skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Population growth is vital for the world economy [...] Governments will have to think creatively about ways to manage population, whether through state-sponsored benefits [...]

I actually have the impression that we're with quite a few too many people, and while we can't really help that (you can hardly murder, like, everyone in both Americas to get population down by ~15%), I expect that a decreased growth would be super beneficial for everything from available resources to waste management.

Sure, fewer working people on an aging population reduces growth in the short term, but I can't see anything but benefits in the long term if we would have a few generations with an average number of children just below 2. (For those who are on the fence, like me, this reason can be a part of the decision not to have kids.)

The article doesn't mention a single country below 1, so while being close to 1 is on the edge, every regional average you can make seems high enough. In fact, the global average of 2.4 is still too high (but it will come down, as per UN predictions, until it's only just above the replacement rate around the year 2100).
The real irony comes from an Administration who ran on the odious idea of "locking up" government employees who mishandled communications, who then turns around and begins a mass campaign of mishandling communications...
I learned how to use a calculator in Elementary school, that doesn't mean I knew how to solve calculus problems.

AI needs to know what to calculate. According to the article, at any step in the game, there are 10^26 possible actions to take. Good luck calculating which ones to try via brute force.
Yes. And that's my point: you don't need schemas to work with JSON. JSON Schema exists, of course, it would be strange if someone did not invent it, as it's an obvious idea. But I've yet to see anyone using it.
I wish one of them would just try and release a 180nm process in a way that allows public domain maskset distribution.

If it flops, so be it; if not, many people like myself can suddenly start hacking on analog or mixed IC designs for potentially exotic things, like analog-computer-based UAV controllers that integrate the control loop with e.g. external feedback like simple doppler/chirp radar to reach microseconds of feedback latency and thus enabling monolithic closed-loop control.

A miniaturized version of https://www.research-drone.com/en/ with the blade's counterweight being a single neodymium magnet in an outrunner configuration and a ferrite stator fabricated using SMD inductor technology to target the 5g (+ payload + battery) UAV class would be interesting, but the ~3KHz (typical disc loading and high subsonic tip speed) rotation rate (~200k rpm) make software control of the motor driver difficult.
The vibe I get from the Nintendo direct showcase is at least straightforward and honest. You have some middle aged businessman in a suit who clearly doesn't play any video games. They shove game after game at you without too much fluff or politics. They don't explicitly say this but in my head I hear, "We want to sell a shit ton of games and make a ton of money from you, look at this game, this game and this game! Oh we aren't done check out nostalgia game 1 and 2!!"

I find that sort of honesty refreshing when companies like Blizzard, appear to champion social causes in order to gain a mass following to sell games, rather than sell a good solid game without the political fluff piped in.
> Agents were capped at a max of 22 agent actions per 5 seconds, where one agent action corresponds to a selection, an ability and a target unit or point, which counts as up to 3 actions towards the in-game APM counter. Moving the camera also counts as an agent action, despite not being counted towards APM.

I'm happy to see that they've greatly improved the APM cap. During the earlier showmatch they had an extremely naive cap on the average APM during the whole game. Which meant that the AI could take it easy for most of the time and then during battle sequences hit peaks of 2000 APM. Also the previous cap was based on the in-game APM counter, which doesn't count some things like moving the camera, which is now addressed. The current state sounds a lot better.

However it seems still superhuman in mechanical non-strategy ways, e.g. a human can misclick (click too early/late when moving the mouse, or just miss the target with the cursor completely) or do accidental double clicks etc. These end up being very costly mistakes against a zero mechanical mistake AI. Which in turn means that the AI can win with an inferior strategy due to the extra gains it has via superior mechanical accuracy. In other words this artificial intelligence is still under significacnt artificial motor skills welfare, and thus even if it starts beating pro players we shouldn't be too quick to talk about how it's the intelligence part that got it the win.

All of that said, I'm liking the progress and am excited to see what they achieve with this next. Would love another showmatch against pro players.
That is political problem. We have designed our world for constant economic growth and governments are reliant on growing tax base. It doesn't need to be that way.
Fishermen, regulators, and environmentalists work together to save a fishery
> the internal human desire to reproduce.

It's pretty clear throughout recorded history that this is not a universal desire. Huge numbers of people have not only chosen not to have kids, many of whom have consciously traded off the opportunity to reproduce in exchange for other opportunities.
That's 11 years away. Relatively easy to build a lot of trains and cars by then. There are a lot of companies in Europe and over the world that are eager to bid.
Isn't this the plot to Idiocracy?
Yep, I've seen both in our botanic gardens :)
I don’t question his decision, people should do what is right for them.

