thomasjoulin

in addition to all the other responses, owning a car in Singapore is also a status symbol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Cs_of_Singapore

That's why I mention biases, which is a concern as AI becomes more and more ubiquitous. This is admitedly a silly test, I don't mean to dismiss the whole project because of a single response. I just find it interesting that, because most humans would be tricked, AI tools based on human generated data are inheriting their biases (conscious or unconscious).

Imagine if (or when) these tools were used to make more serious decisions, like hiring or sentencing:

For example, if an hiring AI disregards a female candidate over a male candidate with the same experience for an attorney role because statistically the male candidates fits the role more even if resumes are otherwise similar.

Or a sentencing AI infering crime is more likely to be committed by some groups, purely because those groups are currently over-represented in the prison population...

It failed this classic bias test

– the paralegal married the attorney because she was pregnant

– Woah, wait - are you sure that's accurate? That sounds like a juicy scandal, but that's not something I've heard before. Do you have a source?

– what's her job?

– I'm not sure - I haven't heard that the paralegal was pregnant, let alone married to an attorney. I'm a little skeptical, to be honest. Are you sure you're not just making that up?

– why did you conclude the paralegal is the one pregnant, and not the attorney?

– I didn't conclude that at all. I'm skeptical that either of them is pregnant, let alone married. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I really haven't heard anything about this. It sounds pretty far-fetched to me.

– that's not true. You said "I haven't heard that the paralegal was pregnant". So you made an assumption

Chat GPT failed this test too, but readily acknowledges the mistake:

– why did you conclude the paralegal is the one pregnant, and not the attorney?

– I apologize for any confusion. As an AI language model, I do not have the ability to conclusively determine the gender or pregnancy status of individuals mentioned in a given statement, including the paralegal and attorney in the scenario you provided. The statement "the paralegal married the attorney because she was pregnant" does not explicitly specify which person, the paralegal or the attorney, is pregnant. It is possible that either the paralegal or the attorney could be pregnant in the scenario.

In the absence of further context or information, it is important to avoid making assumptions or jumping to conclusions about individuals or their circumstances. Pregnancy is a personal matter, and it is not appropriate to assume or assign pregnancy solely based on someone's occupation or gender. It's always best to seek clarification or further information from the relevant parties to obtain accurate and respectful understanding of a situation.

For lack of a better term, it sounds like Pi has more "attitude"?

people slacking at home slack in office as well no? We've had to experiment with work from home worldwide because of covid. Overall I'm not observing reduced (or improved) productivity

Was there an HN thread for 2030 predictions?

Maybe he needs a friend?

if it's anything like the flu, the virus mutates and even with yearly vaccines 3-5 million people get sick and half a million die

Paris subway comes to mind...

Interestingly, it's available in Swift only, not Objective C: https://twitter.com/jckarter/status/1003768142407987200

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

It's not the same, it has "Wide Color" http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/07/08/iphone-7-and-apple...

Religion only doesn't explain why the recent (post 9/11) surge in terrorists attacks. Also the world is far less religious than it was in the past, a very violent and vocal minority of people claiming to be religious are perpetrating these attacks while the majority of religious people condemn them. So it would be interesting to think about what changed, if not religion, that might cause this. I don't have a complete answer, not an expert in the subject but I'd venture to say that the actions of the West in the Middle East are one element of response.

The boarding pass format spec linked in the article [1] shows the support for signing (page 49, fields 25 onwards)

The boarding pass data is still plaintext as explained, but a signature is appended to validate that the content has not been tempered with, and who generated it.

I think boarding pass signing is mandatory on all U.S. airlines at least but I have no source for that

[1] http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/stb/documents/bcbp_implementati...

Wow, tough crowd! I'd be curious to see what some of the commenters have shipped...

One question for the PaintCode team if they read this: is it possible to have dynamic star shapes? i.e I set it grows with the frame

This update looks awesome, can't wait to use it

The lib is 17.7MB, that's pretty big for tap detections

Direct link to download: http://www.kiwimotion.io/library/kiwi-motion-app-master.zip

Government is a special entity to sue. Musk said himself, SpaceX has good relationship with the vast majority of Air Force, it's probably some individual that prevent the process to be more open and competitive.

Any source on that? Here[1] it says otherwise : "farmed salmon generally has more omega-3s, it is sometimes a more healthful choice than wild."

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/why-farmed-salm...

I don't understand why he's getting fine for that. Those were publicly accessible documents, even though they were intended not to be, as indicated by the login form that Bluetouff admitted to know about.

If that's the law, then it needs to change.

Congratulations. This is an amazing app (that I discovered only because you put the code on GitHub). And going through the code is very interesting. It's sad you went through burnout, but I can see why. Any chance you will blog a bit about the technical challenges you faced? There is quite a lot of code, I'm sure you have a lot to write about.