skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gartner estimate that by 2022, 40% of AI/ML models will be trained on synthetic data.

Just because it may have some drop in utility today from real data, there are all sorts of scenarios where that’s outweighed by speed and ease of working with fake data rather that tied up in red tape real data.

See for example: https://hazy.com/blog/2019/12/09/data-science-on-test-data

Also, synthetic data can be augmented, rebalanced etc. Which is why in future it may well perform better than real data for data science work.

For example, think about this person does not exist and then apply that to business data.

Disclosure: Hazy cofounder. We’ve been doing smart synthetic data for a few years now.
I don't know about removing mites.

From what I've seen the best practices are around ideas that seem like "the best defense is a good offense" -- or providing the bees the best possible chances and situation and letting them take care of themselves, which they do white well when fed a range of foods and not squeezed too tightly for profits and trucked across country.

Rev. Langstroth's work on this is dated ( 1850s and 1860s ) but still incredibly relevant. He's given a lot of credit for his work on moveable-frame hives, but 'd say he did a lot to advocate for the practice of bee keeping as a practice that could be engaged, as gardening, by anyone with interest.
But the policy is to only accept a standard where there is at least two independent implementations. This was realistically never going to happen with the SQLite.
I get that part, but why would sleeping overnight and trying again in 8 hours be a solution?
> I wonder if anyone's tried to write a language primarily for manipulating the DOM that's less... "quirky" than JavaScript?

I don't know about "less quirky", but Microsoft tried with VBScript. Google tried with Dart. Initially, Dart meant to be interpreted by the browser (not transpiled to JS). I'm sure there might have been similar, smaller projects, but Javascript-in-the-browser has momentum that's hard to beat.
I did not follow every step, but assuming Oracle win this, will it also apply to Amazon proposing DocumentDB with the same API that MongoDB ?
Many cases--perhaps 80-95%--in folks under 50 are hard to distinguish from cold, flu, or gastroenteritis. 2.3% rate is for those who develop more serious symptoms. See http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9... or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22372003 for a summary table of serious cases.
I really like the idea of optimising the 'direct' training data, and wonder how it would interact with the use of synthetic data as the 'indirect' training data. Or perhaps some sort of restriction on the (optimised) 'direct' training data as a form of regularisation. Lots of potential ideas to explore here.
Define "liable". They share the same Section 230 protection as FB.
I don’t work for twitter so I can’t speak for them. Trump is still on twitter saying all kinds of horrible things, and I can only presume many others are as well. I’m not sure what triggers crossing a line, but I don’t agree with this accusation of some great anti-conservative conspiracy. I see this often in reaction to Alex Jones who spreads all kinds of false lies that have lead to violence.

Note it’s not like there are humans evaluating each and every tweet so it’s going to be inconsistency applied.

I also find it interesting that since posting on HN someone is trying to reset my Facebook account. Talk about censorship...
The Trump administration complaining about "harboring misinformatioN". The ironing [sic] is delicious [1].

There is no universal objective truth. Specifically there are things that reasonable people can disagree about and the same set of facts can be used to argue different positions. This fact is abused by the mentally challenged to argue ridiculous positions (eg anti-vaxxers, the Moon landings are fake, that sort of thing).

Likewise, as seen here, one side will argue those who disagree are engaging is misinformation (and in the Trump administration's case, from the President down there are multiple claims per day that are demonstrably false such that no one can really keep up). The agenda is to silence the opposition and undermine confidence in any sort of news.

ISPs were given safe harbor from liability for traffic on their network, for good reason. They just need to comply with certain standards. Tech companies really are no different and to argue otherwise would set an incredibly dangerous precedent (IMHO).

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p23mA2VV0A
The mortality rate of kids 0-10 has been extremely low.

As for permanent lung damage, it's hard to say. From what I've read about ARDS, as expected, if you're young, lung function and general physical function can improve back close to baseline over time (e.g. 5 years). So it's not like you're going to be confined to a rocking chair but you won't be winning any marathons either.
>with any alterations to one of the internet’s key legal frameworks likely to draw unexpected consequences. “It’s hard to know exactly what the ramifications might be.”

Since there is no direct bridge to the digital money, power and influence, analog types will wreck the whole thing trying to implement legislation to give them any kind of foothold on all of that easy profit.

The lack of influence/sway will eventually drive the traditional powers to contrive the shortest-term solutions to destabilize the ecosystem. Its more than a "war of words" at play.
It seems to be targetting pre-production release startups/companies who need access to real data, structured and appearing exactly like real APIs they intend to roll out in production, from which to build their products. Then when it goes live it switches to the real data feeds which this company's API directly mimics.

That's what I'm guessing. It could be used for AI stuff but also other useful datasets that are closed off or require special access.

