skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Objective-C is really a fairly simple language. Swift has complexity that approach that of C++.
Oh definitely, I mean I enjoyed "The Wizard Of Speed And Time" a lot when I finally saw it even though its plot was basically "an excuse for Mike Jittlov to do a bunch of effects shots".
"The first phase of construction, which would accommodate 50,000 residents across 1,500 acres, comes with an estimated cost of $25 billion."

$500,000 each for the first 50,000. Guessing I wouldn't fit into that "new model for society."
If it's a marketing ploy, then the CCP can counter it easily --- let his wife leave China and --- when free --- tell the world that that conversation never happened.
That's interesting. It may have done the same with white people the same amount but nobody called the BBC to whine, or the BBC didn't care about that.
We are, and when it labels both black and white people that, perhaps we can consider that a fair point.
I was just thinking about that. Unfortunately it just makes the bias harder to detect.

Once you search for these:

https://www.google.com/search?q=human+female+face&tbm=isch

https://www.google.com/search?q=human+male+face&tbm=isch

You can see that 'human face' has a bit of post-hoc tuning.

https://www.google.com/search?q=human+face&tbm=isch
You'll be absolutely steamed if I tell you all of the job "applications" were inbound inquiries whereby the companies approached me and I actively avoided using a single external technical recruiter. I applied for only a single position, at the insistence of my wife.

The only place that required a C.V. was someone in HR at the FANG. I used the same C.V. to send to the company my wife wanted me to apply at. I had to create a C.V. specifically to satisfy HR. I haven't used a C.V. in almost 20 years when looking for work. The last time I built a C.V. was when the company I worked for got acquihired and that was 9 years ago.

I don't think my C.V. got looked at once during the entire interview process. Nobody I spoke with even mentioned my C.V.

I'm not a particularly strong candidate, below average intelligence, so-so education.

C.V is here: https://justin-lloyd.com/

There's nothing remarkable about my C.V. that would get anyone hired, and I know this because nobody ever looked at it.
That's an excellent point. I don't to live in a New York/Tokyo/Stockholm chimera, I want to live in a modern version of Mayberry or Grover's Corners.
Consider too what they are likely using for inputs: photos with associated comments.

I don't know Facebook's TOS sufficiently to know whether they are using private groups as source material, but if you're utilizing bigoted content to train pattern recognition, you will replicate bigoted content.
Oh of cuz I know there are a lot of skunks. Many were convicted everyday, just read any Chinese news outlets in China.
I think they'd allow it.

You can watch Death by China on YouTube, the film production of the book by Peter Navarro, which was narrated by Martin Sheen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMlmjXtnIXI
But you can combine the inertial movement from the laser sensor and the GPS sensor to get a far better picture.

FAA was investing heavily into this iirc, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local-area_augmentation_system
I’m not an expert in this field. What are the likely root causes for this happening?
> I find number with an infinite number of decimals quite an abstract concept.

If students are familiar with the idea that fractions can be represented as repeating decimals and are introduced to π as a non-repeating decimal, then I think the idea of the set of all possibly repeating decimals should make sense to them.

> Another issue with this is that it confuses numbers with their representation.

It's probably worth acknowledging that some numbers have multiple representations just to avoid arguments about whether 0.999.. = 1.

However, is it much worse to say that a real number is an equivalence class containing 1 or 2 infinite decimals than to say that a real number is a non-empty, downwards closed, proper subset of the rationals? I agree it's nicer to define the reals as a field with some extra properties, but I'm not convinced it's wrong to say that they are their representation.
Now you've made me wonder what it thinks about albino gorillas.

e: I assume something similar has been done before by training a model on brown/black bears then throwing polar bears at it. Anyone know the outcome?
Go read Permutation City... There's two threads of simulation, one which is hacky video games style, and the other is built up entirely from simple physics.
How would you feel if you’d be labeled supremacist (only if your skin complexion was white)? After all the human species is the supreme species... Oh well I guess that wouldn’t bother you and you’d take it as a compliment. Now imagine the reverse of a compliment, to be given one of the labels that has been used again and again to belittle you, to make you feel inferior (only to make others feel above you), a label which you’d get stamped on regardless of any of your acomplishments, qualities, virtues and so on.
Reported by the same NPR that published this:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-med...

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/npr-trashes-free-speech-a-brie...

Unfortunately they aren't exactly a proponent of free speech themselves.
The claim comes from Chia devs themselves, who recommend not using consumer-grade drives due to their low endurance.

> The one thing in common will be that you need high endurance, due to the fact that it take almost ~1.8TB of writes using the -e flag or 1.6TB without that option to create a single K=32 plot.

> Endurance is how much data can be written to the SSD before it wears out. In Chia this is important because a plotting SSD will generally be at 100% duty cycle and writing all day.

