skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Both Hinton’s capsules papers have been released at the same time (Oct 2017). You can see the first comment on OpenReview page for the EM paper is dated Nov 2017. From what I remember, the two papers appear very similar with the main difference in how the routing is implemented.

2. You cite a convnet result from 2011 (!). Don’t you think a modern convnet would do vastly better on this task?

3. Could input size play a role? Did you try feeding 96x96 inputs to the models you’re comparing against, to see if they also benefit from it?

4. I’m a bit confused as to why other implementations failed to reproduce Hinton’s results given that he open sourced their code (link in the first OpenReview comment).

5. Ok, Imagenet is too slow, how about Cifar-10? What would it take to reach, say, 95%? That would be equivalent to a well trained Resnet-18. If you can show such result, I personally would become more interested, because I worked quite a bit with Cifar-10, but not with Norb.

I think you might be onto something, but it’s still not clear that capsules approach is scalable and ultimately superior to plain convnets.
Yes that is exactly what I meant
It’s really sad that GitHub, once a great company, sold to total military-industrial complex bastards.
Correct, I'm not a founder, and honestly I roll my eyes a lot about how founders on this site are treated like some sort of demigod.

You didn't comment on my opinion that Airbnb is complicit in the scams. Do you not agree?
You're right! That's a very real and very reasonable concern.

That said, it's fairly uncommon that the choir actually walks away electorally. It tends to require something very dramatic, like Roy Moore. It's far more common that they grumble a bit and vote for whatever anyway, because you committed the sin of advocating for the policies they want while not centering the FBI's racist history.

Again, your concerns are quite reasonable. It's just perhaps possible that what it takes to lose those votes is more than might be guessed.
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Font-Family for me is "SFMono-Regular","Liberation Mono","Roboto Mono",Menlo,Monaco,Consolas,"Courier New",Courier,monospace

Looks like I'm falling all the way back to consolas. I'm pretty sure SFMono comes with macOS, which explains the platform differences between us.

That might explain why the fi ligature has been a common complaint lately, as more people start using San Francisco in their sites.
I think thats a good idea but i’d settle for my money back in full so i can maximise options. Right now people are being scammed all over the world because hosts abuse their visitors insecure position. Airbnb needs a buyers guarantee like ebay offers.
No person is illegal.
Oh BS. It’s clearly apparent over the last few election cycles that if your side does something, “it’s unfortunate, but we’re trying to fix it” and if the other side does something “they are horrible people who are monsters”.

It comes down to nothing more than scoring political points.
well i would if i knew the language, sounds like a challenge though
It’s not “nothing” to refuse to profit, directly or indirectly, from behaviors you find unethical.
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Modern US$ annual inflation rates are under 3%.[0]

What's an average mutual fund's annual return? For mine, it's around 4-6%, I think, which agrees with the average here: "The 20-year return on mutual funds averages 4.67%."[1]

So, as long as you safely invest what you're saving, aren't you statistically covered and then some?

0: https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-i...

1: https://www.creditdonkey.com/average-mutual-fund-return.html
I think it's baked into a certain conservative mindset that they are the ones who don't have anything to hide, which makes sense because if you don't have many progressive opinions then you probably aren't chafing against authority too often.

And, I think authoritarians (many of them seem to march under the "conservative" banner these days) are fine with surveillance because they see it as a hallmark of an effective authoritarian government, and again they see themselves as members of the "in" group. They want those subversives who are hiding things to be found and punished.

Unfortunately, I don't think any of these people will be terribly moved by the fact that leaders of progressive social movements in the past or present have been targeted by surveillance. Their world-views are shaped by a perception that they will not be targeted by an overreaching government, and such movements are comprised of their explicit political enemies.

However, I think we stand to win over a lot of people with a libertarian bent who might be turned off by an anti-surveillance movement strongly associated with modern leftism. To what degree we risk alienating those leftists, I have no idea.
Thousands of QNAP NAS devices have been infected with the QSnatch malware
As long as _any_ segment of a population has exponential growth; the population has exponential growth. It is true with bacterial antibiotic resistance, true with cancer cell adaptation to chemo, true on our little blue marble.
Where was Eden? Perhaps in a sun-baked salt plain in Botswana
Unfortunate reality is that, abuse and all, the larger society, ie - outside the privacy activist bubble, completely supports this sort of thing.

The police will just tell the average soccer mom that we need to track everything so that we know who to watch in order to stop the next mass shooter. And that soccer mom will applaud the police and say, "Hurry up! Keep the crazies away from my kids' school!"

That some person somewhere has to deal with a snooping spouse is about as meaningful to your average voter as some black kid getting picked up because the system doesn't work on black people. Most don't care. Sorry, but that's just the cold reality.

