skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've developed abstractions to help reason around complexity, high dimensionality, and the problems that can be solved with each. My intention with that particular sentence was more around the actual navigation of that space. However, I didn't put much effort into that paragraph and intend to revise it when I have a bit more time.

Just added my email to my profile - feel free to reach out if I'm missing something or you'd like to discuss more.
> Almost all of the popular programming language have a js transpiler allowing programmers to code in their lang and use it on web.

Because transpilers are an incredibly leaky abstraction. You have to know your language, the language you're transpiling to and quite often you need to know about how that translation occurs.

That's before you even get into the idiomatic differences between languages and libraries.
I don't think you understand what "based on experience" means in this context.
To fly for the airlines you'll need a college degree, probably with a >3.0 GPA. I agree it's not as academically rigorous though (unless you count the USAF route). Also, most people I've seen do the 250 in as short a time as possible or go part 141 which is a sort of direct-to-CPL training program. Right now there's a shortage of airline pilots but traditionally, those 7-8 years you mention would be spent at a regional before you have a chance at making enough money to start to really service all the debt you undoubtedly have at that point.

Obviously they're pretty different career paths, but they're both effectively 'trades', in a more traditional sense, that require obscene amounts of training.
Gait control is widely recognized as on-topic in AI robotics circles.

There are sessions on this topic at the main conferences, for example.
How to Better Classify Coachella with Machine Learning (Part 2)
Container Performance Analysis at DockerCon 2017
Salesforce gets this right too. All of their APIs get built with the intention of supporting them for 20+ years. Companies can't build on quicksand.
Maybe you can explain to me why I am supposed to cater to other's whims as if my personal blog was a commercial project. It's not. Nobody is trying to teach me things here. They are simply demanding that I do what I have already clearly expressed that I am not going to do. This is my personal blog, not yours. I get to set the rules, not you. Perhaps you can take a hint and not demand others to do things for you even after they've expressed that they don't want to? If anyone is polluting the thread, it's your kind. Snarky, combative, argumentative, and ignorant. If you want to be an asshole, you'll get what you ask for from me.
I'm a medical student at a top 20 allopathic school in the U.S. This article resonated with me.

I think the part that struck me the most was his comments about time. I have diverse academic interests. I studied math and bio in undergrad. I love machine learning and software development (esp python). I lived in China to study the language for a year. All that gets sucked out of medical school though. We are expected to learn a ton of material in the first two years. Then in the second two years, we are basically working a full time job in the hospital/clinics while also studying. We are constantly evaluated. We are also expected to do research and publish papers. I've forgotten what a guilt-free day off feels like.
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Otherwise, leave consenting adults to themselves if they're discrete.

There is NOTHING discreet about what you are suggesting. "Oh, excuse us while we go fuck in the designated fucking place at work while y'all keep working. Be right back for the next meeting in 20 minutes."

That is the exact opposite of discreetness and discretion.
I understand your sentiment and yes, the posts like this should be allowed for people to discuss.But more often than not, this whole thread will get polarised with supporters and critics arguing with little material details to support their arguments.

HN allowed these posts some time back and guess looking at the comments convinced them to stop doing it.
If we have full automation of basic needs fulfillment, powered by sun and carried out by robots, then everyone has more time to have fun. The definition of fun will adapt. Probably get on a new planet and die fighting local fauna will be what people will resort to. Why not? Society will keep supporting individuals, especially when people with the same interests will be discoverable so easily. Sounds like heaven to me. Humanity can do it! Don't forget that mentality will keep evolving
Sure, in the way that peeing all over the walls is a bodily function. It's a bodily function that's allowed at home (if you must), but not allowed in the office.
A6 (1 minute)... Sex (2 minutes)... J32 (5 minutes)... Sleep (180 minutes)...

Sounds like the future to me!
> No one really has any idea how, say, NNs trained on machine vision are working.

False. Plenty of work has been done to show what exactly is going on inside NNs including some very impressive visualizations.

> Hand designed programs to do machine vision don't even get a tenth of the accuracy of NNs.

And that's false too. Hand designed programs to do machine vision can get significant fractions of the accuracy of NNs and sometimes even perform better and/or faster depending on the domain.

It is a lot more work to write that code though and a NN might clue into features that you weren't aware even existed.
As tptacek is fond of saying, HN shouldn't try to be all things to all people. There are an infinite number of issues that classify as important but are beyond the scope of HN's charter.
In terms of what this article considers to be meaningful interactions, it definitely is.
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Yeah, like I said, doesn't fit all use cases, but it does fit the primary one.
Being outside the guidelines is the central reason to flag a story.
are you considering that the no-knead recipe calls for preheating the enclosure, and then gives additional tips to get the temperature even higher than the maximum possible in a given oven (for example turning the broiler on and leaving the door open, etc).

that cast iron pot is _hot_ by the time the dough gets in.
I found this really frustrating to read; on 'training your own models':

> Deep learning is a class of machine learning that has gotten a lot of well-deserved attention in recent years because it's working to solve a wide variety of AI problems in vision, natural language processing, and many others.

