skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adding high frequency noise "fools" ML but not the human eye. It feels like this is a general failure in regularization schemes.

Why not try training multiple models on different levels of coarse grained data? Evaluate the image on all of them. Plot the class probability as a function of coarse graining. Ideally its some smooth function. If it's not, there may be something adversarial (or bad training) going on.
I have met families in rural West Virginia who for generstions haven't ventured outside of the country. They trace their ancestry back to before 1776. The connection with the global community does not seem real to them. Take this as an extreme example of what some rual communities are like.
The part about leadership skills creating problems socially is spot on. Apparently I am a natural leader when in groups. (There is a natural "alpha" component to this skill; it's not all learned, but rather built upon at least some innate personality traits.) I acquired additional skills during years spent in management. This sometimes causes friction with others outside of work, and can be especially acute with family and close friends.

Occasional friction at work is expected, but when you are the leader by title, persuasion, expertise, and (best) because of "referent power," there are lots of ways to resolve conflicts over direction while preserving relationships. These methods often fail in relationships where the power structures are entirely different and have different bases. When you spend most of your time in one environment, it can be difficult to recognize that your skills don't translate to the other (social) environment.

In other words, if people sometimes think you're an asshole at work, the benefits of continuing the relationship often more easily outweigh the costs. The reverse is true in close personal relationships, where you're just an asshole. Then you either learn the different rules and accept that leadership is often much more subtle and soft, or you end up without friends and family.

And yes, money can change you for the worse, especially if you did not grow up with it. I have friends whom I discovered years later are third generation wealthy (9 figures) but basically live an upper middle class existence, minus the financial stress. I have other friends who were raised middle class and made a ton of money. They tend to be those complaining about people asking how much they've made.

It's the difference between living like Hyman Roth in the Godfather Part II, or living like Tony Montana in Scarface. If people are asking that, you're flashing too much. Either stop pimping your lifestyle, or stop worrying that people treat you like a pimp. Better yet, find a different class of people who also have money and won't ask. But the old money will still call you "noveau riche" for the remainder of your life.
> And in their (again, fictional) scenario, they struggled with Hibernate for four years

In their fictional scenario they didn't learn to use hibernate or SQL.

>And the hypothetical developer in it is a woman.

Don't assume their pronouns!
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DynamoDB is effectively useless for querying, except perhaps for some sort of highly specialised application able to fit within the DynamoDB strange and arcane query model.

What sort of database is effectively useless for querying?

Also they need to ditch the really, really confusiong and limiting scaling model. For a database that advertises scaling as one of its key strengths, DynamoDB sure has a bad scaling story.
Go's error handling is the primary reason I'm not using that language. If I ever, even on a single line, dont handle an error, my project might fail in an unexpected, undebuggable, unlogged way.
With any other language I get an exception and a stacktrace printed out to me. With go, it just silently fails.
How this was ever construed to be "better" is beyond me.
Founded in 2013, winding down in less than four years. There's a lesson about burn rates here.
My town is very spread out, I don't even work in the city. Companies commonly rent office space in the suburbs. Also, I consider 10 miles to be a very short commute and a huge perk. They've been trying to revitalize our downtown area for decades with moderate success.

If you don't live in a hot state, you don't won't know what that's like. It's funny though, shortly after rush hour, our area has packs of people riding bicycles for recreation. I'm pretty sure most of them shower before dinner.
If I understand it correctly, it is the process of depositing the HfO2 onto the wafer in a way that it retains its ferroelectric properties and is compatible with other chipmaking processes that is proprietary. Depositing it improperly would result in defects at the junction between the HfO2 and the underlying gate that would render the FeFET nonfunctional.
It happens all the time, and also; when using proprietary software you never know, and that's the big issue (for me). I never use SaS or MS-products (I only use FOSS) so I don't fear for myself.
Because as the poster suggested, the left-right continuum is not sufficient to describe todays political reality.

But I disagree with the suggestion that 'there is no more left/right'.

If you take the perspective that there is a globalist/localist divide in both camps, it fairly succinctly explains what is going in in politics all over the Western world.

This is not a novel idea - I'm explaining what others have already professed.

Some added terminology is necessary because Americans use the term 'Liberal' - which in the rest of the world means 'Classical Liberal' - or in American terms 'Libertarian' - and so the mis-matching of terms creates a lot of confusion.
I've used it maybe a dozen times and never had an issue. That said I always travel with pre-loaded TV and movies (and books) in any case so the inflight system is just a bonus.
I've had http://stilltasty.com recommended to me as well.
I'm wondering this too.

