skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Any ML engineers interested in a paid study about training data tools?
I study how ML engineers do their work, particularly how people in industry work with unfamiliar training data. The goal of the study is to improve the process of exploring and manipulating training data, especially data that was collected for another purpose. If you’d like to help, here's what participation would involve. It would take place on your very favorite video conferencing software and would take about 1 hour. You’d share your screen and work with some data I supply, talking me through what you're doing/planning, answering some questions about what your plan would be with the data, and then maybe helping me with some participatory design tasks if we have time left.

Participants will receive:
- the unending gratitude of a grad student you don't know
- the warm fuzzy feeling of helping science
- maybe, one day in the future, better tools to help with training data curation
- a $40 Amazon Gift Card

You qualify if:

- are 18 or older

- you work with training data (even in an higher-level planning role, as a volunteer, entrepreneur, Kaggle competitor, etc.)

You do not need to be currently employed or have any particular job title; just need to consider yourself someone who works with ML. If you are interested, email me for our consent form and we can set up a time! klboyd@umd.edu. I’m hoping to get another 6 participants before the end of next week.

Your interview will be kept confidential: recordings will be destroyed after they are transcribed and associated only with a participant number, never your name or screen name. We will not identify you or your employer and you do not need to provide that information to me. I'd also be happy to send you the consent form with more information about data handling, risks, and so on. This study has been approved by the Institutional Review Board at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Thanks for considering it!
IMHO, that was more a result of the very high barrier to entry to get access to the internet, than its size. I still fantasize about creating a community with such a high barrier to entry today, but where it is done better than just making it depend on your technical chops and internet connections in the mid-nineteens.
Nah, assembly -> binary isn't that hard. ;)
To be honest I as a European wouldn't even consider moving there at the moment. Trump is really polarising American society (which already was quite polarised due to the two-party system).
Exactly. The human rights narrative is the clearest smokescreen ever used. The US was working just fine with China until 5 years ago, when they decided to enter the same markets (technology). China may not be the freest country in the world but it is way better than it was 20 years ago. Moreover, I don't remember the US trying to put ANY sanctions on Saudi Arabia for all its recent history of human rights violations.
> If you lower the cost of something then, all things being equal, the demand rises

No. Only in abstract models with potentially infinite supply and demand. If you lower the cost of plaster casts, more people won't break their legs.

> Roads are not immune from economics, just as they are not excused from geometry.

And economics aren't immune from ideology and disingenuous modelling.
That's textbook major depressive disorder. How long would you let Jenna suffer out of principle? One month was too short a time for you, so what a year, two? She's not attending classes, crying all the time, sleeping more than usual. Why would you let depression ruin her future when we have effective treatment with a favorable side effect profile (CBT + SSRIs)? It's not an either/or situation. Doctors definitely counsel to increase exercise and get outside when starting treatment for depression. I don't think your strategy is very compassionate at all.
Family: Past, Present, and Future (2014)
recently brought Redash over to my new company, installation was easy and it ran as fast as I remembered. Love low-frills workhorse sql clients like this
Do some digging and it’s easy to find. During the Carly days the people I was friendly with at HP were all fired up about a bunch of their network and storage connectivity components being pirated by the manufacturing partner.

The management at these companies in general are pretty dumb.

There’s a reason why in an age where all of the things are being computerized, most computer companies perform very poorly. When I followed this industry segment closely, Macs made more profit than HP, Dell, Lenovo and Asus combined.
I would think it's more likely to be used as blackmail material, where they threaten to release them publicly if they aren't paid.

In that case, it's irrelevant what the public thinks of them, all that matters is what the blackmailed individual's ability to pay and what they thinks about the public seeing them.

Put another way, maybe Musk's DMs being leaked doesn't actually change anything, but maybe Musk feels like it changes a lot for him, either personally or professionally. That's worth money to someone with the DMs.
Productionizing machine learning models, one change at a time with Josh Tobin
The Chinese have definitely asked the emperor about the size of his cauldron. I would be shocked if Xi isn't regretting his change in stance the last ten years.
It’s a post about the government calling out tech companies for being influenced about China but it is inappropriate to call out the same government’s hypocrisy?

A post about the government is going to be political by definition.
Wait do you mean they bought millions of dollars worth of put options or they bought put options they then sold for millions of dollars?

Because anyone could just buy a crap load of $0.10 options marked a week out, wait a few days, then tank the stock. It would look like you got stupidly lucky, I have no clue how anyone could connect that to the twitter event directly. Especially since it’s not like you’ll be the only one that “won the lottery”.

