skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also consider that methamphetamine is not "life destroying poison". Addiction is the medical condition that destroys lives.

It might not sound like it, but this is nothing but a tautology. Interfering with the person's life was just the definition of addiction.

This was obviously-dumb enough that the DSM-V gave up on the word "addiction" entirely.
I'm not sure this is really going to take off, it seems that most people who are abandoning TF are moving to Jax or pytorch. My own experience with Jax is that it is much easier to use then TF, just an all round more pleasant experience. It would be interesting to try this, but at this point I'm not really willing to learn 'yet another deep learning framework' and the extreme anti-user problems that TF had make me loath to give it another shot, even with a presumably better frontend. Moreover, I think that python is just a better all-round ML/data science language at this point. Has anyone tried both Jax and this and would be willing to give us their thoughts on strengths and weaknesses of each?
How to use the Handwashing feature on the Apple Watch
I guess in today's times barbaric is used a lot more freely than when I grew up. It used to mean savagely cruel, and brutal.

Transferred intent is when a perpetrator intends to harm one victim but then "unintentionally" (quotes mine to point out it is in the defined legalese rather than "accident"). Yes, you can say they meant to steal, and not intentionally kill anyone. IANAL.

If you want to put it in legal scope though, it is involuntary manslaughter. You haven't convinced me to call it an "accident" by any means.
Try to use Framework code on Linux.
I'll keep singing "The Itsy-Bitsy Spider"
I worked in state government in my past, and very few of the programmers there were making six figures.
Thank you very much for your explanation.
I would mention that archive.org also has Escape! as a series, which includes a good adaptation of the short story, 'The Most Dangerous Game' amongst its episodes.
I specifically posted the entire thread for context, but thanks for the link to cart’s comment.
ML inherits the biases of the data it is trained on. If you want “unbiased” ML models, you must train them on data that is carefully constructed to avoid the biases deemed undesirable.
Companies can track your phone’s movements to target ads
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The Post-Objectivity Era
Would also store on MicroSD.
"Chromium mobile doesnt even have addons because they are shit scared of adblockers."

Paradoxically, I'm kind of half-happy to hear this.

It means that finally a large number of users are using adblockers.

For many years the standard theme of many threads on adblockers was that companies like Google didn't care about them because too small a percentage of their users used them for it to matter.

Now finally there are enough adblocker users for it to hurt their bottom line, and that means that there are more people than ever who clearly just don't want to see ads.

That gives me hope that there will some day be anti-advertising legislation, and that we might not even need adblockers... some day... some day...
How can this be done without JavaScript in such a way that uMatrix could still block it?
There was a long time where the only way to watch ExoSquad post-cancellation, unless you taped it, was to download it from a site hosted on someone's subdomain on a university domain.
> being so young at university in a course where social-networking is important meant he simply couldn't attend important events because he was below the drinking age.

What? This has never stopped any other college student.
On HN circles maybe.

https://juliacomputing.com/case-studies/
It makes for a very hearty salad.
Yep, sigh.

NYC: https://www.reddit.com/r/nycCoronavirus/comments/ivtqgq/upda...

Raw data:
https://www.google.com/search?q=nyc+COVID+cases
It’s certainly an issue, but sending it over basic auth isn’t one of them. If the passwords were submitted via a login form (POST request), you can also read it over the wire.
$ tar -h

Even better. :)
> since then most internal users lost interest

Why do you say so?
I'd say the co-mingling makes Amazon more than just an intermediary, regardless of whether customers are in person or online.
> For us, we're on "50%" across two projects (some on "33%" across three projects) which all have full time loads, expectations and deadlines.

This. Not only the number of developers on our project was halved, but also all who remained are now expected to work 50% on another project. Sometimes the other project is a small one, but it still distracts a lot to have two Jiras to follow, two daily standups, two sets of planning meetings, etc. Twice the number of managers, but half of teammates. Agile be praised!

Seems to me that a frequent reason to start new projects is a change in management. Essentially, a new manager gets more credit for starting a new project than for maintaining the old one. So a new project is started, even if it does more or less the same thing as the old one. But the old project also must be maintained, because it is necessary to keep the company running, and it will take a few months, maybe years, until the new project can reliably replace its entire functionality. Plus there is the third project, because you sometimes also need to actually create something new.

Many decisions in corporations start making sense when you ask yourself "how would this be described on my manager's CV". Then you realize that the actually useful work would sound completely boring. But those things that drive you crazy, the change for change's sake, they usually can be described as "brave technological leadership" or whatever are the right buzzwords. And this is once-in-a-lifetime chance to get the "brave technological leadership in the middle of COVID-19 pandemic" achievement, so everyone runs like crazy to grab it.

