skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't need facial recognition to deal with the crime problem, we need to detain, prosecute and imprison the small number of criminals who are responsible for the overwhelming number of crimes. No matter how well-intentioned "bail reform", "sentencing reform" and "criminal justice reform" may have been, it has resulted in a situation where criminals are free to commit crimes over and over again. Those who are caught are instantly released without bail, charges are often dropped and the few cases that are prosecuted often result in no jail time. Virtually everyone agrees that we should not be locking up non-violent drug offenders and others engaged in "victimless" crimes that mostly should not be crimes at all, but that isn't the situation we find ourselves in. Here in New York assault, larceny, illegal gun possession and a host of other serious crimes in effect go unpunished. Not a day passes when another story of someone committing a murder or other heinous crime is published with a footnote about how that person had been caught for a litany of other recent crimes, carrying an illegal gun, several violent assaults, only to be left free to roam the streets until the inevitable occurred.

Having compassion and common sense when it comes to incarceration and criminal justice doesn't mean abandoning law enforcement, but unfortunately that's where we are.

Edit: A recent example from today's paper. This guy got only 4 months in jail for robbery in 2016. A few years later he is, as an already convicted felon, caught with an illegal loaded gun - a charge that is not "bail eligible" under the new "bail reform law", and he is released to roam the streets. When he eventually does face the charges, he is allowed to plea them down and avoid incarceration completely, instead being diverted into a "mental health program". Shortly thereafter he is engaged in a shootout with police, with another illegal gun, where he is shot. This time, luckily, no innocent people were killed. This is a situation that is repeated countless times a day around NYC, with armed felons roaming free even after being caught repeatedly with illegal weapons and engaged in other crimes. This is the crime problem, and facial recognition does nothing to address it.

https://nypost.com/2022/05/11/bronx-shooter-a-look-at-rameek...
>Peer review makes sure your science is sound

No it doesn't. Most peer review doesn't even attempt to reproduce results, which is the real way to make sure the science is sound.
The Cold War involved competing blocs of military & economic peers fighting over the alignment of uninvolved nations, it isn’t just a fancy laymen word for proxy or general US - USSR remnant conflict.

This is not a world wide conflict involving superpowers with the ability to project power (hard/soft) globally, it’s at best a regional power struggle involving regional powers.

You can make a case this is the American dagger to Russia’s future aspirations beyond regional powerdom, but peers, and blocs, and cold war there is not.
It only looks like it is crashing when you look at it on a linear scale. Because a linear scale makes the same swings (percentage wise) look larger during times when the price is higher.

When you look at the Bitcoin chart over the last 10 years on a log scale, you see that a halving over a timespan of 6 months is completely normal given the volatility.

The volatility has been always like this. The only thing that changed is that the price is at an all time high (in terms of orders of magnitude) at the moment.
Speaking of the "disused" part:

https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2018/06/disu...

(and yes, I am that Paul)
I mean, what do you expect from the United States, one of the only countries in the UN that doesn’t require employers to have paid parental leave.
But wasn't that the big pull of crypto? Decentralized, unregulated, blah, blah, blah?
I made the switch this morning by following this: https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2022/04/pipewire-replac...

So far the only anecdotes I have are (a) everything seems to be working and (b) don't forget to reboot after installation.
Why do you think this isn't what is required as part of the acquisition plan?
My wife was on maternity leave when Covid layoffs happened at her company. She didn’t get laid off. But at the time we both looked at each other and wondered “did we just get saved by maternity leave?”

She is great at her job so we have no reason to think she would have otherwise been laid off. But plenty of people who were great at their jobs got laid off due to Covid. So it’s hard not to wonder.
Honestly I love your blog and the motif. I find it clever and visually interesting.
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Interesting that he co-founded Periscope and they also just removed any mention of Periscope from their TOS. Maybe just an artifact of them considering removing him, or it has no meaning. Just found the timing notable.
Metastases
WSDL and OpenAPI/Swagger solve similar problems.

