skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Programming skills, that's great. What about your non programming skills? Communicating, persuading, domain modelling, being able to explain your design decisions. They can be as important as programming itself, so don't neglect them.
When I look at the future, I think back at these videos.

Hells Club:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QajyNRnyPMs

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYlTtA7-ks

Where I would like this to go. Is either being able to take scenes from different films and create mashups like this.

Or perhaps, getting a whole bunch of extras. Narrating lines and acting in-front of basic sets with green screens. Then putting the faces of recognizable actors and using something like Lyrebird for the voices. Where actors have sold the rights of their faces, voices and personality for cheap.

Now you have a $100m movie for the cost of $100k.

A similar premise of the film: The Congress.

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I really think in about 5 years, when the software is there and the dedicated IaaS to train the sets is commonly available. We'll start to see some really cool stuff.
I'll be honest, it doesn't get any less rough, but eventually you learn to accept that you can't understand everything that the narrator has to tell you the first time you read it. Only after reading the whole story was I able to unwind the complex layers of context that underpin the protagonist's narrative from the very first page. It is worth the effort IMHO.
Well... not directly. But in societies with more education, the birth rate is lower. Some countries have already dipped below a self-sustaining birth rate.
The problem with “is this true?” Investigations is that there are tons of potential pitfalls and a combination of experimental limitations, poor academic incentives, and insufficient statistical and scientific training make this very hard to do well. I think it’s bad science, that will one day retrospectively be viewed as invalid scientific method.

I think the way to combat this is to avoid studies that solely attempt to demonstrate an effect, but to complement that part of an investigation with additional studies that demonstrate a plausible explanation. This reduces the risk of false positives and increases our confidence in the result.

The additional studies could take the form (for example) of deliberately intervening such that the effect should be manipulated by the intervention in a predictable and measurable way. Essentially, come at the hypothesis “from another angle”.
I designed, implemented, supported 5 RHIXs and was party to two NHIN interop competitions.

I strongly prefer HL7 2.x, that nasty EDI mutant spawn you show, over HL7 v3 XML XSD SOAP WSDL FHIR CDA what-what insanity every time.

The trick is abandon any thoughts of "schema", "semantics", "meaning" and just treat all these ETL-esque tasks as screen scrapping.

Meanwhile, XML is always the wrong answer. Full stop.
The one with the most money usually wins. Until that is fixed the popularity of views seems meaningless.
I think prottero worked on a method of synthesizing sugar at much lower cost via bacteria, so carbs may be possible too. Combine that with how really rich humanity is, so i think a technical solution would be availbe to solve those food issues, and what better incentive than a potential nuclear war, to convince people to collaborate on that ?
In the case of my current org, we've used Ruby/Rails and Elixir/Phoenix, but we just go bought by a bigger org that has been mainly Microsoft for years. We can either drop everything (ignoring current paying customers) and rewrite it all in C#, or we can have a mix of MS/Ruby/Elixir.
Also a hyper highlighter and I loathe those websites. It makes me want to turn off Javascript.
If your company has multiple business lines that grow at 15% YOY, and you keep hiring say, 10,000 employees every year, eventually, the majority of your revenue will be from existing, not new, product lines and most of your employees will be working on products that either fail, copy, or are not innovative.

If and when, a product group becomes a major hit and rockets to a billion users, you'll say it's innovation, but in reality, probably 0.1% of the employees got to work on it. Everyone else will feel like there's no innovation going on in the group they work in.

You cannot have a company continually hitting iPhones every year. Even Steve Jobs said he only worked on three disruptive innovative products: The Apple 2, the original Mac, and the iPhone, and those were spaced out by very long periods.

