skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note to the submitter: Firefox gives me a "Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead" message when I try to visit the link. Error code: SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER. Seems like a https certificate problem.
It is quite hard to profitably trade on earnings, even if you know what the financial results of a company will be. Try your own luck/skill in the Insider Trading Game: https://insider-trading-game.netlify.app/
Yep. I can’t get into the azure portal.
The point is to avoid false positives for autogenerated captions, since false positives are what's damaging about allowing slurs in autogenerated captions, not slurs in captions in general.

For example, imagine there is a video where someone says a slur and the system transcribes that slur without censoring. If you detected it correctly (true positive), then everything is fine. However, if there was no slur and you detected it as a slur (false positive), it is a big problem. Imagine watching some video talking about perfume, the narrator says something like "the smell lingers for a while", and the transcription code thinks it got the n-word instead of "lingers". It would be disastrous.

Now imagine there is a censoring system in place for slurs. What it does, it simply gets rid of false positives at the root by completely removing them from the list of possible words to autogenerate, thus guaranteeing that situations like the one I brought up above could never happen. So now, if it is a true positive that nets a slur word, it just gets rid of that word. PR disaster avoided.

"Censorship", in this case, is just a very unfortunate side-effect of solving that problem I described above. As long as they don't censor those words in manually created captions, I am totally ok with it, because then the burden of a false positive is on the person who wrote the captions. I.e., if google doesn't ban "true positive slur" scenarios in manually generated captions, imo it is a reasonable and understandable compromise.
"No one was ever fired for buying Microsoft" just ended.
This reminds me of the question: did we domesticate wheat, or did wheat domesticate us? Did we domesticate cats, or did cats domesticate us?

Thus is the nature of the feedback loop.
There are certainly mitigations like lots of retail stores are doing. They're obviously not as effective as people just staying home. It's a matter of tradeoffs.
Uber since Uber:
* Take a round about route to hike up the price with some made up excuse about an accident.
* Driving dangerously because you're on 5 apps and hitting cyclists

Taxis, Uber, they're all the same. Give me public transport anyday.
Is there a generic way to do it now, or is it still hardware-specific? (Last time I looked I was on a thinkpad and using tp_smapi)
There is a flip side to this. As employees see this happen, they get jaded and stay in their position, then work less and less until they effectively get an hourly rate promotion.
Maybe the best employees are the people that can best overcome broken processes?

And yes, I meant that seriously. Every fortune 500 company is held together at some level with bandaids and bailing wire. Being able to deal with things like that might be important.

In my firm, I know we place a much higher emphasis on being able to just roll with it than technical perfection. But my firm is but a drop in the ocean compared to everyone else.
"Chinas' goal is to build a happy society that is more affluent and happy than the US but has less freedoms."

It seems this is the case if you're Han Chinese only.
I find the ORM in SQLAlchemy pretty cool — I’ve really written complex queries as if I had witten it by hand but then finally mapped them into the ORM at the end with like a line of code.

However it was a learning curve to figure out how to do it at first, but I didn’t have to drop down to raw SQL
Well, most of them involve (pre-Covid) living in one of a few extremely expensive cities.

All of them involve being a single person in a huge organization, which is very different from being (for example) the CTO of a lifestyle business or the first hacker of a startup.

A friend of mine works on CSS optimization at Facebook. That is both narrower and deeper than anything you would do at a small company.

There's also the question of who your coworkers are. Large companies are large enough that you can spend all your work time with other devs. That's not true at a small company.
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Specifically Azure Active Directory

We (like many other orgs, I expect) have gone all-in on AAD, so this has pretty much taken down everything company wide with the exception of the factories.
Good thing the plant floor isn't tied in.
You can do this today. Enable rdc on your windows machine

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/turn-on-remote...

you can portforward or setup a vpn to make it accessible anywhere in the world.

