skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it’s not an ideal support mechanism, but I think this is one of the services HN provides to the community (informally). It can provide backdoor/informal channels through engineers and founders to some rather large companies. Especially when other avenues fail. But for the community, in this case, not only Stripe gets to learn about the issue, but we can all take something from this about automated systems and needs for manual overrides/reviews. This type of “case-study” can help many other companies avoid similar problems.

But we also get some of the back story from Stripe about why their systems are designed this way. What challenges they face that made these engineering choices make sense.

I’m sorry that this happened to the OP. But at least this channel of communication exists. And I think we can all benefit from it.
It might be helpful for folks to look at the blog post written by one of the authors:

https://lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com/2021/08/02/ai-has-the...

or the paper itself

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.10356.pdf

I see a lot of "oh it's probably just picking up on x y z" when x, y, and z are things they explicitly checked for:

1) "It's probably just the names or other metadata" – they only gave it pixel data to train on. To control for things like metadata overlaid on the image (e.g., a name written on the image) they divided the images into 3x3 sections and trained classifiers on each section separately.

2) "It's probably some artifact of how the hospital marked up the images" – they used something like 7 different datasets from different hospitals and different modalities (X-Ray and CT).

If it is cheating somehow, it's not doing it in an obvious way that you can think of in a minute or two. Also note that they had more than just medical folks working on the paper; the author list includes plenty of computer scientists. It's unlikely they're making an elementary ML mistake here.
Stupid question I’m sure, but do our estimates for the total amount of matter in the universe account for this effect? Could this effect end up being the source of dark matter? Or is too infrequent to generate enough matter to explain the discrepancy?
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dougmwne's right. Though I can't find my poster online (for the life of me), the technical manual is pretty clear:

[...]The various waste sludges recovered from the water recycling processes are a valuable resource. The organic waste processing system subjects the sludge to a series of sterilizing heat and radiation treatments. The waste is then electrolytically reprocessed into an organic particulate suspension that serves as the raw material for the food synthesizer systems. Remaining byproducts are conveyed to the solid waste processing system for matter replication recycling.
[...]
Material that cannot be directly recycled by mechanical or chemical means is stored for matter synthesis recycling. This is accomplished by molecular matrix replicators that actually dematerialize the waste materials and rematerialize them in the form of desired objects or materials stored in computer memory. While this process provides an enormous variety of useful items, it is very energy intensive and many everyday consumables (such as water and clothing) are recycled by less energy intensive mechanical or chemical means. Certain types of consumables (such as foodstuffs) are routinely recycled using matter replication because this results in a considerable savings of stored raw material (See: 13.5).

From tngtm section 12.5: https://xaeyr.typepad.com/files/franchise-star-trek-tng-tech...
There's this famous (in Belgium anyway) meme of a Belgian football player that goes "What? 1/3th bonus? that's not enough! I want 1/4th!" (Brilliant keeper though)
This domain was never submitted to HN before, so I suspect this is some other article which was put through the so-called "synonymizer" software.

Here is an article from Brookhaven Lab website: https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=119023
The US government, to secure the doses, committed to indemnify the suppliers if anything went wrong and not to transfer the doses to any country that would not (or in some cases, they had to commit to not transferring the doses at all). Most countries are refusing to indemnify the companies.

So the US government would be in breach of contract and could be sued for sending the doses overseas.
Oh yeah, that theory started with an obviously bogus video.
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I remember how people were complaining loudly about my app crashing on Meizu phones. Those never passed the CTS, but that didn't stop the manufacturer from preinstalling play services on them. So we had to buy one and I had to decompile the system framework to find a way to work around their shitty modifications to standard UI components to prevent the app from crashing. Fun stuff.
This could work, but would limit effectiveness to the orbits that MUST be very specific to work. For most satellites this doesn't matter. If 500 km is clogged, you design your mission to work at 505 km. I could see something like this working for geostationary orbits and sun-synchronous orbits as they require specific altitudes and inclinations, but not for much else.
*for certain values of "the world"
This is exactly as a Latin language website should look. My heart swells.
>> People are not 'race x' or 'race y' biologically, as if race is some discrete set of features common to a whole population.

Clearly people are biologically different based on race and the AI here is picking up on that. My kids orthodontist even told me they align teeth in part based on race. The Asian arch is flatter across the front for example. I asked about this because an engineer I worked with had a father in dentistry and told me my kid had "German teeth in an Irish mouth" which matched her ancestry, which he didn't know - just said that in response to my description of the crowding.

