skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Public shaming didn't work, literally at all. The article was released literally today, and the program was ended before anyone knew about it other than reporters. And this won't deter other corporations from employing this technology.

We absolutely need legislation to permanently stop this. The free market is not going to magically pop up a competing brick and mortar that doesn't spy on us and/or sell/give our data to other corporations/governments.
You have been selected as one of the few people in the society who we will pay way above market rate.

Someone like me would probably need to work 80hrs a week just so that my children can catch up with the level of comfort that you have.

And I'm not one of those people who tell others to "check their privilege". It's great to be where you are, and yeah, the government jobs here where I live pay double the market rate for half the work.

But if everyone worked the same way as you, then the world simply wouldn't exist.

All of the good stuff was created by people who worked overtime.
Ummmm... so its powerless people using their non=existing resources who try to manipulate stock market to annoy powerful people?
Sounds like bats need their own Twitter.
Exactly, by default code sandboxed by wasm is fully deterministic and can't do any timing measurements, not unless you explicitly give it access to an import that does such a measurement.

On the web, a website might run arbitrary wasm + JS which means it might let wasm time things. But if you use wasm to sandbox a specific library then the situation is different and you control the wasm imports.
Have you tried to buy a Monobloc chair? A quick web search only reveals clones rather than the classic original. The original is so ubiquitous that it is near impossible to buy. I would want one rather than a generic plastic chair because it is iconic much like the Casio F-91W, but, thus far, I haven't been able to find one (or four) to buy.
Surely. But in the meantime I'm still rolling that delicious phrase "the fuckening" around my mouth. Makes reading all the rest of the comments on this article worthwhile.
It's not magic, so is it safe to assume the ANN is quickly narrowing down the search space by eliminating the possibilities that were not showing up as patterns in training set therefore limiting the search to a finite subset of infinite set of possible behaviors of the system?

If the chaos produces a new kind of behavior the result of the ANN may be totally wrong. In other words - it works well, often.

Is my simplistic thinking right?
Direct quote from the article:

"Clinicians, too, were seeing surprising numbers of COVID-19 patients develop heart problems – muscle weakness, inflammation, arrhythmias, even heart attacks. “We’re not used to respiratory viruses having such dire consequences on the heart in such apparently high numbers,” says cardiologist Gregory Marcus, MD. Many patients whose hearts acted up also had failing lungs. But others had no other symptoms or, like Dowd, only mild ones."
His snark isn't necessary; the docs are fine.
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Most small time landlords like me cannot implement an that process because we have kids at home, mortgages, and also full time jobs, in addition to all the same pandemic problems everyone else has.

I do not have the time to vet the financial situation of every tenant, even if I could assume they provided honest data. Moreover, most are working from home and still able to pay full rent - so the danger is having word spread that I'm giving out discounts.

For me, the more efficient process is actually to pressure non-payers to leave and just accept lower rents on incoming tenants.

I'm not saying that's the best ethical way to handle it, but it is the most cost and time efficient method - given my limited resources.
"the retailer used state-of-the-art facial recognition technology from a company with links to China and its authoritarian government."

And today along with countless millions of North Americans I dialed my mom on a piece of technology that was made in China and its authoritarian Government (TM). FFS can't they stop shoving big bad China into every story. However bad it is not China's fault for US corporation being A-hole.

Added for clarification: This is not to protect China, rather to point out this style of "reporting" that lately seems to have very little to do with the true reporting as it used to be.
This is a good article. The only criticism I have is that regarding rape and racism cases, the author misses another explanation as to why the cases that go public never seem to be cut and dry... It's possible the author is inverting cause and effect there. As a case goes public, investigative journalist dig, because that is their job.

Hypothesis: most people involved in a criminal event have something in their past that can be cast in a negative light. This is not a statement of causality---I am not saying that they are involved in a criminal event because of things they did in the past---merely of correlation. But if that hypothesis is true, it could explain why the publicized cases don't tend to be cut and dry... They were more cut and dry before investigative journalists started tearing apart the history of all parties involved.
In an environment where people have more money everything gets more expensive, but labor does it more and faster. That’s Baumol’s cost disease. Only very expensive internationally traded capital goods and financial products have a single global price. Haircuts and coffee are more expensive in the US and Switzerland than in Ethiopia. The US does have unusually high construction costs, but that’s incompetence, see Alon Levy’s work. But food, clothes and many other things are cheaper than in other developed countries and the US is a technological leader in more or less everything, as in among the top 3 countries.

People who can’t save and borrow on bad terms exist everywhere. The US is different from Germany, but those people exist there too. The US is not different enough for a special explanation to be needed.
If you search for "route to <city>" on Google, you get a Google Maps embed with directions above search results from services like mapquest. That's what I'm referring to. (Do many people find mapping services by searching that way now? I don't know.)
> We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from multiple partners, though most commonly from Bing (and none from Google).

