skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's take the classic example of a "racist algorithm" Image recognition using neural nets and examine what's going on.

Let's say we train the NN using equal number of human faces of all races, and animals faces. Let's say the trained neural net made some mistakes, including a few cases where black faces are recognized as gorilla faces. And this doesn't happen at all or as likely with white faces. The results are horrible, right? And people immediately start to point fingers to the training data and the algorithms, stating the training data is racially biased and/or the training algorithms or even the use of neural nets are racially biased.

But is it really so? It's known that in order to take a black face photo with the same degree of details, the lighting condition and camera settings need to be adjusted. This is an effect purely due to physics. In other words, it could well be by nature, that recognizing black faces is harder than pale faces under the normal camera and scene settings. This is why you have night mode on your phones. It is just harder to take clear photos when less light gets into the camera. And this requires the camera and photography settings to be adjusted.

So, the unwanted results here are still due to the input data. But neither the input data, nor the algorithms contain any racial bias towards the black people. The results might be merely due to the difference between dark faces and pale faces under the natural law of physics.

These are unwanted results due to our social norms, but they are NOT racially biased or racist, because there is no such bias introduced or inherent during any part of the process.

We could and should correct such unwanted results by introducing adjustments to the input data, like improving dark face photography and camera sensitivity. But we can't just label the input data, the algorithms and the people who designed these algorithms as "racist" or "racially-biased". There is zero racial bias that is man-made here. The race just coincide with the side-effect of photography.

Likewise, there will be cases where the reverse is true, like white faces get unwanted results instead of dark faces.

So, while we work towards improving the data quality and the algorithms, we must stop this trend of labeling or calling people and algorithms racists.
> educated in philosphical ideas but who have no practical or useful skills for society

Like Lisp programmers.
I was not, but I can tell you that Intel gave companies $1 million for "Optimized" games for marketing such..
You don't need to, you only need the hash itself to create a collision. Which means that you only need a malicious actor to steal and/or sell the hashes.
For me it seems Musk has ability to hire competent people because he can verify if you are bullshitting him down to physics. This and being bold and rich and persistent is enough for success it seems. Ah, also marketing/vision to get (more) money.
I have worked with all of these models.

I have figured out that monorepo mainly covers for faults in maintaining separation between components (like ensuring only single direction of dependencies and no cycles, ensuring backwards compatibility, self-service, et.c) and to some extend to cover for out of control microservice craze.

Kinda like giving unrestricted access to your PROD databases does help improve efficiency, but at the cost of additional risks and deterioration of separation between applications, lack of APIs for users to self service themselves, etc.

Especially with microservices, these tend to fare poorly if you don't solve static costs of maintaining a service. So rather than invest in proper tooling let's just plop it into single repository. It will cover some problems a little bit.

Now, I don't want to say monorepo is bad by itself. The problem is when it stunts people's ability to maintain proper APIs and development process.
I bet you're one of those deranged conspiracy theorists who didn't applaud medical staff from your balcony!
So there is no change in visible behavior, it is just an implementation detail.
So you knew knowing she bought the shotgun but you didn't know she was acquitted? Or were you just hoping no one else did?

You seem to have an agenda here, trying to find any way to undermine the left.
When USians say corn they almost invariably mean maize also known as sweetcorn.
> She found her talents wasting while her kids spent their days in class and her husband did the 9-to-5 at Hughes.

Back then they did not know that moms are heroes and being a mom is a full-time job.
This wouldn't even be perfection. Perfection would be if there were no sentient beings to experience suffering at all.
> This is a good feature in my opinion.

Some links include automatic login functionality. I definitely don't want Google logging in to my accounts.
Option 2 : BlueEyedOS / Cosmoe
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By that logic any company including FB ads is a Facebook company
That said I am always surprised when I see local stuff that is of high caliber. It always feels like it is a little guys proving it on the world stage.

That said... Little city!? I surprised that folks would see this place as small. I would have thought that back in the 90's but we have slowly become, maybe a little too much, a big city.
I think of building the docker image as a 'cache' of the dependencies, but actually something like Cachix would provide a more flexible solution (i.e. helping developers as well as CI).
> Until you can show an example or paper where the same adversarial image generates a specific hash value for two unrelated perceptual hash functions, with one being hidden, it is not right to predict a high likelihood of that first scenario being possible.

"There is no paper attacking ROT13 done twice, therefore it must be secure". Usually, it's on the one proposing the protocol to make a case for its security. Doubly so when it's supposed to last a long time, a lot of people are interested in attacking it, and successful attacks can put people in harm's way.

