skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does Clearview AI train on mugshot datasets specifically?

I'm absolutely NOT advocating for its use at all, but it seems like that might be a good source for well-tagged, organized data for what is turning out to be a very problematic (though apparently allowed) use case.

From a photography standpoint, it seems to follow that identical lighting in the same room where they're taking everyone's mugshots could produce different levels of contrast for facial features across different skin tones, simply as an artifact of cheap lenses and a lack of white-balancing or overall care, really.
If persons A and B have different skin tones, then the routine, careless, terrible, one-size-fits-all black-and-white photo by an underpaid government office worker may not accurately capture the contrast in the shadows of both of their facial features to the same degree, no futile human bias required.

This lack of definition may then further help promote any existing biases in ML training, enforcement, etc. towards people whose features aren't as well contrasted in the resultant, awful photos. Perhaps training on such a grainy, washed-out dataset would at least help the ML distinguish smaller variances in contrast to a finer degree, if nothing else.
Us humans can do it, after all.
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Your post agrees that both of those things do happen under the system, and yet your conclusion is that they don't. What kind of gymnastics is happening in your head?
This is a project my uncle designed where 4 houses in a block share a common care facility, allowing the people requiring care to live in a regular house without costing a fortune. https://darrenchester.com.au/freedom-housing-project-officia...

It is definitely a step up from a nursing home, especially for people who would like to live with their family or chosen roommates.
Oh, I agree 100%. I'm just saying that maybe the quality of input to the algorithms leaves something to be desired.

Or, maybe the fact that there are relatively few black people in tech means that the developers of these algorithms don't even notice that there's a bias to correct for, whether it's in the input or not.
An elevator?
> I don't think a 3 second warning is valuable at all

3 seconds is plenty of time for a sensor to trigger an actuator to close valve, say a natural gas valve that could leak and cause fires.
I have no knowledge on that matter, I’m sorry
That's interesting about the billing. Playing devil's advocate here -- if I provisioned a Mac dedicated host, used it for the ~1 hour that I actually need, and then repeatedly cycled instances for the rest of the 24 hours to maximize the amount of time that it spends in "pending", would I indeed succeed in paying substantially less than 24 hours worth of time while still obeying the Apple-imposed "one customer per day" restriction? Would this violate a TOS?
Single subscription payment for news along the lines of the Spotify model. I'd happily pay a single subscription which gave me access to ALL the news websites, and divided payment up based on which articles people click on. Do that without tracking me between the different sites and I'm sold.

Pressreader gets close but it only gives you yesterday's print versions (not current online content), it has a few notable gaps which matter to me (the FT, The Times (of London), Bloomberg news among others) and it doesn't really collate different sources for the same story very well. Though I have to say it's great for magazines.
A friggin' printer that friggin' works.
I don't think most people object too much to a recruiter simply ignoring an inbound email from someone looking for a job. Often candidates take a "spray and pray" approach anyway, and aren't expecting responses to most of their cold emails.

But if there's any kind of back-and-forth at all after that, especially if a candidate has gone through a phone screen or interview, I think everyone is owed some sort of closure in the process. Just as if the candidate accepts another job, they should let the recruiter know, a recruiter should let the candidate know if they're being rejected. There's no legitimate excuse for not even sending a canned one-liner rejection email.
There are some similarities, but if you put them side by side, you'll note many differences.

https://imgur.com/a/L9GDD0m
Apple however doesnt run on their own OS for their webservices though. Nothing in the way here, but just a note.
When Wordpress is lagging, it is always because of the infrastructure, whether that is client or server side. The editor does not send data to the backend. Without actually having access to the machine, I can almost guarantee that there are issues with the client-side machine or browser which is the reason for the lagging.
Ask HN: Do You “Fire and Forget”?
I look at the "newest" page every day at unpredictable times, and reasonably often I see something that has a minor error that's easily fixable, or make a comment that I hope would enable the poster/author to enhance the item in some way.

Almost (but not quite always) invariably my comment goes unanswered, leading me to believe that either:

(a) my input is not as helpful as it is intended to be, or

(b) the poster/author isn't watching the submission.

There may be other options, but I'm wondering ... how many people here operate in "fire and forget" mode? The evidence suggests the proportion is substantial.