So YES, races have biological differences. If not, we wouldn't be able to tell where people are from. I get that it's not cool to discriminate based on race, but it's not OK or even practical to deny that it exists (see dentistry example above).
My understanding, which could be wrong, is that it doesn't 'bounce around' as much as it is absorbed and re-emitted. This process isn't instantaneous and accounts for the net propagation delay through the medium.
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While in principle that's clearly sound - fewer viral particles means fewer future variants appears to be the consensus opinion - I'm skeptical that the decision to recommend boosters after 8 months will have a measurable impact on that.

First of all, even under rosy vaccine acceptance trajectories that's not going to be many doses vs. the unvaccinated population; secondly, you need 1 dose for a booster, yet 2 for a full vaccination; thirdly, the data for hospitalisations may not be in, but for mere infections it is clearly showing a reduction in efficacy well before a that 8 month mininum so the opportunity cost of not vaccinating half a person will be offset in terms of transmission by the booster dose; fourthly not all vaccines are easily distributed, and as long as the US needs to have a readily available supply to entice the unvaccinated stragglers, you might as well use doses nearing expiration dates for boosters rather than throwing them away; fifth: we're not at 8 months yet for most people, and if the minimum delay is 8 months the average might be considerably more such that by the time this matters vaccine production should be higher and thus the loss relatively less impactful.

Some of those effects might be trivial or zero, but at the very least the small number of doses overall affected probably isn't. I'd be really surprised if the US reaches 100 million booster doses by next spring; and even if we did that's just not a huge number if your aim is to reduce transmission (as opposed to suffering).
Can't the genome be assembled by aligning the reads against these Asian elephants?
It's highly ignorant to call unvaccinated Americans idiots. Over 100 million Americans have already caught and recovered from Covid. I imagine many in that group don't see any value in getting the vaccine (rightfully so).
I run into pandas edge cases all the time. pd.concat() failing on empty sequences (just let me specify a default for that case please); .squeeze() not letting me say, "squeeze down to a series but not a scalar"; .groupby().apply() returning different types depending on how many groups/rows per group there are... it's fine when you know exactly what you have but it's hard using it in a pipeline with that needs to be agnostic about whether there's zero, one, or many data (datums?).
One recent realization: I suspect many (read: more than just teen girls) see social media as a real-time status market. There is a constant stream of information, and the subtext of that is often status-oriented. Thus, for the status-hungry, keeping up with updates feels necessary even if it makes them feel terrible.

There are elements of addiction at work here, too, but if social media was a net negative it wouldn't be as sticky as it is now. People are obviously getting something they want from it.
At some point I guess the world will have to regulate orbits similarly to how we regulate the electromagnetic spectrum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_auction

Once you're assigned an orbit space I would assume it'd be your duty to keep it "clean" and as such owners of orbits would need to either do their own cleanup or contract companies like this.

That being said it feels like a company like this is 50 to 100 years too early, but what do I know.
The market for jobs isn’t clearing.

Jobs growth is weak and yet there are many vacancies.

Does this mean people are finally holding out for higher pay? The goals of UBI have been demonstrated? And we have barely given out a UBI, only a few stimulus checks.

Perhaps people got a taste of working from home and companies need to allow more remote work.

Either way, I do not see this as a bad thing.
For some reason I wrote "bash" when I meant "Haskell" in the second sentence. Sorry about that.
You are free to write as many words as you’d like on your idiosyncratic beliefs, but the fields of law, finance, & economics, as practiced & documented, disagree with you:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fungibility.asp

(It is interesting to think of the ways traditional cash might not meet a physicist’s definition, or assumptions under which Monero might somehow be more fungible or less fungible than physical cash, on a spectrum richer than a pure binary. But if you remain oblivious to what the word commonly means to others, you’re failing a bit at communication.)
Why do the dinosaurs always escape in Jurassic Park? Is it because the mathematics of chaos theory dictate that life always finds a way? Or is it because nobody pays to see a movie where a couple of brats go on an uneventful vacation to a dinosaur zoo?

It's definitely the latter, but through the power of repetition people started to believe it was the former.
Plenty of people are not asking for Jekyll to be feature complete. It's fallen woefully behind relative to its competition.

As for the "dead" nonsense and where that's actually coming from, did you read the article? :)
The most reckless part is resurrecting highly intelligent social creatures.

The problem becomes apparent if we look at African elephants - if the matriarch is killed before passing on her knowledge, the herd often dies or disbands.

Now imagine just popping a small group of mammoths into existence who never roamed the Arctic tundra and expect them to just "know" how to mammoth. It takes many generations to achieve that and given that they can live about as long as humans, I doubt the researchers are really able to help with that.
Yes, but I'm a classical tech libertarian so my definition of fine is "it made lots of users happy". If you think Facebook is filled with bad content you could just not go there, obviously.