(Tesla isn’t a great stock for doing this though because their IV is so high that the premiums are crazy expensive)
I haven't read any others but anti-fragility is the book that has made me think more than any other I've read in the past few years. If you can get past the childish name calling it's worth it - I'll have to read his others next
What makes you think cocaine is an MAOI?
I am not sure how your comment related to mine, maybe I was not clar, EU and US had a contract, US is not respecting it and this judges looked at teh facts and said, yeah the contract is invalid so you can't store private data in US using this contract as a base, find something else.

And now US citizens from HN spin this as protectionism or over regulation and just ignore that there was a such a contract and it was not respected, it would make sense then that US guys won't complain if someone else would do the same, but you notice if an app related to China is only suspected of doing something like that the mob demands it getting banned if an US entity has the power to just search and read anyone's private stuff that is not from US then is fine.

I mean US could pretend they won't spy , and then work a bit harder to get the data they need instead of having 100% full access to everything.
Compared to US, maybe. But you are not doing justice to them just by looking at the USD expenditure since they produce almost everything within Russia and it might be far cheaper to produce stuff there. Here is what GFP ranks their military at: https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing.asp. Even an economically more powerful country like China still has defence imports from Russia.
That's completely hypocritical. The US was just fine with the exploitation of workers in China while it made economical sense. Now that the US is losing its grip on power, they want to create this nonsensical narrative.
"most people want to do more than just get by" maybe so, maybe not?

There's a massive gap between wanting something and doing what it takes to get it. If you were to ask people vs. watch what they do, you'll see the truth; it's never about what people say but instead what they do.

And I'd welcome any supporting research demonstrating that, based off their actions, "most people want to do more than just get by" as stated. My anecdotal observation is that most of (working age) society actually does just enough to get by for today, this week, or maybe the month...
Can you easily opt traffic out of testing based on traffic source? for instance Google Shopping(Microsoft Shopping as well) is pretty strict about the price in the ad page, matching the price on the product page.

do you plan to offer this product for other platforms? the number of Shopify merchants with traffic and sales large enough to get good significance in a timely manor is rather small, IME.
Top athletes, celebrities from Hollywood etc all virtue signal while ignoring the problems going on in China and are willing to sell out to China. Since the COVID, China has been blatantly racist towards blacks and the US embassy had to notify people about the "Discrimination against African-Americans". Yet this got ZERO attention:

> China McDonald's apologises for Guangzhou ban on black people

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-52274326

https://china.usembassy-china.org.cn/health-alert-u-s-consul...

> In response to an increase in COVID-19 infections, officials in the Guangzhou metropolitan area escalated scrutiny of foreign nationals. As part of this campaign, police ordered bars and restaurants not to serve clients who appear to be of African origin. Moreover, local officials launched a round of mandatory tests for COVID-19, followed by mandatory self-quarantine, for anyone with “African contacts,” regardless of recent travel history or previous quarantine completion. African-Americans have also reported that some businesses and hotels refuse to do business with them. The U.S. Consulate General advises African-Americans or those who believe Chinese officials may suspect them of having contact with nationals of African countries to avoid the Guangzhou metropolitan area until further notice. Without advance warning, officials might require such individuals to submit to a COVID-19 test and undergo 14 days of supervised quarantine at their own expense.

> All U.S. citizens in China are subject to local law. If you violate Chinese laws, even unknowingly, you may be arrested, expelled, or imprisoned. The Chinese legal system can be opaque, and the interpretation and enforcement of local laws may be arbitrary. The judiciary does not enjoy independence from political influence. U.S. citizens traveling or residing in China may be subject to heightened scrutiny by Chinese local law enforcement and state security. They should carry identity documents at all times.
RabbitMQ also made Ra[0], an Erlang implementation of Raft[1]

[0] https://github.com/rabbitmq/ra

[1] https://raft.github.io/
ProfitWell is targeted at B2B SaaS, very different from ecommerce (Shopify).
Why use 3 different ones when IntelliJ can do all of the features of the listed editors? PyCharm is IntelliJ locked with Python plugin, etc.
I discovered i have a problem with one. Every one else who tried it had 98-100 all the time. I had < 94 no mater what
I'm sorry, maybe I didn't fully explain my point or was too blunt about it? It seems its too late to delete the root comment now so in future I'll try to be a bit more detailed and not just post a one line conclusion...
> ...parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement...

I feel like there's got to be a more concise way to do that.
> and the ex-employee will never benefit either from supporting it.

Like I said, even when you get fired, you still have stock options. So you do in fact benefit by helping the company when you're leaving.

> The bond to co-workers at a former workplace is strange and tenuous - actually it goes the other way around, they reach out to you when they want to improve their situation. Let them ask you when they want out, then offer a hand.

Why not offer them help when they don't ask, in the form of giving feedback to HR? Why do they need to ask? Why can't I be altruistic and help just because?

