skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For people interested in history of metallurgy from more technical side i would suggest this website: https://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/amat/iss/ - Helmut Föll: Iron, Steel and Swords - A detailed history of iron and steel from a Materials Science point of view.
If you own a building with many doors and you catch someone spying on the doors trying to find one left open, it’s not much use to complain to the manufacturer of the binoculars.
>The correct solution is to teach people not to mis-use it.

I like where you’re coming from, but much of the time leveraging ambiguous terms is exactly the point. People prioritize results over clarity of communication.

Most of it is done unconsciously rather than maliciously. Spend a few days carefully watching everything you hear and ask yourself if the speaker/writer is prioritizing clear communication or just using concepts as magic incantations for “I’m right”.
Ddos tools usually use amplification, instead of sending 1:1 bytes
(that is u sending 1 byte and receive 1 byte as answer)
They may query a database instead which a 30 byte search query results in couple thousand bytes of results + the load on the database

It would be expensive to just use raw network power to overwhelm a web service(u would need more bandwidth than the host)

Meanwhile with amplification u only need a 10th or less

Here an example https://www.imperva.com/learn/ddos/dns-amplification/
Apparently researchers have measured this, and for people meeting in person it's normal to maintain eye contact 30%-60% of the time in a conversation [1] with each contact lasting ~3 seconds [2]

So a system that maintained eye contact continuously would indeed risk looking creepy!

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolkinseygoman/2014/08/21/fac...
[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-long-you-should-ho...
If I had to guess, the issue around "black people" is that photos are 2D.

We don't really understand just how little information is actually in a photo (we add huge amounts of info in our perception).

My guess is that predictive systems are using contrast as a guide to essentially 3D structures which, simply, just cannot be reconstructed from 2D. And therefore, probably struggle more on dark faces which have different contrast properties.
A lot of info is missed here as well. Sales orgs (quite a large part of Microsoft) must still work from the office (with exceptions) and cannot relocate as they need to meet customers - including the technical sales. Even though they've worked fine from home and were in fact MORE productive. So a lot of nuance is missed, and the application of this isn't as broad as it is suggested.
Not sure about the US, but in the UK, if a manager agreed that you could remote work, and then at some point later, withn no justification (e.g. poor performance), and the company tried to back out of that, it would be construed as constructive dismissal, which can force a pay out.
Reminds me of this classic montage from Real Genius.

https://youtu.be/wB1X4o-MV6o
How come its so expensive? The top top insurance in my european country is $100 and a pretty good is 30.
Yeah, the MBFC site isn't as 'polished' as AllSides, but they have a lot more sites covered and overall I think their rankings are better (I know that is very subjective though).
That 2014 opinion has a whole section explaining why the interoperability argument doesn't work here. I also summarized it a bit elsewhere in this thread.

To add more to that, the opinion spends a while talking about why the precedent in the ruling in favor of Activition over making unlicensed games for Sega consoles doesn't apply here, and that's helpful for understanding why arguments about interoperability aren't going well over in the courts. In short, the Court recognized a clear distinction between making things to run on someone else's platform, and making your own platform that is designed to be incredibly cosmetically similar to someone else's, but not actually interoperable with it.

Incidentally, I'm looking to that detail for hope. Most my anxiety around this case concerns its potential implications for the legal standing of projects like WINE. But those projects are unambiguously good faith efforts at interoperability. If the Court ultimately rules against Google, but bases that ruling on the opinion that Google's claims about interoperability were smoke and mirrors, then that would seem to imply that they are specifically ruling against what Google did, and not what open source projects are typically doing.
Tacit Knowledge:A different kind of knowledge
Not really, Theological studies doesn't take students from the top percentages, but medicine, law and engineering do. Unfortunately pure mathematics and physics are not popular and top students do not pick these subjects. At least in some of the majority Muslim countries I am familiar with.
The tool that can do it in 6 minutes is massscan, the original repo of which is the link of the post:

https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan

Note that "scan the internet in 6 minutes" only means this tool is capable of generating packets fast enough on the host machine to theoretically do a 6 minute scan. In practice, the NIC, home network, and local ISP connection will bottleneck and the scan will be orders of magnitude slower.
Facemesh[0] already runs on a mobile phone. This doesn't seem much more complex.

