skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A cooperative GAN architecture for converting images from one genre to another (eg horses<->zebras) has a loss function that rewards accurate reconstruction of images from its transformed version; CycleGAN turns out to partially solve the task by, in addition to the cross-domain analogies it learns, steganographically hiding autoencoder-style data about the original image invisibly inside the transformed image to assist the reconstruction of details.

I am pretty sure a lot of image-related AIs today do this kind of thing. Unfortunately, researchers almost never test for it explicitly, because proving your algorithm is stupider than it looks is not good for publishing.

AI research today needs three things.

1. All AI degrees should contain a class on the history of the field.

2. Every paper should include description of cases/datasets where the algorithm fails, preferably compiled by a different team.

3. Research in "stupid" AI, i.e. in trying to bring old algorithms close to SOTA results using modern hardware and optimizations. Almost no one does that. Almost no one talks about it. I bet many people don't even understated why it's important.
In what way is Facebook essential in this situation?
Because Apple would lose all of the money they are making from the Screen Time app...
They are monopoly for apps built with iOS SDK.
China has been enjoying the "demographic dividend" of having lots of young working-age people without retired parents or children to support. It's now in a race against time to get rich before the ratio reverses and the country's demographics turns into an accelerated version of Japan or Korea.
There's also https://i.reddit.com for mobile.
Not every day. Studies have shown that the pyramids were built by ordinary people (as opposed to slaves) who mainly worked on it during the parts of the year when they couldn't work in their fields.
how about a drawing or two. 3d even better. Maybe my sinuses are making my head explode but reading about how...just not doing it.
The guide doesn't assume access to specialized hardware. Experiments and iterations with all of those algorithms can be done on a normal CPU that anyone has. :)

Quote:

"Iterate fast in simple environments. To debug your implementations, try them with simple environments where learning should happen quickly, like CartPole-v0, InvertedPendulum-v0, FrozenLake-v0, and HalfCheetah-v2 (with a short time horizon—only 100 or 250 steps instead of the full 1000) from the OpenAI Gym. Don’t try to run an algorithm in Atari or a complex Humanoid environment if you haven’t first verified that it works on the simplest possible toy task. Your ideal experiment turnaround-time at the debug stage is <5 minutes (on your local machine) or slightly longer but not much. These small-scale experiments don’t require any special hardware, and can be run without too much trouble on CPUs."
In the west, all of these things happened under democratically elected governance. Thus one can say that it is what people chose to be. Economic progress and technology intensified individualism and childrearing fell way behind in the hierarchy of needs. That may explain why fertility rates are terrible in Germany, despite them having affordable and state-supported lives.
I think it was in Bill McKibben's book "Eaarth" that I was surprised to learn that back in the 1970's, after the "Limits of Growth" was published, polls showed that people were generally OK with moving towards an economic system that prioritized sustainability over growth. (Unthinkable in today's political climate.)

In our current system, growth == prosperity, generally. But, if you believe Climate Science – then, well, this model is unsustainable. It needs tweaks at minimum (carbon tax, etc), and a total reimagining at best (e.g., Star Trek, The Next Generation.)

That said, I find Stewart Brand's argument compelling that a collapsing population can spell environmental disaster, because in a strained economy, protecting the environment is the last thing on people's minds. They will burn the cheapest, most accessible sources of energy available.

But perhaps the real story is income inequality. The working class is told the economy most keep growing for their benefit – yet, since the 1970s, wages have been relatively flat. America, in particular, has seen enormous growth over the past half-century (even if it has slowed in recent decades) – yet that money has concentrated itself into a very small number of pockets.
I agree with the general idea here.

Previously parents could obtain a house, finances for children and still be able to afford a decent quality of living in their early 20s. Middle class kids have seen what their parents obtained and are finding it hard to similarly have a house over their head that is their own.

They're now all forced to take on student debt or were conditioned to do so and with the majority of decent paying jobs (above minimum wage) requiring a degree for just an interview. People are resentful of it all with knowing how their parents had it and opting out of having kids for something more affordable like a pet. It's really messed up if you think how future little Alice or Bob are now replaced with a pet.

I'm not really buying into the idea of tinder is part of the blame. People did the same dating crap in the previous generations but it wasn't so in your face like now. I just think it has become the idea, when you're middle class it isn't financially worth having a kid and where you will then be living a lower class lifestyle to support your children; saving for their future with knowing how expensive a higher education will be for them. I feel like if society doesn't fix this soon, whenever things get changed the previous generation will riot or be extremely negative for what they missed out on (were forced into living without).
We can't do that yet. It seems quite plausible that we might be able to do it someday, but if so 5B humans should be just as capable as 15B.
Bats that have been submitted for testing are not likely representative of the overall bat population.
Don't forget to give Yelp a rating: https://yelp.com/biz/yelp-san-francisco
What's your thoughts on Foursquare?
> And in American civil cases, the prosecutor is a private citizen's attorneys. Not the state.