Depending on the unit's battery life under a light load, it could be awfully interesting to try and put together general-purpose consumer apps for it for use as an "iPad alternative" - ebook reader, video podcast downloader, etc.
A bit about Hafnium Oxide

http://semiengineering.com/many-paths-to-hafnium-oxide/
Paywall workaround

https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/article...
> I generally find that an ORM makes easy things easy and difficult things indescribably hard or impossible.

I agree, but raw sql makes the easy thing hard (or at least cumbersome), so the nice middle ground is to use hibernate for the easy things and sql for the hard things.
The average American commuting by car is already spending an hour a day doing it.

Even if the commuter has to spend the same time on transit, they have time to relax, read, work etc.

This is ignoring the strides we can make with bike infrastructure which provides excercise along with the commute, even in low density suburban areas. Or encouraging remote work, which eliminates the commute entirely and frees up much more time.
He wanted a pay-to-view internet super-highway too. Only the consumers decided and favored the open WWW instead of his The Microsoft Network (as can be found preinstalled in Win95) - He had to rewrite his The Road Ahead 1995 book after 6 months, as WWW won. (first edition is hardcover, second edition is paperback)
If the software is open source Microsoft should be good enough to have a pathway for people to get it out for free.
Do you know sql/databases well? If not learn that because you'll have to anyway. Then learn how your ORM works and what problems it solves (and what it doesn't).
I agree that it's possible to get carried away and that some consumption taxes would simply have too much overhead. However, for roads, I think it is mostly practical, if you're using the right methods. Don't try to tax cars by the mile for road maintenance purposes (but do tax the commercial trucks that are heavy enough to meaningfully contribute wear and tear). Tax real estate based on how many miles of road and pipe and cable it requires the government to maintain, so that a sprawling low-density neighborhood has to bear most of the cost of repairing the potholes and leaks that develop in their own maze of twisty little cul-de-sacs. The owner of an apartment building in town with a business or two at street level should probably pay less per acre toward road and utility maintenance than the owner of a mansion on the same size lot 10+ miles from downtown and far off any thoroughfare. (The apartment building will still be paying far more overall for the variable costs of water and electricity.)
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lol, yeah, this marketing piece doesn't really feel professional. It is littered with useless illustrations and bad poetry.

> Third, we do it with love…

With love for our money sure. What the hell does that even mean? I really rolled my eyes reading that blog post. This is childish and out of place for an article trying to sell security.
Those Americans are struggling if they're struggling to pay a car loan
It'd only be a DOS vector, if the rest of the db bogged down during this type of contention.
Conversely my regional grocery store chain has recently switched to even thinner plastic bags. Used to be you could at least use them for trash, but now they're pretty much useless.
Or, you know, people like to live in houses with a yard, where there might be wild animals living around or a forest somewhere within an hour's drive, and prefer that over cramped hovels.
Interstate roads and highways are also critical elements of national security - they act as the internet for transportation (by providing multiple redundant routes that can be easily patched, unlike railways)
For what it's worth, I have never seen a system reboot/crash, and I must have used it at least 30 flights
Your complaint really seems to be just "my own device's screen is too small for movies". They're suggesting making the movies available via wifi and some airlines already have USB and even mains power charging ports for your own device, so battery drain isn't a problem.
As a C++ programmer, I understand ownership and borrowing, but I find the lifetime syntax impenetrable. It clutters the code with annotations that seem like they could be deduced by the compiler.

For example, a variable's lifetime is relative to another variable or function. Why must we create a placeholder name like 'a instead of referring to the other variable by name? Take this example from section 10.3:

fn longest<'a>(x: &'a str, y: &str) -> &'a str {
x
}

Why couldn't we write it as something like the following?

fn longest(x: &str, y: &str) -> &'x str {
x
}

Or instead of requiring lifetimes everywhere, the compiler could use conservative defaults but allow optional lifetime annotations to reduce the lifetime if needed or to release memory sooner. For example, in this struct from section 10.3, why is 'a necessary when config is a non-mut reference and thus must outlive a struct App instance? There is a Rust issue filed for this: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/1532

struct App<'a> {
name: String,
config: &'a Config,
}
The Linux Unified Kernel project had similar aims of providing binary compatibility for both Linux and Windows applications and drivers. The last release was in 2014.

http://www.longene.org/en/aboutproject.php
AirBNB will be a hotel at scale. Just like Uber will become a taxi company.
They won't remain affordable if you essentially ban commuting.
"The average monthly car payment in the fourth quarter rose above $500 for the first time"

That's frightening.

And if anyone is wondering about the duration,

"Average term for an auto loan: 68 months — this is the longest average term ever seen by Experian."

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/02/us-borrowers-are-paying-more-...

