skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The statement "deep neural networks are not affected by poor local minima" is not really a personal opinion/theory at this point; it's the dominating consensus in the research community.

These are not just theoretical results. They're theory papers trying to explain the empirical result of why neural nets don't get stuck at local minima.

> Given that deep networks are highly nonlinear systems optimized by local gradient methods, why do they not seem to be affected by bad local minima?

And other such results.

As I said above, neural nets are obviously able to get stuck in local minima in toy examples. If you read my above comment, you'll see that that has no bearing on my initial statement.

Dropout's main motivation is not to break local minima. It's to achieve better generalization. If it were the case that it was meant to break bad minima, we'd have better training loss upon adding dropout, which is obviously not true.

As for SGD, we used to think that it was mainly for computational purposes. That is, we're unable to batch our entire training set at once, so we have to split into mini batches.

Modern theory states more that SGD is good for avoiding sharp minima, as well as some other desirable properties.

I'm not sure you're really reading my comments thoroughly nor checking out the links, so if you're actually interested in understanding what's really going on, please do some proper research on the topic.
all performan comparisons out there have the three frameworks neck and neck. Your anecdote is certainly interesting in terms of the diffference in performance. I would chalk it up as poor implementation / understanding of angular, rather than some special edge case that tested the limitation of angular
First, the 24,000 /s is the maximum throughput. The real number from visa themselves is about 2,000.

Second, the Bitcoin unlimited team has already tested and demonstrated gigabyte blocks. That would be about 1.6MB per second. This is already achievable with a $12 per month VPS, far less than a single btc transaction.
The purpose of the link I think is not about other countries but the subset between Asian Americans, white Americans, multi racial Americans and other races.

White and multi racial are very similar. Asian Americans are much higher. Unless you think the Asians Americans in America somehow game it...
Innocence is remarkably difficult to prove.

Let's say I visit a church regularly, and someone who later turns out to be a terrorist was often there at the same time. Not surprising, since houses of worship often have predictable schedules of events.

How do I prove I wasn't collaborating with the terrorist?
I had forgotten Cyclone's name, thanks for the reminder. I've always felt kinda sad some of the small features like int@ didn't make their way back into C. I'm glad at least C++ has non-null pointers via references (but with stricter semantics and potentially undesirable syntactic sugar) and fat pointers via span<T>, but it's useless when I have to write in C for legacy reasons.
The big news with this release is that it's the first to support Windows. I've been using this on linux for a year as a hobbyist Photographer and it's exceedingly glorious. Have not tried out the Windows build but apparently you can do that now [1].

Also if you want to learn a lot about "developing" digital photographs (it really is a digital darkroom), I learned a lot from this youtube list of 42 Darktable tutorial edit sessions [2]. Very powerful and fun stuff.

[1] https://www.darktable.org/2017/08/darktable-for-windows/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nUVNDxXhIA&list=PLsks-zRRM1...
Funny Videos 2017-Try not to laugh-You will fail I Bet
You're both arguing the same point...
I didn’t say you were an idiot. You bought a lottery ticket, and won. All I was saying is that most people in the app business lose, especially if they don’t use aggressive monetization.
Just goes to show you that school smarts don't make a successful nation. It takes a cohesive people and cultural heritage. This is why immigration is such a huge problem. I don't care how smart and high earning and proud of themselves the foreigner in question happens to be. These people are a huge problem for our future. We got where we are in substantial part on the basis of our culture and self respect. We can do without the snide foreigners. They should leave.

After all, You're here. I'm not making derogatory and chauvinistic comments in your country.
Crypto mining (bitcoin et al.)/incentivized node hosting will figure this whole thing out.

But seriously, civil power generation/storage via solar will allow folks to escape the patchwork rules, regulations, laws, etc. that are already here and coming to a jurisdiction near you. Power utilities may not buy your power but your mining rig will make you crypto that will allow you to escape that control.
That is often claimed without much evidence. Any citations?

Singapore, Korea, Taiwan, for example are well known for their technical capabilities, which correlate well with the PISA scores.

The link I posted refutes the GGP’s second sentence regardless of which countries have a higher score since there are quite a few of them in several geographic regions.
I agree broadly that the Israeli model seems the one to follow. My understanding differs, however, in that it's not strictly profiling in the sense that carries heavy negative connotations in the US. I haven't traveled to Israel so can't comment, but I understand that in "profiling" the focus is on more objective metrics than an American might think when they hear the word -- e.g., physiological responses (sweating, increased heartrate, nervousness), consistency under questioning, etc.

