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Ask HN: Suggest a deep-learning personal project?
After completion of deeplearning.ai courses I am looking for personal project to further improve my understanding of AI and have some fun.

I find applications of convolutional networks and sequence models especially interesting.

One of the ideas I have is to build a command-line tool to classify my photos (mark photos with people, nature, cities, similar photos, photos with bad light / focus, ...).

Could you suggest progression through such project with high-level tasks ordered by difficulty?

Other project suggestions are also welcome!
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That seems at odds with their mission:

> The Cooperative Corporation of dot-org Registrants, or CCOR, is the cooperative organization that seeks to embody and collectively represent the community of dot-org domain name registrants, who will be its members.

As a .org registrant that doesn't fit into their enumerated purposes, I don't see how they can claim to represent me.

It would also seem at odds with a further commitment:

> Ensure that the dot-org domain is not used as a point of control or censorship over the speech or conduct of its registrants or their constituencies.

In that it seems to promote the idea that some speech or conduct (such as running a commercial business) should not take place on a .org domain, because of some distinct purpose of the domain.
When you fold a dodecahedron into a cube as in the animation, are there gaps inside, or is it perfectly solid? My geometric intuition is failing me here.
Amazon worked with 7k hours of labeled data + 1 million hours of unlabeled data - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.01624.pdf
There are exploits though - for example, the lowest barrier to exploit vulns like 'zoom bombing' are being exploited quite often.

Others, like perhaps an RCE, are not being seen. This is for a lot of reasons.

* Many are being found by whitehats/ researchers, so by the time they're made public an attacker is already playing catch-up - it can take days or weeks to build a good exploit chain, so starting from "A patch is out" or "The vuln is disclosed" is not encouraging.

* In general, exploitation of vulnerabilities is actually quite rare. Patching practices, mitigation strategies, etc, have radically improved over the last decade. It isn't that the attackers can't do it, but the majority of attacks will just phish you, install malware, and try to make money the simplest way possible.

Does that mean you accept that risk of vulnerable software? These are not strong mitigating factors and are mostly about risk profiling and motivation. So that decision is up to you.
Right. Once a state has established a secretive organization to do nefarious things that org will keep doing, until it is disbanded and surprisingly often even after. They'll keep doing without too much thought about whether it makes sense on a political level, because those decisions are explicitly not their responsibility. In a closely related field it's not the army's job to decide whom to attack, it their job to be ready. The same applies to secretive orgs, they are just more difficult to control. Without decisive political effort to stop them when collaboration is preferred, intelligence people will keep gathering intelligence, propaganda people will keep invening lies, thought police will keep cracking down on communications (see the silencing of Dr Li Wenliang that was quickly rolled back once the topic escalated to people with decisionmaking in their job description) and offensive hackers will keep poking at servers. That's just how it is. It's not good at all, it's terrible, but it doesn't suddenly get worse than usual when it hits Covid-19 research. Surely the NSA wouldn't erase intercepted communications upon realizing that is about Covid-19, right?
As a specially trained valuable first world labourer -- at least, my employer seems to think I'm worth a salary -- I find growing my own potatoes (and a few other things) a welcome break from my desk and screen.

I'm sure my garden is nowhere near as efficient as a real farmer could make it, but that's hardly the point. And a few rows of potatoes (even with my inefficient management), are a much more productive use of the land than a typical suburban lawn.
What popup? I didn't even imagine there was such an annoyance.

I probably have to thank uMatrix for improving my browsing experience. It is sometimes overkill, sometimes insufficient, I wouldn't recommend it to my mom (because of the need to understand how the web works to customize it via a few clicks here and there), but for geeks like us it's great. Added benefit: when configuring I get to see the domain names of those web actors that get filtered.
You jest, but it's hauntingly true
There was another serological survey of blood donors in Castiglione d'Adda in Italy. That one came up 70% positive. That town had 1.4% of its population die in March. That suggests an IFR of 2%, not counting people who were sick and might die from COVID in April.
Only 9 million people in furlough (with gov benefits); so a third of the working population. The economic shock is going to be brutal.
“The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles.” - Oren Harari
Has there ever been any consensus as to what that "...or is copied as an array of character type..." text is supposed to mean, or what sort of hoops must be jumped through for a strictly conforming program to generate an object whose bit pattern matches another without copying the effective type thereof?
What? Why do you think info about Top Secret-ready infrastructure would be public domain?
Exquisite Corpse, the Surrealist Drawing Game (2018)
I commented something similar on the video, but I realized you would have to define the problem much more rigorously to get an analytical solution. The ball can hit a point from many angles, so doesn’t that mean there can’t be a perfect solution? If you define the problem with precise constraints that roughly match the paths that will tend to occur from real people shooting baskets, and ignore variables like ball spin that probably don’t matter much in practice, I would imagine there would be an analytical solution.
This should be mandatory reading for all journalists, and all politicians.
State-Machine Replication for Planet-Scale Systems
I think you are underestimating the productive potential of 4 million people. Machines can be built, raw materials can be gathered and supply chains can be organized. The alternative is to sit at home doing nothing until the equipment we need comes from China, which is more-or-less what our current leaders are recommending.
It's easy to test the fit of the mask. I wonder what made him confident that the filter material actually worked.
Yeah, + used to work and then it was switched to quotes to serve that purpose, but now that isn't total respected either.

