skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh?

What do you mean, not working? That the AI was randomly choosing the correct race 82% of the time by luck?

I'm confused by what your implying because it would seem to me that the authors went through many steps to try to pinpoint how the AI was doing this identification and how baffling it was to everyone that even with a lot of x-ray information removed (8x8 pixels compared to say 4k), it somehow was still correctly picking the race.

What would this "something else entirely" that you are implying actually be?
> This is a lie. The spike protein has been shown to cause cardiovascular issues.

[Citation needed]
maybe it should be based on net worth and not income
Random aside: Please look into supporting processing for sex toys!
JuiceMedia are awesome!

Presented in satirical style, but they are basically stating the truth of how much we are governed by vested interests that capture profits whilst creating or perpetuating negative impacts for the vast majority of the population.

In the same vein, on iview (abc.net.au) Micallef's last few seasons on Mad as Hell are cutting pretty close to the bone also, exposing the ugly truths of our inept/corrupt politicians via humour.

IMHO we sadly have no honest or brave politicians to vote for in any of the parties that have a chance at forming government.
So the TL;DR is that there were some sysops from Mainland China who abused their privileges (CheckUser allows one to find any user's IP) and were banned, and as a result the process of signing NDA's for those who could have access to private information has been changed? And that change was unannounced to reduce risk of infiltration?
Yes, but on flipside said girl now can and fully expects to be courted by best boys well outside of 1995 logistic reach.
-webkit-Text-Stroke and Emoji
I assume most of the people who negatively responded to you never lived in / near Cités or parisian Banlieues. I also assume that they put their kids in private schools if they do.
That's why metric distances of smallish objects are measured in millimetres. The unit is small enough that you'd pretty much never need more than one decimal place.
I met a Cuban a few years back that said the same. His parents worked their butts off and owned two homes. They got divorced to keep them both, but they were never separated only legally.
Came here, wanting to, but afraid to, ask just this question. Glad you asked. Glad some were willing to give thoughtful answers.
I read that it wasn’t the logistics of sending them out that’s challenging; rather it’s trying to collect them back from the 100k+ pharmacies, hospitals, distribution sites etc in the US, most with poor records. The us mounted such a large and effective campaign to get them out there, would take just almost as large an effort to bring them back
I really doubt people want to seduce sexbots in a public park. If we get realistic west world sexbots, expect them to follow the business model of hookers.
> I have a thermostat, and ingesting chemicals changed the set point. People who keep on gaining weight until they die must have a broken thermostat set on "high". It can't be psychological.

This misses something important. If your weight is the thermostat's setpoint, then your BMR is the A/C unit, and your calorie intake is the ambient outdoor temperature. If your A/C unit is out of whack, then you'll need to move to a cooler climate (lower calorie intake) in order to get to a comfortable temperature. For example, women have a lower BMR than men and must eat less to maintain a healthy weight.

> But everyone who has spent much or all of their life at a normal weight, should know it doesn't take supreme effort or fanatical accounting. It doesn't require not eating when you feel like you're starving.

Only it does sometimes. You can't see how someone can slowly adapt unhealthy eating patterns over time? Or, as perhaps in your case, they need medication which changes their BMR? Once your ghrelin production/cycle no longer matches your BMR + physical activity, you may feel like you're starving even though you've already met you're calorie intake needs. Fortunately, we can change how hungry we feel in the long run just as we can change how much we eat, and there are plenty of examples of that. I don't think it's a gaslighting conspiracy to say that much.
I have. Here in Canada I'm pretty sure A&W is still growing and doing well. It's very different from the US version from what I've heard. It's one of the better fast food chains IMO, especially of the larger ones. Definitely have the best onion rings.
Am I correct that the Free Trial Card would essentially allow your users to generate a new credit card so that they can repeat a service's free trial period over and over and never have any intention of actually paying?

I know there are other uses as well, but could definitely see this service being a magnet for users who intend to defraud the actual services where these cards are being used.
This is really amazing work, super impressed with such a small size, gameplay mechanics, and how smooth it works. Bullet animations are super impressive.
> Mr. Mosseri… said the company’s plan for the Instagram kids product, which state attorneys general have objected to, is still in the works.

A lot of engineers have to spend a lot of time in order to make something like this a reality. Sometimes I like to think that we’re “better” (morally) than that trope of the growth-obsessed exec who’s willing to exploit kids for an extra 5% revenue in the quarter. People will be people no matter the job title, I suppose
I down-voted because that has nothing to do with a "degraded immune systems". Many of the more common respiratory viruses also died out in New Zealand with the quarantine. Kids never got a chance to develop immunity to those particular diseases previously and now it's coming on in a wave as they are reintroduced. It's not that their response is special, in normal circumstances kids would have gotten sick and been hospitalized, that it's happening all at once is.
It's amazing how far Intel has fallen.

