skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Removing your face-recognition function because it's less effective on black faces is certainly a substantial ideological commitment.

Deploying your face-recognition function for something critical that impacts user quality of life, even if it doesn't recognize black faces well, is an ideological commitment by default.

> That's not generally true.

It's absolutely generally true. We generally call people by the name they request; if they don't like us referring to their race or features in a certain way, we stop.

> We don't give noble or professional titles

Are you suggesting that having a naturally born penis is some kind of equivalent signifier to being a P.Eng?

> focused on the feelings of some very small groups

I think you are underestimating how big of a change is afoot in the 13-25 demographic.
Gah! It looks like you broke your tab. We all feel sad when we make mistakes, but that's why pencils have erasers. Hey, it looks like you're writing a letter.
> And the thought that somebody could just waste my yearly taxes on nothing - was very strange and disturbing.

I've been told the US military is a veritable cornucopia of waste.
And from what I heard, grave sounded to much like 'duke' (in French or German), so the French Revolutionaries weren't too keen on it.
> What is fun these days?

Fun can be many things, and it's definitely not constrained to being "productive".

What does being productive even mean to you?

If you do everything productivity porn tells you to do, you probably won't be "successful" anyway, and you'll live an empty, Patrick Batesman life.
> Accept that there are black boxes that “just work”

This is pretty integral to my job and I’ve been in the industry for 11 years or so. You can’t know everything right away and it’s overwhelming to try to attempt to do so. Learning certain parts has its time. For now just focus on what is in front of you.

“Method X produces Y and that’s what I need” next step.
It's not about growth, it's about productivity. All tech innovations increase productivity.

Growth to a railway is better logistics so things are directed more accurately, more energy efficiency, more efficient use of labor, etc. They can also increase their sales, but I think your comment was implying those are stagnant industries.

All technology is ultimately making improved outcomes at lower cost. That is what technological advancement is.
I actually agree with this take! Deep learning models shine in problem domains where the gap between the data representation to the way how humans parse it is large. In images, for example, we just have RGB matrix but what human vision does is very complex. So representation learning done by deep learning models tries to close the gap.
For lot of tabular data, human's don't go from raw representation to a mental model quickly. We in fact follow a model similar to tree based classifier: look at how a variable is splitting the output, compare averages across groups etc.
In this example by the parent commenter the $100 BB divided up as dividends or stock buy backs is useful regardless of y/y revenue or profit growth.
Too Bad to Be True
1 parsec ~= 3.26 light years
Possibly taking a page from this:

> I sold microwave meals on Deliveroo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k47u9tduwb8
Lots of linear functions with \x -> max(0, x) thrown in between.

(That's literally what neural nets with relu as activation unit do.)
Will only work if the space elevator happens. The g's from a traditional launch would be a major issue for the elderly.
My guess is that either DoorDash doesn't want to invest in preventing what is basically fraud on their platform or they've discovered that they actually make more money if they enable it and let it continue no matter how terrible the experience is for the people who order food.

Uninstall DoorDash and the problem goes away for you, and if enough people uninstall DoorDash the math changes and the problem goes away for everybody. As a bonus you'll save a fortune by not paying the higher food prices and fees and you'll stop giving up some personal information in the process.
The problem is that if you train an ML model with a bunch of data that happened to be available in the past, then the system will perpetuate the same biases as were inherent in the training data. This leads to the (real issue) Google image classifier categorizing an image of a black man as a "gorilla" etc.

Certain words are heavily loaded and are worth just skipping to avoid all the hassle for now.
I understand the necessity from a business perspective. People will have to go if there's no money to pay.

The real question is, who is let go first? The bad decision maker or the skilled workforce that could continue to produce goods with a better decision maker?
It's in a list of censored words that were leaked a while ago. It's not really a mystery.

