skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree with you on this point. AI practitioners have an ethical responsibility to communicate these shortcomings to clients. I know my firm regularly talks to clients how humans should intervene in the AI systems we build. It's a necessary conversation to ensure clients know we aren't building them something flawless.

I loved your .001% example, I'm going to steal that when I talk folks. We often describe how systems fail at scale and talk about how being wrong 1/1,000,000 times can wildly backfire at large numbers.

All that being said, I just don't want people around this forum thinking facial recognition is some fringe, low accuracy modeling exercise like they used to be. The models are actually incredibly impressive these days.
Yes Maven uses XML.
What a wonderful piece of work! From the description it's possible to imagine a series of showstoppers, each followed by an epiphany that allowed the work to continue one more step. And I'm sure there are more stories not shared.
Truly inspiring!
I second your sentiment but that doesn't mean you - or I - are right.
This was already a problem with the email spam blacklists, DNSBL.
Considering the inability of US police to successfully shoot farmers who spray police with bullets I think your bet might fail.
Sure, I can see how in certain circumstances, the word "handicapped" is not the optimal descriptor. I still think "accessibility" is bad, but maybe "disability parking" covers your scenario better.

This is the nature of language. Any one word or image you use to represent something necessarily loses some nuance.

Not everyone who needs a handicapped spot is in a wheelchair, but the wheelchair symbol is a clear, obvious way to communicate that a spot is for handicapped people.

You're not supposed to bring all your brothers and sisters into the "family" restroom with you. Most people can look beyond the literal words on a sign and comprehend the meaning that is being conveyed.

The article is not about tweaking language to be more precise, its about banning _harmful_ language. The assertion that using the phrase "handicapped parking" is _harmful_ is absurd.
Shorter feedback loops = increased productivity.
Yeah, I'll believe they're not selling sexuality the moment they throw a hairy 250 lb dude in there as an instructor.
It isn't just refactoring them that is hell. Even testing things can be hell - those unit tests just became integration tests or you're rolling the dice with mocks. If you don't get the result you expect from a service call, the lack of a single call stack you can debug up and down means tons of time wasted jumping around.

They're hell for new developers coming on to a project too, since they can't just follow IDE links to trace execution paths, and too few projects implement full REST call request/response type safety for endpoints.
What does "true successor" mean?

How about an iMac, which started at $1299 in 2012 and starts at $1299 in 2022?
Does any of this matter any more in the 64 bit age?
https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/11/feds-bank-of-a...

I'd hardly call BofA a good group.
I'm just a layman, but once I learned about experiments like delayed-choice quantum eraser[1] any physical wave function collapse stopped making sense to me.

As a calculation tool, like the algorithm in this thread, sure, but not as something that really happens.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed-choice_quantum_eraser
It's not just that. It's the collection of updated face data that's a concern.

They're taking an image, segmenting out the face and they're improving an existing model for that individual. Super scary stuff that's going on. (Other than the fact that they have an existing image)

If she was in IL .. she should persue them with the BIPA act.
Teach kids to connect the dots. But on the important stuff, connect the dots. Repetition is also important, and jarring imagery is a memory aid.
I find in an apartment complex with lock boxes to prevent package theft, some shippers (FedEx and Amazon) almost never use them, presumably because the drivers are under a time crunch.

It may be easy for FedEx and Amazon to just have insurance cover it. But it's easiest for me to just stop ordering anything from them.
Everyone has brain damage that accumulates over the course of your life. A 50-year old has a lot fewer brain cells than a 20-year old; I wonder what would happen if you regrew them?
In philanthropy, yes. His personal conduct appears to not be so admirable.
What's the use of MS level math in ML? Post-hoc rationalization of ML architectures invented by a good guess? IIRC, the batch-norm paper is a shining example: while the technique is useful, it was invented by intuition, and its post-hoc rationalization - all that impressive looking math - turned out to be bs.
Sounds like the worldbuilding behind Cyberpunk 2077, it has major corpos and finding yourself among the unemployed leaves you in very bad shape.
First off so far I haven't had need to steal something so it hasn't come up in the literal sense. But I have found wisdom in the general principle there. Let's say we are playing cards and I'm winning, I'd walk away rather than let you put the deed to your house on the table. Sometimes in life you may need to hurt someone, before you do think about everyone else who is going to be hurt as well and make sure it's worth it.
Also: as a user, I have no idea whom I am paying – is it the content creator, a scammer, an obscure man in the middle? What kind of transaction is this even? Is there any kind of resolution in case of conflict? It's just an actual payment block box with the promise of some content behind that link, which cannot be verified, and no trust at all.

