skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Samsung inadvertently uses iPhone to tweet Galaxy Unpacked promo
Good piece. This line articulates the problem well: "without objectivity and consistency, moderation can easily degenerate into a situation where one group of people forces their opinions on everyone else, like them or not." And it gets to the core of the problem. Objectivity and consistency are extremely difficult to scale and maintain over time. They require constant reinforcement from environment, context, and culture.
What you can do with one photon is to observe that it almost never appears in the screen in positions where geometry dictates there would be destructive interference of the photon was a wave.

If you literally try one photon only once, well, you can't really talk about probabilities; whatever happened happened (possibly you witnessed an unlikely event). But if you repeat the experiment N times, even if you do it spaced by many miles and many days, and collect the data you'll notice that the measurements cluster in ways that are compatible with interference bands.

If an actual physicist can tell me whether that I wrote above is fundamentally wrong, I'd be happy and have more questions
Ask HN: Why do you own Tesla stock?
Tesla stock is probably the most overvalued stock in the market right now. It's worth more than all the other car companies combined. To grow into that valuation it would need to dominate the entire auto market, plus some others. That means there's a lot of room for the stock to go down, not much for it to go up. I wouldn't bet against Elon Musk, but still I wouldn't buy the stock. If you own Tesla stock, what's your rationale?
Another original Pebble kickstarter here. I still feel that "smart" watches peaked with Pebble. Long battery life, physical buttons / no touch-screen, waterproof, shows notifications / allows basic actions to be taken on them. That's all I wanted from a smart watch, and it provided it all!

I don't know who decided that I need to be able to make and receive calls on my watch, have a color screen, or any number of the other "new features" modern smart watches push. I wouldn't mind a HRM, but I'd still prefer a 1-week battery life.
The article is so true, my latest mantra at work is “engineering is more important than data science”.

Everyone is buzzing about the latter, and few even realize what is the former.
My wife switched over to a Garmin fitness tracker. She'd been having technical issues with her old Fitbit anyway, but the Google acquisition made it so she didn't even consider a new Fitbit as a replacement.
I'm waiting for PineTime, personally. My significant other just switched from a Fitbit Ionic to an Apple Watch SE and definitely likes the upgrade.

Battery life is your biggest loss if you leave Fitbit, almost nobody was making smartwatches as battery efficient.
Which is exactly why we should do it anyway.
I use Firefox’s content filter and it always to filter out the actual content of the page. Oddly enough, refreshing made it load just fine.
Graduate Student Descent -- there's also the other saying: Every moment you spend writing, publishing, or working on your dissertation is a moment that you are getting behind on doing unique and cutting edge research.
The article loads for ~10 sec, shows for a split second and then the screen becomes empty. I'm using a moderately old browser (FF 61.0.1) but come on, how hard it is to display some text?
They are in a bubble. Watch interviews where some are convinced Trump win because nobody they knew voted for Biden.

If you’re in this bubble and the President tells you to do something, you figure how can it be wrong. The leader of our country is telling me to do this.
It doesn't mater at this point. FB and WhatsApp lost user's trust.

Besides what they say is often not true anyway as history shows.
I agree, if anything the data engineers (folks with engineering backgrounds) should be doing the applied work while a department of data scientists works on the theoretical or novel data analysis methods.

Right now our product has accumulated a lot of technical debt on the data validation side because data scientists designed the test code in a way that dramatically slows the development process.
This seems fair to me. The executive view of ML is "can you do me a magic?" And as this article's "Graduate Student Descent" bit makes clear, the worker response is often to semi-randomly perturb code, show some graphs, and say, "Is this a magic?"

For me, most software development is about finding something boring and laborious. We get a computer to do the work so humans can level up and work on something requiring actual thought. That requires getting a deep understanding of the actual work.

Some of that definitely happens in well-run ML projects. But there's a bunch of Silver Bullet Syndrome stuff going on, where ML's shiny results and magazine articles lead to inflated expectations and inflated claims of success. A fellow nerd says, "I did an algorithm!" Some turns that into an impressive presentation with claims of X% gains in the Key Business Metric, hallowed be its name. In reality, it's more plus or minus X% when you account for externalities, natural variation, and actor adaptation. But that's ok, because by the time anybody finds out, attention is elsewhere.