I used to think a true research search engine that actually respected boolean operators would be a good thing, but it seemed that the market was so small it wouldn't be worth the effort.

Bing actually respects quotes pretty well.
A Non-Technical Review of Rust
And this is not considering that new Reddit is horribly slow. You can be waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting for the actual content to load.
What are they selling?
Snap Camera [0] works with Skype. I just don't know if it supports custom backgrounds.

[0]: https://snapcamera.snapchat.com/
Is Mint's budget still based on an estimation of income and not real income/cash-on-hand?
I know the Chinese government has been pushing the narrative that it was those European countries fault for buying the wrong product, but it's just not true. Everyone is perfectly OK with using non-medical industrial filtration masks under the circumstances. The reason that European countries have had to recall a bunch of Chinese masks is that they didn't meet the filtration standard they claimed to be made to, full stop. They let through substantially more particles than the standard allowed when tested. They also failed fit testing, which would make them unusable anyway.
How do you even know "a state" has hacked you and not someone in the public unless you find the hacker(s) in person.
Just as an FYI 2 weeks later... We decided on not enforcing Zoom accounts for our students for various reasons. So the PRC might have IP address access to a SIP/Zoom server but this is not something we, as a small university, can solve. Even without Zoom the PRC could trace access to our bigbluebutton server or a jitsi videobridge and I don't presume that using Webex or Vidyo or what have you would solve this issue (and honestly all other solutions would have ended up being more expensive).

We still do not have any evidence that the PRC has access to unencrypted Zoom server logs and frankly I assume we would have the same (or worse) issues I had with my tests from Iran that either SIP/WebRTC doesn't work or appears to be intercepted. So, at least for me and my users, Zoom is the most accessible and "least worst" solution.
I'm not looking for a budgeting app so much as something that tracks my expenses. I don't know how much I'm going to be making each paycheck, so traditional budgeting doesn't work for me. What I'm looking for is:

- Import bank files (ofx / qfx)

- Let me flag some transactions as 'do not import'

- Ability to categorize transactions, and have it auto-categorize transactions as they're imported. This should be done by name and amount. Eg - $80 from Chevron might be Auto Fuel, but $5 from Chevron might be Snack Food.

- Ability to split transactions

- Ability to manually enter transactions. Because sometimes I pay cash

- Ability to have sub-categories. Eg: Car; Car : Fuel; Car : Maintenance; Car : Repairs; Car : Insurance;

- Ability to view spending by category by month / by year. This can either be by sub-categories, or roll sub-categories into a parent category. Be able to drill-down to get more details.
NASA to shortly use Falcon 9 to send astronauts to ISS
If you open one of the product pages, you'll see that yes, and you can vote too.
Mozilla hasn't seemed at that concerned with digital privacy for a while now.

Sure they _say_ they're for it but their actions and products have been leaning the opposite way lately.
> Vox factually reporting the tech industry is eschewing handshakes. Tweet author editorialises that Vox is telling them not to.

When you describe techies as terrified in the context of handshakes you make them sound terrified of handshakes which makes them look irrational to the average person.

When you immediately follow that up with “experts” saying everything is fine you cement the view in the readers mind that tech people are acting irrationally.
This is quite scary for a non-engineer. You're telling me that this little supersonic plane has the whole wing structure held together by a handful of 4mm thick metal struts, manually glued to the wing surface, with wire pulleys running on the inside :O
They're also not standard basketball height, so if you're used to aiming at a standard hoop—
I left Google a few months ago, but I can speak to (1). I never worked on search directly, and of course I'm speaking only for myself.

> 1. As someone generally frustrated with the quality of the search results I get on Google, is improving search quality seen as any kind of priority within the company?

Search quality is kind of Google's secret sauce, so it doesn't get talked about a lot. But here's one public example of a huge engineering task that ultimately led to improved search results: https://www.blog.google/products/search/search-language-unde...

Using BERT in search is about much more than plugging an algorithm into the query pipeline. Google is one of the main contributors to the field of deep learning, and developed BERT. And Google also designed and built an entirely new chip (TPUs) to run this model in production.

