skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Something is really wrong in science, and this is just the beginning.
>But since no PI ,including me, wants to jeopardize their career, I fear things are going to go off a cliff.

I think part of the decline in biology specifically may be the rapid growth of NIH funded research in the 90's due to the success of molecular biology and the necessity of many warm bodies at the bench, which was followed by the NIH budget "crunch" of the last decade. This combination dramatically increased the competitive nature of getting grants and high-impact papers. In this environment, those who are careful in their claims are selected out of the career pool (not all obviously, but enough to affect the proportion).

A couple of my experiences:
I had one paper in a mid-range journal where we found a very interesting biological pattern in the data, which we discussed but ultimately decided to dismiss because there were confounding factors. A very well known lab took the exact same data, did a couple minor experiments to justify dismissing our concerns, and published in a top-tier journal.

In another case, I reviewed a paper from a VERY famous lab and their own metrics proved that 95% of the data was noise. They simply removed the offending metrics and published in a different, equally high-profile journal.
Google has a huge amount of code written in Java, I would say the majority of their systems. Just look at their open sourced projects and job listings. Over 50% Java easily.
Assuming the discrepancy cannot be solved by simply carrying around a notepad to write with whenever you are reading something you want a deeper understanding of, the digital medium offers many benefits in my opinion that make it better overall.

I cannot stand reading on a white background for long periods of time. If I had to deal with a white background I simply would not read as much. Being able to change both font size and type is also useful because publishers do not always make a sane choice for you.

Above all, I think price is the best reason. You might be able to get away with charging $100+ dollars for a printed book but you cannot do that with printed books, therefore book prices have to come down.

Even if there actually is a loss in comprehension when actively reading and not just passive reading, the overall benefits of reading more whether its because you can now buy more books due to the lower prices or because you can change the color/text to suit your taste has to outweigh the benefits offered by printed books.
Why should you have to do that? If they can't ask, you don't have to lie, and wouldn't that be a better world to live in?
It gets worse.

“With Adobe Experience Cloud, brands have the analytics insights and content management capabilities to deliver great, personalized experiences. As connected and driverless cars gain more traction, it is opening up new ways for consumers to enjoy their favorite services, and we are building technology to help brands capitalize on these opportunities,” said Colin Morris, director of product management, Adobe Analytics Cloud. “We believe that in order to drive these connected car innovations, it will require close cooperation across car makers, operating system providers, and important open source initiatives like Automotive Grade Linux.”
I think the issue with this is that the average voter won't understand what it is.
Physical vs digital copies offer different advantages, and for someone who's serious about mastering the material, it probably makes sense to consider having both.

For overall comprehension, my feeling is that the advantage of physical books is related to spatial memory, and seems related to "memory palace" techniques for memorization. I can physically recall pages of books I've read many years ago, but I really don't get the same thing from a digital copy.

Being able to search within digital copies is a clear advantage. The markup/review software and document management system also makes a huge difference.
You're being quite biased towards people with normal family lives. Haven't had deadbeat parents or relatives demand your time or money for free simply because you make more money?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act
Okay, I didn't expect that answer by a long shot. But that's a very good one...

Thanks
Tesla fixed that with the "official camper mode" software update, just in the last few weeks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crfLwj-rOG8
So you want the data to be public, but you don't want the data about who accesses the data to be public?
Amazing how this has progressed: in high school I was in a summer program with the guy who won the Science Talent Search that year with the research he was collaborating on in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. (Note that the "Nuclear" has been removed from the tech for essentially PR reasons).
Same in rural Ohio, tons of both this year
>you generally have to give your income.

Well, you certainly don't have to give your "real" income. Aspirational income is fine.
Perhaps because screens have endless distractions whereas textbooks do not.

Personally, I prefer to read a paper book any day. It feels infinitely softer on my eyes, and it's just more pleasant of an experience to me for whatever reason.
Cash poor millennials can't afford to buy Tesla.
I think it's up to city planners to include more green belts. Better for the environment, better for water drainage, better for humans, it's really win win win.
Good way of earning yourself some enemies.
Interesting, thanks, this does help clarify things for me. I just wanted to post a few follow up clarifications:

1. In my world, the clients don't communicate with each
other. Everything has to bounce off the central server
first.
2. And yeah, a graph is the easy case. I definitely agree
that my design doesn't address sequences. If your application
doesn't require sequences, though, then perhaps it's
possible to get away with this simpler solution?
Oh, I didn’t know they verified it. I’ve never disclosed, but if I was pressed I figured I’d lie because it’s none of their business anyway. I can’t see why your current employer would verify that, though. Plus it’s a dead giveaway that you’re looking to leave... this just seems sort of crazy to me.
This looks pretty awesome! Can't wait to see where it goes.
Scientists reveal the relationship between sugar and cancer
It's something I've considered doing to stop myself from compulsively checking it. Some people (me included) have low self control.
> Men don’t have a cervix

