skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would depend on the details of the particular situation (was there a specific news story associated with the GP?), but you'd have to show that people with the skin color in question signed off on the product.

It's one thing if you produce a new model and present it at a conference, and one of the conclusion of your paper is that "this model does great on light-skinned faces but performs poorly on dark-skinned faces, we need to make improvements in optics and low-light sensing to bring up the accuracy on dark-skinned people." That's not racist, that's doing science.

It's another if you are a for-profit image recognition company, or if you otherwise deploy that model in production without so much as checking to see if your model generalized well to dark-skinned faces, or without attempting to add some post-hoc bias correction, etc.

We are currently in a world where the latter happens quite often. It's not just a race thing; there all kinds of inadequate "AI" systems being pushed on people that don't really work as advertised, to the detriment of some group or another (sometimes to everyone). But when it becomes a race thing, it's especially distressing to a lot of people, because Europe and the USA have long and grim histories of racism that extend up to and including the present day.
Well as a citizen of a US ally (UK), that's all very well but I don't think the world works like that. Europe, Japan and other US allies are collectively huge pools of talent and capital. How much would the US government have to spend to guarantee than nothing thought up or developed in any of those countries ever exceeds anything developed in the US? Is that really a feasible objective?

Nobody in the US decided to let Holland develop more advanced lithographic systems for chip manufacturing, or to let ARM in the UK come up with a more efficient processor architecture.
I think adding "is" - "Google is no longer wanted..." would be enough
>> ..everything is up for grabs

Of course. This is popular media. Nothing is ever beyond criticism and sometimes that criticism leads to curtailment of broadcast or public availability. That's what freedom of speech/choice means. No movie/book/show is forever beyond reproach. Nobody can be forced to watch or read something. We are all free to organize our friends to stop watching too. When coupled to a free and competitive market, freedom of speech means unpopular works will disappear from shelves.
If he got out of prison than that suggests he's not a serial killer and thus safe to undertake in societal activities, like shopping or manning a cash register. Really the only real to deny a job to a released convict is if their crime directly correlates to the job, I.E. don't hire someone who was convicted for embezzling $200 million as your accountant.
Tesla was definitely an iPhone moment but Toyota (and other established manufacturers) are looking more like Androids to me (lower margins but higher volumes).
The author is confusing math with physics.

Math: 3x3 = 3^2
physics: cmxcm = cm^2

3cm x 2cm = (3x2)(cm x cm) = (math)(physics)

The context gives the meaning.

Or in computers, how many bits would the representation of a matrix of 2b x 2b occupy? 2b x 2b = 4b (not 4b^2 since memory is linear)
Now owned by an advertisement / tracking company. No thanks.
Anyone that teaches this way should find something else to do. Memorizing a formula is easy but if you want to do well later you must be able to complete the square.
Tips for designing a SaaS pricing page
Shorting can also help investors in the market at large if it helps bring down companies that are obvious scams. Some short seller reports have pretty famously destroyed companies that were up to no good, preventing further harm to future investors and boosting confidence in the valuations of the rest of the market. If there's no money in doing all of those short seller reports, then people won't do them, and the market will have less information available to it in total, and more frauds will continue to go under the radar.
Bing might have also done this to improve their index https://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying...
Yes, selenium, and selenium IDE was definitely our original inspiration.

(Aside, we built axiom on puppeteer though).

I think Selenium IDE is primarily a developer tool.

We see axiom as a no-code tool, following the same playbook as zapier and airtable - a 'no-code builder' whose ultimate goal is to create re-usable templates.
Musk is a memer. Bashing short selling is just a way to get him free PR. He also said that Tesla's stock price is too high.
Not actionable advice, just a fact. At twenty-something you've got a LONG way
to go. You become a different person every 5-10 years of your life.
I disagree with the decisions of Brave. I recently uninstalled the browser on my phone when it kept prompting me to enable crypto wallets and other things I don't care about. I just want a better alternative to Chrome.