That's not entirely true, for example SEC enforcement is usually a civil action.
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What is that 'huge percentage'?

Even if it is 90% ... wouldn't it still be strange that not even one in a 1000 followers likes a post?

Putting it another way: If I don't even like one in a thousand posts of an account - why would I follow it?
Weirdly, most of the features Apollo puts behind the subscription tier are features I think foster unhealthy engagement with Reddit and I'm just as happy to not have hanging over me.

I'd be happy to pay them, but I actually don't WANT push notifications, posting from the app, or any of the other stuff that encourages websites to pull you in deeper.

And the only reason I even use Apollo is because mobile Reddit is a nightmare UX. Literally a case study in how to make a horrid, horrible experience on the mobile web.
Ask a few Robinhood users what the difference between a market order and a limit order is...
Maybe you are looking for an illustration instead of an image?
There. is. no. evidence. of. this.

I'm not sure how otherwise skeptical techy people imagine a conspiracy into reality with nothing to back it up. Don't you think that of the thousands of people who have worked at yelp, that one of them would have spread news about it with their peers?

The "shakedowns", floods of negative reviews, sudden filtering, etc. Every single instance is some anecdotal story online, and has never been backed up in court, by investigative journalism, a scientific study, any kind of material evidence.

The barrier to entry to create a business listing, get reviews, get a sales call from yelp, and study the change in review is really, really low -- and yet you'd think we'd have more proof to go on than comments on hackernews and reddit if yelp were as shady as is claimed.

There are third party services that are effectively shakedowns -- similar to what shady SEO people do to spam whois contacts -- they threaten you with worse rankings if you don't pay up. These things have no connection to yelp itself.
Not really true. In networking throughput vs latency rely on two different things. When it comes to moving huge stone blocks they rely on the same limited resource (humans).
This article displays pretty much all that is wrong with the reporting on this. A lot of talk about vaguely related sensational commentary, very little on the practical significance (if any).
Yelp suffers the same issues that Amazon reviews has. General public is easily influenced to give high scores to mediocre food/products. I'd rather have reviews from trusted reviewers or a Netflix type scoring system that matches my picks with other people who have the same taste.
>without stopping to consider that maybe societal attitudes towards masturbation may play a role.

There have been many studies of the effect of ejaculation frequency on sperm count.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=3570492534952529068...

There is about a 25% increase of sperm count after a few days’ abstinence. There are no effects on sperm quality. The researchers who study decreasing sperm counts are all aware of these effects and would not make such a sophomoric mistake. And there are trends of declining sperm quality:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=...

Before you accuse others of citing a “wingnut paranoia point”, take a look at your own priors.
It's all of them. You can't give an example of a real number that's not computable.
You're right that we seem to have extra respect for these scammers. After all we did elect one President.
They say it’s got impressive specs, but I don’t find it impressive at all. This brick-sized Gigabyte (NUC) computer has far more impressive specs than the Mac Mini: https://www.gigabyte.com/Mini-PcBarebone/GB-BRi7-8550-rev-10
Please don't encourage these kind of interfaces to websites. A website is not a piece of art. It's a thing I interface with! Your fellow users and I, thank you.
It might feel one sided, but I think SemiAccurate is one of the few places remaining doing old fashioned journalism (ie pursuing sources and gathering information from the real world). Most other tech news websites have devolved into wrapping up marketing materials from tech companies into "reviews".
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There's no mystery to how prior civilizations hit collapse events when I read comments like this. Every system has a limit, if you don't believe this is the case, you'll likely hit it in catastrophic fashion.

In the year 2018, you'd think people would be more focused on higher pursuits and inquiries about the Universe than just a joy ride from life to death and a maximization driven social trend to see how much money you can make and spend in a lifetime.

Anytime prior civilizations have forgotten about the fundamentals or considered themselves to be so technologically advanced to be beyond the impact of nature, there usually is a reckoning and that reckoning usually occurs at the peak of society when resources are being improperly dedicated to vanity and idiocy. There's a reason the hallmark structures of past civilizations are erected pretty close to their demise.

The Sun goes through cycles we have yet to fully understand.
That alone could cause significant effects to the earth and its something we have zero control over. I'd think it would be a far better social culture to be focused on dedicating resources to exploring and studying the universe and fundamental nature therein than mining clown coins via bit flipping wasting energy/computing resources on a ponzi scheme. However, look how many billions are involved with this.. In a so called modern highly educated society.

