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Hey, congrats on the paper, I read it a while ago and thought it was really interesting.

I tried implementing it, and the samples generated by the Teacher seem to suffer from mode collapse (as if the generator is ignoring the random vector z but not the label condition). Do you recall having that issue at some point?

I have to say I'm using a simpler generator than the one in the paper, and I'm not changing the learner architechture at each batch, only its weights.

Thanks!
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All transactions in both Monero and ZCash are public, and we can verify that they're valid.

But what we cannot do is see all transactions details, such as the transaction amount.

These are two different things.
The first part of your comment I’d say is accurate, but why would they have to spend a meaningful part of the $100 mil debt on infrastructure?

DO likely collateralized their existing infrastructure to get the $100 mil line of credit/debt, but will spend the $100 mil on other things in addition to some infrastructure (as the article suggested)
Right, but users would know when a secret transaction has been added. And no, your example does not negate the only technical advantage. Governments are not the only entities that might tamper. And most importantly, a blockchain forces even government tampering to be transparent, whereas a private database does not.
One caveat about IKEA mattresses: being a multi-national company, verify the mattresses and linens you're buying complies to the same sizing in your region of the world; they can differ and there's always stories about how IKEA sheets don't fit standard sizes or fit them well, at least.
debt holders are paid before stockholders, so their risk is smaller.
if DO's revenues goes down it will be common stockholders's equity that will be destroyed first.

let's say you have a mortgage on your house and your equity in it is roughly 10% of the house.
now imagine you take a second mortgage/HELOC to invest-renovate the house, buy new furniture, build a pool, etc. -
in good case your equity will be 10% of the higher price of the house due to renovations, so your equity will increase in dollars. But what if you will never find a buyer? and the house price will stay the same, if not lower.
then your equity in your house will be wiped out and the mortgage will become underwater.
Thanks for the background I’ll try to follow Alex more closely
Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks also appear in an episode of Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars getting Coffee. It can be found, officially, on Netflix in the "Light and Sweet" season: https://www.netflix.com/title/80171362.

As I recall, the episode was initially just focused on Carl Reiner, but Seinfeld was invited back later that evening to join Reiner and Brooks for dinner.
Ok, let's see... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

A thread from 2017 (6 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13716667

2015 (9 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9989424

2013 (21 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6745991

2009 (2 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=911445

2007 (2 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10259

Nothing bigger? I would have sworn otherwise.
You might or might not be allowed to do that.

US consumers generally expect there to be no pre-payment penalty. That isn’t a universal feature of all loans. As to particular features of particular loans ask the really expensive lawyers or investment bankers who negotiated them, but plausibly “I owe you $45M; here’s a new equity investor; we’re done after the wire clears right.” might lead to “We agree you owe us $60M.”
Can’t wait for the end of flagging and modkilling on HN to preserve First Amendment rights. This is going to be good.
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Mac OS would probably be safe because it is a Unix [1]. I'd expect that the legal framework that was set up to allow the Open Group to certify things as being officially Unix included having such certification include permission to use the necessary IP to implement a Unix.

[1] https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3653.htm
> In the presence of warmer water the reef will not die,

So, I scanned through all three of your articles, and none of them make the claim that coral reefs do not bleach when only exposed to temperature stress. They only state that pollution is an additional stressor that increases temperature sensitivity.

That coral reefs "will not die" due purely to temperature stressors is a pretty huge claim.

Do you have any citations that support this claim?
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Isn't that the distinction between accidental and essential complexity? A solution cannot be simpler than the essential complexity of the problem, but it can surely be more complex by adding accidental complexity.
>A solution can not be simpler than the problem.

Problem: (4 primitives)

1 + 1 + 1 + 1

Solution (one primitive):

4

If amount of primitives defines complexity you are wrong.

What's going on here is that you are using a different definition of complexity to construct your statement above. Most humans intuitively recognize your statement along with mine.

The issue here is that before we can even talk about complexity we have to come up with a formal definition that fits all forms of our intuition about what complexity actually is. Otherwise all arguments can become circular and pointless as everyone is talking about different things.

What is the formal definition of complexity? What is the thing that is being preserved here?
@lalaland1125 you're right that privacy is a hard problem, we're really excited about making techniques like synthetic data, data labeling, and analyzing data sets for potential privacy (re-identification risk/etc) available to all developers. We'll be open sourcing some of our work in the next few weeks- feel free to jump in the code and we'd love to hear your thoughts!
Hey thanks for the great question. So the "Github for data" is referring to the ability to collaborate on data. By streaming in data, you can view discoveries we made on the data (entity recognition, etc) then essentially make a new version of that data with automatic transforms, anonymizations, etc. So you're absolutely right, managing PII is part of it, but really its about enabling entity A to share data with entity B with a high level of confidence the sensitive data is stripped out.

