skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The politics in particular are why SF is such a gross place. It shouldn’t matter whether you were born in the place you live or not, trans or not, white or not, or work for a FAANG or not.

If you’re not originally from SF, and you work in tech, and don’t have some interesting combination of race, gender, and/or sexual preference, the incumbent residents will never forgive you for it.

Unlike some parts of the US where people may secretly hate you but at least act polite, or other places where people are quick to get into confrontation, but at least they’re genuine and pretty much alright, in SF people are shitty and overtly rude.

25 years after the dot com boom, still expect people to roll their eyes or talk shit to your face for being an engineer.

Bonus points: live here long enough and you’ll encounter even grosser fringe stuff like using anti-Israeli policy as an excuse for straight-up antisemitism. Using anti-racism as an excuse for pro-car anti-pedestrian policies. Using the of environmentalism as an excuse to protect gas stations and parking lots and prevent construction of housing.

The weirdest bit is the very few people I know who were actually born here are great. The vast majority of the people using the cudgel of “oh yeah? How long have you lived here?” may only outrank you by a few years.
True facts.

Source - I design medical devices
Dropbox doesn’t do email or office tools as far as I know; they have Paper, but thats not the same. I also believe the free tier is storage only, which is the cheapest element of the offering to deliver.
C is a much better language, I'm sure nobody will be confused because they'll all only be looking for C.
Most of PRC talent now stays in the PRC because they generate significantly more than west can brain drain or there is emmigration opportunities. The amount of top C9 candidates flowing to the west is decreasing with each year because indigenous ecosystem has good opportunities for them unlike 10-20 years ago. It's not India/IIT where shit tier domestic enviroment where latest study shows something absurd like 90%/60%/30% of top 10/100/1000 Indian talent leaves country within a few years. Except in certain fields, one would be hard pressed to find same # of Chinese talent who graduated at top of the districts/classes going abroad anymore. Most are staying in PRC, because opportunties abound when you're at top and QoL pretty good. Leaving is harder than ever.

Put some numbers on PRC talent outflow, it's insignificant to what stays even post narrative of covid scaring Chinese to leave. And I know many who left, mostly retiring people whose just looking for places to park their money abroad. But talent that moves PRC up strategic values chains in S&T, very few, and as this article points, established strategic talent are moving back in record numbers where there's more upward mobility without red scare. This is without mentioning PRC students to NA has basically halved post covid. Dumb napkin math for illustration: US taking 4/10 PRC talent from before vs 3/100 now. The former subsantially degrades PRC talent pipeline, the latter barely makes a dent. And If US can only add 20 talent per year, then PRC's net 97 is going to matter over time, as in short/medium term time. Maybe talent import is needed after 50 years, at a point it's to sustain a PRC that has 2-3x more skilled workforce than US. But A) that's really not a competition anymore B) long enough time horizon that it's hard to speculate.

Yes US still have access to EU/IN talent, but again politics limit how much they can brain drain / absorb, so net inflow of US talent is no where close to net PRC talent production. Or people from "all over world" is basically ~1B (granted set to grow) English speakers (including non 1st language) or about the pool of Mandarin speakers. Remove PRC talent and US loses a huge chunk of talent access, especially from PRC pipeline with relatively proven ability to generate useful talent. And ultimately this matters because PRC making 50-100M STEM by 2050 while US population only set to expand by 40M is an insurmountable skilled workforce gap. It's not a demographic bomb as unparallel divident. Hence I doubt PRC need to import high end talent 50-100m STEM is stupid amount to make jobs for. Denying US PRC talent isn't about crippling US talent procurement, which US immigration policy does itself. It's about retaining PRC compatible talent - as you say, US can draw from English world, PRC largely rely from drawing from within. US denying itself large segment of talent that only benefits PRC to retain is a relative win. It's like the one area where could US win by default but chooses to cede.
IEEE 754 defines decimal floats in addition to binary, but you’ve never used them because no x86 processor has provided hardware implementations of them.
I see this as an absolute win considering facial recognition is easily used as a tool of oppression.
Yeah it is a pity people think this way. If you create something that just works and don't need bugfixes for a year then you are punished! Probably those people should add empty commit "nothing to do!" and do release "release notes: nothing more to add or remove"
> “Each time we are able to find an enslaved ancestor, we are defeating the purpose of slavery. The purpose of slavery was to rob us of that information,” says Henry Louis Gates Jr

I mean was it really? Wasn't the purpose of slavery to get free labor out of people?
AI is imperfect but it works a certain percentage of the time in a certain percentage of cases. Polygraphs are just complete pseudo-science bullshit.
I think scrapy doesn't work in real time.

You could definitely write a proxy server that does an http request and transforms the HTML though.
I'm not sure if virtue signalling is the right word but a few years ago it became a bit of a joke as people would claim they were 0.3% Cherokee in order to garner sympathy.