(Edit) In terms of transparency, there isn't really much to find out about of who is behind this service. From the terms of service (hosted by another domain) we learn:

Neptune Technologies, United States (no further address details)

But there's an email address, and this is the site behind that domain: http://www.neptune.is (???)
> Ok, how about "porch thieves?"

"Detroit woman says her ENTIRE front porch was stolen right off her house"

ref: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9207915/Woman-Detro...
And that will be pennies on the dollar for what consumers lost. There should be 1:1 redress + damages. Not just "refunds".
I'm not advocating for "vigilante justice" either, but if that's the clearest / first thought you have when someone authentically asks "what can I do," that's probably a problem :P
On the other hand all those tech developments you pointed out we’ve only discovered and utilized in the last 100 years. Now imagine a civilization with 10 times that experience/time
Steal my idea: An intercom like assistant with hundreds of AI and non-AI apps
Idea: An intercom-like assistant with hundreds of AI and non-AI apps like image generator, writing generator, avatar generation, background verification etc.

Today there's dozens of AI app platforms like Jasper AI, RunwayML etc. The challenge these guys face is companies like Notion, Canva building AI directly into their platform. Canva built an image generation app and Notion built an embedded writing AI.

So how do the new AI companies compete?

By exploiting the distribution of incumbents. Since every website wants to have these AI apps why not give them a little Javascript embed that gives them all these AI apps directly on their site.

Imagine a small intercom like popup that gives you access to hundreds of AI apps.

A marketplace of hundreds of AI apps embedded into your website. Imagine going to mailchimp.com and having a small hovering bot on each page. You click it open, choose the gpt-3 writer app and generate the email copy. Need to generate a cool cover picture for the email? Use the stable diffusion image generator. Want to remove invalid emails? Use the neverbound app to auto-clean your email list. Want to enrich your email list with names etc, use the Clearbit app to enrich your emails.

Essentially you start with a few API backeded AI apps but as your size grows you open up your platform to third party devs who build their apps into your platform.

All these apps are available using a tiny intercom like circle that pops open on whatever site you are on. Mailchimp, Evernote, Notion etc.

This idea has inherent network effects. The more users you have, the more apps want to sell on your platform. So there is an opportunity to build a monopoly like Windows, Play store, iOS app store etc.

If you already have an AI app platform you can get to the market within 7 days.

The most critical thing with this idea is to get your javascript embed on as many sites as possible. The network effect of more users -> more apps -> more users is extremely strong. And will be hard to override once someone has huge demand already. So start with something free. Maybe a free web image gen tool. Burn VC money here. It doesn't matter. Its really valuable to move fast.

Once you have your free assistant on multiple sites, you can add more paid apps by reaching out to app devs and build your marketplace. There is a real opportunity here to build a new operating system of apps like Windows, Play store, iOS app store etc.

Unfortunately I can't work on this due to some personal reasons, and a lot of BS I've had to deal with.

I do believe this is the biggest AI opportunities in the world right now.

Technical details:

My understanding is not super clear but ultimately you would build a one-time access token that your customer generates on their backend using an API and passes it to client side a javascript. Because somebody could copy the javascript client from someone else and run it on their website. However in the beginning you need a simple architecture to onboard as many websites as you can.
Git. Github. VSCode. ASP.NET. Vercel/Netlify. The CPanel thing that comes with free hosting. Wordpress.
It's probably more along the lines of "never mess with a man's means of providing for his family, because that will be when you push him so far he has nothing left to lose."
Picked a random generator off home depot: https://www.homedepot.com/p/DEWALT-8000-Watt-Electric-Start-...

11 hours runtime at 4kW == 44kWh capacity. 44/7.5 gallon tank == 5.8 kWh per gallon. Lets say your EV has average efficiency of 3.5 miles per kWh, so that’s about 20 mpg off the generator. Apply a 13% efficiency loss while charging (https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a36062942/evs-explaine...) and it reduces to 18mpg. Better than a lot of cars still on the road.
I host personal and semi-commerical websites/apps from home on a 500/500 fiber connection. The hardware is an older HP G1 800 SFF, which you can buy refurbished for ~€150, much more bang for your bucks than a Pi. Proxmox makes it possible to host many webservers and services on LXC containers. But of course, a Pi would work too :)

I have choosen to treat IPv6 as the default stack as I can point directly to the address from outside without any NAT. A reverse proxy handles all "legacy" IPv4 requests. My IPs do change once in a while, but I have made a little bash script that updates the DNS via my domain registrars API, works like a charm!
Obviously it can be. See lobotomization and ECT just for starters (yes, I know ECT is supposed to be better now, don't really buy it)
Image processing is a fun use case. For example, here's a bit of Common Lisp using April and the Opticl library to create a mirrored meme image:

(opticl:write-png-file
"~/out.png" (april-c "2 0∘{(x s)←⍺←2 0 ⋄ (⌽[x],[x]⊢)⌽[x]⍣s⊢⍵↓[x]⍨(1-2×s)×⌊2÷⍨x⊃⍴⍵}"
(opticl:read-png-file "~/in.png")))

The 2 0 at the start of the APL line above controls the mirroring behavior. The second number can be set to 0 or 1 to choose which side of the image to mirror, while the 2 sets the axis along which to mirror. This will be 1 or 2 for a raster image but this function can mirror any rank of array on any axis.