Another option is that those who are not in "F&F" mode fix things and I don't see the erroneous version, so there is some selection bias, but even so, I'm curious.
Microsoft Access is a database aimed at non-programmers. I'm not really sure why you would care if it's cloud-based or not if you aren't a programmer though. You could have Access save your database file to One Drive or something. Access also integrates with SQL Server and you can probably get a free tier one on Azure.
Just wait for one lawsuit. It will happen. Then, everyone will be forbidden from giving feedback.
Well, you were doing absolutely RIGHT thing, but doing the right thing sometimes does not bring you any benefit. In this particular case, if you think about it again, I guess you will do it in a completely different way. They have already ghosted you once, so it would be naive to trust them not to ghost you again. And it turned out exactly the case. My personal approach is to save their name and number, particularly the mobile number in my address book, clearly marking as them as not trustworthy and sometimes even block their number so that I don't talk to them anymore.
Apple News is trying. Also better for magazines than current events.
New FAA rule requires Remote ID for drones
Despite getting repeated a lot there's no evidence to support this.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24232291-100-the-idea...
Homebrew package manager installer merges Apple Silicon support
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Police forces have been using drones for surveillance since at least 2017, including beyond line of sight flights at night.

https://whitmancountywatch.com/2019/11/07/pullman-police-fli...

It seems that these regulations are focused on permitting private commercial flights similar rights.
I think ironically your criticism of voice interfaces actually betrays perhaps their biggest weakness over visual interfaces - it's not immediately obvious what their capabilities are, what they will respond to or understand, or what your options in a situation are.

Super users and developers of these systems are likely able to harness them for much more powerful usecases than the average person, but how do you make those options and usecases visible to the end user?

It would seem like the answer is either 1) a robocall / callcenter bot style solution (press 1 to ____, press 2 to ____, press 3 to ____) where you must listen to lists of things but can more expressively verbally respond rather than press 1, or as you said solve the Hard AI problem of the bots contextually understanding your current situation and suggesting options based on it.
I'm not blaming the recruiter. They could say 'the limit is $X' on an intro call. But I tend to take that as an early negotiation tactic. Because if I say X+Y% during the offer-letter phase of the pipeline, and they say yes, the first limit mentioned was a fabrication.

In other words, there is no way to truly know the limit until you've reached the end of the funnel. Maybe the company's struggled with finding a candidate, and now has decided to shell out a premium upon request. You'll never have that context. But true cards will only played at the end, not the beginning, of the conversation.
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Depends on the minecraft modpack ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
It's only a toy library.
Some people need heroin. I'm against the war on drugs, but I still despise dealers.
meh to you: this is a solved problem. ticket systems that send reminders have been around for 30 years, at least. saas recruiter dashboards with candidate status for 10 years, at least. there's zero excuse for ghosting a candidate in 2020. You are just making excuses, as if the problem is intrinsic and it just comes with the territory. All of your points are true, but none of them matter!

meh to the site: anonymity is pointless and makes this a spam tool, at best. i could see this working after a few iterations on it, but as it stands it's quite poor.
when you think it through, it's simply better to keep heat/electricity usage to a minimum, and just keep stuff better insulated overall. And I would say this area of problems is still being worked on, but you know physics gets in the way, and iterating in housing is a lot slower than software...
Accelerate.framework is a shared library distributed with the OS. Like most other system libraries, it’s not available as a static library, and though you could theoretically ship a copy of it in an app bundle, you’re not supposed to. Instead the ABI is kept backwards-compatible.

There’s no publicly available compiler, proprietary or not, that produces binaries that use the instructions.
Oh come on! “They” are harder to photograph? This is exactly the same like saying black people are less intelligent because they don’t hold the higher paid jobs. It’s not by choice. Nor is there any physical reason why that should be.

The technology to photograph is biased to better capture white skinned people.

It even says so in the very article you link to:

“A lot of [the design of film and motion technology] was conceived with the idea of the best representation of white people.”

Improve the technology!
As somebody who deals with converting documents a lot on a professional level I say: LaTeX is a dead end. It's a horrible format to convert LaTeX to something else except PDF/Print/Images (where it is near perfect of course). You cannot even interchange documents between Word and LaTeX in an easy automated round trip way AFAIK.

Btw. I linked before a link to usable Markdown variations for academic papers which use LaTeX as a mix in only when necessary.
I love the rationale for Proxima maybe being the most likely star to be transmitting directly toward us.

Maybe it’s a carrier signal for an alien equivalent of a public HAM repeater or a peer to peer mesh net node. It would effectively be a dial tone. Each node broadcasts toward, say, its three nearest neighbors. It sends a carrier that also periodically encodes info about how to use the node and the “IP addresses” of other known participants.

Latency would suck though. A complete ping to another “live” station could take hundreds or thousands of years. The vast majority of repeater nodes could be dumb unmanned devices periodically sent out and placed in orbit around other stars.