You can't grow a company to billions in revenue and tens of thousands of employees and have all of them working on new stuff, and no significant overlap with existing product categories of competitors.
Things are going to get very weird in porn, when you don’t have convince a human to actually do it. I have to assume that early adopters will also be people with predilections which are unserved, or illegal. If people worry about their kids seeing disturbing porn now, imagine when it’s AI generated, photorealistic rape, snuff, child porn. Illegal or not, if it’s purely virtual law enforcement is going to focus on the subset of crimes which involve actual human victims.
Yeah, lucky to work at a company that offer 6 months full pay for men and women for sure, esp when you look at what Americans or even Canadians get.
Stat pay is hard to get by on, but hopefully gives many people the chance to spend a little more time with their kids. I really like the fact that if a couple worked at my company, between them they could have 2 whole years spent with their child, or 1 year between them fully paid - think it would do so much for dad's to have the option to have that time with their kids. They'd be crazy not to take it. Sadly we'll not be having any more so I can't take advantage of it, but am lucky enough to be able to currently support my wife/family so she can look after the kids full time and head back to work when we wants/is ready.
If our species doesn't survive, then we likely didn't matter to anyone. The human race will have only existed for nothing more than a blink of the universe's eye.
Strong authentication might protect video in news and court contexts. But I don't see how it'd help for celebrity porn, revenge porn, and other contexts where there is no authenticated original. Unless all the originals were authenticated. But that'd require mandatory authentication on all recording devices, which is rather frightening from a privacy perspective.
In the meantime, perhaps privacy-conscious individuals can wear smart burkas with vocal modulation when in public.
Let's say temps rise by 10 degrees and sea levels rise a lot. I would think there will still be a lot of areas that will be inhabitable. I don't think that the atmosphere will become unbreathable. I think you can have a pretty sophisticated civilization with 100 million or even 10 million people.

Again, I am not saying these things are OK. We should worry about displacing millions of people and probably wars but civilization dying seems overblown and damaging to the argument that we should be doing something.
Sounds very similar... Or at least variations of the same idea.
> Can you explain where Kuhn-Tucker enters the picture here?

If there are no constraints, then, sure, the Kuhn-Tucker conditions do not have a non-trivial role. In that case, commonly we would state up front that we were considering unconstrained optimization.

Sure, such a Lipschitz bound could give us some help on lower bounds on the objective function value but for those bounds we would need some constraints! Then at least in principle, we are back to the Kuhn-Tucker conditions again.

I suspect that the paper is (A) not about all of non-convex optimization but (B) about some of optimization, maybe some part of image recognition, where the objective functions are non-convex. So, we're talking a subtle language issue. Or the paper is about some parts of non-convex optimization!!!
'unsafe' doesn't mean unsafe. Unsafe means "I can't convince the compiler that this is safe. But in my context, it is."

If there is any way in which a function containing an `unsafe` block may be used unsafely (specifically, violating memory-safety), then that function must also be marked as unsafe.
Amazon is innovating in many many spaces simultaneously. That’s where the innovation is amongst the big tech monoliths right now.
Indeed. But it's worth pointing out "falling back" to flexbox isn't a solid backup plan-- most versions supporting flexbox also support grid, or are evergreen.

https://caniuse.com/#search=flexbox
https://caniuse.com/#search=grid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter
> I once proposed extending C to allow talking about array sizes.[1]

That would be a very useful, and relatively unobstrusive, extension to C. I've always liked the idea of a C "strict mode". I wish the political problems weren't so hard.
Easy, when you deport to a warzone and/or desert.
Google groups is not a Reddit Killer, it is basically an evolved DejaNews, essentially the Archive.org of USENET.

Perhaps the real flaw was abandoning the federated architecture of USENET for the centralized architecture of say Reddit or Facebook.

Maybe we should bring back UUCP. :)
> What do you mean "authentication technology"?

Cryptographic signatures. Ie every frame in a video is signed with a 512-bit key that states authoritatively what camera was the source of the video and when it was taken. In order to change any pixels in the video you'd break this key and need to resign it. An attacker would be unable to do this unless they had physical access to the original camera.