I guess if it's not explicitly censored then its just a bug that Microsoft can fix.
a) and plenty of new hires don't actually have the skills they claimed to have, but, regardless, more importantly

b) Yes, using my examples above, the company should fire the head of the corp analytics department, and the in-house creative agency, and the head of some digital initiatives. But the entire dept has to go too. Sorry if you just got hired, or you're low-level, that's life.

c) "fulfill a promise" doesn't fly in corporate world. There are no "promises". Companies try things, some work and some don't. They make good decisions and bad ones. Sometimes a thing works great, then the economy changes, a competitor comes in, or new tech is developed. I'm sure that President of 35mm film at Kodak was a prestigious job for decades. Now it isn't. It's not because someone failed to deliver on a "promise".
> then cherry picking results according to different values isnt going to fix it.

Again: "merely a refusal to return results in an area where the model has proven problematic."

> Your example has quietly shifted from facial recognition of different races to speech about different races.

Again, three points:

* First, no matter how you feel about gender: bias in AI is a problem, as evidenced by issues with recognizing black faces.

* Second, there's some obvious cases where we can all agree that using past training data could result in things that are currently offensive. There are pieces of language we pretty much all agree we should use differently now to avoid offense (e.g. mongoloid).

* Third, I believe that gender is one of these cases. Social mores are evolving. Using conventions from the past when our collective norms are changing on the span of months basically guarantees offense.
The Pyth Network is exclusively HFT and TradFi big money traders or exchanges and they give it away for free to break the market data monopoly.

https://pyth.network
It's soldered in.
Did you put it on libgen?
Touch typing (almost) -can take awesome notes online, without having to hunt-and-peck
Which is why interest rates being so low is a scam. Apple credit rating is also AA+ so they're borrowing at virtual nothing interest. Why use cash you can grow vs use more debt.
Troy, watch out you don't open yourself up for an attack from the bad guys: They'll start sending you solicitations with ReplyTo addresses of industry honeypots, and before you know it, you'll become a known spammer and your regular outgoing emails will be routed to recipient's spam folders or maybe even dropped entirely.
This information, without the information about Americans' household assets is quite useless. It's just designed to scare.

If the total debt is $16T, and the total assets $1.6T, you have all the reasons to be worried. But if the total assets are $16T, maybe not so much. What if the total assets are $160 T?

Wait, $160T? Does such a number even exist? Yep, it exists. It's the total assets of the American households. Or more precisely, $158.8T [1]

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGZ1FL192000005Q
It's not people demanding growth, it's the companies claiming they are growing and the expectation that sets.

Nothing wrong with a steady state company. There are plenty of them. But that has implications that companies need to live with.
But "we" and "the backlashers" are not one group.
I see you've read my productivity blog!
I looked, but I couldn't find a .tar.gz or anything.
I emailed Joel and asked him to put it up on his github page, https://github.com/jswelling
He has something called DrawP3D, but I think its just a library that you can call from C or Fortran that uses the P3D rendering backend. I could be wrong it was a long time ago.
Not sure what you mean. The tech is caving to politics. People dont like it.
Verizon’s site times out your login after like 2 minutes. Just trying to manage my account on the site is a nightmare, and I’m on fiber.
Squash + Merge is better for the vast majority of developers who put garbage commit messages in their feature branches.
> is there true net detriment in that case?

Yes.

> i'm sure the wife + children appreciate the extra income?

Probably appreciate the money and resent the guy. Also, the wife also probably wants a professional career for herself (or to pursue activities away from home and the kids) -- so old-fashioned of you to guess she will want to play the housewife.

The children would probably prefer a father who was available.

If this guy is ignoring them, as you put it, that marriage will probably not end well, and the family itself will be tested.

If the guy is going to spend 12 hours daily away from home working, then "hit the gym", read 5 books a day, then travel a lot for work, maybe he doesn't want a family; maybe he could just donate a portion of his money to random strangers.
I think you have mistaken “growth” to mean “stock growth”.

The rest of this thread is talking about y/y revenue and profit growth.

