skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring the (many) arguments that IQ is not really a great marker for intelligence, there's basically no value in trying to predict IQ based on facial structure. Unless it is quite literally 100% accurate (which it is not), you will end up mispredicting people's "intelligence". Even if this is ultimately just randomly distributed (and it probably won't be), you'll be needlessly treating people unfairly for no reason.

So yes, I think I can state pretty concretely that there's no value in trying to predict IQ from face shape.
Yeah the collapse theory is probably right in general if not the particulars, but don't underestimate European diseases. The Marquesans nearly got wiped out by them.
You can see them if you turn on showdead, BTW.
For the few months I tried YoutubeTV, the stream consistently failed (especially for live sports) and I reported it several times. I finally disputed three months of their charges with my credit card company. Google accepted the disputes within a day and effectively gave a $150 refund. I later canceled, but important to know they’re willing to give out their crappy service for free without a fight.
I've been wondering for a while why Discord won't take on Slack. They would only need to undercut the monthly price and offer an enterprise version with the gaming memes and content cut out. Discord is similar enough to Slack that teams would have no trouble migrating either.
To expand a bit on your question directly and agree with your other points obliquely

> If you have diverse datasets, but your ... model doesn't like ... things correlated with being black... what then?

How do you release your data/models today? Does your release process include a section detailing what the data implies or the limitations of the mode? How would your boss handle being exposed to these findings? If your boss still wants to use the data set or deploy the model knowing the limitations, do you care enough to do something about it? Maybe you have a different set of answers to these questions. Does that make asking them any less important?
(Author here.) I completely agree on the cognitive dissonance of whether lockdown was the right move. I don’t even think it’s just politicians, but also people. Everyone has invested so much in it, that the idea that it actually caused net harm may be too much for people to bear. Norway’s health chief admitted it was a mistake, but is the only example of that I’ve seen so far.

I also agree that it jives with Levitt’s work, as well as Karl Friston, and I like they kind of all get to the same place via different techniques.

The most prescient, and overlooked researcher on this currently is Sunetra Gupta of Oxford. This interview with her is over a month old, and she talks about a lot of this stuff: https://unherd.com/2020/05/oxford-doubles-down-sunetra-gupta...
> Complex subscription options are one of the easiest way to lose subscribers.

Source? Twitch and Patreon get along just fine. The existing options can continue as they are.

> It's far from being proven.

YouTube has already swallowed the expensive part of the deal - creating a video hosting platform. I'm just asking them to augment their monetization scheme that other platforms have already demonstrated demand for.

> Source? Alphabets ad revenue is extremely stable for the company and keeps on growing.

Source for what? Of course YouTube is expensive. It's expensive to host content at that scale. It's expensive to regulate content at that scale to comply with the law and satisfy ad partners. I don't know what else to say. I don't know if YouTube operates at a profit or not, but that's not really relevant.

What matters is YouTube's profit is almost completely dependent on their ability to sell ads. Content without ads can only benefit the platform if it drives premium subscriptions or drives users towards content with ads.
> Uncivil tends to be a dogwhistle

People who cry dogwhistle instead of addressing the point tend to be more interested in shaming people for accidentally saying something undesirables say than engaging in constructive discourse.
Nice, now we need the CTC based models to run offline on low-powered devices & then pretty much all speech-to-text APIs are done for.
>Engineering, as a discipline, has an unfortunate history of not wanting to engage with the social and political conditions under which its work occur

Are there any industries that actually do this well?
Black swan events may be predictable in their eventuality but are blind spots for human psychology because they are sufficiently rare.
Dflat: SQLite \heart FlatBuffers
Unfortunately we are the agents in this game, so it's our bacon on the line in doing the rounds of testing.
The critic here, Timnit Gebru, is not doing a good job of articulating a well-reasoned argument about why dataset bias is not the only problem with ML. Allow me to attempt to do her job:

Machine learning approaches are powerful because they can take a “small” set of labeled data and use that to make billions of new inferences at low cost. The problem is that even when these data sets are fully representative of the “real world,” the “real world” is rife with biases and unfairness and machine learning takes these unfairnesses and gives them a huge Tensorflow-powered megaphone.

For example, let’s say you wanted to use machine learning to create a system for employers to make sure that they aren’t hiring likely drug dealers. If you get a data set of every single American drug dealer’s mug shot, you’d get a disproportionately black population because white kids selling ecstasy to their high school classmates rarely get arrested and booked. The data set is not “biased” —- it is complete —- but the enforcement of the law is biased. But now, rather than using the development of this software as a moment to remove unfair bias, a machine learning model will amplify it, causing lots of black men to be denied legitimate employment opportunities, which will actually increase the chance that they sell illegal drugs to support themselves.

