skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an avalanche of people commenting on this who didn't bother to check the article before raising their methodological objections, so let's get these out of the way here.

- Yes, they controlled for objects appearing in the pictures that might indicate political affiliation. The images are tightly cropped around the face. See Methods.

- Yes, this is significantly better than both a coin flip and a human classifier. They gave the same test to humans, who did much worse than the model. See Abstract, Introduction, and Results.

- Yes, this is doing more than just detecting a person's race, age, and/or gender. The classifier is still accurate when they compare people with the same race, age, and gender. See Results.

If you want to discuss actual limitations in the study, here are some the author points out:

- "A more detailed picture could be obtained by exploring the links between political orientation and facial features extracted from images taken in a standardized setting while controlling for facial hair, grooming, facial expression, and head orientation."

- "Another factor affecting classification accuracy is the quality of the political orientation estimates. While the dichotomous representation used here (i.e., conservative vs. liberal) is widely used in the literature, it offers only a crude estimate of the complex interpersonal differences in ideology. Moreover, self-reported political labels suffer from the reference group effect: respondents’ tendency to assess their traits in the context of the salient comparison group."
'I don't want to upset people': Tom Cruise deepfake creator speaks out
I have been to one of these scam call centres. The workers there are just paid per 'lead'. They read off a script and the if the person at the other end agrees to part with the information, then they add the information to the form and get paid for it. This is standard call centre marketing and ton of legit businesses do it also. From an operators point of view it is hard to figure out if the scheme is a scam or not. Call centers are getting paid per 'lead' - irrespective of what the business makes out of it - legal or not.
> I was under the impression that "liberal" and "conservative" had different meanings in UK vs. USA so how could it do this?

I assume they're using the US definition (meaning "left wing" and "right wing", more or less).
The parent point stands: it's possible to release that on other chains, for lower gas fees and ecological costs.

BTW as you follow the space, what do you think about the alternatives? (the "other smart contract platforms")

My personal take is that AVAX and DOT are the best positioned in term of compatibility and costs but I'd like to hear counter opinions!
i had that eye-opening experience in college around class and privilege, but i came away thinking it shallow and boring. i guess that puts me in fussell's class x, whatever that is.

i didn't read the book or read scott's article (because his writing tends to be affliatively biased, ironically similar to the middle class signaling fussell critiques). but based on some quick reviews/summaries found via search, the simplest critique of fussell is that he's trying to will his class system into being, attracting acolytes through its writing so as to coalesce sociopolitical power for himself. in short, it's self-serving and that makes it unlikely to be enlighteningly representative. people are constantly trying to segregate and one-up each other (around things like taste, a primary marker of class for fussell), and a static class system like his is just not flexible or fluid enough to represent a highly chaotic and idiosyncratic dynamic.

we have entirely too much of this kind of bullshit to wade through already, obscuring and dispersing the entirely-too-few real pearls of wisdom. sure, it can provide fodder for further, genuine consideration, but that seems to be largely eclipsed for most by identitarian cheering/booing.
Eh, but in practice the only people who use STD rather than DSC are people who don't like it and go out of their way to shit on those who do.

So using "STD" has turned into kind of a unsavory gatekeepy dogwhistle. It tends to bring out the worst types of stereotypical toxic fandom. /r/DaystromInstitute even automod-bans it for that reason.
I see the Product Owner role the most critical for the success of Scrum in general. This is for PO's simple yet not given properties - vision about the product, vision of success, and the ability to express this.

Everybody else in Scrum is depended on the PO's abilities. One can train to improve the expression and prioritization skills, but it's very hard to train to develop or (even to appropriate) a vision about the product and the success.

This becomes even more acute in corporate environment, most PO are recast from former Project or Product Managers, who by definitions are Managers, not visionaries, nor intended customers of the product.

As a result, that critical element - the product vision - simply cannot be shared. It's just another "Quarterly Goal" in disguise - "the stonk must up!".

So the corpo-Scrum has a greater chance to devolve into shared lack of vision and collaboration theater.

One could paraphrase "Show me your PO, and I will tell what your Scrum is".
> The evils Hitler inflicted has no parallel.

The evils Hitler inflicted has plenty of parallels. It doesn't diminish how bad it was to acknowledge that there have been plenty of horrible people throughout history. Post WWII PR efforts made Hitler a cultural icon of evil. Let's not mince words. He was maximally evil by any relevant framework. But putting him on a different plane of moral existence is a disservice to those suffering from the evil of other, non-hitler, evil people.
Intel Tiger Lake Xe Graphics on Linux 5.12 Git, Mesa 21.1-Devel
> Jax is even consider to do better in that department in terms on performance then all of julia so wat are u talking about

Please provide sources for this claim
But damn it's neat and maybe frightening. Imagine if your next hiring manager had a quiet little camera in the corner and chose you based on your predicted approval of unions.

