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It appears in the pre-230 litigation about intermediary liability, to which section 230 was a response.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
OK, I looked it up. These are pretty different briefs. The Holder DoJ petition asked the supreme court not to take the case, in a situation where the Federal Circuit had reversed a previous win at trial for Google by saying that "APIs can be copyrighted", something the trial court had assumed not to be the case. So the DoJ was basically taking a position on copyright law here. The supreme court agreed, refused to hear the case, and the net effect was that the Federal Circuit sent it back for another trial on whether or not the court-declared copyright infringement was fair use or not.

The situation now is that Google won at court again. The jury found the API reimplementation was fair use. And the Federal Circuit overturned the trial court again, saying (I'm not making this up, though obviously I'm paraphrasing) "The jury trial we demanded before was invalid because this infringement cannot be fair use as a matter of law, we just forgot to tell you that earlier."

That is, the Federal Circuit is behaving badly here, effectively shopping around for a basis to force a trial court to find for Oracle. The time for principled legal arguments was literally six years ago, this is just partisan hackery.

So obviously Google is appealing to SCOTUS (they took the case this time, for obvious reasons), and the DoJ is jumping in to pick a side in the substance of the actual case, something they really didn't do earlier by requesting that the appelate victory stand.
While generally I agree with your conclusion (synthetic data doesn’t have better privacy guarantees, probably will hurt training if you use it naively), I wouldn’t be so pessimistic.

At the risk of digressing from TFA, Candes’ knockoffs, for instance, are an example of a (theoretically) successful use of synthetic data for model robustness. Still need original data, of course.

Basically, the broader point is that you don’t need to solve the full problem of joint likelihood estimation to use generative models effectively, e.g., GANs are another example.
OK, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News. Maybe you don't owe shit-shows of companies better, but you owe this community better if you're commenting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Unlike their common-cold-causing cousins, these emergent coronaviruses can spark a viral-induced fire throughout many of a person’s organs, and the new disease—dubbed "COVID-19" by the World Health Organization—is no exception when it is severe.

> That helps explain why the COVID-19 epidemic has killed more than 1,800 people, surpassing the SARS death toll in a matter of weeks. While the death rate for COVID-19 appears to be a fifth of SARS, the novel coronavirus has spread faster.

That is bungled logic.

1. COVID-19 is very severe.

2. Because COVID-19 is so severe, in just few weeks it has killed more people than another famous severe disease SARS.

3. But wait, the death rate of COVID-19 is only 1/5th that of SARS, so it is actually less severe.

4. Right, okay, so COVID-19 has killed more people than SARS because it spreads faster. Why were we comparing SARS and COVID-19 severity again?
The example is fundamentally different as physics simulations have closed form solutions or can be numerically approximated for various initial and boundary conditions. Therefore, by definition the generation is not synthetic.

Other examples I could think of fall in the category the top comment is referring to.
Yes, but if you're driving in a residential neighborhood you as a human would know that 85mph must be a mistake.
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> Which is usually a failure of communication

This is interesting and will take some introspection, but perhaps I can improve these situations by fostering better communication. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
I prefer Linode. Same level of service, if not better and cheaper. Linode does 100 million in revenue and as far as I can tell they aren't borrowing against their future to get it.
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!
Mode collapse was actually the one thing I never encountered during my exploration (which was the reason we looked into using GTNs as a mode-collapse solution for GANs). That said, I found meta-learning to be surprisingly hard to implement efficiently and ran into more bugs in both PyTorch and TensorFlow than I can count.

Changing the learner architecture is not that important actually so that's probably not your problem.
I'll add a positive comment for IKEA mattresses here, too. We purchased one a couple of years ago. It was significantly cheaper than a "name brand" mattress, even if I consider that I may need to replace it more frequently. So far it has held up very well, too.
> Sometimes an idea has a time.

Isn't it more like "nearly always"? It's pretty hard to find examples of things that haven't been tried multiple times before in some variant. You can argue if it was timing or execution that worked "this time" of course, but almost nothing happens in isolation.
I wonder if they would have if they didn't have to cut prices to compete with Vultr.
> What a sad indictment of modern accounting practices that its accepted practice to create 'noise' to prop up a P&L

Income statements include things like depreciation. That's real, in a sense. It's future CAPEX. But for the present health of a business, particularly a levered one, cash is king.

One way to think of it is in time frames. Cash flows are immediately relevant. If they're out of whack, it's an urgent problem. (They're also the most difficult to mess with.) Income statements are longer term. An unprofitable, cash-generating business may have structural issues with its PP&E, or it may be overleverd, or a bunch of options might have been issued or exercised. Balance sheets are the longest-term statement. (They're also the easiest to mess with.)