What if our solar system has one and we haven’t noticed it because it’s not that big, is in close solar orbit to easily harness a lot of power, and is only aiming its signals at our three nearest neighbors. Heh.
Standards on Arm platforms for OS support
I said server or infrastructure, meaning server or client-side machine / browser. Essentially, their hosting or local environment. The code loading in their browser which is causing the lag is the same code for everyone else, and this is not a reproducible issue in the WP community. If this person's account of things is accurate, then any lags in Wordpress would be a local environment issue.
Not really. Seeming like a sitty place makes recruiting harder.
Internally it's about accuracy of reporting. If you do high uptimes (say >99.95%) rounding starts to matter.

If you want the less bureaucratic version: downtime for mission critical apps means customers call. Immediately. If your SaaS to manage a container terminal is down, that means the container terminal is down. That turns very expensive very fast. Knowing the system is down before you receive the first call is vital. Monitoring once a minute and taking 2 failing calls before reporting means you have a 2 minute delay. That is the difference between telling the customer 'yes, we've noticed and we're working on it' versus 'what downtime?' on the phone

EDIT: I looked into your startup, and definitely love that pricing model. That seems like the right stategy, and beats other monitoring solutions easily at scale (>10 hosts seems to be the cross-over point roughly). If you can report downtime within say 20s of it actually occurring via a webhook or Slack integration or so, I'd love to have an invite. E-mail is in my profile.
Just used this tool to send a bunch of death threats and insults to myself to see if anyone programmed a content filter to prevent abuse.

Spoiler: They didn't.

This thing is gonna become a spam proxy before the end of the day.
Also, Apple has quite a lot of effort into specifically running things locally rather than in the cloud. For example, Photos.app does all its facial recognition and 'Memory' creation locally.
Because Apple is a hardware company. I wouldn't expect them to be supportive of a Hackintosh solution, to the point of making it difficult to operate.
I do appreciate it. Thank you.

Agree on all counts. I think about apprenticeship, coaching, mentoring all the time. Most of my own efforts to date have failed. Doing better would be nice.

Please continue posting on HN. I treat it as batting practice. Writing stuff out helps me refine my thinking. And the moderation (u/dang) keeps me civil.
$60,000 is an over-estimation; that is what a high end kitchen with nice materials and custom cabinets would cost. The typical cost is $13k to $37k with the median being $25k nationally[0], depending on the size of the kitchen and local labor costs.

0 - https://www.homeadvisor.com/cost/kitchens/remodel-a-kitchen/
> As far as I know the polygraph isn't accepted as evidence in court unless all parties agree to it

That's not the only place where they can be used, and cause damage.
Just shoplifting is not the full story, although I agree it's still overkill.

> the suspect shoplifted candy and other snacks from the hotel gift shop and darted into a men’s room after a hotel staffer called police.

> When two officers arrived, the man handed over a driver’s license from Tennessee identifying him as Jamal Owens.

> But police ran the name through the computer in the patrol car and determined the license was not valid and possibly fraudulent, according to the report.

> When the police pulled out their handcuffs to arrest the man, he fled out the back door of the hotel, losing a sneaker on the way.

The police outside has no idea about the threat-level it seems, for them it's just someone running from the law, possibly dangerous person.

That the situation even escalates to this point for some shoplifting and invalid license though, is quite telling of the public's feeling and fear for the police.
And for longer discussions and regular meetups, there's FP Zulip: funprog.zulipchat.com
Basically he says you can't really do that in c++, because of performance (which is crucial otherwise why u use c++; last part is my addition)
One perspective is that people aren't rational. Another is that they are optimizing for different things than what you want to optimize for.
But in the case of heroin there are huge side-effects on health of the user and on the security of the surrounding people.
I don't think it is very wise to post your email address in a public forum (here).
Who would provide large-scale hardware support to AWS for this approach? Certainly not Apple as it’s not their hardware. Also in a few minth from now people will want M1 cpu’s and you wouldn’t have worked towards that at all.
If someone is fine with the Hackintosh experience, there are ways to do it in AWS already now.
Why the iPhone Timer app displays a fake time
Perhaps USians as desensitized to guns but I took pause when reading that the police officers drew their guns when chasing the fugitive in the original incident, about shoplifting candies from a hotel lounge? (And I wonder if the concierge that called the cops on this guy hadn’t provoked a taunt with some “kind words”.)
Red flag for me is “next week”. That’s a really long space in between contacts. Ideally the whole interview marathon at multiple companies should be packed into a couple weeks so you can drive a bidding war so to speak.

