skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> *Using one of my burner names and emails, I signed the NDA,

Any lawyer want to comment on that?
Saying conservatives are pushing for the ability to discriminate based on skin color, sexual orientation, and political beliefs is not additive to the discussion without further explanation. Conservatives claim the exact same thing about the left on issues like affirmative action and critical race theory.
That’s great! The more time managers don’t interrupt developers the better. Suggest that they extend the standups to 2 hours a day. It will make the developers even more productive (I am only half joking).
> awful engineering practices that underpin their products

Confluence has become an absolutely disgusting, bloated Javascript beast. The amount of JS that it loads is unbelievable.
I wrote a rant on why it's not, but you might be right. It's just that most analyses on it are straight up wrong.

Woody's made to be special, he's got the writing on the foot. He is the Chosen One. Same with Buzz. So that's an interesting setup.

The call to adventure is a bit iffy and the part I had trouble with.

The part of there being a bigger world is even more iffy, but it makes sense. Woody lives in the toy world. Buzz mentally lives in space. Woody and Buzz are made aware of the big physical world, Buzz is made aware of the toy world.

There's the second part, the journey, this is played straight.

The third part, where they refuse to come home are different for both Woody and Buzz. Buzz goes through this first at Sid's house, and later Woody. I think there's a bit of a play here in that they both give up but the other deuteragonist forces them to keep going.
Perfect accuracy in image classification is an unsolved problem. So yea, it's hard.
This comes from the same galaxy as https://www.yourworldoftext.com/
I agree.

It does seem worse that way.
Don’t worry! Cancel culture isn’t real.
Yeah sure, the problem isn’t that a small handful of companies get to control what’s on the internet, it’s that we’re not efficient enough at removing dissenting perspectives from society in general.
Cancel culture is out of control. It's disgusting. This isn't some Nazi. People who are against abortion think that it is murder. You can disagree with them but it's not like they are coming from some morally unjustified position. A person speaks out against what he thinks is murder, and ends up cancelled and resigning.

I love eating meat, I don't see it as murder but I would never agree to cancel someone because he decides to speak out his mind that meat is murder.
Chinese citizen in US. throwaway account for obvious reason. At this point CCP simply does not care about their image, they're in full process of reverting back to Mao-ism and cultural revolution. Cases in point:

- 赵薇 (Zhao wei), a very famous and popular actress in China, was recently scrubbed from the internet. Her work, including movies or tv series she produced, were scrubbed from streaming platform like Tencent. Her follow feature on Weibo was disabled. Pages that used to mention her now have blank space where her name used to be. This is part of a broader crackdown alongside tech, education, effeminate men, celebrities, etc. Some of these efforts have to do with reducing the foreign culture effects that could lead to discussions about western ideals like freedom or democracy.

- English is deemphasized in classrooms, even in Shanghai. What follows is now 'Grandpa xi Jing ping thoughts', for students as young as 6. The thoughts comprises of 14 principles that promote communist ideals.

- An unknown blogger named Li Guangman (李光满) posted claim that revolution is in the air in China, with profound transformation to be felt by all. https://chinamediaproject.org/2021/09/01/profound-transforma.... This post was spread by official party media websites, no doubt in support of the current CCP agendas.

- All this is in the backdrop of xi jing ping attempting to get his 3rd term next year. That will cement his legacy as the most powerful man since Mao, and his dictatorship for life.
> CCP is sometimes hilariously bad at international PR.

The one thing wrong here it is the PR is not international, it's for eyes, and ears of rich, and powerful people at home.
I don’t think it was universally successful on the cultural front (in the US). There are many places where no one will give a shit if you jaywalk or think any less of you, though maybe the effect has waned over the years. Legislatively, yes it was pretty universally successful.
This is just not borne out by the data. The gap between high school grads and college grads pay is getting wider and wider.