But it'll be at least 3 decades before this technology is commercialized, people see the demand for it, and the majority of all cameras in the world are replaced by it.
Even if this new tech is on the market in a decade (simple tech, no demand / ecosystem yet), but 90% of existing / installed cameras don't have the feature then fake videos still get created with them. Only once ~80% of videos are authenticated, and a significant portion of the remaining 20% are fakes will people be able to dismiss non authenticated video. Up until then it's fakes non-stop.

We've got some ugly decades coming up.
Space X test fired Falcon Heavy rocket
Apple is rumored to be launching an AR product line in 2019.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/8/16622802/apple-ar-headset...
I don't know. I didn't suggest immigration control. I assume the parent meant they would deport people to regions where survival is much less guaranteed.
...like the irresponsibly risky gamble of not changing. (Innovator's Dilemma)

But yes, in many ways it is less risky for a big company to try to acquire successful innovative small companies rather than trying to do the innovation in-house. But they criticized for that, too.
There are a few theories around, mostly around the changes in lifestyle in the last couple of hundred years compared to what we're evolutionarily accustomed to. Things like not walking/exercising nearly as much as we once did, a much more refined and sugary diet, much less exposure to pathogens (lazy immune system theory).
Excellent, concise and with solid examples too! I can't see any reason to not expect this as the default behavior, especially in today's hostile climate. It almost seems as if the standards writers have a stake in making sure there is always a place in the picnic basket for an unseen finger...
I didn't make that comment. However, I would say that people in their fifties have started to experience age-related decline in numerous areas (memory included). Showing a memory improvement in people 50-80 should be more accurately described as "restoring" their memory rather than "boosting" it, which implies that they now have supranormal memory.
Bingo.
It's all about incentives. Google's customers are the advertisers.
Microsoft's customers are largely OEMs and Corporations.

Apple's are consumers for the main part. Consumers benefit could from this feature, and they will buy more product (or stay more loyal).
This is a pyramid scheme and not a Ponzi. I'm disappointed.
After reading Thomas Ligotti it's much harder for me to appreciate Lovecraft.
How Far Are We from a Fully Autonomous Driving World?
PORTALofPi: Thru a PORTAL Darkly
Ha, this is great. Thanks for sharing.
How is this new? Kerry was photoshopped into controversial photos in 2004. Now it is video, yes, but fraudulent photos have convinced plenty of people already.
10 years out, who are the 'recognizable actors'? Do they just keep recycling the same ones?
Sure. But HL7 is most emphatically also not-for-patient, -for-doctor, -for-providers, etc.

HL7 and ICD-9/10 have two purposes. First, more billable hours for consultants and make work for admins.

Second, expanding the confusopoly, enabling insurers to deny coverage, payment.

The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy http://a.co/5ux1yrK
I've got a bunch of tardigrades on line 3 that would like a word.

Or whatever it is that passes for same.
That's not a useful avenue -- you have no control group. We can't compare people from India who eat a lot of curry to people from the US who don't: there are a million differences in diet, lifestyle, genetics, and environment that make it impossible to draw a conclusion about how it affects memory.

Your example is a good one actually: we know Japanese men are less prone to heart disease, but we don't conclusively know why. We can guess it's related to certain factors, e.g. fish consumption, but we can't know just by comparing the two cultures.
#include <stdint.h>
#include <string.h>

typedef struct {
int32_t a;
int32_t b;
} Foo;

int main(void)
{
uint8_t array[1024];
memset(array, 1, sizeof(array));

Foo *foo = (Foo*)(&array[0]);
foo->a += 1;
}

Using clang 3.8.0-2. Compiling examples with `clang -S llvm-ir`.

It appears that the array is aligned with the minimum ABI requirement 16 by default? May be a note of this in the standard, can't recall of the top of my head.

%array = alloca [1024 x i8], align 16
...
%6 = load i32, i32* %5, align 4
...
store i32 %7, i32* %5, align 4

We can also explicitly specify the alignment required in C11.