Keep in mind, too, that income statements for investors are different from those prepared for the IRS.
With the corporations, you can go elsewhere.

With the socialists, you can't leave.
It just sounds like another glue language. The reason UnrealScript halted development was because they found that its whole purpose is to call C++ code. So they put their focus into making Unreal a more reusable framework instead of confusing developers with some zainy little toy programming language project that serve as an interface.
Depends on the club.
I think that's a very strong claim. What's your evidence for it?

I'm not saying the two things are related. But I'm happy to say that if I wanted to unduly influence a company, buying a significant part of it would be one of the things I'd look at.
I once had a loveseat that I couldn't get out of a studio apartment without moving almost everything. Since I was a bit bored at the time, I slowly carved up the entire thing with a Swiss Army knife w/ the saw & scissors extensions. Was actually kind of fun.
OS/2 I think was visa-versa, but IBM and Microsoft were in bed with each other so that was all contractual.

You guys need to find an example where one company offered licensing and the other simply refused to negotiate.
https://wolt.com/blog/hq/2019/07/01/how-we-came-to-create-a-... is related.

Via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20339442 (1 comment).
Wait, you don't think low work quality is a reasonable reason to fire someone?
Did anyone here bother to check the bio's of the officials listed on the amicus brief? If so, you'd discover that the many (maybe most, I didn't count) were holdovers from previous administrations. But, conspiracy theories are fun, I guess.

Given the bipartisan history of the lawyers for the Copyright Office and the DOJ, one possibility is that they are basing the amicus on their interpretation of the Copyright Act and related legal precedents. My preference would be that public interface part of API's would be public domain. But that's a preference, not a legal opinion.
Years ago, the key code to one of the back doors of a very large and well known financial institution in SF was extremely simple and consequetive and 4 digit sequence that everyone including contractors knew. I wonder if they ever fixed it?
> I’m really skeptical that Republicans know or care about politics in Google’s work culture.

I agree, but there's the additional angle that Trump and Fox have been accusing Google of putting a liberal bias into their search results.

THAT, I believe, is the background that can make so many of his followers "see red" at the idea of Google winning something.
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It is the DBA's job to advise, and that includes advice like "this isn't a good idea", or "could you do something else instead", or "this will require XYZ rearchitecting, which will affect these other factors/queries/etc". The DBA isn't the final decision-maker, but they're a critical advisor.
Different appeals concerning different issues. The first one was over the outcome of the first trial.

When the Supreme Court did not step in and overturn CAFC's overturning of the first trial, there was a second trial to determine whether Google's use was fair use. The first trial had not reached that issue.

The trial court said it was, CAFC overturned that. This present appeal is on that issue.
The point lalaland1125 is making is that the equations of motion are the existing superior model in this scenario.
Great question. Frankly you shouldn't, and your developers should do it for you. While we'll be offering a service to enable this type of obfuscation via REST APIs (where we don't store or write any of your data to disk) we'll also be releasing some of these techniques as open source packages so your devs can kick the tires themselves without shipping data into someoneelse's service.
Leak questions official stats.

https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=2...
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And you generally know the person who is on both ends. This leads to a sense of history and consequence which is most commonly not available on the internet.
You're the reason my Casper stocks seem to be a waste of money. :)
>The sleaze of the mattress industry is a major reason the mattress in a box business has done so well.

Don't be fooled if you thought the traditional mattress buying experience was sleazy (similar to a car buying experience), the mattress in a box online dark patterns take sleaze to a whole other level.
You link to a paper (ESSW) that walked through a theoretical experiment that they claimed would show it as being non-relativistic, the paper actually argues it was "surrealistic", not "non-relativistic". That said they don't actually perform the experiment, they just claim it would falsify things. They don't get to claim something is false because they think it would happen if they did the experiment. Actually do the experiment and see what happens.

> A real experiment along these lines appears feasible,
as all components of the apparatus have been realized
separately; for details consult Appendix A. The purpose of the proposed experiment is to verify the predicted quantum theoretical correlations: Whenever an
atom hits the screen in the lower region A, the upper
detector says "yes" - and likewise for the upper region B and the lower detector. Since we know that
(some of) the retrodicted Böhm trajectories pass
through the other detector, this verification suffices to
demonstrate the asserted metaphysical character of
the Böhm trajectories.