There are rdc clients for nearly every device out there (android, iphone\pad, raspberrypi, window, mac, etc)
Lack of accountability is part of the power structure. At MIT, if you do something sufficiently nasty as a faculty member to embarrass the Institute, everyone is now pressured into signing NDAs / non-disclosures. If you don't, you're liable to get scapegoated yourself.
Losing money on the unpaid volunteer community that creates the captions???

Wat
The ©2019 Microsoft Corporation is a nice touch. There isn't a date on this entire page!
3.14 pieces to be exact hahahah
A government system is only good as the governance. In China's case, it is only as good as the CCP dictator. What if the next leader of CCP is corrupt or even worse, incompetent af?

On the other hand, in a democracy that accepts and markets social score is pretty bad as well. This black mirror episode captures the social score society really well https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5497778/

One might say, oh this is just scoring minor misdemeanor-type activity. Misdemeanors are also only as good as the law classifying crime. Here are some weird US misdemeanors https://www.teenvogue.com/story/7-federal-misdemeanors-worse...

I'm no fan of US politics. But I am strongly for the principle that the government serves the people and not the other way around. And in that, I don't want the government )or some bureaucrats) deciding the future of a human.
> If you look at human history, contacts between peoples with different immune system resiliencies proved quite deadly.

Between human species on Earth. Humans in the Americas were not genetically distinct from their European cousins, thus a European virus could readily infect an American human and vice versa (Europeans were not wiped out because the diseases they acquired were not as deadly, such as syphilis).

Our immune systems are adaptive, but a bacteria/virus will be limited in it's ability to adapt. As such, it's pretty unlikely to be able to infect a complex, multicellular organism that it's never encountered before. The most likely vector for an attack is an alien bacteria that is able to rapidly transpose genetic code with earth-evolved bacteria and create a novel hybrid. Then you are dealing with a COV-19 type scenario.
That time was a mixed blessing. They took away the ability to cheaply correct information on video after upload, but they also killed a lot of annoying spam.
Fun fact: if you have listened to Cramer and invested $10K in each of these stocks on 02/06/2013 you would be at $441K right now (+1011%)
Infamous Professor at my university (eminent statistician):

- Says he prefers Chinese students because they shut up and do the work without asking

- "Your first research idea belongs to me"

- Has apparently thrown coffee mugs at students

- Walks out or stops grad seminars he is unhappy with

He stays, because he brings in a lot of money.
Thanks for pointing that out. I'll look into it.
I'm a bit surprised to hear it put this way. Aren't physics students usually welcome in finance as quants?
Yes, that's pretty nice. A clear, concise, and accurate description of the problem, noting that the change is bring reverted.
Seriously!!! How about the "Add this page to your favorites" link? I guess the 365 target audience still hasn't learned how to bookmark.

Anyways the Azure status page is a bit more grown up:

https://status.azure.com/en-us/status
Thanks for the feedback. Safari and mobile view gives me strangely scaled picture as well. The actual calendar and graph seems to be fine. Definitely will keep this in mind for the next revision.
This is just a show, to make it clear they won't abide insider trading, from people who are only making 6 figures from it.
"had to" could be too strong a phrase, but not entirely wrong in a way:

>> Apple can currently just take the ZFS CDDL code and incorporate it (like they did with DTrace), but it may be that they wanted a "private license" from Sun (with appropriate technical support and indemnification), and the two entities couldn't come to mutually agreeable terms.

> I cannot disclose details, but that is the essence of it.

* https://marc.info/?l=zfs-discuss&m=125642378308127

* https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/10/apple-abandons-zfs-o...