> A mixed use or high endurance data center or enterprise SSD is the best choice for plotting. Used SSDs with plenty of endurance can be found for a good value on eBay, Craigslist, or similar.

> Consumer NVMe SSDs are generally not recommended due to the lower endurance, and they often employ caching algorithms to faster media (SLC, or single level cell) for great bursty performance. They do not perform well under heavy workload sustained IO. There are very high performance consumer NVMe SSDs that will offer great plotting performance, but the lower rated endurance in TBW will result in a faster wearout.

https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain/wiki/SSD-End...
If a human did it with intent to offend, they would. But if a black person genuinely looked like a primate to human eyes, that would be pretty shitty to fire the poor worker who had no way of knowing. Here, the AI isn't trying to offend so maybe there should be no consequences and people should stop demanding severe punishment for minor accidental insults.
I feel that 0-failure-rate expectations from technology will keep us from progressing as a species.

Facebook disabled Thai-to-English translation back in April because it translated the queen as “slut” and it’s been disabled since.

Maybe we should learn to accept non-fatal errors from applications instead of forcing things to stop entirely.

I find it ridiculous that my Photos app suggests I change monkey to “lemur” while I have plenty of photos of monkeys and zero of lemurs.
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> every car on the road needs to be replaced with an EV/Hybrid

What needs to happen is for [almost] every car on the road to be replaced. Period.

We need better transit systems. We need better developed urban areas. We don't need yet another car manufacturer pushing for more car ownership (most of which sit idle for 99% of the time, requiring massive land areas to accommodate).

Car ownership as it currently stands (polluting or not) is not sustainable.
For systems that are small but not tiny, one could consider runit or s6.
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There was a discussion of this in a sibling thread with more context.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28416909
We can look at projects like FreeBSD and NetBSD. Perhaps Linux kernel development will go to a similar board model?
Then it’s no longer a skills test but an aptitude test. That’s fine if we’re all happy to call it that.
Less transphobia and general lack of social consciousness. I'm often on the edge of not reading HN as it is for those reasons, but unfortunately there isn't anything else like its better sides.
> and when it labels both black and white people

Unfortunately the article doesn't provide any details on whether that was the case or not. I'm finding it very difficult to form an opinion about this specific issue without having more info.
The home Rental market is significantly smaller than home streaming. Icarus has over 700 Million Views [1] where as this one was the third most rented title for a week on Itunes, so yes relatively speaking no one is watching it.

The platforms did not want his content, even though he is an academy award winning documentary director. You can read his interview with Variety below.

1. https://variety.com/2021/film/news/the-dissident-saudi-arabi...
> Gorillas have black and human-like faces.

Chimpanzees often have 'white' and human-life faces. Are these algorithms ever classifying white people as chimpanzees?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee#/media/File:Chimpan...
Yes they are. The ones I have seen, he is also insanely honest in his assessment of stuff.
I Noped out. The page downloads at least 10MB over 30 seconds before even showing anything.
No, ad hominem occurs when you use who a person is rather than their argument to claim they are incorrect. Here's a definition from Google:

> (of an argument or reaction) directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining.

Nothing about a reputation or using it to discredit them.

For example, I'm not a calculus teacher, therefore I couldn't possibly form a valid argument about how teaching works. That would be an ad hominem, because it focuses on who I am (not a teacher), rather than what I've said (the teacher I was replying to hasn't eliminated any variables at all before drawing their conclusion). (It's also nonsensical, considering how many other things people teach, and how small a percentage of all teachers calculus teaching ends up being, and how unrelated-to-the-science-of-education calculus is).

It's actually funny, because the example you've given isn't an ad hominem, since you have evidence to support the idea that I can't cook (the burnt toast). You're equating an absence of information about me with specific data, which is different.
I’m fairly certain if you showed pictures of both groups to a toddler they’d be able to sort them correctly. It’s really not hard for a human to tell the difference. Which tells me that FB’s AI isn’t really that great.
I worked for another computer vision company, Clarifai that had the same issue. One of the employees noticed it and we retrained the model before it became public.
Frankly, widespread social instability in China isn't in the US's interest any more than it is in Xi's. We are very dependent on them, and will be for some time.

The fallout from a massive propaganda campaign would be very bad for us if it were to fail to depose the CCP, and not much better for us if it were to succeed.
I read the comment in a different way: We are all literally primates. Humans and apes share a lot of physical characteristics. It's not odd that an AI would confuse humans with primates, it's just unfortunate.
I would be interested to know if young children would do much better in many cases.

When I was quite young, I referred to some firefighters as robots.
The tournament was probably held to find someone to play against Dan so part of the terms of winning in the contract would be participating in the one on one game. It'd be cheaper than directly paying someone to play against him probably and the revenue from the game with Dan would cover the prize cost of the feeder tournament.
Production and selection are distinct acts.

