skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my coworkers used basic reinforcement learning to automate a task someone used to have to do manually. We have two data ingestion pipelines. One that we ingest immediately, and a second for our larger customers which is throttled during the day and ingested at night. For the throttled pipeline, we initially had hard coded rate limits, but as we made changes to our infrastructure, the throttle was processing a different amount than it should have been. Sometimes it would process too much, and we would start to see latency build up in our normal pipeline, and other times it processed too little. For a short period of time, we had the hard coded throttle with a Slack command to override the default. This allowed an enginneer to change the rate limit if they saw we were ingesting to little or too much. While this worked, it was common that an engineer wasn't paying attention, and we would process the wrong amount for a period of time. One of my coworkers used extremely basic reinforcement learning to make the throttle dynamic. It looks at the latency of the normal ingestion pipeline, and based on that, decides how high to set the rate limit on the throttled pipeline. Thanks to him, the throttle will automatically process as much as it can, and no one needs to watch it.

The same coworker also used decision trees to analyze query performance. He trained a decision tree on the words contained in the raw SQL query and the query plan. Anyone could then read the decision tree to understand what properties of a query made that query slow. There's been times we're we've noticed some queries having odd behavior going on, such as some queries having unusually high planning time. When something like this happens, we are able to train a decision tree based on the odd behavior we've noticed. We can then read the decision tree to see what queries have the weird behavior.
>A guy like me turns the "news" on and at best it feels like an advertisement wrapped in a reality show. At worst, it feels like a bunch of young children yelling at each other on a playground.

TV news is the "at worst", but your description of "at best" sums up how I feel about all news better than I could have.

There is something distinctly off-putting about the sheer volume of advertising in news publications. It gives me this subtle sense that to be a "proper citizen" I must: read news; buy things.

I read on Quora from a senior editor at the Economist that the reason they charge the same rate for digital and print subscriptions is that because it's harder to ignore or block the full-page advertisements in the print, they are worth more to the advertiser, and therefore offset the cost of printing and delivering weekly subscriptions.

Isn't it a little weird that we place so much trust in our sources of information which, in turn, (almost) entirely rely on advertising revenue?
I first saw that question in MrBtongue's YouTube video comparing Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas (relevant to discussion of post-nuclear war settings). New Vegas is the better game, and one of the reasons is that it actually does answer the question of what people eat. The rest of the video is also interesting, but "what do they eat?" discussion starts here:

https://youtu.be/wvwlt4FqmS0?t=559
ASK: Slack Stats DM vs. Public vs. Private – Whats It Mean?
I started doing a bit of analysis on how we are using slack and found that we have the following usage

Total Messages
80% public channels, 4% private channels, 17% DMs

I compared this to a client team we also have access to and noticed they have

Total Messages
12% public channels, 11% private channels, 77% DMs

While I'm sure there are a ton of ways to use and think about using slack , we all took notice that the DM ratio is so high meaning that most of the conversation is private between team members.

Since this is a metric I don't know what to do with I thought I would ask what sort of numbers other people have.
in fairness to you an hawaiianbrah I'll admit that the $10k is pretty close to an upper limit on that one... any maybe rounded up as well.

So my napkin calculation was roughly $30k for the base auto, financed at $500/month for 5 years. $1000/year on insurance and $50/week on gas.

$500 * 12 = $6000
$50 * 52 = $2600
+$1000

total = $9600

In the above calculation there's $0 spent on service & $0 on financing interest. The theory is that as age goes up, the annual repair cost increases as well.

I think there's also a bit of a confound in the fact that I'm operating in Canadian dollars where my numbers might be inflated... as well, I haven't owned a car myself since somewhere around 2005.

My payment at the time was $450 on a Mazda 5.

All said and done though $5k to $10k is not a wildly unreasonable range. Which I think we were generally agreeing on.
Did I miss it or does the article not go into the nature of the testing?
Without reading the article, I presume his reason is that they are as close to pure evil as a scientific publishing company can get.
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Agreed. Currently working with a host of legacy ruby projects that we're slowly migrating to elixir. We've used hack-arounds to leverage the existing ruby projects up until now. If this library proves to be production-worthy, it'll be a great bridge for addressing some technical debt.
I used to eat one (small) meal a day and I got fat. And then I switched my diet and I got not fat. I don't know why people make this stuff so personal, body chemistry is complicated and it's not that weird that certain foods are better than others.
I agree, and I was heartened to note that several of the first Telegraph commenters pointed this out. If I were a UK parent, I would be wary of allowing my child to be subjected to such a potentially stigmatising test. State intervention takes many forms, and few of them are pleasant.
> We don't make them do anything.

Agreed.

I don't make parenting decisions for your family. Please don't make them for mine.

I'll be responsible for my decisions, not yours. Thanks.

