skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the aim is to be able to store encrypted data in the cloud or some other potentially insecure location, and perform machine learning on it without decrypting the data or the model.
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Cross-platform in Python is not a headache?

Yeah, it's a bit slow. It's faster than Javascript, though. The best benefit is flexible number size, so it's good for some types of computation.

What improvements in package management would you want? At least it has some form of management, unlike C/C++...
Yes! It’s sometimes even more than that, going up to 55 degrees (measured at the St-Laurent/René-Lévesque crossing), which makes North more West than North..!

Street name suffixes follow the “Montreal convention” too, using East/West (when it should be N/S). My impression is that this is because the city is easier to look at horizontally (it’s closer to a 16:9 movie resolution) than a very vertical portrait.

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MajorSauce, could you please contact me? (email in profile). I’m working in Montréal on a project related to emergency services (which you seem to be doing as well, from your profile). Thanks!
I’m going to tread lightly here because I’m not intimately familiar with the full details of NN, but assuming that big bad ISP starts making life difficult for large tech companies by charging them premiums (and please correct me if this isn’t the way it works), wouldn’t that spur the giants to compete?
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Who are "the original Hawaiian people"? Tahitians? Marquesans? Society Islanders?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_and_settlement_of_Ha...

Does it actually matter whose ancestors colonized first? What's the difference between Hawaii's colonization by ethnic Tahitians and North America's colonization by ethnic English?
I find it hard to treat news published by Eric Berger as objective, sadly. He receives special treatment from SpaceX & Elon—for example, its arguable he only had permission to interview Musk and attend the launch of FH from 39A precisely because his articles mainly cast a positive light—and in turn, this clouds his objectiveness when it comes to such reporting. It's quite a shame.
Only somewhat related,but I've tried to learn ocaml before but have never been able to figure out when to put what kind of delimiters where. Can anyone recommend a resource that explains the usage of the double comma and the like?
I'm not sure if there is a list, but he definitely gave info to Business Insider and that is apparently what set Elon off:

http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-whistleblower-martin-tr...

This is the piece they used his info for:

http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-model-3-scrap-waste-hig...
I really miss the top-right button in classic Finder windows, the one that resizes the window to just the right size to show all it's contents.
"Syntax vs. Semantics: We are frustrated by how frequently discussions about programming languages revolve around syntax."

I couldn't agree more strongly. Syntax is bikeshedding and semantics is language design. My favorite example is the wholesale abandonment of M-Expressions by the early lispers. I don't know of any other (kind of) mainstream language community that has so wholeheartedly put semantics first. Maybe the ML family? Any other examples?
It's worked plenty of times. Intuit is highlighted in Lean Startup for having it's internal innovation programs playing a pivotal role in the company. The CEO at the time says that it saved the company from stagnating growth problems.
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The vast majority of the increase in average life expectancy is the massive reduction in childhood and childbirth mortality. All of which is a direct result of the massive improvement in the quality of medical care in the 20th century. Not very much genetic impact (such a massive genetic shift would have had to happen in 2-3 generations globally. A genetic source of such a massive change would be incredibly geographically biased: while there has been more more migration in the last hundred year than at any prior point in history, a genetic change would require a complete spread through the source population)
I think it's quite the opposite in terms of languages. Javascript will have the best WASM interop story for quite a while.

As WASM gets adopted we'll see it get used in all sorts of places outside the browser. Many projects need a high-level scripting language and JavaScript will be the obvious choice.
Ground truth can be constrained statistically.

Don't take me wrong. I don't really see the value in inventing a truth bureaucracy that rewards participants in fake money. This dirt system is just silicon valley, in it's typical naivety, trying to reinvent propaganda.
> inference latency... that's roughly 5 hours,

The 17 hours in the article is to derive the 'encrypted' model. Training takes significantly longer than prediction.
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Personally, I bookmarked this piece of code, so that everytime I open a new tab and want to take notes, I just open one and press my bookmark link:

data:text/html, <body contenteditable style="font: 2rem/1.5 monospace;max-width:60rem;margin:0 auto;padding:4rem;">

Alternatively, you could also paste this in your browser URL bar and press enter.

I got this code from some GitHub gist, but it has served me well for many years.
+ the successful landings of the early stage reusable rockets. Pretty monumental stuff.
This is pretty similar to how I learn new systems.
> He alledgedly stole company secrets and gave them to others

Is there any evidence he gave them to competitors or did anything other than act as a whistleblower ?
I don't begrudge Tesla for portraying facts as damning as possible to the opposing party -- that's what any litigant would do (and should do, I would think, although IANAL), as long as no deliberately false statements are made. So "technically true" is fine by me. But since their investigation is still ongoing, and they haven't felt the need to divulge more specific and damning assertions, then it's fair to consider what's currently left open to interpretation.