Cisgender men do not, in general, but they do usually have a penis, anus, and/or throat and HPV is also implicated in penile, anal, and oropharyngeal cancer, though it is best known for its contribution to cervical cancer.

https://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/stdfact-hpv-and-men.htm
And the actual study for those interested

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01019-z
https://coindash.co/s/icos/
Primary non-paywalled source: https://medium.com/@arthurb/the-path-forward-eb2e6f63be67
It's not as rosy as you might imagine.

Many universities actually manage to lose money on federally funded research, as the amount of compliance work required to maintain grant funding actually outstrips the overhead rates.

And yes, I've seen the overhead rates that universities are charging lately, and I agree they're absurd. Yet somehow it's still not enough.

[1] Karen A. Holbrook and Paul R. Sanberg. Understanding the High Cost of Success in University Research.
http://www.uh.edu/af/docs/IDC/TIarticle.pdf
I would be fine with that, personally.
The billion-dollar widget steering the driverless car industry
Of course. If I think of it some one else did 10 years ago ;)
Being alive.
Resonance attack against HDD
professionals don't use pretrained word2vec vectors in the really complex (like neural machine transnation) deep learning models anymore, they let the models train their own word embeddings directly, or let the models learn character level embeddings.
...Choose Boston and next year when you leave your tiny $4,000-a-month apartment only to sit in 2 hours of traffic trying to make your way to an overburdened airport, you’ll be wishing you were in New Hampshire.
You don't need to attach names - just job titles should be sufficient to dramatically reduce the information asymmetry.
I got a cheezy second hand Lenovo Y40 from Craigslist for about $200 and put Debian on it. Not even close to top of the line but it works great for my development needs.
Java does shared memory by default and even has concurrency related concepts as fundamentals of the language (Object.wait(), etc.) .

Python supports threading but is not very useful due to the infamous GIL. However, multiprocessing is usually a decent alternative and it supports shared memory on forking (copy on write, though). Also you can use mmap easily for IPC.
> you don’t have to click volume and then move to the slider, you can just touch the volume button and begin sliding immediately

Woooow, this is a revelation. Thank you!
The rational actor model implies things like transitivity of preferences. The rational actor model, even an "approximate" model which accounts for errors and limited information, is fundamentally broken because we know that humans _systematically_ violate such basic premises as transitivity.

Put another way, we could just as easily say that non-human animals approximate rational actors because populations rather quickly approach efficient ecological equilibriums. But that sort of framing is not very helpful.
After reading this I'm left wondering why anyone should stop using word2vec. The article makes the point that you can produce word vectors using other techniques, in this case by computing probabilities of unigrams and skip-grams and running SVD.

This is all well and good, but from an industry practitioner standpoint this doesn't explain why one would avoid using, or actually stop using word2vec.

1. Several known good word2vec implementations exist, the complexity of the technique doesn't really matter as you can just pick one of these and use it.

2. Pretrained word vectors produced from word2vec and newer algorithms exist for many languages.

Why should someone stop using these and instead spend time implementing a simpler method that produces maybe good enough vectors? Being a simpler method isn't a reason in of itself.
also, word2vec are super fast and work great. the text has no convincing argument on why not to use them, unless you don't want to learn basic neutral nets. even then, just use Facebook fast text : https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText
>Tag omission in text/html:

>An html element's start tag can be omitted if the first thing inside the html element is not a comment.

>An html element's end tag can be omitted if the html element is not immediately followed by a comment.

https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/semantics.html#the-html-element
The Heritage Guide to the U.S. Constitution
Moving jobs is the best way to get a large pay increase, especially if you're underpaid in your current job. Once you tell them how much you currently make, you've screwed yourself. This is a negotiating tactic used by employers to know how much they'll set as their upper bound for pay.

Your employer may have strict pay bounds set, but a lot of places don't. The pay can vary highly between candidates, especially if the candidates are weak negotiators. If you disclose your current salary, you're a weak negotiator, but employers put a lot of pressure on you to disclose it. I tend to tell employers that I'm not allowed to disclose my salary, which ends that part of the conversation, but most people don't know to do this.

This law benefits you just as much as it does women.
Interest rates are the last thing Dollar General needs to worry about at this point.

$1.2 billion in profit on $22 billion in sales. They have $2.6 billion in long-term debt, paying ~$100m in annual interest on their total debt.

They could afford a 15% interest rate on their debt.

