skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...except that figure is less than 4%. about 8 gigatons are attributed to humans out of ~220 gigatons injected into the atmosphere overall on a yearly basis.

This is like the difference between profit and savings. Accumulated CO2 is a savings accounts, and the pre-industrial climate in the short term acts like a business which has zero profit, balanced revenues and expenditure. If you come into the business, and hold expenditure the same, but increase revenues by 4%, and yield a 4% profit, which every year you put in the bank account, that is going to accumulate over time. And the warming is created by the accumulation. You talk about a 4% yearly excess as if that was a small amount!

Also, your point about water vapour ties into what I said in the earlier comment, a lot of the warming is exactly that secondary effect - CO2 has a direct heating effect, that raises temperature, which then raises the partial pressure of water vapour, which increases concentrations of water vapour in the atmosphere, which as you say is a very important greenhouse gas. It's the combination of these two effects, of direct CO2 warming, causing increased water vapour concentration, which accounts for the baseline warming which everyone who is sceptical of computer models should believe in. This very well-established baseline warming accounts for about half of the climate sensitivity proposed by the IPCC, if you think computer models are junk, that discounts many of the positive feedbacks proposed, but also the negative feedbacks which would have to exist, to lead to zero warming.
I'm guessing they are also going after the "fitness club" like profit idea. That is, get a subscription, use it frantically in the beginning. Then slowly you go less and less, but still keep the subscription because you never know when you might want to be healthy again. Or cancelling it is too much of a hassle for just $10/month.
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If the test set of images really were 50/50 and the human judges weren't told that, then they were effectively given inaccurate priors, which would obviously reduce their accuracy.
> Let's assume we define "identity" to mean

... seriously, just stop.
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The algorithm, the problem it is applied to, the variables to consider and to optimize, the variables excluded from consideration, and the dats sources used are all choices made by someone with some agenda. And they don't have to agree with you on their choices.
Yes, but all the systems put in place to shield fiat from the booms and busts don't exist in crypto.

For example, the federal reserve and legislators can manipulate the interest rates and the deficit to encourage people to hold or sell their USD.
The people working on this need to stop, sit down, and have a long, hard think about what they're doing. And about how ultimately this will be used to persecute and gill gay men.
Exactly, and the nation suffers as a result of the elevation of mediocrities to positions of power.
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Which is to keep you safe. Keep the US's dominance in Military, economy and high value technology going.

Plus food turns out to be cheap because you get oil for a pretty affordable price. And that happens to be possible thanks to wars and associated expenditure.
Humans are known to be unreliable in explaining how they come to conclusions as well. Humans just like to pretend they can verbalise all knowledge ;)
I was mostly thinking of the "copy to server" step. I was about to say that now there are many providers and platforms etc, but now thinking about it, there were plenty even back then. Perhaps, if you just have a small nugget of something you want out there, today you can just paste it on pastebin/twitter/instagram or any other platform...
It's not proper research.
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Do you think the authors of the paper are the first to think of this idea of detecting personal traits with facial features? How much cost do you think it takes for implementing detection with this particular set of features?

If it can be done it will be done. In this particular case it doesn't even cost much. You should have started to be concerned when machine learning evolved into a paradigm that is only possible to achieve any kind of real world performance with an amount of data and computing resources available only to megacorps and governments.
I'd bet you'd get a lot higher accuracy from scanning a facebook profile's metadata than from their image.

That said, the concern of this is the potential to do this on at scale in a horrible distopia. Cameras in airports and on sidewalks automatically scan people for "undesirable" features and they end up in reeducation camps or just simply disappearing.
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> Technically, C has no macros, but most people use the C preprocessor

technically the C preprocessor is a non-optional part of the C language and specification (and in fact embedded in the actual C compiler binary in many implementations). So both in theory and in practice C very much has a macros.

/pedantic
My theory: one of the pug.js related websites had a Facebook like/share button. Facebook took the hint that you're interested in something pug related because it mis-classified the domain/page.
Where else would the Android handset makers go, Microsoft?

Actually that sounds good, we could do with a third viable handset OS, but that's a digression and at this point a bit of a fantasy. They have nowhere else to go.

Back in the early days of iOS and Android the consensus seemed to be that the smartphone OSes were pretty much done. To compete with iOS all you had to do was match it's features, or catch up, and once you had it was pretty much all over. Since then Apple and Google have constantly found compelling new features for the OSes almost every year. Apple is sinking billions into the development of iOS, just look at what they're doing just in the area of health[1], and there is clear blue water in terms of quality and features[2] between it and Android, and that gap is increasing.