The 10nm debacle exposed how far they've fallen behind on fabs to the point that they're outsourcing to TSMC. Like, how humiliating must that be?

Intel completely missed the mobile revolution. They had a stake in that race but sold it (ie XScale).

Intel's product segmentation is bewildering. They've also kept features "enterprise" only to prop up high server chip prices to the detriment to computing as a whole, most notably ECC support.

And on the server front, which I'm sure is what's keeping them in business now, they face an existential threat in the form of ARM.

Intel had clearly shifted to a strategy of extracting as much money as possible from their captive market. I'm not sure price cuts here are necessarily about AMD but more than their previously captive market now has more options in general.

How the mighty have fallen.
How to Send Data to the Internet in Flutter
Tesla Wanted 22k to Replace a Battery.an Independent Repair Shop Fixed It for 5k
They’ve also shut down the back end the generates QR codes and Apple Wallet passes to check in at Apple Stores if you made the mistake of buying something on Apple Announcement Day.

The schtick was cute for first couple of decades but maybe shutting down the entire e-commerce infrastructure is unnecessary in 2021?
These 10 years proved me wrong, and am not sharing much of the optimist opinion in other replies.

I envisioned a scenario of some "backroom deal" at a great public expense, and indeed something like that did happen.

It didn't work. Well in a sense, there were giant bailouts, but that only fired up the furnace, and even more "stealth debt" entered the economy.

China has a few thousands more of Evergrandes, and HNAs lined up.

I bet it will never be fixed within the lifetime of regime, even at the expense of its interest in self-preservation.

And it's because Evergrandes, and HNAs are largely CPC's own making — these companies are the biggest sources of income for local governments, and families of high rank communists: defraud lenders, buy overpriced land from local governments, and hide it super duper well, so your mountain of debt turns into asset, seemingly legitely enriching kids of party members on your board.

It's a very strange scheme of state authorised credit fraud on a nation scale.
Important to note that that is the weight before cooking, a frozen patty will lose a lot of water weight in the cooking process, so what you end up getting is not a full 6oz.
The way we interpret race is largely a social construct due to 'apparent' physical differentiation, less so underlying biological or genetic factors.

We end up segregating ourselves for a variety of reasons, in which case groups that are physically very distinguished end up forming almost an ethnic basis.

For example, two groups with varying genetic makeup and maybe a number of non-obvious biological differences, but who otherwise looked identical - would have the similar life experience in terms of their social treatment by other groups.

But irrespective of how a person is socialized - if you're Black, people are going to treat you one way, and if you're White, people are going to treat you a little different. That 'lived experience' differential is a somewhat unavoidable.

The degree of that variability is obviously debatable, but surely it exists to some degree.

I suppose you could make a parallel in ethnicity: a century ago, the difference between a Scottish-American and an English-American would have been apparent by lineage, accent, Church affiliation, and that might have affected relationships, status etc..

Whereas after a few generations of integration, there is definitely 'no' (or not much) difference between those two groups, and no vector for differentiation/discrimination. The historical ethnic situation was a 'social construct'.

That said, some of the argumentation used to promote the idea that there is no genetic basis for race is a little odd, the 'Africans have more genetic variation than other groups combined' is often used, but frankly I do not understand how that doesn't mean there are material differences between them and other groups.

And of course there is no 'hard line' between groups, but there is also no 'hard line' between the Scottish and English, there are many people who have attributes of both cultures, but that doesn't negate the existence of either group.

I think we're a bit oversensitive these days to these issues. Systematic racism exists and we should think about it, but that doesn't mean there's a boogeyman behind every door.

I think in this case it's also worth examining what exactly the AI is finding out, because it may not be just 'bone marrow'.
> As Germany is vilified so much in this discussion

I wouldn't care about Germany's problem if German politicians weren't trying to export it to their neighbours, whether by lobbying for energy transition credits not to be usable for nuclear, or by fucking up the spot power exchange.

> I'm too lazy to look up

Too lazy to look up actual figures, but not lazy enough not to post about it :(
>It is almost forgotten now, but the platform which carried Java to critical mass was the browser

I think that's backwards. I was there. Aside from a few e.g. banking and government applets one was forced to use and a couple of exceptions, applets never got anywhere and died fast.

Enterprise Java became what Java is all about very very soon. Java landed in 1996. Servlets/Tomcat landed in 1998.

By 2000 there was plenty of enterprise Java development - in fact that was the year MS created its own Java copy, in the form of C#/.NET after having tried to extend their version of Java for the Windows platform.
Just curious. In which way is data.table superior to pandas? Really interested about it! From my personal experience pandas is just sometimes a bit slow.
Have you got your IRS finding yet? if not, get it.