You shouldn't go to college if you aren't going to be a serious student and you'll be a legitimate risk for dropping out. But if you are willing to commit yourself and get decent grades, you'll be in much better shape than most people with just a high school diploma.

Your advice is also sounds really out of touch with what various jobs pay. The average new college grad makes like 60k or so.

I can only speak to my workplace and team, but we pay product designers with very little experience around 90k a year. I have no licenses and am not a professional engineer, and I make several times that.

The issue is that far too many people are going into debt for college degrees and not getting the degrees. That's the biggest. The secondary issue is that college is becoming more and more expensive, but it is still paying off for the majority of bachelor degree holders.
As I understand it, Chinese officials can be punished quite harshly by higher-ups to "set an example", which fosters a culture of fear, mistrust, and dishonesty. A child who gets a beating every time they do something wrong will quickly learn to lie.

I read a good article on this some time ago, but I can't seem to find it right now.
I don't really think the world needs AI right now. One can argue that the AI is making an innocent mistake and that calling an AI or ML (or it's improper training, however that works) "racist" is overblown rhetoric as people are here, but I think all of that aschews the actual issue. The problem is that AI and ML are primarily used for decision making, like in recommendation engines. These little gadgets that provide recommendations may be fairly low-stakes, but are theoretically proof-of-concepts for future applications like policing, fighting terrorism, or human trafficking. If you get it wrong there, the consequences are devastating. If people don't raise the flag about how wildly wrong the AI is now, then there will inevitably be a false confidence to use it for the aforementioned applications (and there are plenty of examples of how this has already happened).
> CEOs are allowed to publicly state their opinion if it is in favor of left leaning positions certifications but not conservative leaning positions.

The left is the dominate culture in the United States. Places of education and culture are all blue. The right has only won the popular vote once since 1988.

Mainstream culture has had it with conservative nonsense. We're tired of trying to drag the bible belt out of the 1950s. If you express conservative viewpoints, the people with all the buying power are not going to tolerate it.

I love it. It's the capitalism that conservatives always wanted.
That’s not quite complete, right? It’s that we don’t know how to do that without sacrificing other things.
Yes, but the difference is if you buy the next-to-last bottle there is still one left on the shelf for someone else, ostensibly.
Also rust updates fine in gentoo, as I know from compiling Firefox, but mentioning Gentoo all the time as an alternative to Ubuntu got old in 2012, hah.
> Texas’ recent decision to strip women of a basic human right.

"basic human right", what the actual F. Kotaku in action indeed.
I flagged for the same objection, but you put it better than my comment that landed at the same time, so I'm attaching it as a reply here instead.
The "downvote due to disagree" thing really annoys me. That and making the text become washed out. I hate it. Especially when I've seen excellent unpopular comments disappear because they were simply unpopular due to politics. Its anti-intellectual. I want to see unpopular comments because they often reveal something interesting.

People should be downvoting because its not appropriate intellectually (adds nothing, eg provides no evidence to back up a claim that obviously needs it). Flagging should be because it is simply inappropriate for usually offensive reasons.

I rarely comment now. I often don't see the point.

I've also often considered a tool to only provide the RSS feed for interesting article discovery then mostly ignore the comments completely. Comments on the ask/show sections are usually more signal than noise. Sometimes even the noise is interesting.

Upvotes should exist to make interesting content rise. Uninteresting content then simply sinks to the bottom.

But votes are a difficult problem to solve. I'm sure there are too many corner cases I've no idea about.
I understand the 2d-form is the real set of solutions for real parameters. What is the 3d-form?
Apple is one of the last companies I would consider 'open' on any front.
Most of the Youtubers who document what goes on in China are regularly demonetized. The CCP knows how to use Youtube's rules against creators.
2014, actually. 2017 was the date of the last commit.

https://github.com/Marlinski/Rumble/commit/4b8d07c3
Yes, he got to voice his opinion on social media. His opinion is gross to me, because the Texas law he is celebrating is (in my opinion) a terrible blow to gender equality, privacy and healthcare access -- which are particularly important things to me.

