skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I might have misinterpreted what you actually wanted to ask. If your question is if I stand by my comments, the answer is 100% yes.

The Inc journalist did a lazy job of presenting facts [1], and my suspicion is that this is not by coincidence - as a journalist, you either do a stellar job of researching every last bit of a story, or you do the opposite - close an eye and report as vaguely as possible, mostly citing external sources but somehow making the story sound original so you get some credit as well. Both are safe approaches; the space in between is dangerous - you can't take someone else's shitty reporting and then check if it's true before publishing - that's how you get sued for libel. Fun fact: if you prepend "in my opinion, ..." you're 100% safe from any libel risk.

If we consider additional evidence that came to light through the BI article, I am still aligned with mabbo's view - the Amazon management seems to have taken a conscious step against the hire-to-fire scenario by separating the ownership of hiring and firing.

[1] Note: this topic originally linked to an Inc article
I still don't see why this is the place we should draw the line. If we want to ban license plate scanners because they can be used to track location, should we also make it illegal for police to access cell phone records or cell tower ping data with a warrant? Should we ban cell phones altogether so that the location data can never be collected in the first place to be misused?

Lots of new technology has some downsides, the laws should more specifically target the downsides instead of require that everyone pretend the technology doesn't exist. If nothing else, it's just far too impractical for a technology that is easily available and in everyone's pocket to be illegal to use. It will just incentivize obscuring and lying about using it, rather than truly prevent it from ever being used. It reminds me of the history of banning encryption, you're basically just making math illegal.
> it's foolish to expect people to not do bad things just because the law says they shouldn't

The parent comment:

> Minimum safety standards: laws and ability to enforce them.

So it's not just the law but also the potential for repercussions, of which there are currently zero.
Corporations exist to bring value to shareholders. They do this by defining their own targets with their own economic interests in mind. Maximize paperclip sales YoY, minimize costs.

Just as a corporation cannot exist in a vacuum, neither should it's measure of success. It is impossible to have a corporation without financial, social and cultural impact in its operating environment.

Why do we let corporations decide unilaterally what their success looks like, without input from the society they are operating in?

How would our society look like if McDonald's was regularly taxed xcompanyScalepopulationObesity% for its operating country or region?

Or Marlboro taxed companyScaley^(zpopulationLungCancer%)?

There is certainly evidence linking those 2 societal, highly impacting "metrics" with the products of those corporations. The effects of which are amplified by the limitless maximization of burgers/cigarettes sold YoY.

Maybe if depression can be somehow measured, and linked to social media usage, the same could apply to Facebook. It's way more complicated than burgers or cigarettes though.

But the underlying cause is the same, the Friedman mantra of maximizing returns to shareholders, when taken from an exclusively economic perspective, is simply wrong and unethical.

The societies impacted by the operations of a corporation, should have a say in what success looks like for that corporation.
> Would you accept a search warrant when the judgement wasn't based on any human's perception but something which came out a black box?

Isn't every PD that uses facial recognition keeping a human in the loop to confirm algorithmic matches first? And if so why would the overall process be any less accurate than a human match?
The author of Longitude gave some good examples of the human cost of the Longitude problem: a ship running aground and sinking, or sailors dying from scurvy because they traveled too far in the wrong direction. So an economic and military problem, and also one felt directly by anybody at sea.
Oh sheet didn't know. I try to delete then my bad
Presumably this is because the default rate amongst uninsured patients is much higher than insured patients. You might have to fight the insurer to get your $1m, but you know for sure they have it.
I'm not accusing you of not loving Rack, I'm not sure why we're coming back around to this point again. In any case, Rack markets itself as a "Eurorack simulator", not a modular synthesizer. The predominant vision has always been to onboard preexisting physical modules to create an experience that is as similarly robust as hardware.

There are plenty of software modular synthesizers: Uhe's Zebra is a bit of a classic in that regard. It's a wholly original digital modular synthesizer, and bared very little resemblance to physical Eurorack.

