skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we are clear about terminology it’s less misleading. Unauthorized use of software downloaded from the internet is copyright infringement, not “piracy”.

It is similar to making a xerox copy of a book obtained from the library, recording a rented video on a new videocassette tape, making an unauthorized recording at a music concert, or typing code you found in Numerical Recipes into your own open source project.

It is not at all similar to boarding a ship and robbing the passengers.
> The negligence here is on the part of everyone getting their hackles raised over nothing.

To be clear no one (or at least no one of note) has their hackles raised over this specific dataset. PULSE is fine for what it is, and no one criticized PULSE for having these results.

It is however a great demonstration for laypeople about how ML models aren't magic and don't always do what you, as a human, would expect. This is true irrespective of the source of that unexpected behavior.

That said, I believe the disclaimer you mention was added only after the recent twitter discussion.
Well yeah that's somewhat of a separate thing. If you say something but don't mention the right stuff, you get yelled at. If you are silent, you get yelled at.

In fairness, if you're gonna post a statement, you better go full bore with it with all the keywords in it. People were circulating rubrics on Twitter to grade social justice statements and brigading those who didn't hit all the notes.

https://twitter.com/peterhassett/status/1267452984432173058
No. YouTube Premium is a subscription to the whole platform, not a channel. It does not allow me to subscribe to channels a la cart. If I only watch one or two channels regularly, my options are to A) buy YouTube Premium, B) watch with ads, C) watch with an ad blocker. I bet YouTube would see more than a few people switch from C to B if they supported per-channel subscriptions.

They could bring in even more revenue with subscription tiers that offer trivial rewards like comment flairs, special emojis, or early access to videos. Even if most of the extra revenue from higher tiers goes to the channel instead of the platform, it would still be extra revenue for practically no cost.
Well, I blame this administration generally seeking appointments that will bend the knee over science.

Plenty of prior administrations appointment science-bound officials that held the line.
I think the tendency is slightly more complicated than that. I People tend to under react to a certain point and then tend to overreact past that point. The problem is that this inflection point is rarely informed by any sort of rational thought.
Yes! Reverse ranges in Python are awkward for this reason. The reverse of `range(0, 5)` (i.e. [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]) isn’t `range(5, 0, -1)`, it’s `range(4, -1, -1)`.

I think it would be better if the end-points were “low” and “high” rather than “start” and “stop”, so the reverse of `range(0, 5)` would simply be `range(0, 5, -1)`.
I love Emacs and have been using it for years but whenever I want to make a really quick edit, i.e. writing a git commit I almost always reach for vi because by the time Emacs loaded I would've been done committing with vi, at least with a slower machine.

I know some people run Emacs in daemon mode, but it's not always convenient to do that

This and when I ssh into any machine, I know there will be a vi at the very least
Wait...ignoring a discussion on Twitter is a privilege now? Some people don't have the privilege to do so? Just...put down your phone? I guess that makes me super privileged, seeing as I don't visit that cess pool of a site.
Arch aur has never let me down.... Linux package managers in general. Curated content, secondary and tertiary content of varying levels of risk. Most high risk activities hidden behind a knowledge gap, yet still available. It is a superior system to directly downloading binaries from random websites, if not only having a single access point increases security.
On a per journey basis, in Europe/US/Canada, considering _only_ commercial aviation (i.e., excluding general aviation), the fatality/journey rate is comparable to both cars and walking.
What assumptions does this visualization make? That it is a lone hydrogen atom suspended in a homogenous magnetic field?

Wouldn't the probability of finding an electron be spherically symmetric, regardless of the orbital number, if no external fields were present?
"The social impacts of computer vision" says more about the hype around the subject matter than anything. It's marketing, not science. Computer vision isn't that cool, yet. Running a deep convolutional network is a sales pitch by AWS to sell GPUs by the second.

I actually sell computer vision software - specifically designed to help reduce subjective evaluation of aesthetic material performance. Most computer vision is real prosaic. It's not scifi. You read a bunch of papers about horrible things done to marmot eyeballs in the 60s, build a discrete model because neural networks are notoriously hard to support in real-world applications where you have to explain yourself to a chemist, and move on. Her work is justifiably marginal.
VSCode is very customisable. So you can make it behave exactly like your vim (+plugins) setup behaves.
looks like DHH is taking the ebay approach
Just wanted to say I'm a huge fan of this.
yeah holy crow it has gotten way worse? are episodes shorter or something? I think I just sat through 5 minutes of ads.
The GNU project is leaking into Microsoft
The way I understood his original tweet was that he was taking the specific problem with this study to illustrate a point about ML overall. Therefore the criticism he receives can be related to how that idea applies to ML overall and not exclusively this problem.
Trees are nice but not having trees does not automatically mean collapse. I found this paper had many more arguments then the article.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255726745_Ecologica...
Actually, that's Gebru's point. Gebru was pointing out frustration that LeCun was focusing on this narrow question of statistical bias, rather than the broader social issues you're getting at.
I see, thanks for the info
Here's a thought I've had recently: it might be worthwhile to have a page, perhaps linked to from the topic's comment page, that shows all flagged comments for said topic. People would not be able to reply to these comments, but everyone would be able to read them. I'm not sure if it has any merit or not, but it's just an idea.
I wouldn't be surprised. But who is going to put up with that kind of aloof and standoffish behavior? You're probably going to come across like a monarch that doesn't want to come into contact with the common folk.
Isn't the income stream mostly donations, and is getting publicity from being targeted by unpopular entities a great way to get more donations?
Emotional cues, yes. Acute health or distress, to an extent, yes.

