skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, this particular format is the "wire format", which is the compact representation that we compile templates into to send to the client.

The client then compiles that representation into flat opcodes, in part by specializing the template based on runtime information (like the exact identity of the components in question).

The runtime opcodes are binary (128-bits apiece at the moment) and optimized for reasonably fast iteration. The wire format is, as chadhietala1 said, not as flat or compact as it could be, but still much more compact than our earlier representations (or the representations of competing rendering engines).

We plan to improve the wire format representation in the near future.
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Can you tell us a little more about the qualifications you have for teaching such a class?
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No-body believes that narrative, the account is called "Alt [Emoji] Immigration" and the bio says "Immigration resistance . Team 2.0 1/2 Not the views of DHS or USCIS. Old fellow drank russian soup."
There were actually enough pissed off core members to pull off a fork - what was missing was a leader.

We'll see how all this ends up - but given Leah track record - the whole "leaving the GNU project", the allegations, her aggressive behavior towards competition - don't instill me a lot of confidence that the dust is settled for good.

Look at this for example - censorship happened just 3 days ago - they only reverted the issue after community backlash https://trisquel.info/en/forum/libreboot-issues-open-letter-...
I see. My understanding from the article was that it was a novel approach to do the ML on the device but then efficiently transmit and somehow combine the results together into a larger model.

I'm not an expert on ML (clearly). What format does the model actually take when you share it? Is it raw data (like weights for neurons or something) + the configuration of the algorithms?

I understand deanonymizing data and sharing aggregated results, but I thought actually sharing that data via essentially encoding into an algorithm and then sharing that algorithm is quite different.
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Limor Fried of Adafruit cracked the story! Although the very (open source) nature of the Arduino makes me wonder why Musto's credentials matter at all. Doesn't the hardware speak for itself?
Ha. No.
Voluntarily and monopolists don't combine. This whole corrupted "lawmaking" process is disgusting.
What kind topics will you be covering? What do you mean by "The Cloud?" That's kind of an catch-all term these days.
In fact almost everyone seems to have more than that:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/science/dna-double-take.ht...
Well like 1929 the United States is immensely unequal and getting worse.

I believe that what's happening now has to end somehow. And if it doesn't end with a financial crash it may just end with guillotines. We're already watching increasing political instability develop in this country and across the world.
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The Road to learn React [0] was released in November and already improved to its 3rd edition (released a few weeks ago). It is up to date, pay what you want and people enjoy it. If you want to check it out, I would be keen to hear your feedback!

- [0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/the-road-to-learn-react/
1) Apple makes (or at least used to make) good hardware -- I'm typing this on a 2008 Mac Pro that is still going great for me.

2) I don't want to bother with these kinds of issues every time Apple puts out a point release:

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/macos-10-12-4-update.2171...

I don't "need" Apple to produce a Mac Pro, but I'd certainly like them to, if it's a good box.
> NN for image classification task

You've created your own straw man here.

> "You realize now how computationally intractable this task is on modern hardware?"

Here are the people that prove it isn't computationally intractable : https://blog.openai.com/evolution-strategies/ - but to say they've discovered a new breakthrough method is over-selling the result.
BOA is probably the worst institutions I've ever dealt with and I never even opened an account with them.

I did get to close one I had with them though and that was a very good day for me because I was among the very 1st of many here who did the same and I got to watch what happened to them here from start to end.

They came to Branson Missouri and bought out a well loved local bank where I had my business account. I closed it as soon as I found out. As the new management came and started enforcing BOA policy people learned fast that I and a few others familiar with them weren't bullshitting about them.

Soon, the long time employees of the old bank started leaving because they weren't willing to piss their friends and neighbors for BOA and, of course, they told everyone why they left. Most went to work for one of the several other local banks here, and all their close friends and family moved their money with them.

When the last of those employees were gone everyone here started moving their accounts over to one of the still locally owned banks and in just a few years BOA didn't have hardly anyone left here to screw so they closed their doors and left town.

I will always admire my neighbors here for that. I knew people who let that bank abuse them for decades out in Los Angeles and I could never, not for the life of me, understand why.
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Sure: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/33/931

> Any claimant or representative of a claimant who knowingly and willfully makes a false statement or representation for the purpose of obtaining a benefit or payment under this chapter shall be guilty of a felony...

or alternatively:
http://www3.ce9.uscourts.gov/jury-instructions/node/508

The threshold of "obtaining a benefit" or "obtained thing of value" is pretty low. Is a massive Twitter following a benefit? Is positive press coverage or access a benefit or valuable?