If that's not the case, would you mind providing some details about your own experience, since you mentioned being pulled aside repeatedly?
That's not necessary. From wikipedia: "A Ponzi scheme (/ˈpɒn.zi/; also a Ponzi game)[1] is a fraudulent investment operation where the operator generates returns for older investors through revenue paid by new investors, rather than from legitimate business activities or profit of financial trading."

Bitcoin's only real value is that of the chance of being adopted as currency. For it to become a currency people have to start buying bitcoins, as it is the only realistic way get hold of them. So the only way to make value for the current holders(older invenstors) is more people buying into it(revenue paid by new investors)
"We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run." - Roy Amara
Out of curiosity, why isn't "physical" storage used more?

Like pumping a bunch of water up high, or spinning a big ass flywheel.

I understand a flywheel might not be realistic at these scales, but water pumping seems like it could scale stupidly high.
That shouldn't really matter. It was something like 1% (?) of the available sites to make Australia 100% renewable. So in the US it might be 15% - except that the US has a lot more mountains and a lot more water near population centers.
It's a "right" by way of an awkwardly-phrased amendment that could easily be construed differently than the NRA does today, designed at a time when "arms" meant something vastly more innocent than today.

(In fact, the NRA itself wasn't all that upset about gun control in the fairly recent past.)

And "mass surveillance" would have meant something very different 200 years ago. Why bother writing something into the Bill of Rights when no government could possibly afford to do what they can today?

So I personally would rather we focus on natural rights that reflect today's technology, rather than artificial ones from the 1790s.
> - Removable battery (huge deal, i carry 2 spares, often away from chargers for days)

I thought losing the removable battery would be a huge deal when I switched to the iPhone, but in practice, switching to using USB powerbanks was actually an improvement. Don't have to reboot when you swap out, and you can charge it at the same time as your phone without carrying an extra special charger. And you can get them in massive capacities, and share them with friends who are caught out.
I fail to see how "it's not the case". That link very clearly shows that White Americans and Asian Americans vastly outperform African Americans and Hispanic Americans.

Asian Americans are #4 on that list and White Americans are #16, bested only by a handful of Asian and European countries that are notorious for their stellar education systems. Meanwhile, Hispanic Americans are around #50 and African Americans around #60 on that list.
It would also be a great help in controlling dissenters and subversives. Once we have the infrastructure in place, it's there for anyone with enough power to use for any reason...
becoming? It's been this way for a very long time. Very few major media outlets cover the Democrat/Republican National Conventions, but you can watch videos online of the protests from past years going back quite a bit. Rage Against the Machine use to do protests at both the DNC and RNC which I thought was hilarious.

It's very common for protesters to be smoke bombed, herded, arrested and detained. There are several cases of organizers houses being raided as well.

The big mistake people are making is thinking Orwell's 1984 type world started with Trump or even W. Bush. Unlike the world of Orwell, we're not under totalitarianism. We're closer to Huxsley's Brave New World, but many aspects of 1984 do exist in our society. Our media has been very untrustworthy, long before Trump coined the term "fake news" (before him, we just called it "news").

Yet whenever people call out Anderson Cooper caught in front of a green screen, or when videos emerge of the CNN Kosovo videos from the mid 90s being filmed in front of a blue screen with reporters making fun of their audience between takes, the networks just hand-wave it away. They have the influence to bury it and make people forget, or not care.

We've been living in parts of the 1984 world long before Kennedy, long before I was born and long before my parents were born.
And a paperweight will last hundreds if not thousands of years!

This isn’t really relevant. An iPhone is a computer. It does a lot of things, and the technology is improving rapidly. A purse is basically just a type of bag. They don’t store more and more stuff every year.
Being singled out for invasive searching and questioning whenever you fly for no reason other than your ethnicity goes a little beyond "not being offended."
"second to none"?

In ML at least, I'd consider them second to many many companies.
Trevor Jim revived it a bit with virtualization for those wanting to play with it:

http://trevorjim.com/unfrozen-cyclone/
Greenland's size: Mercator projection vs. its actual size
Not at all. I emphatically disagree with this:

> it is the very act of communication that defines the program.
The "vision" of low fees isn't really distinct to either chain. Low fees are due to a low amount of traffic on the network and blocks that are not full. Bitcoin Cash certainly scales better than BTC with 8x block sizes, but if it had traffic anywhere near the magnitude of Visa then it too would have high fees.
Sunk cost fallacy isn't even what's driving that sort of thing. It isn't even that they spent the money and want to keep justifying it. There are parties with a vested financial interested in the continued use of such things.
To tilt defaults to a safer side is usually (though, not always) good, if it's meant to be out-of-the-box system. Definitely, not the case here as bare-bones FreeBSD is essentially a platform for building a user's own solution for own needs. Not making too much assumptions about what they are is actually very rational for FBSD devs. I know my goal better, I know which choices/compromises I want to make.
Don't worry I totally understand your point. Maybe I am a little bit harsh, but I still won't rollback my decision of flagging this. I understand that he doesn't try to fool anyone, but his attention vs what everyone perceives may conflict. I have to admit that on a site like Hackernews, the first time I look at this link at its address, I almost thought that Google is now interested in ICO, had it not been for the 1 minute that I try to look back at the domain and then go to its faq page.
> It's just technology: Some will use it for good and some will use it for evil. Isn't that the mantra we've been repeating since forever within the hacker community?