I believe that you're not seeing improvements. And changing things without breaking other people is always hard, but particularly hard on software that billions of people use many times a day like Google search. That slows things down for sure. Honestly I was amazed they managed to roll out BERT on TPUs for search despite those obstacles. That should show a little bit of how committed they are to improving things.
I've just taken to having something interesting on the wall behind me. I started with the classic, "This is a velociraptor-free workplace."

Currently I have a sign that says, "Will code for toilet paper."
Thanks goodness Firefox provides Reader Mode usability feature.
I work around stuff related to the online shopping supply chain. We are absolutely seeing black Friday numbers. Really wondering if this forces people out of old habits and into new ones. Retail might never be the same.
You can use something like Futhark and link it with your program.
Some of the industrial scale "greenhouses" I see are PVC frames with sheet plastic. Lift them right off come harvest.
The part of the banana skin looks like a very nice experiment if you have a webacam and five years available.
I think there's a balance to be struck here depending on the type of site and what organization you work for.

If you're thinking long term and beyond the time period that you yourself will be employed at your org, you should put serious thought into making as vanilla and out-of-the-box a build as possible. My organization has a simple path to getting new developers up to speed on how to maintain and further update our Elastic Beanstalk-served sites: Learn the basics of how EB works and you're good to go.

On the other hand, if I had put together a superbly optimized AMI and grafted each site onto it, a whole lot of question marks start to appear. What distro is being run? Who/what's keeping it up to date? How do you connect to it? (On EB, you type "eb ssh" and it logs you in.) What's the load balancer setup look like? Where is all of this documented?

I think the trade-off of a few percentage points of optimization versus the fully-documented nature of a packaged service and the simplicity of getting someone new up to speed... I'll drop the few percentage points any day.

In fact, a few weeks ago a media org I frequent often had a site outage - they run WordPress so I offered to help (it was the weekend and I figured their IT guy might not be available) and they took me up on it. It took me five minutes to solve the issue and twenty-five minutes to understand how their custom, minimally documented setup was designed. I don't think that should be the norm.
The problem with herd immunity to this virus is how short the immunity to corona virus is - around a year. If we wait for herd immunity to build from low level natural spread then we will never get there.

There is a very major risk with extrapolating the Santa Clara data in the motivation of those being tested has not been controlled. Who is more likely to want to know they have been infected - those who have had classic COVID-19 symptoms or those who haven’t.
There's a solid dodecahedron with a cube-shaped hole removed from it, and unfolding that dodecahedron to remove the cube from the cube-sized hole gives 6 "flaps" but none of them are flat, each is a piece of the solid part of the dodecahedron that did not intersect the cube-sized hole.
Did other people also wonder what a French cleat might be?
It is a molding with a 30–45 degree slope used to hang cabinets or other objects.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_cleat
No his argument is that there are two sampling biases.

The demographics of a tested population do not match the demographics of the county.

If someone believes they've been infected they are more likely to seek testing. (self-selection bias)

The study adjusted for the first but not the second bias. He believes the second bias is more important, so when they adjusted for the first they moved the adjusted average farther away from the true average.

I think he's right, self-selection can be a far more impactful bias than things like sex and race.
>Call me skeptic but it's likely that banks prioritized applications of companies that have significant debt with the bank.

They certainly did, on April 3 the day the program started of the 4 big banks only Bank of America began accepting applications with restrictions to applicants (example: must be an account holder and have pre-existing loans with the bank).

BOA was already sued by business owners in attempt to get court order to force BOA to open up the application process to everyone, and the Judge already ruled the banks have freedom to prioritize their own customers on any basis they like because the CARES Act did not prohibit the banks in anyway from doing so.

Now there have been multiple lawsuits against multiple banks, here is a link to one of the Judge's orders denying the restraining order against BOA: https://www.pierceatwood.com/sites/default/files/Order%20den...

In short the banks with get an automatic 5% of the total $350B, plus of those loans that don't get forgiven, the banks can sell them on the secondary market. So as you point out the Banks basically got $17.5B to lend money to businesses that already owe them money.
Does the current TLD system even make sense?

There is a .amazon, a .google, a .cancerresearch, a .sex, a .rich (which costs thousands of dollars btw). Plenty of them such as .io and .tv are all completely untethered from their original meanings/purposes. At this point, a website is just a string with a '.' in it somewhere.

Instead of having 1500+ discretely decided upon TLDs why not just let people just create their own TLDs as long as they have a server to host the DNS?
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Can you elaborate on what 'ultrapopulism' is?
They're probably having the guy hit it with a mallet and listen for voids because they're a Mickey Mouse operation by aerospace standards. Plus this is a model so if something does go catastrophically wrong it at least won't kill anybody, probably.
Bill Gates, at Odds with Trump on Virus, Becomes a Right-Wing Target (NYTimes)
Ask HN: Do you or your organization pay for any Slack apps?
I've been tinkering on a little Slack app lately and I'm curious about how likely an enterprise is to pay for a Slack app if it provides enough value - whether it's on a per-workspace or per-channel basis. Do you or your organization pay for any Slack apps? Have you ever sold an enterprise Slack app? I'd love to hear from the community!
I'm going to repeat your question: why isn't ppe being procured on a national level, and instead why is dhs seizing supplies, and why is not a war supplies act being declared when the national government is clearly needing them and not able to procure them.

