skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel bad for the victims. It's almost always the elderly and they're relentlessly pursued over the phone. You basically have to remove their phones, or remove their capability to ruin their finances. I imagine that day is coming quite soon for my in-laws.
I watched How It's Made with my kids for a good number of years, and I was just amazed that the parts that were automated worked as well as they did. It made manufacturing look really complicated and that human hands were the most important part of the assembly line.
High-Resolution Neural Face Swapping for Visual Effects – Disney Research
> I'm sorry, what? Does this person think that phrenology / physiognomy, two old pseudosciences that have been discredited for a hundred years or more, are actually at play within ML systems?

https://callingbullshit.org/case_studies/case_study_criminal...

This shouldn't be a problem, because as you note phrenology is pseudoscience that's been discredited for over a century. And yet.

To the broader point, I'd argue that in generally any attempt to predict criminality from facial structure/face picture is phrenological in nature. And people who do know what's at play with ML systems do agree with this take: https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1276147230295166984
COVID may be the proxy, but we should have this as a general purpose health platform. There are a variety of attributes to sense, but the difficult issues in implementation will be the larger system level integration:

- How to power it reliably

- The system needs to be 'transparent' to the wearer in many senses of the word. Put it on and forget it indefinitely whether sleeping, showering or exercising.

- It needs to be rugged to withstand any type of vigorous human activity: Triathlons, skydiving, roller coasters, dance contests, ...

- Likely, analysis systems will improve to enable early and accurate alerts. Where will those systems run? On our smart phones? in the cloud?

- The entire system needs to be low-cost. In fact, health insurance companies may want to offer them at no charge to their clients.

- Aaaaaand privacy...

In some senses, the actual sensor suite is a secondary design concern behind the system platform and architecture
In fact China drives automation these days. And its speeding up everywhere.
Fluids/moltens are a nightmare.
And a certain election coming up.
COVID-19 will likely be a watershed moment for higher education in the US. Many colleges and universities will likely never return to what they had before. There will be immense pressure to rethink how the whole system works and the cost structures therein.

At many schools the cost increases over the last few decades have very little to do with increasing the quality of education and a lot to do with unnecessary expenses and ever growing administrative bloat. It’s going to be hard for schools to justify their cost when they’re running essentially an online school and that’s the first step towards the whole house of cards falling apart. Expect to see a lot of changes in the coming years. It will be painful but for the best in the long term in getting schools back to basics of providing education.

Schools like Harvard will be fine but outside the top tier it’s about to get real ugly.
I'm frankly amazed that the people who brought us node.js haven't also created a JS query language, furthering the spread of the triple-equals to new and greater heights.
I don't believe we do minimum wages for similar reasons either. We want people to be able to live (or, at the very least, survive), and we don't want to distort the markets by subsidizing their lives when working doesn't pay enough. But that has nothing to do with removing competition, or limiting competition to some areas, i.e. "natural talent" but forbidding to put more work in than your competitors.

> It's a strange moving of the goal-posts to posit that sports doesn't count due to endorsements.

If you go for total comp, endorsements is part of it. If you don't, you'll just see that the average salary in highly lucrative and competitive fields will sink and the stock options, bonuses etc for the top performers will increase. In both cases, the result is the same: the top performers get substantially more than the rest. The different is only whether you're trying to hide that fact by making them nominally earn close to the same, only to then give some of them the rest of the money in a different way.

> The military is an institution that sometimes put numerous limits on one's professional career regardless of contribution.

And they are also a very special case, with lots of intricacies and paranoia and not something that comes to mind when you ask people about rewarding merit and efficiency.

Nobody is arguing that anything and everything must "only consist of natural laws". But to claim that something as basic as "more effort = more results" shouldn't be allowed to be real because it's too much of a natural law and has no place in civilized society sound ridiculous.

It's fine if you want to argue that we shouldn't promote the top 1% of each year and murder the rest. I agree, and we don't. But to not consider the actual output of people competing for something because they might have put in different amount of hours?