What others? Be specific.

The problem is not that people don't know how to build neural networks.

The tensorflow tutorial is extremely comprehensive and there are lots of resources for people who know what problem they're solving to try to build a solution.

The problem is that people don't understand what they can do with this technology, or even, in a meaningful sense, what it is.

Given a array of input numbers [i1, i2, i3...] it provides a black box that can map that input to a set of output numbers [o0, o2, ...] where the dimension of the input and output are different.

That's. All. It. Does.

It takes an input array and outputs an output array; a magic f(x) function.

The thing people don't understand well is not how do I implement f(x); the problem is how do I convert my domain problem (I have 2000000 shelf products in my database and a tonnes of sales information) how to convert that into an input array of numbers? What is the output array of numbers I want out of the function?

The reason this works well for images is because you can say, ok, this output number represents a tag (dog, cat, etc) for each discrete value, and the input numbers are just an array of the raw pixel data.

That's why its good for images; because a traditional function implementation of f(x) that takes a I of dimension say, 65535, and produces an output of dimension 1 is a hard problem.

...but if your problem is, given an input of say [price, date, origin] and an output of [value to business], you can solve that problem quite trivially without needing any neural network.

tldr; The problem people are having is figuring out input and output for domains other than image processing; not how to build a NN, or how to choose which NN to build.

Guide misses the point entirely.

(You might argue this is somewhat uncharitable to what is actually a well written guide to ML; but you can read the about section for yourself and see what you think; I feel like the guide needs to focus sharply on practical business outcomes if it wants to do what it says its doing)
I am not sure why everyone should feel comfortable with everyone else's choices. Do people think everyone should like the movie that most people are going for ?
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I signed a contract like that. They were paranoid I was going to jump ship during a critical time, so gave me a bonus under condition that if I leave company before X months, I would be forced to pay back bonus. Not sure if it's enforceable, but I didn't leave.
Loved the minimal UI.
A high-end desktop is better at simulating quantum computers than any that we've ever built [1]. The best quantum computers achieve about 10 qubits. Furthermore, quantum operations are slower than classical operations. A classical computer can do a 64-bit operation (depending on clock speed) in ~0.25ns, a quantum computer takes about 5ns. Also, quantum computers don't scale like classical computers. 2 classical computers can solve twice as many problems or problems twice as hard, while 2 quantum computers can only solve twice as many problems.

The hard part is hardware, and you need the minimum number of qubits to be of any use to breaking RSA. That number is on the order of O(N^2), where N is the number of bits--so you need qubits on the order of hundreds of thousands if not millions. Where the state of the art is around 10.

[1] D-Wave is approaching this equivalency, for certain definitions of quantum computers.
> How would that work in practice?

It wouldn't. Contracts can't override the law.

What you're probably thinking of here are certain workplaces where sexually explicit material or discussion is inherent to the work -- say, a porn studio -- and an employment contract might include a disclaimer to that effect. Even that wouldn't preempt a lawsuit over sexual harassment in the workplace, though; it'd merely raise the bar.
Everything is really easy if you hand-wave away the facts: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2016/p0922-older-adult-fa....

Elderly Americans experience about 29 million falls per year, which costs Medicare $31 billion. At about $1,000 per fall that seems quite reasonable. 27,000 older Americans die from falls each year. In an institutional setting like a nursing home, the rate of death per fall is even higher.

$700,000 for two people in assisted living for eight years is about $43,000 per year. That's not unreasonable for the cost of assisted care plus medical expenses.
> patient handoffs are dangerous.

I hate when this gets brought up, because it inherently implies that we can't improve them. Everyone talks about increases in handoffs causing increases in medical errors. I think handoffs have a long way to go, and we need to better utilize technology to help in this (ie make better EMRs).

The overworked doctor is just as bad IMO. I've been there on solo 28 hour calls going on my 11th admission. In the morning I'm next to useless and my handoff to that team was less than stellar.
This is usual. I don't know why they explained it here. [1]

This result was published in a peer review journal. It means that two or three experts read the article and found no evident flaw and think that it has enough details to make the experiment in another laboratory [2]. They didn't go to the laboratory and unbolted every piece to double check the setup, or make a copy in their own laboratory to check the experiment. So until two or three more laboratories try this and a few variations, this is still doubtful, but there is a good chance that this is true.

