skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sort of agree with the principle -- for instance, releasing easy-to-use pretrained SOTA models for "deepfakes" type tasks can cause real harm. There are existing repositories out there which are already morally dubious in my view -- if researchers from a large organization made a big advance and released the code, that would seem very irresponsible.

But I just don't buy that there's significant danger in the public having access to a generative language model, at their current level of quality.

It doesn't seem like this team was callous -- they seem to have honestly thought about potential problems before deciding to release it.
If you don’t know k beforehand, you have to (eventually) handle the case where k is large, possibly even equal to n.

If it turns out to be equal to n, you have to generate a permutation.

If it isn’t, you don’t need to, but you need to keep enough information around, in case it turns out that you need.

For example, by the time you’ve generated 2⁶³ integers in the range 1…2⁶⁴, you need to know which 2⁶³ integers still are ‘available’.

I think you can’t do that more compactly than by just picking the permutation to generate at start (whether you can efficiently determine the k-th number in that permutation is a separate problem)
Don't know many making $150k in London, though. Maybe the Facebooks, Google's
Understood. This is an area of image research I have an interest and some experience in (image segmentation, background inpainting, etc., through machine learning.)

I think your results are wonderful. I was just pointing out that from my background (a television producer - most recently Shark Week, etc.) that the Ken Burns effect and parallax effects are considered two different concepts (that can be combined, but mean different things.)
Thank you--I wondered where the sudden spike in sign-ups came from yesterday!

Fun fact: you can hit reply to the newsletter and it lands in my inbox. Reader feedback is always welcome.
No, you've ended up with standard web APIs so you can safely drop those polyfills whenever browser support is at an acceptable level.
I still organize with family via phonecalls, and friends via group text - which can be done on flip phones. I won't label that cruel mockery of an LCD - that flip phones have - a "screen" ;)
> ... until now

Nope, it's still not evidence. The fears may well be justified, but simply appealing to the fear itself is not a good-faith argument. If you think Jurassic Park was based on solid science, fine. It shouldn't be hard to marshal it to make your case.
Google, for example, have over 7,000 staff in Ireland. I know of at least 9 buildings in Dublin it owns/rents.
Domain names are not only for websites and SEO, but also for services like email. So I think yes, it is still good to have a relevant, predictable, memorable and pronouncable domain name for a company.
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention airtable.com. I've started using Airtable for all my tabular data need.
This is non-sequitur at best. Americans aren't allowed to visit Cuba either. This has been going on for years and has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
Deploying to Kubernetes with Helm and GitHub Actions
In reverse because China is the wolf.
Ah sorry I misread
Fun fact: I'm the Community Lead for the Open Guide to AWS. The last revision of that transfer guide was my work as well. :-)

It's time for a new one, but only so many hours in the day...
It seems like a good deal but what about the support and the upgrade path from Dell?

I get what you're saying about the filesystem. Personally, I use par2 for the most important things (photos).
I have heard that these batteries are used for small and long-distance remote systematic agricultural products and machinery.
It is common sense when travelling to a foreign land that punishes speech. I have been asked about politics pretty much in every European nation I've visited or resided in. It's not unusual to talk politics or disagree, and at worst you should end up leaving a bad impression on someone, not end up in prison.
> Do you know any big bank not using mainframes for their core operations? 90% of big banks use mainframes, so there must be some big banks that don't use them. Interested to know who they are. Chinese?

Monzo? They're getting bigger now, circa 3M customers. More than First Direct, Starling, Metro Bank.
I doubt that. They don't mind if you miss a simple single flight.
Why is insurance tied to "employers" in Germany? That seems antithetical to the "healthcare for all" that I keep hearing about Germany and other European countries. Why would a private contractor be on their own for health care? Taxes? I mean even as a contractor I still have to pay taxes like everyone else.
I didn't know what GANs were or how they worked, but this video from yesterday explained it really well. So I'll recommend it for anyone else curious!

The clear explanation of what a GAN is from the first 8-10 minutes of the video. And there are quite a few interesting examples in there as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCKbRCUyop8
iOS 13 Lockscreen lets you view contacts on locked phone
I think "let kids think for themselves" and "encourage good/discourage bad behavior" are correlated in a way that is opposite what you implied: being able to come to your own conclusions means that whatever behaviors you end up practicing (in a healthy environment, good ones, encouraged by parents/others) are your own choices, rather than things you'll slavishly repeat for fear of punishment/desire for praise later on in your life.

Tl;dr parents can encourage/punish their kids and let them think for themselves. This is healthy and good.

