skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess the question is what are you trying to protect? The model is fundamentally lossy as it is a rank reduction method so your original data is gone (i.e. no one would be able to accuse you of liking a particular controversial post, just that you are likely to like that post). So it sort of has the differential privacy thing going on. I guess it is another question as to if such models should be built at all. I think the fidelity of the models will answer that in time, if they work really well it is scary, if they are poor models they will cease to be used. I suspect that it will be in the middle and highly sensitive to the quality of the original data and the quality of the implementation like all ml applications.
Is your argument Facebook allows more dialogue then Goldman or IBM so this is okay?
This should he a banned tactic by every Ministry of Labour
It isn't even a college level exercise to do linked lists in any language. The gp is probably getting at c being hard to write safe code at large scales, which I agree with, but linked lists are not large scale.
> when strictly speaking the raw data has indeed been deleted after being used to create a derivative work that can for all important purposes be used to recreate the original?

To be precise, you almost certainly cannot use this data to recreate anything remotely resembling the original dataset. This type of dimensionality reduction would throw away enormous volumes of data. There is no meaningful sense in which you can reconstruct the data from it.

What they have done is distill some insights about people from this data. It's arguable whether they should be allowed to keep those insights, but there's no privacy risk there really.

It's honestly kind of disingenuous to describe dimensionality reduction in the way that they do here. It is like reducing the resolution of a photo, but it'd best be described as reducing that resolution to say, the 20 most representative pixels. There's no real sense in which the photo still exists.
There are two course of action for dealing with the problem. One is for every single person who is concerned about a particular tiny subset of the innumerable rare videos out there to store them personally, and then somehow let anyone else in the world know they have them.

The other is to come up with a collective solution, like a p2p solution.

I think the latter solution is about a million times as likely to work.
At a more generalized level then some of the other replies: password and secure information management is a specific set of tasks and requirements that are orthogonal to web browsing. Abstracting that out into an independent piece of software makes it much easier to swap either side. It's much easier to jump from one web browser to any other web browser if there is no information transfer between them required. It's much easier to use multiple browsers simultaneously for the same reason. It's much easier to move from one password manager to another if that doesn't affect any other application that plugs into it at all. Decentralizing and fragmenting authentication and secure information is a problem.

Additionally dedicated problem programs tend to be more responsive and featureful then when the functionality is tacked on non-core in something else. Password managers facilitate sharing within groups and organizations for example in a secure and structured way. For many people that may be one of their most valuable features in fact, right down to the level of families.

I mean, this basic philosophy shows up a lot in computing right? For example, it's an important idea at least at the heart of some of the original Unix style of doing things, where you have lots of independent programs that do something well and then link them for more complex operations rather then everything-and-the-kitchen-sink. The latter has its place sometimes too but there are strengths to the former, or to programming styles that splits up larger systems into smaller tasks joined together.
As someone who writes software (haven't ever worked for Tesla), I think this statement does provide some credibility. It probably means that the visualization system does understand such scenes and is able to navigate it.

Ofcourse, this statement by itself doesn't absolve Tesla's software of any error. It's important to know the actual root cause before saying who/what is wrong or not, something which the HN community (and in general Internet/people) isn't good at.
I like both Swift and Tensorflow. But how is that going to work?

As far as I understand MacOS has no official Nvidia support (=> no Cuda), which is (at least) advised if you want to use a GPU for computing. Using OpenCL instead of CUDA would require building Tenfowlow from source. The OpenCL support is not as mature as with CUDA, so I imagine you could run into unexpected (performance) problems.

On windows, you have an excelent CUDA but lackluster Swift support.

Will they add OpenCL as a "first class backend" for Tensorflow or rather expect a "first class" support of Swift on Linux and Windows? Otherwise who is going to use it?
This policy is at an elementary school, but it’s probably a good assumption that a similar policy could adjust in high school for exactly that reason.
Continuing to appreciate a person's art after you came know that this person behaves really badly means normalizing, legitimizing and promoting such behavior. Which is harmful in every sense.
More like our stupid adherence to a common set schedule is harming a large portion of people but we still insist in all having only one set schedule.
That would definitely be what I was hoping for.

The main problems I had were:

1. The stories endpoints were limited to 200 or 500 results, not paginated.

2. I had to loop over and send a request to all the individual stories to check if the url was from github or gitlab.

3. There was not an endpoint for "show new" (/shownew)

4. It was unclear from the docs what is shown on the website homepage (beststories or topstories?)
… 16.04 as in the most recent LTS version of Ubuntu.
Have you ever worked retail? Retail is just kind of a bad industry that sucks to work in. It’s generally unskilled with high turnover. So while Walmart sucks compared to desk jobs, it’s pretty good for retail.

