skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an AI expert either, but let me give this a try.

I assume you are vaguely familiar with gradient descent. In gradient descent, we are basically trying to find the sweet spot where the value of a function is minimized. We do this by calculating the derivative of the function at a certain point and then use it to take small steps in the direction where we believe the function will have a lower value.

Gradient descent usually suffers from a problem where the algorithm gets stuck in local minimas if the function is not convex in shape.

However, when people use gradient descent to optimize functions with a very large number of parameters (as is the case in Deep Learning), another problem surfaces called saddle points. Imagine a 3 dimensional plot of the function at different values of its parameters (in reality the plot will be multi-dimensional). Now on this plot, there will be many regions where the derivative of the components defining the surface become zero. This messes with our plan to use derivatives to find the direction in which to move. So we need to come up with strategies to escape saddle points during the gradient descent process.
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I'm in the same position. I've built my own game engine from scratch and while it was a really good learning exercise I recently started looking at Unity and wow... So many things I've always wanted in my engine that I will get for free. I don't regret a thing though.
I have been working on a side project to show all the most mentioned books from hacker news, stackoverflow, reddit. http://toptalkedbooks.com

we are still struggling on marketing, no revenue yet.
This is, for programmers at any rate, terrible advice and something many noob programmers do. If some code is right at the edge of your range then you are not bright enough to refactor it later. I can't say it is a good idea for singers either although I wouldn't know really. Even the best professional sports persons play 'within themselves' only rarely having to super-extend.
Enjoy

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/21272815_1015...

You keep calling me a denialist, yet I am saying "climate change won't have the effects the media says, even though the IPCC says different"

If I was a denialist I would be saying "there is no change"

see the difference ?
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Notice how just about none of them are the user caring about your stack.

In other words, when confronted about your high bug rate, you're not going to get anywhere going "heh, you see, Python was just more convenient than a statically-typed language and this lead to..."
I've been working on https://kernl.us for a little over 2 years now.

It's currently making $650 / month and growing.

Something I "knew" but never really understood about growing a business is how long it can take. Granted this is completely on the side, but it still takes a long time to find your market, grow, get customers, etc. Learning that this is actually a marathon was valuable.

The other thing I have to actively manage is building things that are valuable -vs- things that I find interesting. As a developer I LOVE tinkering with new technology, but when I'm wearing my business hat upgrading to the new hot frontend framework doesn't make that much sense.
Having a Linux desktop is a no brainer. Linux laptops, on the other hand... Has anyone had a good experience with a Linux laptop? As soon as that's possible I'd happily ditch MacOS
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> Vue just renders components. There's no state management, built in routing, or any of the other things you get for free with Ember/Angular/etc.

That's not really true anymore; there is now an official router[1] and state management library[2] for Vue. You don't have to use them, but I think the comparison is still completely fair.

[1]: https://github.com/vuejs/vue-router

[2]: https://github.com/vuejs/vuex
AirPods are impressive in that sense, but they have the disadvantage that their integrated batteries are un-replaceable. iFixit recently dismantled them... no, that's too kind a word... they destroyed the earbuds trying to figure out their design, and concluded that it's totally impossible to replace the batteries, which are glued in place within a plastic housing that is also glued together. When your AirPod batteries no longer hold charge, you'll end up buying a new pair, and there is no option to switch to a cabled connection.

You get what you pay Apple prices for.
Sure, but with a $300 budget on Intel you're choosing between an i7-7700K or a Xeon E3-1245v6, which are all but identical.

The Xeon has a slightly higher base clock, slightly lower turbo (all clocks are changed by 0.1 GHz), ECC, and a locked clock multiplier. It appears to benchmark consistently a couple of percent below the i7.

What's even the point of that product segmentation existing? To annoy their customers? I'd rather just buy a $300 processor that checks all the feature boxes instead of all but one.

http://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-intel_xeon_e3_1245_...
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GitLab frontend engineer here. Also wanted to add that performance improvement is a big part of our OKRs for our Q3 and are viewable at https://about.gitlab.com/okrs/
The Problem with the Mutation-Centric View of Cancer
I make over 700$ per month through patreon for my open source work, primarily https://github.com/ory/hydra . Hydra started as a side project for a work-for-hire project. After getting bashed by people for it being trash (it was, mostly due to bad dependencies but also due to bad architecture), I rewrote it (and the libraries enabling it) and now it's one of the go-to services for getting an OAuth2 server up and running. I am very stubborn and spent a ton of time on auth* questions while building other projects, and it seems like people like my approaches to it! :)

It's come so far now that I'm starting to consider this my full-time thing (I'm in the final stages of completing my MSc computer science) and I'm currently running evaluation on an API security platform based on that technology. Basically, I spend most of my time on it and I even got a small team helping me - but it's not what earns my living at the moment.