Roughly speaking:
WSDL is to XML web services as OpenAPI is to REST

They both model the API and message structure of an API. AFAICT WSDL goes a little farther in that you can declare message sequences (I might be giving short shrift to OpenAPI here).
Just paste it into notepad/gedit/plain text editor first, then recopy it from there.
How confident are we that it doesn't just have basically 600 smaller models and a classifier telling it which to use? Seems like it's a very small model (by comparison), which is certainly a mark in it's favor.
>The only thing you gain is to to trade that on the blockchain,

Well, yes? Isn't that enough to explain it? Normal US electronic dollars can't interface with Blockchain smartcontracts. So if you wanted to invest in e.g. a vault or liquidity pool, you would need to turn it into a stablecoin first.
The default battery claims have location services turned on.
> We need to reaffirm the important dividing line between public life and private life. We need to untangle the political and the personal. Protest where policy is made, not where the people who make policy live and sleep and bring up their children. That should be obvious. It’s scary that it isn’t.

I wouldn't categorically say never, though I wish that were the obvious case. In some cases the problem may be that the policymakers are bringing their personal beliefs into the decisionmaking process, so they crossed the line first. There needs to be reasoning provided for policies that isn't based on personal beliefs or disguised personal beliefs. Show me the data! How can we tell the difference--we can't always, so sometimes lines get crossed.
Too expensive. But I'm glad there are people that can utilise it well! Eg. RedMeansRecording channel on YouTube!
I'm down about half of the 1% of my savings that I put in carefully selected crypto in the off chance that it actually lived up to its potential, and I'll hold because there will probably be at least some bounce on the other side of this. So I'm not "glad", but I'm hardly ruined by it.
As for the people who bet their entire life savings on it, fools and their money soon parted. Part of being an adult is that if you're a fool, it's on you. For every person doing things right with a legit sob story there's at least 10 who only make their situation worse regardless of any support they're given
As soon as it was clear that Bitcoin was going to be a commodity instead of a currency (why use it as a currency to buy a pizza this week when it could buy you a car next week?), it was clear it was now a pyramid scheme. That's why I didn't invest in it. What I hadn't counted on was how gullible people were for pyramid schemes.
You're aware GraphQL isn't limited to calling out to SQL databases, right?
Certainly we can say our ML models are becoming more general in the sense of being able to cross-correlate between multiple domains. This is quite a different story than "becoming a general intelligence." Intelligence is a property of a being with will. These models, and machines in general, do not posses will. It is we who define their form, their dataset, their loss function, etc. There is no self-generation that marks an intelligent being because there is no self there at all.

It is only the case that ML expands our own abilities, augments our own intelligence.
Looks like this is just a debate of the semantics of the word "obvious". Feynman would likely find a great many things "obvious" that I could not hope to understand. This doesn't mean they aren't "obvious", just that I don't have the requisite mental frameworks.

The only frameworks required to reach this conclusion are the Pythagorean theorem (8th grade geometry), the definition of a circle (same), and the ability to generalize the Pythagorean theorem to higher dimensions. I take it this last bit is where you think people would struggle. I don't think so. Looking at the theorem, there are basically 2 ways one might attempt to generalize it, and the incorrect way (a^n + b^n + ... )^(1/n) can be demonstrated to fall on its face pretty easily by considering small values of higher dimensioned components.

I consider these a "basic understanding of arithmetic" as these frameworks have been around for thousands of years and are expected knowledge for the youngest of teenagers. Yes some hand holding may be required to generalize the idea of distance to higher dimensions, but I'd wager not as much as you seem to think.

Testing this is interesting. If a random person at a bar can be given a refresher on the above frameworks and reach the desired conclusion themselves in 5 minutes or less, would you grant the problem is "obvious to people who haven't been trained in college-level mathematical thinking, or people who don't think about higher-dimensional objects using the handlebars of abstraction"?
Global crypto regulation body likely in next year, top official says
> but to start a business in that sector

That's what I also meant. Even if you start a business, the features that your product would have, will be sold as a "solution" - in layman's terms.
You're kinda doing a little logical fallacy there too.
> The criticism (whether I agree with it or not) is that Europeans largely live under the umbrella of US protection.

That was Trump's inflammatory and subjective accusation, but the only objective criticism was that most counties in NATO did not met the 2% GDP target for expenditure on their armed forces.

The US reportedly spends 3.5% of its GDP on their armed forces.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/266892/military-expendit...

Consequently, it's easy to see that OP's baseless assertion that "Taxes are there to raise armies, not money" is patently false, even when considering the world's leaders in military expenditure.

> The US contributed $73 billion to NATO in 2020 compared to Lithuania's $1 billion [0].

Completely irrelevant.

The US, the world's richest nation by far, has a population of around 329 million and it's GDP is around $21T.