Now all of that said, a group actually did the experiment and showed that they only way someone would incorrectly conclude the trajectories were surrealistic would be if they mistakenly ignored the non-local nature of their behavior. They actually performed an experiment and demonstrated the results.

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/2/e1501466.full

> We have verified the effect pointed out by ESSW that for a WWM with a delayed readout, Bohmian trajectories originating at the lower slit may be accompanied by WWM results associated with either the upper or the lower slit. However, this surreal behavior is merely the flip side of the nonlocality we also demonstrated. In Fig. 3, we showed that the trajectory of photon 1 depends on the choice of measurement (polarization basis) for photon 2. In Fig. 4, we see that the polarization of photon 2 depends on the choice of when (that is, at what point along the trajectory) to measure the position of photon 1. This nonlocality is due to the entanglement of the two photons, which, in Bohmian mechanics, makes their evolution inseparable even when the photons themselves are separated. Because entanglement is necessary for the delayed measurement scenario of ESSW, this nonlocal behavior is to be expected and is the reason for the surreal behavior they identify. Indeed, our observation of the change in polarization of a free space photon, as a function of the time of measurement of a distant photon (along one reconstructed trajectory), is an exceptionally compelling visualization of the nonlocality inherent in any realistic interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Essentially the claim in the paper you linked was incorrect, and experimentally demonstrated to be so.
Thanks for the interesting idea! The numbers are not as exciting as one might expect: the Moon has a diameter of 3480km, therefore it has a circumference of 11000km that one would have to cover in 28 days. That's only 400km per Earth day, meaning an average of 16,6 km/h.
Well, not even panchayat, let alone MLA: https://thewire.in/politics/jk-defers-panchayat-poll-ec
His actions call into question all his professional judgment, that's not compartmentalizable.

Considering the gravity of this issue, reasonable people can conclude that we'd be better off "wasting" these years and months and to return to the idea later when someone with more judicial independence is in the position.
I remember when I was just out of college, I was warned that there was such a thing as a mortgage that did not allow for extra payments, and that you should check for that when applying.

If you couldn't, or even if you did the payment incorrectly, anything extra would just be treated as if you sent your payment in for the subsequent month a little early. I've heard of the latter happening to friends, but I've never seen or heard of the former.
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With all the mergers we've seen in the past 20 years, with Facebook literally buying all of its major competitors, I highly doubt the SEC would stop a buy out of Digital Ocean from any of these three providers.

I doubt any of those providers would want DO. Unless they just want to buy the developers, they're not going to get the customers unless they provide some type of automatic migration pattern where yesterday everything was a Digital Ocean Droplet and DO LoadBalancer and hosted database and today we've magically and transparently migrated all of that to EC2, ELBs and RDS.

It's easier to just market to the customer base and get them to migrate their stuff on their own.
They're renting our resources, so there is an implied debt up front for that. Servers and datacenters are very expensive compared to the monthly revenue extracted from them. In order to expand to $1b ARR, you've got buy multiple billions of dollars worth of servers. Debt financing is how you do that.
I think we're pretty good. Feel free to review the code and contribute as we release our open source packages over time. We all get better with time and collaboration.
No, what's actually broken is positive investment rates. Why would the central bank pay you (i.e. print new money and give it to you) just because you have some money lying on the central bank's account? And by "you" of course I mean big 1% banks, not the 99% population who don't have access to this feature. Commercial banks should be making money by taking consumers' deposits and loaning them out to businesses, taking a cut of the earned interest. If they can't do that, do they actually have a reason to exist?
Probably depends on which country you live in.
> What's your evidence for it?

Evidence for ... the investment being irrelevant?

Can't prove a negative but there's nothing about the story that required any kind of investment to accomplish any of the events described.
It's not really a "sad indictment", there's nothing shady about re-investing your money into the business. It just so happens that if you are a fast growth company doing that, it is no longer beneficial to use the same tools to compare to traditional large established slow growth companies. Amazon fairly and legally and morally (mostly) re-invested their positive cash flow back into their business, but looking at their P&L you can't tell if they are a year 0 startup or an amazing giant company - the cashflow, however, reveals a different story.
Most picks and shovels sellers fail and go bankrupt. That is absolutely not the way to make money during a gold rush.