Also, to loop back to the larger discussion, using screens definitely doesn't discourage bullying behavior. For evidence I present . . . the internet, give or take.
Everyone should be free to choose who is contributing genetic material to their child (if you read the entire article, the donor in question was not entirely honest about the facts about themselves they put forth). But I think you’ll see people err on the side of caution, just as birth rates have plummeted across the world when you have reproductive freedom. Ain’t no prizes spending your life being miserable.
"This is cool, but it's not anonymization." Isn't it?

For clarity it might be good to establish what I mean when I talk about three terms: "identifiable" is either the original, encrypted with the key available, or a hashed version or bloom filter (or so) of low-entropy data such as email addresses or phone numbers; "pseudonymous" is replacing the data with a unique but disconnected value (e.g. a UUID, or encrypted with a random key and key destroyed); and "anonymous" is either no data, or data that has no relation to the original.

As far as I can tell, this algorithm replaces the data with a random value that has no relation to the original. I understand that if we have a list of HN comment metadata and you remove the usernames ("anonymize"), you can still find me by the time of posting correlated to DNS request logs at the ISP. In the case of pictures, I guess the place is usually identifiable + the time is known, thus you can potentially piece together who was there at that time, corroborated by the presence of a certain backpack or shirt.

Is that what you mean, or is there something else that makes you say it is either still identifiable or pseudonymized rather than anonymized?
Through a newsletter of Panic I came in contact with coda.io. It may not be perfect, but I’ve been loving it recently for simple to medium table usage and programming.
>then why not just run the workload in a z/OS emulator on commodity hardware?

Who are the vendors that provide a migration path from mainframe to a set of commodity hardware running an emulator, and subsequently provide continual maintenance and support?
Just because something is more complex than we currently can mathematically model, does not mean we cannot mathematically model it.

If we can mathematically model it, then we can use 1's and 0's to do so. What you are suggesting is that how we think and observe the world with our brains is not mathematically possible. If that's the case, then Math is wrong, or at best: an approximation to the universe.

Implication: Consciousness exists in the gap between the universe and math.
Eh, HN does have a solution for quotes; the way I formatted it. There's no technical solution for humans applying the wrong tool to the job. The mono-spaced non-wrapping style works well for code. I find it inexplicable that so many people persist in using it for quotes.
Anyone have a real-world use case for something like this? I must admit I'm having trouble thinking of any that aren't essentially deceptive. Because in my little biased world, I have no need of "text" per se, and what value any text has to me is closely linked to the fact that it came from a human.
What about it? I see about as much hate for Uber as WeWork. The difference is that WeWork’s risk profile seems higher.
I've never really gotten why AI types are so concerned about text-generation models.

Like, sure, I can kind of see why you wouldn't want to make the Deepfakes program public; it currently takes a lot of time, effort, and expertise to swap faces realistically in a video, and maybe we don't want to give every average Joe the ability to do that.

But pretty much everyone in the world can already pretty trivially write text. (I'm doing it right now!) And the "typical" generation output from these programs usually isn't very good—OpenAI had to try like thirty times for each of the prompts in their PR materials—so it usually ends up being less work to just write the fake news yourself instead of using the software.

My personal conspiracy theory is that all this talk of "the model is too dangerous to release" really boils down to "if we let people test out the model, they'll find it doesn't work as well as our PR team wants them to think it does".
I've always wondered if Apple was using technology like this for the movie covers in the Apple TV store, since they have a parallax effect. For those who don't know what I am talking about, the remote control has a touchpad on it, so as you wiggle your finger around (while a title is selected) the cover will move on a 3D axis w/ your finger until you use enough force to move to the next title. Figured there would be a relatively straightforward way to separate the layers w/ software.

But only certain titles have the effect ... so I would imagine the studios provide a layered asset that can get composed together.
You are making the presumption that a modern parent would permit their child to go outside and play without going with them. The primary reason most kids don't want to play outside is because their parent goes with them and kills every single opportunity for fun.
This sounds so much like the invasion from central America.
What do you learn when doing leetcode?
What do you learn from doing leetcode that you feel is good to know? Any aha moment that you'd like to share?

Today, I learn that to avoid signed integer overflow from the addition of two integers, do `small + (large - small)/2`. (Given that both small and large are within the legal range.) This can be useful in doing a binary search.
Somehow it feels wrong to be using Open Source software based on the authors' promotion efforts rather than the software's merit. It'd be better to have fewer evangelists and more meticulous developers. Then again, just like startups, mediocre projects can gain traction and improve significantly by attracting decent developers with a good vision/mission statement/presentation.
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> imagine trying to develop exploits for a system which is not commercially available

Well, looks like plenty of mainframes are very well exposed to the internet, which.. helps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfl4spvM5DI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ra4Ehmifh4

https://mainframed767.tumblr.com/post/29672128939/yall-encou...
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I think the title should be corrected. It is not a strictly functional language, it states that it is a multi-paradigm language, and the examples look more imperative than anything else to me. The docs say it leans toward functional dynamic programming but I'd like to see some justification for that claim.
Or you can just not do free market on something that should be a human right given the capabilities of modern medicine. It shouldn't be left up to market forces to decide who gets help. That kind of makes sense for some things like TVs and laptops but not life and death when for the most expensive items your only choice is life and death.
>> And? The point is that people are not their government.