That said, something caught my eye: he was spending a lot of time tweaking the Linux UI instead of working. This was me fifteen or twenty years ago: wasting tons of time tweaking things. Now, I use Pop Linux as is in my System76 laptop and before that for years I just accepted the default Ubuntu setup. Good enough.
Great questions. Happy to answer them here.

First of all, this work builds on Hinton et al.’s second paper, the one about EM routing of matrix capsules, from last year: https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub46653 This work is only minimally related to his previous paper (Sabour et al.'s paper) from two years ago!

RESPONSES TO #1:

* The same algorithm also achieves SOTA in another domain, natural language. Same code. I think it’s significant that the same code, without change, produces SOTA in two domains. See the README and tables 3 and 4 in the draft paper. Don't you think this is significant?

* It requires fewer parameters: 272K instead of 310K for Hinton et al. (2018)’s model and 2.7M for the best performing CNN on record (Cireşan et al.); see table 2. That’s 10x fewer parameters than the best performing CNN on record.

* It requires an order of magnitude less training: 50 epochs instead of 300 for Hinton et al. (2018)'s model.

* It’s trained with minimal data augmentation, unlike Hinton et al.’s and Cireşan et al.’s models (the latter, in particular, uses a ton of data augmentation). Also, unlike Hinton’s model, it accepts full-size images instead of 32x32 crops that are 9 times smaller. Finally, we do not measure accuracy as a mean of multiple crops. So, the model has fewer parameters, requires less training, and has greater capacity.

* It seems to be learning a form of "reverse graphics" on its own, from only pixels and labels, without having to optimize explicitly for it. See the README, figure 4, and the 24 plots and captions in supplemental figures 6 and 7. This is rather significant, don't you think?

RESPONSES TO #2:

* As far as I know, the best attempt at recreating Hinton et al.’s work on EM routing is by Ashley Gritzman at IBM, in July of this year -- only a bit over two months ago. As far as I can tell, his model does not come close to matching Hinton’s performance:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00652

https://github.com/IBM/matrix-capsules-with-em-routing

https://medium.com/@ashleygritzman/available-now-open-source...

* There have been a few other efforts, all of which seem to fall short of Hinton's performance. Gritzman does a good job of covering those other efforts in his Medium article. None of these efforts propose any new ideas, as far as I can tell.

RESPONSES TO #3:

* Me too. So does Hinton: https://openreview.net/forum?id=HJWLfGWRb ... and so does everyone else.

* Alas, as Paul Barham and Michal Isard at Google Brain showed earlier this year, currently it can be challenging to scale capsule networks to large datasets and output spaces, in some circumstances, due in part to current software (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) and hardware (e.g., GPUs, TPUs) systems, which are highly optimized for a fairly small set of computational kernels, in a way that is tightly coupled with memory hardware, leading to poor performance on non-standard workloads, including basic operations on capsules. Source: Barham and Isard (2019) - https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3321441 (the PDF is available for free download at that link).

* My draft paper mentions Barham and Isard’s work.
What reality is that I wonder?
Because everyone uses it. Once a social app becomes mainstream it gets a giant advantage due to the amount of inertia needed to switch entire social circles to a new platform.

Most new social platforms that make it big don't really take over older ones, they just grab a younger generation - usually just by being the network their parents aren't in.
If your git repo provider closes your account, would you lose your data?

You should probably be backing up monthly or quarterly so that you have a local copy of all those repositories.
Same with unending growth of suburbs. Paving the world and less people to pay for the pavement maintenance.
Who cares what a company trying to defraud you thinks about you taking action against it? Really.
But people are wild about it. Low birth rates in wealthy countries are arrived at by choice. As a US citizen with two kids, I actively chose not to have more. This is my preference (and, in aggregate, the preference of the rest of the US as well).

If one or both of them were likely to die before reaching maturity, and my retirement plans assumed they would pay for my dotage... then maybe I'd have more? But that's not the case; as it is I'm happy with my choice to just have two.
Check the relevant laws and regulations for your country (the state section on the Wassenaar website should link to them, or at least name them to look them up). You can probably still sell exploits as long as you get an export license for them.

As I understand it, VUPEN was buying exploits before the exploit section was added to the Wassenaar agreement. They attempted to dodge the agreement by moving the company from France to Singapore (which is not a Wassenaar signatory), but then Singapore still added the exploit section to their laws [0]. VUPEN shut down before that law change anyway, due to bad press from the Hacking Team leaks.