There was a NetApp-Sun legal spat going on due to NetApp's WAFL patents (Sun won IIRC), and indemnification could have been a source of tension.
I’m sorry to hear that. Every now and again I see a person gets hired that seems like a bad fit and have no choice but to cross my fingers and hope their attitude and ego don’t drive people away. It also seems that many people that are really good prefer to avoid promotions in order to have more stability and focus on their strengths. I have a family member who is a technical expert with 30 years experience who often gets mistreated by people with fluffed up resumes.
I'm not passionate about this, but just wanted to point out that it is entirely possible to tax buybacks nearly the same as taxing dividends. Existing shareholders would be taxed based on the amount spent on the buybacks, just as if they'd been paid a dividend and bough back shares themselves.

> It’s not obvious to me that buyback tax reform is something we should obviously do.

The big reason I think it should be reformed it creates lopsided incentives which reward some shareholders more than others. As I said above, I do think it could be better, but I'm not super passionate about it.
The people running the Las Vegas convention center threw away their careers for $90,000 in airline gift cards.†

And not even good airline gift cards. Southwest Airlines.

If I'm going to jeopardize my career, it's not so I can fly free to Albuquerque.

† https://www.reviewjournal.com/investigations/2nd-former-lvcv...
two weeks at minimum if you want to leave in good standing
Would you listen to just one spouse or both?

Here's the dirty secret: competent wifebeaters look like really splendid people to all the world. The incompetent ones without social skills are weeded out early, that leaves the good ones.
Ask HN: When is HN dark mode coming?
A while back, dang mentioned that a dark mode option was going to be worked on. I'm wondering what the status of that is?

I'm aware there are extensions that will set custom css for HN, but I've had enough extensions turn in to malware that I'm wearing adding something just for a few-line CSS change.
> Did anyone really need insider information to know Amazon stock was going to rise?

1. The complaint also lists allegations of profits made from put options.

2. Many of the other allegations in the complaint are also for short term options, which wouldn't really be helped at all by a long-term expectation of a rise in Amazon's stock. These are bets on single day movements made upon earnings announcements.

3. Legally, it doesn't matter if the inside information was plausible or implausible, helpful or unhelpful. All that matters is that a trade was made using privileged information that isn't available to the rest of the market.
> "...it becomes extremely hard to do so later on because people start assuming you must have already tried and failed so aren't at the right standard."

One person is saying it's hard because of ageism/bias against old applicants.

One person is saying it's hard because you have to study.

The disagreement is not about it being hard, it's about why and it's a pretty substantive difference.
Oh please! This sort of outage is regular for O365.
A brief summary: pack.png [0] is a 128x128px image of a scenic mountain within a Minecraft world, and is used in in-game menus. The goal of this project was to discover the world seed used to generate the Minecraft world that pack.png was taken in. This was no small feat, with 2^48 possible seeds the procedural world generator could have used, and required much analysis, trial-and-error and distributed computation by many volunteers to obtain the seed.

The process involved exploiting identifiable world features such as the position of clouds, orientations of certain block textures, and more, to discover the exact coordinates of the blocks in the image (insane in itself); figuring out the exact camera perspective via regression fitting; creating and training a machine learning model to upscale the image in order to better discern details and manually create a reconstruction; deducing how the image was taken (print screen -> cropped to 512x512 -> 4x downscaled with specific resizing algorithm); and more. Through these efforts, they had significantly reduced the number of candidate seeds; distributed computing power provided by 3,500 project volunteers' GPUs was then used to obtain the final 700,000 candidate seeds, and from that a brute-force approach was used to isolate the actual pack.png seed.

The YouTuber SalC1 produced an excellent video on the project [1].

[0] https://packpng.com/static/pack.png

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea6py9q46QU
Kind of sounds like how a group of humans from pre-Agricultural Revolution times would start their tribe. At the beginning, it's a couple people busting their butts to build something useful. If successful, it evolves in to a larger group primarily concerned with gossip and status.
Seems like an $850k investment for a $640k profit. So good, but not go to gaol good. Especially when it's split 3 or 4 ways as it seems this would have been.
sickkkk
More than a dozen news articles for each day of the hearing by the major newspapers is more than enough coverage.

