skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find myself realizing that as I clicked on the post, I was hoping it would include example pictures of attractive instagram models. I expect the results may be predominantly a reflection of human nature...
You used to be able to click attractive profiles in the sidebar of LinkedIn to successively attain a sidebar that was full of model-looking people. I wish the around-the-network sidebar for Stack Exchange worked like that but eventually gave you an absolutely insane list of questions.
Show HN: Collection of animated algorithms and data structures
Hmm, if ppl press like on those photos more, isn't the algorithm just faithfull reproducing human preference on average? Why say instagram is prioritising? Makes it sound like Instagram. Is sentient.
They analyzed images with “Google Vision API”, but did not make even an attempt to correlate with number of likes, comments etc. What a waste of time in so-called investigation.
The reason why companies implement those banners is that a banner talking about cookies sounds much nicer than saying: We want to create a profile of every detail we can find on you and auction that out to an advertisement network, press OK here.

GDPR could have added a law against misrepresenting the profiling under the umbrella of a "cookie consent", but that would just be Whac-A-Mole legislation. Companies would just wrap the consent banner under some under pretense.

A govt legislation that would actually work in practice would be to ban the practice of collecting and selling personal data. No consent, no popup, just a law making it illegal. That would have the desired practical effect and no annoying banners would ever be written. It would also be much harder politically to get accepted and people would complain that EU are draconian for not allowing consenting adults to go into an agreement where they trade personal data for service.

Personally however I would prefer if EU did just that. Ban it. Make databases of personal data toxic to have and the liability if anything leaks be high enough that in practice a company like a news papers will do something else in order to earn profits.
Switzerland has a lot of guns yet we don't have this police issue here.
A sort-middle architecture for 2D graphics
As someone who has worked on the front line of the fight against phishing and account takeover in the past, I can assure you and others that you're dead wrong. Making this change was a recommendation I made to the Chrome team years ago because the number of people who would reliably type in their username and password to a site hosted on hacked web servers (supershop.co.hk/account_login.php etc) was just so high. And when those accounts got hacked, scamming and sometimes even extortion would follow.

Your side view mirror metaphor is unfortunately not clear at all. The side view mirror is simple and performs its function correctly as designed. It can't really be improved without totally replacing it with something else like a camera. Now of course not everyone will use the URL bar even if it's redesigned to work correctly. But right now the bar is practically designed to look as intimidating and useless as possible.

Perhaps you're so used to parsing URLs in your head you don't realise it, but URLs are a baroque and absurd design that nobody without training could properly figure out. It's basically random bits of webapp memory and protocols splatted onto the screen in a large variety of different encodings. In a desktop app dumping RAM straight onto the screen would be considered a severe bug. On the web it's tolerated for no good reason beyond history.

To give just one example that has regularly confused people in the past: URLs are read left to right except for the domain name (the important part) which is read right to left. You don't stop reading a domain name at .com, you stop reading it at the third slash or possibly a colon, but that form is rare.
The patent link was not working for me, here is an alternative: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8929615B2/
> He soon hit a wall of institutional inflexibility: “The idea of doing activities from various disciplines – energy, architecture, agriculture, waste water, you name it – was simply not possible within the university setting at that time. A number of people, who became very close friends, were coming to the same conclusion: that we had to find new institutional structures to go after a larger vision.”

Could an expert on the history of academia please speak about the barriers to interdisciplinary research and how (or if) it has been overcome? This is a subject that has interested me for many years. In other words, what has traditionally stood in the way of E. O. Wilson’s notion of consilience, and are we on our way to finally synthesizing knowledge from different fields to facilitate the discovery of new ideas and insights?
Ask that to every person who still likes to occasionally plug in their NES for a round of Mario Brothers or dust off their Game Boy.
This seems rather thin on describing the feeds that these users are following. How "diverse" are they? What's that even mean? Did they check which posts are getting the most interactions (by their other followers)?

Unless these posts are completely new, how can they know that this isn't Instagram prioritizing the posts that already have the most engagement organically?
the kind of startup also makes a difference, someone from a b2b startup selling services has experience working with clients, and that's not that much different from working under a boss. if their attitude is to serve their clients then they can work with their new boss too.
Yes, outdated, I used Turbo C++ when it came out fresh from Borland software factory, so I know what I am talking about regarding C++ support in Turbo C++. While C support was a mix of K&R and ANSI C, depending on the Turbo version.

All Turbo C++ versions for MS-DOS or the later Windows 3.x versions are older than ISO C++ and have semantics that eventually changed across versions.

Then there is the whole point of them being MS-DOS/Windows 3.x products that run in modern computers with various degrees of success.

There are open source clones of graphics.h and conio.h, and any good teacher could prepare the class material so that the students wouldn't have attrition.

