skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, really silly that the legitimate binary for Handbrake isn't signed. Sure, if the intruder had compromised the hosting server then they might have also compromised the signing cert, but that's still an extra step.
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That's probably because the education system is failing with regard to teaching boys and keep them interested.
Some I now have 100's of images of some only a few tens or even just a few. Obviously the error rates for the latter are higher.
First comment I make on HN, but I feel compelled to say something. This post reeks of the author piping on about the "good old days" of mathematical elegance.

Firstly, mathematical elegance is not an objective metric by any means. Many mathematicians disagree on what results are most elegant, though there are many commonalities as well.

Secondly, all of machine learning is quite elegant. I'm by no means an expert since I only took two courses in my fourth year that were surveys of many methods (quite mathematically rigorous btw) but I've taken enough math to be able to judge what is elegant or not.

As the author himself says, he has slightly modified his research methods. These days you'd be a fool to ignore deep learning, whether you have a deep understanding of it or not.
200 billion is most probably too high, but dozens of billons? Easily. The UK has committed themselves to paying this, they don't get to withhold the money now.

Those sums aren't some arbitrarily thought up "exit fees", it's regular funding that has been decided on and committed to years ago.

If the UK wanted to avoid that they should have exited somewhere in the future, outside of the current budgetary periods.
I agree. I was just trying to avoid a few very trivial things that each of the budding startups spend time in writing.

But yes, its definitely harder. Perhaps it seems like I am looking at it vaguely and broadly, but I will narrow it down to a specific type of tool or to a specific type of business.
Substitute "World of Warcraft" for "Facebook" in the comments below! There were so many similar discussions about WoW years ago. I am afraid the fact is that some people are very vulnerable and games and social properties do not account for or accommodate that fact.

Everyone else is reading this and thinking - "Oh yeah, I suppose I shouldn't be so bothered".
I found the article was far longer than it needed to be and took a long time to explain what actually was going on, and seemed to take a circuitous route to its conclusion.

Saying that thought I did find it very interesting, and worrying.

What can people do about it really though? I mean, I think people vote with conviction for whatever they vote for - and no one likes to be told they've been conned, or made a fool of.
VW has already spent 22 billion dollars on this mess, which is more than it would have cost to just build the cars with proper emissions equipment, which means they're likely to learn from the mistake. As long as I believe that the government will force a buyback or allow me to obtain fair compensation for this type of wrongdoing, then I'm less concerned about it.
That may have something to do with the fact that even the biggest neural networks have a "cortex size" one or two orders of magnitude smaller than a cat and "exist" (number of impulses processed * amount of time that would take in an animal) for a few weeks.

That means one should expect them to perform tasks about as well as a mouse brain can do them, between a third and halfway to adulthood.

And yes, that level of cortical processing does not seem to support coming up with symbolic systems and attempting to use them to describe the world around them. Absolutely.

Mice don't do that either.
I'd imagine with the advent of Facebook etc it's enabled targeting on a much more macro level.
> though they fit better philosophically with the latter.

In which case you're talking about a different left to any that I would identify with. People seem to have begun to forget that there is such a thing as "libertarian left". On the contrary - When I first started learning about politics I was surprised that there was any such thing as "libertarian right" - it seemed obvious to me in my late teens/early twenties that the right was about maintaining power and the left was about making the world a better place (I was naive but not an idiot - I didn't regard state socialism as belonging to any 'authentic' left)

Power is power. Left and right are labels that shift hugely over time.

All that really exists are shifting alliances and existing power structures. "Whoever you vote for, the government always gets in".

This is why an independent judiciary, legislative safeguards, whistleblower laws, a free press and all the other checks and balances of a healthy democracy are the most critical things to defend right now.
Deep learning does not have a special relationship to overfitting

Yes and no. Let's say you have a time series and you know there is some pattern in it and you are interested in predicting what it will be at time t. A Fourier analysis would give you a formula to plug numbers into that anyone can understand. NN or DL might give you as good, or accounting for noise, even a slightly better prediction when backtested but now you need to explain "why did it do this" - to a financial regulator who is looking at insider trades, or a commission looking into why a piece of equipment failed killing the user (say, a self-driving car), or a newspaper who's noticed more people of race X are being turned down for mortgages. That's why I say it is dependent on the application of the algo.
Read this please:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
github is not the answer
The point of democracy is the implicit threat: if you, as a leader of the country, mess up the lives of the people you govern, you'll get kicked out. Aside from that, democracy has mostly negative

This prevents the situation from getting out of hand before it completely descends into violence.

That's it. That's the sum total of what democracy gets us.

