skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that the pictures of kids in cages came from before our current president was in office, this is the first time I've heard anyone call president Obama both evil and xenophobic.
Two of the people charged were the former director of safety and security and the former eBay director of global resiliency. This is one of those cases where having a ham sandwich in the position would've been better.

But seriously, those officials were supposed to save the company from this: literally their job. They should have been bringing down the banhammer on anyone even considering this destructive crime - not perpetrating it.
You might take a look at Flashpoint: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/
Because the ß == ss case is special in that there are numerous words that can be written both ways correctly, there are numerous words that can be written both ways sometimes and often the meaning depends on whether the most common form is written with ss or ß. And Swiss German allows replacing ss for ß as a normal way of writing everything.

Whereas for umlauts ä, ö and ü, the forms with ae, oe and ue are always "emergency replacements", even the Swiss use äöü very frequently (though not always). Also, there are almost never ambiguities when replacing ä, ö, ü -> ae, oe, ue. Yet there are very frequent ambiguities when replacing ä, ö, ü -> a, o, u, because singular/plural, conjunctive and other forms are derived that way and sometimes there are just different words that only differ in one vowel being an umlaut.

So there is a difference in the chance of being wrong when picking one form of a word for another possibly equivalent one. When you do ss == ß, you are often correct. When you do ä, ö, ü == ae, oe, ue, you are almost always correct. When you do ä, ö, ü == a, o, u, you are almost always wrong.
Well, yeah, that's their bargaining chip. If Microsoft wants to keep their workers, they should listen to their demands.
ICE does support Black and Brown people by keeping illegal immigrants from flooding the market. Wages in many restaurants/building sites in NYC, LA, Florida, Texas are lower than other parts of the country because illegal labor gives an alternative to hiring black employees that rightfully require at least a minimum wage.
Maybe this would help: "Feeding cows seaweed cuts 99% of greenhouse gas emissions from their burps, research finds"

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/cows-seaweed-metha...

Wonder if it affects the taste of the meat or milk... or has some other undesirable side effects?
In principle yes....although the specifics of the physics involved kinda make the question itself not well posed.

There is no hard boundary to the core of the sun. The "core" is by definition where nuclear fusion reactions occur. However, those reactions don't just stop at a certain radius...but instead just occur at a lower and lower rate. So even if you could determine with 100% precision where a neutrino came from within the sun, you would still measure some exponential-like decay as a function of radius.

But to add even more complexity there's ~10 different nuclear processes within the sun that produce neutrinos. Those processes all have different radial profiles. So even if you measure with 100% accuracy the radial profile of neutrinos associated with one or two nuclear processes...you still haven't really measure the core of the sun...you've just measured it for a few specific reactions. And for the neutrinos produced by many of the reactions this method cannot work, those neutrinos are too low in energy to provide direction information. And beyond that there are a handful of nuclear reactions that occur within the sun that don't produce neutrinos. So there doesn't really exist any way to measure the radial profile of those nuclear processes.

And this all assume you can perfectly tell where the neutrino came from within the sun, which is also impossible. There will always be some relatively poor "resolution associated with your ability to place a neutrinos origin. Here is the "hard" physics limit to your angular resolution for a relatively high solar energy neutrino...it only gets worse as the energy goes down https://i.imgur.com/h3n8c4V.png.
But getting to even that resolution is impossible b/c an interaction will only produce so many photons from Cherenkov radiation (think 100s of photons). Then it becomes a statistics problem...what's the best angular resolution you could possibly achieve given an average number of photons that's around (say) 500. It ends up the answer is "pretty good" but far from perfect. And all of that is assuming the electron scattered from the solar neutrino will travel in only one direction...that's extremely untrue, the electron will always bounce off of other electrons & atoms after scattering. This multiple-scattering leads to even worse angular resolution.

Here's a paper on the subject if you'd like further detail https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.02558.pdf
I didn't find it rude at all. The comment that presented the link was pure click-bait. I prefer it when a brief explanation accompanies a link, especially when the link points to a 3 hour long video, as in this case. The YouTube teaser says "explores the workings of the human mind, intelligence, consciousness, life on Earth, and the possibly-simulated fabric of our universe". I certainly agree that the topic sounds interesting.
Is there some way around the paywall I am running into, or are we all discussing this without having read the article, or are most of you LA Times subscribers?
> SMR does not have a great reputation

SMR is fine if you know what SMR is and what you're doing. It might even be fine given a sufficiently advanced translation layer (which apparently doesn't exist yet). The problem isn't SMR, it's selling a product which uses SMR and hiding that fact from the consumer, and I can't forgive WD for that.
My problem with this argument is that it (if applied uniformly) means that you couldn't hold IBM culpable for their role in the Holocaust. After all, "all they did" was help create a computerised census system for the democratically elected German government[1]. In reality, their computerisation of the census allowed the Nazis to far more efficiently catalogue and track Jewish people throughout the Third Reich.

