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Apple's first published ML paper[1] described how they trained a neural network to estimate eye gaze. To augment the limited data set of labeled eye photos, they rendered synthetic eyes and then used adversarial training to make them match the real-life data set.

This paper came out several months before the iPhone X introduced Face ID with eye gaze tracking, so it can be seen as a hint of things that were to come.

What's intriguing to me is that the paper also talks about doing the same with synthetic depth maps of hands, adding details such as occlusion and imperfectly-captured edges. With Apple investing heavily in ARKit, and rumors of an AR headset, it seems like hand tracking is inevitable.

1: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.07828
The only objection I can think of that an honest police department might have against this sort of analysis taking place is that some figures might be taken out of context or not adequately explained, such as officers’ numbers who patrol neighborhoods that are predominantly one ethnicity.

If I believe in my work, I don’t mind it scrutinized, and would welcome the analysis, given that the analyst is not excessively biased.
It's not only Google, some argue we have been slowly moving from an Internet to a Trinet where GOOG-FB-AMZN control the majority of the web traffic while staying out of each others way [0]

[0] https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.htm...
What do you consider as a specialty business? There are hundreds of millions of professionals - scientists, engineers, accountants, animators, content creators, visual artists, chip design folks, folks writing drivers for equipment, photographers, musicians, manufacturing folks, etc who simply cannot earn a living without native apps. Sure, maybe when those people go home, they don't always need native apps, but IMHO its a mistake to only think about them in such a narrow scope.
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> Hardware used to be so exotic!

It might circle back around to being exotic again, if FPGAs take off and more work is done on highly-specialized task-specific hardware, as opposed to building the fastest general-purpose chips you can and beating problems to death with sheer speed.
I agree :)

It just comes down to my preferences for what kind of itch I liked scratched the most. Egan stretches my brain and makes me wonder at the complexity of complexity. But Banks makes me yearn for the future. Demonstrates what wonders could be possible if we fast forward technological development forward 10k years.

The magnificent intellects of the artificial minds that govern the society hits me in my soul. What a wonderful idea.
Since a few years ago (when I read Why We Sleep [0]) I’ve made it my priority above all else to allow myself 8 hours of sleep, even if I don’t ‘use’ all of it. With more sleep, an innumerable amount of things are better (as read in the book), but subjectively I noticed the following after about a month straight of good sleep:

* Pain was far more manageable (IBS, MMA injuries)

* Sleep was more restorative when I woke up

* Emotions far more regulated (less irritable)

* Quicker to come up with on the spot jokes, or come up with a refutation to an argument

* Gym performance +30% at least

* Gym recovery faster

* Short and long term memory improvement

* Less health flair ups

* Reduction in brain fog

It’s hard to notice these differences subjectively unless you know what it’s like when you’re “optimized”

Following a keto (or carnivore with a focus on ketosis) diet leads to a further boost across the dimensions mentioned above.

I think many people outside of self-optimization don’t realize what they’re sacrificing when they choose to forego sleep. Even total productivity is enhanced, despite working less hours due to sleeping.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Sleep
Forbidding companies from moderating the content on their own public forums is forced speech. An easy test is when government officials participate in those forums: if you must publish what the government tells you to, that's literally forced speech.

Similarly, the Fairness Doctrine was overruled because requiring companies to air opinions they disagreed with was found to infringe free speech.
Uber is very vulnerable.

They still make a large loss every year. Cash is not as bad, because (a) half the loss is in the form of "stock-based-compensation" and (b) they've been growing, which improves cash flows.

Stock prices are (astonishingly) doing ok. Idk if that means uber can still raise whatever they need, but I suppose it does.

They can't really ride out a dip in stock price though. They almost certainly can't cut enough to be profitable... Even if 2020 revenues weren't lower than last year's.

Uber still operates financially like a startup... they have a certain amount of runway.... It's longer than most startups, but it's still under two years.
I wonder if any other companies will follow suit.
However Google frames it, I see this as nothing more than them grabbing a chance to monopolize a popular search term for their own revenue with plausible deniability.
The outputs of the model _were_ being treated as predictions.

The Ferguson paper from 16 March used the language of prediction: "In the (unlikely) absence of any control measures [...] given an estimated R0 of 2.4, we predict 81% of the GB and US populations would be infected over the course of the epidemic." [1]. The news coverage also used that language: "Imperial researchers model likely impact of public health measures" [2]. And look at the rest of the comments in this discussion, and count how many types "predict" appears!

> If we'd waited until we had enough data to make predictions with it

This is like the drunk looking for their keys under a streetlight. "Did you lose the keys here?" "No, but the light is much better here." -- "How confident are you in your model's predictions?" "I have no idea, but it's the model I have."

