skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be the important bit, that describes what makes their learning "fast":

"The objective (...) is to maximize the expected total discounted reward accumulated
during a single trial rather than a single episode. Maximizing this objective is equivalent to
minimizing the cumulative pseudo-regret (Bubeck & Cesa-Bianchi, 2012). Since the underlying
MDP changes across trials, as long as different strategies are required for different MDPs, the agent
must act differently according to its belief over which MDP it is currently in. Hence, the agent is
forced to integrate all the information it has received, including past actions, rewards, and termination
flags, and adapt its strategy continually. Hence, we have set up an end-to-end optimization
process, where the agent is encouraged to learn a “fast” reinforcement learning algorithm"

However, one would note that this is still bounded by learning of the RNN, so I don't really see how this approach makes the algorithm much faster than "slow" RL, as loads of trials would still be required for any real learning. Maybe someone more knowledgeable could pitch in.
I disagree. Whether a process is general or not is not important, sometimes problems aren't part of an obvious larger class of problems, and even then using a method that only works for a small set of problems is not technically wrong, and can sometimes even be many times easier than using a fully general method. For example, solving x^3 = 27 by remembering 3^3 = 27 is a perfectly acceptable solution. Trial and error shouldn't so readily dismissed.

In my opinion 'show your work' means that you show why you've arrived at a particular answer, why this is a correct solution, and (if necessary) why this is the only solution.

Using that criterion, simply writing something like '3^3 = 27', or more properly 'Simple trial and error shows x=3 to be a solution, since 3^3 = 27', would suffice.

If the problem was instead x^3 = 7, then sure this method wouldn't work (although they might be able to figure out it's somewhere between 1 and 2) but then again 'By definition x=3√7.' isn't particularly illuminating either, even though it's a full and correct derivation of the answer.
How they listen to their community? It took literally years for a sandbox mode and replays to be implemented, both of which the community carried on about for ages. For a game that wants to grow in professional competitive circles, those features are pretty damn fundamental and it blows my mind that they took this long to exist.

I'd also argue that they're not too keen to try new things, given that even the devs themselves intentionally pigeonhole champions into a strict set of roles [1], something that has resulted in a relatively stale meta (another frequent complaint about the game from some circles). In their defence, this sort of locked-down style of meta evidently works for a large number of players, so I understand why they don't rock the boat on that regard.

[1]: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/gameplay/...
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I'm right with you. Buses, cabs, and subways are all disgusting, smelly, unsightly, uncomfortable and inconvenient compared to one's own car.
A few seconds of pen-testing tells me their token revocation is pretty shoddy. I'm now spying on my fiance's Discord chat.

Bravo to those that downvoted me without even bothering to use their brains (let alone test something.)
This is why I have stopped reading articles on Washington Post, and other similar article sites. The standard they are creating for the web is not one I can support.
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I think this is related to my fundamental problem with A/B testing: when people A/B test individual variables they'll take a greedy optimization that gets stuck in local minima.
The other problem is that you only understand the change in metrics you measure and things like "satisfaction" are often lost.
Should be easy enough to A/B test.
For leadership principles & qualities, I am biased towards the list that the Marine Corps has put out: http://www.tcsnc.org/cms/lib010/NC01910389/Centricity/Domain... .

The Marine Corps may not be a paragon in efficiency in some ways, but I have found that these qualities hold strikingly well for good leaders in the civilian world as well.
Software entities may experience reality a million times faster than we do now. Do you want to wait a quadrillion years to finish colonizing the galaxy? That is a really long time.

Also, if you okay more StarCraft, you won't be so relaxed about claiming unoccupied resources.
Zappos is an Amazon subsidiary even if it does operate quasi-independently (and quirkily from a management perspective). It looks a lot more like Amazon though with generally far less emphasis on building out infrastructure. Ultimately it's sort of a niche because of the nature of selling shoes online.
Nothing wrong w/ that to conform is to become in essence just a cog in the machine, there's no value to conformity, it takes away one's humanity... as I work each day to conform to the coding standards of psr2, and that our dev team has -- lol but that's more for aesthetics and organiztion than just the sake of demanding conformity for the sake of control.
Well, yeah, obviously there's less redundancy, but I'm specifically not seeing the advantage that OP mentioned. (Which is all that I'm questioning.)
>There was not major political or social fallout following manning. Same goes for Snowden, the NSA is still there with more power than ever, more and more countries developing similar capabilities and no one seem to really care.

Just because something extraordinary happens and nothing changes doesn't mean it didn't become history; it's precisely the kind of history of the time we are in. Things dont change because the world has been artifically crafted to be perceived as a stable system.

