion over what the loss function actually ought to be. The darknet repo is totally uncommented C with lots of single letter variable names. AlexeyAB is a Saint.

That said, should it be a totally new name? The changes are indeed relatively minor in terms of architecture, it's still yolo underneath (in fact I think the classification/regression head is pretty much unchanged). The v4 release was also quite contentious. Actually their previous models used to be called yolov3-spp-ultralytics.

Probably I would have gone with efficient-yolo or something similar. That's no worse than fast/faster rcnn.

I disagree on your second point though. Demanding a paper when the author says "we will later" is hardly a blow off. Publishing and writing takes time. The code is open source, the implementation is there. How many times does it happen the other way around? And before we knock Glenn for this, as far as I know, he's running a business, not a research group.

Disclosure: I've contributed (in minor ways) to both this repository and Alexey's darknet fork. I use both regularly for work and I would say I'm familiar enough with both codebases. I mostly ignore the benchmarks because performance on coco is meaningless for performance on custom data. I'm not affiliated with either group, in case it's not clear.
Title should be "Speeding up a Git monorepo at Dropbox with <200 lines of code" - looks like some sanitisation regex got over-zealous here.
Don't they work with the batteries removed?
A couple months ago, Amazon execs were reported to be conspiring to smear a black labor organizer with racist dog whistles.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dm8bx/leaked-amazon-memo...

Treating their motives with anything but the utmost cynicism seems the rational move here.
SMH I am done with Zoom. If you value your privacy and freedoms I suggest you drop them too. There are very good alternatives by great teams that actually respect & protect your privacy.
> multiple windows for the one thing I am working on right now

Are they windows you need to look at at the same time?
Has anyone ever here actually demoed Rekognition? I did two years ago, maybe.

From that, I felt like it doesn't work and shouldn't be used in production, never mind police production.
It is a one year moratorium. They aren't even getting out for good. They are pausing it, hoping this issue will be forgotten about it a year, and then they will resume making money off it.
Blizzard
PATCH: Recommend blocklist/allowlist instead of blacklist/whitelist
My understanding is that the protocol underlying Aspera (FASP) uses UDP for the main data transfer and a TCP connection for coordination. By using UDP for data transfer it's not restricted to the ACK ranges imposed by TCP which can hinder throughput on networks with relatively high packet loss. Its throughput is not necessarily achieved by being a "bad citizen" but by having full control over how and when it communicates lost packets.

Since QUIC is also over UDP, perhaps we now have more flexibility on ACK windows etc.

Btw. there are open protocols like Tsunami UDP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami_UDP_Protocol) that try to fill the same niche
Decentralized: Package management in Deno (Video, 20:09)
Humans are the only solution. Rational humans are never going to rely on technology alone for enforcement, governance, and/or oversight. If you have a problem with the humans currently making decisions, find better humans. Checks and balances.

Don't like the Big Tech corporate surveillance state? Write better laws regulating them. Don't like the people writing laws currently? Vote and run against them. Still not heard? There are yet more avenues for recourse.

The idea that technology is going to fix these problems holds no basis in reality.
A moral argument against the time value of money? Isn't that like legislating that the value of pi is 3?
wikipedia unlike google always has the current Library Genesis URL https://libgen.is/
You don't really need facial recognition once you have enough data from contact tracing.
Glass-ceramics in greenhouse lamps could help plants grow
I never realized this but now it thoroughly bothers me as well, so +1.
Grubhub to merge with European food delivery company Just Eat Takeaway.com