skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a derivs trader myself, I find much wrong with this account.

First of all, he came away net positive, so the title is a bit of a humblebrag.

Aside from that though, he should have known beforehand how models work. David Hume mentioned it hundreds of years ago; you only have the past, and the past might not contain all the dynamics of the future. Lest you think this only happens to social science models, there have been plenty of engineering accidents that our models did not predict.

If you have a huge position, the market again does not behave like when you're just observing. Your moves push things around, often the wrong way. That's another thing he and his bank should have known.

Finally, there's a big attribution issue. He got paid well, but is it trading skill that won the day? I'd say it's the salesmanship of getting the Mexican government to let them out of the trade, apparently at a price that was better than mid. Normally when you're screwed, you don't get mid.
Or you could distribute tokens mined from a computer that's plugged in somewhere, or even purchased with normal currency. But I'm not sure I'd want to navigate a web where I'm constantly making purchase decisions with every hyperlink.
Also I don't know if shunning people is the best approach, especially if you're talking about things like anti-vaxxers or climate change. There really needs to be intelligent discussion and education on these issues, they only really get solved if people agree. Shunning someone can only bully them into submission it doesn't change minds. Shunning only adds to the tribalism that's dividing the left and the right, it really doesn't help.
Why does it make C++ more ugly? Do you find PHP ugly too?
That charge would depend entirely on whether or not installing a root certificate can be considered "intentional" "impairment to integrity". I can't find any case law that would provide the interpretation for this, but I think it's safe to say you probably won't be able to overcome the burden of proving that they caused the damage intentionally if it even qualifies as damage (which I find unlikely).
They're both referring to the removal of AMT. It sure seems to me like this section overrides any benefits to startup employees with regard to AMT, and then makes the situation a whole lot worse to boot.
Coinbase so dominates cryptocurrency accounts in the US they should just have a way to do internal $ payments between accounts without going through any blockchain. Would be much quicker and cheaper.
I've long been on the human-caused GW band wagon - ever since I learned about global warming 10+ years ago.

But the alarmism turned me off to the idea that dramatic legislation is actually needed, or that GW is even all that big of an issue. As far as I can tell unabated GW would never have a big impact on my life [edit:] even if all the change happened within my lifetime.
Tesla's 'Production Hell' Threatens Its Future
I would advise people to stop comparing US workers rights to their countries. Just because you think your country gives you extra leverage and protection it does not mean it is a universally applicable law
Considering that preorders just started last week and it goes on sale tomorrow, I doubt it had much of an impact. More will probably show up next quarter. I'd guess that less 8 and 8 Plus were sold due to people waiting on X. That's what I'm doing, anyways
Screw future generations?
Victor Lustig once conned Al Capone. Let that sink in.
I'm more interested in your dismissal of the fact that it can be used to do illegal activity. Do you plan to go the rest of your life without ever breaking a law? And as a sibling poster noted, there can be financial chokeholds even on activities that they didn't bother to make illegal, like donating to Wikileaks.

(I don't think you responded to the point that Wikileaks is a non-illegal use case for BTC.)
Seems like support contracts would also count
The difference is that half of the American electorate doesn’t deny the existence of hurricanes. If they did, that hypothetical could be useful.
Journaling Kafka Messages with S3 Connector and Minio
Your children would be so proud.
FastMail is much better than google mail because it's not fueling google's hegemony over the web. That you have to pay for it means their sustainability is not tied to abusing their users. If you want privacy in the way you seem to mean privacy (end-to-end no-trust async messaging) of course anything speaking SMTP isn't going to be "better for privacy", but those systems largely are incompatible with how 99% of the web wants to communicate with you.
Some societies found it virtuous to kill anyone not of the right race/religion. Some societies found/find it virtuous to genitally mutilate women.

I'm not sure we can come up with a principled way to distinguish the "good" kind of virtuous from the "bad" kind of virtuous without just deciding by ourselves what is virtuous and what isn't, at least to some degree.
Sure, you can't claim that every machine learning system is susceptible to this attack (here's one that isn't, a model that always returns the same class on all inputs).

But (apart from obvious trivialities) I suspect this is a more general problem with interesting properties—the claim the GP is making boils down to something like: a non-trivial[0] machine learning model with large parameter space is, with vanishing probability (as the number of distinct training samples increases), robust to classes of eps-bounded attacks.[1] This seems like a provable claim that is well-defined and (in a weird, handwavy 'intuitive' kind of way) likely to be true... there are just way too many parameters and too much uncertainty in the local minima that we reach when training from such classes of examples to have 'robustness'.

Perhaps I'm totally wrong, though, and someone will come up with a regularizer that prevents all of this from happening, but this seems highly not obvious to me, at first glance.