Based on his statement, my response is that I do not want to conduct any sort of business with his company. That's not a major hardship to me (I didn't like Killing Floor), and it's not a major hardship to them. However, there are more people who feel like I do, and apparently some of them WORK at Tripwire. If I was in their position, I would have quit. Perhaps the company leadership didn't want that to happen?

In short: who here has misbehaved to your mind? I am not legally required to financially support people who wish harm on me, am I? And let's be clear, people are already being harmed by this law -- this is not a mere disagreement on the finer points of jurisprudence.
Anything taken to extreme is a problem. Too much water will kill you. Not enough water will kill you. System level automatic testing has saved me hundreds of hours of work. And years of enjoying zero bugs in production. However I achieved that with zero unit testing. System level testing only.
Iran, Russia and even North-Korea have elections....
Communism is in with the kids nowadays, and society is largely not unified in anything, so I think this is going to be here to stay.
> This only happens in white people's brain.

'Eleven Jinping': Indian TV fires anchor over blooper.[1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-29274792
Tesla tells you what parts that can be replaced on your car, along with a ton of privacy invasion.

Predictions:
Tesla is the new Android of cars

Apple is the apple of cars

Apple doubles market cap to 5.0T by 2030-2035. The cap jump will be due to the introduction of the iCar and also getting non-invasive blood glucose monitoring to work. Just a guess.
When that happens it is bad, yes.

But you're also arguing that he needs to be able to get scarier when necessary, which is a weird thing to argue at the same time?
> unceremoniously killed by Twitter

Twitter wouldn't know a good product idea or how to find one if it hit them in the face.

They got lucky with the original Twitter product, but the biggest change since it has launched is increasing tweet length from 140 to 280 characters.

Compare that to Facebook who - for all their faults - know how to iterate on product ideas and leverage their platform to build new markets.
I don't know if I 100% align up with how you stated it, but yea, its a matter of training data set. I don't think these companies have published their training data set. But thinking back on the issue with asians and facial recognition on Apple's face ID. If they just choose 100 people at random, based off US statistics, 5-6 of those 100 people would have been Asian. And that reflects the 5.7 percent of the population is Asian. And we probably all agree 5-6 people is not a sufficient data set, but picking 100 people at random would be a pretty easy assumption to make for making a data set.

So yea, I think it is an issue with generating a data set and not hitting a sufficient amount of test cases. Because in this instance, asians would be an edge case where creating a small data set to train an algorithm on with a group with a lower representation in the population.
Intel's hubris is still getting in the way.

When companies like Cloudflare are openly announcing that none of their upcoming servers will use Intel, you have to admit something's wrong.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/01/cloudflare_picks_amd_...

> "We evaluated Intel's latest generation of 'Ice Lake' Xeon processors," Howells wrote. "Although Intel's chips were able to compete with AMD in terms of raw performance, the power consumption was several hundred watts higher per server – that's enormous."

Lake has turned out to be Intel's decline into Bulldozer chip style design issues. They might perform fine but they're too hot, too outdated and too expensive.
The end outcome and impact on everyone (in your case, the deceased, the family) depends on intent.

Doesn’t change the original statement I made one bit
Agree. Automatic system/user level testing is awesome. Automatic unit/module/class testing is a waste of time.
I'd say seeing a 9-0 ratio is an outlier for sure, and maybe we don't need much deeper thought than that. I do, suspect, however, that women are more likely to go to the library than men. My assumption on this is the higher grades that female students earn on average.
>Us humans are super good at distinguishing faces.

It would be interesting to test a bunch of midwesterners at their ability to tell Asians apart or to be able to distinguish various Asian ethnicities. My guess is that a lot of the distinguishing features that they look for are altered or missing.
Always wondered if you could solve housing issues by high speed rail, like Sacramento-Bay area (not a local so I could be completely wrong)
As soon as the whole front page is links to paywalled MSM sites, I already check the (source) before clicking.