This smells like a troll.
It's a shame open source projects with great features still have astoundingly bad copywriting.

No one cares about it having a database behind the scenes or the upgrade/downgrade process, tell me what it can do and how it compares to the real alternative, Adobe Lightroom.
Hmmm, Smarties in Australia used to come in a small rectangular box and you opened it at one of the ends.

I can't recall ever seeing Smarties in cylindrical tubes with plastic lids.

Feels like we missed out on some fun.

After M&Ms were introduced in the 80's, Smarties became less common. I remember thinking Smarties tasted better at the time, but now I feel Smarties have lower quality chocolate than M&Ms. Maybe it is just familiarity bias.
Parent/child usually refers to ownership relationships between objects, though, not classes. As in, an item is a child of a collection.

On the other hand, there's nothing wrong with "super", given that it stands for "superclass", which has a well-defined meaning. For that matter, so does "base class".
rust sucks hard
rust will never be an enterprise language, I have been really trying hard the past two weeks, I am giving up at this point.

broken autocompletion is really weird that a language that calls himself modern, has so broken tools for autocompletion, and is even are trying harder to do it impossible with procedural macros, I find autocompletion the best tool to learn a new language an external libraries, I don't find my self, learning exactly all the names of all the traits that an object implements in x context, this is pointless, vscode, rls, intell idea plugin all sucks hard (and sorry for your hard work), but they do

trying to add to many concepts at once, a lot symbol that makes it looks like some Perl abortion, no namespace imports, wtf, I known, I know, all know those things make you feel so glorious programing rust, but people that will read your code will be lost the 90% of the time

no community-driven open source project, (except the rust family and Mozilla projects), this talks really badly of rust, is not language programming for the teams, is a program for lonely developers that want to feel smart writing witchcraft, https://ameo.link/blog/writing-a-hashmap-to-struct-procedural-macro-in-rust/

sorry, guys, I go back to golang, a programming language is an interface to communicate human with machines, so probably I will use golang to generate rust code in the future.
How is this only $6? It looks great.
Fremont. $3k for 2bdrm split 2-ways
>If you took LOGO over the age of say 12, it probably seemed childish and useless.

Yes. However, at a fundamental level, LOGO is actually an advanced programming language.
It's been a slow downhill for me and my 17 month old. It started with no screen time...to let's see this photo or video we just took... To let's see this video we took in the past that you like...to OK here's a fun video to watch (YouTube).

Now she can voice her own demands she will sometimes request for a certain video.
Will still try to limit it as much as possible, though.

Its also impossible to avoid video chats with relatives.

We still rarely turn on the TV so at least have that going.
I hope CH2 does okay too. I liked Clicker Heroes. Good luck!
The iPhone X
Good thing these women already had brain damage.
Tech billionaires donate $165M to preserve pristine stretch of California coast
It's not simply (ed: only) based on ethnicity.
Done wrong this will increase reflected energy at the feed point and make the transceiver run hotter than it is supposed to, possibly leading to an early failure. Measuring SWR at 2.4/5 GHz requires some expensive instruments; note that the link you provided has only "calculated" SWR, not measured. Wifi doesn't involve much power, but these low cost Wifi transceivers are engineered with rather limited headroom for reflected energy and shipped with antennas that work within those limits, so if you do this you're a test pilot; there is no complaining if it lunches itself.
The comments are humorous, of course, in the context of sharing passwords.

What if, instead of a password, the text to be censored is:

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

(That's a code that can be used to crack Blu-Ray discs).

Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management#Oppo...

https://www.eff.org/issues/drm
Mark Greif's "Against Exercise" offers a much more thorough criticism, e.g.:

"Today we really can preserve ourselves for a much longer time. The means of preservation are reliable and cheap. The haste to live one's mortal life diminishes. The temptation toward perpetual preservation grows. We preserve the living corpse in an optimal state, not so we may do something with it, but for its own good feelings of eternal fitness, confidence, and safety. We hoard our capital to earn interest, and subsist each day on crusts of bread. But no one will inherit our good health after we've gone. The hours of life maintenance vanish with the person."