No wonder people are driving their cars for 12 years+ now. They can't afford not to.
"For the past decade, Facebook has focused on connecting friends and families."
--> you have been focused on selling ads, not changing the world. People would still be "connected" to each other without facebook because of the technology we have now (built buy normal engineers doing incremental improvements without "change the world" god complexes).
I've tested in the past using private browser windows, mobile phones - not running android - and at web-cafes.

Surprised I'm not there, but I guess these things change over time.
> Now they can start jacking up their landing fees (each year) until air travel becomes unaffordable

Most popular destinations already have a choice of alternative options (EWR, LGA, BUR, SNA, ONT) and the ones that don't are big only because a major carrier decided to build a hub there (ATL, SLC). Carriers will not jump in with huge commitments until some long-term contracts are in place.

In Southern California, for instance, Santa Monica charges a landing fee, and nearby Van Nuys is suddenly the busiest general aviation airport in the nation.
Bill Gates is a super smart guy, so I'll assume there's an argument I've missed, but how does this make any sense? If automating factory jobs "frees up labor" (as he says) to become teachers and healthcare workers, wouldn't the income tax from the new teachers and healthcare workers just replace the lost tax from the factory workers?
Honestly, I'd never have any confidence in the availability of inflight entertainment. Carry your own even if it's just throwing in a paperback.
Please let's not equate OOP with Java.

There are actually OOP proponents like James Coplien and Trygve Reenskaug who think that Java is more "class-oriented" than "object-oriented", making it really hard to do proper OOP in Java.
Tangential but I don't get why I'm an elite and you're not. It's just name calling to make people hate "the others". It has been very effective.
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What recipes would you like to see in a Chef course?
I like to write my own recipes in Chef-solo with knife. What would like to see automated in custom recipes on Chef?
Good reason to have a shower at the office.
Google’s AI Duet lets you make music with a virtual pianist
Teachers and healthcare works need to be paid in the first place. How would this be funded?
We need enough technical debt (2015)
Google Home now lets you shop for everyday items with your voice
I don't think he thinks that you are an elite, he thinks that there is a portion of the population, leaning towards rural and right wing, that believes in a liberal elite.
Ironically if everyone lives in low density sprawl for nature, it destroys the same habitat where those wild animals once lived, or where that forest was, and it makes actual nature harder to access for anyone who can't afford or travel to the latest round of exurbia.

Whereas if our cities were denser, there'd be more open space left, that is easier to access, by potentially more people. Density != cramped hovel. And density doesn't mean everyone lives in a highrise. There's points between single family homes on quarter acres and 60 story skyscrapers.

Edit:
I highly encourage you to checkout some examples of cities that saw most of their growth pre-auto:

Here's my personal favorite - Leipzig Germany, metro population around 1 million:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Leipzig,+Germany/

A wide range of uses, densities, housing prices and modes of transportation (dedicated bike infrastructure, transit, and yes even cars). But the compact development area can leave so much more room for green space, nature preserves, public parks, agriculture, watershed protection. There's even many buildings that have yards - it's just everyone doesn't get their own acre.
I think "living on top of one another" is a fair, if crude, description of life in multi-family apartment buildings. It's my current situation and I wouldn't trade it for a house, but it does have downsides.

"Decadence", on the other hand, really seems like name-calling. Let's not do that.

As for the tax situation, that seems interesting. Could you provide more detail? I'm in Brazil, here there's the rural area, that's taxed much more lightly but has less services, and everything in the urban area gets taxed the same percentage of assumed property value, regardless of density. How's it like where you live, and what would you propose to change?
What do you think about voice?
It also relies on the ability of the attacker to inject their own data into the compressed content. Without that vector there's nothing special about compressed and encrypted data vs. any other encrypted data.
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I've implemented something similar, but am by no means an expert. Here's my take, experts please correct me!

Argon2 was the winner of a password hashing competition. An effective password hasher "stretches" the entropy of the password. In other words, it maps the space P of passwords to K of keys in such a way that guessing a key requires painful testing of every p. Since |P| << |K|, you need to make sure there aren't tricks whereby you can figure out subsets of K that are interesting and skip the expensive computation. You also need to make sure that hashing is expensive; that there are no shortcuts to blaze through all passwords. (Plus a myriad other concerns, including safely running the algorithm without outsiders being able to figure out the passwords based on timing and such)

So now you can take a password, make a key, and encrypt stuff. Guessing the key is hard because trying each password is expensive, and there are too many keys to check them all.

Libsodium is a crypto library that simplifies crypto down to "symmetric encryption" or "public key encryption" no mucking around with algorithm and parameter choices, constant time compares, etc.

So here your password is securely translated into a private key, whose public key pair they use to encrypt everything as it comes in. The middle step is necessary because argon2 stretches passwords into symmetric keys, but you want an assymetric key pair. So you generate a random key pair and encrypt the private key with your argon2 provided key
Have you seen how much teachers get paid? Anyway, much of teacher's salaries come from taxes..