This is the dystopian vision of the future I come to HN for. Bravo!

(It's also why I do ML, since I'll be on the front lines to notice if something like that is being deployed. Or at least somewhat more likely.)
Presumably, most of them filed patents before their demise. So Google Patents is a good place to start

https://patents.google.com/?q=smart+refrigerator&oq=smart+re...
On six tabs of acid, the mention of Nazi's and whatnot became a "cringe" ghost-like voice "Remember Us... Don't forget about us...", as if to speak of the obsession the living have over the dead, or is it the other way around?

Either way, there was a sort of existential sadness in the realization that try as anyone might, one will never do anything so great/horrible to be remembered forever, even Not-See's and H-Riddler will pass away eventually just as easily as that Dude that wrote himself completely out of Plato's Cave and didn't stop until he wrote the lethal text that upon Plato's reading, wrote himself completely out of Plato's mind.
Are you asking technically why or philosophically why?
You can basically determine this by looking at voter/exit poll results, and any single criteria would give ~55% at best.
To be effective, education has to be a partnership among the student, the parents/guardians, and the school.

The article reads to me like there were significant failures across all three groups, not just the last.
That's not what he writes in his book that came out iirc last month, specifically the "we moved to another design because this idea failed" I mean, but I didn't dive into it much further so I could be wrong.
Nanites are tiny robots though and not moved by outside forces like the thing described by the article.
Awesome, thanks for the responses!
Some of these sites are just dope, like this 3d graphing software site
https://cursed.llolo.lol/dpgraph.com/

But have hideous design :D
I'd say that one gets in for having photos with "2019-2020", so clearly still being updated, but for feeling so very much like it's from 1999. Choosing to lead with an unremarkable aerial photography shot, and something about the saturation in the images, is so 1990s, not just the design. @aol.com contact email. The name is reminiscent of "icy hot stuntaz". The whole package is very special.
Nobody has banned the older ones. The owner of them just wishes not to sell them, which the free market totally allows for.
I work with a LOT of large enterprises, and I see Okta everywhere. Where I don't see Okta, I see Microsoft and Ping. I've never run across an enterprise using Auth0, so I was surprised to see this statement:

>Auth0 is the most prominent alternative that customers consider when evaluating Okta.

Is there a feature/vertical where Auth0 and Okta compete that isn't enterprise IDMS? Or was Auth0's market outside of the Fortune 500 space?

* edit - OK, it seems clear from the responses that what I see Okta used for (employee/internal identity management) is not what Auth0 was focused on. That makes sense - thanks for all the answers!
On the contrary, the process has just begun. The cultural shift is part of the larger decolonisation process of India. The British took over power from the Marathas, but handed it over to an Anglicized elite class who were also their partner-in-crime of the colonial loot. The Hindus, who were the elite ruling class of Marathas, are now asserting their voice. The Hindus are going through a renaissance of sorts. They are coming out of the survival mode they had been in ever since the Islamic invasions that ravaged their society with thousands of temples destroyed and millions killed or sold off in slave markets of Arabia. The Hindus managed to survive 1000 years of enslavement and saw off both the Islamic invaders and European colonizers while sustaining heavy losses of land, culture, wealth and prestige. The Persians and Egyptians who were their contemporaries were not that fortunate. They are now making a comeback.

As Ruchir Sharma points out [1], India is a postcolonial society which is unlike any other. We have our own, unique historical contexts, our own indigenous philosophies and value systems, and are bound together by a shared colonial trauma. And despite the hollowing out of our economy and society during centuries of imperialism, we can say with pride that our people are trying to improve their lives the best way they know how - seeking dignity, not charity, seeking empathy, not sympathy, and seeking equality, not revenge.

It is going to be very exciting to see how the Hindu society evolves over the next century. Knowledge is our currency and we will flourish in this information age.

[1] https://swarajyamag.com/politics/what-the-media-gets-wrong-a...
> This is the dystopian vision of the future I come to HN for

It's what I'm here for. Fascinating technology- how might I ruin the world with it?
I was looking at elixir and F# for my next project. I liked F# for the type system and elixir for OTP/Beam. This looks like something I wanted
> I agree that Hitler was evil on a scale unlike any other.

I feel it is a great danger to think in this way. If you disregard the others[0], you may overlook certain important aspects of these evil people - especially the factors that allowed them to gain popularity, to rise to power, and to actually execute their cruel plans. Focusing just on Hitler is myopic.

https://fee.org/articles/who-was-the-biggest-mass-murderer-i...
Waiting for "I can build this over a weekend" comment on Hacker News :)
Ha. Hahaha. I wish. I'm sorry to laugh, but a ton of ML papers are based on illegally-scraped datasets of one form or another, unless they use strictly blessed datasets (Imagenet2012 being the gold standard mostly-useless-in-the-real-world dataset).