> There's also no actual voltage in Rack, just a nomenclature consensus on "1V/Octave", despite there being no volts anywhere.

Sure, just like there isn't a cartridge reader in bsnes. That doesn't mean it's not an emulator: it's just arranging the data in a manner that makes it viable to compute. It's not outside the realm of possibility to also simulate those voltages, but what's the point? The same discussion has been had every time the phrase "virtual analog" was used, and nobody ever agrees on it. In any case, VCV Rack is still emulation, even if it's only HLE.
Stealing Ur Website
I had a dream a few months ago where I was standing in front of a computer. I typed in my name and got back a stream of video which showed every single moment of my life from multiple angles starting from the moment I was born. The footage came from a variety of sources, CCTV, smartphone cameras, dashcams. The system had videos of everything anyone had ever done. I didn't like it. Found it kind of disturbing.
AlexNet really highlighted the importance of convolutions (especially with respect to vision). I'm not disagreeing with you, but there's of course nuance. I thought VGG better highlighted the depth vs breadth argument whereas AlexNet was more CNN vs Linear.
I was thinking much the same thing. Facial recognition is just a tool that makes it easier. If there are problems with false detections, you should be able to insert a human check in the process. But banning something makes it look like they are doing something. Meanwhile, it makes the job harder for police.
Sure. That's a little like saying you use Wikipedia regularly. I have ~10k rep on Stack Overflow from >200 answers, but I'm still a small fry compared to the volunteer moderators and the true power users.

There are people who spend an insane number of hours closing or editing basic "How do I do this" questions that would otherwise overwhelm the site (whether or not you agree with the standard these users set for the site is a separate discussion). When Monica got removed, the people who had made SO a significant part of their identity were understandably upset (the fact that she managed to raise >$25k to sue SO for defamation[0] should show just how upset). Why should anyone try to make the site better when SO was insulting its most helpful users and self-sabotaging?

I dramatically cut down on my time spent learning by answering questions. It's certainly a minority that did so, but I think it's a formerly-prolific minority.

[0]: https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/02/stack_overflow_settle...
Seriously, why do CEOs talk like the following in press releases:

As the crypto economy continues to become a more important part of our customers’ lives, we want to empower them to mine cryptocurrency with Norton, a brand they trust,” said Vincent Pilette, CEO of NortonLifeLock. “Norton Crypto is yet another innovative example of how we are expanding our Cyber Safety platform to protect our customers’ ever-evolving digital lives.”

Every time I hear words like "empower" and "innovative" I turn off.

Perhaps that's the goal though? Because I read further and it says one of their risks are:

matters arising out of our completed Audit Committee investigation and the ongoing U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation)
It is literally equivalent to a rotation matrix:

[cos π/2 -sin π/2] [x] = [0 -1] [x] = [0 - y] = [-y]
[sin π/2 cos π/2] [y] [1 0] [y] [x + 0] [ x]

Compare to:

i (x + iy) = ix + i²y = -y + ix

For the general case of rotation in the complex plane, multiplying by a complex number with an absolute value of 1 (i.e. on the unit circle) rotates by that number's angle from the positive reals. Normally you'd write such a number as e^iθ, but since that's what we're trying to get to, we can instead write it as cos θ + i sin θ.

[cos θ -sin θ] [x] = [x cos θ - y sin θ]
[sin θ cos θ] [y] = [x sin θ + y cos θ]

Compare to:

(cos θ + i sin θ) (x + iy)

= x cos θ + ix sin θ + iy cos θ + i²y sin θ

= (x cos θ - y sin θ) + i (x sin θ + y cos θ)

Maybe the cause of your skepticism is that it seems unintuitive that complex numbers, which are 2-dimensional in linear-algebra-speak, could be as powerful as 2×2 matrices, which are 4-dimensional. But keep in mind that 2×2 matrices can perform any linear transformation on 2-dimensional vectors using only matrix multiplication, whereas complex number multiplication can only scale and rotate, and you need to use complex addition to get translation, and I'm not sure off the top of my head if it's possible to get shear transformations using complex numbers.
Visual Studio Code at Microsoft Build 2021
The writer is the person who added VBA to Excel + the MS Office suite. Where you used COM to make use of external libraries/programs. I assure you, he's not ignorant.