Should we have the Olympics add more classes where only people may compete against each other that were born on the same day and had their training supervised and limited to a reasonable amount achievable by every hobbyist for their whole life, to make sure that none of them had an "unfair advantage" by training harder or longer than the others?
Mozilla added VA-API support under Wayland sessions in FireFox 76, and it'll be coming to Xorg sessions in FireFox 80.
Some fields are exceptions to this rule. Those fields represent a small fraction of all degrees awarded per year. Yours (and mine) are part of that exception.
Students will still be on campus, while teaching is done online. Sounds like a win win for students who get to interact with their peers, and professors who get to stay safe.
Because it's Harvard's network and not the lectures that make the brand.
It’s still one person. There needs to be a consensus, and that consensus hasn’t been reached. As has already been mentioned in other comments, Mozilla said they wouldn’t enforce the 7-day deadline.
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My Worst Case Experience with Pearson Vue as a Nigerian
Cleaning out the dust makes a massive difference. The PS4 actually allows easy access to the fans and vents by popping off the top plastic without voiding the warranty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I7zu4PbqNY
If you aren't already familiar, check out Kitboga: https://www.twitch.tv/kitboga

He live streams calling scammers that are running exactly these sorts of scams, tries to tie them up for as long as possible, wasting their time. It's super educational as well, showing how these scammers try various tactics to keep people afraid.
Looks like from their chart [0] the WHOOP may be the most affordable, most comprehensive (relative to COVID) wearable out there.

I actually built something to provide a "single view" of monitoring individuals' wearable metrics [1], launched it via HN a couple days ago [2]

[0] https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/558695/fdgth-02-0...

[1] https://meports.com

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23677773
I've programmed ABB, Epson, Denso, and Fanuc 6 axis robots (no Mitsubishis, but I've seen a few) and there's no way that those robots are running at 1-second cycle times. Maybe with a delta or SCARA, but just moving 200mm and back with the inertia of the robot alone will take you on the order of a second.

It's almost certainly 30 seconds part-to-part, taking 16 minutes (minus 30 seconds for each of the stations that have two or more robots) from the start to the end of the line. It's not particularly important how long it takes from the start to the end of the line, and they'd be unlikely to share that trivia with a journalist - but part-to-part cycle time is important.

If the TAKT time demanded a completed unit every second, they'd run multiple lines.
Do you seriously believe that the main reason that Trump got elected is a bunch of Facebook ads?
The number one thing keeping me at my most-likely bullshit job is that health insurance in America is only affordable if you have an employer to foot the bill. If I was single, I don't think I would care much. But I'm married with three kids, and health insurance is a very effective retention tool.
What will this mean for the future of video evidence? e.g police body-cams.
Finally, now the rest of us can wait for our administrations to copy them (at least MIT has been following their every move).
I just wish it didn't lock the window at the slightest provocation.

Connecting to a slow network share? Rclicked and one context extension is acting up? Just feeling cranky today? Well (not responding).

And if you want to close the (not responding) window, I hope you didn't want any of your other windows, including you in-progress file copies.
I would hope that Harvard students could adapt pretty easily. The public school my kids go to will only be open 2 days per week next year, mostly for tech support. That is a real travesty for the kids, especially with Mom and Dad going to work, the kids will be one their own often trying to get it done. I'll be spending my evenings playing teacher after a full day of work. I refuse to let me kids fall behind, its obvious that the government won't do anything but send kids home and hope for the best. The kids need the classroom and need to be social. Not looking for my family to get covid but we need to do more to educate the next generation.
> Also about networking and friendships formed during college

I've never been as lonely as I had been during my first few years of college. I had no friends basically. People always got up and left the classrooms after classes were over -- no one hung around to socialize. I was depressed and extremely lonely, and rarely talked to any human beings, and mostly spent my free time on my laptop filled with an ocean of sadness. In my later years in college, I did make some friends, a few of which (like around 3 or 4 friends) have turned into life-long friends. And I'm extremely happy about those.

But people seriously need to stop selling/touting college as some great social place. It emphatically was not during my first two years). The "social aspect" absolutely does not justify spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on college. You can find friends through events on meetup, or joining a social group (like a club that teaches to code, or a writer's group, or a music/singing group, or a church/religious group, etc). There are plenty of groups like this that are open to anyone in most major metropolises in the US. I've also made online, on Reddit and other sites. People randomly start chatting with me after seeing one of my comments.

You absolutely don't need to and shouldn't spend hundreds of thousands just for the social aspect of college.
This is my experience too. I haven't exactly avoided credentials as a principle (I have a BEng), but I totally agree with "Be able to get the work done and enjoyable to work with".

Do a good job, be secure in your abilities, have empathy for others. I'm a freelancer of 13 years with a lot of happy clients and – before I started living off-grid – I'd earn a month's rent in half a day. Now I don't have rent or mortgage.

Sure, I haven't climbed any corporate ladder, but I hope that in a decent company you can be those things and also do well.
Covid-19 will permanently change hiring in Silicon Valley
I understand the POV here, but as a user of autodesk products, I don't want Autodesk to turn away the revenue they need to keep making products I use. products are an ecosystem and if the product gets worse or updates get slower then the whole ecosystem suffers.

I will bet that a large number of green energy plants (solar, wind, etc) are designed using Autodesk tools, and a large amount of sustainable manufacturing as well.