[2] Usually the papers don't have enough information. You have to guess and email the authors and cross your fingers to reproduce the result.

[1] My guess is that they explained this because the result is very unintuitive.
Presumably, female non-employees (likely, though not necessarily exclusively, prostitutes), at least if that room is consistent with all the other allegations of sex involving male employees at company events.
The article conflates eliminating human interaction that is a side effect of something else, with eliminating all human interaction. But there's no reason why that must be the case. Eliminating human interactions as side effects ought to leave more room for human interactions that aren't constrained by being side effects and so can go wherever the humans in question want them to. It's a lot easier to have an interesting conversation with someone if you don't have to finish your transaction quickly to make way for the next person in line.
I dont know the details of the us health system and correct me if im wrong, but lacking FDA approval probably restricts a lot of things you can do, aside from doing unprovable claims, though the last one is also allowed for many things that are health and non-health related.

I can be swayed , but i do subscribe to the concept that there is an availability bias in FDA approval: the fda has the incentive to be overly cautions, because punishment hurts fda, but banning potentially good medicine does not cause FDA any problems.

That, and the potential of regulatory capture make me dubious of any positive claim about the existence of the FDA.
> Even if it is, there are billions of other cells in that 2mL adding additional noise.

Billions? I think you meant millions.
Yes, I'm sure such a system would never be abused. /s
> ddc stuff

Note: this refers to "Diverse Double Compilation", which is a mitigation tactic against Reflections-on-Trusting-Trust attacks.
I was trying to say that this argument can be based on fact instead of experience.
tyranny at its worst! It´s nuts how some governments still continues opressing the people! Some day - soon I hope - they will realizet that trying to shut people up using force, comes at a prize!
It sure did. Alas at the time I had a BeBox in college (mid-late 90s) I didn't know SQL yet ;) I think it just searched over file metadata, not contents, though I might be mistaken.
Indeed, instead of reading anything I wrote one should probably read what the experts think: https://lawfareblog.com/bombshell-initial-thoughts-washingto...
And why would someone who espouses capitalistic ideals struggle to wrap their head around it? It's a pretty simple concept.
If docs didn't slot 15 minutes per patient, then they would need to charge each patient much, much more or make much, much less. There is no other way around that.
I think bgee was saying that their side of the argument (that legal Windows is available) is not based on experience.
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100 meters away, this Ultrasonic tech allows users to whisper in someone’s ear
The code creates unique strings to "interns" which most likely isn't what would happen in a real world application (unless you know... code without thought), you'd inter strings with low variance usually.
Not saying that it won't be slower but the memory usage might be lower.
Virtual Lorenz revealed in tribute to Bill Tutte and wartime codebreakers
It's not a great standard. Practically keywords the whole English language...
A Lossless Network for High-Density and Disaggregated Racks
Notes from Flink Forward San Francisco 2017
Transactional ACID updates to file systems would be pretty fantastic.
Tasks Scheduling in Private Cloud Based on Levels of Users
Bombshell: Initial Thoughts on the Washington Post’s Game-Changing Story
It uses a buffer overflow in the SMBv1 message block to.

Effectively to filter it you need to block all SMBv1 packets. Which you should do already because the modern SMB is v3

Let alone you shouldn't be listening for AD management commands from the wide internet.
Some good content along the same vein with 16 years worth of articles: http://www.javaspecialists.eu/
Architecture Model for Artificial Immune Ecosystems [pdf]
Agree. There was a good analysis of the forensic expert's testimony by some other users here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14261591

There's a link to the testimony in that topmost comment too for those that want to read it for themselves.
Forbes is the one known for saying "Stop the Ad Blocker" then serving Pop Under Malware:

https://www.engadget.com/2016/01/08/you-say-advertising-i-sa...
As a Perl programmer I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry. ;)
The OP seems to be mostly referring to the integration with Dropbox's Windows client, which AFAIK is actually Rust+Python. Rust+Go is what Dropbox uses for their storage backend.