OpenAI's Jukebox is based on illegal large-scale gathering of copyrighted material, for example.
I’ve been depressed before after a bad relationship situation and flunked out of college as a result. Took a couple years of recovery before I went back and dominated each class. This kid could very well have immense potential and is just suffering. We need stronger social safety nets. For example why is this mother working three jobs? In a civilized online world? Let’s roll out universal basic income, people. Time to level up the human experience. No mind should be so trapped this way. Not the parent(s) and not the kid(s).
Yes, though the relatively small amount of sand that companies suck up with permission from i.e. EU countries in the mediterranean acts as a fig leaf for cheap ocean sand.

There's no real justification for letting all the ocean resource projects continue given the long standing tragedy of the commons and how it aggravates naval turf wars. If we outlaw all of it we will be better off. We can move towards manufacturing sand-like construction filler from our normal glass system, which is able to consume land sand, and such a filler would be visually distinct from raw ocean sand.
Covid death rates 10 times higher in countries where most adults are overweight
Cool, going to check it out later!
The title is factually accurate, as no other solid-state battery has as high a capacity.

Perhaps it could be better phrased to be clearer that it's "the highest of solid state batteries" and not "the highest of batteries, and also solid state".
The theory (I'd prefer the word "hype") and practice of Scrum are two entirely different things. And of course, if and when it all goes wrong, you're just not doing Scrum right.
Yes, we found these and this (along with Mathematica) was the impetus for building automated Latexification into Symbolics.jl. Here for example is a teaching notebook used in Alan Edelman's MIT Computational Thinking course where Symbolics.jl is used to visualize the numerical methods as they iterate, and all of the outputs convert to LaTeX:

https://computationalthinking.mit.edu/Spring21/newton_method...

Thanks for the ideas!
Tweetbot on iOS supports hiding images in tweets (but not hiding avatars). It costs a bit of money, but I have bought every version so far.
It kind of does undermine your position. It shows that you don't really care about the process of dehumanization for purposes of encouraging warlike action, but rather the inherent offensiveness of specific types of images.
Capstone is a real treat to work with. It has a lot of quality of life features that really sped up development when I was putting together a function hooking system (like tagging instructions with RIP-relative operands).
Absolutely agree. In my experience this is one of the more valuable features of asking someone to discuss a problem I'm mired in. Because they haven't been looking under every rock and studying the bark of every tree like I have, they're very likely to quickly see when I've wandered into entirely the wrong part of the forest.
Unfortunately the evils perpetrated by Hitler have many parallels. The human race has committed many acts of evil and extermination often along genetic lines. We owe the few victims who are still alive almost 80 years later our sympathy and our commitment to prevent future evil but we do not owe them our silence. These events are like it or not part of our common historical context.

I absolutely would accuse someone of color of imitating a slave,r if the shoe fits wear it. I have never been afraid to step on toes and I don't think society should fear to give offense if it gets in the way of honest discussion. Contrary to your assertion I think discussion keeps the events of the holocaust top of mind and relevant. Too many already deny it even happened.

Also complaints about getting downvoted attract downvotes.

On the primary topic of discussion do be aware that a Israeli terrorist detector might misidentify both Jewish people and Palestinians but who do you think would be subject to additional scrutiny or mistreatment? Such tools run the risk of attaching seemingly scientific justifications to our pre existing prejudices.
Better than polling and probably better than voting. Just walk by a camera and get the "i voted" sticker. Love it.
This is the exact question I came to the comments to find.

The abstract states:

>Accuracy remained high (69%) even when controlling for age, gender, and ethnicity.

To give some context, chance is 50%, human guess is 55% and a 100-question questionnaire is 66%.

Personally, I am surprised that the accuracy remained that high when controlling for the three variables I would have considered most telling in the determination (age, gender and race).

I'd be very curious to know what exactly the algorithm is determining from the face photos outside of those obvious variables. I know with a ML algorithm it's practically impossible to determine why the classification was made, but does anyone human here have any thoughts?
> Why would a christian bakery sell gay wedding cakes?

I think we've decided as a society that sexual orientation is a protected group. You cannot discriminate based on sexual orientation. But I think you can still discriminate based on views of what is racist and what is not? If a white guy walks into black-owned barber shop and throws around racial slurs at the barbers, can the owners of that barber shop refuse him service and kick him out? I certainly hope so... but am I being hypocritical?