Personality, aptitude, criminality, intelligence, empathy, etcetera... that's almost surely pseudoscience.
Every cablebox I've ever dealt with is a pile of shit than struggles to display simple text-based menus.
How dare any worker demand a living wage. Look at minorities. They are poor and you need to be just as poor to not be a nazi.

This isn't even a strawman in this case, since the company in question is literally cutting pay to its workers for the sake of minorities.

The capitalists are very good at starting a race war to keep workers from uniting.
A small historical correction: the ARM3 (first ARM with a cache) predates the spin-off of ARM as a separate company. The Acorn Archimedes A540 (with ARM3) was released mid 1990 and ARM was founded later that year.
The Essential Bradbury (2018)
A major aspect of crypto research today is crypto UX and making crypto systems that are difficult to misuse. There are academics who actively work on these issues. They aren't the only academics obviously, but they exist.

Building ML systems that are difficult to misuse is underexplored, and Timnit is one of the relatively few researchers actively doing work in this area.
Indeed, and that name makes the most sense. For the GP, the official name is not Rapa Nui, but Isla De Pascua as it is "owned" by Chile. The native inhabitants of this small island called it Rapa Nui after themselves.

I've spent a week there in Hanga Roa and a few days in Tahai. It is a really special place to experience if you can.
It's increasing in price by one Netflix.

I can't grasp paying $65/ month for all my streaming combined, let alone just one service. I could buy a season pass to 3 new great shows every month for that much.
No. It’s easy to fix bias in the data for a model developer, but one can’t control other people’s dietary choices.
Hate it when they write articles like this, makes it hard to skim it.
Many of those channels you "don't want" actually subsidize the channels you do want.
What causes a firmware lock?
I don't think there's an argument that needs to be made; it's pretty clear to me that people use researcher-produced models in production all the time without regard for whether they're biased because it's the easiest solution. If you think there needs to be an argument made to justify that, that's fine, but I don't think it's valuable to assume that people come into a discussion without a basic understanding of the software engineering ecosystem.

And the point being made isn't "biased input data isn't responsible for a biased model", it's "you need to look one step further and ask why is the input data biased and how that impacts the world."
Facebook Is Banning a Violent Network
They go into more detail in this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpPpwa7W93I

Specific recommendations start at 17 min.
Arizona Cops Use Drone Surveillance to Arrest Protesters
Why not use one of the many publicly-available add-ons that add Vim bindings to VS Code? Pretty much every IDE has at least one of those - as an Emacs person, I envy it.
Why do people say Covid was a black swan event? It was not, it was utterly predictable, if not the specific virus, then at least the course of its spread. The black swan is our collective ineptitude in handling the crisis, not the virus itself.

We’ve had pandemics repeatedly throughout recorded history and before. It’s not as though the world went “a virus what is this we’ve never seen anything like it”.

The black plague, the flu of 1918, and numerous other examples of epidemic diseases have struck down multitudes over thousands of years. Even Sars was just a score of years ago.

We were simply inept when it came to Covid-19. We dropped the ball. The thing about Covid isn’t how unexpected it was, it’s how utterly predictable it has been at every single turn.
I second the recommendation of Lulu. It's such a useful, well-built tool. I use it daily, and it's eye-opening to see all the questionable network requests leaking data.
> So these people just stopped.

I suspect a fair number of people just don't care about TV as much as the experts thought. Netflix plus Amazon Prime and a season pass of Dr. Who is about all I can watch anyhow.
"China" is a place, which is an origin of hacking attempts detected by some users, which could be of known or unknown origin (i.e. people who are pink or AI)

"Black" refers to an ethnicity of a given group of people. Or their skin color, if you want things simple.

These are non-interchangeable terms, so by asking to switch them you are indicating they are interchangeable. You are doing this because you think it's important to keep people from blaming an individual based on group membership.