If you haven't seen Adam Curtis' documentaries, I highly recommend them. Particularly HyperNormalization.
I'll add to the other commenter that LDAP is a great, enterprise feature since it's mostly used by them and most enterprise editions seem to have it.
Novice here, why don't subscriptions lead to hockey sticks? Which business model does?
The task given was to solve an equation and to show how it was solved. The student did exactly that. Their answer is obviously correct and they deserve full marks for it.

If you want them to complete a different task you should ask them to do a different task. Eg. The question could be "show a general method for solving equations of the form "x^3=n", where n is any real number". Punishing people for obeying your instructions is a great way to make them hate you. I'm not surprised so many people hate math when it's taught in this way.
Shitty corporate ones. I used to work at a place that filtered the content too, so this page would be blocked by your post.
immediately pull over and shut down

That could be more dangerous than allowing the trip to proceed in many situations (e.g. high-speed, narrow roadway). Fellow drivers assume a certain degree of predictability of other drivers' behavior when no surprise hazards are present.
Agreed! PIX is really great. I first used it while working on the X360 and I was blown away by the ability to debug a pixel and replay a scene and step through draw calls, GPU state, etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13380809
What were the things that were confusing? I tried it out and found it much more intuitive than Coq (especially in the proofs). The keywords made sense, and so did the error messages. That said, I come from a more math oriented background, and I've played typed around with this sort of thing for a while now. So yeah, I'm honestly interested in hearing your perspective!
Maybe we should replace affirmative action w/ one based on income... Average incomes of student families must = average american salary -- or absolutely 0 tax savings, grants, etc.... from the government.
I'm impressed that you've cataloged your bosses so precisely! I definitely couldn't tell you how many I've had without spending quite a bit of time thinking back through the list.
Okay and even without American meddling how far have those countries come on their own?
How much of a problem is this on iOS?
You don't think perhaps a filter might assume that a website whose URL contains "fuck" might have something to do with porn?
There is some interesting discussion in this LWN subscriber link (https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/711791/5109edb099f55603/). I'm not sure about posting subscriber-only links, but this was pasted in a well-trafficked IRC channel on Freenode, and LWN seems to want these links spread far and wide as long as it isn't used to subvert their subscription model.
They did make the original and the core model is the same, but Cassandra in 2017 is quite different from what they open sourced in features, usability and stability.

I guess everyone makes their own tradeoffs though. This has been working wonderfully for us.
Point still stands. I'm not even in the market but have looked at the community vs enterprise editions of successful companies to learn what splits are already market-proven. Just curiosity for me in case I got into the business. If I was in the market, I'd know everything about market leaders, main competitors, and failures that seem like they should've worked. It's necessary to compete with them to best effect.
I would say that a leader who doesn't have a credible plan has failed to have clarity of thought because if they did they would have seen that the plan wasn't credible in the first place.
I don't believe they counted cars without the sensors, either before or after. Your statement about "at most a small fraction" has no evidence.

Finally, who said the reduction in crashes is Autosteer alone? Not me. It appears to be a combination of AEB and autosteer. That's what "some of the AEB benefit is in the earlier figure" means.

(Edit: note that the above comment was edited without marking the edit. See below.)
What is the expected way to show the work on this? IIRC (long time ago), the method I learned for computing cube roots involved knowing the cubes of single digit numbers (e.g. 3^3 = 27, being one of them).
Vulkan Next is likely to mandate windows 10 at least partially for mGPU support and other things wddm2 is brilliant.

There might be ways around it but I would not bet my life one it.

Windows 10 has also quite a few other advantages like native nvme support, multipath smb and many other neat features.

I would also not hold my breath for Vulkan adoption Xbox and PS4 aren't going to support it which means that still most games would use DX on windows.
Besides the initial cost of tuition,books,room and board, etc.,the money borrowed has to be paid back eventually. No matter how nice thw college campuses are,I feel for those, like myself, who were taught to get an education, then start a career and life won't be hard. However, I never saw a future of working not only without using my degrees costing into six figures, but working a job that only requires a high school diploma, pays more than the few job placements I had that required a degree and still having to pay back a debt that I am not using and that is putting a strain on my income/finances. GOING TO COLLEGE WAS THE WORSE DECISION I EVER MADE!
I wonder how much of those issues are Google Map's "fault"? (genuinely curious). I have the same issue where every damn time the uber tries to pick me up in the alley behind my apartment, not the street, for no good reason.
It's more readable, but using std::function here introduces a second layer of indirection vs using a plain function pointer.