And before anyone invokes Godwin's Law, ICE has been recently discovered to have literally poisoned detainees by using toxic cleaning chemicals in close proximity to detainees without giving them any protection or sufficient ventilation[2].

But even if you think it is unreasonable or overblown to call ICE nazis or fascists, I still question the premise that companies should not be held morally responsible for the people they knowingly and willingly do business with. If GitHub was selling software to known terrorists, you'd better believe that the American government (and hopefully most people) wouldn't see it as being fair game.

I agree that the lasting way to stop the abuses by ICE is through legislative and administrative changes, but I disagree with the argument that "refusing to sell software to ICE won't stop them from committing abuses, so I'll just sell them software anyway" is ethically justified. Now, GitHub is obviously free to do whatever they like but the public should also be free to point this out whenever they try to take the moral high ground.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
[2]: https://thecrimereport.org/2020/06/11/ice-spraying-disinfect...
> But to expect that a _federal agency_ will be denied service from a private entity, especially for essentially political reasons, is lunacy. It'd attract extreme negative attention from the rest of the government, and great fear from all paying customers that an internet mob could separate them from their code at any time.

Why is this lunacy? If government entities suddenly are under the impression that they'll have a difficult time finding business partners if they're consistently caught doing human rights violations.. seems like a win-win. If anything it would attract negative attention for the next company willing to do business with them.

> We should absolutely be lobbying hard for changes to immigration law, the restrictions placed on ICE, and justice for their wrongdoings.

We're doing that too. There's no reason only one form of action should be followed.

> But I can't see how this helps improve immigration

It helps by making ICE expend their resources on finding new businesses to provide hosting services they need, or if they can't find any, rolling their own.

I see that some commenters are suggesting that github should use its position to influence ICE and maybe that's contributing to some confusion. This was never about improving ICE -- the goal is to cripple and dismantle them.
> But to expect that a _federal agency_ will be denied service from a private entity, especially for essentially political reasons, is lunacy.

In a working society, maybe. In a properly functioning government it's the job of the executive branch to find some kind of compromise and operate the government for the benefit of and according to the priorities of a reasonable approximation of all the citizens.

But that's not possible with ICE. Right now there's a large fraction of society that supports inhumane mass deportation, human rights disaster camps across the border, family separation policies (though that got rolled back, thankfully), no-knock armed police raids for visa violations etc....

And there's another large fraction of society, including the Github workers, who find that hateful and immoral. And those folks have no ability to affect policy absent waiting to vote again. Their desires and needs simply aren't being heard.

In previous administrations, that kind of hyper-partisan policymaking by the executive branch simply wouldn't have happened. Either because it's bad politics or because of some sense of order on the part of the policymakers. But it's not true now.

The root cause, basically, is that one political party in the US decided to make an "enemy" out of a population (hispanic immigrants) in order to gin up votes from people that don't like them. And the resulting skew in civic priorities has made a big mess. This is how you get civil unrest, which we're seeing right now in all sorts of contexts.

But the mess isn't the fault of the protestors or the github folks, really. You can't run a country according to the parochial needs of your half of the electorate and tell everyone else to fuck off. They start flipping tables.
It seems weird to expect them to jump directly to the nuclear option of quitting. Making a demand like this is a first step, and it may turn out not to be necessary to quit if the employer caves.
There are so many weird things like that, but the one that infuriates me the most is the inability to move notes left and right. The answer is to cut and paste, which - if you have already written out multiple bars but realize one note is in the wrong place or you’re a quarter note off - becomes an exercise in frustration.

I recommended this software to someone, and my first words were: “This is a powerful program, but it has got a steep learning curve. It feels like it was designed and written by a programmer who also plays music”

The answer from this person two weeks later: “You were totally right. Very frustrating.”
Choosing business partners based on the degree to which you can expect stability & reliability from them is not corrupt.

Not everything has to be political & tribal.
Is there a custom file chooser? (<input type="file">) Those are notoriously hard to style.
You're making it sound impossible or forbidden but the SC has overturned its own precedents over 300 times before.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_overruled_United_Sta...
I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

People always think unions are for benefits, pay, and safety. Tech needs a union that can fight for ethical coding. Workers need a way to band together and say no, we cannot in good faith work on a project.
Private agencies are the only field in which we have any real democratic say. This is the part of Capitalism that is good, when we can vote with our dollars.

