skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This exists already. "Demonetized videos" are more accurately described as partially monetized videos.

There is a tier of completely demonetized videos, but these are pretty rare to the extent that a lot of creators didn't realize there was this separate distinction.
The intel and espionage communities are going to be all over this. This makes the Soviet photo retouching look like child's play.

Let's say you want to start a war, and need some evidence of chemical weapons. Now, you can drop in some images of chemical weapons and claim a GAN found them. Sample press releases:

"We believe this photo was retouched to hide the chemical weapons. Using a GAN, we recovered clear photographic proof of the chemical weapons."

"We believe they are using this tin-roofed building to hide the chemical weapons. Using a GAN on our own satellite images, we recovered clear photographic proof of the chemical weapons."
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> Nixon (most likely) wasn't complicit in the break-in, he covered it up after he learned of it.

That's quite a thin distinction and not at all exculpatory of him anyway. So if Donald Trump learned about activities by his campaign manager, son, and son in law after the fact, and attempted to cover them up, would you agree with the Watergate comparison?

The investigation is also not founded on the dossier. That is false. Did you miss how trump Jr, Flynn, etc all retweeted confirmed Russian propaganda accounts? And trump himself echoed many positions that probably came to him in a similar way (he probably didn't specifically know that his sources were Russian peppaganda originally, I'll give you that. He doesn't know much). I think it may turn out that the whole gang is just extremely cynical and stupid, but to pretend Russian efforts never overlapped with the Trump campaign is deep denial and total alternative reality.
IPFS isn't a consumer app. It's an underlying protocol to power something which presumably would build in encryption.
It's possible "php -nr ''" might be faster; -n stops loading php.ini, which is what points to all of the modules PHP ships with.

> These startup metrics are also super arbitrary anyway, as in web servers code loading is behind your app server anyway (uwsgi, php-fpm, whatever).

This is true; but only about 1-5% of everything _I_ do (as a hobbyist) faces a webserver, and then the things that do require a webserver are simplistic enough that I can write said webserver in bash and run it from socat.
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Hmm, very interesting. Something to definitely keep in mind, thanks.
Although I did not play Cogmind (no native Linux version), I followed the development very closely over at r/roguelikedev. The developer (Josh Le) is one of the main content contributors in this sub-reddit.
It is very hard to extend in even small ways. I still use it, I just hate it.
Looking at my dropbox, <1% of files have been updated in the past year. So your premise that a lot of files change over time may not be correct.

Also, you started by warning against uninformed comments about BTC but your comment on FC seems uninformed itself - especially the last 2 paragraphs which go into hardcore speculation category.
And Lord knows software devs never implement poorly secured and/or buggy systems.
That the free Android app is "coming soon" does seem to suggest that this was rushed out as a response to Amazon's DeepLens. That said, I'd say it's a pretty good response.
Couldn't he just ... do anything else except shirk?
A quick google search shows some people are already working on that, including https://www.pathio.com
That source is pretty questionable. I'm pretty familiar with Texas' gambling laws so I was surprised to see so many "casinos" in Texas. Upon further review, many of those points are improperly placed, with actual casinos being out of state but simply matching a partial address. I'd take that map with a massive grain of salt, as chances are a high percentage of points are probably wrong. Of the three casinos near DFW, two are out of state with the third being a horse racing track. The one outside Austin really exists in Indiana. It also shows cruise ships, which usually don't begin gambling until they're well offshore.

I'm not going to deny there are many casinos (there are plenty) but the OP's statement of "gambling and the lottery would also be illegal" seems to miss that in probably the vast majority of the US, gambling and operating lotteries is illegal. For example, Texas recently had to have a constitutional amendment to allow sports teams to hold charitable raffles.

https://ballotpedia.org/Texas_Proposition_5,_Definition_of_P...
Does every language include a generic binary search method? Where?

Or similar, if I asked you to find a specific value in a list of Comparable objects, in my language of choice, how would you do it?
M.U.L.E. is the closest thing I can think of, and I don't know that it's had anything even resembling a worthy successor. There were a few attempts, but as far as I know none of them were very well-received.
Corruption not in a sense of storage issues, but in a sense of a fragile text format made for human editing, but not entire pleasant for that.

I wanted more pleasant entry. It became tedious/error prone to search for similar entries with vim and copy pasting. I could have made a specialized tool with nice autocomplete on top of ledger, but then why not drop the entire thing and use a database, where you don't need to re-invent groupping, sorting, filtering, summing, date interval operations and all the mundane stuff.

