skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a background in classic image processing and machine vision and back in the olden days we had the opposite problem: algorithms were just too specific to build useful applications. It's easy to detect lines and circles with a Hough Transform or do template matching for features that very closely match a sample. However, working up the chain it never came together, detecting cars in a parking lot, a relatively simple task with CNNs, was a very difficult problem.

I wonder if enough work is being done to combine the achievements of each field. Whenever I see adversarial examples I wonder why people aren't doing more preprocessing to root out obvious problems with normalization in scale, color, perspective, etc. Also, if we could feed networks with higher level descriptors instead of feeding low-information-density color images, wouldn't that make life easier.

I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking this, is there any good research being done in that space?
This does nothing to alter our trajectory, only slow it by some infinitesimal amount.

Most developers could slave their whole career making optimizations only to have them overshadowed by the carbon they emit driving to the office.

To put it another way: Bitcoin uses more energy than Argentina. Shave 1% off of that and watch it gobbled up by growth in the BTC network within a month.
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That's a great point. I think both things probably need to be done. We took the distribution route, because ultimately we believe it's the direct relationship with the consumer that will allow for this to work. As a production company, you're a step away from the end-user, so you're at the mercy of a distribution company that has more than just the black audience to worry about. But if a company is solely focused on a single niche, like so many tech companies out there, the economics for super-serving that niche are a lot better.
Considering current social and political climate in US this may work.

Imagine the scary pushback if replacing "black" with other color.
Probably one of those nice Clevo laptops, more bang for my buck with that (https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/05/review-clevo-n151cu-lafite-...)

I've weaned myself off big tech services now (except I still use Chrome, but I used that un-synced - could just change to Chromium).

I just want something capable, with a nice keyboard running an OS that doesn't constantly change things underneath me, is stable, and secure.

I agree about the ecosystem working well together, but for me, the ends don't justify the means anymore.
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> Neonicotinoids have a half life of 5 years and we spray fields EVERY YEAR. So it’s building up in the supply chain.

Have they been in use less than 10 years? Or are we increasing the usage every year? Otherwise your conclusion doesn't seem to follow.
this is great comment!

i must say, the mythical man-month should be a must-read* for any technical managers or execs in a tech org (hmmm throw devs in that list too)

*and maybe re-read every year to keep it fresh in mind
I wish the founders the best but I'll admit the headline did rub me the wrong way at first. Just a little too on-the-nose or something. I definitely understand trying to reach an undeserved market, just feels weird so explicitly segmenting by race... In any case, good luck on your launch!
I want to love thinkpads, but the fact that in 2021 you still have a display lottery frustrates me to no end. You buy a MacBook Pro you get an A+ display. Thinkpad? You might get one with the good display, you might not.
How long until those of use not storing data in the cloud are the guilty ones? At least, the very suspect ones?
"All gone now."

In a perfect world, maybe...

In one of my previous jobs? Nope! ...and no intention of replacing it!

I liked the job but wrangling that unholy cobbled together mess made me want to fly to America and commit seppuku in front of the Progress offices to express my displeasure.
Not parent but mentioning nuget suggest parent is on dotnet, ie C/F# ergo semi-/typesafe. Parsing (not validating) at the edges should take care of it.
I agree, there is a lot of already well-established knowledge on the topic. I'd also argue though that a lot of ordinary people probably don't know much about the importance of air quality in the home. I never thought about it until I had a house. I suspected something in it was making me a little ill and so I looked into it and bought an air quality testing device. The illness went away so I don't think it was sick building syndrome (unless me using all the water outlets in the house again helped make it go away), but I did find that in my basement, CO2 tends to build up quite a bit. I never knew that this was something that could happen, and that I should open the windows once in a while. So maybe articles like this might raise awareness?
I prefer code in the end because the flexibility is provides. At the end, a bunch of edge cases and weird situations that can't be handled by the simplified solution will arise, and in those situations having a complete programming language is the only way to get above them.I find the simplifying assumptions that low-code frameworks rely on sooner or later end up braking.
Huh? Half precision floats speeds up machine learning training and inference enormously. It's weird to me to argue that we should sacrifice hours of sliced off waiting time in favor of preserving the ability to write a new language over a weekend.
> The status quo is murder, and it’ll keep getting worse without action

I'm in full agreement with you here, but the time to act was at least 20 years ago. The changes necessary at this point to make a dent in climate change are things that I have gotten downvoted for so much that I realize if the HN community can't be convinced then the rest of the world surely will not.

We made tremendous progress in reducing carbon emission in April 2020. If we were serious about a serious last ditch effort to correct the issue we would have decided to remain at the April 2020 level of economic activity, and cool down from there. Instead we collectively could not wait to get the economy humming again.