[0] https://twitter.com/cbekrar/status/704664859372158976
yes, but our definition of boilerplate is probably wider than usual. e.g. class definition, constructor injection, junit test layout: @beforeAll, @beforeEach etc. Main method/entrypoint construction of all units. As well as package management deployment etc.

i.e. we consider the majority of your application project to be boilerplate, all except your core business logic. This allows you to generate pretty much everything other than your core functions.
The late cancellation by host without no specific penalties seems to be one of the most prevalent yet disturbing elements in this.

The one who's travelling has the weakest odds of all. The traveler will be in a foreign place with no place to stay. In contrast, the host has no losing cards except some income. The rules should, thus, have been written to protect the traveler at the expense of the host because the host can take more hits from bad luck than the traveler.

If the host really needs to cancel they should have to put the traveler in a real hotel as an upgrade to remove all doubt of the traveler getting into a place that could be worse. They have already received the money from the traveler so they only need to pay for the difference. Just cancelling late without any particular reason could be done but at a very high cost. And if the host's place did burn down for real then a few hundred extra to pay for the guest's hotel for a few nights will surely be a negligent cost.
It's not "stealing"
How do I check availability without signing up to be pestered by a salesman?
Why would facebook comply?
Transparency Is Audio AR
"Rules for thee but not for me."
Are there any podcasts that you would especially recommend for building conversational prowess?
Would this attack have been preventable with signal?
I think OP is asking how NSO was able to escape the phone's sandbox model. To do that, they would need an exploit for the phone's OS, in addition to the WhatsApp exploit. So, the obvious question: which operating systems were specifically targeted?

Another comment mentions Pegasus... that was an iOS exploit patched in 9.3.5 (3 years ago). Does that line up with the timeline of this article?

Given that Android exploits are far more common than iOS, I would expect they had one of those too.

But then, where are Apple and Google in this case? It wasn't solely Facebook who was exploited; their app was just the initial vector to escalate to an attack on the OS. NSO probably could have achieved the same with dozens of other apps, but WhatsApp was chosen because of ease of deliverability (messaging) and popularity.
The most obvious one to me is violations of FERPA rules and posting private information/pictures of my kids in a public forum.
Per-capita doesn't make sense in this case. This is about the total flow of food. It again wouldn't make sense to say that a small town in the middle of no where with say 100 people who have the highest per-capita food export when in total they aren't even a drop in the bucket in importance to somewhere in CA or the Midwest that is an agriculture power house and accounts for most of our total food production.
Airbnb has functionally became where it is expected to get the latter two. When I've used Airbnb I have never expected nor cared about the "charm" or the "local resident", it's been a de-facto hotel. If there was a problem, of course I would expect Airbnb to do their job. Why wouldn't you?
distributed in-memory computing for massive datasets to big to fit into vertically scaled memory. generic tabular files, not tables. delta lake.
I wonder if the number of deaths due to driving is greater than, equal to, or less than people who were saved due to ambulances or doctors driving fast to the ER.
Learning cursive is a waste of time like video games are a waste of time. The process teaches hand-eye coordination, patience, and even learning itself.
No. AFAIK it doesn't do any DPI. It's only for user messaging (content injection).
> This. The march to authoritarianism accelerates when people accept the meme that the truth is unknowable.

How do you know?
I don't see how that's relevant. _They can and will still fail_

What happens then they do?
It has nothing to do with sheer weight and everything to do with the thrust-to-weight ratio.

Saturn V was slow to liftoff because the launch configuration had a very low thrust-to-weight ratio, IIRC about 1.1
I'm not sure why the discussion is always framed as Swift vs. Rust vs. Go. It's not like any of them are the dominant backend languages.

Swift can be a great choice for backends for lots of reasons (shared code between client and server, client devs become full-stack devs, etc.), and it has its drawbacks as well.

This idea that for Swift to thrive as a server language it has to win some contest against Go and Rust makes absolutely no sense to me.
Just move lol
US-style healthcare would be a disaster for our NHS patients – don’t vote for it
Tested using a "commercially available industrial battery" (with micron-thick nickel foils inserted) -- sounds promising!
Or really good automation.
No one is given anything you want a largerr voice join up with others.

Those with money can pay someone to tell someone else something.

Those with time can tell everyone they meet.

That's how a democracy. Some have bigger voices compared to others.
My takeaway from this is that the logistics network is very brittle and contains many weak points:

"A disruption to any of these [nine] counties [in California] may have ripple effects for the food supply chain of the entire country."

and

"... a lot of grain produced throughout the Midwest is transported ... via the waterways of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

The infrastructure along these waterways ... have not been overhauled since their construction in 1929. They represent a serious bottleneck ... If they were to fail entirely, then commodity transport and supply chains would be completely disrupted."