More specifically, std::function's operator() is virtual, and calls into a subclass that's specialized to function pointers of type void(int). The subclass then performs the actual function pointer call.
As C++ developers, though, we are a biased bunch. C++ takes years to properly learn and gain confidence with, something we're completely oblivious to since that learning curve is in the past. I concede that for people who don't already know C++, Rust may be a good choice.
> I live in Mexico City and my experience is similar to the one described in Singapore

same in brazil. my parents never took cabs and now they are using uber for everything (since they are getting older and don't want to drive everywhere).
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> So what doesn’t a startup need to succeed, but an established company would consider an important requirement.

> The first is a fully-distributed, incremental capability for quickly and consistently backing up and restoring large databases using configurable storage sinks (e.g. S3 or GCS). The same functionality, but non-distributed, will be available for free to all users.

I appreciate that you're trying to write a good database and build a business, but what do you mean by "startup"?

If a database can't guarantee it can make backups, why would a startup attempt to use it in the first place?
So can we get rid of forbes.com quotes finally?
Exactly! We're so stuck in the implementation language of the 1980s: index, tablespace, partition, hash-vs-merge-vs-nestloop join .... that we lose sight of what matters. "I want these queries to be fast" ... genius.
I wasn't alive during Watergate, but I did read All The President's Men. One part of the book that this reminds me of is the part where they go too far -- I don't recall exactly, but they took a chance and accused Ehrlichman (I think) of something he did not do. They knew they were wrong because instead of dodging the question or covering it up, he flatly denied it on public television.

I don't want to read too far into anything, but that still seems to be how things work today. Flat denials don't happen unless an accusation really is false, while dodging the issue is an indication that the accusation is at least partly true.
All those points could just as easily be used to argue that paid services are a superior business model to ad-supported services in general. Unfortunately, history doesn't bear that out. The revealed preferences of actual customers is different from what you and I think they should want. Just look at an app store.

For what it's worth, I'm with you. I'd rather pay a small fee to avoid ads (and I do so whenever available.) But I've come to the sad conclusion that we are a small minority of consumers. Better to accept that than fall prey to the is-ought fallacy.
We currently don't share exact metrics for all those stats, but we have shared a few press releases and blog posts which you can easily extrapolate from. :)
I hope you don't mind me hitching a ride on this question, but what is a 'technical writer'? Can someone with excellent composition, grammar, spelling, and proof-reading skills become a 'technical writer' or does the writer need to have specific technical domain knowledge?
FAP? Really ?
Thompson sampling is a great tool. I've used it to make reasonably large amounts of money. But it does not solve the same problem as A/B testing.

Thompson Sampling (at least the standard approach) assumes that conversion rates do not change. In reality they vary significantly over a week, and this fundamentally breaks bandit algorithms.

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2015/dont_use_bandits.htm...

Furthermore, you do not need to use Thompson Sampling to have a proper Bayesian approach. At VWO we also use a proper Bayesian approach, but we use A/B testing in to avoid the various pitfalls that Thompson Sampling has. Google Optimize uses an approach very similar to ours, (although it may be flawed [1]) and so does A/B Tasty (probably not flawed).

https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/310840/VWO_SmartStats_technic...

Note: I'm the Director of Data Science at VWO. Obviously I'm biased, etc. However my post critiquing bandits was published before I took on this role. It was a followup to a previous post of mine which led people to accidentally misuse bandits: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/bandit_algorithms_vs...

[1] The head of data science at A/B Tasty suggests Google Optimize counts sessions rather than visitors, which would break the IID assumption. https://www.abtasty.com/uk/blog/data-scientist-hubert-google...
Cool. The embedded interactive chart didn't load for me -- I had to follow the link out to the Tableau dashboard: https://public.tableau.com/profile/mckinsey.analytics#!/vizh...
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Well it's not your country, it's a country made up of immigrants, of which your ancestors were one. You aren't the indigenous people, the US is built 100% on immigration.
In addition to what others have mentioned, there's also the mobile storage locker aspect. When traveling for example, there are any number of occasions when I will end up renting a car rather than using other transportation because it means I don't have to always be carrying with me all my stuff for a whole set of activities.

It happens at home as well. I don't need to bring a bag for evening activities into work because I can just leave it in my car. And I don't need to bring my computer bag to an evening activity for the same reason.