Out of curiosity - I don't spend much time in the developed world - do you REALLY believe this?

The mere possession of 3,800 nuclear weapons over the better part of a century and despite the commitments in the NNPT - means that ultimately the developed world will hold the citizens of other countries responsible for the actions of their governments.

The cognitive dissonance is astonishing.
Not necessarily; after all, such a beacon will only let the world know that someone, somewhere is in the water; depending on where they fell in, rescue personnel may need days to get to the site if it is sufficiently remote and the weather is bad enough.

The main benefit of a PLB is to assist the vessel you fell from in finding you - unless you had the good luck to fall overboard near a heliport in decent weather or in a busy shipping lane, the PLB will (mostly) not be able to get a rescue effort by any other party under way in time.
Authoritarianism != Socialism
We've raised both our kids with "no-screens" (now 5 and 9 yrs old). They don't have their own devices and may not use ours. An exception is for the 9 yr old to use the laptop when learning to code at scratch.mit.edu. If they need to watch something - its a movie on the big screen in the evening only on if the next day is a school holiday.

Yes - they turn almost anything into a toy. They have access to all sorts of stuff to build things - lego, clay (and clay sculpting tools), scissors and paper, plenty of board games, and outdoors even when cold and/or rainy.
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I'm excited to dissect this paper, I strongly agree that marketing is everything for the success of a project. I have a really technical background and for me "marketing" doesn't mean any woo-woo, it's 1) crafting a clear message, 2) highlighting benefits vs features, 3) measure returns so you know where to focus marketing activities (aka your time).

To give an example with numbers, last year we launched Solo [1], an open security key. Solo is the successor of U2F Zero, a project that sold about 5k units = ~$45k in mid 2017-2018. In just 3 months (Sep-Nov 2018), focusing on a crowdfunding campaign [2], we made $125k from about 3k backers. Note, in the campaign, that we always referenced to benefits vs features (not trying to say this is perfect, just trying to show concrete examples -- also, most of the structure is copied frm Pebble [3], one of the most successful Kickstarter campaign):

- FIDO2: easy to use and always secure login.

- Open source: verified and trustworthy.

- Colors: choose from many to match your style.

- Hardware: quality that won't let you down.

- Getting Started guides: multilingual and accessible around the globe.

I just want to clarify that in no way I'm saying marketing comes before making the product. Of course, without U2F Zero, we couldn't have Solo made and shipped in just 3-4 months. Experience and technical abilities to execute are everything. But marketing makes the difference between good/sustainable revenue (or in general success, however you define it) vs not.

Very strictly related, is talking about your own project, to everybody. Marketing should help crafting a clear message, and focusing on why the listener should care. This brings to new ideas and -I think- it's at the core of open source.

Back to our example, while talking about Solo we got to know another project, Tomu [4], a tiny device that fits in the USB port, and by connecting with their team we ended up making Somu [5], a tiny security key that fits in the USB port, bringing together the best of both projects, namely tiny form factor and security.

In summary, I think that marketing not only is key to make your product successful, but also to help you talk about it and share it in a way that will bring more ideas, and even bigger success.

[1] https://solokeys.com

[2] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/conorpatrick/solo-the-f...

[3] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/getpebble/pebble-2-time...

[4] https://tomu.im

[5] https://www.crowdsupply.com/solokeys/somu
For that, you need a phone without a screen.

Not impossible, but likely it'd be a purpose-bought feature phone.
Ask HN: How hard is it to hire international remote workers?
If you're in USA/UK/Australia and are trying to hire remote workers from another country, how hard is the legal process? Is this something a small startup could think of doing? Or do they just not do it because of the legal hassles?
A lot of rural areas tend to vote for their party rather than for what makes sense.
I was expecting this to 'terraform' some shop into a dominoes, some kind of recipe for shop fitters to fitout a Dominoes in a standard way.

I assume this is all contained in style guides, and various other tomes. Has any company tried doing it programmatically though???
Food seasoning?
That will get you executed in Singapore, though the process for that happening is better understood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SingaporeEmbarkationCard....
Yes, I've submitted artwork to iTunes and they want (but don't require) a layered file for the artwork to create that parallax effect. You'll notice most just have the Title and (other text) as moveable layers, which is easy since those were probably created as separate layers when the artwork was created to begin with.