Google makes most of it's money in mobile off the iOS platform, yet is investing hugely in Android development and making a pittance out of it. Not only is that unsustainable, but if they really want to compete with Apple they need to dramatically increase their investment in Android. They only way they can justify doing that is to actually start making significant revenue off Android. The only way to do that is to sell their own handsets, differentiate them from competing Android handset vendors, command a decent profit margin and grab significant market share.

[1] https://www.cultofmac.com/316559/abc-news-goes-inside-apples...

[2] Super robust and secure XPC; Superior power management; Custom development tools, languages and hardware-software integration with things like Metal and the motion co-processor; High quality health and fitness tracking; VRKit; Highly consistent calibration of sensors between devices, vital for precision applications like VR; All this is arguable in the details, sure, but the fact that Apple is spending hugely on this backed by blockbuster revenues isn't and Google can't realistically match that just for the heck of it. They need a revenue stream to back it up.
When they re-braded themselves as Inprise, 1996.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland
At the moment, it would seem to help AMC's business by driving more (paying from AMC's perspective) customers to their theaters. The problem is that AMC apparently wants to introduce their own card, likely at a higher price point.

>"That price level is unsustainable and only sets up consumers for ultimate disappointment down the road if or when the product can no longer be fulfilled," the company said.

Is pretty much the definition of BS.
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But then again, it's trivial to fool it, if the deciding fitting factor is long hair.
I use GNU Stow for dotfile management plus version control of various utilities installed locally.
This is the 2017 version of Color App where the team raised way more than they need.
That's modern journalism in a nutshell. About 80% of sources now seem to be either Twitter, Reddit, Facebook or YouTube.
Gay men and women have blended in undetected for thousands of years all over the world. They've only been able to really come out in the last few decades. If this miserable distopia of automatic homosexual detection came to pass, they would simply go back to blending in again. A miserable existence, but pretty sure they'd be able to fool the robot overlords.
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> Because it's based on the idea that gay men aren't real men.

If a study found that male, violent criminals had wider jaws than average men, would you think that the study was based on the idea that average men aren't real men, unlike criminals?

I think it's quite likely that both sexual orientation and jaw size are influenced by the same hormones (e.g. testosterone), since both features are involved in sexual dimorphism. Essentially, if a person is similar to average members of the opposite sex in one dimension, they are likely to be similar in other dimensions as well.

That doesn't make anyone inferior or less "real", it just means that the averages of two groups are slightly different on a certain axis that roughly corresponds to the feminine-masculine distinction. On that axis, you will have

(most feminine woman) (average straight woman) (average gay woman) (most feminine man) (most masculine woman) (average gay man) (average straight man) (most masculine man)

That axis is very different from the inferiority-superiority axis, where you have

(nobody) (everyone else)
Cineworld is £17.90 per month, which is roughly $23.
Would a company like this ever offer equity to one VC for $x and then charge a second VC $8x 2 weeks later?

Why wouldn't they? It is pretty standard to raise different rounds at different valuations.
This is creepy. First, there is no serious scientific proof that your facial expression can tell if you are homosexual or not. Correlations here are total garbage. Sexuality is a really complex thing to discuss and, most importantly, is a private thing. Second, software detecting if someone is gay or not seems to me quite similar to jews being forced to wear the Star of David in Nazi Germany, so everyone could spot them and act against them, including people being wrongly labeled. Seriously guys, stop this. We have to be really careful about the potential uses our software. There can be serious impacts in society and in people lives.
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> There is just no way to securely create a secret key.

That is wrong. You can generate one relatively easily with dice (google for it).

> Because the algorithm is so complex, you have to trust somebody else's software to create the key.

You're conflating generating the key, which is just generating a random number in a certain range, with calculating the public address, which involves some operations on elliptic curves.

The algorithm is not that complex. Using a library like openssl/ec it is not that hard to generate the public address. It takes about 30 lines of C code using that library.

> How do you know that software is neither malicious nor buggy?

You can read the source code.
https://github.com/lantiga/react.hiccup
>> let's assume false_positive_rate = false_negative_balance

This assumption is usually wrong when trying to detect rare events (such as CC fraud or straight/gay people).

In my own experience, if you train on a prepared 50/50 dataset to some kind of reasonable accuracy, on actual data where classes are more like 96/4 you get a LOT of false positives, thus making the whole thing not very useful
I doubt it will get so extreme as to kill gay men. However, they do need to sit down, and have a long hard think about why they are in school at Stanford, and to what end they want to direct their studies. If it's to create click-bait research papers with little to no value, they should question why they are in school in the first place.