As far as population goes, why does a human being feel entitled to have kids? Why are there so many poor individuals having kids? Why should we try to test the limit of nature's carrying capacity? Why do we continue to push the world population higher? We did we create economic models that depend on population growth? Again, a different kind of life from just popping out kids and enjoy the rides of life. A life of inquiry and the pursuit of understanding....

> There's a lot more room left for human growth on this planet

Until there's not or nature throws you a cyclical curve ball. See history for what the results are.
Looks interesting. I am in no way targeted audience, but can you share some of your motivation to work on this?
Isn't this what Mark Z. originally created FB for in the first place?
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They are trying it on.

The journalists should not cave.
58 is the number we're trying to divide by. (It's a constant, so there's a bunch of clever optimizations we can do; I don't think anyone is claiming fully-general division is fast by any standards beyond "round trip to memory".)
>8 year olds used to find gainful employment. By 15 or 16, these "children" were relatively self sufficient.

To add to this (and because of the education bubble making higher education effectively compulsory), children aren't self-sufficient until they're 23-25. So the 15-20 years of relative freedom to live one's life at a self-sufficient stage (assuming children are had at 30-35 years of age) has narrowed down to 5-10.

There's been some creeping ageism (because of the lack of maturity that self-sufficiency and responsibility normally cultivates) which has made the problem even worse.

1958 was a record year for teenage pregnancies, and it's not hard to see why- you were guaranteed a job that paid the bills straight out of high school.

>Japan 2d partners: What's up with that country?

Massively inflated working hours. Women don't find it worthwhile to keep a partner who is only at home one day a week and emotionally available for even a fraction of that time, to speak nothing of the shrinking dating pool (since why would anyone forced to go through the absolutely insane education culture there suddenly give all that up at 25-30 to have a family?).
Your live demo has a ts compile error.
Niley Patel at The Verge basically raised the exact same issues in his review.
Are you really sure you want to play this game? Because, while you put the victims of terrorist attacks on your side of the scale I'll go ahead and put the millions of Uighurs who lose basic human rights, hundreds of thousands of which have been imprisoned without a trial, on the other side.
IMHO, this should be litigated. As a fallback, conscious developers should start boycotting Apple native platform. If that happened to RescueTime, it could happen to any other app at any time. Not the fist case too.
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It is semi-accurate after all.
increase of the healthspan is a way to avert the collapse of social-security etc.
they're using app.adjust.com to force the user to get the app
and track the behavior -- using Firefox and something like uBlock will prevent the behavior and block the redirect attempt
Cross shard transactions at 10M requests per second
I'm really struggling how this is a bad thing to be honest. The planet is already overpopulated, and each new person introduces a huge carbon footprint.
Hi, tech lead of Workers here.

This is tricky to answer concisely because we've implemented a huge number and variety of defense-in-depth measures. (Plus, I'm in transit right now and can't type much -- maybe I'll edit to add more details later.)

First, we believe Chrome has done a pretty good job hardening V8 over the years, and we get a lot of comfort knowing there's a $15,000 bug bounty for V8 breakouts. We update V8 continuously, tracking the version shipping in Chrome.

That said, we obviously don't simply rely on V8 for everything. We've modeled what a V8 breakout is likely to look like, and added a variety of mitigations.

Presumably, a V8 breakout bug is likely to allow an attacker to run arbitrary native code within the Workers runtime process. That's bad, but they will quickly run into some barriers to weaponizing this. For example, we obviously run with ASLR, so an attacker looking for other isolate's data would be flying blind and would likely raise segfaults. Any segfaults in production raise an alert and are investigated. Similarly, we run a tight seccomp fitler that denies all filesystem and network access, and if an attacker ever tries to invoke such syscalls, it will raise an alert and be investigated.

It's worth noting that we do not allow eval() (or any other mechanism of "code generation from strings"), hence all code we execute has to have been uploaded through our code deployment pipeline. This implies we have a copy of all code. When a segfault raises an alert, we immediately look at the code that caused it. Anyone using a zero-day against us is very likely to burn their zero-day long before they manage to pull off a useful attack.

You're probably also wondering about Spectre. Here's a previous comment of mine on that topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18280156

Again, this is just a couple of the things we're doing... there's really too much to list in a HN comment. I hope to find time to write this up more formally in the future. :)
"It's OK though, government X will only use GDPR for good and they will go easy on small companies and individuals infringing it".

Literally the argument you would eventually see at the end of threads about GDPR. I don't know how many times I've said this, but it amazes me that people can feel so identified and represented by nation-state politics that they are so willing to trust their government.
Basically, "analytic" = "by definition", while "synthetic" = "empirically".

