skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run Debian stable. Absolutely rock solid and boring.
> Adversarial Attacks? Like

Like literally the article we’re commenting on. Image recognition systems in general are much more susceptible to errors in cases where humans wouldn’t even think twice.

And yes, “hey, a stop sign was here just yesterday” is also a situation for which humans are uniquely equipped, and computers aren’t.
CPI includes housing already.
Not at all? It is in my country (the Netherlands) in some circumstances, for example if you are of a certain religion and there is no school within x kilometers that satisfies your religious requirements.
I managed to find the actual video of how the Copyright Act was voted: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/EN/vod.html?mode=unit&...

I see absolutely no reason to excuse those who failed to vote correctly in this setting.
Wasn't that sourceforge adding crapware to the installers of a bunch of projects hosted on it?
I was really confused about "local hypotheses" for a minute there. In session 2, you get two blocks for working with implications.

One is a modus ponens block -- given the two inputs (X -> Y) and (X), it produces the output (Y).

The other is a block for positing assumptions ("local hypotheses"). In the block selection menu, it has an ordinary output of (X -> Y). It has a notch in the top with an output of (X) on the left and an input of (Y) on the right.

The function of this block, as shown by the ordinary output, is to prove statements of the form (X -> Y). For this purpose, it gives you a free output of X, but every path you send that X through must eventually either be abandoned or come back to the matching Y input in its notch.

The X will magically become the variable you need when connected to the appropriate input of a modus ponens block.
I think the gripe is that they were extremely racist: As in they took one look at his name, decided he must be Indian, and simply told him off that they do not invest in India... or Indians (though not so direct).
Is there any chance the OP is in a time zone where it is already April 1st?
Sometimes, the cheapest way to pay for something is with money. If you want a good, happy, motivated, loyal workforce, you have to pay for it.
Very cool.

Comments chastising the enterprising author for spelling it SmallTalk instead of Smalltalk in ...5...4...3...2...1...
> Andrej Karpathy just finished his PhD and he was offered an executive position at a major public company.

Since when is middle management with an org size of 80 an "executive position"?

> His department is building something that is actually used in cars today.

So do the departments at Cruise, Waymo, BMW, and even universities. Karpathy isn't special -- and neither is Tesla Autopilot's progress.
I emailed you twice asking you not to do this, but perhaps you didn't see the emails. On HN, it's ok to link to one's own stuff occasionally, in particularly relevant contexts. But you've been done this something like a dozen times in the past couple weeks. That's way overdoing it, and it has become a distraction, as users are inevitably complaining about spamming and taking threads further off topic. Please stop doing this.
The general idea even in a loose, more metaphorical sense, holds however. 'Mental fatigue' is well established, and your volition along with mental faculties generally become harder to exercise the longer they are used without break.

The specifics are disputed, but we needn't be so specific for the advise to hold.
The scale of the Chinese great firewall is rather unprecedented. Sites and keywords blocked, and homegrown sites have to follow constantly increasing filter lists and report users. Blocking a few sites is nothing in comparison to this.
Who were you talking to @P9? This sounds so far off from my experience working with their team.
You do realize there are millions of college students who pay $200k over 4 years to attend accredited programs that graduate with no discernible skills, right?
>the Taiwanese government has said the same since 1949

Taiwan has to say this. China views Taiwan relinquishing their claim to the mainland as a deceleration of independence and justification for invasion.
Compared to the current generation of “self-driving cars” I’d say humans excel at driving.
I don't have strong feelings about this, but a few thoughts come to mind regarding exploring accelerated MRIs via neural networks.

1. If an MRI can be done 10x faster with the same results except in exceptionally rare cases, might that not still be a win? Order of magnitude reduction in time may translate to substantial reduction in cost and increase opportunity for applications. It seems like it is worth considering whether these benefits might be worth compromising the accuracy of the imaging.