If someone feels deeply connected to the land or really enjoys drinking green beer on St. Patrick's day, I don't feel like they should have to justify those passions to themselves or others by taking a DNA test.

While this is an interesting historical endeavour, I can't help but think 23andMe is essentially catering for those kinds of people who want some sort of present day sympathy or understanding based on what 23andMe says might have happened to a distant ancestor.
Question: for sandboxing untrusted code, should I invest time in learning more linux container stuff or switch to learning WASI? I am inclined towards WASI myself.
And they’ll throw some random metrics garbage back at you…

Im glad flow state is becoming more talked about but am sure that any new measures to improve it will eventually become corrupted, misunderstood or implemented completely wrong by the hands of the bean counters or some other corporate force
1) It is indeed my fault for replying, I thought flagging is only available for users with a certain number of karma but apparently you have to click on the comment for the flag button to appear (which is weird).

2) The number of karma I have doesn't affect the correctness of my statement.
A New Frontier for Travel Scammers: A.I.-Generated Guidebooks
Why aren't we writing everything in assembler? It's so much faster!

There's a huge number of business process where execution time is almost a non-issue. As long as the thing runs every day/week/month/quarter no one will give a crap. Development time, supportabilty, and onboarding time for new developers tend to matter way more for those sorts of processes. For things your shipping out to end users? Optimization and speed tend to matter enough to justify the development cost, but there's an absolute ton of internal business processes, and even internal applications, where optimizing it would cost way more than just running with what the dev team already knows.
If you are writing a software stack from scratch, perhaps you should start with a relatively low-end RISC-V SBC. Once you have accomplished that, you would step-up to a more advanced SBC and implement the next higher levels of abstraction.

As you progress so will the RISC-V environment and choices. And the cost of SBCs will continue to come down. Buying the most powerful SBC now is an expensive overkill. When working at the low-level you won't be programming PCI and USB straightaway.

With your stated goals, your growing RISC-V expertise will become increasingly valuable.
By that logic, Apple is also a Chinese company.
Interesting when taken together with things like the story from the other day about emerging AI/ML-based acoustic keystroke attacks against, which mentioned being trainable via Zoom calls: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37013704 / https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-acoustic-...
That is... not how that works at all. No one refers to people that way.
Why has the focus been purely on instances of perceived political bias if this isn’t just a pretext for punishing the wrong type of perceived political bias? Shouldn’t any demonstration of content control cause the same loss of protection (and cause the same fervent calls for loss of protection)? This would include removing illegal content. Removing illegal content, under your theory, should cause a platform to lose protection from hosting illegal content.
August Headline: Julia enters the Tiobe index top for the first time
It's not HIPPA, as others have stated HIPPA does not require that your software sucks. It just requires that it doesn't leak sensitive (or any) personal healthcare information.

Source - I design medical devices that are HIPPA compliant and our software does not suck.
Are you referring to this image? https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/052b0e0612d5579d...
I download and upload more than 50TB per month, every month, just for my personal stuff.

Bandwidth is dirt cheap these days.
"Clause 2(2) stipulates that news content is “made available” if two conditions are met:

that it, or any portion of it, is reproduced; and
that access to it is facilitated by “any means, including an index, aggregation or ranking of news content.”

"

Just linking does not satisfy the first part of the clause according to the bill.
The article posted to HN in this relevant section for the start of this thread (the part about more/less black people in the data sets) quotes/paraphrases a Scientific American piece (where I got the quote with "innocent" in it from my comment), which itself is based on a paper in Government Information Quarterly.

The paper is what the article here links to when they say that facial recognition leads to disproportionate arrests of black people, the part you're mentioning now. That's a separate finding of the paper from the statements about possible reasons "why" that are based on the training and search sets.

The main thrust of the paper is actually those numbers: they find that black-white arrest disparity is higher in jurisdictions that use facial recognition.

"FRT deployment exerts opposite effects on the underlying race-specific arrest rates – a pattern observed across all arrest outcomes. LEAs using FRT had 55% (B = 1.55) significantly higher Black arrest rates and 22% lower White arrest rates (B = 0.78) than those not implementing this technology."

They do some stuff I'm not really qualified to opine on to try to control for the fact that obviously facial recognition adoption is also correlated to department size, budget, crime rate and things like that. Of course the usual caveats still apply, particularly that they're not claiming or attempting to show causation.
It's all just consistent with Canadian economic policy since confederation and before. The preference here is for monopolies dating back to the Hudson's Bay Company, etc, and powerful protected interests in large part control the state here ... Both major parties are completely under their control, just with variance in the sectors. The federal Conservatives are dominated and controlled these days by western energy sector interests (and the provincial Ontario ones by real estate development). The federal Liberals by the Westons and Bell and, it seems, the shrinking media sector.