I also wanted to import data from a bank, and keep all the info associated with the entries. Easy to do in a database, not so in ledger text format.
People don't pay a premium for the label, they pay a premium for the middlemen who host the label, because that is a presumably exclusive group and culture that they have access to.
This headline is insanely biased, and unworthy of HN.
This machine falls into the same category as the TRS-80 Model 100 for me. An amazing battery life machine that I get my thoughts down with a minimum of fuss. The Psion 5 was a nice machine, but I would wish for a horizontal enter key as opposed to the vertical. I really wish a few more groups would take a look at this form factor because it is amazing.

On a side note, was there not a machine in this type of form factor from back in the day that had APL for a programming language?
Would be interesting if the Waymo lawyers did discovery on all the specifics, if there are any, of what Jacobs did as a consultant who was supposed to be investigating his own claims. If he did nothing, then I think that would be pretty good evidence it was really a bribe payed out over time.
> As the sole owner of my business, I can and do tell people to fuck off, and I treasure this privilege almost as much as life itself.

Standout quote from the article, also pretty awesome candor all around.
Makes me wonder what the military is doing with these technologies. And a bit afraid to think about their versions of “squirrel” and “squirt gun”
It could be generated by the swipe of a pen, simply "nationalize" 30% of all registered companies.
Do not Echo State Networks already do that?
Out of historical interest, why was it necessary before? Was it an intentional separation between userspace/kernel responsibilities?
Isn't it fairly easy to get lower total points? Just mainly getting chopsticks and 1 pudding (assuming other get 1+ puddings) can give you negative points.
So they want TBB be part of gcc?
> has anybody ever had to actually swap variables in production code?

I did that today to swap the content of two plain objects without altering the references.

It was in Lua but I'll probably to that in JS too tomorrow.
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Am I missing something here? How does this apply to DNNs that tried to recognize images? Does it mean we can train a Net with just image now?
> I like to joke that I have more documenting showing my legal right to be in the US than my wife's grandmother.

You are mistaken. Your wife's grandmother ( assuming she is native born ), even though she may not have "papers", is undeportable. Whereas you have legal documents showing that you are not a a native born citizen. You are someone that we can deport. Naturalized citizens can be deported from the US. A native born american cannot.

> Americans seem quite dead set against a national ID scheme (and associated database).

There really is no need. Most americans have state IDs and if they want to travel abroad, US passports.

> ICE, interior immigration checkpoints, and other initiatives seem to be on the rise.

But for american born citizens, that isn't a worry. It's a worry for immigrants - legal or illegal. Not for native born citizens.
A little off topic:

I've been considering system76 for awhile. I see Dell also offers Linux laptops now and has for awhile. Any reason why I should pick system76?
Splendor and Lanterns are the 2 games that everyone I've introduced them to immediately go out and buy them. Most other games... not so much.
That is not the steady state. When a car gets in front of you and eliminates your three second gap, it does so so it can continue at the speed of the traffic ahead. For you to be limited to 20 mph, the other cars would have to get in front and slow down. I feel that in practice I never have to do more than take your foot off the gas once in a while.
Have you found a sane way to handle massive initial imports? As far as I can tell, there's no way to bulk-categorize transactions. That means I'd have to go through each of my 6k+ transactions one-by-one for categorization.
Personally, I would hate preparing for a normal interviewing experience and be thrown into something completely nonstandard like this.

Why would they be swapping tips and numbers if they're in competition with each other?
The courses are being offered online--it's a shame grad classes are too expensive to just take for fun! Looks like $6,800 or so to take one of the two they're offering next semester, or about $12,700 for both. The Masters degree would end up costing you about $58.7k plus $1,000/semester in fees. It's a hard sell for something that still looks relatively far in the future, but I suppose if space mining is truly is your dream career, it's great that this program exists.
No, that would just signal that other employees could earn a huge amount of money by making claims about illegal activity, true or not. I really doubt that any company could be so stupid as to get itself into that sort of situation.
There are quite a few video games out there that are fun for groups and don't focus on replay. A good example is "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes," a fun exercise in team bomb disposal.
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This is fascinating because I've been running into something similar with sequence to sequence models translating natural language into Python code. I got better results stopping "early" when the perplexity was still quite high, I thought it was a little crazy.
then the results of this paper are sort of surprising that it's that good, if the structure is just relatively old, hand-crafted and traditional.
This is very cool, but I'm having trouble following the method behind the results.

Say concretely, the result that single-blind reviewers give higher reviews to papers from prestigious sources. Can anyone help me understand? https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.00502.pdf

They give each paper a "blind" score bqps from the blind reviewers only. Then they fit the vector Theta to the model in 5.1 and present Theta in Table 5. They also present a p-value for each entry of Theta. In particular, for com (top company), uni (top university), and fam (famous author) the p-values are below 0.05.