Brave's obsession with crypto will be the death of them.
Infrastructure drifts aren't like pokemons
We were lucky enough to hold a talk about infrastructure drift at Fosdem recently and decided to share it as a blog post for those who couldn't attend the conference.
https://driftctl.com/fosdem-pokemon-drift-talk/
For margin trading, sure, but IIRC Robinhood halted all trading, even with your own money.

I think it has more to do with Robinhood giving away free trading, while the trades themselves have a non-zero variable cost to Robinhood. Since their revenue comes from selling insightful user trade data, a run on GME isn't insightful and had diminishing returns (my hypothesis anyways).
Wow. I wonder what this means for the future of Font Awesome.

I know plenty of people are anti-Google, and also prefer SVG's over icon fonts for valid reasons (though you can download these as SVG's as well).

But now that this is easier to embed than Font Awesome, has basically the same number/range of icons as Font Awesome's free tier, doesn't come with the 10K pageviews/mo. restriction that Font Awesome's free tier comes with, and so many sites already use Google Fonts for their display and/or body text...

...I'd be very surprised if this doesn't quickly become the new de-facto standard icon font.
> Hydrogen electrolysis is inefficient

Hydrogen production is the real elephant in the room here. The inconvenient truth is nearly all of the hydrogen produced at any scale is made by steam reforming natural gas.

Electrolysis is great for testing things out in a lab, but using electricity to make hydrogen which is then used to make electricity is a much less efficient process than taking the elecricity you already have and storing it in a battery.

Direct solar splitting looks promising, but the tech we need (described here [1]) is still in its infancy, plus it uses the super-expensive easily-fouled platinum catalyst that anyone who's worked on PEM cells knows and loves.

[1]: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/02/04/novel-catalyst-produc...
> Others were not especially interested but must have seen the price grow by 20x and seen a great opportunity to short it.

Near the peak I don't think there were shares available to short though, at least not publicly offered who knows what was available through Bloomberg chat.
Why Air frying is healthy?
Compare with the deep frying with immersing foods in oil, Air frying or use convection oven as air fryer is definitely a healthy solution. It uses only one or two tablespoons of oil to seasoning which is about 80% reducing the fat content.
source: https://knovhov.com/use-convection-oven-as-air-fryer/
One missing piece of this puzzle is that your body is perfectly able to make its own cholesterol even if you never eat any.
... he does both ? At least Batman only stayed in 1 city.
I think the author mixes variables with numbers. If you add units in to the mix then you have to think like it variables so for example that’s taken “2 baskets × 3 apples per basket = 6 apples” would correspond to 2x3y/x=6y removing the numbers and the equation becomes clear xy/x=y or we the numbers for them selves 23=6, That is because numbers are like their own variable but with connection to other numbers(variables). So if we would define 1 as x then 2 would be 1+x or we could call it y but y would still be 1+x in relation to 1.

And also”3 cm + 3 cm = 6 cm” as 3x+3x=6x and removing the numbers it become 3x/3+3x/3=6x/3 => x+x=2x it makes more sense.
And”2 cm × 3 cm = 6 cm^2″ can be then seen as 2x*3x=6x^2.

Multiplication doesn’t change anything. We must see what we add, in this case the unit and calculate accordingly both for addition as for multiplication.
Running a Filecoin full node. Mind you, not mining, just verifying.

https://docs.filecoin.io/get-started/lotus/installation/#min...
>Only for rational numbers. Doesn't work for real and complex numbers.

Complex numbers aren't really relevant, in my opinion, because they are usually introduced as an extension of the rules for reals and polynomials. To multiply two complex numbers, you can totally forget that i is imaginary, do the multiplication as if it's just an ordinary variable, then substitute "i" back in. But that relies on being able to multiply polynomials, which would be difficult to define in terms of repeated multiplication.