That's not to really blame ML for that. For a period years ago, I kept getting asked, "Can we use a wiki for that?" I would start an explanation of what it actually takes to make a wiki work (hint: it's not the software). Their eyes would glaze over in short order, because they realized that it would take actual work. So many people want the silver bullet, the magic pill. Especially people in the managerial caste, as the reigning dogma there is that management is a universal skill. Details are for the little people.
Put in the numbers you suggested to the calculator. The only way you are getting under 1k month mortgage is if you have 20% of your down payment. I think the stats are something like 90% of homebuyers don't even put down 10% of the cost in down payment.
The context is not government censorship. It's people censoring each other.
How? FIU is 7$k per year, that's not prohibitively expensive. I don't understand how people get out of college with $400,000 in student loans.
I'm sorry, I can't replicate. Firefox works fine, here.
Not your problem. Just let 'em be stuck in their local optimum (probably better this way) :P
Unless someone is contributing, it's not at all a mutually beneficial exchange. If someone reports a bug that affects only them (e.g. edge cases) then that ticket benefits only them. The -vast majority- of tickets files on large projects are for the benefit of single users. The tertiary benefit to users that might come along later with that same edge case or edge feature need are moot. It doesn't benefit the maintainers. If someone reports a bug and leaves out critical info because "they know better" than the maintainers, and that causes additional work for the maintainers that creates burden. Maintainers are already giving their time freely to produce something for users to use freely. The scales are always tipped in maintainers' favor.

https://liberamanifesto.com/

We owe you nothing.
You owe us nothing.

Play by the rules set in the project, fork, or don't play. The choice is yours.
Explicit shared read + exclusive write locks without resorting to atomic primitives (though that could also be seen as a disadvantage depending on your task).
> or saying that something can be done more efficiently with Windows

are people here this naive?
The problem is that many wouldn't believe it if they were told (i.e. "this is what big tech wants me to think"). This is essentially what happened when Facebook and Twitter informed users that had interacted with suspected propagandized content.

Particularly after this current purge, social media companies have lost most of their authoritative credibility. Combined with a political culture that embraces wild conspiracy theories, you'd just be adding fuel to the fire.
It's basically a hard no from me on adding a dependency that buys me next to nothing, and bloats my payload to a customers/users mobile device. In that industry, every byte counts. In backend Java/Kotlin apps? I can pay the extra money for memory usage. I cannot ask my users to do the same.
Yep, in France it is recommended that if you have a non-Western name, you put "monsieur" or "madame" in front of your name on CVs, etc. to help prevent confusion on the part of potential readers.
Nukes prevent total war. The people in those offices care about themselve.
There are already fabrication facilities in the US and I highly doubt that Intel's fabs would ever be decommissioned. They are far too valuable even if intel doesn't own them anymore.

Now, the US may lag behind top of the line fabrication tech (It already does). But it will never lose it's ability to fabricate chips.

For military applications, unless they start getting really into artificial intelligence (maybe they already are?) they don't need super advanced chips for most of their equipment. Simple micro-controllers are enough for most military applications.
I agree, or at least I hope you are right. I have some doubts about investment into ML without the hype (at least for legacy big corps) but probably their hype-driven ML efforts are/were misguided by poor incentives. But I agree again that companies that invest in ML from a grassroots/first principles way should run circles around the legacy ones.
I think the „boring“ part you mention might be what I refer to as ML/AI winter.
But then again do you think there is much space left in the ML toolbox apart from neural networks? I think at least for e.g. computer vision we can agree that neural nets ate all the cake, right?
If his apparatus was a "beta barium borate" crystal, isn't this exactly how entangled pairs of photons are created?
At some point, the interviewer and the interviewee discuss how easy it is to tell apart the accents attached to various neighbourhoods in Paris. For those interested with the same process with the English language, I strongly recommend the film Pygmalion (1938) which I enjoyed much more than the later My Fair Lady.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(1938_film)

Over the last decades living in France, I've heard several friends that lost their accent, notably from Loire and Jura. Of course some new French accents may emerge locally or in some communities, but the geography plays a lesser role.
The only difference between doing science and fooling around is when you write it down
George hotz got his "for play" tensor library[a] to run on the Apple Neural Engine (ANE). The results were somewhat dissapointing, however, and currently it only does relu.

[a]: https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad
> Guns are mostly used to kill people. So we see them as tools only useful for that purpose.

this isn't true. guns are used far more often for hunting animals than for killing humans, by multiple orders of magnitude. even more often, guns are used to shoot targets at the range.
They claimed 74% a while back IIRC, with the rest being in some unspecified combination of loans and other assets.
If your reputation that important if you are obviously the biggest bully in the room? ( Bush or no Bush )
this is so cool; i see that there's a way to dl individual issues, but I was wondering if there was a way to bulk dl them?
thanks in advance.
AFAIK it's a closed product. What is the proof that they can't see private messages?
Copyright law is the basis for the legal enforcement of software licenses. License violations usually get pursued under copyright law
https://youtu.be/pOdrPruSnrw
I have to believe this was written sarcastically, otherwise I cannot believe someone can be this obtuse, especially introducing China to the conversation...
donate to change one line of code in the build process?

there are reasons other than finances that are getting in the way of this moving forward, i'm afraid.
Building Factories in Space
As far as I'm aware, ML is driving a pretty sizeable amount of new functionality at the big tech companies. How do you think Google does search and translate, Netflix recommends films, Tesla drives your car, Siri recognises your voice, etc. etc.