Selection is control.
There is no “outside” and “inside” anymore. Have you ever had a penetration test on your network?
Have you tried libkj? It’s the c++ runtime that underpowers Cap’n’proto’s RPC layer as well as Cloudflare Workers. Has many of the same features - curious how you find the documentation.

Disclaimer: I work at Cloudflare.
I definitely agree that it would be better if LLVM has a more flattened learning curve and a more accessible manual.

I'm only pointing out that many "problems" listed in the post are intentional design choices for good reasons. They are not downsides that should be improved.
Oh f-ing hell. Do we have to go through this on this thread too? Just like the last one?

Labeling people of African descent as primates is INSANELY racist. This is not a grey area.

It doesn’t matter if it may be correct from an anthropological perspective, it is NEVER OK in general society.

No one should be defending this. As the (current) top comment points it this has caused huge problems twice in the past. Not to mention all the other incidents where poorly trained AI or badly written software just flat out ignores people with dark skin exist. Like that case a few years ago where a ‘face unlock’ feature on some computer wouldn’t even detect the face of a black person.

Please. Don’t defend this. Don’t make excuses. It should have been tested for. It should never have been released (or previewed, or anything else) with this behavior.

And the fact it was is shameful.
I will update the readme
I understand this is a divisive political issue, but why can he not voice his opinion on his personal social media? 39% of Americans believe abortion should be illegal in all/most cases. Should this very large group of people not be employable because of this opinion?
This is, of course, more of a fun joke.

More seriously, it would be great to have the good parts of systemd (logind, ability to control containers, the runner of unit files) implemented independently and without the "invasive" parts like control of DNS or binary logging.
Marijuana's status as illegal federally but "legal" in states is setting some interesting groundwork for the same kind of thing to happen in the US.
If self-managed Nomad was easier for them to configure than a managed K8s distribution, then a self-managed (possibly with custom patches) system probably would have been even worse.
A: Testing, dogfeeding, bug reports! I can handle code-related jobs but I alone cannot handle testing all variable usecases! ;) Thanks!
I think the core difference is that one is a honest mistake and the latter is just deprecating. It’s fine if AI calls me “white treehouse” but it’s less fine if it labels me “stupid”, even if my face really looks stupid.

The reality is that people have become extremely sensitive about some topics even if they’re not the recipients of the perceived insult.
You can't just "test" a neural network like that. For all you know they tested a thousand pictures of Chimpanzees and Gorillas against the network, but for some reason the NN decided to classify the photo differently because the subject was standing in front of the wrong kind of tree or wearing a funny-colored hat.

There's no super reliable way to prevent this (with current tech) other than forbidding that output entirely.
All of this is correct.

Neural nets, in particular, aren't objective... They're bias-learning engines. Their whole raison d'etre is to take (in this case) a bunch of images and go "Okay... Humans believe these random patterns of pixels have semantically different meanings. I'm going to try to explore a space of what those differences could be until they tell me I got it right." If there are things we as humans care about classifying differently that we fail to tell the computer, it won't know to separate them.

The fact we keep making this mistake is a real problem. And it's a human problem, not an algorithm problem.
There's also this incident:

[...]I got a call from Mel Moser, who was the marketing manager at GGPoker. She had "great news". They would be sponsoring my entry into the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Heads-up tournament – a $10,000 buy-in event. "I hope you are excited!", she said.

I was not. What I felt was unprepared, and out-of-my-depth. My attempt to throttle the rise of panic was futile. My attempt to feign excitement even more so. "Oh… wow… this is …. amazing… thank you," I replied.

Like, was she now legally obligated to do this? Could she just say "uh no thanks, I won $10k and that is more than enough for right now"? If she did, how long did she sit there weighing her options between dropping off or trying to see how far she could ride this tiger she'd accidentally sat on?

In her conclusion she basically says that, whether or not she beats Mr Rich Butthead, the true victory was the friends she made along the way. But somehow my general experience with entertainment media suggests that a lot of those people will stop calling her if she loses; they see a chance to hitch themselves to a possible rising star, and it's gonna be nowhere near the first time they've done that and eventually made some cold calculations about how much time and effort to invest in her if this one win was just a lucky fluke.
If it had tagged all humans in all photos as primates; this wouldn't be newsworthy- but it didn’t do that. It only tagged black people. Which if you can empathise with others, is understandably offensive.
Climate change mitigation.
I don’t blame them, black people really do act like primates sometimes. Take south Chicago for example
To get silence in a Japanese city, you just buy a pair of Boise or Apple noise canceling earbuds, and to talk you just buy SOURCENEXT's POCKETALK ai translation device with licensed Doraemon theme. Of course it just translates commons to コモンズ.
I was thinking about this exact thing standing in the noisy headphone section of Yodobashi camera. why must i pay for silence..?
Its always interesting how the warnings of old cultural theorists seem to taken as an instruction manual.
It's the difference between iterated and one-time games.