And it isn't just talk, I spent one year doing TA activities so I know how much it costs to prepare such student materials.
One way streaming can be prerecorded and shared as video.
Oh but you dont need to use Qt at all when using QtCreator. Its just the most fully featured free C++ IDE I know.

On top of that, regular old Qt is still one of the most fully featured GUI frameworks, QtQuick is mostly used for mobile and embedded, even though it also works on desktop. Lazarus or Tkinter aren't better choices for starters, I say as someone who used both.
This is a sample size of one but I think I may have helped the algorithm learn this behaviour
You might be able to get close to this now.

A cryogenic cooling system that could let a CPU run at 7 GHz would be doable for about $100K.

But more realistically, there are often a long list of other things that can be done to a legacy DB that have a much bigger bang-for-buck, and are also lower risk.

Try NVMe storage. Databases love low-latency storage.

Are you virtualising this in any way? Don't.

Use a better NIC to cut down latency. Think 200 Gbps Mellanox cards with jumbo frames instead of the built-in Broadcom chip that probably cost $1.50.

Try co-locating the app(s) on the same box with the database to really cut the latency. This works great with modern many-core CPUs like an AMD EPYC. You can often dump everything onto one machine and your latency will go from 1ms to 10μs. That's a 100-fold difference!

Turn off the CPU vulnerability mitigations. This is safe as long as nothing else runs on the same hardware. Boosts some databases up to 50%.

Pin the process threads to specific CPU cores. Some newer Intel Xeons have "preferred cores" that will turbo boost higher than any other core.

Upgrade to the latest CPU to get more instructions per clock. This can have surprisingly beneficial effects.

Or... I dunno... fix the database. Does it even use indexes?
The "Bath Buddy" linked at the end is pretty cool for a 250AD item, great conservation status: https://www.archaeology.org/issues/366-2001/trenches/8255-di...
> While our results show that male and female content creators are forced to show skin in similar ways if they want to reach their audience, the effect could be larger for females, and be considered a discrimination of female entrepreneurs.

Overall this article strikes me as a large collection of pseudo-science but this sentence baffles me the most. Is the author arguing against their own conclusions?
Nobody is "obliged" to use it.

You can also buy ads if you want to show your posts to people, like any other business does.
Just playing the devil's advocate but : when you take a taxi, what do you know about the driver? You can vaguely see if he's sober and that's all. You EXPECT him to have a driver's license, to have a good eyesight, etc but you KNOW nothing about it.
If he has an heart attack while he's driving on the highway, could it have been predicted (by you or the company)? No.

So i don't see why this distinction between AI and humans is made : both are black boxes. Perhaps humans have less "edge cases" but as long as the error level of AI is the same or lower than the one of humans, I don't care if the car crashed because the human driver looked at a sexy woman on an ad on a billboard or because a variable was poorly set in the car's code.
A social network for promoting scantily-clad women prioritizes photos of scantily-clad women?

You don't say.
I personally don't want to see this here, and I flag this kind of subjects when I see them.

One of the great things about HN is that is manages to be an interesting website that usually keeps out of flamewar american politics.

There are plenty of those pretty much everywhere on reddit/internet, and I appreciate that this kind of 'us vs them' posts usually don't stay up long on HN.

I'm a bit disappointed dang unflagged it this time.
In my CSYS Computing Course in high school in the UK we used C.

It was very very basic stuff though.

Still, I was able to basically walk through my first year at Uni (which was exclusively C programming) with almost zero effort.
If I am not mistaken this tool requires technical debt to begin with. I think more important part is what caused this debt to begin with.

In my opinion it lies in the implementation of feature flags.
Wow, a social media network the average Joe visits promotes stuff the average Joe might enjoy. How is this news? Any sane algorithm would tailor posts' visibility to the lowest common denominator, and that's what IG seems to do here. I don't even use IG and it makes sense.
That's a major missing hypothesis that seriously undermines your conclusion.

Why do you need me to share data at all? Just create brand new accounts and test what they see in a more controlled manner. Then you'll be able to test what's recommended from the same accounts over time while building any specific profiles yourself.
People disagreeing with this comment: please consider what the post is trying to highlight.

There's an apparent asymmetry in how imagery of females is perceived, vs. similarly posing males. Commercials employing 'sex sells' tactics are still biased towards using the female sex to sell. Reddits' r/gonewild and offshoots is pretty huge, and filled with females. This is a truism.

The label 'beauty' being only returned for females highlights this asymmetry. There is something deeply absurd about this: on a first order approximation, ~50% of the population should be attracted to males. To me personally it is enlightening to see how 'smart' data driven systems expose the systemic biases in our society.
I think it's called "subtlety" but I'm no native speaker.
> Especially compared to other countries, the US police seem to show quite the restrained considering most countries do not allow to carry weapons.