[0] https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs-models/tree/master/faceme...
Ha ha and more ha! Joke's on the website then. My uBlock Origin made sure that link is invisible for me.
Upgrading to Mono .NET 5.0 yield 6x to 17x performance increase
It doesn't matter what he does or says. If he says nothing - apparently he condones it. If he says something condemning it, they pretend it's not genuine, ignore it and look at the other vague terms he uses as if they're dog-whistles condoning it. This tells me they've pre-decided their stance on him and will push that no matter what he says or does. You can't argue or reason with insanity.

What makes it worse is there are a lot of very smart, articulate and well-meaning people that are coming to the defense of such an incoherent point of view. They will verbally and with "facts" stomp down on anything but the most perfect of criticisms, essentially making criticism of any left-wing action next to impossible.
what about Equus? that's also introduced by Linnaeus AFAIK; could you please explain what you mean; I'm actually a noob so please state things explicitly so I can understand things (I'm ok with looking specific things up, but it's harder to look up "between the lines" things)
It's discussed in the article. Look for "A preliminary caution must be noted about both parts of the term “Arabic science.”" (and read the 2 paragraphs after it)
You're reaching too hard.

Choosing coffee is not child labour, bad jokes can happen anywhere, Huawei/Not Huawei is a security choice not a political one ... and for god's sakes we're picking our caprenters based in their bumpers stickers? No. I don't care what bumper stickers my carpenter has, and although I personally hate Trump, I don't care one bit that he has such a bumper sticker, and nobody else should either.

99.99% of Google content is mundane and not political.

They're not banning a lot from Google search other than really illegal stuff.

'Choosing the SaaS vendor based on price' is not just 'going with the status quo.

I get what you are trying to say, I just don't agree.

I don't even think that workplaces embracing popular social issues directly that much, what matters is addressing the social issues directly, not as a matter of populism.

Saying "our company doesn't hire black people, that doesn't seem fair, can we think about that" is 100% reasonable, but making public statements about BLM etc. is more political, less pragmatic.
You can get pretty good network speeds in space. Some Ka-band satellites (SpaceX Starlink for example) have gigabit networks between them. All you need to extend that out to Mars would be high gain directional antennas on things. If you used lasers instead it could be even higher bandwidth.
Securities fraud. I have linked it below. There are a few other articles where I am mentioned in passing or via hyperlink.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-05-22/fitbit...
Explained in the article.

> A preliminary caution must be noted about both parts of the term “Arabic science.” This is, first, because the scientists discussed here were not all Arab Muslims. Indeed, most of the greatest thinkers of the era were not ethnically Arab. This is not surprising considering that, for several centuries throughout the Middle East, Muslims were a minority (a trend that only began to change at the end of the tenth century). The second caution about “Arabic science” is that it was not science as we are familiar with it today. Pre-modern science, while not blind to utility, sought knowledge primarily in order to understand philosophical questions concerned with meaning, being, the good, and so on. Modern science, by contrast, grew out of a revolution in thought that reoriented politics around individual comfort through the mastery of nature. Modern science dismisses ancient metaphysical questions as (to borrow Francis Bacon’s words) the pursuit of pleasure and vanity. Whatever modern science owes to Arabic science, the intellectual activity of the medieval Islamic world was not of the same kind as the European scientific revolution, which came after a radical break from ancient natural philosophy. Indeed, even though we use the term “science” for convenience, it is important to remember that this word was not coined until the nineteenth century; the closest word in Arabic — ilm — means “knowledge,” and not necessarily that of the natural world.