IMO, if it wasn't for anti-competition lobbyists and government contracts, it would be much much easier to get private companies to take a stand every once in a while.
Why can't you see this helping? Can you not see the rally that is happening in the corporate world in favor of the BLM movement? Even if corporations are posturing this stance with no real action at the moment, if bigger entities make real actions like this, it will catch on, and then it will trickle down to smaller businesses, and it will seep into lobbying circles. This has leaderships around the world forced to make visible, impactful actions. Fear of disruption keeps the status quo in place.
Can anyone recommend a Sketch plugin that can achieve this same type of style?
https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/

Flashpoint is an archival project
Also the ban is for one year. Amazon’s plan is to suspend selling while the public opinion is against it. Once this issue is forgotten, they will begin selling Rekognition again to the government .
Agreed. Actually just returned a nice jeep cherokee this morning back to Hertz. Had it for a week out of their Newark airport location. $240 for the whole week! The return lines were completely full from people who rented during the weekend. Had to take the airtrain over to the terminal to get an uber, airport was eerily quiet. Hopeful that things will pick back up once we get a vaccine.
The jobs that (no doubt) require face to face interaction will just have to be named differently.

> I would not be surprised if some companies, currently paying sky-high salaries for employees in very high cost of living areas, find it attractive to enable more remote work.

Billions will be struggling to survive at the bottom until we pay people more for what they do than where they live. I don't see why the disrupt mantra should only apply everywhere else?

I can find really bad coders who can live comfortably on 400 euro per month. They are mostly bad because there is no entrance to the ivory tower. I was rather shocked by the laser like focus in people living on next to nothing. There is no casual chit chat, no time to read random articles about disrupting email and no room for a joke.
Ghost > Substack
I am strongly against a private business being able to refuse service to a person/organization on political grounds, even when the "victim" may seem to be performing evil actions, as long as it is not breaking any laws. One should not discriminate on the basis of race, political orientation, gender, origin or religion. Refusing service is clearly a form of discrimination. When you aim that towards your own Government, it may look like a heroic action to your supporters, but to those who are not, you're performing discrimination on the grounds of political affiliation against an organization that is following, as it is obliged to, the law of the Land. If you think the ICE is doing terrible things, you should lob the Government to take action and bring them to justice, but given the Government is, as I understand it, actually mandating such terrible things, you're aiming your fury at the wrong place. You should be protesting against the Government who is mandating these terrible things.

Imagine for a moment that things change completely, and the ICE starts refusing to follow the orders of the Government - but now the Government is leaning towards the far-left, and wants the ICE to open borders to all. The ICE would no doubt have a lot of supporters, but disobeying the Government in such case would ALSO be wrong because in a democracy, the Government represents the people - by not following the orders of the Government, you're basically advancing anarchy. In both cases, the correct attitude is to fight for a Government change. It's not democratic for a Government organization to take its own stance on a topic despite the Government's policies.
You're mixing up terms here. Dennard scaling is the claim that power density stays constant with node shrinks. This has failed, but transistor scaling, as in the Moore's Law progression of transistors getting smaller in size, has not, and will continue to run for at least a little while longer.
Currently in a House committee: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7085
As well as the underlying Flash Projector:

https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.ht...

https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/How_Flashpoint_Wor...

https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Extracting_Flash_G...
Corporations should remain politically neutral, and only act in profit maximizing ways. That does not make accepting a contract with ICE political, and it is disingenuous to make such a claim. Accepting the contract maximizes profit.

Every country has borders and reasons to limit immigration in various ways (for example, to certain skillsets). There is no blanket allowance to walk into any country outside of a port. This is plainly illegal. When laws are broken, someone needs to enforce the law, apply consequences, and do so as efficiently as possible. ICE is that agency for the US. I feel like those who think ICE somehow shouldn't exist are simply not being level headed and ignoring the reality of the fact that we are a nation that exists first and foremost to serve its current citizens, just like all other nations.

Lastly, by taking political stances, these companies are discriminating against the silent cohorts in their employee base that do not align with those views. It is an especially big problem in tech companies, most of whom are headquartered in the SF Bay Area or Seattle, two progressive/far-left areas that have skewed politics. Other workers who don't have an issue with the company serving ICE don't have a voice. They have no psychological safety. It is irrational for companies to respond to employee pressure or social media outrage - they should take randomized anonymous polls of their employee base if they truly want a good signal on employee sentiment.
It is possible to be against illegal immigration, and also against the tactics used by ICE.
Yet the CIA-modern art connection has been confirmed:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_expressionism#Abstrac...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_and_the_Cultural_Cold_War
People don't choose the color of their skin.