Most of us already recognize it when developers try to do something in order to boost their CVs. "Let's (re)write this in the Newest Framework, preferably also in the Newest Programming language! There is no business reason to do that, and maybe the newest technologies are still full of bugs and miss many important features, but hey, a year or two later when the technology matures enough and the market is full of well-paying jobs, I will be the one who has a year or two of experience in my CV." The secret is, successful IT managers have been already playing this game for a long time.
I guess that the fact that Tensorflow 2020 conference had zero references to it, including on the related blog posts says it all.
AngularJS is obviously shrinking. It's the 1.x version, and no one should be starting new projects with it. I don't think anyone is referring to AngularJS. When people say Angular, they'd be referring to v2.0+.
Humans can't make unbiased computers. Every computer which humans make is indelibly human as well. This is the anthropic bias.
The subtext is Google would love even more Google projects to be ml prerequisites.
Twitter crops rather than rescales posted images to some 'interesting' subset of an image that doesn't fit the preferred aspect ratio. So, the person behind this account created an antagonistic situation: made a very tall, thin image with Mitch Mconnell on the top and Barak Obama on the bottom, and another with them swapped between top and bottom. In the initial post, the cropped thumbnail shows Mitch Mconnell for both. The thread has two more situations, one with the ties (red/blue) flipped and the colors inverted. The only time it 'prefers' Obama's end of the antagonistic image is with inverted colors and him on top.
When I was in college, I listed after the Bridgestone MB-0....until they got in a Nishiki Alien.

That thing was mind bogglingly different...I looked it up earlier in the year and...it's not so mind boggling different
anymore.http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/download/file.php?id=230276
This website has been cached already
She is on record as possessing many different psychological diagnoses.

My personal view is that most such diagnoses are more "ways to buy official legal privileges for your child" and less actual problems, but if the route you go down to get special legal privileges is to get diagnosed with a bunch of "mental illnesses", I think it's fair for other people to criticize you in terms of being mentally ill. It's what you're telling them, after all.
> But though the agency says some of those travelers subsequently fell ill, in the face of incomplete contact tracing information and a virus that incubates over several days, it has not been able to confirm a case of transmission on a plane.

> That does not mean it hasn’t happened, and recent scientific studies have documented likely cases of transmission on flights abroad.

I flew about 2 months ago and was the crazy person on the flight (and at the airport before/in transit/after) wearing a full-face 3M 6800 respirator. Other passengers casually lowered their paper masks to ask flight attendants for Coke/tea. My brave randomly-assigned seat mate tried to carry on a friendly conversation 20cm away from my masked face.

The social stigma and stares did sting a bit, but I reminded myself that being put on a ventilator or suffering an avoidable stroke would sting a lot more.
Wonderful example of the ethics of ML. The people whose eyes they tracked gravitated towards certain kinds of faces (not necessarily just based on skin colour), so now Twitter's model crops other faces out of pictures, among other problems (now it likes cleavage apparently).

The old approach may have been a bit mechanical but it avoided the non-neutrality of unconscious human perception.
The assumption that what human eyes gravitate to is what an image should be cropped to is a very big and questionable one. The first thing I look at in a picture is not always the most important part, and the image as a whole has value.
U.S. judge blocks Commerce Department order to remove WeChat from app stores
Air pressure on Earth at 6700m is around 430mBar. [0] Pressure on Mars (at the artificially defined zero-level) is 6 mBar [1] and twice as much at the lowest point of Mars' surface [2], Hellas Planitia, which is a huge crater in the southern hemisphere with its lowest point around 9000m below zero.

[0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=air+pressure+6700m

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_(Planet)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellas_Planitia
Money talks
How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks
We had computers at school, but we didn't have great teachers. Wouldn't be better if school spent money on good specialists willing to share their knowledge or at least make sure kids watch certain channels on YouTube that have wealth of knowledge?
If parents won't spend $200 on a computer to help their children get better future, their certainly won't spend $25. I bet they wouldn't even treat this seriously.
And -75F is -60C. Mind blowing. Even a human would have a problems surviving that. How could survive mouse body having a much bigger surface area to a volume ratio? Heat insulated nests maybe?
I routinely see order of magnitude or greater improvements moving analytical workloads to compressed, columnstore engines vs rowstore engines.

The shortest useful description I can give of what constitutes an analytical workloads is that it is table-scan-heavy, and often concerned with a small subset of columns in a table.
20 days after first symptoms, still tired and coughing, and I had very mild symptoms.