Nationalism is the sugar water they use to sweeten the deal to make it palatable to Canadians. People have a gut reflex to swallow this stuff because they are rightly or wrongly attuned to the threat of dominance from the US.

When Harper was prime minister, it was all about fossil fuel companies, defunding and silencing climate scientists, shoveling money into projects in the west and energy sector, etc. With Trudeau it's just a different pile of bullshit.

I'm sick of the dysfunction. It's a corrupt state, with corrupt, colonial foundations.
> Dividing by zero returns undefined.

I am disappointed in the incomplete specification here. Dividing by zero returning undefined makes sense but what about dividing zero? It should also be undefined.

0/3 ==== undefined
Invisalign works pretty well, though. I'm pretty pleased it was "pushed" on me. I had some messed up teeth. 12 months of trays later and I my teeth are more or less in the right place now.
My understanding is that the guys who took over wanted to use DE money to basically push out fruit ninja style mobile games. Even if it turns out that their takeover was completely legal, holding on to the DE property and not developing it to prioritize boring mobile platform shite is a cardinal sin.
Does it?

I don't want to let the cops off the hook here. The previous commenter suggested a mechanically plausible way: "decent software used in a racist way" would have the above problem
Basta Persistent Bash Status Line
De-clutter your prompt by putting status into a scroll-protected status line at the bottom of your terminal.
Why would there be any conflict? They're in completely different domains so there is no potential for confusion. Why would copyright be relevant in any way? Do you even know what copyright is?
The only thing that matters in this case is the types of devices used to make the pictures in the training data, and the device being used to make the picture that is analyzed by the algorithm. Advances in computational photography software in “flag ship phones” is not really relevant. Also both sides of this argument are making the mistake of equating photos that are visibly recognizable to a human, with a photo what would provide enough distinct features that an algorithm could make an ID prediction. There could be some bias in when people assembled the data set they chose humanly recognizable images, but it’s not necessary. Also it’s obvious that the kind of features on a pixel level that would be identifiable on a photo of a dark complexion and a fair one would be different. so either you train separate algorithms or you make sure your training data set has enough examples of both.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-021-01026-3
> privacy tools

> blog.google

LOL
You might check out what the Precursor open source phone project is up to [0], they tout a compile-it-yourself RISCV cpu running on a Xilinx Spartan 7

There's also a FPGA implementation of the 6502 CPU running at 100Mhz, that's on a Spartan 6 [1]

I have some overlapping goals as you but plan to start with Ben Eater's 8 bit machine and NAND to Tetris. I'm curious about ternary logic - true false and maybe - like charlieplexing. I think Konrad Zuse had built something like this. Move onto designing an instruction set from there, how much can I keep it as an analogue dataflow computer instead of a stepwise serial instruction machine. I heard someone say the ENIAC was a parallel machine before von nuemann ruined it :)

[0] https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor

[1] https://hackaday.com/2021/10/15/heres-a-100-mhz-pin-compatib...
Anyone want to take a serious stab at dethroning them?

I've designed medical devices for 20 years, many of which directly interfaced with and fed information to EPICS.

Email me at address in my bio if you're interested in starting an exploration party.
He's barely covering his own legal fees
JVM, Python and WASM are more like the SECD [0], not a plain stack machine, by use of a local environment. BEAM (for Erlang) is a register machine. And the JVM and WASM get compiled to code for register machines, with the VM stack not present (in a concrete form) at runtime.

> a stack-based VM is relatively easy to optimise for a register CPU.

You get SSA for almost free (just phi the stacks at control joins), but after making SSA everything is the same regardless of stack- or register- VM.

[0] https://academic.oup.com/comjnl/article/6/4/308/375725?login...
The Future of Application Development Is Generative
Have men been told they're entitled to sex and attention for free tho? I kinda feel it's the exact opposite. Men are told they need to pay for meals, rooms, travel, and housing and custody later. Men are told they should be the proactive side and take the risk of being rejected. I'd even say (at least in TV shows and movies) men are expected to be the funny ones and provide entertaining values in a relationship.

I'm not saying that intrinsitically wrong or right. I just like to know in which culture men are told these.
This was an informative article with an opinionated take. Don’t update the original based on feedback. It is your article on your blog. You do you.
AI code completion is a complete grift.
No but there is a culture and it behooves you to learn it prior to trying to enforce it.
That didn't "become a joke a few years ago", you just noticed that every white person in Oklahoma thinks they're part Cherokee because their parents told them they were.

This was a pretty reasonable belief until genetics tests came out. Why not trust your parents?