We'll be releasing some of the packages to do the analysis and transformations as time goes on, so stay tuned for those so you can take them for a test drive yourself.

Thanks!
I once met someone who always traveled with something a bit like a thin cotton (silk?) full body sleeping bag (like a mummy bag). Idea was you never physically touched the hotel bed. It was apparently expensive.

The funny thing to me was the she stayed in high end hotels pretty exclusively who I think you can at least be taking a fairly aggressive kill-it-with-bleach approach to laundry. I wondered if there was a wallmart version aimed at people who stay in seedy motels where it would seem to be more practical.
Absolutely the current version seems very limiting, but as they start adding more and more features towards Turing completeness, it will become just as complex as a normal Turing complete programming language. Which in many ways undermines the original promise.
I think it is helpful to remember that this story came to us through good journalism, so we are lucky to know this much, and surely damage-control is a natural next move for a business caught out. What I do know is the technology is on the market, and why wouldn't a business use it if they can do it privately while avoiding the mistakes of JP Morgan?
This is kind of a word game though. As soon as you find a way to lower complexity it becomes the new essential complexity until someone lowers it again.
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This is yet another in the lengthy, and growing, list of examples of why people shouldn't purchase hardware (particularly expensive hardware) that depends on someone else's server to function, or that can be disabled remotely.
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Loans are managed via contracts.

So 'going into default' just means that you've triggered a default clause in the contract, usually when you fail your side of the bargain.

So it's not necessary collateral you have to give up when you go into default. It could be, but it's going to be specific to that particular loan contract. It could be collateral, or extra fines, or you agree to sell off your assets and give a percentage back to the lending bank.

I don't know the standard details in these types of clauses that are used in big loans like this, but the vast majority of the time the bank is going to want to sit down and send in advisers and consultants and that sort of thing to help bring your company back into profitability.

So when you go into default the first thing that happens is that you are going to lose a lot of autonomy as the bank is going to want to start to take a more active role in managing the company so that they can recover their money.

Look at it this way:

If a bank makes a 10,000 dollar loan to you and you fail to pay it back... That's your problem.

However if a bank makes a 100,000,000 dollar loan and you fail to pay it back... That's THEIR problem.

This points to the major difference in consumer debt (credit cards, mortgages, student loans, car loans) vs business debt.

With business debt there is a shared liability. It's a business arrangement in which both parties.. the lender and the borrower face significant risks. So when 'shit hits the fan' they will try to work together to figure something out. They can't depend on the government to step in and try to force the other party to assume all the liability.

This is why for large businesses it's kinda silly NOT to be in debt as long as risk is carefully managed. As long as they make more money from the capital investment then the interest rates they need to pay on that laon then it's a win-win situation.

Consumer debt is vastly different. When you get a personal loan or other type of consumer loan then you have almost 100% of the liability. The banks have arranged the loan details, monitor activity via credit reporting agencies, and influenced the laws regarding personal debt so they face almost no risk.

The goods you buy with the loan don't increase in value (only common exception is home mortgages)... instead they depreciate. You are going into debt to buy future landfill.

There is very little shared liability. Because of the lack of risk on the side of the lenders then consumer debt is much more predatory.. much more dangerous to the borrower.

When it comes to student loans there is NO shared liability. You assume 100% of the risk. The banks that lend the money usually make MORE money the worse you are at paying them back.

So you can't really apply your personal experience with credit cards and car loans try to apply it to business logic.
> Money in a federal reserve account is functionally equivalent to a floating-rate perpetuity

What assumptions allow serious players to assume this? Do those assumptions still hold if the instruments are actually converted to cash, or would "serious players" start to treat it differently?

I'm not entirely sure as I admittedly don't 100% understand all of the fundamentals of treasuries, but if all of a sudden the idea that debt is not a thing to be paid back, but rather currency that seems to be a shift that might lead to some changes.
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Judging from the lack of responses except downvotes, the answer must be "no". This must be all that pervasive tech industry patriarchal misogyny I keep hearing about.
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> Kudos to the swedes for working methodically to try to find a way for the central bank to issue digital money.