If profits are sustained at $100 BB annually every year perpetually, and I own 0.01% of the company. They can afford to (and can be made obligated to) pay me $10 MM annually through dividends or equivalent stock buy backs.

This is a useful company, and I would buy its stock for the right price.
It was a book by masters and Johnson, in a college library. Um..
> that many people prefer to use eyeglasses instead of contact lenses

Apple has a patent for a tunable and foveated lens systems allowing it to accomodate glasses, contact lenses etc.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/01/11/apple-glass-could...
Peak energy deserves more discussion. The world uses 150 petawatt-hours which will be 300 petawatt-hours in 45 years.

No matter what we do, what energy source we use, we cannot meet these exorbitant demands for energy.

e.g. you'd have to build 1031 nuclear reactors per year for 45 years starting today to generate 300 petawatt-hours.
Learning K Programming, Idiom by Idiom (2019) [pdf]
https://nsl.com/k/training/idioms_K3.pdf
I just use the tools available on Linux for this. The Ghostscript suite (gs) works like a charm.

But for the remaining 98.87% of non-Linux non-terminal users this is probably an amazing time saver.
The off book price of services with and without insurance can sometimes reveal a giant cost/price disfunction. Insurance being willing to book price things at $1000 and then behind the door negotiate the $25 the actual cost reflected, drives more people to take insurance. So, medical processes which expose "you will pay x" designed to give truth to costs, are now a vehicle for "if you don't have insurance you will pay x, if you do, its cheaper" which is... advertising.
Determining Malicious Probabilities Through ASNs
omg what game
Is this so that you don’t end up creating the wrong abstraction when inevitably over time the meaning changes and you end up special casing the implementation?
Spammer burned a total of 80 seconds in Password Purgatory

The ability to deal with a bad actor by wasting a minute and 20 seconds of his/her time isn't cause for fist-pumping or high-fiving. The internet needs a better way to verify user identity. The lack of online accountability isn't worth the cost anymore.
You're using the term "growth" in an entirely different manner than the person to whom you are responding, which is funny because you note the word has multiple dimensions yourself. They are talking about market growth and the raw obsession with profit. $40 billion dollars in ONE QUARTER with a single product line.

You are discussing technological development and advancement, which should be talked about separately from financials. Endless drive for profit and economic expansion seems to be an end to itself, whereas technological advancement for lower pollution and greenhouse emissions are necessary.
Ironically, ignoring the actual usages of "master race" only cements its negative meaning. 95% of its modern usage is to claim PC elitism. It could be neutered if we let it.
Before we define living, please define what "work" and "productivity" mean to you.
I might even share your idea about adults _should_ behave. But that doesn't invalidate fny's musings based on how _adults_ do behave.
Discord-ScreenAudio: Discord client that supports streaming with audio on Linux
The organization is ultimately a collection of developers who have devoted (In this case) 20+ years of their career. I can understand the utilitarian view, but I can also see how they want to keep some humor or personality alive in their product. It's ultimately the decision of the org. Open source stuff is hard enough, imagine seeing tons of demands daily on something you really care about and then seeing something like this that doesn't, ultimately, even matter. I can understand a tiny bit of hostility.

I will add, don't take free software for granted, it doesn't owe you anything. I think the reverse is true.
Who do we spend time with across our lifetime? (2020)
FileZilla. I've turned off automatic updates several times and it still does it. I've had probably 200 different FileZilla installers in my recycle bin. Putting aside whether I think it's unnecessary to receive so many updates for such tiny bugs/changes, it wouldn't be an issue if they just respected the fact I turned off updates.
That's not useful to a retail investor though. You know its exact value and so does whoever's selling it to you, meaning you can't get a bargain on it.

It might be useful if you got it for free, but in that case you should sell it to a bank or someone who can actually use a fixed-income asset.
> Or more specifically the CEO has to do what investors want otherwise they fire him

The board is the one that has the power to fire the CEO not shareholders.