I've been very strict about social distancing EXCEPT the day(the first in 6 months) I went out for beers with two friends at and outdoor space.

What I want to say is: that one time you let your guard down is when you will get infected and the horrors begin, especially if you don't live alone and care for the people you live with!
> There is considerable information back from the 80s to suggest that the US war on drugs was actually a system to enable racial discrimination.

It also was a way to increase the private jails business, which in fact peaked during the 80s, but the racial and political discrimination stands too. The following piece from the Wikipedia article about the War on Drugs is telling.

"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

— John Ehrlichman (White House Counsel and Domestic Affair advisor during the Nixon administration)
TikTok Announces Deal with Oracle and Walmart, Trump Approves
I agree on the hardware part. MacOS only supports AMD GPUs which are unsupported by Tensor flow...
Perhaps on the plus side, at least in America, measures like distancing and masks are well-established, which very much wasn’t the case in May or so. And believe it or not, for the most part the measures are followed even by skeptics.

I don’t think it’s really fair to portray the resistance or skepticism as only originating from idiocy or “fringe”. Authorities have said everything and its opposite in the last 6 or so months. They started by telling us this wasn’t really contagious so don’t worry, they told us not to procure masks before they told us to wear masks always, etc. Some people definitely use that to reach all sorts of ridiculous conclusions, no doubt. But I think you can’t discount how disorienting that all is, not to mention the whiplash of being told you must do x after you were told not to. There is also, again at least in America, a certain amount of resentment over health officials and others endorsing certain group events and condemning others, on a political basis, when the virus actually doesn’t care what your politics are. So yep, it is a political football.
I recently spend some days playing with differentiable programming in Swift on Linux:

* as you said, auto-diff is in a branch or the Google fork of the project
* the only pre-built images are for Ubuntu 18.04
* on Linux, the REPL seems to somewhat broken
* many libraries are assuming OSX or iOS

I don't feel a lot of hope for adoption of Swift on Linux. Apple obviously is not working on that (fair, they have no reason to do so) and the Swift community also has no focus on Linux, since ... they are in the Apple ecosystem.
Meanwhile, the Open Source community is much more interested in Rust than Swift.

For the differentiable programming - this is what got me excited, but after trying, I was a bit underwhelmed. Not that it isn't great technology, its just not figured out yet. I tried to come up with a use case outside of ML and the one I tried wasn't really applicable.

I do feel however that someone will come up with something and that it will have quite some impact.
I am shocked how broad the list has grown. A few years ago it only contained the iana domains now there are many domains for cloud services etc.
> Prohibition doesn't work for meth or heroin either. Making them freely available under doctor supervision is what works.

Those things can be mutually exclusive though. For example, you could make it so meth/heroin isn't readily available at the local pharmacy/gas station, yet also make it freely available under doctor supervision at rehab centers.

I think many people (myself included) are apprehensive about making drugs totally legal because many law abiding citizens who otherwise would have never touched the drug may whimsically decide to try it at a rough patch in their life just by seeing it on the shelf at the gas station. I am more in favor of decriminalization, but if legalization really is the most effective solution I would like to see advertising completely banned, behind-the-counter only, generic labels only, etc.
A hypothetical learning project might evolve
Console #16: Microsoft Research's Alex
Twitter has an algorithm to pick which part of oblong images to showcase in the feed. People have been posting examples where, given the "choice" between a white person and a person of color, the white person is always picked, regardless of orientation or where they are in the picture.

This was noticed in a thread about how Zoom's background detection seems to not work great for people of color, and how the WebEx cross-talk protection seems to favor men over women.
It's funny how these big companies willingly convert a non-problem into massive problems with hundreds of hours of engineering effort and huge social implications.

Non-problem: don't mess with the images, and display them as is.

Problem: see Twitter
A Rust for TensorFlow (and/or a "RustTorch") would be awesome.

I hope all the work being done on improving incremental compilation[a] and developing interactive Rust REPLs like evcxr[b] makes using Rust for AI a practical reality.

[a] https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/rust-2018/the-compil...

[b] https://github.com/google/evcxr
Show HN: Video feedback widget with cam and audio
Hey HN, I have recently built a 'video feedback' into our feedback widget as a service. It is now possible to capture feedback with screen recording, voice, and cam for more detailed product feedback.