So most of the actual search results come from Bing. The other 400 sources and DuckDuckBot are only used for widgets and stuff.

I don't understand why people keep linking to a page that clearly says it's mostly Bing as an argument for the opposite.
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Does anyone recognise any of the streets well enough to find the same scene on Google Street View? So we can make a comparison?
It's definitely not my idea! It wasn't Goldman Sachs, but I did a consultancy 15 Years ago for a large bank (my little job was a long way from programming the core, but used it extensively). Their system stored debit as negative numbers. That's when I learned it and had the aha moment when everything instantly simplified. Since then all the accounting software I've seen the inside of do.

Most lay-people find double entry in accounting idiosyncratic. It has this bad reputation for being full of special case rules.

It is interesting that the one comment I got from an accountant on here it seemed fine with debit as negative numbers.

Goldman Sachs absolutely know that they have DB$1tn! Anyone who thinks it is either a credit account or just a bare number is not going to be dealing with that!

Thanks for carrying on the chat.
I'm fairly sure Courant was persecuted for being Jewish. Other biographies are pretty clear on this and I can find no reference to what political party Courant belonged to in Germany.
There's a definite link between aggressive sales and how terrible a product is.
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I tried to follow a middle-of-the-road works mostly everywhere made up flavour. Here is a grammar for it:

https://blog.robertelder.org/regular-expression-parser-gramm...

I may add to it in the future if there is enough interest. At the moment it doesn't support a few common things like word breaks and backreferences, but I don't think it'd be too hard to add.
Yes, it was a system that benefited the ordinary citizens, and all the people loved it. All decent people, anyway. If someone came up to criticize it, obviously they were a criminal, and the benevolent Tito, in his love and mercy, would have them locked away so as to prevent them from further damaging glorious Yugoslavian society and harming the people with their corruptive influence, and rehabilitate them into a better person. It was all for their own benefit, you see.

Communism always ends up the same way -- Soviet ties or not.
The point of bias frames is what you take them without accumulating any charge. Well yes, you cannot eliminate random noise, but you can reduce it.
Also, most popular deidcated astrophotography cameras are now CMOS not CCD and readout differs in these.
Your link does not work, and probably for the better. See this instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6oGyFlZgAc
Right now unsupervised learning techniques aren't able to teach a meaningful world model to a neural network.

But this won't last (hopefully), thanks to our brilliant co-humans doing cutting-edge research on that subject.
And when a neural network is able to differentiate and anticipate possibles actions of winds, engines, birds and onboard electronics, then you have an autonomous take-off on par with humans pilots, enhanced with an instant feedback loop with built-in checklists and avionics.

It's a big stretch of course. But never say never, they say.
> It was supposed to be temporary in the 60s. Care to predict when it will end?

When fair participation has been reached among equally skilled and trained participants. A lot of progress has been made. Women and black people are allowed to vote now, for example. People in wheelchairs can to some extent travel on their own and even enter their workplace. That used to be impossible in the 60s.

More members of disadvantaged groups are in better positions in society than in the past. There was even one black president in the US among 45. It still seems impossible for a woman to become president, though.

By "temporary" I meant 50-100 years or so. It also depends on the willingness of people like you.

> Do you really see diversity and inclusion departments, speakers and writers declaring success and dissolving their departments and jobs?

Let's just say they will have almost nothing to do any more, similar to the fact there is no longer a need for meetings of the suffragette movement nowadays.

> For instance if white men are over represented as professors, it may seem fair to discriminate until the numbers are equal.

Yes. That seems fair.

> But if you broke the group of white men up into young and old, you'd find it's the young who are being punished for the success of the old.

Nobody is punished for anything. The goal is to help people who are at a systematic disadvantage due to sheer bad luck when they otherwise have the same skills and qualifications.

I'm not saying that relative quotas are the solution to all problems of society, but I do argue they sometimes make sense - within reasonable limits, of course, which are always contestable.

> Suddenly by redrawing the groups it's gone from being fair to unfair.

Yes, there can be cases of trading a local optimum for a better global optimum, and these can create temporary local unfairness. That was the point of my analogy to the role of Pareto optimality in theories of resource distribution. None of these problems are unsolvable. There are only finitely many disadvantaged groups anyway, and the goal is not to create perfect justice, but to improve society a little bit step by step.

> Is it even possible to be fair to groups without being unfair to individuals?

Fairness primarily concerns the state of society.