Is COM obsolete today? For new development, yes. But Microsoft still supports it and you can still write .net code that gets exposed as COM objects.
Ask HN: What makes a documentation automation project succeed/fail?
I'm proposing a "mini case study" roundup, about what goes right and wrong with document automation. (That is, computerizing the paperwork. Think in terms of, "We used to do all this with paper forms...")

I'm hoping to collect horror stories ("Well it sounded like a good idea at the time, until This Thing Happened") and smart-things-done, and turn it into an entertaining-and-useful essay about Things You Should Know.

So tell me your horror stories and "yay life is simpler now" successes. I don't need to quote anyone, which I hope makes you more willing to share stories. (Private messages are OK. I'm more interested in storytelling and lessons-learned than in finger-pointing.)
As of January 2021 it’s required for hospitals to publish a price list on their website or else pay a fine (which I think is fairly small though, like $300/day). The legislation just came into effect but it was passed in late 2019 IIRC.
Oh yes, sorry if it gets interpreted otherwise. It is too late to edit for that clarity but thanks for the note.
That's very much Microsoft's goal here. It's a lot of why they started pushing everyone to stop calling it "No Code" and moved to the name "Low Code".

At BUILD they released some of the first big VS Code plugins for some of the Low Code systems. (Power Apps is represented mostly as a lot of YAML files, if you were curious.) Most of the Low Code systems already use Azure CI/CD and git under the hood and editing Low Code projects in VS Code and VS seems easy enough for "conventional" developers.
It literally isn't. It's a figurative cancer on white supremacy.

Besides, who's talking about critical race theory?
There are many things the law permits at a small/manual scale but forbids at a larger/automated scale. This makes sense because in the latter case, the cost to the person doing the act is smaller.

For example, there's no law against making one phone call to a random number in the phone book. But if you use an autodialer to call everyone in the city, you're breaking the law.
You get to run your own flavor of Java on the JVM, some people want more than that.
Sad news, if not unexpected. Yet another municipality prioritizes ginned-up grievance over the actually existing harms of unchecked criminality.
I think it depends on beans (dark roast is fine with lower temperatures), but I go with ~99ºC water.
and people who take the oath as a court witness never lie
Having worked at a Japanese startup and seen the advice that came down from our customer companies and the country, I got the impression that there is an ernest attempt to modify peoples behaviour to secure against ransomware sw getting in to a network. But I didn't have much confidence on the over all security in depth of things.
I’m sorry that you thought I actually advocated for hiring toddlers. I wasn’t expecting anyone to interpret an obviously absurd point literally, rather than as reductio of a bigger point.

Let me be more literal for you. Does Google employ short people at a rate consistent with community demographics? What about paraplegics? People on the autism spectrum? People whose family heritage is from Ghana? People with a strong “southern” accent?

You might argue that some of these cohorts aren’t facing discrimination, but are you sure? Currently we only concern ourselves with axes of discrimination that are loud and obvious. Is the discrimination any less real if its victims don't know to be angry about it? Or does discrimination only occur when its victims are aware of it?

At what point do we declare one person’s discrimination more important than another? At what point do we declare that one person's discrimination is worthy of upending the default behaviour of billion dollar companies, and others can be dismissed as equally ridiculous to demanding a toddler join senior leadership?
I hope they have good backups. They manufacture magnetic tape!
Agree. I've been working remote for 15+ years now (I'm in Canada).

Today I see much clearer job postings (e.g., "Anywhere in US, No Canada, must be in CT/ET"). You still have to figure out the billing thing (Contract, FT or Canadian Proxy Entity), but it's better overall I find, likely due to Covid.