I think they are great for communities. I lived in a rural community as a kid for many years without Walmart. We had no book store, no music store. Small under 1k people and one stoplight. They literally had only one science fiction book in the library (broken lands from empire of the east by saberhagen, super awesome book. Weird that that was the one)

Walmart opened close-by and all of a sudden I could buy books. They had so many more options. We didn’t have to drive 40 minutes for groceries. About 1/3 of the Main Street stores closed but they really sucked. Interestingly their employees had zero benefits and zero sexual harassment protections.

It was a small town where if you worked for the dime store you got no vacation, no benefits, got paid 50% if you were black. Lots of lame stuff. At least wal mart paid you some benefits.

Walmart isn’t some all positive entity, there are negatives. But they aren’t horrible and are a huge positive force for the poor by lowering prices.

It’s very frustrating to hear a rich person complain about Walmart when they haven’t had to need their groceries being 20% cheaper than Kroger or 50% less than Whole Foods.
>: If you hanged around HN pre 2010, you'd seen that FP was all about Lisp (and things like map, reduce, macros, first class functions, etc), and few gave a rat's arse about "monads" and "purity" -- it was only starting to emerge in general consciousness, not dominant as it is today in FP circles.

My recollection was a bit different. I got interested in Haskell around 2007 or so. And pre-2010, I recall encountering several articles about that on HN, though obviously there were often articles about the Lisp family.
He said that he didn’t believe his own words. I just don’t believe him. He literally tells employees all the dodgy things they are doing is justified to help them “connect” more people. In no way do I believe he didn’t believe that.

Not only that, but he told his employees what they are doing is totally justified and to keep doing it, because it was sanctioned by management.
I am at my freshest from 11pm to 2am. If I try to be productive at 8am it is a waste.
Yeah, I agree it should happen throughout the layers and that it would likely get a lot if pushback if you tried to put it in place rather than having it part of the company culture from the beginning. I guess in the beginning there would never be that much hierarchy. Although a good web of feedback in a more flat structure could evolve into better feedback through the hierarchy.
> In fact, in Linux we did try C++ once already, back in 1992.

> It sucks. Trust me - writing kernel code in C++ is a BLOODY STUPID IDEA.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/1/20/20
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If I tell you I like furry porn, is there a way for me to make sure you forget that? This has lots of implications, many of them placing the "blame" on me for telling you this.
Question remains the same. So what?
https://www.gpsoft.com.au/help/opus11/index.html#!Documents/...
I had no idea about this before taking it. I popped some before going to the store. Thought I was about to crap myself then started getting super itchy. Had to rush home and by then my entire body was lobster red lol

Definitely want to use the non flushing version.
100% serious answer- if what you are saying is true, and you do not immediately stop driving your car on public roads and take it to a mechanic for a thorough inspection, you are toying with both your own and other people's lives. Cars do not fix themselves, and brakes that drop to the floor are seriously compromised. The next time that happens, there may not be enough fluid left in the reservoir to repressurize the system.

As for blame, the check engine light is for emissions gear, and will not effect safe vehicle operation. A wobbly front end, however, can indicate a serious problem, and yes, it is the driver's responsibility to operate a safe vehicle on public roads, and it would in fact be their fault if something happened because they did not perform proper maintenance.
what about shift workers that work at night. Lots of evidence that their health is damaged because they are forced to live off cycle with their normal sleep patterns.
Why can’t I use Spotify on my speaker?
Why call something "auto-pilot" when it is clearly not remotely ready to do what its name implies ?
People rarely train ML models on macOS for the reason you mentioned. Most machine learning work happens on Linux, so this should work well there.

TensorFlow supports a standalone server mode where it receives computation graphs and executes them. This is nice because then you can remotely execute on any accelerator (Cloud TPU, multi-worker multi-GPU) from your laptop.

In their demo, they did exactly that with a Cloud TPU: it connected to a TensorFlow server that executed the machine learning training part of the program.
Look up the source code for "max" in C++. It's huge.
It's not open-source, but you can upload your own music to Google Play Music without any subscription.
Funny, didn’t Zuckerberg say that “Privacy is dead”? I guess only for users of his product.
My understanding, though, is that idiomatic Ruby inverts the control for iteration (array.each(|thing| do stuff)), which leads to slightly different ergonomics, whereas idiomatic Python is like what Rust is now; see http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/01/13/iteration-insid... for a comparison. Interestingly, Rust used to have iteration styled after Ruby's, and explicitly switched in rust 0.7: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1hl2qr/rust_07...

I think the comparison here is also to Python because the specifics of the API, rather than just the patterns, are pretty obviously inspired specifically by Python (names of functions like zip, etc.), as opposed to other external-iterator languages like C#
How exactly was it on the Facebook platform?

