skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Although our models are more vulnerable to white-box FGSM samples compared to the v3adv model, ensemble adversarial training significantly increases robustness to black-box attacks that transfer FGSM samples crafted on the holdout Inception v4.

So, I just train my new adversary on the "new" model that was trained on the previous adversarial examples. And now we're back to square one.

I suspect the problem of adversarial attacks is a problem of high-dimensional spaces, not of training on particular samples.
It's not coming from an incorrect assumption.
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Yes, indeed, there is a strong risk for bubbles. In order to deter bubbles, there must still be a healthy social fabric and network applications that promote and incentivize cross-cultural interaction and knowledge sharing. That's a social, political, design & technical challenge.

Also...

I'm imagining the possibility "encrypted queries" between trusted parties. You could allow people to send you a search query that is encrypted in some way such that you couldn't read it, but you could still run it on your local index and send them back a result. Storing not only your own well-structured index but numerous other parties indices as well could be way too expensive. Instead, it makes sense only to maintain a relatively small local index for when you're truly offline. But to allow others to search your index anonymously, perhaps in exchange for the ability to search theirs anonymously. You could let trusted parties search your content without actually revealing their search terms, which may contain sensitive terms, like "cancer" or "schizophrenia symptoms". Maybe this could be done in a way that also obscures who actually ran the query. This sounds like a challenge for zero-knowledge proofs and some kind of anonymous traffic routing system.

In practice, it'd be like a hybrid of anonymous distributed routing and anonymous distributed search.
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Sure. I was just saying there are other arguments against these pills. I'm not a luddite or a perfectionist and can see their use case though.
I'm assuming he means that's when he started with the weight training.

I'm 52, and recently started a strength/interval training regimen. In just a few weeks, I've increased my resistance loads 25-50%, and I'm losing a steady 1.5 pounds per week or so without a drastic diet change. It's a lot easier to control my eating now, too.
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I would say they are polar opposites. Blockchains are incredibly inefficient since every node has to redo the computations. Adding more nodes does not scale them which is what i consider a core part of scalable systems.
I'm unclear how this is any different from a centralized mongodb as a service platform. It seems that it doesn't offer any proof of work related security or consensus building other than a centralized "trust our cluster" policy [1].

[1] https://docs.bigchaindb.com/en/latest/bft.html
Implying that China is not a "sophisticated market"?
I think people don't want to admit that the reading experience on mobile is mediocre-at-best.
True. They are transitioning to a subscriber model though.
My question then is why should I care about "increased complexity" by this definition more than about "simpler usage"? Adding well thought out language features that simplify my every day usage is a good thing and the sense in which it increases complexity is not a sense that particularly concerns me. I think C++ is generally making good choices about what features to add. Generic complaints about new features tautologically "increasing complexity" are not interesting. Specific concerns about particular features not carrying their weight in terms of simplifying usage are interesting (and a big part of what the C++ standards process is engaged in).
*even if all the change happened within my lifetime.
My nearly 70 year old mother, technophobe and risk averse to a fault (e.g., had much of her retirement portfolio since'09 out of equities), finally asked me the other day if she should buy some Bitcoin.

Yes, if cryptocurrencies prove to be a real revolution the way the Internet was, there's plenty of upside left. If not, though, I'm not sure there's too many greater fools left if my mother's almost there.

As they say, you know it's time to sell when shoeshine boys give you stock tips...
> I initially thought it was so you could donate your skills to an actual charity

I agree, I'd be really interested in that kind of platform.
correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure block chains are not super scalable ATM. bitcoin is blocked at 6 transactions a second and future changes are supposed to improve it to 30? that doesn't seem very scalable to me. I could very well be wrong about the details but the point stands. block chains aren't all that scalable
Is there software that will check the certs on my computers to make sure no software has done this?
I have just barely fiddled with docker/kube - run into vagrant in one instance. I thought it was the reverse -https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Docker-...

Vagrant can mimic multiple OSs while containers are stuck to host os - What am I missing?
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App Store and Apple Music are probably the biggest contributors here.
I would like to know that as well. We are using wkhtmltopdf for around 2 years. Had many issues with incompatible css. I considered PrinceXML. Looked solid, but a bit expensive and also lacking some css support. I'm considering switching to Puppeteer / Chrome.
We are not too happy with our EvoPDF license so in the basis this is a good option. However, I do not think this allows adding headers, footers, page numbers etc.
Wow this is incredible
Why does Windows allow programs to install root CA certs without separate user intervention (beyond the initial "grant admin permissions" dialog)?
I suppose denying that CO2 is increasing, or claiming that it doesn't cause climate warming or isn't a problem, is a lot easier than trying to find a solution consistent with conservative or libertarian principles.
On a tangent, but as has been asked here, does this disprove Jean-Pierre Houdin theory?
am i blind?