"Wrote code" could include a wget cron job. "Bypass company's security" includes literally any activity done without company approval or authorization, including printing out files and putting them in his briefcase and walking out the building without announcing the fact.

No one is really disputing that his alleged acts were "treacherous" to the company, or that they "caused damage to the company's interests" -- that would cover every conceivable form of whistleblowing.

At this point, I don't see what it matters whether it was a "real" hack or not (though it's ironic you mention social engineering, since for too long that has been ignored as a real attack vector). He took info and disclosed it without company approval, now it's up to the courts to decide if that was legitimate and protected whistleblowing.
It is an irrelevant portion of total electricity usage. It doesnt matter if a very small portion of your electricity usage has high costs.
If you are a whistleblower then by definition you need to bypass the company's security and cause damage to the company's interest.

The real issue is whether he is a legitimate whistleblower not the acts that he did in order to provide the data to journalists.
> Tripp’s allegations were summarized in a statement from Meissner Associates, a New York-based law firm that represented a former Monsanto Co. employee who was awarded $22 million in August 2016 for tipping off the SEC to improper accounting.

much later down the winding language of the article

> Meissner said he won’t be representing Tripp in the federal lawsuit in Nevada. Tripp “is in the process of interviewing attorneys,” he said in a phone interview Wednesday. “It’s not easy to find counsel. There’s almost a cult of Tesla.”

Why not present these facts together in one paragraph? Because people don’t read all the way through, and it helps feed rumours.

Just another article hitting the HN front page with a sensationalist title and breathless writing.
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Highly polluting energy sources are not paying to clean up the environmental costs that they produce. Maybe THEY are the free riders.
It's close, but it doesn't actually output the escape codes. It would be cool if there were different formats besides text and html. Maybe vt100.brow.sh, ansi.brow.sh, etc. That way when I curl it from a terminal it renders like the actual terminal client.

Add terms that commercial use of the site requires an account setup and some pricing info. They can always host it themselves, but like many things, most people would rather pay someone else to do it.
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In addition to all the features the sibling comments noted, it's important to note that there's no contradiction:

bash is usually the scripting language one uses inside of a Makefile.

It's the default, although one could use any scripting language. Point being, there's no "Make" language, beyond the syntax for describing those dependency relationships and variable assignments.
The strongest factor in my opinion (after pure luck) is the rapport you're able to build with the interviewer. Doing that of course requires doing well in the technical questions, but the end-goal shouldn't be seen as doing well in the questions, but seeming "Googley" to the interviewer. Googleyness in this context tends to include not just whether you did well on the questions, but things like your sense of humor, ability to communicate in a positive and cheerful way, whether you seem mature and responsible, and other such little things the typical techie would like in another person. Interviewers are also human, and they can only do so much to change how they perceive another person.

Source: Have interviewed with Google a couple of times, and coached a couple of other people for the same.
Thanks for calling me out on that. I hate it when online content is missing a date. There is a date on the "More" page that links to this, but it should be on the page itself too!
Care to elaborate? My understanding is ISPs can internally implement or not implement any QoS that makes economic sense. Also that was my lesser point. Can you address my larger point about jurisdiction for regulating ISPs?
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Meh...if it doesn’t involve constantly swapping floppy disks while you’re launching an app then it’s not a true emulation.
> Does anyone not use JPEG because they think the internals of JPEG binary format are a bit complicated?

Yes! There are lots of examples like this.

• Plenty of small tools write BMP or Targa instead of JPEG or PNG, because these formats are dead simple to reinvent.

• JPEG as we know it is JFIF, which has clearly won over alternative JPEG data containers, such as more complicated TIFF (mode 6). BTW JPEG, for what it does, is brilliantly simple.

• MNG never took off, but dumber APNG did.

Formats that are intended for interoperability need multiple implementations, and it does happen that authors say "no, fuck that" and choose a different format instead.
Fenway is sinking? I googled that, and this joke article is all I could find: http://www.dugoutlegends.com/fenway-park-replaced/
A.K.A. A abusers paradise.

You HAVE to have moderation facilities.
What do NIMBYs, lawyers, and ICE have in common?
Digg is still a thing?

And is anyone surprised it has thus far failed to live up to any of the insane hype that was generated?
I regularly see comments like this about Facebook's ad program. Personally, it strikes me that there was no tracking of ROI in the first place -- and if you can't reliably track ROI, why were you spending $1500?