ICE (or any other company/org for that matter) actually has a choice in how it behaves.

Do you see the difference?
It's pretty dense because of all the subordinate clauses.

"... cases that asked the court to revisit the existing doctrine. This doctrine protected police from lawsuits concerning police conduct, where their conduct didn't involve an obvious crime."
Their logic of "imagine a person doing X (say... being attracted to a male) if you'd punish a male for it but not a female that's sex discrimination" is going to open up whole new world of equality/discrimination lawsuits.

Sex based bathrooms for example are now discrimination under this logic.
I believe that to be a red herring. Their approach cannot learn any features that provide a lower-dimensional approximation of the input data. As the result, there is no intermediate representation which could change and thereby negatively affect previously learned classifiers.

But if I train 10 independent traditional networks, I also won't have newly learned data affect old performance. So in effect they give up the possibility to do transfer learning in exchange for avoiding the disadvantages of transfer learning. But that's a bad tradeoff.

With their approach you always train from scratch, which brings with it the need for huge training data sets.

So I can train a bird classifier on the traditional architecture with 500 labeled images and a pretrained resnet. Our I use a million bird images and this approach.
I didn’t have Flash on my computer for several years, but I installed it last week. I'm planning to take the GRE, which is being given remotely due to Covid. A proctor watches you through your webcam, which I find this completely creepy, but what can I do?

Anyway, this system apparently requires Flash.
A better question is, as countries approach a birth rate < 1; why have complex immigration systems?
A spectrometer built from a cereal box, DVD, webcam, and OpenCV
Taking Control with Goals; Dream Big, Act Small
My answer is that we have better things to do than to argue about dress codes.

I feel like the media and social media is making people obsess about trivialities and edge cases.
Not a direct reply to your comment, but more of an adjacent one.

> Guess what? Politics are interwoven in every aspect of our lives. You cannot choose to “avoid” them;

But I do choose to avoid them in my personal life. A private company can do whatever the hell they want, whether I approve or not, it's their right. I also believe it is my right to not care about politics and continue moving forward with my own life. For me, politics just end up making me upset. I can't think of a single situation that becomes political that ends up making me happy in the long run. As an individual, _most_ politics doesn't affect me and spending my time on it just ends up making my life less enjoyable.

That said, there are some political issues we all care about more so, and we may pay attention to that more. But in a way, I do choose to avoid them (as an individual).

Again, I don't mean this as an attack on your comment, just my adjacent thoughts.

Edit: I do understand how fortunate I am to be in the situation I'm in. I didn't mean (but I see that it came off this way) that everyone should do this, and I didn't mean (again, I understand that I didn't explain myself above) that I'm applying those ideas to this situation (my mind immediately went to the previous flood of COVID stories).
I was able to get the second part of the statement. but I haven't seen the use of "in limit" in a statement like this.

Yes, the universal approximation is a strong claim. NN has been proven to have universal approximation theoretically.
There is no such thing as "staying out of politics". Everything involving people is a political act, and if you don't notice it it's because you have status quo politics.

> I just wonder how long it will take two different subgroups trying push their own conflicting agendas and how the company should react in such a case.

Probably side with the one arguing that we should not commit atrocities.
Another part of VC economics to understand is to look at Uber. Total disaster, right? Softbank and retail investors got totally screwed by the IPO due to questionable economic assertions made by Uber. But the angel and early series investors, circa 2011? Still made out like bandits. An IPO price of $72, when you paid pennies per share, times several hundred thousand shares equals a cool $10mm, easy. Perhaps not as much as they would have liked, but that's still a pretty good payday considering later investors lost money.

WeWork entirely failed to IPO, so early investors not named Adam Neumann got screwed. Thus, on the spectrum of gregarious companies, with WeWork and one end and Uber at the other end, a company just needs to be on the Uber level of gregarious.
tldr...

Kav: "Sex" is not the same as "sexual orientation".

Majority: Close enough.

...but Kav makes some solid points. 50 out of 50 didn't equate the two. ...so in a real sense, the Supreme Court is making law - not really interpreting law.

...and that is a big long term danger to the separation of power.
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793

From Significance, right at the top: "(...) Black women and men and American Indian and Alaska Native women and men are significantly more likely than white women and men to be killed by police. Latino men are also more likely to be killed by police than are white men."
> The Courts invented qualified immunity, and the Courts should have done away with it, as well.

Herein lies the problem. The Courts aren't constitutionally permitted to invent much of anything.