The only "solutions" people take seriously are things that require more industrialization and more energy. Certainly green energy can be part of the solution, but only after we massively reduce carbon emissions... which have only gone up.

People can't even collectively agree to wear masks or get vaccinated. Pandemic is wildly easier to solve than climate change, and wildly easier to reason about see and understand, but we absolutely failed. We also collectively learned nothing from pandemic.

A few decades ago people where just as enthusiastic about "Green" movements, and we have seen things only escalate. I understand that bargaining is part of grieving so continue doing what you're doing, but for other out there I think it's important to be honest about the situation.
Yes, it’s very interesting that “X for Women” seems non-controversial to most people, but “X for [underserved group]” brings out the trolls en masse.
Having an opinion is not trolling - I would guess the OP wants honest feedback.

Personally, I'm divided on how I feel about this launch, but if there is a market for it anywhere, it's the US, with its deep-rooted racial divisions and disparities.

The comparisons you are making seem very different, as they are based on language and global geography, rather than skin colour.
If you're just downloading and looking at porn, no problem. It only becomes an issue if you're sharing porn via Messages or storing it in iCloud. And to be fair, I don't think they're alerted to the nature of the pornography, so you might be able to avoid being outed even if you're sharing porn (or having porn shared with you).

Edit: I'm wrong in one respect: if the kid under 13 chooses to send a message with an explicit image despite being warned via notification, the image will be saved to a parental controls section. This won't happen for children >= 13.
My issue with "for black people" isn't that it's exclusionary against other races, but that it implies all black people are a culturally homogenous group. Just changing the description to "Netflix for black creators" would be more descriptive of the actual service, and doesn't imply "if you're a black person, these are the shows you should like".
Netflix was a distribution platform before it became a production company as well. If you have a revue stream from existing content then you have the money to make content. Also, if minorities have content that they want to be seen, they'll potentially have a better shot here because of the focus. So from this website's perspective, there might not be a shortage of content to licence right out of the gate, compared to what they could create themselves. Also, it sounds like they know how to make websites.
"Black culture is unique in that it was created artificially by kidnapping millions of people from the African content and stripping them of their cultures, family ties, and names, prompting those people to construct a new culture."

That certainly isn't unique.
They explictly say that they're trying to break out of homogenous black programming. Obviously being black doesn't correlate to a consistent personality, but it does in many ways lead to a shared experience that someone who is not black has not had.
You might want to parse out my sentence again. There's tons of racism perpetuated by businesses but I don't think this is one of them
I am not familiar with those channels since I'm not american, but I am fairly certain that they are not marketed as "for white people".
If you are generally curious about why this is something that is required, I suggest "Trigger Warning with Killer Mike" on Netflix. Specifically the first episode which deals with Mike trying to get to a concert only using black products and services.

Long story short: The average lifespan of the dollar is approximately 28 days in Asian communities, 19 days in Jewish communities, 17 days in white communities — and just six hours in Black communities. Meaning after that time, that dollar has to go into another community for a product or service.
The Sigma move is to assign Ctrl onto the Alt key (which is right next to the spacebard), and then Alt to the Capslock Key. Then you can activate Ctrl (alt key) with your thumb (far more frequently) instead of your pinky.
https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20170104/global-ocean...

Unspecified timeline.

I mean, someone could say “asteroid could hit earth and end civilization” but that’s not actionable and this useless information.
I can think of 2 big things:

- Working at a cryptocurrency exchange for a few years. I learned a lot about databases and security.

- Starting my own business.
This is pretty awesome, and I am huge fan of no-code / low-code; especially for CRUD apps.

I managed to create this in about 30 mins using Budibase:

https://budibase.app/app_dev_25ce0de660954493a371399aad47518...
It kind of assumes that all black people will like these kinds of shows, like Nickelodeon assumed that all kids would like their shows. In a world where diversity is so celebrated, I find it odd to try to show black people only other black people. Kids like kids shows because the content is more suited for kids. I know the original poster said they felt good seeing the shows with black people in the 90s, but can't those shows be found on other platforms?

Maybe some black people like to see shows with diversity, too.

In some other post someone was commenting how their wife, who is a director of advertising, got complaints for using a white female hand for an advertisement. I proposed using profile information to show people advertisements of people that matched themselves, but that was met with disdain in HN. It was argued that we need more diversity, not pigeonholes for people to be isolated in their subcultures.

Honestly when I read the title, I immediately thought, "Drinking fountains for black people."
If you replaced your car with electric one, your consumption is at least 10x bigger than mine (assuming you bought $40k Tesla). In 2020 I've spent €4112.09 on everything. Every dollar spent is eventually converted to carbon dioxide, if you spend 10x more, you produced 10x more carbon dioxide. Lower your consumption, that's the only way to save this planet.
I mean billions of deaths and civilization collapse is probably at the extreme end but still imaginable.