And yes shareholders are involved in deciding the composition of the board. But unless there is some egregious governance issue or a complete breakdown in financials no one is going anywhere.
> we should spend gov't $$ to make sure significant amounts of chip manufacturing still get made in the US, [...]

Why?

And would your rationale apply to other countries as well?
There is the option of just writing it out “4 megagrams”
From this list, pretty much only holograms is rooted in reality. The rest are chasing fools gold. GAI is like fusion, behind a perpetually 50 year horizon. Don't allow DALL-E to make you think "it's alive" because it's not.

Holograms exist. Free air animated holograms a la "Obi-Wan Kenobi you're my only hope" are a long long way off. Peppers Ghost is good.

Adding value to things is hard. But, keep trying. These arent good choices, they're all hugely capital intensive or high risk. Pick a field like civil engineering or bio sciences, find people doing work who need data science or programming, or visualisation. Take you skills in, add value. Incremental improvement which is provable is very high value. Even good science to negative outcome, is higher value than "I think I can get fusion in 25 years for $20b of risk money come back me and my home fusor"

Help an archeologist!
Well, good part is that I get to choose what I like and stick to those. I’m a big fan of Vim, Tmux, Vifm, Lazygit and look forward to what the future holds.
You made up a railway logistics company instead of addressing the point about a commuter subway. There is no need for growth in a subway unless they are adding lines or stations. If there is constant growth outside of that then it's just hurting consumers.
Are there more resources about code architecture in general?

I am slightly frustrated since I can only find web service architecture resources when searching for software architecture on Google...
I feel like they have no choice but to do some heavy-handed censorship strategy. People who have zero understanding of technology but an infinite supply of outrage will get the whole concept legislated out of existence on “think of the children” or “this computer program is _____ist” grounds if they allow anything even mildly disturbing.
But the funny thing is most people agree that moderating gender is wrong without knowing what the actual result would be. Its actually refreshing and shows how small the minority in favor of this moderation is.
I understand the initial idea to block this known neo-Nazi short handle (8 for the letter H and 88 as HH standing for the 'Heil Hitler' salute in these circles).

But how many people do I know born in 88. Or on the 8th of August?

I understand that given the login is your public visible name on steam they just don't want clear neo-Nazi signifiers.

Edit: Typo
For 95+% of people I interact with in a given day, it's none of my business and not at all my job to police whether a person is asking me to call them by their "real" name or whatever it is your questions are trying to get at.
> Racism has intent

This is a failure to understand centuries of history. It’s an understandable one, it’s one I used to relate more to and I probably still relate to it far more than I should.

The notion of racism requiring malice is so far from reality that similar defenses were dismissed almost a century ago in international tribunals which still shape the world.

It takes no malice to participate in racism. It only takes accepting it as given. This doesn’t have anything to do with anything that’s originated from the internet, from any perspective. It doesn’t make racism meaningless. Treating it that way does though.

“The” problem is that racism, as a societal background factor, is treated as the sea in which we swim, it’s “neutral” without an actor present to promote it. If it just “is”, no one is “at fault” and… the kicker, if your definition requires intent and there isn’t any intent for the specifics under question… it’s not just a mistake, it has defenses like these to shield and bolster it.

You can rail against “social justice” all you like, and I’m betting my response will show your railing resonates more here than it should. But your position is ahistorical and probably based in defensiveness about something you don’t need to defend.
Ignoring the “how publicly traded companies equities function” aspect. What would be the medium to longer term outcome of Apple “making better products?”

In an open market I would assume that better products drive new users and/or increased revenue. The way Id measure that is probably something like units sold, ASP, LCV, etc which should all feed back to top or bottom line. And if revenue or profit is increasing id call that … growth?