Analyzing critical ideas is not now, and wasn't ever part of the democratic process. Cicero was complaining about citizen's lack of analyzing critical ideas (except when directly hurting them in the wallet) in 70 BC. You can read about leaders from the French revolution lamenting the same, and even in cases where only limited self government exists, like today in Bahrain, you find most analysts complaining that the large majority of the people who have influence (usually local landowners) do not think critically at all.

What has happened is simple: the previous government was pro-Europe, couldn't get Europe to commit to basic concessions that would make British lives easier, and the imposed austerity made a lot of people's lives worse in a very concrete and visible way. So they were voted out.

Now you can argue that they were right, that it wasn't their fault that this happened, and I might even agree with you. But as the government, I do understand, this is not good enough.
I would be amazed to be at a graduation with Dalai Lama.

But I understand the anger of the Chinese students; it is a bit of "yeah you paid a lot money and you are good at math but here is what we think of you and your country, now fuck off".

When we say "Free Tibet", "Free Xinjiang" or even "Free Hong Kong". What exactly does that mean?

For the millions of (mainland han) Chinese who live there; it means ethnic clensing, forcibly removing Chinese from these areas, Chinese who have been there for a half a century now.
But is the scale important?
The difference between a sledge hammer and a jackhammer mounted to heavy machinery are pretty astounding.
Tools advancing can drastically change outcomes regardless of the objectives of old versus new tools being the same.
Its more like a wizard, and seems very similar to https://developers.google.com/appmaker/.
Ironically, for those that live in DC, one of the great open secrets is that if you're on the National Mall, by far one of the best places to eat is the National Museum of the American Indian.
Direct democracy is dangerous. Major decisions, and joining /leaving EU is certainly one, should require e super-majority. Say 60% of the vote and 60% of the Parliament.

50%+1 just doesn't seem right. These are life-changing decisions and there needs to be a general consensus.
Just as they could "nicely" require OEMs to get their game straight.
I agree...joseph atwill's book CAESAR'S MESSIAH claims that the new testament bible is propaganda from the flavian dynasty aimed at jews in order to pacify them.
According to Navajo tradition, frybread was created in 1864 using the flour, sugar, salt and lard that was given to them by the United States government when the Navajo, who were living in Arizona, were forced to make the 300-mile journey known as the "Long Walk" and relocate to Bosque Redondo, New Mexico onto land that could not easily support their traditional staples of vegetables and beans.

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Why conspiracy theory? Why cant this be true AND automation/job loss also be true? These are not binary issues.
Qualifying for GI Bill funding is a long long process, and very challenging for newer organizations. I'm involved with Code Platoon, a non-profit coding school for veterans based in Chicago, that is about to graduate its second class ("platoon"). It's a robust program, at 20 weeks, plus optional internship placement at the end to keep learning - so I think pretty ideal. Companies sponsor 80% of the tuition cost, so the students pay only $2500 out of pocket. Finding sponsor companies is inherently a limiting factor on the program though - GI Bill funding would allow more veterans to participate.
x for "fixed point". r for "register" is too vague.
A lot of the things touched on in this article can be easily verified and have been reported by multiple sources.

Whilst you might dispute the way the jigsaw has been put together, there is definitely something troubling occurring at the nexus of data-based marketing and the democratic system.

> while automation continues to eat jobs.

Surely concern about one does not preclude concern about the other?
The malware uses social engineering to obtain root.
I think that HTTP-based applications are "easier", because they're less likely to be clobbered by a firewall (which is fairly inherently hostile to Apple-grade users). In other words, the layer below (TCP/IP) is judged inadequate so everyone just jumps up a layer (HTTP) and deals with it there, even when it's a terrible idea.
I'd think very hard about that "for advertising purposes" hedge before claiming fully that mail is not mined. It's also not clear if "collect" and "scan" attach to that hedge as well, or if they're in totality and "use" is the only one hedged. Oxford commas have become relevant in contract law before, oddly enough.

I agree it's unlikely, I'm just saying your quote leaves several possibilities open in unkind interpretations.
Yes, but why does the WM need to provide it? Everyone has preferences - pick your own.
But did "Intuit of India" develop TurboTax at all, there might be an issue of truth because same-named entities in different countries aren't necessarily legally part of a single corporation.
> They just say that people lost their ability to think?

No. Merely that we are much easier to influence than we believe. There's a huge amount of evidence that this is true and if it wasn't true then the entire advertising industry would be based on a false promise.

Don't forget how close the Brexit vote was. Changing the result was a matter of a nudge, not some kind of mass hypnosis.
Correction: "I would credit Borland *for providing the launchpad..."

And in thinking about what I wrote above, I seriously believe that if it wasn't for Borland bringing out a $69 compiler all those years ago, I would be in a totally different profession today. It seriously was the catalyst for me becoming a programmer.
> "But what about us scientists? What is the true objective behind the vast effort that we invested in the image denoising problem?"