Not to be too reductive, but companies that make wrenches, welders, milling machines, steel, trucks etc. are all complicit in the same thing. Autodesk probably has provided services and tools which make this coal mine more efficient than it would have been otherwise, too - many of their products are designed to make engineering and manufacture more efficient.

I do agree, though, that their PR department and their actual response to the issues have been poor. I am thankful that we don't judge ever business merely by their PR; most are not that good.

disclaimer: I do not work for autodesk but I do own some small amount of autodesk stock because I like their products and use Fusion360 for free as a hobby machinist and woodworker.
In most of Wall Street, internship to offer rates effectively start at 100% but some people during the course of internship manage to cause the employer to rethink the offer, so the final result is anywhere between 90-98%

Well, not at JPM, but most everywhere else.
Puritans had very little effect on American culture - please stop repeating this trope.
Autodesk trademark UDRP dispute incoming.
Because slavery is immoral. And that's what you essentially need to do this. Even with extra steps, it's slavery.

That's the big question about automation that I always ask that just gets handwaved away with "We'll pay a lot" or "People will want to".

There's going to be a job gap, if there's not one now, where we have far more people than jobs that are needed.

So the answer for the unemployment situation is basically accepting the post-scarcity nature of the world and just kind of let people live. No means-testing, no qualifications, just people getting X because it's the right thing to do.

So how do you get people to do anything they don't want to? How do you get people doing the jobs no one may want to do but will need to be done?

Right now the system is rolling due to inertia and the promise that this is temporary. Just because something can be tolerated temporarily, it doesn't mean we can sustain it indefinitely.

And I'm not saying things should stay the same. I'm saying that we are not prepared for the changes that are coming. We do not know the answers to the questions we're about to face. It's going to get difficult.
Thanks. It’s a moot point now, but I’ll note that for the future.
ŷ is the prediction you get out of the formula, β̂ is the coefficient(s) on the variables in the formula.

So, take the simplest possible model: You think that your dependent variable is linear in the dependent variable, and that the line passes through (0,0). That gives us a simplified version of the classic equation for a line, where we say that y is equal to x times some constant that indicates the slope of the line:

y = mx

In machine learning (or statistical inference), the variable conventions are slightly different, so it would look more like:

y = βx

And then, since this is machine learning (or statistical inference, or whatever), we don't know the true equation, we're just working with an estimate we've inferred. We stick hats over the estimated values to make it clear that they're estimates:

ŷ = β̂x

What I was describing, then, is which side of the formula you're focusing on. Traditionally, statistics has been all about scientific inference, and trying to figure out and characterize causal relationships. So you want to know "If I change x in some way, how will that affect the outcome, all else being equal?" β̂ is your tool for teasing those things apart. Machine learning is typically cast as being more about making predictions from observational data. ŷ is just the formal notation for describing those predictions.

It's pretty common in machine learning to say, "We are working with observational data, we're not worried about causality, so we'll only pay attention to the predictions." There can be value to that approach, but only to the extent that you really don't care about causality. Which. . . surprisingly often, β̂ matters, even when the people who built the model were trying to ignore it. It becomes especially important when you're using the model to make decisions. For example, when a company is using a machine learning model to try and identify candidates for a position they're trying to fill, they should absolutely be paying attention to what the model thinks about people who liked Lane Bryant on Facebook, and how that compares to people who liked Jos A Bank, and whether they really want things like that to be playing into how they make hiring decisions.
Dumb piece about a dumb conversation. But for the record, journalists gain trust & responsibility by keeping their opinions out of it. If you give free rein to your silly opinions, all you do is gain the blind obedience of those who already agree with you, which is easy. Easy. And is the default mode on Twitter, i.e. the "mooks and knights" model - https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/the-internet-of-beefs/

Those who want to be treated with respect like real grown-up journalists need to act like real grown-up journalists and not just common Twitter trash. What am I supposed to do with something like "Silicon Valley millionaires, who have been coddled..."? If I'm looking to be outraged and join a mob, I'm all good, I've reached my destination. If on the other hand I'm looking for facts/journalism, what should I do at this point? Ask for a source? Where was the coddling? Who did the coddling? What kind of coddling? When did this coddling take place? Just asking the usual 5-6 journalistic questions about it makes you realize how fucking tedious this particular bit of "news" is. It's actually not news, not a fact. It's a mean-spirited, trashy little aside. (Does this automatically mean I support "millionaires" exploiting and demeaning others? No, you idiot.)

Want a grim laugh? Picture Hitler ranting & raving at a podium, and that sentence appearing as the subtitle. "THEY HAVE BEEN CODDLED AND WILL BE CODDLED NO MORE!!!" crowd: "Heeeiiill!" Hitler was not a journalist.