How will healthcare workers get paid when nobody has a job? That's a bit hyperbolic, but he is arguing against the consolidation of wealth from automation starving our ability to fund social services as even current levels.
Which existing neuromorphic computers achieve 10^14 ops/s at 20 W? If you compare them to GPUs, those "ops" better be FP32 or at least FP16.

Also, you forgot to tell us what is that "extremely concrete reason why current neural net architectures will NOT work with the above optimizations".
I think he is saying that in order to pay the salaries for those new jobs, taxing robots as if they were employees might be fruitful. As in, there's not enough economic demand for those roles at the moment, and in a future where there is a true surplus of human labor due to automation, it might make sense to design a tax scheme that mitigates the issue of wealth concentration in robot owners.
That piqued my curiosity - didn't know that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_Dial-up
Good roads are incentive to drive, let's destroy all roads then.
That's a distinctly American style. Air New Zealand also has entertainment-style flight safety videos which are more comedy than music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEnlEVLyD1s
It's relevant because that's what motivates people to go into those fields.

The upper class is free to major in the humanities; if your degree is from Yale it doesn't matter what it's in. The struggling middle class and below has to be more practically minded. If college is your ticket out of poverty, you aren't going to waste it studying something useless like history or philosophy which only qualifies you to be a (well-rounded, intellectually satisfied) barista.

Computer science is a popular major because of Google salaries, not because our high school students are fascinated by the mathematical beauty of Turing machines. In other words, fetishizing technology isn't the problem.

Maslow's hierarchy suggests becoming middle class is important enough to block out all other considerations for almost all people.

So, I agree with you that we emphasize STEM too much, but it isn't going to change unless incentives somehow change.
Sites on tennis rackets are 100% valid results when searching for the term "racket". DDG isn't doing anything wrong there. The only reason you're getting the results for Racket the programming language only, as you wanted, from Google is based on the information they have on you and your past search habits.

DDG explicitly places an emphasis on privacy and non tracking. You cannot expect the same targeted, contextual results that Google gives you if you don't want to give up some degree of privacy. People who do not want to give up that level of privacy and use DDG do so with the understanding that they lose that level of personalization.

You may be happy to provide personal information (browsing habits, clicks, etc) in exchange for better results. If so, then Google is the search engine to use. Some people do not accept that tradeoff; this is the market that DDG is for.
Sad to see them go, there are so many things wrong with the way Americans are treated when buying and selling a car. Even though I work for a company in the same space it was great to have a company like them around to keep us on our toes.
Agree with the dilemma free part. I've found "adult" friendship works like this. Just hang out catch up have fun. Don't call me when your car breaks down, call a tow truck. I won't ask you to help me move, I'll hire movers.

The story of your car breaking down is good stuff. Let's talk about it over beers.

However, I say that with a realization that poorer people don't operate this way. They are still very much "it takes a village" and help each other with life's problems. Where I can relate with OP is when talking to these friends I'll say something like "move?! Eff that it's July/hot you just need to hire someone" without realizing they would not consider doing so as it's way too expensive for them. Then I look like a jerk because I would never consider doing manual labor in the heat
The press line was 2-6 hours, depending on load.
Why should we deliberately under-provision transit, and subsidize driving, to degrade the experience of transit until it sucks a little worse than driving?

People live far from their destinations, because there are so many darn parking spots in the way.
Teachers still pay income tax. It may be true that the amount of money the government pays out increased, but the amount of income tax didn't go down.

Regardless, I took his argument to be about a more general shift to service work rather than about teachers specificlly.
The core problem is that until you can define something precisely there is no way you can build that thing. This is the fundamental concept in designing anything artificial at all. By precisely I mean defined formally using mathematics.
The problem with all the "words" that are associated with intelligence is that they are very very vague. So the question, as of now is not can we create real AI but it is more of can be even define, precisely, what we mean by real AI? What does self recognition or learning even mean?
Evidently the line between comfort and happiness is $75,000/yr in the US -- below that and it's a struggle, beyond that and it's a burden:

http://wws.princeton.edu/news-and-events/news/item/75000-sti...
Suburban infrastructure is massively subsidized by taxes paid by cities. There was a good article linked from HN last year.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2011/6/14/the-growth-pon...
I can see where the argument is going, but it is too simplistic and so ignores the plethora of reasons we have developed to use cars after this many decades of IC. The problem is with public transport, and urban traffic, not cars. The problem is with poor rail infrastructure and cheap fuel that has allowed a nationwide and global distribution infrastructure that relies on trucks.

Also: https://youtu.be/zcAqR-Hs9II