You know what, if you think that this is difficult, feel free to pick an existing perceptual hash function H, cough up some money, and we'll announce a modest prize (say $4000) on HN for the first person to have a working collision attack for NeuralHash+H. H will run on a scaled-down thumbnail, and we'll keep the precise identity of the algorithm secret. If the challenge gets any traction, but nobody succeeds within 40 days, I'll pay you $4000 for your effort. If you're right, this should be easy money. (cf SHA1, which lasted 22 years)

Heck If Apple claims that this is difficult (afaict they don't, it would be unwise), they might even join in with their own preimage challenge for $$$. It'd be a no-brainer, a simple and cheap way of generating good publicity.
>Don't use redux

This is a puzzling advice to give to someone who wants to offload business logic away from components, as redux with sagas for example is a great place to put it. That way if you use selectors (preferably memoized as well) your components will only update when needed and you can organize business logic however you want.
Yet more skills they have to have... also, I presume OnlyFans helps with the pipeline. (Much more likely to be comfortable clicking on an onlyfans link than a link to an unknown website)
yep, I use this all the time

one thing to watch: you need exactly the same fonts installed, or the layout may go odd with the substitute font
Yeah then what's the point? I can already order Uber and someone drives me. The main allure of self-driving is that I have my car, that drives me around, without involving anybody else.
This is complete and utter nonsense. In a time of incredible, increasing inequality, the problem is that there's TOO MUCH social mobility? Give me a fucking break.
Those robots at least stop at the boundary of the field, unlike fertilizer and pesticides, that run off to the surrounding environment.

Such robots are mostly on a prototype stage, and not applied widely in agriculture today, so they are a possible problem of tomorrow rather than a present problem. Fertilizer run off is very much a present problem.

Also, the robots will typically replace a combination of herbicides and manual labor. It is not like farmers let the weed grow freely today. As such they may be an improvement over current practices.
Introverts are "naturally" underrepresented in normative discourse.
Do you have examples of documents that WPS Office handles correctly (like MS Word, presumably) that LibreOffice fails on?

(I see this claim a lot, but have never seen it substantiated checkably.)
> You can’t spread prions by feeding them seaweed.

No one said you could. I imagine that the concern is that some unforeseen effect might happen just as prion disease was unforeseen. Or indeed that some foreseen effect might be neglected or deliberately hidden from the consumer.
I didn't word this very well. What I mean is that there are/were no huge engineering challenges involved. We can't build a space elevator at any price, we can massively reduce our emissions by 'merely' spending a truly unfathomable amount of money
ZetaSQL[1] seems like it could be a fit for your use case. I've worked with Apache Calcite in the past and found it to be very complex to work with. I found ZetaSQL to be a little easier to use.

[1] https://github.com/google/zetasql
Why? For environmental or ethical reasons?

Arguably not all farming is unethical and not all meat production is bad for the environment.

I no longer eat mammals for ethical reasons, and to a lesser degree, some concern over the environmental sustainability of the production of meats like beef. I'd love to see very tight environmental and ethical regulations introduced for the meat industry which I accept would effectively make meats like Beef a luxury, but I see no reason to ban it entirely so long as no significant level of harm is being done.

The problem with animal meat isn't the meat itself, but the factory farming process which produces the vast majority of it. This is what we should limit or ban if anything.
Maybe.

Can we also ban war, murder, narcotics, alcohol, global warming, long queues, uncomfortable silences and idiots who don't know what they are talking about at meetings?

PS: who is going to tell the carnivores...

PSS: not sure which faith you mean?
Flipping rockets is a simpler problem in the sense that it the required technology already existed, there just wasn't anyone with enough incentive and resources to actually do it.

Human-level robotics, on the other hand, is not a problem of missing incentive. For all I know about the field (as a casual observer), we are still several breakthroughs away from achieving this goal.
why do you want to incorporate in india?does your product has some regulatory requirement?(fintech/govt. sector) otherwise you can sell your products/services in india from whereever it is easier for you to incorporate or i am missing something?
Surely this also requires the elimination of the human race. Don't let your AI paperclip maximizer hear you say such things.
It's a moonshot, I think; he's got enough money personally (hundreds of billions) to fund an R&D lab similar to Boston Dynamics, and since it's under Tesla's wing, there is more than enough money to fund R&D into this.

Of course, a lot of that money is all virtual, in owned stocks and market value.
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>..is weird.

I call it the artistic dilettante last 5% laziness effect. As an artistic dilettante you make it mainly all done to your satisfaction but you don't sweat the final details which is for the small people to do, because, while you are totally focused and energetic until nearly done that last little bit makes you extremely lazy.
> “Dr. Valentine will no longer see patients that are not vaccinated against covid-19,” the sign reads.