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[0] Non-trivial means that, say, it has non-vanishing curvature (Fisher information, assuming the model returns a vector of probabilities) almost everywhere. I hate to be so nitpicky, but I suspect someone would soon comment asking for definitions of all of these things and that the problem isn't 'well-defined.'

[1] Given a (large enough) set of inputs, the max-norm difference between at least one input and the adversarial example must be ≤eps. In other words, if we want the model to misclassify 'turtle' with 'dog', we don't just give a dog picture---the adversarial picture must look like a turtle in a mathematical sense.
Offtopic -- what's up with the digit 1 in paxton1@apple.com, hoover1@apple.com?
How Facebook’s Oracular Algorithm Determines the Fates of Startups
> I don't know why you think it's going to be magically simplified by changing the storage method.

Because ZIP is a key/value store and SQLite is relational.

(Later:) Here is a slide comparing SQLite to ZIP from a talk I'm scheduled to give on Monday: https://sqlite.org/tmp/sqlite-v-zip.jpg

Both SQLite and ZIP will store files and both are well-established open formats with a trillion instances in the wild.

SQLite does everything ZIP does but also gives you transaction, a rich query language, a schema, and the ability to store small (1-8 byte) objects and to translate objects into the appropriate byte-order for the reader.
The Planned Parenthood story about the fetus parts was entirely about monetary incentives. It doesn't have to be about people getting rich necessarily.
Yea, good call on the Twitch stream. There are very few people that could actually pull this off and bring something this high quality to market in this short of time-frame.
I meant in terms of lower amount of syscalls per request or whatever it may be. What’s the magic sauce made of?! :-)
Might be. I'm actually not based in the US (but I did exchange FX recently).

Perhaps someone in the US using IB could check?
There's also the fact that winning enough coin tosses gives one the ability to improve the odds on subsequent tosses. Buffet is perspicacious and patient, yes - but when you add that he has a $100B float to play with, you've really got something!
PornHub is making some headway there already. Though they are using other tags than h1, h2 and p.
AI generates human faces: Progressive Growing of GANs
> and the neither the presence of the ads themselves nor my decision to skip them degrades the experience of listening to the podcast

I beg to differ.

I see the ability to skip ads immediately, at any time, as a fundamental user right (and websites that try to deny this right should be prosecute by consumer protection). In other words, this is not the distinction between good versus bad quality. It is the distinction between merely acceptable versus totally inacceptable.

With regard to quality, it is a huge jump upwards if a podcast has no ads at all, nowhere, not even hidden or implicit. It is a really noticeable difference if the whole audio simply doesn't care about pleasing any stakeholder besides its audience.
Right, although I personally would consider job listings ads
> improve

Depends on the meaning of the word, but it may vary from society to society and from person to person. Some would say that we are already in a phase where we are "improving" things that are not in need of improvement. (For example, not everyone likes having a touch-screen in their car.)
I assume you were downvoted because the comment is not really in line with what is expected on HN. It only tangentially relates to the parent, and does not add anything substantive to the conversation.
All part and parcel of the anti-climate-change coalition's efforts to poison the well.

As long as people are divided, they can continue to pollute the planet while reaping windfall profits.

Meanwhile, wind/solar will get killed with new congressional tax plan and state/local legislation that makes them infeasible.

Ironically I think only China will have global power to do something about climate change because their air (Beijing) is so damn dirty.
I disagree slightly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Sie...

I still remember the day that these assholes showed up and ruined a wonderful thing, and as you can see I'm not really over it.

Where things went wrong on the web, imho, was when business started leaning on people to put graphic corporate branding front and center, encouraging the abuse of things like tables and so on to create something that looked more like a magazine advert. Now, you could argue that such commercial pressures were got people to throw money at the WWW int he first place and rove technological development, and you'd have a point - the early web was pretty dull to look at. I wrote a book on how to use it for consumers around 1994 and every so often I take it off the shelf for a giggle at how primitive it looks in the screenshots. But at that time it was much better curated and the browsing experience was much more rewarding in many respects, although I'm obviously influenced by some nostalgia for a simpler era.

I really hoped to see the semantic web recapture some of the user-centric benefits of the early web, but development on that front seems slooooooow, and my ideas about a graph centric virtual space seem too sci-fi for me to even get meaningful answers from people I've asked.
I work for myself. My customers pay in Bitcoin.
AutoML for large scale image classification and object detection
The thing that separates SO from forums is the focus on quality answers. There are more than enough locked examples of the opinion bickering if one wants to see what happens.

They may be interesting to read. They may be popular. But most of the time by page 2 and even worse at page 5, it’s crap. And that crap requires an excessive amount of community moderation work to keep clean and try to avoid having more people add answers to the bottom of page 7 that are already stated 6 times on previous pages.