> Still, there are two reasons why it makes sense to refer to scientific activity of the Golden Age as Arabic. The first is that most of the philosophical and scientific work at the time was eventually translated into Arabic, which became the language of most scholars in the region, regardless of ethnicity or religious background. And second, the alternatives — “Middle Eastern science” or “Islamic science” — are even less accurate. This is in part because very little is known about the personal backgrounds of these thinkers. But it is also because of another caution we must keep in mind about this subject, which ought to be footnoted to every broad assertion made about the Golden Age: surprisingly little is known for certain even about the social and historical context of this era. Abdelhamid I. Sabra, a now-retired professor of the history of Arabic science who taught at Harvard, described his field to the New York Times in 2001 as one that “hasn’t even begun yet.”
> "I designed it this way for autocomplete. My vision at the time was that people would want to do autocomplete or they might want to just type part of the domain name and have it completed in a search list of the local environment."

> "Imagine if we were to type “com.” and then wait for autocomplete. Out of 160 million choices, there would be a pretty long pull-down menu."

What an amazing and unexpected reason, but I love it.
Isn't that the point? Scientific advances were often Persian or Turkish rather than Arab after al-Ghazali.
Thanks. I like the concept seeing management tasks as multiplying the team's output beyond individual contributions. That has a lot of value.

I'll focus on the technical career stream, even though that's not that clearly defined in my company.
That is cool use of AI !

Sidenote: I always had this idea for "video compression" I'm by no means an expert in compression.

1) Take like the top 10 most "VISUAL DIVERSE" movies (imagine Forrest Gump(slow drama) VS ToyStory(anime) Vs Rambo(fast paced visuals)

2) "Encode/compress"(I know these terms are not interchangeable) the movie as a "diff/ref" to the "most similar" movie from step 1

2b) This the "diff/ref" can be many forms "sliding window" over x section of y amount of frames.

3) The "end-user" or "destination" have these "10-master-movies" locally on hdd and together with the local-data can construct the original "frame" or "movie" from the compression and local-movie on disk.

Tl;DR
Try to compress a new movie by saying "the top corner of frame 1-120" is very similar to MasterMovie-2-FrameXYZ-Frame-ABC

4)
Are remote development environments common?
There’s a CI server doing the heavy lifting but I still run tests constantly on a docker box while developing locally.
> -Matt's ability to understand and synthesize topics reflects incredibly highly on his intellect. I don't know anyone on Wall Street... is his level of intellect common among investment bankers and such there?

Investment banker here.. "Wall Street" is a pretty big concept, not unlike "Silicon Valley".

So in the best banks and the best groups, yes – I'd say he's among the very best, but there are plenty of similarly smart people around.

Having said that, I obviously have no insight into whether he was actually good at all the other things that make a great "banker". To stick to the same analogy, one can be a prolific coder but be absolutely terrible about writing docs and tests, keeping a sane git workflow, prioritizing, communicating, being a team player, etc.
So how is julia nowadays? I stopped using and following it sometime ago as I found it as slow as python, or worse, for anything that wasn't numerical computing.

Really wanted to love it.
You're not accounting for, uhm... freedom. /s
Perhaps. In his Revelation Space universe, Alastair Reynolds categorises AI as Alphas (full brain simulations), Betas (non-conscious mimics which are based on a person’s behaviour over an unspecified but very long time period), and Gammas (which I read as being mere apps with voice interfaces).

If the goal is to make it seem like your present when you aren’t, I can believe we’re only a few years away from Reynolds‘ Betas — a Markov chain can’t mimic a human well, but it can mimic a human; GPT3 can do better, and while it still isn’t great, the main reason it feels like it might not be enough for public figures is how easy it is to get it to answer as if it were someone else rather than as The Right Honourable Sir Obvious Madeupname, MP for Oxbridge-upon-Wells who is paying for the chatbot to mimic him in particular.
Which ones? I'm curious to know, thanks!
That's a poor analogy. The outside colors of the majority of the homes in your neighborhood effectively broadcast that information into the public sphere. A more analogous question is "Is it valid to conduct research about all the homes in the world by around and attempting to peer into all their windows to see if there are any interior bedrooms with pink walls and fluffy animals?"