Sounds good. Let's continue with drug addicts, obese people and smokers! Their body, their choice, their consequences!
And if humans doesn't go extinct, the loss of biodiversity created after eons of evolution is a tragedy who put our species to shame. We need to stop worrying only about humanity.
Perhaps because quite a few of us like feeding on bovine meat and secretions.
Show HN: Jumpskip – Watch movies on Netflix without the jumpscares
> Plus it isn't rational to identify as a rationalist, so the really good rationalists are hard to spot.

Depends whether you're valuing broad acceptance or a tight-knit peer group of people who get you.

Though of course the real trick would be to have both, this can be hard in our omnisurveillance society. I just don't think it's a universal law that people who are easy to spot are bad at it. Certainly people who are bad at it are easy to spot.
Okay, I see what you mean.

One obvious point here is of course that if you don't know malloc() then you don't know C. Considering C is a pretty small language, and that malloc() isn't exactly at the furthest, most dusty and least-trodden part of its standard library, I think this is basic knowledge for anyone writing C.

That said, I'm not sure I agree since implicit pointer conversions are not in general allowed, except to/from void * and then there will always be a properly typed thing close by (like the left-hand side in this example).

Can you provide an example of where an implicit pointer conversion creates danger?
I had the same issue with Microsoft's email service and Facebook messages. How I dealt with it was to not email private links... I use Element these days or email links to encrypted files in some circumstances. I wish websites would stop using email and phone verifications...
Great article but at the same time the absolute horror of what "modern" frontend development is.

I do understand the need for React when building truly complex applications, like a spreadsheet or word processor app, but I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of projects using React could be solved with a simple template rendered in the backend.
Prisons actually bundle punishment (which seems especially effective and worthwhile for shorter sentences) and isolation/protection (keeping criminals locked up even for longer timespans and thus literally preventing them from reoffending, which actually seems to be the key factor wrt. such longer sentences). So "prisons without punishment" could still be worthwhile and protect us from the most serious crimes. In many ways, being a prison inmate is punishment enough and the focus beyond that should very much be on rehabilitation that can benefit both the inmate and society as a whole.
Hold it, if react has such rendering issues, why any tech company or startup would use it, instead of angular/Vue?

I can't think of any good reason beside react native. Is react native, so good that it can compensate for such serious flaws?
No client side encryption yet.

I can't see any reason to implement a scanner in this way other than at least having E2EE as a possibility under consideration. They knew there was the possibility for PR backlash. Doing it on device also adds significant complexity. Meanwhile scanning on upload is a very common and well accepted (both legally and socially) practice.

On its own the current approach is all downsides and no upsides so there has to be something else going on here. Wanting to market iCloud as providing full E2EE is obvious and fits perfectly.
> they are not racist

"having racist effects" counts as a perfectly valid usage of the word.

This is a cheap sophistry:

1. It's only racist if it was intended to be.

2. You can't read minds.

3. Therefore, you can't say "this is racist."

This isn't a useful usage of the term, except for attempting to deflect people from calling out racist effects.
The issue is the Arctic is not likely to re-freeze even with Gulf Stream gone.

This is a little bit like bi-stable switch. Once it switches one way it wants to be in that position until there is enough force to push it the other way.
For precisely the reason being discussed here: GET requests can be performed automatically for many reasons. For example, if you've ever pasted a URL into a Slack channel (or similar) and seen the link converted into a thumbnail of the page a few moments later, you've seen a piece of software issue a GET request on your behalf. Now imagine that wasn't a link to a page but a link to an something that modified your account - resetting your password, for example.
How many times having to click a link (instead of entering a code) stopped you from finishing a sign-up process?
POST requests typically perform modifications on the server based on user action, like POST'ing this comment. GET requests should be idempotent.
We already have the technology to send people to Mars. We sent people on round trips to the moon 50 years ago, so a one way ticket to Mars now isn't really that hard. What we don't have is cost effective technology to send enough people and equipment for a permanent colony there. But at this point it's really just working on getting cost down (which Musk has done beautifully so far), we have a pretty good idea of how we'll get there.

On the other hand we just do not have the technology for a full humanoid robot, neither now nor the near future. An AI that can do mundane tasks like ironing and folding clothes is way beyond our grasp, and then there are the issue of limbs and power too.
My hunch is that HFCS is more versatile and cheaper than other sugar products, and it can compensate for garbage food in the same way. Therefore passably good tasting food is cheaper and more readily available than anything else.
Ahooks, React hooks library from Alibaba
Ask HN: Tooling Around SNS?
We are planning to adopt SNS as a mechanism for services to publish events to. We will have 8-10 teams that will adopt this and then scale to 30 teams.

We have been using Postman for the API development of HTTP APIs (debugging, testing, documentation, sharing with other teams).