Not most. Ireland, Norway, Iceland, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Maldives have police officers work unarmed. Are there others?
While it's probably based on engagement, it's still a flaw of the algorithms I feel. Just because other people engages more with the content, doesn't mean it's the correct content for a given hashtag / following.

For instance, I mostly follow cycling and running stuff on IG. The suggestions / explore feed is therefore full of women in short running shorts and bicycle jerseys with the zipper down. It's not really that relevant content considering what I actually follow, but I think the engagement those things get push all other cycling / running related content away.
> How do we as a society encourage products that last?

People are attracted to novelty. While you and I might value the old and functional things that we have and use everyday there is a substantial number of people who will get rid of things like toasters, food mixers, etc., simply because they don't match the colour scheme of the kitchen; the suppliers only care about those people, not us because we don't make any money for them.

If you want products that last you will somehow have to moderate the human desire for novelty. I think that this could be done but it would mean dismantling our educational systems and replacing them with education in the old fashioned sense of producing people who can think and analyse, people who have a sense of history and an understanding of how the world came to be the way it is.

But what use are such people to a society based on, not merely conspicuous, but also excessive consumption?
> Is there a good chance of real content getting removed, on occasion, or do they work quite good?

Yes, I sometimes get some real content removed. If something looks strange, I temporarly deactivate uBlock. Last time it was a GDPR checkbox at a store checkout.
Good tips, I would like to add that if you already have a weather station you can buy a $10 RTL-SDR like [1] and plug it in to a PI, then use ready made software [2] to extract the weather information. You can hook this data up to any API you would like.

[1] https://www.banggood.com/USB2_0-FM-DAB-DVB-T-RTL2832U-R820T2...
[2] https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433
The first link of your parent should've been https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Erfi.html

They were arguing that the antiderivative F of f: x ↦ exp(x²) is not elementary, whereas f itself is elementary. But both F and f are well-defined functions, which means that f has an indefinite integral, it just happens to be not elementary.
Maxime Jumelle talks about using n8n at Blent.ai
"Behind The Overlay Revival" Firefox addon solves this!
there are machines to speed it up, but as it usually this, it only reaches a threshold when everybody, could and would buy it on the cheap.

Nevertheless, controled purchase would be out of the question in your case, too, would it? Or is that controled inasmuch digital lending can be persued?
Yep. MongoDB 4.2

In fact we replaced Kafka with Change Streams( little over 7k messages per second) and ES with text search (2K queries per second) in MongoDB on 16 CPU core nodes in our cluster.

I don't believe in any benchmark unless it matches the business use case and development practices I use at work. I recommend the same to others.
I'm sorry, but I don't entirely get this. Does it mean that after I've finished something I want to merge, I have to remove 5% of that? Or of the entire code base? Or something completely different?
I've got stopped close to midnight by Swiss border police once, coming from rock climbing session over the border. You would expect Swiss politeness and correctness, right?

I got held at the (utterly empty otherwise) border for 40 minutes. They went through my whole backpack (just wet stinking climbing clothing equipment), did some obscure exercises like taking out all my cash & cards from wallet, counting it, putting into envelope and then back to me and so on.

I was super thirsty, when I asked them for a cup of water they repeatedly ignored it. They yelled at me and were generally super unfriendly, treating me like a criminal. I cross normally (non-covid times) that border several times a week, never anything similar. You can't do much, they have all the power, and they make you feel it.

This is Swiss, don't hold your breath for other european places. There are sane normal policemen, just like everywhere, but there are also fucked up power tripping assholes. They just can be more trigger-happy in places like US.
I don't have kids and I still want this!
There's a catch-22 here. Instagram will nuke accounts of models who make their money from appearing scantily-clad in photos. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
I genuinely cringe when their content pops up on YouTube. Suggesting anyone can get a $200k job if you memorise enough algorithms through their courses is just sad - especially around the state of the industry at the moment.
The comment mentioned fairness, which is different than simply what we would predict.
> Is the prioritization based on a machine analysis of the photo, or on the response of earlier users to the photo?

I would bet the latter. Why go to the trouble of analysing difficult stuff about body structure, when you can just let users "decide".

I think we should formulate a law, something like "every internet imageboard, if left to user-moderation, will eventually turn into pr0n".
>Imagine there being over 700 videos of pilots messing up in one month,

In one month where the world is filled with hurricanes and every airstrip is flooded.
If this was a racist thing, why for 15 years no one complained about it until now? Linus Torvalds created git. He also made Linux. Should we stop using Linux because it was apparently made by a fascist bigot?