Lithuania's population is around 1% of the US population (2.1 million, similar to New Mexico). Moreover, Lithuania is a pretty bad example regarding NATO's expenditure target, as it's military spending exceeds NATO's target (around 2.12% of its GDP).

GDP-wise, Russia is a kin to Italy, and the European Union's GDP is slightly lower than the US', at around $18T.
liberal in the US sense seems to mean left

whereas in Europe it means anti-authoritarian
Scalability, for one. A modern PC CPU has ~10^10 transistors forming ~10^9 logic gates that work because you can chain them easily.
> They're only complex because developers want to make them complex.

I get your frustration but have to disagree; solutions like k8s exists because users, (often internal users mind you), expect things like rollouts of features several times a day, horizontal scalability etc.

I know there's a mantra on HN of let's go back to how things were in '95 and in some ways I'd love that but it just doesn't seem possible. You have to remember most devs just want to get their tickets done, they don't want to make anything complex if they can avoid it.

That being said if there's certain trends, (hardly set by your average developer), you have to go with at least some of it if you want to remain 'marketable' unfortunately.
That's my point though. The board accepted the buyout offer. "Hands on the wheel" means keeping the lights on and making sure everything stays stable until the deal closes. Firing the company's product and revenue leads is the opposite of that.
> This came off as pretty bitter. I apologize, but I am bitter, and I'm having a shit couple weeks.

You shouldn't be, these cryptobros have been orchestrating general scams, rugpulls, hype scams, pump and dumps and all this having an effect on normal people's lives.

Do not be sorry.
Letting people go while they’re on maternity or paternity leave us not cool.
Is that what definitively broke uMatrix ?
Yes, I meant 121.5 but my memory is fuzzy after many years.
if this is the individual responsible for that shit, I wish him a lifelong career in some other field
You're setting up a dichotomy between a small C-extension interface and code simplicity, but this doesn't make sense. A smaller interface is inherently simpler--it's less for developers to work around, and they can deliver more user value (whether performance or otherwise) per unit complexity.

> The most comparable equivalent in the Python world, PyPy, was the product of an extremely dedicated group of mostly doctoral researchers working against incredible odds

"incredible odds" refers to compatibility with the CPython C-extension interface, which is exactly what I'm talking about.

> There have been teams in at least Google and Dropbox who proposed major upheavals of the interpreter in the past. Both failed in large part due to the complexity of their proposals compared to the performance gains on offer

No, they failed because they had to work within the considerable constraints imposed by historically bad decisions (such as the C-extension interface). The proposals need to be complex because they can't break compatibility.

> I hope by now you are recognizing a theme: the reason the language is so successful is also the reason we are here complaining about it.

Not at all! A narrower C-extension interface doesn't imply that C-extensions would be more difficult to write. There are no downsides to a narrower interface (apart from breaking compatibility, but we're positing a world in which this decision was made in 2008 or earlier).

The real theme here is that historical bad decisions + compatibility guarantees add significant complexity to every single improvement if they don't preclude them altogether.
Twitter CEO pushes out top execs, freezes hiring
And what are the consequences of not following this rule?
They were on the wrong side of a massive bet and lost.

Let's take the reverse and say they were on the right side of the bet and made millions and left everyone else behind to wallow relatively "poor".

Would they feel sorry for those who didn't take the bet?
Huh. I haven't been logged in on any of my devices and I never get pestered. Thanks for the update.
I think they were referring to the heavy edits the original 1954 Godzilla film underwent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla,_King_of_the_Monsters!
> What about cities are intrinsically more crime ridden?

Don’t know, but the stats are quite clear. Crime per capita correlates strongly with population density.

>> No need for community involvement;

> What?

Community involvement. I understand this is likely a totally foreign concept to you, but where I live, we rely almost entirely on volunteerism and community support to take care of each other.

That includes everything from municipal services like our volunteer fire department, to basic day-to-day support for others in our community.

It’s a rewarding and engaging way to live, and nothing comparable exists in a dense city; I spent 20 years living in SF and NYC before I lived here.

>> Not knowing your neighbors.

> Again not intrinsic at all

Of course it is. With 20k+ people per square mile, you can’t know your neighbors.

> You are confusing floor area per capita vs land area pre capita. Even gardens can be in boxes on balconies, see New Orleans.

Don’t piss on me and call it rain. That’s not the same and you know it very well.

> Hey buddy, if "weird city apologists" like me are not representative, then we can't bid up the the rent.

A lot of people packing themselves into a sardine can might only see the can and think that’s the limit of the universe.