If I wanted to read the headlines and first paragraph of articles in the NYT I'd just sign up for their daily email digest.
As they should. All humans are primates, just because you're white doesn't mean you're a lizard.
> AMD has stopped selling mid-market & down-market.

Chip shortages and supply chain issues, bruh. Let's not pretend it's not also affecting other suppliers. It's not an AMD issue.
Thanks for your reply. I think you're touching on a different issue as well: "Everything I say is knowable by everyone, forever." For most of human history the words and ideas that came out of most people's mouths were not recorded and were almost immediately forgotten. This tends to winnow out many bad ideas, as only something truly remarkable would bear the effort of writing it down or of remembering it to speak to someone else later.

Our current social media world does not allow people to make mistakes or to learn, explore and develop. That is one of the many reasons I stay off it completely (forestalling any 'HN is social media' comments, I post only here (and that carefully) and from my Reddit porn account (whose reputation has been so thoroughly destroyed, I do not even try to bring good from it.)) It is very liberating. And later, when I take over the world, there will not be 20 years of public posts where I learned who and what I was about to drag me down.

Anyway, thanks for your thoughts.
Generally agree, but Chia plotting is REALLY write intensive workload.
I'd say more like "close enough", which is frankly good enough for most people. I'd go as far as to say that Linux's userbase exists despite Linus's personality and intelligence.
Google: hold my beer
fwiw Trello is owned by Atlassian.
I don't like these stories. It always trends towards the most inflammatory arguments, those being inherint bias and unconscious racism put upon our technology. Real issues in those topics aside, are any articles like this doing anything but feeding flames and generating ad revenue?

Instead, I want to talk about pareidolia. Humans are social creatures. We have evolved to identify others of our kind and read their expressions. This was important to us, as we evolved alongside gorilla analogues as well, and the few of us that couldn't discern one face from another didn't usually last long.

I think we're trying to place too much of a human expectation onto these machines. I think that human features and primate features are strikingly similar, and it's our specialized brains that let us so easily discern. Yes, with enough data and training we could have more accurate models, but we can't cry foul everytime an algorithm doesn't behave like a human does.

Reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/Pareidolia/
Those are all rational actors. Many people are irrationally greedy.
Does the average HR manager not have a college degree?
Even if it was fixed, in a probabilistic system like this, isn't it basically guaranteed to happen with some inputs?
[self-censored to prevent further downvotes because HN is downvoting me for what I said and the delete button is gone; sorry it seems discussion about solutions to racial issues isn't welcome here]
Are you open to new graduates for web?
> But you're also arguing that he needs to be able to get scarier

No I'm not. The opposite.

If the only tool you know how to use is abuse, then when you need more all you can do is abuse more and more, to the point where you are literally encouraging people to kill themselves.

If you learn other tools you can use them instead when needed and they have an impact.

If I heard Mister Rogers say something was extremely serious I’d stop and listen because he’s a calm and reasonable person. If I heard Linus telling another person to kill themselves I’d think it was him being terrible again but I wouldn’t take notice of what he’s trying to say because he uses that kind of abuse for minor things anyway.
+1 on jobs.

It's fun to play sim-city, but if you don't have a plan for what new industries your new city is going to be supporting you're not attracting new residents.
>that's several generations behind on chip fabrication. They are still trying to ramp up 10 nm while TSMC is unveiling 4 nm any day now.

It's worth noting that Intel 10nm can't be directly compared with TSMC 4nm. AFAIK Intel 10nm approximately equals TSMC 7nm. TSMC 4nm sounds like an iterative refinement on 5nm, so intel is only really one to two generations behind, not "several".
> For product-level user-facing documentation written by non-engineers I think it's entirely appropriate to use a different tool.