Bu I didn't see how these p-values are computed or what they mean, or what the entries of Theta are supposed to mean. What's the null hypothesis? If the single-blind authors and double-blind authors acted the same way, would we expect the entries of Theta to all be zero except for the coefficient of bqps and the constant? (If so, why?)

...

In other words, I don't understand how the exponential odds-ratio model at the beginning of 5.1 maps to the claim in the introduction "We find that the likelihood for single-blind reviewers to enter a positive review is significantly higher for papers" from say top companies.

(Edit:) One thing that would help me is if the authors fit the same model in the reverse direction, i.e. computed bqps from the single-blind reviews and fit a Theta' in predicting the double-blind reviews. I am tempted to say that all their result shows is that, conditioned on the double-blind reviews, famousness is useful in predicting single-blind reviews and the trend is positive; but this could conceivably be true in the reverse case as well.
It's not like cuts to Medicare or Social Security will affect even a single member of the house or senate who votes for this or any of their donors, so why wouldn't they cut them so they can redistribute that wealth to the rich who so badly need it?
It's unclear if Neptune supports ACID transactions. They mention "you can use relationships to process financial and purchase transactions in near real time", which could be interpreted either way, and have nothing on the features page.

Still, IMO their design is outdated for something built in 2017.
Been seeing so much bad press on the tax bill but I feel like it's partially because I frequent more liberal-leaning sources (reddit, HN, Facebook friends). Can anyone post some well reasoned articles for the tax bill?

Also, Social Security as it stands right now isn't sustainable anyway, so we'll have to make changes either way... A prudent one would be to raise the SS age to 70-75 for anyone born after today.
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If 100% of applicants are failing a particular question at interview, either the question is inappropriate or the recruitment process has attracted inappropriate applicants.

Either way, this is a failing of the business, not the applicants.

The recruitment process must be sensitive to the needs of the business. These are never entirely bound up in the response given to a single technical question. A good interviewer draws the best from the interviewee, and understands that technical excellence may be necessary but is never sufficient for employees.
Agreed, article is pretty shallow in analysis as well.
I'm assuming the difference is the +taxi component in the calculations.
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The issue is not not being able to write binary-search; but, given a set of constraints, a very well defined set of steps, and ample enough time; is the candidate able to write it in code what's there in their head (a pretty straight forward algorithm).

I expect candidates to write in code what they can explain verbally, given that the code is do-able in the confines of an interview.

That said, I also get what you're trying to say: Capably implementing Binary Search may not be the best indicator of skill, since Software Engineering is so much more than just converting thought to code.
For me reading a few books (not work related books) did the job, it's a very absorbing activity.
This is a valid criticism of these types of games, and in worker placement games in general. Most try to get around this by releasing expansions that add more random elements that encourage strategic play more so then just action optimization. Then the complaint is that luck plays too great a role. It really just comes down to how much gambling you want in a game, which usually adds a lot of dynamic play. Some hate that kind of thing in board games for some reason.
So instead of firing him, much less suing him or reporting him to the police, they decided to pay him 3.5 million dollars, and also hire him as a consultant who could investigate the company and download more sensitive files. Yeah, that makes sense.
The clickbaiting never ends. WaPo is worse than youtube pranksters.
You're correct that there are exceptions but it's much more endemic to board gaming.
Excluding organic materials like oil/coal/etc the global economy does not spend a lot of resources on mining. Further, we have vast excess supply's of most of what we do mine making space based mining problematic. Sure, it sounds good but we need to be in space for some other reasons before mining becomes practical.
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Feel free to tell me what I got wrong then. There's a difference between informed speculation and uninformed. Uninformed speculators draw conclusions from what they heard elsewhere. I tend to think I drew the conclusion as independently as I can.

I've thought a lot about this problem so I don't think I'm uninformed about this matter. This is not to say I'm right, and as I mentioned, I would love to be corrected, which was the reason why I posted the comment to begin with.

But just saying "you're uninformed yourself" doesn't help anyone.

Also I said:

> a lot of files DO change all the time, and people want to store and share files privately.

Unless you really think IPFS should be compared to Dropbox, your comment about your dropbox usage is irrelevant to this thread. I'll assume that you are aware IPFS is completely public by default and dropbox is for private usage by default (although you could use it for public sharing, it's not the intended usage for dropbox). The closest you can compare IPFS to is on S3 level, not dropbox level.
Really made me laugh!
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> A simple one I have asked in C is to reverse the order of numbers in an array in place.