If you're spending $1500, but getting great ROI, then fake engagement would be no reason to stop the ads.
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Either thats the secret sauce that got them $3m with zero openly published work, or the "who is right" is completely hand-waved over or relies on some oracle.
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My understanding of this paper/space is patchy-at-best, but I am I right in thinking that this could only ever work for models where both the outcome-variable and the predictors are entirely categorical, and the input data is always encrypted with the same key?

(E.g. so that the value 'male' in the 'sex' column has the same ciphertext across subjects/observations).

If this is the case, then couldn't a standard logit model be used? (It needn't know what it's categories 'mean', either x or y).

These properties would be fulfilled by, e.g. the MNIST example in the paper (and it wouldn't take 17 hours to train!). Does anyone know where the technique in the paper would work but the one described above would fail?
The point of the paper was to operate over data without decrypting, the exact scenario they gave was competing finance companies, that are clearly not going to share keys.

Also if you had all of the decryption keys you’d just decrypt the data and use the raw data. They explicitly state that it is only fast in the context of HE problems - being multiple orders of magnitude slower than techniques you can use on raw data (they actually said “fast” - complete with the quotes, which I appreciated)
Yep, seen that. I worked on a system where the company did not really want a reimplementation but they destaffed a project in one site and reconstituted it with all new people at another site. The new people decided to rewrite from scratch. A year and a half later I start getting questions by email from the new people, questions indicating that not only do they not understand the implementation of the legacy system, they also do not clearly understand the business requirements that resulted in that implementation. Meanwhile, the maintenance of the old system had been neglected to such an extent it had fallen behind critical company-wide mandates. This was more of a lesson about why you shouldn’t destaff a project over some petty geographical squabbles, but also quite clearly about why you should always incrementally reimplement software rather that rewriting it.
My household has left Apple after 20 years, because of the inability to upgrade the MacBooks, and just an oversimplification of everything. I dearly wish I had an upgraded cheese grater. After three Mac minis died, we called it quits on those too. Cost, reliability, and expansion have pushed us towards PCs.
It's just a shame someone has to do crowdfunding to afford a fair trial.
Does Elon Musk think he's Batman now?
> We used to spend significantly on Facebook for several businesses I'm involved in, but now that most clicks are garbage/fake, we don't.

It seems to me that the rational reason to stop an ad campaign is because it stopped enough making money.

It's not fake clicks that should be stopping you -- it should be a lack of ROI.

I wonder how many people spend huge sums of money on Facebook without tracking their return on investment. I seriously think that is the source of many of these complaints about Facebook's ad program.

I spend a few thousand a month of Facebook. I have no idea if there are fake clicks or not. But, it's not a metric that seems to matter in my business.
Oh? Is that how they do it? I recall getting confused about the security guarantees of some HE paper the was on HN a while ago, and someone finally explained that you only get the security guarantees if you have randomness injected.
Yes I haven’t become a bigger Twitter user because it’s a huge time suck to actually get to the few topics/groups I care about. Medium also needs to do similar.
Anyone who liked this submission will enjoy a new engineering blog called Knife Steel Nerds (should be the top result in a search).

It's run by a professional metallurgist and the quality of the articles is outta sight.

They take Patreon funding to get cool samples and stuff to do testing and analysis. It's the real deal. Recommended.
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Industrial usage makes up a large percentage of total energy usage.

Industrial energy usage can be time shifted.

Who cares about residential power, if it is a small percentage of total energy usage?
I fully agree on how UI have become "harder to guess"

Most of the current interfaces require too much learning. It seems to come with a cognitive load.

Fun thought: I can still use a windows phone after a few drinks. With an android device, not so, while I have used androids for a longer time.

I don't know what causes it, but usability seems to suffer inded.
I live in K-Town in LA. I'm convinced these scooters are perfectly suited for getting and my neighborhood, but they haven't rolled out here yet... So I have been bringing back carloads of them from Venice and Santa Monica and introducing them myself. I'm only doing like 4 a day, but I've already seen a number of them being used that I dropped off (I vandalize with a distinct but subtle mark on the neck of the scooters to 'track em')

A few anecdotal observations I've had:

- People in Venice hate them more than in Santa Monica. Way more are damaged intentionally in a way that ends up being super useful for me: they use a sharpie to block out the barcode. Since I go out in the evening it's rare to find fully charged scooters in a nice line, which these jackpots are. It's easy to clean it off with nail polish remover.

- People are very curious and positive about them in K-Town so far. One time I pull into the parking lot of Boba Bear and drop off a few off.. and got a free boba tea as the manager said that it helps his business. Since I like to go there I end up leaving scooters there, and it's almost as if it's known as a hub for them. :)

- The crowdsourced recharger contractors do not mind coming out here to pick up low battery scooters. They never stick around.