Can you elaborate what you mean by digital money? My understanding is that vast majority of money issued by central banks is already digital.
Sorry, I meant creating each size 'manually', or at least pixel-pushing everything back into place.
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Waymo has only ever peddled level 4 vehicles.
I've never heard of a 'secondary market round', but a secondary market doesn't raise funding for the company behind the share.
The government definitely played a role in AT&T's monopoly, but to say they caused it is playing it very fast and loose.

Even before the government sanctioned their monopoly, AT&T was becoming a monopoly using strategies that the feds were arguing were anti-competitive and in violation of antitrust laws. You could argue the government first acquiesced their monopoly with the Kingsbury Commitment in 1913.

In the '20s and '30s, the government allowed them to resume buying up local carriers and established the FCC to set rates, but there was still tension and antitrust suits up until the '50s.

Like any relation, the government's and Ma Bell's was always "complicated".

they were pursuing a number of antitrust cases against them. Needless to say, AT&T's relationship with the federal government and regulators wasn't static over the next 60-70 years. Sometimes it was at odds, sometimes it was symbiotic.
I'd thought I'd get around the madness of mattress shopping by using just the technique mentioned in the article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22377160

At least, until I found something I liked. I purchased a Purple 3, thinking that if I loved it, I'd just stick with it. I did love it, but I couldn't justify spending $2k on a twin(!). I returned it, and purchased from another company for ~$700. I didn't like it as much as the Purple, but when I went to begin the return, I was told that there was no return process, and that I could "move the mattress to a different room, or donate it." Two days later, I received a refund for the full purchase amount. That ended my journey; no awesome mattress at any price beats "decent and free."

As much as I appreciate getting a new mattress for zilch, the experience made me extremely wary. Was my mattress so cheaply-made that the manufacturer could afford to give them away? What was up? So I did some research. It turns out that the mattress industry is a racket. The markups are ludicrous; almost every mattress on the market costs, at most, a few hundred dollars to make. And then it's also impossible to comparison shop because "models" differ based on retailer by one or two small features; that means no price-matching, if you can even tell what you're buying.

These are the kinds of things that make people suspicious of the way the economy is set up. It should be easy to find out what you're purchasing, and then to pay a fair price for it. Instead you have entire manufacturing-retail chains built on obfuscation and able to eat untold amounts in lost product.
I think that's the yearly death rate for the whole population. 300m / 100k * 2 = 6k flu deaths in the US per year. Seems like that could be true.
We already know by its value it's a float. It's literally easier to type that in C as float x = 5.0;
> That law isn't about protecting Facebook or Google it's about ensuring that anyone can express themselves online without needing a highly paid lawyer and a protracted trial to do so.

If you post something defamatory on Facebook, you can be sued, but under Section 230 Facebook cannot. I happen to think that's a good arrangement, but it's definitely about "protecting Facebook or Google," and not about protecting the individuals "express[ing] themselves online."
These visual editors are a godsend when developing a videogame. Even with ThreeJS, which is still an abstraction of OpenGL, I've had a lot of issues with really simple visual problems, like getting my models placed at correct locations at correct scales with the correct rotation. Trigger box placement. Enemy spawn locations. Their visual fields. I ended up having to essentially script my own visual editor to debug these issues. God forbid I have to implement any sort of networked multiplayer.

And yes, there are a _lot_ of games. Steam is already suffering from the lack of quality assurance. But allowing creativity to flourish like this is good for society in the end.

Personally, I think UE4 has the right idea. You can have your first-class citizen code (C++ components) which you can hand off to be used by the more design-oriented team members (Blueprint scripting + visual editor).
Engineers from the NSA, Google and Amazon worked on this? That doesn't exactly inspire any kind of confidence...
Absolutely right.

* Object detection is not solved.

* Even if it were, prediction requires a theory of mind. What does the other person see, know, and want to do?

* Even if we solved prediction, driving requires social interaction, coordination, and cooperation.

I think self-driving car companies will try solve this with remote internet-connected operators that step in and remotely flash some lights or something to communicate. Of course these people will be overworked and underpaid, will have no skin in the game and not really care (at the end of another long shift) about your particular interaction with their company's vehicles...
Collaborative. You’re reviewing the backlog together. In user interviews together, talking through priorities and product vision. Working to understand and maintain team heath and productivity over the long term.
Fair enough in the case of 2D, but the most common use case for Unity and especially Unreal is 3D games. Godot still lacks features like occlusion culling and compute shaders that would even make it competitive with the other engines in that regard. I think Godot's still a couple of major versions away from that, at least.