Searching for "facebook" on runbox.com barely shows any relevant content.
Didn't see any mention of SCP -- do you happen to know if that is or is planned to be supported?
Cool! I've been working on something very similar: https://www.laidbackvj.com/ and it's open source: https://github.com/khaliqgant/laid-back-vj. Interesting to see a different interpretation of something I've been working on for a bit.
If their goal is to be "decentralized" that might not fit the bill (depending on your definition of decentralized). I wouldn't consider Tor to be decentralized.
This issue (i.e. not building upon an existing protocols such as IPFS or bit torrent tech) is persistent within the alt-net / distributed-net community and means that MANY services have fickle/hacked-together (in the bad way) feel to them. Even stuff like Riot.im (which is built on top of the Matrix protocol) has a sluggish/react-js-overload feel to it.. plus the deep&wide stack makes it incredibly hard to understand/trust the system in a meaningful way.

Also, I believe that part reason for the success of Hacker News and Reddit is largely their extremely simple, non-intrusive and non-animated interfaces - making flashy front-ends for distributed-net apps is a lost cause. Bittorrent took off because the tech was right; not because of a animated web interface that could correctly scale to mobile.
CRISPR may not cause hundreds of rogue mutations after all
False Posts and Fake Traffic at a Leading Online Community Site?
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> it’s really a matter of maybe 5 to 10 years.

So...not holding my breath.
They are saying: "As a consequence we have decided to remove the Runbox page from the Facebook platform."
Yeah, but that's some horrible use of the fieldset element ;)
This is a bit of a non answer, but there was an early MOOC delivered on this topic. I remember this was back in 2010/2011 and the topic was System Thinking.

The course was delivered by a political scientist, but focused entirely on systems thinking.

I will look for it and return;
But for now I don't have the name of the course, or the university. I can remember is the year :).

Edit:
Found it; https://www.coursera.org/learn/model-thinking
My response to this article, written in 2006:

http://lumma.org/microwave/#2006.08.23
attracting too many of them is a great way to make no one else want to come to your platform

Perhaps that's a feature and not a bug. After all, judging by the last US election such people are in a slight minority anyway.

And why is YouTube whacking those channels specifically - because left wing social justice types systematically try to wipe out conservative thought wherever they find it. It's a private sector form of the behavior communist countries always see. Do you want those people following you to the next place you host your videos? Or would you rather leave them to sit and stew in their nicely whitewashed PC groupthink?

I think the real issue with your idea is that revenue streams from ads aren't that large, and anyway, advertisers are extremely sensitive to being targeted by witch hunts, which is why you see left wingers engage in so many of them against advertisers. I'd leave video authors to arrange for their own sponsorships; they can surely do it if the right messaging framework is in place.
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To confirm: have you tested that, or are you basing it solely on the linked doc?

I'm a huge fan of 1Password, and also a fan of paying subscription pricing for apps and dev teams making things I enjoy, but I'd seen the linked doc and parsed it the exact opposite way: "If you don’t want the benefits of a 1Password membership, you can use these third-party and advanced sync options:" --> ~"If you don't want to pay for a subscription, the non-subscription version of 1Password supports the following"

Up until now I've been counting the days until Agilebits finally sunsets the non-subscription plan since I thought the subscription option didn't support the "advanced/third-party" sync options. Will go re-evaluate that now.

If any Agilebits folks are lurking, it may be worth disambiguating that "switching to subscription billing" does not mandate "switching to an Agilebits-hosted vault"
Seems pretty inexcusable for a self-driving system to ever hit a static obstacle (while not trying to avoid another collision).

There should be manslaughter charges for this kind of thing.
> Think of human activity as lying on a spectrum of mental effort. You probably need activities that lie somewhere in the middle range of energy and complexity. Work is probably on the higher end: an continuously exhausting challenge. Vegging out in front of the TV is the lower end: relaxing, but unfulfilling and boring.

> If the only mentally engaging activity you ever do is work, then every time you get bored, you will jump straight into overdrive just by THINKING about it. This will actually wear you out even if it's only 30 hours a week or 20 hours. You need activities that are only a little bit challenging to distract you from the big one.

That's a very interesting way to look at it. Problem is I'm too tired during to pick anything up after work. I really feel that if I can reduce the amount of mental energy I consume at work, I'll actually have the desire to pick up the guitar or something like that.

Maybe using something like the pomodoro technique can help with that, and then taking more breaks. I think one of my problems is though, that my ambition takeover and I want to get just one more thing done. I feel like I need to produce better results, etc.
That was just one example because I was searching in English and thought it was obvious.

Here’s the site for the Barcelona airport. By Spanish/Catalan - http://www.aena.es/es/aeropuerto-barcelona/todos-restaurante...

I should have provided better links.

The issue is that McDonalds is a type of restaurant (fast food). But still a type. Arguing that fast food or takeaways or whatnot isn’t a restaurant is pretty pedantic. (So is arguing at all, like I’m doing)
I agree that it can be an anti-pattern.

