skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The uncomfortable truth is that black people more closely resemble "primates" than other races by virtue of their pigmentation. This isn't racist, it's reality.
> My primary computing device is made by Apple - 60%

I'm trying so very, very hard to provide an open alternative that matches its value-prop...
Good for them, but not all of us have billions and can wait for years for the perfect candidate while also constantly complaining about the lack of skilled developers. Some of us just train our own instead and get on with our lives.
Random Thoughts on China's Model vs. America's
>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.

Oh well, it's the times we live in.

If people simply laughed at the results and fixed the problems they'd miss all the endorphin rush of outrage.
We’re assuming it because that’s exactly what has happened with other products in the past. It’s an issue the field has struggled with, so it seems likely.
That’s all interesting and you make good points but…

I think the conversation can be made a lot simpler.

AI isn’t ready for anything important. Done. That’s it. If one of the pioneers in the field can’t determine black peoples from primates - it isn’t ready for driving or war or legal matters or really anything of importance.

I think we (colloquial) made something kinda cool and jumped the gun on when and where to use it.
He didn't lose his job for voicing a political opinion. He lost his job because they started having real financial impact (contractors dropping out etc.). Are you going to decree that others are forbidden to react to his comments?
Wow, what else? Did it also label them as "Homo Sapiens"?
It would be interesting to have a network with a time bank like BBSs were. You get x time every Y hours to read or comment. It would be like noprocrast but not configurable. I think I may make it...
If the network only forwarded/spread information that is linked with [friends],[near-friends], [distant-friends] as selected by the user, this would create a social network that more closely the uses actual social network.

If the chain of in-person interactions for a [distant-friend] becomes broke (for instance, because a friend connection link drops out) that information is trimmed from the user’s network.

Perhaps this incentivizes direct social interaction rather the false social interactions of legacy networks.
Troubling. The Texas law is horrific, but people, even CEOs, should be allowed to espouse "wrong political views" without fear of losing their economic life. In a world where so much speech is paid for, it's valuable for people to speak on their own behalf. It's part of what makes America great. And go ahead and criticize! But firing? Cancelling? Is that the price of the sin of sharing your personal political opinion these days?

There were two mistakes made here, but the mistake that chills speech and punishes dissent, without limit, is, in the long run, far worse for our society.
"exercise & eat right, & check their cardiopulmonary functionality regularly"
Yet Tibet is still part of China, with no signs of that changing in the foreseeable future.

I don't think China is "bad at PR"; they just don't care what you or I think. In international relations it seems a small hindrance at best, and it sends a clear signal to both Chinese people and everyone else: "we just do what we want, just try and stop us".

Caring about PR is a property of democratic systems.
If you mean representations using finite sequences, sure. But the set of all infinite sequences (e.g., of digits) is uncountable.
My point still stands: knowing that something doesn't work is useful. The post I was replying to was attempting to justify mocking. As if that is something worth doing.

I've spoken to multiple scientists that are actively avoiding studying or running experiments of possible treatments due to the political impacts. This is a worrying trend.

We should be very concerned when scientists are threatened or mocked for confirming whether or not a drug could work. Especially against a virus we didn't know much about.

BTW that was simply the first article I found in a very lazy web search. I didn't imply it showed anything other than ivermectin could work. Yet according to the narrative, even running an experiment is justification for mockery and ridicule.

That is anti-science. Its also part of a general dysfunction of present science around replication of results because something "obvious" isn't being verified. The old "emperor has no clothes" problem.
Oooh I didn't know this had a name. Family members have fallen victim to this several times to con men that came into their churches and pretended to be "one of them" and had a special ponzi or pyramid scheme from God to share. The churchgoers instantly let their guard down, what an easy con. People in a church already have a tendency to believe in things.
Why diverse hires can't always escape tokenism
Right, there's a strong line among all the really publically disappeared people which is that they are all pretty likely to be deeply linked into the entire corrupt machinations of the system.

Like with Zhao Wei. You think you get to be a billionaire from just being a good actor?

But even the worst kind of people deserve due process and like... some notion of rule of law. I think conflating "this person is being treated inhumanely" and "this person is a good person" are often conflated though, making it too easy to derail conversations about these kinds of cases.

I don't know much about this person's case. It could be that there's legitimate reasons for this person's wife to be in jail. But this sort of bargaining of a person's freedom for this kind of thing is really nasty. It's not something unique to China (there are lots of nasty US plea deals that involve essentially trading your freedom for someone else's), but honestly pretty unique when it comes to people that are clearly extremely wealthy.
A huge chunk of well paying jobs literally require at least a bachelors degree, and you can't submit your SAT scores instead.