Also -- the Ferguson model made predictions, based on the parameters they picked. You don't need to wait for data to make predictions; you only need data to validate your predictions.

> How would you ethically collect training data for the interventions?

You don't. You (as a scientist who influences public policy) should publish validated confidence intervals for your predictions. You (as a government) should understand that there is a huge margin of uncertainty in the predictions, and accept that sometimes you just have to make decisions in the absence of knowledge. You (both the scientist and the government) do not go around spouting "Our decisions are led by science".

[1] https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk:8443/bitstream/10044/1/77482/1...

[2] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/196234/covid19-imperial-rese...
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Hmm, getting

This server could not prove that it is archive.vn; its security certificate is from cloudflare-dns.com.

Are archive.vn working?
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> When you say "controls" it's like you're saying Google has some kind of monopoly power that makes it hard to switch

No, "controls" means decides the rules and what is happening on that part of the market. Any number that is not 100% automatically implies it's not a perfect monopoly and it's possible to switch, but once you are within the area controlled by Google, it's Google's rules. Including removal any content Google doesn't like for any reason, blocking any action Google doesn't like for any reason, etc. So for 91% of the searches, Google decides what you can and can't see.

Google hasn't leveraged their ownership of the browser to enact censorship (frequently on behalf of most vile dictatorships) yet as far as I know (surveillance is another mater) but it certainly did and is using its control over search, advertising, video hosting, etc. markets to do that.
I don't think it's splitting hairs. Banning video channels and banning apps are very different things. Consistency would ban both apps and any normal web browser, or would have never gone near banning this one.

The equivalent to the youtube bans is when they ban apps that are actually about covid-19. Not apps with internet search.

> I’m not talking about disagreement of these posts (there’s nothing to disagree, the comments were factually accurate), I’m talking about the comments where people say stuff like “Google's rules only apply to their competitors“, which clearly isn’t true (as I’ve proven).

No, the exact opposite of that. Because I was replying to the part of your post that says "It's a great pity all the factual comments about YouTube's COVID-19 video removal policy (or "censorship" depending on your viewpoint) are being down voted"

That is about disagreement, and is not about comments where people say stuff like “Google's rules only apply to their competitors“.

> I also don’t agree with you exaggerating my comments to claim I was accusing people of being mindless and agree when I said no such thing.

You said "factual comments are being down voted" in favor of "anti-Google rhetoric". That's either people being mindless or people being malicious. Maybe I shouldn't have used the word "anger", but I don't think "mindless" is exaggerating what you said at all. You painted the situation as having no legitimate reason to downvote those comments.
Is it him or is it a general AI that he created?
IIRC that's because YT switched to polymer, and since Mozilla doesn't support the new shadow dom APIs yet, YT serves it with the older version.
You are using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man argument. It is not about other people being obligated to pay me personally. The point is more general: there is lots of wasted talent. For example: Nicola Tesla did not had own money to support work that later changed the world. Instead he was stuck wasting his time digging trenches and working for Edisson for pennies. It was pure luck that he met George Westinghouse and with his support was able to realize some of his ideas. The point is that too often generally useful work that few gifted people can do does not result in timely or proper compensation to the author. Having dedicated effort for identifying such people and projects and supporting them would be very good use of philanthropic money. And Open Source projects is very good place to look.
These phones are primarily about user-freedom, privacy and my ability to do whatever I want with a device that I've purchased, without restrictions imposed by the OEM.

Also, honest question; What do you actually 'use' the latest specs for? These Android/iOS phones are basically all about media consumption, something that has been sufficiently performant for years. You have great hardware, but no software to take real advantage of it.

On the other hand, the Linux phones can do so much more on the software side that if they do become successful enough for a second/third... generation with more powerful hardware, it would be much more noticeable than a paper spec bump.
Are you allowed to talk around what you did there? Or even write "Top secret, I can't talk about it". I think you need some line items of some sort, because those are three great companies. You'll probably be out of work for 17 minutes.
> it seems imperative to provide as much assistance as possible to enable that environment.