This is the telegraph operator lamenting all the time spent learning Morse Code when the telephone was invented.

I think scientists can be motivated by looking for new ways to solve real problems. Don't weep over the time spent understanding the classic models. Rejoice that we have a much better tool to further mankind.
NVidia is busy with their own ARM designs.
Is there a power consumption comparison?
Honestly that's de facto a pretty dick move, despite whatever might make sense in an ideal world
(I know there is DMIPS/mW, but looking for a direct power consumption comparison)
I think part of the accelerated path will be that we are reaching the limits of 'easy' (in the billions already) process improvements.

When everyone and his dog has 14nm you can't rely on process to keep you ahead, Ryzen has shown this partially recently, Broadwell level IPC on an Octacore processor for less than Intel sells a Quad core.

It's going to be a bloodbath as the middle eats into the top.
+1 I use BitBucket instead of GitHub purely because: Private repositories for $0.
Yeah and it backfired on them. Trump's victory was first and foremost a reaction to heavy-handed pushing of neo-liberal agenda (sorry for sounding super-breitbarty there). Basically, the Soros', Clintons, etc. of this world need to be a little more delicate, a little less arrogant and a little less compromised. Macron is idealogically == Clintons, but he will win (against a stronger candidate) b/c he doesn't have dirty laundry and (this is a guess, as I don't speak French), French mass media hasn't yet transformed into some sort of strange orwellian-buzzfeed hybrid.
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People think based on their wants, and their view of reality. If the view of reality can be manipulated, how would you know, and how would your ability to think save you? How might your ability to think work against you?
Also, just realized. It is adopter, and not adapter. My bad. Was too sleepy to realize what I typed.
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Do people still use ISP email addresses?
Oh no, I engaged in the same way. I have opinions & I share rhem with friends. To be honest, I have stopped doing that too, any kind of social network is a time sink, including HN, reddit. Of course they are immensely helpful, but not if you are addicted to them.

Two yrs after cutting fb/whatsapp I am writing a sci fi novel, on the 80'th page!
> most voters don't agree with them

Replace 'most' with 'a slender majority' if you want to retain the fig-leaf of objectivity and rationality that you seem to covet.

Politics is littered with examples of groups who were deceived into voting against their own self-interest. This isn't some kind of bizarre conspiracy - it's business as usual. It strikes me as more bizarre to pretend that democracy is some kind of idealized machine that extracts considered, rational decisions from large aggregates of people. It never was and never has been. It's simply the "least worst"[1] way of choosing our leaders.

[1] https://richardlangworth.com/worst-form-of-government
> Somebody like yourself who is actually invested in making JMAP a success should welcome people pointing out real life use cases where the protocol you're trying to improve upon actually works better

I'm pretty sure it was welcomed, and you were invited to contribute, and even after you declined to do so your comment was still acted upon. You're not coming off super well in this thread, by the way: "I have feedback and time to engage a HN subthread, but getting involved with the actual thing I'm criticizing is a burden I choose not to bear, and this is your problem and you should change to accommodate me." (I don't think that's what you intend, but that was what I read.)

There's a bunch of snark in this thread I don't comprehend. It seems like a fine exchange? Everybody's friends?
>Sadly protocols are made by those who show up

This is a very high burden to place on casual feedback from somebody trying to be nice.
Regardless of what side you are on, the interesting part is the fact that companies like CA and their subsidiaries are increasingly being used by political organisations to persuade.

It's not new, but with Facebook etc and the masses of data that are out there, along with the technology to mine it, I think we're seeing a huge shift into how these things are run as people can be targeted on a much more macro level.
I felt the article was quite fair in acknowledging the intriguing results of deep learning, and decidedly arguing against ignoring them.

"Elegance" can indeed not be defined, but I believe the misunderstanding here is more about the point of view: Deep neural networks are plenty elegant when looked at from an ML POV. But, if you're an expert in, for example, image processing, using a DNN as a tool, the solution it may give you won't be "elegant" by anybody's definition. It is, after all, a repetitive formula with X million arbitrary floats.

Previous ML methods usually resulted in models, or formulas, that were small enough to "grasp" intuitively. The "beauty", or "elegance" was that often, you could find connections from terms in your model to the real world.
...which is exactly why Intel chips should get it too.
never mind ; found it from your other repo :D
The life changing 1970s referendum to remain didn't require more than 50%+1 so I don't see how it's right that Brexiting should have.

Edit to clarify this is about the first referendum to remain, not join in the first place.
Related story about app stores.

There was a time when distributing content on Steam was free and anyone could do it.

This resulted in a lot of shit stuff, copied materials and fraud being distributed.