I personally love that Rust is getting used to complement so many other languages (e.g. Rust's first known production use was as part of a Ruby gem). Easy integration is something to be celebrated, because it means you don't need to rewrite the whole world to get benefits.
I have heard from someone I trust who worked there, that the office is very crowded, noisy and chaotic, and it's difficult to get any work done because there are so many people chattering and having phone calls and meetings. The term "turkey farm" came to mind.
How communication tools change the way we work together
Yeah, but let's not punish customers for choosing a vendor that sucks more than they already get punished. Bad decisions have their own consequences, that should be punishment enough. Also, who knows how many good vendors are out there for medical equipment. I'm not an expert, but I only hear horror stories, which may or may not just be because only the horror stories are worth telling others.
I remember my first time in international First Class. A very spacious seat. Personal service. Continuous champagne, caviar, goose-liver pate, Godiva chocolates, etc, etc, etc. All on linen with silver silverware. Since then, I've flown first class a number of times. Most recently, a friend offered me a "free" upgrade certificate for a flight from Heathrow to Chicago. After fees and taxes, it would have cost me $100. I declined. Been there. Done that. I rationalized that after the trip was over the jet-lag was gone and the flight was just a blurred memory, I'd rather have the $100.
I am a lawyer, and if this was a lawyer's story, this would be my advice for the firm. First, they need to hire more lawyers. This guy is way too busy and will make a mistake. Second, he needs a receptionist, secretary, and paralegal to support him. It is wasteful to pay him a doctor's salary to answer phones. Third, they need to streamline their record keeping so he doesn't spend so much time filling out paperwork.
A lot of physicians either push to restrict the supply of docs or look at this "issue" and do nothing about it. They do not want their wages to decrease by opening up the market (have had physician friends say this to me in words that make it sound less terrible).

Cuba decided they wanted more physicians, so they invested in them to the point that they could use them as an export. If we have a shortage of doctors (which I think we do), the people with the power to change that either don't believe we have a shortage or have a vested interest in keeping a shortage.
The problem is that most of the software that Chinese people use from day to day are typically only available on Windows.
Rules for standards-makers
Like a MacBook, but a third of the price
no, i don't think he would deny it and i don't think he would confirm it, either.

have you heard of the glomar response? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_response

or lying by ommision? or being deliberately ambiguous?

there are many reason why he wouldn't deny it if it didn't happen. I can't read his mind, and neither can you. assuming his intentions one way or the other is a dangerous misstep.

as for anonymous sources, their credibility is directly tied to the credibility of the source that reports their stories. what if they Washington Post is making stuff up to sell papers? not saying they are, but they could be.
Capitalism works so well and abstracts away so much that articles like this can be written.
Original: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/ultrasonic-speakers-...
I'm not a medical professional, but the whole discussion of handoff risk always seemed to me like it was side-stepping the real issue presented, which is poor documentation and/or communication between peers. Instead, the premise is offered by the AMA that handoff risk can only be minimized by insane shift lengths.
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Most Chinese software are only available for Windows.
I think by "native" they mean "implemented-in-c++-by-the-JVM", which potentially vary; not java.util.HashTable, which should be pretty standard across JVM implementations.
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Sure there are some pretty visualizations of what images turn on a neuron or whatever. But no one could hand code an algorithm that does the same job that's even half as good.

>And that's false too. Hand designed programs to do machine vision can get significant fractions of the accuracy of NNs and sometimes even perform better and/or faster depending on the domain.

Source? A few years ago people thought it was amazing an algorithm could recognize cats 12% of the time. And even the best non-neural approaches use some form of machine learning.

>a NN might clue into features that you weren't aware even existed.

That's the whole point...
Nice! I didn't know that. Thanks!
Wow! I never knew that that was what those were intended for. As a kid I would spend a lot of time around there and I always assumed they were purely decorative.
I agree with you but at the same time, if there was a bona fide shortage of labor then wouldn't industry be training people?
Yes, everything points to automation of higher cognitive functions, rendering everyone but a very few geniuses and owners unemployable. The question is if the underlying economic model changes for everyone to benefit from it, or we go through a complete slumization of the whole world with a vast majority fighting for the scraps. It's also questionable if amending economic model would be beneficial to humanity, removing all challenges, as it might lead to complete hedonism and destruction of civilization in a few generations.
There are lots of reasons one might want to avoid human interaction:
1. Human interaction is perceived as complicated, inefficient, noisy and slow.

I can't recall the source of where I heard it, an article or podcast perhaps, but there's the idea the current situation of increasing populism (anti-globalism, anti-immigration, xenophobia) is partly a result of ever mounting complexity in our societies. I wouldn't be surprised if the anti-human interaction thing (as well as hikikomori in Japan f.e.) was another effect. Of course, I'm sure this being HN, people will think it's the obviously just technology marching on -- but I'm not so sure. Businesses go where the money is.

Personally, I tried to get away from it as much as possible and it still feels like too much and I have every plan of simplifying down the road.

edit: I found the podcast I think was referenced, but disclaimer I haven't listened to it specifically: http://omegataupodcast.net/184-societal-complexity-and-colla...
That's not what I see when I look at that plain chart
If someone put data in a column that wasn't valid, like a string in a bigint column, would the table be altered or would the FUSE driver refuse to make the change?