In your case direct to the public local advertising can work, I think. Everything from posters on power poles to ads on local radio stations to people holding signs...

Go hit everyone in any animal related business in a 50 mile area for donations. Pet stores may want to help you as well as hosting a "please give" donation jar on their counter.
I hadn't heard the phrase "quarter pounder" before I came to the U.S. ... Heck we'd had McDonalds for a only a few years. I think there may have been at most a handful of locations through most of that time.

So, one night, we go to McDonalds and I see "quarter pounder" on the menu. It just sounds big ... waaaaayyy bigger than 113 grams (I have no problems converting among different units). But, subconsciously, I had expected something that would take some effort to eat.

I don't think I've had another one in the intervening decades.
>More likely their product teams would have done better with a name that didn't refer to the portion size.

I propose:
The PILE OF MEAT burger

The BIG PILE OF MEAT burger

The REALLY BIG PILE OF MEAT burger
> I can refactor without any fear of side effects.

Can you? Like say you changed you sum() function to only sum every other element, because for the code you're working on right now that made sense. Well now you've screwed up the other places which relied on sum() summing all the elements.

Dumb example because you'd know better, but surely you can still shoot your foot off like that with FP?

And yeah I know that's not the side effects you were talking about, but when I'm changing my OOP stuff, that's the kind of side effect I'm most worried about.

I've never really used a proper functional language though, so it's certainly possible I'm unenlightened.
I’m just not sure what it means to say that global policy is based on science. They didn’t run an observational study a sample of other globes to see which decisions correlated with better performance; they used their scientifically-informed expertise to a degree, but they also made a series of judgment calls about what policy goals we should have and the likely consequences of various actions on geopolitics. Why are vaccine experts the right people to make those calls?
More to do with sexual liberation than Facebook to be honest.
That was exactly my thinking. I wouldn't publish anything until the pixellated versions were better understood.
> they hijack, amplify, and distort our natural inclinations for their own purposes

Ironically it seems a totalitarian country like China is better equipped to deal with these things (see how they simply banned teens from gaming lately).
The liberal democracies number one value is individual freedom; well it works out great most of the time but other times we are not that great ourselves in handling our lives and using our time constructively. Some of us get bored, addicted and obsessed under certain circumstances and I don't actually see an easy solution for that.
Maybe social media should be age restricted like porn?
I’ll believe it when I see it. I’ve read before about people claiming they’re going to turn chickens into velociraptors too.

It’s way easier to write a press release than it is to actually do the work. The image of “how to draw an owl”[0] comes to mind.

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/572078-how-to-draw-an-owl
I tend to mix OOP and functional together as I use objects as a way to relate functionality or steps within the process. I almost never use objects as a means to model the actual data. At most, I use objects in this instance as glorified structs. The only real benefit that OOP as implemented in most languages has is the ability to write to an interface whether you use an explicit interface type or an abstract class which concrete implementations derive from. Like Bob C Martin said in many lectures the inversion of control is really where OOP shines. Anything else most other paradigms do it better.
All browsers already claim to be "Mozilla" so it's not like there is no way to work around that.
Eh, it's hard for me to not be cynical about this given the number of times I've heard this exact headline throughout my life. When I was a little kid I saw on a TV program that "these scientists are working on bring back wooly mammoths and experts agree that we could see living wooly mammoths in the next 3 years".

> Can mammoths really reverse climate change?

> Colossal say that they want to 'rewild extinct species to their original habitats so they can revitalize lost ecosystems for a healthier planet'.

> It is claimed that woolly mammoths will help to fight climate change by restoring the vast grassland steppes which once encircled the Arctic pole but which changed to forest when the mammoth went extinct.

> 'One of the benefits of grasslands over tundra or forests in the high Arctic is they are really good carbon sinks,' explains Victoria. 'During the summer months the grasses grow high before dying back in the winter. But because of the cold temperature, they don't degrade. Every season's growth is stored in the ground. That is why the permafrost is a massive carbon sink.'

> It is argued that the giant herbivores such as mammoths maintained these open grasslands by keeping encroaching forests at bay, and as a result helped cool the planet.

That seems like pure nonsense and perhaps a way to market their goofy experiment to gullible journalists.
In classical electromagnetism photons (light) do not interact, period. But in quantum mechanics the photons can briefly fluctuate into electron + positron pairs which allow them to interact with each other. But the probability for interacting is very small AND you need enough energy to make the electron positron pair (for the Breit-Wheeler process), so it is very rare in practice.