Shum has a decision to Publish or Not Publish (P or NP). CCP has the decision to Retaliate or Not Retaliate (R or NR). In a one-time game, Shun chooses P and CCP chooses NR, because P/NR > P/R for CCP.

A one-time game may be a good model if there's only one thing you wish to keep out of the public eye (e.g. photos of Barbara Streisand's house). But CCP will play this game many times: establishing that they're able and willing to harm their critics, even at cost to themselves, has value. It encourages future critics to never publish in the first place.
One of the responsibilities of being the boss is to avoid alienating customers, employees, or partners. It sounds as if he did all three.
It's easy if the company is small, but what do you do when you've got a 5,000-person company and an established H.R. team? Scalability is everything when it comes to hiring methodology.
39% of Americans are not public figures.

Public figures can and regularly do get shit canned for what they say. That's an integral part of the job.
There’s an infinite number of non-ideal permutations you could bring up. Those can be hammered out by the court system and legal precedent, or any issues can be worked by legislature or put back to the voters.
While I don't have a source, it seems clear that with sufficient training data they could do better at avoiding this mistake. This should not be hard.
Yeah right! The author of this book received a call in the past 24 hours (as stated in there - "Now, obviously, you know, looking at the development in the last 24 hours, I can understand why."), book publication is tomorrow. So yeah, NPR put all their efforts to verify this story at such a short notice.

People have faked their own assaults (remember Jussie Smollet) and news agencies have gone ahead and published that as a truth without verification and people think NPR will verify a story about someone getting a phone call.
I don’t get it. The House of Windsor operates a lot of land and businesses through the extended family. Why should we treat the Son of Heaven any different?
For reference - https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx

Views on abortion have been mostly static since 1975 in the US population as a whole. ~30% “legal under any”, ~50% “legal only under certain”, ~20% “illegal in all”.

It’s interesting, but unsurprising, to see that publicly speaking in favor of a 70% popular opinion would lead to issues in tech related industries such as gaming. Due to various factors like education polarization, only speaking out in favor of the 30% “Legal under any circumstances” view would be seen as acceptable in the industry.
Probably, yeah. It'd be nice if she'd spared one damn sentence to say "it turned out that this prize came with an obligation to go play against this asshole I'd never heard of in a few months".
Some people have weird faces. Maybe these black guys had strange, guerilla-like faces? Jut some more fodder for the angry mob.
The video features white and black men. It seems like concluding the algorithm is calling black men primates is the same kind of error people are accusing the algorithm/Facebook of. i.e. The reason you think it's racist is because you assume it's talking about black people specifically suggesting you think the word is more apt to describe black people.

Primates and humans are similar labels. This was almost certainly not intentional. Video classifiers are going to make mistakes - sometimes crude or offensive ones. I don't get outrage over labeling errors like this. Facebook should fix the issue - but they shouldn't apologize. It only encourages grievance seekers.
The unfortunate thing is that monopoly often comes with control.

In the face of an overwhelming US monopoly of popular entertainment --- cinema, television, music, comics, and books --- the rest of the world ... had relatively little power. Yes, there are localised (and often government-supported / encouraged / incentivised) instances of each. But it was US pop culture that defined the direction and movement from the 1950s onward.

(For the pedants, 1) I love you, you're my third favourite people, except on the second Thursday of the month, and 2) "defined" != "there were no other influences.)
Simple. Take a look at the dark net. Anything that exists there but not on the clear net is censored. e.g. Pro-nazi, anti-humanity, hatred, drugs, CSAM, extreme criminal information is censored from the clear web. Absolute freedom gives you absolute chaos. It is just a matter of degree of "freedom".
you're leaving out algorithmic discovery and promotion, widely considered tiktok's secret sauce
All the comments on this thread will be exactly the same as the comments on the Eich threads from years ago. I'm reminded of what Talleyrand wrote about the Bourbons: they have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

Look: nobody should ever lose his job for voicing political opinions in his capacity as a private human being --- and yes, this principle applies to political opinions you or I don't like. What's going on right now is no different from 1950s blacklisting except that the sides are flipped. If you object to McCarthyism and don't object to this, then you're just a partisan unmoored to any principle of discourse higher than getting your team to win at any cost. You can be that way if you want, but you should at least be honest with yourself about it.
The middle part isn’t a project, though. The concept of “project” and the iron triangle are inseparable. The middle necessarily means the iron triangle isn’t being used.
The reason these companies don't fix these systems is because they don't know how. It is easier to remove certain outputs or retire the whole system. There is no line of code they can tweak.
Guilty in the same sense that the oligarchs that Putin slaps down are guilty- stopping paying fealty to the monarch, not in doing anything else differently than the other cadre members.