If the moderation tools are less powerful than the popularity keeping it there, there isn’t much reason to moderate.

And thus the culture by those who shovel crap daily to try to shut down opinion based questions early - so they don’t have to do more work later.

Every attempt I’ve seen at an opinion oriented SE alternative has failed to get sufficient expert answering. It’s not fun as a ${Lang} expert to have a newbie argue with you regularly about some feature or design choice.
Complexity of the language is a much discussed topic. In the trivial sense it is true that the language will inevitably get "more complex" as new features are added but backwards compatibility is largely maintained. I don't believe that is a very relevant metric for usability however. Higher level features are generally added to languages to make them simpler to use but they also make that language more complex by some metrics. You can argue that assembly language is "simpler" than C++ because it lacks "complex" higher level abstractions but I'd rather wrote code in C++98 than assembly most of the time and I'd rather write code in C++17 than any previous version of C++ because it continues to get more usable and simple things get simpler.
I don't think I follow what you're saying, or more directly I think you are wrong.

Can you provide any evidence to back up your claim and show me where I'm wrong?
Those short-term benefits are far outweighed by the long-term negative effects, and there are far better ways to enjoy those short-term benefits (there may be a few specific scenarios I am ignorant of, diseases, etc, but I'm sure those are few and far between)

The real problem is people selling short-term benefits over long-term consequences.
Pedro, I just sent you an email. Apologies for the delay...
I would love to use a search engine that allowed filtering results by categories such as: personal, unincorporated, forum, news, contains ads, page size, blog, video, slideshow, contains javascript. Search is so cluttered, it's difficult to find small pages with excellent content.

I mention this because it's what obstructs my access to the Web I enjoyed so much before. I don't like reading news from whatever bloated sites news.google links me to, I don't like being redirected 3 times just to read a recipe, or getting movie recommendations in aggregate rather than from a single reviewer that I trust. But search engines lead users to these undesired things, and companies compete to get top search results, and the best way I find good websites is ironically offline.
Someone was willing to take the risk of leaking it to NPR to start with.

You're right, but when you say that one "should be willing to take risks" do you mean that the journalist should make that decision? If so I disagree; risk tolerance should be up to the source, as frustrating as it is to get news third-hand.
They wont care. It'd be even less noticeable to them than it us for us - the people that will be alive for most of the changes. Unless someone spends a lot of effort trying to convince them to be mad about it, I don't see them being less happy than we are today because of GW.
The problem, as your comment beautifully illustrates, is the scope of what is considered a "scientific" question. You left that ambiguous, and in that ambiguity lies the problem.

For example, the greenhouse effect is a piece of well-established science. Climate change is even less scientific. To what extent humans contribute to the problem is even less scientific. Analyzing the costs/benefits of climate change is an even less scientific question. And what sorts of policy prescriptions might be effective is the least scientific question of all.

Climate activists fail to acknowledge any of that nuance, instead lumping all of those things together and labeling anyone who has a nuanced opinion on one of those points as a "denier".

It's total intellectual corruption.
Good point about waking up early and working. That's what I'm doing now with my coursework.

I also do research during weekends, but I've been experimenting with taking one day off to try to explore other things and spend time with my SO.

One of the reasons I want to leave is the work culture. I have the freedom to work whenever I want, but there are just too many deadlines to not stop working. Most of my labmates pretty much live in the office, although, they're all international students. I'm fairly disillusioned with academia now.

My advisor would be a bit upset if he knew I was taking classes. I know my research productivity has been down lately.
It kinda funny that Tesla's delays in ramping up production of is first mass produced car results in predictions of total doom. Despite Tesla having large amounts of cash on hand. Despite that every other manufacturer of complex and expensive products has routinely had similar problems.

Tip: Never take business advice from a journalist.
seems kind of cool. I initially thought it was so you could donate your skills to an actual charity, which would be cool, may even already be something for that.
Why are they allowed to bundle malware in their drivers? Why is this not illegal?
Archeologists regularly are going off shore to see settlements a few thousand years old, in 30 feet of ocean water. What does this say about the warming trend going back a few thousand years pre industrialization?
I'd love for you to explain why you think I'm wrong.

I linked to the tax bill itself, which says it will tax stock options upon vest.

You linked to a tweet that just says, without any proof, that the tax bill will remove taxes on stock options.
Are you talking about the debunked, misleadingly edited video?