I am not sure about the "time" the photons collide, but the interesting thing is that the Breit-Wheeler process is what determines the opacity of the universe - since high energy photons traveling through the universe can hit low energy photons from the cosmic microwave background and convert (disappearing) into an electron positron pair.
I'm very aware that I'm a HN novice, but can I ask why my post title was edited? The new title is much less descriptive, and x-rays are different from medical images, after all.
We could address the hospitalization issue by doing a better job of deciding when to hospitalize. It seems that more than half of the cases of those who are taking spaces in hospitals are asymptomstic, mild, or incidental.

https://news.yahoo.com/57-percent-vaccinated-covid-19-203448...
> hospital beds are overrun with unvaccinated Covid patients, there is less room for others

Was in Jackson Hole for Labor Day weekend. They border Idaho, whose voluntarily unvaccinated have filled its hospitals. In four days I met as many nurses and one doctor who quit out of frustration. They could no longer empathise with their patients, each describing a visceral anger at tending to ICUs of COVID patients, all unvaccinated.
I have said that a factor of hundreds applies for the same weight of active material.

Most nuclear bombs have just a few kilograms of active material, much less than a human.

Also the number that I have given was for ideal conversion and for a fusion bomb, which is more efficient per weight.

The fission bombs, like that from Hiroshima, are limited by the excess energy of uranium or plutonium, which is only about 0.13% of mass compared to iron.

Because we cannot actually split plutonium into iron but into nuclei with higher energy, the available energy from fission is slightly less than 0.1% of mass.

Taken into account that only a fraction of the active material is consumed, let's say 10% and that the active material of a bomb is ten times lighter than a human, then an annihilated human mass would be equivalent to 100 thousand fission bombs, so your numbers match this.

For a fusion bomb, the efficiency is much higher, about 0.5% of mass becomes energy and also the mass of active material can be much higher, so an equivalence with less than one thousand nuclear bombs is possible.

In any case I have given just the most optimistic limit, i.e. a few hundreds nuclear bombs of maximum energy, with smaller bombs, of course you need more.
"mature" is the wrong word here. We were "mature" for a decade before this expansion. We had no debt, big profit margins, and our customers loved us so much we didn't need advertising to have exponential growth.

Our decision to "grow up" was more a decision to try addressing non-email markets, and hire so many people and buy so much real estate that profit then depended on that choice.

Now they have half the talented staff because of boneheaded management decisions, half the loyal customers because the team stopped being able to address their needs, etc. If that's "mature" to bankers or VC's then I'd call them over-mature.
Contentalife
> Is the mass measurement of electrons an abberation then in the QFT interpretation of the empirical data.

I'm not sure this is resolved. see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_electrodynamics#Conclu...

> Or is it that energy can have mass prior to being converted under some conditions?

Using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalenc... you can (theoretically) convert between energy and mass, and then measure everything as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronvolt. I have yet to see anything create protons from energy, so I am hesitant to do this.
It's a deepity, ie. a statement with two interpretations, one true but trivial, and one enormously impactful but false.
Why would they be able to drive the employee to burnout if the employee can quit since they have UBI?
What's a compliance officer, and why are they going to people's homes?

> A different approach might have been a used in East Germany if every house the Stasi went into looking for 'undesirables' had the potential for meeting a shotgun.

Not everything has to be compared to Nazi Germany.

I'll note that the lower possession of guns does have a difference in how we interact with the police, ad how the police interact with everyone else.

For instance, Officer-involved shootings are practically non-existent. For that matter, shootings of any kind are practically non-existent.

No-knock / SWAT style raids and use of pyrotechnics/flash-bangs/etc are reserved for where there's a lot more evidence that someone has a large number of weapons.

Nobody is afraid they might get shot by a police officer because they reached into their glove box or into their pocket.

I'm not saying things are all rainbows and unicorns, but still...

I don't see how turning up to talk to your representatives with a whole bunch of weapons is going to make the conversation go any better.
Rest mass is conserved. So the "system" of the photons has to have sufficient rest mass to support the particle production. Rest mass depends on the energy of the individual photons, and the angle they are colliding with (head on is best, nearly parallell photons grazing is worst).
> That the AI was randomly choosing the correct race 82% of the time by luck?

No; as with the article I linked elsewhere in the thread (https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/31/this-clever-ai-hid-data-fr...), that the AI might have found some other indicator, like filenames in the data set, or metadata in the images that included patient name, or differences in the length of patient name (often redacted by black rectangles in x-rays in training data), or any number of other factors.

This happens all the time in science. As another recent example of "whoops, turned out we were measuring the wrong thing", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_ano...

Another example around AI: https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/12/20993665/artificial-in...

> One such résumé-screening tool identified being named Jared and having played lacrosse in high school as the best predictors of job performance, as Quartz reported.

Are lacrosse players naturally better workers? Probably not. Are they probably whiter, wealthier, better networks, etc. than the average population? Probably. These sorts of things - as with the 8x8 pixel example - start to point to confounding variables that need to be worked out and accounted for.