Assange's extradition hearing isn't relevant to most people, and quite frankly it doesn't deserve or need to be covered outside of the major papers.
No, they won't change physics, but they might drop the idea altogether, pivot to different tech (IR? https://wi-charge.com/), or a different market like low power IoT. It doesn't really matter. The investors buy the idea of wireless power (not the technology), and bet on the team (not the technology).

Of course that all depends on the founders actually wanting to build something that works, and not being a complete scam :)
A lot of people before would give the advice that if you come to The Bay Area to get a job or fund your startup, you'll eventually succeed because you can easily take meetings with people, find connections, rub shoulders, schmooze, etc, and this was largely true because being in this locale gave an inherent advantage. We're more likely to hire the guy that made a good impression at an event or house party than a random cold email from an anonymous person.

Once Bay Area tech engineer moves to some far off corner of the world, there won't be much differentiation except for raw talent, and there's plenty of raw talent out there in the world who were born in the wrong place.
I guess the splitting point is thinking that whiteboard interviews select candidates that are good coders - a point I have an entire career of anecdotes to disagree with. YMMV, as with everything.

edit Also, to be clear, you seem very proud of your interview, your company and coworkers, and I do not mean to discredit your pride or success. I am simply pointing out that your experiences are not universal experiences and might be due to lots of other factors, totally unrelated to interview methodology (healthy attrition rates, supportive teams, constructive code review, etc).
Absolutely! It's more about the presentation.

"Title:" makes it look like a grade school book report.
that is very cool.
I'm curious to know how you got into ML? Did you go the degree route? PhD? I'm guessing that's where the top end of the salary range goes to but would be interested to know your personal path and if you have any advice on how to start.
I would not do this, because it is unethical. However, if there is a 5% chance you will get caught and lose 230% your profit margin, seems like a rational agent would do insider trading at every opportunity.
Once you guess the formula, the proof is just a few lines of calculus. It's accessible to anyone who has taken Calc I, I think. The full text .pdf of the original paper [0] is freely available; the result is Theorem 1, whose proof is on pages 2 and 3.

I believe the formula was found by computer search, but my memory could be failing me. The three people the result is named after are all well-known for computer-assisted mathematics, for instance using the PSLQ algorithm [1].

[0]: https://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/1997-66-218/S0025-5718-97-...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_relation_algorithm
Maybe they should have called it O364.
My specific use case is to use it with an apple pencil. For example: I like using Google Jamboard's free form editing with an apple pencil.

> We found in our experience, most software developers either don’t have a tablet, or don’t use it regularly

It might be the case today, however if you were to merely plot the Monthly growth for the #users using pencil in 2020. It might show an increased adoption. This is my anecdotal guess, but I suppose you might have to substantiate this if you don't think free form drawing is not compelling
aaaah! That explains it!

This happened to me recently, couldn’t get my head round it but a reboot fixed things so I didn’t investigate more.

Reboot must delete the swap or something.
> any digit of pi can be calculated directly in hexadecimal

Curious what you mean by "directly". How many FLOPs does it take to compute the n-th hexadecimal?
Solving the Challenge: Morgan and a String
You must not have heard the old joke "Office 361."
You're telling me multiple L4s are getting $254k/yr ($1 mil total) in equity? That's surprising to me, and I thought I had a sense of the market.
In highschool, I once competed in a statewide computer science competition. I had been coding for a few years by then, but mostly in qbasic and then php and JavaScript.

It turned out to be a written test and with the exception of some basics, it was mostly snippets of C code and then multiple choice responses that describe what the code did. Or the reverse where you would select a snippet of code.

I remember that I felt like I had guessed on every one of them. In some cases, I was able to make an educated guess by ruling out the obvious. But many times a total guess.

I spoke to an older kid after the test and expressed how difficult I thought the test was. He and a few others said they thought it was easy.

I ended up winning first place.