(Parent of two)
But Keras and Tensorflow still only work on nVidia right?
If only there were a decades-old system that allowed that[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_Object_System
Size isn't everything ;-)

A smaller footprint _does_ usually signify a faster load time, but that can easily be overruled by how its internals are parsed (aka, interpreted by the browser).

For example, 1kb script can intentionally block the mainframe for 10seconds, thus making it slower than a 40kb moderate-performing competitor.

Inferno is optimized for the entire performance profile. Preact may load & parse faster -- but only by a HAIR (10-50ms). Inferno does everything else much faster.

So, do you consider the `load` event (which will occur once in the UX) to be more valuable than the every other interaction?
This sounds like a pretty standard use of ML to me. No need to feel guilty, this stuff just isn't very difficult from a user's perspective, especially if you use the right libraries. It helps if you maintain a good bookkeeping of your experiments, so you have a good picture of what works and what doesn't.

By the way, control engineering for industry used to be very difficult (but is paid very well), and requires knowledge of systems theory, differential equations, and physics. But with the advent of ML, I suspect that might change; things may get a lot easier.
The Unifi controller is largely overkill when you just have one AP to manage. Booting up 200 megs of Java software on a desktop to just tweak a few bits quickly became old. Re-flashed my Unifi AC Lite with LEDE and configured it through Luci. I can happily forget about Unifi controller and maintaining a live Java stack on a desktop.
I was also bummed about having to install the controller, so I double checked apple's app store. There's an official, but defeatured app that was still overkill for my home network. I think bootstrapping only worked because I was replacing an existing access point, and had IP access to the ubiquiti via etherenet through the old one, but I didn't rtfm, and connecting via wifi to a non-setup access point seems like an obvious feature to include. Zero issues connecting to the access point directly now that it is setup.
This remembers me of the "neural network black box based forex trading" companies 10 years ago, based in countries where finance fraud did not count es a crime.
Certain optimizations that Inferno can do, like avoiding prototype objects, are pretty closely tied to React's API. Are these bottlenecks, or could React (with Fiber and the planned 2017H1 optimizations [0]) eventually become comparable to Inferno's performance for all but the most complex applications?

[0] https://github.com/reactjs/core-notes/blob/master/2016-12/de...
I run a deep learning company focused on a lot of banking and telco fraud workloads like [1].
We have also done dl to predict failing services to auto migrate workloads before server failure.

The bulk of what we do is anomaly detection.

[1] https://skymind.io/case-studies
[2] insights.ubuntu.com/2016/04/25/making-deep-learning-accessible-on-openstack/
> seems pretty obvious that people are just oversampling a Klaxon.

Klaxons were designed to make a very specific impression, so even if they aren't oversampling a Klaxon, I am not surprised if they are subconsciously arriving at the same result. But I'm pretty sure you are on to something -- I recall a monster sound being specifically based on a klaxon. I believe it was either the War of the Worlds tripod, or the Cloverfield monster.
Totally coincidentally Jimmy Wales makes money from wikia, which is a convenient home for all of those articles deleted from Wikipedia.

Plastered in advertising of course.
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Well, MacOS was experiencing bit rot for quite a while already, especially in areas where Apple simply completely abandoned it. Having a paranoid control from Apple in combination with its indifference bit MacOS users hard.

Example: https://www.winehq.org/wwn/404#Direct3D%2011%20development

> An open issue with anything newer than Direct3D9 is that wined3d still depends on legacy OpenGL 2 features and many drivers do not expose some features necessary for d3d10/11 in legacy contexts. With the MaxVersionGL key set wined3d will request a core context, but certain blitting corner cases are still broken. Mesa and the Nvidia binary driver mostly work. On MacOS you are most likely out of luck.
> Each state has its own minimum wage.

That's true, but if a state has a minimum wage it can only effectively be higher than the federal minimum wage.

From https://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/q-a.htm:

> Where an employee is subject to both the state and federal minimum wage laws, the employee is entitled to the higher minimum wage rate.

The rule is from the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Highly recommend Manna. Its short but still worth it.
>The thing is that in America, there is still a barrier between the private and public sectors.

What barrier? It's a selectively permeable membrane at best: wealth can flow from public to private, but never the other way.
What a disgusting title.

It can't possibly be that the society is unlivable for some people.

Not to mention that there are far more harmful effects out there, such as messing up the climate, but nobody says those people are a danger to society.

[also, something something growth mindset]
I'm pretty sure I'm not but ok. I won't even say who is fond of the 'science as religion' thing!
"Europe" aka the EU currently has the UK and France. The UK is leaving and France has no appetite to be responsibe for the defence of the EU.
Bingo.