Alternatively, this person is a federal employee and they've been actively working against their boss and employer (aka POTUS).

Either way, the outcome isn't good for them.
And the government is welcome to investigate. But they can't compel a third party to help them conduct the investigation just because it would be easier on them.

I doubt there's a legal basis for saying that these "alt_X" accounts are functioning in the role of a federal worker. They're obviously not advocating the official government position -- that's the whole point of them. They clearly state they aren't reflective of the views of the agency they're referencing. You'd effectively be arguing that no government employee could ever, in any capacity, express an opinion related to the function of their agency.
People crowdfunding their healthcare is one of the most depressing, if not the most depressing, aspect of "healthcare" in America. It's dystopian that the richest country can't even take care of its citizens and cares more about its military.
Not really. Unless the carrier prevented the sending of MMS messages there wasn't anything they could do. About the only change made to most apps was to set the MMS auto play setting to off. Stagefright never amounted to anything due in most part to the Android security mitigations and the differences in each version of Android built by the OEM.
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What a way to celebrate the 100th year anniversary of entering WWI.
Voting in the midterms is equally as important! If we can regain some balance in either the house or the senate we can block, or at least slow these terrible bills down
If the world doesn't have to depend on the US as a cornerstone of the global economy then the US would be totally irrelevant but for its nuclear capacity.
When Verizon enabled this they forgot to test with Firefox ESR. So they disabled enough ciphers that Firefox ESR could no longer connect to their servers. We reported it to them and they rolled back and disabled HTTP2 the next day. Guess they finished testing now.
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Kind of depressing how easily all that past effort and public campaigning gets brushed aside for Telecom concerns
Even so, even if you bought the most expensive model for Christmas in 2013, it's a raw deal simply because the hardware profile is that of a fixed appliance.

At that price, other high-end professional workstations ship with beneficial options such as hard copies of offline-installable Operating System software, that does not require an internet connection. User-servicable parts, and expansion kits are normal. Variety and options are left open, to aid the owner in upgrading or altering the stock model. Professionals pay extra, to acquire versatile high-quality base units that they possess the skill to alter themselves, according to their preferred tasks.

Microsoft is experiencing the exact same sort of backlash against Windows 10, with too much phoning home, and network activity that flouts user consent.

As a professional, one expects an outfitter to appreciate the technical capacity for their clientele to negotiate complexity. One also expects a professional tool to perform exactly the task required, and only the task required, and nothing extra.

As a company Apple does not do this anymore. They sell fixed hardware profiles, and refuse alterations. They discourage meddling with low-level operating system components. The software is free, but you couldn't buy an offline copy if you tried.

Apple's hardware policies have changed. The machine you buy from Apple now, will not be upgraded by Apple, even with Apple parts, and in most cases has been engineered to prevent alteration at the expense of the unit. For example, Apple will not assist in upgrading from a 128GB SSD stick, to a 2TB SSD stick, even if they sell new models off the shelf with the same hardware profile. Doing so yourself will exclude a machine from receiving service at an Apple store.

Appliances are sold to lock in consumers, and coerce behavior. A professional selects equipment to enable activity, not to play into a business model.
You can measure it quite easily with NewRelic installed. You will have a nice chat looks like this: https://cl.ly/232r1k1r2z0p

Some good links about stolen cpu: http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2013/07/25/understanding-c...
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/understanding-aws-stolen-cpu-...
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We're doing training sessions for journalists and NGOs on these topics right now (I'm off to NYC tomorrow to do a big session with Erin, the Latacora people, Maciej Ceglowski, and others). Let us know if you want to compare notes; we do this work professionally.
I think you're probably dead on. How do I bet on this?
A part of me wonders if net neutrality ending would be unintuitively beneficial. Right now we are depending on policy decisions to protect the internet's privacy and neutrality. This has been a flawed approach for over a decade.

At some point we need to solve this with technology in a similar way that E2E encryption is a step toward solving chat privacy. Maybe the selling of browser histories and then end of net neutrality will be the kick that finally gets us moving.
‘There are over 600 million PCs in use today that are over five years old. This is really sad, it really is.” Phil Schiller

As Microsoft says eat your own dog food
Social justice and lousy comments being downvoted coexist. No one's denying you the right to marry who you want or whatever just because you're getting downvoted. There's no "karma 500+ only" section of the municipal bus.
For the pro though? I get that it is for all their other stuff. But the Mac Pro is a very specific market segment, and they probably mostly care about performance, peripherals, and being able to seamlessly use OS X rather than configuring a hackintosh.
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by assembling them, duh.

you're all idiots.
Asus Chromebook C100 Flip, but with a wifi dongle - if you want something new.