April was used to teach image filtering in a programming class for middle-schoolers, you can see a summary in this video: https://vimeo.com/504928819

For more APL-driven graphics, April's repo includes an ncurses demo featuring a convolution kernel powered by ⌺, the stencil operator: https://github.com/phantomics/april/tree/master/demos/ncurse...
Unfortunately, you're right and I don't really have anyone to turn to within the organization.

My manager was wrangled into this by the project manager. I explained the situation and his response was "I agree with you, but you have to do whatever the project manager says".

While that isn't word for word, I'm not paraphrasing.
Just because you have someone on camera committing a crime in this age of deep fakes is no guarantee that they are guilty... But it definitely provides police with a suspect to investigate further.

The most devastating tool for fighting crime is not increasing the penalties or making jail more miserable. No, the most effective way to stop crime is by drastically increasing the chances of getting caught and correctly sentenced.
> ... it means that the morality or "rightness" of an act is only now defined by whether the proper paperwork was filled out.

I do not understand your point. How is that any different than, say, driving my car down the highway? The same act can be fine if I have a driving license and not fine if I do not.
Seems easy to comply by just applying it to everyone.
The required brand loyalty from Miller crazy - friends who have worked for them will pour non-miller beverages into glassware so that they can't be photographed holding a competitor's product. This is not in public mind you, but at someone else's apartment and not on company time.

Not sure if Budweiser / AB does the same thing back but its a really backwards way to run a company culture.
SD is defined by dividing by the square root of the number of samples. It is never divided by the mean - as this metric has no relevance.

The SD as it relates to the central limit theorem is the confidence in the estimation of the average E(X) of a distribution. It means that the SD reduces i.e. confidence increases as the number of samples increase. You don't need the central limit theorem for this. It follows from the definition of standard deviation where it has the square root of the number of samples in the denominator.
Yes, that's right! In many ways a good book experience is like a really nicely made and presented dinner. Sure, you can wolf down a nicely made steak and drown a glass of wine quickly, but you would have missed out on a nice conversation and enjoyment.

Lots of modern literature for youths is all about crash boom bang getting right into it tiktokiness algorithm wise - hey if something isn't flipping on the screen quickly it's no good. I enjoy that occasionally, like at the beach or by the pool, but not always.
I don't know of any good resources, but application of the laws is mostly common-sense, with a slight bias towards non-discrimination in the gray areas.

It doesn't take a lawyer to tell that Hooters' primary product isn't chicken wings (Chris Rock even made a joke about it).

The reason behind the laws isn't common-sense, in the case that the 1964 Civil Rights Act is basically a list of "things currently happening that we think are bad" rather than an exhaustive list of things it's bad to discriminate on; it's also limited somewhat by the legal framework that the US congress was working within.

Labour laws in the US are also weird for similar reasons. There was a point at which union members were beaten and killed, with the local police being bought-off to not intervene. It escalated to at least one pitched battle between a private army and workers. Things like assault, battery, and murder are enforced at the local ("state" in the US terminology, not in the meaning everywhere else in the world) level not federal level, so rather than arresting the people doing this, laws were passed giving special protections to unions. Then a few decades later people argued that the special protections made unions too powerful and a bunch of extra rules limiting what unions can do were passed.
You still need to set up a Stripe account to use this.
Gates foundation primarily spends money on stocks[0] (many of which arguably going directly against its stated goals, like John Deere)

[0] https://dataroma.com/m/holdings.php?m=GFT
This may be missing a couple under the Windows category, such as _WINDOWS and WIN32 (no underscores).

Buried in some code I wrote is this, because of compatibility nightmares:

#if defined(__WIN32__) || defined(_WIN32) || defined(_WINDOWS) || defined(WIN32)
Another take: personal information is valuable, it belongs to the individual concerned with some fair use exceptions, making electronic files with said personal information in a way that obviously harms the individuals concerned infringes on their most personal intellectual property and is not fair use.
The estimates seem a bit high, or perhaps unbalanced from book to book. The Count of Monte Cristo is slated for 208 days at twenty minutes per day!