Yet, it remains that the CPC is something else beyond a person, a culture or a people. Defending it is irrational, but maybe people want to stand up for something important to them and think that defending everything's right to exist and speak its mind is more important than existence itself.
Uber’s New Strategy: Buy Unprofitable Companies Like Postmates, ???, Profit
Ugh, sorry. I shouldn't assume intent like that :(
> Marginalizing the discussion by pointing out that this case would benefit from less biased data is unproductive.

Except for the part where it provides an actual workable solution to the problem at hand.

To me this is an argument between completely different mindsets, one that restricts itself to provable facts and one which restricts itself to political agendas. I don't see how the latter can also work in facts. Or belongs in a technical research discussion at all frankly. You want to make laws that force companies to produce identical/equivalent outcomes for every race somehow? Just go lobby for it. Perhaps it's a good idea. You aren't going to reprogram mathematicians to think in political terms instead of mathematical terms.
But what catastrophes could render the Earth so much more uninhabitable than Mars everyday?
To me it's not about input being the bottleneck, but about Vim having a modular grammar, such that my brain can stay in "problem space" instead of "how do I edit the file space".

It allows me to have a deeper level of focus.
I think a significant factor is that Vim is a better managed and maintained project. Emacs's difficulties in this regard are decades-long and songs are sung about them.
I've found memory palaces need at least some upkeep. I only ever used it once to memorize some silly list of matrix properties for extra credit on a test and it worked really well, going along a chain of symbolic objects placed along a location I know very well (the first homeworld of Spyro 3), but it faded over time and now I only remember one thing from it.
The (Eye-Mouth-Eye Emoji) Debacle Sums Up Tech’s Race Issues
That doesn’t delete the data, just makes it unusable until the encryption algorithm is broken. Which will certainly be a while, but not forever.
Imagine if Bitcoin worked by "taxing" transfers and evenly distributing that tax to every other wallet.
Las Vegas:
- the police shot a man.
- a man shot the police.

neither incident appear in this data set.
> Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and Apple TV+.

That's 2 services more than me!

Once I run out of things to watch, it's time to shut the TV off and go ride my bike or work in the yard anyhow.
yea, I started learning vi around 1993, but didn't really get good at it till 1995.
Does it work though?
I think you're right that this algorithm doesn't do a good job of reconstructing high res faces from pixelated ones, simply because it can't—there simply isn't enough information in the input, and there is a huge set of real people (from many races) that could map to a given pixelated image.

But I do think that when someone who is white (or another race) says "here's a cool thing, check it out" and someone who is black (or another race, different from the first) tries it and realizes it doesn't work for them because of their race, there is a bit of inadvertent racism there. There is an inadvertent exclusion of that second person. I think this happens a lot and in some cases is unavoidable (e.g. language is intertwined with race, and there is a vast amount of information—literature, news, art—that will be inaccessible to you depending on which language(s) you speak), but it is a problem, and it deserves fixing when possible.

The implications in this case are currently small—it's a demo. But there is a risk that these biases could make it into real systems and have real impact on people's lives, and to combat that we need more awareness of this effect in the ML community and more research into possible solutions.
> ed

Ed is the standard text editor!

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.en.html
It’s not in the current dataset, but offering such a disordered speech dataset has been discussed. I imagine it’s something that will probably be offered at some point in future.
How to Solve a Systemic Problems and Find Solution Now
The saddest “Just Ship It” story ever
Apple Cancels Some Arcade Games in Strategy Shift to Keep Subscribers
I had someone try that on me about a year ago (shortened as it was a _long_ email):

> You probably noticed your device is acting strangely lately. That's because you downloaded a nasty software I created while you were browsing the Ƿornographic website...[...] If you do not do what I ask you now, I will upload this ugly video file with you ... and the stuff you were watching to several video upload sites and I will send the links to all your friends, family members and associates.[...] I think 2,000 USD is a fair price for my silence. I know you can handle to send me this money - and it is enough for me to get lost. So how do you send the cash?? Bitcoin.[...]

> Ok.. so what if you decide not to pay ? Well if you want to test my patience - go on. I will destroy your social life, you can count on that. You think that visiting Police is a good idea ? Nope. I don't live in your country and I know how to stay Anonymous. I will send the compromising video to everyone you know! Just send me the 2,000 USD and we forget about the whole thing. I have family to feed too.[...]

> The time starts ticking after you open this letter (I included a pixel in this message and I will know when you read it).

Oddly enough, nothing ever happened.
> This is data and fact (and the wonder of exponential growth and decay).

The data seems to fit up to a Gompertz curve. The rate of growth was declining exponentially from the beginning. Since this corresponds to so many locations around the world, there must be something going on that most people aren't recognizing. If it were due to lockdown we'd see some variation between locations cause they can't all enact lockdown in exactly the same way, with same timing, etc.
Same experience here. Before learning vim I never expected its interface to make such a difference (it seemed daunting and unergonomic). I think the only other software that has made me feel that way is i3.
https://sciter.com/tutorials/
As long as you have clean money with an obvious & documented provenance (i.e., how it was earned), and an obvious above-board purpose such as buying a house, sure, transferring a few million is likely to be straightforward.