To think they will care, is to ignore human nature.

To count on them caring in order to stop the government from implementing mass surveillance, is to be not terribly pragmatic.
>Who is tracking / investigating what just happened? How would they even know?

For you selling to Zerodium, it would be the government agency in your country in charge of managing export controls. Unless you are bragging about it on social media, it is unlikely that they would know about you selling the exploit. As long as Zerodium doesn't tell your country about you selling the exploit, it will be very difficult for your country to find out (unless they investigate where you are getting tens of thousands of dollars from).

For Zerodium reselling, it primarily falls under the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). If they are selling to somebody nasty the Department of State's Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation could be involved, along with Homeland Security. Since Zerodium is very public about buying and selling exploits, they are certainly on the radar of these agencies. If they don't see Zerodium applying for export licenses, they will investigate.

>Would getting an export license even be possible?

Contact your local government. It might be difficult to do so as an individual, so you could need to form a small company.
Oh yes, like it will ever happens... Remember, it's mainly developed countries who are childless while poor, uneducated countries, and often war-ridden, continue to explode demographically.
Of course, for stupid and/or lazy GPL infringers strings is often a good first check.
I'd tell them and give them 3 to 6 months to bring it up to spec and deliver what was there. From their perspective, they are giving you the benefits they probably already have at the larger company that acquired you. Give them a chance to make a change as in a big company that can take a bit of time.

If not, vote with your feet.
In a similar vein, a good friend of mine (+ all his family, about 10 in all) was kicked out of an AirBnB at the last minute because it had been double-booked on Booking.com at a higher price, and had just been rented via that site.

I've come across a few such stories.
> > I hope the US creates a sovereign wealth fund.

> Umm, and where would that "wealth" come from?? The US national debt is over 22 trillion dollars.

By issuing more debt. Debt isn't always a bad thing, especially when it results in an even larger amount of revenue. That's partially why looking at the 22 trillion debt figure in a vacuum is almost meaningless. Looking at the change over time of the debt/GDP ratio will give you a much fuller picture.
Yet quantum mechanics is full of phenomenon that operate counter to our understanding of cause and effect. Physicists accept things like double slit interference - why do they seem to consider these time travel induced causal paradoxes so off-limits?
The point being made is that if you have enough Nukes you can just tell the US "I don't like Codes 831 and 832, change them or I'll wipe your country out"
You don't seem to be considering that each one of those additional people is a mouth to feed, agricultural land to farm, a house, car and iPhones for them, some number of tonnes of carbon and other lifetime emissions.

The planet and its resources has a finite carrying capacity. Given we have most of the world in need of developing to reach the levels we enjoy, I suspect we are far past that capacity already -- though I am unlikely to live to see the consequences of that. We've used the world's most fertile land already. We've had the fossil fuel fertiliser dividend. Do we continue to grow and pretend growth is normal and necessary until we absolutely need another agriculture miracle? Or do we try and construct a future where everyone has a chance of abundance?

Even claiming innovation is partly a function of population size is far too simplistic - we've had periods where small countries were punching orders of magnitude above their population weight. There'll be little innovation if the food supply breaks.
There has been an increase both in public awareness and degree under this administration. Ironically, it seems to me that that is partially due to the words of the administration. The previous administration had a tendency to talk a good game about immigration but then in practice implemented some policies that should have been unacceptable. But whereas the previous administration was able to cultivate and air of "We don't want to do it this way, but we're not seeing any practical alternatives," The current administration has been far too cozy with anti-hispanic nationalism and cannot maintain that fig-leaf of "good people acting under a bad situation" in the public consciousness.

Rhetoric matters, and planting the concept in the public discourse that they see undocumented immigrants as rapists and murderers has done this administration no favors.
That's actually a positive quality in business. The end product is what makes money, so getting there should be the goal, not to enjoy the journey of programming...

Some programmers (like my self) enjoy the act of programming and lose sight of the end goal.

Ideally when making an app or website you want to code as little as possible, whilest leaving it open for extension.

Your distain for the software development process would actually motivate you to iterate on products faster and choose better ways to develop faster...
One guess from a super quick scan can be that we use type-specific compression algorithms. So if your table has one column of timestamps, another of floats, another int, another string, the database employs different compression algorithms (typically best-in-class) based on the column type.

Quick scan of the Oracle paper couldn't find specifics, other than something like this:

"Warehouse Compression provides two levels of compression: LOW and HIGH. Warehouse Compression HIGH typically provides a 10x reduction in storage, while Warehouse Compression LOW typically provides a 6x reduction"

That would at least suggest that they aren't doing anything type-specific like we are.
Nobody writes C# except for the sake of fitting into the .NET ecosystem. Java is the original dorky reference-oriented language with underlying bytecode, and after 20 years of runtime optimization it's still the best.