All the little side commentary (I'm already too bored to cite other examples but it does get worse from there) sounds like something out of Idiocracy. Flagging this for being intellectually beneath us.
I don't think it's anywhere near as bimodal as you say.

As far as human pyschology goes, I think it's hard to be productive over the very long term with almost no real in-person time to connect with your team. We're social animals and we bond best when together. And we are more productive and efficient when we have bonded in that way.

Even famously all-remote companies shell out cash to fly everyone together at least a few times a year because of this. At some point, though, there are diminishing returns to getting everyone in the same room. The optimum point surely varies from person to person and depends on the nature of their work, but I don't think the peak is "every day" or "never".

Yes, offices are less useful when they're empty half the time. But homes are too! Most American homes sit empty from 8am-6pm every single day. Miles and miles of dead suburban streets, empty driveways, houses silent except for the ticking of thermostats.

I'm interested to see a company try a middle ground like this: Everyone works from home most days. At some periodic interval, maybe once a week, everyone comes to some shared space for meeting and coordination work.

This sounds like the worst of both worlds because you need both home office space and office space. But the office space can likely be shared with several teams. An office big enough for 100 people could service a 1,000 if teams only came in once every two weeks. If in-person days are mostly around meetings and communication, you don't need a lot of dedicated desk space. It doesn't need to feel like a permanent "territory" for each worker. Instead, just a pile of shared meeting rooms and open spaces.

If you still have to come in a few times, then it sounds like you're still stuck living close to an urban center. But, actually, the livable radius increases dramatically. A one-hour each way commute is a nightmare if you do it every day. That's ten hours a week stuck in a car. But if you only come in once every two weeks, then you could cut your total commute time in half while living five times as far away. And, since in-person days are mostly for meeting anyway, it's viable to have an understanding that commuting is part of your "work day" and have a shorter in-person work day.

In return, you get to spend less time commuting and more time in your own community, with your pets, with your loved ones, and in your own home.
And after that go on a speaking tour for big $ repeating the same points.
I changed from "regular freelance" project work with 2 to 4 clients at a time, to contract work one client at a time, usually as an extension of their dev team. This has cut negotiating time significantly, I can bill pretty much 35-40 hours for the week and allows me to focus on coding, this suits my style of work well.

You can earn quite a bit if you're efficient, though this model is not that scalable beyond that e.g. it's difficult to build an agency / consultancy with full-time billing and very low negotiating overhead. Your role will turn more into that of a manager + salesperson as you hire more people.
Honest question: yesterday the US saw the most cases in a day since this started. If that doesnt constitute a spike then what does? Or is the planning more about anticipated levels 6 weeks from now as compared to now.
Yep, there are some links to it on some of the earlier Taaalks. The first version was a completely static site, which we had to manually update after every message. I built this after learning to code at the end of last year
Where is this movement coming from? Makes a difference if it's an Autodesk competitor vs. an independent environmentalist.

Edit: looks like it's from an independent designer based in Europe.
There was an Economist article on this exactly: https://www.economist.com/business/2020/05/09/japanese-offic...
No, they can't. There are more grad students than postdoc positions. Modern academia is famous/infamous for this.
Sequoia's new $1.35B venture and growth funds for India and Southeast Asia
I am not a fan of patent encumbered technologies, but here the assumption of being better has merit. There isn't much sense from a business prospective for a research team to publish a commercial solution that would exhibit inferior or even comparable performance to an existing free solution. As for the problem of convincing people to swallow the cost, just organize a show off campaign and leave the rest to sellers. That's how (at least) Apple does it.
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Thank you.
Neat project - next time make one with only ctrl, alt, and del.
One way to quickly find out what underlying provider a metasearch engine uses is to search for "my user agent". You will then normally see the user agent of the crawler in the result snippet.

Doing this on DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=my+user+agent&t=hk&ia=answer , reviles http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm in the snippet for whatsmyuseragent.org .
There were years when not all results counted - each driver had to discard the four worst results or something like that. That favored "win or crash" drivers over reliability.
Sure, go start your own company and do whatever the hell you want. Go start a commune and grow radishes and have drum circles. I'm not saying that sarcastically, that actually sounds great and you have the absolute right and ability to go do it and create something purposeful for your life.

But if you go work for Johnson and Johnson what makes you think you are entitled to them providing purpose for you? I mean demand it all you want, they aren't going to give it to you and they shouldn't. They bulk produce soap. It isn't their concern what you subjectively think is purposeful. They need someone to inspect the labels on those containers. The purpose is that it makes them money, not that it provides you happiness and that is the way it should and always will be.
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