The background artwork is typically static, although I suspect this tool will be included in photoshop at some point at which time it will make it much easier to give this effect to backgrounds too.

Here are some specs if you're interested (there are various different docs depending on which assets you're submitting, this is just one example):

https://help.apple.com/itc/videoaudioassetguide/#/itc0c10422...
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I'm pointing out it's just not relevant to the conversation. They're too different to meaningfully (in good faith) bring up as a discussion point.

The original comparison read very much as whataboutism to me.
Punishing relatives for the crimes of family members is barbaric. I’d be surprised to see anyone at HN defending this sort of legal system.
It might be a nice side result to use your tech to identify foreground elements automatically to generate the camera motion, without using the 2.5D layering. Then you’d have a more traditional Ken Burns effect. It might not work at picking a specific face out of a crowd, but it would work for a lot of scenarios.

I find Apple’s automatic Ken Burns effect to be way too noisy and almost useless because it zooms in/out from random places in the pictures. When I manually edit a Ken Burns effect myself, there’s a lot less movement, and the movement is so much more meaningful and relevant to the video.
Using safe and well understood tech to handle my money sounds like a good thing.
Oh rad, thanks for the link!
You'll notice the effect isn't as good at about 7 seconds into the movie where the green grass between the bride and her maids moves with the bride.

Why does the algorithm think that is part of her, rather than the background?
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HN's API only works if (1) you have karma ≥ 2, and (2) you enter your uSeRName with exact case. Also, HN has a weapons cache. It's called LISP. LISP programmers like even their users to be immutable, so don't be surprised if it takes a few hours for the car of your cdr to merge with the cdr of our car.
Landlines exist

Loving the downvotes and excuses. Y'all remind me of my toddler when we say no TV.
I don't think inadequacy is the strong emotion I'm feeling. It's probably more relief, or some sense of hope. I wish this sort of youthful experience was more the norm the world over. Outside of the curator and minor planet part (which are very much out of the ordinary for obvious reasons), many of these other characteristics match up pretty closely with high achieving students I saw grow up around me in my own youth. I very much agree with a sibling comment that "This reads like a figurative kick in the face to those who argue against free education and social programmes."
Should have been "... and save money on hardware (pioneered by Google) ..." but too late to edit now.
Or to collect a large quantity of sacrificial subjects to placate the extraterrestrial alien conquerors.
I did not mean to shoot you down or anything, I in fact greatly appreciate your feedback! I unfortunately do not have a television / movie producer background but wish to learn more to better understand and support the workflow of professionals in this area. On a different note, I have recently not had time to watch television and hence just looked Shark Week up. It looks popular, congrats!
It BS to say "nobody is really up for changing this system", the whole dem party is for it. I don't like blanket statements like you're making. Some of us have been fighting this for years. There are 340 million Americans, we aren't all the same.
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That's one of many possible integration points. LU6.2, SNA, batch file transfers, remote DB2 connections, MQ queues, etc.
Which isn’t functional in the least, especially given how it’s typically used in academia in my experience!
>> US citizens, born in the us, who also never had chinese passports,

The simplistic American system of citizenship is not universal. Being born in a country does not always make one automatically a citizen of that country. So too does being born in country A not negate one's automatic citizenship in country B.

From the perspective of China, that a person was born in the US is immaterial. If they are born to Chinese parents then they are Chinese, especially when now standing inside China. This is why one should always talk to a lawyer before visiting "the old country" with kids born elsewhere.

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

Bigger horror story: First generation Iranian-Canadian family fly to Iran to introduce canadian-born grandchildren to Iranian-born grandparents. At airport for flight home.
19 years old? Male? born to Iranian parents? standing inside Iran? Have you done your military service?

Whether one can "disavow" a citizenship is a big question. Citizenship is not a hat. You cannot just move to Canada, marry a Canadian, and suddenly expect not to owe US taxes ... or not be drafted into a US war.
You don’t need to implement algorithms in order to teach them.
> ± a few percentage points

The variance is a lot higher than that. Tons of web projects are for internal tools (controlled environment), for mobile first, or in industries or language communities or countries or markets where the browser distribution is entirely different.

So as a professional what you do is (1) measure, (2) reach a business decision about browser support, and only then (3) choose technologies.

With polyfills and Babel, using new features in old browsers isn't really a problem, but it's unfortunate that this is often required, and it's unfortunate that Web development has become so fragmented by developers preferring to use tools built on the platform rather than authoring for the platform directly.
>He's a Windows guy but still, you'd expect he knows what he's doing.

Weird flex but ok.
Crazy how often this has been posted to HN.
We were doing a lot of reading to better understand video producers an their usage of the Ken Burns effect. We are ultimately still research scientists with no hands-on video-production experience but we made sure to do our homework. :)