2. How accurate are radiologists at diagnosing / detecting these rare abnormalities that validation might miss? If radiologists are actually pretty mediocre at this, might it be OK to make the scan slightly imperfect if the next stage (the human) is already very imperfect?
> Does anyone buy trash bags that small?

This is one of those areas where I think it makes a big difference whether you live in a proper house or a tiny apartment.

In a small studio, a large trash bag can take a week or more to fill up, but can start to smell up the small space after only a couple days. So I—and a lot of people I know—use smaller bags and take them out once every couple days.
Over the ~8 years I've been a customer, my mobile provider has upgraded my free SMS/MMS plan from 5 hours and 5GB to unlimited hours and 40GB. The price has gone from ~$15 to ~$20 and that's it.

There's no way for me to get the same plan at that price if I was a new customer.
One of the coolest things to do is go on one of the many multiplayer servers and see some of the super train systems that have been built. 16 lanes high speed rail connecting thousands of nodes.
Turing must be accredited in some fashion. You can use GI Bill to pay and get student loans to pay tuition and living expenses.
Fair point. I mostly put those commands together to illustrate concepts. Two things you've touched on though that I haven't implemented yet: compound conditionals, and a nice way to indicated word boundaries (as opposed to the regex solution)
Why did you want to not pay for health insurance?

Even if you had found a legal loophole to do this, just about everybody is going to want health insurance and I’m pretty sure if the company pays then it’s not taxed, plus you can get better rates that way as you get bigger. So it’s more expensive overall for the same plans if you make employees pay.
Actually it's quite playable as soon as you learn UI and used to multi touch that game is using. E.g as far as I can recall you just need 2-finger touch to move camera.
Browser DevTools Secrets: Startup, Network and Peformance
Please see my second email to you. It would be fine to do a Show HN, but at this point you need to wait several weeks to flush the caches here, or it will probably generate more resentful responses. Probably 2 or 3 months from now would be best.
I'm not sure that Apple support forums can be worse than the blind-leading-the-blind support you'll find on Ubuntu forums.

Problems with your mouse not working? No doubt somebody will suggest adding a random PPA, purging your kernel, and installing one from two years ago.

Your webserver can't write to htdocs/temp? No problem "chmod -R 777" will fix that.
The recent 4k Blu-ray release is also quite remarkable.
MacBook Air 2018 vs. 2017
Oncall of Duty
I use Pocket for exactly this purpose. I save interesting articles from my desktop or mobile browser to Pocket. Instead of reading random junk news or scrolling social media when I have a few free minutes on the go or at the end on the day, I have quality articles on my phone in my pocket.

(Disclosure: I work at Mozilla and Mozilla owns Pocket.)
Is anybody concievably being hurt by the claim that it's AI?
they are trying for cool points by hating on perl
Thank you! My searches had turned up nothing. (Was something like Lexis-Nexus needed to find that old UPI story?)
I worked at Uber starting in 2015 for 2 years. Not going to give numbers and I have not been following secondary markets but the company was already valued at $70b or so back then and I don’t think there’s been meaningful movement in the valuation since then. Point is people who joined even 4 years ago aren’t exactly making a huge multiple of their initial grant.

Lyft’s IPO bodes well though for Uber stock. We’ll see soon enough!
Civilized people use Debian, Arch, CentOS, and--rarely--Fedora ;)
Fascinating. I worked in the developer tools division when the .net of C# was released and had no idea this was part of it is true.
I wish they'd stop using the Red Cross' good name.
This whole Twitter thread and blog post gave me real pause for ever wanting to work at Discourse.
Interestingly, Protestantism is tied up with the history of capitalism.

I think it's worthwhile to think about systems that don't reduce to either capitalism or socialism.

(Though, in the spirit of reductionism, one can imagine capitalism as reducing to socialism in the long term: you can allow private individuals to accumulate capital, but ultimately it'll end up in the hands of a few individuals, who will be a de facto government.)
I'm not sure why hackers prefer to hack large scale computer systems rather than individual humans, but they do. So we have to protect neural networks against adversarial examples for the same reason we have to protect databases against sql injections.