Is there something similar that helps with the development for APIs that are asynchronous?
I feel like that's shifting goal posts.

Regardless, according to google, you can still eat field corn if you want to and it still has nutritional value.
High Fructose Corn Syrup is about half the price of regular sugar.

It would be an interesting thought experiment about what would happen to obesity levels if prices were taxed to the point where the price difference would be eliminated.
Payment processing being a public utility would result in less access to payment processing for services with a combination of high chargeback/fraud rates and opposition from some sections of the public
Only when growing. Stable biosphere is carbon neutral.
I love horror movies (especially sci-fi horror, big fan of The Thing, Alien, Event Horizon...), but I absolutely can't stand the jumpscares. I've been having to rely on https://wheresthejump.com/ for so long - basically I would search for a movie I wanted to watch, see if it had any jumpscares, then remember the timestamps, keep track of the time, and when it got close I would simply look away and take my headphones off for a while.

I thought I could build something to simplify the process, so I scraped the data for >540 movies and created an extension that automatically skips, mutes, or shows a warning when a jumpscare is about to happen. Currently it only works on Netflix (since that's all I have), but it could be expanded to work for Amazon Prime, Hulu, etc. I've open sourced the code on GitHub so anyone can contribute or make their own version.
That's the big misunderstanding here, isn't it? That software must be 'done', 'finished', 'feature complete', etc, in order to have major version number greater than 0.

I would (I hope), release version 1.0 soon after I notice people actually using the software, document the existing API, keep releasing new features as minor version updates (1.x), and occasionaly do a major version bump if I see that I must break the existing APIs. As semver prescribes.
I have 200 connections, all of whom are either people I have worked with and would be happy to catch up with and work with again, or recruiters whom I have spoken directly to that are active in my area and have legit jobs to share. It has connected to me to both permanent jobs, and contract gigs.

If you just spam connect to thousands of strangers, of course it won't be useful to you. It isn't a site to build a portfolio and show off skills, it is a site that can be used every few years to reconnect with old contacts when you are seeking work.
We've tried everything short of antidepressants (e.g. Wellbutrin). I was treated by specialised ADHD centre (they don't treat anything else) that we have here in the Netherlands.

In a lengthy conversation with the specialist after having tried and shot down every option under the sun, I was asked why I believed none of them worked and what I was then expecting. Turns out what I was experiencing was the norm; Current ADHD medication options are a lot like crutches or wheelchairs. Mitigations, nothing more.
> Lore and Carole’s emphasis on visual aesthetics led them to offer this choice of colors at a time when many companies gave little thought to what their computers looked like

Looking at their designs in the article, they just ooze cool.
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Isn’t GPS neccessary for the automatic emergency call when the car is in an accident?
I'm unsure whether you can still retool an automotive factory to produce war materiel. During WWII Ford automotive plants produced aircraft, but back then the construction techniques needed to build a bomber weren't all together different from a car (think larger engines and chassis).

> whether light and heavy armor is actually of military worth in an era of drones and air power is a question I don't have the military training or knowledge to answer.

On this point, it obviously depends on what kind of war we're fighting. The British used unarmoured and open top Land Rovers with 50cals mounted on the rear for the first few years in Afghanistan until the government got its act together (they looked cool, but were IED death traps). There's a similar story with the Humvee.

Nonetheless, civilian style vehicles had their use.
Did anyone else do the optional survey at the end? It contains the following question:

> If you wanted to create a company that is fair in terms of hiring practices, what percent of each of the following groups of people would you hire? [...] Please make sure the amounts you enter add about to approximately 100%. (The groups are Hispanic, White, Asian, and Black.)

What are they trying to learn from this, and how are you supposed to answer it?

1. You can't intentionally hire percentages of employees by race because that's illegal.

2. How do I make the amounts add up to approximately 100%? They left out some of the larger demographics (indigenous, and arab/Middle-Eastern are both larger populations than Black or Hispanic in my country).
Seeing the awfully bad spelling mistakes makes me feel like it's real. One can hardly fake these without being from the same background.
Hi, working for major telco here.

I think the realisation is that most data workloads aren't really big data, which people already knew back in 2015, but the same people will overengineer things just to learn stuff. The fad moved onto something else, I agree.

But my department is a giant, just-ETL, everything-requires-a-cluster kind of department. More than half of our business runs on Hadoop, for a reason.

The Hadoop ecosystem is a bit like K8s. If it feels too complicated for your purpose, it probably is. But with all its warts, when your data is big enough, either you use the Hadoop ecosystem or you reinvent significant parts of the wheel.
They're working a job that requires little work for good pay, not sure how this is any more abusive than any other job without a career path.

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Is King Aaron really that Jeffery Epstein? Is he alive?