I think we can say it is in fact causal that on average a college degree earns more money than not having one just by this fact alone.
The government in Singapore very effectively incentivises cleanliness by littering fines, Corrective Work Orders for repeat offenders (put on orange vest, go pick up trash for a day), and a small army of laborers cleaning up at night.

Birth incentives don't work quite as well, because a $500 voucher doesn't go very far in a country where a public housing flat can sell for $1,000,000 and the schooling system is a pressure cooker mandating extensive paid tuition.
> Facebook, like a lot of tech companies, has long had problems with diversity in engineering.

If that is the case, why is it that Google voice nav routinely butchers the names of places and roads in India in spite of having thousands of Indian engineers on staff?

Could we blame the intractability of the problem, or just plain old incompetence, before we blame every single problem in the world on racism and lack of 'diversity'?
Now that you mention it, it's a little odd that VMware isn't used by any of the major cloud providers while they also haven't created their own Cloud Provider. It seems like they are very few hires away from a core competency in competing with at least GCP or Azure.

Makes me wonder why, is it because they see a big future yet in on-prem and can't really embrace cloud computing until that future looks less certain?
Soil Organic Carbon levels? Don’t most plants get most or all of their carbon (and mass) from carbon dioxide in the air during respiration?
The world is complex and nuanced, and any "best possible world" will therefore be complex and nuanced. I did not advocate for the complete removal of all anonymity, which might have prevented important historical events. I advocated for "whatever your idea is should be reflected on your reputation".

In a "best possible world" there is a time and place for anonymous speech. But "I can create troll accounts faster than you can ban them" (which is what we have now) is not on the road to that world.
Is it even a confusion?

Humans are primates. It's weird that it selected such a broad label, but it didn't select an incorrect label.
I suspect you'd agree that people are allowed to choose which companies they support (for whatever reason) and companies are allowed to fire people that cost them money. If you believe those two then this is an obvious outcome.
It’s all “don’t tread on me” with these people until it comes to women’s rights. Laughable. At least he stood down.
What’s being reported is that there is a single video which is mislabeled. For all we know, they did test for this, and believed there was no issue.

AI models are deterministic in a purely technical sense, but practically speaking, they are non-deterministic black boxes. It’s not as if you can write a unit test which generates all possible videos of black people and makes sure it never outputs “gorilla”.
I wonder what the datasets of companies like Xiaomi look like. FaceID always worked for me, so it seems like it works for non-asian faces.
Which is exactly why anyone who treats the CCP or any member or advocate as anything other than an illegitimate, brutally dishonest, murderous, expansionist authoritarian state is a fool, or willing to tolerate such for their own temporary gain.
Landau's "Foundations of Analysis"
If services like this exist, why wouldn't they keep 100% for themselves?
This is what Sara Morrison deserves for using Gmail. If they had half a brain or knowledgeable friends they'd have their own domain with MX records pointing to alias-friendly services like Fastmail or Posteo.
People here always say, how TikTok algorithm is "amazing"; while every time I try it, I just see teenagers badly dancing.
Jeff Bezos and the New Pharoahs
Us humans can tell the difference between a human eye and a gorilla eye 100% of the time because it's incredibly easy.
The point.. is that even though he knows it’s horrific, …he still supports it. Enough is enough.
A Probabilistic Betting Framework
My guess is that the poster was making an assumption that a large part of facebook's images are bigoted content. I am neither agreeing or disagreeing. But apparently some people got a little emotional about the platform being associated with maybe having a heightened amount of bigot content.
Haven't you heard? Words are literal violence and making me feel unsafe. This cannot stand, and the situation must be rectified, otherwise you are complicit.
The README does include a link to Google Translate to vocalize the name, but thanks for sharing this site!
The thing that struck me right off the bat was that the lead photo of this story is of 18-year-old with a PS5 and pretty sweet setup in his bedroom. I don't have anything deep to add to this, but if you can sit at home in your childhood bedroom indefinitely playing video games and working menial jobs, maybe the allure is there.
The tweet is also factually wrong. The Supreme Court did not affirm Texas law, they just ruled very narrowly that the plaintiffs didn't have standing to request that Texas judges be preemptively enjoined not to hear cases brought under the law.

The law will hit the Supreme Court again, and either it or Roe will be overturned. But from a process perspective, the Court didn't say the law was constitutional.
> do not cooperate with the police. They are not your friend, they are not trustworthy, and they will hurt you, badly, and suffer no consequences.

This is exactly what I teach my children. Every time we are driving around and see a police car I repeat the lesson.
I don't think it's illegal in any way. I do think it's a dangerous and impractical strategy to not do business with anyone with a mainstream political belief different than my own. I can understand with extreme views, but on an issue like this I'd prefer discourse over further polarization.