#include <stdalign.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <string.h>

typedef struct {
int32_t a;
int32_t b;
} Foo;

int main(void)
{
uint8_t alignas(alignof(Foo)) array[1024];
memset(array, 1, sizeof(array));

Foo *foo = (Foo*)(&array[0]);
foo->a += 1;
}

Results in the following IR.

%array = alloca [1024 x i8], align 4
...
%6 = load i32, i32* %5, align 4
...
store i32 %7, i32* %5, align 4
Protect against phone number port-out scams
Regex's implementation in the standard library used to do this, and I think maybe still does. Bonus points because they leaked a reference to the last string you ran a regex against (????) so if it was big you'd just eat up 50 mb of heap for a while.
Life insurance already gives you a steep discount for not having AIDS.
It's interesting that the issue of ensuring authenticity might also swing into censorship too: if politicians only issued certificates for images of themselves doing good things, they can then dismiss those of them doing bad things as fake because the creator couldn't produce the cert.
Let's just say that the decision for who to play James Bond will be even more interesting.
Weird to reference people who want to work a job where they can live a modest life a parasite.

Can't really add 'value' when there's aren't any jobs that needs to be filled. Alot people are going to be displaced in the following years and we must remember these people are moms, fathers, brothers, sisters, etc. They are not just statistics to be discussed.

It would be great if there were more tech news of giving people jobs instead of taking them away.
And viceversa is unfortunately also quite true.
I am having trouble accepting your argument. Judea Pearl presents [0] the debate over whether smoking causes cancer as an illustration for why correlation is not sufficient. Two plausible, contradictory, models ('smoking causes cancer', 'no it doesn't, something else does') could not be settled by observing correlations. The debate was resolved through the addition of an explanatory mechanism, and a test of the mechanism's influence. Pearl, and others, have worked on the mathematical machinery necessary to examine this kind of causality.

[0] http://singapore.cs.ucla.edu/LECTURE/lecture_sec3.htm
Yeah there is indeed a physical limit to human population.

And that physical limit is much closer to 100 billion people, than it is to 1 billion.

Population growth is already on the downward trend, and we are expected to reach population growth neutrality by 2040.
My hope, as well. I don't care what he writes about. It's all fun and I will carve out the time it takes to read. The longer the better.
A different view from a Koch funded libertarian climate change denying think tank.
I go about it in a bit of a round-about way. I'm a pretty introverted guy, so I make a point to work on soft skills like communication or public speaking to do demos. I've found that by getting out in front of others, they'll inevitably have questions for you, some of which you can't answer. If you let them know you'll get back to them with the answer, you become the "go to" person and you have someone else find an area you can improve on. The more you do this, the more you'll learn and eventually everything kind of falls into place.
Holy crap, that has got to be some tasty Kool-Aid.

Reading the blog post, it seems curious to me that much of what his startup is predicted on is lack of any kind of governmental oversight, standards, and enforcement. It actually seems to be more taking advantage of an undesirable 3rd world situation than improving it.
Stories that show that sometimes, trans women can really run roughshod over the interests of cis women, in our road to self-actualisation.

This is an issue I have been uncomfortably aware for a while. I have never before seen anyone comment on it.

Let me suggest that your awareness of it makes you someone I would prefer to have around in a women's group.

I say this as someone who has been burned on this very issue, repeatedly so. But I would prefer to seek a path forward for both cishet women and trans women, one that victimizes neither. That path won't be found without people like you.

If Leap is something you feel would benefit you, I hope you will reconsider your position and join it. If it doesn't work out to your satisfaction for any reason, you can always stop participating.
What's to keep you from adding the key to a camera after falsely generating the media? Or using the key of a known camera to generate false footage?
It's definitely not the same problem. Clathrates are methane, for one thing, and the permafrost issue will cause CO2 emissions. Clathrates are in the water, permafrost is soil.