While I agree with this in the short term. In the long term it's actually imperative to make sure that every adult has the potential to provide this environment based on their own earnings, not to focus solely on providing assistance, which -- while a reasonable and indeed morally imperative short-term arrangement -- does not make society grow.
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2) share your project: we're happy to host your web app for free to show off what you're up to
The worldview described in the comment and by people who upvote is something that I'm not jealous of. But as this is not a moral lecture about gender equality, how important decent childhood is or whether the society would be better without reproducing, I'd just like to point out one immediate bias/flaw you express:

The parents who can abuse parental leave are quite privileged.
-Have a reliable partner who wants to have children with you
-Have required fertiliry to "time" pregnancy
-Work for a stable company (rules out small business owners, self employment...)
-Be employed in the first place

How many % you think this would represent of the women aged 20-35 in your country? Do you believe that these women will contribute less taxes to the society than society uses on them? Are these tax payers net-negative part of society?
Hmm. I found the PlayStation to be... extremely playable (at the time, of course)
You have to be careful about coming to fast conclusions based on these statistics. I can imagine these numbers being sucked up by various ill-informed political commentators to mislead the public on what police departments are doing. (Regardless, I love this work and would love to see it done nationwide!)

-It could be that some cops are assigned to densely white areas, while others must work in mostly black areas. This does not necessitate racism on behalf of the officers or management. (Perhaps it does in the overall local culture, as indicated by the self-segregation? To police an entire area, you must distribute resources to various portions of that area.) Racist cops might even prefer the dominant race of the area they work in, yet still mostly cite that dominant race, simply because there are so few disliked-race targets to look for.

-Certain violations cited to predominantly one race may simply indicate a reality in which people of that race break that law more often. This does not necessitate racist targeting on behalf of the officers. At that point, maybe a discussion about how seriously this law needs to be enforced should be had. Window tint? Dime bag of weed? Is that really such a big deal? (Ideally, these laws would just be removed. But politically this seems harder than using officer discretion.)
Hello everyone,

I was recently trying to create a landing page for my OSS side project and wanted to embed a piece of code but couldn't find any "pretty" way to do it. After much searching, I made it work (responsively) so yay! Anyway, I made it into a 263 bytes lightweight CSS only library.

It might be useful to some and some might think it rubbish. Its only 263 bytes so...

Thank you
I built a new system with one of these last December, and it has been a great experience for everything I have thrown at it. I wasn't sure whether I'd stick with it or upgrade later - I mainly got it just to "get into" the Ryzen ecosystem, as this article suggests many do - but so far I see absolutely no reason for anything more.

One thing I didn't realize at the time is that the 3000 series is "end of the line" for B450 motherboards, which should be a real consideration for anybody eyeing a new system with this CPU now. As this article suggests it leaves you in an awkward spot. I opted to upgrade there to a X570, but only barely; a lucky decision, as it turns out!
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That's 210 calender days, not "work" days, so the compensation comes to 80% if you use the leave 7 days per week. Since daycare don't normally accept children under the age of 1 here, it's pretty common to try to strech the leave by taking 5 days a week, so the compensation is more like 60% of normal pay if you do that.
Why not Poker? As someone who feels similarly, Poker is fun because you play against other people, rather than just statistics.
I'm excited for this resurgence of archiving, searching, highlighting, bookmarking, note-taking, etc
Well what we do know is that current AI methods are very task specific and there is nothing that generalizes well to many tasks. If it was happening in the next century we would at least have some idea how to start generalizing to many tasks with a single model or something comparable to that. We had the analytical engine in 1830s and we didn't see a turing machine or lambda calculus until the 1930s
Good question: I checked this for Skylake, but not ICL.

Let me whip something up.
My first impression was "oh, another Pinboard competitor" (which historically don't fare well). What's the elevator pitch for why I should use Memex instead of that?
I can’t where I live. My $20 takeout order is $40 from any app. Entrees are several dollars higher, then there’s a delivery fee then a service fee then the tip for the driver.
I can confirm this. I'm running a 3700x with the stock cooler and It's idling at 50-60 degree at 3.6 Ghz. If I enable Game boost mode in the motherboard (it basically push the frequency to 4.2 and turn up all fans) it increase the performance of the CPU in cinebench from 4662 to 5087 points. That's said, the CPU reaches a whopping 100 degree!!! Probably need to get better cooler before enabling that again.
Sure, there's a market for these phones and I absolutely do not speak for everyone :)

Still, I can get a Samsung Galaxy A20e for 150€ right now, which has about the same specs (actually slightly better) and spend two hours to get Lineage on it.

My point is, I do value my privacy a lot, even to the point of running my phone without GApps (which drops a lot of features), and I think these projects are absolutely awesome, but with their current offering those phones are simply not a general solution to someone with a budget.
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This is laughable, since the government also created an artificial taxi monopoly that benefitted no one but a small subset of people.

Uber is a godsend to millions of people and drivers around the world, to say otherwise in order to drive your political agenda it’s akin to living under a rock.