If they know you are interviewing elsewhere then it should be closer to 2-3 days max contact gap. Tip: If you don’t hear back from A, maybe you’ll have an on-site scheduled with B, and then you can ping A with that info “for scheduling purposes” and trust me you will suddenly hear back if they are interested. Again, urgency is your friend here.
As a candidate, I don't want to prematurely limit myself on comp at the intake portion of the conversion funnel. So, the recruiter might mention a number, and I'll think to myself "that plus Y%" would do it for me. But I have no reason to say that. Who knows, maybe "that plus Y+Z%" is the firm's real upper limit. So it can't be the fault of recruiter, but also, it would be unwise for me too early on.

I could give an absolute minimum, but that would be an anchor I don't want to be tied to.
It will be a beautiful day when we can run macOS workloads in a container/vm.
“I find it horrifying”

Please, for the sake of your good content, don’t go hyperbolic. It makes you sound less credible.

Things that are horrifying: genocide, torture, slavery, famine, child abuse, elder abuse.

Things that are not horrifying: almost everything else. Maybe bad, really bad, destructive...but not horrifying.

Certainly not a personal view about The Zeitgeist of SF.
What motivated you to do this? Is there some financial gain to be had? How is adoption?
When there's a critical mass of users of the site and multiple messages being sent to folks at the same companies again and again, the plan is to put together a "naughty list" to display, by company not individual. Also a lot of folks are using it to just mess around, so there's a good bit of manual data cleaning necessary too!
How do you know whether or not they were simply using the same VPN?
Can someone find this poster? I would utterly love to buy it and hang it somewhere, but I can't find it when googling.
"The software, which was created by Clearview Al, was criticized for its heavy reliance on billions of social media photos to identify criminal suspects."

So how exactly did they get access to all photos? It must have been trained on public networks like instagram, not facebook, right?!? If it was FB that would be interesting.
I know. Recruiters are often the first ones to be laid off. They are also one of the lowest paid occupations in tech companies.

I feel sorry for them that they are also shamed for being laid off and unable to reply to emails. I actually know one FB recruiter that left and just stop replying to my email.

Just move on. You are not the only person who has the problems.
> very white-hat "help the public good" here

> trying to make the world better

Indicating that Google the company doesn't care about such things

(Although most individuals working there do)
This is The Question and it applies to every single one of these stupendously wasteful deployments of time, space, energy and capital.

Every single mid-sized IT shop in the world has an urgent and valid use-case to virtualize OSX in an efficient and portable manner. Most individual power-end-users have similar use-cases.

How many hours / dollars / gigatons-of-carbon / calories are wasted on this comically inefficient, user-hostile and gratuitously complex state of affairs ?
Sorry to hear about your experience.
The regenerative agriculture movement is gaining significant momentum in Austraila; https://regenfarmers.com.au/
Correct. It's widely considered inadmissible as evidence in court. They're also rarely used outside of the U.S. AFAIK.

Recordings of interrogations that feature them also show that they tend to come along with other appeals to ethos ("this is doctor so-and-so...") and hand-wavey forms of intimidation like touting their "seriousness" or "efficacy".

Anything that requires a person to "interpret" its output is likely not very deterministic, and so likely not very reliable for establishing... anything. This is akin to palm reading or graphology.

Unfortunately, revealing to the police in such a situation exactly how foolish they look by getting behind such a device isn't exactly advisable either!
Overpopulation.

It's the main source of humanity's current woes and will only get worse with time. We seem to be content with addressing the symptoms rather than the problem. The idea of population control is taboo but will help everyone in the long run.
> The idea that Prop 13 protects people from being taxed out of their hugely inflating financial asset is somewhat preposterous on its face. It mostly protects large landholders, and gives a tiny tiny benefit to the people that we are concerned about.

When you say "large landholders", are you talking about REITs and commercial property holders? If so, wouldn't Prop 15 have addressed these issues?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_California_Proposition_15
That seems awfully low. The times when I've found out that info, it's tended to be ~15-20-25%.
Quota-based DEI is missing the mark
If you want to create a blog without knowledge of code and/or hosting servers then I wouldn't use Wordpress. Something like Wix or Squarespace would be more up your alley. I understand not everyone is in the position to pay money on certain things, but if you don't want to pay then don't expect things to work amazingly well. Hosting servers isn't cheap.
There definitely is a cost associated with moving to a place where the skills you have are valued enough to support yourself. If the pain of changing is greater than the pain of staying where you are, then it is completely rational to stay where you are.