I believe that what is going on in reality is that the people who attempt to find arguments against fairer treatment of under-represented groups do that very often based on selfish motives. For example, some privileged white male might think he's treated unfairly if an equally qualified woman is hired instead of him because there are not enough female professors in the department. As a white male academic, I understand the personal feeling. I just don't think it's justified upon sincere reflection.

If a group is privileged and at a systematic advantage, members of the group will tend to consciously or subconsciously resist giving up that advantage. But reaching a fairer state of society is not unfair, even if it may feel like that for individuals.
Yeah, tig is awesome and I use it exactly for this use case.

For what I see, magit is way ahead when it comes to the feature set, but tig has the killer feature of having a completely flat learning curve (and I say this as an Emacs user): 1) type tig 2) use arrows to move between commits and page up/down to move within diffs. That's all!
If you have the money, why waste it on low quality goods that will break? Buy better stuff instead and sell it or give it away when you find you don't use it anymore!

Quality, mid range equipment. Not luxury.

(The examples are unfortunate. For a runner it might suffice with $100 worth of equipment but not for a cyclist.)
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I feel for you, and it shows the current transition is too abrupt.

But I personally don't mind moving forward in society where your default friends or not defacto your colleagues.
Creating bing.
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I'd argue that Google was able to win specifically because they had so much competition. They weren't fighting against one or two massive entrenched competitors in an established space. Search was still pretty new at that point and Google's approach to it was innovative.

Google also had lots of space to improve on its competition when it came to metrics like latency, which paid off. Nobody really has the option to beat them on latency now. That's not really Unfair in any fashion but it is an example of how it would be much harder to dethrone the ruling search engine in 2020.
The “on a contract basis” is important. They’re not available as an employee. Contractors in the US get paid even more. Compare like with like.
> Inventor of the Casio F91W, Ryusuke Moriai, polishes a Samurai sword in Tokyo.

The photo caption is wrong, I think. Ryusuke is not "polishing" a Samurai sword, or Katana. Rather, most likely, he is simply analyzing it and looking at the curvature, etc, and using a cloth to not leave any fingerprint on the blade.
I would be prepared to switch over completely for the languages they support if DeepL didn't insert their advertisement at the bottom of some results (I've had this accidentally included in an email before), and if they had a mobile app with a text selection action on Android to highlight text and see a popup with the translation. As it is, I use it most of the time but still rely on Google Translate being more accessible. Obviously DeepL is newer, so these limitations are understandable.
For the same reason you would use startpage instead of google. Or because you like the !bangs. Or because you prefer the layout. Or because you like the instant answers. Or because you think it might be worthwhile to support a small, not (particularly) evil search engine.

Suppose for just a moment that you were right and it were identical to Bing, just with slightly better privacy. Why not use Duck instead of Bing?
Hmm. But if you were investing that money even in some sort of risk free investment like time deposit, you'd be earning free money.
I’ve meet lots of American roofers in the Deep South and the mountain west. Roofing pays more than the average construction position because of the risks involved and many Americans choose it. It’s also fairly easy to start a roofing company, so it attract a certain kind of entrepreneur.
I took accounting in high school, and then again in college for my minor in management.

I learned that in basic book-keeping on paper, the key really was just "classification"; that is, understanding what category an account was in (not immediately obvious for things like depreciation/amortization, etc). That determined the perspective from which things are seen, and so debit/credits became clear. However this method turned out to be really unwieldy to program on a computer (I even tried to build a double-entry book-keeping spreadsheet on Excel but failed). The author's method is far preferable and far more programmable -- I wish I had this insight in college.

At the basic levels, book-keeping is about a couple of things:

1) Recording transactions in a "journal"

2) Posting from said journal to "accounts" (Dt/Cr) = i.e. double entry accounting

3) Doing reconciliations (e.g. bank reconciliation) to make your accounts consistent with some third-party

4) Doing cash flow analysis

5) Preparing Income Statements and Balance Sheets, which is used to analyze a company's cumulative/current position.

Most accounting courses cover these steps (called "book-keeping") but real "accounting" is more than this: it's about getting insights from these numbers, by calculating useful ratios, KPIs etc.

The real insight from accounting is being able to deduce a company's strategy from their financial statements. Apparently this is one of the things Harvard Business School teaches in their MBA program that few schools do.

Also, if you read lots of SEC 10-k filings (like Warren Buffet does), the claim is that one should be able to put together a story of what a company is doing by looking at how it's managing its money, what it is investing in, and so on.
> I can't easily try it out in an online compiler to understand it better

Try this. It's a full working program. The packages it depends on are "profunctors" and "product-profunctors".