I see the sentiment you've expressed a lot, and feel it speaks to a massive disconnect amongst developers. Most people are interacting with ML systems dozens if not hundreds of times a day.
> It's worth more than all the other car companies combined.

That is the thing. Tesla is not a car company. It is much much more than that.
The problem you describe is called Sybil resistance and is known to be hard, but there are some example working systems such as Bitcoin.
Happy Elixir user here. At work we have a use case that isn't covered by José's high-level overview of the domains Elixir's used in: we run a massive multiplayer game server on it.

This is actually a really good fit. (It kind of rhymes with the original use of Erlang, being telecoms infrastructure.) We get outstanding concurrency support, high reliability, and really efficient development times. I can't imagine shipping this feature with a server written in C++ (the language I'm most comfortable in), and I can't imagine scaling it the way we need to if we'd gone for a traditional web language like Node, PHP, etc.

If you're interested, you can see the RakNet (game networking protocol) implementation we use on the server here:

https://github.com/X-Plane/elixir-raknet

The README gives a good overview of the full MMO server's architecture, too: each client connection is a stateful Elixir process (not to be confused with a heavy-weight OS process!), acting asynchronously on a client state struct; clients then asynchronously schedule themselves to send updates back to the user.
I guess it means that if Google blocks your account due to a false positive on an unrelated service, you can no longer use you watch.
Glad to see more XMR usage in these. For every market you take down, two more shall pop up. You cannot fix a demand-side problem by restricting supply. Economically, the pricing will always rise to meet the increased risk of supplying. This war cannot be won. So please just give up.
Agreed I find that ml is a meta tool. You gotta Know the tool you need, then use ml to build it. Build the wrong tool and there’s little value. The right tool will make people more productive.
Let's take one step back. Just like in the Title I vs Title II debate, let's go one step earlier. WHY do we have these issues in the first place?

It's because our entire society is permeated with ideas about capitalism and competition being the best way to organize something, almost part of the moral fabric of the country. Someone "built it", now they ought to "own" the platform. Then they get all this responsibility to moderate, not moderate, or whatever.

Compare with science, wikipedia, open source projects, etc. where things are peer reviewed before the wider public sees them, and there is collaboration instead of competition. People contribute to a growing snowball. There is no profit motive or market competition. There is no private ownership of ideas. There are no celebrities, no heroes. No one can tweet to 5 million people at 3 am.

Somehow, this has mistakenly become a “freedom of speech” issue instead of an issue of capitalism and private ownership of the means of distribution. In this perverse sense, "freedom of speech" even means corporations should have a right to buy local news stations and tell news anchors the exact talking points to say, word for word, or replacing the human mouthpieces if they don't...

Really this is just capitalism, where capital consists of audience/followers instead of money/dollars. Top down control by a corporation is normal in capitalism. You just see a landlord (Parler) crying about higher landlord ... ironically crying to the even higher landlord, the US government - to use force and “punish” Facebook.

Going further, it means corporations (considered by some to have the same rights as people) using their infrastructure and distribution agreements to push messages and agendas crafted by a small group of people to millions. Celebrity culture is the result. Ashton Kutcher was the first to 1 million Twitter followers because kingmakers in the movie industry chose him earlier on to star in movies, and so on down the line.

Many companies themselves employ social media managers to regularly moderate their own Facebook Pages and comments, deleting even off-topic comments. Why should they have an inalienable right to be on a platform? So inside their own website and page these private companies can moderate and choose not to partner with someone but private companies Facebook and Twitter should be prevented from making decisions about content on THEIR own platform.
You want a platform that can’t kick you off? It’s called open source software, and decentralized networks. You know what they don’t have?

Private ownership of the whole network. “But I built it so I get to own it” is the capitalist attitude that leads to exactly this situation. The only way we will get there is if people build it and then DON’T own the whole platform. Think about it!
The usual caveat about Paris applies: the city of Paris is but a tiny core of the larger Paris metropolitan area (Paris: 2.1M people, Paris metro: c. 10M). Paris is about one fifth of its metro area, a city like NYC is about half.

A closer analogue to being able to distinguish accents from Montparnasse, Montmartre and La Villette would be to able to distinguish accents from different places in Manhattan.

I think even today there are substantial accent differences within the Paris metropolitan area (think Versailles vs le Marais vs Aulnay), but within Paris proper not so much.
Somewhere Roman Mars just got a cold flash and has no idea why...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnv5iKB2hl4
As we saw with Parler, your fledgling site can get deplatformed by the few key players in the cloud / app distribution / and service providers.