Facebook's problem is that it has given in to the activist class that feels simply not going there is insufficient. Instead they feel a deep need to try and control people through communication and content platforms. This was historically understood to be a bad idea, exactly because the demands of such people are limitless. "Virally spreading falsehoods" is no different to the Chinese government's ban on "rumours", it's a category so vague that Facebook could spend every last cent they have on human moderators and you'd still consider the site to be filled with it. Especially because it's impossible to decide what is and isn't false: that's the root cause of this WSJ story! Their moderators keep disagreeing with each other and making embarrassing decisions, which is why they have a two-tier system where they try and protect famous people who could make a big noise from the worst of their random "falsehood detecting machine".
You'd think, but that isn't the case. 3/8ths - an extremely common SAE measurement - is 9.5mm. 1/2in is 12.7mm; 1/4 is 6.4mm.

These rounding errors add up. And you can't really get away with sticking to metric because (in the USA) you're bound run into a situation where you have to buy pre-fabbed goods measured in SAE.

So now you need to not only deal with decimal to fraction conversions, but remember the "special cases" like 3/8ths.
If you require the company to perform a service, one that they may not want to perform or be very good at, it's possible they will subcontract the work.
We’re talking about where all the people who work at costa and pret live more than the top 2% earners. I guess they all need to commute in from the outskirts to make the rich people’s coffee.
This is a tactic still used by e.g. Amazon today. Let 3rd party entities establish a viable online market for niche items, then start selling them "directly", undercutting 3rd parties.

Amazon of course denies that it does this, but the anecdata seems irrefutable to me.
I don't know, did you read the article? :)
> It's already slowly happening.

You're basically describing the norm in the US from post-WWII until about 20 years ago. Many large cities that many think of as desirable elite cities today (with real estate prices to match) were losing population into the 1990s.

The attractiveness of living in downtowns to mostly college educated young people is mostly a fairly recent phenomenon and there's no guarantees it won't reverse.
Doesn’t hurt to get vaccinated anyway. In fact that should offer the most protection overall.

And that’s besides the point as the recovered may as well be vaccinated in the context of this discussion.
> Cost saving would've been to get rid of the IHS entirely.

The IHS itself is a cost saving measure.

When Intel and AMD first introduced flip chips, they didn't have the IHS and the heatsink was balanced on top while you tensioned a spring. If you rocked the heatsink in any direction you would (not could) crush an edge or corner of the chip and likely kill the CPU.

The IHS protected the chip and reduced the failure/return rate.
In the 80's people insisted that fashion magazines and beauty pageants were "toxic" for teen girls, for the exact same reasons. Apparently acknowledging that beauty exists is harmful to some people's mental health. Since it's unlikely that we're ever going to convince everybody that there's no such thing as physical beauty, maybe we'd be better off working out ways to help people come to terms with not being at the pinnacle of it while still accepting that there can be and is such a pinnacle.
Page last updated 2011 according to the footer. Has there been any results of the project, and is it still active?
How does the global job vacancy market look? Here in the US, a lot of local restaurants and retail stores are hiring; practically every place you enter has a NOW HIRING sign out front.

I'd say immigration would be a huge boon to many of these small businesses, but when I spoke to one restaurant owner, he bemoaned the labor shortage and a $15 minimum wage. It'd kill his prices, he'd lose customers. Then, in other rants, he's using all the Fox News lines about stealing our jobs, keep them out of our country, caravans, ugh.

He doesn't connect the dots and see how pivotal immigration is to the economy. Either you have more babies, increase productivity, increase efficiency, or you allow immigrants in to make up the gap in the babies we're not having anymore. But no, the color of their skin, the difference of their culture, is enough to make economics less important than identity to the right wing in the USA.
Given that the largest source of man-made debris is Chinese, I don't see that happening.
Labor shortages don’t necessarily drive supply down — this is going to lead to a boom in automation. Those automated jobs aren’t coming back. We need to phase in a UBI even if it $1 a month for now.
Your theory doesn't explain why boys don't act the same. Their attractiveness also dwindles with time - you could argue it's happening less steeply, but still.
Was very excited about it back in 2012-2014ish, when it looked like a global currency rather than infinitely fractalizing pyramid scheme.
Le Big Mac! Hahahaha. What do they call a Whopper?
> I want to live in a world where the function looks like this (...) Here the question mark tells us that if the function returns an error, we should return that error (...)

Ever heard of exceptions?

This is exactly what exceptions are made for. To allow you to write simple code but still make sure errors are propagated through your code.

It also makes it easier to write code that has to run something regardless of an error (using try/finally), while still ensuring that error is passed through your function reliably.

The question mark isn't necessary at all. Why would you pollute your code with additional character? It just says "I want to have a broken application that does not react to an error if I forget to put in a question mark"
To be fair to Snowflake (not that I disagree) their product is pretty good. It's far too expensive for what it is, but at least it's not Hive.
It seems to work on our side currently and checking the logs, it seems to work either. Maybe a temporary network issue?
Not quite: Sex is very clearly split into two distinct mechanisms. There's definitely sex-linked distributions of different traits, like male and female typical ranges of height, or agreeable personality, risk-seeking/risk aversion and so on, where both sexes operate the same mechanism.