However there is stuff like this:

alias ec2ls='aws ec2 describe-instances --query '\''Reservations[].Instances[].[Tags[?Key==`Name`].Value|[0],State.Name,InstanceId,PrivateIpAddress,PublicIpAddress]'\'' --output text | column -t | sort'

I could try to remember it and type every time. But why? Sometimes all I want to do is list instances and grep for something quickly. If I can 'ls' for files, why would 'ls' for AWS (or openstack or what have you) be any different?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophic_interference

>Catastrophic interference, also known as catastrophic forgetting, is the tendency of an artificial neural network to completely and abruptly forget previously learned information upon learning new information.
That's sort of depressing. "Just make your own virtual memory space to get around Rust's PITA memory management" sounds like giving up.
If I'm cherry-picking, you're strictly appealing to emotion. Are you suggesting that the gay population, which is between 2-6% of Americans, plenty of whom are also monogamous (75% of male homosexuals, by recent estimates), are a major factor in a 10% uptick in infidelity in the general population?

Are you possibly suggesting that abuse never gets inflicted on prostitutes, and that reducing them to human chattel, as their bodies are bought and sold, has improved their lot?
"The platform" is usually used to refer to the apps that run within Facebook. Is Runbox an app within Facebook or are they just saying they deleted their FB fan page? That's hardly newsworthy (and I hadn't heard of Runbox until now, but that's a datapoint of one only).

EDIT: Apparently it's really just a page. I wonder what's newsworthy about this (since people have been saying "I deleted my FB" forever now).
Cool! I did a search on "DMT produced in lungs" and found this one: http://q4lt.com/qa-with-dr-steven-barker

"Dr. Barker: The only studies conducted on lung tissue were not specific to lung anatomy. My comments were based on an assumption that, if DMT is primarily produced in the lung (where, at that time, the highest enzyme activity had been described) and DMT played any role in schizophrenia, it would, thus, be considered a lung disease. However, I think DMT may primarily be synthesized in the lung during specific physiological states; controlled breathing, such as occurs in many meditative practices, extreme physical exertion, hyperventilation, near-death changes in respiration rates, hypoxia, etc. DMT synthesized in the lung would go directly to the brain, by-passing the metabolic destruction that would occur from liver metabolism. There is some evidence that DMT is neuroprotective and may play a role in neuronal survival in extreme physiological states (either intentional of unintentional) that also alter lung function. Similarly, DMT can have a dissociative quality (OBE) that is also protective in extreme events (trauma, etc.). While DMT produced in the lung may have many other “normal” biochemical functions, it may be one of the hormones that responds to extreme stress (physical and mental) and the role of the lung in such events is well understood."
I still use midnight commander every now and then. It is terminal based though. It is open source, feature packed and works cross platform.
I remember watching a Stern interview, Billy West Vs John Kricfalusi 1995 [0]. Kricfalusi came across as petty and self-absorbed, essentially calling West a scab for acceding to management by voice acting multiple characters in later seasons. West claimed the show would be insolvent otherwise and he needed the money. Kricfalusi said this act led to defeat of the creative faction by the executive faction.

I don't know how I stumbled upon it years ago, since it only has ~300 views even now. But i still remember how psychologically manipulative Kricfalusi sounded, and my surprised reaction at the end when Stern sided with him.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6OoJP3VJoA
Bag of word representations work fine for some applications.

The reason people want better representations is for the applications where they don’t. For example, Bag of words doesn’t capture agreement or disagree well, whereas better representations can.
Their 1Password X is excellent. I've been using it on a chromebook for a few months now. Chromebook does run linux, so it should work for you too.

I think it's basically the ideal place for 1Password to be running. It's hard for malware authors to infect the chromebook with stuff like keyloggers etc. I bought the chromebook for the sole purpose of managing financial transactions -- accessing investment/bank websites etc.
Serious question, but how does working for "FAANG" companies provides any credibility in this specific context?

That must be like half the bay area. I get that it's written as a token of pride for you, but maybe worth to take a step back?
Good point. I've added 'at least'.
Get rid of the TV.
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You can't get in bulk. Chromadex stopped all licensing of its patent so you can only buy it from them at $40/m. Chromadex is exploring FDA approval for certain medical conditions so it will be interesting to see if they keep it on the retail market or it becomes prescription only.
Jeeze, I regularly see these things left in conference rooms at my work. I could make a killing in the German resale market.
Sorry, what might not be the right thing to do?
You eediot!
Minor league hockey players earn on average ~$43,000 / 6 month season. Factor in health risks, job insecurity, and being on the road most of the time it becomes much less appealing.
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I've used ForkLift for a while but then I got a notification that Transmit [1] was updated to version 5 and it's been great so far for me. I like the UI more.

[1] - https://panic.com/transmit/