I fantasize about an environment where a GUI's internals and interfaces are annotated sufficiently to discretely call from unit and integration tests, and version-controlled instances of those are linked to non-technical task management, user documentation, support tickets, support knowledge bases, patch configuration management, and so on. In this fantasy, if code changes a GUI element enough to alter its appearance or fail a unit test of the GUI, it automatically triggers a re-imaging of snapshots for it in all downstream linked documentation references and issues PR's for human intervention reviews of the new images (with adjustable cropping for finalized approvals).

That's my holy grail of single-source documentation.
Yes TikTok has ads AND the ad rates are pretty high (I worked in marketing tech for a while and saw the rate card and the huge amount companies spend there)
To play devil advocate, maybe the station fired her for ignorance of current events.
> What if it’s gas produced in-country and its used as a military fill station? Particularly if it’s always available despite foreign political events.

Except local solar requires fewer resources of every kind than satellite solar. You're more likely in every way to get cut off from the space version.

> Or perhaps it’ll become possible to use for recharging electric airplanes in-flight. In that case the ability to “beam” worldwide might offset the cost of ground based grid of towers or ocean barges, etc.

That would be cool. But it's a very different problem from grid power. I don't think it counts as a reason to beam dedicated space power to ground stations.
> why can he not voice his opinion on his personal social media

He did.

So did other people, so everyone’s rights were well-maintained. They also made purchasing decisions. Would you deny them the right to choose a different service provider?
I wonder if AIs are good at distinguishing individual gorillas, etc. I'd never really thought about the problem of classification being harder (perhaps) than identification if you see what I mean.
If you being employed loses the company money you will be fired. That's true for every employee. It's just that people are more likely to boycott a company for something the CEO says.

Would you like to ban people from deciding which companies they support or ban companies from firing people that cost them money?
that takes a lot of discipline
Sector 63 used to be common, but I think every modern OS defaults to 2048 now. I know Windows does when installing fresh.
Thankyou for replying, but I feel you are reinforcing the dichotomy I described: you are saying because it is effective in one dimension (eg. reducing deaths), we should live with any inadequacies.

There is certainly an incentive to make a mostly safe and effective vaccine, but what incentive is there to make the best one possible? Especially when they are given complete indemnity for their decisions, and walking through preopened gates of government approvals. I feel there is a big moral hazard here that we just hand-wave away.
Texas law forbids abortion even in case of rape/incest. However, per Gallup (your link) 77% of the people think it should be legal for rape/incest.
Give me the ability to hide certain sites (like Medium, the WSJ, and Substack) and I'll happily switch. HN gets too much spam from content farms, content marketers, and propaganda outlets owned by News Corp.
One thing I am starting to wonder about is if there is a systematic guidance counseling failing in high schools and colleges. There are so many well paying tech jobs that we just aren't getting that many candidates for. Forget not having a great gender ratio, it is often hard to find a lot of candidates for my openings. If I can't offer sponsorship, it can take awhile

There clearly seems to be a lot more knowledge in some countries about which jobs lead to high paying careers, and the U.S. still has an antiquated mindset about this.
“The Book of All Skies” by Greg Egan
OsiriX viewer. I got it to view my before/after CT scans to see exactly what happened in surgery. It's pretty wild being able to see inside yourself.

The site: https://www.osirix-viewer.com

The repo: https://github.com/pixmeo/osirix
It seems like there might be a trend to use evolutionary learning (genetic algorithms) in conjunction with RL.

That is what Deepmind did with the recent open-ended play agents [1] in order to create more generally capable agents (among a lot of other specific things). In the DeepMind case the largest variable is the environment. In the Intel case the largest variable is the the humanoid component. However both are using task specificity in some narrow task to then bootstrap a combination function to solve more general tasks.

That's definitely a good approach and definitely has a lot of good history showing it's effectiveness. The reason it's notable is because of how it's acknowledging that ensemble methods really are powerful and (especially with RL) that those are likely the way toward extremely general and flexible agents.

[1]https://deepmind.com/blog/article/generally-capable-agents-e...