It doesn't sound like such a bad idea until it's applied to people/businesses with your beliefs.
People who take things personally exist for one purpose only: to be trolled.
The thing is that humans are generally excellent at these sorts of pattern recognition, but these networks aren't nearly as good. Even in rigorously trained networks that operate surprisingly well, mistakes will appear that if made by a human would be treated as due to carelessness or stupidity.

So, this is going to happen.
This is very good.

I would add: the world was not ready for Vine.

The amount of content, the type of it, and the number of people out there willing to make goofy content - I mean young and old alike ... is amazing.

The number of people with cellphones and decent cameras recording 'everything' means we now have all sorts of vidoes of 'guy fishing and whale breaches' or literal lighting strikes etc..

And the normalization of content creation, of likes, of views, the possibility of making money from it etc..

Basically the tools, cultural norms, media and social systems - all reached a critical mass some time after Vine.

If Vine were to have held on, evolved along the lines you indicated, they might have beak TikTok to it.

Oh - and one last point: TikTok started with cute dancing girls among teens. That content category is a great place to start, break through, and get a critical mass going before breaking into parrots swearing, cute babies, and funny challenges.
swift is by far an easier language, safer language, and has a lot of power and nice functional bits, but _oh my god_ those compile times and the lack of a stable debugger and refactoring tools can make it miserable to work in. That and ever since swift 4 or so I feel like we're leaning towards the c++ "everything and the kitchen sink" kinda problems when it comes to features. Used to be there were fairly obvious "right" or idiomatic ways of doing things, but now it's gotten a lot more complicated. Property wrappers, combine, all the stuff with opaque types and the insane stuff you can do with protocols and protocol extensions, all the fad architectures and patterns. Most swift codes bases I've worked in are highly over engineered and kinda feel like the developer of the project just learned about X cool thing in swift and wanted to use it everywhere. It's amazing how the crash rate of apps I've worked on in swift are like consistently less than 1%, it's easy to learn, very modern feeling. But gosh some days I'm just longing for some classic objective c spaghetti code that compiles instantly and gives me that great debugger I've come to rely on. Oh and don't get me started on the abysmal auto correct, code completion, and error messages. Swift still has a ways to go IMO, but I do think it's the choice for an iOS app in 2021- just be thoughtful about which language features you use and not going bananas with extensions and protocols.
I think sometimes the importance of propaganda is overstated. Those guys are around 70 years in power now, and have shut down every attempt ate rebellion so far, so they must be doing something right.

Yeah, their international image is not the most stellar one. But what will people do about it, besides bitching online?
You’re engaging in precisely the inflammatory rhetoric you seem to disagree with. EDIT: Hard to tell these days but other comments suggest the parent was being sarcastic.
The current mRNA vaccines are injected into an upper arm muscle, not the heart. The mRNA is taken up by cells near the injection rather than circulating throughout the body. The spike protein made by the that mRNA presents on the surface of those cells where the immune system responds to it.
Management be damned, I don't intend to return to on-site work until the end of the Kali fucking Yuga.
IMHO, VMware did the best it could under Gelsinger's leadership. They evolved their cash cow (vcenter) better than other on-prem vendors.

- NSX (via Nicira)

- VMware in the cloud through all hyperscalers

- Tanzu (via Heptio)

Also made security as a core successful pillar for their offering.

They did not have the DNA to build a hyperscaler. They tried vcloud, but it was a failure.
> This isn’t even close to true.

Do you have anything better to say than just say it's not true? Zuckerberg injected millions into the elections. YouTube has censored public hearings. Twitter has censored a bombshell story and has banned a sitting president. Reddit's CEO admitted they have the power to "sway and election". And let's not forget the "fortifying" of the election (https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/).

> The elected officials, as always.
The elected officials, as always. I’m so tired of this thought-terminating question. The democratic system is the piece that always closes that feedback loop. If you ever again need to ask “but who watches the watchers?!??!!” the answer is the voters.

This is a very naive view of democracy. Politicians can restrict speech, suppress inconvenient information, create and promote false-crisis and inject or cut money to media companies so that it helps their re-election; thus creating a positive feedback loop where we see the same sitting president or the same dynasty in power for generations like in a lot of African "democracies".
Apparently we are not sure whether the original term Gorillai referred to people or gorillas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla#Etymology
Agreed. Much like the conversation about Google censoring at the behest of the Russian government yesterday it all boils down to the money. Don't mess with the revenue stream. If you do, be prepared to be let go. It's that simple. It's nothing to do with freedom, free speech, etc. It's always about the money.
which part, "kneel" or "cash" ;)
Is Safari slow when using Jira?
I do exactly this! But it's a little outside the reach of a lot of people, unfortunately. I also think that it would be a less effective tool if more people used it (and thus corporate policies and spammers found it worth tailoring algorithms to the model).
> This is false - google stopped doing this for personal accounts many years ago.