I agree that so far no one's really tried pushing Godot to the limit as far as I've seen. But when all you have to go by is the content on /r/godot it doesn't make a compelling argument for Godot as a viable replacement for existing engines yet.
Or ppipe, if you want more features (I'm the author):

https://github.com/egeozcan/ppipe
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Hence columnar stores.

But parent is right that the choice of what shouldn't be coming from your DBA; they should be more interested in how.
Due to anti-trust issues, Amazon probably wants DO to stay independent. There are several dimensions in which you benefit from your competitors doing well, but not too well.

Getting funding as a startup is another. If you are alone in your vertical nobody wants to talk to you. If you have competition, well, then you must be doing something interesting.
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The original purpose was definitely to verify identity. Since parody accounts are allowed, it's valuable to be able to tell the real X from a parody X. This was especially true early on in Twitter's history. It was also useful in encouraging famous people to get on Twitter. "Look, if you start you own account, we'll clearly distinguish it for you. No more fakes!" And having famous people on Twitter was hugely valuable to encouraging growth.

Unfortunately, there's a strong correlation between "useful to verify" and "important", so pretty quickly it became a status symbol, especially for marginally notable people. And some people really like status! It's very similar to the problem Wikipedia has, where they daily have to delete a lot of BS biographies from the would-be famous.

This means that the program has been a headache for Twitter for a long time. I know when I worked there in 2017 they announced that they were suspending the program pending a major revamp of how it works. As far as I know nothing came of that; I think they quietly started giving out blue checkmarks again a while back.

Personally, what I'd like to happen is that they make it much broader and roll it up in a "Premium Twitter" feature. I pay them $50/year, they verify that I'm who I say I am, get rid of ads, and throw in a few other features. But I doubt that will happen, as IMHO Twitter is incredibly bad at getting anything done.
As a point of clarification it's not the model that is being abstracted, it's the raw data.

The use cases that this addresses are ones where you cannot train models in the same system/space/network as where the data exists.
That’s all true. It really depends on how stable Digital Ocean’s cash flows are as well as likelihood of how they can grow. You don’t want to have to deleverage by paying down debt vs. lowering debt to cash flow/EBITDA ratios.
This is the one that seems to be useful today. Running simulations with physics being modeled across objects seems to be useful for reinforcement learning algorithms that interact in the real world. You see some of this with autonomous vehicle training, robot manipulation training, etc. I think there are also emergent interactions that can occur that you wouldn't have modeled directly unless you let the simulation run.
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I don't see why this should be on HN. Let's start piling up news of US primaries, Trump and Hillary bashing. And make this another place we wouldn't want to visit.
I had the same thought -- but was surprised the Tesla reads signs as opposed to what Waze does, which is use maps. But the Tesla has the advantage it would work outside of network.

BUT -- context is everything! If you saw an 85mph zone in a residential area or school zone -- you'd know it was bogus because you're a human and it doesn't seem reasonable.
Ah, typo it is then. I first saw it in your comment up-thread ;)
I reckon they can afford 150,000-200,000 more moderators, moderator-managers, workers on and managers of tools for same, et c. before that profit margin starts getting mighty thin. Is that enough? I don't know, maybe it is. How long before profit hit zero would investing in Facebook start to be considered a poor use of capital, since that's the actual tipping point? Also not sure.
If what you really need is security, then I don't see how (1) and (2) can be overriding concerns. If I were in a situation where my life depended on my messages being confidential, my choice of medium wouldn't turn on the convenience of long-form messages or social conventions around reply time.

To put it another way: if I'm in a situation where being able to type an easy-to-read long-form message is more important than it being end-to-end encrypted, I'd just use Gmail. I don't see why Signal needs to satisfy both use cases; at worst it's kind of ergonomically awkward, but it isn't making false promises of security, which is worse than useless.
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Did they miss their window? Would this business make more sense during the 2001 dot-com craze? Are startups currently afraid to go with anyone who isn't AWS/GCE/Azure because they understand the cost of moving platforms is high?
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Partisanship cuts both ways and if you're too ignorant to see your own bias and through the narrative spin on your own side of the aisle, then you're like a fish that doesn't know its wet.
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You're correct that it's generally not true. But the grain of truth is that they did punish some notable jerks by removal of verified status: https://money.cnn.com/2017/11/15/technology/twitter-verifica...

IMHO these were pretty clear anti-abuse actions. But of course those people claim that they were being punished for their views.
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