Articles like this give the impression that the authors are internet hustlers, not proper grad students.
I use Privacy Badger on Chrome, which should block all social widgets by default. I'd be surprised if this was the vector.
Another good resource to learn about JSX (by the author of Preact): https://jasonformat.com/wtf-is-jsx/
When I say "rich" I mean it in shorthand of "enough money to not have to interact with the world socially to make money"

Of course it's a meme that doesn't spread itself, kind of hypocritcal to be posting on a social platform
EDIT: replied hastily, you of course said "don't JUST google it"

> 1) If you need therapy, see a specialist, don‘t just google it.

This is rather country (and wealth-profile) specific. In England, often you need to really push GPs to take anything seriously or even do a blood test (in your 5-10 minute appointment). Doing some basic research before visiting can be useful. (I've even done a "yes I'm stupid googling things...so prove me wrong" act).
Looks like Bitcoin will be a store of value.

Here is an attempt at the payment side of things: https://coinjournal.net/ripple-opens-new-office-india-eyes-m...
I think the point is that the classifier is not intended to be used to predict sexual orientation in a real-world scenario. It'd be completely useless because it will have way too many false positives. But I think that wasn't the authors' goal anyway. I think they rather wanted to show that there are facial features related to sexual orientation that are "hidden" to humans. And in my opinion the results are fine for that purpose.
AMC's 10k is pretty informative: http://investor.amctheatres.com/Doc/Index?did=39811732

Page 17 or so is good: "We predominantly license “first-run” films from distributors owned by major film production companies and from independent distributors on a film-by-film and theatre-by-theatre basis. Film exhibition costs are accrued based on the applicable admissions revenues and estimates of the final settlement pursuant to our film licenses. Licenses that we enter into typically state that rental fees are based on aggregate terms established prior to the opening of the picture."

and then: "Food and beverage sales are our second largest source of revenue after box office admissions."

The ratio, seen later in the document, is basically 65% admissions, 33% food/beverage.

(This surprised me, I had thought it was around 25% admissions.)

I don't see theaters being willing to give up any of that in exchange for a vague promise of extra customers.

On the other hand, I don't see why theaters feel antagonistic towards a company that promises to take investment money and buy full-price tickets with it. That's a complete win for the theaters.
Some are better at it than others, and no doubt many are pretty bad at it, but I have yet to see a neural net explain to me, accurately or not, why it came to the decision it did.
Can't really put the deep learning genie back in the bottle at this point. Even if this research wasn't released, someone who wanted to do this would be able to figure it out eventually.

This is just the first step, things are about to get much worse.
They had to be bailed out, remember?
Something to do with clouds and tanks : https://www.jefftk.com/p/detecting-tanks
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> They've deleted pages I've tried to make for local ice cream shops, ma and pa stores that have real stories

A line has to be drawn somewhere though. Storage may be cheap, but every article represents a maintenance burden in the long term. Hence the notability requirement. Why would a local investor/entrepreneur be notable to a global audience?

An in-depth article on your local ice cream parlour seems more at its place on a local blog, or on Wikivoyage under the 'Eat' header, or a book about your town; perhaps even a town-wiki!
Not sure about that. In the US it seems that the most vocal opponents of gay rights often get caught with their pants down in some embarrassing homosexual encounter.
Code is opinion and the idea that you can predict or identify things of this nature is just human prejudice masquerading as something more.

Some human programmers got together and thought they could identify sexual orientation from faces, a silly bar room level idea in itself with no basis in reality and trained a neural net to express this prejudice. This is the same thing as a seer claiming to see the future.
I don't know in the US, but in Spain, cinemas have been closing en masse in the last few years due to unrealistic prices. I still go, but most people I know say paying €8 for a ticket (the same price as one month of Netflix, a 3-course set meal, or four beers in a bar) is just outrageous. Something like this could save cinema here.
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Ah, my apologies.

I agree with you - I can't see any kind of future where the theatres go "Oh, you're bringing more people in and we're making more money from consumables. Sure, please, have some of our profits!"
The images were from a dating site. They inferred sexual orientation from the gender of the partners that the subjects were looking for according to their profiles.
Interesting concept, but I am afraid this will (if ever) only work in the US.