Families being upset when this particular thing gets disproven comes up all the time in genetics forums. It happens almost as often as discovering someone's dad isn't their real dad.
Um... that won't cause any confusion. /sarcasm
Annoyingly, SmallTalk actually does this, so they got there first. The reason is that operators are just methods (and numbers are objects) and so arithmetic dispatches left to right unless parens are used, ala (1.+(2)).*(3)
Exactly there was a Netflix doco a while back showing the struggle of black people to get recognised by facial recognition. I couldn't help but feel that they were advocating for their own oppression and the conspiracy theorist in me wondered if it was a ploy by some three letter agency.
Yes, technically murder would be hard to prove in such a scenario if it was a crime of passion, but I don’t see how being charged with vehicular manslaughter lets you get away with it.

“I didn’t see them” is not the “get-out-of-jail-free” card when it comes to manslaughter.
> Researchers at the federal Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, who achieved ignition for the first time last year, repeated the breakthrough in an experiment on July 30 that produced a higher energy output than in December, according to three people with knowledge of the preliminary results.
He worked for Nokia until 1990, theoretically if he held onto some stock for 10 years it could have been quite the windfall.
Where I'm located, there is no law that you need to verify your identity to purchase a car. I couldn't think of a reason why there should be. Another poster mentioned if buying with credit, and while true in some situations, that doesn't have to do with the actual purchase of the car but with using credit. That is why.

Is there such law where you are?
This article is too left-wing echochamber for my tastes. Of the form - it can be done, and no-one literally dies, therefore it may be done.

People don't work to marginalize prostitution because it's "the only field in which women outearn men".

People work to marginalize prostitution because it's fundamentally morally bankrupt.

Most well adjusted people eventually realise that casual sex is not the key to happiness in life. Not all of them will admit it, though.

The illusions that one can have sex without emotional attachment, that relationships are just a side quest and careers are more important, all of that stuff comes back to bite people eventually.
Google kept promising that the search-rank benefits you'd get through AMP would be available via standardized means. And they worked hard to follow through on what, continues to seem to me, to be an excellent wonderful set of technologies that allows impressive & powerful "Local-First"/offline-capable systems for the web, which I really wish had wider adoption (WebBundle & signed http exchanges).

Google themselves actively worked to make AMP non-critial, to make it an implementation detail / toolkit rather than a top-down mandate. And the general idea is solid. To me, there were two major themes: fast rendering components that won't force redraw & wouldn't even block, and the ability to embed/transclude content so Google themselves could feel safe letting you isolated-ly display your content on their search results. The modern incarnations of this idea are very privacy preserving (originally it was less so).

It is a warped point of view, in my opinion, to accuse OpenJS of being a Google puppet with "scare quotes" ""independent" body" nonsense meant to frighten & terrify. OpenJS is home to Node.js, webpack, jQuery, Dojo, and many others. OpenJS has not been a problem or a shill. This was a sensible place for open activity. It's a Linux Foundation project, which - while it has problems (it doesn't do jack to get independent developers a dime, and fuck that noise) - is a fairly respectable organization for collaboration & concern.

To me there's just so much conspiracy-mindedness & reactionary-ism around WEI. This is one topic that deserves the bombasticness, that we should react hard to! But there are processes and checks. Google is far & away the most up-front most-clear, is by far the earliest company to talk about & discuss plans & ideas, and the only company anywhere that has any process for trying stuff/getting data without any commitment to it (Origin Trials).

It's so concerning to me how much it feels like people want to lose their minds over stuff. These chain reactions of negativity are such a power in the world today, but whether or not they have truth & perspective & whether they contribute or distort the dialectic is of such high concern. I struggle to think of what pieces of @m2ys4u's post here contributes & informs & is well coached, but I see so much of it that is aimed to exacerbate, instigate, reactionary-ize. I've tried hard to acknowledge some truths about early AMP, and that was a shitty time, but 2015 was a long time ago and most of Google's promises at the time to follow-through on enhancing rather than controlling the web seem to have been quite seriously followed through on.
If you don’t like being outside in the cold, they are broadly equivalent. These folks aren’t going out in the proper clothes, they are just not going out.
Embedded AI, also known as Embedded Artificial Intelligence (EAI), is a general-purpose framework system for AI functions. It is built into network devices and provides common model management, data obtaining, and data preprocessing functions for AI algorithm-based functions for these devices. In addition, it supports the function to send inference results to AI algorithm-based functions. This fully utilizes the sample data and computing capabilities of devices, while offering advantages such as lower data transmission costs, as well as ensured data security and real-time inferencing and decision-making.
Cries in go. I segfaulted go while learning it in the first 5 minutes. Its a a solved problem, unfit for general purpose programming on this problem class alone
Both ends need to switch, and Zoom has become entrenched and that won't happen without legislation or enforcement of existing legislation that makes recording calls illegal in many jurisdictions (user agreements don't make many illegal things legal).