This machine learning doesn’t just amplify the biases in the data set, it amplifies all of the biases and other imperfections in all of the events that fed into the creation of that data set.
Honestly, this raises a lot of questions in terms of profitability. They've attempted multiple different revenue streams (Nitro, Server Boosts, they even had a steam competitor at one point with a game store) and yet they haven't been able to generate 100m between their late-2018-but-really-2019 [0] round of 150m? I can't imagine that right now would be a great time to raise either.

0. https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/21/gaming-chat-startup-discor...
https://pluto.tv/welcome

Pluto.TV is free because of commercials, and it has 250+ channels. It has a TV guide for what is playing and while it has no DVR it has the ability to start a movie from the beginning so you don't miss it.
I use ruby a ton here and there for little utilities. It's certainly useful enough and well supported enough, you can run it in Lambda natively, the language is very readable and well suited to many purposes, especially around string and data manipulation; clarity is king and it nails it for me. I seldom have to go and look up anything to be able to just type it, which I've found to be a hard point to get to in many languages (e.g. used PHP for years back in the day and would forever be looking up parameter orders for functions due to the lack of a good IDE and sane conventions).
> (And, as a minor point, his idea that Senegal is representative of "Africa" as a whole is also... let's say "unfortunate")

That is a high bar to never discuss “unfortunate” ideas on social media
+1 Mercury > SVB
They're not liable for following lawful orders, though, even if the results are horrific and they personally disagree with the order. That's why no one gets charged when a drone strike blows up a wedding and kills 23 children.
Gambling isn't a noble skill game. It's about winning and it involves cheating if you have the chance and if the way online systems are setup allow for this, it's their problem. They are probably doing rigged deals and/or using AIs as well, so even with this I doubt you can win in the long run when the algorithm specifically draws cards against that happening. If you sit at a real table with real people, obviously it would be stupid using this, but it isn't the case here. You'd be a moron not to use any help you can, you're basically giving them your money for some graphics and sounds.
Exactly. Moreover, r/video doesn't seem the proper place to share the reverse-engineering analysis.
I also work in computer vision (for biological sciences). I use deep convnets every day, and certainly they are increasingly central in biology (https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.00421), proteomics (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3837439/, https://deepmind.com/blog/article/AlphaFold-Using-AI-for-sci...), astronomy (https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05965), chemistry (https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-019-0086-7, https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/sc/c8sc0...), many other sciences. I think it's great, they're enabling progress in lots of really tough scientific problems. And for what it's worth, people are still doing horrible things to mice, salamanders, zebrafish, haha, being a model organism is not a good gig, but of course it's still a huge part of neuroscience...

Personally, I don't think that an interest in the social impacts of one's work as a researcher should be considered hype -- shouldn't one be interested in their impact on the world? For computer vision in particular, these systems are widely deployed. Also, they are just part of a larger apparatus of automatic decision systems that everyone now interacts with every single day, from getting your insurance rates to getting a loan to... Those have now become prosaic too -- certainly not scifi.
Who cried dogwhistle? You can perceive what you want, but that does not make it true. I'm not going to go back and forward on this kind of pedantry. I asked a question, requested citations for alleged perceptions of incivility and will only respond to answers to it.
Are there used tapes on the market?
Disagree, and I doubt you're a regular user of YouTube TV given your comments. "The shows are limited" doesn't even make sense; you get access to the live feed of all the channels in question. The DVR works perfectly in my experience over the last year or so; it has never failed to record what I wanted it to record.
>A major aspect of crypto research today is crypto UX and making crypto systems that are difficult to misuse.

I'm intrigued by this. Any names (projects/people/protocols) come to mind?
Paywalled:

https://archive.is/zm0Th
Neutralizing Biased Text
From their github page;

"This repo contains code for the paper, 'Automatically Neutralizing Subjective Bias in Text'.

Concretely this means algorithms for;
- Identifying biased words in sentences.
- Neutralizing bias in sentences.

E.g.
'John McCain exposed as an unprincipled politican' -> 'John McCain described as an unprincipled politican'
"

This idea could have interesting applications. Imagine it being a UI option in twitter or the browser to 'unopinionate' the text, leaving users more room to form their own conclusions. This would probably reduce the emotionally driven engagement metrics of these platforms, but could it help having a healthier collective discourse?
I'm guessing they concluded that the employee's caste is neither race nor national origin.

But I'd expect the state to argue that discrimination against an indian caste is inherently national origin based discrimination since they're unlikely to treat any non-indian as they would a dalit, and even if they did they'd be then discriminating on the national identity of the non-indian (ie, treating non-dalit indians better) OR treating all other indians as bad as they'd treat the dalit indian (unlikely, since Iyer is indian)
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I'm seeing you specify the use-case other than 'less-rich people can also move money anonymously'.