Newbies of every stripe are encouraged to think that language is the entry point for software development, but it's a teaching moment that most teachers fail. The language is not important.

The runtime is important.
I’m confused so you are saying the language where using StartDate one place and start_date another without issues is better than the ones that error out because you used different names? Seems like a recipe for disaster like the early days of IE that would try to render broken markup, which led to the web being littered with broken webpages that relied on IE specific quirky attempts to save them in order to be consistent.
How does requiring facebook to fact-check (fact according to who?) take their power away? It just gives them more power.
That's a huge bet, especially given that we have currently no way around the finite capacity of the atmosphere to absorb CO2.
I do this.

But more and more often, people are responding:

"You're not the government."

So it doesn't work as well as people think it does.
I would also like to know more about why you think Borg's encryption is questionable. I'm not familiar with Borg's internals, but there's not much one could do wrong here, as it should just be simple symmetric encryption. Does it not use a strong cipher? Is the cipher used incorrectly? Is the key derivation method weak?
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Originally "Vacation Rental By Owner" -- which I thought was the name of the web site years ago.
Huh?

The Programs division [of INS] was responsible for handling all the functions involved with enforcement and examinations, including the arrest, detaining, and deportation of illegal immigrants as well as controlling illegal and legal entry.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Naturalization...
I recently laser cut a "Pixel 4 XL" in acrylic to see if I liked the form factor before considering it. I put my other phone in my desk for a day and just carried around this brick of plastic where my phone usually goes. The XL form factor is alright, but I really loved just fidgeting with a phone-like form, flipping it in my hand, putting it in my pocket, all without any notification buzzes or unread emails.
The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident (Chinese: 六四事件, liùsì shìjiàn), were student-led demonstrations in Beijing (the capital of the People's Republic of China) for the establishment of basic human and press rights and against the Communist-led Chinese government in mid-1989. More broadly, it refers to the popular national movement inspired by the Beijing protests during that period, sometimes called the '89 Democracy Movement (Chinese: 八九民运, bājiǔ mínyùn). The protests were forcibly suppressed after Chinese Premier Li Peng declared martial law. In what became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, troops with assault rifles and tanks fired at the demonstrators trying to block the military's advance towards Tiananmen Square. The number of civilian deaths was internally estimated by the Chinese government to be near or above 10,000.
Here’s one in Common Lisp if you’re interested in comparing loc with a lisp :) https://github.com/SahilKang/cl-snake
Ditto leaseweb. From what I know about them there is no way they would cooperate with something like that. If this is true it is major league news.
Taxes are not voluntary. I pay taxes for the sole reason that I do not support armed men coming to my house to jail me for not paying taxes.

They are paid under duress. I do not consent.
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Trump has accomplished much more than you think he has. He has done a good job of using controversy to divert people from a great deal of the significant changes he has made via executive authority to the various government agencies under his control.
Your essay reminded me of the local function extension in gcc. A local function has access to the variables in scope when it was defined.
don't be obtuse. you know the difference. or you're a white nationalist yourself.
We don't know their level of happiness, but recent versions showed happiness and health greater than ours. In any case, they didn't collapse the entire planet's systems in a few hundreds years, so our systems don't stack very well

Prehistoric man may well have been happier than people today... while things were good. When food was plentiful, the weather nice and the living' was easy, it was all roses. Until your mate busted a leg ... and died. Until your kid gets a toothache ... and then dies. Until the rains don't fall, the herds go away... and your entire clan dies. They probably weren't so happy then.

This rose colored glasses view of the deep past ignores the extreme misery people endured to get to the good times. It is, IMO, just absurd.

Finally, the idea that prehistoric folk lived in harmony with nature is just silly. They routinely set huge wildfires to drive prey, they would chase entire herds off cliffs and then harvest a handful of animals. Yes they laughed, loved and wept tears of joy. But they also murdered, raped and wept tears of sorrow. And experienced the latter far more often than anyone today. (For example, almost everyone who survived to adulthood wee half or more of their children die. And I would be very very surprised if each child's death was not felt as keenly as people do today).
That guardian article was pretty bad. It scared a lot of people from WhatsApp (which is still in general mode secure than most options) to text messaging by claiming that this was somehow some huge security flaw.

From WhatsApp’s point of view this was a reasonable ux trade off. It is a major pain point of signal when it does this (particularly in group chats where it is more likely to happen).

But I agree that from a strict security focused point of view this is a disadvantage to WhatsApp.
You're assuming that legal immigrants from around the world working high paid tech jobs have common cause with "illegal" immigrants coming across the southern border.