There is an immense supply of picks and shovels sellers during gold rushes, which caps pricing power. That's why DigitalOcean's prices are low, they have no pricing power or lack of competition; it's also why they can't make a profit despite massive demand. You're selling a non-differentiated, low value product and only temporarily doing well because of extreme demand. The same exact thing happens to those people during oil rushes (stories abound in recent times in oil boom markets after the crash, most of the picks & shovels sellers get massacred every time). They get mauled when the tide goes out as most of them are heavy on inventory and often debt at the wrong time, and then stuck with huge amounts of low value inventory in products nobody wants. Few of them see the bust coming, they go down with the bust and rarely make enough money to get rich and walk away. They spend most of the short boom building up enough capital to afford to keep up with demand, which always overwhelms during the boom phase, then extremely rapidly deflates (the bust phase).

The people who get rich(er) during a gold rush, are the mine owners with existing capital and normal, profitable operations that are not dependent on the rush in the first place.

Amazon is the one getting rich during the gold rush (they own the mine), not DigitalOcean (the picks & shovels seller that will be forced into a sale to a larger party, IBM perhaps, as the boom fades / saturates / normalizes). DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, and 37 others like them, are future casualties (they'll sell, most won't literally go under) of the cloud boom in one form or another. And I say that as a customer and big fan of DigitalOcean.
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I am stunned if you are sincere: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)... This article got a lot of coverage last year. Even though it's not the full text, you might be able to find the full text of it or find ample coverage on science news sites. That is just cherry picking a recent, prominent result in a vast body of research into bleaching and marine heat waves.

You are incorrect. Your links don't even support your statement. Pollution also contributes and is a problem, and if anything is positively correlated because of growing season changes. Acidification is CO2 dissolving in seawater and forming carbonic acid, it is precisely the same problem as global warming (CO2 pollution from human activity).
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> In health care AI there is some tendency to use generated data for training.

Which is part of the reason for the high failure rate.

Good governance and data access for health data is a very hard problem. Good labeling is also hard/expensive in this space.

So there is an incentive for people wanting to do ML/AI without solving above to try any kind of shortcut they can think of. This incentive doesn't help solve any real problems.

The classic solution to "too little data" is use a simpler and/or less discriminating model. It's still the only one with a good track record.
Reset your credit completely... in the eyes of the corporations, you don't exist.
It looks very useful and feature-filled but a free or low-cost trial version would be better. That would attract people in the startup/side-hustle phase who might earn enough business to pay for the full version.
You’re coming at this from a theoretical approach, which isn’t appropriate for deep learning because nobody has any idea how or why these neural networks actually work. Generating a bunch of rotated and stretched versions of your labeled images DOES work, and very effectively. Why? The neural network is an inscrutable God, we just have no idea.
In many countries it is not.
> It is abjectly insane to label a tweet as something Twitter, the company, is "saying"

If there were a company printing and distributing, to any passing person on the street, fliers with content provided by the company's clients, would they have any legal liability for what their clients put in the fliers? That seems very similar to what Twitter does. Certainly closer than their being treated like a phone company or mail carrier, which they don't much resemble (email provider? Yeah, sure, they do). Perhaps in that situation the printing & distribution company would also have no liability, I don't know.
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That’s not quite my point, it could be Obama and he could have had a bunch of conversations over the course of a game where Ellison explains his take. I’ve heard that take in person from people close to him, superficially it’s not a crazy take especially if you don’t know the technical background.

Trump is unusual in how grossly and overtly transactional he is. Most other politicians are nowhere near as corrupt. Most of the corruption ends up due to access to the politician and of course secondarily to a more broad, “I may lose access to a bunch of money” rather than the specific person or amount of money.

Still not ideal, and the outcome may be the same, but no I’m not making an equivalence here.

Edit: seems he doesn’t play golf, that said I’ll bet there were plenty of lunches/dinners and the like before or after the round.
Great idea. I was just thinking about how this would be a great idea the other day.
> Isn't it more like "nearly always"?

Maybe? Hard to see past survivorship bias. My intuition says some ideas will never see their time. Hard to quantify how often that is the case as a percentage of all ideas.
Sounds very similar to the OSS DVC project: https://github.com/iterative/dvc
It is easy to overlook the biggest source of modes: applications!
I liked the first trilogy of mistborn but lost interest in the sequels. There were parts of the first trilogy that .. well, were better than others.

I think the Stormlight archive is Sanderson at his fantasy best. Characters driving plot in a cohesive, complex world. Stormlight has huge tombs of books covering a story that feels like it is really moving and subplots that tie back and resolve.
You can definitely fire people in France. I don't know how you got the idea you can't.

Also quality of life is perhaps more important than these numbers. People don't care about the GDP growth, don't want to have artifical employment with terrible and badly paid jobs (looking at you Germany), and prefer to eat good food for 2 hours.
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