To some extent all of mathematics is a lie. We can do multiplication on the reals because we have decided that it's allowed. It is reasonable to define multiplication at first as repeated addition and then define a way to extend that to the reals that is consistent with the first definition.
I dont think Bill Clinton can be reasonably considered someone who had "destroyed his career".
I think you've hit one of the most painful topics of ALSA: Its documentation.
I'm pretty sure Kleptocracies, plutocracies, and oligarchies all kind of go hand and hand.
Disproving light travels infinitely quickly in one direction is easier than you think and does not require the apparatus you've described. Perfect synchronization and extremely high resolution are definitely not needed to measure that one...
Dogs can also talk in simple (<4 word) sentences: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=AHiu-EDJUx0
I disagree, translating from "2 for (him + her + him + him + her)" to "2 for him + 2 for her + 2 for him + 2 for him + 2 for her" is using the distributive property of multiplication.

The sentence "2 for him and 2 for her and 2 for him and 2 for him and 2 for her" is unnatural and not the way people generally think (unless they're just tallying up but then we're not even talking about multiplication anymore, a tally rarely consists of all equal numbers)
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Just move the Earth to a new orbit. In a billion year, our terraforming technology will advance enough for us post-humanoid species to do complex orbital adjustments.
— Problem solved.
> I think were there sufficient demand to counterbalance the potential awkwardness of publishing something which will offend, they would still be publishing it.

Do you have any evidence that customer demand is driving this decision? Anyway I think you're missing the point entirely.

These books no longer being published is part of a broader pattern in which an intolerant minority dictates things to a mostly indifferent majority. Should 5% of the population dictate to 95% of the population? If most people find X offensive, I think it's fine if that gets priced into a publisher's decision. But if 5% of people (who graduated from elite colleges and were quickly hired by venerable institutions) find X offensive while the rest of the population doesn't give a shit, then I think those 5% should shove it.
In quantum physics complex numbers are used to represent circular symmetry, so they are more like modulus and phase.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/881541/bitcoin-energy-co...

"The average energy consumption for one single Bitcoin transaction in 2020 was 741 kilowatt-hours. This was significantly more compared to the cumulative 100,000 VISA transactions with only an energy consumption of 149 kilowatt-hours."
Just to complement other's responses, accessibility is a spectrum.

We ought to believe someone chooses to use an icon for aesthetics AND usability reasons. If the icon can't be rendered at all, it defeats it's purpose despite it having a "description".

Ultimately, if a well designed, user-friendly system doesn't work the way it's intended to, it is an accessibility issue of some degree. Albeit, some times more trivial than others.
I dont understand how you can consider the causes of women and men having less sex to be separate. Most people are heterosexual, if something causes women to have less sex, that will also cause men to have less sex since they'll be less likely to find women to have sex with (and vice versa).
MozFest 2021 Schedule is live from Mozilla
Interestingly, I was on the verge of addressing this one specific sentence too. Especially, in the light of what was/is happening in Australia.

Generally, I prefer to act for the things we care about than changing the rules to optimize for...
However, this is a huge topic in itself that can not be dealt within a few sentences.
Show HN: Emerson AI – talk to GPT-3 chat bot via Messenger/Telegram
The paper seems to be built off of the work of a lot of previous research. It will take some time to prove it, but again if Schnorr is so adamant that this is true he should have no problem with a PoC...even a simple one.
Flutter is the default choice for future Ubuntu apps
It's a bummer he disappeared though I understand why. He had a lot of good stuff to say.

Edit: Oh I guess he's still on twitter.
Some hedge funds lost billions, other hedge funds maid billions. Some HF will short and still make billions.
Do we know if DDG passes through every query on demand, or does it have a caching layer or something where popular queries only hit Microsoft once a day?
I've built a similar product for a well-known company in the space (and competitor to this company & Coinbase) and co-led the development of the crypto custody at Novi (Blockchain subsidary of Facebook). Happy to answer more questions though they do not provide much insight into their technology publicly.