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Companies like that often just buy up a stock of the hardware they need and stuff it in a warehouse, at least when it's in danger of being discontinued. They don't need to maintain the source code at all. They just need to be able to keep installing the binary.
Why not like this? https://i.imgur.com/dmuGOA5.png

Too small tolerances needed?
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Don't read too much into it. I love to travel and I usually get a t-shirt from wherever I go, then use them until they wear out. :)
So, I don't have a formal study saying that techies are the most likely to ad-block/least likely to click ads. What we know:

- Ad-blocker users skew young and wealthy.[1] The developer community as a whole also skews young and wealthy.

- If you are aware of the existence of ad-blocking technology, you probably use it.[2]

- Via comparison with other sites, you can also make some extrapolations. Take IGN - not a perfect proxy, but a reasonable one, with a core audience that is probably fairly demographically similar to the core audience for most developer-oriented sites. Approximately 40% of their traffic was using ad-blockers in 2015.[3] A Wired statement posted in 2016 has 20% of their traffic using ad-blockers.[4]

- Anecdotal evidence: every dev I've worked with has at least one ad-blocker installed. The vast majority of dev-adjacent people I've worked with - PMs, technical writers, designers - have ad-blockers installed.

Put it together and I think it makes a fairly compelling case that techies are the last audience on earth you'd want to orient your online marketing towards. I used to hope that something like The Deck[5], which was explicitly targeted towards "web, design & creative professionals", would be a good solution to this, and I even permitted their ads on Metafilter, but they shut down last year, presumably because they just weren't making enough money. They did everything that people claimed they wanted: the ads were unobtrusive, mostly text and optimized images, they didn't engage in tracking, they didn't sell user data (as far as I know), and they still couldn't make it work.

1. https://marketingland.com/ad-blocker-usage-highest-among-key... people-and-high-earners-143546

2. https://digiday.com/media/survey-80-percent-know-ad-blocking...

3. http://adage.com/article/digital/websites-hit-hardest-ad-blo...

4. https://www.wired.com/how-wired-is-going-to-handle-ad-blocki...

5. http://decknetwork.net/
You don’t think you’d be affected by the massive economic disruption from having so many major cities flooded, or ocean ecosystems devastated by acidification, or refugee crises on a scale never before seen when productive agricultural regions become unproductive?
This is an awesome story. It almost made me cry.

At the same time these guys were building illicit computers in their dorm rooms, I and my buddies were building illicit robots in ours. We weren't in danger from the secret police, of course, so I don't mean to directly compare the experience. But we were at a religious university that simply didn't have the ability to think broadly enough to allow for the possibility that students might have interests outside the established course work, and certainly frowned on the use of power tools in church-owned dorms. We ignored the rules, quite openly, made burn marks on the desks and left pounds of aluminum shavings in the carpets, and definitely felt rebellious doing it.

In any case: the article says that these guys feel like they didn't really accomplish anything, because while they were bootlegging Sinclair Spectrum clones, Apple, on the other side of the world, was reinventing the entire computer industry. I have to disagree. It's not about the destination, it's about the journey - and these guys had quite a journey. Maybe they didn't contribute decisively to bringing down Communism; but if that's your success metric, then I think almost everybody fails.

In my case, that first robot that we built - which sucked - led to a second one, that didn't. And that led to a graduate research assistantship at a different university that was more welcoming of student initiative - and that led, eventually, to a career in space robotics.

It's been quite a ride, and it isn't over. And I wouldn't trade a minute of it.
year-over-year 3% unit growth for iPhone units. So generally are we at the end of mobile absorption by humanity and mobile growth? From now on instead of market growth shall we see market share competition? Apple is lucky to sell more expensive iPhones and better margins with better ASP. Carriers are still the big driver by bundled tariffs and that helps high end smartphone sales.
Yeah, I don't care much for a pill replacing exercise. A pill giving me the ability to exercise without all my ails though...
ATMs using neural nets - lol - nope. That is a stretch.
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For anyone who doesn't know the whole trick:

2^10 ~= 1_000 (2.5% error)
2^20 ~= 1_000_000 (4% error)
2^30 ~= 1_000_000_000 (7% error)

Because of exponentials, each power of 5 between is about 1/30 of the way to the next power of 10 (2^5 = 32, 2^15=32_768, etc).

With this framework you have good anchors for all 2^(5k), which means you only ever have to divide/multiply by at most 8 to get a good approximation for any power of two. Now you can impress your coworkers with your amazing ability to fudge powers of two in your head.
"This represents a year-over-year 3% unit growth and 2% revenue growth, suggesting slightly more people are buying higher priced iPhones like the 7 Plus and 8 Plus."