Races are mostly clusters in variation within one mechanism - eg. skin color is largely a gradient of more or less melanin, and what gets selected for depends on the environment. It's not intrinsically linked to the whole cluster of race-typical traits, those just are in the same genetic bundle that gets inherited from generation to generation, and most of those traits can be mixed.

Sex itself has a sharp divide from the mechanisms themselves being completely different.
No, exposure to the virus is like exposure to combat. You may not die, but the likelihood goes up the more time you spend exposed to it and the more of it you get exposed to. To keep with that metaphor a vaccine is like a war game, it won't kill you but it's not the real thing either. But if you've done it you're better off than if you hadn't.
Hence why I said "Unless the basket of goods Monero can purchase also goes to infinity." I understand the definition of inflation.
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The kind of company that can survive in an economy paying X doesn't necessarily survive if they later have to pay 120% of X.

And that doesn't have to be a bad thing either, that kind of company probably wouldn't have existed to begin with if inequality wasn't brutal nowadays.
i wouldn't have moved to full touch-screen without swype. the state of affairs on ios was unacceptable for years after android had swype.

But after getting sick of the crap we had to put up with to keep on blackberry (blackberry services, anyone?) while other platforms were quickly overtaking, i never looked back.
> The answer is no lockdowns

Ah yes, the anti-vaxxer chiming in with the "let everyone die" approach to the economy.
France regularly exports 10 GW+ to its neighbouring countries. Transnational HVDC lines is not a difficult problem.
I’m up for bringing back the dodo: at least we reverse the damage we’ve done that way
I find normal version numbers pretty simple as a software developer (general population seemed to be buffled by how macOS 10.9 could ever be followed by macOS 10.10) but I always get confused when I see Cyberpunk 2077's version numbers that go 1.22 → 1.23 → 1.3 → 1.31. It just doesn't compute that you go from minor version 23 to minor version 3.
In this case I assume "AI" referring to the fact it is an "artificial" influencer, and no AI was used in its creation.

Feels like a trend I could see continuing:
https://wwd.com/eye/people/shudu-digital-fashion-model-avata...
We do regulate orbits. Up until now there have been no cleaner companies so we'll see how that plays in to regulation. "Who will pay for it?" is indeed an interesting question.

It is not too early because the mess produces more mess through collisions, meaning that the sooner you catch it the less expensive it is to fix. Waiting until the problem is directly painful is humanity's normal operating procedure, but it's also like waiting until your cancer is stage 4 before getting it looked at.
I don’t think “in the worst case scenario imaginable exceptions are as verbose as Go’s baseline” is much of a slam dunk.
you don't think people can identify something that hurts them?
Part of it is social and part of it is genetic.

From a social PoV, in Cuba, someone as you describe 3/4 one and 1/4 the other would be likely be put in the category of the 3/4. In some places an albino is just someone with different genetic characteristic, in other places they are a creature that brings bad luck and suffer violence.

Dog and cat breeds are distinguished throughout the world. It's genetic and socially constructed as well.
Interesting. What distribution are you using? This is a great idea.
I had several Blackberry devices but the one I remember the most was my Blackberry 10. I still think it had superior gesture support and navigation compared to any phone I've used since then. And it had, at least from what I could tell, great build quality and sturdiness. All around a great device. And it allowed me to support an underdog competitor.
The big problem with any deliberate-inoculation strategy: dosage.

In the vaccination you received, there was a controlled dosage of the active ingredient. This had been tested in thousands of people and is known to give a certain amount of immune response and an acceptable amount of side effects.

When you get have contact with someone who is infectious there is a huge variation in how much viral load they might have and how much they shed. So the first person you mean might only "gift" you a tiny dose that doesn't improve your post-vaccination immunity much at all. The next day you might meet a super contagious person, get basically drenched in viral particles, and then have a breakthrough case that makes you sick for weeks.

It's the sort of "clever hack" that probably sounds appealing to a lot of software engineers but is a terrible public health plan.
How can any healthcare professional, who has probably had multiple vaccines in the past, not take this Covid-19 vaccine? Isn't this akin to a tech worker using "password" as their PW?
I’m guessing they be planning on offering their services to carry out said de-orbit.

Lobbying for regulation mandating a service you provide is a pretty tried and tested business model. Every company IT audit I’ve ever had the pleasure of participating in works the same way.
> if there are all of these biological correlations with race, what does it mean that “race is a social construct”?

What race is Obama? And how is your answer to that question not a social construct?