I read mostly just in bed before going to sleep, averaging around 30 minutes. The Count of Monte Cristo took me three to four weeks (I don't keep notes on that, so it's an estimate), and I'm not a speed-reader. It's just a book that has aged well (i.e., a limited cognitive overhead) and is not particularly hard to read in the English translation.

On the other hand, it lists The Canterbury Tales for 64 days, which seems reasonable given that reading English that old really does take a lot more effort (and that's assuming an annotated edition), but way out of whack compared to Dumas' novel above. (Also The Canterbury Tales is not a work I read in one go; a couple of stories before moving to another book is sensible here in my opinion.)
Some good reading on Wells Fargo: https://www.theroot.com/ghetto-loans-for-mud-people-17908695...

And a little story from my own experience. I was completely broke, and they slapped me with a big fine for not having enough money in my account. Then the teller smugly explained that I should be thankful because they could have fined me even more if they wanted to... I closed my account at that point.

And for people who don't know what it's like being poor, here's an article on how expensive it actually is: https://finmasters.com/cost-of-being-poor/
South Africa?
I'm sorry but if one thing America should have learned over the last six years is that the two parties are nothing alike, equating them as the same and making a poor faith effort that voting is useless is extremely moronic.
> except in the specific case of artistic works, due to the first amendment.

The first amendment protected the Boy Scouts' right to express their disapproval of gays by not employing them. Is race different from a first amendment perspective?
First off, My understanding is that no, we are not doing it over again with the California law. As far as I can tell, the case has not raised the same questions, but perhaps I am mistaken.

More to your point, there was no precedent for preemptively suing judges and clerks in this manner. It seemed to me that the case turned on setting new precedent due to the unusual situation intentionally created by the law. I think saying that the court system does not have a method to address this problem is a fair characterization. It didn't have an established path before, and it still doesn't.

This is a different question than if the court system should have a method, and if they should create one.
Both ways work:

$ jc ifconfig lo0

$ ifconfig lo0 | jc --ifconfig
Use boring software. Software that releases every few months instead of weeks or even days. Software that is well documented and has an active supportive community.
It's important to discuss alternatives, teach problem solving, etc. But at the end of the day, teaching your kid to starve to death because stealing is always wrong is only going to erode their trust in you.

This isn't something that I brought up with my kid, btw. He led the conversation, he was asking honest and innocent questions. Shutting the door in his face loses the opportunity to discuss nuanced ethics when he's receptive to the conversation. If I drive, then it's just an abstract lecture.
> I'm really confused why the term is bothering people?

I think it's adjacent to "Stop Liking What I Don't Like". Maybe like: 'Stop Not-Demonizing What Makes Me Angry'.
Consider your neighborhood bar may be under a group, i.e. hammock hospitality group.
Same here in NL. Just a few years ago there were reports of wolfs wandering around and I think last year the first wolves were born here again.

Currently there’s talking about using paintball guns to keep them away from farms.
You are asking the right questions

A lot of homelessness is due to different mental illnesses (not discounting the societal issues, and of course the drugs then make it worse)

I really feel society sucks at dealing with the action/inaction assymetries
If I remember correctly wolves returning to Yellowstone generated 5 million dollars each year to the area only by the increase in tourists. Plus environmental benefits
Two Men Arrested for Hacking the Taxi Dispatch System at JFK Airport
I think this may end up being the most powerful application of GPT. While I've been using it for coding, most of it is high level "what are the trade-offs?" kind of thinking and very little actual code.

A person with some background and sufficient general knowledge, but who is a non-expert on a topic, can dive into a topic and allow the AI to handle most of the detail work. What do I need to know to understand this? It falls out naturally from the exploration of the topic, in a faster and more integrated way compared to chasing down articles and definitions.

It's like having a research assistant, that is an expert that has read everything ever published about the topic, and that is also infinitely patient. Of course, it's also prone to bouts of being confidently incorrect, and it can't actually reason, or think up anything new. That may seem like a serious limitation, but it also describes many of my college professors, and they still taught me plenty. ;)
> ...it's only been on her desk for two business days.

Not according to the article:

"A spokesperson for the governor's office told VICE's Motherboard on October 31 that "Governor Hochul is reviewing the legislation." Asked about the bill's status today by Ars Technica, a spokesperson responded that "Governor Hochul is reviewing the legislation."
The only thing pro about it is single threaded performance, and even there it's not close to the best available, as Zen 4 and Raptor Lake surpass it. In other areas it's lacking. A Threadripper will destroy it in multithreaded performance with 64 cores and terabytes of RAM. A 4090 will blow it away in GPU performance.