They are both associated with historically cold environments that are now warming up, but each has its own mechanism and likely impacts (clathrates may be worse, since methane is a much more powerful greenhouse gas, but the permafrost melting is going to be with us for 1000's of years whereas methane will be with us for "only" a decade. Also permafrost is likely to be a potent methane producer as well while it thaws out.
Don't shoot the messenger, but here are a couple more techno-morality scenarios:

* A browser extension that detects if the social media profile you're viewing face-matches any revenge-porn that's out there, and serves it to you

* A phone app that undresses people, or [woman < AGE], or whoever, in real-time via AI-guided compositing. Will this be considered as offensive as putting a mirror on your shoe?

* Digital VR girl/boy-friends ala the movie "Her", except with the face, body, and voice of anyone you choose

Suddenly all these things seem very close at hand.
You cannot allow the politician to be the same person that issues certs because then it creates a market for a politician to buy doctored images and certify them. A neutral unbiased third party must do the certs.
Are you living in a Simulation? (2003)
I don't really yawn with my mouth closed, but just tried mimicking it and yes, same sound as long as I tense the top of my jaw under my ears. It's more or less the same the same tone as closing your ears manually by pushing the tragus over the opening with your finger, but a bit louder for me.
Well evidence would be something like "over time these countries have had reduced quality of life over the past decade, because of population growth".

But it seems like the opposite is true. Quality of life is still massively improving basically everywhere.

We are not running out of resources.
Tencent software beats Go champ
Is this used outside the Apple eco-system much? I admit I haven't looked at Swift in 2 years or more.

I find the omission of features like namespaces really strange. I realize that namespaces don't jive with how Obj-C and Obj-C frameworks see the world and that Swift and Obj-C need to play together, but dealing with global namespace pollution and collisions in 2018 just seems...sad? They're hobbling the language in various ways due to NS*/Cocoa framework stuff.

Another weird omission is lack of any kind of concurrency story. Right now, this just seems like Apple's "me-too" version of Java/C#, but what does it actually bring to the table that would make it a worth-while investment if I'm not an iOS developer?
Interesting.

It seems /r/deepfakes (NSFW) is where the content is at (I assume the article doesn’t link to that, but haven’t checked).
The white paper made my day. haha
I don't need models when I have the historical record. The historical record says mean sea level is going to be hundreds of _meters_ above current levels in the not-too-distant future.
In the abstract what you wrote is fine, but my impression is that "enjoy what we have here and now" means "keep polluting" to most people. I think people can maintain or even improve their own happiness while decreasing their pollution. At least this could make humanity last longer.

I'm a transportation cyclist. I mostly ride to save money and improve my physical fitness. The environmental benefits seem to depend on one's diet (mine is about half vegetarian), but seem pretty clear. When talking with some drivers they seem to have the implicit belief that transportation cycling is a "sacrifice" I make for the environment, as if I believe that driving is obviously better. They seem pretty surprised when I tell them that I'd still ride even without the environmental benefits because I enjoy being fit and can put the money to better use. It's not a sacrifice, it's a preference. One I think many folks would agree with if they gave cycling a chance. I think there are quite a few things that people would consider to be massive sacrifices but actually end up being fine.
Doesn't sound bad when you take it figuratively. The fires that some texts kindled centuries ago are still burning.
Based on my experience, there is a huge talent shortage, especially outside of the Bay Area. I'm not a security person myself, but my team tried to hire a security person multiple times.

You'll often find people that have experience running automated scans, filling up compliance paperwork, setting up firewalls and SIEM tools, etc. but don't know how to deal with source code or mitigation. At the other end of the spectrum, there's a small number of people who can review code and write tools, exploits, etc. but hate the bureaucratic work. In the middle, which is the kind of person that a startup or small company would want to hire, there is an even tinier number of candidates.

The kinds of things you are doing sound great. Perhaps try to participate in bug bounties, too. One reason you don't see a ton of job postings is that many companies don't know yet they need them. :-) Also, a lot of recruiting might just happen through word-of-mouth or in an outbound fashion. In my limited interactions, I found that the security community can sometimes work like a club or a society, more than in other tech circles.