So it seems a bit tautological. UNLESS you mean to measure better products some way besides revenue, units sold etc. And then Im really interested in what that quantification would be, and why it would lead to different outcomes.
You might be asked why a lot. And sometimes, I think, the best answer is 'because I can and I want to', as your article perfectly answers it. Being too utilitarian early in a project is sometimes useful but large, audacious bets don't work that way. Not all those who wander are lost, so do it!
I think it has snuck into the diction of many of us who've seen his talks
Oh, so now companies could 'diagnose' potential interview candidates resume photos with AI, rejecting eveyone who scores badly. Great dystopian future.
That's all a growth-less company can be. A simple niche, with a very specific audience that knows exactly what they want. It's the exception that makes the point. You can't apply that to a company like Apple.
Ian Lance Tayler, Jonathan Amsterdam, and Russ Cox propose to add a standardized iterator interface and extend the `for range` syntax to support iterators.
Ah, simple like this: https://github.com/genuinelucifer/mypad

I like that part:

hEdit = CreateWindowEx (
WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE, /* Extended possibilites for variation */
"EDIT", /* Classname */
"", /* Title Text */
WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|WS_VSCROLL|WS_HSCROLL|ES_MULTILINE|ES_AUTOHSCROLL|ES_AUTOVSCROLL , /* default window */
1, /* Windows decides the position */
1, /* where the window ends up on the screen */
100, /* The programs width */
100, /* and height in pixels */
hwnd, /* The window is a child-window to hwnd */
(HMENU) IDC_EDIT, /* No menu */
GetModuleHandle(NULL), /* Program Instance handler */
NULL /* No Window Creation data */
);
What matters for the developer work experience is whether the product can be released frequently, not whether it actually is released frequently. Changes should only be merged to the release branch when they have passed all tests, so in principle you can take the contents of that branch and release at any time. But in practice you might release much less frequently in order to minimize customer impact.
It's definitely not a perfect solution, but one approach could have been for the author to use a consumer Gmail account and to have set up the gsuite account as an alias.
"As a dev you don't want to work in an environment where there's some long away deadline for release, that sucks."

And yet that's how devs managed for years and years before CD became even remotely feasible. And some projects are still run that way (I'm working on an open-source project that hasn't had a release in years and is still months away from it. It's a bit frustrating, but I can't see the situation being improved by pushing out a release before it's ready).
He seems pretty middle of the road on this to me. Isnt transferring male inmates to female prisons absurd to you?
A Minimal Video Instance Segmentation Framework Without Video-Based Training
Double prefixes were actually common for some of the more "extreme" magnitudes a long time ago, like this one for example:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/micromicrofarad
Pyramidal Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
Hmm. When the thread knows literally one fact about you, and it's that you had a link to a furry art twitter account at the ready, you can be forgiven for doing a little brand management.
Prompt-to-Prompt Image Editing with Cross Attention Control
Petalica Paint, formerly PaintsChainer, uses AI to colorize line drawings. It had a moment a couple of years back. I still find it amazingly satisfying.

https://petalica-paint.pixiv.dev/index_en.html
"censored"
Hackenbush
Yes. Though, of course, you'll only be able to have conversations with the aspects of their personality that show in the surviving documents.

As a trivial example, Angela Merkel is/was well-known for making pretty good jokes with journalists when off-the-record. Any journalist who let that part of her personality shine through, wasn't invited again.

Thus the media portrayal, and most interviews with and speeches by her are much drier.

(For a personal example, if you train on my work emails, you get a different personality than if you train on my text message, and that's still different from training on how I talk with my mouth all day.)
Just taking a step back here, I'm willing to bet OP and some of the other folks replying (like here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32338845) are just fulfilling predictions made here: https://spectrum.ieee.org/study-nobody-wants-social-robots-t...

This piece focused on a machines appearance, but later they comment that really what's at the root of peoples issues (the people that have them) is that they resent the anthropomophizing of machines in general - which I would take to include speech.
A Fast Text-Driven Approach for Generating Artistic Content