Curv provides MPC-based crypto custody solution wi. I'll be over-simplifying but they allow private keys that protect large sums of cryptocurrencies to be split in encrypted portions called 'shares'. These shares are both created and used in a fully distributed manner (just like threshold signing / or 'multi-sig'). You generally define a threshold 'm' out of 'n' that's mathematically required to get a valid cryptographic signature.

An attacker would need to compromise a sufficient quorum of these keys simultaneously in order to sign blockchain transactions that would extract the funds somewhere else. As you can imagine, the complexity of such attack is highly correlated (and actually tends to grow exponentially due to several factors) to the quorum threshold 'm'.

Curv seems to allow financial institutions and all kind of institutional investors to create the shares, manage them and use them securely to sign transactions.

The argument they provide which makes little sense to me is that there is no 'private key'. They just seem to play with jargon as the shares are pretty much equivalent to individual keys in a multi-sig system, or at least hold the same power and have same results in compromise scenarios.
Only if you view a company as a person.
The Brave brand is nearly worthless. I'm not sure how to feel about that. They're releasing their new search engine as free software, which is nice, but their long history of messing even the simplest of things up still leaves a sour taste in my mouth. I wonder if they'll ever work themselves out of the "le shill lion" moniker. Probably not. Though with this new search engine attempt, they might finally give up on cryptocurrency, which would be nice.
Amazon Merchant Kicked Off Website Spent $200k to Get Justice
I use Brave and DuckDuckGo (bing) as my primary coupled search engine.

However, sometimes when I am trying to find resources on a particular issue/library/framework, I have to invoke :g (google search) in order to find those results; otherwise, thy're absent from the DDG searches.

Until this is addressed, the search really won't be that competitive, unless this is some weird niche thing that I think is more widespread than it is?
https://www.curv.co/use-cases/

From the use cases you can tell they basically manage the risk of holding crypto for institutional clients while providing an easy to use interface, that's definitely worth a ton of money if done properly.
Wow, this is ridiculously cool. Is the site open source?
Killing TurboTax
I don't think this is a good place or medium for this discussion, to be honest, there's too much room for interpretation. I'm not saying that the West is perfect or without its share of scandal, I'm trying to push back on this notion that it's all the same - that it's no better or worse than totalitarian systems like China when it comes to transparency and accountability. Because it's just so obviously not true. And that really matters.
Personally, I don't have a problem with a service using aggregated usage data to improve their algorithms, even if that is technically "tracking" me. It's the selling of personalized segment data that bothers me.
> We have seen no massive adoption rate growth and we have seen no massive cost curve going down. We have also not seen a lot of gains in overall efficiency.

It seems that data says the opposite [1].

I know several datacenters in my region that are currently running fuel cell or/and plan to do so. It was unthinkable 10 years ago.

> And Toyota is making 10 million cars a year, they have not invested all that massive amount of money in the hope to sell fuel cells into submarine market.

Telsa produces 0.5M car a year in 2020 and still they built their Giga-Factory to generalise Battery technology to other applications than car.

The same is valid for fuel cell and Toyota with this move.

The article is about 'product' usage, nor about 'car'.

For instance, without too much imagination: Seeing luxury yachts switching from diesel generators to fuel cell in incoming decade to avoid a ban due to environmental concern from most touristic regions would not surprise me.

This is an application. And it even seem very likely to me.

Doing the same with current battery energy density is impossible.

> Also, I disagree depending on your definition of 'long range', if you re-engineer planes from the ground up to be electric you can replace a huge number of flights that are domestic

I said long range. Excepted if you live in Russia, domestic is NOT long range.

Doing a Frankfurt-Tokyo or Paris-New York on an electrical plane today is unthinkable. And it will very likely stay like that for the next decade.

But, don't get me wrong: Battery technology democratization is amazing and a proof of hope in our current climate change disaster scenario.