Alternately, you could ask me "If a computer is broadcasting packets to my computer which is connected to a network port that I'm allowed to connect to, is it ok for me to note that?" In which case I'd say yes.
The performance is in the same ballpark for cost-performance as Intel 10th gen, and the 10th gen Intel platform will be compatible with Intel's 2021 chips, whereas if you get an AMD board now, this will be the last processor which it supports. The AMD boards are more expensive for comparable features. Intel 10th gen also has better all-core boosting, which might be important for upcoming games with better multicore support.
>” Is there any evidence showing that Meier's drastic move actually improved Yahoo's results?”

I don’t think we have public insight into any internal results. We do know that there was evidence that a significant number of people logged in seldom or sporadically for years according to accounts of VPN and other logs. So the skating and slacking was inordinately sufficient for her to pull the plug on that option.
Here is a Google Custom Search Engine based on MBFC: https://factualsearch.news/
Are you really comparing the 'power of someone to say something at work in 2020' with things like 'Black people were not allowed to have mortgages until one generation ago'?
I think you'd be surprised.

Full disclosure: maybe 10 years or so ago I took 250CAD to write a buff article and link to an online casino. I removed the link the instant the 1 year I promised expired. Still, even for a low rank site they paid what to a university student was good money.

For a proper writer their budgets are no doubt higher. For an article capable of going viral (as it is now on HN), no doubt they have budgets in the thousands.

It seems silly, and no doubt it is, but I would be willing to bet that the author of this article even wrote the article he linked to.

Perhaps the most fun aspect to contemplate: this is an example of a journalist with something to say financing said writing as a byproduct SEO warfare between an entirely not-news industry.

The casino is not even advertising for the purposes of getting customers. The only reader the casino cares about is GoogleBot.
I’m glad you liked it!
Wouldn't semantics be functional and thus require a utility patent, rather than a design patent or trade dress?

The argument being made by Google (and stipulated by Oracle) is that the reason Google copied the API was for its familiarity to developers, rather than any inherent quality or functionality.

This is, essentially, a "look-and-feel" lawsuit, only applied to code, rather than UI.
Influential public figures have no right to secret identity.
First time I've heard anything like that. Most people report a massive speedup without doing anything special. Maybe try the current version?
Public health systems often subsidise private health care, so some of that difference will come from taxes.
The problem with theorizing about such things is that, being untestable, it's very hard to distinguish between our own narrative biases and objectivity.

Maybe the golden age was a byproduct of imperialism. Not many naked imperialists out there anymore, but the arguments are easy enough to make. The US, The USSR... both with some stunning scientific achievements (eg nuclear physics, space travel, physics) achievements during their most imperial, post-war years. The British. The Dutch. The Chinese. The Mongol empire(s) were pretty intellectually advanced.

Maybe it was multiculturalism. Circa 8-13th centuries, most muslim countries were pretty diverse. They had muslim leadership, but the plurality was still Christian, Zoroastrian and such.

Maybe it was capitalism. Muslims were traders, especially relative to medieval Christendom.

Maybe it was societal youth. Ibn Khaldun^, IMO greatest of the arab (and ethnically arab) golden age scholars, had a theories parsimonious with this.

Maybe it was "the flame of western civilization." As the article states, they did inherit the post Byzantine world of Greek culture which passed through roman hands from the Greeks. The Greeks themselves inherited it from the Persians, so maybe it's the flame of Persian civilization, or even back to Sumerians if you like your narratives grand.

Maybe religion. Quranic culture requires literacy, and a theological education was common to nearly all of those great scholars.

Maybe it was conquest. The national confidence of a conquering nation.