{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleInstances #-}
{-# LANGUAGE DeriveFunctor #-}
{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts #-}
{-# LANGUAGE MultiParamTypeClasses #-}
{-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-}

module MyExample where

import qualified Data.Profunctor as P
import qualified Data.Profunctor.Product as PP
import qualified Data.Profunctor.Product.Default as D

newtype Zipper a b = Zipper { unZipper :: Traverse ZipList a b }
deriving Functor

instance a ~ b => D.Default Zipper [a] b where
def = Zipper (P.dimap ZipList id D.def)

instance P.Profunctor Zipper where
dimap f g = Zipper . P.dimap f g . unZipper

instance Applicative (Zipper a) where
pure = Zipper . pure
f <*> x = Zipper ((<*>) (unZipper f) (unZipper x))

instance PP.ProductProfunctor Zipper where
purePP = pure
(****) = (<*>)

cl_map :: D.Default Zipper a b => (b -> r) -> a -> [r]
cl_map f = getZipList . fmap f . runTraverse (unZipper D.def)
Idk what a hedonic multiplier is, but my understanding of that article is that production numbers measure the real $ value of output, not the actual quantity, making the production index misleading (e.g., if the US manufactured totally stopped except to make 1 computer chip costing $100 trillion, then manufacturing would seem to shoot up, even as it actually collapsed.)

If that's correct, then it's interesting: we're making few, valuable items now, rather than many, cheap items. It follows that automation isn't a drive towards cheaper production, but more a drive towards higher quality goods that simply require machines to make.

But it all takes me back to my point: from a geopolitical perspective, being good at highly-differentiated, tech-intensive, difficult-to-execute manufacturing is a great position. It's just a disaster from an employment perspective, because to get there, we traded away all our labor-intensive manufacturing.
I do this a different way. I think about how much I'm going to use something and try my best to over-invest in what is typically cheap and could last years and under-invest (or avoid all together) in what is expensive or could last less than a year.

Pen: Very expensive.

Sunglasses: Very expensive.

Phone: Very expensive.

Laptop: Very expensive.

Shoes / most clothing: Midrange, since they don't last long, but they're not that expensive in the first place.

Car: Non-existent.

Housing: Far cheaper than I could afford.

Same thing when it comes to tools. I'll buy an expensive utility knife and a cheap jackhammer. Unless I were going to jackhammer for a living, it isn't used much and it's a reasonably expensive tool in the first place so why over pay for it?
>Under this principle, I have to allow public facial recognition: any functioning human can already do it, just at a smaller scale.

So you'd be fine with mega-corps or the government tracking everyone's movements with drones, and cataloging it into a massive database? After all, you can already do that with a bunch of minimum-wage workers and a map.

>Why is my principle so important? Because the alternative conflicts with the computational enhancement of the mind, which is far more important than any illusory gains to had from banning this tech or that tech.

So basically you want technological singularity, even if it means turning the world into a cyberpunk dystopia?
That's where I'm coming from.

I am a landlord (part owner in a family run business) - 9 residential houses/condos/duplexes and 4 commercial buildings. We suspended rents (meaning no payment expected at all) at the start of the state COVID shutdown for some of the 9 residential properties where there was need. Since some have started paying voluntarily based on their capability. For months the commercial properties could not be open we suspended rents as well.

We have good tenants who usually pay on time and aren't problems. There is no way we'd kick them out. Quality tenants are gold. I cannot overstate this. Some tenants have rented from us for over 20 years. We've seen them lose and get jobs before, and we can all weather this one out as well, I'm sure, with cooperation.
> One, if customer pulls product A off the shelf instead of product B right next to it, the manufacturer of product B can purchase the ability to have their coupon print out at checkout to be handed to somebody who is proven to have an interest in the category.

What does that add over simply printing a Product B coupon whenever someone purchases Product A?
I would’ve assumed the opposite, given their ability to service customers in a socially distanced way.

Does the article explain why? I can’t bypass the paywall.
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neato bandito
Same here, I've been consistently surprised at how much better (and more natural/accurate) deepl is than google at translating, especially for sentences and paragraphs.
The bitch is when you're forced to use their products whether you like it or not. Case in point recaptcha. Also many users are not in the least aware of the trade going on, and the magnitude and invasiveness of the surveillance.
I guess the point is that if you find redoing the strings of your $20 racket more than once or twice, it means you're really using it and that warrants buying the expensive one.

The idea is to avoid buying the expensive racket before you even know if you'll like playing tennis at all.
Sure, but I am not talking about their users but the company itself. If it doesn't want to follow EU law while doing business in the EU, I think they should not business here...

Similarly, to how some news sites in the US block EU ip address so they don't need to comply with GDPR.

I am quite happy that EU tries to protect the privacy of its citizens. I would be delighted if the US and other countries would follow suit.