However, hoping we can solve every high power usage with battery technology currently is completely illusory and we need to solve these use case too if we do not want to go full speed straight to disaster.

[^1]: https://blog.ballard.com/fuel-cell-price-drop
Why TikTok banned in India?
Indian government stating that these Chinese applications affecting the ” prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, the security of the state and public order “. The ministry of IT states that ” many complaints from various sources about apps that were, stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users’ data in an unauthorized manner “
source : https://knovhov.com/how-tiktok-is-affecting-youth/
Seems pretty clear they're avoiding icons that specifically reference 3rd party brands.

What would a generic icon for a tweet be that differs from a "message" icon?
Doesn't that support his point? Game was pirated, still made bank?
The title is misleading. It's confusing because the German original title make clear that ACM does not want Google to be a sponsor anymore, whereas the English title adds the possibility that it might be Google who wanted to sponsor the conference, but then decided not to.
> If you want to avoid the term expansion, just put double quotes around the words you want to hard require.

Lucky you if that consequently works for you. It is getting better lately, but from 2009 to 2019 they've more or less consequently ignored both dpuble quotes and their own verbatim option.

BTW: the way you write make it sound like you work in search. Is that correct?
because it tastes awesome and is cheap and easy to obtain
Yep. Also, volatility would be way worse without short sellers, they’re usually the first ones to start buying when prices fall
> Is there anyone (openly) arguing this would be a bad thing?

I guess you missed the EARN IT bill last year? It happens so often I've lost track of it. The EFF and various organizations have to push for it every year, it's disheartening. At this point I think we need a constitutional amendment for encryption, but I'm not sure if the public sentiment is right for that now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars
Even if you put all of your efforts into #2, it will take years from the decision to ramp up the planning and construction efforts until enough houses are actually built to have a noticeable impact on the market. And you still have to do something about the situation in the meantime. That's why the rent freeze in Berlin is limited to 5 years.
But they haven't and insiders have not sold due to SEC grey area laws.
>using Axiom is 10X faster than writing it in selenium/puppeteer + we handle all the annoying logic you need. We're investigating a node library for this - let us know if it would be useful.

As someone who has recently started working with puppeteer, I definitely think a library to alleviate that pain would be immensely valuable.
Like what
I don't get it either. But it seems that a majority, or at least a large vocal minority of people believe you should either support corporations or do not support them, but you should never do anything against them.

Example: when you write a comment criticizing a company or their policies, you get tons of replies saying "well, if you don't like them, don't use them. Don't go around badmouthing them."

In the eyes of many, you should either help corporations or ignore them. Anything else is considered unethical, unconscionable, "bitching", etc.
This is not a major change from their previous stance.

> investing in tracking technologies that uniquely identify web users as they move from site to site across the internet.

Fundamentally they are still tracking people and still using your information to sell you advertising. They are just relying on hardware you buy and your own software to do it.

One thing I've been curious about this whole time as they've been talking up "FLOC" is what they are doing with regards to other browsers. Are they simply giving up on the ability to track non Chrome users and rely on market share?

The other piece this doesn't mention is it very specifically says "Web Browsing", not tracking in general, for example across applications on mobile devices or via integration into Android.
What a clickbait and clearly false headline. Sadly this is very like Brave to claim things that are on the wrong side of the truth. It's like there's some kind of inferiority complex at Brave that shows it face from time to time.
I use Common Lisp daily on macOS and Linux, but use SBCL and Emacs with Sly. Never tried out a commercial implementation so I cannot compare to Emacs and SBCL. Are they worth the money vs. the open source tools?
I don't necessarily disagree with you. I suppose I should've added the caveat, "short selling with the express purpose to drive a company out of business/the market completely" - which is what it looked like the hedge funds were trying to do with GameStop.
Is that a bad strategy? We've seen billion dollar IPOs on hype alone. In 2021, it might even be the winning strategy.