That doesn’t make it true, or make you representative of the rest of us out here.

> This is one of the worst comments I've ever responded to on HN. All vague NIMBY vibes, no actual reasoning whatsoever. Get that shit out of here.

Given that you took things in this direction, allow me
to respond in kind.

Grow up, learn about the world outside your tiny immature bubble, and don’t come back until you actually have something useful to share with the rest of us.
i wonder if the guy who got fired was in charge of the decision to add that pop up…
Nvidia takes first step toward open source Linux GPU drivers
I'd strongly disagree just because of periscope alone, putting twitter at the forefront of citizen powered news, like livestream before it.

if your boss or board wants numbers, no product will ever end up good, no matter the people in the product teem
I'm a little worried about how much of a position some of my friends have taken these digital coins but otherwise yeah. This party is going to end some time and unless you got in super early, I just don't think you're going to get rich. You might as well just learn how to options trade if you want to get into high stakes legal gambling.
Nvidia open sources GPU Kernel modules for Linux: How will that be Beneficial?
It's deeply weird, too.

In the enterprise, if someone high ranking is going to be replaced, they're never fired unless there was company-hostile bad behavior.

If the organization is trying to move in another direction, they reorganize and reduce the role of that high ranking leader- maybe to a position where they're alone! and give that high ranking person time to make their next move comfortably.

This goes double when the person is on leave.
Yep! Agreed!
> What difference does it make whether the control and output have the same form of energy when the real thing that matters is the information it captures?

Just thinking out loud, but it might break common assumptions about being able to (easily) compose a individual gates into a more complicated logic function.
My only disdain for it is that it's online and stores the content of the diff. I'm a big fan of webapps that store input data in the URL instead, although storing the content encrypted with the url hash being the encryption key (like Firefox Send) would also be better.
An example of your point, chimps winning over humans at some games

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chimps-outplay-hu...
> firing someone on paternity leave is terrible

If he was paid through it, which I would assume-- any kind of senior dismissal will come with months of severance, what would the problem be?
That's not how acquisitions work. Elon made the offer, it was accepted. Now the company has to continue to operate without his influence until the deal actually closes.
Better than Twits, Teets, Twats, and Tweebs I guess. Even birds is pretty bad.
Learning to diffuse from original image to an isotropic Gaussian, with an invertible transformation, means you are able to un-diffuse isotropic Gaussians back into images once training is complete. The idea is for the transformation to be generalized enough that this process returns images that are feasibly part of the dataset from which the training data was sampled.
I would suggest an iPad with Codea. Codea has a game called 'Cargo Bot' that teaches the basics of algorithmic thinking without the nomenclature that trips up a lot of people. The codea development environment has lots of tutorials and examples that let people explore and play with things in a nice way.
Is it crashing? USDT seems to have recovered its peg, for now, and BTC is trending up since this morning. I admit I was hoping that wouldn't happen.
We have no information on what his severance package is. It would be hard to cry Foul Play if they receive a giant golden parachute
> Would there be consequences to ruining the plans of US, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Slovakia and Romania, and many other countries? No doubt, and beyond what Hungary is prepared to pay.

You can add Norway and probably Denmark to that list. With Finland and Sweden in Nato, all of Scandinavia becomes significantly more defendable. This would enable all Scandinavian countries to combine their defensive efforts, and would it make it extremely hard for Russia to attack any individual country.

And keep in mind that Stoltenberg is Norwegian....
It's a Macro crash. SP500 is down -%5 YTD. Meta -37%, Netflix -65%. Lots of pain spreading. You shouldn't gloat or be happy. Give it a couple of more months like this, and lots of the HN audience would be worried about layoffs.

The security of your average software developer job is strongly tied to market cycles.

If you want a place to direct your hate and bitterness, I would do it at the architects of the BOOM/BUSTS cycles that keeps happenings and destroys people lives.
It's a very small model, I think due to the intent to use it for robotics. It's not that it's good per se, even if it were just a language model it would be smaller than GPT-2, it's that it's bad at a lot of different things. I hope to see analysis into how much of it is multi-purpose, but as of now it's looking really cool
I haven’t seen claims anywhere that he was fired FOR being on paternity leave.

It’s that he was fired when he happened to be on paternity leave.

But at the end of the day, isn’t it another form of paid leave?

So if he was paid out in advance for that time off would that fulfill the company’s obligations?

Genuinely asking, I am neutral on this since I don’t know the intents involved.