These kinds of sites are good for leads, but you still have to wade through the details.
exactly. There must be a person in the loop. Facial recognition is just a tool and a very useful one. Banning it is silly virtue signaling. A proper way to address all sorts of possible problems with it is by requiring qualified people in critical decision points within the overall system.
20 Years of Networks-on-Chip (NoCs)
$1.8B seems low, no? WhatsApp was sold for 19B. I understand that they are aren’t exactly comparable, but
SO has a B2B offering with clear mark value and a very strong brand. I know at least few medium-to-large companies that has subscriptions with SO. I think they can expand into other areas more, such as recruiting and tools for hiring.
What do you think happens when we stop giving water to fertile lands? Oh, that's right, people are forced to buy produce from local farmers. It's a defeatist attitude to say that buying at a local farmer's market does nothing. At the end of the day, that's what needs to happen. You prefer for it to be government mandated (stop giving them water) whereas others prefer that people make the individual choice and vote with their dollars. More nuanced is that government action doesn't cause fundamental changes in culture. Look at prohibition. Governmental action also makes the new profiters (local farmers in this case) heavily invested in keeping the legislation. This large societal change needs to start with people taking individual responsibility. By actively saying that individuals are inculpable, you are part of the problem.
Alternatively: set DuckDuckGo as your default search engine and type `!python setattr`.
Is facial recognition more biased than manually comparing against mugshots? A lot of people seem to be writing under the impression that if facial recognition software is banned, police and government won't use facial recognition. The reality is that they will still use facial recognition, just in the old fashioned way by looking at suspects and looking at mugshots. And humans are often biased, too.
because that's the only option. There is no scenario in which it's allowed in a narrow set of circumstances that isn't going to get abused by law enforcement. Either you ban it, or law enforcement is going to find ways to abuse the right to use it, including appointing people whose job it is to say "this was fine".

If this was a reasonable society, with a reasonable police force: absolutely, narrow definitions of permitted use should be reasonably fine. But the US isn't, and the US doesn't, so in the US, it can't be.

(but then you look at countries where it might be fine, and it turns out that they don't need facial recognition to have a decent enough catch rate, kind of making the whole thing moot. No police force should use it, for wildly different reasons)
Good lord no
I don’t discount the usefulness of ai or facial recognition, however,

>Since when do search warrants get automatically approved by a black box? It is on the judge to approve, not a machine.

The USA PATRIOT ACT removed judicial oversight and allows for warrants to be issued that notify the judiciary and simultaneously issue gag orders on those notified. For federal cases warrants no longer require judicial approval in an undisclosed number of cases. Try and find a list of current Guantanamo Bay detainees or the judges who approved the warrants used to detain them. Until that’s dealt with I see why King County would ban this use as a defense against automated enforcement.
Does anyone know anything about this hash thing that he’s making?
Up in standing, but 7 is less than 12, so numerically down.
Because people don't enjoy the government knowing what they're doing all the time? It's a bit creepy that in places like London the government knows where everyone is 100% of the time.
I second this.

You might want to try cold brew as well.
> Since a day is longer than a year

Wow, that is such a trippy sentence to sink in :)
Crowdstrike attributed the 2015/2016 DNC "Hacks" to Russia based solely on a file creation timestamp in the same timezone as Moscow and the presence of Cyrillic in a Word document's metadata, and the western world ran with it for years. Don't expect much.
> Say a model is wrong 37% of the time, and so are humans, but the model runs 1000 times a minute, where as humans perform the task 10 times a minute. That means the model makes 370 false accusations a minute, where a human makes only 3 a minute.

Or they spend 100x as many man-hours and achieve the same number of false accusations, but at a much higher cost to the taxpayers.
Thank you for your reply :-)

First of all, consider that I am just a guy who usually programs for a living and has been in a personal situation where he could not work. For some time I had an idea in my mind about this stuff and instead of getting depressed about not being able to work I went for it and started making it.