I'm guessing a lot of defence contractors and other heavily regulated industries (ie, healthcare, insurance, pharma, etc) have similar problems in the dev process of not having access to real data. This was the leading pitch:

>> Data is valuable for helping developers and engineers to build new features and better innovate.

That's just my guess though.
> My company’s suggested implementation made it to the second round of proposals.

If you don't mind me asking what company do you work for? I am actually studying computer science (security and privacy emphasis) at KTH in Sweden and I have been interested in CBDC for some time now. If your company offers master's theses I would love to connect on LinkedIn or via email.

> the other one is how to live up to the requirement from the government that the currency needs to be liquid also during a crisis (what if electricity or telecom doesn’t work?)

This is the first thing I thought of when reading the article. Since you seem to have some knowledge about the field, what are some proposed solutions to this problem?

The article mentioned something that I find particularly interesting:

> Sweden is the least cash-dependent country in the world, making it a litmus test for how central banks can react to people using less of the money they print.

To be honest I had my suspicions that this was the case. Anecdotally, I have lived in Sweden since August of 2018 and I cannot recall a single time where I have carried cash in my wallet or used cash for a transaction in Sweden. If I am not paying with a credit/debit card I usually just use Swish (similar to Venmo or Cash app for US readers, except it's operated by several Swedish banks and I believe the Swedish central bank).
According to wikipedia, africanized bees are already the bee of choice in Brazil.
So, it is not about ergonomics or any other argument, except for security in an undisputed altar. I disagree with the principle, but personal principles are not challengeable. We'll have to disagree.

Just keep in mind this principle is personal, not shared with you by everyone. For example, I distrust security by central organizations, like Signal.org. They're an amazing target for bad actors.
According to the WHO the case fatality rate is 2.3%. However the CFR is not the real mortality rate of the disease and is a changing number. Here’s an excerpt from the latest Situation Report about the CFR and what it means.

“The confirmed case fatality ratio, or CFR, is the total number of deaths divided by the total number of confirmed cases at one point in time. Within China, the confirmed CFR, as reported by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention,9 is 2.3%. This is based on 1023 deaths amongst 44 415 laboratory-confirmed cases as of 11 February. This CFR does not include the number of more mild infections that may be missed from current surveillance, which has largely focused on patients with pneumonia requiring hospitalization; nor does it account for the fact that recently confirmed cases may yet develop severe disease, and some may die. As the outbreak continues, the confirmed CFR may change. Outside of China, CFR estimates among confirmed cases reported is lower than reported from within China. However, it is too early to draw conclusions as to whether there are real differences in the CFR inside and outside of China, as final outcome data (that is, who will recover and who will die) for the majority of cases reported from outside China are not yet known.”

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...
Well, Git itself is not a good tool for handling large dataset files. In most cases, you're not interested in deltas between commits. The size of your repo can also grow or of control pretty quickly.
As a dirty workaround, you have Git-LFS to do that for you. People tend to use it in repos with a lot of multimedia assets. This works well in many cases, but it has its own pitfalls as well.
Do I have a first amendment right to sell pirated Disney cartoons?

on edit: obviously not because I'm not in the U.S but if I were?
This is the absolute reason why Dart, Flutter and Fuchsia exist. You can now imagine that if a loss from Google in this lawsuit were to happen, it would mean royalties in the billions for Oracle which Google won't pay for, or at least for a long time for Android.

So an option is to migrate the Android ecosystem onto Fuchsia to rid of the Oracle royalty fees and own the ecosystem without anyone else looking to sue you for the tech you're using if you created it.
It's a tale that plays out in many forms. In the early 80's I worked for a goverment entity and had tough physical security to enter the building - however, monthly fire drill would see this large building empty onto the open carpark that was easily accessible as no perimeter fence and with that and the aspect that when re entering the building after the fire-drill, there was always one fire door open to circumvent the bottleneck at reception and with that - no security checks then.

Though many instances of weak links in process due to human nature that get overlooked and only come to light once there is an incident.

Which is the crux, incidents cause things to change, yet if you see that potential flaw the gravatas you have in flagging that issues is often dismissed because it hasn't happened. That is sadly often a pattern we see play out time and time again in many forms.
You're conflating public/private ownership and public/private availability.

"Private equity" doesn't mean "privately-owned equity". It refers to equity which is not publicly traded.

Likewise, public equity doesn't mean "publicly-owned equity"... it means "publicly-traded equity".

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_equity

Also see definition 6(b): https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/public

Again, I'm not sure if you live somewhere that this might be different, as you alluded above, but this is generally the case across predominantly English-speaking countries.
Mostly because corporations are pretty different from people. They can own each other, buy and sell each other, split in two or be combined, etc. And they they can deduct business expenses in ways that people can’t deduct living expenses, because we rationally recognize that corporations mostly have lower profit margins than the tax bill would be on total revenue (and some always will at any tax level).
I saw the film Stardust years ago and liked it (didn't love it), and years later I thought I'd give the book a shot.