A university had put on that competition. That experience factored in a bit on my decision to not study computer science in college and go the economics/finance/business route instead. Even though I knew my path was likely tech.
There has been no proof that the surveillance was conducted by the US government, and some of the evidence provided by Assange's team indicates that both the UK and Ecuadorian governments conducted surveillance on Assange as well.

Moreover, Assange's team would need to show that the surveillance would actually prejudice his ability to get a fair trial, which is a tall order because the UK laws on this are less favorable for defendants than they are in the US. And if it turns out the surveillance was illegal and would prevent him from getting a fair trial, he can raise that before the U.S. trial court...and get the charges dismissed with prejudice.
Yup, they broke a change to their auth services... rolling back now.
This answer is fine as far as it goes, but it ignores the loss of precision involved if you iteratively compute with it. This does happen, even in contexts that NASA cares about. Hopefully they look for this, or they will find they've managed to navigate to the wrong star on some future interstellar mission.
This is my preferred reading as well - the dude is pro-democracy _specifically because_ he knows what the right move is for a king, and it sucks for everyone else.

He wrote the book as much as a warning as as a reason for the prince to invite him back to Florence.
Maybe we are a bit more "puritanical" but I think yes today even joking about pulling a gun would be seen as a "bad idea."
"misogyny" has lost its meaning, as it is such a frivolously used term.

good riddance. it's mostly a feminist-branded term, pushed as part of a category (men vs women) neomarxist classist oppression narrative.

frankly, I don't see what point you're trying to make, except trying to make anything/everything about misogyny-- which is precisely why it has lost its meaning. Perhaps it's your psychological projection, or your virtue signal?
The boldness of this decision is a sure sign that YouTube feels quite comfortable in its quasi monopoly.
This was just on HN the other day.

Adam Rogas, who abruptly resigned from NS8 earlier this
month, is accused of misleading investors who poured in
$123 million to his company earlier this year, a deal in
which he allegedly pocketed more than $17 million.

CEO of Cyber Fraud Startup NS8 Arrested by FBI, Facing Fraud Charges - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24518097

It wasn't insider trading, but it was financial fraud by a ceo.
I would assume it's exactly this. You just filter down trade to those accounts that have either never purchases options in the past, or brand new accounts where that's the first trade AND where the options were highly profitable.

Basically really unlikely investing scenarios.
You keep asking for scientific evidence of effects of completely new phenomena. I cannot provide you that. On the other hand, I am pretty sure you cannot provide me with evidence of absence of effects of the experiment of that magnitude.

Facebook is also doing priming, by controlling what user sees. Heck, even television and radio back in the day were used for priming, albeit not in such a direct feedback way.

About "intrusion into the free market".

I see "free market" as a neutral or even negative thing. I do not see "intrusion into the free market" as necessarily negative thing.

I see ban of TikTok as somewhat positive thing given my view on situation. I really want to see regulatory actions on Facebook too.
Ask HN: How to Succeed in Computer Vision
Hello! I'm taking a course in Computer Vision, and I was looking for guidance on generally how to approach solving CV problems. I am pretty fresh in studies and application, but at high level I feel I am developing the engineering and art to establishing an image processing pipeline so that, let's say, you can develop the code to perform Augmented Reality marker tracking in an image. Once the pipeline is created, one can begin tweaking. I want to understand how best to tweak and measure performance. For example, OpenCV has trackbars that can be used in the image viewing UI for twiddling parameters and seeing how changes affect the processing of the image. I can begin examining histograms of pixel intensities to understand how to filter, but there are many other variables to examine, and I'm not experienced enough to know what to keep in my toolbox and what to throw out or replace, or where to buy new tools.

I am looking for advice and new perspective and ways to think when working in this field.

Thank you and looking forward to learning from the community!
> the conditions or specific mutation that gave rise to multi-cellular life

Doubtful, given that we've been able to recreate multicellularity evolving in the lab. The initial jump to life, not so much.