If something refurbished is okay, go for a X200; they are pretty good machines. Here's the best part - a Chromebook, without the proprietary Mali drivers, it slow as a piece of shit; an X200 - I can watch a tear-free full-HD movie while compiling something in the background, with both cores at 100%.

Libiquity, Tehnoetic and Vikings still sell those laptops. Or flash one yourself, it's not that hard, and you need like.. 100$ worth of equipment.
Thanks. I pay $240/month for the box :(. That's why I'm a little bit surprise when I saw that much stolen CPU like this one: https://cl.ly/232r1k1r2z0p
The Fed also had crazy gold requirements. They were required by law to hold a substantial reserve. But since this reserve was statutory it couldn't be used as a "real reserve," there had to be a reserve atop it. As a consequence the Fed felt it had to move extremely aggressively to protect its own balance sheet by tightening up the money supply very quickly.
Ahh, the valley cult of youth.

Believe it or not, thousands of small businesses are started every year by folks in many different age brackets. Heck, the company I work for was founded by a 40+ year old entrepreneur.

Don't let the myth of the 20-something tech genius fool you. With age comes wisdom and experience that many a young founder could benefit from.

As for risk, risk is something you manage, not something that happens to you. Prepare, set a clear goal and definition for success, and be willing to cut your losses if you hit the end of your runway.
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Here's the quote, from page 10:

"As is clear to the naked eye in Chart 1, the stock of money shows larger fluctuations after 1914 than before 1914 and this is true even if the large wartime increases in the stock of money are excluded. The blind, undesigned, and quasi-automatic working of the gold Standard turned out to produce a greater measure of predictability and regularity—perhaps because its discipline was impersonal and inescapable—than did deliberate and conscious control exercised within institutional arrangements intended to promote monetary stability."

Chart 1 is on page 4 and plots the x axis 1867 to 1960 and the y axis plots deposits and currency, and yeah, it's pretty clear to the naked eye.
Yep I used to live at EC :)
Knowing about a chronic, untreatable, future illness can help you decide whether or not to have children, and if so, whether to have them earlier than you might otherwise have planned. Likewise it can influence you to accelerate the pace of other life plans (like traveling, or setting up a nonprofit in your neighborhood) and scrap other lower-priority plans.
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How does encryption solve the problem of Verizon squeezing Netflix to degrade its service in favor of its own offerings?

Net neutrality isn't about consumer surveillance (which is a problem too, just a different one). It's about access to markets and the ability to choose the services you use on the internet.
If I were to choose between you and him who is better informed on the subject, I'd choose him any time :)

Edit: it is amusing to see that some think that random guy on the internet is better informed than the executive who sells the product and has all the data.
Couldn't the companies simply reorg to effectively become a different business and not re sign up on the voluntary agreement?
And once again, this is why representative democracy is worse than this:

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=212
It's amazing how much money influences these politicians. I would be amazed if any of the people who voted for this bill even fully understand what it is.
Those goalposts keep moving. Did you happen to see what that tweet was in response to? @whitebecky1776: "hey @Lesdoggg you look like a pregnant gorilla" "I was so hyped to see harambe on the big screen @Lesdoggg" "Harambe gave birth to @Lesdoggg don't disrespect harambe."

My impression is that Twitter leans towards letting minor offenses slide and punishing only the most egregious. I'm not saying I agree with that policy, but it is consistent.

So, unless you think that losing your temper at someone who repeatedly calls a black person an ape is morally equivalent to leading an extended harassment campaign against someone and fraudulently attributing statements to them because they were in a movie you didn't like, you've got no grounds at all to say that Milo was only banned for his politics.

May I suggest, as a matter of tactics, that you pick some less thoroughly reprehensible martyrs next time? Surely there's someone who's been banned from Twitter who didn't obviously deserve it.
Sorry I wasn't being clear. I did not want to imply that Hackintosh situation should remain the same, I was thinking more along the lines of Apple publishing and maintaining a list of compatible devices with guaranteed long-term OSX support and call it a day.

There are plenty of fantastic motherboards, GPUs, power supplies and quiet and good looking cases to choose from, I only need a guarantee of future OSX support.
Where is the difference between that and distributed computing? A part of the specific usage for ML I don't see many differences, seti@home was an actual revolution made of actual volunteers (I don't know how many google users will be aware of that).
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Because its hard any many people don't have the dedication.
I don't work with ML for my day job but find it exhilaratingly interesting. (true story!)