It would be interesting to know if the food logistics network of other countries have a similar scale-free topology with a handful of very important nodes and overlooked, but critical infrastructure. I'm guessing yes, they do.
You realize when I'm casually scrolling my facebook feed in public (like the break room at work, at a Church event, etc) and bare breasts pop up because someone felt the need to show strangers on the internet they breast feed it can have very real consequences including me losing my job, right?

One I reported was a woman doing duck lips, in a few second video lip, with one breast completely bare and the other mostly exposed with her child appearing to be wholly disinterested in feeding while she actively squeezed her breasts together with her inner upper arms and rotated back and forth to showcase them. Reported it, thousands of likes and even more comments, did not violate community standards and allowed to remain. Literally came up, shared by someone, while I was sitting at church waiting for a meeting to start. It was blatantly obvious she was just finding a way to show her breasts off, I feel no remorse for reporting her post, especially when her blatantly showing her breasts off ended up being 'fine' to Facebook.
I get the implication but America isn't Russia and they just don't do it, too big of a headache, too easy to blowback into political realm. Officers hate when clandestine work erupts into public political drama.

Plus, why would you hire a team of people to kidnap a citizen and beat them when you can assign a ticket to a government blackhat at the NSA who will run the commands against your devices and take what they need without you ever knowing.

Even then, there is substantial risk of whistleblowing for illegal data collection against citizens (Snowden et al) so they would instead in a clandestine manner ask a fellow member of the Five Eyes to perform the surveillance "legally".

Our society has known about Five Eye roundabout spy agreements for a long time and has largely shrugged, so the risk of public political blowback doing this would be minimal.
It says the hackers had access to WhatsApp servers, so they can tell who is talking to whom, and depending on how WhatsApp does encryption they may have been able to decrypt messages. I say may, because WhatsApp had pitched itself as an encrypted messaging system, though personally I’d bet they could because it’s easy to claim your service is encrypted and yet still design backdoors for yourself.
Some jurisdictions consider potato guns to be firearms.

California law enforcement has said in the past that non-pneumatic potato guns with bores wider than 0.6 inches are "destructive devices" (possession is a felony). I don't know if that definition has been tested in court, but I wouldn't want to be the test case.

In Oregon they're considered firearms (even pneumatic ones). Can't possess them if you're a felon and if you shoot them somewhere you're not supposed to (like your own yard in some cities) you can get hit with the same charges you'd get for firing a real gun.
I get your point that a highly-motivated attacker has other, less sophisticated, ways of getting to your data.

However, if we're playing poker and I learn your tell, it's in my best interest that you are naive to that fact. While not the best analogy, I would think that the same concept would apply to state actors.
Taplytics (YC W14) is hiring Node engineers to build our experiment platform
I figure as long as we have 100 million people of child bearing age we’ll be just fine. And it seems like we will have at least 5 times that many for a long long time

But I think we will go a little Upton Sinclair. As I understand it, early development is dictated by the diameter of the birth canal. Artificial wombs would allow a far longer gestation period. Even a couple more months would rapidly advance brain development.

All of this would be easier on the parents, which may mean more kids.
Really? I'm pointing out that religious populations like Catholics and Muslims are increasing and im being accused of racism? These are the two most diverse religious groups on the planet. Your accusation is laughable
> It doesn't make sense to stub out dependencies in unit tests (unless you absolutely have to). Stubbing out dependencies is like stubbing out native functions, operators or loops. They are called dependencies for a good reason; because your class depends on them and assumes that they work. Trying to make dependencies substitutable is overengineering and leads to poor design and gives you more work when implementing unit tests.

This doesn't really make sense when it comes to web services and distributed systems. Often you can mirror a service dependency with a code dependency--whether that code dependency is a proper client library or just an ad-hoc client module that encapsulates the particular service calls you have to make--and then inject that dependency. It's really valuable to be able to stub those out if you don't want your unit tests making actual service calls.

> Dependency injection is particularly bad because it makes it difficult to find the path to the dependency's source code (which is critical for debugging).

...

> Any kind of injection of dependencies should be done via an explicit method/constructor parameter.

In my relatively limited experience with Spring, explicit constructor parameters are the idiomatic mechanism, combined with annotations. And when you follow this idiom, it's actually pretty easy to trace back to the dependency in IntelliJ.
Autoaim cannot be solved absolutely by technical solutions.
Even if the executable is fully electric fenced and verified matching a checksum, aimbots can just read the video buffer from a different process.
In practice, you can statistically analyze player hit metrics and then monitor people who appear to be too good.
However, this requires basic customer service which is less likely to come from a free server for a noncommercial game.
Immigrants pay for all of it, pensions and civil engineering.