If PP’s goal were to make money from abortions, they’d stop offering contraceptives. The fact that essentially nobody argues for abortion but against contraceptives is an easy proof that essentially nobody favors abortion for monetary reasons.
This refers to non-qualified stock options. Most tech employees have qualified (incentive) stock options.
"we’ll be focusing on getting it working on a small, ARM-based computing device called a Raspberry Pi (RPi), which costs about $100" holy fuck that made me laugh I realize it might australian but it came off to me as satire haha.
Writing some scrapers this week, I noticed it's also common for the origin server to just check if the request is coming from VPN/VPS IP address range.

For example, the exact same request will work from your home connection where it doesn't work from EC2.
History of the CoBra Project
Jack Ma's 100M bet with Jianlin Wang on the future of E-commerce
I understand. I realize that I wasn't clear but my second comment was feedback wrt/ your marketing page.
C++17 removed trigraphs. C++17 removed dynamic exception specification which is deprecated since C++11. C++17 removed operator++ for bool which is deprecated since C++98. C++17 removed the “register” storage class.
"On ImageNet image classification, NASNet achieves a prediction accuracy of 82.7% on the validation set, surpassing all previous Inception models that we built [2, 3, 4]. Additionally, NASNet performs 1.2% better than all previous published results and is on par with the best unpublished result reported on arxiv.org"
Two missing recommendations:

* for those concerned with abusive ads/trackers, try Brave web browser, the browser most committed to privacy

* for those concerned about central chokepoints, start experimenting with 'decentralized web' technologies - the 'Beaker Browser'/DAT ecosystem is doing lots of interesting things; the blockchain-anchored namespaces, storage, or services promoted by Blockstack, Filecoin/Protocol-Labs, etc may soon offer compelling alternatives
Actually, I looked up the literal definition of a pyramid scheme before posting, to ensure I hit all the points.

> Returns (and losses) to all investors, new or old, are equally distributed.

No, old investors can profit while new investors lose money. Or, the new investors paid the old ones. Original BTC investors got them for free, the next generation paid pennies for them, the next paid dollars, then hundreds, and the current generation is paying thousands each.

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

> Simply saying "hey, this could be a good investment" doesn't make something a pyramid scheme, unless Apple is a pyramid because my financial advisor told me and one more client to buy shares of it.

Apple earns a profit, of which a share is provided to owners. That's why it's a good investment.

BTC is a purely speculative investment and literally the only way to earn a profit is to get someone else to buy it for more than you paid. It will never pay you a dividend, it will never generate any revenue.
Yes. We only have a russian propaganda problem because we have a severe underlying critical thinking/education problem that makes large chunks of the populace susceptible to memes about Jesus arm wrestling.
A week after they voted to unionize.

And they actually took down the entire archives, thousands and thousands of well reported stories.

This is a special kind of fucked up.
Deep breath, man. I've finally reached a place where I can let others tell their side of that story without feeling threatened by it. I worked hard to get to this point! Don't you go internalizing bad feelings on my behalf! :)
ESPN lost 480,000 subscribers in October
The "Universal ADB Driver" for Android devices[1] also installs a root CA, however it instead generates the CA during install, signs the driver, deletes the private key, then installs the CA and driver.

1. https://github.com/koush/UniversalAdbDriver
I think this is deliberate. Have you noticed how google makes it...very very difficult to get results of things in date order? When I've asked people who work there why (often in relation to things where the date information is well-structured, like legal opinions or scientific papers) they always respond with some vague and very obvious bullshit.

Long story short, a lot of the large internet companies withhold or obscure functionality that users really want in order to keep them engaged and sell more ads. We have the technology to do a lot better than we are doing, but capital prefers to manufacture scarcity in the guise of abundance.
What could cause that that you mention on point 2.

Are they "caching" responses or that offer is tailored to your user/cookie?
Presumably the revenue wouldn't be recognized until the phone was shipped so the direct impact of the iPhone X would be zilch. As you say, to the degree it has an impact at all, it's probably negative as, in the short term, there would be more 8/8+ sales if there weren't an X coming in the relatively near term.

[ADDED: And as others have noted, no iPhone X sales happened anyway before the end of the quarter being reported and only about a week of iPhone 8 sales.]
I think we are using two different meaning of "reproducible".

To me, saying that a build is reproducible means that anyone is able to independently build a bit-for-bit exact copy of an artifact given only its description (source code + build scripts, Dockerfile, ...), more or less in the sense of [0].

For this definition, even content-addressability is not enough.

[0] https://reproducible-builds.org/
It looks like it disproves it. The theory speculates on the presence of peremiter ascending pathways behind the exterior walls - if they do exist I’m guessing they would have shown in the scans.
If you're on iOS you should try my Podcast client, SkipCast. http://skipcast.net/ The marquee feature and indeed, the app's name, is for this exact reason. Large buttons make skipping much faster and accurate that other players, letting you get to the content you want faster. It's also got Skip Silence to eliminate extended moments of dead-air.
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