"Just make it" is no longer as convincing a non-sequitor as it used to be.
Show HN: Federated, Anonymous Chat, with Video Conferencing Feature
Donations are kind of a funny thing IMO. Some folks who develop for open source are not motivated by money, and may not even want it.

I personally have been developing MMS to get it on the pinephone, and I don't think I would want anyone to donate to me. The main reason is now I feel like it obligates me to work and support people, versus now I do not feel any obligation. I get that I can ask for donations with no expectation in return, but I would still feel that way.

I would offer if that is truly what you want, perhaps taking some of the first steps to get it going may be a lot more useful than donating. If you have the first steps done, it makes the goal much easier if others want to help. That is exactly what I have found wokring through my project. A lot of people come out the woodwork to help on smaller issues that they can tackle, but there was no large scale effort until I finally rolled up my sleeves to start.
As an anecdote, since July they've started showing me ads for body armor almost nonstop whenever I actually open the app. Just the other day it was a body armor ad then an ad for a tactical communication earpiece.
> Can you really say in good conscience that other drugs wouldn't be worse if they became equally ubiquitous?

I'm sure that in general people on weed, shrooms, DMT or MDMA are much much less prone to violent aggression and destructive behaviour than drunk people. I'm also sure all of these but the last do much less (if any) harm to your health than alcohol does.

The only drugs I know which can be considered as or more dangerous than alcohol are opioids (except kratom - it's considered opioid but is harmless unless you consume huge amounts regularly for too long), cocaine (if taken chronically), meth (if abused, can change life for good if used properly to treat severe ADHD cases) and bromo-dragonfly. LSD probably is dangerous for people who are borderline crazy - psychos may become more violent after taking it.
"The PineTime Dev Kit aimed solely for development purpose only, this is not for end user who is looking for ready to wear Smart Watch. More specifically, only intend for these units to find their way into the hands of developer with extensive embedded OS experience and an interest in Smart Watch development."
Smigel!
FWIW, I just donated $5 monthly to archive.org because of this....whoever did it, thank you!
I used to work at a legacy automaker and you’d be shocked at how much ML has changed certain areas of the business. It used to take an entire department to sort warranty claims and it’s now mostly automated. Aluminum part defects are now spotted automatically on the plant floor. Don’t even get me started with telematics data.

Most software isn’t consumer facing but just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not changing things around you. ML tends to be overhyped but your assessment is too pessimistic.
Hi, creator here.
This is a basic anonymous chat with video conferencing, implemented over a federated network of nodes that communicate over encrypted connections, exchanging events.

Basically, anyone can run their own node and access the services implemented over this infrastructure or connect to an existing node.
For now, only this chat demo is implemented.
One can choose to run its own node locally and accesses the chat app via their local node, the communication will be effectively end-to-end encrypted this way.

I'm here to answer any questions.
I think they fixed something. less than 5 minutes ago it didn't load for me, and suddenly it did.
LGBT means any of the above. Like STEM.
Even in reinforcement learning you can train multiple model with different data-sets concurrently and combine them for the next iteration.
It's funny this site doesn't mention dialog - the only feature I'm using that is hard to replace by vanilla JS...

jQuery speeds up development, but in most situations it's straightforward to replace.

On the other hand, I never remove React (and especially Reagent) from an existing site - too much effort, too much to break.
Orange on gray is not great, but that's only the headlines, which are also much larger which takes care of the worst problems.

Based on those numbers it would appear to me that the main text is only slightly below perfect accessibility in the contrast department, so it shouldn't be a problem at all unless you have bigger problems.
No, Milo did defend molestation, and then he took it back and apologized for it.

Although I think Milo is rude, bigoted, and unapologetic, he is a victim, and I agree that he should have plenty of latitude to speak on the subject. What he said in the podcast was inappropriate, and based on his apology, Milo seems to agree.

"The law is probably about right. It's probably roughly the right age; it's probably about okay. But there are certainly people who are capable of giving consent at a younger age. I certainly consider myself to be one of them." - Milo Yiannopoulos
In the context of discrimination law, there is a commonly-held misunderstanding that "protected class" refers to a group of people, but actually, it refers to a classification.

A particular race is not a protected class. Race is a protected class.
Ask HN: Have you ever run for elected office?
Any elected office, including school board, local government, not-for-profits, etc.

What was your experience? How did you get started? Why did you run?
I don't understand the fear of Google from FitBit users in these comments. Google has a clear user agreement with how they use your data, including not selling it - and they rely on users trusting them. I'd rather my data be with one of the tech giants than a unprofitable start up
This is very US-centric view. Most countries in the world don't have chip fabrication facilities in their country and they do just fine. Sure, US is currently a superpower whose influence is felt across the world so having chip manufacturing locally is very important, but in a scenario where US would lose some influence that would no longer be an issue, same as it is not an issue for Canada, Germany or Russia.