Before that I gathered a lot of experience from running and building https://en.serlo.org/ which is basically a Wikipedia for learning (I built the whole CMS from scratch) that serves over 1m MAUs in Germany (the english page is very sparse, most of it is on https://de.serlo.org ) and is thus on the most popular learning platforms in Germany. The company behind it is an NGO (= no profits) I cofounded and the platform is ad-free and doesn't cost anything. We get money through donations and other funds.

It's an exciting journey, I'm now at a point where I need to figure out how to actually make money on the web that doesn't come through donations and goodwill, but I think I can do it - why not, right?

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I think you are conflating 'has some sort of internal logic' with 'sane'. Of course you can dig around the thing and find some idea that appeals or convince yourself of its structural soundness. But many of the premises are still nuts and the quality and style of writing poor, to put it rather charitably. He starts by pinning the source of world 'craziness' on 'leftists', a broad category that appears to include 'animal activists' and people who find words like 'chick' and 'negro' derogatory and with a helpful forward reference to some 250 odd numbered paragraphs ahead. The whole thing is, again, 35k words. Consider, for comparison, the following famous pieces of political writing:

The Communist Manifesto

Thomas Paine's Common Sense

Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal

Each of these is shorter than 35k words. In fact, they're shorter than 35k words taken together.
I created some specific 'coffee' time slots in my calender and use https://calendly.com/ to organise the time slots (and put location details etc in as well) and then I just occasionally post to LinkedIn with the link saying I'm open to chats. I tend to get 1 or 2 every time I post.

It's definitely not 100% effective but works for what I want at the moment.
I have a cheap Windows 10 laptop for occasional use when I'm out of town, and I really only use it for browsing. That turd has completely frustrated me with its low resolution and slow response to things that should be instant. Booting seems to take forever for example. I've been researching Chromebooks and this afternoon I'll buy one that will be better in every way and cheaper.
There is a fix for Ryzen in newly shipping chips which fixes the gcc compilation issue on Linux. From what I understand if you are facing the issue you can contact AMD and they will ship you a new chip without the issue. ThreadRipper / Epyc never suffered from the issue.
Not the tension I'm seeing. I'm seeing it in the rank and file all across the country as the article points out. Office admins, waitstaff, hospitality positions, janitorial, etc. These generally blue collar positions have had negative wage growth between 2009 and today but that has slowed or nearly stopped according to the labor statistics put out by Bureau of Labor Statistics[1].

As an example, at some point the customer complaints about room cleanliness will force hotel chains to increase their wages offered to fill positions that have gone unfilled for too long. That change will be reflected in higher hotel rates. Restaurants that can't keep all their tables open during 'peak' times will have to raise prices to add staff Etc.

It isn't a 'big deal' for Facebook or Google to raise wages because it just slows the free cash flow into their bank accounts. But it is a big deal for business models where personnel costs are a material factor in the company's operating margin.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/realer.pdf
I graduated from college 30 years ago and every engineering major at every state university I ever heard of had a coop program.
I stopped reading at "The main thing we didn’t like and we still don’t like about Angular 2 is Typescript". Sorry.
I'm a fan of namevine. I use it when I'm brainstorming projects or figuring out names.

As for a pro feature - I think that notification when something becomes available or a domain/account marketplace might be useful.
Kind of - but instead of computational complexity in the "NP" sense, you have lots of data. It's often so hard to get good training data that the cost of just waiting out a big algorithm to finish can be cheaper. So you have to weigh that.
What I want to know is, why didn't you choose Aurelia? :)
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My personal frustration is that when things do get localized, the localization is sometimes outright wrong. Like, the person who's doing the localization didn't even do basic fact checking on what language a country speaks.

I'd rather have access to the US English pages (which are useful) than a language I don't speak (which makes it clear your products are made by doofuses).

Also why on earth does no-one respect Accept-Language and uses GeoIP instead? Do people in SV just never travel?
How would Google or Facebook stop the articles from hitting front page of Reddit? I would be extremely surprised if any major presidential candidate avoided at least one attack piece hitting the top post.
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Intel agreed to license the x86 to AMD decades ago, it is the precondition to allow Intel to avoid being sued to bankruptcy for monopoly. For current software, the current arch is called AMD64 for a reason - the mentioned compatibility is built entirely on AMD inventions.
That's generally helpful and usually enough, but it's not universally helpful, depending on the shape of the problem and your step size - see Figure 5 below.

(http://graemebell.net/pubs/taros05-bl-embedded-preprint.pdf)

It also depends what the impact of 'perturbations' is in the real world.

Random juddering motions can be bad for physical platforms like robots, spacecraft.

[I once saw a conference presentation where people were encountering saddle point problems when automatically aligning groups tiny space craft in space]

In computer games, random perturbations can make movement look strange, unrealistic or creepy.
Software-based Microarchitectural Attacks [pdf]
Thank you for the kind words, we've been working hard on improving the UI (have you tried the latest update in https://gitlab.com/profile/preferences#new-navigation) and have tried to make our free offering as valuable as possible as well as treating our existing free customers respectfully.
Care you explain your strategy?
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