In my anecdotal experience it's not so simple.
Jesus Christ. It was called INS and did the same damn thing. Who cares if the name changed?
Thanks for the reply!

What about people who are not politically conservative but are naive and/or not particularly aware of the history of the FBI and similar organizations?
I'm curious what side you perceive standardUser to be on. They are making the case that this wasn't acceptable under the Obama administration either to younger generations, but they lacked the political power and voice to do anything about it. Voice and political power that they are now finding as they age into voting enfranchisement and build political action blocs.
Is there ever going to be a radically new design system that is not an iteration of another design system? I really can't think of anything that could be done fundementally different about UI design but I also can't image that it's going to stay the same for ever. Does anyone know of a design trend that's entirely new?
I agree that that answer is strange. I would have assumed that everyone would answer that it's better to avoid the stall in the first place than have to deal with recovering from it. Clearly, I'm wrong!
I have a Linux config I wrote for my desktop manager 8? Years ago. It took me about a week to write, and is themed to my hearts consent. I’ve barely touched it since then, once a couple years ago to add more workspaces, and another a couple weeks ago to change the theme

It gives me the same keybjndings I want everywhere. Linux now feels the same regardless of what distro I’m using, and it’s just the way I like it now.

It’s easy to get suckered in to ricing you’re environment, but you get tired of it eventually and just copy/paste the config around.

Windows scares me at this point, it doesn’t have a nice timing window manger and I inevitably lose what I’m working on in a pile of windows.
I'm reminded a bit of his investment in Alibaba - when he met Jack Ma he says he had no business plan or revenue but he could tell he had charisma and leadership and so invested. I guess he tried to do similar with Adam but it didn't work out quite the same.
Well I just stayed in a hotel in Vegas and the air conditioner didn’t work. It was 2 am when I arrived due to late plane. The last thing I wanted to do was wait around for a repair guy or pack it all up and change rooms. At least with the faucet it was a pretty easy fix I could do in about two minutes and it helped the homeowner out. After reading through most of the thread below I would agree I’m generally more nonchalant that many others. I guess I never appreciated the range of awful experiences people have had and how they feel about it. Travel can be rough... I just had a flat tire in the Mojave desert and had to pay $55 to fix it at midnight. The rental car company initially wanted to accuse me of doing donuts or riding off road but once I got someone sane on the phone they gave the straight up policy on these situations. Upon return I showed the repair receipt and they deducted $100 off for the inconvenience. That was cool. I guess you just have to take each experience differently and assess the situation you’re in.
Tungsten is not used in training ammo because there is no need of high penetration; it is used in live ammo.
This had got recent attention in the mainstream media. I went down the rabbit hole of reading about McKamey Manor a couple years ago. It's very very strange and somethings don't add up.
Website privacy options are hard to find and use
"Free multi-player 3D tank battle game for Windows, Linux, and macOS" is front and center on the home page.
It may also be that we're operating in a slightly more delayed fashion (partially based on chunk boundaries), so we can organize across a lot larger range. For example, if you choose to segment by a device_id, it might scan 1M rows to assemble blocks/segments of device_ids, with each device_id having 1000 records to compress in a "mini column".

This also leads to significant query performance settings if you common filter by device_id, for example. Which are super common in time-series workloads for IT monitoring / devops / IOT / etc.
> the totality of the individual, the consciousness, is gone

why is it gone? not necessarily disgreeing, but i'm curious
I agree. Bitemporal databases can natively handle late-arriving data in these kinds of upstream timestamp integration scenarios.

However, the intersection of bitemporal indexes and columnar time-series queries seems important and yet I haven't seen anything that looks like it might offer both, possibly asides from kdb+ and SAP HANA.

Disclosure: I work on https://github.com/juxt/crux (which is optimised for bitemporal graph joins and doesn't currently employ columnar indexes)
This feels like a pretty defeatist attitude to me. Just because your portion of ICE’s budget is insignificant doesn’t mean you have to support ICE.

And even if it is purely symbolic, lots of symbolic actions do more than nothing.

At the very least it may improve employee morale to not support ICE which may increase Github’s employee retention rate, which may not be a big deal for ICE but may be a bigger deal for Github.

And finally, death by a thousand cuts is certainly a thing.
Really I have gotten the impression from my experience that employers tend to be irrationally picky and arbitrary about employees.
They dismiss perfectly good canidates for "culture fit" or able to bullshit flatter their ego enough or for not having magical 2-5 years of experience for entry level.
Yet if you have them or have a full time job they dogpile you with recruitment attempts - and spend years trying to fill a short term contract or you acknowledge that Cost of Living affects the salary you are willing to accept.

It seems the great recession broke their fragile HR minds.