Is anyone interested to give it a try for free? I'd love to hear what you guys think about it! :)

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I’d actually love to encounter something like this process in an interview, ideally mirroring how a product or feature the organization has already shipped came to be.
A text based maze game ala Zork
There's a difference between popular and "not a toy language." I'm not arguing Julia isn't used, I'm arguing it's not used often enough to be a merit irrespective of other reasons.
Oracle and Walmart to Acquire 20% Stake in TikTok, Trump Gives His ‘Blessing’
Moore's Law (History)
The fact that you have very mild symptoms, which most majority of the cases will be, should be viewed as a good thing, instead of fear and despite you've been very strict about social distancing and still got infected shows that lockdown is not effective.

Here something for comparison :

"Shopping in Sweden during Coronavirus"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQat0vX-wjM&feature=emb_titl...

Hardly any mask and businesses seems normal
> Your comment implies that most people drink alcohol because of addiction, which isn't the case.

No it doesn't. You might have wrongly inferred that though.

> Most people drink it for novelty or entertainment.

And? So what? What do you suggest be done differently in the case of alcohol?

> only addressing or dissuading addiction wouldn't fix the social problems that arise from ubiquitous drug use.

Take a look at how Switzerland took an out of control and growing youth heroin use problem and turned it into a medical issue that young people have zero interest in.

Also what are are the exact "social problems" you are trying to fix that come from wide spread drug use? Please give concrete examples. Because based on history, I'm almost certain the problems you are trying to fix won't get fixed by making things against the law. The legal system is not the only tool in the toolbox.
The Guide to Moving Average for Trading
Energica is missing from the motorcycles. Renault is missing from the cars section.

Is this meant strictly for the US Market?
They should be definitely allowed as this looks like a good business deal, the dangers of monopolizing on competitive advantages nonetheless. My statement was just about the power they have.
I think ORM might have been brought up because in many embedded DBs there is some level of language native bindings that eliminate the need for an ORM. A couple of examples that come to mind would be mnesia (KV store rather than SQL but still an example) or some of the SQLite providers for c# which give you their own mini orm (that you will have to refactor if you change out dbs instead of using sqlite with an orm from the get go)

My preference for ORMs is still on the 'give me a SQL DSL and map my objects' side. Let me use SQL as SQL, give me convenience in interfacing with the DB. Complex features like object tracking tend to be nice up front but require extra diligence down the line to avoid pitfalls, and tend to be risky from a standpoint of composability.

Sorry. Almost went on an ORM rant there.
Why is it worth pointing that out? Like you said, the problem is there either way. What are lay people supposed to gain from hearing that the algorithm's designers don't consider it to be based on face detection?
If I would create something which needs that degree of portability I would never use a shell script.

It's just way too easy to run into a unexpected gotcha on some platform/configuration.
Great business model China, Inc. has:

1) ban all competing apps in China;

2) force all users to verify themselves through passports and photos;

3) stream all data through servers legally obtainable by the government;

4) whine in US courts when the US government raises a national security issue: "There is no alternative! Think of our aging parents!! We have to send red envelopes of money, it's our tradition!!! Unconstitutional!!!!"

5) Profit
Ryan Sleevi suggests (perhaps that's putting it too mildly) that further reliance on the PSL is a bad idea:

https://github.com/sleevi/psl-problems
and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24441942

His recommendation is to as much as possible use the Same Origin Policy or if you must, a slightly weakened variant like ignoring port numbers.

I suspect I'll make another comment elsewhere in this discussion that says more about the problems with that.
Up to 15 times speedup for Yapp when parsing JavaScript
https://github.com/djalbat/yapp

In fact the improvements largely came from streamlining the BNF, which is now workable:

https://github.com/djalbat/yapp/blob/master/es6/parser/javascript.js

The readme file has been improved, too. Contributions are very welcome, not just for the JavaScript grammar but for any of the supported languages or indeed new plugins.
Here in india we are still at first wave lol.
In China, Paying with Your Face Is Hard Sell
Walmart and Oracle is a very interesting concept. Oracle can push it‘s cloud business, sure. But has walmart done anytime something like a social network or big online business except their online store?
I’ve reflected on the fact that some makers on YouTube wear gloves and wondered if this is for privacy reasons. I see globes being worn even when they’re not obviously doing anything that risk getting their fingers dirty.
Indeed if op knew the symptoms would be mild for them in advance, this statement would sound pretty crazy as it could be equally applied to the flu. If I knew the symptoms would be mild for me I’d run out and get it instead of hiding inside for 6 months and have it over with.

Question is who is around you that might have a harder go of it.
> If it doesn't work reliably and people end up copying/pasting passwords, that's not the "most secure".

Why not?