Other than small-scale tax evasion or nefarious activities, what use cases are you advocating?

I also used to be pretty excited about the potential for crypto currencies, still think it may have some, but the security overhead, value volatility, & scalability issues have pretty much rendered it less useful than cash or (ugh) ACH-based services like Venmo, Google Pay, etc., ir just credit cards.

Also, you're not addressing losses of tax evasion - one tax evader failing to pay $1B in taxes means a million people need to pay an extra $1000 to make up for his crime. Not victimless.
Oh, it seems that from Android 11, it became much harder to see the list of installed apps.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23692964
I must've been living under a cave. This is first time I'm hearing about YouTube TV. Might be because I cut the cord many years ago.
Thanks for the feedback.

vscode has regex find replace, but I don’t use it very often. It does show every match highlighted in the current file while entering the find value, which is nice.

It does the same for multi files if needed and gives a nice preview of every change.

Word navigation I use a great deal (especially with multi-cursor editing). Ctrl+left/right jumps words, home, end to begin end of line.

Ctrl+f Z Enter would go to next Z value. (Which I don’t use, because I don’t think in partial words much, but rather jump to mouse if I need to navigate far)

That’s probably where I could gain in using that instead of going to the mouse every time.
Because it was just as good or better than a cable subscription, at around half the cost, PLUS it works a lot better on mobile devices.
Yes, but empirically, lots of people don't care about increasing the likelyhood of the other driver being injured.
> This is especially true when the difference between either role is highly arbitrary and varies by organization or field.

I don't think this criticism is fair. Presumably if someone with the title "researcher" has a hand in actually doing what LeCun consider to be the engineer's role, LeCun would say to treat them as an engineer for the purposes of his argument.
Or an exploitable stock ROM (either due to slow updates or eol status after 6mo-2yrs)
Still somewhat leery of it, in particular with double the term length of a Senator. The longer in office, the more attractive a target for graft one becomes. I think Senators may be the upper limit I would be willing to see without reaffirmation.

Then again, maybe you could make a longer term work with some sort of "anti-election" mechanism. You vote in/appoint/have judges nominated by the bar, whatever, and periodically, a dismissal election is held. If a certain threshold of votes for dismissal/no-confidence are cast, then that triggers a conventional election/run-off for that judges spot. In that sense, the judge no longer has to actively politik, though those vying for the spot are free to campaign to try to get people displeased enough to trigger an election.

It still seems like it may only work with a populace who stays on top of their judges, but I actually kind of like the idea because in theory, good judges would never really be upset from business as usual, bad ones would very quickly become apparent in theory, since the number of corrupt supporters would be very unlikely to dwarf the number of "victims" of the judges corrupt acts, and you get away from some of the politicization of the position except when the public clearly has a change in the winds of policy in mind, in which case the election may put the judge back in office, but with renewed attention to the change in civil sentiment.

I don't know, it just feels better to me that way. I mean I do kinda get where Go's coming from, and I semi-dig it. I just don't think judges should ever be more than arms length away from the people whose lives they impact most.
Hard to dig up concrete info on this. I’ve found one article on lobbying [1], but it was pharma lobbying against the DEA, to prevent them going after opioid distributors.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/investigations/...
Wish they would investigate Apple as well.
Unfortunately in some parts you deal with the theft and vandalism. Acquaintance of mine deals with this a lot in Arizona on mountain tops. Sometimes folks stealing gear and selling it on eBay for whatever they can get.

Back in the 90s and early 2000s the theft of copper was getting pretty bad in some parts of the country/rural areas. Folks could spot an outage and guess it was due to vandals but they could never catch them. Lots of metal yards would look the other way and buy it no question asked, but it was difficult to prove folks stole it.

So they would get in a helo with a FLIR camera and cruise the country side looking for heat blooms and be in contact with the NOC for any outages popping up. They'd eventually find folks using a 55 gallon drum with a fire where they'd pull the copper over it to melt off the cover and call in the sheriff to go after them.
EFF - lawyers with good intentions, a bad legal case and bad facts.

vs.

Publishers - lawyers with good intentions, a good legal case and good facts.

IA = good. IA's library service = bad.

--

Simply put, IA will lose this case* while publicly saying they "won" the case when a settlement is reached where IA keeps the service shutdown (as it is now) and avoids paying infringement fees (publishers are not trying to shutdown the IA)

(e.g. IA arguing its service is a public good, because libraries failed to provide access during COVID, when in reality public libraries dramatically increased online access during COVID)
I don’t understand. If “caste” is something specific to country of India, and if it is not explicitly listed in US law; can the defendant just claim it to be a more generalized version discrimination? It’s like going to a barber shop and they won’t cut your hair because they discriminate based on your accent. It’s discrimination regardless even though it’s not explicitly listed in the law. As far as the US law is concerned, caste system of India is completely arbitrary just like the accent or the color of your clothes or whatever.
I get these at least once a week, I guess your email showed up in some publicly made data breach, and scammers just send everyone the same email.