I'd post a link, but I don't think a public one exists. You can read the whole essay in his "Against Everything" compilation.
It might cost more, but it’s certainly abundant; we’re not going to run out of it. No I would even go so far as to say that a rise in the price of terrestrial lithium would be a good thing. In the short term it will hurt, but there’s a lot of runway in that graph before we hit serious scarcity. As the price rises I could honestly see someone like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos finally astroid money off the ground. I don’t have much hope for Mars in our lives, but asteroid mining absolutely could happen.

This could be a safe source of pressure, partly political if people realize it will be easier to move in space than Afghanistan, to make that happen. For those of us you dreaming of a future for the species beyond Earth, I think this might be the realistic start.
And if people were asked about immigration policy instead of told, we both wouldn’t have had a candidate as vulgar as Trump getting the GOP nomination, and we wouldn’t have had the demographic shift that probably resulted in more Democratic votes than Hillary won the popular vote by.

Oligarchic forces aren’t just tipping the scales in one direction.
> and served under a president that spent every day at work (the first president in history).

...That's a negative? Also I didn't think that Obama spent every day at work, at least not from what the news reported.
See http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hehner/aPToP/ for a textbook treating programming and proving in an integrated way with a unified formalism. I think generally how subjects get divided up into courses is too fossilized, especially pre-college, so I might have too little respect for the conventional meaning of a "logic class".
As a long time GIMP user, coming to Darktable has been a revelation. I'm super impressed with how powerful and polished Darktable is, and overall I really love it.

On the other hand, Darktable has some serious issues that make it less than ideal for me.

First, on my old laptop Darktable is super, super slow... especially when the image I'm editing has lots of operations performed on it. In that case, performing a simple operation on top of the existing ones or just zooming in or out could take a full minute, and exporting a single image could take 30 minutes or more (compared to GIMP, which takes less than a minute). Just going from lighttable to darkroom or back could take multiple minutes.

Second, some operations are just much easier and more intuitive to do in GIMP. For example, making perspective changes in GIMP using the perspective tool -- you just drag the corners of the image where you want them. In Darktable you're limited to moving sliders around, which is far more annoying.

Finally, Darktable is mostly geared towards improving photograph quality, while GIMP is more of an all-around image editor and drawing/painting program which can improve the quality of photographs but is not limited to that but can do much more.
But, does Java have the sound of one hand clapping? That is the question.
El Al security is not a good model at all.

I'm still yet to figure out what they achieved by seizing my backpack (that had all of my personal documentation) and damaging my brand new MBP 2016 and Pixel tablet (by very clearly dropping them a dozen times) had to do with security. Especially when they lied about putting it on the plane and I arrived at Ben Gurion with literally nothing other than a passport in one pocket and a dead phone in the other.

El Al's actions say the opposite about what you say about Israelis: El Al clearly believes that they are better at what they do than the IDF or Ben Gurion airport security, so they take it upon themselves (as private citizens) to pick up the slack. For what it's worth, the woman who interviewed me at Ben Gurion didn't have a lot of nice things to say about El Al either.
What were some of the methods you developed and used?
Now that we've seen negative interest rates and negative power prices, what's next?
John Cabot Lodge used to say “the purpose of the UN isn’t to take you to heaven, it’s to prevent us all from going to hell”. Feel the same way about capitalism. I have no idea why it works, many other thing seem like they should work 10x better, but it never does and millions die.

Capitalism comes in waves too. Usually it’s really good for while, then declines, and then is reformed into another good period before it declines again and so on.
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Did we kill it?
That's exactly what I mean.

It's a patchset (note that it isn't upstreamed in their chart), and it's caffe. That was great in 2015.
I gave you the benefit of the doubt for your earlier comment that is now clear was undeserved. So your solution for the failure of the American education system is that non-white people (whom you call "snide foreigners") should leave?
That article is a crock of shit by the way. I know two traffic controllers and they're both on $25 an hour. I'm sure there's a couple somewhere that are well connected with the unions and get sweet gigs, or some actual engineers that get put on traffic control duty and earn that salary, but you can't just walk into a $140k job off 2 years experience doing traffic control like you can in software in SV.
The UK’s sole refiner of gold and its biggest private vault
I think you can find these advertised as PEGs, or Parser Expression Grammars. The first I learned about was Lua's LPeg: http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/
Your original comment said

"If whites have high test scores while non-whites don't"

Whites do not have the highest test scores. Are you implying Asian Americans live in wealthier areas than whites?
It’s likely that a government in that situation would prefer to use these less lethal weapons. Mowing down the crowd en masse with something like firearms would magnify problems at home and abroad, whereas turning them back with something like a sonic cannon would cause less complications.
Good point - maybe buses will stay around just for peak usage, but will be replaced by rented, right-sized self-driving cars for the rest of the time.