If poor people and poor countries are screwed then that will lead to major disruption in rich countries as we are reliant on them and potentially a large and dangerous climate refugee situation. Economic collapse in rich countries isn't off the table either.

Then there are questions like how much of the current status quo has to change for "our civilization" to have collapsed?
Ethically, I wouldn't want to work at a company which profits from encouraging the segregation by race which has unfortunately become socially acceptable again, but clearly many on HN have embraced the paradoxical double-standards where segregation and discrimination on the basis of color of skin is good as long as it's done for/against the right groups.

As a purely business concern, it seems like you're going to struggle against an already crowded marketplace. Netflix is already "Netflix for black people" (as are Hulu, Prime Video, etc). They've been focused on creating and promoting that content for years and already have multiple categories based on race, gender, sexuality, ethnic background, etc. Do you expect users to switch away from those services or add another service on top of the existing ones?
I lived with some roommates for a year in a big house covered in carpet and we never vacuumed, not once. One of them allegedly had asthma too. We were all fine and I couldn't tell the difference between that place and a vacuumed place. It validated my lifelong supposition that vacuuming is truly a waste of time, a bizarre cultural neurosis we would all be better off without.
Do you have more details? I read https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Half-Precision.html which made it look like a rather exotic feature that would not be available on all systems (and https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Floating-Types.html#Float... also makes it sound like __fp16/_Float16 is only supported on AArch64).
Changing graphics and sound chips was more fundamental than OS APIs.
It's a shame they aren't the same size so I can pop them off and switch them around
Amazon expands deliveries to serve unlikely clients: its rivals
As I stated before, Illegal or not, it is within the website owners’ rights to restrict access.
And this has always been Apple’s stance because of the government. We lock down the phone and don’t let the government in but if you use cloud service that doesn’t have the same rights because it’s not stored on your property.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/apple-drops-plans-...

This sounds like them trying to find a way to encrypt your data and remove the fbi from having a “what about the children excuse”. They scan the image on upload and then store it on iCloud and encrypt it.

It’s of course a slippery slope but the FBI has been trying to have back doors everywhere since forever.
The more interesting question is can we avoid it?
The reason for that, in the US at least, is that "for white people" is implied by default. Everything is always for white people. So when you go and spell it out explicitly, "X for white people" ends up having a connotation of "X for white people only."
What are the reasons for changing the allocation of bits in bf16 vs. f16? Why are there no (few?) similar alternative allocation schemes for f32 and f64? Was IEEE's choice perfect for f32 / f64? How did they know? Why not for f16?

Does any hardware offer "configurable" bit allocation like f16[e=4,m=11]?
Well, it's kind of the default majority, and with the history here in the US particularly, not only is it unnecessary to say, it almost automatically invokes the history of racism we're still dealing with. So yes, not acceptable given the loaded context.
This tweet pretty much sums up how it works in my social circle: https://twitter.com/TooMany_Monkeys/status/11205616344125849...

> Non-magic users: collect crystals, call their pet a familiar, draw pentagrams

> Magic users:the most magical things I keep in my house are rocks, and I keep a hammer next to them in case they act up
is it possible that trained engineers who take this engineering sermon to heart, are then not prepared to deal with daily, common corrupt practices and dark-patterns so prevelant in real-life money handling?

Second, different question -- To what extent do you have to believe in good, to do good in real life. How much overlap does that have with the practice of cryptography ?

Third question - are specialists in a complex society, able to have say and dominion over the tasks they are paid to do? Not theoretically, in practice now.
A “pint” of ice cream is only 14 oz now. A package of bacon used to be 16 oz but now it’s 9-12 oz. But in order to make it seem like a lot, they slice the bacon so thin, the pieces stretch and get ruined as you pull them from the package. Same goes for OJ.

For those things you can’t shrink, like eggs, they are over $6/dozen in San Fran, I’ve seen some for $10/dozen.
Are the trackpads anywhere close to macbooks yet? My XPS 13 is still awful and my previous thinkpad is worse than the XPS.
Overfitting isn’t binary. Plenty of cases where something has overfit a bit and has a hard time generalizing to inputs in the distribution far from the limited training set, but is good at things near its distribution but unseen before. That’s what’s happening here.
Fair enough, there are clearly lots of useful syntactic shortcuts. I'm referring to things like prefix/postfix increment/decrement, object spreading vs. object rest, and ternary expressions.