They introduced a $100 publication fee. As the story goes, it was very effective to stop abuse.
Odours are just molecules that are detected by the cells in our noses, and it's possible to identify them with various techniques. You've probably heard of mass spectrometry, which tells you the mass to charge ratio of the molecules that are present in a sample. You can figure out which molecules they are by looking up the m/z value in a database -- but mass spectrometers are pretty bulky.

There's also a technique called field-asymmetric ion mobility spectrometry, which gives you a less direct indication of the molecules you're looking at, but FAIMS can be miniaturized into a silicon chip, and that is what Owlstone has done. Here's a bit more info about FAIMS: https://www.owlstonemedical.com/science-technology/faims-tec...

edit: odours are not necessarily organic molecules
There seems to be a lot of angst in the responses about how deep nets et al "are too elegant; are too interpretable!".

It's important to remember that the intended product of science is not tools, it is understanding. Deep nets may produce very elegant and interpretable tools, from a very elegant and interpretable theory, but that is not what the scientists are looking for. They are generally creating and assessing theories in their subject domains, which are then evaluated by the tools they have built.

Deep learning does do a great job of providing a baseline ("your theory must be this accurate to matter"), but it seems to do a much less great job at extracting new understanding.
I don't see educated people or millennials as likely to be better drivers

Maybe not, but they are people who have options, and if they pick "driving for Uber" as their best option, we can assume that the conditions are pretty good, vs people for whom this is the only "job" they can get.
Unfortunately you can't on most phones ... Facebook is a system app.
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The intellectual state of the moderate Left in Britain is very sad -- Labour can't win an election and the Guardian spends its ink on conspiracy tripe like this.
Zimbra community edition?

One of my employers uses Zimbra on their own servers. Does a Web based calendar and email and seems to work OK.
Totally, but what I'm saying is it's not unfair, it's an inherent benefit of OSS.
As advanced as this might be technically - visually it looks horrible. Do they don't have designer?
It should have required then (IMHO).
Didn't you hear though? All successful people read. It's obvious that reading made them successful, not their upbringing or environment. As long as you read as much as possible, does it matter what you read? Be like Bill. Be successful!

I was being sarcastic, obviously.
I have dropped facebook for everything but events. I muted / unfollowed everybody, disabled all non-event notifications, and cleared out a lot of personal information.

What set this off was seeing a a buddy I hadn't spoken with in nearly a decade. Typically bumping into an old friend and catching up would be great, but we both knew nearly everything about each other due to our investment in social media. We still had stuff to talk about, but I felt somewhat robbed of that moment.

From day one I avoided adding people from high school or other areas of my life where I wasn't interested in sharing real-world social experiences. It might sound harsh, but I just don't care what these strangers are up to.

Social media is fine for some people, but I've never been happier to be ignorant of my friend's lives until I spend real time with them.

That being said, the event organization aspect of Facebook is great, and I know a lot of people who have stayed with the site for the same reason. The sooner a simple, centralized event organization platform becomes popular, the sooner we can start a proper exodus.
"what about the CIA psyops?"

The CIA psyops question is a good one. The CIA was setup by Eisenhower to collate intelligence not engage in operations. Psyops is operations. The question of CIA dabbling in operations was resolved in '63. Post '63, there was no real threat to the CIA charter.

I'll double up, "why has the CIA got an Airforce?" [0] T

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted_killing#Use_by_the_Un...
Yeah, we have this issue: https://github.com/loadimpact/k6/issues/140

But you can actually aggregate results already, if you use InfluxDB as results storage: you can have multiple k6 instances push results data to the same InfluxDB instance. Results are just time series samples, so there are basically no bad effects if you do this - you get all the results in a single db, with correct time stamps. The only difficulty lies in orchestrating the multiple k6 instances so they're in sync and you get the traffic levels you want (i.e. they ramp up/down at the same time). But for a simple ramp configuration, or a config where you run at a stable traffic level, it shouldn't be a problem.
I agree.

And I think it was wrong for the UK to end up as part of the EU, as opposed to a more limited "common market", without at least one of the successive governments which signed up to additional treaties demonstrating such general consensus.

That was part of the reason why it was so easy for the "leave" side to portray the EU as a hostile unaccountable force.
"Interpretability", in this case, is concerned with the problem domain, not ML itself.

A hypothetical example: A trained decision tree algorithm for a medical decision may place the gender, or the age, of the patient at the root. That lends itself to a quick interpretation as to the relevance of factors for treatment, whereas with a Neural Net, you'll get millions of arbitrary floats that do not impart any meaning just by looking at them.

That's not to say NNs don't sometimes give tantalising insights, as the article points out. I've seen a view visualisations of generative character models that were fascinating–such as finding individual neutrons tracking sentence length or nesting depth. Same for some interesting patterns emerging in the intermediate layers of object recognition networks: oh, I never knew ears were so important for face recognition.