Hm...

int a[] = {1,2,3,4,5};

So, some kind of swap?

for (x = 0, y = 4; x < 5; x++, y--) {
a[x] ^= a[y]; a[y] ^= a[x]; a[x] ^= a[y];
}

See, I wouldn't mind that on a whiteboard. I had similar question for a startup, and passed easily (I think!).

But then the last question I got was 'find all word substrings in a string'. I struggled, giving a brute force answer (for each position in the string, check against dictionary and expand by one character until the end of the string), but struggled to improve on it. I didn't know about tries at the time, but even still it would be difficult for me to even try to code this on a whiteboard. Turns out it was "Google" question that was for optimizing runtime, and I cannot analyze like that on a whiteboard, unless it's obvious (nested for loops, etc.).

Anyway, after struggling and giving up with that question the next guy came in and berated me and my current employer (defense contractor). Not sure if it was because they thought I wasted their time or what. I left after that--not someone I would want to work for.
I am no economics expert but I found this idea to be very promising. Moreover the concept of buying more stocks during a downturn could resolve the boom and bust cycle.

Perhaps this national wealth fund could pay out this citizens dividend or ubi as a cryptocurrency?
All the more reason to quit just before the IPO! (assuming they own the shares)
Every time I see a post like this on HAN I think of this guy... https://www.flickr.com/photos/hawkexpress/sets/7215759420049...
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That System76 disables Intel ME is pretty cool.
I have always assumed "partner" either means "business partner" or that the person is signaling both (1) "I'm gay" without being overt and (2) "I'm resent society's prevailing idea of marriage." at the same time.

One can use "spouse" or "significant other" to avoid the perception of being passive-aggressive.
It's not a complicated algorithm. It's one that people might even use in their every day life (the example I used to use is finding a name in a phone book, I guess that's pretty dated now). I still see candidates who seem to have a conceptual understanding of it fail to translate it into code. That's why I ask it, it's a very simple "here's a thing that intuitively makes sense, now formalize it" question. Maybe this question rules out people who can only copy existing patterns and change values within them, but that's fine as far as I'm concerned. I don't want to hire engineers who can only mimic.
The very experienced judge also said, “I have never seen a case where there were so many bad things done like Uber has done in this case”

Do you happen to work for Uber?
That's a good solution but it's not the optimal solution. In the worst case that's still n^2. Nobody expects candidates to answer the linear time solution for that question.
Yeah exactly. Anyone who has engaged with the protocol knows there are huge unknowns - they're acknowledged in the whitepaper. They have theoretical solutions which are often discussed in public on Github and Gitter, and they've gotten past many large hurdles already as a team. I think there's a chance.

Importantly, if Filecoin were usable right now to guarantee storage and retrievability of files, I have use cases I'd use that for right this second.
I think there's another component to this that might be worth noting:

The more "nothing" you do, the faster you'll want to get back in the game, and the more likely you are to return before you've actually gotten better.

I left a really abusive job a few years ago, and was fortunate enough to be able to do nothing but smoke weed and play xbox and "recover", which I did for about 3 months.

I think that:

1) I didn't do the things that I needed to do in terms of health (recovery is not wildcard leisure. it's a form of work)

2) Those activities got old fast and cause me to be eager to reenter the workforce when, in retrospect, I had merely forgotten about my problems, rather than solving them.

Overexerting your mind/psyche requires mental therapy the same way overexerting your leg requires physical therapy. It's counterintuitive that one should respond to too much work with a new kind of work, but I believe that's the case.

FWIW I think Jordan Peterson has some strong advice here around routine and the acquisition of meaning, but that's perhaps not everyone's brand.
Vince, it sounds like things have come a long way since we had coffee back in May 2013. Congrats on sticking with it and building a decent business.
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Probably not, since he is being investigated by federal prosecutors for criminal behavior.
We're great at mining but bad at putting things in space. The main virtue of mining things in space is that the materials are already in space, sparing the vast expense of launching them up there.

I guess I partially agree that having other things we want to do in space is prerequisite, but imagine the kinds of things we could do and build if we had unlimited raw materials already in orbit, or on the moon. Remember, mining water is a big part of this, not just what we tend to imagine with earth mining.
CoderPad seems like an excellent product and I’m very impressed

I’m also impressed by your YIMBY project and that you mentioned it!
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Blood Rage is great, and unlike many games of its kind player interaction and combat actually works.
You could mine in space to build more spaceships! Or structures. Either way it’s wicked expensive to get things off the planet, like $25k/kg expensive. So as long as you can reliably mine/refine/manufacture in space, you could probably build things like space stations and colonies at a fraction of the price of building them on Earth and blasting them into space.