I don't see a way to pick one idea from another. History is not deterministic. We can reflect though, that Ibn Khaldun is the most noteworthy originator of the (now very western) idea that history does have a logic of this kind.

^Genuinely a forerunner to Smith, Marx & such. A lot of Scottish enlightenment may have been catalyzed by the translation of his "Muqdima."
> Yet this minuscule improvement breaks through both a theoretical logjam and a psychological one. Researchers hope that it will open the floodgates to further improvements.

Please don't take quotes out of context
I never saw USSR myself, but for few very blurry memories of my first years of life I barely recall.

But from my lifelong interest studying how countries work, and fail, I would tell that an average union's citizen would be given a chance to see such inoculatory dosages of "truths" a dozen or so times in his life, the more the higher the rank the person has in the society. And that for most, the exposure to it will pass more or less without consequences, given how watered down it was.

I believe their rationale for engaging in the later was to influence their own elites as much as they can until the level where the benefit from it comes close to the harm from truth stirring up "proles."

I'd say a half of all adult, moderately intellectually developed, working age people by eighties had an idea in principle that:

1. USA is more well off than the union, some even knew by how much from smuggled Western press.

2. That all communists are liars, and that the CPSU is now corrupt beyond salvation.

3. That Radio Liberty is probably not all lie.

4. USA is probably less corrupt than USSR, or at least their bosses don't steal more than half of worker's salary.

5. That it's possible that not all Americans were millionaires, but nevertheless, even some non-millionaires may be able to afford a car in USA...

6. That CPSU keeps microdosing them with much distorted, and watered down depictions of reality in, and outside of the union, in just enough dosage as to preserve CPSU's last vestiges of credibility, as to make what they say not entirely silly.
Big discussion two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24705855
As someone who would probably understand an explanation in real words, my eyes glazed over and I stopped parsing after about the third mention of fish. But I'm not the target audience.

In popular science articles, I much prefer paragraphs laid out with a sentence of technical description followed by a layperson's explanation and/or example. That way, if I understand the first sentence, I can skip to the next paragraph. It's been a while, but I recall this being a popular format for textbooks as well.
Don't know if this one really aged well considering how rapey the blue helmets turned out to be. It's more of an Aung San Suu Kyi type of example.
The depth of the fake should be inversely proportional to the gullibility of the audience.
Admittedly I have no idea how resource-intensive this image processing is, but it's possible that it's less of a hit than the fact that all video call programs today run on HTML+JS. If Hangouts was a native program, there would be plenty of power to spare.
That's the fun part! Only the GoogleBot's view matters. Its an AD; for robots!
I think computation is always cheaper than bandwidth, so in theory if AI can approach it‘s computational limit, it ought to be.
Yes and no. My current employer and the previous one had more than one branch, geographically located in different areas (and nations).

To me all the colleagues from other branches were "remote". As far as I can tell, it made no difference to me if they were in their office or at home, I still interacted with them via tickets, instant messaging, video calls etc.

And yet we all worked together.
Never thought of that. Corporate meetings to be able to say "we can tackle the challenge" and then go and do it.

The meetings are for "what" vs "how."
Having read the article, the suggested root of it seems to be the non-distinction between politics and religion in Islam. Muhammad was a powerful ruler and prophet. In Christian terms, he was both Christ and Constantine in one.
At the extremes, maybe. If 9 people on a team are in an office and 1 is remote, perhaps a few time zones away, that tends to be a problem. "Oops, we forgot to set up a dial-in AGAIN."

But, in general, not really. I work for a company that normally has offices but also has quite a few remote people. And we're a global company anyway so people are going to be in different offices in any case. Even our management is pretty distributed.

>Not to mention, you can't really move far away from the office either since you could at any time be expected to show up in the office for $IMPORTANT_MEETING.

Again, in normal times, there are planes etc. I work in a broader group that's scattered across the world and we would normally get together for team meetings a couple times a year.