I’ve always wanted to reply and waste their time, but on the other hand, I don’t want to waste my time, and I don’t want to let them know my email is still in use.
Sort of.

"you can enjoy up to 250 live TV channels and up to 30,000 On Demand TV shows and movies when you're connected to your Spectrum Internet WiFi network at home. Plus, when you're on the go, enjoy up to 150 live channels and up to 20,000 On Demand titles anywhere you have an internet connection"
We even use Discord instead of Slack.
Tapes have become "enterprise" gear.. that is why they are expensive. HD's are looking to replicate those markups if the pricing on WD reds vs the usb drives are any indication.

There was a time that a tape drives cost about the same as a floppy/zip/etc drive. AKA a hundred to two bucks.

In the early 1990's QIC80 tapes were pretty popular in certain circles as an exchange medium since they fit a hundred or so floppies in a package that was smaller and a little thicker. Later things like the 3080 and the like bumped the capacity into the GB range for similar pricing.

Back then pretty much ever novell/etc server in existence had a tape drive in the front being used as a backup mechanism. The sysadmin dropped a tape in on friday, and took it offsite on monday (or whatever). In unix land it was possible to completely single step boot from tape and recover using things like AIX's mksysb. The death of tape, wasn't really a death so much as a giant margin increase, where a drive that cost $200 suddenly cost $2000 and came with a fibre channel interface rather than IDE..
You are exactly right. And I'm surprised people are talking about it here cavalierly. I wouldn't hire someone who brags openly on forums about stealing software.
Maybe somebody can clarify this for me. It seems that there is a difference in American and European laws about discrimination, where U.S. has a concept of protected groups (i.e. they explicitly enumerate who is not to be discriminated), while EU has laws based on equality of the groups (or more generally, humans).

It seems to me that the American system is more antagonistic, in the sense it really prefers some groups (or classes) to another. And this causes more issues (and more resentment). Am I understanding this right?
> lawsuit found that 67% of Dalits surveyed felt treated unfairly at their U.S. workplaces.

I'm more surprised 67% of Dalits would have coworkers knowing their caste. Can someone give context on how this happens?
At least for the last you can go into Settings->Location and either revoke location permissions entirely or at least make sure they're set to "Allowed only while in use".
I've been working on this. I think I can reliably hit the quality ballpark of STT APIs at the acoustic model level, but not at the language model level (word probabilities) in a low-powered-way yet.

Also, non-English models are _way_ behind still.
Even if it's a Cisco router and there are no text files other than a note.txt 'Here be dragons'
"You could work around this, but there's no off-the-shelf software for doing so I'm aware of (I know some versions of windows server backup can write direct to tape,"

I think what you are looking for is LTFS.
They usually have different surnames or they might have volunteered that information to their coworkers.
> Why does everything need 50 disclaimers before anyone can say anything.

Because it identifies which team you are on. People only recognize the existence of a nuanced point if it's made from someone on their own side.
CA to vote on repealing prop 209: allowing discrimination based on race and sex
I only learnt about aphantasia very recently. I seem to be affected. It was very surprising to me, that people can "see" things only by thinking about them. It explains a lot. For example I never understood what's so great about reading books. But I can imaging that this is great if you actually see the things you read about.

I can also confirm the findings of this study. I rarly dream. I cannot hear music in my head. I also learnt quite a while ago, that my peers can remember the past in way that is mind boggling for me.

It's pretty depressing to be honest.

Do we already know if this is something which is inherited?
Your post is an example of tactical nihilism. Suddenly, you've forgotten about every corporation that has reprehensible politics that you dislike? Suddenly, every media organization is truthful, every sponsor an altruist?

Honestly, how have you not seen these "we need to start doing X" posts? They rain down from the heavens on a weekly basis. "It's time to stop doing X, and do Y". "Here's why Z is problematic." It's literally corporate moralizing, sprinkled with doomsday predictions and rationalizations for hating the enemy du jour. It gets so very tiresome.
Can you explain the EU law? If a man applied to be a girl's PE teacher that would be in a locker room, is that allowed? Certainly not, right? The US allows discrimination in general as long as it's not based on membership in certain groups, unless such membership is germaine to the job. So you could limit gender in my PE teacher example, but you can't for a crossing guard (because presumably, anyone can be a crossing guard but sex matters for PE teaching).

Used PE teaching because I can't think of a better example.
You can read the US law yourself:

https://www.eeoc.gov/statutes/title-vii-civil-rights-act-196...
I guess this would be a form of religious discrimination, because it's discrimination based on religious beliefs.