Although I did finish the book, I thought it was a slog to get through. It wasn't the fact that it was different than the film, but it had to do with Gaiman's writing style.

I'm definitely not rushing out to read his other novels.
For my case, their Resolution Centre asked me to provide "DD Business Information" — which I obviously won't have.

A quick search suggests that this incident isn't uncommon:

[1] Paypal Thinks I am a Charity Organisation: https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Disputes-and-Limitations...

[2] Provide charity info - DD Business Inormation:
https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Disputes-and-Limitations...

[3] What's DD Business Information:
https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Disputes-and-Limitations...
Question the Current Dogma: Is Kubernetes Hyper-Scale Necessary for Everyone?
I believe there was a quote from the Twitter account of an epidemiologist in Hong Kong to the effect that if the disease was left unchecked it would reach that many people.
the same reason you trust external companies to do all sorts of other stuff for you: specialization. in the average case, they can probably do it better than your developers because it's their primary business.
Singapore has mounted an extremely effective response.
That's surely not true. Lots of people have blue checks even though Twitter staff would never endorse their views - Ben Shapiro, Steven Crowder, Candace Owens, and so on.
> At an earlier stage in litigation, the Obama administration took a similar position, urging the Supreme Court not to accept Google's appeal.

Am I understanding this correctly that this has been a bipartisan position?
is it legal to offer presidential pardons on condition of the person doing something unrelated to the offence?
It took a while to find a primary source, but there is a good set of guidelines laying out how the regulations should be interpreted here: https://edpb.europa.eu/sites/edpb/files/files/file1/edpb_gui...

They are very clear - the GDPR protections apply to those that are "in the Union", and the guidelines clarify that citizenship (and, in fact, legal residency) are irrelevant. One must simply be present in the territory that the regulation applies to (which is EU+EEA). Being a citizen of a EU country and being outside the union, the GDPR protections would not apply to you. Being a citizen of a third country and being inside the union, they would.
Show HN: Yet another Go mock code generator
Sure, but the requirement is there should be at least two independent implementations (as there is for the error recovery in the HTML5 spec). This was never going to happen with SQLite.
CDC: The containment phase is really to give us more time. This virus will become a community virus at some point in time, this year or next year. [...] Right now we're in an aggressive containment mode, we don't know a lot about this virus, this virus is probably with us beyond this season, beyond this year, and I think eventually the virus will find a foothold and we will get community-based transmission.

Add asymptomatic transmission in an incubation period of ~14 days and there is not much to check. Also, since China waited months, the virus was already left unchecked, resulting in an estimation ~1 million infected: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022434v...
Handshake might be good and all, but it still feels a little off that you keep advertising this without ever acknowledging your significant personal investment in it.
Employers views on remote work - a survey
This just seems like something that will catastrophically fail. If you can build a good enough generator you can just build the ML model internally. And if you can't the statistics of what you provide are going to be off enough that any strong model is going to be wrong in strange ways.
That's inaccurate. The known case fatality rate is 2.3%, but that's of cases which presented to a hospital and were diagnosed.

It's likely that 90% of the infections are asymptomatic, or close enough to be mistaken for a bad cold. That's bad, because such people are hard to quarantine, but it's good, because it means the true fatality rate may just be 0.2%.

Not that 0.2% of five billion wouldn't still be a horrible tragedy.
If I'd have to guess, the two that do less or no advertising and thus benefit less from your data...

(EDIT: That would indeed be Apple and Netflix, as hinted by another comment).
This is such a disingenuous framing from the AG as well from media outlets who keep misrepresenting section 230.

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.

It also isn't about publisher vs. platform, section 230 protects the Times from being sued for comments on their website same as for any bigger or smaller operation.

It's tragic how the powers that be in this country are trying to insert a lawyer into every transaction like it's a jobs program, and the infuriating part is that they are trying to convince people that it's for their own benefit.
Yeah, but I'm worried about the underlying causes.

How did holding money become so worthless in the first place?

Can this really be natural, or is there massive central bank shenaningans behind it? Clearly savers lose, but who benefits?
Having non-modal interfaces seems simpler for the user in a simple application, sure. But when I consider all the power in the classic example of vi/vim command mode I'm unconvinced.

If you want that flexibility and power, the options must live somewhere. Dividing that into two mutually exclusive modes breaks up the complexity of the main interface. I need to know a handful of key combinations like ESC, i, r, h, j, k, l (or arrow keys on modern systems), :, w, q, s, d, g, G, v, V, /, ?, !, % to get a vast majority of daily tasks done. How many nested drop-down menus would I need to navigate or multi-modifier hotkeys must I remember to do the same thing just so I don't have to remember one bit (which mode I'm in) before hitting a key?