With their income, they have no need to borrow to build out stores. Their dividend is modest, so that's also no concern vs their need to spend to build.
> Saying things like "it is important to maintain the stability by fighting rebels" suggests that you haven't learned anything from it, and certainly won't be able to keep it from happening again.

Either you're incredibly naive or you're passing yourself as an disingenuous individual. The problem with cold war communists is that Moscow pulled the strings of terrorist groups to try to force whole nations into puppet states controlled by a communist dictatorship. That had absolutely nothing to do with the will of the people or even organic political movements arising from within any nation, and their single reason of existence was to add another communist puppet state to the list of nations behind the iron curtain.
See what I wrote...?

> Also, we should outlaw employers from asking applications their desired salary range; the negotiation should happen after interviews. Employers should either specify a range or give a figure in the job description to save time.
same, I use Siri every day, and only ever for two reasons:

"Hey Siri, set an alarm for {seven,eight,nine} a.m."
"Hey Siri, call {mom,dad,[friend]}"

I've created unambiguous nicknames for my friends so I don't get name collisions
My understanding, the last time I looked into it, is that universities have a lot more administrators than they used to and those admins earn a lot more than they used to.

And it wasn't just absolute, it was relative to teacher/student ratios and tenured positions growth and educator wage increase.
Wasn't Alcor the company where employees got in trouble for playing with the frozen heads?
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Yeah, in practice, each client maintains a persistent data structure, where each "mutation" is the application of a single operation. If a new operation comes in that occurs before other operations that have already been applied to the persistent data structure, then the client rewinds the structure to its state just before the new out-of-order operation, applies that operation, and then applies the rest of the operations that it already has. (I think of this as very similar to a `git rebase`.)

But yeah, this might not work at all for sequences. And of course, there are other issues with respect to the memory requirements of the persistent data structure in the client. Some sort of compaction is probably necessary.
https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText this is Facebook's super efficient word2vec like implemention. i thought ppl might find it interesting
Aren't you surprised how negatively you think of a whole class of people? Isn't this attitude the same human instinct and no less harmful than racism, sexism, etc? Tourists aren't a socially or legally protected class so you don't have to worry about publicly mocking them, but they're still a class of innocent humans.
I moved to my parent's lakehouse in rural Kentucky this Fall to study and build a software project.

One of the first things I noticed is exclaimed succinctly in this headline, and they can milk this cow dry for a long time.

I submit regular complaints on their websites, to help the sweet ladies who keep my local one afloat. The management would not let them use AC until mid-July.
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Absolutely. If they were actually doing worthwhile recycling they would be proudly publishing statistics on it.

We're told to put plastic/metal in one bin and paper in the other.
But this includes pizza boxes with bits of food on it; things like pringle cans which are a mixture of paper and metal.
And there is all sorts of plastics.

It's simply not believable that they have an efficient means of separating and recycling this mess.

They even have trouble recycling glass; surely the easiest to recycle.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-07/recycling-companies-fo...

Also relevant: http://theconversation.com/australian-recycling-plants-have-...

I believe there's regulatory capture or at least heavy revolving door activity. Politicians retiring and then being put on the board of recycling companies.

And we subsidise them: http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/working-together/grants/business-r...
I wonder if we'll see a Tesla tent option just like the Pontiac Aztec. [1]

[1] - https://youtu.be/33AP0JnXSOA?t=253
My personal theory is that they're trying to improve the JS engine in Electron so they can improve VSCode. The VSCode people have posted some performance complaints in the past.

I would assume this would benefit desktop JS most, so it'd undoubtedly help Electron apps.

EDIT : There's a better explanation at https://github.com/Microsoft/napajs/wiki/Why-Napa.js
No. But e.g. automated translation now needs to guess your language, and that's... not always successful. Screenreaders will need to guess the language to pronounce properly. Search engines will have to infer the language. And so on.

Your site isn't "broken", per se, but it's not as high quality as it could be.
What else can you even write instead though
CapsuleHouse
The majority of landlords I've had haven't validated income information.
This is true even with most SV darlings. Netflix, Google, Uber, and Amazon use tons of Java. Probably the majority of their systems.

Microsoft is an exception because they built C# which is basically a more modern but less popular variant of Java. There was even a project for a long time that let you use Java code in C# projects by converting the bytecode, they're that similar.

The notable exception is Facebook. They were stuck in PHP hell for so long that they redesigned the language to make it work.
China's position for next five years is to develop Africa
What exactly do you mean with "they let the models train their own word embeddings", can you elaborate more on this or are there any current papers about this topic?
Slightly scary how it went from zero to superhuman play in three days. I wonder if general AI will go that way one day.
Nowadays I'm eating pure chocolate beans directly. One can even get them in 'nib' form at the supermarket (not cheap but it lasts a while).