> so what's the critical difference here?

If neural networks are deployed at scale in self driving cars, a single bug could trigger millions of accidents.

Printing an adversarial example on billboards would lead to crashes all around the country. Are we going to assume no one is going to try? (btw: real world adversarial examples are easy to craft [1]).

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.07397.pdf
People Kill People. But the Bullets Seem to Matter
Issues like distaster recovery should be handled by governments, not unaccountable private charities. The issue is that the U.S. has systematically destroyed Haiti's infrastructure for nearly a century and overthrown any leader that isn't a puppet regime.
The Tyranny of the Minimum Viable user:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...
I thought DeepMind's actual first commercial product is Google Cloud Services premium voice generation service (made from WaveNet)
https://outline.com/UuSSrT
It was and is a fantastic game. I played it for many hours growing up.

EDIT: the original, Transport Tycoon.
Alexa scientists claim audio watermarking technique with near 100% accuracy
India’s PSLV, in its 47th mission (PSLV-C45) successfully launches EMISAT
Banksy’s work poses an ethical conundrum for me. I am a huge huge fan of it, but I also recognize that graffiti is just another name for vandalism. But his stuff is just so good…
I understand the need to test pain response for medical purposes, but I can't shake the feeling that in a few hundred years we're going to look back on the use of animals in pain studies and think it's barbarism.
The file system is native too depending on what filesystem your host is running. If the host is running a Copy on Write filesystems like ZFS or BTRFS docker can use it natively.
OpenGL never was a thing on game consoles.
Why? The tax is that using Windows means you have to use a VM, not that VMs are less performant on Windows
And emulated on game consoles as well.
A former manager - and friend - of mine told me that, when switching jobs, former employer made a handsome counter-offer, I think basically doubling his compensation; it was more than he got at the new gig. His reaction? "Now I also feel insulted. So that's how much I was worth to you, but you waited for me to leave before adjusting my pay?"

It strikes me as a reasonable attitude, and one that I've adopted too. I don't have time to be constantly checking the market; if I get a better offer, either you can't afford a counter-offer, or if you can, well, screw you anyway.
Latest Minecraft update quietly scrubs references to Notch
With the average labor-leisure curves of most people being an inverted c-shaped, I would be more surprised if it wasn't beneficial for most people to choose improved life over pay.
Ask HK: How to legally protect your custom email domain?
On HN it's often recommended to setup your own custom domain for your email hosting, so you're not depending on a single email provider and can switch at any time.

However by registering your own domain you still have to trust the domain registrar to keep your domain safe.

How would you protect your email domain so that you can rely on it never to be taken away through legal action, or through social engineering attacks on your registrar?

For example, in the past I've had several of my domains whois privacy be removed without notice from my registrar because a law firm required to know my information (I only found out when I got physical mail from the law firm).

Secondly another domain of mine has been taken away when some big US company started a case through some arbitrage firm claiming the domain name was similar to theirs.

These incidents have not really given me any confidence that having a custom email domain is actually much safer than having a normal email address at any big email provider.

As I'm not a US resident I'm considering moving my email domains to a registrar in my own country to hopefully make it easier to hire a lawyer when something happens again, but I'd like to know your input on this before I do.
Prob the best use of time if you’re trying to optimize for a career as a developer would be to go study CS for 2 years at a top school, then drop out and do a bootcamp for 3 months. Best of both worlds!
Small stickers on ground trick Tesla autopilot into steering into opposing lane
I can imagine a bunch of old people sitting in a room complaining about all the new words the young kids are using and how they are destroying the language.
While I don't disagree that this is horrible, perhaps the $tables array is hardcoded array.
Re #2, it's clear from reading the code that the function has absolutely nothing to do with a licensing check anyway.
Yeah, I have a really hard time seeing how this would be a nice culture to work in. Everybody is clearly not as valuable as everyone else, and it seems pretty inevitable that people would come to resent each other and stop working hard, if you’re just as valuable whether you do amazing work or mediocre work.
Rust still lacks support for many platforms where there is a C and C++ compiler, and on Windows it is found lacking regarding COM/UWP.
Yes, thank you
On one of many playthroughs of the original Phantasy Star, I saved up 15K for the Diamond Armor by killing low level baddies and then breezed through the game until the end game.
Two questions (pardon my ignorance on the topic, it's really exciting):
- Can I write software for it? Is there a compiler or language included, or do I need to add it to the base code before compiling?
- Would I be able to run it on bare metal someday (are any other drivers compatible?) or is this VM-only?
Perhaps this reflects what VCs want to see in your pitch (one of these), but an entrepreneur will hopefully not set out to "build a $100m business" but try to solve real problems.