There's a lot of "DL allows us to do X so we should make a product / service using DL to do X", rather than "We think there's value in something doing Y, what allows us to do Y? <research> DL allows us to do Y better than anything else, lets use DL"

You gave the example of Slyce. Their products are cool, but I can't help but think "is DL the best way to get that end result?" for lots of the things they do.
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There's no reason why React can't learn from Inferno. In fact, I'm aware that they're using a lot of the internals of Inferno to improve React Fiber. I'm sure we'll see more on this in the future :)
Bias is in the initial conditions of the net. It's just not deliberately biased by the author. But it still has bias. "Closing your eyes" to the initial content/state of the net does not make the initial state go away.
Here at Matterport, our research team is using deep learning to understand the 3D spaces scanned by our customers. Deep learning is great for a company like ours, where so much of our data is visual in nature and extracting that information in a high-throughput way would have been impossible before the advent of deep learning.

One way we're applying this is automatic creation of panoramic tours. Real estate is a big market for us, and a key differentiator of our product is the ability to create a tour of a home that will play automatically as either a slideshow or a 3D fly-through. The problem is, creating these tours manually takes time, as it requires navigating a 3D model to find the best views of each room. We know these tours add significant value when selling a home, but many of our customers don't have the time to create them. In our research lab we're using deep learning to create tours automatically by identifying different rooms of the house and what views of them tend to be appealing. We are drawing from a training set of roughly a million user-generated views from manually created guided tours, a decent portion of which are labelled with room type.

It's less far along, but we're also looking at semantic segmentation for 3D geometry estimation, deep learning for improved depth data quality, and other applications of deep learning to 3D data. Our customers have scanned about 370,000 buildings, which works out to around 300 million RGBD images of real places.
Cognitive bias cheat sheet :) https://betterhumans.coach.me/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a...
The same reason libraries deaccession books even when they have spare shelf space, and, unless you are a hoarder, you get rid of/donate/sell unused items from your dwelling.

Sifting through hoarded garbage has a huge cost - your time. You should not have to waste time even bothering to skip through garbage articles in an encyclopedia. Wikipedia editors should not have to waste their time reviewing updates to garbage articles, making sure the articles are categorized properly, etc.
I just finished The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu and I cannot recommend it enough.

It traces the history of advertising and attention capture from billboards through Facebook.
> Technical skills and everything else are complementary but not mandatory (except geniuses - maybe in 0.1% of the cases).

Depends on the environment.

On the one extreme, there are the consulting companies, they just buy whatever human meat shows up and sell it back at $1000 day. Who cares about technical skills, they'd sell ANYTHING, they're insanely good at that.

One the other extreme, there are the hardcore tech companies, where skills matter. A new HFT company just recruited a guy with previous experience in finance that seemed promising and let him handle the trading strategy, well that was fun seeing them loose $10M on the first day :D
The ARPANet Completion Report is Fascinating; it includes maps of the US with the ARPANet nodes indicated as the network grew. As well as additional logical diagrams of the network.
http://walden-family.com/bbn/arpanet-completion-report.pdf
I'm not sure of the cause, but it's a known issue.

$ cat README
Welcome to Browsix!

For more info, please check out:
https://github.com/plasma-umass/browsix

Known issues with this shell:
- 'cd' is not implemented.
- backspacing past '$' produces "interesting" results
$
I've spent a lot of time optimizing the startup time of large React codebases. In my experience the size of the React bundle is irrelevant; it will be quickly dwarfed by the product code for any meaningful application. The real problems in startup speed are twofold:

Browsers are stuck optimizing an outdated model - parsing and compiling JavaScript on the critical path is madness. The only benefit of that model is that a web developer can right click and view source to see some unreadable minified JavaScript code. The cost is that every web user has to wait hundreds or milliseconds or multiple seconds for the browser to do busy work. Even advancements like Service Workers don't do anything to mitigate this problem.

The second problem is that browser vendors are locked in a arms race chasing artificial metrics. This started years ago when the Chrome team introduced V8 with a huge PR push to sell the benefits of their JIT. It looks awesome to say that your browser tops SunSpider but those metrics don't necessarily correlate to how sites use JavaScript. Firefox has a heavily optimized JIT that kicks in when a function is run 1,000 times. When loading Facebook the hottest codepath is run 900 times.
Which is exactly what I mentioned. Are we looking for a disagreement?
I wish they had put that on the front page since I was still flagging political articles per the request in the original message.
That is popular among guitar players to start with "Smoke on the Water" as an easy song to learn basic principles.
I thought we liked BBC?
Let me create a headache for you: there is no "CSV as created by Excel with the default settings". There are a lot of different ones for each language setting of Excel, and they are incompatible. So if you're going to work anywhere but the US or even have just some foreigners in the US as your users you're in for a total nightmare doing "Excel CSV"

The worst thing Microsoft ever did to Excel was even translating the formula functions in different languages. So SUM() isn't actually called SUM() in half of Europe...
> An simplistic example of such could be a very wealthy person, who despite paying a lot in taxes, causes considerable (far greater than average) damage to the environment - causing longer term externality and burden on the "state" than immediately recognizable.