And if you want some proof, just ask every Uber driver if they would be sad or happy if the service disappeared tomorrow and hear their answers. There is a world out there that lives and thrives thanks to companies like Uber.
Huh? So we're supposed to thank them for the cancer they have wrought? Search was a good thing, then it got bastardized into a gaming system. Free email? Sounds great until the day you find out you're not the only one reading the email. Android is an interesting side project that has proven a useful alt to some. Again until you realize it, along with all of the other "useful" products, was just the long con into gathering all of the data to make Ads viable. If these products were just the products they appear on the surface, then maybe I'd say Google was reputable.
I half-agree

the accidental trust networks that dwell in existing social networks (fb, twtr, IG) are gameable

a trust network where real-life experts gain and lose reputation based on their behavior should (in theory) punish corruption
yeah, that's sad. Google limits its queries to just 32 words.
>"Too much of the world has massive energy needs in order to develop (almost all of Africa, large parts of South America and Asia) and oil will be a huge part of the energy mix given its advantages."

Nigeria, Algeria and Angola are all big petro-states. Africa does not need to buy from Saudi. In South America both Brazil and Venezuela are huge petro-states and so they are not dependent on Saudi Oil either.
I'm not even talking about the alt-right turns. I'm talking about non-partisan hostilities towards our state and the weird science denialism around SARS-CoV-2. General values that I see in most Bay Area engineers.

Add in alt-right and he's going to lose a hell of a lot more people than those who love in California and love it and prefer to support local economies when possible.
By 'vibe' I mean a ton of statements that sound likely to be false or at least would surprise me if they were true that aren't backed up when you look closer. The fact that the information is surprising isn't bad itself, but it spikes curiosity - then when I look deeper there isn't much actually there to support the surprising claims and what is there has a ton of issues.

There's a lot of 'wow, isn't that interesting' talk and deference to authority on an 'important' issue, but little talk of the actual mechanisms of how things work, little consideration of obvious counter examples that could be an explanation (like the one in my comment).

The sense is that the argument is driven by motivated reasoning instead of trying to understand what's true. Basically starting with a position and forcing the data to fit your pre-existing position.

It feels like I'm being conned by someone making up bullshit for status or some other agenda (maybe just sunk costs into an existing theory). Often bullshit and complex interesting topics can sound similar at first and it's helpful to have some sense for telling the difference. Otherwise you wander around impressed by 'energy crystals' and worried about 5g.
I think you're confusing BSD with posting on HN.
> Require you to run an app on a Mac laptop and write some code to make it work. Make it so that there are so many steps that only the most dedicated are interested. But just make it possible.

Can't you do exactly that with xcode?
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So are you saying that the new successors to GE have no agency at all, and they are just following a script? That's ridiculous. The CEOs of GE have not been great or successful but that's on them, not Welch.
I'd much rather run a narrowly scoped (diff-style) .reg file than unpack an entire configuration file from a .tar.gz and potentially blow away existing settings (which has happened to me more than once when installing system updates...)
90% confidence means anything within that range would validate their model. And even if their model was perfect, 10% chance the real value would fall outside that range. So as long as the real number (which we will will have in 2 weeks once the rolling average and final tallies are in) then, well, they're still right.
"power user" == someone who uses power tools like Tim the Tool Man Taylor
It's Facebook -- clearly they expect to make up that margin somehow. It's obvious how.
The size of the model you need to get good enough generation with something like GPT-2 is going to be pretty impractical on a raspberry pi.
You might maybe be able to fit a 3-layer distilled GPT-2 in RAM (not quite sure what the latest RPI have in term of RAM, 4GB?), but the latency is going to be pretty horrible (multiple seconds).
What kind of hardware would I need to setup this to run a private video chat server for say 10 users?
What about Elevate? Seems non-core but couldn't have been cheap.
Sounds more like the playbook of being a real business, meaning to take in more money than they spend....
Full-text search across everything you have ever seen (not just bookmarked).
Games requiring long term focus, chess for example, I personally have difficulty playing when sleep deprived, even though it is turn based. I find I play at ~200 rating points lower on low sleep.
That's actually a rewarding thought to think about.
I'm at Airbnb (opinions strictly are my own). The number of engineers working on tooling for us is actually not that large. The vast, vast majority are product engineers and with our most recent layoffs the majority of the cuts were for those types of engineers. My own opinion is that we simply had way too many product engineers for the amount of actual output we got from them.

Uber is on another different plane altogether... they have more than double the number of engineers and from talking w/ colleagues that worked for years at Uber it's my impression that even on infra there's a lot of bloat. Plenty of high level ICs that couldn't produce quality IC work to save their lives and plenty of pet projects.
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