When I first read this I was thinking: surely we can already do distributed learning, isnt that what for example SparkML does?

Is the benefit of this in the outsourcing of training of a large model to a bunch of weak devices?
As someone who has been doing this in the consulting setting for the nation's top insurance carriers for the last 2 years, and then for an investment bank for another 2 years before that, you're really looking for a very dynamic individual for the role to be really successful.

1. Someone with an understanding / ability / passion to understand your business process. This helps you orient the DS in such a way that their analyses will be conditioned to be useful to the business (vs. randomly analyzing the data to satisfy some intellectual curiosity..)

2. Someone who can take what they've learned about the business, and use that to think critically about the data. What is the problem that would help the business to solve? How can we use the data to answer it? What are some hypotheses/potential drivers that influence the problem at hand? What is it worth to the business to analyze / answer the business question?

3. How to convert this analysis/brainstorming into an actual plan. Create a list of analyses and begin executing on them by writing code in either SQL/python/R/etc. They should be able to then tell the story with their analyses as well as visualize what it is they are trying to convey.

4. Translation of results to the business. How to effectively communicate the results of your analysis in such a way that the business can actually make use of your analysis. This is where a lot of DS's suffer because they're so used to nerding out over data it can be hard to actually speak anything a normal person would understand.

I think if you can find someone who ticks the above boxes, you'll be at a good starting point for an effective DS. It also might be good to break down these roles into a team of DS's depending on what size team you're going for. Happy to chat about this stuff anytime. Thanks.
No way this thing lasts that long. The generational demographic bottom hits in 2024. We're already so levered that a sneezing tardigrade might throw planets into collision.

A whole lot of debt (more than was issued in all of human history before 2008) must destroyed, very very soon. The longer it is delayed, the worse the disruption will be. Already, we are set for the largest wealth transfer in history, when the Boomer's checks start bouncing in earnest.
I'm not saying encryption is the solution. The solution to internet neutrality and user privacy may be something entirely different. Maybe it is mesh networks of an open source wifi solution. I'm not an expert in networking, but it doesn't take much to understand the policy-first approach is fundamentally flawed.
In Tennessee Comcast emailed our state house asking if they want free TV political advertising, this was the day after blocking the expansion of municipal owned broadband. They know what they are doing.
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Having read this just after the "Unsupervised sentiment neuron" thing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14051851) it occurs that you could almost automate the 17 techniques.
Every decade since the 1960s, Real (ie. non-financial) US GDP growth has slowed ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A191RL1Q225SBEA ).

Industrial capacity utilization has been shrinking since the early 1970s. In the early 1970s, 88% of invested capital was utilized in production. Today that's less than 76%. So about a quarter of invested capital is sitting idle currently. ( https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/scribd/?toc_id=296052&filepath... ) ( https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/revisions/Curren... )

Also in the US we've seen since the 1960s increasing debt percentage across households, corporations and governments, lower wages against different backdrops, and decreased capital re-investment as a percentage of GDP.
I would have like to have seen a video of this. What a missed opportunity.
I've been doing the hackintosh thing for a few years now. It sucks. Every now and then an update completely breaks it, and it's a crapshoot of disabling different kernel extensions, picking the right nvidia driver, or finding the revision of Clover that works for whatever reason. iMessage has been finicky since ever. My bootloader fails every other reboot for no reason I can figure out. The nvivia driver won't load unless I unplug one of my three monitors while it's booting.

I make my living off of iOS development, and I don't even want to think about the amount of time I've lost over the past few years because I had to debug my machine rather than work. Apple seems to be quietly tolerating the hackintosh community, but they need to provide real options for their developers. I'm tired of this unholy monstrosity of a computer that isn't supposed to exist. I'm not going to do it forever.
For every bill we manage to push back, they just make another one with a slightly different name. They are taking advantage of the fact that people can only get up in arms so many times.
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I am sorry, but I can't disagree more with you... especially after I worked in such kind of corporations I can tell you that they only care for privacy if it is a selling point in a marketing chart. Big companies are always hungry for newer resources, especially the little teams that need to fight their peers to get more budge.
I agree. People are finally waking up to the fact that government policy is just a wool over their eyes and that they need to start giving a shit about their own safety and privacy on the internet.
You said: "training NNs (for any purpose) using evolution works well". I gave you an example of a purpose where it does not work well.
So, let me ask you again: can you give an example of evolutionary methods that work well when applied to training NNs, other than this breakthrough by OpenAI, which only works for RL?