It's actually really good, though not a candy anymore, more like nuts. I can recommend mixing with yoghurt and banana.
Seems pretty cool, too bad it’s dead now though
Texas is on the Atlantic gulf coast, it is not on the west coast of the USA.

As far as Houston goes, look for yourself:

https://www.zillow.com/houston-tx/houses/

A dilapidated tear down in an undesirable area is about what you'll get for under $100k in Houston

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6858-Evans-St-Houston-TX-...

Anyway, on the west coast of the USA housing is extraordinarily expensive and many multiples of median income.
The author is currently writing this book:

https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-deep-learning
I wonder what would happen if some good Samaritan busted out the window of a cop car to save the life of the K9 dog inside. I suspect that this would be treated as less than the heroic gesture that it is when saving a civilian dog.
^^^ this.

FB is a huge time sink and I rarely need it for legitimate matters. If I want to use it, my designated password-holder logs me in. I can always go through the reset process if I need it and they are not around. But the hassle of resetting is enough of a deterrent from absentmindedly checking my feed every half-hour.
I think with batteries you get what you pay for.

It's a tragedy that there is no objective measure for gosh sakes - some last hours some last days. Can't tell from the label.

The name-brand batteries I get tend to vastly outlast the off-brand ones - Im amazed they can't put some kind of 'kWh' on their labels.
You can compare a car's length to a truck's height; the units work out--whether or not its useful to do so is a different story (if you're playing tetris with cars and trucks, it might be very useful!). In particular, we can (and probably do) measure the magnitudes of the media's biases (pro-business, pro-government, progressive) and compare them, and it's very useful, for example, if you care about media bias and want to know what kind of pressure to apply to get the most bang for your finite political capital.
Kind of off topic: I went on a long trip with my tesla last week. While researching for a matrices that fits in the back of my Model S I found dreamcase [0]. This + camping mode made the nights in my car pretty comfy. Will definitely plan a longer holiday trip now.

[0] https://dreamcase.eu/
But that doesn't matter because you'd only be targeting a single person and they're only going to generate at most a few hundred impressions, so your bill is going to be super cheap.
> substantial fraction of the organization’s bandwidth to safety

Although OpenAI's group ethos has a strong safety bent, there are only three research scientists working on technical safety research full-time, including yourself and a very recent hire. Before this summer, while you focused on policy and preventing arms races, there was only one person focusing solely on technical safety research full-time, despite the hundreds of millions donated for safety research. The team and effort should be larger.

> it’s important for our organization to be on the cutting edge of AI

I agree that OpenAI needs to be at the cutting edge, though always pushing the edge of AI to work on safety is needless when there is a significant backlog of research that can be done in ML (not just in RL). It's true capabilities and safety are intertwined goals, but, to use your analogy, the safety meter is not even a percent full. Topics outside of value learning using trendy Deep RL that OpenAI should pioneer or advance include data poisoning, adversarial and natural distortion robustness, calibration, anomaly and error detection, interpretability, and other topics that are ripe for attack but unearthed. There is no need to hasten AI development, and doing so does not represent the goals of the EAs or utilitarians who depend on you --- notwithstanding the approval of advising EAs with whom you have significant COIs.

OpenAI's safety strategy should be developed openly since, as of now, OpenAI has no open dialogue with even the EA community.
Presumably parking would not remain free though.
> While these applications are all potentially valid, it seems like each use case would be better served by a native app.

That is the threat. They're pushing hard to keep the "open web" competitive with native apps, so that the web is not abandoned as an app platform.
Being an earth dwelling human, this seems pretty bad. Aside from buying ammo or survival rations, what's something proactive that I can do? Is there an organization that is trying to rid the world of pesticides (assuming that's the cause)? If I opt to call my representatives, what am I calling in support of/against?

Over the last year, reading the news had made me more passive and worried. I want to dedicate a slice of time to doing something to solve the problem, but I'm not certain if there's anything pragmatic to be done against big areas of environmental concern like this, global warming, ocean acidity, and etc.
If you read my comment carefully, I’m referring to "word2vec and co", meaning similar projects from other sources that use the same approach, and for which similarly large pre-trained corpi exist.

My general criticism is that it’s easy to invent a new method, or popularize an existing method that’s superior. But that’s not the hard task. Building the algorithm is pretty easy.

Getting a corpus of colloquial, professional, and slang texts in dozens of languages, and enough computational power to actually train them all, is usually the hard part for us doing independent research, or working on open source projects without major corporate sponsors. The reason we use word2vec and similar solutions is not because of the approach it uses, but just because it provides a well-working complete package.