If we are forced to stop using certain words because some idiots attached negative meaning to them, then the racists won.
And who gets to decide what is 'better'?
Forcing compliance is simple: Just change the tax laws. So what would the law say? A tax 10% of advertising revenue on... what kind of advertising? All advertising? That sounds really simple, just increase the VAT by 10% for advertising products.
> brutality is kind of a global phenomenon

I am afraid that it is not limited by police. You can see it everywhere. For example, downvoting a post with an alternative opinion and trying to have one opinion is a sign that you will be a good policeman. People like diversity only if it is a minor deviation which in this sense only confirm the dominance of one opinion. And this behavior is visible almost everywhere: police, governments, protests against police, forum moderation etc.
Why Do Some Poor People Vote Against Their Interests?
That was just PR fluff designed to play to the ideological biases of their Valley employee base. They released GPT-2 anyway some months later because other people were going to replicate it anyway, and guess what, the river of fake news we're flooded with daily is still not being generated by AI. It's being generated by journalists with an agenda, same as ever.

Don't get me wrong. You can absolutely generate news articles with these text generation models. But if you look at examples of the "fake news" generated by the monster GPT-3 model, it's not really any different to junk churned out by supposedly respectable news organisations i.e. grammatically correct but filled with logical contradictions, false statements that can be checked in 30 seconds with a search engine and so on. Most people already learned which news sources are trustworthy and which are pushing an agenda. If those outlets replace their journalists with GPT-3 it won't make any difference. The readers who don't trust them will still not trust them, and the readers who just want partisan cheerleading will continue to be satisfied.
You can't trade options on margins.
I don't think so. The culture of publish or perish is certainly detestable and I don't think 160 characters are enough for a synopsis. But I don't think it negatively affects research. At least I hope so.

Fundamental research and humanities both have these funding issues. It may be worth a discussion if these fields could benefit from increased public funding, because some forms of research don't result in an immediate economic benefit.
They don't see it as a mistake.

In fact, there are plenty of commentators downthread who don't see it as a mistake either. Years of demonisation and propaganda has gone into supporting the belief that as soon as somebody steps out of line it's necessary to beat them back into line, or shoot them if they do not comply. It's no more a mistake than the millions of people in US prisons: it's policy.
Blocklist/Passlist Instead of Blacklist/Whitelist. Discuss
Simple change, phonetically close enough IMHO. A simple change that actually makes sense to do.
That is a good suggestion, thanks, but usually I am very particular about printing specific pages: the part of me that doesn't like reading such texts on a device is typically at loggerheads with the part of me that doesn't like print paper ending up in recycle bins :-) ... its a very real struggle ...

Anyone here with experience with Remarkable? Maybe thats the answer?
Everything about proof-of-work systems is not eco-friendly, and involves burning power 24/7, up to as much power as the produced cryptocurrency is worth. This seems perverse in a world where we're trying to cut down on energy use in almost every other area.

(no doubt someone will be along in a minute to tell me that cryptocurrency mining somehow uses "spare" electricity and burning the same amount of power as a mid-sized country isn't actually a problem at all!)
It's probably somewhat lowered by the other provider of sexual imagery, namely porn.
Facebook disqualifies leaders of Deepfake Detection Challenge for rule breach
The Platform Matrix: Not All Platforms Are Created Equal
And I dread to think what the tiktok algorithm prioritises.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200615070729/https://algorithm...

https://archive.vn/dcUPd
But we actually have data on this. Traffic stops are not particularly dangerous for police in the United States. There are laws in place about how legal gun owners must notify law enforcement during traffic stops. In fact, there is no shortage of video of law-abiding citizens in the US notifying law enforcement that they have a legal firearm in the vehicle and receiving a disproportionate response. But you don’t even need to look that closely. There are also video clips of police stops where police tell someone to get their ID, and then immediately murder the person for reaching for their ID.
The union said the officers resigned in support of their peers. Two officers have said they actually resigned because the union refused any legal aid. Further the same officers said that many of those who resigned do not in fact support the suspended officers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_police_shoving_inciden...

https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/exclusive-two-buffalo-p...
What would you suggest instead of police, when the goal is to maintain a civilization of diverse people?
I recommend the latest Sam Harris podcast on this subject, he makes a ton of nuanced points that many people miss when talking about "police brutality".
This is very true. As a early 20s guy, I don't follow a single celeb who is a woman, the only women I follow are women of my family/girlfriends, and then it still shows me unknown barely clothed women and makes me embarrassed when I use it in public. I've never even liked a picture once, of a woman who is semi nude, because its just not my thing and I don't want to contribute to the degradation of society.

Therefore all I use Instagram for is keep up with friends and family, share vacation photos, not to view unknown celebs/people I don't care about.

I would be very happy if they stopped trying to show me trash.