It is insane on multiple levels.
Looks interesting.
I only wish it used Haskell's type annotation. I've been learning Haskell recently and I'm really liking how easy it is to read and digest codes.

I feel like Haskell in general is yielding much cleaner code and once you start learning it, so much easier to follow the logic of a code and not get lost in all the noodles of commas, parentheses and unneeded brackets.
I wouldn't say I get "more" from a scatter plot, it's just a matter of accuracy and trusting the data. Smoothed plots add slopes and transitions that just don't exist.
Domains really shouldn't be tied to country of origin. Conceptually, it doesn't make sense to restrict DNS based on geopolitical boundaries. If a foreign company wants to register a .us domain, for instance, nothing should stop it.
Right, what you're describing there is basically a framework to do content analysis ( with quotes as units of meaning, and tags instead of codes).

It's definitely an appropriate strategy in a lot of cases. But sometimes it just doesn't capture what matters (e.g. the pure counts of how often an issue comes up =/= the severity of the issues).

To have a better sense of how people feel, you could do thematic analysis. But then you sort of lose the counts. Or you can pick and choose the most important situations and start writing scenarios. I guess my point is that content analysis is just one of many strategies, in the same way that boiling potatoes is just one way to prepare them.

Anyways I'm not trying to put down your work, I think the website could help people feel more at ease with qualitative data. I'd be eager to contribute once you're ready for other contributors. Feel free to send me a message and I'll happily write some stuff up.
We bank with Wells Fargo, who was of no help until after the PPP ran out.

So we applied with 6 different banks, all small around the country. that didn't work.

Found and applied to a very small bank in rural MN (where we are) and got a person on the phone finally. Submitted to SBA after 7 days, and then got a SBA loan number and approval on 4/14 (just before it ran out).

Now they said I won't be able to close on the loan and get the money until 4/24.

I don't even know what the takeaway is at this point.
Yes, what you're describing is incredibly common. What we're hearing is that small community banks were most successful at actually getting this money into the hands of businesses, whereas the large banks were fairly slow. (And many startup-specific banks were just completely unprepared for it.)

My advice is: continue to work with your lender to get your application squared away so that it's fully ready to be submitted to the SBA as soon as additional funds are allocated (since I can't imagine that those will last long either.)

(In the interest of full disclosure, I'm Pilot's CEO. We don't do anything with PPP loans directly but it's an area of significant interest to our customer base, so we've been following it closely and have been pretty regularly releasing updates like this one from yesterday: https://pilot.com/blog/the-ppp-has-run-out-of-money-now-what...)
Like this perhaps? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MHTizZ_XcUM
>Purchasing tangible items seems to bring more joy than it did two months ago.

I wonder if this will remain true after Covid lock-in ends. It felt like the pendulum had swung awfully far towards people valuing experiences over items.

Also, howdy 11201 neighbor.
Removable inspection panels are standard.
To be distributer of FDA regulated medical gear you need a FDA license, they could have easily verified that. They couldn't even legally take possession of the masks for distribution.
I think it has to with practicality of enforcement. With some common sense there is definitely some leeway with the social distancing rules. The thing is that rules need to be simple and we can't study all special cases. Also people will cut corners.
>He found that each of the five Platonic solids could be uniquely inscribed and circumscribed by spherical orbs; nesting these solids, each encased in a sphere, within one another would produce six layers, corresponding to the six known planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. By ordering the solids correctly—octahedron, icosahedron, dodecahedron, tetrahedron, and cube—Kepler found that the spheres correspond to the relative sizes of each planet's path around the Sun, generally varying from astronomical observations by less than 10%.
Steam remote streaming did something similar, while on the road with my laptop it presented me with my Kubuntu login screen... so I logged in, fine... and now my computer at home is sitting unlocked and unsecured.
Graph convolutions are really powerful for handing structured data like chemical compositions. With the right corpus, I think this area is ripe for unsupervised feature representation learning approaches like what we've seen with BERT-like approaches and how they've dominated NLP in the past few years.

Side note: I worked with Kyle a few years ago on the MIT-MGH Deep Learning for Mammography project. I'm glad to see his work + brilliance being recognized.
Apologies dang, I’ll keep this in mind in future :)
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Your comment, made by alanbernstein 3 hours ago on this website hackernews on 4/17/2020 has never existed before. Is it an invention ?
That’s exactly the point he makes by bringing up the lack of RCTs regarding jumping out of a plane with/out a parachute.