Isn't that the other way around? More units were sold, but at slightly cheaper price. If they were more expensive the revenue growth rate would be greater than 3%.
Google pays Apple for being the default search engine.
I also had a conversation with a liberal yet church-going person who would refuse to believe that humans are causing the world to fall apart. The argument here is God created the world for humans and with bountiful resources. So then why would the Earth be heating up and if it is, how could that be bad?

It is a common behavior among many conservatives to find holes in climate change like the theories mentioned in your anecdote, but it is extreme and a sign of desperation. I would not give too much importance to it.

But what seems to give conservatives and religious individuals reasons to go green is that

* Going green increases efficiencies in our consumption of resources

* invents new solutions to old problems

* and excessive waste corrupts individuals and societies.

If climate change activists can beat these three drums more often than waste time telling stories of an Armageddon that may or may not come true, I think we could lead a more healthier march towards green tech.
This sounds to me like "we will make it simpler by adding more features (that are presumably simpler to reason about)." The problem with C++ (and the reason that it is too complex) is that it has too many features. This proposal will do nothing to eliminate all of the cruft, the real source of complexity. That would require actually removing features, backwards-compatibility be damned!
The regimen isn't really the amount of weight involved. It's how often you do it, how many reps, etc. For example, I'm doing interval training - something like, say, 10 chest presses, 10 lateral pulls, 30 seconds of crunches, and repeat this cycle three times. Then go to the next cycle, which might be something like incline pushups, bicep curls, and squats, again 3x.

If I were to change to, say, 5 reps at maximum weight just one time(heavy strength train), that would be a change in regimen.
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That's not how math works.

Buffet has been "flipping heads" consecutively for several decades, with no regression to the mean.
"Like I have the time or desire to compete with most of these yokels."

Then stop complaining.

"Content creators are not some unassailable gift horse immune from inspection or criticism. People are free to criticize the things I contribute to this world; and my feelings will not be hurt if they do. Perhaps you could learn from this."

But you're not criticizing. You're getting all in a tizzy because others aren't doing things exactly the way you want them. You're demanding that your entitlement be fulfilled.

"Video needs smothering, not competition."

Not according to the vast amounts of people who find it just fine. If you wish to prove that another medium is better, then feel free to create competing content in that medium to show it.
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The stock market is not random though. If you have a person who previously worked at the fda specializing in kidneys for example, having that person analyze which kidney drugs/devices they think will get approved is not luck.

People can have an informational advantage and use it to make intelligent trades.
Children don't see random pictures, they see videos (pictures in a sequence).
It's certainly filled with people who have never used Macs. You have to take that into account when using global growth to try to predict future US growth.
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The idea behind the perceived need to seek perfection (and the hope to find it) is flawed: the only thing that that cannot be perfected any further is the Void. The idea of replacing everything with the Void (i.e. of total destruction) is not all that different, as it might seem, from the idea of replacing the humans with something "more efficient."
If this is such a big problem, why don't we execute scientists when they're 50? Or at the very least, ban them from writing about their field?

My argument is hyperbole, but an "anti-life-extension" position is literally a "pro-death" position.

We may have problems with ancients stagnating science, but I think that's a problem we can tackle with other methods.
Yelp is extremely hostile to web users on mobile and shoves their app at you, actively blocking mobile functionality. You have to spoof user agent or request desktop site to use their service. So after realizing how hostile they are, I stopped using their service. Wasn't aware of their shady business practices in the past, and I think they've improved somewhat? My main issue with them today is their subverting of mobile web usage.

Similarly, Square Cash hides their login page on the mobile cash.me site. You have to request the desktop site and actually go to cash.me/login to have any chance of using their mobile site. It's fucking crazy.
What good is a root CA with no key?
People in those countries have access to equities markets. It's a little more awkward to trade in Russia, but there absolutely are online brokerages that service the country. China actively encourages private citizens to invest in stock funds.
Why were you throwing the term around before you knew what it was? Again, you left out MANY aspects of pyramid schemes--the ones hardest to twist into fitting bitcoin.

And you glossed right over this: the necessity of a purposefully fraudulent bad actor to redistribute the new investors' "investments" to old investors.

>So should the price collapse, the old generation still stands to make massive profits, at the expense of current investors.

Nope, the old generation suffers the same losses as the new if the price crashes. A pyramid scheme is just that, a scheme with a central organization controlling the flow of income. That is impossible with a distributed ledger.

The last part of your answer is a rant about Apple vs Bitcoin, I think you missed my only point: in a pyramid scheme new members are promised a share of the money taken from every additional member that they recruit. "Evangelizing" by itself is not proof of a pyramid scheme.

I suggest you continue to look it up and learn what a pyramid scheme is. It's different than speculation, it is different than a Ponzi scheme.
The whole point of these examples is the DNN gives erroneous classifications with near complete certainty. This looks to me like hijacking a belief system.
Interesting ... why is such setup needed then?
Wouldn't be hard to build something like that.