I am not asking for money at present, I am only asking for opinions.

My "product" is not a product yet, it's a prototype, there is no cost at the moment.

I clearly said in another reply that I am not even against open sourcing it, if that is what has to happen. Or maybe people will not be interested enough and forget about it. Who knows.

What I am saying is that I have spent quite some time working on this stuff and at the end of the day I have to pay my bills too, so it would be nice if I could make some people happy and get something back.

What worries me is that I genuinely believe that this is an interesting approach to "an operating system for games and game development" and I may not be able to sustain its development for much longer.

In its current form it can be added to a raspberry pi 4, yes, as this is what I have done myself.

Now for the question about why would you be interested. If low latency gaming is not interesting to you, then it would not be the product for you.

You are right, there is lots of great software out there that can be obtained at no cost.

That is true for everything. For example I don't watch much television so I don't use paid tv services.
I’ve long wanted something like this. I’m fascinated where the common elements of contemporary car design come from. Why does every car have a hard lateral crease? When did it originate? It wasn’t on early cars or carriages.
I look forward to studying this carefully
Impacted infrastructure like ... their email server?
I find Stackoverflow has gotten much worse, you don't get any answers either (i.e. I guess the good people have moved on?), but also Google has gotten worse, and documentation sites aren't helping either. Coding has just gotten harder when you rely on some complicated technology. The internet simply doesn't work as well as it did 5-10 years ago...
A lot of the local markets in Australia are further away from the NW corner than Singapore!
That’s why everyone’s scrambling for Mars
Doesn't appear to have held up to replication. [1]

>However, unlike Tsukuhara et al., we could establish only small to nonexistent associations between cognitive ability and pupil size (r’s -.01 to .06, r with g specifically = .05)

In fact, a quick scan down the Scholar results shows other replications have found the opposite effect [2]

>The results found that high-Gf adolescents showed smaller tonic pupil size in both tasks

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emil-O-W-Kirkegaard/pub...
[2] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pchj.397
> - how did they figure out the theoretical best time in the first place?

Depends on the game...

With mario, if you know the max acceleration and speed of mario, and the length of the level, you can calculate the theoretical minimum needed to come to the other end, especially if no glitches are allowed. If you have to backtrack a bit, you can calculate the optimal path to pass through. Glitches (eg. passing through walls) make this harder.

With games like Zelda, breath of the wild, it's pretty much impossible to calculate exactly, except for taking the current records, finding flaws, errors and/or adding new optimizations, and subtracting the "lost time" from the record.... until a new, better strategy comes out.
Police isn't going to chase guys who stole your precious catalytic converter, even if you give PD scans of the bad guys' DLs. The face recognition data, on the other hand, is going to stay forever and ten years down the road, you may get flagged for sitting next to a drug dealer who's been evading police for years. And it will be your responsibility to explain what you did there that day ten years ago.
You can’t pass along the result (not exactly but that’s how it looks) of a query to a component and query more things on it.

An example might be something like, you have a page showing a user, and you have a ProfilePicture component with certain data requirements (e.g. get picture at 100X100). It would be nice if you could pass down the user and have the ProfilePicture component query the data it needs, with this being merged into the parent request.

In Relay this kind of thing can be done with useFragment.

In this solution it seems you could just pass the user.

Apollo/urql don’t support this pattern, everything must be in one top level query, or multiple queries (bad perf).
The article provides no details on those cases, and I am not willing to trust the ACLU at their word, given how politically biased they are these days (https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/civil-rights/347375-a...). I would like to know whether those incidents involved a human in the loop. It's also worth considering the benefits of facial recognition. Just like policing as a whole, I am willing to accept a small number of incorrectly handled incidents against a much larger body of good policing.
> But keep believing what you believe. It won't change the outcome.

I'm happily considering your argument - holding up a "The End is Nigh" sign does not improve it.