Honestly I'm out of my depth here. I have opinions but I don't think my opinions are necessarily as informed as I want them to be.
Imagine the corresponding response to people complaining about money economics: "ha, I bet you're a loser with no money who can't hold a job." For some reason, it's okay make this kind of attack on ugly or awkward people but not on stupid or lazy people.
So far, it's only dependent upon luminosity - as long as it's not 0, it's considered ruined. And in reality, the unexposed frames wouldn't be ruined either (that's easy enough to model).
When people say oh it has a $30 Billion addressable market... how do they come up with these numbers? Startup CEO types love to throw around these numbers but some time they seem wildly optimistic, and their methodology is rarely explained.
I think he's working on a book, but Jim Leff (of Chowhound.com fame from way back) is obsessed with perceptual framing and writes some interesting stuff about it: https://jimleff.blogspot.com/search/label/perceptual%20frami...
Who is doing the banning? ebay can't can books, and hasn't. The publisher can't ban books, and hasn't. The rights holder can't ban books, and hasn't. Who is doing the banning?
I'll have to take a look at that later- thanks! Every time I revisit this there's some issue.
Declaring a group or philosophy "off limits," and to say it "has no parallel," seems certain to eventually invite just such a parallel. Hitler didn't wake up one day, speak an incantation that resulted in possession by an eldritch creature of unimaginable evil, and then carry out plans for dehumanizing world domination. Dehumanizing the other, authoritarian fascism, and expansive conquest are common themes in human history, and what sets that era and group apart is more the confluence of all of those things with the time that technology made more horrific things possible than previous such events, and more easily documented than previous such events. Even in that era, Hitler wasn't alone among the Axis power to engage in barbaric atrocities, which only focusing on Japanese prison camps in mainland China makes clear.

So no, absolutely not, those subject should never be off-limits. Already your desire to mythologize the holocaust may have caused you to overlook what was happening halfway around the globe. Certainly treating the holocaust as a special case that could never be repeated seems guaranteed to cause people to miss warning signs as those same principles rise in popularity again, as history shows they have and do and will.
I was looking at a building, wondering when it was built, and thought that I should click on Help/About and look for the copyright date...
I believe most PG&E is higher - tiered pricing is 25¢/31¢/39¢
I'd argue there isn't "a" lore of Star Trek. I was given the ST:TNG technical manual a while back, which is nominally derived from the show's bible, and while interesting and amusing in its own way, its correspondence with the show itself is... loose. Not zero by any means, but loose. Some things it claims can do things we never, ever see in the show (hand phasers are spec'd out a great deal more powerful than "usually throw some sparks, occasionally vaporize a person", ship weapons are spec'd to work at a great deal longer than the point-blank range we almost always see), some limits it claims exist are broken fairly routinely (I think it wasn't until Voyager that you got a serious attempt at spec'ing a ship's speed in terms that match the show, and even they were still fuzzy on the implications at times).

And the show's own correspondence with itself is also quite loose.

Honestly, people's fuzzy ideas about how warp drives work are probably pretty accurate because I don't think there's a lot of reason to believe that the show in general had anything other than an equally fuzzy idea. Specific writers for specific episodes may have, but I wouldn't say there was "a" lore to argue so firmly about.
>> Most Linux ports sucked anyway

Port /= native client.

Try the KSP linux client. It is far more stable than the windows client. Heck, I've found it more stable than my outlook on my work machine, more stable than MS office on MS windows.
I believe that these descriptors are created only based off the visual image:

A face descriptor is obtained from the learned networks as follows: the centre 224 × 224 crop of the face image is used. The shorter side is resized to 256, and the CNNs descriptor is computed for this region by extracting the deep features from the layer adjacent to the classifier layer. This leads to a 2048 dimensional descriptor, which is then L2 normalised.

https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1710.08092/
The sheer lack of ads on Gemini when reading anything is really nice
Sadly in 2021 my initial reaction is 'this is Orwellian' because frankly, what we need a lot more these days is not 'framing for the purpose of narrative creation' but rather 'contextualizing facts so they are more Truthful'.

Because 20 years ago I was all aboard with most popular social movements, now, I'm supportive of most motivations, but very skeptical of groups, research, narratives and hardly believe anything I read even in trusted outlets. My 'there is more to this story Spidey Sense' generally does not fail me too often.

I wonder if we need the 'un-framing' institute, focused on trying to sus out the materiality of the truth in a digestible, reasonable way so that competing narratives can dissolve and people can have actual conversations instead of yelling about talking points.
When the alternative is terminal cancer not much.
Uh, the headline claim is about faces, how does it make sense to then insist that you must leave the background in?
Only when you know enough about the person's context to be able to tell them what question they should be asking instead.

If you don't have that context, then the correct thing to do is to ask for more information, or say, "did you consider this", or find some other way to come up with a constructive response. You don't just assume you know what the person really wants to do and then try to mainsplain it to them.
You think your face hasn't changed over the last 10 years?

You think there isn't a relationship between age and politics?
and TPUs

BS. There's so much effort getting Pytorch working on TPUs, and at the end of it it's incredibly slow compared to what you have in Tensorflow. I hate this myth and wish it would die.

Old thread on this, detailing exactly why this is true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24721229
Since day1 HTML was abused to track slaves from the master servers.