Here in the UK and in Europe people would get the cheap tickets and then still smuggle their own drinks and snacks into the movies, because that's what we've always done and that's the culture here - especially among the millenials who think they can outsmart everything and everyone and feel entitled so. Also people on this side of the pond don't really fancy the massive buckets of sugary drinks or XXL sized hot dogs like our American friends.
Sure but the comment was about it not existing, not the price.
> If it can be done it will be done.
Nonsense. Scientists and grad students have ethical standards and refrain from unethical research all the time. This paper was written by a business school grad student, who may be more interested in clicks than in moving the state of the art forward.
Its there any explanation as to how this hurts their business?
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Wouldn't it happen during strong wind as well in that case?
ICOs are fraud IMHO. I want to ask why this is even legal, but then I think - why shouldn't it be? And then how can people be so stupid? There is no legally recognized thing as ICO is there?
Me too! My only question is how can I use tig or SourceTree with this setup.
https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/237169/why-are-non...

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-issue-with-back-propagatio...
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They are expensive (though I find it's usually the refreshments that're marked up the most vs the ticket in the UK), but I'm not so sure on your price comparisons... can you really get a 3 course lunch or 4 pints for ~£8 in Spain? I think you'd be lucky to get one course or 2 pints here for that.
I hope not, because the last time I tried it still ate a lot of resources just idling.
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Magnitude is a pretty useless scale for the human-level impact of an earthquake (since you have to take into account location, depth, geography etc).

I prefer the Shindo scale in Japan, which better informs you how people actually felt it/it affected infrastructure. Each earthquake doesn't get "one" shindo scale, you get a map of shindo readings for each location it was felt in. Then you can say "this earthquake was up to shindo X" if you want to tell somehow the worst effects of it, or "at my house it was shindo X-2" and people understand "oh so you were pretty far away huh"
This is exactly where I began getting the most out of Vagrant, that is, simulating a distributed cluster locally. It gets me as close as possible to how it would work on the provider infrastructure, e.g. AWS. In particular, spinning up an automated Consul cluster and then using it get a group of RabbitMQ nodes to converge[0]. The same is certainly achievable through container orchestration, but that adds more layers of abstraction, especially on the networking side.

[0]: https://github.com/ValFadeev/consul-demo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW1-xnTIDjQ
You'll have to agree to pay a lot more taxes though. I got a Bachelor's degree in Germany where it was cheap (we had some tuition at the time, but nothing compared to the US). Let's say it costs 15k a year (not what they charge, but the actual cost, which counts in a state sponsored system). That is 52.5k over the 3.5 years I studied. I've since paid at least that amount extra taxes as compared to the US. But I still have quite a few years of work ahead of me, so I'll be paying off this "debt" for a long time.

Basically you're trading the freedom to choose to go in debt for a personal decision, for going in debt for the average decision in your country. I'm ok with it, but I think it's a very different philosophy. A similar thing when I see single payer health care proposals in the US where they say it's too costly. Well d'uh. You gotta charge health care tax. It's not free, it's just that everyone is paying into the same pool. I'm paying almost 700€ a month for my socialized health insurance. Mostly because it's adapted to your income. But it's really not low cost or free. Just that everyone is paying together.
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> then still smuggle their own drinks and snacks into the movies

I do that because the cinemas don't sell anything at their concession stand I want to or can eat.

> massive buckets of sugary drinks

Don't forget the massive buckets of popcorn - you can easily clear 600+ calories in a single medium portion.
nice. Especially the ip thing.
You're conflating the value and price of an asset. E.g. if you own an asset like a stock that pays dividends, the value of that stock is the net present value of the future dividends. The price is determined by buyers and sellers and can diverge widely from the value.

It's related to the distinction between investing and speculating. Investing is based on whether the intrinsic value is below or above the price, while speculating is just based on the price.
As long as there are practically no penalties this will keep happening. Forty-four percent of Americans are affected in this.
From my observations it's all over the place, with a consistent anti-male theme across several decades whilst still greatly favouring male sports in its sports pages, a consistent feminist theme about the evils of patriarchy and the male gaze etc. whilst still including a significant amount of fashion coverage and carrying advertising for the fashion/cosmetics industry, and a consistent anti-capitalist/globalism theme from some commentators whilst still remaining fervently pro-EU and recently anti-Brexit. It's difficult to take it seriously when it seems so utterly compromised. At least you know where you stand with the bastards at the Telegraph. My personal opinion on the Guardian is that its main function seems to be alleviating the guilt of successful lefties/saving them the hard work of having to form their own opinions.