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic–synthetic_distinction
Accurate facts, the best kind of facts.
No, it's not temporary. The trend is global and will see the world's fertility go below replacement level soon enough. Of course there are various hotspots, but they'll be smoothed out eventually by emigration or less pleasant means (famine, war, disease).
How do you protect developers & their businesses from abuse at the hands of a channel (Apple) that controls access to ~70% of revenues, and probably more in profits.

The answer is not for users to switch to Android, but for the FTC & EU to step in, as they did for Android, and for MSFT's browser related cases.
Basically, we host a collection of honeypot websites, which resemble login pages for a normal website. Our users create 'bait credentials' (username/password) for these honeypot websites.

The users then hide these bait credentials in places that should be private (in this case, a letter or package to be mailed). If an eavesdropper intercepts the package, they'll also find the bait credentials (perhaps written on a post-it note). If they try to use the stolen bait credentials at the honeypot website, our users then get an alert, and the intrusion is logged.

The normal use case is to place bait credentials on your devices or servers, but in this case they would be used in a physical location (i.e. a letter in the mail).

Take a look at https://www.tamarin.us if you want - I'd appreciate any feedback, I'm still trying to validate the concept.
Parks and public lands should be open to all no matter their economic status.

Charging more to cap visitors shouldn't even be on the table.
Ive been really enjoying my dual epyc 64 core workstation. Looking forward to when I can upgrade to 128 cores. :)
I feel like Due South managed to give a good description of Canada:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryla4x-lQ58
Diligence, Patience, and Humility – Larry Wall (1999)
Let's take it easy on the author... LSTM's are cool especially when you first grok them, and stock data is the most abundant time series data out there.
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At the fantastic Museum of Jurassic Technology, in Los Angeles, there is a wonderful display of actual letters like this sent to the Mount Wilson Observatory. They are beautiful for their earnest curiosity. Some of these letters are online here:
http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/letters/letters.html
> average savings from price improvement is $10.80.

I wonder if they lie about this like Fidelity does.

If the market on some product is 100.00/100.06 with a mid price of 100.03, and I route an order at the mid price that is filled at 100.02 that is then a price improvement of 1 cent.

On Fidelity I've noticed they calculate everything off the asking price, and would say my price improvement was .04, which is not really right.
and yet people live in (and pay dearly for) ever-more-dense cities despite ample space outside.
BLM land is another secret. Even fewer people, more freedom, and there are pockets sprinkled all over (though most seem to be in western states).
> Not every website has to make money. They can entertain just by the virtue of being interactive.

This is exactly how I remember the best Flash sites of the 2000s. They weren't creating interactives to drive some lead gen campaign, or sell their blockchain-based SaaS or whatever; it was made purely because it was cool and fun to use. Some portfolio websites for UI and FE developers still have this feel.

> We did gain apps though. So I guess there's that.

I get the sarcasm, but IMO, I'd rephrase and say "We did gain Codepen". Lots of cool visual stuff there, but I guess it would be mostly of interest to developers, and not the wider public. Still, I see stuff in Codepen daily that would never make it into a "production environment" because it didn't fit the CMS template, it wasn't responsive, or was using new tech like CSS Grid, or a multitude of the other reasons why websites stopped being cool.
So does that make every console maker a “monopoly”?
I agree, wasm is a notable step forward. But it's not magical either. For example you still need to expose system functionality to the application. That means either exposing existing OS APIs (which gives you compatibility at the cost of security and speed); or defining new APIs which take advantage of the properties of wasm (better security and speed; worse compatibility).

As far as I can tell, the wasm community is still primarily focused on running in the browser. There is an explicit goal of supporting "non-web" targets, but no consensus on how to expose system APIs, let alone a full implementation.
I'd call China an outlier. (1) It's size isn't comparable to any other. (2) It's not a First World'er in the same "mature" way USA or Germany, is. (3) It's growth is driven by all the counties it serves. Regardless of what happens internally, the world economy is the driver. (4) Again, Japan is - at least in the eyes of USA and German politicians, economists, etc. the most likely fear-driver.
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If you've got a kid in 4th grade, all national parks are free all year long.
That effect doesn't go very far. It can slightly reduce a company's cost of capital but won't enable them to be profitable over the long term.
I’m not sure gVisor was incepted because Isolates didn’t provide strong enough isolation - wasn’t it because Google was looking for a way to provide stronger isolation for containers (i.e. not V8-only) without the overhead of traditional virtualization?

That is, totally different use case... going with V8-only in return for some better non-functional metrics is a trade off Cloudflare made for a serverless platform, but not one that Google (or anyone else, probably) would make for a container-based platform?
Ah, my bad. I stand corrected.
Do you have an article for that, or are you saying that out of your own expertise?
Wish I could add those to mobile Safari :P
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