Amazon gets > $500 from normal customers and > $2500 from Prime members per year according to Morgan Stanley, FWIW. Aiming for $10/user from ads is aiming too low (and was already shunned as a business model soon after 2000).
Yep, go Flash.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrossBridge

Everything old is new again.
WordPress now powers 30% of websites. Get an RSS feed from a WordPress site by adding /feed/ to the URL. You can also get RSS feeds from WordPress categories and tags.
Git implemented in Rust
Show HN: Bezos: build your own (deep) reinforcement learning framework
They covered this scenario where you start with a $200 million dollar business and turn it into a $100 million dollar business.
Isn’t Reiwa 1 also this year?
How does dark matter interact with another dark matter? I know that dark matter can only interact with normal matter by gravitational force..
The thing is that because the highest-ROI application of machine learning is online advertising, unquestionably the two deepest pools of machine learning talent are at Google and Facebook. So this may be able to overcome the obvious culture mismatch between "move fast and break things" and the FDA.
it is a self-imposed complexity that we could opt out if we were smart

You could say that about a lot of things in a lot of countries. You have to think twice before you throw away such an old tradition that connects people to the past and the history of their culture.

Most Japanese people I know are either ambivalent or happy about it. No one is suggesting doing away with it.

You do know that plenty of other cultures around the world have their own calendars and these (like Japan's) coexist just fine with the Western calendar, right?
Lucas and Rich Neighbors Agree to Disagree: Part II (2012)
Richard D Wolff advocates a socialism that sounds something like this, centered around worker cooperatives rather than state control of everything.
Love this line:

> Put simply, what looks attractive in prospect does not necessarily look good in practice. Consumers often become frustrated and dissatisfied with the very cornucopia of features they originally desired and chose. This explains a recent nationwide survey that found that after buying a high-tech product, 56% of consumers feel overwhelmed by its complexity.
Yep and only one person left in the run. He's on lap 4 of 5 which he has to finish by 9:23a
Figuring out how to approach a task is a problem that can be broken down all on its own. Make a list of possibilities (even if they are “dumb”). Work through them. What happens for me is that either one of them is right or (more frequently) I suddenly “get it” and it’s off to the races.
Yes, you only get paid 80% of your former salary.
In my opinion this is great for professionals, but it's also the reason why the year of the Linux desktop (™) will never come. I recently had to configure a raspberry to drive a display 24/7 and the simple task of keeping the display from blanking already was a greater deal than it should be. This is true across a lot of options that are simple checkboxes in Windows/Mac (In Linux you need to install the right tool or desktop environment. Not something end users are expected to do really.
SV investor involved in college bribes
Automating driving requires solving very hard AI problems. Most likely novel ideas to solve them will be transferable to other domains.
Ask HN: Metrics to measure receivables and improvement in receivables
We at TimePay (timepay.co.in) are building products for enterprises in India to help them streamline their billing and receivables process and get paid by their clients on time. (Fulfilling jobs on credit and delayed payments is major problem for SMEs in India, often due to incomplete or insufficient communication)
We are in search for a metric that we can track for our customers to signify changes in their receivables patterns, whether there is an improvement or not and is it due to our product or not.
Existing standard metrics like DSO(Days Sales Outstanding) do not reflect the changes effectively.
What other industry standard metrics are available?
Has anybody here designed such a metric?
If yes, what is it?
If no, how do we go about designing such metric?
I'm inclined to like this idea, but it seems to be framed in a way that centralizes a lot of governmental power.