Sure, all this stuff can be worked around when it has to be but there a lot of advantages to having a mobile vehicle you don't have to empty every time you arrive at a destination.
because knee jerk reaction, assuming logical reasons for well thought out responses on the part of the federal government dinosaur apparatus will only make your head hurt.
That is a fair point. Exploration for resources (including non-consumables like hard-to-reproduce phenomena) certainly would still make sense
I do not want to use LinkedIn. It is clearly not there to help me do anything except quantify myself to recruiters, which often becomes just another awful interview experience followed by a bad offer. And of course, used as a surveillance platform for my personal information, for the benefit of the creators of LinkedIn.
Considering Toyota's publicized software problems with relatively simple embedded systems, I wouldn't be surprised if they are culturally unable to field a competitive on-demand driving service at all.
I think you can just prepare them again, no? Of course the onus is then on poor you to know when that might make sense because of changes to the referenced tables. Though postgres is so incredibly open, you could probably do that with a trigger or a hook into analyze or vacuum or copy-from.
I was sad when old Pix was deprecated, and the visual arising built in tools didn't always live up to being a replacement.
In really glad to see it gets a second chance to shine!
Ah, I misread that to be either fizz or buzz.
What's disheartening is that many websites have started finding workarounds to show these interstitials after a delay or in between screen transitions.

The inherent problem is that app experiences somehow lead to better conversions, and no company would want to lose revenue due to dropped install numbers.
Discord has a pretty indepth permission system that allows per-channel/per-user setup.

If a server allows a user to view the message history (which basically mean, when you enter the channel, you can see previous messages and scroll up), then yes, that user can write a bot to save all the messages. I don't really see what the issue is here.

That to me really is one of the main reasons I prefer Discord to IRC. It's the fact that you can join a channel from any device and see past conversation. But of course, if for security reasons you don't want that, you can very easily disable message history and have it act like IRC does.
Surely it's not who did what, but lets just do whats right?

I think you'll find that the Japanese payed reparation after WW2.

You shouldn't think of things in terms of white and not white, that is just insane. In general civilised countries pay for their mistakes.

In New Zealand we have a tribunal who's goal is to pay for any atrocities and acts of theft perpetrated by the British Empire, a completely different country to modern day NZ, yet we as a society do it because it's the right thing to do.
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In first or second grade, I believe I was asked to "show my work" for "2 x 3 = ?". I believe the teacher didn't accept "But I don't have any work to show" as an answer. I don't think most adults would have any work to show either, nor should they—if they actually repeatedly add 2 to itself, or do anything other than a memory lookup, then there's probably something wrong with their prior math education.

In general, if the step that I took to solve a problem was "I looked up a memorized fact in my brain", then that is the truth, and writing down anything else to "show my work" is a lie.

As other people have said, a proper way to ask that question is "Show a derivation of the answer to [problem]." Bonus points if you specify what assumptions they're allowed (e.g., in the above example, "addition").
"Your older relatives," really? Did I miss the memo about how I'm supposed to become instantly stupid and lazy just because you happened to come along and be born? (Late?)

I know I know, "people whose purchasing of electronic junk surpasses their ability/willingness to use Wikipedia" just isn't catchy.
So you're saying the mass migration of Europeans to America was bad as well? Glad we've cleared that up.
Good point. I see this almost on a daily basis with clients. They miss the forrest for the trees. Its dumb to optimize for email capture when people end up hating your brand as a result of it. I remove all pop ups and simply add clear calls to action in different places in the page. They are static components that are part of the layout. The copy is then adjusted to drive invite people to subscribe. I get higher quality conversions. Its not the quantity but the quality of the leads. People forget that.
Headline doesn't need the dollar sign and the word "dollar".
Section 5.3 pretty much sums up the root cause of this accident: the driver assist requires the driver to be alert, and the driver had 7 seconds to react and didn't.

There's no requirement that driver assist software magically become self-driving software in that situation. Put another way: it's nice if the software can avoid a problem, but not required.

The main remaining concern is that drivers not be confused about what they are required to do; there's discussion about that in this document.
It also seems like this particular video is part of a larger (82-video) playlist on "Extreme Scale Computing" training that they did there at the Argonne National Lab (it'd be nice to be smart enough to work there :-).

Link to the full playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGj2a3KTwhRb6LNVucPkw...
The normal token system revokes on password change, if you want to revoke and have extra security we offer MFA login which has unique tokens per login. If security is of importance to you then use MFA.
This reads like a law firm trying to trigger the Streisand effect, not sure why I should care
Even if you leave out the government-owned and government-controlled airlines, there have been a lot of massive bankruptcies associated with the airlines even if you just limit the field to the US. Indeed, large bankruptcies were almost the norm. Even relatively recently, the statement that commercial aviation had posted net losses through its entire history was indisputably true. It may or may not be true given recent consolidation and considerable profitability.

I doubt the same "never made money" statements could be made about most industries.