- The biggest menace of these things is there damn beeping. It's loud and annoying as all hell, Jesus fuck.

- The biggest danger these present are janky scoots with bad breaks, or sticky/erratic acceleration. A lot of these scoots are beat up badly, but are still working and being used.

- Lime let me sign up as a 'Juicer', bird has me in queue. I interpret this as lime having less oversight on that process, since my address is not in an area they try to service. I haven't received the charger kit yet though, all this is just happened in last few days.

Personally I think of this as a fun robin hood style adventure. It will be interesting to see how perception evolves.
> A C++ for loop has virtually the same performance across all systems/implementations;

> For "SELECT * FROM TABLE", I have to understand implementation

This is not even remotely an apples-to-apples comparison. One is a fairly simple code construct that executes locally. The other is a call to a remote service.

It doesn't matter if the language you use to write it is XML, JSON, protocol buffers or SQL, any and all calls across an RPC boundary are going to have unknown performance characteristics if you don't understand how the remote service is implemented. If you are the implementer, and you still choose not to understand how it works, that's your choice, not the tool's. Every serious RDBMS comes with a TFM that you can R at any time. And there are quite a few well-known and product-agnostic resources out there, too, such as Use the Index Luke.

Alternatively, feel free to write your own alternative in C++ so that you can understand how it works in detail without having to read any manuals. It was quite a vogue for software vendors to sink a few person-years into such ventures back in the 90s. Some of them were used to build pretty neat products, too. Granted, they've all long since either migrated to a commodity DBMS or disappeared from the market, so perhaps we are due for a new generation to re-learn that lesson the hard way all over again.
Point #3 is exactly why the law should have zero tolerance for this type of agreement.
Not a designer either, but except the titlebar MacOs classic look flat to me. A bit like BeOS, but I have never really used either of them - only on emulators.
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> where firearms result in tens of thousands of deaths a year

> "I’d call a militia out to defend the server, Bundy-style," Wilson says calmly, in the first overt mention of planned armed violence I've ever heard him make.

I don't see why Wired sees fit to defame and misinterpret people, and misrepresent the facts on this topic. If they're so right, why not let the facts speak for themselves? Calling a militia out to defend the server is not planned armed violence, it's planned armed defence: not even the responding militia wants there to be any actual violence, if anything the armed militia decreases the likelihood of violence occurring (nobody's going to serve a forcible no-knock on a room full of armed men defending a mere library, and engaged in the commission of no offence).
>It appears you didn't really read the article. There's no need to pull 100gb of data.

I read the article, paying special attention to section 4, aptly titled "Smoke and Mirrors".

There's always a need to pull in as much data as the user wants to actually interact with.

No matter what tricks you pull, you'd still need about 1s to pull in a 10MB photo over a 100mbps connection at full speed, and most people don't have that. Reading data off a disk is an order (or two, with an SSD) of magnitude faster.

And sometimes, I just want to flip through the library and look at a lot of photos without having to wait seconds for each one to load.

Sure, the layout algorithms are still important, and that's what a lot of the article is about. But all king's horses and all king's men can't make the latency of a javascript UI with a network backend comparable to a compiled program interacting with a disk.

Thank you, but smoke and mirrors aren't for everyone. Google Photos fulfills an obvious need, but it's not a Picasa replacement.
So the 'truth' is whichever way the majority votes? Putting side the obvious issues with that, what prevents someone who has the largest warchest from sweeping everything or is it just an assumption that no-one will have a 51% share blockchains are largely based on?
Okay, but he came with a healthy dose of putting people in prison, murder, actions in Africa that were reprehensible. I'm not sure I get your point. Facism's official goals don't match what they did?
Are any of these moonshot projects trying to counteract human-driven climate change?
Ok, I've updated the spreadsheet to properly account for discounted energy (discount rate: 4%) and degradation (at the rated 92%/25yr). It comes out to 6c/kWh, which is about 20% larger than my first number. Half of that increase was due to the degradation, the other half from the limited time horizon - and assuming the system will be worthless after 25yr (!!).

http://databin.pudo.org/t/4cb861

This is all just a thought experiment for me, because my electricity costs 22c/kWh :)
I like Peter Norvig. You inspired me to email him about this.
Why donate to this, paying 10% to Patreon and possibly an unknown percentage to cover The Creative Fund’s overhead (if not, how will the project sustain itself?) as opposed to giving directly to the projects that deserve it most?

A much more interesting model for me would be something like a “last 20%” backer. Let users vote on campaigns that have 20% and and only a few days to go, looking very likely to fail. Winners get funded by The Creative Fund (provided its within a certain max funding threshold).
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Good catch, you're correct it's per second not per hour.
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