Why not look for ways to decentralize power and also decentralize resources? For instance, removing or limiting various privileges of large corporations that individuals don't have.
I identify as a small potted plant and it's a real slap in the leaves for me because I can't even speak.
Kinda off that this is written in Python, and not Perl. If it was written in Perl, it'd have the portability that the underlying translated commands have!

I'd be happy to help you port it to modern, high-quality, readable Perl if that's something you're interested in. Being able to install this by dropping a single Perl file into ~/bin/ would be neat.
Pr Mair have his opinion on the matter, I have mine. And while he his famous in his field, given I have formal education in Japanese at the MA level, some self taught Chinese proficiency (mostly reading) and linguistic knowledge (mostly phonology) about both these languages and some of their older varieties, I would not blindly follow his advice that I think is misleading.

That doesn't mean Chinese education is perfect right now, and I also think that traditional characters, while seeming more complex can be better for beginners as the system has a more regular internal consistency. And it's easier to learn simplified when knowing traditional than the reverse.
I don’t think those things are mutually exclusive. I love to sit and think in a problem. I also love to turn off my brain completely and solve sudoku for hours on end while my mind is elsewhere.
Even if you mount the development directory on the host file system? This is probably necessary to be able to edit files.

In the case of Ruby maybe you should mount also the language manager directory with all the gems and the interpreter.
How does one invest in deepmind ?
"Further, some distributists argue that socialism is the logical conclusion of capitalism, as capitalism's concentrated powers eventually capture the state, resulting in a form of socialism."

This is pretty wild, could someone please explain this argument for me?
I don't care what it has to do, it can be drawing pentagrams in blood for all I care, as long as it has even a fraction better health outcomes to unassisted doctors I'm all for it.

The point here is making people healthy, not providing some sort of validated theoretically clean design. If the rcts say it works, bring on the deep learning voodoo.

(edit: I, for the record, want to trust in average accuracy.)
> That's up to their nation to decide.

No, it's up to the entity with the greater ability to enforce their will to decide, which in this case would be the Brazilian government.
I don't see why Hyper-V would be faster but VMware is much nicer to work with (in my opinion).
No, there’s some confusion here. There are two distinct benefits you are entitled to when you become a father.

One is that you get exactly 1 week of paid leave.

The other is the right to take 26 weeks of unpaid ‘parental leave’ during the first 9 years, which is often used to e.g. start working 4 days a week (the leave is used at a rate of 1 day per week then; you could also use it for taking half a year off at once).
I have been using Linux as my daily driver for a little over 2 years and day to day, I haven't had practically any problems. Every once in a while, I will mess with something and then things break, but I know I can fix it. Knowing I can find a fix to any day to day problem has become absolutely crucial to me; I can't go back to chasing windows error codes.
The HN entry title might be misleading: this is a Python tool, Perl is only mentioned in the Readme for comparison.
I am not a pilot. But based on my understanding the activation of nose down due to MCAS doesn't present itself like the standard runaway trim that pilots are trained on.

Trained Behaviour:

- In case of continuous trim

- perform yoke jerk to disable the automatic trim (per previous 737 models)

- turn off electronic trim

- grab the trim wheel and hold it in place

---------------

MCAS Behaviour:

- On nose down event, pilots pitch the flight up, adjust trim

- Which disables MCAS for 5 seconds

- No continuous trim event manifests

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From what I've read on some pilot forums, Boeing made a few errors:

- Removed "Yoke Jerk"

- The 5 second delay removed the continuous trim conditions

- Didn't sufficient train pilots on this condition i.e. intermittent automatic trim

- Pilots did not see the behavior that they were trained for in the few seconds between each nose down event