Does seem to be the case https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/26/google-wi...

> (and never did for paid corporate).

We weren't talking about Workspaces.

However that said, people logged into gmail generally use google search so they get to use all the data collected from that and youtube videos you watch so I don't think it really matters too much. https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7019460?hl=en

With ProtonMail they can't actually read the contents of your emails, even for law enforcement, whereas Google certainly would be able to hand over entire copies.
The cloud is a capex game not a tech game. Also, the layer that VMware compete in, is fully commoditized (this is the infra as a service layer). The game is moving to higher layer (e.g. ML/ DB).

I think that for on-prem they faced a treat from containers, which they are embracing by betting the company on Kubernetes.
The drug manufacturer says not to take it. That's good enough for me.

And appealing to the higher power of random forum users is peak stupidity imo
Are you sure those were honest mistakes and not stories for the sake of storytelling? And no, prehistoric ignorance does not justify this system making it to production.
> Troubling. The Texas law is horrific, but people, even CEOs, should be allowed to espouse

CEOs are spokesman for their company. When a spokesman with a massive platform makes statements at odds with the people their company sells to, they're clearly an improper fit for that position.

He wasn't cancelled. His employers found his statements to be at odds with the compnay's plans for success.

> But firing? Cancelling? Is that the price of the sin of sharing your personal political opinion these days?

If I become the pope and then make a tweet saying "God is obviously not real", is the catholic church wrong in trying to remove me from my position? Was I right for it in the first place?

As usual on HN, this post is pearlclutching at actions that have existed for hundreds of years and are pure common sense.
Maybe they took more caution to their data set. I think the only way we would know is if they publish their sets or how they built them. But I was just highlighting maybe one possible case that Apple could have generated their training set, just grab 100 people in America at random.
I think the biggest difference is that the number of mobile-app users worldwide is double that from 2016, when Twitter announced they were shutting vine down.

When Vine started in 2012 there were only ~1B smartphone users.
> I don't like these stories.

Nobody likes the stories. No reasonable person is celebrating them. You’re not in disagreement with anyone.
ooof, thats uncomfortable
I think your comment is a bit dismissive. Facebook is not the first to encounter this, it happened 6/7 years ago and they should have known better. Secondly, if the Data Scientist working on this were all black, this would not have happened, just like the automatic soap dispensers in bathrooms.
"commodities on which modem survival depends."
It's no longer Streisand Effect if these kind of news pop up every damn week.
The criticism of this CEO that I’ve seen in various places did not focus on exclusion/inclusion of such criteria - check his twitter replies or the statements boycotting his company which have no such focus.

Currently under Texas law/lack of a stay by SCOTUS which was praised by the CEO, as I mentioned in the previous post, medication abortion via RU-486 would still be available for a woman in this circumstance, although Texas is working to ban it too - this was not discussed in the tweet at issue.

You’re absolutely right about the poll numbers generally being in favor of those 2 exceptions.
> maybe the station fired her for ignorance of current events.

That would be a valid reason, but I suspect a more culturally appropriate one: loss of reputation. We are sensitive to that.

My point was this isn't something that only goes on in 'white' brains but more of a cultural issue. Most people in the West are incapable of pronouncing Asian names. I don't see people making a big issue out of it.
If I was going to spend a few trillion on infrastructure, I'd look into build massive housing blocks on the distant outskirts of the most expensive cities and connect them via fully automated high speed rail lines. Eventually the areas around the housing blocks would become cities in and of themselves if you put them out far enough.
> Can you access your e-mail if you lose your phone, forget your password, get a new SIM card, and successfully go through account recovery?

You can't. But this really doesn't answer if there was a special way for law enforcement, which I don't believe there is.
Does anyone know where we could find the 200 bit transaction that took place on Sept 07 2021?
I second this but not for the conventional reasons of diversity but the subtleties diversity could be difficult to understand.

You need your consumer base to be represented in your product development system. In training an AI model we first test things with what we are personally have a bias for.

For example in training a stock prediction model, I am going to first test it with the most familiar stocks that I know or I have bias for. And I am going to adjust my model until I find the model being correct for my bias then test it across a larger dataset.

I don't work in AI but I know that test data is incredibly large and they supposedly systematically cover all bases. But what I am saying is this the chance of random events will go down when you deviate from a homogenous development team where everyone is biased towards the same things because they share cultural and racial overlaps.
LOL, wut? Every person in the USA has the same right to post their opinion.

What would you like—for everyone to be forced into buying his company’s products/services? Cancel the right to (not) associate? Cancel free speech, so no one can spread news about his opinion?

Foolish. Everything worked exactly as it is meant to work: freedom of speech and freedom of association, hand in hand.