But that is off-topic - the topic is anonymous transfer for unspecified reasons.

Even transferring between two accounts of different businesses you own can generate SARs (Suspicious Activity Reports) at $5K level. Even multiple deposits of a few $thousand in cash will draw attention & be subject to confiscation if you don't have a solid & documented explanation, such as running a big & legitimate cash business.
That's a weird way to downplay looting. Both are theft. When it's a civil asset forfeiture, there is usually a process to claim it back. (Not saying it's not abused [it is and I'm against it].. but it's not like it goes from the person directly into the theive's pocket)
This seems to have happened with me...
But I didn't realize it was common!
How about doing math in your head? If I couldn't visualize the actual numbers I don't think I could do it at all.
Could you? Here[1] is Richard Hammond driving an F1 car on Top Gear, and he says it can't go slowly, safely - no downforce, no heat in the tyres, no heat in the brakes. If you're coming off a lot of fast laps into the pit lane they will still be warm, if you try to drive it at 40km/h all the way they won't be.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGUZJVY-sHo
I've wondered for a long time if it would make sense for Apple to sell the A13 etc. to smart home device makers, on the theory that Apple can offer great HomeKit integration as well as a superior chip to anything else on the market (for e.g. video processing).
I can't speak for the Photoshop -> Photo transition since that's never really been my thing, but if you've been using CS professionally for any length of time then going from Illustrator + InDesign to Designer + Publisher take some significant muscle memory retraining. I've been gradually switching over for the last ~6 months but I still have to reach for Ai or Id if there's a really time-sensitive task.

The amount of subconscious automation that goes into making you really proficient at using some tool becomes very obvious when you try to use a different one.
Try listening to a music radio station sometime. I turned one on for the first time a 10 years a couple weeks ago and in a 45 minute drive heard approximately 2 songs. The entire rest was station identifiers and commercials.
Yup. All that. And it's a question that has been circulating the internet for over 10 years as a basic interview question.

Re typing: You can usually hear it unless the mic is muted (part of the reason I try to keep the conversation going).
Tool to summarise Coursera courses into one compelling line for your resume
oooooooh riiiiiiight, "Suck it Trebek!" :-)

Sorry for the noise.
People here won't have it. They want to believe the Mainstream media narrative, and it hurts their feels too much to consider there might be another side to this whole mess. Of course they will blame police once crime rates multiplies in all the democratic-run cities. It's blind loyalty, dogma, a secular religion.
Ask HN: Best practices / tools / masks / etc. to stay safe in a Covid world?
I became a sponsor of yours on Github today just to say, "thanks." I know it's not much, but I really do appreciate your work. Hopefully, my small donation will add up some worthwhile coffee overtime!
Obviously, it's more important to help minorities than to avoid antagonizing people. But avoiding antagonizing people is still important, even if it's not _as_ important. So my point is that we should avoid _unnecessarily_ antagonizing people. When innocent people get fired, that doesn't help minorities at all; but it does unnecessarily antagonize people, which can cause serious harm in the long run.
It's really difficult to agree on the right approaches, practices, tools, masks, etc, that can keep us the most safe in a world where Covid is present.

Any of you has strong recommendations to offer? Possibly backed by data, experts, papers, etc?
"Deplatforming racists isn't censorship"

Isn't deplatforming racist because it creates a segregated society. Do you really want to separate society based on race? Soon we'll have schools for racist only. People will complain they when they get higher marks.

You think you like the idea of social justice? What you are doing is social judgement. Bullying.. using your power over someone less powerful to make yourself feel better.

Many causes need attention. Ignoring them all and pretending to care when people are around doesn't help anyone. The next generation is going to call you fake.
If the evidence is not admissible, then it should not be considered, period.

As an example of a judge taking it on himself to "do the right thing", U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan tried to conjure up some way to continue the prosecution of General Michael Flynn by appointing a special counsel after the US District Attorney had moved to dismiss the case. [1] Judge Sullivan thus tried to act as prosecutor, despite a unanimous SCOTUS ruling that such action was not allowed, and was ordered by the Appeals Court to dismiss.

1. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/michael-flynns-case-ordered-...
The openssh binary to log into hardened remote servers which are not compatible with JuiceSSH or other apps alike.
Don't quote me on this, but I hear:

creeps
like
other
users
data

I think the next billion uses (not users) of the linux kernel will be on bare metal (or bare SOCs, wtcmb), so storage yes, but no networking or cloud required for optimal operations.
I asked for a summary.
People always fantasize about this but it's not remotely workable. It's a complete fantasy. Different channels differ very widely in value and in how much they cost the provider.

If you're going to make suggestions, think of something realistic, at least.