The human mind is actually very comfortable with modes. Work, home, visiting family, visiting friends. Cooking at home vs dining out vs ordering in vs baking vs grilling vs cooking a holiday feast vs catering in vs party snacks and drinks vs road trip snacks. Driving vs taxi vs riding a bike vs walking. Retail vs garage sales vs in-person auctions vs online auctions vs online fixed-price shopping. Lending libraries vs bookstores vs reading rooms vs newsstands vs books we own vs ebooks. Math vs prose vs poetry vs visual communication vs music. We pay attention to different things and follow different sets of rules in different circumstances all the time. Is it easier to remember all the rules for all scenarios at once or to switch contexts?
What if you wanted to work on a data set across groups and you wanted version control?
Yep, I have a Brother color laser; works great with Ubuntu.
Why would you need "to anonymize vast amounts of data — so that it’s no longer tied to customer information" or "appl[y] access policies" if the data contain no PII? Presumably the ML is anonymizing the data and the access policies are necessary because the data contain PII.
It's funny how ads can be targeted at men or women, but everything else is just "nooooo, we can't do that!".

I wish the adbuyers would flex that money muscle a bit and put google in line again.
It's a cool idea, but you can't yet apply homomorphic encryption and then ML and get anything useful. You can do more limited data obfuscation.
She's absolutely right, but my fear is that room she is in is not the room where it happens.
They should have lesser, though still real, baggage attached to them. There are definitely a few types of people in computer science who refuse to touch FAANG employees, but it's not as widespread as I wish it were.
A fairly readable summary of the territorial scope of GDPR: https://edpb.europa.eu/sites/edpb/files/files/file1/edpb_gui...

In fact, it's not even legal residency that matters. You must simply be present in the territory that the regulations apply to (EU+EEA). If you're not, then the protections don't apply to you, regardless of your citizenship.
> The Trump administration brief came Wednesday just as Oracle founder Larry Ellison opened a campaign fundraiser for President Donald Trump at his southern California estate. Tickets ran as much as $250,000, according to an invitation obtained by the Desert Sun.

Is this the same Trump that doesn't need anyone's money and isn't beholden to anyone? (Sorry for using Breitbart as a reference).

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2015/06/16/peak-trump-i-d...
They're kind of used to it, they went from the most powerful empire in the world to a tiny island without much going on for them in like 300 years, not sure how much lower they could go at that point, I guess Ireland &co could get independent in the near future.

At least they have their own independence day now.
Barclays scraps 'Big Brother' staff tracking system within one week
True story
https://www.forbes.com/sites/abdullahimuhammed/2019/05/21/he...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22374768
The FBI has a whole threat intel sharing program — actually, several.

In this case, it could be as simple as another company noticed a breach that was reporting back to Citrix-hosted C2 and contacted the FBI, who passed the message along.

Hosting C2 on compromised Citrix assets would be a great way to evade detection in a corporate environment.
Pardon my cynicism if I think it's likely Apple and Netflix.

And they probably do that for everyone only because it doesn't eat into the main profit generators in their business models. Not many marketers paying Netflix to advertise their new natural soap line to targeted prospects I'd imagine.
https://nypost.com/2020/02/19/whistleblower-doctors-say-coro...

> “It’s highly possible to get infected a second time,” one of the doctors, who declined to be identified, told the outlet.

> The physician said that medication used to treat the virus can have negative side effects on patients’ heart tissue, making them more susceptible to cardiac arrest.

> “A few people recovered from the first time by their own immune system, but the meds they use are damaging their heart tissue, and when they get it the second time, the antibody doesn’t help but makes it worse, and they die a sudden death from heart failure,” the doctor said.
Synthetic data uses the distribution(s) of the underlying dataset(s) to generate a totally new dataset that in theory has the same statistical properties of the original dataset. The rub is in making sure that you're actually synthesizing a valid statistical representation of the original dataset, including joint distributions. Otherwise, you wind up with models that won't generalize back to the original data.
I was about to ask the same. I assumed it is because of Larry Tesler's death.
That sounds really interesting.

Would you mind sharing a resource to learn more about how the UK spies on US citizens?
I see 'Github for data' but I'm reading services to hide PII. I think a distinction needs to be made here. Is the primary goal to enable Change Cata Capture on data(Github does CDC on code) or is the primary goal to manage PII?
According to the latest WHO sitrep [1], there are 3 deaths and 924 confirmed cases. That's a fatality rate of 0.325%.

China is an outlier because their health system is overworked.

[1] https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...
You can use Radeon cards, some are supported and when they are they run decently. But anything other than a GTX760 is not going to work, and I can assure you that the drivers Apple ships for this card are absymal.