I'll say this -- you're entitled to your opinion, but I really hope I never work with or for someone who shares your outlook. And I especially hope I never manage someone with your outlook.

Whatever happened to "we're all in this together"?
As someone with an afro, this is nightmare fuel.
Show HN: I learnt React by building a narrative-driven funny(?) web game
> We're comparing lockdowns with what people actually do when you don't have a lockdown

As long as we are comparing with what people actually do when there is a lockdown.

This is what makes the data analysis so difficult - perhaps in some areas people actually followed lockdown rules - where I live basically nobody did.

Yet on paper we had similar lockdowns.

> Wouldn't this cause them to not do regular health checkups, etc. as well?

It doesn’t seem so - but it’s hard to know for sure because you are comparing different cultures and demographics.

Swedes kept going to routine checkups whereas Californians didn’t - but was that caused by the lockdowns or differences in culture?

Like I said in 12-18 months the data will be a lot clearer.

> [citation needed]

Follow Michael Levitt on Twitter - https://mobile.twitter.com/MLevitt_NP2013

> Comparing Sweden to the US is misleading

Yes, and so is comparing Sweden and Denmark - but you were happy to do that.

Latest excess deaths show Sweden is doing better than the European average - https://mobile.twitter.com/MLevitt_NP2013/status/12838142549...

> Well, there it is. The age of the people dying is only relevant if you don't care about the elderly. You should be ashamed of yourself. Grow a conscience.

Nonsense - a 5 year old dying is completely different from an 80 year old dying.

That doesn’t mean I don’t care about the elderly.

> Lockdowns protect the old.

That’s not clear.

NYC for example has had a ruinous number of deaths in nursing homes.

Maybe you meant “Lockdowns are intended to protect the old”?
is the former pilot you are referring to, Ron Bliss? He passed away in 2006; he and i were neighbors; i knew him very well
actually >, not >=
The reality is the opposite, western expats in China get paid much more and are afforded much greater legal latitude. They get paid like kings and mostly live like kings. Make money in China and retire elsewhere has been going on since the 90s. It's how China developed with western expertise.
> It would look like you got stupidly lucky

Precisely why you would be caught.
All the EU states have mass surveillance programs too. EU member states do very little to regulate dragnet surveillance, and processes around targeted surveillance are mostly equivalent to the US processes. Do you really think the target of an EU counter terrorism investigation is going to be notified that somebody is seeking a warrant to spy on them? Or do you think that would all be handled be secret processes and secret court orders?

> BTW, I have to guess that your logic doesn't apply when the US refuse its data to go to China.

This is the more hilarious aspect of this. EU and US intelligence agencies share huge amounts of information. If an EU citizen is spied on by say, France. Not only are they not going to know it’s happening, not only is there essentially nothing they can do about it, but the French government are more than happy to share anything they find with the NSA [0]. If the EU actually had a legitimate concern about US intelligence gaining access to EU citizen data, then these intelligence sharing arrangements would be illegal.

This ruling doesn’t prevent US agencies from spying on EU citizens. The only thing it achieves is forcing US companies to do more business in the EU.

[0]: https://theintercept.com/2018/03/01/nsa-global-surveillance-...
> Does anyone know of customer service panels at big companies or government departments where this is the case?

E-government services in Estonia have nice features, aimed at giving more control to the owner of the data [1]. Among other: "It allows the Citizen to query who has accessed his/her records. [...] In Estonia, this feature has led to some very public cases of government officials being caught accessing private data of Citizens - without any legitimate and authorized reason for such access."

[1]: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12553-017-0195-1
Oh it's true that I build my comments by posting an initial stub and then adding to them bit by bit. That's the process that works, for whatever reason. But I'd never do that to create a misleading impression—on the contrary, in such cases I'll always add "Edit". If you replied before I added the bit about joke tags, I didn't see that and I'm sorry.

I actually have the 'delay' field in my profile set to allow time for such incremental edits, but not for long enough to mask all of them.
good to hear about the swapping issue, but the gps definitely have any simple fixes - i spent a good while trawling through forums and trying out various suggestions (i'm pretty sure changing the supl server was one of them), and none of them worked for me.
You can get quite close to the use case for Rust macros by considering C++ template-based metaprogramming. Of course the biggest difference is that Rust macros have been designed from first principles, not as a clunky afterthought.
Do privacy addons block this and if so, does your price tracking account for it?
One more way coronavirus lockdown is a threat to a whole lot of trades. Once it is over, not only will a whole lot of people have figured out that it isn't all that hard to cut your own hair or your spouse/family member's hair, but we'll have figured out how to have robots do it.