I'd avoid cases where extending the language is done in a non-obvious and ambiguous way.
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The letter implies a false positive can ruin your life, which ignores the facts that a false positive is incredibly unlikely, that you’d need many such false positives to flag an account, and the following manual review would immediately catch the error.

Then it goes on to scare you about WHAT IF OTHER PEOPLE USE THE DATABASE? What if they EXPAND the database?? This database isn’t Apple’s it belongs to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and companies like Google and Facebook have been using it for a decade.

And then it talks about how this will get queer kids thrown out of their homes, and I don’t even know where to start with this. How they got from warning an 8-year-old to not open a dick pic to this, I have no idea.
I can think of a few major factors that impacted the market in the 90s:

1. Fox/WB/UPN. These fledgling networks broadcast a lot of black-oriented content trying to grab a foothold in the market. This in turn spurred ABC/NBC/CBS to do the same to avoid losing market share.

2. Bill Cosby. The success of the Cosby show in the 80s/early 90s instigated a lot of attempts to grab a piece of that market. Cosby had further success with the spin-off show A Different World (which was notable also as being the only TV show at its time to focus on Gen X characters).
If you buy organic, does that imply that the crops aren't treated with pesticides? What else can a layperson do?
That comes with the territory of being the dominant ethnic group in our society. Everything is essentialy for white people by default unless explicitly stated otherwise.

Also, it’s not like this blackoakTV doesn’t allow white people to sign up. But I bet you won’t, because you have no interest in black stories. Which in turn kind of proves why it should exist.
Laptop: Dell XPS 13 and very happy. Maxed out specs and clearly higher price range.

Or: Lenovo Yoga Convertible. My second device. I just don't do games. Or bigger data stuff on this machine. Some design work. Some photo and smaller video stuff. I love the flexibility of the convertible when working with PDF and doing annotations by hand.
By creating thought bubbles exactly like social media
Or the opposite: consumption prevents people from acting out.
TikTok is run by a US-based subsidiary of ByteDance

They have insisted “that TikTok U.S. user data is stored in Virginia, with a back-up in Singapore and strict controls on employee access.”

https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/tiktok-launches-a-new-info...
Exactly. Nobody complains about the Latino channels on TV. lol
Yeh, however I'm not sure that the only cause. I think that record temperatures, and less moisture, are more important factors here.

For example, I know that in recent years we observe unprecedented fires in Siberia region where, due to wast areas and very low population/infrastructure, smaller natural fires were never artificially suppressed.
Once he found the SQL injection, downloading the tables was too far IMO.

On the other hand if he had stopped at this point, the company would have no idea about the weak admin credentials that could lead to real data breach and internal compromise at a later date.
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Well for one: his employer, who is identified in the clear his twitter bio which uses the same handle as his domain.
What exactly are the right priors for general intelligence? And keep in mind, whichever prior you choose, I can design learning problem where it will lead you astray.

This paper provides some interesting results on the weakness inherent in universal priors: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.04931
When I think of MTV in the early 90s I actually think of LL Cool J.
Yup.

It's not exactly a "one-man show," but I'm the chief architect, and the only one developing one of the three servers the app uses (I was also the original architect for another server, that is now being run by a different open-source team), I am also the only one developing the native iOS application. I may be writing some adjunct apps, once the main one has been released (like Watch, Mac and TV apps).

But we're a team. It's a 501(c)(3), with a mission to Serve a specific demographic. We have the advantage of being intimately familiar with the demographic. So far, we haven't had to shell out much. If they decide to write an Android version, then it may take some extra dosh. The good news is, the app is in "constant ship" state, so asking for funding is fairly straightforward. We just need to loop the person into the TestFlight group, and Bjørn Stronginthearm is your uncle.
"Black" is a culture; it's not merely a skin color. Our country kidnapped millions of people from the African content, stripped them of their heritage and family ties, and randomly moved them around plantations in the American south, then released them and spent 100+ years subjecting them to apartheid laws that they united to fight. It is a whole unique interesting thing (jazz, soul food, the Black church, the Harlem Renaissance), and is as much its own culture as any ethnicity that has a TV station.
Fresh Prince was my favorite TV show of its era, and I'm not black :) If you get a catalog of content of that calibre, I think you'll have a larger audience than just black people. Good luck to you!
Vote for politicians that will either take action or won't stand in the way of action.
Especially since Netflix has a lot of entertainment featuring black actors, producers etc. from the US. And a lot of Nigerian and South African productions too.

You just have to look for it.
Yeah, that's the first thing I noticed. It's incredibly irresponsible to post examples without using example.com in order to ensure you don't actually hit someone's web service.
Outside of the privacy debate on this, I cannot overstate how dumb it was of Apple to announce this and sexual image ML in the same press release. It's resulting in an errant and vastly exagerated understanding of it by members of the public.