Or a wealthy person who causes great damage to the environment, pays no taxes, and takes public subsidies anyway. The greater burden on the state are the people exploiting the society around them without giving back.
I'm only giving advice that I've personally tried myself, and have seen it work. I actually have a coherent theory for why people get fat, you just have... anger
I've asked several of these people to explain the attraction

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/02/10/where-money-is/

Javascript is a "workable" or "decent" language, and it happens to run where the users are. This is also a large part of why C++ was a success and C before it.
Mark Levin? Really? My grandmother gave me Liberty and Tyranny at christmas '09 (not weird, we're a politically charged family) and I felt like it was a good introduction to what American conservatives think...for non-Americans who don't have years of immersion in our debates to go on. I already know the typical arguments for a flat tax, states' rights, and privatization of entitlements, I got nothing out of reading them again. I suppose he does present them in a well-worded and (usually) fact-based way, but I think it's safe to assume that HN readers have engaged with smart conservatives online before. And, most narrowly to that book, I doubt the defenses of Bush admin policies and specific hyperbolic warnings about Obama's policies have aged well.

I'm not familiar with Steyn and haven't read much by D'Souza. Ann Coulter isn't a good pick if you're trying to dispel stereotypes, seeing as she's the walking strawman.
>Many people vote against their own self interest---universal healthcare, larger tax credits to the poor, cash welfare---because they think "if I can't afford $15000 to give to the Feds, no one can".

They mostly don't. Poor and lower-middle-class people consistently vote for the Democrats, upper-income people consistently vote for the Republicans. However, the poor are much less likely to actually vote, sometimes because their vote is suppressed, and often because neither party is actually offering them universal social services or cash assistance.

Then, throw in issues like gerrymandering, winner-take-all elections, and the Electoral College, and you've got one of the greatest voter inefficiencies (failure of votes to translate into seats in government) in the Western world.

The problem is not that democracy fails because people are too irrational. The problem is that the people are approximately rational, but the system is designed to shut out the voices of the majority.
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I'm perplexed by your examples (1) and (2) since the article doesn't actually discuss loaning to defaulting black people in any way shape or form. But what "separate term" would you consider to be more appropriate to describe ML systems' tendency to generate results unrepresentative of wider reality as a result of the characteristics of the subset it's trained on or inadequacies in its specification, which is what the article actually discusses?
The Grossman translation of DQ is a fine read. I read it in a seminar which is the academic equivalent of a book club. That was awesome. If you get into it, it's a great discussion book.

I'd recommend Marryat's Mister Midshipman Easy over Forester's Mister Midshipman Hornblower. Marryat speaks from authority when he speaks of the sea and of naval warfare. Neither Forester nor Patrick O'Brian sailed.
You are 100% correct that having an appreciation for shock art isn't a crime. For that matter, neither is hypothetically attending satanic spirit cooking dinners.

But there's so much weirdness in the peoples' lives that the Pizzagate investigation is looking into and the media is so hysterical in denying the very idea of a pedophile ring that it's just causing people to look harder into it. The type of artwork that was at a supposedly family friendly pizza place was just weird enough, but then you had the JimmyComet Instagram account allegedly putting #chickenlovers hashtags on pics with kids and much other weirdness. No smoking guns obviously, but tons of weirdness.

A normal person sees lots of things like that and goes "maybe there's something odd going on here". But the media refuses to show some of these pics and hysterically goes off kilter about "fake news".

A normal person remembers that Anderson Cooper did a report years back about LITERALLY THOUSANDS of Pentagon employees buying child porn and that story vanished down the memory hole, but no, there's nothing bad going on in DC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7n316nGhVo
Thanks, this was really annoying me - I couldn't work out why something not new was somehow new again.
Why use a 2d map instead of 1 dimensional, seems more practical.
You should read the article :)
It's very well written and I found it quite informative. I knew nothing about Elsevier other than that I have used some of their textbooks when I was in school. They were very expensive.

The only thing in the whole article that I feel qualified to comment on was his assertion that Trader Joe's mistreats their employees. It must be a regional thing, because the TJ's around here are excellent places to work (anecdotally and based on my long chats with employees, as a frequent shopper).
I left the US for many reasons, but one of them was that the "fuck you, got mine" attitude permeates US culture, and as a result becomes law. Not all Americans feel that way, but enough do that the idea of a single-payer health-care system is unthinkable. The idea of a person earning anything more than market-rate wages leads people to protest against the notion, to get angry about a livable minimum wage.

It's not special to the US, certainly. But America is where such attitudes are considered normal.
Yup, and he also quit reviewing for them too.