Same goes for a whole lot of other things. Education is probably going to take the biggest hit. I'm ok with this overall, but it's going to hurt a lot for some people.
The goal in this particular case was selling counterfeit units. The boot verification however is a quite serious problem that basically results in arbitrary code execution, just in this case it was used to bypass software protections.
I'm starting to develop RSI in my wrists and hands, and have been looking at eye tracking systems as a potential way to help reduce the amount of clicking that I need to do.

I was thinking maybe I could put webgazer.js into a chrome extension and use it to navigate through pages for me, but I don't think it has a click mechanism.

fwiw - I'm a huge vimium extension user as keyboarding is less of a strain than mouse movement.
FWIW, this may also mean avoiding US companies altogether -- the CLOUD act (hey, I don't come up with these names...) requires them to surrender data to US authorities on subpoena, even if it's hosted on facilities they own outside US territorial boundaries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
I'm actually surprised this is not already built into Shopify by default. This seems like a very basic functionality which can be added at any moment so what would that do with a startup?
If this is truly a concern that you have for your code, then you can use the clippy tool to lint for any "as" conversions: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#as...
Study on Exercising Your Mind
New research demonstrates that the beneficial effects of exercise in mitigating brain aging can be conveyed from exercising mice to sedentary mice through plasma transfer.
I work for a giant corporation and every team is free to interview candidates however they want (after they get past HR screening, which is simple): the (to-be) direct manager of the person is responsible for everything, and generally they make the most senior members of the team do technical interviews, while they do the non-technical part. So your experience will greatly vary.
Is it true or not that Huawei sells more devices than Apple? : https://www.forbes.com/sites/bensin/2020/12/30/huawei-still-...

Is it true or not that Huawei wanted to use HiSilicon for all of their phones? That is obviously true.

The consequence is that Huawei needs more chips than Apple, that would have been sourced from TSMC. Therefore, they had the intention to be a customer of at least equal size as Apple to TSMC.

How is any of this a lie? I fail to see how much money Huawei makes from this or that changes that Huawei needs more processors than Apple.
US is a stable democracy with an independent media and judiciary. And Trump’s unpopularity (~60%) means that his world view is not shared by the majority of Americans.

So this idea that it is not that secure/free because of a minor uptick in racism is ridiculous. China is routinely kidnapping and torturing anyone who disagrees with them - citizen or not. And we still don’t know where many missing journalists have ended up.
Isn't the speculation that the company and code is already compromised?

I fail to understand how a legal reorg would fix the underlying issues.
I’m calling out a government who could care less about foreign influence and only cares about the fact that tech companies won’t kiss the golden ring. I’m calling out the government’s motives.

Do you think they would call out the Koch brothers?
Ideas should be evaluated on their own merit, unbiased by anyone's view of their originator.
I qualified it with "in some respects". Everybody gets benefits from civilization but most people feel stressed at least some of the times because "you can't always get what you want.". In the state of nature you could blame nature (no food because of environment cycles) but in civilization you blame other people or institutions. (No food because your local government wants your ethnic group to die.)

Freud posits 'man vs civilization' as an unavoidable conflict because the alternative to civilization is having a 10 million person carrying capacity on this world.

That is very different from r.d laing, Thomas szatz and other l. Ron Hubbard antipsychotics who think schizophrenia is a choice.
I love how explosions that would be rated in gigatons of TNT are described as "Campfires" when we are talking about the sun!
I have been to China and have family from there. I can confirm that what he is saying is correct. China plays by a different set of rules.
Start at page 61 if you just want the ruling.

Perhaps this Wikipedia page will be updated soon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU%E2%80%93US_Privacy_Shield
Snow White and the darkness within us
Pitching employee against employee, it's been tried since 2000 .com burst. Whatever edge that gave some owners, been hollowed out already.
OpenAI’s fiction-spewing AI is learning to generate images
PowerPC is still around too, but their problem is that it's either very high-performance (ppc64le / IBM POWER9 & co.) or efficient embedded but also outdated if not straight up dead (powerpc & ppc64 / NXP e-series & IBM 6xx)

But then again, Intel's Atom came from rifling through the design archive, and look at what's in Lakefield now...

Also — NXP already "cross-platform'ed" their QorIQ / Layerscape stuff from PowerPC to ARM, pretty sure if they don't like the license fees they could go back. (But that'd probably piss off their customers to no end. They'd rather use it in negotiating a cheaper ARM license I suppose.)
When I looked on Better, 2.75% included points.
> In fact, only 152 units are impacted… so few that Nikon actually lists every affected serial number in the recall notice:
Is there a good public link to what those "Apple’s proprietary extensions" might be? Thanks.
A $400k 30-year loan at 4.2% has a $2309 payment (bankrate calculator, zeroed out down payment, tax, and insurance), and a 3% loan payment is $1686. $625/month savings will quickly pay back any reasonable closing costs. If your loan balance is higher, it makes more sense.